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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ferparedes:
Hmm well I've wiped everything from recovery and flash back to froyo with repartition. Tried MIUI once, then GB (JVR), each time doing a full wipe and, when flashing with Odin, using repartition. Is that not enough?

What about restoring data from apps? Can that cause it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yani2000:
Great thread, too bad there is no 100% solution yet. :(

And to add even more confusion here is my take on this.

- TouchWiz issue:

I know some users blame TW4 for this problem and they are right!

I've used TW3, TW4 and TW4.5 and I can tell you that I can 100% replicate this problem with TW4 and TW4.5. TW3 works somewhat OK.

Just put many widgets on home screens or make a lot of folders in app drawer and your phone will freeze in no time.

- And now for the SD card issue:

I'm 100% sure my external SD card is corrupted because I have some files stored there and I can't copy them to my PC (happened a long time ago when I pulled out my battery on phone freeze). So my external SD card could also cause problems, but I'm not 100% sure on that one. I didn't play with that yet.

Juwe also suggested SD card format (I think he meant internal and not external).

- And now for the third and last issue:

I still get "random" freezes with TW3 installed and TW4/4.5 uninstalled. I'm currently using GO Launcher EX for my default launcher and I still sometimes get a freeze when exiting a game called Paradise Island (quite CPU extensive). The game would get quite laggy and when I try to exit it, it would freeze. If you hold the power button for 9 seconds the phone then reboots. I must add that always when I exit this game the GO Launcher EX would restart, which is quite annoying.

So the problems could also be in extensive CPU usage (someone here also suggested Asphalt 6,...), or these gams could also use the media scanner and with that I could get these freezes. Definitely needs further investigation.

Hope I didn't discourage anyone to find the real solution! :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ferparedes:
Success!!

OK I think I'm finally running Gingerbread stably on my phone.

So far I've tried Sensation GB ROM, Gingerreal 7.2.1 and 7.1.4. No freezes on any of them, and I finally settled on GR 7.1.4. Sensation is a bit unstable (doing basic stuff like changing system fonts would cause fc or reboots) and GR 7.2.1 feels like a work in progress.

I think the trick was in the steps I made to flash the gingerbread OS. We'll use the gingerreal guide from this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1155623

1. Backup SMS, contacts, calendar and stuff stored ln your internal SD storage. Don't bother with apps.

2. Remove sim card and extra SD card. Go to recovery, do a factory reset, wipe data and wipe cache. Reboot. Go into settings, storage and format internal phone storage.

3. Flash stock jvq as per gingerreal instructions.

4. Go into recovery, wipe and clear cache

5. Flash semaphore kernel (I also tried darkcore and it also works), reboot

6. Go into recovery, wipe and clear cache

7. Put gingerreal zip file on the internal phone storage and install it using cwm recovery

8. Go into recovery again, wipe and clear cache.

9. Reboot phone again. Now insert the sim card and SD card and do a final reboot.

10. For your apps, reinstall them one by one using the market. Yes I know it's a pain in the arse but I'm pretty sure backing them up in froyo using titanium backup and then retiring them onto GB breaks things.

I've been running gingerbread for 15 days now and no freezes yet. Gingerreal did have some random reboots but these were caused by the 4 tab unlock (don't use it!). I've only installed a handful of my apps but I'm installing them little by little so if one of them breaks something ill know which onen it was.

If someone else wants to try, please do so and post your results.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gfacer:
Wow! You've been busy. Glad you got it working. My stock 2.3.3 from Kies is still fine but this is good to know if I want to start playing again.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ferparedes:
Yes, I really wanted to go backnto gingerbread. The battery life is amazing. Just yesterday I was out all day and barely lost 20% of my battery charge.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ferparedes:
Still going strong. Applied the V6 Supercharger memory tweaks and now my phone's as fast as I ever imagined it could be.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] DaywiTT:
Does anyone know if it is possible to charge the transformer while connected to the pc via usb? there are many devices that allows you to do this, just thought it was strange the transformer can't or is my device broken?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] leonpr:
Officially it doesn't - I don't know if people have managed to get around this yet or if its even possible to charge from the 12v a USB2.0 puts out... I assume not as the transformer won't even charge from a power socket/USB adapter thats not the one it comes with (which must include a special transformer).
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Rumbleweed:
Your USB port on the PC is 5V and 500 ma max total for all devices connected. The TF charges charges at 15V 2.A. If you turn the TF off and leave it connected to the PC for an entire day it will charge it back up fairly well, but not very effecient.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mowaza:
Hey xda,

My Desire has stopped sending sms's since i installed MIUI-AU 1.6.10 - used many ROMS before but never had this issue.

