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[General Questions and Answers] monkeytown:
unfortunately my other thread got closed due to mass spamming and fanboybashing :rolleyes:

anyways, right now i got an omnia 7 and a galaxy s2 here to play around with (and decide which one to keep). used the omnia for like a week in my everyday life and it´s awesome! took it out of the box, turned it on and it just.....works. not a single crash or error so far and awesome looking and smoothness. and with the mango beta available and the final release not too far away, it should get even better :cool:

the only problem is the need of zune. since i´m using a mac, i feel a little left over :/ though microsoft released a connector for the mac, but it´s still just a workaround. sure i can sync music or videos but for example i can´t even look up for available updates.......of course i can still install windows via boot camp but i think that should not be necessary.

tbh i had no clue about windows phone 7, heard and read some good reviews and the omnia has an awesome price-quality-ratio (16 GB memory, 4" amoled screen, good camera, good speaker, etc. for 220 euro) which was the main reason for me to buy it.

to finally come to an end, are here some people that use their windows phone with a mac and are satisfied??
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pyr0TeK:
So I rooted my dads CDMA Desire and loaded Cyangomod 7 nightly on it and he loves it. Problem is, after loading all the apps back on it, he is now very low on disk space. I've found a couple of threads with solutions but I figured I would ask to see what most of you are using to address this problem. :confused: I have this issue on my Hero as well and have to flash a custom partition after I flash a rom etc.

Thoughts?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heisenberg:
Download the s2e app from Android Market, it's written to work specifically with cyanogenmod. I have many apps installed and still have 50mb free space :) it's also the easiest solution to your problem!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MIMi King:
you have two ways:

1.the more easy thing that you can do is that you can use Link2SD alongside a ext2 or ext4 partition on your sd card and move all the huge apps to there with the app

2.flash a custom HBoot table (I recommend CM one that will give you 287MB of /data partition) so you can install more apps on internal storage.. instructions at alpharev.nl
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pyr0TeK:
Thanks guys... will check it out. I noticed the alpharev site mentions the GSM Desire but does not specify CDMA also... ??
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicholox:
I have been reading the http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1006368&highlight=mac+osx thread (DesignGear's aRoot script, edited to run on Mac OS X)

My phone is connecting fine in USB debugging mode. The script runs but it doesn't seem to be working quite right. There are many files failing to copy.

Here is what I get when I run the script...

Getting temporary root access...

861 KB/s (585731 bytes in 0.664s)

Mounting /system as read/write ...

Cleaning up onclickroot mess ...

Rooting your device ...

failed to copy '/Volumes/Documents/Android/aRootMac_fix/bin/su' to '/system/bin/su': Read-only file system

Installing Superuser app ...

878 KB/s (196521 bytes in 0.218s)

Installing sqlite3 ...

failed to copy '/Volumes/Documents/Android/aRootMac_fix/bin/sqlite3' to '/system/bin/sqlite3': Read-only file system

Enabling sideloading ...

Enabling tethering ...

Enabling init.d support ...

failed to copy '/Volumes/Documents/Android/aRootMac_fix/bin/install-recovery.sh' to '/system/etc/install-recovery.sh': Read-only file system

failed to copy '/Volumes/Documents/Android/aRootMac_fix/bin/00remount' to '/system/etc/init.d/00remount': No such file or directory

Rebooting ...

Press any key to continue...

Then it reboots.

Superuser is installed, but I don't know if the process is successful or not. I'm also not sure what to do next.

This is my first post here and my first attempt at rooting, though its my third android device.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Nick
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dragula53:
Depending on the software version of your Atrix.... aRoot doesn't work anymore.

(The part that is likely to be failing is psneuter, which was fixed by motorola a few software revisions ago)

You can check by opening SuperUser.apk and click on 'check su version' and if it fails, you don't really have root.

I too, am an OS X user.

As far as I know there is no way that actually works to flash your phone from OS X.

And I don't think there is any way to root anymore without flashing. (somebody can correct me if I am wrong)

I installed windows XP on a boot camp partition and installed RSDLite and moto-fastboot and unlocked/installed alternate ROMS.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1136261 is probably where you should start.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maledyris:
Actually, for flashing this is not true. sbf_flash works fine.

