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[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] HypostaticOnion:
I usually do too, but like I said, I'm gonna be camping, and I'm not sure when/where I'll be able to charge, so I was gonna use a ROM I KNOW has amazing battery life.

When installing in BM, do I need to wipe and all that stuff, or is that only if I'm overwriting a slot?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] ChrisDDD:
Boot manager itself is just an app like any other, you don't need to wipe anything.

So here's a very basic description of how it works... It doesn't partition your SD card, it just creates a folder of it's own, and then sub-folders to hold the different roms you install. When you install a rom, it basically creates images of the usual Android partitions - system, data, cache, etc. These are standard .img files, just like the ones Clockwork creates when you do a backup. After the images are created and wiped (formatted, which you should do initially) it installs your rom into these essentially the same way as Clockwork installs a rom to your phone's actual partitions. I assume it modifies the kernel that comes with each rom to mount the image files on the SD card instead of the phone's partitions.

When you want to boot a rom, it just replaces your current boot image with the modified one and restarts the phone. With the modified boot image, the system, data and cache images on the SD card are mounted to the correct locations and Android starts up none the wiser. The rom will initially run a little slow, because the SD card is slower than the internal memory, but after things get cached it speed up considerably.

When you want to reboot to another rom, or back to the phone's rom, Boot Manager again swaps boot images that mount the desired rom's partitions (in the case of the phone's rom) or files (in the case of an SD card installed rom).

When you first run Boot Manager, it makes a Clockwork flashable backup of your current boot image, which you can flash if a rom hangs or loops on startup. Alternatively, you can also simply boot into recovery and do an advanced restore, choosing just the boot image to restore from a backup. It accomplishes the exact same thing.

It can be a little hit or miss, with some roms just plain refusing to start through Boot Manager, but it does work and when it does, it's pretty amazing given what it's actually doing.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] HypostaticOnion:
So, you're saying in theory I should be able to click install zip, find MIUI and without clicking any of the wipe options I should be able to make a usable MIUI setup that I can go back and forth to?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] ChrisDDD:
I think it's recommended that you wipe all three images when you initially install a rom, but that's the 3 images Boot Manger creates. I was just making the point that you don't need to wipe anything on your phone's currently installed rom.

But yea, after that, Miui should install and run just fine. You will need to install GApps to get the market on MIUI, since Boot Manager needs to install itself on each new rom you instal. This is so you can manage and reboot to other roms from roms installed through it. After that, you should be able to reboot back and forth at will.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] HypostaticOnion:
I never had to install g-apps on MIUI before.... is that a recent thing?

Also, what Ext type should I choose? Ext4, or Ext2?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] ChrisDDD:
Sorry, I was thinking about CM7, which doesn't include with the market app.

I've always installed as Ext2... never had much luck with 4.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] ubuntunerd:
I tried Boot manager while running CM7 and I was able to install it but got a force close when I open the app, I also try it with MIK's Inc2 HD 3D rom and didn't work either.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] raylgo:
There is hope for our phones now. I was asking about this months ago and I found out that the wiimote controller app wouldnt work with some phones and our phone was in its list... Emulators would run too slow for me since we'd have to keep touching the screen so I gave up on all of them.

But I recently found out that the app does support phones with CM roms on them. It is now working for me using mik's CM7 even if our phone was on its incompatibility list. :D

I'm sorry if this is old news but I just wanted to share the joy reliving the GBA and GBC games of yore :p

Link here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=672884
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kafepuya:
Hello guys. I have installed several ROMs in my Captivate (Seren 6.4, Seren 7, Apex, Pinnacle, Fasty II, Fusion VI, currently on Fusion VII KI2). I ALWAYS go back to JH2 then JH7 using Odin3, because my phone is Build #1105, and OdinOneCLick does not support my build. I know it sounds cumbersome, but I can flash from a custom ROM to another one in approximately 10 minutes doing the process stated above, so it's not a big deal. I have also ALWAYS followed this process, regardless of the instruction for installation of any ROM, and have never had a problem

Here's the thing. I know that Odin installs boot loaders, and that every time I go back to Eclair, I am removing GB boot loaders and installing Eclair loaders. That increases the chance of me bricking my phone. I already have GB boot loaders, so before I install my next custom ROM (Fusion IX), is there an alternative for me regarding going back to stock?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
I think only the one click contains boots, but you could just Flash a stock gingerbread...

