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[Motorola Droid Bionic] coreywilner:
Webtop Version DBN-21

Has anyone tried out the various hacks on the latest version of Weptop that came out with the 5.6.893 leak? I think the original version was DBN-1 and now there is DBN-21. Everything worked well on the original version, and now that I have updated, I'm a little wary of working with some hacks that don't seem to have been updated recently.

I would like to do both the weptop2sd and the hack that allows for a terminal and application installs. I much preferred Chrome on weptop vs. firefox.

Let me know your experiences.

Regards,

Corey
[Motorola Droid Bionic] bnred777:
I had to do the whole update thing... stock to 7.893... then I tried the webtop2sd, that worked fine. Then I did the terminal mod and had problems. Used the fxz for webtop only and tried again... everything worked fine. However, since I had to use the fxz I doubt I have the updated version of webtop. I'd also be curious to know if the problems I had were to do with the webtop update or something I did... the actual problem is a couple post above this one.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] coreywilner:
I bet the FXZ file had the old webtop and thus the hacks worked on it...

It kind of tells me that trying the hacks on the 893 version of Webtop might not be a good idea...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cellzealot:
The hacked apks work fine with the new webtop version once you have it all setup. If you run the full update file your webtop image is upgraded and everything will work properly provided you were able to complete that update successfully. The problems come when you use the incremental files and miss one of those interim builds that contain the signed components. Then going back to stock and then forwards again with the full file will fail as well as your webtop being broken by the incremental files. You have to either be completely stock and never have taken any updates or you need to go all the way through the update process with each incremental file and then back to stock and forwards again.

Its confusing, but there is really only 2 paths that work properly but there are many starting points.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] coreywilner:
OK, I'll try the webtop2sd app and then the hacks. I guess if it messes something up, I can just use webtop2sd to revert to the original /osh partition as it shouldn't have been touched, only the one on the sdcard...right? :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] greek35t:
This is all over the place

Hey everyone, I have had a heck of a time getting this all going but im finally there. Im currently stock with webtop to sd running fine. Installed the missing files and now Im in the process of getting full gnome up which is a pain. I also built a swap partition in the SD for linux swap space. Once I have it all done I will add openoffice and see if there is a practical way to package this ***** and get it up here cause this is way too complex for the average joe to do. I used to develop for D1 on alldroid millions of years ago... Im sure there is a better way!

Also, for anyone doing this, after you patch webtop and reboot, it takes FOREVER to get off the bootloader screen. For anyone going through this, please give it time. it took mine 5 minutes which felt like 5 hours. Just a helpful hint for those who get nervous when bootloader splash screens hang for any length of time. Reminds me of when we flashed the first d1 kernels and we were ****ting kittens waiting for that screen to go bye bye. Dunno what it is but I think it has something to do with a caching function like the dalvik cache does for /system/framework on first boot, but for webtop. After I thought I bricked and redid it, i noticed it took forever with verizon's unedited webtop, so this will be 22.8MB longer, however long that is. Be patient.

Edit: So if you make a boo boo on this, and you try and remove a package, it probably wont remove all the way. I have found that this can be remedied in this version of webtop by using the following command to strip it out clean:

sudo dpkg --force-all --remove <package name>

Hope this helps those who are frustrated with not being able to remove stuff with synaptic package manager or apt-get

Edit2: Currently have gnome-session fully running minus nautilus. Working on dependencies now to bring the desktop up. I will post as soon as I have it working correctly.

Edit3: Gnome-Session is fully operational!!! I am working on a fix for a few little glitches right now. That should make the webtop hookup simple. Right now you have to push power on the phone to cause sleep and then again to bring up the desktop. This is only on first boot so to speak. I am seeing if there is a way around this.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ted1735:
tune2fs -l /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

tune2fs -l /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

you can use tune2fs -l and the block name to get the nitty gritty details of the partition or disk.

