yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] invario:
Nice app, thanks! Saved me the trouble of having to push 0 byte files to overwrite by hand. :) Worked fine on my KD1 deodexed.

BTW, you misspelled "application" on your screen. Must've typoed an extra p in there. ;)

Also, as far as the restore function, are you sure that's necessary? I seem to recall reading that it recreates the fota files on the next reboot if you simply delete the existing ones. Not sure if by recreate it means it redownloads or whether it actually recreates them. Last time I wiped them, my reboot took a while but the files were back again. Haven't tested that with KD1 yet (which has smaller fota files... they're only 35MB each instead of 150MB each) but I'd assume it'd reappear again too.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] ttngu234:
I did the Fota Fix, but afterwards, my Beautiful Weather Widget stopped showing animation when I touch the widget, and it does not load the weather skin anymore.

Anyone having same issues?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] matthenry87:
Does anyone know if any of the future roms will be pre-fota fixed?? It's not like any ROM will be getting OTA's lol. Seems like a good idea to me.. Or people could continue to Fota-fix once they flash the ROM of their choosing.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] lexluthor:
If I run this on a stock KD1 rom, how much internal storage will I pick up?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] matthenry87:
I'm not sure what the exact amount is but I haven't filled my phone up since I Fota fixed.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] jager555:
Matt, I noticed your other question wasn't answered. From what I noticed most of the custom rom's have the fix included.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] robertneusch:
I can't load any clock or weather skins either but that's a small price to pay for all this extra space
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] matthenry87:
That is odd.. I am able to load both clock and weather skins. Is Beautiful Widgets installed to your phone and not your SD card?

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] robertneusch:
I will have to look thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Jerry D:
Bump

I use this app every time I flash a new ROM. IT IS A MUST HAVE FOR OUR PHONE!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] jager555:
You shouldn't have to since most roms are fota fixed. But this is a great fix, regardless. I second your bump of this thread
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] champ1919:
Bumped for jk6'rs
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] boazem:
Fota fix on Bionix frost T595VUVKB5

Hi,

can i used this app. on my Bionix frost T595VUVKB5 ?

i'm still with ver 2.2.1

now I have only 75MB in my program memory.

tnx
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
Yes you can use this if still on Froyo.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] mierkat09:
I'm sorry,i have to ask. What does the fota fix do exactly? Because i have no idea what fota is
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] lumin30:
Ask google. He has all the answers you need.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] P06o:
So Google is like Buddha & <your deity here> combined...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grifta67:
Hey everyone.

I know there's a couple other threads with this problem, but none of them included their last_kmsg files. It took a bunch of tries before I could stay booted up long enough to grab it, but I have one.

I'm getting a significant number of reboots on my EVO. Like almost unusable at times. It seems fairly random, although there's a slight suspicion is has something to do with the GPS. Maps has been a crash-cause before and the most recent bout last night was brought on by foursquare. (the annoying part is I had just used 4sq fine 30 minutes prior with no issues. Then, booted it up, refreshed locations and my phone was unusable for hours.)

I've done all the standard things. Fix permissions, wipe cache, wipe dalvik, wipe data/system, reinstall the latest CM7 build (update-cm-7.0.2.1-Supersonic-signed.zip), wipe cache, wipe dalvik. I entered my google account info but told it not to sync anything. It is now rebooting less than a minute after it starts up. I haven't installed any apps at all since this most recent wipe/reload of CM7. It reboots with and without the sd card installed.

I'm at a loss here and getting incredibly frustrated. Many replies say it's as easy to fix as wipe everything and re-do it. Obviously something abnormal is screwed up on my phone and I can't figure it out.

Here's the pastebin from this morning: pastebin.com/Ki7H8bH3 (Crap, I don't post here enough to be allowed to post links. Just add the http part to that.)

