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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] moonlightme:
Yes, posted here. Just wanted to be sure since I already went through the joy of installing the international version and dont wish to go through that again. By the way, thanks again jivy for helping me get the phone back 8)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1286939
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Astirnon:
Trouble finding Kernel

Hey all,

I'm trying to get this figured out and feel like the stupid one for not being able to find it. I clicked the link to the Kernel I'm supposed to use to flash thru the pda in odin. However when I go to do it I don't see the .tar file i'm supposed to have. Maybe I downloaded the wrong thing? Any help on figuring this out would be nice lol.

Thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] SysAdmNj:
This should be the tar file your selecting:

SGH-I777_ClockworkMod-Recovery_5.0.2.3.tar
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Astirnon:
I appreciate the help and speedy response SysAdmNj.

Thanks, I can't find it however. I click the link for it and get taken to this page where it talks about INITRAMFS TEMPLATE FOR DEVELOPERS. It looks like greek to me and i'm just getting started with this. Can i get a direct link to this file? Or maybe some instructions of exactly where to go?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] phonic:
Click this: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MB94KVA0
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dfxda:
Okay, I'm a complete noob trying to learn this.I'm a little thrown off, because everything is downloaded is in separate places and not sure exactly what I need.

1) I want to just root this phone, is this a root or putting on some different kernel or something, whats the difference between this and this other process?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1286432

2) how can I back up my entire phone first so If I screw up I don't lose everything I have?

5. Choose the kernel you just downloaded and load into PDA.?

using what kernal, SGH-I777_ClockworkMod-Recovery_X.X.X.X.tar?

because their is another link on that page for Kernel Sources: http://opensource.samsung.com

also is this working 100%? thats why i just want to root and not mess with any rom or anything.

Thanks for any help, once again I am very new to this, sorry if the questions are dumb.:)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nicktuso:
I've never been able to use Odin, my laptop just doesn't want to see any galaxy using Odin, never worked for my Captivate. I'll wait to root and overclock till there is a solid rom for this. I'm sure it won't be very long.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] alee821:
How would I restore the phone to factory settings if I want to return it?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] phonic:
It depends on the method you used to root it and what else you did. If you are simply "returning it" for a different phone or refund, I imagine that they won't look at it too much for major changes (I could be wrong though). Warranty work on the other hand...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] alee821:
I used the method mentioned on the first page. I didn't do anything crazy like flash a new rom or anything like that
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] gnosisQ:
Just wanted to say thanks!

I didn't notice any freezing/hanging during SuperOneClick, nor did I have to allow SuperUser after the test. I toggled usb debugging before, but not sure if that matters.

Was a breeze and now I can get my emulators back! Oh how I missed Titanium Backup!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 440hsp:
Hey guys. I have run into an issue with the kernel download. It downloaded and when I click on Odin the tar file is supposed to come up but it doesn't. I don't understand. I have flashed many times using Odin on my previous phones with no problem. I did unzip the file to get the zimage though. Is that where I messed up? Any help would be appreciated. I just wanna root to use chainfire so I can try and figure out how to be able to play deadspace Android on this phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jivy26:
You need to leave thezimage in the tar file
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 440hsp:
will do! i'm sure it will work now. thanks for the quick response!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] XGhozt:
Can someone help point me in the right direction here. These instructions seem very clear and I'm not new to installing ROM's on my phone, but this is my first Andriod phone.

Here's what I get:

It just hangs on "SetupConnection.." until I reboot the phone, then the second half of the above is shown. Anyone know why my phone would get stuck on "SetupConnection"? Seems odd.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slixzen:
I literally just got the phone yesterday, and have been setting it up. However, I have a weird issue with the phone.

I have been getting:

//Android: Provisioning successful CFv320c.0=07cyssw33WNC//CM

From reading around it seems to be a text message for Visual Voicemail application. I have opened up Visual Voicemail and opened up all of the voicemail files. I use Google Voice, so these texts are useless for one, but I don't even want to receive them. I can't select a different Voicemail option in the "call" settings menu, otherwise I would have changed it.

Second, I keep getting the same text message from people. I have received 7 instances of the same text message, and I know that they aren't sending the same message because it has happened for four people, and for the message contents listed above for the visual voicemail.

This is not a rooted phone, I will probably end up rooting it, but not just yet, so is there any way to get around these messages and text issues?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] craigbailey1986:
Did you have google voice?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slixzen:
Yes, I have used Google Voice on my previous phone (HTC Hero) as well. Google Voice is also setup on the Epic 4G Touch, using the *28 code.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slixzen:
Bump, I am aware that it is a networking issue, but I want to rule out some things first.

I have an "airave" at my house, and I am wondering (because the airave is on a different floor) if the phone is swapping between the tower and the mini-sip tower, making me receive multiple text messages?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] karni1:
Hey guys I couldn't find an answer anywhere else, this is my last resort.

So after messing around with my lock screen i found a suitable wall paper i wanted to use :

(feel free to use it)

so i used it, and it only showed HALF of the wall paper, cut down in the middle of the head - and it was actually PERFECT.

after messing around more, changing the wall papers to another one, then back to this one - it showed me the full one, not the half headed.

I couldn't find any solution to fixing this, i tried resizing in any way but it is just not the same because it gives a loss of quality

HELP :(

Edit :

a better description of the problem is that when ever i resize a picture after i set it as lock screen wall paper, it appears far more zoomed and not the way i resized it

another edit :

SOLVED

don't kill me - rebooting fixed it.

sorry for the inconvinience.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Jun Hong:
so what do you want?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] karni1:
oh im sorry if i wasn't clear, i want to be able to use the half headed picture again, with no loss of quality, like i said i tried everything and since it changed by it self, it must be a certain setting that changed but i looked in the settings menu everywhere and couldn't reverse it..

by the way, when i use the horizontal resizing of the Gallery, get the size i want, when i put it as a wall paper, in the lock screen it appears "zoomed" to the center and i cant see the whole picture..

i really dont know how to solve this ._.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aaronsoup:
So i've always had problems with low Mic volume etc like a lot of people with sgs2, however, in the past 2 weeks it's not working at all. There is absolutely no volume coming from it, whether I shout or blow into mic etc, nothing registers. I'm not sure exactly when it stopped working (Well, it was a week ago, but i'm not sure what I'd done to the phone immediately before it stopped working) I'm running CM7 & XKG3, I was wondering if someone can tell me the best place to start trying to fix this. I'd rather not flash back to stock completely if possible.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] brapicoco:
im having a dilemma on what really should i get.. i've always wanted the mini pro because of its physical keyboard and it works best for me because i use sms most of the time, but the problem is the noise problem and the cases of unresponsive screen and capacitive buttons which SE has not resolved or did have a response yet. On the other hand after checking the ray forums, it seems that the ray among all the 2011 phones of SE has the least defect or almost perfect due to very few problems encountered..

please help me.. which i should i go for?

i have added a poll here :) just click there and if you have spare time just leave a comment :) thanks guys :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Titan Nettix:
Go for xperia mini pro. There is only noise problem. The capacitive buttons have no problem and the screen is super responsive. It'll play and win games even before you touch it.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] r33p:
Mini nonpro
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] LordSnow:
I was in your same situation, and I just bought the Ray... it's damnly sexy XD and the screen is fantastic. I had an x10 mini pro, the lack of the physical keyboard isn't that big problem, I suggest you to buy the Ray, I can't stop watching it, wiht the screen off is a cool item to see on your board, thin, fast, and cool ^^
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] wwwong:
This should have been a poll ;)

Xperia Ray. Had it for 2 weeks. Haven't had any problems with it.

The screen is also super responsive, contrary to what some have been saying.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] LordSnow:
The lack of the screen responsiveness (for someone) is caused by the damnly strong screen protector (and almost invisible) already sticked on the screen, if u remove it it becomes really responsive, but it's wery well applied, so isn't that bad. Every protector I sticked myself on my phones wasn't the best to look (and in less than a week I had to remove it cause the angles didn't stay down :p)

sry 4 my bad english XD
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] AntwnhsAnt:
@Ray users

How is Ray's battery life?? Is it 1200mAh like the mini/mini pro or more??

Because I think that battery life is really important.

I believe that the only disadvantage of the mini/mini pro is the battery life. :/
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] brapicoco:
lately i've been considering the ray but still my heart says go for the mini pro, but will SE fix the noise problem? how about the battery life? which has the greater one? because my x8's battery life really sucks and there are reported issues of the mini pro having a poor battery life. Battery life is very important to me :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] LordSnow:
the battery of the ray is 1500mAh, and its life is really good, not epic but still better than the most of android devices, it's a huge battery for a so thin device, so, it gets my approvation ^^ (the galaxyS2 has got a 1600mAh battery...)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Kaskade:
First i got the Mini Pro because i thought writing with the hardware keyboard would be easier. To be honest, at least for me, that wasn't the case. It's 1/3 heavier than the Ray and the shape gives my fingers pain while holding it in portrait mode. As noted, the battery life is also shorter.

I ended up buying the Ray and ever since i didn't even look at the Mini until i found a use for it again; testing the unlock bootloader option (using test point method) which leaves DRM intact. Now the Mini lays in some corner again until SE brings the 2.3.4 update to germany.

Hope that helped.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ani55:
Ray, its got high res display thinner bigger screen and better camera
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] gtrab:
The Ray is WAY better phone than the mini

My only concern is the lack of auto-flash (light on or oight off only) but I guess the Arc's camera software could be transplanted to the Ray (crosses fingers) :p
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] fazanatas:
guy i have the same problem. i cant decide wether to buy the xperia ray or the xperia mini(not pro). yet i own a k750i which has a perfect size for me. i dont know wether the mini is too small or the ray is too big. and the ray is very small. does it have a good handling? is the batterylife of the ray better than that of the mini? and will it give an update for the ray so that it has a flashlight for the camera? which phone woul you prefer.

thx for ur advices.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Groteski:
Ray = Better phone

Mini Pro = Small & Keyboard

Depends what you need. I hate bigass phones so Mini Pro is my choice
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] empilempul:
xperia mini pro

As my tagline,,, + for xperia mini pro - for xperia ray,,, i choose the xperia mini pro just because the fitur on it's phone is same as ray,,, it has 1ghz processor,,, bravia engine,,, 5 mp camera,,, it has secondary too hey it's cool man,,, different is the display,,, xperia mini pro only has 3" display but the phone has qwerty keyboard,,, so not too big problem i think,,,

sorry for my bad english :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kuri_2k:
The Xperia Rays camera is 8MP, not 5 and the exmor sensor takes amazing videos at night even in VGA mode!!!

I got the Xperia Ray on the firt release date, and I throughly love this phone.

Wish there were custom ROMS for it out here though, would love to see what the devs can do with this little BEAST.

Only regret I have is that I should have chosen White rather than Pink.... I thought it looked more red at the time lol. Love the Phone non-the-less!!!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] LordSnow:
I had an X10 mini pro before the Ray, the thinness and the lightness of the ray makes it really confortable, where the mini pro wasn't much cause of its soap-size and weight
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] gtrab:
Lordsnow have you tested vignette or any third-party app to enable auto-flash ??
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] LordSnow:
yup, but still isn't a real flash, the light is low. I'm looking 4 an apk with "superbrightness" or something similar^^ just to see if our led can do more light
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] gtrab:
Thanks for your reply, please keep me posted !!

I have a crush on this phone, even w/o a keyboard I find it sleek and head-turner

A chick magnet ;)

I have the x10 and a desire z, I ended carrying the D Z only due to the autoflash and QWERTY, but this Ray looks sleek
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] miedy12:
ray it has 8mp exmor r 297 ppi slim and super sexy design super lightweight
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] duxxyuk:
I too have just got the Ray. I was looking for a small and powerful android phone. (got my fingers burned with BADA - ugh... never again)

With its 854x480 screen, powerful 1ghz processor and brilliant GPS I have exactly what I'm looking for in a phone - enormous bang in a small package.

I'd be a little wary of the mini pro as it has an unusual screen size. It's probably brilliant as a communications device but then I'm the sort that likes my phone to do as much as possible in one box. Couple that with a good keyboard such as Swiftkey X or one of the HTC style keyboards and you're good to go.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] SaveMeAndISaveYou:
Ray,ray,ray!!!
[Desire General] Bareta:
Hello guys,my English is bad.my desire continues restarting.what can I do? P
[Desire General] benben89:
Hey,

does it happen while running normally or while booting up?

I guess it's important to know what ROM you are using ... maybe you got something wrong while flashing your phone ... :)
[Desire General] Bareta:
the phone works fine, but if I'm running for a while, gets really hot and restarted, the rom is leedroid latest version. that can happen? any idea, I did a hard reset,
[Desire General] jory9:
Probably a hardware issue, you need to send it to htc for repair , so go baxk to stock

sent from my htc desire running aurora v03
[Desire General] DX`:
Flash back to a stock Rom first and see if it still reboots.
[Desire General] Duulis:
Basic case of motherboard problem. Go back to stock and send it to HTC for repairs and they will change your motherboard.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyker:
USB reverse tethering = Cellphone gets network connection from PC via USB.

I know how to do USB reverse tethering except for one problem: Many Android apps will check network connection using the code below before doing any useful work:

ConnectivityManager connectivityManager = (ConnectivityManager)context.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
NetworkInfo info = connectivityManager.getActiveNetworkInfo();

The problem is that, when using USB reverse tethering, the above code will report no network connection. However, there IS a network connection (which is the USB reverse tethering itself), and ping, wget and all programs not doing this stupid check work well.

So the question is: How can I hack the system to let this network connection check return success (so that I can fool these apps)?

BTW. I use Cyanogenmod 7. And any solution specific to this MOD is also welcome.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnlilas:
Hello,

Could you please tell me how did you do the USB reverse tethering? Since on USB connection there is no option to do that under CM 7.1?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnlilas:
Thank you. Unfortunately the binary /system/bin/netsharing is not part of CM7.1, apparently it exists with Sense ROM. How do you manage to run it under CM7.1?

