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[Streak 5 General] streakOwner:
Rooting never hurts unless you have no idea what you are doing. ( I had to say this )
[Streak 5 General] SHildebrandt:
So Streakowner, what you mean is how well the phone functions after it's been rooted (even "correctly" rooted), has NOTHING to do with the ROM installed on it? With all due respect, I beg to differ with you on that point.... please explain further
[Streak 5 General] streakOwner:
if you refer to rooting as only having the su and busybox installed then , you are wrong, but if you meant that installing custom ROMs is bad practice , I do agree totally with you, you never know what is inside the complied libwebcore.so for example, can just be anything there, even some nasty code you aren't aware but your bank will insist it was you who ordered that item from Ebay .
[Streak 5 General] SHildebrandt:
I should have clarified that, streakOwner..... my bad :(... You are correct...... Rooting alone did not destroy my Nexus...... the culprit, no doubt, was my choice of which ROM to install.... Nonetheless, it did void the warranty...... To borrow an overused phrase, "Other than that, Mrs, Lincoln, how was the play"? LOL
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
To expand on what he said, the usual modules added from rooting are:

SU

Superuser.apk

Busybox

Sometimes bash.

By themselves they dont do anything, on a rooted system with no root able apps it's functionally the same as not being rooted.

It depends entirely on what apps are doing that requires root permissions to accomplish.

It's like buying a bad battery that will explode. If you dont ever charge it and put it in your phone nothing will happen, it's just a plastic brick until then.

Rooting would be the equivilent to removing the battery cover and installing it vs having it taped shut.
[Streak 5 General] SHildebrandt:
Good analogy, Manii..... Unfortunately, my need to have pinch-to-zoom on my Nexus basically ended up costing me the phone. Had I waited for an update, or installed a different ROM, I maybe could have avoided disaster......

Just from looking around here, it seems the vast majority of custom ROMs are slightly, if not overly, buggy (IMO..... I mean, look at the title of this thread). I had an old HD2 awhile back that I would flash different ROMs to, just for kicks.... but it wasn't my main phone. Prior to that, I unlocked our iPhones (relatively simple), so I thought installing a different ROM on the Nexus couldn't be all that difficult..... The root/ROM install was simple enough, but the real trick with Android is finding a custom ROM that actually works 100%. That's why I took issue with streakOwner's "if you know what you're doing" comment. I should've clarified the Nexus problem was totally ROM-related..... not a "pbk&c" issue (Problem Between Keyboard & Chair) LOL
[Streak 5 General] spiritcrusher33:
im running a stock but rooted streak, couldnt be more happy.. only needed root for blocking ads, and to change fonts etc. swtich between this and my infuse..
[Streak 5 General] SHildebrandt:
Hey SpiritCrush..... Not to veer off-topic here, but how do you like your Infuse? T-Mobile is getting the Galaxy S2 on Friday (4.65-inch screen version), and I have a line on my Family Plan that's up for renewal.... so I might consider getting one (I'm going to renew that line anyway).... Not sure I can live with "TouchWiz" though.... Humm.... that one might be worth rooting just to disable TouchWiz (how's that to segway back on topic?) :D
[Streak 5 General] roperband:
Co-sign. I run 354 rooted and I never have any problems, and I use this as my only device.
[Streak 5 General] lorenzo_btbw:
I also tried every 2.3 rom available, only the simplestreak seems to be an unofficial stable rom, but not "rock solid" as I noticed sometimes it freezes expecially while using ADW launcher.
[Streak 5 General] SHildebrandt:
OK..... I'm going to ask the obvious question..... once rooted, is it just not possible to but the original Dell Froyo 2.2 image back on the Streak? As mentioned previously, mine came from Dell already with 2.2.2 on it, and it's been working flawlessly since the day I bought it. Just wondering....
[Streak 5 General] MySeLfPT:
About that asian gingerbread rom, check modaco. :)

Sent from the Streak, because size matters.
[Streak 5 General] Mike's Aria:
I know, right!!!! So far, smooth as silk and stable as a rock. WOOHOO!!!!!
[Streak 5 General] MySeLfPT:
Indeed, its the streak made right. :)

Sent from the Streak, because size matters.
[Streak 5 General] drsuicide:
You can buddy.

