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[Galaxy S II General] georr0:
Guys,

I have lost my Galaxy S1 earlier this year; had Samsung dive setup while the phone was lost, but did not help me.The phone was switched off by the time I realized the loss.

I guess, folk who get their hand on some ones phone, kinda know what to do with the Samsung beasts/beauties. Handovers to someone to wipe and flash, would be their best bet, I reckon. I am sory, not taking about all honest folks who would have return the devices to the actual owners.

Since then, have been searching for solutions which are wipe proof / flash proof but not successful. I have even checked android feature request sometime back ,found none.

Since then I have been thinking of this crazy idea that Google needs to implement as part of android OS.

Since we are registering phone / market app on the phone with Google with a gmail id, why can't Google associate the IMIE of the phone with that gmail id ?

If the registered user decides to sell / transfer the phone to someone else the registered user, the register user of the phone initiates the request for transfer with another gmail id / approves the request from another gmail id, without which all/most to the Google support Android features like maps, browser, market ,emails would not work.

i am not finished yet.., android should have a feature to re-confirm the ownership regularly every after a fixed duration of time, which can be user defined. As long as he/she is on data connection, the renewal is a silent process with the cached credentials on the device. If not, provide some window of time time reconfirm the ownership, failing which the lock the features down to just phone calls / limited set user defined and basic android operations. This could be a optional feature, rather than losing the phone and would opt for this feature and i wont mind reconfirming my phone ownership at regular intervals

If someone lost an android phone , he/she has to just change the registered gmail account password which would make if difficult to renew the ownership.If the phone has a data connection, using the registered Google account on the lost device,one should be able to push a message to displayhttp://media.xda-developers.com/images/icons/icon9.gifed on the lock screen and home screen. Similar to ChromeTohone / SendToPhone feature.

Mandatory reconfirmation on every flash which are not Non -Wipe. On devices with NFC/ similar chips with writable memory, the ownership details can be written to it and will not be wiped off by wipe or flashing.

Also I would make a humble request to all devs and ROM chefs to keep their busy hands off this feature, if implemented. Ethical stuff:)

We all love/hate our android phones but won't want to loose them, please let me know you feedback.

PS : I have moved on since my SGS1 only after mouning the loss,but now owns a SGS2
[Galaxy S II General] bundi22:
androidlost is the best
[HTC EVO 3D] cobraboy85:
well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. lolz
[HTC EVO 3D] XsMagical:
Cool, ill look into this more when i get off work.
[HTC EVO 3D] sgt. slaughter:
good intentions bud but not the root of many probs on the rom front are from users NOT flashing properly and having other stuff mess up the base rom they installed.

I'd put a big note at the very top to tell people when they flash a new rom to do a FULL WIPE DATA and everything else, then flash the rom.

Once this is done restore NOTHING from TB or anything like that as it can sometimes cause problems. THEN just use the phone as normal and put it through the motions to see if everything is good to go.

Too many times people do not do a full wipe and have issues OR they restore something from TB or MyBackupPro, that causes issues.

Also along the lines of battery life i am an avid user of SystemPanelPro in the market. I strongly suggest installing that and turning monitoring on as that will give you the best detail about your battery life and also makes it 100000x easier to see when a rogue app is killing your battery as opposed to it being the rom/kernel itself.
[HTC EVO 3D] huytrang90:
You can add StabilityTest app as way to ensure the phone is stable if OC or UV.
[HTC EVO 3D] cobraboy85:
Good ideas...

and yes, it was merely an idea. i have had something similar to this written up for a long time. i use it to test roms.

and i thought about that but figured putting a header at the top is useless because people don't freaking listen. lol

