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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mazroui:
was just thinking how things are going in the right direction for sammy

what ever happened to the hd8910 camera? how come it wasn't used in the new lineup ?

come and compare the old hd8910 camera (8mp) vs the latest cam(8mp) used in the gs2, the difference in quality is big... is there a reason sammy dumped the old ones for the new ones when the old ones outperform the new ?

just thinking how much better the gs2 would of been....

im guessing more will come from sammy in the next year or so
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angelomaldito:
I haven't tested the hd8910, but I think that my SGS2 has a better camera than my old M8800 Pixon 8mp, which was also good.

For me, the only problem with the SGS2 camera is when taking pictures in the dark. Nevertheless, no digital camera does the job as I'd like them to do. Therefore, for me there is no issue.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tf101orbust:
i8910 was a joint venture between Nokia (it ran S60V5) and Samsung. Nokia has an exclusive agreement with Carl Zeiss to use their lenses in mobile phones. When Samsung left Nokia, they also dropped the high quality lens.

I really wish Elop had of jumped in bed with Android instead of Microsoft. Having a modern, dual core android phone like the SG2 with a Carl Zeiss lens would be my dream phone. I'm waiting to see what new players enter the field before I let my i8910 go. I've pretty much given up on finding another phone with such an incredible lens in it.

I considered the Nokia N900, but its not being sold in the US (or UK, or Germany.....) and the few countries it is being sold are equivalent to ~900 USD. Forget that.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lexx210:
When I click on my apps with the newest android market (3.1.3) on stock (well leaked) Gingerbread I get a FC of com.android.vending. I've reverted back to the old one, but when I click on an update of a certain app (doggcatcher) it won't link me to the page and says the "requested item could not be found". This happened so suddenly as just earlier today everything worked fine so it leads me to believe maybe the update for doggcatcher is causing a problem. Please help!

Update: I uninstalled doggcatcher and the NEW market doesn't FC anymore! Also when I restore it with TB it doesn't FC. Very strange...
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] tylerwatt12:
This should work with x86 and x64 but my current setup is Windows 8 DP 64bit

Please turn off User Account Control before continuing!

This guide comes at no warranty of compatibility, by following this guide you agree to any subsequent damage that may occur from misuse.

Here are some interesting things

Windows 8 themes

(will add more links later, or on request)

Now to remove (hide) the Microsoft Confidential watermark and completely remove the build number and branding from the desktop..

Normally it would look something like this

With my method you see this:

Limitations: A custom wallpaper must be used, the background of the wallpaper must be a solid color (white/black)

Find a wallpaper on Google images with a black or white background.

Save it to a safe place you remember

Right click Desktop>Personalize>Desktop Background

In "Picture Location" choose Solid colors

If your custom wp background is black choose a white color, if it is white choose black (Windows knows what color the background is of a set color and will try to counterbalance it by changing the font color)

Now find the location of the custom wallpaper and set it.

The text should be hidden now

How to remove/change the Windows branding from the login screen

tl;dr file you want to edit is in "C:\windows\branding\basebrd\basebrd.dll"

Get Resource Hacker

Download "Take Ownership" This will allow you to unlock files so you can replace them without Windows getting protective

Right click on TakeOwnership.reg and click "Merge"

Install ResourceHacker

Navigate to "C:\windows\branding\basebrd\" in Windows Explorer

Right click on basebrd.dll and click "Take Ownership"

Open ResourceHacker and navigate to "C:\windows\branding\basebrd\"

Open basebrd.dll

Expand the "BITMAPS" section

Take note of the file format, they are Bitmaps

AFAIK 120 and 121 control the LoginScreen text

right click and Save the resource as a .bmp file

edit the image and modify it to your needs

Right click on the 1033 of either 120 or 121, click "Replace Resource" and choose the corresponding image you want

Save the new basebrd.dll file to a new location

Open "C:\Windows\Branding\Basebrd" and move new basebrd.dll to the folder with old basebrd.dll in it.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] barryhamsy:
Dude, does this work with the latest build 8102?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] tylerwatt12:
Developer Preview is 8102
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] barryhamsy:
meaning to say this trick works? i dont get it.let me try when i get to my other pc.at work.lol
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] tylerwatt12:
yes this will work with it
[Networking] werkx:
I've been with Sprint for years and have never used a non-CDMA device. I don't want to leave Sprint, but Sprint network coverage isn't the greatest and non-existence outside of the US. Should I purchase a GSM phone as a backup for when I travel to areas I know not covered by Sprint? I'm thinking I should be able to go to a GSM provider and get some type of short-term plan, like a week or month plan. Is that naive?