My first rom 351 nandroid backup is mess up.

So I flash it with rom 351 again, it's get better.
[Streak 5 General] trungcanthi1:
Hi

I found out that it is not any perfect ROM for Streak, With stock ROM, it is quite stable but the performance is not really good because of more battery consumption, lacking of Ram. But when we flash for Custom Rom, must go through a lots of testing period, no one can warranty that does it run smoothly and stable.

But my choice, also for almost 4room members that we should move on and looking for any way to improve my Streak, we love the way we go.

Thanks

Best Regards
[Streak 5 General] drsuicide:
Simplestreak 1.2 is the most stable custom rom so far.

I try them all.
[Streak 5 General] lordmorphous:
For Froyo, I have to say that my Streakin' 354 is rock solid. I have only ever had one random reboot and the battery life is pretty good. I can get 24 hours out of it without a problem. But you are correct, it's performance isn't on par with Streakdroid. However to be honest, I can only tell the performance difference in benchmark apps. Everyday usage is super smooth.
[Streak 5 General] btvbtv:
I'm on DSC rom for a week, with Olleh kernel. 3.4->5.0->5.1

It's rock solid without gmaps and with golauncher.

Only 1 SoD, not related to usb. Just went to sleep and rebooted in a couple of minutes.
[Streak 5 General] :
Try power_rom

Its rock stable
[Streak 5 General] streakOwner:
Try updating to the latest version 0.54b but be sure to clean both caches and fix permissions and do 2 reboots in a row before starting to use it normally. And please if you have any kind of problem big or small , report it on the proper thread , so we can try to deal with it.

Thank you
[Streak 5 General] ivantastic:
because of warned by TheManii, i still confused for what just will happen if we just use the olleh ROM?

i can't find any reason to testing the OLLEH ROM, & i still can't find the reason to do not using that ROM too.. :confused:
[Streak 5 General] Appus:
Happy with GingerStreak 2.4.4

My phone was only rooted till few days back. Was on 2.2.2 till then ! Recently, after lots of reading, tried a custom ROM. Before installing, my phone used to restart once in a while (May be because of the back panel cover is kinda loose). My first custom ROM is GS 2.4.4

Never had any problem. With wifi /email , i was getting a day's backup. Wanted to test with occasional wifi and calls. It lasted 1 Day, 22 Hrs. Battery still shows 20%. That is quiet a lot on this big phone.

I think, if i have any problem with the ROM, can always go back to the original ROM (may have to flash the baseband etc) and claim the warranty.

I am happy with GS 2.4.4. No reboot till now. I may flash theme (like one i have now from lordmorphous). I will switch to a new ROM only if it is worth going for ! (GS 2.4.4 is worth taking risk)

Thanks,

appus
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LaZiODROID:
I've searched Google quite a bit, and found others that had a similar issue, but I notice that they experienced slightly different outcomes (mostly not fixing the problem for them). I'm going into this assuming that the phone may just have to be jtag'd to be fixed... but as a last ditch effort I'd like to lay out my issue in as much detail as possible to see if anything can be done to salvage this thing.

How I broke it: I recall about a year ago, I tried flashing an SPL (was it DangerSPL? Maybe...). The phone was already rooted, but I think I was trying to gain S-OFF with it. Whatever it was, it was stupid to do.

How it behaved after that (and as of right now): Turning on the phone shows the Rogers logo, and it does nothing. For a very long time.

Power key combinations and their results: I notice that 3 work. Here they are:

1st)

Hold wheelbutton+POWER - it illuminates the led (Blue colour).

2nd)

Hold BACK+POWER: Takes me to a rainbow screen that has HBOOT text. The text is:

DREA210 PVT 32B

HBOOT-0.95.0000

CPLD-4

RADIO-2.22.19.26I

Sep 2 2008

Also, inside the green part is a white line that says "Serial0"

Screenshot:

3rd)

Hold CAMERA+POWER: Takes me to the same rainbow screen mentioned above, BUT - it turns into a grey screen that tries to load something. Research toldme that this is where it tries to load an NBH file (it's like a system image... like a rom I assume). I found 3 different NBH files.