And then when I got awake enough, I did another complete wipe/reload. The rebooting is even worse now, it's taken me almost an hour to get to a point I can install es explorer to try and pull another file. And when I did, it was blank.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
1. Go to the link below and download the PC36IMG.zip file for amon RA v2.3 and place it on the root of your SD card.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=705026

2. Shutdown your device.

3. Simultaneously press the DOWN volume button and the power button until your device starts. There will be a short pause and then a few lines of text will scroll across the screen. Afterwards, the bootloader will automatically detect the PC36IMG.zip file and prompt you to install it. Follow the easy prompts to install. Installation will take less than 10 seconds to complete. Afterwards, reboot into your new recovery. Go to the backup/restore menu and make a nandroid backup of your current setup.

4. Now go to the wipe menu and wipe EVERYTHING in it EXCEPT the SD card.

5. Go to the flash menu and flash the rom you desire to flash.

On many occasions, reflashing the recovery solved rebooting issues and hopefully, it will solve yours.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grifta67:
Hi dougjamal,

Thanks for the reply.

I've made some progress. Last night I had done a majority of what you suggested, with installing amon RA. I've also just formatted my entire sd card just to be sure.

I haven't tried wiping things other than cache and dalvik, so I'll try that.

My progress I mentioned is that I had CM7 up and running until I flashed a new kernel and gapps in there. So I guess I'll just stick with the stock CM7 kernel, try your extra wiping and see how that works.

Thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
You're very welcome. Sorry for the delayed response. I was having a late lunch and then drove home. Anyway, keep us informed of your progress and enjoy the rest of your day.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grifta67:
No worried on any delay, just glad to have someone that took a read and time to reply!

Ugh, it's the randomness of this that has me so frustrated. I thought I had a good install again, I left it sit on the "touch the android" screen for a few minutes and it stayed on. Made it through the setup process ok. I allowed the setup to "auto-download" a handful of the google apps it asks if you want. Once they got to about 38%... boom, restart.

So I did another toooootal wipe and I'll manually install those apps one by one. We'll see...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Seems like this gets posted quite often, huh??? lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
Don't rule out a corrupt download. If you have the time, download both Salvage-Mod 1.2.1 and the gapps zip from http://www.salvage-mod.com/node/4. If you like CM7, you may like Salvage-Mod. It is pure gingerbread. If you decide to flash it, see whether or not you get bootloops with it.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
Indeed, my friend...lol...but it works.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grifta67:
It does and it wish it was that easy. It's frustrating to read that others seem to have no issues at all yet when I follow those directions, which are everywhere, nothing seems to work.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grifta67:
I re-downloaded CM7 this morning thinking that might be the issue, but it hasn't seemed to help. I'll give a different rom a try probably, maybe there's something other than CM7 I'd be content with.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grifta67:
Whelp, I downloaded SalvageMod and their gapps. Wiped everything, installed salvage, installed gapps, rebooted.

I got through set-up, was ok for a couple minutes, then as I was going into my contacts to see if they had sync'd yet... reboot.

This makes me think this can't be a ROM issue.

Any other ideas?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BonkyMoon:
Does the same thing happen when you run a stock (or close-to-stock) rom? Main reason I ask is that this might actually be some sort of hardware problem, but one of the best ways to test for that is to be running on stock software. I wouldn't necessarily suggest flashing an RUU to get to the latest official release, but there are stock rooted roms out there that you could try.

You probably went with CM specifically to get away from Sense and the default HTC stuff (that's most people's reasons anyway), but if you flash a stock rom and it's still rebooting like that then I'd say chances are REALLY good that it's hardware and that you'd have grounds for getting a replacement phone (just remember to unroot first.)

And if it stops randomly rebooting on you then you'll have at least narrowed things down a bit.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grifta67:
Hey jesuspgt,

I haven't tried that yet. I'll look around for a rooted stock ROM later and give that a shot.

My current status is back to uncertainty. At the moment, my evo has been sitting here fine, not rebooting, for the past hour or two. It's still the Salvage ROM I first installed (i.e. I haven't reinstalled it since it rebooted). Now I haven't really used it any, so it might go to hell as soon as I do that, but for now, it's on and only had that one (maybe two, I can't keep track...) initial reboot.

That's what makes it tricky to diagnose. I know using any custom ROM runs the risk of loosing stability and all ROMs probably produce a reboot here and there. Tough to tell if it's just a "comes with the territory" type of reboot or an actual problem.

