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[Nexus S General] Enhanced:
I too was fairly disappointed to see the inactivity in the NS forums but I came to realize much of what was said here - this is already the most refined state of Android.

Coming from the Captivate which had a huge following, it caught me off guard that the dev phone would have less of a community than a normal consumer phone. However, we don't consider why people buy Nexus S' to begin with. Most of it's buyers know that this is Pure Android and buy it with such in mind. We don't want TouchWiz; we don't want Motoblur; we don't want Sense; and we don't want whatever crap LG puts on their phones. We want Pure Android and we got it. The only things we may want additionally would be other smaller features (notification toggles, BLN, OC/UV etc.) and we got it too from the community.

If you look at other communities, they "dev" for features that we already have. They dev for:

1. The removal of bloat (carrier crap).

2. Newer Android updates ("leaked" firmware which are buggy to begin with).

3. Different themes (most are ugly or try to theme to AOSP).

4. Better performance (minor if any change at all).

5. New features.

#1, 2 and 4 are things Nexus S already has. We, as Nexus S owners, don't necessarily want #3 at all as we love how Pure Android looks. #5 is what our community pretty much consist of as the new features such as BLN, OC/UV, Voodoo, and notification toggles are "our" ROMs. No wonder all of our ROMs are AOSP-like right? We don't need #1-4, we just want some of #5.

And really, what else do we really need?

The only thing I ask for are:

1. An aftermarket kernel that can OC/UV and has Voodoo and BLN. (multiple kernels with such)

2. Minimalistic ROMs. (Oxygen and some others)

3. Feature-rich ROMs. (CM7, MIUI)

All are satisfied and done so quite well.
[Nexus S General] chewbz:
What he said, we got everything we need. No need to go through hoops and barrels to get aosp. We also got awesome kernel development as well :)
[Nexus S General] grifforama:
Trust me, there is everything you need here.

Coming from an incredible, I am so pleased with my NS4G.

When gingerbread sense leaked for the dinc, there was a Ridiculous amount of Roms released. It was just getting silly.

A few solid Roms and some great kernels is all you need.
[Nexus S General] ronnienyc:
If someone could fix the battery issues with the Sprint version, that would be great! ;-)

(at this point the Sprint Nexus battery does not last half as long as my OG Evo with similar usage...)
[Nexus S General] TheBassman369:
This x1000. I had a Captivate and everyone raved about the choices they had but didn't realize that it was TW with the living daylights themed out of it. I would rather have a few quality ROM's than 50 of the exact same thing.

See if you feel the same way when ICS is released. Lol.

adb shove iPad2post.apk to /forum/thread
[Nexus S General] deejaylobo:
I was thinking the same thing as OP. Although I'm glad I have a Nexus S, it's so easy to flash ROMs and things. I've been sorting out a 2.1 Eclair Motorola Defy for my friend and it was a nightmare!

I would love to see what else this baby can do though, maybe USB host for starters.
[Nexus S General] voyager_s:
Well, I think I agree with the general consensus already established in this thread.

We do have it good from the get go as nexus owners. The AOSP roms are for the most part all round excellent and do not really cry out for huge amount of changes and or variations.

There's no bloatware installed. No custom skin to eat away all the ram and slow things down. No big issues.

The roms are fast, stable and real clean.

Overall I'm quite happy with all the good work of the nexus s development community. We have some good choices available.

Feature rich roms such as Cyanogen and MIUI...and light rock solid roms such as Oxygen, Infin1ty and Axura.

Also some great kernels from netarchy and the Trinity team. All in all I think we've got it real good. Especially when one takes a look at some of the other handsets development community.
[Nexus S General] hooray4FOSS:
I think there's a lot of hubris going on here. Sure, AOSP is fine, but there isn't a single product out there that can't be improved...

Personally, from my experiences running stock, I've wished that there are a lot of configurations that were more customizable. Most of these options are hidden away, like masking the browser user agent string. Personally, I prefer OSes that are extremely lightweight, stable and reliable with minimal cruft but still extremely customizable, even if it means that you have to put more effort than normal into making things work. Yes I'm really picky... I've found that Arch Linux suits me most on the desktop, but I'm not sure yet what ROM will suit me most. So maybe I'll end up building something myself.