Although flashing to stock before every flash is completely not needed. At this point Odin is for initially getting the gingerbread boots and then as a fix to recovery from a broken os. Every time is just overkill.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prbassplayer:
As studacris mention Its not needed. Most of the time you can just wipe and it works just fine. BUT there are some times where a wipe gives you a funky flash, in wich case any leaked "stock" with out bootloaders should work just fine. Also there are some times where Dev's ask for it in wich case you already know.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kafepuya:
thanks for the replies fellas!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
The only exception to that us if you are on an aosp (MIUI/cm7) type ROM. You have to flash a stock package to repartition the file system. But, if you need that, there is a kf1 stock in my sig that works well.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qwertyaas:
I don't flash back to stock unless needed. I went from Apex to Fusion by just flashing the new BL, then rom.

I keep the rom in my internal prior to flashing in case I'm stuck in a boot loop (as I was when flashing a new bootloader) .
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viny2cool:
So we can just use KF1 or any stock GB one click (I always use KH3 one click)?

Also I am on CM7.1 now, if I have to go to Att GB bootloader, Can I used one clicks without BL?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
If you are using kh3, you should have GB already (unless you use the no bootloader package). It doesn't really matter which GB bootloaders you have, as long as you have them when you flash one of the GB stock roms. The only thing that matters when going from aosp to Samsung roms is that you have to repartition the file system, converting back to rfs from ext4/yaffs2. It's really what you prefer. I use the kf1 no boot package because it's what I have (since I created it). I didn't feel like dl'ing a new package.

If you are on an aosp ROM with eclair/froyo bootloaders, I would recommend kb2.

Whether you use GB or froyo, it is necessary to use Odin or Heimdall on Linux to repartition (if i'm wrong about the Linux part,Adam can correct me). Simply trying to flash in cwm will not currently accomplish this.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] davidc23:
I Was wondering if someone could take some time and make 4 bar signal and normal non -percentage status bar for midnight rom and starburst? I want it to feel like a aosp rom (:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] davidc23:
BUMP! (:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] xxrzdxx:
Is there a way to keep bluetooth discovery mode on all the time?

I am aware that this will effect the battery, and that pairing with a device should allow it to connect automatically. In my case, what I need to connect to does not.

I've been searching online but can not find a good answer, other than this is possible in newer android versions. So I don't have my hopes up.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] mgross029:
Pretty simple actually... Settings -> Wireless & Network Settings -> Bluetooth Settings -> Check off Discoverable and then change the Discoverable timeout to Never.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] xxrzdxx:
I'm not seeing this option listed
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aggrogade:
I just loaded the Pure AOSP, posted today and now when i try to restore back to other rom, the phone is stuck in boot loop, how can i get access back to sd-ext to load my restore image and boot up.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phalanx7621:
Have you been reading the development thread?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aggrogade:
yes, but they do not say which images they use to get back this functionality, they have just stated they used sbf then an image. My question is i have an unlocked phone, should i got back through the whole process of unlocking and rooting again to regain control of the phone, or what exact steps are needed, i have already tried to edit the files in /etc/ to point to the external card but to no avail.