OP, you should do a search for that. I'm on an MB Pro OS X 10.7.1. In fact, it worked where my Vista 64 bit machine + RSD lite wouldn't. I've used it several times to unlock the boot loader (IHOP_Bell.sbf). It worked flawlessly. After that, flash clockwork mod with moto-fastboot-osx64 or 32, and then you can just look for a ROM to install from cwm that is already rooted... which most of them are.

Based on the command line output, remounting the system partition for read/write failed, probably due to the "getting temporary root" step failing also. This means you don't have root because su wouldn't be copied over properly. aRoot is for 2.2.1... What version are you on?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicholox:
Thank you both for you reply's.

I tried to check SU version and nothing happens, so I guess it's not rooted.

Also I checked my android version and I'm on 2.2.2 so I guess aroot's not for me.

I will try the RSD lite option next I guess..

Thanks again
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maledyris:
Really, the RSD lite option? Why would you go to all the trouble of bootcamp and Windows when you could do it all on your current OS? Even some Windows users will tell you how frustrating it is to get RSD lite working on some machines. Works great on my netbook with Win7 Starter, but my main Win Vista 64 bit wouldn't do it no matter what.

For OS X, you just need:

sbf_flash

moto-fastboot-osx

Use the International Pudding thread as a guide to unlocking your bootloader. Once you've done that, the subject of root is almost moot because most ROMs are already rooted, you only need to install superuser.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicholox:
Yeah I guess you're right I would prefer to do it on in OSX. I do already have a windows partition setup though, but I would rather not use windows if oI don't have too. It's just that in your earlier post the process sounded more complicated compared to the RSDLite option, which I have also already read a little bit about.

I have downloaded the files, but I'm not quite sure where to go from there. From what I can gather I need to unlock the bootloader first. But what do I do with the sbf_flash?

Thanks again
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maledyris:
Okay, well first of all, you need to flash the unlockable bootloader:

1. Turn off your phone, then hold the down volume button and tap the power button. The phone will start up with a cycling menu that initially says, "fastboot".

2. Press volume down several times until it says, "rsd". This is the mode you want to be in.

3. Press volume up to select this mode.

4. Open up Terminal, cd to where your files are and type:

./sbf_flash IHOP_Bell.sbf

5. Reboot your phone and hold down the volume button again. This time you want to be in "fastboot", so when it comes up, press volume up.

6. From Terminal, type:

./moto-fastboot-osx64 oem unlock

Use the 64 bit or 32 bit version of the commands depending on your system. If you're on Lion or have a pretty new computer, it'll be the 64 bit one.

It will tell you to type in that command again, but this time along with the id they've provided. Take a look at the screenshots in the Pudding thread, they basically show this step, but in a Windows command prompt. It's the same thing.

7. Reboot your phone:

./moto-fastboot-osx64 reboot

Now you can flash clockwork mod onto the recovery partition with moto-fastboot-osx also. The ORFR 2.3.4 thread has some good examples and instructions on general flashing. The gobstopper threads also have some recovery files and instructions you could use to start off. Once you've got recovery installed, you're pretty much in the clear. You can softbrick your phone, but with recovery it's easy to get back to a working state.

Good luck!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicholox:
Hey thanks Maledyris, this is great. I had some trouble finding the IHOP_Bell.sbf but I have it now.

I also found the ORFR 2.34 system and webtop images, what is the difference between these and the HKTW files, which should I use?

I'm hoping that putting Gingerbread on this phone will improve my signal strength (I read this somewhere online). If it doesn't I would like the option of returning it and getting a different phone with proper reception. How much of this can be undone? should I need to?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicholox:
when I unrared IHOP_Bell.rar I got intl-fix-try1.sbf

Is that right?

Sorry this is my first time and I'm totally noob and a bit nervous.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicholox:
Hey one more question, I saw another post of yours from march and it said you'd gone back to 2.2.2....what are you running now??