I'm sure the device has something to do with it, too. What is a best device out there to give me the most flexible support from major GSM providers? I supposed one that at least support voice and SMS, but data for GPS would be good.
[Networking] tyspace01:
Yes it wouldn't hurt you could buy an unlocked gsm phone and just use pre pay sim cards with it! I sell verizon and thats what I usually recommend that to any customers that are traveling outside the country but it applies to everywhere
[Networking] werkx:
Unlocked GSM Phone, got it. I just need to find one that supports multi-GSM frequencies. Suggestions? Nexus One?

Prepaid SIM card, now that I'm not familiar with. Is it tied to a particular provider, such as T-mobile, O2, etc. or frequency(ies)?
[Networking] Product F(RED):
All Sprint World phones are GSM capable and come unlocked. The one that comes to mind that is blocked from working in the US is the Photon, but Blackberries should work fine.
[Networking] Thelolinator:
You could get a phone with both a GSM and CDMA radio. The best phone I can think of is the Motorola Droid 2 Global, which is a good phone if you like slide-out QWERTY smartphones. It's also quite cheap coming in at $320 for a brand new unlocked version.
[Networking] Product F(RED):
No because Verizon prevents the GSM radio in Droid phones from working in the US. Blackberries work though. It might be a Motorola thing, I'm not sure about the Droid Incredible 2 (HTC).
[Networking] Thelolinator:
Oh I see, that sucks! I guess no-one has bypassed it yet then.
[Networking] werkx:
So this would be a reason to get a BB. :-P

Thanks all. Craigslist, here I come.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FALCON9113:
OK. New to this and really don't want to screw it up now. I am assuming that with the below steps you will be not using the ATT Tethering and will not get scolded from the ATT Gods via email for using the tethering.

I was reading over the WORKING Hotspot/Tethering WITHOUT Tethering Plan and since I cannot send this question over to the post itself. I will ask it here.

!CONFIRMED WORKING ON WEBTOP!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=980636

I have a few questions that really need answering because the forum is jumbled with three different answers. My Atrix is on the Build number 4.5.91. It's rooted and I have downloaded the Root Explorer app.

I have the following in my Telephone.db as stated in Step 6 below. I have thus changed the proper settings to 2,3,4.

Can someone please correct me if I am wrong?

1 - tmobile

2 - att us hsdpa

3- att us mms

4- att us tether

5 - att us

6- rogers internet

7- rogers media

1) Enable Airplane Mode

(hold power button for three seconds, select Airplane Mode)

2) Open Root Explorer

3) Navigate to: /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/

4) Click on "telephony.db"** (this should open the db using SQLite Editor)

5) Select "carriers"

6) You should see a long list of APN settings for various carriers, the ones you are interested in are rows 2, 3, and 4. Scroll ALL THE WAY TO THE RIGHT and the last column should be labeled "preloaded." You will notice that each is labeled "true" press and hold the word "true" in row 4 and select "Edit Field" from the pop up menu. Change the "true" to "false" and click "Save". Repeat this step for rows 6 and 7.

7b) Edit the type field of row 2. Right now the field says "tether". Change it so that it says "default,agps,fota,supl,fota,tether"

7c) Change the APN field in row 4 from BROADBAND to wap.cingular

8) Press back twice to close the SQLite editor and you should be back in Root Explorer. Close Root Explorer.

9) Disable Airplane Mode

10) Select the radio button for the APN AT&T Tether.

11) Reboot phone.

13) Enjoy! Mobile Hotspot should now work first time no issues!

