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[LG Revolution] BandaPear:
I may not be the most knowledgeable, but I've been following the progress as it has occurred and I'll do my best to answer each of your questions.

Nandroid, from what I am aware, is the term for a backup of your current rom that you can create through CWR, or 'Clockwork Recovery Mod'. This is a mod that changes your recovery from the less useful stock recovery to the more useful CWR, which can be used to install new things to your phone and backup or restore roms.

Super user is the program that is put into place through rooting that allows you to selectively grant 'root access' to various programs. When the program wants access, it will pop up with a 'super user request' and you can allow or deny it. This root access will let certain apps do more, and for some apps, it is required for any functionality at all. (Such as root explorer, a file explorer, that will normally display the files on your phone in a read-only manner, but with root access, you can read and write files.)

AOSP stands for Android Open Source Project, and is used to refer to elements that are the standard google code or some variation of it for a given element. These pieces tend to be faster and more stable than the custom lockscreens or dialers that some phones will use.

Revotoolkit is the app that allows a rooted user to install CWR (Clockwork recovery) onto their device, and it exists in large part because (from what i understand) the revolution's file system is a bit different from other phones, so we are not able to use the app ROM Manager which many other phones can use to install CWR and switch ROMS easily and such. Attempts to use rom manager result in non-functional phones, iirc.

In order to back up your stock rom, you will need CWR, and that requires root access to install, so you will back up the stock rom after you root the phone. This is a good idea, as if anything goes wron with your installation of a new rom or other component (theme, boot image, etc.) you can restore your backup and have the standard ROM again, but still with root access.

As above, you install recovery through the revotoolkit app, and you do so in order to be able to install custom roms and backup your existing rom, as well as being able to install themes or other 'flashable zips' that are made to be installed to a rooted phone through CWR. as noted above, installing recovery requires root.

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask, and i'll do my best to help! Everyone here is quite helpful and friendly, and we're glad to have another person on the revolution!

p.s., I am sure people will help correct me if any of this is unclear or incorrect :D
[LG Revolution] majorpay:
All that, and the big thing is that there is usually always someone who can help you in this community. While I myself cannot frequent it every night until 1am like I used to, there is still a community of helpers in IRC towards the evening where people can help you navigate and make sure you don't brick your device in all these processes.

In answer to the backup question, you can only backup after you root, because you have to be rooted to install the recovery that allows you to backup.

You started with an oddball in the Android world here. Nothing is the same for this particular phone when it comes to the modding community, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. We seem to have less issues and more stability. Because it's a smaller and distinct community, you get more help. Not as much of the "it's called search, use it" crowd.

Also, do a settings - about phone and make sure you're running the latest update (Android 2.3.4) - if you are and your phone is stock, then you are golden for modding. If not, wait until it gets to your phone, then start modding - it will save you some headache.

As for modding - if you have Microsoft on your phone, your not experiencing the true Android experience. Microsoft sucks on Android. If for no other reason, that's the biggest one to mod this phone.

Your missing out on Navigation, decent speech searching, and speech to navigate, etc, etc. And Verizon maps... bah! No one should pay for navigation.
[LG Revolution] jeff_roey:
Guys: Thanks. The info above really goes far with helping me wrap my head around it. I'm going to follow some of the the spider holes and see where they take me.

With regard to the forum member's willingness to help each other out, that's something I noticed right away since late August - which is when I picked up the phone and started lurking. You guys really do a great job of keeping it productive and the senior folks - obviously - are extremely responsive.

Thanks again. I'm planning to stick around and I'm looking forward to contributing a little further downstream. :)
[LG Revolution] doctorhook:
I too am new at this and got my revolution 2 months ago but did not know about this site until 2 days ago but my phone did an update yesterday, so one click dont work on my phone. But I am willing to wait and work with any to help root my phone......thanks alot guys
[LG Revolution] mtmichaelson:
There is a root method in the development section. Check it out!
[LG Revolution] jeff_roey:
Thanks MT. I'll probably take a crack

at this late tonite and feed back.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Tivo7:
When you post to facebook from an app like FacebookForAndroid or Friendcaster, they add that tag saying "Sent from blah blah".

Could I possibly change what that says to what I want it to?

If so, how would I go about doing that?

