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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ambusher:
Hi,

So I am getting the Samsung Galaxy S II from Bell tomorrow. I would like to know what i should check for right out of the box.

Example would be , I heard about some yellow or blue tint on the screen, if someone can tell specifically how to check if I have that problem and where it is.

Any other things i need to check before putting my sim card in the phone. Basically like a check list to make sure its not one of those bad apples. Thank you soo much.

I would like to know asap since I am going to buy it tomorrow.

PS: It might be a direct question but i found this to be the best place to place this thread.

PSS: I found this video when googling but i dont speak the language in the video if someone can explain what is happening I would appreciate it.

after eight posts i can post links I cant right now i will update the original post when I have 8 posts, till than the name of the youtube video is "Samsung Galaxy s2 i9100 Test before buying with service menu and USB OTG test" so u can search it on youtube.)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VEDA2810:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddeynnz0XR8

ur USB host And Hub query should be solved by the Video I uploaded here .. ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Antonis1983:
Just a quick question: I have a stock JVQ rom on my Samsung galaxy S and I recently installed Semaphore's JVQ 1.3.3 kernel. I am wondering if its possible to install the new Semaphore JVS 1.7.0 kernel on my JVQ rom phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ali_khalid5518:
Yes you can flash 1.7.0
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kodon:
Hey, i'm wondering. Why is it possible ? I'm new to that Kernel installation thing. I run darkys rom with its own darkcore kernel 2.9.3 which is a jvq kernel with a jvq rom and afaik they say it isnt possible to run darkcore 3.1 for example which is for jvr.

so can you explain why its possible ?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Android Development] JazLiew:
Looks like a stable android topped with sense for RHOD/TOPAZ is going to be available soon. :D
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Android Development] TheDeadCPU:
Y U POST BANNED STUFF?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] odub303:
Source code .zip is available for download on opensource.samsung.com. Enjoy :)

Edit: Apparently I screwed up when I extracted the contents of the zip Sammy posted. There is way more stuff in the source .zip than just kernel sauce. There is platform sauce too, which should allow developers to modify and compile other parts of the firmware besides the kernel. OK devs, have at it!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iSaint:
Do you believe in magic?

Sent from my SPH-D700
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] duce102:
Website:

https://opensource.samsung.com/

File Mirror -

SPH-D710_Opensource.zip - DROPBOX

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
What?! Is this what our devs will need and what we still don't have for the Epic?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Shoulon:
Ikno right? Its sooo sad but yay source on the new touch (getting this weekend)

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KLLSWITCH:
here's a mirror of my server

ftp://www.gooinside.me/Samsung Epic 4G touch/Source Code/SPH-D710_Opensource.zip
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dboftlp:
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Gimmeh sum rute!!!

:p
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] datajosh:
Yeah, come on guys, I've had my phone for like 4 whole hours now, where's the root at?!? :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
working on it right noW!!! as soon as i am done compiling kernel from source.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] odub303:
gogogogogogogo!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] datajosh:
Awesome! When I saw the kernel source release last night I figured it wouldn't take long. :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Pheno.menon:
Awesome :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] deano0714:
Awesome man!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
this code is junk

I've been trying all day long to get a kernel working, they compiled fine but no-go, I end up on boot freeze or bootloop, I've tried messing with the config file all day long, does anyone have any ideas why?

I think this open source code is junk, at least for now. There wasn't an official announcement from Samsung so this could be code from back in the days, the instructions also ask you to use an older arm compiler from 2009...

Damn it, my phone is bricked now.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] asafegous:
I just found out how worthless my apps are without root. This touch whiz has forced me to lpp.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] r.kim:
I've had the same problem since yesterday - the size of the compiled kernel doesn't make sense. I picked up a second phone (I have 2 now) and am wondering if there's a way to extract the stock kernel from it
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Whosdaman:
With root you can...wait maybe you can adb pull the zimage!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] r.kim:
Probably, and I rooted my phone yesterday by using a galaxy s2 kernel. All I needed to do after that was to reflash a stock kernel, however, I blew it away to root the phone..so catch 22 :)

I was planning on compiling a kernel from source, but like zedomax saw, the compiled binaries didn't work and put the phone into a bootloop. I guess I should have warned him, though at the time, I thought I was doing something wrong (first time doing anything so involved with an android device).

