yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gcodori:
Well to get thunderstick going I need to do both radios.

The tuts for flashing radios made it seem like flashing any other thing. Now you have me questioning doing this. This Rom is what I want from my phone...a tweaked sense rom.

If I'm right CWM let's you get to hboot to flash radios, right. And it let's you get to recovery to flash the Rom.

Jeez I came from a iPhone 3g and Jailbreaking was easy compared to this.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Absolute_Zero:
For some reason I've notice a lot of people calling RomManager by "CWM" lately and for some reason it annoys me. ClockworkMod is the "company name" Koush uses to identify his apps/products. The app you are referring to is RomManager and the recovery is called ClockworkMod Recovery.

Anyway, neither CWR nor RomManager deal with hboot. You can place the file on your sdcard and manually boot to hboot (Pwr+VolDwn or the advanced power menu in some roms). Full instructions for this should not be needed here since they are all over the place including the pinned Q/A thread at the top of this subforum: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1220484

I'm sure this will come off harsher than it was intended. I just wanted to throw those things out there. Anyway, welcome to Android :p
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonatik78:
Thank you for laying all that out there. I really cannot endorse what Absolute_Zero has to say about calling things by their proper names. When people don't do that, it gets VERY confusing when you try to help them.

Concerning ROM Manager, I don't see how it serves any useful purpose. Fixing permissions can be done just as well through a script like ScriptFusion or ClockworkMod Recovery. I know of no ROM dev that endorses flashing, wiping, backing up, or recovering through ROM Manager, which is a nice way of saying DO NOT USE ROM Manager. It's fairly reliable for flashing recoveries, but I've had issues with it even doing that right.

Just follow the instructions I've laid out for flashing radios. I've included all the links to every radio there. If you follow my directions, I can promise you with 99.9% certainty that your radio flash will go perfectly. It's nothing to be afraid of and nothing to really concern yourself with. Just don't go looking for the easy way of doing everything. This isn't a Motorola device and there's a lot more you can do outside of an app than with an app.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gcodori:
Actually being harsh is cool. When I said CWM I meant the recovery. I should have been more clear.

I will stay away from Rom manager and learn to flash the big boy way.

My last question is this...my SD card is pretty messy. What is the best advice to clear out the card after flashing thunderstick?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonatik78:
The best way is to clean it up before flashing. Some ROMs install directories to the SDcard, but those should be clearly named. There's not really anything there that you can do that will render the phone junk. For me, it's just been a process of sorting through all the stuff, backing it up, formatting the card, and dropping the stuff I do want back on it.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gcodori:
Is there an option to format the SD card during flashing?

I have backed up my photos and any documents. After I copy over any videos I took, I would clear it out.

After installing a dozen or more apps, the card looks like a mess.

There's three folders with music in it, etc. Why can't there be an app folder with subdirectories for each app?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonatik78:
You can format it either in CWR, Android, or on a computer.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gcodori:
Rooted today with revolution. Pretty easy but it didn't install clockwork. Had to run it again. I noticed Rom manager doesnt recognize clockwork as installed. I wasn't planning on using Rom manager but was curious about this.

One last question before flashing thunderstick...if something fails and I revert to the nandroid backup, does that revert back to the old radio? I need to flash both radios and want to know if I can fall back to the backup if it fails.

Thanks.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonatik78:
Nandroid backups don't include radios.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Absolute_Zero:
RomManager will only recognize CWR as being installed if RomManager itself is what was used to flash it.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidstech11:
I'm dealing with this same thing (flashing Radios). I recently rooted my device (after having it since release) and froze the bloat. I never flashed a ROM and want to look to see if it's possible to find a ROM for my Thunderbolt that does not need me to change the Radio. If I don't Flash a ROM I'm more than happy with having root and dealing with the crapware and installing apps I couldn't use before. Good Luck. Enjoy your device.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonatik78:
What's you apprehension about flashing a radio?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swieder711:
I flashed the 802 radio right after installing NonS3ns3v2 on my Tbolt. Everything went fine and seems to be running smoothly.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] vmspionage:
This thread is intended to discuss technical details of the Droid Bionic's wireless tethering system. Please keep all posts on topic.