"oooohhh waaahhhh i dont want to wipe my data"... it's just laziness. then those same people come back crying about some rogue issue they have that nobody else has. hahaha
[HTC EVO 3D] sgt. slaughter:
with that thinking then the thread you posted is pointless as well. lol
[HTC EVO 3D] cobraboy85:
hahahaha...There is always hope. I am just trying to help out
[HTC EVO 3D] chefdave12118:
Like boot camp for testers and noobs. Good looking out.
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
This thread has potential. I like what it could be developed into.
[HTC EVO 3D] cobraboy85:
Yes that's kinda the idea I had in mind. I will work on it more tonight. If we can develope it into something extremely thorough we could sticky this and have a very solid platform for testing troubleshooting/roms

bastardized rom. it's fast. get some.
[HTC EVO 3D] stanglifemike:
Not dissing your idea our intentions in any way, but I think that most of what you posted is just basic use of the phone that everyone already does anyway... maybe even on a daily basis . Well, except for doing a backup, browsing the internet, and sending a text while in a phone call. I also agree with starting the thread by saying that you should do a fill wipe (cache, dalvik, and factory reset) before flashing ANY rom even if it is a update/newer version of the current rom you are using. Also, all of these tests should be done before syncing or restoring ANY thing (except for the tests that are actually testing the sync and restore functions obviously). As stated before, most issues do come from the user either not wiping correctly or from restoring something they shouldn't be. Plus, thanks to our amazing devs, just about every rom in this section is pretty solid except for the AOSP betas...
[HTC EVO 3D] cobraboy85:
working on this now, due to a few people i have seen post about their alarms not working in the morning.

stanglife, i understand your point, however, sometimes it is hard to remember to test EVERYthing vital as a user. my goal here is to prevent people from having the "oops this doesn't work, now i am late to work" scenario happen to them.

i strongly feel that once this is fine tuned and dialed in for every key function of the phone, it should be stickied in the development section so it is more accessible to people just passing through. dev's work hard, but sometimes one user will experience a glitch that NOBODY else has, just a fluke... and performing tests like this will help people get a solid idea of how reliable THEIR phone is before they decide to use it.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] valkrija:
I have a two questions about GinTonic.SE v 2.1

Is this rom can flash through the CWM?

These modules how to upload? Also the option "install zip file from sdcard"?

Thank you in advance for your reply:)

PS. This is my first post in the forum, so please be understanding.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] obsidian_eclipse:
Yes, you install the ROM through CWM.

I create a folder on my sdcard and put the ROMs and modules in that. I then select factory reset in CWM then 'install zip from sdcard', you can then browse your sdcard for the rom.

Install the ROM first and the modules second (both from within CWM using 'install zip from sdcard'). Perform the factory reset within CWM before you flash the ROM and after you install the modules.

You can then reboot, leave the phone 10 mins so it can build its cache files, reboot again and then set it up.

Good luck!
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devil_ses:
I want change default cyanogenmod settings:

change LOckscreen style and Incoming call style,and i want change power widget in status bar.I don`t now which files should I change or edit.

Anybody help me?
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blinds1111:
framework-res.apk and systemUI.apk
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] fe3zan:
i would like to know is it possible for milestone have data2ext?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] thre3aces:
Not that I know off. I think it's only on the desire
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] puffo81:
All CM-based roms and thefroyomod has that module integrated since 1 year..

Inviato dal mio Milestone usando Tapatalk
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] thre3aces:
That's a2ext d2ext isn't the same
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] ColdSphinX:
It's possible.

I'm using a little script to move the biggest noncritical /data/data folders to the ext partition.

Problem is that it may crash apps like talk, skype, vlc, rockplayer. Thats why I don't move all.