First NBH file I tried was a "Rogers" one - which I thought would be perfect for me, since it's a Rogers phone. I made sure to rename it to DREAIMG.nbh, put it on a freshly-formatted MicroSD card, popped it in, and turned the phone on by holding CAMERA+POWER. It got to the grey screen, "loading..." and then "checking..." and then it said "00028002 not allow". It then returned me to the rainbow screen.

I then tried 2 other NBH's (the standard US one - RC29? and then the UK one - RC7?) with no luck - still got the "not allow" message.

So I think that's it. I'm glad that I can actually get SOME kind of screen up... as that is a sign of hope...

If anyone can contribute to this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ezterry:
a) you need to make a goldcard to flash any nbh other than the rogers ones.

b) 0.95.0000 will not net you flash the rogers firmware (I think an issue with the ebi1radio)

This means you must make a goldcard, borowing someone elses phone if needed to get the CID of a micro sdcard.

After you have a gold card I recommend you flash the orange nbh from my 2708+ thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=831139

(rename to DREAIMG.nbh and place on the root of the gold card)

Once the orange nbh is flashed you can flash and slash screen you want if any (only reason for a full s=off spl) then use the fastboot instructions to install the 2708+ radio and a rom. also on that thread)

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[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LaZiODROID:
Ezterry to the rescue! Lots of info there. Thanks a lot - i will let u know of the results!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LaZiODROID:
ezterry thank you thank you thank you!!! Dream is up and running!!!!
[Windows Phone 7 General] Magpir:
while on charger when the battery is reaching 97% , turn on/off/ the phone

multiple times , each time taking a 2 mins break u will notice the charging takes longer and the percentage is always stuck at 97% - 99%...

another form of bump charging for wp7..basically the phone will take longer to cut off charging at 100%

post yr results here if u saw improved battery life
[Windows Phone 7 General] Charliekrad:
you will find this quickly damages the long term battery life of your battery
[Windows Phone 7 General] morpheuszg:
Well that isn't so bad as batteries aren't expensive anymore. Just 12€ or so.
[Windows Phone 7 General] turdsamich:
this would probably work for any phone not just HTC but you are basically tricking the phone into over charging the battery which weakens the lifespan of the battery, all for a few extra minutes of battery life, not worth it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Yea, this is terrible, destructive, downright negligent advice.
[Windows Phone 7 General] LiFePo4:
Yes, not good. I work with battery chargers and Li battery characteristics and you will actually age and get less capability very shorty doing this so you won't get those extra charge lengths for long (you do this maybe 20 times and you will in worse shape after that than someone just doing normal charge).
[Windows Phone 7 General] Purple11:
are you kidding me??
[Windows Phone 7 General] Snake.:
I already told him to stop posting bs like this and telling people to damage their batteries this way, this thread should be locked.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ScottSUmmers:
Hah, this coming from the guy that advocated doing that.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Magpir:
u understand yr cause of concern....this will not wear out the battery faster...unless batteries that u use do not have rapid discharge capabilities eg. Iphone poly battery.

In this case it will wear out the battery faster

basically the battery wears out the same rate as all other batteries...

the cells degradation occurs each time u charge...

and modern batteries do not overcharge...some like HTC batteries will discharge rapidly to 80%

basically u are just charging the remainder of the cells
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Quote me where I advocated doing that.

Please do a post search on me and you'll see that we've had this discussion in the Vibrant forums already, where I stated it was dangrous.

What I do advocate is keeping your phone on a charger whenever possible (bump charging).

I do not advocate tricking the phone into overcharging. No one wants a battery to blow up in their face, you know...

Or maybe you're confusing a confirmation of that working with an advocation that it's okay to do it? In that case, your school district obviously failed. It has nothing to do with what I stated on these forums or otherwise.

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The issue doesn't come from fear of wearing the battery down. It comes from fear of a device blowing up or catching fire on someone who is overcharging it. There is enough evidence even on youtube of batteries going haywire. This is a risky tactic to achieve basically no noticeable increase in battery life.

