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[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeLLaTec:
Hello dear XDA forum!

I'll start with an apology, I believe there are answers to my questions, but I'm just to confused to understand everything since there are answers all over the place. And I couldn't find anyone having the exact same problem as me.

So, I'm fresh to the Android OS(was on symbian before) and is awesome for now. I rooted the phone once, but then I couldn't get Wi-Fi to work and tried to hard reset it, couldn't turn it on anymore. Did a software reinstall and tried to root it again.

I understand what Superuser does roughly, but I have a feeling I don't use the benefits of the rooted phone fully. For instance, ROM Manager is not working at all, downloaded a ROM, starts, resets the phone, when the phone turns on it's like nothing ever happened, so a little help with that would be appreciated.

The second thing that is driving me crazy is the low space on the phones internal memory, and I just can't figure out how to install stuff on the SD card, I have "Root All to SD", but the thing just won't work.

Any useful tips for a new rooted x8 user are very very appreciated!

Thank you, HeLLaTec.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lobialkon:
Well, im new to into this things, and i have this X8 since friday. And im exactly in the same place as you, i just rooted my phone, and installed on it the xRecovery, and made a backup of everything just in case. You should do that too.

There's a guide on this same forum for you to follow and install xRecovery.

Goodbye!
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] afifrohiki:
if you want to change your rom , use xrecovery , search the thread for install xrecovery on your phone.

then change your rom with xrecovery, dont forget to backup your old rom with xrecovery too,

if you want to put your app to sd card, use link2sd on market, and its free. but you must partition your sd card and follow the instruction in link2sd.

clear?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeLLaTec:
Thanks for the info, but looks like I'm having some issues with installing xRecovery, I followed a guide on how to install it. Downloaded 3 files, moved them to my sd card then used "Root Explorer" to move it to system/bin. The guide said that I can access xRecovery by holding the back button while the phone is turning on(the boot screen), but absolutely nothing happens, the phone just turns on.

Any suggestions on how to get that going?

Thanks, HeLLaTec!
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dbts25:
Don't hold back button, you must press it repeatedly when white SonyEricsson text appears
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeLLaTec:
Thanks a lot, turned out I didn't actually install xRecovery, but now I had it installed, went into it. Wiped everything, and now the phone won't go past the first Sony Ericsson logo.

Any suggestions?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IROC_69:
open xrecovery

goto partition tools

select mount/system

then browse your sd card put a rom in it

you can download it from here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1079463

then go back

then select install custom.zip

select custom zip from sdcard

browse the rom select yes to install

here u go u got ur rom installed
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeLLaTec:
Ok that helped a lot, fixed my phone now, managed to root it, put on xrecovery and root explorer, and now followed the link. Installed the ROM, but it just played an froyobread animation for a few minutes and now it just froze and nothing is happening... ideas?

Thanks, HeLLaTec.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] corsav6:
Pull battery, enter xrecovery and do a full wipe and wipe dalvik cache and cache partition, Froyobread will take a few mins to start 1st time. Did you make sure your baseband is 15? this can cause some problems.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeLLaTec:
Ok, I'll try to do that. Can you please tell me if the wipeing will remove the root and xRecovery and everything?

And how do I figure out what "baseband" do I have?

Thanks for the reply!
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] corsav6:
No, the wipe will just remove any user data left behind from old rom. If Froyobread boots then just go to settings,about phone and check that baseband number ends with 015, if its 06(i think) then you need to flash new baseband(http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=976538) kernel should be 2.6.29

If Froyobread wont boot then restore backup from xrecovery of stock rom and follow the steps above to check baseband.

Its good practice to wipe after installing new rom. DONT full wipe if you upgrade Froyobread to a newer version if you want to keep your apps and data, cache partition, battery stats(charge to 100%) and dalvik can always safely be wiped.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skunko1:
Hi all. I have problem with flash player, when i browse stream flash video, it play's good BUT problem is in lenght, when I'm watching videos over 3-4 mins the video froze and don't cache video anymore, I tryed refresh page->the same problem...

this problem i have with all Longer videos.

