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[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Motive101:
Does it work for anyone else with the external SD problems?

Tiamat rom 2.0/oc 'ed kernal
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] okantomi:
Are you asking if TB is working for any of us, or are you referring to SD card issues?

Could you clarify your question?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoshitweaky:
If you mean that under stock 3.2 external1 is not writeable by default then yes you may have issues with TB.

Mine was backing up only data to external1 no apps.

There is a thread which shows some adb commands to get external writeable but you have to do it on every boot.

So I'll find that link and post it here. My advise is do that, TB backup and then flash the new 2.0 rom

Edit: right I found something else, now I have not tried this as I don't need to any more but someone has written an app

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1173195

Other than that, you can do long hand, what I did

adb shell or any other terminal emulator to get to a shell on the xoom

su to get to the # prompt

umount /mnt/external1 mount -t vfat -o fmask=0000,dmask=0000,rw /dev/block/platform/sdhci- tegra.2/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/external1
[Eee Pad Transformer General] DominikReber:
Hi all

Everyone wants to root his device, but why exactly are YOU rooting it? What is your motivation, from which feature do you gain something?

Please answer with specific apps which you are using and which do need root.

Thanks

Dominik
[Eee Pad Transformer General] SparkyRih:
I had a Toshiba Folio 100 before (it was my first android device)... but because of very bad toshiba software I had to put a custom (rooted) rom on it two hours after I got the device at home...

In this case I used the root to tweak everything to make it work better and better, but also for Titanium backup...

When I got my second android device (the galaxy apollo), I rooted it, only for titanium backup, just to port some appdata from my folio to my apollo... I don't really need to tweak this device...

Now I have my transformer, I don't feel like rooting it... I have setup everything properly... The only reason why I would root it now is to install (again) titanium backup, and restore my Angry Birds data (Does any-one know a non-root way to do this :) )... I'm not gonna root this great device for that...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] life64x:
I rooted mine because I can, no kidding. Then I was able to take control of my tf. I deleted stuff from my system/data that was bloat using root explorer. Sometimes you need no reason to root but to be able to say...yea it's rooted..:)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] poltak11:
Main reason I rooted my Android phone was to get rid of the stock HTC Sense, which IMO was quite bloated and slow. I put a custom ROM on and have a lot more free space, a HUGE improvement on battery life (I'm talking about a day extra) from the custom ROM and optimised kernel.

In the case of my Transformer, it is mainly rooted to take advantage of a custom kernel. With a custom, and appropriately optimised, kernel you can theoretically (and most importantly, in practice) improve the performance and/or battery life of your Android device through overclocking or underclocking respectively. I won't get into the nerdy details of the Linux kernel, but in a nutshell that's what is possible (among many other things) with an optimised kernel.

Apart from kernels I also rooted my device with the hope of Google eventually releasing the Honeycomb (Android 3.x) source code, so we can start to see some actual creativity from the more skilled members of the XDA community. I'm talking about custom ROMs that can totally change the way you experience your Android device. If you want an example, look up MIUI ROM and then compare it to stock Android ROM... of course this is with Android 2.x but this sort of variation and creativity is what we should look forward to (assuming Google eventually open up and stop being shy about their source).

Also not to mention the efforts of the people getting Ubuntu to work on the TF. This means you are able to run a full-blown desktop OS on your tablet alongside Android if you ever want to do more than what Android limits you to.

But really, you own the device so you choose what you want to do with it. If this type of stuff seems a bit over your head or you're pretty happy with a stock standard Honeycomb experience, then you never have to worry about rooting. But I say, get the most out of your device and root it :D

Any other questions, or if you don't understand some of the terms I used, ask me and I'll make sure to explain it better :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] brunes:
The main reason for me is it lets you view and write to the /system and /data partitions. You can then install crap apps you don't like cluttering up your menus, and also transfer APKs you do like to other devices.

Also rooting and installing your own kernel is AFAIK the only way to allow ad-hoc wifi connections with your tablet. For some people with phones whose wifi tethering is based on ad-hoc, this is very important.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Proz00:
I just wanted to put patched host file to makse tf run faster

Its not bloated like sense
[Eee Pad Transformer General] CalvinH:
I had planned on rootin my TF first thing after taking it home.

