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[Motorola Photon 4G] VDub2174:
My EVO 4G would get very hot after tethering for some time, it's gonna happen no matter what phone you get since (as said before) you're draining the battery at a high rate.

There are tons of keyboards on the Android Market, you just need to find the one you like best. I personally use Thumb Keyboard.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Jjday7:
My HTC Evo used to cook my eggs when I would tether. It's just one of those things that come along with tethering. This phone does has it's flaws but crappy, I think not.
[Motorola Photon 4G] rruss:
Don't do it man I came from the evo3d to the photon. The evo3d gets hot just from internet browsing and phone calls alone and don't get me started on how it gets when you use GPS the only things that the evo3d has on the photon is sense 3.0 and more custom roms and kernels photon has better signal, call quality, wayyyyy louder speaker, stock battery life and camera. This is android. remember you can change damn near anything on ur phone that you don't like

If you take the time to look for it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
I heard horrible reviews about heat issues with the 3D. So that just confirms it more.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
I hate to be a complete **** and rain on your flaming parade, but next time do your research before complaining about issues caused by you and blaming them on the phone.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] GuidoZebra:
Alright so I recently rooted my phone. And it is cool and all, but now I want to test some ROMs, and MIUI. So I have a couple of questions that I could find no where else. Also I'm using Froyo 2.2.1 if I update to the latest version can I root it again, or when I update will it still keep the root?

Question 1- What should I use to backup my phone, and, this is important, is there a way to do it without backing it up ON my phone. I only have a 2gb sd card and backing it up is nearly impossible seeing how I have way more than 2gb of stuff that would needed to be backed up.

Question 2- How do I put MIUI on my phone and is it worth it?

Question 3- ROM manager is apparently not compatible with my phone, so what do I use in place or is there a way to make it compatible.

Sorry for it being a long post, I just really need help.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
Don't use cwm from rom manager. THe i9000 version works perfect but you should really familiarize yourself with heimdall. Once 2.3.5 drop it will be the only way to root. There is obviously also Odin but heimdall is more reliable.

All you need to do to root is to flash any custom kernel thats compatible with the rom as all the kernels in the infuse section have a root script to root on first boot.

These kernels also have a Voodoo lagfix specific version of cwm baked in

Also you can add root to the rom dump/odin images with magic iso. Su goes in xbin. And superuser.apk goes in /system/app all in the factoryfs.rfs image.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] GuidoZebra:
Thanks, this helps. But I also need a little help on the whole back up situation, is there a way to back up externally or will I have to back up on my phone. Like I said I only have a 2GB SD card so backing up is impossible with 5+gbs of stuff that would be backed up.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] anotherday46:
From my experience, unless you wipe the SD card everything that is stored on it will be kept (other than Apps and texts), but your pictures, music, etc. will be saved. Sync your contacts to google so you don't have to worry about saving those.

I used Cyanogenmod on the HTC Aria and it was great, but I haven't tried it on the infuse - it's updated regularly but you have to decide if it's the set up you want.

I actually am using MIUI now and I love it. Very customizable and different than the typical ASOP ROMs. I flash new ROMS constantly, but I am actually sticking with MIUI right now.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] GuidoZebra:
Alright, so MIUI it is then. So can someone help me with this back up problem of mine, I just need to know how to back up, externally if possible, and how to flash roms, because in ROM manager when I go to flash clockworkmod recovery the INfuse is not on the list.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] lukas_s:
Buy a larger SD card? Or backup with Titanium Backup. This requires that you wipe everything at the beginning of the rom installation process, though. I backed up Titanium, installed Infused 2.2.3, and all my apps were gone when the phone booted back up. Went to the Market, installed Titanium Backup again, and voila: all of my apps and data were backed up. Took about 5 minutes to restore it all, and my phone is running like a dream.

In rom manager you want to pick "Samsung I9000."
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Xev_10177:
If you want to back up everything, use Titanium Backup. If all you want to do is backup pictures/videos, they are located inside the /DCIM folder. Just take the pictures/videos and place them on your desktop or whatever. Then, put them back in /DCIM.

As to how to flash ROMs, use CWM. Every ROM has their flashing instructions on their thread. I don't like using ROM Manager unless its just to install/remove add-ons on Infusedv2.x.x.

