yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Defy General] daniel_loft:
I'll only answer to the ones that I know the answer...

2. The instructions say that you should. Also, from what I read, every tutorial says that you should go to stock. Also, a wipe could be advisable (not to inherit problems and bad settings from the previous ROM)

3. You can get it from the official site. As far as I've noticed CM7 doesn't come with Swype.

Hopefully someone else answers the other two questions.

Have a nice day!
[Defy General] Aspsusa:
And I'll take the opportunity to ask a few somewhat related noobie questions:

I've seen a few mentions of different lens colours. What is this? (link to explanation is fine) ETA: Found it myself. Really stupid to ask. Bottom line ATM seems to be that for phones recently manufactured the lens colour is not a reliable indicator of camera module used.

Doesn't this mean that you don't need to do anything special (maybe wipe everything, but maybe not that important?) when you flash a new ROM into the phone for the first time?

Or would you still need to first flash a plain stock ROM if your phone came with some telco-provided crappy stuff in the ROM, before flashing a custom ROM?

(Purely hypothetical question for me.)
[Defy General] Aspsusa:
Bumping this, because I am getting to closer to actually start rooting around (hah!) in the innards of my phone, and I keep wondering about this:

So do I need to flash _another_ stock ROM before I switch to cyanogen or whatever, if my phone is a virgin that came with the stock nordic rom (moto_version.34.177.5.MB525.retail.en.ND/jorem_U3_3.4.2_177-5)?

It somehow seems redundant to me to flash another stock to my phone when I already have a stock froyo (without blur even) on it.

BTW, given the focus of this forum you are all being very very kind to us noobs. Upthread I asked a really really really stupid question (I'll see if I can edit out), and nobody threw rocks at me :).

I am still wondering though whether anyone can recommend an alternative forum more suited to Really Basic Questions?
[Defy General] TimelesslyPrecise:
Just root, install second init for recovery, then flash cyanogen...

If you click devices at their website, you can grab the latest nightly ROM, and you will also find the wiki, which has a step by step on how to do everything.

It's really simple, just keep glued too the instructions.

Good luck
[Defy General] ryan8r:
It is recommended as a precaution for a failsafe install but you can install CM7 on any stock 2.2 or above rom.
[Defy General] TimelesslyPrecise:
Took the words right out of my mind...

Sometimes I skip right past the important stuff. Lol
[Defy General] MrGentlemen:
hi,

Everythinbg excepted 4. is solved by my own.

For now i just need to know hox to make my own Swypw skin.

BTW: I hate Threadhooligans :p;)
[Defy General] Aspsusa:
Mean me? Wanna fight?:eek:

BTW, it would be good if you'd change the topic back, or put the old topic in parenthesis to the new one or something. Something like

[request]Swype-skinning ([solved]stock froyo first & red lens latest)

might be good

I was wondering why I was subscribed to a thread about swype-skinning, as it couldn't be further from my interests:p, but never mind that - there's good info in this thread not related to swype.
[Defy General] TimelesslyPrecise:
Exactly. I was confused, and for an instant, lost in space.. Lol

You big thread hooligan, Mr gentleman

Edit:

To answer your question,

You should probably check with Swype to see if skinning is even capable with their app... (or potentially even allowed)

To my knowledge, skinning Swype is uncharted territory...the app is in beta still.

Some advanced knowledge of Android would be required to hack, disassemble, and recompile any themes for it.
[Omnia II General] sahashi:
Nokia n97, Samsung i5700 Spica ,Sonny Ericsson Vivaz Silver

? if so why ? can u name some reasons.

sorry if wrong topic..or format.. my bad
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] YawTakyi:
Hello Everybody, I will be very grateful if someone help me deal with my problem.

I have been on Android rom with my hd2 phone since a year ago and decided to try the clockworkMod recovery about 3 days ago but it does not seem to work so i followed so many videos on utube as I was getting frustrated.

I have already installed magldr v1,13,

Hi guys, I am seriously in need of your help. On my HD2 phone, I think I have managed to install clockwork Mod recovery v 3.0.0.5 but can't install a ROM on the sd card. After flashing and trying to install a rom from the sd card, "message on my phone was", finding update package.....