Cheers,

Nick
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maledyris:
Well, I did it weeks ago, and back then it was actually called IHOP_Bell.sbf. It's possible the poster re-uploaded with a fixed version... Did you get it from International House of Pudding thread? If you did, that's the right one.

Yeah, I'm currently on stock 2.2.2. I'll have time this week, so I'll probably play around with some of the newer ROMs people have been putting out. Before this, I had to go back because of stability and battery problems

Ah, uhh... I'm not sure about the whole undoing part for you. I'm on Bell, and Bell has packages under the gobstopper threads to go between stock 2.2.2 and the alpha 2.3.4. I don't know if anyone has made the same type of thing for Telstra? Someone who's on Telstra could look at the images that were created for the Bell 2.2.2 stock cwm recovery and do the same for Telstra. I think it would depend on your carrier whether they care if you've unlocked your boot loader and changed the firmware? I've never tried to return my phone, but I bet they don't check. You never know though.

If reception and the radio is your main concern, I would probably see if I could just flash the radio instead of trying to flash full ROMs. It would be less of a noticeable change if you did decide to return it. I don't have suggestions on that though, you'd have to do a search. I don't quite remember anymore, but I think I flashed either the Orange or Telstra radio ages ago before we had an unlocked bootloader. It was fairly quick and painless. I had done it with RSD lite and win7 before I knew sbf_flash existed.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dragula53:
Awesome. I wasn't aware that there were OS X versions now. I flashed very early on though, and never checked again.

And if you are looking for newer ROMs, I highly recommend Ninja ROM, which is my favorite of the bunch that still retain all of the Blur applications.

... Or CM7 pre-beta 2, which breaks the camera in most apps that use it. Pre-beta 1 ruined my battery life, but beta 2 is just fine. If you go this route and still want to use the camera, Angel Camera on the market works.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicholox:
Thanks again Maledyris,

I did get it from the international house of Pudding thread so it must be the right one.

I found this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=16853634#post16853634

They are talking about the motorola defy.... do you think that 2.2.2 will work with the Atrix too?

Dragula, can you give me some links for those ROM's you're talking about? I would like to use the camera still I think!!

cheers!!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicholox:
ok heres the latest, my Atrix has gone in for a repair. It had some serious reception issues and after a week of arguing with telstra they're going to have a go oat repairing. it. Basically it show lower signal strength than many other phone. If you're here Aus you'll know Atrix is supposed to be "blue tick" well this one certainly wasn't.

Anyway my rooting plans are on hold till I get the phone back...

any chance of those links dragula?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicholox:
Are you still around Maledyris?

I got my phone back and it's no different, so I'm ready to get started. I've read through your instructions again, and tried to find an answer elsewhere in the forum, but I'm still confused about how to flash CWM recovery the bootloader is unlocked. There seems to be so many files and I'm not sure which are ok for my telstra atrix.

I saw I can download CWM from the market, is that what I need to do next? but you said flash CWM so I'm guessing not the market...

I've downloaded recovery-en-goapk-0630-1029.zip but I'm not sure exactly what to do with it??

Thanks again,

nick
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mckinnon81:
Hi Nicholox;

I am in he same boat as you. I am about to get my first Android Phone (looking at the Atrix) and have been doing some serious reading about bootloaders/rooting and ROMS.

How did you unlock your bootloader?

Now to answer your question on CWM. From what I have read you can download and install ROM Manager from the App Market and then use the ROM Manager to install CWM.

I am pretty sure thats right. Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicholox:
Just check out these intructions from Maledyris... I'm not sure if my phone will boot up to access the market after flashing the sbf and unlocking it. anyone know the answer to this?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicholox:
ok this doesn't seem to be going so well. I finally psyched myself up to unlock my atrix and i'm stumped at the first step.

Nicks-MBP:Atrix Nicholox$ ./sbf_flash int-fix-try1.sbf

-bash: ./sbf_flash: Permission denied

Why do I get a permission denied when I try to flash bell IHOP?

thanks,

Nick
[Galaxy S I9000 General] byterapper:
Hey,

as I realized last week that my facebook events and birthdays are not in sync, i checked the account sync's status, apparently it had failed to sync and still did. Then I deleted my sync account and tried to set it up again. But this failed too:

After entering my login data for a new integrated facebook account, it just reports "Incorrect email address". I am 100% sure this data I used is the same as in a browser.

