yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[7 Mozart General] go2xraj:
If u want locked mango just follow the steps their and download the necessary files.

Enjoy 7720 mango

Regards
[7 Mozart General] iKaboom:
all done, no problems at all... thanks for the help!!!
[7 Mozart General] D@vide:
ICS

Hi, does ICS works on this Mango release or not?

Thank you

D@vide
[7 Mozart General] iKaboom:
I didn't see it anywhere :(

I'm guessing in additional patch...
[7 Mozart General] Prerna:
Hi, will this guide work for an update from 7714 to 7720?
[7 Mozart General] tori007:
no. you have to downgrade.

Read the instructions from the link on the first post
[Desire General] abhishek0704:
can anyone post the steps for flashing cm7r2 hboot on htc desire...pls....
[Desire General] davebugyi:
You need to S-OFF your device, then get the file from alpharev.nl

Then use android flasher to flash the Hboot.
[Desire General] magikmichael:
Yeah thats it. Maybe you have to use the downgrader first before flashing the cm7r2 hboot
[Desire General] abhishek0704:
I have s-off but android flasher doesnot find the device.:(((
[Desire General] MatDrOiD:
Do it via fastboot. A guide is in my signature.

SwiftKeyed from Oxygen with Transparent XDA App
[Desire General] k3lcior:
Download http://alpharev.nl/PB99IMG_cm7r2.zip MD5: 0be8c68b41f3ab6dda4f772d6de50760

Put it on your sdcard, and rename it to PB99IMG.zip (or PB99IMG if you dont have file type extensions enabled in windows). Then start the phone in HBOOT mode (VolDown+POWER) to flash the HBOOT without a PC.

Dont use Android Flasher, it's crap and just makes issues from what i can read on user opinions.
[Desire General] MatDrOiD:
The method with PB99.IMG also fails sometimes. It's imho easier to do it via fastboot.

SwiftKeyed from Oxygen with Transparent XDA App
[Desire General] k3lcior:
Installing Android SDK and using commands is not easier than putting a file on SD FYI.

I used PB99img few times and it never failed.
[Desire General] andQlimax:
Ya, but no one say that there is NO need to install the sdk to use adb or fastboot

Its really easy..U need only few files in a folder like this

nothing else is required
[Desire General] Parva4:
Learning how to do it via command line and the previous post is priceless. Android Flasher is ok but it fails a lot of the time for me, having the knowledge to do it over the command line means I don't get flashing issues anymore.
[Desire General] MarcusBremen:
weird... i used android flasher this night for about 7 times and change my hboot several times.

it works...
[Desire General] abhishek0704:
How you did it can u post steps...because android flasher gives error device not found ....i connect the device in fast boot mode....
[Desire General] RealyPssd:
I flashed mine with FastBoot Commader, worked great.
[Desire General] aygul12345:
I agree,

That android flasher is to complation, to diffecault.. best is to download it... and rename it , put it on hboot, aply the pm99 .zip file and your done!,
[Desire General] MatDrOiD:
And the direct fastboot mode?

SwiftKeyed from Oxygen with Transparent XDA App
[Desire General] abhishek0704:
done with PB99IMG way...thnx all of u guys.....thnx a lot..
[Desire General] ducky1979:
Did mine with fastboot, very easy.
[Desire General] salahzantout:
matdroid

can u please provide a video because i couldnt do it :s

ive been like googling for 6 hrs and couldnt find a possible way to install cm7r2 hboot ! its keeps failing
[Desire General] MatDrOiD:
I cannot provide any video for fastboot. A text guide for android flasher can be found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1016084 (STEP EIGHT)

A text guide for fastboot can be found in my sig.

At which point does it fail?
[Desire General] andy3434:
if andriod flasher doesn't work, which for some it does not fastboot comander usual does http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1193915
[Desire General] edstark:
+1 for fastboot, thanks!
[Desire General] pairofpints:
downloads from Alpharev not working

Was gonna change hboot and flash some other roms, but when I try downloading from Alpharev, it takes a few seconds, completes download, then comes up with error box: Error in command line.

The file then ends up in AppData-Local-Temp and doesn't work. ie not recognised by Flasher. I only have my Cm7r2 file which i downloaded ages ago.

Anyone know what to do or why this is happening?:confused:
[Desire General] erklat:
Ugh, I hope this wasn't the only failsafe mechanism you employed.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] paulobrien:
I have now seen a number of cases of the EFS partition getting wiped / corrupted on the SGS II, leaving users with an effectively useless phone.

