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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] fernando3ml:
is this possible?

I just sold my iphone 4 to try out the android system.

I am using the hd2 and want to have it rooted. preferably on 2.3.4

I have 2 macbooks and no pc's..

I've been reading around a LOT on google and have read around on this site but can't seem to find anything about mac...

Can i even do this with a mac?

I currently have a 2 gb sd card (i am going to get a larger one) that came with the phone i bought off craigslist.

I really need help as windows mobile is awful..

If I can be helped I can help out people in the future with their phones..

I know all about jailbreak, custom ios, unlocking, etc, even ios 5 beta and all but android is a TOTALLY different WORLD.

I need help please, the terminology and names of things are confusing me too...

I don't know what ROM is..

any help is appreciated!

-sorry if I missed a sticky somewhere or if this thread needs to be redirected.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] zyxw121:
It should work on a Mac, but I don't have one, so I could be wrong.

Essentially, what you need to do to get android on your phone is:

1. Flash HSPL

2. Flash a radio

3. Flash MAGLDR

4. Flash CWM

5. Install your preffered ROM

You can get HSPL here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=966228

Radio here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=611787

MAGLDR here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=893618

And CWM here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=898913

There is a good basic tutorial here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1021837

ROM stands for Read Only Memory, but in this case is used to refer to an android build that is installed on the phone.

MAGLDR and cLK are bootloaders, they load android.

CWM stands for ClockWorkMod Recovery, and it lets you back up and restore your phone, as well as lots of other nifty features.

Don't worry, I was new at this once (still am), it's really easy; and if you can't manage, that's what the forums are for.

Good luck!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] whynot66:
Not that simple unfortunately. You won't have the drivers as far as I know they don't exist, you will need to run Windows as a virtual machine but I think you will lose the connection during the process..... could be fatal

Erm....... take a look at boot camp you need to create a bootcamp partition and install Windows in it, and then you can dualboot Windows and MAC OS

It would be easier to borrow a friends pc to hspl it and magldr and cwm

Once you have clockwork mod (cwm). You have the ability to install new roms directly from your SD card in the phone without it being connected to anything.

I'm sure there must be users in the hd2 section that have done it all via a MAC but I'm not one of them sorry :-)

Edit/ if you know your way round ios you'll pick it up pretty easy the post above pretty much says it all
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] whynot66:
Be careful tho pal your asking for trouble if you lose the usb connection whilst running hspl I'm. Not sure what would happen

Look here

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1461
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] whynot66:
Free bump...... anyone wanna advise? I'm curios/
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Moon2:
If you have a windows installer disk, use boot camp to dual boot, and then do all the stuff you need to do from the pinned tutorials.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] fernando3ml:
was able to just paste stuff on an sd card from an old android 2.2 i had lying around my desktop. it works but won't let me connect to google server for my contacts..

I'm getting that I'm going to have to use a virtual machine though...

ehh,

that info about what everything is definitely is great though.. I will keep looking into this as I'm using a dated "firmware"
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fr3quency:
Does the 2.3.4 (KG2) support the Greek language(keyboard, to write messages in Greek).

Also, my Baseband version is: i9100XXKE7, while Build number is: XWKF3.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fr3quency:
Bump >_<

Come on people, help?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Depends i would have thought if it has Greek CSC in the rom .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fr3quency:
Yeah. It has Greek support for the menu BUT swype doesn't have Greek. ;-; Anyone knows how to fix it?
[LG Optimus 2x] ClericCC:
So I became unpleasant thing.

I froze indicated charging to 57% - here to help restart.

But the second I hope that helps Custom Flash ROM. Again I had frozen battery indicator and I are only those arrows that correspond to synchronization and even then I do not want to take the SIM card (I also tried it from a friend) just does not offer me a PIN. Furthermore, the device will not charge, will begin to charge when turned off. I have an official ROM v10c

Thank you for your help

PS: sorry for bad English
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] primeboss:
I need help deciding which rom to use. My main concern is battery, which one of the roms have the best battery, same or better to stock 2.2.2 Froyo with Gingerblur.

