yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Off-topic] Sypris:
Hey guys. I'm pretty good with computers, and I'm stumped, I was hoping some of you XDA geniuses could help me out.

I recently tried to download the Duke Nukem Forever demo, which turned out to be virus-ridden. I was so excited to play that I didn't run a virus scan on it (I know, noob mistake) before trying to install. Within 10 seconds, AVG was like "o****", and I was greeted with the splash screen of my motherboard.

Windows Startup Repair didn't help me (go figure), and I would be that guy that doesn't make recovery images for his PC.

My question to all of you is, is there a way to make an actual legit repair dvd for Windows? I'm not talking about Microsoft's Windows Repair disk (which just launches the same things that Windows does when **** hits the fan). I'm looking for a way to take my Windows installation disk, and overwrite Windows with a fresh install like one would if upgrading from Vista to 7 by using the DVD (except from the Windows boot menu/DVD, since I am unable to enter Windows at all.

I just want to be able to get into my drive and backup my bookmarks and save games (all my other stuff is on a separate partition).

My only other option is to hook up a spare HDD and use my drive as a slave, virus scan it, and move my files from there, but I'd like to avoid ripping my PC apart for the moment.

Please, no "you should have installed Mac/Linux/whatever comments". Thank you for your help.

Sent from my Synergized Evo.
[Off-topic] twitch351:
If you have a CD that you use to install Windows 7 you can boot from CD using the boot menu and do a completely new installation from there. I may be reading what you are asking incorrectly but that's what I did when I accidently screwed up my computer and couldn't boot any OS.

-Remember, Android hell is a real place and you will be sent there at the first sign of defiance-
[Off-topic] Sypris:
Yeah, that's not what I'm asking haha. I'm looking for a way to overwrite my current copy of Windows (to fix the corrupted files and save the files on my C: drive so I can extract my important files) without reformatting and installing a completely fresh copy of Windows. And I need to be able to do this without having to go into Windows (because I can't lol).

Sent from my Synergized Evo.
[Off-topic] twitch351:
If you make a new installation there will be a folder called windows old, or something like that. All your files will be in there.

-Remember, Android hell is a real place and you will be sent there at the first sign of defiance-
[Off-topic] Sypris:
Oh, really? Are you certain? And can anyone else verify this (Not saying you're unreliable man, just wanna be certain lol)?

Sent from my Synergized Evo.
[Off-topic] Dirk:
You can do a 'Repair' install from the Recovery menu. Just boot from your Win 7 disk to select it. If you have System restore turned on you might want to try that first, from the same menu.
[Off-topic] Sypris:
I don't see repair, only startup repair.

Sent from my Synergized Evo.
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Repair may not be the best option anyway as it'll only fix system files, perhaps leaving the malware intact. System Restore is the better option. Failing that, grab yourself a copy of malwarebytes from another PC, put it on a memory stick and run it from safe mode on the infected PC.

Microsoft have also released a malware scanner that can be run off a memory stick. You'd need another PC and a spare memory stick to use it. It's basically a copy of security essentials but the process makes the memory stick bootable so it can be run on an infected machine outside of the Windows environment.

Hang on, i'll find a link...

https://connect.microsoft.com/systemsweeper

There you go.

For future reference you can create a repair disc for Win 7 by simply typing 'system repair disc' in the start menu.
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
Try Hirens boot CD. Live CD with mini XP and antivirus apps and many things more. Its really handy live CD for repair.
[Off-topic] event2000:
You can nearly extract everything out of an old windows installation. Bookmarks are in json files if i remember correctly, and you can also open the old registry file (google a bit).

I think its not worth go through all the trouble to make your system start again, i would rather try to just install new and get everything i need from the old files.
[Off-topic] Sypris:
So basically most of you agree I should install windows without reformatting do I can get my files from the C: drive lol

Sent from my Synergized Evo.
[Off-topic] imotz:
try using hirens boot disc

it has an live windows xp so you can check for viruses from there, also you can run several other tools.
[Off-topic] Sypris:
Will do. Right now I'm trying the Microsoft System Sweeper.

Sent from my Synergized Evo.
[Off-topic] jaszek:
Another one for Hiren's Boot CD. YOu get the Mini XP, which just boots up into a watered down version of XP, but when you go into My Computer, all your files will be there. Also I know it has some tools running from MiniXP, but you can a lot of stuff when booting into the liveCD.
[Off-topic] Sypris:
Alright lol. Sounds good. Still running Microsoft System Sweeper, but when that's done I'll try it.

