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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wase4711:
rooting is lots of fun, IF you know what the hell you are doing, BEFORE you start the process

Most problems that people have come from NOT READING and learning about it before they do it..

Just like anything else in life, if you don't read about it, and learn about it BEFORE you decide to do it, you will have problems.

It just blows my mind how many people get a phone, and root it and start flashing stuff without having any idea what they are doing, and then freak out when some thing goes wrong, and post frantic "please help me" stuff all over the internet..

Take the time to learn about it BEFORE you do it, and ask your questions BEFORE you start messing with your phone..If you won't do that, can't do that, or aren't smart enough to understand what you are reading, then don't root; this is a fantastic phone even if you never root it..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bman55:
I was pessimistic aswell and took the plunge last night. Running Starburst its not the greatest but MUCH better than stock. Battery life is ludicrous. And much more fluid and responsive... My main reason was battery life and oh boy dose it help!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jruless316:
See I rooted my evo 4g and I mean I liked it for the fact that I could do hella roms and I could overclock it cuz my friends had updated newer phones and just blowing me out the water with speed so I did it it was nice now in just stuck with this one cuz im not sure if its smart right now to do ya know
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] skykc0401:
Starbust rom does not come with theme. U have to apply it urself. There are alot of themes out there. SB its main point is to save battery and it did a great job.if u like to customize, remove bloatwares or tweak ur phone, root ur phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] expertzero1:
I like viperom
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bman55:
You can always reverse a root. it makes your phone even more functional than it already is.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ipetloudog:
I say follow suit and hold off until development actually hatches.

I aint rooted, and will continue to do so until AOSP.

Sent from my SPH-D710 Galaxy S II [suck it]
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bman55:
THE root method will be the same.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] saj1jr:
Yeah, I just unrooted, actually.

I had a lot of fun going from ROM to ROM on my EVO4G, but right now there's just not enough out there for me to run away from the stock ROM. Once development really gets going, and maybe once Cyanogen hops on board with something legit, I'll root again.

..plus, I'm probably going to have to turn this phone in, so I had to unroot. I'm having this weird battery issue where it doesn't charge while the phone is on (well, it charges, but suppppppper slow and the phone gets hot as hell)

Speaking of that, if anyone reads this, any ideas on if I'll be able to get a brand new phone? I had to turn in my Evo once or twice, and they gave me a refurb both times. Screw that, I paid like $450 for this phone only 3ish weeks ago. There's no way I'll take a refurb.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Shimmy808:
Totally up to you dude. I am rooted myself and so far it's been great. Running Starburst latest ROM with OC. Great stuff so far.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] playya:
Phone is pretty new you may get lucky and there are not enough refurbs out there to give you back a new one

I agree its totally up to the person but not like rooting and then unrooting is you difficult.... Hey may favorite line I have read in xda is "It aint yours till you root it" - words to live by....lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Akradroid:
Rooting is pretty easy on this phone, but I know there are not a lot of Devs compared to like the Evo 3d. The Devs we do have are all like pros at developing though, so they will be able to update and bring new things frequently. I rooted on Starburst's rom and I love it, because it's so Stock that it seems like its still and E4GT, but so different that I know its more smooth.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jruless316:
So im sewing u guys all like this starburst rom....I think I will wait lil bit longer to root when more roms comes out
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiredhiker:
I have tried everything to get the new ICS Roboto fonts on my G1 running COS-DS but it seems I do not have full root. I have S-ON which means I can flash a new radio but not fonts ??? Ridicualous !!!!!!! So how do I add come fonts on my G1? Is there an easy way?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] melvinchng:
Use font that can be flashed in recovery. Google: UOT kitchen

Accidentally sent from my Google Nexus S using XDA Premium
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] genieass:
http://www.ebay.in/itm/UNBrick-Sams...?pt=IN_Mobile_Accessories&hash=item415d3ece49

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/unbric...msung-t959-i9000-i897-m110s-i8700-i9100-93514

Do these products work for the SGM? I saw somebody mentioning a jig to recover bricked phone somewhere here (related to SGM), but my request for clarification was not answered. Hence, creating this thread.

What software is required to use them?

And anybody got heimdall to work?
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] arfu34:
1.- Remove both the SIM card and de microSD card.

2.- KEEP YOUR BATTERY REMOVED

3.- Apply the Download-mode button combination (known by you all)

4.- WHILE HOLDING THE COMBINATION, insert the battery, and keep the buttons pressed untill you get the download mode.

5.- Flash your phone with a valid firmware through Odin (Preferebly, have Odin prepared before doing this trick)

i saw many people posting this trick n it worked for galaxy series n sgm too..if it is hard bricked then also..i dont think this device jig is required to unbrick,,,.

u r asking of software it is ODIN v4.38 download it by searching on google
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] djeidj:
Yes i confirm , work but no with hardware bricked SGM (black screen)
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] genieass:
Thanks for this info. By "black screen", I hope you mean that the phone had neither download mode, nor battery charging sign??

