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[Nexus S General] rrohanjs:
you got a video of how to flash a custom rom after rooting via your method ? .. if you have one i cudnt find it ..
[Nexus S General] qbking77:
I do... its for flashing nexus s 4g roms though. Just look at my channel and you'll find the videos. The method is the same.
[Nexus S General] madd0g:
Just to post a follow-up: unlocked, rooted & flashed TSM Pool party ROM succesfully thanks to your excellent guide and tools on my fresh 9023 NS :] Thanks!
[Nexus S General] al_madd:
Where is the video how to unroot??
[Nexus S General] madd0g:
Well, I unrooted with this tool and got a bootloop after flashing the .img's. Any info about what to do now ?

[edit] I guess I need the stock .img's for 9023 GSM to flash in fastboot.

[edit2] Or no, I'll fastboot unlock it and flash CWM, then I can restore nandroid and lock it back to do the 2.3.6 OTA.

[edit3] Saved my system + updated to recent 2.3.6 OTA. Gonna post what I did, it might help someone. Device is i9023 EUR GSM

So after the unrooting bootloop, I just went to fastboot, did fastboot oem unlock.

Then I downloaded current CWM .img (name may vary) and did fastboot flash recovery 5023-cyan.img. So I could boot to CWM then and push the stock GRJ22 ROM .zip I downloaded from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1063664.

Flashed it via CWM (this .zip clears CWM recovery and installs stock recovery), then only last thing to do is doing fastboot oem lock. When you reboot, you're on stock device.

Because the 2.3.6 OTA wasn't found in system update, I downloaded the incremental update here (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1278835), renamed it to update.zip, copied to the sdcard and powered the phone off.

Rebooted with vol up + power in fastboot menu, selected recovery, which ofcourse now put me to OEM recovery.

When seeing the yellow triangle, you need to push again vol up + power and just select apply update from sdcard and select update.zip.

The recovery then flashes the incremental update (make sure the device is in OEM lock and there's no root), after you press reboot. 2.3.6 glory :]
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssaggy:
Does anyone know if bestbuy will give me any grief if my phone is rooted for the buyback?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjones8515:
Yes they will because securities are off. Check out the development threads and download the stock (e.sprint) image zip. Youll need the PC36.IMG and stock unrooted rom. There is a helpful guide that will help you as well. Good luck!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anderspn77:
Probably depends on whose checking it. How would they find out? Do they plug it in to something and it tells them?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssaggy:
Perfect thanks. I have the s-on tool and the ruu zip. Hopefully goes smooth
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ak074:
well if nothing else they could just boot into recovery and see for themselves
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] playya:
Really they just make sure phone turns on and that's it. They are sending it out to be refurbished and reload software.... but unrooting should not take so long
[Motorola Droid 3] stevefxp:
Evening all,

I have being playing with a spare D3 and have been successful in bringing it back to life. I got it back to 959, and then upgraded it to 890. Now with the upgrade I have something weird happening and wondered if anyone else who is running 890 is experiencing this. I cannot seem to get USB mode to operate on the D3 now. It is connected to my PC via USB, but its not showing up on the device as connected. Is this happening to anyone else?

Thanks,

Steve
[Motorola Droid 3] rynosaur:
I think this thread belongs in General. The answer (probably) is that you have the wrong USB mode selected from the menu pull-down. Hit the little android-usb icon up top and choose charge only, storage, or pc mode. Media sync might be the default.
[Motorola Droid 3] stevefxp:
No worries but its not that. The choice was not showing up in the notifications. It was only charging the battery. I read in another forum that its the USB cable, and would you believe thats it true.

So for all of you make sure you use the USB cable that came with your D3. Somehow in 890 its programmed differently.