Sent from my Synergized Evo.
[General Topics] MartyLK:
According to this article, Samsung might be well on its way to using CyanogenMOD 7 on its smartphones. I use a custom CM7 on my HD2 and love it. It can only be a good thing for Samsung phones.

http://pocketnow.com/android/cyanogenmod-in-the-works-for-galaxy-s-ii-thanks-to-samsung
[General Topics] galaxys:
Interesting and very cool! Hopefully others will follow...
[General Topics] silent_bob52637:
i would definitly buy samsung if they used cm as stock it would make modding so easy
[General Topics] l4nc3r:
Wow. Just goes to show that CM is amazing. Congrats on the recognition you all!
[General Topics] FuzerO1:
wow, really nice!
[General Topics] orb3000:
Worth to write about it, thanks!
[General Topics] Dirk:
I think people are taking this the wrong way. Rather than Samsung selling the phone with CM7 preloaded they are simply encouraging the community to support it with custom ROMs...in this case Cyanogenmod.

Am I wrong?
[General Topics] tolis626:
That's exactly what they want.The guy who mentioned Samsung phones selling with CM just meant that he wishes it'd be so. :)

At least I think so... :p
[General Topics] howezzhuang:
good news for sure
[General Topics] Step666:
Exactly.

They gave one guy a free phone, they're not officially supporting CyanogenMod.

Call my cynical but I think this is just a shrewd piece of marketing.

It curries favour with people who have an interest in modding and will probably boost sales of the Galaxy S2 in such circles, especially with those who are firm CM fans.

It's no different to giving away freebies to 'celebs', except this might actually boost sales for them.
[General Topics] Dirk:
It's a good ploy. I certainly wouldn't buy a device now unless it was CM supported.
[General Topics] 13_:
Sounds like Samsung is using this as a tool to add backdoor pressure on carriers to stop holding back updates and loading the roms with crap. Pretty crafty on their part to directly appeal to the mod community.

Sent from a device powered by hamsters.
[General Topics] mech_egr:
So.... does this mean no locked bootloaders/easy root exploits? :-D

EDIT: Would be nice to see HTC follow suit. I'm not bound to any 1 company but the original incredible was and still is (thanks in part to the CM devs) an amazing bit of hardware
[General Topics] aussie1234:
Good on you Samsung

I applaud Samsung in supporting developers this way and supporting us consumers in being able to further customise our phones.

Whatever the reason is behind Samsung doing this as long as we benefit thats a good thing.

I hope then that these customised ROMS and MODS etc will always be free.

I bought a Samsung Galaxy S II after using HTC phones for so long.

Good on you Samsung

Cheers

Aussie :)
[General Topics] wonsanim:
Well Done Samsung:) Komap Sunida Samsung:cool:
[General Topics] themeltingclock:
Still won't use another Samsung product after using a Vibrant for several months.
[General Topics] poontab:
Congrats to both Samsung & the CM team.
[General Topics] lockzackary:
its very nice for samsung to not be afraid if someone would sue them lol

Google once issued a C&D to cyanogen.

If samsung would give their proprietary code to CM, hmm i don't actually know the legalities but hey.. i'm sure somewhere there's an agreement breach?

hehe but negativities aside

Go CM team! :D
[General Topics] movieaddict:
great and very good karma samsung!

+1
[General Topics] syamsoul:
if samsung use cm7 ..... there will be no 3g video call anymore right? :(
[General Topics] o0stryxs0o:
I've Rommed this vibrant to hell and back and it still is great to me.....I'll never go back to stock, so I'm excited about Samsung's interest in modding.
[General Topics] mrvtec69:
since Samsung is supporting CM7, what dose this mean for warranties can we send them with CM7 loaded or still have to revert back to stock before sending for a warranty claim
[General Topics] Johev:
This is great news in my opinion. Marketing or no marketing scheme, before developers were seen as hackers that were not supposed to be messing with their devices, instead of potential allies in improving the devices.

Because that is what developers do, they take something with great potential that was not developed to the fullest, and bring it to another level for the gain of the entire community.

My HD2 would never bee as cool as it is now, if it did not have the option of ANDROID and WP7.

I congratulate Samsung with this effort, giving a couple of devices to the developers, could be the cheapest thing that they can do to boost their sales. This sites does the marketing for them. I am positive that maybe 1 million people will read this article here, and that alone is an achievement for such a low investment.

