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[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Benjamin Dobell:
I thought it's probably worth mentioning the Heimdall 1.3.0 has officially been released. On top of the functionality provided in the betas there's also a few extra bits of functionality provided by the new Utilities tab.

The new Utilities tab should make the creation of Heimdall Firmware Packages a bit easier for developers as you're now able to connect your device to your PC and download the PIT that's on the device straight to your PC. As such you no longer need to worry about trying to recall exactly which PIT file you're using or where you got it from.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] aorth:
Awesome, thanks for the heads up. The new firmware package feature seems really cool... but I haven't seen anyone using it yet. What's the deal!? Do you have any samples for stock ROMs we can try?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Benjamin Dobell:
Well the official release of Heimdall 1.3.0 was only made a couple of days ago. So I figured some developers were waiting for that (over the beta release). However, now I'm not so sure that's the reason. I can understand if developers only release their firmware for ROM Manager. However, I see zero reason to continue releasing firmware as several TAR archives for Odin.

Heimdall Firmware Packages are much more straight-forward to use for end-users as there's only one file to select (and no settings need to be changed). As Heimdall Frontend takes care of building the packages it's probably also easier for developers, plus developers are able to include additional information about themselves and the package. On top of that these packages will work flawlessly on Linux, OS X and Windows with no additional work required.

EDIT: It's probably also worth noting that the format isn't just for full firmware packages. It works quite nicely as a way of distributing modems and kernels as well. This is particularly useful for custom kernel developers.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] aorth:
Yeah, the way I see it, it's a bit like VMware or whoever else offering pre-built appliances for various functions. Download this VM, press play, and you've got a fully-functional Redmine server, for example.

I'll keep my eye out for some firmware packages... I'll be keen to try one.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] aorth:
Ok, I just decided to make my own. Since it worked, I'll share... here's a Heimdall-1.3-flashable firmware package for stock XXJVQ:

http://www.multiupload.com/W4IGGFZU6F

It's stock. It's odexed. It's stock! It will repartition. It includes bootloaders. Did I mention it's COMPLETELY stock? ;)

Great job on Heimdall 1.3, Ben. I used to write shell scripts to do my flashing, but I'd love it if people started releasing Heimdall-flashable tar files. Hopefully this gets the ball rolling for people to create their own firmware packages (hopefully for more-interesting firmwares than a stock XXJVQ!).
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Cookoospite:
Hi, sorry if I'm been thick but where can I find heimdall packages for the galaxy s2? I have tried downloading the firmware but cannot see where to load all the files once the tar has been extracted. The only tutorials I have seen have the boxes labelled pda etc. The latest version I have downloaded doesn't as far as I can see, V1.3.1. Packages sound much easier than me mucking up the file uploads but I can't find any? :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Cookoospite:
Hi, figured out how but can't find a galaxy s2 firmware with a PIT included which I apparently need in order to add individual files. Please help me out. I have also asked this a few minutes ago in this thread, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=20820233#post20820233 which gave me the answer so I apologise for the double post
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] scottietohottie:
On the i9000 you can get away with using most pit files. Not sure with i9100. Have a look through the i9100 forum. The pda, code, phone etc. Just unpack them with 7zip or similar. You then end up with all files needed. I believe the what goes where is in the read me if not it is in the hiemdall thread. Sorry no links on mobile tapatalk.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] jasnn:
I would love to be able to use Heimdall to root my T-Mobile Galaxy S II SGH-T989. Does anyone know of a repository of Heimdall Firmware Packages, which would provide a suitable rooted T989 Heimdall firmware package?

Failing that, what would be the steps necessary to generate a bare bones root firmware package for the T989? I'm guessing that I only really need to use Heimdall to install CWM onto the T989, and then from there, I can use CWM to flash different ROMs, etc. I just don't know how I would even go about building a Heimdall Firmware Package that would contain the necessary parts.

I tried expanding the tarred img file inside the ODIN recovery-cmw-hercules.tar file that most folks use to root this phone, located here, but I didn't know what parts were necessary for generating a Heimdall firmware package. Also there is a Heimdall Firmware Package hosted at this howto, to perform what I'm looking to do, but it's for the AT&T Galaxy S2 SGH-i777.