The first time i switched to MIUI i followed the instruction to flash the corresponding *.DX.zip file before flashing the ROM [see their site] which i did, then flashed the rom - all seemed ok and since then every time i send an sms to any number, from contacts/manually typed or what have you it gives an error - 'message not sent' :confused:

Since then, ive switched to the updated MIUI-AU,MIUI 1.6.17 (running currently), RCMix..whatver is their latest build - and im sure the issue will come back with any other rom.

Now obviously following all instructions and all i must have skipped something that is causing this..

Before flashing miui 1.6.17 i wiped everything and my SD card is setup for A2sd with the right partitions and extentions

Im running a CM7 HBoot if that matters.

If anyone has a clue please let me know here - im happy to provide any more information...cheers

Fixed: Guys if you ever get into the Messaging settings>Advanced>SMS Message Centre..don't change the default number stored there - i just called up my provider (Telstra) and they gave me the correct number to use and now everything is back to normal
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _Balu:
Did you try to get the settings from your provider? You could try to reset them if you have got an account for the internet portal of your provider. You could also try to call them.

I don't know if you need special settings for every provider, but you can try this. :confused:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mowaza:
Thanks for the reply - phones here in AUS will normally get the settings as soon as you insert the SIM card but because i had deliberately messed with the sms message centre number i had to ring them to get that...your post got me thinking what i had changed and it just made sense :D
[Defy General] mpiekp:
That will work
[Defy General] 57op:
Yes.

Until your phone will enter into bootloader mode ( volume up button before turning on ), you'll be able to flash via RDS lite.
[Defy General] SeaFargo:
Thank you, mpiekp :)

Thanks to carlo93, also. :)

But Carlo, my phone should always be able to load in bootloader mode? In other words, can I, with the mentioned procedure, corrupt the boot sector in such a way to NOT be able to boot in bootloader mode anymore?

or ... is there a way (so I can pay very very attenction to avoid it) to corrupt the bootloader mode?

I know that till I reach bootloader mode I always be able to flash with RSD Lite. But can I, working with roms (nandroids and sbf), be able to crash the bootloader mode so I can't reach it anymore or not?
[Defy General] 57op:
Maybe if something goes wrong while flashing a sbf via RSD Lite ( i.e. black out during a flashing, i hope this will never occur... )...

Otherwise there's no reason of being afraid ;).
[Defy General] joydeep1985:
Question for update

currently i m running cm7 rom for gingerbread. if i revoke back to original one . (i messed up big time cause i didnt get a chance to make a nanodroid backup of my own eclair ).. so i guess i have to follow ur tutorial to revert back to my eclair 2.1 update one firmware version = 2.59

what i wanna know is if i would b able to get the official froyo via msu if i revert back to my original eclair 2.1 firmware 2.59 using full sbf method.. is it at all possible ?
[Defy General] SeaFargo:
Nandroid restore + fixed sbf

Dear joydeep1985, first of all I've never flashed CM7 so I don't know how to go back from it to original Froyo, but I have no reason to doubt it is different from going back from MIUI, that I've tested. So a complete wipe, than a full Froyo sbf flash should work.

After that, to downgrade to Eclair, I have read in many forum, in XDA also, thant the direct Eclair sbf flash with RSD Lite procedure doesn't works!

The original sbf are made to upgrade from previous system or to repair the same version system, but are not enough to downgrade from a more recent system.

A nandroid backup only can do so, in conjuncion with a fixed sbf as I mention in this guide.

I do not know the exact reason why, maybe nandroid is able to restore overwriteing much more than the original Eclair full sbf.

In any case I can confirm thant, from a flashed full OEM Froyo, it is possible to succesful downgrade using nandroid + fixed sbf.

