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[Desire HD General] :
Hello all im trying to downgrade my HTC Desire HD as its locked to orange and orange branded it is currently GingerBread 2.37 iv gotten as far as making a goldcard and everything but when it comes to restarting the phone and holding volume (-) button it will load the BOOTLOADER but as many say when u press the power button it should downgrade to 1.32 mine however does not downgrade i can just see the BOOTLOADER Options.
[Desire HD General] Chrisbabs85:
What method you using? Have you got the htc tool kit?
[Desire HD General] wsjjerry:
first ，change the recovery，then do rooting
[Desire HD General] cbarai:
I ve got it done for a friend without changing the recovery and from 2.37. With a goldcard and the pdxx imagefile. Worked exactly as on the forum post.

I just had a few problems making the goldcard as using a reader/adapter didnt allow me to make a working goldcard. Needed to use the phone in diskdrive mode and then worked fine.

Also when your phone reboots into recovery (normal recovery) you donot need to do anything. make sure the pdxx image is on the sdcard before loading into bootloader. Once you are rebooting into bootloader just leave the phone on its own it will automatically load up the pdxx img file and ask you if you want to flash it.

Just need to say yes. Thats it.
[Desire HD General] xx_bluedev_xx:
Three words are my best advice.... Ace Hack Kit

it is by far the easiest way I found found to root a desire HD/Inspire

It can be found http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1033353

there is a manual inside, pick your ROM, follow the instructions, it will downgrade, root, do everything for you, with just a few simple buttons, I promise, if your new to this, this is the hack kit to use, it is awesome! and don't forget to thank the developer, he did an awesome job!

Thanks button always appreciated!
[Desire HD General] mehrshadkh:
Attention man....!!! Problem is for your gold card...!!!!!

Just try making gold card wth different methodes.....1!!!!!!
[HTC Sensation] aagvain:
has anyone seen a rosie remapped for use with launchkey?

not really looking for a theme just a plain remap.
[Bravo General] rubbachicken:
I just wanted to remind everyone that sometimes what keeps a phones community/ROM selection going can be as simple as changing whats in a rom, you don't have to be a developer to do that!

In the sense of the backups, like how CM7 and MIUI are installed a person can simply edit either the stock system.img or the cm7/miui system.imgs... theyr'e basically zip files... but you have to extract them a special way!

for someone who is using a windows box they need to install Cygwin and get unyaffs.exe... Cygwin, will emulate linux support, so if you're willing to learn linux lets just do this all at once! (Go download ubuntu or something!)

W/ Cygwin installed you put unyaffs.exe cygwin1.dll in the same folder as system.img and type something along the lines of unyaffs system.img system

Google for a more clear guide, I'll look soon...

But if you can unpack system, change the launcher, maybe some sounds, later learn to unpack the framework-res.apk via apktool(for themes!)

Anyway t's not a hard process, you need to get them put into update.zips afterwords (Which is more script work we'll get to that later...)

for now, if anyone wants to;

_Install cygwin,

_Extract System.img

_Change it up.

_Pack system.img (Unsure what tool, yaffs?)

_Test by restoring backup via custom recovery on the phone!

_Create update.zip

I believe that would be a great thing for someone who wants to learn or doesn't think they can learn, to do... I honestly got distracted somewhere around step 3 and have wandered off to play with all sorts of other things!
[Bravo General] rdannar:
Great starter tutorial...

And also don't forget to ask people... I prefer posting over pm so everyone can read and learn

You can also set up cygwin on your windows computer and use dxhidia kitchen to build roms

If you edit any scripts use notepad++ if your not on Linux as it keeps the integrity of the script.

The great thing is this phone is hard to brick so if you mess up Judy sbf back to stock
[Bravo General] dontbejeff:
Now that I am getting a new phone (T-Mobile MyTouch 4G) I can learn this stuff and not be too afraid of breaking my phone. Thanks for this post... this will be a fun phone to work with :-)
[HTC EVO 3D] jarocho151:
With a custom ROM do I need to flash the new radios or any updates to my phone . I'm a bit confuse I don't know what I have to do to keep my phone up to day. I have nightly with 2.3.4 thanks
[HTC EVO 3D] joeykrim:
ROMs generally will NOT include the radio files which come with an OTA. The radio files are generally posted separately for people to flash as they chose. I'm on my own stock 2.3.4 ROM but haven't updated the radios yet.