To flash MIUI, you don't need ROM Manager. It's all done through CWM.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
If you want cwm use heimdall to flash a custom kernel. On 2.2.1 stock this would be the comunity kernel or defuse kernel. If the kernel is zipped up or in a .tar then extract (7zip is good for this) it and only look for "zimage" that is the actual kernel, anything else in there is not relevant to heimdall Also if you never used heimdall before I recommended v1.1 because it is more self explained. You can also use odin but need the kernel in a .tar archive. You can tar the zimage in 7zip but may have permissions problems doing this in windows. There may be other. Tar specific apps that let you set Linux permissions but I haven't used any.

If you want the old fashioned way then use the i9000 version in rom manager. But first you need to push modded 3e recovery. Do some searching on 3e and signature verification failure. I can't write a full tutorial on every questions thread. God knows the tutorials exist all over this and every galaxy s forum.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] GuidoZebra:
Alright so once I back up with TI BU, how do I get it back once I have a new ROM? And also, Where do I get CWM?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] GuidoZebra:
I found out how to CWM, but I don't need to back up my phone before I install it do I?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafarataneneces:
Adobe Flash 11

CoPilot Live USA 8

CoPilot Live USA 9

Evernote

A LOT of program are not working with the HTC Thunderbolt, does anybody knows why?

Am I the only one having this problem or is this related to the HTC Thunderbolt?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonatik78:
No problem here. Something is messed up on your device.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soldi3rxx:
Worked for me

Sent from HTC Thunderbolt
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jrocker23:
If you cant get them to work, a factory reset should do it or if u are rooted, wipe all and reinstall rom
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hallstevenson:
If you're running a custom ROM, it's possible that there's info in 'build.prop' that the Market reads and could flag apps as incompatible. What are you running ?

FWIW, I didn't check Adobe Flash 11. When did that get released, a day ago ? Two days ago ? Haven't heard there's been an update.... I'll go out on a limb and say that one won't across too many sites that are "Flash 11 only" yet either !! I think you can hold off for a short bit to get that one sorted out !

As for the others, the Market says they're "compatible with all of your devices". I have TBolts and Eris linked to my account, so yes, they'll even run on my old Eris.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baronmxc:
Not sure but on mine the Market auto updated Adobe Flash to 11 last night.

Sent from my brain.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hallstevenson:
Adobe Flash only shows up in the Market if I look for it. It doesn't appear under My Apps. When I do find it, it has the "update" tag on it though. I don't know if it will eventually auto-update or not since it's a baked-in app. Maps does though...
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Absolute_Zero:
Once you update it, it will be linked to the market then since you will no longer be using the /system/app version (you'll be using the /data/app version market installed). So from then on it will be listed in your market when an update is available. As far as making that "automatic", you'd have to check that box in the market for that app.

As someone said, it could be something in your build.prop such as your model name, lcd density, or fingerprint.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baronmxc:
My apologies. I believe I did use the market to install Flash 10.3 and choosing to auto update. I am using Market version 3.1.6 btw

And I assume that Google pushes updates to their apps which is why Gmail and Maps constantly update without user interaction.

Sent from my brain.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hallstevenson:
I think with Google's apps, they took it upon themselves to default the "update" flag to 'yes' :D
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thepolishguy:
I was just talking to a guy about this. Did you by chance change your screen density? The stock density on the Tbolt is 240. Or if you are using a custom rom maybe the density has been changed?

You can use Root Explorer and go to system/build.prop. long press and chose to view it as a text file and check the density is 240.
[Dell Streak 7] lowery23:
Thanks. I was able to use these instructions to root my newly updated Streak 7.
[Dell Streak 7] ccarrasco:
Thank you...

Clear, easy to follow and success at the end... what else ???
[Dell Streak 7] daniel3334:
I must be having a blonde moment. But how do I boot into cwm recovery w/o root already? I have cwm installed but of course I can't flash cwm recovery w/o root. And stock recovery of course won't let me upgrade with the too pkg. I appreciate any help in my obvious dumb ass moment here lol!
[Dell Streak 7] TheManii:
how do you have cwm installed if you cant flash it?

Put your device into fastboot mode and flash the correct CWM.