If you do not have a nandroid backup file that's not a big problem. There are many in internet, and in this forum also. ;)
[Defy General] joydeep1985:
that was really a nice reply.... one more thing i would like to know .... in clockworkmod i dint get to see the nanodroid option.. also when i extracted the zip it gave me some img files .... like boot.img,android_secure.img etc in the nanodroid backup... when i put all the files under /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup and then choose the option restore . it doesnt seem to work at all. also due to no options such as present in clockworkmod > 3 i am not able to understand why its not working . how to make it work with clockworkmod >3 ???
[Defy General] SeaFargo:
In Froyo I've used Defy Recovery 1218 0326 signed.apk (the link is on the guide).

It works perfectly.

And the dir in wich you have to push the nandroid backup files is:

/sdcard/goapkrev/backup/

So at the end it will result something like:

/sdcard/goapkrev/backup/Eclair-2011-06-07

Beaware that the all path must be named without spaces.
[Defy General] joydeep1985:
one more question i have ... after my downgrade will i be able to update from motorola msu ? for official froyo update ? if i have to get that what i need to do ? can u please explain what are the requirements if i have to get the software update from motorola msu ? so that after my downgrade to eclair (i dont have my original nanodroid backup) i can update from motorola official MSU ?
[Defy General] SeaFargo:
I still do not know, because my Eclair was personally deblurred, and without Blur the "update firmware" doesn't works.

But I can confirm that, from this procedure downgraded Eclair, it will be perfectly possible to upgrade to Froyo by flashing its full sbf file with RSD Lite. ;)

In any case I suggest to keep a copy in your PC for future references of:

- the OEM full sbf files of all the versions of Android you've using (from here and from a lot of places over the internet);

- the Nandroid backup of the installed, factory reset, versions of Android you've using (so before downgrade and afrer the factory reset make a nice backup of your actual Froyo);

- the zipped copy of the pulled system dir of the versions of Android you've using (by the command example like this: adb pull system "D:\Temp\Defy\pull system Froyo Defy")
[Defy General] joydeep1985:
oops that might be a problem cause my personal one came with blurred ...and the service flashes found in the link you provided are all without blur ( as you have stated ) so arent there any method left then ? so that i can revert back to original motoblur 2.1 update 1 eclair ? cause the service flashes doesnt contain motoblue where as my defy had motoblur in it :confused::(
[Defy General] SeaFargo:
Can't you find a Eclair blurred nandroid backup?

The full sfb file of the link of my guide DOES contain blur.

You just need a nandroid backup or the OEM Eclair Blur (so still not deblurred).

But if you find a deblurred modded Eclair nandroid backup it's OK the same! Is even better!!

Than, to future upgrade to Froyo, you can flash one of the many OEM full sbf, almost all blurred. ;-)
[Defy General] joydeep1985:
okay cool ... so like for now you mean i have to flash with nanodroid + fixed sbf = my current system (its deblurred and wont work)

so from that to make it work i have to find a full sbf :D (provided on your like flash it and bingo it has all :D :D )

and then i can upgrade from msu ... thats d procedure right ??? sorry for being complete noob :( :(
[Defy General] SeaFargo:
I have a litte difficulties undertanding your english ...

In any case, the fixed sfb is just a sort of bootloader, and it never contains app, system app, blur, and anything like that. It's just a bootloader that works for the scope. :-)

The fixed sfb must be made from the same version of the nandroid backup. So for a nandroid backup Eclair, you have to use fixed sbf from Eclair.

Do not mix versions!
[Defy General] joydeep1985:
lol... sorry my bad ... was excited tht time .. so dint get to check out my punctuations ... :p.. sorry for being so bad in my reply and my english .....:p... got it for the time being .. the official froyo is yet to release in india . so i guess i have time till then :)... until that i m jus making it sure that i get my eclair back in working condition before the official froyo update is out in msu :)..... would try out this on weekend ... though pretty new in making sbf and nanodroid stuffs ....

many thanks for the help :)
[Defy General] victorvasconcelos:
Hey

I'm still on my 2.1. Got my nandroid backup, and now, how do I "create" a SBF file of my Eclair? Cuz it's a little bit hard to find it online. Hope there is a tool in wich I can do that.

"- the zipped copy of the pulled system dir of the versions of Android you've using (by the command example like this: adb pull system "D:\Temp\Defy\pull system Froyo Defy")"

May that be the answer?