Some people claim to see significant increases with newer versions of radios and some see significant decreases on radios. I personally just haven't had a chance yet.

This thread seems to be fairly well kept and up to date with the latest radios and previous versions in case you wanted to move between radio versions: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1193101

hope that helps!
[HTC Sensation] akaGERMZ:
Every since the OTA update, whenever I'm in an app and I press the home screen to get back to my home, the screen goes white and shows the green htc logo. After that, for about 15 seconds, I see my apps on my home screen but I get the loading message. When its done with the loading screen, sense is ok again until I go into another app and I press home and the process repeats. Is anyone else having this problem and if so how do you'd fix it?
[HTC Sensation] Freshly_Snipes:
Not good...sounds like u gotta bad flash...try a factory reset..should fix it. good luck
[HTC Sensation] Finland_2_Cupertino:
The update stopped mine from doing this. master reset is prob the going to fix it.
[HTC Sensation] mrbkkt1:
Mine does it too after the update. I figured that it was putting sense to sleep to conserve energy.
[HTC Sensation] aNYthing24:
Mine used to do it after I played Plants vs. Zombies and still does, and now it also does it after using Netflix.
[HTC Sensation] akaGERMZ:
a hard reset fixed it guys. thanks.
[HTC Sensation] kennck84:
Tried the factory reset, but still remain the same. just installed 12 app (no games) all in internal storage, but still remain problem. Need help! Thanks!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DoctorT:
Hello!

Is there a way to record videos with the screen turned off? I frequently record longer videos and that would save a lot of juice...

I have tried the various spy camera like apps, but none of them makes high quality recordings (although some of them can record HD it is of very low quality).

The only feature I need is to be able to turn off the screen after starting the recording in the stock camera app.

Is it possible?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Archer:
No.

The only current way is 3rd party apps, as you mention. I guess you're stuck with the best of them, for now.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Duffman19:
I use videoreg from the market to record my car journeys in case of an accident and to laugh at the stupid things people do :p

this has third party support for the samsung hi def codecs and can record in background, with the screen off.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThaiM:
Interesting. I use AutoGuard but will give this a try too. LOVE AutoGuard!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DoctorT:
I tried videoreg - does not record anything on my device!? Which video settings do you use?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Duffman19:
it pretty much just worked, AAC audio, 1280x720 (although 1080p works too) H.264 and mpeg4. Make sure to turn on extended camera controls and manual bitrate.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DoctorT:
After a reboot it now works as it should (before it stopped the recording right after I pressed the rec button and did not save anything) - the quality is really perfect!! :D Thanks a lot! (Although I still prefer to use the stock app - in case somebody has a solution for that please post it...)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lenrok258:
I've recently published app: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lofatsoftware.hvc which records video in background... also then screen is turned off.

I've tried it on 6 different devices and quality of video is exactly the same as when recording via android stock camera application.

I would be grateful for feedback if my app works for you.

Best reagrds,
[Thunderbolt General] loonatik78:
A few moments ago RUU leak 2.11.605.0 dropped in Development introducing yet another pair of radios to the Tbolt landscape. I came to the realization today when I saw someone refer to one of the Tbolt radios as "MR3.25", and I don't think it was by error. To date we've got MR2, real MR2, the MR2.5, the fake MR2.5, MR2.75, MR2.xx... and that's about where I really loose track of it. CDMA radio versions work, but then you end up hunting down what that radio really is and where it came from and it doesn't always address the LTE radio. I maintain a Q&A thread that tries to explain this stuff to noobs and it's simply impossible to explain all the tack-on "MR" names given to all these radios by different devs and users. They're beginning to make no sense I'm not going to explain it in those terms.

What I'd like to suggest here is that devs and users all begin to refer to radios by RUU number of origination. No need to use the entire number, just the first 3 digits, for example 1.70, or 2.10. Devs, if you're ROM is requiring MR2 radios, perhaps indicate "Requires MR2/1.70 or newer radio" To the users: At some point these "MR" names have got to confuse even the most veteran of us. I'd like to ask that these "MR" designations be abandoned in posts and replaced with RUU based designations as I've described above.