But it's just like there's no single Linux distro that's the best; rather there are many different options to choose from. Diversity allows you to take a good product and make it great! Call me an idealist if you like :p
[Nexus S General] fczeuner:
My current device is the Epic. After reading through this thread I'm sold. My son had been wanting my Epic for a long time. I'm going out and tomorrow and picking up a Nexus S. Thanks

To the OP: if you want to see slow development and pissed off people go visit the Epic forums. Everyone waiting on a leak or God forbid an official release. I'm envious!
[Nexus S General] window7:
Welcome to Nexus S :P

To OP, thanks for starting a "wonderful" thread, you're only inviting ppl to join Nexus S! :D
[Nexus S General] Kurupt1:
We have top notch devs, especially our kernel devs. Quality over quantity.
[Nexus S General] shabbypenguin:
always good to have another ACS user over here ;)
[Nexus S General] dreamsforgotten:
Oh **** welcome!
[Nexus S General] superradrudeboy:
I know exactly what you mean about the Epic forums. I just got rid of my epic a couple of days ago, and am now a Nexus user. You definitely will not regret jumping ship. Everything works perfect, and no need for waiting on leaks.
[Nexus S General] siffar:
Well said. Couldn't have said better.
[Nexus S General] j0hnZ:
Have fun with your superior phone in every way. I hope you realize that by coming in here talking about development being stagnant that you led the AOSP fanboi's straight here to tell you how much they like awesomely boring interfaces and reduced functionality(since it doesn't matter to them, but they will tell you why it shouldn't matter to you).

Anyways, everyone here already knows, there's no point in coming here to tell everyone that you left when you're just another face in the crowd.
[Nexus S General] BlackWolf757:
I agree...I mean the Nexus S in my opinion doesn't really need any change. I have a Nexus S 4G and I am now completely happy after the last radio update.

As far as development goes...we only really need new kernels and that's just about it. Everything else is cosmetic and I would not want it to ruin my already great experience from this device.

I feel that all the other manufactured versions of Android just give you a great gimmick until it gets old. I have people with HTC EVO 3D's and Galaxy S II devices and they look at my Nexus and ask "why is your device so smooth and quick?". Stock Android IMO rules over all....Touch Wiz is a joke and Sense hogs up memory and internal storage space.
[Nexus S General] :
I think the development for the NS isn't slow. We don't need Sense or anything else. If you want that, why did you buy a Google experience device? Buy another phone and be happy! :D Cyanogen is all we need and there are enough kernels etc.

We have everything we need.
[Nexus S General] BrianDigital:
I suppose to be happy with my phone I need to wipeand flash rom's daily......think of all.the email accounts to set up everyday, Widgets to resetup.....
[Nexus S General] BlackWolf757:
No one told you that you NEED to do this every day. Some choose to do it and some choose to do it when there is a BIG change.
[Nexus S General] :
You can backup everything except the email?!

I flash the newest Cyanogen nightly every weekend. I think that's enough.
[Nexus S General] BrianDigital:
I was just responding agian to the "slow development" of this phone its so slow my phone doesnt have the lastest version of the OS........... we do and we need no tweaking to the overlay on the phone,,cause its not there

ewhat option lets me backup my gmail account so I can load them back into gmail on the phone. never looked
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ngt1337:
hey guys was on stock 2.50 ( have installed the official ruu ) and was not able to root.

so i have tryed to install the ruu from 1.32 -> it works

now im back to 1.32 -> rooted -> eng hboot -> installed cmw -> now im installing a custom rom.

dont know why it works but for me it worked.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danny6514:
Thanks for sharing but thats because you already have s-off. Please post in the general section next time.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ngt1337:
ok i will do that. my mistake dont know that when im on s-off can flash older ruu*s.

think i must have super cid to flash them, but this i dont have.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mehoob12:
how did u do it i have s-on will this work thanks alot
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danny6514:
A bunch of threads pretty much say s-on users with 2.37+ cannot downgrade
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mehoob12:
Originally Posted by mehoob12

how did u do it i have s-on will this work thanks alot

A bunch of threads pretty much say s-on users with 2.37+ cannot downgrade

__________________

HTC Desire HD

you think it is going to solve soon to downgrde from 2.50 what think about xtc clip
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gene Poole:
None of the known exploits currently work on 2.37+ so we have to wait for someone to figure out a new one. You MUST get temproot to modify the version partition so the phone will accept a downgrade ROM. Unless you're S-OFF, the hboot will reject any RUU that is older than what it thinks the current version is.