Opening update package.....

E: can't open/sdcard/Typhoon cm7 v3.6.8 clk.zip is bad.( I am not sure if I installed the correct rom):confused:

I have also tried following several video links but still no luck.

-I have tried to format my sd card several times

-wipe cache partition

-wipe data/factory reset

-wipe Dalvik cache

I am currently stuck and don't know what to do again.

I already have on my phone, HSPL: 2.08, Radio: 2.15.50.14 and Magldr: v1.13

After trying several tricks, I have realised that, I cannot boot into magldr any more.

Any help guys? :mad:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] munjeni:
Folow steps:

- install HSPL: 2.08 and Radio: 2.15.50.14 (read all about installing hspl or your device will be bricked!!!)

- if you have activesync installed, right click on activesync/connection settings, untick "allow usb connection"!

- download mtty.exe to your computer

- switch your phone to spl screen (volume down + power)

- connect your phone to usb/computer

- run mtty.exe, chose "usb" (if you not see usb, something is not ok), if you see usb, press enter (if you see mtty> ...etc all is ok, if not -> repeat until you make mtty conection with your phone)

- in mtty window type: task 29 and press enter (it will format your romfs)

- in mtty window type: task 2a and press enter(it will format your romfs and relocate bad blocks)

- done, you formated your romfs -> exit mtty

- in activesync enable again "allow usb connection"

- go to folder MAGLDR113_DAF

- run ROMUpdateUtility.exe and wait until you have done installing magldr

- restart your phone and press power button until you see magldr menu

- sellect usb flasher in magldr menu

- go to folder clockwork and use proper cwm for your rom and run daf.exe

- done

Next step:

- download free version of the MiniTool Partition Wizard and install it in your computer

- format your sd card with MiniTool Partition Wizard (1x primary/fat32 , resize: do not forget to leave 1gb space for the an ext2 partition) (1x primary/ext2), apply changes ...done)

- so you have 2 primary partitions on your sd card (1x fat32 1x ext2)

- coppy rom.zip to your sd card and reboot to magldr (press power and wait magldr menu)

- select ad recovery, go to install rom from sd card, select "chose image from sd card", install, ...done, reboot

NOTE:

some roms not working if your sd card not have an ext2 partition of the 1gb!!

I am not 100% sure, but I am new to hd2 device, for magldr version you need magldr rom...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] YawTakyi:
Hello, thanks for your quick reply. I will try all the steps and hope it helps me.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] YawTakyi:
Sorry, I forgot to ask you where to download the mitty.exe file from and is there a particular version to download?

Thanks.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] munjeni:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=371154
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
more importantly, you have magldr but have downloaded teh cLK version of typhoon. no need to reflash anything. (cLK is an alternative to magldr, and requires a slightly different build rom, thats why there are two versions of most roms.)

Redownload teh correct version and it will flash, , probably no need for the 'ohyougottadoatask29standononelegreformateverythingreturntostockreapplyhsplflashanewradioreinstallwindowsgetanewpcandreflash' doomsayers :) though i suspect its too late and you already started. hehe.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] rikusuicide:
You can´t Flash clk over magldr. Go to the site/post and Download the magldr version:)

And when you stil have problems and nothing works for you try a different Sd card.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] YawTakyi:
Hi munjeni,

Thanks a lot, I have managed to boot into magldr and even tried to intstall clk typhoon cyanogen Mod 7 nightly v3.6.9 and tried both the MAGLDR and CLK but it failed. I had an error message after I have rebooted "nand kernel open failed"

I had earlier installed MAGLDR 150MB system/ 5MB cache clockworkMod Recovery V3.0.2.5 (Is this the right Recovery to install?)

I am just confused and don't know what to do again.

Now that I can boot into magldr how do I proceed from there?

Thanks for your advice;
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cyb0rgb0rg:
Again, try the Magldr version. Big ups. Let us know.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] YawTakyi:
I am stuck after the error message "nand kernel open failed" I don't know where to start from...any ideas?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
You should be more detailed. When does it say failed? When you try start cwm? Or after you flash the rom?

Get correct magldr rom

Enter magldr

Option 8-ad recovery.