Thanks for you help in advance!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjwatmyself:
Great question. Same deal here. I'm gonna wait a bit longer myself.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Magnetox:
The biggest difference I can find by looking through both threads (Cherryblur/Ninja) is that Cherryblur also supports the international build of gingerbread (being 4.5.2.0 OrangeFR), whereas Ninja only supports AT&T.

However, there are other minor differences. One difference is that ninjablur uses the new market, whereas cherryblur uses the old market.

But cherryblur seems to be more of a complete rom from the info given in the first post. These are features that it offers that ninjablur doesn't (according to the ninjablur thread):

2048k SDCard Buffer

Circular Battery and Custom Data Icons

Battery fix implemented

10 Point Multi-Touch

Proximity updates in build.prop

Avoid screen staying on in calls

WiFi scan in build.prop set to 90

Preinstall script neutered to avoid install of AT&T crapware

QuickOffice app REMOVED

Tethering enabled to use stock Hotspot app!

AGPS Enabled

Shows a menu item under location for VZW, supposedly enables AGPS from YOUR network (not just Verizon)

MMS "Reply to all" Enabled

Untested, does it work for you?

Max recipients of SMS/MMS increased to 20

Untested, does it work for you?

Disabled the locking of Default APNs so you can edit them

GTALK WITH VIDEO!!!

WEBTOP OVER HDMI!!!

Re-added ICE for contacts

WAKE ON VOLUME HACK!

Also, don't be afraid of the red theme, you can download a theme uninstaller that will give your phone the stock look (while keeping all of the rom features).

I would go with cherryblur.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quicklyspent:
Actually both use the old market.

Also know that none of the available themes will work on the cherryblur rom.

My advice: try them both for a few days and see which you like best.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mcdoodle:
If you use CherryBlur, you might have to flash the 4.5.91 radio to get 3G working if you're on AT&T.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Magnetox:
Ninjablur thread says it uses the new market.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sunshine1982:
i'm running cherryblur, currently on the v1.4, and i haven't needed to flash the new radio yet, though i probly will soon just to see if its any better
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mysticdrew:
old market. Originally new, but I think patch .3 version went back to old.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Magnetox:
Ok thanks for clearing that up
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phoneguy589:
I had the 4-5 beta, then ran CherryBlur .5 and switched back to beta 4-5. When CherryBlur 1.1 came out I switched and stayed until version 1.3. The webtop had stopped working for some reason so I tried Ninja .4 and the speed freak .5 version. Ninja runs really good but I think that CherryBLurs 4.5.2 runs better. Seems snappier between screens and opening apps. Like the person above said, try them all out. Heck about a week ago I was on rooted on 1.5.7 and have learned to flash, unlock my bl and managed to soft brick my phone LOL. I definately am learning. Being I had carpal tunnel surgery and I'm home from work the next few weeks, I might try to learn more about ROMs and stuff.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjwatmyself:
Two new kids in town... Cherry(3.142) and Alien...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h0mbre_au:
I've been switching between the two and to me the latest Cherryblur seems the snappiest and most stable, I was getting a few FC's with Ninja SF.

However, I don't like the theme on Cherryblur and can't seem to flash mattedblues :(
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricardowec:
Ninja Vs CherryBlur

I was on the same dilema for a few days reading long posts on the Ninja Trhead until I decided to give it a try(Ninja)

- Went directly to Build 2 and have not experienced major problems so far other than the Theme refuses to install.

I came from Ronaldo´s Rom which is very stable and also based on Ken´s work but a little slow and nothing special featurewise. Also I was experiencing a few connection problems and GPS a little slow to Fix.

Ninja is fast, as I said, theaming does not work for me (I think I know what I am doing but it just refuses to install from CWM nor Rom Manager) As I cannot get the theme to install and a few features are based on it, there is nothing more I can add on that regard.

