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[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
After 2 days and near-unbearable annoyance, I was able to root the phone just using Visionary, Root.sh, and the cyanogen update guide (for Rooting phone)---and without a USB cable -- only using ADBwireless, once I had temp root.

One issue though.... Since I did a hard reset perhaps 10 times, following each hard reset I had to login to gmail as if I was setting up my phone. One option this process asks you is to allow google to backup your data. I always left it checked.... and didn't think much of it.

However, now that I am rooted again.... and just flashed CM 7.1 (RC1), I notice that I have about 7 out of 80 or so contacts....

The only thing I can imagine that happened is that everytime I reset the phone and signed in with my gmail address, it backed up the contacts on the phone, and for whatever reason, only those 7 made it to backup.

What is confusing though is that I had wiped the data cache several times in the past, and every time I re-signed into gmail to start setup on the phone, all my contacts were intact.

Also, the nandroid backups I thought I had.... CWR -- once it boots into recovery says there are "missing files" where my backups once were. I don't mind this so much as I am running CM7.1 and can download all my apps, etc.... But I thought those backups might contain my contacts...

Anyone have an idea where I might be able to restore those contacts... My sd card is the same one as I had before this whole mess started.... I would think titanium backup or something would have these contacts.. I can't really even think about losing 60+ contacts.
[Focus General] zachsx:
I wanna run the RTM Mango on my new focus, I have experince with android. I'm just looking for the files and what I need to get and do, sorry I looked I just can't piece everything together, any help would be amazing. :)
[Focus General] wilcoholic5:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1215501

Enjoy.
[Focus General] suua:
Just fallow the instraction carfuly and u will be good :) its pretty easy actaully ! :)

and btw, mango ROOOOCKS
[Focus General] zachsx:
I think I'll wait. This may be a little out of my hands
[T-Mobile LG G2x] destroyerbmx:
I keep getting data drops where it will drop mobile data completely and wont keep a connection with wifi. It still says its connected with wifi but it wont transfer any data, with mobile data it wont even show a data connection on the status bar.

I hear this is a common bug that a lot of people have, I get a good connection on stock 2.3.3 so I am currently stuck. I was running 1.9.9 MIUI and have this issue on anything else I try.

I loaded a stock build.prop w/ MIUI and it killed my cell network connection, no connection at all and it froze on reading SIM, but my wifi connection would not drop, and was flawless. Is it possible it is a setting in the build.prop that is being added or overlooked in roms?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Calbino:
I am having this same problem.

I recently purchased a G2x and installed the latest stable CM7 right off the bat, and started experiencing random drops to the EDGE network. This and a dead zone in the center of my house led me to believe my phone had a reception issue.

I have flashed back to the stock rom and my dead zone is gone, completely, and the data drops stopped.

Google searching hasn't led me to any answers and my next stop will be the CM forums.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dennka:
Hi all,

I got this S2 today, did unlock and root, when tried to load CMW in recovery mode,did mistake and run update form sdcard. I guess, I had old stuff on sdcard. So now I cannot get out from there at all, I tried to reboot or power off option, but it just sit there and does nothing. Tried to remove battery and reboot, it takes me back to CMW recovery. Please, help me to fix this matter.

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I tried to get in Downloading mode and install Lite'ning Rom v6.1 XXKH3, it went though, but after reboot I got into ClockworkMode Recovery again
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrandoHD:
Hmmmm, this is very weird, if you can get into download mode, you should try flashing a stock rom, and not Lightening Rom....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dennka:
Thnx, I got it fixed. I am coming from Samsaung Captivatre and button there are diiferent combination as navigation vise. Stupid me.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] UhQ:
I want to jump on board and pick one of these godly devices but my main debate is this:

Just upgraded to Evo 3d, went passed 30 days

Can't spend that much money on this.

Should I wait till Christmas for the Nexus Prime?

