yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Mytchh:
How to Install Custom Boot Animations on Your Device

Download FREE Boot Animations From Here

sites.google.com/site/welfareboots

You can also check out my very in depth tutorial here.

se7ensins.com/forums/topic/548583-custom-boot-animation

I will use hyperlinks once I'm no longer a "new member" Sorry. This isn't spam.

Step 1. You have to be rooted in order to do this.

Step 2. Download Root Explorer from the market.

Step 3. Rename downloaded .zip to "bootanimation" and Copy to SD Card

Step 4. Unmount your Droid.

Step 5. Open Root Explorer, tap on “sdcard” and locate bootanimation.zip.

Step 6. Long press on bootanimation.zip and choose “Move”.

Step 7. Hit the back button once and locate the “system” folder.

Step 8. Tap and open “system” and then “media”.

Step 9. Hit “Paste” which should be an option at the bottom of your screen.

Step 10. If there is already a bootanimation.zip file, let Root Explorer overwrite it.

Step 11. Back out of Root Explorer and Reboot your phone.

Step 12. Enjoy your new Droid boot animation.

Alternate Method

Step 1. You have to be rooted.

Step 2. Rename downloaded .zip to bootanimation

Step 3. Copy to SD Card

Step 4. Open up Terminal Emulator on phone

***BEGIN TERMINAL COMMANDS***

su

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

dd if=/sdcard/bootanimation.zip of=/system/media/bootanimation.zip

Reboot

***END TERMINAL COMMANDS***

Enjoy your new Boot Animation! If you have questions feel free to ask.

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[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Dirk:
Thank you for a very well written and helpful guide! It's always nice to see a newer member contribute something useful.

Good luck with your future endeavors and enjoy your stay!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Mytchh:
Thanks, man. I'd love to be more active, but I'm pretty busy on another forum.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] hilaryseth:
i tried that on my U8160 n it didnt work..what did i do wrong?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] sumeet909:
Does Infuse have a better Sound Chip than Galaxy S2? I heard the sound card is mediocre in S2. I hope Infuse has the same card as S1 as it is really a 1st generation phone.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] strychninetwitch:
You name 3 different phones, what does the S1 have to do with anything that you said?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] dilzo:
He's saying the s1 has a good chip, so he hopes its the same for the infuse. Duh! Read properly before you post.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] :
the infuse. omg no no he asking about the SGS2 duhh! and yes the infuse has a better sound chip than the SGS2 i think. yeah it does.

i think....
[Samsung Infuse 4G] projectvirtue:
from what i remember reading off of supercurios blog, the Infuse uses a wolfson DAC whereas the SGS2 uses a yamaha chip. He made a tweet a while ago saying he gave up developing voodoo sound for SGS2 because the sound quality maximum potential is just that much lower on the SGS2 and he's angry at samsung for it.

To sum up, infuse > SGS2 for sound
[Samsung Infuse 4G] sumeet909:
Perfect response, thanks!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] DAVIDGBJONES:
Hiya could someone tell me if there's a known way to unlock x10 mini pro as I want to give my old one to my niece but she's on different network, thanks

Previous Smart Phones: Xperia X10 mini pro,

Xperia X10 mini,

Nokia 5800.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ovu85:
Hi, is it possible to connect a android phone to internet via bluetooth from PC? i've got FroyoBread v023b with cyanogenMod on a X8.

thank you!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bearmonsta:
A couple of hours forum trawling and i came up with nothing besides phone to computer. There is a way to manually do it via a proxy but as far as i know android doesnt support .jar. Has the rom disabled wifi?

PS. I only spent so long because i hate not solving problems :P.
[HTC Sensation] 69gm:
Has anyone else been having trouble with the mic? Sometimes when I try to do a voice search my phone doesn't hear me. Nothing to do with noisy environment or anything...just doesn't seem to be on or something.

Recently I installed Vlingo since they finally fixed it for the Sensation. At first it worked fine. Then the next time I tried it I got nothing. When I started a search manually, Vlingo has a sound meter-like graphic and it was like it was picking up lots of noise! Normally, this meter would have nothing visible until you speak but it was as if it was picking up lots of noise or something.

It seems random when my mic seems to fail or not.

Anyone have any ideas??? :confused::confused::confused:
[HTC Sensation] DaClowns:
Hmm, not quite sure what is wrong, this phone is cool, but has all sorts of problems...