Now, I've an stock Epic 4G Touch sitting next to my frankenrooted device from the other day...if I can get the stock kernel off of one onto the other...viola, proper root access.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] NateTheGreat:
I'm in the exact same boat you two are in: bootloop after trying out my self-compiled kernel from Samsung's source code. If anyone gets a hold of a working kernel, care to post it somewhere so I can at least have a working phone again?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
lol, samsung just blew us by this time, those open source files were like not open source somehow.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Whosdaman:
adb pull should not require root
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
if it does not someone should this shortly although it wont help me until tomorrow.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] datajosh:
What needs to be pulled? I've been playing around in recovery and download but can't get anything useful so far.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
pull the original kernel then we have full root.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Whosdaman:
It's called zimage
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] datajosh:
That's what I figured but I haven't been able to find it yet.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Whosdaman:
Should be in system or on root
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] odub303:
The kernel is located on a different partition and is not able to be pulled using adb pull. You need to first know what partition it is located on, then you need root to run the proper command in adb to copy over the files to a "zimage" file so you can flash using Heimdall or Odin. On the OG Epic, the kernel was located on bml7.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kpkimmel:
adb won't recognize my device on my pc...not sure what is going on as i was going to poke around and find that damn dirty kernal
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] datajosh:
It has to be pulled from the correct partition which usually requires root as far as I can tell.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] squshy 7:
Hm, so from what I've read so far, it sounds like samsungs source isn't shotty, rather we've just been doing the wrong things? Is that true or is the source actually buggy as well...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] :
No, you guys need the initramfs from what I hear, If someone gets a dump of the original kernel you can pull it out with a hex editor. The source doesnt have that included which is why the kernel wont boot. It should end up arounf 5mb or so (at least from my experience on the Vibrant)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] timdorr:
That's the chicken and egg part of the problem. We can't get to the kernel zImage without root and we can get root without the kernel zImage. We need a stock firmware download from Samsung (or Sprint, I guess) to break that loop.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jlear3:
would the zImage from Shabbypenguin's root work then push it to the stock kernel?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Whosdaman:
This is what the pit is for
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] odub303:
Then go do it?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Whosdaman:
Can't. I have no idea to look for in the pit
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jlear3:
From my understanding pit tells you where it is. It has been find its on a partition they requires root to access
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] di11igaf:
Ya the actual source compiles(with a **** ton of errors) and i have what is probably a working zimage,but like others have said we need an initramfs.

Im so used to boot.img's with a seperate flashable zimage inside of it along with initramfs.

Im guessing an international initramfs would at the VERY least break wimax and who knows what else its probably not worth trying.

Does amyone have a complete stock zimage yet?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] timdorr:
Nope, they haven't released the stock firmware on Samsung's site. Watch this page for updates.

The problem is right now everyone flashing these rooted kernels are blowing away the stock zImage that exists on their phone. So, we've got root, but in getting root access we're removing our ability to get to a stock image on our own.

I'd recommend most people hold off rooting until we can get that stock zImage.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] odub303:
Bump.

Edited OP. There is more sauce available than just the kernel. There is a bunch of platform source code as well.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Entropy512:
Just quickly popping over from the Infuse community to check out some complaints I saw in an Engadget post about Samsung's source release...

This is how the Infuse community was going to do it for the Rogers Infuse but we got lucky and someone showed up with a pre-rooted dev phone. However it should work for you guys. Requires two devices:

1) Take the root-injection kernel and add CWM, or at least the ability to mount partitions and ADB. Use this to dump the full /system filesystem. Note that this needs to be in a minimal environment (such as CWM) to get a clean system dump.

2) Use the /system dump to create a rooted /system image (factoryfs.rfs) to flash into another phone using Odin or Heimdall. Use this to dump the stock kernel.

Actually - don't GS2 variants use ext4 for /system? Should make the process even easier.

Edit: I just realized, since /system is usually mounted read-only, all you need to do in order to dump the system image on a rooted device is run mount to figure out where the system partition is, then

dd if=/dev/systempartitionlocation of=/sdcard/system.img bs=1M

Shouldn't be a need for a CWM-enabled kernel or ADB in recovery.

Don't try to do a regular old file copy - this will often screw up on permissions and symlinks and such.

Sorry for not thinking of that initially - I'm a bit out of it thanks to being sick. :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leatherneck6017:
This is exactly the process we just used! THANK YOU!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pyrostic:
except for we had to run additional tools to convert it into a sparse ext4 file.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] netchip:
You can find that by SGS2 forum ...

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Entropy512:
For my own reference as much as anyone else's in case I get an AT&T SGS2:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1081239
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
Nice, gonna try this tomorrow, thx!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kawaski47:
I think this is a question many of us have after the SGSII overseas problem.

Well for those of you that have it, and those getting it soon, how's your screen? Notice any bluish/yellowish tint?