Here's what has been discovered to far:

The "Mobile Hotspot" lockout can be disabled by setting entitlement_check=0 in the settings storage database com.motorola.android.providers.settings. This is thoroughly discussed in other threads.

While tethering your phone will disconnect and reconnect to the network using alternate credentials containing your ISMI. These credentials appear to originate from the SIM card. The previous RadioComm NAI method does not work with the new LTE chipset.

The web service used by the entitlement check appears hard-coded in VzwEntitlementService.odex. It is located at: https://quickaccess.verizonwireless.com/ws/device/service?WSDL

The "Mobile Hotspot" icon isn't a stand-alone application, it's just a link to the settings page (Settings > Wireless & Networks > Tethering & Mobile Hotspot > Mobile Hotspot settings)

Please feel free to share your observations!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] K.AuthoR:
I'm curious, since this is the case, I would assume that using this they can actually verify who is paying for tethering and who isn't by comparing these connections to who is actually paying for the service. I know the phone hasn't been out long enough for this to be tested very much, but any off chance that someone's billing cycle has reset or can tell if they can track it or not?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] vmspionage:
\system\etc\apns-conf.xml

<!-- BEGIN Motorola, a13803, 07/10/2010, IKHALFMWK-87: Modify Apn database for VZW LTE support -->
<!-- BEGIN Motorola, btm478, 12/02/2010, IKHALFMWK-117:Change Inactivity Timer to 24 hrs -->
<apn carrier="Verizon Internet"
mcc="310"
mnc="004"
apn="VZWINTERNET"
mmsc="http://mms.vtext.com/servlets/mms"
type="default,mms,dun"
inactivetimer="1440"
enabled="true"
iptype="IPv6v4"
class="3"
/>

\system\etc\motorola\com.motorola.android.dm.service\databases\dmAccounts.xml

<list>
<string>__overwrite_all__</string>
<map>
<string name='AccName'>VzWDMServer</string>
<string name='UserName'>[B]xxxxxxxxxxxx[/B]</string>
<string name='ServerPW'>0000000000000000</string>
<string name='AuthPref'>DIGEST</string>
<string name='ClientNonce'>123abc</string>
<string name='AddrType'>1</string>
<string name='ServerID'>com.vzwdmserver</string>
<string name='Addr'>https://4g.vzwdm.com/</string>
<string name='ClientPW'>[B]xxxxxxxxxxxx[/B]</string>
<string name='ServerNonce'>abc123</string>
<string name='ConRef'/>
<string name='Name'>VzWDMServer</string>
<string name='PortNbr'>443</string>
</map>
</list>

---------- Post added at 08:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:09 PM ----------

Yes. If you don't subscribe to tethering then you should never be using that authentication method and your usage for that account should be zero. It would be trivial for them to figure out who is tethering based on the usage logs and feature list alone.

In fact, I've seen evidence (but haven't verified) that if you subscribe to tethering those data bytes will show up as a separate "Tethering Usage" line item in the "My Verizon" app on the data details screen... it's just hidden for everyone else.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] K.AuthoR:
Well **** me then, I did that hack and tethered for about 10 minutes between class today. If it shows up on my bill (probably will at this point) I can probably get them to drop it if I ***** enough since usually VZ is flexible if it's a one-time offense.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Mustang02:
You are going to ***** at them for you trying to illegally tether? Man up and just pay it.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] K.AuthoR:
I'm probably provoking an already-beaten-to-death argument by saying this, but I believe that in my payment for data, I should be allowed to use it how I want. I seriously doubt they'll come after me for a couple of megabytes anyway, if it's not excessive then I'll just take it as a good omen and continue on with my lesson learned.

