yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theadm:
Hey there,

Thanks for the reply.

I ended up changing USB cables and got NVFLASH to work.

I'll have to throw the other one away.

So what I was stuck on was;

1. At boot, viewsonic logo screen.

2. At recovery, stuck on "Detect a recovery key pressed \r Booting recovery kernel image"

3. At APX mode, stuck on "miniloader download failed (response read failed)" after entering the nvflash_gtablet command.

I changed USB cables, and now I am back in business. I'm back to stock 3588.

Cheers!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sjmoreno:
That's great news.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monkeychef:
Hi everyone.

I am currently on my phone and I am finding it difficult to find the directions to setup sprint vvm on Miui. I was wondering if someone could help me out and provide a link. Thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monkeychef:
Thanks and thanked
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Just flash this in recovery and you'll be all set

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?86aqzswx3bsao2y
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monkeychef:
Why didn't you get here sooner hipkat? I'll thank you anyway.

Thanks you guys. Both worked great.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattykinsx:
Can I trade my thanks in for money? ;)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monkeychef:
I think you may have something there. Let me just input this algorithm and input the variable of thanks and mone.....

Crap bsod.

Sorry, you can't turn thanks in money. Good try though.:)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] carlitos66:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/04/mophie-cuts-the-price-on-the-juice-pack-boost-and-powerstation/
[Off-topic] andrewxu:
I have the app on my homescreen and always find myself on it after I get done drinking and have gone home to lay down...
[Off-topic] theebest:
Lmfao that's nothing ;) I'm practically on 24/7 when I'm wiff my wifey or friends at movies the strip or bowling. In the potty while eating while at work D: :eek: I jjust relized how much I go it but I bearly post at all lulz more of a lurker but I doubt were the only ones.
[Off-topic] LordManhattan:
Lol, same here. Browsed during Futurama (15 min ago), and now I'm lying in bed... browsing XDA again. I hate you all.
[Off-topic] jaszek:
Just check the drunk thread. I am notorious fro psotgn liek tihs at 4 am on friday and saturday nights. lol
[Off-topic] andrewxu:
It's awesome to pass The time, learn, and wait for the drunk or whatever you did that night to wear off! ;)
[Off-topic] LordManhattan:
Hahah, yeah you've entertained me quite some in the drunk thread this weekend.
[Off-topic] jaszek:
There is always next weekend
[Off-topic] andrewxu:
Where's the thread for the drunk thread?
[Off-topic] Omnichron:
There are no weird times while here... except when husam and twitch are at it.:p
[Off-topic] deliriousDroid:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=932924

Sent from my SilverBullet 'HTCDesireZ running CM7'
[Off-topic] MacaronyMax:
Me, I'm currently with my mates lol :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Exidrion:
Okay, so I've tried to alleviate this problem for awhile now (I've tried on fresh installs of Cyanogen, MIUI (current) and Cognition.) Basically, if I leave this setting on in the location settings my battery will drain around 25-30% in 3 hours. The thing is I've tried it on many ROMS so I don't think it's some rogue app I downloaded. Yes, I'm aware that the setting drains more battery on than off, but this can't be normal can it? Any help is greatly appreciated.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linkinZA:
I've always had that setting enabled, but just turned it off now and will note any difference in battery usage.

I'm pretty sure its used for finding your location based on information from combining AGPS, Wi-Fi Positioning System, and cell site triangulation.

And as far as i know, its only used when an app or feature is trying to get your location, so it shouldn't be using any battery when idle.
[Android Apps and Games] Tower1972:
Ok ive had to purchase this app THREE times so I have some experience with it (iPhone,iPad,and Android). My issue is..constant freezing, no matter what channel (HD and regular) or what settings (Standard or High quality). I have more then enough dl speeds etc for it to work flawlessly, but on 3G,LTE and WiFi, it freezes within 20 seconds of starting up. I have reconfigured my router for manual setup according to the video guide again but it still wont play in a usable manner unless I like looking at the static picture with voices in the background lol.