Script for selective d2ext:

#!/system/bin/sh
#
if [ "$SD_EXT_DIRECTORY" = "" ]; then
SD_EXT_DIRECTORY=/sd-ext
fi

for app in "com.adobe.reader" \
"com.aldiko.android" \
"com.funkyfresh.samba" \
"com.google.android.apps.docs" \
"com.google.android.apps.reader" \
"com.google.android.apps.shopper" \
"com.jk.game" \
"com.MarcelloAlbano.LazyDroidServer" \
"com.tbd.NetHack" \
"com.tiger.snes" \
"com.txtr.android" \
"com.sec.chaton" \
"com.whatsapp" \
"de.parlament" \
"mobi.mgeek.TunnyBrowser"
do
if [ -d /data/data/${app} ]; then
if [ ! -d ${SD_EXT_DIRECTORY}/data/${app} ]; then
rm -rf ${SD_EXT_DIRECTORY}/data/${app}
install -m 771 -o 1000 -g 1000 -d ${SD_EXT_DIRECTORY}/data/${app}
mv /data/data/${app}/* ${SD_EXT_DIRECTORY}/data/${app}/
fi
mount -o bind ${SD_EXT_DIRECTORY}/data/${app} /data/data/${app}
fi
done

full d2ext sould be:

#!/system/bin/sh
#
if [ "$SD_EXT_DIRECTORY" = "" ]; then
SD_EXT_DIRECTORY=/sd-ext
fi

if [ -d /data/data/ ]; then # make shure mountpoint exists
if [ ! -d ${SD_EXT_DIRECTORY}/data ]; then
rm -rf ${SD_EXT_DIRECTORY}/data/${app}
install -m 771 -o 1000 -g 1000 -d ${SD_EXT_DIRECTORY}/data
mv /data/data/* ${SD_EXT_DIRECTORY}/data/
fi
mount -o bind ${SD_EXT_DIRECTORY}/data /data/data
fi
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] thre3aces:
Again that's a2ext. D2ext is when the ext partition on the SD card shows up as a part of the internal memory. My mate has that on his desire and if u look in his storage section in settings it says that it has a 2gb data partition when the desire only has 512mb.

A2ext is when you move apps to the ext partition. Just like apps to SD but instead of moving to the SD card the data gets moved to the ext partition
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] ColdSphinX:
Thanks for clarification.

Ok, that's not possible by a simple script using mount and linking.

For such behavior we need lvm* for example and merge /data and the ext partition on SD into a new logical device. I don't think the motorola kernel is capable of that.

* Logical Volume Manager
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RealPsygnosis:
Hi to all

I have a N1, and I'm pretty happy with it with Darktremor A2SD that solve the memory problem...

And I use the nightly of CyanogenMod 7 08.21.2011

I have this issue and I'm pretty tired of rebook my phone everytime:

1. sometimes and I don't know why, my keyboard became crazy, if I press letter A became Q if I press Space became N and if I press Enter became Backspace and starting to delete everything I've wrote...

Then everything is crazy I can't even tap on the option menu so I can select reboot, or shoutdown....all is solved with a reboot

2. Facebook and twitter notification or even whatsapp notification are really strange...sometimes whatsapp doesent ring, facebook sometimes alert me for a new notification, and some times not, and when I open the app I have no new notification, but I've recieved a mail from facebook that I have something new on it -.-

Even if I pull down to refresh nothing happend, I've tried friend caster and it's the same thing...

Then everything works like usual, and I don't know why...

For twitter it's the same...

I thought it was DT A2SD but I'm not sure...and 192Mb of internal memory are really too too low :(

Of Course it's a bit annoying...

do you think that I have to use cyanogen stable or at least 7.1 RC1? or I have to use another rom?

thanks a lot in advance
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
1. It's called "crazy screen", not crazy keyboard. Solved with turning the phone's screen off and on with power button. No way around it whatsoever. You can read tons about it in the forum, and read FAQ, question 5.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RealPsygnosis:
thanks a lot, and for the notification and rom?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bassmadrigal:
Facebook notifications are horrendous for working properly. If you are getting notifications for new messages, then it is most likely people using the IM client trying to message you. Facebook still hasn't figured out a good way to notify people of that.

But I am not having notification issues with any other apps, so you might want to try uninstalling those apps and reinstalling them. Also, make sure that they are stored on "internal" memory (according to the app properties, since it doesn't take into account ext partitions).