Which jig did you use?

Can you describe the method or provide links?
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] djeidj:
In my case By "black screen", I mean that once i nstalled ROM MANAGER my phone does not start and shows only black screen and the phone had neither download mode, nor battery charging sign, in this case jig does not help.

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But when I downgread my phone he died again, then I used my hand-made jig and after restart my phone enter in downlosd mode. I used this method - search this in google - How I did: Restore soft-bricked Samsung Galaxy I9000. But I guess you can use the link which I will send a P.M
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] tupo05:
Were you able to bring back to life your galaxy mini? I'm in the same situation (black screen due to ram manager) but my home made jig doesn't work. (Although it works with galaxys and galaxy s2).

Any idea or suggestion?
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] djeidj:
I managed to return my phone to my provider cervice , in this case it is the only solution for our phone. There told me that they changed the motherboard to fix it.
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] hackerpoako:
yeah it works depending on how your phone is bricked, mines really really hard bricked, no download mode, no charging ****, and odin nor doesnt recognize it, the only option is to surrender it to the carrier u bought it from:D
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] coolsandie:
Hmm, many had problems with ROM Manager as I could see, and I guess its the reason for bricking. I'm never gonna use it anyways !!

Btw, I'm concerned about how the Service Center unbricks our device ?

We can't do that manually ?

I understand if its a hardware bricked stage, then no other option rather than handing the device to them.
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] genieass:
search google for for jtag. You need a jtag jig, which connects directly to the mother board (and not the usb jig). There is one available, but is real expensive, afaik.
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] minhthang_dunia:
thank you very much
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] woocashewski:
confirmed, my usb jig , which works with i9000 doesn't work with my wife's SGM...
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] jrandroid:
Yes it works. I Tested it myself.

But only on soft bricks not on hard bricks.

I can give you a video if you want just pm me. ^_^
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] genieass:
With the SGM, you do not need a jig if it is only a soft brick. As long as you can enter download mode, ODIN works.
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] astrayasagiri:
precisely.

btw those issues with rom manager.... it doesn't happen to me.
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] TheWhisp:
So if my phone doesn't turn on in any mode, is not recognized by odin, that means I have hardware brick? And USB jig will not work, right?
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] aprizND:
no! if read ur testimony

its caused ur wrong flash kernel , only one way is use "jtag" to flash the recovery kernel. then flash custom .

usb jig only purpose for softbricked.

hope it answers thy question
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] TheWhisp:
So in repair service they use these jtag tools?
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] annson08:
Actually, there might still be hope, USB Jig works, you can make one by stripping the USB cord's end and connect 3 100k ohms resistors on two points, I can post photos if you want.

If your bootloader is already damaged by a bad flash, just hope your factory download mode's partition isn't also damage. If not, then the jig will work.

Also if anybody would like, here's my thread on how to flash stock ROMs 100% safe.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1551586
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] SmXtrem:
In some cases yes
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] chemicalrage:
No. When my phone got hard bricked after using ROM Manager and I gave it to samsung service centre, They couldnt figure it out what the problem was. Like noobs they just ordered a motherboard from company and replaced it with my prev. motherboard. They dint use any kind of jtag.
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] AndroidUser99:
HARDBRICK if u can boot to download mode u oso cannot install firmware..its error..(i think):(:(
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] yajnab:
USB jig worked in my fit . it brings u the emergency ARM9 download mode which we get while holding the vol up+ vol down + home + power. it worked too for me so it should work for mini too. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] droidXXXX:
ya even my granny's vibrator works...it helped me unbrick my device 5 times...

lolololzzzz I am goin to laugh at that forever. !!!
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] annson08:
Wtf did i just read. O.O
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tsinc:
You know that our (SGSII) screen resolution is 800x480 which gives us 15:9 aspect ratio. New Galaxy Nexus has 1280x720 which has a more movie friendly aspect ratio of 16:9. In ICS' screen it seems that the last 80 (not sure) pixels of the screen (portrait) are used for the menu keys or soft keys (you name it) as our hard/touch keys. I mentioned in the short videos of the new nexus that when in landscape mode, the screen keys follow the bottom of the screen and just rotate their icons. This leaves it with 1200x720 screen res for Android (no matter orientation) which has an aspect ratio of 15:9. This is what we have now! My opinion is that galaxy nexus shows that if manufacturers want no hard keys for ICS devices (mainly smartphones) they should be making 16:9 screens. On smartphones with low res screens, or older devices with harware keys, 15:9 is just fine. It gives the same look and feel and needs no modification. And this is what we :p are going to get!

On the other hand, tablets like SGT 10.1 with 1280x800 (16:10) or old SGT with 1024x600, do not match with this pattern and need different approach.