The HD7 in a high 3G coverage are (full bars, 3+ Mbps download speeds) gets ~4 hours of battery life under heavy use (mostly browsing, reading Pulse Reader Articles, and checking Social Networks now and then - no Music or video - so really it's only heavy in the fact that the phone didn't sleep a lot, should be called more moderate if anything... Phone shows 67% battery left with 2 hours projected uptime). Overcharging your battery won't change that terrible battery life into good battery life. It'll only make it 5 minutes less terrible.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Magpir:
they can only blow up by removing their circuit protection
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
If you say so :P

Batteries still overheat, catch fire, and in rare cases blow up. Overcharging them is risky. Yes, it's rare, but would you want to be that 1 in 10,000 case where it does do that, in your pocket or something?
[Windows Phone 7 General] Snake.:
1.) This will wear out battery faster, why? You are fooling the sensor to charge the battery more.

2.) You can overcharge batteries, don´t know where you found out you can´t. The only good thing is, that the modern phones cut out charing when battery is full and is running on charger (to keed battery charged).

3.) My battery is not rapidly discharged to 80%, I charge it up 100%, and it stays there, when your battery quickly discharges to 80%, that´s your problem from experimenting with charging.

Again - STOP TELLING PEOPLE TO KILL THEIR BATTERIES, I told you numerous times, you always act like you invented something, you didn´t, modern batteries use more advanced techniques to help them prevent from being damaged, overcharged, deeply discharged, etc. So stop telling people how to fool these sensor and stress the battery.

Thank you
[Windows Phone 7 General] Xenohart:
Hey guys,

I wouldn't recommend this advice as well.

As for me, I bought a second battery 1600mAh.

I use this battery as my primary battery, now I get 30-40% more time on my HTC HD7, and actually can go a whole day with 2G only. While before the phone dies before the end of the day.

While my original battery I keep fully charged sleeping in my wallet, so if the 1600mAh is fully depleted and I'm away from a charging station, I quickly replace and resume working on my phone. This method gets me through a whole day of work+games+social.

I don't remember the price of the 1600 battery but it costed me 10-15 Euros I think.

I believe this is most practical than carrying an attached battery to your phone which results in a gigantic phone in your hands. Or overcharging the OEM battery and probability of having it blow up.

What do you think guys?
[Windows Phone 7 General] knightsoldier:
thread should be deleted
[Windows Phone 7 General] Xenohart:
Actually maybe edited and left as a warning for anyone who searches for this method or thinks of doing this method. ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] Magpir:
may u give mroe details about the 1600 mah battery?

brand size and where u bought it??
[Windows Phone 7 General] Xenohart:
This is the one I bought:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1600MAH-HIGH-CAPACITY-BATTERY-REPLACEMENT-HTC-HD7-/130497652694?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item1e624427d6#ht_2154wt_1139

I found similar hits on ebay USA, but the writing on the battery is different (Even though they are the same brand).

You can search ebay yourself for a similar looking battery to the one I posted.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Magpir:
does it really last longer???
[Windows Phone 7 General] Xenohart:
Well I wouldn't post it if it didn't last longer :p

Problem with these non-oem batteries as I have read in another article is that they die quicker than OEMs. Well I'm currently testing that theory, Now the battery is working with me for over 3 months without fail or weird heat issues.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Magpir:
ok then, thanks .....
[Windows Phone 7 General] Xenohart:
Don't mention it. :)
[General Questions and Answers] csconstone:
i am looking for a noob way to root an android inspire with gingerbread installed.
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VolcanicSkunk:
Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the Hulu Plus apk that works for the Shift? My fiancee just got this phone and we can't find a working apk anywhere. Any help is greatly appreciated!
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enraged21:
Its built into the cylonic rom. You can try pulling it from there.

Shifted from my EVO.
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jesusice:
Here, this worked for me:

http://forum.sdx-developers.com/index.php?topic=17707.0
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m0ngr31:
So I got the HTC Mazaa from Microsoft today and I had a few questions...

1. I understand that this phone was originally going to be able to be used on Sprint, but apparently the ROM has been gimped so that it can't. Has anyone made any progress getting it working on Verizon/Sprint? I have a Pre2 on sprint, and I would like to get this activated on Sprint.

2. If I can't get it running on Sprint, can I just pop in an AT&T sim card and use it normally?

3. It only has 5GB of flash. I know that some of the other HTC wp7 phones the microSD card could be updated, does anyone know if it's possible on this? In addition to developing for it, I wouldn't mind replacing my zune HD at the same time...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] day2die:
1. The HTC Mazaa has a valid ESN from Verizon, but not many people have had sucess with activating it on Verizon.