Thank you so much.
[Defy General] SeaFargo:
Fixed sbf

I've clearly explained in the guide!! :mad:

This are the lines ;) :

Before proceding you need to create or to obtain such called fixed sbf made from the same version you're going to downgrade, so from Eclair 2.51.1.

You can find such fixed sbf online but for safety I prefer to made it by myself. It's so easy.

1. open the original full sbf with Moto Android Firmware Depacker V.1.2 a3 and split to folder;

2. remove CG31.smg and CG39.smg

3. open the extracted folder (the same you've just removed the files) and compile files.

The resulting file is the fixed sbf file you'll need soon ;-)
[Defy General] victorvasconcelos:
But can I create a full SBF of my own Eclair? Because I can't find a full SBF of my carrier online :(

Sorry if I'm getting it wrong, hehe

Thaks for helping! :o
[Defy General] SeaFargo:
I don't know ...

About If you can create an sbf from just a nandroid backup ... I do not know, but I do not think so.

Otherwise whould be possible to restore anything without the need of any sbf, and I I've never find a guide telling so ...

In any case, give an accurate reserch over the internet for your country sbf. If it exists in your phone, should exists in "the cloud" somewhere ... :rolleyes:
[Defy General] victorvasconcelos:
Thank you!

Thank you SeaFargo! I found it, finally. I'll give it a try and hopefully everything will work thanks to your detailed guide.

Thanks again!
[Optimus One, P500, V General] jan.petras:
Hei guys, I'm new to this, barely managed to get adb working for the 1st time.

I kinda have 2 or 3 questions that I couldn't figure out entirely by my own.

1st - What's dalvik-cahce ? what does it do? what gets erased if I wipe it and what do I have to gain if I move it to the sd card?

2nd - How exactly does A2SD work? I'm currently using Link2SD and I don't know how it works and what exactly does that "linked" mean.... Or why should I use A2SD in the first place and not just use App2SD (which actually moves everything it's able to) from the market.

3rd Why does my phone crash? I tried noejins, mik's and andy's roms and they all crashed sooner or later, I got this black screen of death with some white writing on it for 1 second and the phone turned off. Is it because I'm overclocking to 122/787? That's the only common thing I could find - and - it didn't crash before I started overclocking. I think they call it "kernel panic" or something like that.

Thanks in advance.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] doktornotor:
1. Java bytecode compiler cache

2. No data lost, it is just cache. Will get recreated as needed or on reboot.

3. Link is a symbolic link pointing to another location. Google it.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Nimitmak:
some of the phones(lg-p500) cant be overclocked above 768 OC'ed >768 = Kernel Panic and uneven shutdowns like i face after overclocking above 768.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sajjan:
a2sd is different from app2sd....we cannot move dalvik cache and widgets to memory card using app2sd...using a2sd you can create a partition of the memory card where these things can be stored as if it is being stored in the phone memory....it saves you some space in the phone memory....
[Optimus One, P500, V General] istoner:
Kernel Panic is the UNIX equivalent of what you've been seeing all your life as a Windows user, the Blue Screen of Death.

When your operating system encounters an error it cannot recover from, it dumps all the information about it in a log file and reboots. The error is usually called 'fatal'.

See it this way, it's the computer version of jumping off a cliff, realizing that you're going to die and then having your sweetest memories flash in front of your eyes ;) Only in this case the OS comes back to life.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] DigitalAnalog:
How do I uninstall some of the apps that came with Mik's CM7 ROM, e.g. CarHome?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] crankyboy:
shouldn't it be under manage application ?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Feeshie:
I don't think that method works because I tried uninstalling Rom Manager and it wouldn't let me. I think titanium backup can remove the apps, go try it out. I don't want to deal with that stuff so I just hide it in launcher pro settings..
[Optimus One, P500, V General] CarreoJ:
use system application remover works best for me.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] ssanthosh:
Some apps cant be removed, they are required for phone to run. You may remove the others with "manage applications" under settings.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] DigitalAnalog:
Car Home is required for my phone to run?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Nimitmak:
Titanium Backup will surely do the work ,any application can be deleted ,but dont delete any system application that is needed by the system.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] ert69:
Use root uninstaller. Just be careful.. :p
[Optimus One, P500, V General] crankyboy:
Removing app is like cake. But it can suddenly make your rom like a spoilt chocolate cake if removed the wrong app. Becareful ...
[myTouch 4G General] jellette:
Well, first off, I am jellette/Heathen of the Einherjar Dev Team. You will find us mainly in the Samsung sections.