I think the latest nightlies are far more stable than 7.0.3 or 7.1 RC1. There have been a ton of bug fixes and improvements that have been added since RC1 was released.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donchele:
Are you using any screen shield? If so, peel it off, it would make this issue a lot less annoying... I was using one and like 4 or 5 times a day my screen went completely crazy, I wasnt able to do anything about it, I remember rebooting the screen and neither it fixed the issue... It all got fixed when I took the ****ing shield out...

If that doesnt fix it... Get use to it, thats the only thing I REALLY HATE about my nexus...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] khun:
Hi!

I'm extremely happy upgrading from Windows Mobile to Android! But when I go into the settings, it can't find "My phone number" and it can't be set, either. Googling indicates it could be set in an older phone, but I've tried that without success.

Googling also says a lot about the mobile operator "pushing" this info to the SIM card. But my operators support didn't understand neither the problem nor any solution. They just claim everything is OK on their side...

Thanks for any hints!

Best regards,

Knut
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
settings - call settings - scroll way down to 'additional settings' - my phone number.

At least thats where it is on cm7 roms.

If you also add yourself as a contact using that same number, with a contact pic, it will use that contact pick for you in txt message threads once the 'my phone number' is set.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daafiej:
Hey all,

Since I have the DHD i have the problem that he recognizes my in-ear from skullcandy (no mic. or control) as a headset which should have mic and volumecontrols. It sounds like it doesn't matter but when I listen to music or even when I do nothing and my in-ear are plugged in, the phone begins to call people or stops the music by itself. It changes the icon from headphone to headset. Hope you guys know these 2 different icons. I guess the in-ear sends commands to the phone or something? I know pretty much everything about the DHD, but this... I also tried every ROM available for DHD.

Searched the forum for this problem but I couldn't find the answer.

A friend of mine who has got the Sensation (stock ROM) got the same problem..

I hope you understand what the problem is. Buying other in-ears just doesn't work, I've tried.

Buying in-ears with control is just too expensive
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daafiej:
Sh*t sorry found it!! Thanks newayz
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Terminator90:
Same issue

Hello,

I am experiencing the very same problem with my HTC Desire. What did you do to fix it?

Thank you.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syedrakib:
I have a Galaxy Ace here. When I connect my USB cable to the phone from the computer, the phone starts charging BUT doesn't recognise it's connected to the computer. (i.e. the USB connected does NOT show in the android notification bar.)

I have tried

power on/off,

cable unplug on both ends,

other computers,

factory reset 2 times

etc.

and all ended with the same result.

Seems like this is a problem with the phone. Any way I can fix this?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nims11:
Usb debugging enabled????

Kies also indtalled still?!!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syedrakib:
USB Debugging is enabled.

I just used it a while ago to transfer some music files like an SD card WITHOUT installing Kies..... it worked.

Now suddenly it's not showing the "USB Connected" notification in the Notification Bar anymore.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] consegregate:
There's nothing wrong with enabling usb debugging so I don't understand the exclamation.

To OP, what is your rom? For bugs like that i'll normally wipe caches.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nims11:
Install kies

for me my phone also not detected without kies
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syedrakib:
but there is no kies for linux...... i just used it a while ago on my Linux Ubuntu 11.04 without any Kies. And it worked just like an SD card. I transferred music, .apk files, documents etc.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] consegregate:
I have problems with connecting to Ubuntu. It works sometimes and sometimes not. I don't have a solution.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CallMeVentus:
What's the ROM that you're using ?

Forever living in my Galaxy Ace using XDA App
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdfzhi:
u didnt stated anywhere (until ur 6th post) that ur using linux. its a big difference u know. atleast if we know that ur using linux we wouldnt suggest installing kies. i think its just a missing driver problem. what distro ur using? btw my ace detected just fine on my fedora core 15 out of the box.

edited: i think its libusb problem in ur distro. try to update/downgrade it
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syedrakib:
just the stock rom.. i never modified it...... it's been just one day i have used it after purchasing. it has GingerBread 2.3.4 in it.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syedrakib:
i don't think it actually has ANYTHING to do with the OS on my computer.

