yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kompster:
Full control over your system

Ability to alter system files. You can replace many parts of the "Android Core" with this including:

Themes

Core apps (maps, calendar, clock etc)

Recovery image

Bootloader

Toolbox (linux binary that lets you execute simple linux commands like "ls") can be replaced with Busybox (slightly better option)

Boot images

Add linux binaries

Run special apps that need more control over the system

SuperUser (lets you approve or deny the use of root access to any program)

Task Manager For Root (Lets you kill apps that you otherwise could not kill)

Tether apps (like the one found at [android-wifi-tether.googlecode.com])

<there are more but I cannot think of any right now>

Backup your system

You can make a folder on your sdcard and backup all of your .apk files to your sdcard (helps if an author decides to "upgrade" you to a version that requires you to pay to use the version you just had)

Relocate your (browser/maps/market) cache to your /sdcard

Relocate your installed applications to your /sdcard

Reboot your phone from the terminal app easily (su <enter> reboot <enter>)

Copied and pasted from google... it is your friend.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Carrot Cruncher:
thanks for the response however, i'm trying to understand what actually changes on the phone when you root it, rather than simply the benefits of rooting a phone.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Panos_dm:
Unrooted phone is like logging on as user in a computer. By rooting you have "administrative" rights, just like using sudo command in Ubuntu. Some binaries which are important in gaining administrative rights are installed in the phone.

sent from my nokia 3210
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gusar321:
If you come from Windows, you're familiar with the Administrator account. A user that can do everything on the system, as opposed to other users than only have limited privileges. In Linux, that account is called "root". That's all there is to it. It's a user that can do everything on the system.

@Panos_dm: Actually, it's *not* like using sudo. Sudo gives elevated privileges to your existing user account, whereas "root" is a whole separate account.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hans Schmucker:
Nope, sudo actually switches users :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Carrot Cruncher:
i'm a linux user and have been a linux admin in the past so understand the difference between su and sudo. sorry to sound pedantic but i'm still not clear on exactly what happens when you root a phone, i.e. what exactly happens during the rooting process ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] john21511:
It opens your phone to a whole new array of possibilities.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gusar321:
In a gist? The "su" binary and the Superuser.apk app get installed. Sometimes doing so requires exploiting a vulnerability via a trigger. Rageagainstthecage is a common trigger. I once had a link that explained what exactly rageagainstthecage does, but I don't have it anymore.

If you really want to know all the details, here's the script I used to root my Defy: http://pastebin.com/G3m9v4FQ

Hmm, I see the script contains a link to the explanation of what rageagainstthecage does. Cool.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Carrot Cruncher:
many thanks for confirming my understanding of the process.
[Motorola Triumph] boomersooner25:
I downloaded PDAnet on my Triumph and on my laptop. When i try to install, I get an error (error 103) . and if i try to connect to my phone, pdanet or my computer is not recognizing my phone. I'm guessing its a problem with one of the drivers...if i turn on usb mass storage, that works just fine but whatever i try to do, pda net is not finding my phone!

can anyone help?! please

Thank You
[Motorola Triumph] primetechv2:
Have you tried installing the drivers on the included "fake" CD-ROM that starts up when you connect your phone? Either that or check Motorola.com.

Also, are you in debug mode? We need details!
[Motorola Triumph] boomersooner25:
Yessir, my MT (rooted) was in usb debug mode.

I tried installing the drivers in the fake cd rom. it still did not work.

I also tried installing Motorola End User Driver and Motorola Mobile Drivers -Moto Connect and the motorola drivers from PDAnet website.

I checked my windows 7 device manager but it still was not showing the Android ADB Device/ Interface after doing all this. I even checked under portable devices, still nothing. The only thing i can do is turn on USB storage. I installed USBDeview and the android adb interface shows up on there...(see pic)
[Motorola Triumph] boomersooner25:
Okay, I finally got it fixed.

Here's what I did.

* Uninstall any Motorola Drivers installed on your computer

* Install USBDeview

* Run USB Deview as Administrator

* In USBDeview Right click and uninstall any previously installed Android drivers (& any other unwanted drivers) be careful on what you uninstall.