BTW, if it's easy enough to grab what I need from an already rooted T989, feel free to suggest the proper method for doing that with Heimdall, and I can generate my own root Heimdall Firmware package.

Thanks..
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] jasnn:
In case anyone searching for Heimdall SGH-T989 support, finds my posts. While it would be great to have Heimdall Firmware Packages available for the SGH-T989, it's not likely to happen until Heimdall can communicate correctly with the phone first. Hopefully it's something that will be added to a post 1.3.1 version.

Thanks..
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] tanclo:
I am trying to package the FB04 firmware from opensource.samsung.com for the SHV-E120K but there is no pit file in that tar. I will try to generate pit from my existing FC02 firmware in my device, but I'm quite sure that isn't an ideal route to follow. Also, the files after I unpack everything don't seem familiar at all. They are all in folders.

I'm doing this as an exercise and also to have a convenient method to revert to stock later on. Is it possible to pull the existing OS into the necessary files?

Thank you very much for your help.

EDIT: my device gets detected (on windows)

but then trying to print the PIT i get

USB device not recognized

libusb error -12

on Ubuntu my device wasn't detected at all
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] iComa:
Heimdall site is down, i need a new version because old one getting me:

Initialising connection...

Detecting device...

ERROR: Failed to access device. libusb error: -12

PS Windows 7 64bit
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] rence1234:
help

does it support tab p6200?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] morgwai:
Hello,

I have few questions related to creating images:

1. I had concerns similar to Tanclo's about how I can fetch the current images of all partitions from my device to use them to create Heimdall package and I found this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1348392

I guess however that probably not all partitions are really relevant: how can I know which should I include in a package for a given device? (galaxy s5 g900f in my case)

2. The above thread also mentions that it's not possible to obtain bootloader this way and that I should extract one from a stock firmware, so I wonder what sense does it make at all to include a bootloader since I only can use a stock one: why would I want to do this?

3. I downloaded some stock firmware for my device (http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s5/general/official-lollipop-5-0-sm-g900f-t2962141) and did not find boot.bin file inside (only boot.img which is ~12MB big so probably not what I need I guess)

I'd be grateful for any hints and clarifications!
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kipphh:
I am about to root my xoom, I know skype and FB worked for a while till they broke them with a update. Does anyone know is there a APK of the old version out there that I can use once rooted so that I can make use of these programs until they get the working models out?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] navossoc:
Read my post here:

community.skype.com/t5/Android/How-can-I-downgrade-to-old-Android-version/m-p/2634#M129

[]'s
[Hero CDMA General] gab2012:
running aosp cm right now and everytime I press the button to take a picture theres like a 3-5 second lag after pressing it. is this normal? Does not happen with video.

another problem I had was that I had a problem with my car making a wierd noise, so I decided to take a video with my hero so I could upload it on youtube for my friend hear the noise. The video plays great on the phone...when I upload it directly to youtube it gets fuzzy and distortioned and the sound is whack. I transferred the video to my pc and it plays fine:confused: problem is when I upload it to youtube

had a similar issue the other day when I recorded something and when I started playing it on the phone it looked fuzzy like I stated above.

could this p0roblem be caused by an SD booster app I have installed? its set to 2048kb I believe.

and the gallery app is really laggy for me so I downloaded quickpic from the market...when I look at some pictures they look low quality compared to the gallery app.

I'd appreciate some input on this if anyone has had a similar problem :D

other than that my phone has been rock solid! Thanks guys :)

Edit this is the video I shot...clearly not the noise my car is making....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGpE85MF28s

sorry don't know how to put an embed code on here for the video :/
[Hero CDMA General] Dudebowski:
the 'stock' camera app is less than desirable. From what I've heard, this is the truth with just about all android phones, for various reasons. I also experience the lag you speak of, but not with the MIUI camera app that's listed in the 'heroc apps and themes' forum (i posted it for you in the other thread)

as far as videos/youtube, you might want to run the video file through a codec converter to clean it up. if i remember correctly youtube likes certain file types better than others.