you can use

df

and or

mount

commands to get the details of your system

you can also cd into /dev/block/ and use ls to see all the files in there: below is my output with is use ls in /dev/block/

root@cdma_targa:/dev/block# ls

ls

dm-0

vold

loop7

loop6

loop5

loop4

loop3

loop2

loop1

loop0

ram15

ram14

ram13

ram12

ram11

ram10

ram9

ram8

ram7

ram6

ram5

ram4

ram3

ram2

ram1

ram0

mmcblk1p27

emstorage

mmcblk1p26

userdata

mmcblk1p25

webtop

mmcblk1p24

preinstall

mmcblk1p23

cache

mmcblk1p22

system

mmcblk1p21

kpanic

mmcblk1p20

cid

mmcblk1p19

misc

mmcblk1p18

cdrom

mmcblk1p17

recovery

mmcblk1p16

boot

mmcblk1p15

mmcblk1p14

mmcblk1p13

mmcblk1p12

mmcblk1p11

mmcblk1p10

mmcblk1p9

mmcblk1p8

pds

mmcblk1p7

mmcblk1p6

mmcblk1p5

mmcblk1p4

mmcblk1p3

mmcblk1p2

mmcblk1p1

mmcblk1

mmcblk0p3

mmcblk0p2

mmcblk0p1

platform

mmcblk0

root@cdma_targa:/dev/block#

mmcblk0... is my external sd card, it has 3 partitions, mmcblk0p1 is the one recognized and mounted by android, mmcblk0p2 is the ext3fs, and mmcblk0p3 is a linuxswap file
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ted1735:
webtop2sd with .893 update

Does anyone know if this method works with the OTA .893? Does it bork any files or runs just fine? Also I cannot get Webtop2sd to even run on .893 stock.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] fxmech:
You will want to webtop2sd before making hacks to webtop, otherwise if it gets screwy you will have to reflash and probably re-root in order to get it running again.

With webtop2sd you can simply recreate the original state of webtop by loading it back over the broken one.

Just to clarify, you *need* this to work with 5.5.893 OTA?

It works fine on 5.7.893 and I'd even recommend it...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] kmisterk:
I don't know if anyone still works on this thread anymore, and I almost never post to a forum unless it's a final resort, but I'm just about desperate, or as desperate as one could be in this situation.

I've got webtop up and running. it works great. hacked, on sd card, with the terminal patch and all that good stuff, recently downloaded and installed XFCE, commented out the webtop-panel and awn-autostart and added the lines to auto start xfce in osh_startup-2 or whatever in osh/usr/local/bin, but Every time I start up webtop after restarting (and saving the osh startup 2.sh) file, it loads up webtop and all i see is the wallpaper from the original webtop, and that's it. No panels, no icons, no clock, no nothing. Except Sometimes the last internet session restores, and hides in an unseen "dock bar" somewhere, and the mobile view comes up.

From this point, I can bring up a terminal and manually start xfce useing either startxfce4 or using xfdesktop and xfce4-panel, but either, I have to leave those terminal windows open, which is really quite annoying.

What am I doing wrong?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] csshih:
chmod 755 the file.

I found mine somehow lost its permissions and wasn't running anything.

C
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Sjflowerhorn:
i love this, atrix lapdock and usb mouse with xfdesktop and gnome-panel and im feeling like im on an actual lappy. a bit sluggsh at times but its only a dual core 1ghz processor. . i tried downloading and installing gnome-desktop-environment but it fails but i have gedit running which i havent seen listed in the op.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] sebbo90:
I read earlier that you guys wanted to get 2d/3d accel. Did anyone progress any further with this?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] eromrab:
Can you update this with a non-megaupload.com link please? Stupid FBI jerks. :-(
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Banggugyangu:
The main problem causing the sluggishness is actually lack of hardware acceleration for the webtop. A dual core 1GHz processor and 1GB of RAM is plenty for ubuntu of any flavor atm. If you add the swap partition to it, it helps some, but hardware acceleration would be a drastic improvement.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] freeflysage:
reposted the entire thing, and hosting the patch myself for now :)

http://sandbox.mindcrime.net/?p=137
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cyberhern:
Dude you're the Best! I love this community!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] waffleb051:
does this hack work with 902?
[Droid X General] Zombiebotking:
So I got a Milestone X from Cellcom about 2 weeks ago and rooted it the other night. I have heard that the Milestone X is practically the same as the Droid X. I have superuser and all that stuff so the root did go through and I used rooting instructions for a Droid X. When I used Droid X Bootstrap though and went into clockworkmod recovery and tried to update it, it said the update.zip file was missing. (E: Can't open /sdcard/update.zip (No such file or directory). Installation aborted.)