* Restart computer (if you want to)

* Install Motorola End User Driver from Motorola developers site

* After Motorola driver is installed, ADB should show up in Windows Device Manager or USB Deview

* Plug the Triumph in and install the Phone_F_USB driver that's included with the T

*Finally install PDANet or Easytether

*****(credit: Capstan MotoDev & easy_e androidforums)*****

Happy Tethering!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lummujaj:
my root explorer always keep force close even when i did hard reset , start over from the begin , i've rooted my phone and always same problem , i tried different version of RE but same again

i use lite'room 6.1 with xxkh3

also re didnt work on xxkg1

xxkg3

xxkg6

anyone can help me !!

sorry for my bad english !
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Try Super Manager instead .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lummujaj:
RE its much better than this app ,, i have to fix it, someone tell me how ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bruflot:
You downloaded a cracked/warez version, therefore you don't deserve our help.

Buy it and it'll work.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
If you think so its your choice an informed choice i take it .

RE works for me but i dont use it .
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lummujaj:
with Super Manager can i cut copy move etc files from system of my phone , example i want framework with crt effect nothing else !! i downloded that file now i want to put on my phone ?
[Acer Iconia A500] j.arsenault:
Hey all,

I was just wondering if anyone else noticed if audio is coming out of the speakers when headphones are plugged in when using this ROM. I noticed it today and this problem doesn't show up in Virtuous Galaxy.
[Acer Iconia A500] CSeb95:
Hi,

Not at all. As soon as I plug headphones in the tab or any "jack plug", the sound stop coming out from the speakers.

If I start playing music with headphones plugged in, the sound comes out from the speaker as soon as I remove the plug.

I though it was a hardware related behaviour.
[Acer Iconia A500] j.arsenault:
I should probably clarify, as I was in a hurry when I originally posted the question.

When I am playing music through Pandora or another app, I can hear audio from both the speakers and headphones. When I unplug the headphones the music stops, and I have to press play again, and the same happens if I plug headphones in when listening through the speakers. I'm assuming that this behavior is expected, but what I didn't expect was to have audio coming from both places haha.
[Acer Iconia A500] CSeb95:
Ok ! Now you're saying that, yes , I noticed the same thing : when I remove the plug, the player "paused" the music, and I have to press play again.

But I did not notice that when plugging in the headset.

I thought it may be related to "remote control" as for phones or Mp3 player. I've tried my Nexus One headphones with the tab but the remote doesn't work.

I didn't noticed it with 3.1 (Taboonay 1.x). Maybe you should ask vache ?
[Acer Iconia A500] j.arsenault:
so, just to clarify.. You are hearing sound coming from both the headphones AND the speakers while listening to music WHILE the headphones are plugged in? that is what I was experiencing with this ROM. I haven't tried earlier versions of taboonay, but every other ROM that I have tried doesn't have this happening.
[Acer Iconia A500] CSeb95:
Not at all, I either ear sound from the speakers or in the headphones but I never eperienced sound coming simultaneously from both.
[Acer Iconia A500] j.arsenault:
Apparently I'm not the only one experiencing this.. I can't post in the Dev forums yet because I don't have 10 posts, and I don't want to spam other topics just to be able to...

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16985686&postcount=982
[Acer Iconia A500] CSeb95:
Ok I'll post for you.

edit : done

Which kernel are you using ?
[Acer Iconia A500] k2thejx5:
I am using the stock kernel with this issue
[Acer Iconia A500] j.arsenault:
same here, stock kernel
[Acer Iconia A500] CSeb95:
Seems to be ok if using Thor Kernel.
[Acer Iconia A500] Le_Matriciel:
Hi,

I have also problem for posting in dev section :(

I use Taboonay on A501, it work well, 3g also but, when i switch to 3G, the tablet reboot ...

After reboot, the 3g connexion work well...

If i test with another kernel, the 3g connexion is lost ...

please, can you post this in section, when i will have 10 post old, i will post himself :D:D
[Acer Iconia A500] CSeb95:
I submit your post in taboonay thread, but you should have started a new thread.

It is not audio related at all :-(
[Acer Iconia A500] Le_Matriciel:
Sorry ... i will open new thred the next time ...
[Acer Iconia A500] j.arsenault:
Alright, I'll try loading that tonight.