Thanks
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phalanx7621:
You won't be able to, as stated in the OP, there's a seperate option in Storage settings within the ROM because you can only read from either internal or external SD, one at a time. So that means you have to put any items you want to flash on the internal SD card to flash them with CWM. It won't read the external SD card in recovery mode.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aggrogade:
I have, all my backups and rom images are located on the sdcard

==> backups

/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup

==> Roms

/sdcard/roms

When i try to restore the backups, i get the boot loop and the same for the roms, or some roms wont load at all. my main rom has been homebase, and it just hangs or it fails with error about sd-ext when in recovery. this is what i am trying to figure out, is how to get back to that point before the pure aosp install, do i start from scratch or is there another way.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deggy:
Download the recovery image from romracer's thread and flashboot it via pc/cmd. You still can put the phone into fastboot mode.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phoneguy589:
I have a flashable cwm version of romracers recovery on my int sd card.GForgot where I got it from but I copied it to my ext sd so if I ever get stuck I can cwm a good recovery.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aggrogade:
thanks i am going to try that now, as now when i try to boot phone, i get the android screen, then it just dies nothing, so i will do the recovery image.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aggrogade:
Thanks

Thanks that fixed it, that was what i was looking for the recovery image, was not sure if this one or the 234-xxx-update was it. Homebase back up and running now.

Thanks for the idea, where did you get the flashable image from
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] w5cyc:
In my Blackberry days, I used Sprint's TeleNav service for navigation. It was OK, but froze up quite a bit. When I came to Android, I became quite happy with Google's navigation beta and have used it exclusively. But TeleNav recently announced some upgrades to their service, a new UI, etc., so I decided to give them a try again.

First impressions of TeleNav are pretty good, but what I really want to do is more or less a comparison of the two services by having one navigate me to a location and the other navigate me back home. Trouble is, with TeleNav installed on my Nexus, Google Nav won't work. Period. Force closes every time. Uninstall TeleNav, Google works like a charm. Put TeleNav back on the phone, Google crosses its legs and won't play.

Any ideas what might be causing this? I don't have either service set as a default nav system. I'd like to be able to keep them both on the phone and be able to choose which to use. Thanks for any suggestions.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] gqonmars:
The stock charger from Samsung was for 0.7Amps and it charges ok, but I find it slow.. about ~4 hours to fully change my SGS2 from with less than 10% left of battery life.

If I plug into the laptop, it takes like ~6 hours due to the slow trickle charge with 0.5Amps.

I don't know what the max pull is allowed on this phone, but I did find that when I charge with a 1Amps charger, I can get it from less than 10% to full in about ~3hours.

So, I tried a few such charges and have noticed some strangeness.. (all with the same test conditions, start charging with less than 10% and with the stock usb cable for the phone)

1) older Belink ac-usb 1Amps out put, it does seem to charge the phone good and faster finishing around ~3 hours ... but, when charging, the touch sensitivity of the screen is out of whack, any subtle movement, will cause the screen to jump around.. like in gallery, trying to select an individual pic is difficult as the screen jumps around; forget about using the browser and selecting links...not sure why..

2) HTC thunderbolt charger 1Amps output (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003WM6SOU).. same issue here, charges faster, but makes the screen jump around

3) iPhone charger 1Amps output; this seems to work the best for me so far.. charges faster ~3hours and while charging the screen behaves normally, I am able to use gallery and browser fine...

4) iPad 2 charger 5.1 V and 2.1Amps: Still charges the phone ~3 hours, but same side effect...

Anyone else have the screen sensitivity issue and what chargers are you using?:confused:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] runtohell121:
I haven't seen any issue when I used a HP TouchPad Charger rated at 2.0A I think..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
Max pull is 650 mA - this is set by the charger chip itself.

If the phone thinks you have a normal USB connection to PC instead of a dumb charger, it will be 400 mA.

Having a charger rated more than this won't hurt, but it won't help.

Monoprice "1A" car chargers are rated 300-400 mA at best - the ONLY monoprice product I've ever been unhappy with in my life.

In general, you want to make sure USB D+ and D- are shorted together by the charger - this guarantees that the phone sees the charger as "dumb" and goes to 650. Exception are media and car docks - whatever you connect to these will be assumed by the phone to be a high current "dumb charger".

All phone power usage (CPU, screen, etc.) counts against this current budget - e.g. if you have 200 mA of load, only 450 will be going into the battery.