My question is, if I get a Droid X update.zip would it work the same? I'm kind of worried about bricking my phone since its less than a month old but if it does get bricked, will the Droid X unbricking stuff work the same?

Sorry if this is a stupid question :P

Thanks for the help though!!!
[Droid X General] hootowlserenade:
Are you on GB? If so you have to use droid2 bootstrapper not droidx bootstrap..... just throwing that out there...

SGT+CM7=AWESOMENESS!!!
[Droid X General] Zombiebotking:
It's running 2.2.2 so I guess its froyo right?
[Droid X General] hootowlserenade:
What exactly were you trying to flash in cwm? You do not have to rename your zips to "update.zip" you can install zip from sdcard if you cracked the recovery with DX bootstrap app...

SGT+CM7=AWESOMENESS!!!
[Droid X General] Zombiebotking:
Well originally I was trying to install just the update file which I got installed in the last couple minutes but now I'm trying to install Cyanogen 6. I haven't tried any other mods besides that so I'm not sure if its just not compatible or what..

Pretty much I'm brand new to Android modding so I know pretty much nothing and haven't read up on it because I'm not sure if its the same as a Droid X.
[Droid X General] Zombiebotking:
**** it. Never mind. I had to factory restore my phone because apparently the "update" I did reverted it to 2.2.1 and I couldn't get service and my SD card wasn't being recognized so I couldn't do a restore... I try again later when I know more about my phone..
[Droid X General] hootowlserenade:
There is a sticky under Droid X android development labeled new to Droid x look here first, that has a very extensive guide on how to root and install custom roms... its very informative... read the whole thread, if you still have questions, you can pm me and I'll try to help you.

SGT+CM7=AWESOMENESS!!!
[Droid X General] WyldOne91:
What method did you use to root seeing as its cellcom because my friend has one with cellcom but z4 root didn't seem to work
[Droid X General] yankzfan007:
I used superoneclick root on the pc to root my Milestone X on cellcom. I have yet to find a way to flash cm7 and not lose my data settings on cellcom. I have not tried using the Droid2 bootstraper method... Considering trying it... I want CM7! lol
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spacecasespiff:
Im rooted on 2.2 and it wont go into recovery just the stock recovery. I have rom manager and clockwork recovery but it never goes into the green recovery. I have an update zip and ive done the the rienstall thing on the stock recovery but after that it reboots the phone. Ive been there before when i was on 2.1. Now this is just a fun phone its not the one i use. I put the 2.2 on through odin. I could not update through kies i think because its not an active phone. Ever since that i cant get into recovery to flash roms.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bfranklin1986:
2.2 is a pain to flash recovery on. Just Odin to 2.1 and do it. Or search modded 3e recovery
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lazyb421:
Did you reinstall packages twice? The first time it will reboot back into stock recovery. Reinstall packages again and it should then go to the green CWM recovery. Oh, and by the way, avoid Kies like the plague. It's notorious for bricking phones.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akabadnews:
This wasn't so much a question as an idea... but forgive me if this should be in the Q&A section.

My question, or idea, which is probably not new, is this:

Can a thread be made in the themes section for members to post their screens and then ask other members/devs/themers for their advice on what to add/remove and etc.?

Sort of a "WWXDAD" (What Would XDA Do?)

To elaborate. Let's say I switch my theme to Nex by kgill, and remove all my old widgets and icons to be left with a completely blank home screen. I would then post a screen shot (and lock screen) - blank - and ask "What would you guys do if this were your phone to theme?" With other members maybe linking, referencing, or even providing icons, widget settings, etc. for that persons set up. Maybe a brief tutorial on "how to make this look like that" (e.g. overlapping widgets and weather icons, etc.)

Idk. Just a thought I had. I still have a blank screen with just the forecast on it and have no idea what I want to do with the rest of the space. Instead of being selfish and asking for myself I figured something new could be started to help other people who have that same, um, themer's block.
[HTC EVO 3D] avenger666:
Does anyone have or knows the original htc font for the htc evo 3d?

I need it because i found a great rom but it has a different font.
[HTC EVO 3D] Metronom76:
It may be useful, here's the font from the original European firmware ...:cool:

View attachment 737773
[HTC EVO 3D] hitman4274:
I kno a ROM like cleanrom has an app like ROMupdater, where u can download the stock font in a .zip and flash it over that way, if u still need help I might be able to post the .zip for you to flash when I get off work and get to my pc,

I would also ask the Rom developer they might be able to throw together a zip

Sent from my clean sharp shooter
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
So the kindle fire was announced today

Do you think it'll be possible to port the UI to the streak with a working phone and camera function?
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdzo72:
What would be the sense in it...its only running Froyo... the suggestion has zero merit
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rvbarton:
his question may have zero merit to you & your streak, but to him & his streak, it could be the direction he wishes to move. I'm curious about this as well.

I'm also curious if Windows 8 will be able to be installed on the dell streak 5 when it comes out.

I would love to know exactly how flexible out tablet is, and the many different options available.

I believe his question has great merit.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdzo72:
A little prior research would tell you that dell has been very stingy with all things Streak related which has been a mystery for us all

This would be the reason there are not as many customized ROMs as far as eye candy and the such because no one has access to drivers

So this leaves us with a device that IS NOT very flexible... no matterhow much power it may have under the hood

That was my nice response which you could have found by using the wonderful SEARCH functions here and doing some reading
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rvbarton:
I hope so. :)
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
someone dumped a rooted rom in the kindle android dev section...

Anyone willing to take a crack at it? I've tried installing the launcher apk and silk browser but i get a parse error
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
This is, to say the least, an odd direction to want to go in. Granted it may be worthwhile as a thought exercise to see if it can be done, but realistically it's simply not necessary. It'd be easier just to download the Kindle app from the Market and be able to do everything the Kindle Fire can do, and more.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the3dman:
I have been trying to port it to the viewsonic gtablet for a few days now with no luck. I can get it to the boot screen, but it just bootloops after that. Seems very hard to port, but then again I am just an amature, so good luck getting it ported to the streak hope it goes better than my attempt.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Glad to see that im not the only one with hopes of porting the amazon version on android to other devices.

Have you tried extracting apks from the rom dump and single handidly install apps?
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the3dman:
Yes I have tried the apk's almost nothing works. I can get the launcher to work for a split second before force closing. I actually like the kindle fire interface. Simple and to the point. That is why I would like to port it.
[HTC EVO 3D] :
Think you've broken your phone? Read this to return it back to normal.​

I've seen a lot of questions about people accidentally screwing up their phones or doing something similar around here and on the OG Evo forums. This thread is for those of you who want to return it back to normal. This is also useful to redirect people to if they have those questions.

If your phone won't start up at all and the LED won't light up at all when it is plugged in:

-Take out battery and put it back in

-If that doesn't work, swap out a battery with one you know works

-If that doesn't work, take out the SD card and try again

*If taking out the SD card fixed it, your SD card is bad and you need a new one.

-If that doesn't work or you know it isn't the battery or SD card, your phone is probably bricked.

If your phone doesn't start up but a red LED blinks when you plug it in:

*Download Android ADB Files if you don't already have them

-Plug your phone in to your computer. With a terminal/cmd, navigate to /android-sdk-(OS You're Using)/platform-tools and type "adb reboot"

-If that doesn't start up your phone, try the steps before except this charge your battery or replace with a working battery

*If your phone doesn't get get past the HTC splash screen, use "adb reboot bootloader" instead of "adb reboot" so you reboot into bootloader.

If your phone starts up but gets stuck at the HTC splash:

-Go into bootloader with vol-down+power and go to recovery. Wipe everything and then flash a ROM or backup from there that you know has worked before

-If that doesn't work, flash this from bootloader: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1193540

-If you can't access your SD card, replace it with a working one

If your phone won't go into recovery:

-Flash the TWRP PG86IMG through bootloader again:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1192077

-If that doesn't work, try the S-OFF tool again and reflash the recovery

-If that doesn't work, try putting back S-on (download fastboot and type "fastboot oem writesecureflag 3" or "fastboot oem lock" into cmd/terminal) and then flashing PG86IMG. Then try S-offing again and flashing the recovery.