Edit: where is thors kernel?
[Acer Iconia A500] CSeb95:
Thor Kernel can be found there :

http://www.tegraowners.com/?cat=6
[Acer Iconia A500] j.arsenault:
alright, I flashed thors kernel, but now I cannot download anything from the market and anything that needs busybox is being denied superuser permissions, I flushed the dalvik cache and wiped the cache partition, and this didn't help.
[Acer Iconia A500] CSeb95:
Did you flash Thor Stock Kernel ?

This is the one you should use with Taboonay. You should not use "the rest" one.

If so you may try :

Go to recovery/advanced/fix permissions, reboot
[Acer Iconia A500] j.arsenault:
I restored to my stock ROM backup and reflashed taboonay and thors kernel, flushed data and cache and now its working wonderfully :-) my data partition might have been corrupt. Everything is working now though! Thanks for your help!
[Acer Iconia A500] CSeb95:
I'm glag to ear that , cool !

Enjoy your tab ;-)
[EVO 4G General] lamarcusoliver:
(?)Has anyone had any GPS problems Lately? I have not been able to get a lock on my phone for about 2 weeks and this was going on before I rooted my phone. HELP!!!!!!!!!
[EVO 4G General] ruben1221:
More info... What ROM are you using? Stock? Kernel? Then we could assist you more.
[EVO 4G General] DraginMagik:
have you tried the GPS fix posted by Galandy? see signature.
[EVO 4G General] lamarcusoliver:
I'm on CM7 and using Tiamat 4.0.6 sbc, this was going on before I rooted my phone

Sent from my CM7 Evo 2.3.5.
[EVO 4G General] lamarcusoliver:
I tried it and it didn't work

Sent from my CM7 Evo 2.3.5.
[EVO 4G General] mbaseball3:
No problems here but all of sudden past 3 days gps keeps turning on and off every 5 seconds. Just weird

Sent from the Evo
[EVO 4G General] infallibleapex:
"They" are watching you....

sent from my supersonic evo .:CM7:.
[EVO 4G General] kimber45:
I just used a link in developers forum ,salvage mod 1.4 ,page 14(showing 30 per page) and it worked great for me. Sorry I can't give a link in my post. Newb and don't no how.

Evo 4g SalvageMod 1.4
[EVO 4G General] jfenton57:
Works fine on mine rooted running Synergy.

There was some news about solar flare activity messing with GPS the past two weeks....
[Kyocera Zio M6000] hthomas:
http://www.androidauthority.com/android-market-app-update-apk-version-3-1-3-leaked-22398/
[Galaxy S II General] Albinoni:
Today I decided to use my new Galaxy SII mobile phone (had it locked away in its box for 4 weeks as I had to wait for my new case to arrive from overseas). Well anyhow what I did was I removed the SIM card from my Omnia i8000 and inserted it into my Galaxy SII phone. Booted the phone up, all went well, and it booted up nicely recognising all my Crazy Johns settings etc.

Now here's the weird problem. When ever anyone tried to ring me, I will see their number come up on my screen, it will ring for 1 sec or prob slightly more than all of a sudden it will cut out/hang up, no call at all will go through, just simply cut our after 1 sec or so. Ok now the problem gets more weird here, I also have another mobile (Samsung i780) which is my work phone, so what I did was I got the i780 and called my Galaxy SII to test it out, and it rang perfectly. But from any other phone, this means my friends mobiles and LAN line it would just simply cut off after 1 sec or so, no call will go through. The only call that goes through is from my 2nd Samsung i780 in which I dont have any problems at all.

Help would be appreciated
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
See if any groups/persons are added in Black List or not. Check under Settings- Call- Call rejection- Black List.

Regards.
[Galaxy S II General] Albinoni:
Done all that and no, non of my friends that I've tried on their mobiles to call me is listed there.

Like I said in my post above, the weird thing is, is I call from my i780 it works fine and rings, but any other phone it simply rejects.
[Galaxy S II General] virani_joush:
Try another sim card..
[Galaxy S II General] Albinoni:
Could it be a faulty SIM card, but it works in my previous Samsung i8000 Omnia.
[Galaxy S II General] virani_joush:
Just give it a try...
[Galaxy S II General] virani_joush:
It may work..
[Galaxy S II General] Albinoni:
Ok fair enough, but my Q here is, why does it accept calls from my Samsung i780 mobile, dont have a problem there at all ?
[Galaxy S II General] Albinoni:
Ok now this is more weird. I am now visiting and staying at my parents place, I tried to call my Galaxy SII from my Mums mobile and it worked great, did the same from their home phone and it worked great too, so no probs there what so ever, I will need to start testing with more phones.