Link to just my releases: HERE

It looks like I will be most likely making the move to the MT4G today as my SGS Vibrant is suffering its second wasted usb port.

I don't have much non-touchwiz experience but I didn't have any TW experience when I started so I don't see it as too much of a problem.

I haven't had a chance to scan through the MT4G forum yet to see the state of development but I would imagine you already have some Kick A$$ devs over here. I will spend the next few days familiarizing myself with the phone, its rooting methods, types of roms and mods available, etc. Then I will dig in.

If there are dev specific requests, please post them here.

I will begin with porting our already available roms and mods: HERE

I'm not, and couldn't even if I wanted to, leaving EDT - we will just be expanding our development to HTC devices.

I suppose that's about it for now!
[myTouch 4G General] macheteZen:
Welcome to MT4G, I'm sure we will all be eagerly awaiting your work. Good luck with the transition. :p
[myTouch 4G General] Elloco305:
So happy to hear we have another DEV.

Welcome and good luck.
[myTouch 4G General] neidlinger:
Welcome. And with ~1100 thanks and only ~1300 post i'm pretty you pump out some nice work. I'll be awaiting it's arrival.
[myTouch 4G General] Ace42:
Welcome aboard it's always nice to have new devs, especially ones with experience. :)
[myTouch 4G General] cnote74:
Glad your here missed your work from the vibrant days. Your roms always kicked butt and were revolutionary in their design. Can't wait to try one of your mt4g roms
[myTouch 4G General] Ace42:
Some ideas for rom ports

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=840040

^Android Revolution, seems to be very popular probably very good

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1115312

^Virtuous fusion unity, based on the official rom from htc pyramid

Maybe you could try a galaxy rom port, since sense runs on sammy phones.
[myTouch 4G General] Paso876:
I was just gonna mention the same thing!

Welcome, I don't think theres gonna be any doubt that you'll be very helpful to the MT4G community
[myTouch 4G General] aznprodgy:
welcome, glad to see another dev joining in:D
[myTouch 4G General] ckisgen:
welcome to the scene, bro. grab a frosty beverage and pull up a seat. more (legitimate) devs are always a plus!
[myTouch 4G General] Elloco305:
Haha. Hilarious.
[myTouch 4G General] |Melvin|:
Good to see you boss jellette around here, very nice, felling like im not alone around here
[myTouch 4G General] crawler9:
What's wrong with illegitimate devs? Lol.

Glad to see another dev joining the MT4G community.
[myTouch 4G General] jellette:
Just getting started. UPS just delivered it, had already ordered it on Saturday. Now, it looks like there isn't a one click rooting method... So I will start looking at the guides to get root so I can get started.
[myTouch 4G General] |Melvin|:
Jellette man i recomend u use visionary, the easiest and gfree bricks alot, i bricked one and had to get a replacement
[myTouch 4G General] jellette:
Still reading, is Visionary a temp solution?
[myTouch 4G General] |Melvin|:
Yes, and the fastest, i rooted my phone in 3 minutes with it, take a read, also you should follow me on this one because gfree bricks more phones than anything, few days ago there were tons of posts with bricked phones thanks to gfree......
[myTouch 4G General] mackster248:
Gfree is safe, it only bricks myTouch 4G's that have the bad eMMC chip. But even that is still all a speculation.
[myTouch 4G General] mr mystery:
Nice to have another dev. Thanks for joining the club. It's a great phone. Look forward to your work.
[myTouch 4G General] |Melvin|:
Well i bricked one as i stated, better to use visionary anyways,,, To jellette, man look if u dont need your phone unlocked then use visionary, is better to be in the save place, gfree has given to much bricks and i dont think its all speculation with so much phones bricked, well you know this is not the vibrant man that we used to unbrick from almost haaaaaarrrrddddd bricks ...
[Optimus One, P500, V General] geoemm:
I tried to install Skype keyboard using Skype installer..but after installing and selecting and downloading any version of the Skype the install window is coming but when I click install it's showing the install failed..
[Optimus One, P500, V General] DigitalAnalog:
Perhaps you wanted to install Swype keyboard?