If your phone won't get past the boot animation:

-Go into bootloader with vol-down+power and go to recovery. Wipe everything and then flash a ROM or backup from there that you know has worked before

If your phone gets bootloops:

-Pull the phones battery and put it back in, then:

Go into bootloader with vol-down+power and go to recovery. Wipe everything and then flash a ROM or backup from there that you know has worked before

-If that doesn't work, flash this from bootloader: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1193540

If anything else strange is happening to your phone:

-Reboot phone

-If that doesn't work, wipe data and go back to a working ROM/Recovery

-If that doesn't work, flash the PG86IMG RUU:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1193540

If you want more accurate instructions on how to fix a problem, ask in this thread.
[HTC EVO 3D] freeza:
It's nice that you're trying to help people out, but I'm sure that everyone does all this anyway when they have seemingly unfixable problems lol
[HTC EVO 3D] dashrink:
Ure right, but this could help some noobs. Should be sticky imo.

- Coz i just saw it in 3D with the Shooter -
[HTC EVO 3D] harpss1ngh:
Yeah it should definitely be a sticky. Surprising even with all this information all the n00bs still ask the same damn questions about stuff that has been posted here time and time again
[HTC EVO 3D] subaochen:
I have HBOOT 1.5 and suffering from stucking at splash screen. In fact, before stuck at splash screen, I did not tried to s-off, rooted, and flash any roms. Just a fully reboot result in stuck at splash screen. I have tried every method you mentioned above, just stuck at the splash screen:-(

I googled all the world, and someone said maybe eMMC chip damaged? It is happened on EVO 4G, but maybe also on EVO 3D? I hope it is not true, I always hope my situation is just a soft brick, anyone can tell me if it is possible brick the phone( stuck at the splash screen) due to eMMC chip damaged? Thanks in advance!
[HTC EVO 3D] :
Heh, you'd be surprised with all the threads about people asking how to fix their phone after 'x' happened.
[HTC EVO 3D] :
I guess something hardware related could only be the case then. If you've tried everything you could, that is probably the case. Go to sprint and tell them something happened during an OTA. (IK it is hardware related, but that will still get you a better chance of them replacing it)

If you want to have S-On for when you take it back to sprint, open up a terminal and type "fastboot oem writesecureflag 3" and it will remove -revolutionary- and change s-off to s-on.
[HTC EVO 3D] hitman4274:
Although I have figured this out through other posts, etc.....

+1 for sticky

would of been great to be reassured there is a light at the end of tunnel if

I messed up before I jumped into rooting/flashing. And a good place to calm the nerves when you bootloop for the first time....

Sent from my clean sharp shooter
[HTC EVO 3D] RemWhale:
HBoot 1.50 Softbrick

My phone is bricked! :eek:

But yay for fixability, (and your optimism: I vote for stickying your post!) ;)

It WON'T: :mad:

Go into Recovery (and it's HBoot 1.50) :(

Let me touch the screen, or buttons. :(

Bring up the start-up unlock screen.

It CAN:

Recognize when charging / when the battery is in; :rolleyes:

Recognize the power button to turn the screen on/off. :)

Boot up to the main page where icons come up (But only the status bar is seen) :D

And Shake to take pictures! I accidentally took my first, being the screen I can get to. :cool:

Probable Causes:

I think I froze something I shouldn't have (Settings widget?), with Ti Backup. :p

Or that senseless Rom I put in... Now it doesn't sense me! All the thing wants to do is take pictures of its selfish self.

Solutions? :confused:

Thanks! :o

You're responses are much appreciated!
[HTC EVO 3D] zadias:
RUU

/10char
[HTC EVO 3D] meatgel:
I vote for sticky, too.

I am no noob. I didn't do anything to my phone prior to bricking. I had my phone fully charged in the evening and woke up to a brick. The phone worked great from the time I bought it ... great the whole time it was rooted ... great with each iteration of SteelH's ROM. Then I woke up to a brick.

Even though I knew all of the steps to take (and did each one to no avail) I still felt helpless and started a thread in Q&A praying there was something to make it come back to life.

Now I'm just sad.
[HTC EVO 3D] Drewmungus:
Can you get into the boot loader at all? I've always heard that if it powers on it can be fixed. Also see if ADB works and look up a list of commands. A full data wipe should get you back up and running.