Anyone else use this app that has it running fluidly?
[Android Apps and Games] joshnichols189:
When I had my Thunderbolt, it didn't matter what I was using (3G,LTE, Wifi), the picture would always stutter about and freeze up for a good while, maybe sometimes even up to two minutes when I started using it.. After those initial stutters and freeze ups, though, it would always play without a hitch..

I know it doesn't really help, but just my experience with it.
[Android Apps and Games] Tower1972:
ugh yeah mines consistant. Even over WiFi it freezes so its frustrating
[Android Apps and Games] joshnichols189:
Hmm, the only things I can really think of would be:

New ethernet cord between the router and the slingbox?

New cable cord (Probably not, but hey it could work)

orrrr.....

maybe the cords from the slingbox to the cable/dish receiver are bad?
[Android Apps and Games] spbb2000:
I had the issue too and I found the problem was in the slingbox itself. A capacitor had gone bad and I had to swap it out. Look for a bulging capacitor. Here is a good guide:

http://placeshiftingenthusiasts.com...izing-losing-connection-check-the-capacitors/
[Optimus One, P500, V General] lilshortwun:
I can't find much info on this. Anyone with an optimus t have any opinions? Right now, my top 2 are the cm7.1 for p500 and the cm7 specificaly for the p509.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sweetnsour:
I'm also using an optimus t and I have to say that miks cm7 is the most stable. its a p500 rom but it works fine on the p509.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] joeyxl:
Im using Dr notors, mik cm7 based ROM with miui, looks amazing and mik with francos kernel give it amazing battery lifr

Sent From My P-509 With Xda Premium App
[Optimus One, P500, V General] lilshortwun:
thanks i went with miks cm7 cause i really like the interface more than miui. It seems to run just fine.
[General Questions and Answers] SPnewb:
I also pulled the perso.txt file onto my PC and reviewed it in XVI32. It does not look like any of the files others mentioned (a lot of 00 or FF followed by a number). Attached here is perso.txt. Is my perso.txt corrupted? If yes, how can I recover it? Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] Darkshado:
As far as I know, you're the first person that's reported seeing a CP lock on this phone... One possibility is that this happened instead of plain old bricking when you mistyped the umount command the first time around.

Is your IMEI still intact?

Did you reboot the phone since your third attempt?

Did you by any chance keep the first perso.txt you cat'ed on your first attempt?

The suggestion below is at best a shot in the dark

and could very well worsen the situation

. With that out of the way...

If your IMEI is still intact, you could try booting in CWM, mounting /efs as rewritable, and upload the attached perso.txt, unmount efs and reboot. The file is simply my own perso.txt, from an unlocked 5660M, with your unlock code put in place of mine in a Unix line-ending aware editor. (Another, albeit riskier possibility would be to mount rewritable in the main OS and cat the file into place, then unmount and reboot.)

Good luck,

Darkshado
[General Questions and Answers] SPnewb:
Thank you, Darkshado, for answering my questions.

Yes the IMEI is still intact. What is weird is that now CP is off and network lock is on after I don't know which operation - I thought it should be due to the factory reset, but after factory reset, the status was still CP [ON] and network lock [OFF]. The I did reroot. The phone was rebooted many times after each attempt, and I only input unlock code once so I still have another two chances.

No I didn't make a copy of the original perso.txt as I almost knew nothing when I first tried.

About unmount mistake, is it so severe if there is a typo? My thought was that mounting and unmounting just control access to the file. When we mount a file, we get access to the file. If we forget to unmount it, it leave a hole for others to access. Is my understanding right? If yes, the typo in unmount command for the first method should not be a big deal as I rebooted the phone after an probably unsuccessful unmount.

As to the perso.txt, what I guess is that the file perso.txt contains all the unlock codes and when we input unlock code from the screen, the system will compare the input code with the code in perso.txt. If they are the same, unlock succeeds, which is similar to using password when we login anywhere. Am I right?

I actually think that uploading your perso.txt mught be a solution. But before doing that, I think it is better to compare your perso.txt with another perso.txt from another phone to see whether the difference is only the unlock code. If yes, the solution will succeed. However, if the perso.txt files from different phones are quite different -like the location of the unlock code and other data that is not 00 or FF, there is a good chance that it's very risky. Do you have another perso.txt available? Or anybody in the forum has a perso.txt available to compare?

My other question is how useful is this perso.txt. If I delete it totally by chance and ask people to unlock the phone from hardware, will the system still operate normally?

I'm going to try to factory reset the phone and reroot again - My PC is in repair and I'll try after I get my PC back - to see whether perso.txt could be restored. Do you have bml5.img in your phone? I don't know why I don't have it on my phone. But from the forum, it looks like that the bml5.img is very similar to perso.txt, only 00 becomes FF or vice verse.

Thanks again for your help.
[General Questions and Answers] Darkshado:
That is very strange. What, if any, SIMs did you have in the phone when attempting the unlock at the different stages? Was the Fido SIM in at any time before trying to get an unlock code prompt?

As far as I know, the factory reset operation, at least when triggered from recovery, only wipes the /data and /cache partitions. Is anything done to NV items? I don't have any data to tell.

Your understanding about mounting and unmounting is correct, but I am not certain that perso.txt is actually used by the phone to check the unlock code. It may also be written there for some other reasons...

The problem with our phones is that corruption has occurred by merely reading the stl5 partition the wrong way.

The idea of comparing some perso.txt files is good, but so far all the perso.txt files I've seen uploaded came from the Euro/Asia 5660 Gio, so we'd need files from a 5660M. They did look almost identical to mine though, with essentially a Bell network identifier at the beginning that wasn't present at all in theirs. One person with a 5660 also posted a before/after set, and the file does change a little after the unlock.

I've been reluctant to try too many things on my EFS partition, like deleting perso.txt to see how the phone reacts, for fear of bricking it.

There are two "levels" you can access the partitions on the phone. stl is a higher level access, with which you can get correct RFS partitions for instance, while bml is a lower, block-level access. perso.txt is simply a file contained in stl5, also known as the /efs partition. You can read its contents in a round-about way via bml, but you wouldn't want to flash an /efs, /system/ or /data partition through bml.

Unlike reading stl5, reading bml5 has not caused anyone bricking so far. bml5 is sufficient to get the unlock code as well.

Good luck,

Darkshado
[General Questions and Answers] SPnewb:
Hi Darkshado,

Thank you very much for your help.

The phone was locked to Bell, and my SIM card is from FIDO. I also got a Rogers SIM card for testing. When I rooted and generated teh code, I didn't have any SIM card in the phone. When I inserted Fido card after teh first attempt, I got the message " Phone is SIM Coperated locked" [i.e. when CP lock is On and other locks OFF], but I could still use the other functions of the phone. When the CP lock is OFF and Network lock is ON, I could not use the phoen at all because teh screen asked to input unlock code. If no input orcode is wrong, I cannot use the phone at all. Without SIM card, I could still use other functions of the phone.

What is NV items? Can you tell me how I can tell where to see NV items?

I was wondering whether the perso.txt is like config file?

I cannot think of where I read the partition wriong other than I might hav etyped the wrong unmount for the first time followed by a reboot. I actually thinking of falshing the phone, but for the moment I have not read anything about flash yet and have no idea where to find the proper version of files to falsh.

When I pull the perso.txt to PC, I seemed to use the following method (my PC is still in repair so I cannot verify ):

-Type: adb shell

-Now in adb shell

-Type: su

- allow root privileges to the adb shell.

-Type : mount -o remount rw /

-Type: mkdir /efs

-Type: mount -o nosuid,ro,nodev -t vfat /dev/block/stl5 /efs

-Type: exit twice to exit shell

-Type: adb pull /efs/mits/perso.txt

-Type: adb shell (to go back to shell)

-Type: umount

Is there any risk with this method?

About perso.txt,

I will try to see whether I could get some perso.txt files from anotehr forum (redflagdeals). Can you tell me where I can find the before/after set?

Thank you again very much.

Cathy
[General Questions and Answers] SPnewb:
Hi Darkshado,

Thank you for your quick response.

That's good advice :-) If I read the whole thread of unlocking first before I began unlocking, there might not have been problems. I began to unlock after reading a few postings. I used Linux long time ago, but obviously I could not recall anything now.

The code I had was got before the corrupted perso.txt. I had a strong feeling that the input unlock code will be compared with the code in perso.txt for unlocking, Otherwise if perso.txt is not useful any more, why when I input the initially generated unlock code, the unlocking is not successful. The CP lock is now OFF after the perso.txt is corrupted, though it is hard to judge whether CP is ON or not before perso.txt is corrupted because I got the unlock first then I saw CP was ON.

Can you tell me what command you use to get perso.txt? From the info below it seems that you use the same or similar commands, but in the recovery mode instead of the normal mode, is it right?

By editing perso.txt only?

Yes, since I inserted the MicroSD card into the phone for rooting, I never took it out. But I can hardly imagine this will cause any problem.

After a second thought, I decided not to flash the memory since I have little knowledge about it and the tools you mentioned here. As you suggest, I should know enough before doing it. So now, I was wondering whether it will solve the problem by just push the file perso_Cathy.txt in your above message to /efs/mits/perso.txt in recovery mode. What do you think? Another quesion is that I wish to back up all the files in the operating system before any more action. Can you tell me how to back up?

My PC is back but now I cannot even install androit SDK on the computer, so I have to bring it back for repair. So the next few days I probably would not be able to try anything, but once I try, I'll let you know the rsult.

Thank you very much.

Cathy
[General Questions and Answers] Darkshado:
It most definitely is compared. From what I can tell, perso.txt contains all the SIM-lock information, status and codes.

Exactly. Recovery mode is what makes the whole thing safe. You need a rooted recovery to do it though.

There are two ways to get the actual perso.txt file off the phone: adb pull (directly or by cat'ing the file to the sd card beforehand) or dd'ing the stl5 partition and extracting perso.txt from it.

Yes.

I'm pretty confident it will solve the problem, otherwise I would not have gone to the trouble of writing these instructions and uploading the file for you.

Look here.

What does the ADK installer say? If its complaining about not finding the JDK when you've already installed it, just it Back, and then Next. It will detect at that time and proceed with the installation. It's a known bug. Also, stick to JDK version 6 for the time being. Version 7 is so recent there might be some incompatibilities...

You're welcome.

Goodbye,

Darkshado
[General Questions and Answers] SPnewb:
The phone is bricked now. What I did is: hole the HOme key while pressing the power key, the phone asked me whether to "reboot the system now" or "update from /sdcard" or "wipe /data XXX factory reset" (sth like factory reset) or "wipe /cach", I chose "reboot the system now". after that , connect the phone to the system. What I did in PC is catured in teh following image:

After that, when rebooting the phone, the phone began to falsh "samsung" and it cannot be shut down any more.

It seems that using other people's perso.txt does not work. One reason may be that, as you said, "perso.txt contains all the SIM-lock information, status and codes", other than unlock code, it might also read each individual phone's information, since that hte perso.txt is not mine, the phone cannot find the proper information, which causes phone to do indefinite loop. If that is the case, instead of uploading a new perso.txt, editing my own (even the corrupted) perso.txt and changing the corresponding location into the unlock code might work, as the phoen could start up before. Another reason may be that by editing the perso.txt, the system might detect the action for example like using CRC, and if only perso.txt is edited, system detected inconsistency and will go into indefinite loop. If I were the developer and I am aware that perople crack the phone, I might using another file or check code to protect. In this case, "I turns out I can relock and unlock my phone as I see fit! I haven't tried, but I wouldn't be surprised if I could even lock my phone to a network other than Bell." might not work.

I guess that now even hardware unlock will not work, becaue when the phone start, it will read "perso.txt" and cannot find the right information. The only solution is push my original corrupted perso.txt back to the phone, but the question is how? Can you advise me what I should do now? SInce the phone does not start up at all, can I still flash the memory using Odin?

Thank you very much.

Cathy
[General Questions and Answers] Darkshado:
Crap. I'm afraid that if your phone is now bootlooping with no access to recovery mode there is little to be done but to get it serviced or replaced.

No one has been able to flash EFS with Odin yet on our phones.

Also, your image attachment explaining what you attempted exactly is missing...

Look at the perso.txt files in a hex editor, there's no CRC or MD5 like thing anywhere in there. Of course it could be placed elsewhere, but it would be a first to have a booby-trapped phone OS...

I'll try locking my phone to another network within the next week for the heck of it.

Goodbye,

Darkshado
[General Questions and Answers] SPnewb:
It's the format of the image. I changed to a different image format. You should be able to view the image in the first page now. Anyway, I posted it here again:

Let me know the result.

Thanks.

Cathy
[General Questions and Answers] Darkshado:
Please tell me: in what mode were you booted when you did the above?

Recovery?

Was the text blue or orange?

It's not normal that you had to use su. Otherwise your commands were correct starting with mount -o remount rw /
[General Questions and Answers] SPnewb:
I thought that I booted in recovery mode since when I turned on the phone, I held Home key then press the power key, but when the phone start up there were only 4 or 5 choices in the recovery menu and except the one "reboot the system now", there were no other choices about reboot. I suspected that to choose "reboot the system now" will cause startup in normal mode. How do you start up the phone in recover mode?

I cannot recall teh color of the text, but I never see any orange text since I had the phone.

Thank you very much for your help. I'm going to get another Gio to unlock.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Buddy39914:
In my opinion its the best user interface for android, is it anyway to use it on galaxy s2?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Exidrion:
Not yet, but they are working on a port. Check the "original Development" forum for more info.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Buddy39914:
Ok thank you
[Samsung Infuse 4G] bvspunjah:
Is there an add on I can get to get cm7 battery percentage for serendipity 7?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mroneeyedboh:
Free on amazon android apps today only 9/4/11

Sent from my Galaxy Tab!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] xboxhacka:
I am loving CM7 but i don't like like dialer as I feel the CM7 one is ugly and is missing some of the features that the Samsung dialer/contacts had.

So is there a way to get the samsung dialer/contacts on CM7?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] xboxhacka:
Anyone?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] beatblaster:
I don't think this is possible. If I'm not mistaken the Samsung dialer relies on TWframework which is not supported in CM. If you're looking for an alternative dialer try Go Contacts from the market.
[EVO 4G General] mroneeyedboh:
Today only, seek droid is free on amazon apps.

Sent from my Galaxy Tab!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haszan1172:
I was looking to upgrade my x10 to the actual version of x10. the 2.3.3 version it was not out in my country, so i got the worldwide version (the .ftf file). i flashed it with flashtool. it worked perfectly, but the 3g wont turn on no matter what i do, im with rogers, i choose 3g-rogers. it connects, my data is on, roaming is on, but it just doesnt turn on, doesnt show in the statu/notification bar, that it is on like it did before. so i used the pc companion and put the 2.1 back in, it still has the same problem, i put the latest wolf rom, 2.3, and it dont work, no matter which rom I choose. Please help me, give me any suggestions, i need 3g for my work, etc. thanks!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GreatBigDog:
Check your apn settings, if they are not present then you'll have to enter them manually. Use Google or search the forms here for the proper Rogers apn settings.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aR_ChRiS:
Or try the Sony Ericsson tab from the settings menu, you can download your courier's apn settings there.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ash.VIII:
I had the same problem, flashing to a stock 2.3.3 ROM and then the data connexion wouldn't work. What I did was to install Wolfbreak's TW Custom ROM then immediately applying a custom kernel patch. It worked fine from there.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] okin87:
I don't know if this will help at all but i had the same problem a month ago. what was causing my problem is that my limit of my package was over and i did not have any more credit on my phone (prepaid contract). so 3G would not connect unless i had credits (That's what my carrier told me). so i put credit on my phone but 3G still would not connect. it was kind of "stuck" because my credit was out. so i kept my credit and flashed a new rom (WB's rom). i put the APN manually and my problem was fixed.

So my problem was caused by my credit limitation. once i let my phone without credit 3G would not connect again unless i put credit and reflash the rom again... Crazy huh?

Every case is specific, however i hope it helps you in any way...