Recommendations?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] stangdriverdoug:
I would wait. Unless you can get a decent amount for your E3D on Craigslist or Ebay because you'll have to pay full price for the GSII. Enjoy the E3D, it's a nice phone and when the prime comes out that will be a nice upgrade for you. I'm glad I held off on the 3D.... I really wanted that phone but I knew what was on the horizon.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cdszoke:
If I was in your situation I would wait. The GS2 is probably the best phone out according to the many reviews I watched. But remember the E3d though not as good (based on the reviews I read no flame please) it's still in the same class as the GS2. The Nexus Prime should be the next gen of android phones with Ice Cream sandwich. But, than again all words on Nexus Prime are rumors. 720 p Super Amoled screen could be true or not. Hopefully true. I disgress, I would personally wait even though I already ordered my Epic Touch. Also, so you don't feel bad just stay away from anything that talks about the Epic Touch to help the wait more manageable for yourself.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jayv1717:
Or sell the 3d and put up the rest for the galaxy s2 then sell the gs2 when prime comes..but thats only if your a anxious tech freak who has to have the best like me..lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cdszoke:
I feel like a real tech nerd being envious of you. My girl would give me hell if I did that all the time. But, then again I can just leave my girl and just live the life you have. If only dreams really did come true. :cool:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jayv1717:
well sir my girl does give me hell..lol..but she deals with it
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] rorytmeadows:
I'm only getting my state to show up on my sense clock weather widget. Before this week, it showed my town of West Chili. Now it just shows New York. Any thoughts?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Undeadk9:
What ROM you on?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] rorytmeadows:
Stock T-Mobile

Rooted of course.

But nothing was changed when this started happening. It was working fine on rooted stock for me for a month.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] wiswis:
try loading up the weather htc app and go through the settings and see if something changed
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] rorytmeadows:
Nothing changed.

It seems to be only doing this on wifi mode. And it's not the state, but New York, New York. UGH
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scarfman4:
Does anyone have an Edify installer that loads the stock Gingerbread 2.3.4 launcher? I'm currently running EH09. I found one in the market but it says the icons are blurry on 2.3.3+. Thanks.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Joseg1320:
I have CM7 flashed, whenever I go to Manage Applications>Running I always see the Maps there. If I try to stop it, it stops for a second, then starts back up.

Why doesn't it stop running?

I also have another question. What is CyanogenMod LGE Services, and does Google Services always have to be running too?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] phburks:
Just curious why you're concerned with killing those processes? Battery paranoia?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Joseg1320:
I'm just wondering why the maps app is running since it's used 41% of my battery.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] phburks:
What percentage was your actual battery at when you saw that maps 41%?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Joseg1320:
I'd say it was around 85 percent. Right now its around 45 percent and the maps app says its used 42% of the battery
[T-Mobile LG G2x] aceofserenity:
Do you have Latitude on?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Joseg1320:
Where would I go to check that. I have the GPS turned off if that's what you mean.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaHiLzZ:
My friend has a Bell GT-i9000M phone. I am not sure what he did but I believe he applied lagfix and tried to update to 2.3

Current status is that I am able to get to Dowload mode.

I have tried:

1. Darkys stock rom: http://www.darkyrom.com/community/i...-this-is-the-stock-rom-for-sgs-gt-i9000.1115/

(No success)

2. JPU: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10449932&postcount=7 (no success)

3. JL2/Speed Kernel http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=905975 - No success.

I can get into recovery but I get can't mount DBDATA error.

Currently the phone is rebooting constantly at Galaxy S GT-i9000M screen.

If I flash only JPU, it get stuck a round circle, I have waited about 15 mins with no change. I have used ODIN 1.3 and 1.82 and 1.83.

HELP!

What else to try?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaHiLzZ:
This is where I am so far:

Phone boots with 2.2 with 0 for SD card and internal. Followed instructions as per: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=973687

Now, trying to use sdparted or parted.

If I use parted, using http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=937072 and http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/...56396__hl__sdparted__fromsearch__1#entry56396, I am able to get to:

However instead of listing, I get "can't have a partition outside the disk parted"

I am stuck at this point. I am currently using adb in normal mode. If I reboot to CLM SpeedMod recovery, I only get $ when typing adb shell, and su results in permission denied. I have tried installing super user via recovery but no go.