2. Sure. The phone works on AT&T.

3. Yes. The microSD is in the same spot as it would be in the HTC Trophy.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m0ngr31:
Does you know how they were able to activate it on Verizon? I'm guessing if it is possible to activate on Verizon, it's not possible on Sprint?

If not, I'll just use it as my work phone and keep my Pre2 for personal use.

Your sure about the micro SD card? I don't want to get a card, take it apart and then have it not be there LOL
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m0ngr31:
Just checked the ESN, it's definitely verizon. Looks like I'll be going the AT&T route then...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m0ngr31:
went to put a micro sd card in, and its in the same spot as it is on the Trophy. There wasn't anything in there though... I'm guessing it has some kind of flash memory besides the sd?

anyways, I put a 16gb card in there and it doesnt recognize it. It still says 5.8gb or whatever, I've tried doing a reset, but it doesn't help. Any suggestions?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] perdurabo2:
Cliff Simpkins (of Microsoft) indicated on Twitter that there weren't drivers installed on the Mazaafor the microSD slot and that it was non-operational.

One could probably use the driver from the Trophy, but that has yet to be done as far as I know.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueazure:
i recently purchased a DHD running 2.3.3 ( stock ROM ) ,

i need a root on my device? have tried ginger-break but no results,, digging through all relevant threads, it seems the only way forward is the way backwards, ie first downgrade to froyo , THEN root ? AFAIK , there is some soft check in Gingerbread that prevents a root?

which brings me back to my initial question.,, is there a way to ROOT WITHOUT going back to froyo ?

thanks n regards

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sense> 2.1

kernel > 2.6.35.10

running >2.3.3

ROM > stock , 2.50.405.2
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] affinity121:
No you have to downgrade
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audiavant:
Check this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1259821 :)

Works perfect for ROM 2.50.405.2
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueazure:
^^

thanks , ill check and report
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueazure:
did the hack yesterday,,,

works like a charm !

thanks a lot...

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this is by far the easiest and fastest way to S-OFF, install CLOCKWORKMD, ROOT without downgrading to FROYO .. flashing custom ROMs etc is a piece of cake afterwards...

highly recommended,,,

ill donate soon..

to the dev team,,, thanks again,,,!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xzibit316:
I want to do it but i don't have the bottle. If all goes wrong can i flash back to PD98IMG with bootloader. I don't want a brick.:eek:

Please, help me...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Addictedtothegreenguy:
Hey, guys I'm very new to the whole touch wiz thing I'm a HTC guy didn't really like sense much but now I'm here to give Samsung a shot at not sucking I've just switched over from sprint and I'm loving this phone I've had it for about a week now before then I had the infuse. Here to help anyone who needs it with whatever I can. But first how do I root?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] HTC Chris:
Welcome there is a rooting guide in the sticky of this section.
[Nook Color General] Yoinx:
So, at some point at upgrading to the CM7 nightlies beyond 177... my screen's backlight started turning on when I plug my NC into the charger. I don't know if this is a hardware related problem, or something with the roms past that nightly.

Anyone else have this issue?

*only the backlight turns on (I assume. Its black with just the backlight shining through). I can then hit the power button and it turns off.
[Nook Color General] koopakid08:
It is a workaround for a kernel bug. Just remember to press the button.

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If this post helped you don't forget to say thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xninjax92:
hey guys,

so i flashed this file http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=804226 to downgrade from 3e to 2e after using the heimdall one click back to stock 2.1, but now i cant seem to get write permission when i connect my phone to usb, and after i rooted the device, installed rom manager, and tried to install CWM, it says its installed, but when i try to reboot into recovery, it still only goes back to 2e.. does anyone have any idea what to do..

thanks for your help
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xninjax92:
also i need to do this through heimdall, as odin does not seem to detect the phone anymore..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AdamOutler:
You probly need to reinstall closed-source and proprietary Odin drivers if you've got open-source Heimdall drivers on your computer

to install recovery, hit the reinstall pacakges button twice in recovery.