XTC clips still work though.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mehoob12:
None of the known exploits currently work on 2.37+ so we have to wait for someone to figure out a new one. You MUST get temproot to modify the version partition so the phone will accept a downgrade ROM. Unless you're S-OFF, the hboot will reject any RUU that is older than what it thinks the current version is.

XTC clips still work though.

there is any way to get s-off or temproot

i am sick of waiting this the reason i boughat desire hd to have custom roms on it

anyway thanks alot
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigchrizzieboy:
newbie asking for an FAQ

Hi,

I've bought an second hand Desire HD and it's updated to 2.50...

Is there an thread or section about downgrading?

If I get it right then it's nog possible at this moment (yet).

Please show me the way....

THANKS!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mehoob12:
Hi,

I've bought an second hand Desire HD and it's updated to 2.50...

Is there an thread or section about downgrading?

If I get it right then it's nog possible at this moment (yet).

Please show me the way....

THANKS!

i think me and you we have to buy xtc clip

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?LH_BIN=1&_kw=xtc&_kw=clip
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Steve0007:
Have you tried with Gold Card ?

Create a Gold Card:

Install GoldCard Helper from the Android Market,

Run it and make note of the value listed after Card:mmc2, Reverse CID. It should be a long series of numbers and letters. (make sure to use mmc2, the default copy to clipboard copies mmc1 ..)

Visit this page (http://psas.revskills.de/?q=goldcard), enter the new copied number and create your goldcard image, which will be e-mailed to you.

Save the file attached in the email to your PC.

Install HxD Hex Editor on your computer, from the "Step 4 - Gold Card" folder.

Run HxD Hex Editor. ("Run as Administrator" under Vista and Windows 7).

Go to the Extra menu and select Open Disk. Under physical disk, select Removable Disk (your microSD card), uncheck Open as Read only and click OK. Note that you should select physical disk NOT the logical disk. This is important!

Go to the Extra menu again and select Open Disk Image. Open the goldcard image that you received by email.

Press OK when prompted for Sector Size (selecting 512 (Hard disks/Floppy disks)) and click OK.

You should now have two tabs - one is your removable disk, the other is your goldcard image.

Click on the goldcard image tab. Go to the Edit menu, choose Select All then select the Edit menu again and select Copy.

Click on the Removable Disk tab. Highlight offset (line) 00000000 to offset (line) 00000170 (including the 00000170 line), then click on the Edit menu and select Paste Write.

Click on the File menu and select Save, accepting the warning.

Your Gold Card SD card is completed.

Or even easier use the attached application after getting the CID using GoldCard Helper from the Android Market
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mehoob12:
Have you tried with Gold Card ?

Create a Gold Card:

Install GoldCard Helper from the Android Market,

Run it and make note of the value listed after Card:mmc2, Reverse CID. It should be a long series of numbers and letters. (make sure to use mmc2, the default copy to clipboard copies mmc1 ..)

Visit this page (http://psas.revskills.de/?q=goldcard), enter the new copied number and create your goldcard image, which will be e-mailed to you.

Save the file attached in the email to your PC.

Install HxD Hex Editor on your computer, from the "Step 4 - Gold Card" folder.

Run HxD Hex Editor. ("Run as Administrator" under Vista and Windows 7).

Go to the Extra menu and select Open Disk. Under physical disk, select Removable Disk (your microSD card), uncheck Open as Read only and click OK. Note that you should select physical disk NOT the logical disk. This is important!

Go to the Extra menu again and select Open Disk Image. Open the goldcard image that you received by email.

Press OK when prompted for Sector Size (selecting 512 (Hard disks/Floppy disks)) and click OK.

You should now have two tabs - one is your removable disk, the other is your goldcard image.

Click on the goldcard image tab. Go to the Edit menu, choose Select All then select the Edit menu again and select Copy.

Click on the Removable Disk tab. Highlight offset (line) 00000000 to offset (line) 00000170 (including the 00000170 line), then click on the Edit menu and select Paste Write.