Note: (Due to some pre-existing (bug?) in the software, you do need to have wifi turned on BEFORE you enable Mobile Hotspot for it to set up properly. If you forget it will hang until you enable wifi.)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spectre51:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1160452

Followed that simple guide and have not gotten any message from AT&T regarding tethering using the Mobile Hotspot app.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FALCON9113:
Yeap that was the first thing I did. Back in Aug 16 2011. I ran my the tethering on Aug 24-27 and low and behod I got my Notice from AT&T yesterday. Remember it's not when you get the tethering going that they catch you. It when you run it a few times and rackup some serious GB. Heck I have not even got my statement as of yet to see what I did in Aug-Sept. Watched a few netflix (All of Season 6 of stargate) would imagine brought me in their bulls-eye.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Seems like a lot more trouble than using WiFi Tether, and Ive never one got an email or anything from att.

Edit: here is the link.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FALCON9113:
I was using the Hotspot Tether not the USB. Could I be getting confused between the two? If you look at the instructions, basically this mod/change will not use the tether option per the normal use. It will then use the HSPA option. Which I am assuming is a good way to hide your internet use?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lummujaj:
i've downloaded a tegra game "great battles" , after i install apk file the game needed extra sd files around 400mb, i downloded them all , now the game isnt working , where i can find those file the 400mb's ones to delete them ?
[HTC EVO 3D] AnDroid0587:
Hey guys, got a question here...

I flashed prl00001 and now when I update prl through settings to get back on sprint it still reads 00001 even after profile update and reboot. Done this multiple times, starting to get worried about my contract being cancelled... Any ideas? Thanks
[HTC EVO 3D] wilderckw:
Which way did I use to put it on. I used it for a few days but it did not do all that good for me so I just used the epst and that's it. Make sure u r on a sence rom with epst

My 3D Shooter not yours!!
[HTC EVO 3D] AnDroid0587:
Yeah I'm on steel ROM 2.5 which is sense... I flashed it by dialing ##747# like usual. Trying to get back I use system update prl... Tried renaming prl file just in case it was getting in the way but no dice...

---------- Post added at 07:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:49 PM ----------

Well strangely I tried again and it finally worked... After 20-some times... Ha ha
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] overthatscreen:
I recently swithed from the Nexus S 4G to ge new Galaxy Phone. It's a great phone, only downfall for me is that I can't use the Headset Button Controller app. Whenever I press the center button it doesn't respond. If I hold he button down to adjust the volume, it just turns on the the Voice Activation stuff. I'm using the Sony headphones from my iPod Touch. They worked great on my Nexus S 4G and I had no problems with the Headset Buttkn Controller app.

Any help would be great.
[Desire HD General] geraldf80:
free Google+ invites..

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if you dont care then whatever, im just giving free stuff away.. i believe you just click the link.
[Desire HD General] geraldf80:
apparently this dont matter, open beta has begun.. lol
[Desire HD General] Grant Barker:
Thanks for posting anyway.

:)
[Desire HD General] the_scotsman:
Please use the dedicated Google + thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1147688
[LG Thrill 4G] PBCRUM1970:
I stumbled across an apk on here yesterday. It wasn't in the thrill forum but it is ice cream sandwich launcher. It is a nice launcher. Supposedly based on a leaked version. If you are interested I can upload it, but I have no other information since I can't find the posting again. Guess I'm glad I grabbed it when i saw it.
[LG Thrill 4G] PBCRUM1970:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1269958

Figured i would update....found it. Check it out if u want.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Southern_mind:
Hey guys I like the new market but I hate that when you look something up it will say like 400 results but only shows me like 20. With the old market it would show all of the results. I've already reinstall the old market but was wondering if it's like this for everyone. Or what I could do to get the market to show all of the results to my searches?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Just click on the header.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Southern_mind:
Yeah. Doesn't show all the apps says 956 results but only see like 15

Proud New dad. Oh yeah is a BOY!!!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoso3319:
This is a known issue with the current market and it's not exclusive to the thunderbolt. There are reports open on it and google says they're working on it.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Southern_mind:
Cool

Proud New dad. Oh yeah is a BOY!!!
[Epic 4G General] The Root:
Yeah, so that.
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
Ya its called mass storage mode. :rolleyes: :p:p:p

LOL
[Epic 4G General] The Root:
Is that what you'd use if you wanted to make a tar of your setup?
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
Hmm...

Make a tar on the phone? :eek:

I guess you could system dump your setup? :confused:

Or stick all your mods in the rom flash like i do and then restore with titanium.