I have a linux and i have a MAC. Just one or two hours ago i used Simple USB plugging (by pressing on the USB Connected Notification that pops up on the phone's notification area) WITHOUT ANY INSTALLATION OF KIES, and I performed data transfer of music files and picture files in and out of the device... i have done that with BOTH the Mac and the Linux just an hour ago without installing Kies.

However, now the phone would not show the USB Connected notification on my android device when i plug in the USB...... neither in the Mac nor in the Linux. My phone is charging....... but my phone is not understanding that a bloody DATA cable is plugged in and it is connected with a PC (or a MAC or a Linux)

This should not be an issue of the computer OS...... neither be an issue of Kies since i DID do all these without kies just an hour ago in both the Mac and the linux. You do not require Kies for using your samsung phone simply as a SD card.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CallMeVentus:
Just try:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

Don't always come to the conclusion that it has nothing to do with the OS , because in technical stuff anything is possible .

Forever living in my Galaxy Ace using XDA App
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syedrakib:
no luck....... my phone is still charging...... but my phone is not understanding that it is connected to a computer. The phone is not showing the "USB Connected notification" in its pull-down notification bar.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdfzhi:
please, we all can read, dont need all those annoying bolded and caps part. u came for help but ur post is annoying as hell.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syedrakib:
that's just me highlighting on some of the key points in the middle of so much textual info. Sorry if it looks annoying.... will try and work on it.

i badly need some help here... couldn't use my first android phone perfectly for even 24 hours since my brother got it from abroad - very frustrating
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CallMeVentus:
If you have adb it should be able to find out the problem.....

Forever living in my Galaxy Ace using XDA App
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syedrakib:
the thing is, when i connect the phone with the computer via USB, my phone is just charging without recognizing that it is actually connected to a computer.

As a result, ADB is also seeing nothing connected with the computer. A very weird case over here.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CallMeVentus:
Are you using the official Samsung USB cable (U2) ?

Forever living in my Galaxy Ace using XDA App
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syedrakib:
Yup! I tried my official samsung galaxy cable.... i tried my friend's official samsung galaxy cable..... no luck. :mad:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukasz.t:
i have a similar problem. the only difference is that i updated my firmware using odin. i am currently using xwkpn version (2.3.3). Can i change my software version without using the usb cable ?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syedrakib:
Solved my Problem

i solved it. It was nothing related to Kies or Windows or Mac or Linux or libusb upgrade/downgrade or USB debugging mode or any ROM issue or anything.

I just replaced my SD card with a new SD card. And it worked. So the problem was with my SD card. I did master reset and format SD card several times from the phone but it did not work. When i inserted a "supposedly" new SD card, it worked. Read on to see what i meant by "supposedly".

I was able to reproduce the same problem and figured out what was the thing that went wrong. Whenever i connected my phone to a PC (whether Windows or MAC or Linux and whether with or without Kies), if i enabled "Connect Storage to PC" from the android phone's notification and then if i formatted the SD card from the PC (while the SD card is actually inside the phone), I observed that connecting phone with the pc again doesn't let the phone understand that its USB is now connected to a PC and that its SD card storage can now be mounted in the PC.

So, to solve that,

i took out the SD card from the phone

mounted the SD card in my PC with a generic card reader

copied all current contents of the SD card (if any) to a safe location

and then formatted the SD card from the PC (remember that this time i did not format the SD card THROUGH the data cable while the SD card is in the phone)

After that, i took out the SD card and put it back into my phone like a "supposedly" new SD card. And after that, when i connected the phone with a PC via the data cable, it showed up in my Android Notification that "USB Connected".

PHEW!!! Finally, enjoying my Galaxy Ace with the PC back again.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CallMeVentus:
You shouldn't be using the USB cable for such serious operations , y'know ?