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[Epic 4G General] squshy 7:
Actually, a point of clarification, our M&P never explicitly states anything regarding warranty, rather they hide that fact in verbage.

It states how to troubleshoot and repair a rooted device, and what "tier" it falls into (a quick fix/a free fix if you have TEP or 35 if you dont/a fix that needs claimed with asurion if you have TEP or screwed if you don't). Rooted devices (so long as there's no liquidd damage or accidental damage) fall into tier 2, which means a free fix at the S&R location if you have TEP or $35 if you don't.

Sooo...put 2 and 2 together..this means (implicitly) that root is does not void the terms of your extended warranty through TEP.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Thank you for that Squishy...it seems a lot of techs didn't get the memo and try to get that $100 deductible. I am sure this info you provided will help a lot of people stuck rooted.
[Epic 4G General] squshy 7:
No problem

Well it's to keep their exchange rate down, I imagine. That bit of info doesn't come without forewarning, however. Sprint still strongly discourages it.

For instance, latest rumor I heard here is that if you own a 3D and go through HTC's official unlock method, your ESN is flagged in the system for things regarding free tethering and the like. So there is still risk assumed by rooting.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Makes me want to keep the Epic forever...lol.
[HD Mini General] HoMeK20:
anyway to disable hardware buttons when incoming call ? sorry for my bad english, when i have incoming call and i put my hd mini from my pocket i mistake reject or answer call beacouse i touching those hardware buttons, any way do temporary disable green and red phone butons ? when call incoming ?
[HD Mini General] HoMeK20:
15MA1L: realy ?
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crysis:Fascinate:
i installed voodoo kernel from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=921016

but i cant use voodoo sound control app. it say you need to install kernel for it blah blahbla.... whatever where i can get that kernel

and also i am looking for oridinal samsung kernel for my device.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrManiacNF:
I been using this kernel for months now.. I'm on telus with fascinate 3g, stock rom. I use the voodoo control app just fine for sound... no video tho. I did buy the plus version of the app too.
[Verizon Droid Charge] ssmaster:
Seems that my data for most of my wife's apps got corrupted somehow. All the apps are still installed, but about half wont launch. Deleting the DATA doesn't help, I must delete the application then reinstall for them to start working.

I changed the battery in my wifes phone to charge the backup, and now I got constant force closes. I deleted all those apps and reinstalled them and now those apps work. Also the touchwiz launcher lost all her icons, lost the sorting in the app drawer, and reverted back to the stock homepages. Also the newest contacts are missing, but I'm not sure if they were saved to the sim card or to the google accounts.

This is all on the stock software, no custom rom & rooted. The only thing I can think of is I converted from imnuts kernel non-voodoo to voodoo and I didn't flash the SD card fix afterwards. This was about 5 days ago... How can I stop this from happening again, I probably won't be near her to fix this the next time it happens.
[Verizon Droid Charge] ssmaster:
I had to delete almost every app and reinstall, but everything seems better today.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kraisydave:
It sounds like some app somewhere or some piece/step related to the kernal is your issue. I would suggest starting all the way over. Flash the stock version and fresh download all apps. This way you will not have to worry about her phone. Good luck and let everyone know if you find the bug. I just had a major bug with the new version of skype that includes video chat.
[Verizon Droid Charge] ssmaster:
I installed the leaked skype version that works with 2.2 camera. I wonder if that could have been the cause?
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Yep. Gotta reflash.

Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Azntopia:
So I was reading about backing up your /efs folder and I was wondering if backing up your device with CWM through recovery, will that also back up /efs folder?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pan24:
i dont now this but you can just copy the efs folder and paste it at your computer.its so easy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daemien_:
If you want you can download nitrality apply from market, which can automatically do a backup for ya
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjtj4444:
just copy the files might not be enough, permissions and ownershiop etc is lost. Look in this thread for info how to backup /efs

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1068193
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tubgirl:
I'm wondering the same thing... Does CWM backup the /efs folder?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
No. There are apps that can do same (Hellcat's kTool being one), and some kernels automatically make an EFS backup by default (Siyah for example).

