yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilnev:
Hi

Can anyone point me to the best radio for the Nexus S model GT-I9020T. I live in Switzerland.

thanks!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rentaric:
Why not just try them all for a few days each? KD1 is the latest, but for some regions KB1/KB3 can get better reception. When going to Switzerland I always stay with KD1.
[Motorola Droid 3] iSpencerPro:
Okay so I rooted my phone and i removed some apps that were safe to remove using titanium backup pro. I then was having some problems with my phone where it would just start hitting the space bar until i hit another button, same thing with back space. So I factory restored it because I read somewhere that if you factory restore it'll still stay rooted.

So now that I factory restored it and wiped the cache. I am stuck trying to move past the add your accounts. If i click next I get to the part where my gps is. but then I get the problem of click 1 of the 3 for your gps. I then get a force close for my account.

I made a back up of everything using titanium back up. but I can't do anything.... Please help me
[Motorola Droid 3] wootizzle:
Was your phone plugged in? Idk if this is something others experience but if my phone is on usb debug and plugged in everything acts stupid and I end up having the same type of issues you started with. They disappear once it's unpluggged, tho. Sorry I can't help as far as restoring **** goes but I'm sure someone else may have some advice for that, I'm still not sure how to restore anything myself if stuff goes wrong.
[Motorola Droid 3] iSpencerPro:
Nevermind i got this taken care of. =]

I restarted again deleted everything again by wiping it. then I logged in and waited for my old launcher pro to download. I went to the market after they downloaded by dragging down and clicking home. I ended up clicking launcher pro instead. I then was able to just restore bloatware and then remove it after everything was okay
[Motorola Droid Bionic] strunker:
So far I have tried linda, astro, and root explorer.

When I try and click on the sd card it is showing me the 8gig partition share on the phone that is set up for app installs.

None of the file manager programs, besides the stock one on the phone, are properly showing the sd card.

Anyone else notice this?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] idefiler6:
Working fine for me. Root explorer included
[Motorola Droid Bionic] dellenrules:
The internal drive is 16GB

Once formatted to FAT, is gets reduced to just over 15GB

Then the OS is placed on the drive in a separate partition which takes up roughly about 4GB bringing that once 16GB drive down again to about 11GB

The remaining partition is partitioned once again to create an internal storage area similar to the SDCARD partition on the XOOM, as well an an application area where programs are pre-installed to.

That is why your internal storage area says only 8GB

The numbers I used are not exact but are rough estimates.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] moosc:
you just have to look around in it. both sd cards are there. its just not as simple as the stock one. my xoom is the same way.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] strunker:
This is exactly right. Is there a way to use any file managers then? They are all being fooled into thinking the internal storage is the sd card when it obviously isnt.

I have found no setting or way thus far to point the file manager apps to the actual sd card instead of the internal partition.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] moosc:
its a messed up sytem if they gave us more memory then it wouldnt b so bad.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] moosc:
not at the moment. either devoplers will have to modify there apps or a custom rom is needed to remap the memory.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] strunker:
I actually found a temporary solution to this.. If you are rooted of course since you need to be to do anything useful on this thing.

I used root explorer for this.

For whatever reason they decided to name the internal memory application partition, to sdcard... This is why the file manager apps are getting confused.

The real sdcard is named sdcard-ext...

So All I did was rename sdcard (which is the internal partition), then I renamed sdcard-ext to sdcard. The file manager programs then pointed towards the actual sdcard..

However, upon reboot the folders renamed themselves back to the way they were... Not sure why they are doing that but they are...

If the folders would stop renaming themselves back the above method would be a solution for this prob.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] strunker:
In addition to the above, I dont know if astro has this feature, but on linda you can create a shortcut to the card and place it as a shortcut directly to the folder.