Unlike the I9100, we don't appear to have any way to change these charging currents. Our phone, for whatever reason, has an additional chip for charge control (MAX8922) instead of using the charge control built into the main power management chip (MAX8997). This is disappointing, I was really hoping to bring over the "charginghacks" modifications from my Infuse kernel series.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olskar:
Hi,

Since yesterday I have a strange red message on top of my screen.

It goes away when I restart the phone but gets back every time I make a call. I find this very strange and have looked over the internet to see if someone else have this but haven't found anything.

I am attaching an image of it. As you can see it says T, S, P and ALL and some values.

Do you have any idea what this could be and how I get rid of it once and for all?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sphinx02:
looks as if it is a kernel of modding related problem, tell us more about the ROM and Kernel you have flashed!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olskar:
Thanks for answering!

It's a Stockrom, 2.3.3.

2.6.35-7 is the kernel and Gingerbread XWJVB
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtluis:
ahaha

Very interesting, this reminds me once my laptop had a error and said it had like 2800000000 MB on ram.

I would suggest to reflash your rom. try using stock rom from samfirmware / sammobile
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olskar:
Id rather not flash it again :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtluis:
I've been thinking about this since yesterday... And I think that red message could be part of the wallpaper???
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kelzad:
I am getting this red bar on my i9100 as well...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olskar:
No, its not

Do you have the same rom? For how long have you had it? Do you remember when it first showed up?
[HTC EVO 3D] Rally187:
im on hboot 1.50000 and ive fastbooted on windows 7 many times with no problems well my windows is down and now all i got is my ubuntu pc. so i have all the files i need to fastboot but when i type "./fastboot-linux flash recovery cwm-4.0.1.4-shooter.img" into the terminal all it says is "waiting on device" what am i missing any help would be greatly appreciated. something has happend to my MIUI rom and it has rendered my phone useless
[HTC EVO 3D] joeykrim:
fastboot is much simplier on linux as no drivers are required. the only catch will be ubuntu requires the user to be root by default before allowing usb access which fastboot requires.

the easiest work around is adding "sudo" in front of your fastboot command, assuming you have root access on the ubuntu machine.

the better method is to modify the usb permissions to allow non root users access.

hope that helps!
[HTC EVO 3D] Rally187:
I appreciate your help and im getting one step closer.

raru@raru-N80Vb:~/Desktop/rootevo3dnew$ sudo ./fastboot-linux flash recovery cwm-4.0.1.4-shooter.img

sending 'recovery' (4832 KB)... OKAY

writing 'recovery'... OKAY

Thats what im getting to nothing on the phone happens and nothing happens on the terminal. any ideas. thanks again for your help
[HTC EVO 3D] joeykrim:
yea, those results look correct. your command is flashing the recovery to the "recovery" partition on the device.

once you've flashed the recovery to the device, you should be able to reboot the device into recovery mode and load cwm version 4.0.1.4.

if you used the htc unlock method, you'll probably prefer to use the fastboot boot cwm-4.0.1.4-shooter.img command as that will temporarily load the custom recovery but will grant it write access to the boot partition. the htc unlock method blocks write access to the boot partition while booted into recovery mode, but allows write access to the boot partition while fastboot booting the recovery image.

hope that helps!
[HTC EVO 3D] Rally187:
YOU ARE A F$@! GENIUS THANK YOU THANK YOU!! as soon as i saw fastboot

boot

cwm-4.0.1.4-shooter.img i knew exactly what i was doing wrong i cannot believe i overlooked this for so long. i wish i could thank you more then just once. THANK YOU!!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] michillin212:
So my dad was looking for skype for his new Playbook and since skype is not released for the playbook yet, video chat with my family from Germany was a no go. He stumbled upon Reelportal Video Chat and now we can video chat anywhere in the world for free(at least I hope). It is a great skype alternative and it runs on every platform availabe(Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, Mac OS etc.) I tested Desktop to playbook and galaxy tab to playbook and they both work excellently. I just wanted to let everyone know that we don't have to wait for skype (haha same day I posted this Skype works also) because ReelPortal works very well for the time being. Also, this isn't supposed to be an advertisement I am just really excited that my tablet has a new use!

http://www.reelportal.com/

Thanks for reading this and if this has already been discussed please feel free to do modify it in any way.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] georgecampbell:
Hey michillin212, in addition to Skype and ReelPortal, you may even use other alternatives such as WebEx, GoMeetNow, Gotomeeting, RHUB etc.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DjKurt:
Ok so I recently got a new EVO... It was a replacement for my EVO that recently broke... So what I'm told is the insurance phones from best buy are refurbished directly from HTC and not Sprint so they are supposedly better...