Click on the File menu and select Save, accepting the warning.

Your Gold Card SD card is completed.

Or even easier use the attached application after getting the CID using GoldCard Helper from the Android Market

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i did try it donst work thank alot
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Steve0007:
Have you tried with the application i have attached ?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mehoob12:
Have you tried with the application i have attached ?

yes try befor don't work i have glodcrad when i boughat this phone it was on it 2.50.402

and i have s-on

anyway thank for u help
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Steve0007:
I had downgraded 2 HD branded (with CID lock and S-ON) using a gold card made with the above attached application. I would think it should also work to allow you to downgrade a 2.50 HD Rom :rolleyes:

Once you get the CID unlocked, you should be able to flash any Official HTC Rom and as such 1.32. Once you flash 1.32 just follow one guide in Dev threads to S-OFF
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gene Poole:
A gold-card will allow you to install a RUU that is not specifically meant for your device but it won't allow you to install a version that is OLDER than the current version.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Steve0007:
My gold card allow me to install 1.32 Rom on a 2.36 Rom on a branded, CID lock and S-ON HD devices. So it allows me to install a version that is OLDER

I would think it should also work to downgrade 2.50 Rom :)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mehoob12:
I had downgraded 2 HD branded (with CID lock and S-ON) using a gold card made with the above attached application. I would think it should also work to allow you to downgrade a 2.50 HD Rom

Once you get the CID unlocked, you should be able to flash any Official HTC Rom and as such 1.32. Once you flash 1.32 just follow one guide in Dev threads to S-OFF

i did what you say corrictly what you do next thanks
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danny6514:
Unfortunately this method only works for 2.37. For anything greater, it's impossible at the moment. Yes, even with a gold card. Thanks for your efforts though, hopefully we'll find a solution one day.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Steve0007:
Have you patched your SD card with the img you got and apply the patch using the application i just posted ?

If yes, just follow this thread or any other thread related to downgrade to 1.32: HERE

Or for me i just had to run the 1.32 RUU attached here, once downloaded, sync your HD with computer and run the RUU.exe file...and follow the guide
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gene Poole:
Not without gaining temproot first and altering the version partition it didn't. Unfortuantely, HTC, in versions after 2.36, closed the adb exploit that psneuter uses and closed the fork-bomb exploit that rageagainstthecage uses and plugged the vold exploit gingerbreak uses.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JSLEnterprises:
I have this feeling that the vold exploit that gingerbreak uses hasnt really been plugged rather just moved so that gingerbreak cant find the info its looking to change in the hex offsets its made to look in.

i've looked at the ansii info that's stored in the offsets its looking for and its no longer there. But searching for that data found in 2.36.405.8 at those addresses found them in different area's within 2.43.661.1 and yet another different offset in 2.50.405.2.

Now, I havent tried anything with that information yet to see if it works, but anyone is welcome to try... i'll be trying it out the next time I have time. Maybe something can come of it before I have time to work on it again...
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gene Poole:
Very interesting. I'll have to take a second look at the gingerbreak source. My first glance at the source led me to believe it was simply exploiting a buffer overrun in vold.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeoS:
To make sure there is no confusion, i'll close this thread. downgrading from 2.50 is not possible yet.
[EVO 4G General] xlk:
How do I get HTC EVO 4G working on MetroPCS? and will MMS and GPS work?
[EVO 4G General] ejaye:
If you have enough for an evo you should just go with sprint.
[EVO 4G General] Steven 1:
Check Craigslist. They do it for about 100 bucks.

Sent from my Beast
[EVO 4G General] xlk:
that didnt answer my questions.
[EVO 4G General] tgruendler:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=704161

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=8395950#post8395950

Search is your friend. Not sure if it is still relevant though.
[EVO 4G General] xlk:
thanks man
[HTC Desire S] sayeed91:
I'm looking to install the lbc rom. I have one question. How good is the battery life? I know that it is overclocked. Is it anywhere near the stock rom?
[HTC Desire S] ben_pyett:
I'd say that battery life is as good as or better than stock. It's not overclocked, it runs at stock speeds, but, has the kernel and OC daemon that will permit you to overclock if you so wish.

you should have posted this in the LBC Rom thread.
[HTC Desire S] sayeed91:
Okkk. One more question. If I use titanium backup on my stock rom to backup apps can I restore on the lbc rom?
[HTC Desire S] ben_pyett:
You can and I believe that lots of people do, but not me as yet, although I did recently purchase titanium backup.