Wish it was possible to get the source to these apps. Could likely edit it and point it towards the proper folder.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] dellenrules:
Root explorer will allow you to view everything. If your phone is rooted you could edit them with this app as well.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] NeoMagus:
The SD Card is actually sd-ext in file managers sdcard is the internal
[HTC ChaCha] freakysands:
ok folks,

i've cooked a rom on my own that i would like to share with you. suggestions are welcome, feedback as well.

hope you understand me / my description. i'm not familiar with english but i'll give it a try :)

FLASHING ON YOUR OWN RISK - NO WARRANTY - BACKUP YOUR DATA FIRST

Name

FreakCha 1.3 public (silent boot) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MCSNO0RJ

FreakCha 1.4 public (silent boot) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8TCUGS21

signed rom

deodexed

zipaligned

System

Android 2.3.3

Build 1.13.401.1

Kernel 2.6.35.10

Installation

1. flash CWM

2. copy FreakCha_X.X.zip to your sd

3. press POWER + VOL down

-> Bootloader

-> choose Recovery and press POWER to apply

4. wipe data/factory reset

5. wipe cache partition

6. choose advanced -> wipe dalvik cache

7. install zip from sdcard -> choose zip from sdcard -> FreakCha_X.X.zip

8. reboot system

done

the first boot might take up to 2 minutes. after that the rom should boot / shutdown within 15 seconds the second time.

FreakCha Ver 1.3 comes up with 87megs of free internal storage. might differ +-3megs. thats what i heard so far.

known issues

QWERTY keyboard (i'm from germany, so it is a problem ^^ )

settings -> personalize -> jumps back to the homescreen

facebookbutton without funtionality

lockscreen -> sound on / off -> icon will rotate 90°, nevertheless it works fine

added apps

ADW Launcher 1.3.6

OI Filemanager 1.1.6

Titanium Backup 3.9.0

Link2SD 1.8.0

Superuser 2.3.6.3

Busybox

HOW TO SET UP LINK2SD

1. flash the rom

2. turn off phone

3. boot in recovery

- advanced

-> Partition SD Card

-> choose 1024M

-> choose SWAP

- wait

- reboot system now

4. go to link2sd

-> choose format

-> generating mounting script

- done

5. reboot device

6. go to link2sd

-> settings -> autolink

- finished

removed apps

HTC Sense

all HTC widgets

live wallpaper

facebook, twitter, flickr, calculator, email, maps, voicesearch

all UI-Sounds (camera, keyboard, low-battery, etc)

HTC bootanimation and downanimation

all HTC Pics (wallpapers)

Changelog Ver. 1.4

83megs free internal storage

added Boat Browser Mini 2.6.1 (removed Standardbrowser)

added new Google Market Version 3.1.3

Stock Browser / Email

http://www.mediafire.com/?stirwiubeyrn8um
[HTC ChaCha] Alex C.:
That's why personalize doesn't work. Already tried it on my own (a couple of weeks ago) by freezing up HTC Sense from Titanium and observing the behavior. Currently we're having too many dependencies between HTC Sense and other apps/widgets.
[HTC ChaCha] freakysands:
thats right, sense is such a pain. thats the reason why i removed it.

rom is still stable on day four without sense. everything works fine so far.
[HTC ChaCha] qbert456:
The search button doesn't bring anything up.

Long press brings up the option, I have "in app WiFi toggle" but short press vibrates and nothing else.

Sent from my Chacha
[HTC ChaCha] Alex C.:
Could be a behavior of the missing HTC Sense (haven't checked it yet).
[HTC ChaCha] qbert456:
My Rom available is shrinking all the time, now only 45mb.

Not put anything extra on since it was over 70!

Anything above 20 is better than out of the box tho.

Anyone else's Rom getting smaller with everyday use?

Sent from my Chacha
[HTC ChaCha] Alex C.:
Remember to do factory reset data and move apps to SD card. I'm running on stock, I have 60 MB free and a lot of apps.
[HTC ChaCha] qbert456:
i tried the factory reset, all it did was (surprise surprise!) reset everything back to square one.

had to reinstall all the apps, password, wifi - all of it!

in the guide you indicate they will all be there but as its a reset, how can they be?
[HTC ChaCha] Alex C.:
Did you have your gmail account setup for your phone? Also were your backup and restore settings activated? (They are activated by default).

The thing is this works like this:

You setup your gmail account.

You download apps & stuff.

You sync your Gmail account with backup and restore activated.

When you do a factory rest and re-sync again, all your apps start downloading again.
[HTC ChaCha] qbert456:
forgot to say (no excuse, sorry)

thanks freakysands for the rom! :)

trying 1.4 right now
[HTC ChaCha] qbert456:
hmm, some of my apps are acquired from non market sources maybe thats it

thanks Alex, i'll try again
[HTC ChaCha] qbert456:
1.4 market keeps fc

shame tho, looks nice!
[HTC ChaCha] freakysands:
market with fc??? :confused:

how did you flash the rom?