Keep in mind this phone is running an ARM6 processor. custom ROMs improve usage, but only when configured properly, and even then it's still like running windows 7 on a single core processor with 512RAM. You might want to try tinkering with overclocking at this point... just do a nandroid backup in clockwork beforehand, and you'll be able to revert changes back to a working config if you get bootlooped.
[Hero CDMA General] gab2012:
got the nandroid setup, what settings do you recomend for cpu usage?
[Hero CDMA General] Dudebowski:
Set the ' set on boot' setting to off, set on demand for governor.

Start with 392 low 691 high, and putz around the phone opening a bunch of apps, just generally trying to max out cpu usage. If that doesn't crash the phone (though you will eventually see performance degradation) then that setting is safe. push the low cpu setting down / high setting up

A single notch, repeat. Keep doing this until 176\729. If that setting works, set it to set at boot.

you can try pushing for the higher ones, but probably best not to use 19 for the low just stick to 176.

Sent from my derp.
[Hero CDMA General] gab2012:
Well turns out the aac compressor on my car is bad :/

Back on topic, ill be sure to check it out later when i get home.
[Hero CDMA General] slimshade4545:
There are a bunch of third party camera apps in the market that should fix the lag problem ... had to use it for one of the sensible salsa builds, fixed the issue for me.
[Hero CDMA General] ragdoll1974:
Like what?
[Legend Android Development] alain.duchateau:
Moved on "General" ---> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=15570940#post15570940
[Legend Android Development] ICavalera:
Can you explain how to edit de conf file to my ntp servers? unzip edit and zip again?
[Legend Android Development] whitetigerdk:
This thread should have been under General and not Dev..
[Legend Android Development] alain.duchateau:
Ok, i move in the right section, sorry.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Original Android <3ers!:
Is there another notification bar we can use or anything we can flash to remove the quick-settings in the notification bar?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Kevin001111:
Lately I've been noticing when I go to grab my phone, it will be magically turned off. I know it wasn't turned off because it will just sit on my desk, full battery, no loose battery connection (NEVER has the phone turned off while use or moving around, but still an assumption), no crazy setcpu scaling (min: 245MHz max: 806MHz), and no water damage. I haven't had this problem in the past with CM7 nightlies, or CM7 final release. I also know that its not just that problem I have every once in a while where the screen won't turn on but the 4 touch buttons will. But I'm 99% sure that's just a result of my min: 245MHz max: 245MHz screen off setcpu profile. Anyone have this issue or have any ideas why its doing this?
[G2 and Desire Z General] carquote:
You're not the only one who has experienced this problem. Check out this thread from the T-mobile forums where users have discusses the problem and a possible fix. Take a look at the pictures on the 4th post on page 4 by user vlado4 and see if your battery is the same. Apparently there is an issue with the battery shorting out or something of that nature. http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/T-Mobile-G2/G2-Turning-off-by-itself/td-p/513575/page/4 Hope this helps!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Kevin001111:
I checked my battery and my battery does not have the metal strips, should i still attempt his fix even though i dont have that metal on metal contact? My battery looks like the guys GF's battery a little bit down on the 4th page, 4th post.
[G2 and Desire Z General] pmcqueen:
I would ditch setCPU to be honest. since CM settings now has overclocking built in, it just seems loony to call on another app to manage cpu frequencies.

there is a lot of misunderstanding regarding profiles with setCPU as well...

unless you are running the performance governor (which pegs the CPU frequency at its highest selection), "profiles" are already built in to your kernel.

it is the kernel's job to manage frequencies according to load... which is exactly what you are attempting to do with your screen off profile. if you're on ondemand, interactive, scary, smartass, or any other governor aside from performance, the governor will do the "screen off" profile for you automatically by scaling down frequency based on load.