I'll stop derailing the thread now, but I'll still be interested to learn what's going on on the inside.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Mustang02:
Tethering wasn't the point, *****ing to have them remove the cost of you tethering was. I'm all for tethering but if I do it and get charged, I pay the piper. My mistake not theirs, unlike that stupid $1.99 mysterious data fee we used to get.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nemanracing:
That was prob a bad rep adding ringback tone or the like.....
[Motorola Droid Bionic] elislurry:
What do these posts have to do with the thread? Take your arguments to the general section.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Brenardo:
I am quite confused as to how tethering on the thunderbolt is "undetectable" and the bionic is easily traced.

I have been running DroidTheory,s shiftAOSP under the presumption that tethering is untrackable. I assumed this because it was implied. Was I misinformed about tethering and what makes the bionic Different? Different chipset?

And just to be clear the wired tethering options available aren't as easily traceable or untraceable?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mithusingh32:
I think they mean tethering through the actual Verizon Hotspot App. Am I correct?

Wouldnt it just be easier just to root, and use Wireless Tether?

(Again, this all just an assumption. Im getting the Bionic today so not really sure if this is true at all). Because I have been tethering on D2 w/ root + wireless since release of the root. (Once month i had 3gb data used, because i abused the tether)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Brenardo:
Yes they are talking about wireless tethering. The problem is that with the new LTE chip is used to authenticate connections when tethering is started the standard data connection is lost then reconnected and reauthenticated and tethered data transfers are identified by different Network Access identifiers .

I assume that VZW has some type of filters ? in place to check if you are paying to transfer data via wireless tethering.

I am far from really knowing what i am talking about but i have stated what I have comprehend ed from various sources.

Please feel free to correct me if i am misinformed
[Motorola Droid Bionic] kinjo28:
It shows up as phone 2..

/~((•)-((•)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] idefiler6:
Ex.....plain?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zedomax:
I think only the stock mobile hotspot uses the authenticated connection, if you can get the Android Wifi Tether app to work (which should work off the standard data connection), that could work but the problem is I haven't been able to get the Android Wifi Tether app work (yet).
[Motorola Droid Bionic] blkghost22:
hello again... i sent you a pm.....
[Motorola Droid Bionic] lilshooter:
So does the wifi tether for root users not work if it does what version are you using (asking for a friend)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] monkespit:
I would like someone to address what another just brought up.

Does this only apply to wireless tethering or can they essentially track any tethered usage? I prefer to use pdanet and tether through usb on occasion. I have very minimal usage, over 3g, that I can easily go with out. I do use its feature to hide tethering, whatever that does, but does that actually hide anything? Does pdanet tethering use the same method that vzw's wireless tether does? Does anybody know?

Thanks
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SOGJC:
This is my experience,

I'm using the stock mobile HotSpot app for two month using the hack with SQlite and No extra charge at all.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Skyroket:
How much traffic do you generate? I have now unhacked my entitlement_check and will be eyeballing my next bill. I put a couple megabytes on it this billing cycle, just to see how easily it could be done.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] montyx:
Hello,

This is extremely slow to copy anything via USB to My Nexus S. The maximum speed is 3400Kb/s.

I have an original Samsung dock. I've experienced this speed with that dock and with an original Motorola Droid USB cable too. With the dock my device disconnect from the PC in every minutes, and my phone showing me the green android instead of the orange one.

During a copy, I've lost around 1GiB free space from the USB storage, b/c the phone was disconnected. Is this possible to take back this storage space?

How can I solve that speed issue? Please help me, and if I can provide you more information just ask me.

Thanks,

Montyx
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
make sure your computer USB is at least USB v2.0 port

some computer have mixed USB1 and USB2 ports

some even require a driver for the USB2 to become active at full speed

same goes for USB3 ports
[Off-topic] xzillerationer:
This is my personal opinions, so keep that in mind. I think what they need to do to kickstart Honeycomb is have a DROID tablet. I know what you're thinking, "They already have that, it's the Xoom". I'm saying a DROID branded tablet. The DROID TAB? The DROID SLATE? It basically has to be a current day OG DROID on a tablet. Open bootloader, up to date specs, etc etc. There's currently a strong brand recognition with the DROID name, so a DROID branded tablet would be a major boost. You all know what the OG DROID did for Android on phones. Now we need that for tablets! Just think about it....
[Acer Iconia A500] sebol:
Is it possible to make a backup via CWM on one a501 and restore it on another a501?