ThoughtS?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaHiLzZ:
Anyone ?

10char
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JaY_III:
I had the same problem a while back

You should be able to fix it if you odin flash UGJL2
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaHiLzZ:
^ Endless BOOT!

Followed JL2 instructions from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=853950&highlight=JL2
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JaY_III:
endless boot is fine as long as when you go back into recovery your SD card can be mounted unlike before.

So i ask, is it mounting now?

If it is, your free to flash any other ROM
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaHiLzZ:
Hi Jay,

No go on recovery mode. Vol up + home + power doesn't get me anywhere. Vol down + home + power gets to download mode.

Phone continues bootlooping...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JaY_III:
you mean you are still getting the same error in recovery?

sorry that didnt work for you as i had the exact same error and that is what worked for me.

I then flashed darky 10.2 RE once i could mount my SD card
[Motorola Photon 4G] edgemaster191:
Would it be possible through software update or custom rom / kernel to enable Auto Focus while recording video?

It's not the end of the world if we can't enable it, just curious. makes video of anything close pretty much useless.
[Motorola Photon 4G] androiderb89:
I have noticed that autofocus does work when the software supports it.

For instance, Tango (video and voice calls) focuses automatically during a video call.

Also there's this software called lgCamcorder which supports autofocus while recording. But it doesn't work on our phone. Is there a way we can get this to work on our phones?
[Motorola Photon 4G] androiderb89:
I am selling my phone because of this :( Anyone got it to work? Autofocus in video? even the cheap phone do it now days! PLEASE HELPP!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] androiderb89:
Sold and bought myself a I9100... cam pwns.. gotta explore a lot more now. c ya photon
[Motorola Photon 4G] nezb:
Has anyone tried the hacked Skype APK that has an option to force-enable video calling?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16889575&postcount=1262
[Motorola Photon 4G] Fyahstarter:
Tried a few mins ago. Doesn't work once you attempt to enable camera. Won't connect. Supposedly, Skype with video doesn't support the Tegra 2 chipset. :mad:
[Motorola Photon 4G] Draiko:
It does via Skypekit. nVidia showed it off over 7 months ago. Skype is just being a hot bowl of dicks about it for some reason.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dljohnson:
Is skype working on their mobile app to support video calling anytime soon?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lancerz:
Well video calling works on other phones, just not the photon.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Draiko:
Skype is SUPPOSEDLY working on a Tegra 2 compatible version. nVidia built one months ago so I have no idea why it isn't out yet unless it's something political.

Skype's current build uses NEON. Tegra 2 doesn't support NEON.
[Motorola Photon 4G] roseng:
Gee, I wounder if the reason could be Google Talk?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Draiko:
No idea. GTalk with video calling is supposed to hit the Photon with the next update.
[Motorola Photon 4G] MultiDev:
This problem is over now.

Skype now officially supports the Photon for video calling along with a number of other tegra 2 devices.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.skype.raider&hl=en
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike6200:
I have Uevolved rom on my phone and the usb wont charge and wont connect to computer. I took it to sprint and they ordered new phone and I cant get the phone to update the PC36IMG. I did the unrevoked forever and it shows Supersonic ship S-on. But when I put the pc36img on the root of my sd and restart in bootloader it acts like it found the pc36img fil and does nothing. I think I updated the pc36img earlier so now im stuck.

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Ive been researching this for hours and it looks like I have to root phone again and then the unrevoked and the pc36img thing. The problem is, how can i root when i cant connect to my computer? Im screwed. PLEASE help if anyone knows a wasy around this. Thank you
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mad82109:
Look if u you have TEP call the phone in stolen or lost. Sell it for 150 as a blacklisted evo 4g and use 100 to pay the deductable. That's what I did when my screen broke. Sprint did not want to fix the screen plus the other issues I had with the phone. So I reported it stolen and sold it for 150. Made 50 and got a evo brand new in the box the next day!!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thizzlemania91:
In the kingrunny ROM by evokings platy_puss got a fix for usb to pc. Try this man hope this works for you.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigtoysrock:
Honestly, If its your USB that is broke, I highly doubt they will even look at anything especially since they already seen the phone and ordered you a new one. Rooting wont break your usb port. Plus like I said they already looked at it and deemed it broken. You really should be in the clear man. If they were gonna notice it they would have already.