Now I am just curious if they change their policy on the guarantee, or will we have to unroot, and flash our devices to be able to send them for warranty reasons?
[General Topics] CDTI:
And what about Samsung Galaxy S (GT-i9000)?? :(
[General Topics] hudster2001:
Imagine a CM7 rom with the official Sammy battery life... That would be heaven:D
[General Topics] Dirk:
That's a good question. On the one hand they are supporting the community but on the other they may still impose the same warranty conditions.

Can open, worms everywhere! :)
[General Topics] DaveBG:
Thumbs up!

Great news! I hope this will drive more developers to create awesome roms!
[General Topics] orion421:
Not one but four members got one.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=14488034&postcount=307
[General Topics] AdamOutler:
I feel like I may have helped with this... I've been contacting Samsung people on Twitter nearly daily asking for information on PBL, SBL, hacking, showing them the threads I've been working on and the information we've collected... They finally started supporting the hackers.
[General Topics] AdamOutler:
Guys, please ask samsung for IROM code in C format.
[General Topics] Mumps:
Well at least this shows one thing. Samsung people reads XDA. Galaxy S has been one of the last to adopt CM, mainly because of the crappy customization they did to Android (all the framework, a lot of code and the infamous RFS filesystem).

I bought the phone in August'10 hoping for an early release, and it's not been until some weeks ago that it was worth flashing CM, and now I'm absoultely happy with it, finally!

If it's true that Google pretends the brands to release the AOSP version ASAP (see what I just did?) and then delay whatever they like their customization, helping CM seems like a good move by Samsung, if they intend to get rid of all the crap they forced into the first GalaxyS, of course.
[General Topics] oaia:
Good news, I use CM 7 for a while on my SGS and i'm very pleased

Thanks to all developers
[General Topics] trunzoc:
Hopefully more companies will also follow the lead. HTC re-unlocking the boot loader is also a great step.
[General Topics] oaia:
or should I say, thanks God, I'm tired of samsung devs die trying!!!

CM7 rulz
[General Topics] lttldvl:
I think well done to the CM team for getting recognised, but not so good form on samsungs part for picking out only CM.

To explain, there's a load of talanted devs here on xda who have all produced comparible roms in terms of quality as the CM team. Where's their SGSII's?
[General Topics] marxmarv:
Name some other "talanted devs" who are actually doing the grunt work of bringing up Android from source on new devices, tracking down framework and kernel bugs, and maintaining a clean multi-platform code base. Kangers and themers need not apply.
[General Topics] PrometheanFire:
Awesome news, glad I got the Galaxy S2! Looking forward to official release
[General Topics] theandre:
Damn I sold my Vibrant day before these news.... :(
[General Topics] mkrmec:
that's complete nonsense... you have no idea why it took that long to release CM7 for SGS.

CM7 is a AOSP build... it has nothing to do with customizations to Android by Samsung since the CM7 code is completely from AOSP and the developers. A CM7 project starts from scratch and doesn't take any software from the original ROM.

The reason it took that long is that the drivers are not open source and the radio of the phone is different than HTCs models, they had to code everything from scratch.
[General Topics] Mumps:
You are completely right, I mixed everything there lol.
[General Topics] aPexalpha:
This is very good move on samsungs side since many people in the xda / rom communities might be influenced by this when deciding what their new phone is going to be.
[General Topics] AdamOutler:
Its very unlikely there will be an official release. This could have been $1000 of their marketing budget towards influential android developers. Supercurio (voodoo sound and lagfix) also received a new galaxy tab.
[General Topics] skeet34:
would be nice to see this kind of support from HTC
[General Topics] manteez8:
yes, I heard that samsung gave one of cyanogen mod developer a galaxy s II phone. :p
[General Topics] johannes80:
Great news
[General Topics] prsguitaruser:
This is good news, especially after HTC changed their minds about the locked bootloaders and started to make Sense open source. I think that if Android is going to be open source, then manufacturers should support that. As for it being just a marketing ploy, yes, that's pretty much what it is, but if it helps the dev community, then it's a good step. People who are into custom roms will probably choose a device made by a manufacturer that supports CM, so it's beneficial for both Samsung and the consumers.