CWM 3.0 if you're on 2.2.x

CWM 4.0 if you're on 3.2

there are directions to flash each one on their respective pages (they're flashed in the same manner btw, just I wrote one guide and graffixnyc wrote the other one i believe)
[Dell Streak 7] daniel3334:
Oh ok I see. I was thinking flash thru recovery not Dearborn. Duh huh. Thx Nanni, much appreciated. And I meant I have cwm installed but no cwm recovery flashed yet.
[Dell Streak 7] Guyver96:
sorry guys been at it since yesterday... can't find clockwork img file. Not to mention adb isnt working thru cmd prompt either. Any other method to root like ginger break?
[Dell Streak 7] shadowpunx:
Wow, it took like 45 minutes to root my thunderbolt, once my streak comes in I'll be on this asap

You should have killed me, when you had the chance
[Dell Streak 7] Mysticales:
Looks nice. Now I guess I need to figure out how to upgrade from my 2.2.2 root with tweaks to HC without messing it up.
[Dell Streak 7] benjiebench:
i did everything but i use the clockworkmod 5 XXX something and install the superuser7.zip the only icon i got is the superuser but this 3 is not in there how come?

SU binary 3.0

Bash 4.1

Busybox 1.19.2

thank you
[Dell Streak 7] ExploreMN:
Okay, I guess I don't get "Have Clockwork mod 4.0.1.4 installed" part. Don't you have to be rooted to get CWM installed? What am I missing?
[Dell Streak 7] megabyte2365:
In CWM 4 my External SD was seen, now that I installed 5 revB, it could not mount SD card. I moved superuser7 to internal and ran it, went through, but no root x4 times. Not sure if 5 is ready for prime time.
[Dell Streak 7] wolski:
Did you get any solution for that Cach 22 problem? CWM must be installed to root your device but to install it your device must be fully rooted!!! It is like a question about what was first - egg or a chicken?
[Dell Streak 7] magicland:
Finally got clockworkmod flashed, now

I keep getting "E:can't mount /sdcard/"

Was able to root from internal sdcard.
[Dell Streak 7] wolski:
Every guide on web seize “to install CWM you must have your device rooted already” you are telling to root I must have CWM installed. What is I am not understanding?

Why you guys are making those guides understandable only for yourself or for guys they already know everything about the subject?
[Dell Streak 7] TheManii:
Because you dont need to be rooted to install it, nowhere does it say you need to be rooted to install it.
[Dell Streak 7] wolski:
Give me just one link to the CWM installation page which is not requesting previous rooting, please.
[Dell Streak 7] TheManii:
The one RIGHT BELOW this one [Guide][Recovery]Clockwork Mod 5.0.2.7

All you need is to enter fastboot mode.
[Dell Streak 7] magicland:
wolski, it isn't explained very well. You need to use fastboot to flash clockworkmod before the streak is rooted. This requires installing drivers which will support fastboot, and they DON'T install correctly the majority of the time under win7. You need to run around to several threads to figure out what you need to do.

Once you've got fastboot drivers installed and working (which may require the android SDK and/or Dell's PC suite), and downloaded the fastboot command, and downloaded the clockworkmod image, then you can boot the streak into fastboot mode (power and volume down), and use the command line to flash CWM to the streak. However, in my case (and others), CWM 5.0 won't recognize your SD card. I WAS able to copy the file to the internal SD, and install superuser7.zip from there.

If someone had actually taken the time to explain all of this, instead of acting like it's things you should already know, a lot of people could have saved a lot of time.
[Dell Streak 7] wolski:
Thank you very much. That clears a lot. As i said before - most of those guys are making those so called guides for them self. It must be same kind of mental illness. TheManiak is a perfect example.
[Dell Streak 7] TheManii:
Well then dont use it, there is no other root method for the s7 and there is no other fully working CWM for the s7.

Just pretend the s7 cant be rooted and has no custom rec, as noone else has stepped up to make a rooting method for the s7 (even though it's blindly easy to prepare)

If you cant get past the "Basic understanding of the command line" and arnt willing to learn, then that's your own fault.

NONE of the automatic rooting tools work and there's likely to not be any ANY TIME SOON, HC has been out for nearly a year and noone there have been no new exploits.

Using fastboot requires 2 things: having it downloaded, using the command line, the first is provided but you have to provide the 2nd part yourself.