Steve
[Motorola Droid 3] rynosaur:
I use the cable that came with my Droid Incredible (HTC) and the cable that came with my DroidX, with my Droid3 with no problems--959 and 890 firmwares. Both cables are wired differently, but the phone tolerates both of them well, although using the HTC cable does not give reliable Fastboot flashing or charge-only-mode (phone off) results. You might want to pitch that cable if it was giving you issues, they don't last forever!
[Motorola Droid 3] donwhall70:
890 works great for me except that the signal strength indicator doesn't like to turn blue at times when I am on wifi. Anyone else get this? Maybe I need to wipe data....
[Motorola Droid 3] Androidsims:
Same here, always white on wifi
[Motorola Droid 3] stevefxp:
Gone from phone use....very weird how they are wired differently.
[Motorola Droid 3] stevefxp:
I would recommend a full wipe, as that was happening with mine too. Once I did a full data and cache wipe it went back to blue...I actually like the blue! Wish someone would put together an ADW theme with that blue...maybe I need to learn how to use ADW.
[Motorola Droid 3] donwhall70:
I just did a full data wipe and it still does it. If I go from 3G to WiFi, the WiFi indicator goes blue but the signal strength indicator bars stay white. If I put it into airplane mode from there then back, they both go blue. Odd....
[Motorola Droid 3] Bobbar:
Anyone having issues waking the phone from sleep mode?
[Motorola Droid 3] Raa_1:
Nope, been waking/sleeping quite fine here.
[Motorola Droid 3] aross6:
Same thing hapened to me... upgraded to 890 and then USB mode dropdown would not appear when connected via usb, it only charged; swapped out the USB cable and it was all good (too bad I didn't realize this until after I did a factory wipe)!
[Motorola Droid 3] Bobbar:
Hmm. Have you removed bloatware?

*EDIT*

It only seems to work for me when I'm connected to USB power...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tallnerd1985:
I was googling WebTop hacks for the Bionic to see if any came up but it did show ones on the Atrix that were pretty frickin awesome if we could get this up and running on our phones

WebTop2sd 1.1.0

Imagine running a full version of Ubuntu instead of the lite version that is preloaded in the WebTop OS. Finally we could run XBMC or OpenOffice through the power of our phones :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] hastaply:
Find anything? The closest I have come across is a flashable zip for the Atrix but no full Ubuntu for the Bionic.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] rcicu:
I am on my bionic....
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tomgiboney:
I have been searching for the past 24 hours to no avail... I guess we just need to wait a few weeks or so for our Bionic version of UbunTop.

I was thinking of trying to overwrite all of OSH on my Bionic with the OSH dir from UbunTop package... but I decided against it. Primarily because if it did actually work, I'd still be on jaunty instead of maverick (newer ubuntu). So there'd be all sorts of incompatibilities with stuff I'd be wanting to try.

So, I guess I'll keep waiting and searching :D Can't be long now...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] hastaply:
Ok, so I have gotten as far as being able to load ubuntu 10.10 w/ gnome panel but when i try to upgrade to 11.04 it tells me that it needs 10.5m of space. I partitioned my 32gb sd card 50/50 so there is a ton of room. Disk Usage Analyzer says there is no mount point. Everything in Ubuntu is trying to load to /, not osh/ maybe??

Anyone have any ideas?

Edit: Any installs from synaptic can install just fine, its only from ubuntu updater thats giving me issues
[Motorola Droid Bionic] seanbond65:
I tried the same thing and got the error message.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tomgiboney:
Could I please ask how you achieved this? Thanks!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] hastaply:
Ok, start with the webtop2sd mod then, check out

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1281722

Once your done there, go into synaptic and install gnome and ubuntu. When you start doing things, it will give you a few errors of items needed to install/uninstall, install/uninstall them as needed. It will also give you an error about "Bluez", when you get there you will need to "completely remove" it. Once everything is installed, restart your phone.

Reopen "start-oshwt-2.sh", remove the xfce panel and desktop you added earlier and add:

sfalv -i "gnome-panel"

sfalv -i "ubuntu-desktop"

Save and restart

Back into webtop and you should have a nice new ubuntu webtop.

I recommend doing a complete uninstall of firefox then reinstall it, it will give you a more complete firefox.

Openoffice works too.

