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[General Questions and Answers] mr.prerak:
Hi,

I am at point where I would be buying a new mobile phone. I don't have budget problem, but I am looking from the point where I'll be able to use my phone as development device.

I have shortlisted some options:

Nexus S: This seems to me an idle device for development. It also has NFC. You have early access to the android flavors. But with dual core processor phone in the market, I not sure if this a good choice.

Samsung Galaxy s 2: The phone is expensive, but has many feature(except for NFC :( ). Do you think this can be a good device considering future versions of android might be out by November-December(speculating)

Wait for another device: Wait for a device. But then everything can't be obtained in a single device. How long will I wait?

HTC Sensation: Not much info about it.

Any other device

I seem to prefer device with NFC and dual core(may be because it a future ready).

Really confused. Just looking for a device that can be used for development on current and future flavors of Android.

Also I have read about rooting a device. Not sure if this is a proper question, but if someone roots a device can the person explore the full capabilities of the device(provided the rooting is proper).

I prefer not to wait for another device and I am confused between Nexus S and Galaxy S 2.

Please give you opinion about my choice or some other device that I should consider.

Thanks

Prerak Desai
[General Questions and Answers] HyprGeek:
if you need a phone for development, first choose your target audience.

i dont think a vast majority of the people will be upgrading too soon to dual core...

now if u wanna push boundaries with your programming, go ahead with the latest...

but its good to have a phone that a greater percentage of the people have...

also, do consider the major portion of people are on android 2.2 and 2.1 (more than 85% as on google site)...

think from a developer pov, not a user...
[General Questions and Answers] mr.prerak:
Thanks HyprGeek for the reply. Seems to give me a point or two to think about.

But don't you think if I buy what majority are buying today, then in about a month time something new will come up and the crowd will start moving towards it. Then i'll be stuck with old device.

I personally feel you need have something(especially electronics device) that arefuture ready so that you don't regret your decision in a short time.

What do you think from a general point of view, which device I should consider?

Thanks,

Prerak Desai
[General Questions and Answers] HyprGeek:
well, u need to detemine how big the "crowd" is...

http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html

and i dont think computers/mobiles can ever be future ready...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] argentocruz:
I find the free Adobe pdf reader slow and laggy and far from the slick experience of web browsing and viewing pictures.

Are there any alternate PDF readers that are as slick as WP7 itself?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blindpet:
I wish, the included reader doesn't even reflow text just like IE. Hopefully in time :)
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xjacobx:
Hey guys,

I am on CM7 i was on 7.0.2 official version. i downloaded and installed the beta update from dalingrin's so i am no on:

Cyanogenmod-7.1.0-RCO-encore-KANG

I then installed the OC kernel that i was under the impression should overclock to 1.2 but when i try to overclock in the CM7 settings, the most it will let me choose is 925. i'm wondering if i'm missing something?

i used the following zip for the kernel:

update-CM7-dalingrin-OC-sd-052311.zip

any help would be appreciated, i would post in the actual thread but i don't have enough posts.

thanks

EDIT: All fixed, needed to download and install the eMMC version so that it would install to internal memory instead of trying to boot off the sd card.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ace7196:
First off, glad you posted in the right section :D Already ahead of the curve!

So, did you install the beta to and SD or internal memory? I assume internal memory, in which case you need to download the OC that has eMMC in the title (which is the internal memory).
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xjacobx:
haha I know how the forums work I just haven't used this one that much ;)

I installed both through the sd in the same clockwork session...should I have booted after installing cm then installed the oc kernel?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nburnes:
The zip for OC when you have CM7 installed to eMMC (internal memory) is update-CM7-dalingrin-OC-emmc-052311.zip

OC-sd nomenclature is for those who have CM7 installed and booting off their SD card, instead of just using it for storage space.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xjacobx:
Oh ok, i thought that since i was installing through the sd that was the sd version. got it. i'll download the emmc version and install from the sd.

thanks so much guys
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xjacobx:
Thanks for your help guys running 1.1 now, 1.2 caused reboots but 1.1 is prefectly fine with me

thanks again still learning the whole sd card stuff. i'm coming from the dx and we just put the zip on the sd and install, no booting of sds and that stuff.

but i'm learning :)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] itsallsubliminal:
I thought this was pretty cool, would love to see it as a boot animation but i don't know how to do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ2WDe8ZeIg&feature=grec_index
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] 651stp:
this is actually pretty cool, i'd like to see it also!
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Darkshado:
I won't do it myself without getting permission from the author to publish, but, some of you might like to know that VirtualDub can output a set of png files for each frame in a video...

I made an actual phone version of the emulator's boot animation that way.

(Haven't bothered yet uploading it anywhere though.)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] SuperUserMovado:
Your wish is my command.

unfortunately I can't upload the real 22mb file here so I had to put in fewer frames to make it to 8mb file.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] itsallsubliminal:
very much thanks for this!!!.. do you think you can use megaupload for the full file? Would love to see this full force
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] SuperUserMovado:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9F488RS2

here is an "hd" bootanimation with more frames and larger resolution. I think 40mb is stil okay too boot. My phones only got weird when I tried to have 100mb boot animations lol
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] itsallsubliminal:
Thanks man, 40 seems to be fighting with my phone. It gets choppy and repeats frames during the animation. Its not like it doesn't work tho, still dope as hell. If u can make it a lil smaller it might run smoother. I appreciate u taking the time bro
[HD2 General] Ev0luti0n_:
I just found this while browsing the web... LOL people do love the HD2! DAMN those iphone boys :mad:

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/htc-hd2-647049/review?comments_pg=1#comments

:confused:
[HD2 General] gazzacbr:
its from 2009. do you want an iPhone?
[HD2 General] Ev0luti0n_:
i am an htc fan boy, i love my hd2, and i've been on WM since 2008 with a qtek 9100! I love winmo since the ipaq's of 2002! :D
[HD2 General] gazzacbr:
good to hear :D

we will completely ignore that review on account of totally biased reporting...

"Could a Windows Mobile phone actually challenge the iPhone?" phah, does it need to?
[HD2 General] backlashsid:
I dont get it !! whats nasty here ?
[Omnia 7 General] Casey_boy:
Hi,

I'm replying to your PM via a new topic, so that others can contribute and benefit.

I've done a little research and it's an unexplained error code (i.e. not listed here). Since you cannot seem to flash a new ROM via the update tool we're a bit stuck.

Have you tried hard resetting the device?

Can you boot into Download Mode?

What are the software & firmware versions?

Casey
[Omnia 7 General] lutherkingmartin:
did you test the official Samsung patch for omnia 7 ?

I can see in other forum than it cause by faulty bootloader. Try the patch. And test again.
[Omnia 7 General] dudes45:
So basically, my phone works as it should (Just to confirm). I have actually been trying to flash via Zune originally but to no avail. I then tried to flash with the Windows tool downloadable in Casey's post, my phone was not detected I tried front and back ports in my PC.

I ran the 'Walshed' Phone tool which is said to fix this issue, I have run it 3 times and on the third time it worked I now have the latest update. Anyone who is having issues downloading the 'Walshed' Phone Support Tool, use IE 8 or 9 I used IE 9 and it worked but would not initiate the download with Opera. Cheers for your help guys :p
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] codeworkx:
Hi Guys.

User "rb210" asked me to help porting CWM to I9003.

I've built it from sources and created a correct recovery.fstab with the partition layout of your device.

Since i'm not owning a I9003, i cannot do more for you. Sorry. :-(

Here are my tools to create a normalboot.img and a recovery.img based on stock kernel:

http://www.multiupload.com/5W80N6HOW2

Don't know if it's the right way, because it's very different compared to I9000.

CWM recovery binary is included at root/sbin and recovery/sbin folders.

Read teh README!

Good Luck
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] trip007in:
Thank you mate for helping us. It would be great, if it works on I9003. We appreciate your work for I9003. Hope now I9003 will have CWR running soon.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ask77:
How do you proceed from here ?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] kkrraazzyy:
THANKYOU for your precious work
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] trip007in:
Can you suggest some reference/guide to proceed further?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sakindia123:
Great to see that other developers are interested in our fones :)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bala242:
@sakindia123

i agree with u
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] cairel:
thank you for your work. I would appreciate some explanation about how to use it.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] codeworkx:
look at the readme and the shell scripts. this explains everything. ;-)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skin1980:
If it doesn't work and my phone gone bricked, download mode is still avaible?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] gianpa:
I was going to post the exact same question, I'm a noob and I don't even know what I'm doing: :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] rb210:
Yes, download mode will still be available. I bricked my phone 3-4 times last night while testing the PDA tarballs codeworkx built. In the end he gave me this PDA to restore my phone to normal.

http://www.multiupload.com/4RZT155TPG
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skin1980:
I built it and test it.... doesn't work... the phone hangs on first logo and adb cant see the phone
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] trip007in:
Lets donate codeworkx for this, and help him buy this phone so that he can help us with recovery. We will need his help again when Gingerbread is released:D.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] rb210:
Restore the default image with the file I uploaded. Like I said, I tried some builds but I had to revert back to normal. This isn't working yet but it is a start.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skin1980:
I build from source a recovery.img that works... or so i think... now i'm gonna try with normalboot.img.. finger crossed :eek:
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] trip007in:
Can you provide brief explanation, how to compile this? Even I would like to try.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skin1980:
Please wait.... i compiled also normalboot.img in the same way but it doesn't work... maybe my recovery.img doesn't work.... so there's no need to explain you how to make mistake :D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] trip007in:
Sorry repost.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skin1980:
I've done many tests, finally i can say that we must review the mkbootimg method.... if i unpack the stock kernel files and then i repack it doesnt work...
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] flywyh:
I use dsixda's Android Kitchen build normalboot.img and recovery.I can goto recovery now, but can't goto system.in the recovery highlight and home button didn't work, memu button can select 'reboot system now'.

recovery's error:

E:Missing bitmap icon_clockwork

(code -1)

ClockworkMod Recovery V3.2.0.0

E:Can't monut /cache/recovery/command

E:Can't monut /cache/recovery/log

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log

E:Can't monut /cache/recovery/last_log

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skin1980:
@codeworkx

I've done many test and the result is that maybe - like i wrote in my other post - the normalboot.img isn't build correctly. Infact i try to unpack - repack the stock normalboot.img and it doesn't work....

With an hex editor i looked inside the file and i see that the repacked-ramdisk differs from the original.

What i found is that the extraction method used for kernel and ramdisk works perfectly ( i have injected the extracted kernel and ramdisk into the stock normalboot.img and it works).

Finally i think that the problem can be:

- in cpio repack;

- in mkbootimg.

Any suggest is welcome.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skin1980:
Can you explain all the steps please?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skin1980:
I have made some progress... i think that soon we will have CWM.... :D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] matapollos:
you sure are putting a lot of effort here man!! thank you so much!!

cheers!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ronhoover88:
Great goin dude...good luck!!!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] scheccia:
grande skin!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] kkrraazzyy:
@ skin

dude nice to hear that from you
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] JosekNabis:
Thanks Skin, you are the best ;)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] trip007in:
@skin, Great buddy. If you could get this through, it would be a mile stone for us. Keep up the great work. Cant wait for this:p.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sakindia123:
Best of luck ;-)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ask77:
Great work. Waiting for it.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] rb210:
Hey Skin1980,

Nice work on getting so far. I've been trying to get some developers to help but other than codeworkx no one was able to help. I suggest you go on Freenode and ask for help at #cyanogenmod-dev and #koush. If you go on #koush ask koush himself, he's the guy behind CWM. Someone or the other will help you out since you're pretty close to solving the problem and we could get a working build pretty soon.

Good luck. :)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] codeworkx:
Don't pm me.

If you have any questions, join #cmsgs on freenode.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] rdr_m:
Best of luck dude.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skin1980:
Last update : the Cwm now start without error... The problem is that keys don't work.... When this will be fixed i think that we'll be ok....
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] jcbalunsat:
I really hope that you can make this work asap. This will be 1 of the breaks that our device needs. I admire yout work skin and please keep it up.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] kkrraazzyy:
dude try to solve that problem also
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ronhoover88:
Fingers crossed...good luck!!!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] rdr_m:
The tension is killin me man.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bala242:
come on you almost done.................
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] trip007in:
Only you can make it work skin from this forum, there is no one here who can do this job. We are looking forward to this. Thanks for your efforts, we appreciate all the hardwork you are putting here.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] jamsori:
No pressure. :P
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] vishal24387:
@ skin

dude if u do then i can surely tell u that our device will be completely free from soft bricks...!!!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] braveBuddy:
awesome almost there.........keep up the good work.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] manrock111:
Great man.. Be first superman of galaxy sl scene. Good luck.....
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] domoking:
wow.almost done.that's great dude can't wait :)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] jjfoxph:
good luck dude..will be wairing for your updates..great job..
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] catro1:
Hey buddy, could you tell how you fix the problem. I unpack and repack normalboot.img and it doesn't work either. I'm using fw ZCKC1, the normalboot.img you modified to allow test-signed.zip is not working with mine. So how to modify normalboot.img? Many thinks!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] catro1:
I fix the first problem. So now I can unpack and repack normalboot.img. It works when I flash it to my phone.

Here's my command line: mkbootimg --kernel mykernel --ramdisk myram -o normalboot.img --base 81800000 --pagesize 4096

The latest mkbootimg support '--pagesize' parameter. 'base' and 'pagesize' maybe different among stock roms. I'm using ZCKC1. --base 81800000 --pagesize 4096 is the key to make repack working.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] spacebar2011:
Ha! Brilliant work going on here.. I can't seem to find words to thank all the devs (including skin) for doing what they're doing! :)

Keep this going, we need to lift the I9003 out of the obscurity its been in all over. it deserves awesome things.. :D

Hows the module coming along Skin?

I can't f*#$in wait!!!

We have that SOD issue over there on the other thread but I don't care as its 2.3.4 which is awesome if you think the I9000 didn't have it until just now!

Godspeed!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sakindia123:
Skin is currently on.holiday,will come.back next week
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] leovitiaz:
Skin1980 Last Activity: Today 08:25 PM

Dear Skin1980, tell me pls how things with CWM ?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skin1980:
Dear Leovitiaz... i'm still on holyday. This doesn't mean that i cannot use my wife's PC to check the news. Thi mean that when i come back i will work hard to get CWM running. OK?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] poolakkal Suresh:
Great things are going to happen for I9003 (GB + CWM + Good Themes etc..) Keep it up Devs. We r just waiting.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] spacebar2011:
Enjoy your holiday and keep up the great stuff you've been doing for this device.. :D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fedevd:
buddy, enjoy holyday, be whit your wife, we can wait..
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] kkrraazzyy:
eagerly Waiting for that buddy :) :)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] micmaccc:
+1 we all can't wait!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] willydejoe:
This is great news .... wait for his return .... happy holidays .... enjoy them to the fullest .. excuse my bad English
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skin1980:
hi guys, i'm come back... tomorrow i wish to have time for works on this project.... see you!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bala242:
Welcome back dude....
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] willydejoe:
very good news for us..... but not for you ....Back to work
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sakindia123:
Great news mate!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] jcbalunsat:
Now we're talking.... Nice to hear from u skin.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] kkrraazzyy:
Nice to hear that
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] poolakkal Suresh:
That's a good news indeed. Hope to see you succeed soooooooon dude.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] JosekNabis:
Good luck skin, all the community is waiting for CWM.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] vishal24387:
oh god...i was eagerly waiting for your come back...i was checking this topic regulerly only to chech when u will come back...really its nice to see you dude...!!!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fedevd:
Hey Skin, it would be better if we can help you and learn how you do that..

OFFTOPIC

It would be better to if we do some tipe of tutorial for who wants to know and learn how works and how make it works in any Android phone..

Or not? 0.o
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ggclanlord:
Evr heard?

"There is no free Lunch".

M nt exactly opposing u, I'd also love to learn, bt u cnt xpct a spoon feeding...
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fedevd:
Nonono..

All i say is that ALL of us can bring any knowledge and little by little make it..

Searching, investigating, asking, etc..

I believe that is a way to give the community a better place and better info of what is this "MOD WORLD".. Im not delivering the job to Skin, this is of and for all the big community..

I understand that some things are not easy, but much people want to learn and give a piece of work too

If im wrong, im sorry, im only a kid who want to know, need to know and im glad to help who needs because i am so curious

:)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] rdr_m:
Welcome bak mate :)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ggclanlord:
Same here :-)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fedevd:
:)

And now, wait for Skin Great Job =D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] nikishk:
Waiting for Cyanogen Mod 7...
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sakindia123:
I think u mean Clockworkmod, coz cm7 aint gonna cum soon
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] nikishk:
Y do you think Cyanogen mod isnt possible... I have seen it on Nexus and trust me dude its awesome... I really hope of getin it on our phone... I personally feel Galaxy SL is a bit ignored phone by developers... and even worst - u dont get accessories of it in market... its a terrible shocker...

Never the less, its great to see this community working hard.. Thanks every one guys..
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skin1980:
Ok, i made some progress.... now the keys works and i managed to install correctly an update.zip.

Many things works, some other not..... Now i have to fix one thing then i will release the alpha version to tester.

Thanks to all for the patience.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] kkrraazzyy:
Great man just wanna try it
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skin1980:
Awesome man, you're always online!!!!

UPDATE: First issue fixed.... seem that the only thing that don't work is nandroid backup and sdcard mounting.... wish to fix very soon
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] vishal24387:
oh man...really u r great...you work like a magician...i m very eagerly waiting for this...because after this we can backup whole rom for safety & we can do any any experiment in our rom...
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] trip007in:
Great going mate. Every one is waiting for this eagerly. Im still using your modded 3e recovery to save my phone from softbrick, while making and testing themes.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] manrock111:
I wish I can work with you or any developer for android... I love mobiles and their bright future. Any developer from Delhi. I wanna do development. IM from it background.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sakindia123:
great man,waiting for the changelogs!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] rdr_m:
Skin man u r the best
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fedevd:
+1

Keep going on buddy

I can be a tester if you want ;)

HOW CAN -> WE <- (ALL OF US) MAKE A DONATION TO YOU?

(He really deserves a donation)

:)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] master_milio:
/agree

Thank you man, you are doing a great job.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] kkrraazzyy:
@ skin

yeah dude and keep up the good work
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] anziclone:
Awesome... Any idea where i could get a headstart in modifying the recovery and roms? It'd be nice if we could help you with it.. Very soon, we'lk have our own custom recovery and i can already sens the new roms that will come up...

Sent from my GT-I9003
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] vishal24387:
we are really eagerly waiting for ur update...
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fedevd:
I dont believe that we can help skin because isnt be easy this.. He have everything (knowledge, resource, tools) we have nothing.. But it would be better if we can help people in future

Enviado desde mi GT-I9003L usando XDA Premium App
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skin1980:
I have still 2 hour on my principal work then i come back to home.... later i will work on the CWM so please be patient.... maybe i have found how to solve another issue... maybe!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] fedevd:
Buddyyyyy, make account for Donations ;)

You deserve that

+1

:)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skin1980:
Thanks bro... donations when i finished the work :)

I work again and i fixed almost everything..... only one issue.... nandroid backup (and sdcard mounting) . I spoke with codeworkx and he said that nandroid doesn't support rfs filesystem ( our filesystem) so we need to convert it to ext4 ( that isn't supported by the kernel).

I will try to ask to koush if he knows a warkaround. In the same time i will try to build a custom kernel that support ext4. I tryed before but it doesn't work ( damn samsung).

If you want i can release the alpha so you can check the rest.