4. wipe data/factory reset

5. wipe cache partition

6. choose advanced -> wipe dalvik cache

did you perform point 4-6?
[HTC ChaCha] qbert456:
I did indeed, most odd,

I tried 3 of the sources too, do you have the md5 sum maybe please?

Your ROM looks most suited for me too, so I'll keep trying!
[HTC ChaCha] freakysands:
hi,

there won't be further updates of my rom. my device has a water damage and does not work anymore.

i'll kick the roms out of my dropbox soon. right now i'm looking for a filehoster to upload. links will be changed asap.
[HTC ChaCha] freakysands:
back again... :)

in about three weeks i'll continue working on the rom
[HTC ChaCha] qbert456:
Phone fixed? !
[HTC ChaCha] kngharv:
keep crashing

I got following error... very frequently:

The Process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again...
[HTC ChaCha] Alex C.:
Occurs due to the same contact featuring in multiple accounts that are being synced on Android, which leads to a conflict.

Factory data reset should fix this problem. (not tested)
[HTC ChaCha] kngharv:
partition issue and link2sd

Dear all:

I partitioned my 16GB card into three partitions

primary: 11.x GB FAT32

primary: 0.87 GB ext3

primary: 0.38 GB linux-swap

For some reason, Link2SD couldn't mount my ext3 partition. (it kept saying it's not mounted)

any idea why this is the case?

I use Gparted software on my Desktop Linux to partition my SD card. In the past (HTC Leo with Android ROM), I never had any issue with this kind of set up.

any help / idea on where went wrong really appreciated.

Harv
[HTC ChaCha] Alex C.:
Hmmm, I'm not sure (atm I still need to update ubuntu to 11.10) how Gparted does it but we *all* suggest partitioning your sdcard while it's inside the phone, in the CWM (clockwork mode) recovery (ported by Mikevhl) from the advanced settings menu.

This should work. Other than this, you can also try using the "Fix permissions" option, from the same menu (as far as I can remember).

After this, in Link2SD select ext3.
[HTC ChaCha] kngharv:
partition issue and link2sd: solved

Dear all:

I figured this out. It turned out that my mistake was that I formated ext3, then immediately put something in ext3 partition (/app)

What I did was using Gparted and reformat the ext3 partition, and let this newly minted partition be inserted into my phone, then everything worked, Link2SD found the partition and doing its thing.

Harv

---------- Post added at 12:09 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:00 AM ----------

Dear Freakysands:

1. I love your ROM overall. It is by far the best I used. I am sick and tired of HTC's so-called value-added "features."

2. I use this phone as a message phone, i.e. one of my more critical function is email. my company uses exchange email settings. I do realize that you've removed it. How do I get this functionality back? I can't find it on the "market"

3. similar line, less important, is the browser. is there an apk file which I can just install?

thanks in advance

Harv
[HTC ChaCha] Alex C.:
What about the browser? What do you need precisely?

As for the exchange extension I will post a link tomorrow.
[HTC ChaCha] kngharv:
ok... i can live without default browser. exchange is much appreciated

Thank you. I guess I can live with another browser... consider I've tried 3-4 different browser before.

Please help me with Exchange. The main issue is that I use the exchange functionality to sync both company email and company calendar. I would really appreciate if this functionality can be restored.

I personally don't have *ANY* microsoft product on my laptop, but it's not up to me when company uses Exchange for their email, etc.

Thanks in advance

Harv
[HTC ChaCha] Alex C.:
Still you haven't answered: what browser do you want?

In Accounts & Sync do you have Google accounts there?

If not then try installing this package: http://cmw.22aaf3.com/gapps/gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip
[HTC ChaCha] freakysands:
hi there,

i'll add the missing apks (email and htc browser) this evening. check my first post later on.

i'm having big trouble in my relationship, therefore i can't say if there will be further updates of freakcha.

right now, it seems to be a long way

i'm working on it
[HTC ChaCha] kngharv:
Google Broswer, and yes, I do see "Google" account

1. Google built-in browser is fine

2. I do see "Google Account." When I want to add account, I can't add "Exchange" account like the way before. and that is what I desire.
[HTC ChaCha] freakysands:
added stock browser.apk and email.apk to my first post.

regards
[HTC ChaCha] kngharv:
how do I install this zip?

The default browser.apk and mail.apk posted on the first post in this tread is not working. I kept getting "Application Not Installed" and not getting any more detail than that...
[HTC ChaCha] kngharv:
neither apk installs

neither apk installs. It only gave an error of "Application not installed" message, didn't tell me anything more than that.

I am new to Android, but relatively familiar with Linux (I am using Linux as my sole OS on my laptop). I am still haven't figure out how to look at /var/log/syslog so I can give you guys any more meaningful information.

if you have any idea why these two apk couldn't install, please let me know.

While I am trying to catch up on busybox and how to telnet *TO* my android machine, if you guys have any obvious pointers, let me know as well.

---------- Post added at 12:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:35 PM ----------

can I just unzip this file at the root directory *WHILE* system is running and don't expect any error as result? I apologize for this because I am a bit nerveous when I do things like this on any Linux related machine.
[HTC ChaCha] Alex C.:
You can try using adb to push/install the files.

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html#commandsummary

Just relax, you can't destroy/damage anything that cannot be repaired. I'm guessing you're S-OFF and rooted, right?
[HTC ChaCha] kngharv:
yes, S-off and rooted...

I've reinstall OS so many times that I got a feeling I am slowly loosing patience.

Yes, I've rooted and S-off'd I couldn't do anything without having S-off'd.
[HTC ChaCha] kngharv:
installed via Clockmod recovery: gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip, not working

Dear Alex:

a friend of mine looked at the zip told me to install it via Clockmod recovery.

After I installed this zip, my phone basically became unusable due to frequency of error messages.

and when I go to "add account," I still don't see "exchange" mail.

Hard-resetting... again.

If any of you knows how to restore exchange email functionality on this ROM, please let me know. I *LOVE* this ROM so much... but this lack of synching with my work life is killing me.

Harv
[HTC ChaCha] Alex C.:
The files I have posted are the google apps. I thought that you wanted the google account. For exchange you need the standard email client, posted in the first topic on this thread. I apologize for the confusion. As for gapps, yes those must installed via cwm yet I'm unsure as to why they are spitting out so many errors. Some conflict between stock and these probably.
[HTC ChaCha] kngharv:
default email apk

unfortunately, default email client simply doesn't install. it provide no information other than "Application Not Installed" after I went through the installation process.

I am currently trying other options, such as:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=810454

this one at least installed without complain... not yet working though...
[HTC ChaCha] kngharv:
System ROM area... how to use it?

Dear all:

Since this ROM is so light and small, there are a lot of space, roughly about 80MB System ROM area which is free.

My question to you all is, how to put application in there so I can free up *MORE* storage for my ever larger appetite for applications?

Despite this great ROM and Link2SD, I am running out of space already. Those 80MB extra space look pretty good right now.

I have a pro version of Titanium Backup, but when I convert apps to "System Apps," it does *NOT* put them in the System ROM area.

any hints? thanks
[HTC ChaCha] kngharv:
this email client worked

dear all:

this email client worked. :)

Harv
[HTC ChaCha] lecongdon:
Bro should made FreakCha 1.5 to update some app and fix somethings:

-Market 3.3.11

-Facebook button

-Gmail 2.3.5.2

-Titanium Backup

-Link2SD 1.9.6

-Boat Browser Mini 2.9.1

-Music Ice Cream Sandwitch

-...

And I think Go launcher is better than ADW launcher. ( In my opinion, everbody like Android 4.0, so Go launcher theme so good look like ICS)

When you turn off phone to charge, it never has Green Led when it's full batery. and you can not open your phone after you remove and replace the battery. That's error of FreakCha 1.4

Thanks a lot.
[HTC ChaCha] kngharv:
Android default email client and beyond...

Dear all:

I want to share a strange experience with email client.

I went out of my way to get stock email software restored on this FreakCha ROM. Thanks to XDA-developer, I found it and successfully installed.

The result is that I was able to sync my company email AND calendar on its exchange server on my phone. With reminders and everything. I was happy...

For about 3 days...

Then, the dreaded lack of internal ROM in /data partition came back to haunt me. I for a while couldn't figure out why space were disappearing on me.

It took me another week to realize the culprit lies within the stock email client. Apparently, this stupid email store EVERYTHING aside from attachments on my internal storage, with no option of moving them to SD card.

The worse part is, because company only support IMAP protocol and there were no option to adjust the synchronization behavior, If I delete email on my handset, it would get deleted on the server as well...

After another week of trying different things, I realize i can simply wipe data in "Manage Application" to get rid of all emails.

So, after all these trouble, I found myself back to K9-mail client. It at least supports having email on SD card. As result, I use k9 as my email client, and don't even bother with gmail app for the same reason.

A free, open-source email client came ahead of everything else...

The side note is that I couldn't get rid of stock email client entirely. I set it up, and kept it so my calendar entries can be synced.

One device, three email clients.

Harv
[HTC ChaCha] g0rnex:
With link2sd on this rom u still use some internal space when moving to sd right?

Not like S2e on CM7 where u use no space on internal at all when installing apps to ext3
[LG Thrill 4G] quarlow:
I have a captivate, and its time for renewal. I want to get a Thrill or SGS II, leaning towards Thrill. But I digress ...

Did anyone here buy their Thrill on Amazon Wireless ($69)? If so, did you have the old grandfathered unlimited data, and could you keep it? I tried to find a way to skip data options but couldn't get it to work. It let me do an upgrade check, and skip the plan options, but forced me to choose one of the new data plans. The att site let me try without choosing a data plan, but I would like to save the $30 on the phone.

Any ideas? Should I try calling amazon to see if they can do it over the phone? I am just too scared to call in case they somehow put me on one of the new plans accidentally.

Sent from my Captivate running Continuum 5.6
[LG Thrill 4G] dante501:
Walmart online sells the Thrill for 19.99!
[LG Thrill 4G] M1nur:
Why are you curious about the grandfathering in fi you dont want the data plan?

Anyways yes I had my unlimited data back from my iphone and have been through the captivate and now the thrill, and ive been able to keep it.

I dont think you will be able to get the phone with out a data plan, for a good deal. You can buy one straight up and not worry about activating a data plan.

This guy here is selling a brand new one for $370.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1258843
[LG Thrill 4G] entropism:
Go to walmart and get it for $20, or go to Costco and get it for $50 but have a 90 day return policy. I'll be getting mine from Costco, since I'm not convinced the Thrill is for me. Neither will make you change your data plan, and even if you DID get it from amazon, a simple call to AT&T would have it switched back.
[LG Thrill 4G] quarlow:
I want to keep my old unlimited plan, I use 6GB a month, streaming Pandora all day at work.

I'll look at Walmart online. I don't have a Costco membership, or one in my town. Does the 30 day window att give you only apply to att store purchases, or is it universal? I am pretty sure I want to stick with the Thrill, but also want to leave my options open for when the SGS II comes out.

Sent from my Captivate running Continuum 5.6
[LG Thrill 4G] ShawnXVIII:
The 30 day upgrade reversal is universal but it has to be returned to the store where you bought it. Unless you get it online then you have to return it to a corporate store or have ATT send you a box to return it.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] renocivik:
Netflix is now on the market ... supports most 2.2 2.3 devices

Just not ours...

It works on xoom which is a Tehran device.... is it some sort of lib file.we need? Another file..

?

I'm going to play with files tonight and see if I can pull off some magic
[T-Mobile LG G2x] FatalityBoyZahy:
Time to get a Netflix membership
[T-Mobile LG G2x] KingDavid63:
you a couple days behind on this... created a thread some days ago for this in the apps section check it out...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] renocivik:
didnt see it...

"check it out" ... not sure what there is to check out...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] seangprice:
I downloaded the app from the market today and It won't even open... Any other people having the same issues?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] KingDavid63:
The **** don't work for starters lame, might wanna change your title you make people think it is working.

Sent from my Blood Soaked Weapon!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] JaiaV:
It may not work on Weapon or other stock based roms but it works on CM7 just fine.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Beggars1923:
It has worked on CM7 for quite some time now.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tidewaterns:
Not working on Miui 1.9.2.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] JaiaV:
True. Just pointing out that its the roms not the app.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Shaddy-Z.:
Yeah the netflix app from the market works flawlessly on my G2X. I'm on the MIUI rom 1.9.9 though if that makes a difference.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] dkb218:
Maybe

you missed the article from last Friday - it seems to be working on everything EXCEPT the G2x!

Netflix app updates: Almost ALL Android 2.2 and 2.3 devices now supported, sorry G2x owners

Posted by Stormy Beach</SPAN> On Sep 9 2011

http://androidspin.com/2011/09/09/n...d-2-3-devices-now-supported-sorry-g2x-owners/
[T-Mobile LG G2x] phburks:
Got my hopes up again :-(