What do you think?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hansonator:
I believe that they said that the touch buttons disappear when playing a game or video.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pat123:
Good point! Also I would think that the default DPI will be changed to 220 or maybe even 200 once ICS hits phones with 800X480 resolution!

Hopefully this means that the Android Market would now work at all densities :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tsinc:
Exactly. This is why the new 16:9 screens are more movie(-game) friendly.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ropaisoft:
then how would you navigate back/home, since there's no physical button?

or you mean just fade out like honeycomb?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mime103:
I was also wondering that.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alias_neo:
They disappear, tap the screen to get them back. Not that difficult really.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OrionBG:
So they will always be there if you play a game? And BTW I think ICS will only be Movie friendly! Not Game! I mean that the soft keys will be visible during Games.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkRyoushii:
tap the bezel around the edges of the screen to bring back soft keys on the galaxy nexus.. sorry.. looking to get a GSII in next few months so checking out the forums and had to correct some people with wrong information..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OrionBG:
So the Galaxy Nexus have touch sensitive bezel?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alex9898:
In this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTp363GACjs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

We can see that in the camera app, softkey are not displayed BUT the place where softkey take place normaly is just black and we need to touch this black space to display softkey.

So i'm really not sure that there is fullscreen mode in ICS except for Lockscreen.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drreality:
seriously people get real please.

ICS is not one device os (like other ishits) this os is made to unify the android experience among mobile tablet devices of different spectrum.

chill ur balls pls :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkRyoushii:
according to the spec sheets, yep (:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] askhansen:
Most people on this forum will root their phone, and the developers will find a way to hide the software keys as they have on my tab 10.1.

That meens you will be able to hide the software keys with just longpressing the powerbutton and show/hide keys as I can now do on my tablet. Then you can watch a movie or play games without having to think about it, and when you need the buttons, you just show them again. Very simple solution :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bruflot:
Umm.. Just because it has 720p, doesn't mean it has a 16:9 display :P
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baineteo:
I was thinking with ICS, how will we use our phones one handed? I mean, I tried using honey comb on a tablet and the "options" key was on the top right corner, and it seems like its the same for ICS. And I don't see the option button in the row of softkeys.

In other words to access the option menu, you need to reach all the way up to the top of the screen. Not user friendly or ergonomic if you ask me.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsjusttim:
That's a great solution!

I was hoping a developer would make it like a tab, and swype the keys off the screen and then pull the keys back out.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tsinc:
We're just speculating here so any suggestion should be welcome....

Yes, BUT if it has 1280x720? Aren't the pixels square? :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ropaisoft:
Do you mind pointing to the spec sheet that says this? Afaik only bb playbook have this kind of bezel.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arkanius:
Are you guys ****ting me?

Phones with Hardware keys will NOT have the Software buttons. That much is confirmed.

With I HYPOTHESIZE is that since most applications will be updated to include an action/menu bar inside the app like the next Google Maps, the "Menu" key in most phones will be the task/windows switcher key
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yehlai:
Thanks for the update
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luutuan:
After i unlocked and rooted my arc s, i can't update my phone through sesu. Thus i want to ask that sony arc s bootloader can be relocked now?

I found a thread but it was deleted because of posting in the wrong section.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1298846

Just one more question, is there any thing difference between a new phone and a relocked phone? Thank you.

Thank you.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luutuan:
No one ?

Hello, I have been waiting for 1 month :(
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] electrash:
dont know if you can relock bootoloader.

Difrence is that if you unlock bootloader you will never ever be able to have mobile bravia engine, track id and some sort of stuff.

Unlocked bootloader can instal cyanogenMOD (custom ROM, which is powerfull and good)

Locked cant do that, but can recive Sony Updates
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enzippo:
Up... same question... we will be able to relock our arc s? Please answer!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nigeta_gr:
http://androidflip.com/re-lock-boot-loader-xperia-arc-step-step-guide/
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flo95:
Of course we can still use Mobile Bravia!
[Galaxy S II General] King Shady:
Hey guys I currently have a black GSII and a white GSII on hand right now. I was planning to return my black one for a full refund to Amazon (because I wanted a white one), but now I am baffled. So as you guys can see in my pictures I have a black GSII on stock KI4 firmware and a white one on stock KI4 firmware. They are both on lowest brightness, however the white one has a much more washed out display and looks significantly dimmer than the black one when they are both on lowest brightness. The screen on the white one seems to have a grainy texture as well. FYI: both screens are set to NORMAL display modes (not dynamic or movie). In addition when I look at pictures with a lot of black in the background in pitch-black I can see gray spotches over my screen. I am almost positive that this screen is faulty (on the white one of course). Can anyone confirm that the White one does indeed have a faulty screen? Thanks

