yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sabrelime:
To be fair, the two phone supposedly have few differences. The P506-Thrive is the AT&T prepaid phone, where as the P505-Phoenix is their contract phone. I guess the Thrive is more popular in general considering most of the material I find on the web is in regards to it. The P505-Phoenix users are kind of left out to dry. There is a link on another forum suggesting that the users of both platforms try to drum up support for an aftermarket ROM for these phones.

If its absolutely necessary, I suppose another thread could be made for the P505, but again, the differences are fairly inconsequential between the two. Us poor AT&T owners are just looking to do a little more with what we have since they seem to enjoy locking us out of the devices. :(
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] aat455:
Unless there is any significant difference except that compnay's money making marketing nomenclature strategy of having two different names (Thrive & Pheonix), we may as well address both phones. Again I'm not an expert and don't claim as such...

I second saberlime in his suggestion...

Btw, friends, any success in successful less painful ROM for LG P506?

any mods please feel free to jump in and help us....
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] aat455:
Does drellisdee's recovery work on Thrive?

Redundant post, already answered :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] :
If they are the same, why do you have to ask a dev to make a Thrive ROM compatible on the Phoenix?

I don't think it is a good idea to have the both phones in the same thread. In my opinion it will only cause confusion.

Still don't understand why it is so hard make a seperate thread for the Phoenix.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] raenye:
Here're my two cents.

-Both models bear a striking resemblance to P500.

-The kernels sources are very similar, yet different.

-I guess roms is almost identical, but we have no nandroid dump of the Phoenix to compare against.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sabrelime:
Working on it right now. I have to put my money where my mouth is..... Right?

Installing ADB on my work computer....
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] raenye:
Please include also the output of the command cat /proc/mtd in adb shell, to make sure nothing substantial has changed.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sabrelime:
Grrr.

Long story short, I must have had a temp root or something of the sort. It wouldn't connect in fastboot. To be terribly honest, this is the first I have tried to really mess with the phone at this level. That, and I wasn't supposed to go to work today, but they called me in.

I'll get it, but just give me some time. ;-)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sabrelime:
Ok, I have a backup of all of the files, but it is 219mb. Is there a specific one of these files that you need for the comparison?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] raenye:
Just boot.img and system.img.

You got 2.2.2 or 2.2.1?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sabrelime:
2.2.1

Here's the output of /proc/mtd:

I hosted the boot and system images on filesonic: http://www.filesonic.com/file/1452377154/P505_images.zip

:D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] giandeli:
How would I flash?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] giandeli:
wow srry i just had a brain fart flashing now1 hope it works
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] giandeli:
wow need to flash in fastboot how do i, i have the sdk but im clueless help...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] raenye:
Thanks.

mtd partition table is the same.

(Downloading the dump, not sure yet when I'll have time to work out the comparison.)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sabrelime:
I just know enough unix/linux to be extremely dangerous, but I haven''t done a lot of programming. What are you going to do? ./diff the files and look at the output?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] raenye:
Basically yes.

diff /system/{bin,lib} to see whether userspace helpers are the same;

compare apks (a bit more complicated, as signatures shouldn't matter);

compare config files.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sabrelime:
Soooo, I hate to seem pushy, but are there any new developments?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] raenye:
TL;DR -- nothing major, a P506 rom should work on a P505, given a proper P505 kernel.

I didn't go into decompiling classes.dex to pinpoint exact apk/jar differences (could be just the string "P505" vs. "P506"), but I feel explanation is due for the items in italics.

Moreover, the kernel is obviously different; I didn't check the initrd.

Only in P505:

system/apk/WSsyncmlDS.apk

Only in P506: (except widgets, AT&T bloatware and other non-LG apps)

system/lib/libnmc.so

Different between P505 and P506:

system/apk/AccountAndSyncSettings.apk

system/apk/Contacts.apk

system/apk/ContactsProvider.apk

system/apk/HiddenMenu.apk

system/apk/LatinIME.apk (xml only)

system/apk/LGHome.apk (xml only)

system/apk/LGSetupWizard.apk

system/apk/Mms.apk

system/apk/OmaDmClient.apk

system/apk/Phone.apk

system/apk/VoiceDialer.apk

system/bin/btld

system/bin/debuggerd

system/bin/loc_api_app

system/etc/flex/flex.db

system/etc/flex/flex.xml

system/framework/framework.jar

system/framework/services.jar

system/lib/modules/wireless.ko

system/lib/libfotajni.so

system/lib/liblgdrm.so

system/build.prop (just timestamps)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ccdreadcc:
cant u guys use the p500 roms on ur devices after replacing the kernel with ur own kind??
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sabrelime:
Thank you raenye, you're awesome. :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] raenye:
It's a bit more difficult than that, since some userspace daemons are required as well.