Now I am wondering will it only accept calls for only those contacts that are in my address book, and who is not listed in my contact book it will blacklist and reject, just doesnt sound right to me.
[Galaxy S II General] ronj1986:
On your Galaxy S II go to Settings, Call, Call Rejection...check the Auto Reject Mode. What is selected in your phone?
[Galaxy S II General] randomstarlight:
[yey first post]

i had the same problem.. do you keep your phone on gsm instead of 3g with the data connection on? if so apparently when it tries to sync stuff it basically keeps your phone line busy so if people try to call you they'll get cut off. after i turned 3g with data connection on the problem disappeared. hope this made sense! :)
[Galaxy S II General] Flowyk:
you dont have your own number in contact list right? this is reason why it dont get rejected ... check the black list and see that "unknown" is checked or not
[Galaxy S II General] lector007:
i have same kind of problem. some people call me but they say that my phone is off. but my phone was next to me and i wasnt calling some one else. is this a carrier or phone problem?
[Galaxy S II General] Albinoni:
The setting for call rejection is OFF
[Galaxy S II General] nishadh:
Try with your phone company and see if you are not transferred into any of those family call plans
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helfrez:
So here is an interesting one. So I still have me trusty X10 that I used for testing and backup. I also have a sim that floats from the X10 for testing to a Streak7 for play, with all my other off contract old school priced ATT services. With all of the extra devices traveling with the family, I am thinking of using the X10 as a dedicated hotspot of sorts, being that it would be significantly cheaper than a dedicated one, has unlimited data, and won't trip off the must have tethering features if I used a unlocked novatel.

SO my question you ask? Any suggestions on maybe optimizing a build for more specialized use? It would be interesting to even build a HotspotOS that would consist of the core Android with zero services other than those needed for the hostspot to run. Let it run fullscreen autostart, and you have yourself an Android Hotspot Appliance...

I will settle for some safe to remove that may eat battery hints. I believe hard throttling the cpu very low with setcpu would gain a good bit, but may impact throughput.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Salty Wagyu:
Anyone know why my phone number is missing the last digit in Settings > About Phone > Status?

My number is 11 digits long but only 10 is displayed there.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andQlimax:
Because probably u set it wrong in setting / call settings / other settings / ur phone number (i translated this items)

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Salty Wagyu:
Nothing in there regarding phone number. Call settings > additional settings just has settings for Caller ID and Call Waiting.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Salty Wagyu:
bump.

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[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bangalorerohan:
Hey there,

This is a guide on How to create a ROM

For boot sound, boot animation and themeing

Installing cygwin and Setting the kitchen up!

Finalizing , de-odexing, additional option and packing the ROM

Things you will need

-Cygwin

-Android Kitchen

-Patience

-Base ROM

--All files attached at the end--

-MagicISO

PS-> WIndows 7 users set the UAC level to minimum until you finish the whole thing. And also, make sure that nothing wxcept the META-INF folder in your ROM ins capital in letters! Just a small obseravtion in my third ROM! =P

First of all, let us extract the ROM files:

As you can see, In the folder of the XXKPH ROM, you have a system.rfs file. Copy that out to a seperate folder. In case, of any other base ROM, you can find it in the PDA file.

Now use MagicISO in order to extract the system.rfs into a seperate folder!

After that, you may find something with folders like, : app, vendor,etc,media and xbin.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bangalorerohan:
Adding your apps!

Step 2

You are done with the first step!

Now, rename the folder where you have extracted system.rfs to “System” (without quotes) and move it to another folder. Call the new folder as “Custom FW”. Now create a folder called data, in which you create a sub-folder “app”. All the apps what you want to be pre-installed and can be deleted by the user go in here. (only .apk format). If you want apps which the user can not un-install, put the .apk in system/app.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bangalorerohan:
Step 3

You may want to add custom boot sound and some themes,right? Okay! So here is the method.

Cutom Boot sound

First, navigate to /system/etc and find PowerOn.wav. This will enable you to change the boot sound. Replace it with a short tone of .wav format only. Now you,have changed the boot sound

To change the boot animation

1) Download the bootanimation and samsungani file attached below.

2) Put them in the /system/bin folder and replace the existing files there

3) Now download any boot animation, and rename the bootanimation to “sanim.zip”.