Even though I'm sure there's some CM features I'll miss, maybe Salvage is my answer.

Thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grifta67:
*sigh* Well I decided to try using some apps and guess what... reboot.

All I was doing was trying to play a game of Androminion, which is about as basic and not-tasking as possible, so I can't imagine that's what crashed things.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
The only thing I can think of that you *may* need to do is reflash your hboot and/or your baseband, PRI & NV from within recovery. You can download it from the link below.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=715485

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grifta67:
Excellent, I'm going to try that. My hboot is still 0.93!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grifta67:
Hey dougjamal,

Just wanted to drop an update. I know how annoying it is to help someone out and never hear how things ended up!

Who knows what combo helped, but I'm fairly stable now. After updating my hboot, I flashed to Sprint Lovers, did the ##GPSCLRX# trick and then flashed to the latest nightly of CM7 (63 I believe). Only one or two crashes and one bootloop since then.

Of course, as luck would have it, a new problem showed up in the form of a dead spot on my touch screen. Right about where the "Clear" button is for notifications, that entire strip across the phone won't respond to touch. I was hoping it was a nightly issue, but I switched to a different rom and the issue was still there. Looks like it's going in for a warranty claim after-all!

Thanks for all your help

-grifta67
[HTC Incredible S] henrylife:
Hey guys, I just increased my overall signal for my htc incredible S to 79dBm.

Now i have 4 bars instead of 2 :) .

Fix is easy:

You need a strip of foil, scissors and tape.

Now my palm doesn't decrease signal anymore.

I'm just wondering what i can use instead of foil, which one has less resistance.

I know gold and silver does, but hey those are way too expensive :P .

After getting enough responses, i will rewrite this and add [TUTORIAL] line.

E: Image resized

UPDATED:

I'm using latest radio now, signal still low without attached cover modification, but with it I get significant signal increase.

I post step by step tutorial later! Stay tuned guys.
[HTC Incredible S] _Flea_:
Is it possible to use this solution for WiFi problems as well?
[HTC Incredible S] letmedanz:
If you could elaborate on what you actually did?

And what was the problem you had that prompted this?

i don't seem to be having any problem with reception atm...
[HTC Incredible S] _Flea_:
Since the GB update, which I installed yesterday, I keep loosing my WiFi signal. Before the update I had a good reception. But when I hold the mobile now, the signal drops and then the icon of WiFi disappears.

Also the gsm reception seems to be worse then before.

I'm going to try the solution above and see if it helps.
[HTC Incredible S] henrylife:
Yes, Wi-Fi antenna is upper.

I brought antenna up from palm location (Otherwise signal decreased dramatically), I'm just thinking what material have better +dBm, Getting +10dBm would be awesome :) .

Why i made this topic was comparison with my and my friend's phone. He have Nokia Xpressmusic, i have Inc S, and he had 5 of 5, i had 1 out of 4 atm. I try to find out material resistances. Copper wire or alu must be OK.

Gotta go to football match, See ya later!
[HTC Incredible S] _Flea_:
Going to try it now!
[HTC Incredible S] Enes_81:
FIX for wifi problems

For WIFI problems go to

Settings> Wireless & networks > Wi-Fi Settings> Press the menu button > Advanced and then select Best Wi-Fi performance.
[HTC Incredible S] _Flea_:
Already tried that. Very bad reception. Keep losing signal. Doesn't reconnect :(

Looks like it has some kind of deathgrip.
[HTC Incredible S] henrylife:
Try without holding your palm on cover, still poor signal?

And how many metres is your router away, is this forced with 100% output power?`

Try with other devices, if still persists then this may be caused from corrupted Radio.

Hope I helped.
[HTC Incredible S] _Flea_:
It's quite a distances to the router.

Is there a possibility to reflash the phone?
[HTC Incredible S] gsteen:
Death grip here too. Would appreciate a solution.

Select settings: wireless & networks: mobile networks: gsm and wcdma.

Next select settings: about phone: network.