With this in mind, i've written a little init.d script for my ROM which backs up the EFS partition on boot if a backup does not already exist. A non intrusive safety net for users if you will. :)

The script just needs a suitable boot image that runs init.d, although it could easily be tacked onto the end of install-recovery.sh if that's not the case.

I'd love to encourage all developers to use this script for users' sake!

You can download the script here - http://cl.ly/2j0p0R3F07052m2T2u0e - but it's very simple, here's the code...

#!/system/bin/sh
# EFS auto backup script for Samsung Galaxy S II
# By @paulobrien - http://s2.MoDaCo.com

mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p11 /sdcard

if [ ! -f /sdcard/efs.autobackup.img ];
then
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/sdcard/efs.autobackup.img
fi

umount /sdcard

:)

Note the manual mount / umount of sdcard is necessary because this happens late in the boot process.

Cheers!

P
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] tolis626:
Hats of to you Paul.Although I have already made a backup of my EFS folder,such a script would save MANY people from A LOT of trouble. :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] haasgo:
i havent...never did. i think i wiped about a hundred times now and flashed and reflashed...is it possible to recover the efs folder?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Teio:
If your phone is working, it means your EFS partition is still there...

You can back it up using the many tutorials out there in the forum...
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] JJEgan:
Problem is that the users who read how to backup EFS folder fall in to two category s those that read up first and would have backed up EFS and those that only pick the manual up after something is broke .

This script would be a saver for many of the second group and big thanks to Paul and i hope devs do run with it .

jje
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] brainmaster:
I would like to adapt your script for Nexus S.

Once i got the img file of efs partition, how do can a make a script for restoring thet img file to efs partition?

Or what to do with that img file?

EDIT: @ paul - One more question - how do I mount /sdcard on Nexus S through the script? mount command in the Terminal Emulator shows my /dev/blocks/vold/179:3 as mount point, but if I use that mount point in the script it won't mount the /sdcard. Any idea?

EDIT2: I got it working with this command:

mount /dev/block/platform/s3c-sdhci.0/by-name/media /sdcard

and I got the efs.autobackup.img on my sdcard.

How do I restore the efs.autobackup.img to efs partition?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] mynamesteve:
Thanks Paul this is a very useful utility hope it gets sticky :)

May i ask what conditions these people are falling foul of getting the EFS wiped? Is it rouge roms/cwm zips, wiping to much in recovery, Odin flashing?

Curious so i may steer clear, have a backup but staying away is half the battle ;)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] brainmaster:
Hi Paul, I have modified your script so that it makes a tar file, tar file keeps the permissions for the efs partition and its easier to restore. Here it is:

#!/system/bin/sh
# EFS auto backup script for Samsung Galaxy S II
# By @paulobrien - http://s2.MoDaCo.com

mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p11 /sdcard

if [ ! -f /sdcard/efs_autobackup/efs-backup.tar.gz ];
then
mkdir /mnt/sdcard/efs_autobackup
busybox tar zcvf /sdcard/efs_autobackup/efs-backup.tar.gz /efs
fi

umount /sdcard
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Some hit "wipe EFS" in ODIN.

It's possible to mess up a zip badly enough to wipe EFS

A normal wipe shouldn't do it, but a bad CWM build could in theory do it...

A dodgy "virus" could do it, if it were targetting rooted phones, or had a root exploit.

That's why I keep an EFS backup on my PC and off-site :)
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] Odia:
Nope dd is much better, but safer to have both, but dd should be used with bs=4096k option.
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] TheFaixy:
how to restore the efs folder?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] SMN™:
how to restore the efs folder?
[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] LarryLars:
Please, need to restore EFS, not sure what happened but tried installing Cognition R3 and lost my EFS, I do however have a prior efs.autobackup. Please help.
[HTC Desire S] bseos:
I'm looking to a upgrade from my current handset, an old school Nokia 6120c.

What is most important to me is that the new phone (HTC Desire S) be able to play videos encoded at a "High:L5.1" level within a mkv container, or at least High:L4.1 as most 720p tv shows i got downloaded are at that encoding level.

Thee videos will not be played from local storage (Phone/SD Card) rather they wil be streamed from my NAS which is running TwonkeyServer.

The toss up over what phone to get came down to which had the better chipset, more specifically the better gpu in terms of hardware acceleration to play these 720p videos without a single stutter.