Anyways, I picked up my phone... And now it won't boot into the bootloader!!! I checked all the info on the phone...

Hardware 0003

Android 2.3.3

Baseband version 2.15.00.0808

Kernel 2.6.35.10

Software number: 4.53.651.1

PRI: 1.71_003

PRL: 60681

The only thing I could think of is that I might have gotten a phone with a locked bootloader but honestly I have no idea... Any help would be greatly appreciated...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SketchyStunts:
try pulling the battery then try again.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlwardC:
Well first off, wrong section. In the future you may want to post in the general questions and answers section.

Second, have you rooted your phone? (www.unrevoked.com)

Hope this helps
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XsMagical:
Pull battery

put battery back in

push vol down + power and hold it until you get past the white HTC screen
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eavs2009:
If its new you are on quick boot. Disable quick boot and shut it off and then try getting into the bootliader.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DjKurt:
Fast boot... I never knew that... Worked like a charm... Thanks so much... Now I'm happy again...

Oh and sorry for posting in the wrong section...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] {ParanoiA}:
Since he has new software (4.53) he can't use unrevoked. Go to revolutionary.io

Sent From My Pocket
[HTC Inspire 4G] djowett:
Looks good, gonna try soon.
[HTC Inspire 4G] dschreiber69:
I love your sense 3.0 so much, not sure if I can break away from it long enough to try this... lol

Give me a day or so ;-)
[HTC Inspire 4G] telltell624:
downloading now. looking forward to trying it out, looks great
[HTC Inspire 4G] fshami:
v4.0 released

v4.0 released
[HTC Inspire 4G] macr0t0r:
If I may ask: what "base" ROM did you use? Did you start with the Nexus S ROM, a CM7 ROM, or did you strip-down a stock Inspire ROM? I'm just wondering how close to pure "Google" experience this ROM is. You say there are limited HTC apps. Does that mean there is still some "Sense" framework in this ROM? (I'm browsing for an eventual replacement of my Gingerbeast ROM).

- Jim
[HTC Inspire 4G] fshami:
Base ROM is 2.36 ruu of DHD with.modded HTC default frameworks. But since there is no sense so the rom is lighter w/o any widgets or rosie from htc. And in the meanwhile u'll get htc settings n app.

Give the ROM a ride n see how it feels
[HTC Inspire 4G] Duffman14:
I am getting this Force Close on first boot:

"The process com.htc.bgp has stopped unexpectedly"

Any idea what that is?
[HTC Inspire 4G] passtheknowledge:
Flashed this for some testing pretty solid so far.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Duffman14:
Fixed the FC by freezing HTC location services.

Where is the boot animation stored? I looked in data/local and system/media.

*edit--NM, found it in system/customize/resource
[HTC Inspire 4G] fshami:
Aside from the FC, how is ur experience with the ROM?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Duffman14:
Very good. Only thing I wish was kept was the HTC lock screen. I was able to replace it but can't configure the options to custom apps.

Great signal and wifi strength, good battery. Not gonna comment on network speed as the att network here sucks.
[HTC Inspire 4G] fshami:
IceCream edition

Guys, what do you think about this ;)

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[HTC Inspire 4G] Duffman14:
Like the blue better than the green.
[HTC Inspire 4G] nielp96:
How's the battery life?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Duffman14:
Battery life has been good. Haven't done any logging but subjectively, I am happy.

I finally had some calls on it. Did u apply any audio fixes? I am going to try the tinny audio fix.
[HTC Inspire 4G] legend221:
I'm shaking my head for such a dumb question but can you flash this via Rom Manager?

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