setCPU is a good tool for roms without built-in CPU management, but for CM7, it's officially obsolete (unless you're overclocking heavily and need a temperature profile... your governor won't do that for you ;))
[G2 and Desire Z General] Kevin001111:
Thanks for all the info, i knew CM7 had the built in one but didnt know the kernel handled as much as it did... thanks! (and i pressed "thanks" by the way to everyone who replied :)) Since you seem to have some kernel knowledge, whats the smartass and userspace governor?
[G2 and Desire Z General] pmcqueen:
here's a quote from erasmux on smartass (the sleeping frequencies may differ depending on whose smartass you're using):

userspace is problematic in my experience. would not recommend using it. here is a good article explaining what it does (and why it's not the best idea for most of us): http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoc...topic=/liaai/cpufreq/TheUserspaceGovernor.htm
[G2 and Desire Z General] ParanoidAndr0id:
G2 randomly turns off

I have been having a similar issue with the phone just randomly turning off, I am not sure if this has to do with the handoff between wifi and network calling but this is a hunch. I do have a logcat with a few shutdowns.
[G2 and Desire Z General] j0lte0n:
You think you could summarize what the fix is? The link doesn't work anymore. Thanks
[G2 and Desire Z General] onelikeseabass:
Try this link instead: http://208.74.204.85/t5/T-Mobile-G2/G2-Turning-off-by-itself/td-p/513575/page/4

T-Mobile, in their infinite wisdom, completely trashed the old forums in favor of some new community/social neworking-esque BS. Everything that people had worked on, figured out, and shared was lost for good. After an uproar from the community they temporarily restored a read-only version.

That link should work for now, but T-Mobile stated that the archives would only be brought back for about a week. Tools.
[G2 and Desire Z General] blanthony:
I had this issue. Only with the leaked 2.3.3. I haven't had the issue with the new official 2.3.4. I had to remove the battery and reinsert it. rather annoying especially if I was driving.
[Verizon Droid Charge] lufc:
Suggestion Thread​

Thought it was about time we had a thread that you can make suggestions on how to improve the Droid forums or anything you feel needs changing in the Forums.

And Please no Stupid or Imposable suggestions :eek:

Thanks Guys

Lufc :)
[Verizon Droid Charge] dragonstalker:
Oh. BTW, Can you sticky the IRC Chat thread and the EE4 How To Root thread. Meant to mention that in my letter and forgot.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dragonstalker:
Ok people Lets break this down. LUFC has no power to change the site, how it works, the search engines, the way it looks, the name of it, etc etc. He can however, lock, unlock threads. Move threads. Change other's post to remove profanity, sexual content, derogatory statements ....... He can also ban and unban people from the Droid Charge forum. If you have any other questions, Let me know. I'll get with him offline. He has 4 forums to Mod and doesn't need to be bombarded with stuff like, "Can you Change my siggy size?" No he cannot. So don't ask for stuff that changes XDA website as a whole. If it does not pertain to the Droid Charge forum, or if you are questionable if its a question for LUFC. ASK ME FIRST. I'm very easy person to get along with and always willing to help.
[Verizon Droid Charge] hoppermi:
I agree w/ Dragonstalker. we need more stickys. the basics, like booting to recovery, using odin, cwm etc. things that appear in too many threads.
[Verizon Droid Charge] scarygood536:
I agree more stickies, a lot of import things that have been explained get pushed to the bottom and then people ask again.

Also, I do not know if you have the authority to do that but make a roms section. Keep Dev for fixes and tweaks. If that can be done i'd say a help section too. I do suspect you can't and it is admin set. I say this because if it's something enough people want in this forum then we can contact the admin

other than that keep up the good work mod
[Verizon Droid Charge] blarrick:
Here are my requests that I've felt are really needed.

Unlock: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1122657

That is hands down the best and easiest guide to follow and without it I would not have been able to root/ROM/lagfix my Charge, there was really no need for it to be locked in the first place.