Hold in hand and see connection drop to 0asu eventually.

incredible s
[HTC Incredible S] Monkeybrew:
PLease tell me if it helped. :)
[HTC Incredible S] _Flea_:
It looks like the reception is better in the house. So yes it works.

In my bedroom I went from 2 bars to 3 bars.
[HTC Incredible S] letmedanz:
Could any of you who have the wi-fi issue try this with a different router?

It is possible the router may be faulty, or as already pointed out, the distance may be over what the router covers.

if not, this seems to be quite an issue which will need to be looked into
[HTC Incredible S] _Flea_:
Ok, I´ve done a hard reset and it seems to be improved.

WiFi signal switches from fair to good and back. So I´m fine with it.
[HTC Incredible S] Monkeybrew:
No no, before the update, I had connection in my bed. After update - same location - wifi disconnects. Signal strenght seems the same.

It's not the router.....
[HTC Incredible S] Numline1:
Guys, we have the same problem with the Desire S (chech the forums) after the 2.3.3 update. It's very likely software related (phone dropping the connect after it's under certain signal value ... viva la HTC update).

Check http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1061502&page=3
[HTC Incredible S] Enes_81:
I tried it but it doesn't seem to affect my signal strengt. Signal still changes between 51 dBm and 88 dBm.
[HTC Incredible S] jul644:
better conductor

i Believe copper will work much better but its much harder to find in a thin "foil" form

btw i havnt found a design that increases reception yet but if you hold the phone upside down it helps :)
[HTC Incredible S] highKo:
will you post it here when you release the tutorial? would be nice.

thank you very much
[HTC Incredible S] SimpleFear:
I had a strong decrease in reception with this modification :(
[HTC Incredible S] katu2006:
You probably didn't do it properly, make sure the foil contains aluminum (some protective foil may not contain aluminum), otherwise will act as a shield. Also, make sure you definitely have contact between the aluminum foil and the cooper contacts on the cover (no sticky tape in-between).
[HTC Incredible S] highKo:
i tried to build it several times.. wasn't succesful, too :-/
[HTC Incredible S] Me4oKyX:
This is how I made my phone and at home I'm not dropping under 4bars in 2G network and at least 3 bars on WCDMA/3G network :D And it was 2-3 at BEST before.... :rolleyes: It's not that hard to make, just takes a lot of patience :)

Sorry for the big pics, but can't really resize them now....
[HTC Incredible S] itsbeertimenow:
This thread is awesome.
[HTC Incredible S] System92:
I'll try this for sure whenever I have the time! I get the deathgrip as well when I hold the phone in one hand :(
[HTC Incredible S] highKo:
i guess i should try it again soon. did you use stand aluminium foil from the super market?
[HTC Incredible S] abul06sg:
I'm also experiencing severe signal issue with this device. Signal drops from -75dbm to -100dbm during calling. Tried this alumonium foil all the way but unfortunately it doesn't work at all! Awaiting to hear from others.
[HTC Incredible S] Psyloid:
Looks kinda dodgy, i got death grip too, but overall my reception is fine (if not deathgripped), it's far superior to my old ZTE blade and my old Iphone

NB: i'm gonny try it out nevertheless ;)

---------- Post added at 06:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:18 PM ----------

I just had an idea, i'm gonna try it with stripped copper wire.

that is fine enough not to obstruct anything, nbow i'm just thinking about how to find a better connection to the stock antenna?

Does anyone know about conductive glue?
[HTC Incredible S] fallenwout:
I'm brainstorming. But here in Belgium all aluminum foil from the supermarket has 2 sides. 1 side is covered with protection so the aluminum doesn't touch your food when you wrap it.

I believe the "shiny" side has the protection. This might be why some you have worse reception with the mod because you have the wrong side facing the copper.

It's just a thought.
[HTC Incredible S] Psyloid:
Extending the antenna didn't improve anything for me; didn't make it worse either ...
[HTC Incredible S] System92:
Pretty much the same here regarding the overall signal strength, I'll give it a few day to verify the deathgrip issue. Will come back with a follow-up!