I plan on getting one tomorrow, but this is the one possible problem that im worried about.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] daneurysm:
I've had 2 AMOLED screens so far, Moment and NS4G... I think we need to be honest here. This is not a reference screen. The colors and saturation levels and black point are all tweaked to death...and that will look sugary sweet and awesome for nearly everything. It's a phone not a production studio monitor. But, white's not being perfectly white is something that shouldn't be unexpected...and I would be shocked if you'd ever notice it ever again (without some boring TFT to compared it directly next to....and the TFT would look washed out and purple/blueish/yellowish)......

I mean, failures happen...if your screen looks like complete **** do something about it, but, compared to your typical ****ty LCD or your above-average professional grade reference monitor it will no match up at all... it's sweetened up to look good...color bias will happen and should be expected in comparison to just about anything.

Don't except a turd but don't drive yourself crazy looking for perfection--it doesn't exist and it isn't the point either.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kawaski47:
I'm no perfectionist. Just check out the screen issue thread over in the SGS2 forum. Hey had multiple issues like yellowish tint on one side but not the other, bluish tint, lines, etc. Just curious if this will be as bad here as it was there
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Success100:
Mine is perfect ..

sent from my damn EPIC TOUCH 4G!!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kawaski47:
That's very good to hear!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nkd:
JUST DID FULL BRIGHTNESS ON BROWSER. on main google page, the page is as white as it gets, no tint what so ever. I am very happy with the screen.

I kinda love this setting, open up browser, click setting and you can set browser brightness.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tubasteve:
No tint issues, don't feel any difference between epic vs epic touch...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] 440hsp:
just installed infused 2.1 on my newly purchased infuse 4g. have been modding my captivate for quite some time. decide to install the 1.8 oc kernel. after installing from sd thru cwm my infuse is stuck on the samsung screen. any help would be appreciated.

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tried pulling battery and letting it sit but when i put the battery back in it stays on the samsung screen.:eek:

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nevermind.guess i broke the cardinal rule and didn't read enough. crap! have the phone in download mode. gonna flash back to stock and do over.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Ryanscool:
First of all

Well 1.8 oc kernal is not compatible with the rom, making this happen. All you have to do is get a cwm flashable kernal that is gingerbread compatible, flashing that. I think the community kernal in the dev section can work to cwm to get the rom, then flashing infusion gb. By the way, The 1.8 kernal actually does not overclock it that far. Its max is 1.6
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Entropy512:
This may be too late - but you should be fine with just odining or heimdalling a Gingerbread-compatible kernel and nothing else.

You might even be able to enter CWM in your currently hosed state - try the following:

Pull battery and reinsert.

Hold VolUp + VolDn

Hold power until the Samsung screen shows

Let go of power but keep holding VolUp+VolDn

Release VolUp+VolDn after 5-10 seconds
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android Development] jfl0wers:
If you are trying to install the SuperCharger script and can't find a busybox installation equal to or less than 1.18.2 please find attached 1.17.1. You can install with a simple xcopy deployment on top of an existing busybox install. More than likely busybox installed to /system/xbin but you should check first. You can use an app like Root Checker to find the real location. After you have identified where it is installed simply remount the file system as r/w and copy the attached file over the busybox installation you found. I used the app Root Explorer to remount the file system r/w and copy of my busybox install.

Update: I could not attach the file as it was not of an acceptable file ext so here is a link:

jayflowers.com/Misc%20Downloads/busybox

Update: I forgot to mention that you need to make sure that you set execute permissions on the busybox binary after you copy it over...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] genreg123:
Had serendipity vii, tried to install a theme. It bricked the phone.

used odin 3. restored the phone to factory.

tried rooting again and tried to put serendipity back on

didn't work

tried a bunch of different ways

then on my last attempt used odin to try and load serendipity vii. it stoped at "get PTI for Mapping...Firmware update start...Removed!...Completed. All threads completed (succedd 1/ failed 0)

now the thing won't even start in download mode or samsung screen.

the only thing I can think of is the battery died. but its been plugged in for a while now and still the thing is dead.

any ideas out there for the n00b?

Im beyond my limited capacity...

thanks
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Copperhed:
First make sure your using the factory Samsung cable. Your battery may have died but you should be able to get into download mode without the battery. Start Odin >plug cable into computer > volume down > plug in cable.

Too late now but, I don't believe you can use Odin to install Serendipity, thats probably what bricked your phone.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Entropy512:
I think the PIT is screwed up - gtg's ultimate unbrick does include a fixed PIT.