Sorry i couldn't help i was just joking around. ;)
[Epic 4G General] styles420:
You can use adb to make direct, bit-for-bit copies of each partition using the dd command, I just can't remember the exact format of the command. But the phone doesn't have a built-in method to do the reverse of what download mode is used for (although I'm not sure what Odin's dump option does, sounds like the right idea but I've never seen a how-to, and, of course, we've always been advised to uncheck all but auto reboot)

Try a google search for "xda epic 4g" and keywords pertaining to making your own odin flashable (using xda as a keyword yields more results from the forum, and using google instead of xda search yields results that actually contain the key search terms, lol). I learned of this from a thread somewhere around here, just can't recall where. Oh, and maybe it would be better NOT to include Epic, I'm starting to doubt myself as to whether the thread was in our section... Hope that helps you find what you're looking for :)
[Epic 4G General] mkasick:
There is a "kernel panic upload mode" that various Samsung devices can get trapped in after a kernel panic. I've not seen it happen on an Epic, but that's not what you're asking about.

You can dump the flash partitions using adb. It's best done in recovery with the file systems mounted read-only, to guarantee that they're in a consistent state. While you can do it from Android, inevitably changes (particularly to /data) will be made underneath you while dumping, which is bad for restoration.

Anyways, in order to make a proper dump you need a recovery that spawns the adbd service with either ro.secure=0 or ro.debuggable=1 set in default.prop. I think ClockworkMod does this, but it's been a long time since I used it.

Boot into recovery and connect your phone up to USB. Run "adb shell" and make sure you have a root shell ("#" prompt). If you have a user shell ("$" prompt), try running "adb root", wait, then run "adb shell" again. Once at the root shell prompt, run:

mount -ro remount /dev/block/stl6 /mnt/.lfs
mount -ro remount /dev/block/stl9 /system
mount -ro remount /dev/block/stl10 /data
mount -ro remount /dev/block/stl11 /cache
mount -t vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /sdcard

mkdir /sdcard/dump
cd /sdcard/dump
sync

cat /dev/block/bml1 > boot.bin
cat /dev/block/bml2 > ries.pit
cat /dev/block/bml4 > Sbl.bin
cat /dev/block/stl6 > param.lfs
cat /dev/block/bml7 > zImage
cat /dev/block/bml8 > recovery.bin
cat /dev/block/stl9 > factoryfs.rfs
cat /dev/block/stl10 > datafs.rfs
cat /dev/block/stl11 > cache.rfs

cd /
umount /sdcard
mount -wo remount /dev/block/stl6 /mnt/.lfs

That remounts all the stl partitions read-only, mounts the SD card, creates /sdcard/dump, dumps all the partitions, unmounts the SD card, and remounts /mnt/.lfs read-write so the phone will reboot properly. At this point you can reboot and once in Android, copy the dump folder over to a computer.

From here you can create a .tar containing the partitions that you want to flash with Odin/Heimdall. In Linux or Cygwin, that would be:

tar cf foo.tar zImage recovery.bin factoryfs.rfs datafs.rfs cache.rfs

.

You could include param.lfs, but it's not worth restoring unless corrupt, and if it's corrupt it's probably better to grab the version from the latest stock tar. I also wouldn't flash boot.bin or Sbl.bin unless you absolutely have to, and again, I'd go for the stock tar versions.

Also, according to the Galaxy S wiki page, bml12 is supposed to contain modem.bin but I've never had success dumping it.

Disclaimer: I've never actually restored a dump with Odin/Heimdall--I haven't had the need to. But I believe the above should be all that's necessary.
[Epic 4G General] JohnCorleone:
All hail mkasick! Thanks for my daily education
[Epic 4G General] ac16313:
I know understand you "ocean of knowledge" metaphor lol

Sent from my SPH-D700
[Epic 4G General] mkasick:
Thanks guys. :o
[Epic 4G General] a2tz:
whoa I just got edjumicated! that's some detailed info. thanks
[Epic 4G General] JohnCorleone:
I think it should be manditory for mkasick to post once a day minimum
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Agreed.