I am concerned on the maturity of the rom and how slo it is movin forward in fixing bugs/adding features..

Sorry, cannot say much about C/b since I have not used it but from the paper I think is more mature and also based on the old market (Ninja is on the new whinch I dont get along well with.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjwatmyself:
http://a-trix.net/wiki/index.php/Table_of_Custom_Roms

Very nice wiki site for for the Atrix. And it has a page with chart of all of the custom ROMS.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] king_dani:
hi everyone,

straight to the point: i do not have a PC at the moment, and am reluctant to install Windows on my macbook, I hence turned to Heimdall as a solution to flash KG2. i have downloaded KG1 but since then, i could not flash, and the KG2 was leaked, now I have had tremendous help from Benjamin Dobell, the creator of Heimdall, but it looks like Heimdall needs a pit file to know about each file placement. my question is, can i safely use pit file which was relased along with KG1 to flash KG2 ROM?

thanks in advance
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
If you look on Samfirmware.com it shows pit file for each firmware .

All SGS 2 are showing Pit EXT4 .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] king_dani:
i might be wrong, but could you please point me toward that pit file? i have looked everywhere on this page:http://www.samfirmware.com/WEBPROTECT-i9100.htm and there is nothing! just one file hosted on hotfile. there is on pit ext4 mentioned but it is not clickable.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Start at the top of the page .

Scroll down to in blue .

Galaxy S II / .PIT File: DOWNLOAD (EXT4)

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] king_dani:
ah, so as i suspected, pit file is similar for all i9100 ROMs, right?

thanks a bunch
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
If you look on Samfirmware.com it shows pit file for each firmware .

All SGS 2 are showing Pit EXT4 .

= yes.

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattkaulitz:
yeah it shown EXT4 :D
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] honoluluacx:
First off, I used the search tool in an attempt to find an answer to my problem, but no luck. Anyway onto the question. I recently flashed Simply Honey 3.9.1 without any error. I heard about altering AngryGPS settings to help remedy the GPS problems that plague the Samsung Vibrant. Does anyone know what the best settings are for the application to get the best/fastest/most accurate GPS readings? Thanks in advance for any and all answers.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danielpc:
I too would like to know. And, is it necessary to change the name from angrygps.APk to angrygps.Bak? There seems to be some mixed thoughts on this.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jrkart99:
three.......
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] webmahceter:
Bump! I'd like to know this as well.
[Acer Iconia A500] karlkarloff:
Hi, I've developed a problem with my app drawers. For the last two days, every time I try to add an app to my app drawers, it makes the app drawers FC every time I tap on them. The FCs won't stop until I uninstall whatever app I was trying to add to the drawer. Once I delete the app the drawers start functioning normally again. Its not a huge issue, I can always hit the apps button to access my stuff, but I've kinda gotten used to using the drawers as a shortcut. Since I've started goofing around with it, I've noticed the few times it will actually let me add an app to the drawer, it stacks the icon on top of another and I have to delete both apps from the drawer to get it to work. Anybody run into the issue before? I searched the forums, but didn't really turn up anything, so any help would e greatly appreciated.

Edit: I just tried removing all the apps from my Games drawer(since that was the one that originally started messing up)then I restarted. After that I was able to add back all my apps along with a few new ones with no problem whatsoever. I'm not sure if what I did fixed it, or if it somehow magically fixed itself, but either way, its working again. So if anyone else has this problem, you may want to try what I did, and see if that works.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] d33dvb:
Just found netflix on the market and installs fine on Trigger 3.2 which is a 2.2 ROM, awesome!