Oh yea - don't mind the charging on the black phone - it doesn't make a difference whether it's charging or not because it plenty of juice left anyways. There are no screen differences when it's charging and when it's not.
[Galaxy S II General] itsjusttim:
Could it be because the black one is charging ...
[Galaxy S II General] King Shady:
It makes no difference dude.
[Galaxy S II General] Seifer1975:
I just posted exactly the same problem!!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1313318
[Galaxy S II General] justbenice:
It not diffirence between black or white , it also happen to black and black, white and white . Samsung galaxy s2 is the best phone i'v ever used but it LCD panel pretty not stable . Even the phone just arrive in this month or the phone arrive in June are all the same , sometime i think i can never find 2 galaxy s2 phone that match in LCD panel.
[Galaxy S II General] supermurmeli:
I have the exact same issue with our other SGS2 that had its screen replaced. The one is way too dark/dim.

Pictures in my post ->http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=18653861#post18653861
[Galaxy S II General] cheewaca:
Any difference with the same rom and kernel?
[Galaxy S II General] Seifer1975:
No difference for my case. It was dark on stock ROM (though I could swear it was okay when the store staff turned on the phone to let me check :confused:). Even after I flashed it to the same ROM and kernel as mine, problem still persists. For the time being, I have hacked into framework-res.apk to crank up the brightness at every level. This suffice for now.

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For those interested, you can follow the instruction here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1235212&highlight=brightness to crank up the brightness of your screen. I am currently using

80, 120, 180, 230, 255

As a comparison, I have to crank down the brightness of my black SGS2 to

5, 40, 80, 140, 220 and it is still brighter than the cranked-up white one!
[Galaxy S II General] prinzhernan:
My white one is fine and identical to the black one I used to own. I did notice a difference in blacks and greys.
[General Questions and Answers] trusktr:
[Q] I received a text message from a single digit number "1"... What the heck?

The message is still in my Samsung Galaxy S2 inbox and contains this:

message size:32kb

expires: 9:04PM, Oct 25

Download

where "Download" is a clickable button and when I click it it changes to "Downloading", then after a few moments it changes back to "Download".

Any idea what it might be?
[General Questions and Answers] hungry81:
So you downloaded unknown software from a suspicious number onto your phone because it told you to?

Ummm... Quickly You need to pm me your bank account details and any applicable passwords plus personal identification information. If someone is going to scam you and get all your stuff it should be me, at least im honest about it, plus you have to now cause I asked you to.
[General Questions and Answers] trusktr:
Yeah, but nothing happened after, android didn't prompt me to install anything. Is it possible that it installed by itself? And how can such a message arrive to me anyway? Do you think its from an installed app??

My phone is 100% stock and not rooted. What in the heck is this? If its THAT easy to get a security hole, then that makes the market a scary place!
[General Questions and Answers] hungry81:
Whats the file name? go to where your phone stores downloads and find out. if nothing is there check running applications. Is anything running that shouldn't have been. can you provide a screenshot of the text message?
[General Questions and Answers] Dripz167:
I'm shocked that you presses download, not knowing where the message came from. Were you THAT curious?

I hope nothing is going to happen to your device, but in the future, you might want to ask first before pressing anything.

Sorry I couldn't really contribute anything helpful to this thread, but I couldn't resist.
[General Questions and Answers] nawlage:
Oops.

Sent.
[General Questions and Answers] nawlage:
I just received a txt from the number '1' also.

Subject: its time

Message size: 12Kb

I use handcent and it is set to auto retrieve mms. It said downloading for quite some time then I deleted it and blocked the number.

Sent.
[General Questions and Answers] marvinpud:
You're Fine

I think you're fine. I just recieved a similar message from 1. I think it was someone 'replying all' to a mass text because a second later that message from 1 disappeared and was replaced by an actual text. PS, I'm not an expert.
[General Questions and Answers] nawlage:
You might be right. Turns out my girlfriend sent a mass text and I was on the list. I ended up getting several more that day. None of which would auto download.

Sent.
[General Questions and Answers] smsgod:
highly avoid

I would highly advise to stay away from and advise you to not download any type of text message that comes to you from an unknown phisher or source.
[General Questions and Answers] Dirty Dane:
same issue sorta

see i have been getting texts like this myself it started just yesterday when a friend said he would send me a video of something (mms video) and so i never got it but instead a number listed as 1 had sent a message with no subject it was a download. i asked my friend to send again and it went through to his number instead just fine (hes using an iphone) so i just deleted the conversation with the number 1 and moved on but then my girlfriend sent a video to me and the same thing happened. im curious if its an error having to do wth the sending of video or if its something more concerning. (my girlfriend is on android) the whole thing here is taht they where sending me a video and that i got a message that i could download supposedly a video using the number 1 instead of from the person who said they where sending something(its concerning
[General Questions and Answers] Lindseym3:
Well that was rude. Way to be a **** 😂