If that's where it gives failed, go back into magldr, "USB flashing" and re apply cwm.

Once in cwm, choose wipe data/factory reset then "install zip from SD - choose zip" and select the typhoon zip.

Report back.
[Continuum General] Bierce22:
i updated to ec07 clean about a week ago and one thing ive noticed is my music starts skipping whenever i press compasitive buttons or turn the screen on and off

it dosnt matter if im streaming it or if its on my sd card i even tried setting my cpu to performance 400 1000 and it still does it. if anyone knows how to fix this thx in advance.
[Continuum General] Nuckin:
Try reflash? or (shameless plug) try my EC07 :p

It's def not the SD card, I have a class TWO which doesn't skip. Are you using Music Player or Google Music?
[Continuum General] Bierce22:
it dosnt matter witch music app i use its whenever i turn the screen on and of it does it on pandora to.
[Continuum General] Txwolf1980:
Sounds like a memory issue. At least for turnimg the display back on. Does it sound like a respawn?

sent from my gutted continuum. courtesy of imnuts adrynalyne and trailblazer
[Continuum General] circa881:
Mine has been doing this too. I don't even have to push any buttons sometimes. It's happened when all I do is move my phone. I know it's not my headphones 'cause it's done it without anything plugged in. I've tried the clean ROM and Nuckin's ROM
[Continuum General] trailblazer101:
It seems to do that too when I touch the grip sensor......
[Continuum General] Bierce22:
im actually debating on going back to ec03 it seems like i didnt have near as many problems with it.
[Continuum General] circa881:
Do you have the sensor on? I don't but it still does it
[Continuum General] spearoid:
I'm not sure if this is related, but I've noticed sounds in general are messed up.....like when I plug the phone into a charger...the confirmation beep is almost never smooth and clean....there is static or distortion in the sound effect......my ringer too....really all the sound out of the speaker that I've listened to. It is minor but still annoying. I haven't used the MP3 playing function on this phone since reflashing recently.

but my sound issue has been around on all the EC07 flashes I've done
[Continuum General] ciscogee:
My sound for plugging in USB has been laggy since imnuts hacked kernel. But that has been the only buggy sound
[Continuum General] Txwolf1980:
I think I misunderstood what was meant by 'skipping'. My phone does something where it sounds almost like there is a short in the connection for a second. And before i switched to t1231's reclean, there were times where I'd have to reboot my phone to get my headphone jack to work at all.

Here is my question. And the point where i probably sound like an idiot. Could this have something to do with voodoo? I know the recovery kernel is no voodoo, but I wonder if there is some correlation. I really don't know enough about voodoo to call this anything more than an idea I'm throwing out to see if it sticks, but if anyone more knowledgeable than me wants to chime in on it...
[Continuum General] Bierce22:
okay its deffintly the grip sensor i just went back to imnuts stock ec03 rom and it does it when ever i touch the phone my question is, is there any way to completly disable it because i use my phone for music more than anything.

actually scratch that im an idiot lol you can turn of active grip sensor in the settings and now it dosnt do it near as bad.
[Continuum General] circa881:
I actually don't think it was the ROM that did it. I think it was the new hacked kernel imnuts put up. Before that kernel my phone never did this. And it skips even though my grip sensor is off
[Continuum General] Bierce22:
You know that kernal might be it none of this happened before but it shouldn't matter now after I went back to ec03
[Continuum General] spearoid:
Even though I don't think all those who replied in this thread were describing or even experiencing the same sound issues, I have solved, it would seem, the problem I was having with some sounds sounding distorted, like when plugging my phone in to my computer.

I wiped the cache partition and dalvik cache trying to solve a different issue, and now my sounds are all clean and pure as they once were.
[Continuum General] Bierce22:
now its all sound videos will just freeze and stutter sometimes when i touch the sensor
[Continuum General] Bierce22:
okay so i was just curious i decided to go back to completly stock dl17 and unroot after everything got booted i tested the music and it dosnt freeze at all anymore only slightly skips when you turn the screen off but the grip sensor dosnt mess up at all. so tommorrow im going to reroot go back straight to ec07 and see what happens i know for a fact it didnt skip when i first tried ec03.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ModSquad:
Hey there,

In the next couple of days I'll be romming my Bell Atrix 4g into a custom rom. So far I've been considering the Alien rom but CM7 has been grabbing my attention on and off.