Sense ROM has the reverse USB tether built-in ("Internet passthrough"), maybe if the 2 commands could be executed, thanks to existing HTC NDIS driver doing NAT inside the PC it will work?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyker:
I've tested in CM7 that netsharing is not needed. Just execute the rest of the commands will be OK. Of course you need to do NAT on the PC because what you've setup is just a small LAN with private IP addresses.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnlilas:
Thank you for your input.

What I understand:

1- connect the phone via USB cable, choose charge only

2- Assuming my router has IP 192.168.1.1:

So I have to type these commands, could you confirm?

echo 4 > /sys/devices/platform/msm_hsusb/usb_function_switch
route add default gw 192.168.1.1
ifconfig usb0 192.168.1.1 mtu 500 up

But then how to do the NAT thing is out of my knowledge!

In fact what I want is when there is no router (since mine is wireless) with available Internet connetion

(ADSL line down). So I have to use USB 56kbps modem with telephone line to access Internet from the PC (running XP).

And I would like to plug the Android phone with USB cable and allow the phone to access Internet (Internet sharing

with the PC). I am not sure of the operations to do then.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyker:
Sorry but I don't know how to set up NAT on Windows XP... I use Linux and a simple iptables command suffices:

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
[XPERIA X10 General] rabisch:
Hi everyone,

I am trying to install Netfilter on my x10 mini. I have checked so many forums, and now I have so many programs on my phone that I have no clue which one I need. I have Netfilter on the SD card in the file manager. How do I go from here? Do I need to copy it somewhere? Or can I install a different ROM that supports Netfilter? Sorry, but I guess I am what you call a noob.

Thanks for your help!
[XPERIA X10 General] scoobysnacks:
For starters, going to the x10 mini forum would probably help
[XPERIA X10 General] -PiLoT-:
You post a x10 mini question in the x10 section, anf not only that you posted a qestion in both the general and themes and apps section

You sir need to re read the rules
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AqueousBor:
While I own an international unlocked version of the S2, i assume the Sprint version must be very similar. After countless hours of trying to figure it out, this is what i discovered and solved my battery draining issue (it's been two months with no problems at all) i get 4 to 5 hrs display time and it lasts me all day. I was on stock 2.3.3 and recently upgraded to 2.3.4. with same results. The following tips are things i did prior to rooting, and they solved my battery drain issue.

1. Anything that tracks location is a battery drainer and i discovered that i was using wireless networks for location (it's also not that accurate) and it was the biggest culprit, so i disabled it and now i use gps (more accurate) as needed and turn it off when done. If you use Google maps with google latitude enabled, sign out of latitude when done using it.

2. App killers use more battery than saving it by closing apps and processes that run in backgroung that will automatically open right back again. Stay away from them.

3. Some apps if left in memory will constantly cause cpu spikes (suspend and events/0), in my case it was Facebook and Xfinity apps. So i close all active apps in task manager. Don't really clear ram, just close active apps.

4. Use Watchdog from Market to track any apps that might be using a lot of cpu.

5.Enabling Back up my data also drained my battery, so i disable it.

Hopes this helps...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] k0nane:
While I can't state for certain that it's causing any extra battery drain, Carrier IQ is hooking into the location service, and every time your location changes, grokking your latitude, longitude, accuracy, and a timestamp. This is new to the Epic Touch.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] graffixnyc:
I constantly have alerts for suspend and event/0 in watchdog. In the stock task manager there really isnt much running to kill. It's driving me nuts. haha My battery life isnt horrible but I think it could be better..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demonious:
Hi. I understand VR is a custom rom with ninphatemine kernel. So would flashing it directly over an official 2.3.3 KI2 firmware give both ninph kernel and VR rom? Assuming that i wipe the caches beforehand in cwm also before flashing via ordin.

Thanks in advance peeps.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matriak31:
Firstly before you open threads search what you want hence the search button on the top right..Second go onto the VillainRom thread and read the pages on how to install it..

anyway go to this link first and do abit of reading

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1103399

and then go here as well..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1134290

once your brave enough flash away my brother...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Q&A for questions .

Kernel is part of the firmware /custom rom replaces existing firmware.kernel if flashed .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demonious:
Aight thanks to both of you! though my question is still mostly unanswered lol unless I go back and read again for 50+ pages. Yup understood steps to install (just that the installation instructions the chefs assumes everyone has at least flashed a rom and mostly were VR users just looking for an upgrade, hence the question) just wana fill in any remaining doubts i can before i proceed.

Sorry if i had a dilemma cos i couldnt find a more appropriate forum to post taking my post count into consideration. But all's good and thanks once again.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
If you flash a custom rom that includes a kernel then you wipe the existing kernel and replace it .Likewise the parts in the custom rom replace thos in the one on the phone .

jje