Edit to add - For clarity, CWM will not make a separate backup of the EFS. As it essentially makes an image of the phone, obviously the EFS details will be included (everything is included), but I doubt you can extract the EFS folders/files on their own from a CWM backup. If there is a way, I'd certainly like to know how to do it ;) Would be handy to know, even if I do backup EFS whenever I do a backup as a matter of course.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tubgirl:
So as long as I've made backups using CWM and then suddenly my efs folder gets corrupted, a simple CWM restore would repair the efs?

On the other hand... in theory (I would never try this) wouldn't that mean that if I did a CWM restore on a different SII that phone's IMEI would change?

Brgds... /Tubgirl
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
Hmmmmm....Basically when you restore a CWM backup, you go back to whatever state your phone was in at the time you made the backup.

Now, if you borked your EFS, and if you restored a CWM backup, would this fix this EFS issue. In theory & based on the CWM backup being an 'image', you'd reckon yes it would.

In practice, I'm not about to delete my efs folders & try it out tho :p

So far as the IMEI is concerned, no, I don't believe it would. Reason I say this is because I know people who have taken a CWM backup of a phone they've had to return for replacement. Got the replacement phone, and restored the CWM backup on the new phone; essentially cloned the old one. And that hasn't messed with the new phone's IMEI.

At the end of the day, people who don't make EFS backups are insane IMHO (you probably guessed that from my sig). Given it takes literally 20 seconds to make an EFS backup with kTool, and another minute to transfer a copy over to a PC, there's no excuse for not making a backup.

Edit to add - Interesting questions/thread BTW ;) I know who could answer these questions definitively for us. Odia. He's the EFS king on here. Can sometimes (often ?) recover IMEI's when there are no EFS folders/files to work with. How ? Who knows. Voodoo maybe ? :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tubgirl:
Ok, I'm no expert by any means and please correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a complete efs backup include imei?

The reason I'm asking is because suddenly my phone can't make/receive phone calls with my current carrier (other carriers still work). I restored a previously made CWM backup but it didn't help. Today I read about efs and what it contains so I started to wonder if maybe that's where the problem lie. I've only made CWM and Titanium backups so far because I had no knowledge about efs.

Brgds... /Tubgirl
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
Easiest way to tell if it's an IMEI issue is to check the IMEI. If you have your actual IMEI in settings/about phone, that obviously isn't the problem (whatever you do, don't post your IMEI on XDA. Ever), if you have the generic IMEI 004999010640000, then you've got a problem.

If you do have the generic IMEI, then we can look at options to possibly rectify it (sometimes possible, sometimes not).

If your IMEI is fine, the problem lies elsewhere & you're worrying about nothing :) There are a million things that could cause the problem you described.

However, no excuse for not making an EFS backup nowish if your IMEI is OK & keeping one copy on your external SD card & another copy on your PC (and even another copy on a external drive if you're really paranoid).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tubgirl:
I just used the IMEI example to question whether efs is included in CWM backups or not. My IMEI is just fine but since I'm so reluctant to send my phone in for repair I'm just grasping for straws here :) Thought maybe my problem was related to efs since I suspect it's not included in CWM backups. Anyway... since I never made a "real" efs backup my question is pure academic. I'm afraid my phone needs to be sent to a service center. System restore didn't resolve my problems either but I'm pretty sure that wouldn't resolve efs problems either.

Brgds... Tubgirl
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
Did a bit of digging & found this. It would appear EFS is not backed up in a Nandroid backup after all despite it being somewhat of an 'image'. So I guess that answers both our question.

No, system restore more than likely won't solve EFS issues. Normally the only way to fix it short of having Samsung do it is Odia/whatever method he uses (which he won't divulge; and fair enough. I'm sure it's highly technical).

If you need to send your phone in for warranty service, do a format cache, data, system, & sd card in CWM. Then flash a stock rom in Odin, then use a jig to reset the flash counter.

Obviously once you root a phone and/or run non-stock firmware on it you void your warranty and should have no expectation of warranty service, but many people have been able to get same by doing the above. But in saying that, there have been people on here who have followed these steps & been 'found out' in any event.

Unless it's a case of actual damage to the phone caused by use or whatever, if it's a hardware fault, you might be able to get away with it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tubgirl:
WHich method do you use to backup your efs?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
I use Siyah kernel which automatically makes an EFS backup & dumps it in the /data/.Siyah folder. There are also apps which enable you to make a backup, I've used kTool in the past & there are others (names of which escape me; search on here/Google Play).

I'd recommend kTool (search for it on here/Google Play) as it isn't kernel or rom dependent, it backs up EFS to /sdcard/efs.img & also allows you to verify the backup. You can then transfer a copy onto PC, external drive or whatever in case the worst ever happens. Quick, easy & no fuss.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tubgirl:
Thanks a bunch... I'll search for it. :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
No probs ;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nikolaiim:
I saw this thread was about CMWbackups, and have a quetion about it. decided it's better to ash here than start a whole new thread :)

The CMW backups; does it backup EVERYTING?

So if i forexample have some movies on my external SD card, and then takes an CMW backup..... Next i delete everyting on this SDcard, and then flash the CMW image,,,,, will my movies then be back at my SD card? Will they be back at any other place at the phone? or will they be totally gone?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TSO of Stormwind:
If i have a siyah backup of my esf (a tar.gz and a img.gz) what do i have to do to restore my esf folder?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
Search for/read the kTool thread on here.
[Flipside Android Development] xaser66:
Hello!

I am hapy to share this link that I just found!!!

http://www.attdroids.com/forum/motorola-flipside-forum/3230-froyo-2-2-2-a.html

So, seems that the dream of having some custom rom could be more possible...

Personally I would like to thank the Moto people that take care to make approval for make this beta possible and for sure to the original poster in the ATTDroids forum, marvin and the others that are already testing it.

I will also copy a instructions resume of him (marvin) in order to get an idea of the process:

"For the best result from this upgrade I suggest:

Backup all your data from your various apps

use an app to backup your text messages if you want to restore them

make sure that you calendar and contacts are up to date on google so that they can be resynced

Make sure that you have all of your usernames/passwords handy

Factory reset your phone to clear everything out

install update

Do another factory reset (probably not needed, but it will not hurt)

set your phone up from scratch (setting up your WiFi connection first will speed up the initial setup)

Doing a reset first makes sure that you have enough space and that you don't run into issues with misbehaving apps after the upgrade. When the backflip was updated many users ended up doing a reset to clear various issues after they upgraded and you should at least be prepared with backups before you start the process.

The first thing that Moto support will advise you if you have issues after the upgrade is to do a reset.

Be prepared for some of your apps to not show up in the market after the upgrade. This is not just a Moto issue, but an issue for any phone that undergoes an upgrade because the market signature changes.

Waiting at least a week after the general release and reading the questions/problems that show up in the forums (especially the Moto support forum) is a good idea to prevent any gotchas.

MotoBlur will try to restore some of your settings when you enter your username/PW. If you want a true fresh start set up a new MotoBlur account."

I downloading by now and for sure will be try it asap. I use linux, so I will also check the SBFFLASH utility that I already used in my XT720 before and will test if would work fine in recognizes the FlipSide (I almost sure that it will do, but I will report if this may helps since I found more easy to use SBFFLASH since I didnt requires any installation of ABD or other stuff, only the litlle binary excutable and run also from a Live CD).

sbfflash download:

http://blog.opticaldelusion.org/2010/05/sbfflash.html

sbfflash instructions:

http://blog.opticaldelusion.org/2010/07/new-sbfflash-features.html

the main advantage of sbfflash is that it could be used with the original Moto Bootloader mode that loads sbf so it will help with flash with original Moto 2.1 ROM and then with flash of Froyo 2.2 ROM beta

Best regards!
[Flipside Android Development] pre4speed:
I found this info on Motorola sight for froyo recovery for flipside. Hope this helps.

Froyo

Power off your phone

Open the hardware keyboard

Hold the X key and then hold the power button

When you see the Moto symbol you can release the power key

Hold the X key until you see a triangle with an exclamation point

Press the Up and Down Volume keys at the same time

You will now see a menu on the screen

Use the hardware keyboard cursor keys (lower left in portrait mode) to move the blue highlight to the various selections. You want to highlight "wipe data/factory reset"

Press the return key (to the right of the OK key with the phone in portrait mode) on the hardware keyboard to select the option that is highlighted.

Use the cursor keys to highlight YES from the next menu.

Press the return key to complete the selection

The phone will begin to reset. WAIT until it says it is complete

When it is complete you will see the the menu again, select "Reboot system now" with the cursor keys

Press the return key to reboot the phone.
[Flipside Android Development] Dukenukemx:
How does this open up the possibilities for custom roms? Does this unlock the kernel or something?
[Flipside Android Development] xaser66:
Hi!

Thanks for the info, tested and IT WORKS so, return back to 2.1 SBF is possible in case (I found previously the info about Fn+T keys combination and it works on 2.1 but no in 2.2, so glad that this VolumeUP+VolumeDOWN keys is working)

About custom roms from this, I previously was using an XT720 (but really need the hardware Keyboard and 850Mhz 3g Band in my country) so I goot my FlipSide for a solution, but, as far I remenber, one of the big troubles previously to tht XT720 got 2.2 was the fact that were no release, so the process that the Dexter dev had to use was a long Hack&Test Roms and codes from other model until got one working.

IMHO the fact of have a beta ROM that have tthe native harware support for the FlipSide may could make more easy to get a custom or at least "Enhanced" ROM (aka... crapware free, and with some useful touches like removing crapware & locking things as battery detection, overcloking, swap, more memory swap utils compatibilty, EXT filesystem supports, etc), but I am not a dev, so this is IMHO. And also I am happy that this beat at least reach the comunity, since is suspecting for me why Moto shut down the page about offcial FlipSide update and no more annoucements...

Thanks to all and best regards!
[Flipside Android Development] marvin02:
I have received info from a reliable source that downgrading the Flipside from the not-yet-released (or after it's release) Froyo upgrade using the available SBF files will brick your AT&T phone.

I do not have personal knowledge of this, but I trust my source.

Here is part of the communication I received:
[Flipside Android Development] boazjuggalo:
If your talking about essentially following this guide twice, it will not brick your phone. I followed this guide, flashing to fresh 2.1 then upgrading to 2.2. Then did my cousins phone for him. Without thinking it would cause problems I used my motoblur login on his phone on the 2.1 step to make things faster (not having to ask his info) and afterwards my phone as flagged unassociated with motoblur that i needed to contact tech help. To save myself the time on the phone I simply followed this guide again... flashing 2.1 on top of my 2.2, then upgrading to 2.2 again. All works fine. That was 2 or 3 days ago.
[Flipside Android Development] boazjuggalo:
Ok, so I just tried the official upgrade to the full (nonbeta) 2.2 on moto site.

Running the beta it shows that I did not have an available upgrade. So I went to flash back to 2.1 using the RSD method. I think my phone is bricked... RSD finishes like it normally does with no errors, but when it finishes and reboots the phone, instead of opening into the android OS it opens into a black screen that says

Bootloader

91.7B

Err:A5,70,70,00,1F

MEM_MAP Blank

Service Req'd

Battery OK

OK to Program

Transfer Mode:

USB

As I said before, I did successfully do this one time, so it is possible but for me it was a 50/50 chance. Good luck and wish me luck finding a way to unbrick it.
[Flipside Android Development] JBallin4life27:
Yea I just did this and now my phone is doing the same thing...we are indeed BRICKED!! I'm working to try to solve this problem too. Let me know if you find anything as I can't figure it out! I really want this unbricked...I can't do ANYTHING!!
[Flipside Android Development] xaser66:
Well, finally I was able to return here after several very busy and hurry days.... too bad the issue of the bricked phones... really bad also that the info about the bricking risk was leaked several days after the beta sbf was leaked and that some of us use it on our phones.

However, I wonder about, if somebody may knows what could be the instructions of Moto Devs to the official beta Testers, that were on the beta testing process, for update their beta phones to the official Froyo after Moto ends their beta testing process... I suppose that tehir could be the official instructions to this beta testers so make their phones to normal froyos.

Anyway, I will ask the moderator of this forum to please change add the word OBSOLETE to the title of this thread in order to avoid more bricking issues, since is all that I could do by know since I am not a programmer that could help more about how to revert bricked phone.

Good Luck and best regards!
[Flipside Android Development] JBallin4life27:
Ok Bud just discovered someone got the bootloader and sbf for us to unbrick! Here you go!

Froyo SBF and Bootloader for Flipside MB508 AT&T USA

Bootloader: BL_917B_4G_sageemu_Consumer_replacer.zip

Download BL_917B_4G_sageemu_Consumer_replacer.zip for free on Filesonic.com

SBF Flash :

Android 2.2.2 ------ Blur_Version.2.159.17.MB508.ATT.en.US

SAGE_U3_3.4.2-159.17_SecATT_SIGNATT_USASAGE02B25ND0ATTNA02E.0R_S AGEFRATT_P011_HWp4_1FF.sbf.gz

Download SAGE_U3_3.4.2-159.17_SecATT_SIGNATT_USASAGE02B25ND0ATTNA02E.0R_S AGEFRATT_P011_HWp4_1FF.sbf.gz for free on Filesonic.com

WARNING: ONCE YOU FLASH THE FROYO SBF ANY ATTEMPT TO DOWNGRADE TO ECLAIR MIGHT RESULT IN A HARD BRICK !!!!!

These files are made available as a general courtesy and I assume no responsibilty for your own actions.
[Flipside Android Development] xaser66:
Thanks for share, very usefull, and in fact, I could use it with success. Best regards
[HTC Desire S] vyaskd:
Hi devs. I saw Hindi language in xperia arc. Can someone port that language pack for desire s? I'm not talking about only fonts
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stigdu:
I'm sure it wasn't like that yesterday, but now for some reason I have 2 identical official Youtube icons in my app drawer.

One of them, when clicked, launches the application.

The second one, when clicked, says 'the application is not installed.'

If I 'long press' either of these icons, then I get all the red crosses appear to delete apps, but NOT over either of these 2 Youtube icons.

Does anyone know how I can remove the errant chap?

Many thanks!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KamiKamel:
I'm having the EXACT same problem! What's this about? I just updated YouTube this morning so that might be related.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnShade123:
uninstall through "manage applications" or titanium backup. i think thats what i did
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamtheindien:
I have a T-Mobile G2, rooted, running MIUI on the phone and GingerVillain on the sd card via boot manager. Everything has been running perfect, no errors or issues or anything like that with either rom except facebook wouldn't install on GV, but I wasn't worried about it because I wasn't going to be using GV as my daily driver. The most recent, and probably only change in a while was that I installed the new facebook IM app on MIUI? I also updated MIUI a few days ago, but that was long before any of this happened.

Last night my phone was working fine, drove my wife to work this morning and I was using google music and streaming was working fine, then I got home and turned on my hotspot to get on my laptop and my data isn't working. So I tried booting GV to see if it worked there and I get a message "System UIDs Inconsistent" and it basically told me I needed to wipe my phone for everything to work right? I really don't want to have to do this.

I've uninstalled the rom on my SD Card, fixed permissions, wiped dalvik, reflashed miui, just about everything I can think of.

Any other suggestions?

BTW 2G data is working. Just everything else that wont work. I see in my status bar that its uploading but not downloading -_-
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xT4Z1N4TRx:
i had this problem with virtuous rom 2.0.0

i had to fully wipe and reinstall the rom, but did a nandroid just in case...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xsteven77x:
Whats the point of a nandroid backup if the backup is busted lol?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamtheindien:
Nevermind. The problem just went away. Haha no explanation. Thanks for the help though.