Not wanting to blow too muh dosh, im keeping it to a simple single core cpu, so I found myself stuck in deciding between the "MSM8255 Snapdragon" and the "Humming Bird" chipset.

The 2nd generation snapdragon has a snappier cpu however the humming birds gpu seems much better still.

So, heres hoping some of you guys have already given this a thought.

1. At what most encoding level does the HTC Desire S play videos stutter free?

2. Does Diceplayer offer hardware virtuasisation for mkv files (xvid/x264) on the Desire S?

3. Since Videos are being streamed by TwonkeyServer from my NAS, is their "less effort" for the Desire S to play these videos? As apposed to playing them from local storage?
[HTC Desire S] stonedandhappy:
I don't have an answer for your question but I do have a question for you.

Why do you need to watch 720p video on a screen that is less than 4"?

I have never understood this need for devices with such small screens to playback such high rez video other than that which has been filmed on it.

Surely a standard xvid would look just as good on the small screen.
[HTC Desire S] djsubtronic:
^ not to mention that both the Desire S nor the Galaxy S have a horizontal video resolution of 480, so watching a 720p video would be scaled down significantly anyway.
[HTC Desire S] bseos:
Yeh it sure would, however i dont have the time or effort to be re-encoding videos all the time. I have "Sickbeard" download all the TV shows i have subscribed to my NAS box daily, so i would just like to stream the videos directly to my phone without messing around all the time with encodes and re-sizing videos everyday..
[HTC Desire S] juami:
If you want playing 720p H.264 High@4.1,5.1 video, buy Smasung(Hummingbird,Exynos) , Dual core snapdragon.

QSD8255 is not good at playing 720p H.264 High@4.x/5.x video.

1. 3.1 is Shutter free level.

2. YES

3. Subs have some problems. UPNP(DLNA) is not good for subs.

I recommand CIFS export + cifs mount using cifs.ko
[HTC Desire S] bseos:
Isnt that for the 1st generation snapdragon "QSD8250" (The 1st Desire with hard buttons)?

2nd generation snapdragon "MSM8255" with Adreno 205 GPU as opposed to Adreno 200 should be ~4 times quicker. So in theory shouldn't it be able to play videos of higher level encoding?

EDIT: Oh my bad, seems you were right about High:L3.1 being the highest shutter free level :(

As i turns out The HTC Desire S has the same chipset as the HTC Desire HD, which is actually included in the above supported list of devices. Well im **** outta luck then :(

Still dont understand how even with the 205 Adreno GPU it failed to play anything higher :S

I really liked the look of the HTC Desire S, and its dimensions closely resembled the iphone4 which i believe is just the perfect size for a phone.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jabber2931:
is my sony ericsson w8 walkman capable of multitouch?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Edward Kachenko:
W8 is look like X8 :p

in x8 we have 2 digitizer

synaptic and cypress,

if synaptic we have fake dual touch

if cypress we have true dual touch

try this toolbox check with that. extract then open x8toolbox.cmd

step by step:

choose number 4. x8 module

then choose number 1. check x8 digitizer

you must root your phone and you must have pc companion

sorry if my english very bad :D:D:D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jabber2931:
it says cypress digiyizer detected..what should be my next step? plz..im dying to have multitouch..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Edward Kachenko:
congratulations you've cypress.

okay now go to this threadhttp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1135965 install that module. thread name AX8MT
[Galaxy S II General] paulobrien:
Have you checked out /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 on your device?

It's a ~500MB partition, that just seems to be reserved for GameHub (it's not mounted by default, it's just THERE... mine happens to have some hidden ngmoco content on it).

I feel we could make better use of this, thoughts? I wonder if we'd get a good boost by formatting it as swap for example? :)

Fellow devs, share your thoughts...

P
[Galaxy S II General] kalpik:
Do we really need swap on a phone with 1 GB of RAM?
[Galaxy S II General] paulobrien:
No, not necessarily, that's my point... it's silly to be wasting nearly half a gig tho...:)

P
[Galaxy S II General] kalpik:
Hmm.. A very "creative" idea.. Make it another /system partition with another ROM. Dual booting FTW! :D
[Galaxy S II General] CekMTL:
That would be a VERY VERY creative idea, and a VERY good use of that extra space!!!!! :)
[Galaxy S II General] paulobrien:
Oh yes, that is a brilliant idea!