I have two a501 and on one of them i've flashed another rom and I have no backup and now I need back to original stock rom from T-Mobile poland.
[Acer Iconia A500] shaun298:
As long as cwm is on both, not a problem. Yes
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moomoo:
<Quote>My epic 4g won't power on. If I plug in a usb cable/ac adapter it will charge the device. The screen comes on and shows the green battery and the amber LED turns on and then turns blue when it reaches 100% charge.

But the power button does nothing. It won't power it on. Is there anything else I can do to force it to turn on?</Quote>

So I got it to boot up. You can do this by holding the power button down while continuously unplugging and replugging in a power adapter (or usb cable). You may spend 2 or 3 minutes unplugging and replugging it in (you need to do this rapidly) but eventually you'll be greeted with the samsung boot screen. If it makes it to the battery display screen you're not unplugging and replugging in quickly enough.

Hopefully o that anyone else who encounters this problem can potentially use their phone in a pinch or recover data off one with a broken power button. My power button is definitely busted and I'll need to get it repaired by sprint unfortunately.

Thanks!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamdelozier:
Did you try putting it into download mode? may need to ODIN back to stock.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aclearersky:
Ok im new to this forum, as i just ditched my evo shift and picked up and epic, but you might try booting to another menu. Try unplugging it and holding the 1 key on the keyboard then press the power key. If that does nothing then id have to guess ur actual power button is broken. You could also try pulling the battery witih it unplugged for like 5 minutes then put it back in and hold the power button for like 20 seconds and letting it go.

Edit: He beat me to it
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moomoo:
It appears the actual power button is broken, neither of those solutions worked. Is there any other way to force it to power up without use of the power button?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moomoo:
My epic 4g won't power on. If I plug in a usb cable/ac adapter it will charge the device. The screen comes on and shows the green battery and the amber LED turns on and then turns blue when it reaches 100% charge.

But the power button does nothing. It won't power it on. Is there anything else I can do to force it to turn on?

Edit: So I got it to boot up. You can do this by holding the power button down while continuously unplugging and replugging in a power adapter (or usb cable). You may spend 2 or 3 minutes unplugging and replugging it in (you need to do this rapidly) but eventually you'll be greeted with the samsung boot screen. If it makes it to the battery display screen you're not unplugging and replugging in quickly enough.

Hopefully o that anyone else who encounters this problem can potentially use their phone in a pinch or recover data off one with a broken power button. My power button is definitely busted and I'll need to get it repaired by sprint unfortunately.

Thanks!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TravelingMan:
Thank you soo much! I have a messed up Epic that has to be sent back to Sprint but I had to get my work information off of it or I'd be in it deep. Your trick worked perfectly!!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imapjonny:
Hi

my pc dosent recognise the phone and if i use a sense rom i even can't charge it.

With other rom like miui i can charge my phone but i cant acsses it via my pc anyways.

So i think i have na usb brick but i cant solve it.

i tryed the way with fastboot oem enableqxdm 0 and after this flashing a update.zip to repair but it doesnt work.

So please help my witch my phone.

#sry 4 bad english#
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k3lcior:
Flash RMD Recovery with fastboot, it has built in "USB Brick Fix".

See if that helps.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imapjonny:
Man U are my HERO :))))))))))

just installed the fix and my phone works fine again .

BIG THANKS
[HTC Sensation] leehopley:
Hey Guys,

Im hoping anyone can tell me as to why on most roms, (but at the moment, android revolution) i cannot get the current location name when using WiFi?

It works fine on 3G/GPRS, but on WiFi it just says 'Current Location', It doesnt bother me when im out and about cus im not on WiFi but when im at home it annoys me a bit.

If anyone knows of a fix or has the same issue please help me out. :)

Much Appreciated
[HTC Sensation] Gunkk:
Settings > Enable my location?

Sent from my Energy ROM Sensation.
[HTC Sensation] leehopley:
Yeah i tried that dude :(

ive got all 4 boxes ticked.

ive just done a fresh install... superwipe and installed the revolution rom again (3.1.1)

But its still doing it.. only works with WiFi off... which is annoying...