At this point I am stuck, synaptic works just fine but when I try Ubuntu Update, it gives the disk space error. Still working on it.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] bnred777:
not sure if this will help but I was having alot of problems getting certain things to install and I did a:

apt-get install --reinstall coreutils

fix alot of problems for me
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tomgiboney:
So webtop2sd is absolutely necessary before we can install that webtop patch? I'm not sure what went wrong when I tried doing the webtop2sd once before, but I got stuck at the M loading screen and had to completely restore my phone from RSD... So I'm a bit nervous to try again, lol. But I will if it's necessary for Ubuntu :)

EDIT:

OK, I am attempting the webtop2sd process again. This time I partitioned the SD from the windows program "MiniTool Partition Wizard..." as suggested. It is currently synchronizing... I'm keeping my fingers crossed :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] hastaply:
Well, youll want to do it for no other reason than disk space, installing gnome, ubuntu, etc takes quite a bit. Even though webtop2sd says that it changes /etc/tomoyo, i found that there was both the original and the "toy" folder after install. I went again and changed the folder name to tomoyo1 and never had a boot problem after.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tomgiboney:
I certainly thank you and appreciate you taking the time to write this lil guide :) But unfortunately, everytime I try to install gnome and ubuntu I get fatal errors and it never finishes anything. Everytime so far, I've had to fully restore my phone... :( But, I'm a very patient man ;) No full on bricks, so that's great! ... But I do feel as though I'm getting closer and closer each time. You've given me a lot of info to run with, I just don't understand why mine won't give the same results as yours... oh well.

Thank you for all your input, it is greatly appreciated!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] hastaply:
The only thing specifically related to my process that I left out was that in the guide for webtop2sd, I took that authors advice and used the partition tool included in his post to partition my sd card although i doubt thats your issue. If you get hung up, between the posts are all the files need to go back to fully stock, that's where i started from and, not that is should make a difference but im using the (r3)blur3d 2.0 rom.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] robroy90:
Any more progress?

Has anyone else gotten any further with this?

I think this has SO MUCH potential and I really wish there were more updates and/or interest in this.

I (think) I have webtop2sd working correctly, but I still encounter the low memory issues when I use even 2 or more browser tabs in Firefox simultaneously. I saw the other thread about adding the swap partition, perhaps I need to go that route instead?

I have a class 10 SD card in my phone, and I did allocate 3GB to the webtop2sd partition, but I know there are some inherent limitations of OSH based on Motorola's original design.

I just wish it could be made more powerful and viable. The idea of carrying around a full-blown desktop OS on my phone almost makes me salivate.

Thanks!

-Rob
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tomgiboney:
Yeah, MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition! :D It's a great tool! I used that to partition mine as well... the biggest partition for my sdcard-ext (like 9GB) then almost 5GB for the webtop2sd partition... then whatever was left for a swap partition (created in MiniTool Wizard also). I've never noticed a low memory warning, but I really haven't used my webtop much. Just today I got the bluetooth mouse and keyboard in the mail, so I'm thinking it'll be able to get more usage. Oh, and I was running stock, just rooted (forever rooted) and NOT deodexed... BUT now I am running on the HIFT3R rom ... I'm gonna try out the TH3ORYPAKX "Blurry" now... I tried the ICS Blurry, but I don't like the color scheme, and various little things... Hoping the Blurry is more to my liking. :)

But it does seem as though I have more power/rights for some reason, perhaps cause it's deodexed or perhaps because it has a lot of mods built-in? Who knows... I just know it seems a lot better.

I *just* got thru with the sudo apt-get update at lunch time... getting ready to go back home and start playing around. This time with the bluetooth mouse and keyboard! woot!

I did get the KFCE4 working a while back, as in the guide...

sfalv -i "xfdesktop"

sfalv -i "xfce4-panel"

BUT I didn't really like it for some reason... I want the gnome-panel and ubuntu-desktop but no matter what I've tried, I have always ended up with poor results... not once have I seen the gnome-panel (which would be on the bottom right? the webtop-panel will always be on the top, unless I rem out that line too) And I'm not sure what I'll see if the ubuntu-desktop ever works...

But I'm dying to find out :)

I'll let you know my results...