There is literally no other steps beyond "fastboot flash <location of your recovery.img>" the only extra steps would be "remember to extract it" "remember to put them in the same place" "remember to use the keyboard to type commands" "remember the enter button is the enter button", and all this falls under BASIC COMMAND PROMPT KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED.

If you google "command prompt tutorial" there's 2 very long/good guides on learning the basics, but as you CLEARLY did not see the thread on installing CWM 5.0 right UNDERNEATH this one, are you in fact willing to take the 15 minutes or so learning how to use the command line?

There are also just as many guides to using fastboot in general if you type in "setting up fastboot" the only thing is that they dont contain the s7 specific drivers, and all these files are provided in fastboot+adb.zip, which is on the other thread that I have previously mentioned.

This is under the assumption that you are using windows, if you are using linux you should already know this and if you are using osx, I have yet to run into one that has a s7, they are actually on their own to a degree.

As for the SD card not working, great job on not reporting it to anyone, as DJ_Steve isnt active on this forum anymore and I'm the ONLY current active 'dev' (if you call this really simple stuff deving) you wont get any support as you clearly want to be handheld though the entire process. If someone had reported so that the sd card still wasnt working mabye I woulda investigated it, as it was in fact working after I had tested so and no other person reported it not working.

tl;dr: the device cant be rooted, there's no automagic way to do so.

PS. If I were a spiteful person I'd simply remove CWM and superuser7.zip entirely, as between me and DJ_Steve constutute 95% of the active devs that have released stuff for the s7 recently. Then the s7 would have absolutely no support at all on xda. Most of the devs should be able to root completely manually without any tools at all.

(not to discount you giveen, your work is currently even more behind the scenes then me, though i'd imagine if you were nudged and I didnt already make it you'd be able to replicate most of this stuff in a couple hours)
[Dell Streak 7] Twistedme:
I just got done using these instructions to root my stock dell streak 7" wifi only stock oem 3.2 this does work

I wanted to add a few helpful hints to anyone having an issues.

if you get to the point where you can type fastboot and see help on how to use it at a cmd prompt then to get your device to work with it power it off and then hold down volume - and power it on THIS SETS THE DEVICE to FASTBOOT MODE. I kept going to the stock bootloader and of course fastboot cmds wouldn't respond.

you should see red font giving device info on your tablet followed by white font something waiting for usb if its not connected to the pc. once connected you should be able to successfully use at pc cmd window the flashboot recovery cmd to load clockwork 5 then when its done type reboot in same pc cmd window.

copy super7.zip to the internl sd

(clockrecovery couldn't access external sd on my unit)

power it down hold down vol+ and power it back on I got the stock dell bootloader screen. pick and option

i choose install update.pkg and it loaded to clockworkmod recovery from here I was able to find super7.zip and rooted it same as any android phone.

Dell streak 7" buttons do a few different things

unit off

power on holding volume + = bootloader

power on holding volume - = fastboot

holding both volume - and + then plugging in the usb = APX mode (not used for this walk-through)

and if you cant figure out how to get it to reboot or need to soft reset it look for the pinhole under sd card door.

Hope this helps since I kinda fumbled onto the buttons on my own again my hang up was that I didnt have the device in fastboot mode live and learn.
[Dell Streak 7] megabyte2365:
I finally got mine rooted by going back to cwm 4 from 5. It is unfortunate alot of us are missing the sd card with 5. I would like a nandroid.

TheManii, I truly do appreciate your assistance and support on the Streak.
[Dell Streak 7] TheManii:
SD card itself works, connecting it to a pc and trying to mount it as a drive doesnt.

You can get around this by removing the sd card and using a card reader, then plugging it back in.
[Dell Streak 7] WookieFan:
Manii,

Your work has been invaluable. Some people don't want to work and learn on their own, and those exact people should not be attempting to root their devices.

It took me two solid hours to learn to nvflash my DS7 back to 2.2.2 after flashing Honeystreak. Then I had to flash the OTA on a T-Mobile DS7 (same device). I could not have done that without your work.

So, I for one, thank you. I was holding off on rooting my DS7 (now running HC for months) because I wanted to see if I really felt I needed it. So, please don't remove your work just because one idiot can't take the time that he wouldn't have been able to do anything with his device, if you hadn't donated your time and effort.

Keep up the good work!
[Dell Streak 7] TheManii:
Updated all files to newest version, if you do not manually update them though their updater apps available on market, you should reinstall superuser to get the lastest things.
[Dell Streak 7] autonami:
just did this on Honeystreak R7. with CWM 4. no problems. t-mobile unit
[Dell Streak 7] TheManii:
Updated to 11228 - SU 3.0.3.2
[Dell Streak 7] nikolag:
Problem wooting with CWM 5

Hey Guys,

I am having an issue installing superuser with the instructions provided here. I placed the superuser.zip in the root of the internal memory, then from CWM5 I can find it but when I select it it gives me the following error:

E: can't mount /emmc/superuser.zip

(Status 0)

I tried two different superuser.zip versions and I got the same result with both.

Do you have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
[Dell Streak 7] TheManii:
What rom are you on? There's some issues in the current CWM 5027 involving sdcard/sdcard2. I plan on fixing it in the future and possibly getting usb mounting working

The labels might be reversed so that internal sd card is labeled as external and vice-versa. Do you have an sd card in the slot?
[Dell Streak 7] nikolag:
I am on 506. I tried both with SD card and without. CWM doesn't see the SD card at all.
[Dell Streak 7] TheManii:
Try reformatting it while in android
[Dell Streak 7] s14evil:
If it is possible to get a video to root ds7 HC 3.2
[Dell Streak 7] alwaysbindaas:
Hi TheManii...thanks for your efforts...I am getting the same error as nikolag..I can see the internal SD card from CWM 5 but I get the error in superuser.zip after I select it. I am on the NEW HC 506/507 from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1286295&page=11

Please help, if possible

Thank you.

Edit: I found a solution...downloaded the individual superuser and su binaries from http://www.cesgeekbook.com/2011/12/problem-rooting-with-cwm-5-honeycomb.html and flashed them....am rooted now...good stuff. Thanks all.
[Dell Streak 7] metalchef:
FWIW, gingerbreak will also root 2.2.2 in aboot 15 secs -- for those less "tech savvy" tablet owners....
[Dell Streak 7] androidlover12:
how do i install cwm 5.0 on my stock HC wifi only dell streak 7

how do i install cwm 5.0 on my stock HC wifi only dell streak 7?
[Dell Streak 7] jschramm:
I cant get clockwork to apply the zip from the sd card either, tried formatting it but wont see it. Any ideas?
[Dell Streak 7] KapTmaH:
Try the program Unlock Root and please leave feedback
[Dell Streak 7] s14evil:
Were is that program you are talking about...
[Dell Streak 7] jschramm:
Are there any options to get around this? Can we downgrade to an earlier version of CWM to get the SD card to work?
[Dell Streak 7] s14evil:
Thanks for all your help...
[Dell Streak 7] TheManii:
Minor update to Superuser7, previous version has the wrong update binary and hence wouldnt install, new version includes the correct one now.

Contents havnt changed, only the installer fixed.
[Dell Streak 7] ztkx:
hOW To??

power + vol- ===> fastboot

power + vol+ ===> official recovery

But I have fastboot cwm5 in fastboot mode
[Dell Streak 7] s14evil:
Power + vol + and then chose option 2 I believe... The it will boot into cmw...
[Dell Streak 7] Rynkov:
I am trying root my dell but have a lots of problems with that:/

Requirements:

Have Clockwork mod 5.0 installed (how to install this soft )

Install instructions:

Copy superuser7.zip to SD card (i downloaded this file, copy on sd card)

Reboot into clockwork mod ( i dont know how to do it )

Select "update from update.zip"

Navigate to superuser.zip

Flash

Finished

My system version :

Model : Streak 7

System version : 3.2

Kernel : 2.6.36.3

OEM Version : GLUNB1A350700

Compilation : 19534

Service tag : 4JXC2P1

One more problem ... When i put my SD Card in slot, my dell doesnt see it. I am open es file explorer and the program dosesnt se sd card. I dont have external sd folder :/:/
[Dell Streak 7] s14evil:
My best bet is to download ever file you need on you streak 7... Because there is an internal SD... Look for that one..check this out http://www.cesgeekbook.com/2011/12/root-dell-streak-7-with-honeycomb-32.html