What I'm asking of the community is which rom are you guys using on your Atrix and why do you like it better over others?

I'd like to read and find out what other people have been using and how it's working for them.

Any input is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

ModSquad
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marko!:
I can tell you as a bell user that you don't need to worry about being fro bell first off

Here is my personal opinion :

All roms I run with launcher pro

Fauxs kernal underclocked and undervolted

Alien:

I seem to always come back to it. I like all the features that are included in the theme. Wake on volume is a must. The theme is well done everything looks great if you like green.

Super stable everything works there is a good amount of blur so that the good stuff still works but it's not being held back.

Darkside:

Lovely red theme. Very extensive and very fast. But didn't seem as stable as alien. Nottach is very good with the mods and all work flawlessly.

I had it very deblurred and liked it but it seemed to drain battery very fast.

Homebase:

amazingly speedy I had too many problems so I left very quickly

CM7:

Insanely fast boot up. Ran smooth super customizable. And stable. Never had any real problems with it.

All the things I customized in this were already included in Darkside and alien. The reason I switch from thisis the lack of1080p video recording and the fact that it missed webtop and fp sensor.

Also it didn't seem. Like an Atrix anymore. Just another phone with CM7

Hope that helps you choose. I love all those roms. Even though i had problems with hb. Honestly just flash all of them and make your own personal decision
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ModSquad:
Thanks for the input mate.

I'm leaning towards alien, but I'm mainly interested in keeping my fingerprint scanner to login with, I find it so much more convenient than anything else in the world.

I didn't mention it earlier but i tend to lean to themes with darker Colours.

Ill get mine flashed on the weekend and post screenies with the results.

If anyone has any input to add, please do. I love reading this stuff.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eggshaped:
Since rooting my Atrix I've tried all the more recent roms here. Of the motorblur roms I preferred Starwars - the light side. Super fast and no problems with it at all. The dev really seems to know what he's doing with scripts and things.

I then installed CM7 and have never looked back. The things that keep me on this rom are lightning fast speed, complete stability, 2-3 days battery life, dozens of themes available in market, and possibly most importantly to me the lack of 'stuff' clogging up the phone. The bloat in Motorblur is extensive, not just the apps you can see in the app drawer but the services and processes running in the background slowing down your phone. I used Autostarts to disable everything and it took ages going through it all. With cm7 there is hardly anything to disable.

The cm7 team have the fingerprint scanner working now and we're expecting an update very soon. I don't believe webtop is working though.

It will always be a matter of preference but I honestly can't think of any reason why anyone would stay on stock roms when cm7 has become as advanced as it is now. If you get bored with the looks you can just change the theme in Theme Chooser.

Enjoy testing the roms and I hope you find one you like and settle with!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vick1w:
I have bell Atrix tried the CM7

very fast.. but could not sync contact over gmail and had hard time finding the market app..

if you did the above two how did you do it? I am interested in CM7 but need my contacts from Gmail..
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _Dennis_:
Get the google apps zip file from the beta thread in developer section. you may need to goto settings accounts then google and set up sync for contacts.

sent via tapatalk from my CM7 Atrix
[HD2 General] dron1349:
Just got phone from a friend and can't get his gmail account off the phone can any one help?

I already tried the factory reset
[HD2 General] an123:
Are you sure u did a factory reset?

The normal way to do this would be to go into settings/accounts&sync => you will get a list of accounts being synced with the phone

then click on the google account u want to remove

this will open up another screen with options related to that account...At the bottom right, there will be a button to remove the account....and you are done!

this works on android 2.3.5, and should be similar on earlier builds too
[HD2 General] johnerz:
A bit of assumption going on here :}

What rom is on the phone?