The following has never failed to enter download mode for me:

Pull battery and reinsert

DO NOT power up

Hold VolUp + VolDn while inserting the USB cable into the phone

Note that if things are really screwed up, download mode shows a different screen - a "phone-to-PC" instead of the usual "android construction worker" screen.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] cletusarrarr:
and even while it shows that screen u can still restore, try the GTG unbrick method , it should work. :)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Entropy512:
Yeah it just says "You HAVE to download something if you expect this thing to work again."
[Samsung Infuse 4G] satriani809:
Mine says that the device connected is not responding? what will i do? stuck in the phone and computer logo.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] vladimir999:
use odin 1.7 and kais samsung for driver ,,,
[Samsung Infuse 4G] blaker13:
Use the heimdall back to stock, worked for me, download drivers for windows again.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boi2gangsta:
I was wondering how, I just wanna disable homescreen not apps or anything else. I'm currently running synergy
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdawg0024:
Flash this zip via the recovery... Make sure you do a Nandroid 1st just in case... This will disable the Landscape mode while on the homescreen This will work on Synergy RLS1.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boi2gangsta:
Thanks it works!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goatmasterau:
Hi there my genius peers,

I apologize if this question has been asked, however I did search but it's so confusing due to the nature of the question, I will try and simplify what I want...

At work, we are now behind a silly proxy server that is blocking websites such as Mibbit that I was using for web IRC.

We do however have an independent adsl modem with wireless and I can connect to this and browse the net on my phone unrestricted.

My question is, can I run a Proxy server on my Desire HD, have my phone connected to my computer via USB, and then specify Firefox on my computer to connect to the net using the phone proxy server?

I understand tethering can allow the computer to use the phone's internet connection, however I work in an enterprise environment and want to restrict this to just a single web browser rather than all applications on my computer, hence running a proxy server on the phone.

---------- Post added at 01:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:49 PM ----------

My understanding is that I would need:

* proxy server daemon running on my phone

* My phone to act like a ethernet network device to my computer, so I can specify a IP address in Firefox's proxy server settings.

I'm not sure if this is possible?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goatmasterau:
Solved myself :)

At the moment, using Proxoid to do this...

I found all the info in the following sites if you need to know.

http://lifehacker.com/5447347/how-to-tether-your-android-phone

http://code.google.com/p/proxoid/wiki/installationPhone

http://code.google.com/p/proxoid/wiki/installationWindowsVista
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] hotelmrrsn:
So i've been trying to modify the Gmail notification icon that shows up in the status bar with no luck. I've changed every status_notify.png within the gmail.apk but the icon does not change. I'd love some guidance/suggestions. i appreciate your help!
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Gunthermic:
It's in there. I am not at my computer at the moment, but will tell you the png to change later, when i get home. If I do remember right it's in the drawable folder, not drawable-hdpi..
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] hotelmrrsn:
def. do not see it in the drawable folder, there is one in drawable-hdpi, drawable-hdpi-v9, drawable-mdpi, drawable-mdpi-v9. All of which have been changed :-(. I appreciate any other suggestions you can offer. This is a fairly straight forward image swap right?
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Gunthermic:
Yes, if all your trying to do is change the gmail icon that shows up in the Status bar. it comes from the the Gmail.apk

its in the drawable-hdpi-v9 folder...stat_notify_email.png
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] hotelmrrsn:
Yeah found that one and swapped it out. Named the old one stat_notify_email(old).png and the new one stat_notify_email.png. No change to my notification icon.:confused:
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] hotelmrrsn:
I was being dumb and not flashing the apk in recovery. Got it done now, here is my new gmail notification. Thank you for your help and patience.

View attachment 721772

Swyped Thunder coming at you
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Corey@rabbit:
For future reference...

If the gmail apk updates. Like you actually accept a new update from the market, the icon will change back to original. At that point you need to modify the gmail apk that will be in the data/app folder
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] MWFD:
I've run into a problem. I went into data/app and changed the gmail apk extension to .zip and then I replaced the notification image png file in the drawable xhdpi folder (I have Galaxy S3), rebooted into CWM Recovery and tried flashing in the gmail.zip folder that I edited but got an installation aborted error. I then rebooted and just tried pasting this gmail.zip folder into data/app but changed extension back to .apk yet the app wouldnt install. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donmarquis:
Guys iv just flashed stock 2.3.3 and im missing mediascape very badly :( .

i tried installing the .apk from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1258960 but that ddnt work .

So if anyone can Kindly port the 2.1 mediascape to work in 2.3.3 pls post here :D
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] punkkeks:
On your link is a port to 2.3.3 ....? I'll check that.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donmarquis:
No there is no mediascape apk in the 2.3 files list the only one is in the 2.1 list i ddnt work
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sahibunlimited:
Try to contact achotjan if he can...

But he is busy...