But generally this should be possible.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] giandeli:
hey guys im currently working on a xperia styled theme for our devices any help is appreiciated, thank. post your ideas or pm them to me and thanks so much to sabrelime for posteding those file i finnaly fixed my phone
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] aat455:
my understanding was that some of us ran into issues while trying to do that... I'm not sure though...

can anybody confirm of deny for sure?...

Thanks raenye for your persistence...

P.S: exclusively for ccdreadcc, welcome 'thala', pattaya kelappureenga pola... dhool...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] raenye:
Accelerometer not working is the first thing I noticed.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] justdave2:
Another vote for work on the LG506

Great little phone, cheap from AT&T prepaid (amazon) and other areas.

Want to completely wipe this of all the AT&T garbage, and would really like to see a custom rom.

Thanks,

David
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Chadw1985:
glad to see this phone getting some attention

i would like to have a custom kernel. the thrive is a good phone. it just needs to be oc'd to get tha slow processor moving a bit faster. i see alot of people looking for stuff for these phones in lots of forums but not many working on custom kernels and roms. so im gonna dig into this a bit myself. i got the rom open on my pc now to see what all i can change. im gonna do some experimenting then post my results so maybe itll help other people doing things with the thrive. i am willing to do testing as well if anyone has anything they need tested.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] kingv10:
What would need to be done to a p500 kernel to port it to the thrive?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sabrelime:
My understanding was that we needed someone to make a custom kernel for the phone.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] WillyWonka23:
How is the slow progress coming along? Is there a custom kernel in the brew for this phone? I would like to get my two friends who have this phone off stock.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] edgardito:
I put my old (but trusty ) HTC Wizard on the shelf and get myself a cheap AT&T GoPhone LG Thrive.

I hope someone will create a custom kernel for it.

I plan to use this phone abroad and all the crap that comes with it won't do me any good.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] kingv10:
Any updates from devs working on kernel?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jobankler:
i dont think anyone is working on it guys. its a let down! we need to hit them all up!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] cell2011:
You guys were so close. Can someone look into the same 600Mhz ARM 11 Processor & Adreno 200 GPU on the Qualcomm MSM7227 chipset that other phones use for a solution in figuring out how to dev and a rom? These phones use it Sony Ericsson X8 Sony Ericsson W8 ,zte blade,and Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 but this one runs on 800mhz. Any clues hope this helps. I know its deeper then this just trying to help
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] WillyWonka23:
Bump for attention again....
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] cpvm:
excuse me can you reupload system.img (lg p506) please ?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] koabeef:
Progress?

I am willing to send any files I may have to get this project going again. I will do any testing on my phone, (provided it wont brick it permanently).
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mediaa:
Am hoping a real solution is found for this thrive p506, just to get at&t's crap out and be replace with better cooked rom.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] cpvm:
Lg Thrive

Please do it!!!!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] BrazenRain:
Do a google search for Joban's Kernel. Currently running CM7 on my Thrive. :D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] :
Here's the link

http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-...-2-08-overclock-cm7-2-3-7-etc-gyro-fixed.html
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] superdude3:
NEED DEVS!!

Please if you are a developer, help support this device! we need YOU!!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] @ndres:
Hello!!!

Dear Devolpers, we need you!!!

I need a kernel...

I can do testing, supply files, etc...

Thanx a lot!!!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Grego51:
Can't flash this to a P506....active JB Logo forever...

I cant seem to get this method to work. The device is stuck on the JB logo and stays there -- whatever recovery I attempt. Searching...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] gunterm:
I successfully flashed CWM and got CM running on my thrive for a week, now all of a sudden it won't boot past the LG screen.

I can get into fastboot, but flashing a recovery doesn't work, it hands at "rebooting the device" and unplugging the power and letting it reboot it still hangs at the screen.

I'm about ready to toss this junker or shove it on eBay, but I figure it's worth trying to fix and get running so at least I can pass it onto my friend instead of eBay.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enriquebomb:
Hi guys. I am new to the android scene and right now i want to root my phone because of battery draining. My question is,can i root using chainfire's method because it said there that he only rooted with KDD. I have KE7 (GINGERBREAD.XWKE7).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
That method is dead read

THIS THREAD HAS BEEN SUPERCEDED BY THE CF-ROOT THREAD: http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1103399

.

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xero Xenith:
Fixed link for the lazy:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1103399

FWIW you can also root by flashing a rooted firmware, like VillainROM or Lite'ning, with Odin/Heimdall. :)

(Odin is more tried and tested but only runs on Windows. Heimdall also works though and is multiplatform - I use it on Linux.)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enriquebomb:
Thanks for the reply. My english is not that perfect and i didnt know what superceded meant hehe. Flashing a rom with included root sounds great. Btw can i flash litening when i have ke7? Because it didnt specify in the thread what kernel you need.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
You can flash Villains custom rom that includes root .

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1081368

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enriquebomb:
Thanks! Just rooted my stock phone and boy was that fast. Now i have another problem lol. I can't open market because i can't connect my google account. It says something like cannot connect to server,might be a problem with your network bla bla. I read that factory reseting the phone might make it work,but my question is,would resetting the phone remove superuser and that other app? (I think it was CMW)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enriquebomb:
Up /10chars
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xinfinityoO:
did you use a cusom rom?? at the moment its better to just root your device as all the roms are being constantly developed and bugs and eroors being fixed.. if you use a custom rom you will end up flashing your device quite often.. just my thoughts
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enriquebomb:
Yes i rooted my phone only. But i need to know if resetting my phone would remove superuser and cwm not the root itself.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xinfinityoO:
i have rooted mine and i dont get that problem... which rom did you use.. and yeah factory reset will remove those
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] f3n0m3no:
Anyone know why Google Services has such high usage percentage in battery use(almost 50%)? A solution maybe?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sparksltd:
I'm on jvp and have got no drain problems yet. Does it go away after a reboot?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] f3n0m3no:
no it doesn't. It shows that Google Services is running,and the processes are Network Location and Google framework.. I can't unninstall the framework,because i can't use the market after.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sparksltd:
If a simple reboot doesn't fix it then if you wanted yo you could do a factory reset using this code *2767*3855# in phone dialer. This will delete everything on the phone and reinstall the firmware. But it will delete everything! Also any lagfixes should be reverted back to rfs before using this code.

There maybe another fix but that's all I can suggest for now.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbdroid:
Did you just flash the rom? It is expected that Google Services will consume an unusually high battery after flashing. It is because google account has to sync data from phone to its servers and vice versa. Let it run for a few hours or until the initial battery runs out. After that I think your rom's battery usage will "settle down".
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agentdark45:
Battery drain seems to be fixed with 2.3.4 for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liraindon:
Do you have Latitude activated?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] someonemx:
+1, i have one day on Stock JVP with SpeedMod kernel and battery life is rock solid! about 1-2 % per hour in stand by.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] f3n0m3no:
This is the 3rd day with xxjvp. My latitude is unninstaled.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kauh1970:
install cpuspy and see. It says it is good for monitoring those processes,. My battery drain is due to overworking android OS,,,haven't figured out a solution yet.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] f3n0m3no:
I flashed it again.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] f3n0m3no:
The battery drain is gone
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] f3n0m3no:
And the battery lasts longer than froyo
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] godsbeloved:
I have this same problem, I hope this works for me too
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elita:
wow.. 1-2 % per hour in stand by?? i think something wrong with my battery.

I unplugged at 9.00 am and drain sooo fast.. 15% left at 1.00 pm!

but with 2.3.4 with speedmod kernel it can last up to 6 hour.. still this is not like others right? I :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] f3n0m3no:
You must wipe the sdcard because it might have things from previous roms
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] gothdude:
Hello, anybody else having date/time sync, device name reset upon restart problems?!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dazza9075:
i get date time issues if i go into magldr and or remove battery
[General Questions and Answers] mortallkombat:
please how do i root my Samsung galaxy s running gingerbread without problems. i hv tried many methods n failed.. i came across some sites that said it could be rooted thru odin but my main question now is how would d usb mode be b4 using odin 2 flash............. is it in mass storage mode or kies..........and do i need to turn debugging on
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Judge Zetsumei:
I've noticed that the gallery app and the music app including poweramp is picking up every file from my phone.

So this means it is showing pictures and icons for all my programs in the gallery in separate albums and all sounds like for example gun shots from modern combat and car sounds from asphalt 6 in the music players.

Is there a way for me to filter out this stuff to only show what I need?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/studiokuma-nomedia-manager/com.studiokuma.nomedia

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Judge Zetsumei:
Thanks :-)
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manu3l0s:
Hi, I have the P1000L version of the galaxy tab and I was looking to make a clean restore of my system, I would like to do this with the original samsung android firmware without all my carriers custom apps and stuff (or if anybody here know any custom firmware that works better I would appreciate the suggestion)

I can see that kies has an option to do a restore but I don't know if it will work the way I want, so any help or directions would be appreciate so I could restore without messing up with any functionality or end up with my device locked :(

Thanks in advance for your help!! :D
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] biotechie:
Hi All,

First of all, I searched the forums and the net to see if I could get a clear answer to my q's. Not finding them, I decided to post a few questions. I'll post the q's first to save some reading and then post the background later :

1. Is it possible to unlock a Sprint Galaxy Tab (7") to work with a Verizon no contract monthly data plan? If so, is there a thread to guide me to doing this?

2. Is there a concrete thread on how to turn off the Sprint activation? I've read several different things (from the volume buttons to deleting root files). A reliable thread would help.

3. Correct me if I am wrong - is there a way to get monthly data on plan on Sprint?

For those who want the background...I recently got a Sprint Galaxy Tab off Ebay. The tab is supposed to be new and is off contract. My aim was to use the tab mainly in wifi mode with the option of turning on 3g when required (when traveling or what have you). I also recently learned that Sprint does not have a no contract data plan which kinda puts a damper on my idea. While I havent turned on the tab, I wanted to know if its worth keeping this.

Thanks in advance,

Biotechie.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] biotechie:
Bump. Some help please. :-(
[Acer Iconia A500] krachlatte:
Guys,

I had an issue connecting to my day to day wlan AP. I had this issue on serveral Android devices now. Android just does not find the AP you connected to the last week days moant etc...but you find all other kinds of access point and you can connect to others and so on.

Here is how i fixed it, login to your Wifi router and just change the channel by one number, only remark is stay below channel 11.

this is not new found it serveral times on the web. no factory reset needed.

cheers
[Droid 2 Global General] randomdeanna:
Hey there--longtime lurker, first-time poster. I've learned much from these forums. (perhaps too much, we'll see... heh)

I got a new Droid 2 Global (D2G) from Verizon Wireless this week, and wanted to see if I could get better battery time. I found a post on another forum with some settings in the testing screen -- *#*#4636#*#* . When I went in, I went to Phone information --> Select radio band. A screen pops up with "Set GSM/UMTS band" and "USA Band" only as a selection, and without knowing really, I clicked on USA Band.

This caused my signal to go away altogether. (as in, little red circle and slash through the radio bars.) No matter what I select in "Set preferred network type" on the main Phone Information screen, no signal comes up. (Tho it does think it's connected to AT&T or T-Mobile sometimes, but with no actual connectivity.) In network settings, selecting Global, CDMA, or GSM/UMTS doesn't work, either.

Resigned to my fate, I wiped the data & cache, and then flashed the stock SBF (v2.4.29) using Ubuntu and sbf_flash successfully. But this hasn't fixed the radio problem and now (get this), the Wifi is busted-- it just keeps showing "Error" as a status message. I suspect I needed the slightly newer SBF (2.4.33) but couldn't find a verified stable version, so I didn't go there.

Without any connectivity at all, I can't (or don't know how) to get the phone back to a bootloader screen, and can't get to any Market apps. Blargh.

Any advice is much appreciated.

--

UPDATE:

I've figured out (duh) that I can load apk's onto the phone via USB, so I'm doing that now to get root and Droid 2 Bootstrap back.

Looking elsewhere this morning, I've found the recommendation in other threads to flash the radio image. Anyone know where I can find this file?

[edit] And, in the light of day, I found how to go directly to the bootloader screen. (In case anyone else landed here looking for that: Power down the phone; plug it into the USB port. Open the keyboard and hold down the up arrow. Turn the power on, continuing to hold the up arrow.

--

UPDATE #2: Went to Verizon after removing all traces of root, CW, etc. Confessed to using 4636; guy scolded me, walked away, and came back with a working radio. Wifi wasn't working still; but when I did the OTA update to 4.2.33, it came back fully functional.
[Droid 2 Global General] randomdeanna:
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[Droid 2 Global General] IronFists:
coulda redid the test page and reselected gsm/evdo auto thats the default setting for global and enabled the wifi also.
[Droid 2 Global General] randomdeanna:
Yeah, tried that. Nothing I selected worked. In the radio band, there was only "USA Band," and in "Preferred network," none of the options worked. There were no other options to mess around with. I'd love to know what the dude did to reset it; I was too worried about him figuring out all the warranty-breaking stuff I'd already done to ask.
[Droid 2 Global General] KingWaffle:
You should've just said "My phone service stopped working". Most of the time, the Verizon drones are stupid, and have no idea what half of the lingo means.