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His USB is physically broke.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wisiwyg:
Have you tried removing your microSD card, loading up the proper files on a PC, & putting it back in and unroot? You may have to buy microSD to SD and a SD to USB adapter to plug it into your PC.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thizzlemania91:
Oo well in that case your good if you got a new one you shouldn't stress man, you'll have a spare EVO LOL ill give you $100 for it Haha
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike6200:
Thanks for the responses. Ill take mine in and see what happens.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aarofloyd:
Been into Sprint a few times lately...they told my buddy they wouldn't look at his Evo if it was modded, but as soon as one of the other techs asked what rom he was running, CM7, and the tech said yeah Im running that and its stable, the guy was like ok, Ill look at it but I have to put it back to stock. In short, get someone working there to mention they are running the same rom and I really think youll be in the clear.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Agent Droid:
I sent mine into CPR (Cell Phone Repair) not sure what your paying for replacement....but they did it for like 50 bucks...and had my phone next day..same root and rom and all. Where do ya live?

saves you the hassle of re-rooting and all that stuff reflashing rom....just pick up where you left off
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kemimarie:
If you want to unroot love, I advise you to get a laptop and find a cheap sdcard adapter somewhere. It could be from a camera or something.

Put the files on the sdcard using the adapter and then put it back in your phone, unroot and have a happy day lol.

Edit:: Noticed someone already mentioned this but anywho, hope you fix your issue :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mexigga:
Got a link for this...curious...also searched, no dice for me.

thx.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bender beerman:
that's a bummer! u should hope that your screen doesn't get "accidentally" cracked or something... if u got tep, the cost is at most $35 (sometimes free) and generally same or next day swap out for an evo refurb... and with a cracked screen, *there is no check for s-on*. just make sure that it doesn't INTENTIONALLY get a cracked screen. that would be like lying and stealing at the same time.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mad82109:
Hmm i had TEP my screen was broken. They said it was over a inch ect and sent me to asurion. Which made me sell the phone for 150 with a cracked screen then call it in stolen . Got them to ship it out n had it in less than 12 hours.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knoc:
You think their paying $300 and waiting on rebates. I agree with your theory but you gotta get BIG BROTHER anyway u can. I pay 176$ a month. I returnd my hero cuss my friend dropped chipping my volume bar...told sprint I wasn't receiving calls and i already called up and factory reset and thy told me to come in (mind u I never called once I made that completely up by walking into the store... ) got me a new hero and my fiancée phone swapped out
[Galaxy S II General] vaskodogamagmail:
If you did not make any backup of your EFS folder, and your IMEI is messed up, this could be your solution to recover your lost IMEI. NOTE THAT AT LEAST YOU MUST HAVE THE SHIPPED ORIGINAL EFS FOLDER ON YOUR PHONE ( even if you didn't make a backup of it yet and even it's messed up ) FOR THIS METHOD TO WORK

My history with my IMEI:

I flashed my phone with some ROMs, and I didn't backup my EFS folder before, then My SGS2 IMEI was changed to 004999010640000, and we know this is the fake IMEI that is assigned to the phone if the nv_data.bin file is messed up.

so I researched. searched all the forums and didn't find anything that could cure my phone's IMEI and set it to the original IMEI number. so I experimented and after some hours, I fixed my IMEI.

one thing that led me to the conclusion that " .nv_data " file is the thing that I need to fix the IMEI is that they share a very look alike name, and they have the same 2MB size.

PS: I restored my phone's firmware to it's original PDA, Phone and CSC, rooted it with CF-Root, and then done this procedures below

here is what I have done:

you must have:

-Root

-Root explorer for copying files to and from EFS folder

-Android SDK for the ADB tools or Terminal in your phone.