I hear HTC is good about replacing your phone though, shoot HTC an email, or call them, I've heard they are very nice about hooking people up with a brand new one at no cost.

May as well try it!

(Please hit thanks if I helped you! Just takes a second!)
[HTC Sensation] cmarchi:
I had the same experience with Vlingo recently. Love the app, but they haven't seemed to work out all the bugs. Are you on stock or custom ROM?
[HTC Sensation] 69gm:
Stock T-Mobile. I wonder if it's a Vlingo thing?

I have other issues with the phone (Sense 3.0 keeps rebooting, etc.) but I guess that's for another thread...me too. Love the phone but...
[HTC Sensation] Easily Confused:
Sorry to drag up an old thread but did you ever find a solution to this? I seem to be having a similar problem with my microphone but I'm not even using Vlingo...
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] David1239:
I would like to know where the bootanimation.zip should be put, and do dr honks cwm kernels work with bootanimation.zip?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] kenhere:
If the bootanimation.zip isn't for gs4g it wont work but u can extract the bootloop and boot animation files and push it into systems/ media
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] David1239:
I am trying to make a bootanimation.zip using this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=862537 but when i put it in system\media, all i get is a black screen.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] kenhere:
The phone only recognises .qmg files for boot you can't put a zip in there
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] David1239:
Is there any rom or kernel that supports bootanimation.zip?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] jager555:
The current GB roms don't support bootanimation.zip but the froyo ones above kb5 or with drhonks kernel does.
[LG Optimus 3D] vicvamp:
Hi

I had an Atrix and used it for three months, then the internal memory (SD area) seemed to corrupt - I could not format or unmount it or access anything in there apart from copying files with Astro or ES File Manager. Even a full factory restore of the phone did not delete any of the data on the Internal SD (or Media Area). Ended up getting rid and getting an Optimus 3D.

Now, had the 3D for a month and can't believe I am having a similar problem. Android market apps kept disappearing on boot up (this is what started before), and randomly they would be there or not on each reboot. I moved some files using file manager from the internal to the external SD to create some room and my phone got stuck in a boot loop so I had to remove the battery and external SD for it to work again. Then, all of the apps on the internal sd instead of their icons had the android sd symbol and when clicked on say 'application not installed on phone'. When I look at the Sd and memory storage, the internal SD is nearly full still! I can't access it, can't factory reset it, or delete data. Surely there is some way of sorting this without yet another handset - it's gotta be a fixable glitch? In desperation rooted phone with Superoneclick which was really easy but doesn't help me because I can download from the market, etc, but can't actually install - I am stuck in the install 'candybar' for ages and it just won't work. I thought of manually deleting all of this stuff but I can't get a file manager onto the phone and the factory reset wiped out ES and Astro, I can't get them back on in the usual way.

Because I have root access now, I presume I may be able to use ADB through my PC to sort this problem - but of course would need exact commands etc, on how to do this through the command prompt? I am not an expert but think I just need to get rid of the carp on my internal SD which must have a corrupt file somewhere. Please help urgently, it is frustrating beyond belief and I almost feel like going back to Apple!!!!
[LG Optimus 3D] Urabewe:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1273416

This is a GUI for ADB a graphical front end. You can use it to push/pull some apk to your phone if ya need to. Hope this helps in some way.
[Nexus S General] david279:
There's also other issues with going from 2.3.5 to 2.3.7. Back and forth.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1271221
[Nexus S General] Rem3Dy:
I just restored my nandroid of 2.3.7 and I am getting no force closes and nfc is working. NFC just stops working when I restore my CM7 backup. I never unrooted or took the ota. I just flashed BuglessPete's stock rooted rom.
[Nexus S General] pitmaster:
I have flashed back and forth (rooted stock and cm7) four or five times since yesterday without any issues.....wallet is cool but I can't go without cm settings.

ahhhhh...........gone todash..............
[Nexus S General] BlackHawkA4:
I haven't tried going back yet to see if Wallet works after going back and forth. I'm going to assume since the last 2 posters have had no issues I'm not going to have one going back. Not that I am going back as I too kept CM7 over 2.3.7 with Google Wallet. Hopefully by the end of the weekend we can get come CM7 2.3.7 action. The stock Nexus I have here hasn't gotten the OTA yet so I'm not eager right now, lol.

I figured am I going to use the phone more or wallet. Went with the phone and stayed CM7.
[Nexus S General] Rem3Dy:
I did it for the free 10 bucks :) Then right back to CM7 I went.
[Nexus S General] apreichner:
I have issues. I actually ported over the 2.3.7 rom for the GSM. Got everything working to the point of adding the Google prepaid card but then it errored and couldn't add a card. Probably extra security in the rils. But after flashing back to cm7 nfc no longer works. It kind of sucks because there is no official 2.3.7 for the GSM phones yet but I'm thinking about trying to backport some of those rils to see if I can fix nfc.
[Nexus S General] oscarthegrouch:
I flashed 74 then did a full wipe of everything and have been playing with miui 1.9.16 and haven't had problems with anything so far. It's using 2.3.5.

I don't know for sure, I'm just guessing, but flashing roms on top of each other isn't a good idea. Wouldn't that make it more likely to break or create conflicts with things?
[Nexus S General] thedudejdog:
I just got this email from google.

Hi Jason,

Thanks for your patience.

Please be aware that unauthorized operating systems or rooted devices may have limited or compromised functionality. Such device configurations are not supported by Google Wallet and may expose security risks. We strongly discourage use of the Google Wallet app on such devices.

Appreciate your understanding. Feel free to let us know if you have any additional questions.

Sincerely,

Swathi The Google Wallet Team
[Nexus S General] rican408:
So I rooted and wallet just FC. I unroot back to 2.3.4 upgrade up the ladder and wallet FC. Tried many things tonight and I can't get it back :(
[Nexus S General] derekwilkinson:
so even after doing a complete wipe it still doesn't work anymore? that's really scary.
[Nexus S General] Rem3Dy:
Are you on sprint?
[Nexus S General] rican408:
Yes I am on sprint... so even after going back completely to stock it doesn't work..
[Nexus S General] thedudejdog:
Did you odin?
[Nexus S General] david279:
Which stock rom did you go back to? Because your nfc is only gonna work on 2.3.7.
[Nexus S General] derekwilkinson:
well NFC should work before 2.3.7, just not google wallet.
[Nexus S General] rican408:
I did not Odin. I used one click stock which returns the phone to 2.3.4 and wipes all including SD card. Then the phone upgrades to 2.3.5 then 2.3.7...
[Nexus S General] Rem3Dy:
No. Once you update to 2.3.7 nfc will no longer work on older versions.
[Nexus S General] Rem3Dy:
Did wallet work before you rooted?
[Nexus S General] rican408:
Yes it did work before rooting. Has to be something on the nfc chip itself sensing a state it doesn't like. I know the evo when there were GPS problems switching between certain roms, we had to use dialer code gpsclrx to clear info on the chip and get it working again. Anything like that for nfc?
[Nexus S General] derekwilkinson:
Not that I know of, I've never seen anything about nfc in the dialer menus... I guess I'm stuck on 2.3.7 now lol

Sent from my Nexus S 4G
[Nexus S General] Rem3Dy:
I flashed Buglesspets GWK74 odexed and it has been working for me. Maybe it has something to do with modifying the rom after the fact(rooting).
[Nexus S General] derekwilkinson:
Isn't his rooted? I'm running google wallet on a rooted rom just fine

Sent from my Nexus S 4G
[Nexus S General] rican408:
Uuugh so wtf! All I did was root! I didn't even downgrade.

here's what I did ...

unrooted 2.3.5 to 2.3.7 manual download ... wallet works.

unlock bootloader flash SU ..... no more wallet.

Uh oh revert to stock unrooted 2.3.4 and ota back to 2.3.7, still no wallet...

(I'm screwed lets try cm7 again) didn't like it.

Now on bugless rooted 2.3.7 all this with no success.

So is it the process of rooting that borks it?

I'm so lost!
[Nexus S General] derekwilkinson:
I wish I had some suggestions... I really don't know how it registers the nfc, but it probably locks it for security so people can't steal your money through google wallet

Sent from my Nexus S 4G
[Nexus S General] rican408:
I will try Odin tonight and report back. I feel like its permanent damage tho. Even tho I see other people flash back and forth and their OK... sucky
[Nexus S General] thedudejdog:
I know the feeling. Where do you get the Odin files for this phone?
[Nexus S General] thedudejdog:
Odin doesn't help. Still getting the wallet fc even before I launch the app
[Nexus S General] LancerEVA06:
I went back to stock GRJ22... fastboot erased all partitions, and fastboot flashed all, including radio, bootloader, and for extra stockness, recovery. My NFC still worked. When I bumped back up to 2.3.7 my Google Wallet still worked. I guess it's one of those YMMV things.

Mind you I don't root the actual ROM, when I need SU access I boot into CWM and do what I need to do. But I see no point (for me) to always be SU.
[Nexus S General] LancerEVA06:
OK, I just did a little test. The SPRKE1 radio borks NFC on pre-GWK74 ROMs. And the SPRKE5 (and previous) borks NFC security on GWK74. So downgrading IS an option, with trade offs.

But yes, I did just confirm that NFC worked when I downgraded to GRJ22 with a pre-GWK74 radio, and Google Wallet works when I flashed SPRKE1 and NAND'd back to 2.3.7.
[Nexus S General] rican408:
I've tried everything... did the one click stock. Did Odin. My **** is permanently effed.

---------- Post added at 04:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:28 PM ----------

i dont understand how this works for you when im COMPLETELY back to stock and wallet will not work. thinking of going to a sprint store.....
[Nexus S General] LancerEVA06:
OK. Try this:

1. Grab the GRJ22 images.

2. Fastboot erase all partitions except wimax/efs

3. Fastboot flash every *.img from the GRJ22 images except wimax*.img.

4. Power off and pull battery for 2 minutes, and while waiting grab the OTAs for GRJ90 and GWK74.

5. Power on and boot into ROM. You should be able to turn NFC on and off.

6. Boot into stock recovery and apply GRJ90 OTA. Reboot.

7. Now boot into stock recovery and apply GWK74 OTA.

You should be good to go. I have never used a one click or Odin on my Nexus, so I just assume they don't work how they should.
[Nexus S General] rican408:
ok can you elaborate like your talking to a 3rd grader lol. fastboot is the stock recovery right? where do i grab the grj22 images? i did a google search and dont think i found anything useful. looked in fastboot for erase partitions????
[Nexus S General] fwald:
I think this explains exactly what happened to me (running BuglessPete's stock rooted ROMs). I upgraded to GWK74 and initially flashed SPRKE1 and everything was working fine. I then flash SPRKE5 because I wasn't sure which was the update and lost not just Wallet but also the NFC menu settings (I can't even run Tags now).

Unfortunately flashing SPRKE1 back didn't fix it, and neither did flashing rooted GRJ90 or GRJ20 with the SPRKE5 radio.

So it the only fix to go back to unrooted GRJ20 and start over?
[Nexus S General] LancerEVA06:
Short answer: yes.

To the previous poster about fastboot... I'm not trying to come off sounding like a jerk, but I know it will be taken as such... but I suggest learning about the bootloader and fastboot commands. It's the only official way to flash this phone. If something can't be verified or something goes wrong, the flash will fail.
[Nexus S General] rican408:
ive used adb before on my droid 1 the original way to root. so ive been here for a while with a few phones and all the ways to root. never dove in to the fastboot thing cuz one click root was SO DAM EASY. you did not come off as a jerk. thank you. i will have to look in to it since i really want wallet back....

ive already downloaded the images and ota's. will learn me some fastboot now.
[Nexus S General] LancerEVA06:
Fastboot is much easier to learn than adb. But I will say this... if you haven't already added adb to your $PATH, do so with adb and fastboot... makes life so much easier.
[Nexus S General] fwald:
Just an FYI for those using BuglessPete's stock ROM: the 10-02 nightly update fixes the NFC (at least for the Nexus S 4G), although Google Wallet still has not been incorporated.
[Nexus S General] apreichner:
Works with the GSM version as well.
[Nexus S General] Cobra585:
So I'm trying to flash the GRJ22 image files and all of them work (boot, bootloader, recovery, system, userdata) except the radio image. In fastboot it tell me the write failed. When i try to erase the partition first it says i dont have permission. Any idea whats wrong?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Philly Jim:
Hellow all new to forum

And yes i have read about 200 pages from shooter 2.4 still can't figure out why i cannot get visual voicemail but even stranger cant get email notification .

yes i am running 2.4 yes it wa a clean install have spent about 8 hrs reading before posting love this rom mu 4 th actuall and Favorite but cant seem to fix those two issues and help woipd be gratly appreciated , i cant just cant read anymore lol thanks again in advance for any help ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ramiqassar:
Hi

I am looking to Update my Froyo to gingerbread:D

where can I find a Stock gingerbread to download for HTC dhd??:confused:

Thankss.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordManhattan:
Here you go :) It's the 1.3.2 version of Froyo so you can root again if you want, or flash it and upgrade to Gingerbread through OTA.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ramiqassar:
Thank u

How can i install it ??

Just show me simple steps.......
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theonew:
Just run the file on your pc (It's for windows), and follow all on screen instructions.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] repoocc@embarqmail.com:
So I cracked my lcd and just received a replacement from insurance... it wont show a device so I can root it.

What's is there to check in order for the device to show? I have reinstalled the HTC drivers and restarted my system but nothing.

What is the best way to root 2.3.3?

Thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theidlemonk:
Check usb debugging on under settings -application- development and then try adb
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] repoocc@embarqmail.com:
already checked... i found this on another site, but am not sure what "Disk Mode" is

any other suggestions?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theidlemonk:
When you connect to the computer, you should see the usb icon in the status bar. Make sure it says charge only for adb to work. Might also want to download HTC sync or get the android usb drivers from unrevoked.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] repoocc@embarqmail.com:
used another computer... everything is great now

must be a driver issue on my laptop

thanks for the help though!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Re-install the sdk, and make sure you have the two adb.dll files, as sometimes they are missing, and cause it not to work.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DonutGrunt:
Never had a Samsung Android phone before, really use to HTC EVO

Anyways, is there a way where I can just plug it in and select USB mode?

I don't want no fancy program, just directly to the phone acting as a storage device. I downloaded this new USB driver for Samsung devices, but it's horrendously slow at transferring files.

Amazing phone by the way :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Erislover:
I just had the best conversation ever with a sprint rep. This was an in-store tech person, mind you, so all of my facial expressions were more than obvious.

The conversation went like this:

Hi, my E4GT is having some wifi connectivity issues. When I try to connect, it says connected but then keeps scanning, and in fact, it's not connected at all because I can't get a webpage to...

(Interrupting me) WAIT RIGHT THERE...let me see the front of your phone, turn it around! (I do so.) Yup, that's the problem...you downloaded something to make your ANDROID phone look like a WINDOWS phone.

You mean a launcher?

Yes, it's an unapproved app, and you corrupted your whole system. You need to delete that and hard reset. Don't make it look like it's not an Android phone...otherwise you corrupt the system.

(My face has a wtf are you serious look on it at this point.) Oooooh-kay. Um, are you sure?

YES! ABSOLUTELY! Also, I bet you have checked off install apps from unknown sources, don't you?

Yes...so?

THERE YOU GO AGAIN --- COMPLETELY CORRUPTED YOUR ENTIRE SYSTEM. Now, anyone anywhere can just go into your phone and access everything. That's why you can't get online.

(Now my face has the wtf look on it as well as a little bit of anger from this rep having somehow survived this long in her life, and in doing so, disproved darwinism.) So, you're telling me installing the amazon appstore breaks our phones?

YES, it's an unapproved app, just like that one that made your phone look like a windows phone!

But, that app's from the google market...??

I BET YOU'RE TETHERING TOO, AREN'T YOU?

(Damn, she got me there.) No! What is tethering?

Someone will come up and tell you to tether...go right ahead and do it if you want, but you'll be corrupting your entire phone again and it won't work.

Ok, thanks, this has been a big help.

You bet! Thanks for coming in!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Beejis:
Lol, now that's funny
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gtuansdiamm:
Damn that guy is hilarius
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] acrown:
Ha ha ha, it's to funny! How incompetent.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dsmero:
so...did it work?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] deano0714:
Lol... I thought she was joking but shes serious... It anoys me that i know more about my phone and other phones then a sales rep(no offense to the sales reps that know what there talking about ).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
I once had a verizon droid incredible with a screen that literally moved when you touched it (this screen hardware itself physically moved, not anything on the screen). Took it into a Verizon store and the rep seriously asked me "did you try doing a battery pull?" I was just like wtf does a loose screen have to do with a battery pull.

I don't know where they find these people. When I apply for jobs there I never even get an interview, I think I fail their personality testing during the application.