There are issues with /data conflicts between ROMs, but assuming the ROMs aren't too wildly different, it could work!

Another option would be to use it for dalvik-cache to save space on /data?

P
[Galaxy S II General] paulobrien:
Having a play with the swap option just for fun! :D

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 853048 512220 340828 0 19616
Swap: 524284 0 524284
Total: 1377332 512220 865112
#

I'm away for a week from tomorrow, but when I get back I might rustle up a 'Dual ROM switcher'... :P

P
[Galaxy S II General] Major_Sarcasm:
Mr O'Brian on fire as usual.

How much work would be involved in modifying CWM to boot from either partition? Is that even possible?
[Galaxy S II General] kalpik:
That'd be cool! :D
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
You can make a multi boot script just editing some of the boot scripts - no actual need to modify CWM :)
[Galaxy S II General] pongster:
My vote goes to using it for dalvik-cache and increase data by 500MB :)
[Galaxy S II General] tolis626:
Or we could use it to add an extra 500mb of space available for the user in the internal SD.They are on the same memory chip,right?Reformatting both and merging them sounds about right.

That's if we don't find something better. ;)

As for the second rom thing,I have an idea.What if we use that space as a secondary /system,and split a 1-2gb of space from the internal SD to use as /data for the second rom?That way,only the boot scripts would need modifying,unless I am missing something that I shouldn't be missing.
[Galaxy S II General] samaral:
I believe ODIN has that function to repartition. would it be right to say that as long as the custom rom to be flashed would actually mount/recognize the partitions properly then the phone should boot as per normal with the new sizes then just soft/hardlink the folder ?

just thinking out loud.
[Galaxy S II General] tids2k:
Brilliant ideas, if it works we can have a dual boot with HTC Sense n Meego... until a new mobile OS joins in :D
[Galaxy S II General] CekMTL:
This is getting interesting by the moment yeaaah!!! :)

Enviado desde mi GT-I9100 usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] D.O.C:
Dual boot seems like a nice option to do.....maybe running cm7 and stock simultaneosly.....dalviks-cache is a good idea too, but as it is now, its more than enouh for me....that one would depend on users data usage. Swap memory, yeah 1 gb for android is more than enough. Maybe we could initially use it for storage of cwm backups (which shouldnt be to hard to do), then move on to dual booting or whatever is decided. :-)

Why didnt I see that partition before?...**facepalm**
[Galaxy S II General] tolis626:
I believe no one had seen that up until now. ;)
[Galaxy S II General] phunkycow:
I guess you people missed this one. :)
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
LOL. Well spotted :) Seems this has been in use for some time :p

I personally would use the block 12 for general file storage, and as a place for tweaks to be processed (sorta like a scratch filesystem in photoshop and adobe software). I use /cache for it right now, but you never know when it might come in handy...
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
First thing that came to mind after reading Paul's post. Good thinking Batman! :D
[Galaxy S II General] Odia:
and dont forget if you change the PIT file to make use of the partition then Odin will get upset and not be able to use the HIDDEN partition as the staging area its currently used as.
[Galaxy S II General] m2smoe:
Secret porn stash anyone?

In all seriousness, a dualboot would be nice if we could get it its own /data.
[Galaxy S II General] McGreggor:
Pongster, any thoughts on what hardware you might be developing sweet roms for next? My vote goes for the sensation now its able to flash custom roms :) I really miss my hd2 with your ROM on it!
[Galaxy S II General] bruflot:
Done. All filled up ;)
[Galaxy S II General] ermacwins:
Paul come back and work your stuff :)
[Galaxy S II General] hat007:
wooow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9-V_6Ua_D0
[Galaxy S II General] HellcatDroid:
With own /data each ;)

*hints at sig*
[Galaxy S II General] silence8787:
isn't this enough space for a small rom like MIUI (with much stuff added after install i'm using about 240m) *and* a /data for miui-rom if we split this partition?

*just loud thinking*
[Galaxy S II General] HellcatDroid:
I persoanlly would not attempt to alter the partitioning - too much that can REALLY brick the device when something goes wrong.

For a full ROM partition 12 is perfect in size as it's the same size as partition 9, which usually holds the system.