It is interesting to know that the IMEI is stored in ".nv_data" file in ORIGINAL SHIPPED EFS folder too, so you just have to do these:

1) make a copy of your EFS folder to your sdcard using root explorer and then make a backup of the folder to your computer [ to have another copy if you had to format sd card sometime ]

2) delete the EFS folder (BE SURE YOU HAVE BACKED IT UP IN A SAFE PLACE AS SAID IN STEP 1) from the root of your phone using root explorer.

3) reset the phone, after that, go to the root, and you can see that the EFS folder is still there, don't make any mistake, this EFS folder is new and generated by the android OS.

4) go to EFS folder using root explorer, and delete "nv_data.bin", "nv_data.bin.md5".

5) go to your backed up EFS folder on your sdcard, copy the "imei" folder to the EFS folder at the root of your phone, then again go to the backed up EFS folder at yout sdcard and copy the " .nv_data " file to your EFS folder at the root of your phone using root explorer, NOTE: the dot in first of nv_data is not a mistake, copy the ".nv_data" file.

6) make another copy of the ".nv_data" file in EFS folder in your phone, so you would have 2 copies of ".nv_data" in EFS folder

7) rename one of ".nv_data" files to "nv_data.bin" and another one to "nv_data.bin.bak"

8) at your PC open CMD at the ADB tool path, or run Terminal at your phone enter these commands:

adb shell ( use this command of you use ADB, if you're using terminal, skip this line )

su ( ALLOW THE MESSAGE CAME AT YOUR PHONE's DISPLAY BY SUPERUSER PROGRAM )

chown 1001:radio /efs/nv_data.bin

9) reset your phone.... after that you have your original IMEI. you can check your IMEI by dialing *#06#.

and DO IT ON YOUR OWN RISK.

and PLEASE MAKE A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EFS FOLDER BEFORE DELETING IT. IT HAS IMPORTANT FILES IN IT.

and sorry for bad English.
[Galaxy S II General] maddada:
Thank you very much for taking the time to write this helpful thread, but can you please tell us how your IMEI was changed to a fake one in the first place so that we don't have to go through all this?
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
Flashing a rom may often be the only reason .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] kcaz:
Had you already made a copy of your EFS folder before your IMEI was changed?
[Galaxy S II General] vaskodogamagmail:
No, I didn't had the back up before IMEI change.

To make a conclusion:

... You didn't backup your EFS folder.

... Your IMEI changed because of ROM flashings.

... You want to recover your IMEI.
[Galaxy S II General] angelomaldito:
For the purpose of making a backup of the EFS folder, how about simply copying the whole folder into a safe place?

There is an app called Nitrality (if my spelling is not wrong) which one of its various functions is to backup and restore the EFS folder. I've made a backup using this method and it seems that what the app actually did was simply copying the whole folder into a different directory. If it's simple like that, it seems that Root Explorer or similar app would be enough for that purpose.

Nevertheless, as there are numerous guides on this topic, all of which providing more complex methods, either using ADB or Terminal Emulator (I've made a backup using it as well, just in case, which resulted in the EFS being saved as tarball file), I have some doubts whether simply copying the whole folder would be enough for a eventual restoration. Would it?
[Galaxy S II General] vaskodogamagmail:
Just copying your EFS folder to a safe place is enough, using any method, but copying EFS folder messes up wih its permissions, so if you want to restore your nv_data.bin file, you must set the owner of the nv_data.bin using "chown" command in ADB like described in my post.

After all, I hope this method works for everyone, worked for me though.
[Galaxy S II General] superleeds27:
Have copied the efs folder onto my PC.

At least i now know i have a backup, i can mess about with permissions there and then if it ever comes down to it!
[Galaxy S II General] Schindler33:
I do not have the .nv_data file. onle *.bin or *.bak. Any suggestions or do I have to stick with the generic 00... IMEI? The whole procedure did not word for me, but thanks anyway.

By the way I think you do not need adb for that. You can execute the chmod command in a Terminal editor on the phone.