Sorry for my bad english, thank you for any reply's
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ithehappy:
Hope you have the updated Adobe Flash installed.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prodygee:
Yes, go to the market and update Adobe Flash by searching for it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skunko1:
I have updated flash player and it doesnt work, I have the same problem
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skunko1:
any tips ? :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prodygee:
Didn't work for me neither on some dirty site :P
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] PhilUSAF21:
Does anyone have an aosp mms for jvp rom specifically asgard

Thanks in advance!
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] xriderx66:
idk if it will work, but download a nightly, extract apk from/system/apps and replace it on your phone in the same place. make a backup of your old apk so if this doesn't work then.. your kinda ****ed.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] PhilUSAF21:
Alright ill give that a try thanks!
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] SimeonAS89:
Just look in the I9000 section. Theirs bound to be an AOSP theme.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitsson:
I have a SGS2 with the default ROM the phone came with, and CF-Root installed with CWM v3.0.0.5. Specifically, this is what’s installed:

Baseband version: I9100XXKDJ

Kernel: version 2.6.35.7-I9100XWKE8-CL214845, root@DELL101#2

I just launched Kies to check for a firmware update, and was told this:

Current firmware: PDA:KE2 / PHONE:KDJ / CSC:KE2 (NEE)

Latest firmware: PDA:KF3 / PHONE:KE7 / CSC:KF1 (NEE)

I don’t quite understand what constitutes the Android firmware as I’ve recently migrated from iOS where baseband (modem) and OS are the two versions one needs to keep in mind (or just OS, if you had an unlocked iPhone like I did) for a jailbreak/unlock. Thus a few questions:

1. What are the PDA, PHONE and CSC parts of the firmware?

2. Why are there so many types of firmware; if you look at Chainfire’s CF-Root post there’s a host of patched kernels. Are SGS2s sold in regions with varying hardware? With the iPhone there was one hardware version, one OS (Verizon excluded). Simple.

3. I want to flash a custom ROM (Batista70 based on 2.3.4) - what is the best way to make sure everything is up to date before I do this? I was thinking of letting Kies update (which I guess will remove my root access), then installing the latest version of CF-Root with CWM 4, and finally flashing the ROM from CWM. I have the relevant app data backed up with Titanium Backup.

Many thanks!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viva.fidel:
1. Pda is the basic firmware, Phone is the modem responsible for wifi/2g/3g, csc is the country specific code - language files/apps etc. You shouldn't consider these as separate, they all combine to make a single firmware (which will have the pda code)

2. There are multiple firmwares because they keep getting updated, the cf-root has multiple versions to accomodate those who haven't update to the latest. Usually the highest alphabetical and number code is the latest, currently kg3 i believe

3. Whatever kies updates, flashing a rom over it will overwrite anyway so there's no point using kies

Make a nandroid backup from cwm before you start flashing ROM in case something goes wrong
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitsson:
Ok, so neither pda, phone or scs constitute the kernel? I appreciate that custom ROMs incorporate the official (and sometimes the unofficial) Samsung releases meaning I don't need to faff around with Kies, but CF-Root handles only the kernel if understand it correctly.

In Chainfire's guide on rooting, specifically the but on getting rid of the warning triangle, he says "Find an original Samsung signed stock kernel (preferably from the same stock firmware you have, but it's not terribly important)" which I don't understand. How can I find a kernel, all I have are ROMs which as I understand it do not include the kernel.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zabihjan:
here is all the roms and kernels

if you read closely under each rom their is also a link for kernels.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjtj4444:
Kernel is a (small) part of PDA. So flash PDA replaces the kernel. But you can flash kernel separately without changing the other parts of PDA.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitsson:
Great, thanks. So if I flash a custom ROM based on KG2, do I need to flash the ROM first followed by CF-Root? I imagine that if I flash CF-Root first and then the customer ROM via CWM, this will overwrite portions of CF-Root which is needed for CWM etc.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viva.fidel:
CF-Root (flashed through Odin) is the 1st step in running a custom rom. The kernel will replace the stock samsung recovery with the clockworkmod recovery which is then used to flash custom ROMs

Custom ROMs may replace the CF-Root kernel but no responsible dev would include a kernel that removes the CWM recovery so you do not need to worry about overwriting it.