It's almost a month now and haven't still rooted the thing. I have not needed doing it still... I tried and then unrooted and kept stock.

Regards.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] typci:
I second this!!! Give me freedom on my computer!!! I buy android because I don't want somebody(steve jobs/bill gates) telling me what I can and can't do!!!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] zephiK:
Titanium Backup for game saves.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] deeren:
The first thing I benefit of, and when it comes to rooting is adfree, and then of course titaniumbackup, rootexplorer.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Q.Entity:
On phones, I root because I want to reove all the garbage that is installed there and to have Titanium backup and Cyanogen ROMS.

I have one TF that is rooted and running Prime and another that is stock and, so far, unrooted. For the TF, root is not as imperative as for the phones...
[General Questions and Answers] plys:
I have a wildfire with:

Hell fire. (love it)

it is based on cm7, 2.3.4, grj22 and mod Ruymanca. kernel: 2.6.35.13 nFinity.

On that one I have some apps. Example. navsonic seamaps. Nice and smoot installing.

Then I have an Gratia (liberty, aria)

on 2.2.2 it is no problem installing, but at the moment I go to:

cm7 based 2.3.4, grj22 and Cyanogenmod-7-07232011-nightly-liberty. kernel: 2.6.35.13-cyanogenmod-g0cce8e4

I just get "app not installed".
[General Questions and Answers] jlayton15:
Try a different nightly or make sure you wipe cache dalvic and days before flashing
[General Questions and Answers] plys:
done that

My first idea was that I haven't wiped dalvik. Then did that but with the same result.

I have not used another rom. Maybe someone have a sugestion.
[General Questions and Answers] drumist:
Did you format the system partition (via the ClockworkMod partitions menu) prior to installing CM7?
[General Questions and Answers] plys:
yes

wiped data/factory, cache, dalvik.

Is there some configuration I can try.

ka.
[Blade Accessories] Sly90:
Hi guys:

Is it possible to use a battery from another phone? Because sometimes chinese mobiles can be compatible with Nokia's batteries and for a little amount of money, we can get some cooler Nokia's ones.

I'm getting a ZTE Blade this week, so I will tell you my impressions ASAP.

Regards.
[Blade Accessories] k0zmic:
I wouldn't recommend using any other battery than the official one provided. You're asking for trouble otherwise.
[Blade Accessories] Sly90:
Why not? If it has the same voltage and fits perfect, there isnt any reason for using this battery. There are other manufacturers of mobile phone batteries that make compatible batteries, so It wouldnt have any problem.

Anyone tried it? I will make a study of MP batteries and then I will tell you if I found something interesting.

Regards
[Blade Accessories] Robdunc:
why would you do that when a new oem battery is so affordable?

EG: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rechargea...755?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item19c6ca3403

RDS
[Blade Accessories] Sly90:
More capacity power than the stock one. Finally, I have bought an emergency charger for 10 euros, that have 1900 mah and its affordable for my Samsung Wave and this phone.

Hope that it will solve all battery problems.

Regards.
[Blade Accessories] soraxx:
carring your phone with an emergency charger? ahaha can you show us how did that?
[Blade Accessories] Sly90:
http://cgi.ebay.es/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270751846868&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

With this one. I'll test it when it arrives.

Regards
[Blade Accessories] Robdunc:
OK, give us some results once you have :)

RDS
[Blade Accessories] glanzamike:
Interested aswell in the review,was considering carrying a spare battery but this looks handier.
[Blade Accessories] Sly90:
I considered using another battery too, but this option has multilple advantages:

1) It has 1900 mhAmp, so it lefts 500 mAmphs free to make another charge.

2) I'm using two smartphones, so I can charge both ones.

3) I don't need another charger or charging it in the phone and removing it. I just charge the emergency charger and I can use the phone again.

BTW, my ZTE Blade seems to be the AMOLED version, with low battery consumption. I'm using stock GB firmware, and after a day using 2G network, WiFi, playing Angry Birds for 30 minutes, using Whatsapp and a few phone calls, I have 30% left. SO I'm quite impressed with battery life, hope it will be as good as my Samsung Wave (I use it around 2-3 days with no problems)

I will make a full review when I will receive the charger.