Although You can't be certain that the restores will function as expected.....

If I were you then I suggested that you re ask this question within the LBC rom thread and see how many of its users restore applications this way.
[HTC Sensation] Arsenal23:
How do I know if my phone is Branded or Un Branded, I am on T-Mobile UK, but have no logo/marking's on the phone case and no installed T-Mobile apps, but when I power down it shows the T-Mobile screen, does this mean it's Branded to T-Mobile?
[HTC Sensation] deathdark:
It means branded
[HTC Sensation] EddyOS:
Check your software version. x.xx.401.x is unbranded, anything else is
[HTC Sensation] Firefall!:
The phone is necessarily branded if you see any sign of your provider anywhere, unless that sign comes from your SIM. But this is obviously not the case for the shutdown-screen.
[HTC Sensation] volvo940seturbo:
Sounds as if it is branded, mine is from three and also has a start up logo but no other branding, software code is 771 I think which is three.
[Desire Themes and Apps] xybadog:
Is it possible to get the htccalendar.apk from somewhere (if anyone has a link please)?

I had the HTC Calendar on Leedroid 3.0.8.2 (had both the Android and HTC Calendars on a previous version of Leedroid). But now I've flashed Redux I don't have the HTC calendar and I miss it because it sync's with more sources than the android one does.

Anyone know where I can get it, please?
[Desire Themes and Apps] cgmorris89:
You can't use it on an AOSP ROM. From what I remember it relies on com.htc.resources.apk which is absent from AOSP.

I'm sure there are apps on the market that'll do what you want though? (I don't know of any mind, sorry)
[Desire Themes and Apps] xybadog:
Anyone know of a calendar that can sync with facebook as well as gmail?
[Desire Themes and Apps] davebugyi:
Sync facebook with your Google Account and then Sync your Google account with your calendar - I have it set up that way and it works on GingerVillain AOSP.
[Desire Themes and Apps] sterankin:
Thanks for asking this question as I'm having the exact issue with Redux (having come from LeeDroid also).

When you say sync Facebook with google - you do this on the facebook website or google website or phone?

Thanks

p.e. I have tried other calendars including pure calendar and I couldnt get this working.

EDIT: Ok I got this working - I went to facebook and clicked on events, then I clicked on birthdays. There is an option to export - so I got the export URL.

I then went to my google calendar on the google website. In the 'other calendar' section I was able to import using this URL.

Back on the phone, I went into the stock calendar, went to menu and selected 'calendars' - I was able to then choose to sync to the friends birthdays calendar in the google account in the menu.

All sorted the calendar widget now displays birthdays again..
[Desire Themes and Apps] cgmorris89:
I'm not sure about redux but I know on oxygen, in the settings menu of the Facebook app there is an option to sync contacts, and it definitely works :)
[Desire Themes and Apps] sterankin:
Same for Redux also - I can sync contacts using the Facebook app but it doesnt affect the stock calendar (it just updates my contacts on my phone and changes peoples picture etc if they had updated their profile).
[Desire Themes and Apps] cgmorris89:
ah man, I totally forgot what this thread was about :D sorry
[Desire Themes and Apps] davebugyi:
You have to sync it on your computer, not on your phone.

How to: Birthdays

How to: Events
[Desire Themes and Apps] Marioid:
is it possible to find the app of the calendar HTC?

for me is the best.

i'm using gingervillain but i don't like the clendar aosp.

thank you
[Desire Themes and Apps] xybadog:
This is what I asked in the OP. It appears that it isn't possible to use the HTC Calendar in non-Sense ROM's. Look at the posts above they explain why. I ;like the HTC Calendar too.
[Desire Themes and Apps] rowlers:
don't know if the OP is still interested, but I use Smooth Calendar, free from the Market on Oxygen.

It syncs with my google calendar etc..
[Desire Themes and Apps] xybadog:
Yeah, I use smooth calendar on my homescreen, I love it, but for an overall view it's not good, say for a month's view. I do like smooth calendar showing me the next 3 or 4 events on the homescreen though.