A factory reset and reformat of the sd card should normaly do the trick on win mo, and as said above its easy with droid roms :)
[HD2 General] flaheat88:
Just add another gmail account.. once you do that you will have the option to delete your friends account. Having multiple accounts usually gives you the opportunity to delete the one you don't want.
[HD2 General] dron1349:
Yep and i tried removing the account but it says it is in use with another application and cant be deleted
[HD2 General] nieves53:
OK here is the solution for this, this works I just tried it on my phone. OK you will need a file explorer with root access (root explorer is excellent) open root explorer find the DATA folder then SYSTEM folder, I believe the 3rd file is ACCOUNTS delete it then reboot. That's it. So it look like this /data/system
[Motorola Photon 4G] symond:
i bought this phone n guy scammed me now i cant use with sprint

any idea what should i do ??

or can i go around with making it clean ??

and does it ganna work overseas or no ??

help me out guys please
[Motorola Photon 4G] RockoDev:
Sell it somebody that would want to flash it too cricket etc.....there is no workaround the esn
[Motorola Photon 4G] symond:
oh dang

is it ganna work abored ?? like out side us ?? with other sim card

do i need to unlock for that or not ??
[Motorola Photon 4G] ronnienyc:
Are you sure it is BAD?

Sometimes the phones are still attached to an old line, and they need the original account holder to call Sprint and free it up. If you are not sure, you should contact the seller and find out.

If it is really bad (i.e. someone did not pay the bills) your only option is to sell on CL or such with a "flash to cricket or Metro only" tag line.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mikel719:
It should work with a Sim from over seas because it would be using sprints network.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xjav01:
I will sell u a brand new photon :) !
[Motorola Photon 4G] sapperpipo:
One thing you can do is wait it out the restrictions will lift on the phone once the account is in collections and sell to a third party but there's no telling how long that takes.
[Motorola Photon 4G] zimzillakilla:
Foreign sim

I can guarantee you it will work with a foreign sim, yet it will only do so outside the country, .

I have a movistar sim from Mexico , but it only works outside the U.S

If you still have the phone try selling it I would love to buy it off you I do a lot of travel and a spare is always a must ,
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cks69:
So......with a movistar sim the phone will not work on the US??, only Mexico???

Shouldn't it roam once in the US with the movistar sim????

I thought they where only locked for US sims.....

I was gonna do the same thing......
[Motorola Photon 4G] darktranquility18:
Yea but foreign sims still have to connect through US domestic networks. Movistar might have a thing with AT&T and when u try to join, it registers as an at&t sim/network and wont work
[Motorola Photon 4G] cornelious2:
It's the is towers that are blocked not the sim card.... if you have an att or T-Mobile sim it will work fine just not in the USA. In short until the radio is fixed, no gsm in the USA
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] HcMAX:
Hello I'm in Italy,

I installed overcome room which comes with videos and book app from Android market, however everytime I try to rent a movie or something I receive this message

Siamo spiacenti, il documento richiesto non è disponibile nel tuo Paese.

It says the document I want its not available in my country,

On can I overcome this restrictions and rent movies and download books?

Thanks
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] m.r.davies:
me too

I bought mine in USA, have set it to my home country (uk) and using it where I currently live in kenya

Can't access any films to rent!!!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Szadzik:
It does notm atter what country you set up in Locale. It only matters what SIM Card is in or what WiFi you are using and how it identifies itself.

You either need to be using 3G with a US SIM or WiFi that identifies itself as a US network.
[LG Optimus 3D] imikew:
hi, just joined but been lurking since i got the o3d a few months ago.

i have rooted, installed clockwork recovery and installed kingdroid 1.8 rom.

when the upgrade comes out, what is the process to avoid bricking as it terrifies me, 22 month left on contract.

do i?...

uninstall clockwork,

enter LG recovery holding down pwr, vol- and 3d then release pwr only, at the LG logo

flash official LG rom 10.d

then update to gb... when it gets released
[LG Optimus 3D] zwoggel:
Actually you don"t need to uninstall CWM.

I would suggest

1. wait for a custom ROM based on GB and flash it through clockwork

or

2. wait for someone to post the official LG ROM and flash that

Either way, there is no need to remove clockwork :)
[LG Optimus 3D] Jaza78:
my friend wait for a GB custom ROM
[LG Optimus 3D] tourjefferson:
If that depends on LG's releasing gingerbread first so I'd suggest you to take a sit while you are waiting 'cos if you stand to wait you will, most certainly, get VERY tired of waiting for LG's releases.