Using the facebook account delivered with the official facebook app works, but can only sync contacts, not the calendar. Can anyone at least confirm it is no general bug to the samsung delivered account style?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xchasa:
Try updating Facebook in market.

Seems to have a few bugfixes.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] byterapper:
I did, even though this should not change anything (and it didn't).

My issue is with the Samsung distributed version of the facebook sync (which used to work even without a facebook app installed)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] itenos:
I'm having a similar problem with Facebook calendar:

Recently I changed my email address in Facebook, after that I removed my Facebook account on the SGS that contained the old email and created a new one with the new email address. Contacts are syncing fine but in Calender no events from Facebook appear.

Going into Calender settings I can see that it is trying to sync to my old Facebook email.

Is there any way I can get calendar to sync to my new email address?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Gontrop:
Hi guys,

I had the same problem when I updated my rom.

You probably need to clear the cache of the phone by using the 3 button combo option of the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] byterapper:
Of course I tried wiping cache partition and dalvik cache, but no change :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Gontrop:
That's very strange, normally clearing cache always worked for me... Then I dunno what else to suggest... But keep us posted if you find out the solution to the problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] byterapper:
Of course I will. Since I have a custom rom (Darky Rom 10.2) I confirmed with a buddies identical phone that it is basically working, so no ( at least totally) rom related issue.

I just hope to avoid my last resort, that is reflashing.

EDIT: Solved it. Never trust those lists of system app's purpose. Apparently one of those 3 is important to register this kind of sync account, not to run it: Dlna, GoogleFeedback, Layar, MtpApplication.

As I cleaned them after setting up the rest of my phone (to make sure everything is still working, with obviously backfired), I never realized that problem, so for people that mess around with their phones, don't forget to check those messy areas (and don't forget them like I did)

Thanks for the help!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] schmolch:
I need working ant+ support for my bike-sensors.

Ginger-dx and Mini-cm didn't work regarding ant+ but i loved the ultrabrightness.

Is there any rom which could give me both ant+ and ultrabrightness?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] XxLordxX:
Use a Ant+ rom and set Brightness to maximum. Probably its almost the same (never used ultra brightness on my phone, its battery killer xD)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] dr.norton:
seems they're not the same. we discussed some about it there.

it's true but we can adjust it, right? if we can't see our screen, battery saving becomes totally useless. i've changed those parameters and it's much better in daylight obviously.
[Galaxy S II General] elena11:
I have a terrible battery life. I am on KG5 whit a polish version of SGS 2 and I am trying to delete batterystats.bin but my phone is not rooted. I am a bit afraid that rooting it could have a bad impact on the data and voice reception because when I had KF4 it was almost impossible to use the phone. I am wiht Rogers in Canada now and the phone is from Expansys USA coming form Poland.

Please any suggestion how to delete batterystats.bin without rooting the phone so I can have at least battery for a day. Now I get 6-7 hours only.

Thank you very much in advance!!!
[Galaxy S II General] TeeJayEss:
I admit I'm pretty new to all this, but I can see absolutely no reason why rooting alone would have any effect on data or voice reception - the act of rooting simply opens up/unlocks the OS, to allow you to run system commands and get at the subsystem.

If you were experiencing poor reception on a particular firmware, it's the firmware/modem to blame, not the act of rooting it.
[Galaxy S II General] elena11:
The rooting for SGS 1 was a simple oneclickroot, now involves more steps, and I am concerned not to make a mistake. The phone does not have warranty and I do not wish to brick it.
[Galaxy S II General] unleashed12:
It's pretty much impossible to hard brick the s2 unless you are working with/flashing PIT files. Otherwise it's pretty much 99% safe.
[Galaxy S II General] elena11:
Any suggestions where to start from? I have

PDA KG5

Phone KG5

CSC KG5

Version XEO

2.3.4

Kernel 2.6.53.7 CL420550 se.infra@sep-41 @ 2

If I update the phone with kies will I delete the root, and do I have to unroot before updating whit kies?