Regards.
[Blade Accessories] omgomg:
I bought the 2800mAh version of that charger, and man does it work great.

I suppose it's the only must have accessory I can think of to a smartphone.
[Blade Accessories] glanzamike:
1500mAh Battery for ZTE San Francisco Blade on ebay i dont have enough posts to paste the link.

not sure if its any good,has anyone tried it?
[Blade Accessories] laolanglog:
of course u can:D
[Blade Accessories] discy:
I got this one: (1500mah) it works :).

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180712611702
[Blade Accessories] l2azoredge:
how much time does it take to full charge the battery?? think u need a bigger capacity charger with this to charge it speedily...
[Blade Accessories] csr1rd3:
How long does it last?

I am thinking on getting that phone and buy that battery
[Blade Accessories] dangat:
Any news on this battery ?, need to buy a new one to ...
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miams:
cuz i am new here , i have less than 10 post

so i can't replay in development Forum

i use FroyoBread | v021 by doixanh

when i select my network i have duplicate network name

one for 2G and one for 3G

but the same name

any help :o
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chris95X8:
Don't ask in the developers section. Only if you develop something are you allowed to post in that area. Questions go in the General section.

Well, if you want only 2G networks, go to Settings > Wireless and network > Mobile networks and tick "use only 2G networks".

Do you have data enabled or something?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vimalraj:
Hi Everyone,

Need help with my I9100 which doesn't boot. I got this phone yesterday and was using it fine. Today i installed Kies and it prompted to upgrade firmware. I researched and found that it had improvements in battery life and decided to go for it. It downloaded the firmware and everything went fine until it prompted saying firmware upgrade failed and asked me to do firmware emergency recovery. :(

I googled to see more info regarding this error and couldnt get much information. Decided to go ahead with recovery as instructed. Again i got error " Firmware emergency recovery stopped due to GT-I9199 error". If the problem persistes please contact samsung service center.

Please suggest if this is recoverable error and any links to proceed and have a working phone.

Currently when i power on, i get a logo of phone connected to PC with yellow bang in middle. Any pointers much appreciated....

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prodygee:
Don't worry, I think you can fix this yourself using ODIN. I mean, flash a custom rom through Download mode. (Turn the phone off, hold Volume Down + Home + Power for 4 seconds)

In this mode you can flash any kind of rom without doing your phone any harm. Just go to the Rom Development forum and choose your rom. I suggest Lightning Rom, because it uses ODIN, and has a very well-explained tutorial.

You can also flash a stock rom, you can get it from the Stock Rom thread, and flash that through ODIN.

Or get it fixed by Samsung and wait two weeks. (where they use exactly the same program, ODIN, to reflash the stock rom)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veyka:
Look here

And here

And finally here

If all that doesn't work, take it back to samsung.

Also, KIES is a PoS, use Odin in future ;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prodygee:
Yep, KIES may look all official and reliable, but it actually seems to brick some SGS2's.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vimalraj:
Thanks for the info's. Will try them and update soon.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vimalraj:
No luck. I tried multiple times to update ROM using ODIN in download mode. Everytime it says NAND write operation failed and comes out. I am searching to see if any other option left before i take it back to samsung
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aydc:
Don't forget to try it with a different computer. Sometimes it's not the phone, it's the PC or the USB port.

Also, you can try flashing with Heimdall instead of Odin.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inkyadrian:
First of all;

Yellow triangle means you are running custom kernel/rom.

Press home+volume down and then power, to get into download mode , on your phone. If that works, take battery out, to stop it.

Go to:

Samfirmware.com

Download firmware from there. It is a rar file, I think. Open rar file to see what is in. 5 files? The biggest file has all of the other files in it.

Install via Odin. Select pda in Odin and select the biggest file from the rar.

Put your phone into download mode, connect usb and run Odin.

Adrian.

SGS2 I9100

Lite'nin rom 3.2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veyka:
Make sure that all kies processes are closed or odin will fail.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inkyadrian:
Keis? Hmm.

Adrian.

SGS2 I9100

Lite'nin rom 3.2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mightygoose:
it gets worse...

my brother let the battery fall out of his S 2 while flashing with odin, now it wont power on in any mode, the PC wont recognise it at all, when i plug in the charger the phone gets hot, but does nothing.... whats the recovery method? or is it dead well and truly...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inkyadrian:
You can buy a usb jig, specially designed to put you phone into download mode. Search for it on ebay. Take the battery out, plug in usb jig, replace battery and it should boot into download mode. If it does not, then the phone is dead.
[GT540 Optimus Android Development] BigBoyPL:
Anybody know how to port 2.3.3 ROM for LGP500 from LG to GT540 ?

If we do this we will have stock LG apps. I tried to install system applications from LGP500 on my CM7 2.3.3 and it was installed succesfully but it force closes. I can't see any app icon cause in this apps .bmp and .png graphics are in .pro file format.
[GT540 Optimus Android Development] effortless.:
It sort of would be possible, but it's more than likely we will have to port 2.6.35 kernel from P500 for everything to function correctly.
[GT540 Optimus Android Development] Bytecode:
It doesn't make sense,P500 Official GingerBread does need the new baseband who's available only for P500. Tho u can try ;)
[GT540 Optimus Android Development] Jamielawther:
Ive tried it with Mur4iks kernel and it boots to LG animation, it had thousands of logcat errors , I cant continue work anymore as I dont have the phone anymore :) sorry
[Galaxy Tab General] Loccy:
Just posting mainly to get this to the top of Google if anyone else ever does similar searches to me. The Galaxy Tab's AllShare app (so I assume this also holds for the Galaxy S, Vibrant, and all the other devices that are appearing in the "similar threads we found" prompt as I post this) expects MKVs to be supplied with a mimetype of mkv/x-msvideo. If not, whatever DNLA software you're using, you'll get the unsupported format error. I've just spent the day yesterday wading through every DNLA server known to man trying to get streamed MKVs working. The only combination I've found that works is Twonky plus editing its clients.db file to modify the mimetype of MKVs. Once done, streaming MKVs works a treat.

Hope this is useful to someone in the future (probably incoming people from Google!)
[Galaxy Tab General] steckums:
I've actually got .mkvs to stream via "VLC Direct", along with VLC open with a web interface. This works over 3g, but depends heavily on your upstream. You can use this program as a VLC remote for your PC too, as well as stream videos from your tab to your PC.
[Galaxy Tab General] braz+:
Loccy

you supposed right, I'm in the same situation with a Galaxy s..

I think this is one of the very few features i really miss right now, having Allshare (or similar) capable of streaming mkv's from a server to the phone :(

Later today i'll try stekum's solution, i will consider paying the pro version if it works just fine, even if it requires a server side software (that's why i still prefer "regular" pc's over nas).

I've also read about PlugPlayer app. I might give it a try, anyone already did?

I don't mind not having a fancy graphic interface, so i tried EsExplorer over LAN, but with no sucess.. anyone knows if there's a player/file browser wich could handle mkv over lan?

Cheers
[Galaxy Tab General] pvtjoker42:
I had xvid and mkv's streaming over wifi on my network via SMB shares before I wiped and installed my current rom. Now i've got xvid working, but no matter what combo i try mkv's will not stream.. Thinking about going back to stock to see if the same settings work again to stream mkv's. I'm using a combo of file expert + vplayer. rockplayer seems to try and play streaming mkv's.. but it fails at it (will play, but they are unwatchable)
[Galaxy Tab General] Loccy:
The thing to remember is that the Tab stock ROM, or those based on stock (eg. Overcome) actually have support for hardware decoding of MKVs in the stock player. Anything that is seen as an MKV file is fine - I suspect the internal mimetype for MKVs is the same as AVIs, so that's why SMB works (although I was never able to get my wifi to push data fast enough to the tab to make that combo work). The internal player treats AVIs and MKVs on the local filesystem identically. SMB shares are mounted on the local filesystem, so when you open an MKV, the OS says "ooh, mkv/x-msvideo" and the player says "great, an AVI file, I can play that". Non stock ROMs don't have that MKV support - in fact most Android flavours don't, as I've found recently with a cheaply 10" tab I bought recently to take over the Galaxy as my video device.