Just found netflix on the market and installs fine on Trigger 3.2 which is a 2.2 ROM, awesome!
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Nabeel10:
Yea, it now works for the Vibrant, so we don't need a gingerbread ROM anymore to play Netflix, because it works in Froyo now, yay!
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] marilou:
Netflix is working now. I'm on Project V. Thank you.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] tvargas5248:
Niicceee that was the only thing really holding me to gingerbread so I guess I can finally go back now :-) thanks for letting everyone know
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] mannyncarol:
netflix

Yep working on my vibrant running bionix-v 1.3.1 with bali kernel.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] amandadam:
Looking good with Tard/Bali X.

Thanks for the heads up.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] strtkempo:
Thanks for letting us know finally can watch my flix wherever I am!!!!!! SWEET!

Thanks button clicked!
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] faith5x5:
Good news - Thanks for posting the announcement. Glad I checked the board today.

Working on my Vibrant with Project V running Bali 1.8.7
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] NoPants:
Finally!!!!! drains the battery though, but deff worth it.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] derride8:
Do u have to be a member or is there a hack version that bypass the login?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] fear676:
You have to be a members
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] EGwally91:
Thank the Netflix gods for enabling Hummingbird support for Netflix. I also flashed the latest APK to my sidekick 4g, sweet!
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] androidmonkey:
I am able to install Netflix from the market but it FCs on launch.

Any ideas? I am running CM7.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] domtru:
No ****? Working on 2.2? The phantom reboots on GB got me irritated.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ali1276:
Ok, I am a noob to the HD2? I have a galaxy s; however, my friend wants me to unlock his HD2 to run android. He just bought it so it is still on windows mobile 6.5. I know this is a nooby question. I have searched	a lot but can't find anything. Could you please list all the steps in order please. And can you tell me the best rom. Thanks a lot. Also, please do not flame. :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ali1276:
Sorry double post.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Gootah:
Bro...

I guess you dont wanna use the search function here, so google these things

1. HD2 SPL Downgrade (If Applicable)

2. Hard SPL2

3. Magldr HD2 install

4. CWM for Magldr install

5. Install Android ROM on HD2

Good luck my digital brother
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ali1276:
Thanks I will definitely try this.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] htccraze:
i think this post is really what you should take a look at. its very detailed and should give you all the info & software you'll need to install android to your nand. it is written so that anyone can understand and in simple terms.

then after you install Android a good question to ask your friend would be does he want a sence rom or something else. this website here is the easiest way to search for Android ROMs that are listed here on XDA. i would also click "show all android roms/builds" because there are a lot of older ROMs that are still as great or better then some of the newer ROMs out there. i could suggest some but im sure what i like may differ from your friends so i would take a close look at each ROM from the site listed above. to shorten the list down some for you i probably wouldn't look at ROMs that haven't been updated since like april.

His choices in ROMs would be sence based, a non-sence based like cyanogen or a miui based ROM similar to that of the iphone but with widgets.

unlocking a phone refers to sim unlocking where as rooting a phone refers to gain root/superuser access what is what your trying to do.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Nigeldg:
1. Don't bring back old threads which have already been solved unless you are asking a similar question and that thread is the best place to ask it.

2. Did you even read his post? He used the word 'unlock' incorrectly, he meant to ask how to flash Android.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] kompheak:
Search harder... if you are having a hard time with xda search... go to google type your question in search box... I bet you'll find your answer and it will direct you back to xda
[About XDA developers] soraxd:
lol so for a few days ive had my xda inbox say i have a message, and i couldnt couldnt figure out where it was from, so i went thru every single page till i found a message from December 31st 1969.. weird oo anyone else get this, or have any idea where it came from? message had no title, context, or sender
[About XDA developers] SoCalSpecialist:
i did once before in my old xda acct.

was about 6 or 10 pages deep into my msgs but that was way back in 07 when that happened. this is the first mentioning ive seen since.
[About XDA developers] desiprince92:
Ghost?? Maybe you have been entrusted with an encrypted message from the ancestors of xda!
[About XDA developers] soraxd:
best thing ive ever read
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wollitaj:
What do you consider to be the fastest, most reliable SENSE ROM available for the Droid Incredible?