Im gonna try incertcoin and see how i get on.. after that im going to flash a different radio :)

Will post back.. because im sure many others are having the issue.
[HTC Sensation] MadMikeX3:
I downloaded the weather and news app I had on my nexus one. Love that app and no problems.
[HTC Sensation] leehopley:
Cheers Bud :) i may try it.. its only been happening for a few days.. ive flashed a few radios & kernels with no change.. im gonna flash the other 3.0.4 revolution rom (which worked flawlessly) then ill see how i get on and report back.. its a common problem i think.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] z06mike:
Why is the dialer so slow on this phone? Is there a way to speed it up? It takes a couple of seconds to initialize when you hit phone and when I hit end call it takes a few more seconds. Half the time I ending up calling somebody back because I hit end call twice. It seems like the call isn't ending so you hit it again and then it finally ends you hit CALL where END CALL was so it starts to dial again.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] what25:
I'm right with ya. If you want a different dialer (phone/contacts), you could probably follow the instructions here, if you're rooted.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1142891
[Nook Color General] traumadog:
Have a unique issue that I wanted to see if anyone else has come across.

I'm running CM7 7.1RC w/ nightly 177 via a SD card. The setup runs fine at home with my WiFi/ WPA-PSK, yet at work I sign in with a 802.1x EAP. I can connect once or twice (once I enter the settings), but after about half a day, it fails to connect and I have to "forget" the network and start over.

So, is there a setting that I'm missing somewhere that will retain a EAP-coded network across a large facility without resetting the security settings every 3-4 hours?
[Nook Color General] votinh:
Can be only one, either 7.1RC or nb177
[Nook Color General] traumadog:
Started with 7.1, then did nb177 via ROM update.
[Nook Color General] PoisonWolf:
Same problem here. Can't get EAP Wifi to work. It works after setting it up once, but later on, it'll fail to work and requires a reconfiguration to get it working again.
[Nook Color General] stolenmoment:
Can you tell me how you did the key management and setup?

I tried to import my desktop cert (wired is EAP, too) but I suspect that I'm not putting it in the right place.

A snapshot from wpa_supplicant.conf (anonymized is fine) and if or how you loaded the cert would be most welcome.

Thanks!
[Nook Color General] patruns:
Did it work before you updated the ROM?
[Nook Color General] stolenmoment:
Sorry for being unclear. No, it has never worked. Corporate doesn't support Android devices, so they won't help. I'm trying use the cert from my Linux desktop setup on my NC. I can generate a different one if that's part of the problem.

On linux, wpa_supplicant.conf has the cert filenames, but that didn't work here. I haven't tried to import it via Settings/Security, I just copied it onto the same directory I store my SSH keys in.
[Nook Color General] inportb:
Incidentally, this is a problem for my phone as well. I have to repeatedly reconfigure the wifi to make it work.
[Nook Color General] tep52:
hi

had same problem with 177 changed to 176 and had no problems since
[Nook Color General] traumadog:
Still have yet to get it to work ... though I "borrowed" settings from my phone's WinMo setup (needed phase2 auth setting of MSCHAPV2, plus adding my domain on the "anonymous" ID.)

Updating now to nightly 197... I'll see how it works.
[Nook Color General] inportb:
I'm using 197 as of the moment. EAP is not perfect, but it's tolerable. I need to turn WiFi off and on before it'd pick up an IP. Occasionally, not even that works; then I just use Titanium Backup to restore my [working] WiFi configuration, cycle the WiFi, and it would work again.
[Nook Color General] caelim:
Having same problem in nigjtly 200 and 202
[Nook Color General] traumadog:
FWIW - the issue is still hit-or-miss with the newer nightlies. I'm now on 213, and it's not holding a connection consistently.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iSaint:
lets see if we can add the reviews to one thread so they'll be easy to find. :)

Here are two I just got real quick ...

Wirefly...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3p8UaIpsoY

Mobile Burn ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEijRctiodk