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[Desire HD General] Tones1971:
Left my phone on a wall, and someone rang it, and the vibration made it fall of the wall. No marks on it but the volume up is broke. Volume down works ok. Not a massive problems of course as everything can be adjusted on screen, but what are my options for fixing the button?
[Desire HD General] Gtj94:
+1 mines broken too :/
[Desire HD General] Ravi_26:
+1here the upper volume key is not working when i remove the battery cover it starts working but again when i place it, it stops
[Desire HD General] micqutiasol:
mine is working but almost torn apart. can htccare fix this problem without spending a penny?my DHD still on warranty..
[Desire HD General] abzza:
+1 but I could fix my with some care and supper glue :)

Have a Case Mate but it is not designed to protect volume button if you are very unlucky as I where the phone hit sharp edge where the volume button is.
[Desire HD General] rosswaa:
All I can say is at least you have buttons, mine got ripped out and lost somehow lol
[Desire HD General] alex6vasy:
flash it back to stock and return it for repair

i think that is the only way you can get it fixed:confused:
[LG Optimus 2x] dutchI3:
Please help I want gingerbread but do I need to flash a new modem I am on optimus 2x Fido
[LG Optimus 2x] Striatum_bdr:
What do you mean by modem... Modem is hardware you can't flash it....
[LG Optimus 2x] kahar91:
Are you talking about baseband (radio image)? Gingerbread roms will install no matter what baseband you are, although the lastest is recommended.
[LG Optimus 2x] dutchI3:
I am on fido is this rom safe because there is R on top of my signal bar 2X FLAIR GB v3 BUGFIX REVOLUTION FINAL

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i tried getril but the phone signal stop working thanks in advance

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i own the p990hn version
[LG Optimus 2x] smokeweedevery:
can the p990hn version use p990 roms? maybe thats the problem
[LG Optimus 2x] dutchI3:
How do i revert back i tried everything to load the original rom
[T-Mobile LG G2x] redishbrown:
What is BusyBox and why do I need it? The definition doesn't make sense. Programmer jargon... would like to understand with proper English
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jboxer:
Busybox allows you or programs to perform actions on your phone using Linux (copied from Unix) commands. Android is basically a specialized Linux OS with a Java compatible (Dalvik) machine for running programs. The Android kernel is a modified version of the Linux kernel (that is why the Android kernel must always be open source). Busybox gives functionality to your phone that it does not have without it. Many programs, especially root programs such as Titanium Backup, require busybox to perform the functions of the program. Without busybox installed your phone is much more limited in what it can do.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] moeahmad1995:
I made sure I thanked you. Always been wondering what busy box is. Just wondering u need busy box for root right?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Dr. Bogenbroom:
From Busybox.net

BusyBox: The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux

That's pretty plain English there. If you don't get the gist of it from that and jbox's explanation then you need to spend some time in Linux and a shell environment.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] eagle1967:
no

you do not need busy box to have root.

But many root apps as well as settings in custom roms use busybox to run the scripts that make them work. so while you can root without busybox you are very limited as to what you can do with it.

so while you dont need it to have the phone rooted. its still prety much needed to take advantage of that rooting :)
[T-Mobile LG G2x] namklak:
Wow, I learned more in this thread than in many others combined. Thanx!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jboxer:
You beat me to it. Well put.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] blestsol:
Always somebody that has to say something like this.

"If you cant possibly understand the simplicity of greatness then this isnt for you."

:rolleyes:
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Dr. Bogenbroom:
Didn't quite say it wasn't for them now did I? In order to understand something you aren't familiar with you have to be taught no? Self or otherwise. What's wrong with suggesting some shell time in order to better understand...shell-like ideas? :eek:

Many people learn best by doing. Reading all that you can read from another's perspective won't have the same impact as simple trial and error for the majority of people.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] DMD567:
What can you do with busy box?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Pain-N-Panic:
You can resurrect 2-year old threads with a question that can be answered with a quick google or XDA search. It's awesome.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] biliskner:
It's even worse when the question he asked was answered 3 years ago in the same thread!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Mohdcochin1997:
Confused

I still can't follow what is the meaning and use of busy box. Can anyone just tell me in simple words what it can do??? :(
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Bl4ckr4v3n:
As already earlier stated in the thread, Busybox is light like a Swiss army knife, on the other hand you have a heavy toolbox full of tools with one tool for one job.

If you don't need full options, Busybox fits your needs. If you want full options from a utility, make sure you have that utility installed.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Atharkhan101:
Could you please tell me the top 3 thing which i can modify or useful functions of busybox. Its hard to understand what does it actually do.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] rjbweb:
busybox Is in the back ground?

Am I correct in assuming that Busybox works in the background and that no normal intervention from the user is required?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] shailesh178:
Is busybox also need some battery to run.., ??
[T-Mobile LG G2x] zigonneux:
ROFL, that is the best joke in the whole forum :laugh:
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Gawd:
Let me put some life in this thread.

In the most simplest words, BusyBox doesn't provide a UX(visual appearance) but works inside and makes your phone more compatible for root Apps. It increases the functionality in simple words. So install BusyBox if you have root, even if you don't know what it does. The Apps you would use in the future may require it. It has no harms (am I correct?)
[T-Mobile LG G2x] noparts:
OK, I get it; however, I am wondering if I should consider it normal for BusyBox to be running random scripts in my router? I'm no IT, but some of the logs I am seeing look kind of odd. Is this SOP for - say Android on TMobile?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Uuuh:
It is safe to install?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] unknown number:
Yah, a lot of people that have root install it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dickie2007:
After 2 days and a lot of head scratching i've managed to finally get my phone back after a random corruption of my /efs folder... heres what i did:

the important part: you need to be able to access /efs with root explorer etc. and check the 2 files; .nv_data.bak & .nv_data.bak.md5

in order for this to work, these backups must be dated earlier than their .bin counterparts... in my instance, the .bins were modified sep 14th 2011 @ 09:45am (the time i rebooted the phone when i noticed i had no signal and the corruption occured), but my .bak files were both dated dec 31st 2010...

in adb shell, i ran

su
busybox tar zcvf /sdcard/efs/efs-backup.tar.gz /efs

i then downloaded 7-zip, used it to open the .tar file

i deleted the corrupt files;

nv_data.bin

nv_data.bin.md5

i then renamed;

.nv_data.bak > nv_data.bin

.nv_data.bak.md5 > nv_data.bin.md5

after closing and saving the changes, i then went back to adb shell and ran

su
umount /efs
mke2fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
mount -w -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /efs
busybox tar zxvf /sdcard/efs-backup.tar.gz -C /
reboot

and voila! i was prompted to select my network provider, check status and all my IMEI, IMEI SV and other info was back to normal!

hope this helps someone out there, as i had a hard 2 days trying all sorts of different methods to get this working and was getting to the point of giving up...

good luck

Dickie.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
yes you have corrupted /wiped your EFS or IMEI ,

If you backed up your EFS its not a problem just restore .

Plenty of restore EFS posts around broken IMEI etc .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dickie2007:
I'm looking in the EFS folder now, all seems to be present, but i am missing my IMEI (*#06#)...

not sure how this has happened, not done anything recently... very strange... but it does seem to be specifically the IMEI as my macs etc all all there and ok...

not backed it up so i'll see if theres a way around it :/

Cheers,

Dickie.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eiraku:
This happened to me 3 days back. Was sure I needed to send it in for service (reflashed and everything without avail) but then someone mentioned the EFS folder corruption issue.

Thankfully, I bumped into Rawat's thread a few weeks prior, and promptly backed up my EFS then.

It only took about 3 minutes in the terminal to fix the problem afterwards, no pc needed.

No EFS backup would usually mean a trip to Samsung service.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] red103:
I got the same problem sice yesterday... tried all with the help of some guys here but nothing helped!

@eiraku: Do you like to explain me how you fixed the issue in the terminal, because my was /efs folder was also backed up but overwriting doesn't helped
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dickie2007:
ive just realised, my nv_data.bin & nv_data.bin.md5 have todays date in root explorer, i'm guessing thats a last modified date and that happend during the time in f*cked up, but the nv_data.bak & nv_data.bak.md5 are dated 31 dec 2010...

does this mean all i have to do is rename those backups and all should be sweet???

cheers,

Dickie.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jrkitching:
Sounds hopeful.

I'd suggest you take a copy of those backups & put them on an external device before renaming anything.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dickie2007:
i took 2 backups of the entire /efs folder, then renamed the bak files to bin, but i'm having trouble copying or pushing them to /efs...

anyone know how to mount it as r/w, i cant through root explorer and not sure via adb

any help appreciated...

Dickie.

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ok, i have tried the following:

busybox umount /efs

busybox mount -o rw -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /efs

busybox mv /efs/.nv_data.bak /efs/nv_data.bin

busybox mv /efs/.nv_data.bak.md5 /efs/nv_data.bin.md5

then when i check with root explorer all appears correct with the baks gone and the bins dated 31 dec, but upon rebooting its all gone back to the way it was before...

again, anyone got any ideas??

Dickie
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] red103:
Did you found a solution? I'm thinking about going to a service center :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dickie2007:
i'm trying to work out how to get the damn /efs folder to remain r/w...

everytime i change the files, moments later its reverted to what it was...

just trying a different insecure kernel to see if that helps... even sometimes whilst i'm deleting/renaming the files it suddenly becomes read only again...

really wish someone who knew how to make either an update.zip or an Odin flashable tar could do so with my renamed .bak backup files to overwrite the original bin files...

Dickie
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fulvi3tto:
happened to me but the problem solved in a couple of hour without doing nothing
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dickie2007:
tried making an update.zip but i get a status 6 error... stuck again...

could anyone take a look at this for me?? ive been on this almost 18hours and im tired and need to sleep...

again, any help appreciated!

Dickie
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nk_blu:
This happened to me whenever my phone restarted after cleaning the battery stats with Battery Calibration app (by NEMA) from App Market. At first, I restored my nv_data.bin file that was backed up (efs backup), but it continued to have same problems for next few reboots...

BUT!

I believe I have a possible simple remedy for this problem:

1. Turn off phone.

2. Remove SIM.

3. Turn on phone.

4. Wait until phone fully boots. (my phone did not detect SIM card and had emergency mode available, showed normal information in About Phone options)

5. Turn off phone.

6. Re-insert SIM.

7. Turn on phone.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dickie2007:
thanks for the input but it made no difference...

i now what i need to do, i need to replace those bin files with the bak backup files... i just cant get it to stick after a reboot... its like i never did it...

cheers anyway bud

Dickie
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrej.marinic:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=859914
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] red103:
Don't get rid of this ****ing efs corruption :(!!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dickie2007:
using root explorer, look in /efs.

is there a difference in the dates between nv_data.bin and .nv_data.bak??

Dickie
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ernest33:
It works !!!!!!!!!!

Thanks a lots dickie2007 !:D

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Yesterday i updated kernel on Revo 2.7.1 via KitchenPro app (for infos from CFROOT_KI3.zip to CFROOT_KI3_v4_2.zip) everything seem fine but this morning :eek: no imei, no baseband...

I search a lot before finding your thread (i think this one should be sticky !)

Your procedure is clear & simple (and hoppefully work in my case).

Thanks again dickie2007

PS : It seem since the serie KI* there's a lot of similar problems (i saw many thread during my research this morning about this kind of trouble) :confused:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokia8250:
If u flash different carrier branded firmware in CSC & do not set it correctly,

u may find that u can't see ur IMEI via *#06#.

Don't worry. It is still there. This is my way to solve it.

(just several seconds and without efs backup)

1.edit carrier branded code in "/efs/imei/mps_code.dat" to meet what you flash.