When you get into DNLA it's the server that supplies the mimetype for the file. As most DNLA servers supply the "correct" mimetype for MKV AllShare doesn't know recognise the file type, and (incorrectly) reports that it can't play the file. So if you're using DNLA you MUST modify the mimetype the server sends for MKV.

The VLC solution is fine, but is transcoding, so what you're getting is not actually an MKV at all.

Twonky was the only DNLA server I managed to do this with without similarly resorting to transcoding.
[Galaxy Tab General] mustang_rho:
Could you guide us please which section of the clients.db did you modify?
[Galaxy Tab General] PsymonDK:
a parse of your clients.db would be awesome, tried changing mimetype for Android and samsung TV (added a mkv line to Android and modded the other) No luck

I'm running twonky on my headless ubuntu server if that means anything

edit:

I changed the media reciever in the webinterface to Android and made the android settings in clients.db look like this:

NA:Android

HH:Android

DB:AUTO

WB:webbrowse-n95

TP:MP4,-relocate_moov

MT:mkv video/x-msvideo

after that i can play most of my mkv files, so i guess i got it working.
[Galaxy Tab General] braz+:
Ok, I've tried many solutions and combinations so far in my galaxy s .. nothing worked except for VLC DIRECT, as steckums suggested.

I haven't tried twonky yet though..from what loccy explained i can see it still needs an application running server side... i was hoping for something like allshare..but hey we can't have it all :D

Thanks Loccy and Psymon for the hint, i'll install twonky on the server and see if it works for me..

p.s. with such a little screen i couldn't notice a big loss of quality when VLC streamed, transcoding, my test movie. Maybe with tabs it is different :rolleyes:
[Galaxy Tab General] nobleskill:
Your in for treat if you can get it working. Simply play the same file one after the other in the respective format and you instantly appreciate that the higher the resolution the crisper and more vibrant the video quality and watchability (not real work I know) regardless off screen size. The only caveat being the original capture equipment used and post production ect.

My question for this in the know is this; my understanding (basic as it may well be) is that mkv can also handle more colours simultaneously and has the ability to display a much larger range overall. Firstly is this correct? Or reserved for vc1 or blueray and the upper echelon of displays? If correct by changing the mime does this, as would be logical, mean the extra bits are ignored as it believes its a simple avi. Also I find 720p HD avi is the happy middle for me and it can be as complicated to achieve good playback and battery life even using these. I think I may just do some research re the mime difference between regular and HD avi... thank you for the tips... most timely considering the impending awesomeness of BOCA v2.0 . Cheers guys..
[Galaxy Tab General] nobleskill:
I'd still be inclined to suggest perhaps its a little more involved than a simple trick like that. To achieve real hardware acceleration you would need to split the streams to be piped to respective chips. 5.1 faux surround soumd and a distinct, noticeable difference in the mkv picture quality being played via CPU vs true gpu and sound card decoding with the rather large differences in battery drain and the sharpness and vivid colours the rest make me really think there is a little sophisticated trickery going on here than meets the eye.

A haalil media splitting like service would also need to know to hand then differently. I think it just plays xvid but like xdva or whatever its obliged to to split the streams for their respective processing chips/centres avoiding CPU usage as an extremely important requirement. Simply the CPU would be more involved in the distribution side in regular stuff than the files like x264 and vc1 which are the gpu/hardware accelerated/decoded files.

Could be wrong here honestly not an expert but that's how I have always broken it down when try to wrap my head around it all.

So sleepy.. prolly oodles of sleeping (heh or even spelling) mistakes but they will have wait to be dealt with at a later date. Any resources that you may know of I'd be interested in learning more too. :-D
[Galaxy Tab General] alexgogan:
Grand will try that, just used mono or vlc for this though and had no issues but always nice to have alternative.

But I end up downloading the file as get great wifi in the house it serves me the best but will definitely try this out next weekend.

Was looking at upgrading the media server in here and transcocing is fine most of the time but.....
[Galaxy Tab General] margeryred:
HELP!?!?!

Can you put this in stupid plain English??? I'm having the same problem but don't understand how or what to download/change/update... Tx