Posted by Mr. Z's Epic 4G Touch+Keyboard
[Epic 4G General] ugothakd:
Considering you can't dump the modem (with anything, bmlwrite, redbend_ua, dd) is it safe to assume you can't flash one to it?

remember to thank me if I was helpful :D
[Epic 4G General] mkasick:
It might be possible to dump the modem, just not with the same method as regular flash partitions. But yes, I think all the modem image we have came from stock Odin tars.

As for flashing the modem, folks definitely do it with Odin. Samsung's recovery also contains a "write_firmware_image" function that a binary diff of the modem and applies it to the current firmware. It's not part of the AOSP recovery sources, so I don't know how it works.

Come to think of it, there's no obvious check to see if the modem is the correct version when applying an OTA update. So if you're running a stock phone except for the modem, and apply an update, something unfortunate might happen.
[Epic 4G General] ugothakd:
I know you can flash with odin...I mean on-device (if thats a word?) tools. I started looking into the di18-ec05 update.zip. What is the difference between a modem.bin and modem_delta.bin? There seems to be a pretty hefty size difference
[Epic 4G General] digiblur:
The delta contains just the diffs between modems.
[Epic 4G General] styles420:
Yes, that was what I was thinking of - thanks for a *much* more detailed explanation, mkasick!
[Epic 4G General] chris41g:
I posted a tutorial on how to mke an odin tar a loong time ago in general.. using dd instead of cat, same **** though...

Also modem patches are redbend bindifs full modems can't be flashed except in download mode.. they aren't actually in bml12, its some trickery involved, they are really in the nvram..

Also epic does have a kernel panic upload mode... little green guy and all, seen it a few times lol
[Epic 4G General] chris41g:
There is an edify script assert for baseband version btw
[Epic 4G General] ugothakd:
Holy crap. I found upload mode. Kinda. Get your favorite file manger, and browse to /mnt/.lfs. TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE. Cuz I'm confused
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
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Roll Tide Roll!
[Epic 4G General] ugothakd:
Not exactly what I meant, lol. But you see the references to "upload mode" in the pictures, right?
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Ya, I was posting the pic so people didn't have to check themselves lol but yeah, I see the upload mode. What would happen if we changed that samsung logo picture with one the same size? Would it change the bootup logo?

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Roll Tide Roll!
[Epic 4G General] mkasick:
I believe that's the "kernel panic upload mode" bit I mentioned earlier. It's a debugging mode where, when the phone panics instead of rebooting it collects crash dump information, then reboots into upload mode where the crash data can be pulled off onto a computer.

I don't know how to enable it, but I believe it was left enabled-by-default on some handsets, resulting in greatly confused folks when there phone suddenly reported being in "kernel panic upload mode" with no obvious means to get out of it.

Yes.
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Awesome, thanks clicked.

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Roll Tide Roll!
[Epic 4G General] ugothakd:
Alright, good move. There's a thread in q&a that shows exactly how to do it. You even posted in it lol

sent from my miui-ified epic
[Epic 4G General] ugothakd:
So could this possible help the random reboots?

(Sorry for double post, app doesn't have multi quote)

sent from my miui-ified epic
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
On, so I assumed is be able to delete the logo.jpg from that folder using a root explorer (es file explorer) and copy my image there. Didn't work, I couldn't delete the original logo. So I tried to copy mine on top, and the entire inside of .lfs disappeared lol after a reboot it was fine, but i'm disappointed lol

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Roll Tide Roll!
[Epic 4G General] mkasick:
If someone figured out how to download the crash dump and decode it, perhaps. But as I mentioned some time back, Samsung GB kernels appear to include ram_console support, at least for the I9000. If it's enabled on the Epic GB kernel leaks, there will be a /proc/last_kmsg after a panic reboot which contains the contents of kmsg buffer prior to and during a panic. Far more conveient than a proprietary crash dump.

But that's only if the problems with the leaks is due to a kernel panic on the application processor. If it's a power issue, which it sounds like it might be, the CPU will reset without invoking the panic handler.
[Epic 4G General] turbosocks:
yeah, from what i read, its something about the file system type why you can't delete/modify/replace it and have it simply 'work'

i just posted a 'revised' tutorial based on my experience last night with replacing the logo.jpg. very easy, just need to have it hooked up to the PC and use ODIN