---------- Post added at 03:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:44 PM ----------

Rob, I must agree 100% ... the idea of having a fully loaded, ready to roll, desktop OS on my smartphone is mind-blowing! The lapdock is great and all, but too expensive. Having the alternative ability to hook my phone up to my or my friends HDTV when I visit, whip out my bluetooth mouse and keyboard... then queue up a movie, or show them some awesome websites, or let them surf the web... or work on some overdue projects... it's quite appealing! You could even hook it into a projector and give a presentation... from your PHONE, lol.

...

That being said, though. I have ran into some discouragement. I have a monitor here at work with DVI input, and a HDMI to DVI adapter cable. The native res is like 1680x1050. In the beginning, I was able to hook my Bionic up to it and webtop just fine. It looked stretched cause it was using a 4:3 resolution, but it still worked. Now, it doesn't work. Says something like it's unsupported res or something (on the monitor screen for a second). So, I try it on every monitor I have handy (I work in the IT Dept)... not a single one of them worked!!! But I go home and hook it up to my 1080p DLP 60" and it works just fine. Hmmm...... I wish I could figure this one out.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nstallion:
I'd like to know the solution if you find it. It seems to be running the desktop at 1280x1024. I've changed the resolution with xrandr to 1680x1050 and the proportions look right, but the actual resolution it's outputting is still 1280x1024 so all of the pixels look weird and fuzzy. It's as if the virtual desktop is only 1280x1024. I tried creating my own xorg.conf file and setting up a 1680x1050 resolution mode and virtual line but it still doesn't work. Any ideas from anyone else?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tomgiboney:
I got it working on this monitor here at work again... what I did was just make sure I went down to like 1024x768 resolution while I had it on my HDTV at home before I unplugged it. For some reason, if I left it on the 720p, it would stay there and wouldn't be recognized on any other monitor (unless it was capable of actual 720p). Automatic 'new' display detection looks like it is built in, but doesn't seem to work most of the time.

On another note... My bluetooth mouse and keyboard have some crazy, 1 to 2 second lag ONLY in webtop. I was doing something last night and the mouse sprung into life... the lag completely went away, on the keyboard too! But after unplugging and hooking back up, the lag is back... :( If I unplug the monitor, there is absolutely no lag with the mouse or keyboard on just the phone itself. Could this be the 'Bluez' thing you were talking about Hastaply?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] hastaply:
Yeah, it could be. The bluetooth drivers in Ubuntu dont play well with webtop but if your keyboard and mouse are paired with the phone and then you enter into webtop they should still stay connected. Under synaptic, search for and 'completely remove' Bluez.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tomgiboney:
Tried uninstalling Bluez and it did not alleviate the bluetooth device lag issues. And again, these issues ONLY happen in webtop. Sometimes they go away, the mouse & keyboard (/and*or/ the PS3 controller) work fine without any lag at all, but that is only like 20 percent of the time if that. It could be working, I disconnect, 5 min later hook it back up to webtop and the lag is back...

But, I really don't know what to do there so... I will just continue on with getting my webtop the way I want it.

I really would like to know how to replace 'metacity' window manager with something else. So much so that the .sh files and such that are called upon Webtop launch actually call the new window manager instead of metacity... I want to completely eliminate all reference to it and replace it with whatever window manager I want... like kwin or enlightenment ... but I certainly don't want to break the aiw (motorola phone window) in any way.

I was able to figure out why ubuntu-desktop wasn't finishing install. When dpkg got to configuring stuff it couldn't complete samba-common due to a bad readlink/symlink... and if samba-common couldn't complete, neither could smbclient, and in turn ubuntu-desktop. After deleteing the bad readlink and rerunning dpkg --configure -a ... the problem was resolved :)

I'm slowly learning how to get stuff fixed... but the more complicated I get, the easier it is to hose the whole webtop and then it's restore time! :D

Anyhow... progress, slowly but surely.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] robroy90:
Is there a way to use webtop2sd AND the swap space hack?

I think I have the webtop2sd piece working correctly, but I still get low memory available errors when only running a single tab in Firefox.

Full Ubuntu someday would be nice, but for now I would just like to have the ability to have a stable and reliable browser. I am not much of a Linux guru and don't need to run native apps (at least right now). Should I just undo the webtop2sd app and go back and follow the directions to enable the swap space hack?

Thanks, any experienced advice would be appreciated.

-Rob
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tomgiboney:
First off, I don't know how qualified I really am at answering any questions... but as a computer technician I think I can field this :)

How many apps do you have on your phone? How many are running in the background eating away at your memory (RAM)? You can use Task Killer to find out and to also kill most unnecessary background running apps. THEN launch webtop. I personally don't have much at all going on on my phone... just a handful of apps and lots of them frozen (bloat). So, my RAM usage is minimal. I should also point out I have never once seen a memory low error in webtop. :)

To get the swap working you must follow the swap guide to the letter... with Script Manager and downloading the file and placing it somewhere on your sdcard-ext ... And to answer your question, yes, webtop2sd and swap partition are working fluidly together for me. This means I have 3 partitions on my sdcard-ext ... one which is fat32 I believe, for well, storage... second is ext3 for the webtop... third is 'swap' ... you must use a format utility which can format a partition as swap such as the one suggested in the webtop2sd guide. But I also could recommend the free utility MiniTool Partition Home Edition... it's a great free one, the one I used for all my partition stuff on my Bionic.

So, if you didn't do all this: Got the UUID of the swap partition, put it in the UUID line in your fstab file, installed script manager on your phone, downloaded the script provided, and set it to run as root and run as boot... then you won't get any results.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Pale_Flyer:
late to the party

I just rooted my bionic and installed a custom rom image of ICS, which is mostly stable, but when i did this, i forgot to back up WebTop, and so my /osh partition(?) is empty. can i just drop these files into the osh partition? or do i have to load "blurTop" on first? i have been looking for this thread since i dropped the $300 on the LapDock.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] dellenrules:
Last time I checked, webtop was not compatible with any of the ICS roms.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] willbur73:
The only way to have working HDMI/webtop at all is to forget ICS and go back to GB. Until MOTO/VZW release an update with an ICS kernel we cannot have the HDMI.

SO if you need HDMI, no ICS for you!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jmath679:
I hate that moto is dragging their feet on the ics update. It is annoying that all of the Android phone manufacturers are racing to put out newer more bleeding edge phones instead of properly supporting the phones they have already made. We should not have to pick and choose what works in which rom to get the experience we want from our phones. They should provide at least as much support as the community but I know that will never happen.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RevosFTS:
I want to use chomp messanger how can I disable my stock messanging. Is it safe to freeze??

Sent from my Thunderbolt running CM7...
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yareally:
you dont really have to freeze it, just turn off its notifications. however, it wont hurt if you do.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sonami:
I uninstall mine with tb

Sent from my TBolt using my f***king thumbs...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] owent92:
anyone had any success with installing the webtop hack ontop of the Darkside Rom v1.4? I've tried but all it does is HDMI mirror.
[Motorola Droid 3] BrettKoster:
To those who own the phone, I want to know any battery life statistics you can provide.

I am very interested in this phone as it has that amazing keyboard, a nice 4" QHD screen, and it at least seems plausible there will be roms available at some point. But battery life I am not sure about, all the reviews I have read don't hit too hard on the battery life and I want someone to tell me heavy details about the battery life.

On a side note, if anyone can compare their D3 to this that would be great. I currently own a Droid Incredible, it is running MIUI, I have brightness set to 15-35% max, I have 3G turned off with Wifi on (as I live on a college campus with lots of wifi). On Easy to Moderate usage, I wouldn't have to charge for 2-3 days, On Medium to Heavy usage I end the day with at least 15%. With those same settings could I expect that from the Droid 3? (if so I would be extremely happy as I am very pleased with the Dinc battery life but I definitely need a keyboard.)

thank you for any help!

-Brett
[Motorola Droid 3] wootizzle:
I know the people who successfully had used the bloat removal script apparently get great battery, didn't work for me. But, depends what you consider heavy and moderate I guess. I usually charge once before leaving from work (I like to have more than 50% battery) I think I'm down to about 30% usually towards the end of my shifts playing music from my phone, txting a lot, browsing facebook and some forums.

It works decently when I'm off work tho cuz I txt and browse less.