Ex. My S2 is CWT in the beginning, so I flash a CWT CSC and edit the code to CWT

2.use *#06# to ensure if IMEI could be shown correctly

3.To double check, u can use *#272*imei#. If u can reset carrier branded code then it is done.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tabelras:
Does this also work even if baseband is shown as unknown? I flashed a stock ROM with Odin and lost both baseband and IMEI. dickie2007's method didn't work but maybe yours would have...
[Droid X General] hoodlum47:
First off, let me explain what a Pudding unlock is. In a nutshell, it is using a special sbf file that contains an unlockable bootloader meant for developmental needs. In order for it to be unlocked after the sbf is flashed a fastboot tool for Moto phones is needed, this is as far as I am explaining as it gets complicated after that.

So, we as the Droid X community need someone with the "connections" required to get us this sbf specific for the X. If anyone even remotely knows somebody with this requirement either reply or PM me.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Euroman28:
I have been using my Galaxy tab 10.1 for two weeks now. Its a great device, but why is that Samsung Touchwiz for the Galaxy tab seems slower in portrait-mode than in landscape-mode?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] poisike:
It's not a Touchwiz problem. It seems that all Tegra 2 tablets that are running Honeycomb have this problem. Not sure if the new tabs with other soc's have this issue or not.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Euroman28:
will you please elaborate? soc?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Step666:
SoC = System on a Chip.

Most modern mobile processors are actually SoCs as they have the entire system (CPU, GPU etc) in a single chip instead of separate chips/boards like in laptops and desktops.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ohgood:
according to microsoft, windows8 will be for phones, desktops, tablets, everywhere windows lives now. after watching 3-4 demos on youtube there are a few things that makes me wonder about:

1 filesystem access - it shows the table accessing a usb stick and drag/drop copying

2 explorer (the file explorer)

3 full desktop shell as an app

4 wireless status as a widget

5 a much more customizable 'home' or whatever its being called now

if you've seen the videos, or had your hands on one - what do you think the possibilities are for wp7 evolving into a full blown OS like what is being demo'd as windows8 ?

do you think wp8 will be a registry restricted (mild restriction to prevent confusion) version of windows 8 ?

would you be interested in a full blown (non-phone specific) wp8 handset, essentially a desktop in your pocket, able to use a keyboard and mouse with ?

is the tablet version (form factor) more appealing as a full OS, instead of a phone (form factor) to you ?

^ why ?

hmmm
[Windows Phone 7 General] FTC:
...I believe that a lot of peoples are having problems to understand:

- WP7x is the OS for smart phones

- Windows 8 is the OS for tabletts and desktop PCs with the possibility to interact - but only to a certain extend - with WP7x It definitely won't replace WP7x. and the features you are mentioning will not be build into WP7x. At least not for the time being or if so, only via some homebrews by our xda-developers friends..
[Windows Phone 7 General] slimshady322:
Yeah the OP got somethings wrong there. This is what MS envisions:

Phone: Windows Phone 7/8

Xbox: Xbox metro dashboard (coming this fall)

PCs (including desktops, laptops, slates/tablets etc.): Windows 8

What Windows Phone 7/8 and Windows 8 will have in common is probably the way apps are written (at least C# or VB + XAML) and the interactivity using SkyDrive.

Windows 8 will of course things like File access and the traditional desktop, but WP will not and there is no need to do so.
[Windows Phone 7 General] dilzo:
A phone should stay a phone and a PC should stay a PC.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
This is correct.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ohgood:
Hmm, do you have any links for future reading ? (Thanks used)
[Windows Phone 7 General] RoboDad:
Based on what I've read, I don't think the OP has really missed anything, but may have misinterpreted the timetable. Even Paul Thurrott has made that same speculation.

Microsoft is planning to have a single ecosystem for all platforms (including phones). They have stated as much. Whether they will "get there" with Windows 8 is doubtful, but they will get there.

One common speculation is that, as a first step toward ecosystem unification, Windows 8 will be able to run any WP7 app (and, presumably, some Windows 8 apps will also run on phones).
[Windows Phone 7 General] slimshady322:
I don't really have any links, but it seems obvious that MS is trying to get their metro interface into all their devices (Xbox, PC and phone). The similarities should be striking.

As others have said, Windows 8 will not be on phones, but their will be things shared for example with SkyDrive, you can upload your photos from WP7 and you can also directly view photos from SkyDrive (and other locations) on Windows 8. Xbox uses SkyDrive to save game files etc.

I personally doubt that Windows Phone 7 app will run on Windows 8. If you look at the current developer tools, there are a lot of differences between WP7 and Windows 8. Yes, they both can use C# + XAML so you can share code, but you will have to do device specific changes.

MS might make this easier in the future but some adjustments will probably have to be made. If they simply made some kind of WP7 emulator for Windows 8, things would not fit the entire screen and you might see too many pixels.

And finally, yes I have also heard the rumor that MS wants to have one OS for all devices: the PC (including tablets), the Xbox and phones.

However, this is still far off and will not be coming in Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8 (Apollo). It has been rumored to be the masterplan for way ahead (like 2016 with Windows 9, Windows Phone 9 and the third Xbox (however these things will be called)).

But what works right now are all the live services. For example I could add a contact on my WP7 and then have their numbers etc. available on my Windows 8 slate without the need to manually transfer the contact over.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
I would love the OP's dream come true but I don't think so. It doesn't look like WP8 will go Android route (but what do we know in the end).

There are enough people in MS industry thinking better what users want than users themselves and claiming that a phone should be dumb enough.

What I see from Windows 8 previews I'd say it can be amazing OS anyway.
[Windows Phone 7 General] RoboDad:
Building a wp7 emulator into Windows 8 would not be that difficult. Running a WP7 app could create a rectangle in the center of the screen that matches the dimensions of a WP7 device, and darkens the remaining screen while the app has focus.

That is kind of what I was thinking too. Not for Windows 8, but very likely for Windows 9 (or maybe they could accomplish it in a ".5" release, but I doubt that).

The point is, assuming WP7 survives the next few years (which is looking much better as Mango gets closer), there will be a time when Microsoft has a single OS that spans all devices.
[Windows Phone 7 General] slimshady322:
Yes it would work but it would be just like iPhone Apps on the iPad, webOS phone apps on the Touchpad or android phone apps on an android tablet.

Working, but not looking very good.

I have currently one app in the windows phone marketplace and I would like to bring it to Windows 8 as well but I will do some adjustments. Just one example:

Many apps feature lists that are scrollable vertically (like the contacts list). Tapping on one item opens up another page with details.

On the phone this works fine, but on Windows 8 there would be a couple of problems:

1) Windows 8 rather has lists that you scroll horizontally (the new Grid View in the developer tools)

2) You would waste a lot of screen space. A better solution would be to have a split view with the list on the left and the details on the right. Thus, the list would stay visible.

Acutally when writing about this I though of a very good example: the settings in WP7 and Windows 8.

WP7:

A list of the different things you can scroll and tapping brings you to the selected item (as seen on the right)

Windows 8:

The list is only on the left and you can still see the list while opening up single item.

TL;DR: Basically what I want to say is that while WP7 app might work on Windows 8, it would be better if developers for Windows 8 (and there are many) were to adjust their apps to make them work better on Windows 8.

I don't think Windows 8 needs WP7 apps, many apps will probably be ported and adjustments will be made and there will be many Windows 8 developers that did not develop for WP7.

I would really like MS to do this, but is has to be done good and not the way webOS or Android did it.

One app could then be written for all devices and all the app would have to do is adjust itself according to screen size. You could share most code for all version and only have some layout changes that depend on the resolution.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
We can dream, but MS has been screaming the same story for over a decade.
[Windows Phone 7 General] rentaric:
The touch optimized part (basically "what looks like wp7 atm) of Win8 will be on tablets, pcs and phones. While the non-touch optimized part will be exclusive to pcs.
[LG Revolution] Bob_Bobber0:
Hey guys, searched around and didn't really find anything. I like the stock texting app on my Revo, and I really enjoy the new Revolt1.4, but the color scheme is just awful for me. I can't stand black and green scheme. Is there a way to change the colors back to what they are stock (grey)?

And no I don't want to use Handcent..

EDIT* I guess also while I have a thread open, is there a way to remove "The Revolution Has Begun" text from the lock screen on Revolt1.4? It was awesome the first few times but I really don't want text there.. thanks again guys, this community is amazing!