On a side note, in an original full stock rom (in tar format) the zImage file within the tar is the kernel, if you wanted to flash the original kernel back then you would remove all the other files from the tar (and leave zImage) and flash the tar in Odin as PDA.. although this wouldn't be a great idea as it would remove the custom CWM recovery
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prodygee:
About point 3 - flashing a rom is the 'update'. Forget about KIES when you start flashing your roms, because all of the software is in there, the rom itself.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitsson:
Excellent, I get that part. Good explanation.

How about the order of flashing; the custom ROM I want to try is based on KG3, and I also want to flash the updated CF-Root v.4.1 KG3 kernel followed by the stock Samsung kernel to rid myself of that warning triangle (any future flashing I will do through CWM and not Odin). Should I install the custom ROM via my current version of recovery, then, upgrade CF-Root via the patched KG3 kernel, and finally flash the stock Samsung KG3 kernel?

Since I'm using KE2 at the moment, I'm thinking that flashing just a KG3 kernel to get CF-Root 4.1 isn't a best idea, as the KE2 firmware overall might not be compatible with a KG3 kernel.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Custom rom has to be installed as per each developers instructions for each individual rom .Not all are CWM flashable .

Personnel i would upgrade the CF root to the later verion before rthe custom rom but i would also read the details of the rom has it may have the latest CWM installed .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viva.fidel:
which rom are you trying to flash? If it needs to be flashed through cwm then you'll have to flash a custom kernel through odin first to give you cwm recovery (custom rom can't be flashed with the stock samsung recovery), then flash the rom in cwm. Does the rom include cf-root? If it doesn't then flash the cf-root kernel and then the stock kernel to get rid of the triangle

If the rom can be flashed through odin then you can skip flashing the initial cwm-enabling ke2 kernel
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitsson:
Ok thanks. I also think that I should install the latest version of CF-Root first.

It's the Batista 3.2 ROM that I intend to flash. I already have CF-Root / recovery installed, and this ROM also installs recovery v4.0.1.4, but what I don't know if this is the same as the recovery included in CF-Root - most likely not.

I'll probably go ahead and will flash the custom CF-Root KG3 kernel and the stock KG3 kernel via Odin to get rid of the triangle, and finally the ROM via recovery. That should do it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] facsi2:
Should be pinned. This was exactly was I wanted to know and maybe many others too.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viva.fidel:
Think CF-Root comes with CWM 4.0.0.2

Looks like Batista's ROM includes a kernel.. you should therefore flash the ROM first, then CF-Root (so it overwrites the ROM kernel) and then the stock samsung-signed KG3 kernel
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitsson:
I did exactly that ;) Just flashed the CF-Root kernel via the CWM app at the end to have all the goodies. Works a treat so far but I'll see over the coming weeks.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OmnipotentPilot:
Yesterday my Vibrant crashed and now I can't start messaging. When I try to, the screen goes black and after a few seconds, I get the message "the application Messaging (process com.Android.Mms) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again", and then closes very quickly, before I have the chance to tap "force close". Any solution?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyle51:
didnt restore messages from a different version did you, like 2.2.1 to 2.2 or 2.2 to 2.3

i did that coming from 2.2.1 and restored on 2.2 and my messaging force closed, if it is that reflashing would fix it

just a suggestion, better to have more than less :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OmnipotentPilot:
Yeah, thanks! However, I'm still working on getting clockworkmod to work, so I haven't flashed any roms. Yet.

So in other words I still have no idea what's going on haha :P
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyle51:
use rom mansger to flash it then reinstall packages twice in the stock blue recovery if you havent already :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
if you can't get CWR to work... then download a nightly, lastest or old doesn't matter i don't think message app has changed at all...

so anyways

download it.

extract apk from system/apps

and then replace on your phone..

just wondering... why are you still using stock messagning app? everyone i know has moved on to go sms pro or somthing else.

edit: oops why did i just assume u were using CM7 lol, anyways just replace the nightly up there with your rom, and do the same thing.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OmnipotentPilot:
What do you mean, "the nightly"? (the nightly build? Of what?)

Also, I got my phone three days ago, so I still use stock messaging. If there's a better alternative, I'd love to get it. What do you guys suggest?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
You can try Go SMS Pro from the market - it's really good.

Are you on the Samsung ROM? I thought you were on some other one, ignore the nightly parts... :P

have you done anything with your phone like flash other ROMs?

If not, there's an app called Bloater, if you search a bit on the themes / apps section you can find it, and then get the messaging app, im pretty sure it has it in there.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OmnipotentPilot:
I'll try sms pro. I haven't used any other roms yet. I'm on the Samsung Rom. I've tried to flash clockworkmod, but it didn't work. I'll try bloated...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OmnipotentPilot:
Strange... I tried go sms pro and handcent sms, and they both crashed in much the same way as stock messaging. I also got similar errors.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
They both crashed? Same errors with all of them?

Well, now we know that its YOUR issue, but I'll try and help.

First of all, the stock Samsung ROM is very buggy, and will become laggy after a week or two, maybe a month.

So i suggest you switch to a 2.2, or a 2.3 rom.

We do not have OFFICIAL 2.3 from samsung so we are relying on Cyanogen, a team that makes AOSP (free of all touchwiz) ROMS called Cyanogen Mod, or CM7 as in version 7.

I'll get you started off by teaching you how to use ODIN. Odin is important in the world of flashing. ODIN will get your phone back from soft bricks, and sometimes, rarely, hard bricks- MAYBE.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=771111

that thread has most of the stuff you will need.

ignore the ROMS section and downwards, the thread hasn't been updated in a while...

Go into the Vibrant Dev. section and look at some ROMS that you like.

Gingerbread (2.3) roms do not have perfect battery life right now, but its getting to the point where its just as good as froyo.

You are on 2.1, very outdated, and since its touchwiz, it will get sooooooooooo laggy.

Root yourself with Superonelickroot program, and then get app ROM MANAGER and flash yourself a clockwork recovery, put a ROM on your phone, and then install.

First decide which ROM you want, because if it's a 2.2, it's different than 2.3.

Thats not the only thread, but I can't find the exact threads to help you out with right here...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OmnipotentPilot:
First off, thank you so much for all that information. My phone is already rooted. I can't get clockworkmod to work, but I will try odin. CM7 was my Rom of choice in the first place, but before I'd flash it I'd like to get clockworkmod working so I can do a nandroid backup. While your here, do you know of any battery efficient roms that I can flash for when I'm travelling and such?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
Battery efficent... hmm

If you're not in a hurry, I do suggest you try out CM7 WITH Glitch kernel, without it cm7 has bad battery, but i just tried it and its giving me pretty good.

If you travel frequently, Maybe Froyo 2.2 is best for you.

Now about your clockwork issue, whats the problem? any errors?

Get Rom Manager app from market

grant root access if it ever asks you.

top choice select it and then flash Vibrant CWR, BUT- AND BUT if you're going to try CM7 as I said, flash the Vibrant (MTD) their both there for choice.

It will download and flash by it self.

Now I hope you know how to get into recovery mode for now, because later on in every rom, theres a option you can just choose to get into recovery.

Anyways if you don't...

Hold up and down volume, and power button for about 5 seconds until phone turns on, and then let go, wait a few seconds and a recovery should pop up

press -REINSTALL PACKAGES-

this will replace normal recovery with the clcokwork

then after pressing reinstall packages, it will reboot back into recovery again, same screen, press reinstall packages again, now it wont reboot, but will go into a deeper version of recovery CLOCKWORK RECOVERY.

there you go, now thats what it is.