I feel there's a lot of confusion going around. Seems many people may not actually knowing what they're using. And there seems to be a general lack of common language regarding radios. This cannot be good for anyone. Please, lets all try to fix this somehow. It's only going to get uglier as more leaks and OTA drop.
[Thunderbolt General] eallan:
I think the other terminology is more confusing. Mr is write ready for users to understand. It's chronological to go 2,2.5,3 etc
[Thunderbolt General] loonatik78:
But that's the problem... it DOESN'T do that! You've got MR2 leak, which often isn't noted as being a leak, then you've got MR2.5, than MR2.xx, then MR2 OTA which came out on a Froyo OTA, not a Gingerbread leak or OTA... And on top of that, they aren't even all being called the same thing. MR2.xx is going by possibly 3 different names, and the problem isn't going to get better with time. I can't send someone to 2 radio thread, tell them to download MR2, and know what they actually downloaded. I can't tell someone to download the MR2.xx and have any clue what they actually have. I'm not so concerned with what's chronologically correct. Chronology doesn't even suggest a better radio, so what's the point? If radios are identified by RUU of origin there is no confusion about what it is, where it came from, when it dropped... all that stuff can be VERY easily figured out. There's not flashing it before you can figure out what you just flashed. I really think this is the only way to go.
[Thunderbolt General] NeoS:
Dude, add a bit of spacing in your OP. It makes it a hell of a lot easier to read. Just a tip. ;)
[Thunderbolt General] farkmeil:
I agree 100%
[Thunderbolt General] farkmeil:
After not finding it here, I found it over at RootzWiki. I think all would find something like this very helpful.

http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?t=2937
[Thunderbolt General] loonatik78:
I have a link to a thread almost identical to that in my q AND a thread. It is maintained on XDA by Gu1dry. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1048128
[Thunderbolt General] adrynalyne:
http://teambamf.net/showthread.php/242-Radios!

Very clear, very organized.
[Thunderbolt General] loonatik78:
Mind if I use that link in my q AND a?
[Thunderbolt General] rayjr13:
I don't see both radios posted for each release on there...

0.01.69.0625r 1.39.00.0627r

From the 1.70.605.0 RUU:

CDMA: 1.39.00.0627

md5: c2b8d5d7583b8171bc9dd65781f10a45

LTE: 0.01.69.0625

md5: 51c04a8451b596f782cecac37235971c

see one but not the other. XDA link has both radios per release
[Thunderbolt General] loonatik78:
Kinda what I'm talking about...

What did you flash? Given Adrynalyn's reputation, his radio thread should be the final word and should match up with the Gu1dry thread.
[Thunderbolt General] adrynalyne:
Thats because only Gingerbread offers both version numbers. As of GB, I have been doing so.

These phones are brick-prone, so I am not terribly exicted to flash all the other radios to see what they read.

Rest assured though, each of the radios I list have been pulled from unaltered, unmodified RUUs.
[Thunderbolt General] Jaxwindle:
+1
[Thunderbolt General] kxs783kms:
I definitely agree. :)
[Nexus S General] MohamadKarbi:
Dears,

I wonder if any noticed this or is it only me? In Gtalk voice & vedio chat on Nexus S 2.3.4, I can call and receive calls but I can hear the callers whereas they can't. Any idea?
[Nexus S General] MohamadKarbi:
By the way the above was experienced on Modaco & Oxygen Roms
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wy2sl0:
Hi everyone. When I first got my 10.1, it seemed the battery on the first half of a charge lasted forever. I notice now it is dropping faster using the Starburst ROM. Just wondering if this is all in my head, or if this is possible?

I originally switched for the purpose of extended life and faster speeds (less processes).

Thanks for answering anyone,
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 05GT:
I'm using the Starburst ROM, and I haven't noticed much if any change in the battery life of the device.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wy2sl0:
I just saw the guy who made one of the roms in the dev forum say he got 36 hours on his one charge, and that 7 is terrible. I am running the stock kernel and pulling 6-7.5hrs battery with wifi and MINIMUM SCREEN BRIGHTNESS.

Is something wrong?

I am running ADW launcher ex with no animations on.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SeanHacker:
I am that guy. Everything depends on what you are doing with your tab also. When I got 36 hours I basically was only listening to music in my car and checking emails with brightnesstona minimum. But when I'm programming and having to constantly reboot, flash and test things out I still pull at least 20-24 hours. I find it really hard to kill my battery during a day long period. I don't run any Widgets also.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vlad_z:
Stock kernel does not have current property exposed so you cannot see current directly. But if you look at dmesg log for fg_read_current reports... so you can judge tablets average current, something like this:

fg_read_current : CURRENT(-470mA), AVG_CURRENT(-416mA)

That's normal values for minimum brightness, WiFi on and idle.

Now do math. 470mA * 7 hours = 3290 mAh

So, if this is the case, then your tab needs battery calibration because you should have battery capacity around 6500mAh - 7000mAh.

But if your fg_read_current reads around 800mA - 900mA then you on a ballpark.

PS: with max back light current should be around 1000mA, so run time with calibrated battery would be around 6 hours. In order to pull 36 hours, current should be 6900 / 36 = 190mA - that means your have to turn screen Off completely and maybe put tablet in kind of semi-hibernate mode when only media players is working. I did not try that, I don't know.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wy2sl0:
Ok. If you don't mind what is there that I have to do to see this value? Run pershoots kernel?

Did you see a difference in current consumption between the stock and pershoots?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kiwi187:
I went from stock to Task650's ROM with Pershoot's Kernel. At first battery life was terrible.

I then had to calibrate the battery. (Essentially letting it run down till the tab auto shuts down, then booted into recovery and left it running some more. Then charged to full while the tablet was off.)

I now get the battery life that Task650 is talking about.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antic604:
ok, call me stupid but you want be to believe you can actually have the gtab running 30+ hours on one charge with screen and wifi on all this time? how much of that time is it actually running and how much it's hibernated (as in turned off by single press of power button or shut down autonomously when idle)?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vlad_z:
I did not mention significant change in current consumption going from stock to pershoot kernel. Min. brightness and web browsing will average 530- 550mA which gives about 12 hours of non-stop run-time.

In fact even overclocked CPU (I've 1.2Ghz) will eat maybe 20-50mA more BUT only when running 100%. Which is perfectly in line with overclocking speed increase of 20%. But it will have job done also 20% faster and then goes idle... so there would be no penalty for overclocking.

with pershoot kernel you can use Battery monitor or use ADB command:

adb shell cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/batt_current

with stock kernel your only option to analyze kernel log, say like this:

adb shell dmesg | grep "fg_read_current"

Well, if you will find that your battery needs to be calibrated then here is the proper way to do it:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1215182
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vlad_z:
He did not specified how he run his music - with screen On or without... but this is obvious... screen is major power sucker, in order to claim 36hours screen must be off.

edit: alright, i just test it... streaming mp3 from Google music with screen off requires only 140mA with 25% volume. so 6900 / 140 = 49 hours.

and with screen on - 550mA.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wy2sl0:
At this point, how safe are we for running an OC anyways....cooling is terrible in a tablet without a fan, noone really knows the answer until they start dying in the coming months.

As for battery life, I will try your method and see what happens. If still toast, I will switch over to a different kernel, and do the data logging you are talking about.
[Nexus One General] desertflyer:
I'm wondering what others have experienced as being the best setup for battery life on the N1? I'm running Cyanogen 7.1 RC1 and haven't been that happy with the battery performance.
[Nexus One General] ctfrommn:
Latest CM nightly with juice defender ultimate nets me about 36 hrs normal use.
[Nexus One General] yougotcut:
I've been using CM7.1 RC1 for a few weeks now... battery life did seem pretty weak but I then tried out JuiceDefender Ultimate. It actually made the battery life worse, which didn't make any sense... I gave the beta a try and it practically doubled the battery life right off the bat. I'm currently using the stock Aggressive settings for the beta so I'm assuming I could do better if I did custom settings.
[Nexus One General] b1337:
ss4n1 with any kernel that works with it
[Nexus One General] ctfrommn:
Yeah, SSN1 is nice, but I have tried almost every kernel out there with a multitude of voltage settings and I have yet to see one that gets better battery life than the current CM7 one. I am not sure if the one they use for nightlies is different than the RC, but it is very very impressive for battery life. It doesn't have any fancy add ons or governers it is just low voltage and no frills.
[Nexus One General] b1337:
Interesting when i use ss4n1 on top cm7 with slight uv and smartass or interx I yield way better batt
[Nexus One General] ctfrommn:
Interesting, last time I tried to run it over that kernel I didn't think it was working. No matter how far I undervolted it it kept running, usually if you push it that far it will freeze. I will try again when I get a chance. Were you using the scrip itself or ckz tools?
[Nexus One General] kendoori:
Am running CM 7.0.3 with Tiamat 4.06. Tiamat increased my battery life a little. I installed JuiceDefender and battery life by the end of today will be more than double what I saw on 7.0.3 w/o Tiamat. ++1 for JuiceDefender
[Nexus One General] desertflyer:
I haven't tried SS4N1 yet. I'll be trying it with MIUI.
[Nexus One General] ctfrommn:
Try using the stock CM7 kernel with Juicedefender, I think you will see a significant gain again. Tiamat makes a nice kernel, but it is not known for good battery life.
[Nexus One General] ctfrommn:
Try using the stock CM7 kernel instead, I think you will be pleasantly surprised at the additional increase in battery life. Tiamat makes some really nice kernels, however they are not known for good battery life.
[Nexus One General] b1337:
U have to use the script czk tools is just a gui
[Nexus One General] ctfrommn:
Not anymore, ckztool now includes an updated script as part of the program, check out the thread. He updated it about a month ago. It is nice cause you don't have to reinstall the script everytime you flash a new rom or an update. It installs the script each time you open and activate the program.
[Nexus One General] britoso:
Get an extra battery from ebay for $5 (and charger $8) and keep that with you.

Beats any software tweak :)
[Nexus One General] ctfrommn:
If you don't mind carrying a battery around;-)
[Nexus One General] ctfrommn:
Just installed latest version of SuperOSR, new kernel combined with Incredicontrol to undervolt is producing pretty amazing results. It is a very cool Rom on top of it too.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrooney10:
i tried dialing *#1234# but it says wrong MMI code or something like that... how can i check ? and another question how to upgrade the firmware on rooted phone because i can't upgrade via settings and software upgrade, and if i upgrade which firmware is the best the newest or ?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nayan8teen:
You can check your Software no. (Firmware no.) by going to Settings -> About phone -> Software information

And firmware is just the ROM that you are using, nothing else. Flash a new version of the ROM if available, or use ROM Manager if the ROM you are using supports OTA updates..(very few custom roms support OTA updates)..
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] light_n_roses:
Hi all !

As far as I have seen in every single ROM using htc sense, the sense widgets don't updates by themself in background but they do when you are actually loocking at them. Or better they download the new data automatically but the updated the screen just when you slide directly to it. This is waste of resources because every time that you are sliding the home the phone has to process the sliding and has also to updated the screen for the widget. You can see this from news widget, meteo or friends stream. Another fact is the contact widget, it reload every contact every time that you slide to it...

Is there a way to fix this ?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LoSt-CaUzE:
Hi,

If this is posted elsewhere sorry, I missed it, most of the posts I see instruct you to use the mini usb in some way to recover, which doesn't help me.

1. my mini usb is dead. Computers don't detect it, tried multiple cords, its not a driver issue. wont work from clockwork recovery.

2. automatic recovery on sdcard2 doesn't work using update.zip and recovery folder with command file pointed at sdcard2.

3. I get "magic value mismatch: critical failure: unable to start kernel. unrecoverable bootloader error (0x00000002).

4. adx mode doesn't work with usb either.

Is it still possible to recover from this or am I borked? Thanks for your time.
[EVO Shift 4G General] southernstyle:
Saw a commercial for the shift last night. Best buy is offering it free. Does this mean we are near extinction for support from sprint? Not that HTC or Sprint have been giving us much love anyway, just curious.

Sent from your Mom's Jitterbug