I have an upgrade coming up in the fall, and thanks to this (and messing around with my buddy's new SGS Vibrant) I'm considering a Samsung phone.
[General Topics] I Am Marino:
Great to hear about this.
[General Topics] blessedhands:
This is good. Indicates CM's greatness
[General Topics] Balsta:
Absolutely correct. They are supporting the community but they would never put something like CM as stock on their device. Especially since CM7 features require the phone to be rooted. Also, there are still many bugs in CM as a result of the advanced features, as you can see by looking on the CM7 forums.

Also, they love using touchWiz.
[General Topics] Archmarine:
I think Motorola should also follow this trend
[General Topics] kramerty88:
They are doing wonderful, filing up the market for people that want more than just a stock rom. So yes it is marketing, but good marketing.

But cm will probably never be preloaded, since samsung will be responsible for the product, so legally they can be sued if cm bricks the phone... (not likely, but still)

Secondly, for those who did not know. The sgs2 comes with unlocked bootloader, the only thing that changes when you flash a custom rom is a counter that holds notice of the amount of flashes. (but this can be reset as well).

So yeah. Good job samsung on both the sgs2 and open policy
[General Topics] sony3127:
You've got to love it when the community gets noticed. I hope they do use the CM7 as a basis for an official release... I just hope they don't mess it up :/
[General Topics] McJosephs:
From the link posted in 1st post: "We don't know when atinm might be able to release some usable code for the SGS2, but while we're excited about that possibility, the thing we're really happy about is seeing a smartphone manufacturer embrace a hacking community like this. Do you think Samsung could just be an outlier, or is this a sign of things to come?"

I think this happend yesterday - http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,6279.

All things considered these are very good news! Hope CM is getting even more popular and better :).
[General Topics] MartyLK:
I certainly love CM7 on my HD2. I would love to see industrial involvement...the backing and expertise of huge companies...to refine and make CM the best it can be.
[General Topics] rp518dan:
Samsung, Sprint, and I do not have the same interests. Sprint wants to "al-la-carte" me for native functioncning of my Epic 4g. Samsung wants a Sprint subsidy when i buy a phone. And I don't want to pay extra for tethering or a working GPS.

Xda-developers, and Android Central, helped me take my subsidized phone and treat it as if it wasn't rented from "Ma Bell". I love my phone now.

Samsung wants happy customers, but that's both me and Sprint. XDA-Developers lets people like me have a full featured phone without paying Sprint to unbreak my GPS and tethering. Samsung wants to walk a fine line without angering its customers, like me and Sprint.

Posted on Samsung Tab 7 Plus, via SPHD 700 with samurai 1.2.1 and ERA Legendary RC 2
[General Topics] c00king.c0w:
nice, ty for the share
[General Topics] Felimenta97:
Sony Ericsson have already done that, giving 20 phones to Free Xperia Team (group who work for CM).
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] bra1n0uk:
Im 75% sure it dont work on stock
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] cyberinsane:
try this i hav resigned it ...should work fine on 2.1 i guess :)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] igorazevedo:
:( Chinese?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlocoxda:
Hi guys,

First off, I used this forum 2-3 months ago to update from basic viewsonic g tab software to Vegan 7, thank you so so much for all the input. Could not have done it without the great posts.

In need of help again. I've researched my issues but haven't found an answer that was clear enough that made sense for me.

I have an issue of files deleting themselves, but I believe I found the answer from a poster named generosity, thank you I will try that.

My real issue now is that I have no sound for video. The speakers don't work until i plug in and unplug a headset. my research has indicated all the fixes are temporary, such as plug in headset to make it work. I want a permanent solution because I use this for my young daughter and she isn't capable of rolling headsets or pluggin them in yet lol.

So, my questions are.. is there a permanent fix in the software I am running now? Is there an update to the vegan software(i didn't see one) which caused me to look for a downgrade but all I saw was vegan 5.1 which was beta also. I dont see any reason why 5.1 wouldn't work if we know things run well on it??? I also saw a little bit newer kernel, will upgrading the kernel fix it absolutely? As I said, upgrade/downgrade, just a way to get to something stable.

If you have solutions to my question and it is an upgrade or downgrade of anything, please post the link to how to do it.

Thank you so much and I hope I didn't beat a topic that has already been covered.

Below is my build.

10" viewsonic g tablet

Mod Version Vegan-7.0.0-RC1 -Harmony

Build number GRI40

Kernel 2.6.32.36 cyanogenmod from pershoot

-jlocoxda
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snailer88:
I have a gtab running cyan 703 and I was taking a look at Elixir under "cpu" and it says "number of cores available to the virtual machine : 1" Is one of the cores not utilized?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tenet420:
Yes, the Gtab is dual core.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snailer88:
Well, I know it has 2 cores.. I should've phrased that "Does cyanogen use both cores?"
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajeevvp:
Yes. But, when the system is idle, or mostly idle, only one CPU is used. The other CPU(s) are shut down to reduce power consumption.

The difference between an idle and a loaded system:

Idle:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 1992.29

Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee vfpv3 vfpv3d16
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x1
CPU part : 0xc09
CPU revision : 0

Hardware : NVIDIA Harmony Development System
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000

Loaded system--secondary processor now online:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 1992.29

processor : 1
BogoMIPS : 1992.29

Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee vfpv3 vfpv3d16
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x1
CPU part : 0xc09
CPU revision : 0

Hardware : NVIDIA Harmony Development System
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000

To see multiprocessor stats:

$ mpstat -P ALL
Linux 2.6.32.41-cyanogenmod (localhost) 06/07/11 _armv7l_ (2 CPU)

23:53:37 CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle
23:53:37 all 13.36 0.07 4.62 3.01 0.43 1.03 0.00 0.00 77.49
23:53:37 0 19.43 0.09 6.44 4.74 0.86 1.98 0.00 0.00 66.46
23:53:37 1 7.29 0.04 2.80 1.28 0.00 0.08 0.00 0.00 88.52

To see how the CPUs are being used:

$ top -n 20 -d 1 [I]# The top command will quit after 20 secs.[/I]
Mem: 441232K used, 5560K free, 0K shrd, 11984K buff, 93604K cached
CPU: 15.7% usr 20.4% sys 0.0% nic 62.8% idle 0.0% io 0.9% irq 0.0% sirq
Load average: 0.00 0.04 0.09 1/533 4204
PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %MEM CPU %CPU COMMAND
3596 974 10039 S 167m 38.4 1 25.5 com.redirectin.rockplayer.android.unified
1049 974 1000 S 169m 38.9 0 3.7 system_server
4147 2 root SW 0 0.0 1 2.3 [irq/182-host_sp]
4204 3348 root R 1036 0.2 1 1.8 top -n 20 -d 1
975 1 1013 S 30752 6.8 0 0.9 /system/bin/mediaserver
980 1 root S 19440 4.3 0 0.9 /system/bin/nvrm_daemon
1149 2 root SW 0 0.0 1 0.9 [ksdioirqd/mmc0]
289 2 root SW 0 0.0 0 0.4 [cpufreq-dvfsd]
1147 2 root SW 0 0.0 0 0.4 [dhd_dpc]
2570 974 10007 S 219m 50.2 1 0.0 com.android.browser
1197 974 10038 S 120m 27.6 0 0.0 com.google.process.gapps
1642 974 10005 S 118m 27.1 0 0.0 android.process.acore
1159 974 1001 S 104m 23.8 1 0.0 com.android.phone
1583 974 1000 S 100m 22.9 1 0.0 com.cyanogenmod.cmparts
1160 974 10076 S 100m 22.8 0 0.0 org.adwfreak.launcher
1734 974 10059 S 99m 22.8 0 0.0 com.google.android.youtube
...
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snailer88:
+1 Thanks rajeevvp, I don't know much command line stuff so this is good to see. Very helpful answer!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kivawolf:
I was asking the question.

I am using CM7.03 my quadrant score is only around 1200.

I wonder what I do wrong.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajeevvp:
I tried out quadrant and the lowest score I got was slightly less that yours, around 119n. The max was around ~1500 after a few runs. Overclocking was not enabled during the quadrant runs.

Quadrant was slightly buggy (force crashes after the benchmark was done), so i tried out Linpack from Market, and its scores on my gTablet, with CM-7.0.3, are similar to this guy's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BnY7iGxPkA

If you get similar scores, your set up is OK.
[Epic 4G General] jok3sta:
Ok I have the weird problem that started today.. when playing music or a video and if I got to m home screen and start scrolling up and down I hear a scratching or static sound. I'm currently on frankentien ec05 with the genocide kernel but I've tried other rom\kernel combos and get the same problem.. what could I be?

Tapatalkin' it from my Epic 3g
[Epic 4G General] Shoulon:
your headphones? noise does get picked up. Especially if u use the cheapo ones samsuck included with our epics.

Try not moving the headphones cord and gently scroll. if no noise. then ur pickin up noise.