4) Now, navigate to /system/media and replace the “ODEanim” with “sanim.zip”

You are done with the bootanimation change

TO change the theme

Just replace the framework-res.apk and twframework-res.apk in the /system/framework folder
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bangalorerohan:
Installing Cygwin

Installing the Cygwin and Setting up the Kitchen

Download the Cygwin files attached below. Extract the zip to a folder. Now, you can see 3 icons, a read-me,a setup, and a folder. Choose the setup. Here You will choose install from local directory. Next, Navigate to the the folder of extraction of cygwin and choose the folder Cygwin_packages inside the cygwin extraction folder. Wait for some time. Then, You will come across a list of file. Click the 2-circle-arrows,untill, it displays “install”

After the procedure is complete, run the batch file. Now, minimise it and extract the android kitchen.

Keep it in some location like C:\Kitchen

Now, open the batch file window and type

cd C:\Kitchen

Wait for some time and then when the location the changed, type

./menu

As this is a HTC kitchen, you can't use all the features,

Now, go back to the folder “custom FW” and create a zip ( I repeat zip and NOT rar) of all the folder in the “Custom FW”. After that is done, navigate to the kitchen folder (C:\Ktichen) and palce the .zip in the “original_update” folder
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bangalorerohan:
Come back to the Cygwin Batch window. Now you select 1 (i.e. the first option and press enter.

Then, again press 1 twice!

Now after this is done, you can also use option 2 (rooting). You can change the ROM's name using option 8.

Step 5

De-odexing the FW.

In the batch window, choose option 0 and then choose 1.

Using this you can de-odex your FW.

Next, choose 99 to build and pack you ROM

And you are done with the custom ROM

---------------------------------------------------

Thanks to @sakindia123

Extracting and odin build

Code:

xvf ODIN_FILE.tar.md5

NOTE:.md5 is optional

Rebuilding

$ tar -H ustar -c amss boot.img csc.rfs recovery.img system.rfs >ODIN_FILE.tar
$ md5sum -t ODIN_FILE.tar >>ODIN_FILE.tar (signing the file)
$ mv ODIN_FILE.tar ODIN_FILE.tar.md5
Of course,u Have to put the name of ur file in place of ODIN_FILE

Mounting rfs(on linux)

mkdir system_mount
$ mount -o loop system.rfs system_mount
$ cp /folder/application.apk system_mount/app/ (adding aplications)
$ rm system_mount/app/application.apk (removing applications)
$ cp /folder/application.apk system_mount/app/application.apk (replacing aplications)
$ umount system_mount

Regards,

Rohan Mallya! :D :D =D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bangalorerohan:
The essential files! :P

For the Kitchen ( thanks to dsixida)

For cygwin

Remeber to thank and vote in the POLL!!

Custom booting files ( one you have to replace for the bootanimation before you add sanim.zip!)(samsungani and bootanimation files)

MagicISO

Credits -.-

Misledz

Ganaboy

ronhoover88

Namaless

Vivek

Erahgon
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] joealley:
Very informative posts. I hope this will lead to more ROM for our cellphone. :)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bangalorerohan:
More things! ☻☻

You can zipalign and sign the ROM in HTC Android Kitchen itself! While COmpiling your ROM, Just select the interactive method! You can do it all there!

If you want to changes the build date and all, you can open the build.prop(present in /system folder) and change the values!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bangalorerohan:
Reserved for future
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Sine.:
If I may ask, do you have a source link for this or is it from you?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bangalorerohan:
I typed it WHOLE? So..?? I did not get you well?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Sine.:
No worries, it's just I like to read the comments which are usually a good complement for every tut/info, so if it were from elsewhere I would have been happy to read them, that's all ;)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] terry1997526:
can i use this port the miui rom?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sakindia123:
r u sure u hav not copied this from elsewhere....bcoz the boot ani thing is wrong......i9003 has different format.....(i mayb wrong)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bangalorerohan:
What boot ini,sak? Elaborate please??
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ronhoover88:
You could also use the link below;)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1168916
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] bangalorerohan:
@ronhoover88 I went through it now. But, I think you cant use that meta-inf folder, the kernel adn the root script from that guide..If you feel this is thread is a WASTE OF TIME..Please tell me..I will make an attempt to delete it!