Sticky: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1144885

Awesome mod, haven't encountered any problems with it at all. Just a simple reboot into CWM and install .zip from SD card and it's finished!
[Verizon Droid Charge] lufc:
Thanks for the suggestions and the impossable ones

Just one point on the stickys if we stuck everything that was of importance we would have the first page full of stickys so what we do is to have a Roll up Sticky Thread and this has been kindly done by nitsuj17 HERE

Called

and because all the info is in that page and a link to them it should be your first point of call if you need something.

But if you do see anything that needs adding to the roll up thread then please do get in contact.

And just to Answer knyghtryda Question he Suggested the Mod for the camera shutter to be a sticky but as you can see in the Roll Up Thred it was already stuck but thanks for the suggestion knyghtryda

And scarygood536 suggested A separate area for ROMS but XDA will not allow this but the roll up thread is broken down into sections and all the roms are listed in once place thanks scarygood536
[Verizon Droid Charge] ijustdontcare:
sticky titles

I am kinda new here, but it took me awhile to figure out what nitsuji's sticky was all about. It would be good to maby change the title a little to say that it contains "how too's" in it so the newbies like myself can go there first to find answers! just a thought! ;)

P.s. I love this site!
[Verizon Droid Charge] blarrick:
Still going to request that the linked thread gets an unlock :] There was really no need for it to be locked in the first place.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1122657
[Verizon Droid Charge] dragonstalker:
It's Locked because the instructions are already there. The only thing the post by others have done in that thread is cause confusion to those that are new and take away from the OP.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Khanusma:
I think we need automated spell checking... haha j/k.
[Verizon Droid Charge] mendez815:
It would be nice to sticky a request thread or something of that nature. If there even is one. That way some people can put in there input about stuff to add to roms and other tweaks that developers could try and work on. I think this would be a lot easier than having a hundred random threads with requests on them.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dragonstalker:
Or you could just make your suggestions on the ROM's thread. After all, that is what the threads for each individual rom is for
[Verizon Droid Charge] mendez815:
I meant for more general stuff that will work with all roms and not just one specific rom. As in if no one made the camera app where you could take a picture with the power button some one could have put in the request in this thread.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dragonstalker:
PM me more specific about your ideal and i'll work on it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] yutzybrian:
Any chance on a FAQ subsection in the Development section? Might make it a little more clear as to where questions go. I see them posted in Development all the time
[Verizon Droid Charge] dragonstalker:
Not really much you can put in the dev section as far as FAQ's. Dev section is only for devs. If people are posting questions in there, which i can't do anything about. Its just because they are not looking in the General section and reading welcome message.
[Verizon Droid Charge] yutzybrian:
Oh ok. I just figured if there was a section titled FAQ or Questions it might help
[Verizon Droid Charge] blarrick:
Requesting a sticky on; http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1186798

I understand you don't want to clutter the front page but that's a nice collection of all the dialer codes confirmed to work for the Charge. Really useful, IMO.
[Verizon Droid Charge] lufc:
Added it to the roll up sticky thread

Thanks for the suggestion :)
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Thanks. Maybe we should have a sticky request thread?

Speaking of which, piperat and I worked on a GPS tweak. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1184418 I think it should be sticky too. Or maybe we could have a tweak/guide sticky like the one in the dev section. So many sticky options!

Sent from my Droid Charge running Humble 1.42
[Verizon Droid Charge] dragonstalker:
So that we don't have TOO many stickys, Links to "HOW-To's" and "Mods" are all listed in the roll up thread. We just have way to much going on to sticky everything.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Durr...where is the roll up sticky?

Sent from my Droid Charge running Humble 1.42
[Verizon Droid Charge] dragonstalker:
Wow really dude. You just durr'ed me? your the one that doesn't know where something is at, but i'm stupid. Dev section has a roll up thread of everything for the droid charge. Look it up.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
My bad, I was saying I'm stupid. I still don't see it...oh wait. Nevermind, I know exactly where that is...now I really feel dumb.

Edit: piperat & I are done with the guide. I posted the link in the rollup sticky, should I post it here too?CLICK ME!
[Verizon Droid Charge] blarrick:
Requesting http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1192604 to get thrown in the roll up thread :]
[Verizon Droid Charge] lufc:
Thanks and Done:)