Now if you will flash CM7, go wipe the cache

and then ADVANCED > wipe dalvik cache

now install zip

install zip again or choose or something

and then find your rom and flash.

there you go.

After flashing a rom, let it sit for 10 minutes, it usually lets the ROM calm down and stop setting up and it works great.

You should let me know which rom you pick, if you want terrific battery, then its froyo for SURE.

I havent been on froyo in a while, but when i did, Trigger was my absolute favorite, if you can't choose, make a thread. :)

Wow havent typed that much in a while.

haha
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OmnipotentPilot:
Ok, i tried to install clockwork mod and I got the following error

"E:failed to verify whole-file signature

E:signature verification failed

Installation abored"

However, i found someone with a guide on how to use Odin. So I'm probably just going to use that, unless you know of a way to fix ClockworkMod.

Thanks again!

EDIT: Fixed the problem! I restored to stock firmware with odin, as i was getting a lot of problems. I'm now running Cyanogenmod 7.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
are you on 2.2? because the stock 2.2 that Samsung gave was protected so you couldn't do the clockwork etc.

Yep, use the ODIN thread you found and odin back to 2.1, root using superoneclickroot, and then do what I said and then you can flash clockwork.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stefanamlappi:
Hi to all developers here in this Forum:-) I search a Kernel for Galaxy Tab P7500 3G Version:-) if any have one I will test it:-)

Thanks for any Help

Regards Stefan
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andyfarmery:
+1 but i think we're still waiting for source... :(
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ca110475:
Same here

Would be great to have a kernel for OC / UV testing purposes.

3G version is selling quite a lot here in Italy, so i'm guessing the community will enlarge quite soon.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robobear:
+1 here since in asia 3G just launched in indonesia.

and we desperately need DEV on this thing.. so far we only managed root and CWM.. but ROM is a whole different story..
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lufc:
Can you Please Post Questions in the Q&A forum Thanks

Moving to Q&A
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eagle_B5:
OC kernel for 3G models

Look at that http://droidbasement.com/db-blog/
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dev-host.eu:
Use Pershoot's Kernel.

I'm on Overcome 10.1 Rom - with Pershoots Kernel. Overclocked to 1.4GHz, and USB charge enabled :-)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pooley:):
Hi there !

Can you tell me what's the difference between recovery 3.0.0.5 (crespo stuff) and the 4.0.0.2 ?

As i read on a topic that recovery is lost when second access via fastboot (security) need to flash again the img or rename /etc/install-recovery.sh to something else, am I right ?

I've read and try a lot with xda and flash zip story all weekend long but ain't find want I want :

Can you tell me if (for my nexus s) this rom exist :

- AOSP 2.3.4,

- DSPmanager.apk in,

- Zeam launcher,

- no apk "sh*t" proper to a ROM (team) like the apk in the infin1ty one (I don't care and made my feedbacks where they can be read and answered... HERE !),

- Voodoo Kernel Supported (like the matr1x one or th Netarchy),

I tried to put unwanted apk out (and wanted in) the zip before flashing it but it does not work.

I got my UI sound (I've also put this in the zip system/media/UI) without success.

Please ! is there a hero dev who want to compile that for me !
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
If you want DSP manager, you have to use CyanogenMod.

Zeam Launcher: Get it from the market. It is not ROM dependent. https://market.android.com/details?id=org.zeam&feature=search_result

APK: Don't even know what you're saying.

Kernel: It doesn't matter what ROM you're using just flash a Voodoo-supported kernel after you flash the ROM. Some ROMs may include the kernel with the flashable zip. Some may not, but if it doesn't include it... it doesn't mean that you can't use it.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pooley:):
I took it from an other rom and install APK on my stock 2.3.4 rom

Yep i've tried launcher pro, but only the transition animation on the homescreen is interssting, back to Zeam.

I'm talking about the ROM statistic (survey) apk like those 2 in MIUI or the one in infin1ty Rom.

Netarchy 1.3.7 Flashed after my fisrt post :)

thanks mate :)