As for /data, so far I use partition 7 for that (p7 usually is cache and I just mount a tmpfs for the cache then) but I am also evaluating the possibilities of using an image file via loopback for /data (and maybe even /system).
[Galaxy S II General] ermacwins:
didnt really understand that lol

But can I have miui Rom and litening rom without any problems? Miui will be main rom and litening for hw accelerated needs and video recording
[Galaxy S II General] veyka:
How about just putting the /data on the sd card? I would it wouldn't be that great if your SD card is slow though.
[Galaxy S II General] blackdeath09:
Hello Paul! Do you think you can provide the full instructions to create the swap partition. Aswell as a kernel that support swap partitions. Thanks in advance

NVM: Managed to create it with Swapper2 and Super Core 1.7
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dan@msx:
just wondering whats the best way to do a system dump?

im wanting to run some comparisons between 2/3 different firmware versions, but never dumped a ROM before....

any help would be appreciated
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dan@msx:
anyone?....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smaskell:
can't you just do a nandroid backup?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cosmic Blue:
use odin to do a system dump.
[HTC Sensation] Raptordin:
Hello every one, I am thinking of getting a Sensation so decided to ask you about 2 issues ;

1) I keep seeing S-Off and for the hell of me I know not what this is.

2) While attempting a purchase on Amazon for phone and accessories, I always see Sensation and Sensation 4g. I can guess that the 4G has the 4g network capabilities which I will not need (in Egypt we do not have it yet) but for accessories will it really matter or is it the same when it comes to accessories and only the protocol differs.

Thanks a lot for the replies.
[HTC Sensation] ratchetnclank:
Accessories are the same.

S-off is r/w access to the nand on which system recovery and boot are stored.
[HTC Sensation] Raptordin:
Thanks. So no I can purchase accessories without needing to worry. As for the S-Off I still do not comprehend. What is it again?? Is it the ability to read and write to the nand from the recovery partition. did I understand correctly.
[HTC Sensation] idavid_:
There is no difference between Sensation and Sensation 4G other than branding. Both have the same HSPA+ speeds, T-mobile is just branding it as "4G". Sensation 4G is for USA, and Sensation is for the other parts of the world (S4G is locked)

Swyped from my HTC Sensation
[HTC Sensation] edgewoodzgimp13:
Pretty much. If s-off means nothing to you in terms of rooting your phone enjoy your purchase.
[HTC Sensation] redbullcat:
S-off means you can put modified software (ROMs) on your device and generally make it better. You have two methods to get S-OFF: xda way (revolutionary.io) or official HTC way. The xda way is better :)
[HTC Sensation] Neo:
in layman's terms, it's "rooting"your phone (ability to replace any and all files on your phone). Being able to do that will allow you the ability to change any visual aspect you can think possible on your phone, just about any kind of performance, over clocking your cpu, undervolting your phone, enabling faster charging times, extreme power saving abilities, even the ability top change the entire operating system to something completely different... Along with loads more you can do that were never possible "stock". Removing these chains can come at a risk if you don't know what you're doing so make sure you research before unlocking your phones full potential.
[HTC Sensation] Raptordin:
Thanks every one for your explanation. Highly appreciated. I will get it for sure then. Cya soon on sensation sub forums. :)
[HTC Sensation] brusko1972:
Get the sensation without the t-mobile branding on it. You can flash tmobile rom if you like after s-off and it would be the same as the tmobile version sensation 4G, unless you like the tmobile branding stamped on your phone
[HTC Sensation] skygear:
don't forget the different bands!
[HTC Sensation] nornore:
Hi skygear,

You and the user idavid actually posted contradicting claims :-) You say the UMTS bands are _different_, idavid says they are the _same_ (several posts above yours). Can anyone actually verify what is actually the case?

Here's my phone - it's a T-Mobile Sensation 4G, and the website I bought it from originally claimed the UMTS bands were 900, 1700, 2100. When I got the box from them, the bands stated on the box were 1700, 2100, 1900 (in that order). I checked the website (newayci.com) again today and they corrected the specs to match those on the box, but in the carrier chart they claim my Sensation 4G won't work on Bell at all and only as 2G on Rogers - which does not make sense as Bell and Rogers use the same UMTS 1900 band.

So you see there's quite a lot of confusion, and it would be great if we could collectively clarify that. Is there any way to check it (except for getting a Rogers or Bell SIM with a 3G plan and putting that one in?)?

I am using the phone on Wind Mobile in Toronto, and it works fine, but I wasn't able to figure out so far if it will work as 3G on Rogers or Bell, who use UMTS 1900 band.

I posted the same question in another thread too, I'll report what I get from there (if anything).

Thanks in advance for help.