Anyhow, here is how mine looks:
[HTC Incredible S] highKo:
looks very good compared to my built. i have two left hands with each 5 thumbs :)

hope it helps for you. please report your experiences
[HTC Incredible S] fe11gila:
I'll try this method. Hopefully that's working for me :)
[HTC Incredible S] abul06sg:
Mine doesn't have literally any improvement. Tried both sides of foil paper. However, results remain the same.
[HTC Incredible S] System92:
So I gave it a few days and went through my usual locations using the wireless reception and I can't say that I got an improvement. It wasn't worse either however.

A little disappointed, but hey, it didn't hurt to try! :cool:
[HTC Incredible S] arhidi:
I had tried this with guitar screening copper tape.

It's about as thin as foil, and adhesive on one side.

Tried various antenna designs, (including all those in this thread), and it made no positive difference to my signal strength, in some cases it made it worse.
[HTC Incredible S] highKo:
try was worth. good job. maybe we find a solution anytime..

what's about the extended batteries. don't they have a battery cover with it because the original doesn't fit? maybe they have stronger antennas?
[HTC Incredible S] henrylife:
By the way guys nice attempts to improve reception, I've lost mine backdoor sadly :(, What's the paint on original door as antenna? I ordered new one but this one has all the paint worn out. At the moment I use thin copper strip (0,3mm) soldered to pin. I get ~55dBm at home.
[HTC Incredible S] unknown2011:
Really?? I cannot get this thing working on my phone..
[HTC Incredible S] UkUser:
that aluminium film is not working for me :( any other solution for example like

THIS ONE
[HTC Incredible S] jonnypommy:
Has anyone tried Gold Leaf paper?
[HTC Incredible S] Burtrum57:
or just a piece of copper wire, if you're brave try carefully soldering it to the contacts. But in all honesty I would have thought that it would need to be a specific length on each side to make it suitable for the frequency. Not so important for reception, but the transmit side it is very important. If the SWR isn't close to 1.0 then the power decreases the higher it gets.
[HTC Incredible S] jonnypommy:
copper wire works brilliantly
[Desire Themes and Apps] retr0sic:
Been looking for skins/themes for Sense 2.1 that you can use on insertcoins latest sense 2.1 rom. The few ones that i've found doesn't match what i am looking for.

Is there in some way we can gather all 2.1 skins/themes for desire into 1 thread so it will be easier to find?

/Mike
[Desire Themes and Apps] CerB:
Try to take a look in 2 post in your rom thread !!!!!!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssconceptz:
Ok I've been searching and can't find a zip for the stock galaxy s animation. I am getting the android animation (blue text) and I even tried to copy the three boot files from a stock roms system/media folder to fix it. No luck.

Any help is appreciated.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k0nane:
It doesn't exist (not in bootanimation.zip format), pick an alternate boot animation. There are many.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZiggSVO:
Would this work??

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=11302599
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k0nane:
Negatory. You're on a custom kernel which uses bootanimation.zip boot animations - custom boot animations, that is. Those, there, are the .qmg, or stock, boot animations. They can't be used with a custom kernel.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssconceptz:
Yea I'm on the stock EC05 custom kernal but need the stock boot animation. What are my options then?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssconceptz:
Do you think the kernal maker since using the stock kernal as a base could've kept the stock animation?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k0nane:
Yes, but nobody has any interest in that right now.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssconceptz:
Wish there was a thread strickly for boot animation links.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k0nane:
Browse the forum, there's a bunch of animations posted.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Migital Warfare:
I've been searching by "boot animation" "boot animations" "boot screen" and "boot", but there are surprisingly few relevant results. It really would be nice if a sticky were made for people to post all their animations in.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssconceptz:
I agree I'm trying to do this from my phone as well. Very difficult.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZiggSVO:
Will animations for the Fascinate work? :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1053250
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdelano:
This thread has the stock ROM in a flashable zip.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1027904

So toy can go into system/media folder and find the bootani.qmg, bootsamsung.qmg or bootsamsungloop.qmg

maybe with the stock kernel you're running it will use those??

Perhaps someone with more knowledge of these files can chime in as well.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Migital Warfare:
I don't really know, but I'm about to find out by loading Liquid Havoc onto my phone.