Is there any step by step tutorial for rooting the phone?
[Galaxy S II General] elena11:
Anyway. I found the rooting procedure, and I it took less than 30 sec. Thanks for this. I will use BatteryCalibration and I hope this will fix my battery problem.
[Galaxy S II General] veyka:
All that file contains is a history of the battery usage etc over a period of time, a real calibration means charging to 100%, clearing the stats, discharging it till it wont turn on anymore then charging to 100% in one sitting.

To get root all you need todo is flash CF root, it wont affect the radio(mode) thus wont affect the voice/data reception.
[Galaxy S II General] elena11:
I will report what battery life I will be getting after the whole procedure.
[Galaxy S II General] SHVARZ:
Простите это ошибка.
[Galaxy S II General] elena11:
Sadly the battery lasted only over 5 hours.
[Galaxy S II General] veyka:
Then you have some kind of problem or you are using the phone very heavenly.

Check that the awake and screen on lines match up in settings > about phone > battery.

Also use better battery stats (link in my sig) to check whats holding wakelocks.
[Galaxy S II General] elena11:
I am sorry but in abut phone and battery use I have now awake and screen. I have on battery for 5H 46M 5s and the phone died on me. I guess there is something wrong here.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dricket:
Is there any source available for the GSM/CDMA radio files?

I've found, for example, opensource.samsung.com with kernel source including /drivers/cdma_dpram/dpram.c but I'm curious if that goes into the radio files we flash, or if there's a layer or two below that above firmware.

Any tips or pointers much appreciated.

Thanks.
[HTC Inspire 4G] SupaSupra:
Searched though his dev thread and couldn't find what I was having trouble with.

I'm at the part where you type /data/local/tmp/rage in the terminal. I do that, it does it's thing and gives me the Forked 4954 childs. Then the instructions say to relaunch Terminal and it should force close, but it does not. I can't find anything in the FAQ about this either, my $ does not change to a #, so obviously rage isn't working. Any suggestions? I'm using the 2.3.3 update, stock SD card, and everything else is stock. Thanks.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
2.3.3 patched the rage exploit. You won't be able to use Bubby's. Use the Ace Hack Kit from ATTN1:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=952352
[HTC Inspire 4G] SupaSupra:
Oh ok. Thanks.
[HTC Inspire 4G] rayford85:
as long as your not on ginger bread you can when you get to the forked childs part use the back arrow on your phone to go back out of the app then reopen it it will forse close then you can move foward i did the same thing. but if you are on gingerbread update then as you were told use att1 kit
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronak.super:
I have installed wolfbreaks rom with its wolf kernel. Now i want to install official gingerbread from se using se companian or update service. Would it be safe to do it

plzz :confused:
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sofir786:
if u update from wolfs custom 2.3.3 rom via pc companion or seus, u will lose any kernel modifications well all mods really. but because it is stock 2.3.3 im assuming ur using wolfs custom stock, it shud be okay. if not i wud recommend flashing a prerooted stock 2.3.3 which doomlord has provided in development section.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghettosuperstar:
I have a Evo that had 2.3.3. Since a couple of days ago, I logged into the phone via USB and changed S-ON to off. I did not put superuser on the phone. I them flashed synergy afterwards.

Me and a friend are arguing over the meaning of rooting.

The question:

Is turning S-On to S-Off rooting?

I turned off S-On.

Did i root my phone?

Linux 101 says that root is a user.

I said I did not root my phone.

So to reiterate: Is turning S-On to S-Off rooting?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tropicalbrit:
S-Off allows you to use unoffical, non-HTC PC36IMG.zips(s). If you are S-Off, then you can flash a recovery as a PC36IMG.zip. You can use recovery to flash ROMs (which usually (99% always) come rooted).

Just because you are S-Off does not mean you are rooted. Rooted is usually defined as having access to the "root" of your phone, into system files. If you can use, say, Superuser and Titanium Backup, you are rooted. It all depends on the ROM on your phone

Rooted allows access to system files. S-Off allows for unsigned packages and custom recoveries and custom ROMs.