This includes, everything working as it should if it were delivered straight from the factory with no bugs and everything functioning properly.

I am a "Serial Flasher" and it seems that there is always something that makes me want to revert to stock so it will work again.

I don't know, maybe I'm too picky but any answers would really help. Thanks in advance.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejdavis72:
I am in the same boat... I always go back to stock cause it just works.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PGleo86:
SkyRaider?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheWhiteBandito:
SkyRaider or Magnolia or Liberation. SkyRaider has the most features of them all.

Sent from my HTC Incredible
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benlevy:
Re-engineered

I really liked Chingy's Incredibly Reengineered 2.4. Just loaded his new 3D version, it's really nice too. No problems at all and fast.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SteveG12543:
Virtuous is another one I've heard good things about. Skyraider was an awesome ROM, was the first ROM I ever flashed.

Sent from my Droid Incredible running a random CM7 nightly.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luis7654:
Rewind 3d & awesomeee :D
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zerox8610:
Skyraider

or

Inc REVOlution by Lou
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfarrah:
Magnolia, for me.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m52 power!:
Why mess with sense roms when there's CM7?? Effecient, fast and no BS
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tincbtrar:
I wish I could say the same...but CM7 doesnt have 720p video...so in essence it isnt full featured (of course not CyanogenMod's fault) and it has a decent amount of bloat (languages,etc.) I actually preferred Deck's 2.3.4 ROM more than CM7 - less bloat.

FroYo still has the full feature set but the annoying 'out of space' issue. Magnolia was a pretty nice ROM - probably my favorite.

I would probably go with Liberation 2.0 - gingersense leak without the bloat. Everything worked - even though the battery life is okay - if you want Sense that works.

Im using WD's Inc2 port now...and its pretty snappy. Almost too snappy - probably why at some point Magnolia slowed down its transition and window speeds.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr. Clown:
No best roms threads ;). What is best for you is not best for others. This can be redundant and a never ending story.

Cheers,
[Nook Color General] MusicaFreak23:
Ok, so I just got a nook and went through the steps of rooting it by following this tutorial here: http://www.the-ebook-reader.com/nook-color-cm7.html which eventually led me to here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1000957. I then tried to put gapps on my nook so I could get android market but I can't get the nook to boot into recovery mode! I started searching through alot of forums and noticed many people saying you need to have ClockworkMod Recovery which I thought I already had. But in my rom manager it says "You mush have the CLockworkMod Recovery installed to flash and restore ROMs!" So apparently I can't go into recovery mode because I don't have it?? I don't know how to install it either because all the tutorials start out with a stock nook and my nook already has gingerbread on it. I'm extremely cautious to try anything because this is my first time rooting. What do I do????

Well, I figured out how to install Clockwork through the rom manager and I just noticed an update in the bottom bar. It just gave me the option to add google apps and it's downloading as I type this. Confused about recovery mode and the little penguin now.
[Nook Color General] dabiddabird:
Idk if you figured this out yet but in case you didn't, what you were supposed to do is download the latest gapps which is 200110613 if your using latest cm7. Then put that zip in the boot partition of your sd card. Put the sd card back into your nook and boot into recovery by holding down the N and power buttons. When the loading screen appears you release the buttons. It then will install gapps to the sd card and power down when its done.

Tip: If you cant time the release of N and power to get gapps installed. Just let cm7 load up then hold power select reboot then select recovery.
[Nook Color General] MusicaFreak23:
What I ended up doing actually is rerooting it to run nightlies instead of the stable version 7.0.3. It rebooted into recovery mode and worked like a charm. :)
[Nook Color General] Tireman9:
When am I supposed to see the option to Boot to Recovery? I have tried timing holding N and power and that didn't work. I tried holding the N till script appeared but only option ended up booting to B&N Nook Color.

How do I forec a Recovery boot?