If its XML editing, what XML program would you recommend?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] haydengribble:
This is a super cool idea! Bump...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeeshan9211:
Hello Every 1

I am not a noob but have to survive on this matter. I have HTC Desire with S-Off

I installed Aurora v04 Rom and I had asked this in the roms replying page but got no answer there. Now the problem is that when I start Video recording the camera stills for 2 seconds and my desire auto reboots. If any body can help me then It would be thank full. I love aurora v04 rom and its all features but just the camera issue is my damn target. I have used many HTCcamera.apk 's but had the same problem please bear with me if this question is already asked or answered.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asestar:
Try another rom?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeeshan9211:
No No

I don't like to change the rom while I have tried 15-20 roms but I got Aurora v04 the best so what should I do to make my camcorder work fine
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeeshan9211:
I have changed my rom Aurora v04 to v4.1

I have changed my rom v04 to v4.1 but my camcorder still reboots my desire when ever I wanted to record some video brothers please give me some suitable solution so I should not go to official froyo back please make me happy to enjoying this rom.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wildcardspv:
Try the latest version (v5) of this Rom.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1315961

[ROM][02.11.11]Runnymede 5.0[CM7r2][XD2SDX][A2SD++][BASE:1.05.401.4][BEATS][RCTWEAKS]

I've used Aurora and honestly, this is way faster and more stable, and has all the same features/tweaks (maybe more!!)

It's my daily Rom now and the videocamera works fine :-)

Make sure you have CM7r2 hboot.

Good luck man
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeeshan9211:
Thanks man

Thanks bro actually I had seen this Rom but I was not sure about its bases now i will surely Install this rom and enjoy
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asestar:
I am on stock hboot so I use RunnymedeMod007 v3. Good stuff, love continuous focusing when recording videos.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bendonahue:
Hi Guys,

I am hoping somebody can help me out here. I came home from work this evening to find that my Transformer was not powering up? At first I thought the batteries (both in the tablet, and the dock) had died, so I plugged it into the mains....nothing

Not even the little light on the side to show it is charging. I have checked different power sockets, and tried to see if my PC would recognize it...again, nothing.

I have tried charging through the dock and direct into the tab...nothing.

I was running the Prime ROM so if I sent it back to Asus I am sure they would reject any warranty claim. Can anybody think what the problem could be or give any advice?

Thanks in advance

Ben
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FabioRochapt:
Press power button for like 25 seconds to see if the tablet will restart.

Check if you can go on APX mod and try nvflash.

If this doesnt work i think you can easily RMA your unit without worrying about warranty.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bendonahue:
Hi, have tried all this but nothing at all. I will try and send it back (any ideas how I go about doing that?) and hope they don't realize I had a non standard system on there.

Unless anybody else has any ideas?

Still have no idea how it happened though, both the tablet AND the keyboard? Both were working fine less that 24 hours ago!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dyskmaster:
actually sounds like you may have broken your charger (the cable) as you said BOTH devices wouldn't charge. I would look for another charger (find someone who will loan you theirs) or buy another online, just to check and see if I am right. Dunno what else to say, if it isn't the charger and your tablet won't turn on or charge, then there should be absolutly no worry about RMAing it.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theraffman:
I second trying a new charger. I bought one TF and the charger was DOA, after some research, apparently this is the weak point of the Asus...they make really junk chargers. You PC won't charge the TF either, at least not in the standard sense, the TF requires +12 volts to charge, if you plug into a PC over night (5volts or.whatever) you may only get a couple of percent.

If both dock and tab aren't charging, and Asus is known for crap chargers, then logic would dictate that you have a bad charger... That or you have a bad dock and tablet... A less likely scenario. Radio shack sells a 12v charger with a USB end that will charge your TF perfectly... I have one as a backup, cost 25 bucks. Good luck.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bendonahue:
I agree with both you guys! I think its the charger also; my reasoning behind this is I left the cable plugged into my PC and every now and then it attempts to boot, it even got to the lock screen once and then turned off.

As you say USB charging does work...just very...very...slowly!

I assume it was just a bad coincidence that both dock and tablet got drained at the same time as my charger dying! I will try and get my hands on another charger to see what happens :)

Cheer
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hyperxguy:
I got the same problem. Since I have two TFs in the house, the charger was quickly ruled out. I had Prime loaded at the time.

I tried to get the TF into APX mode to nvflash (blindly as there was no display) back to stock. I could hear the unit went to APX mode (thru the PC's speaker). Nvflash saw the unit but couldnot finish loading the bootloader.ini.

I suggest you to try the same and maybe got better luck.

Anyway, I returned (took the chance) the unit with Prime still on it. They didnot find out eventhought they didnot replace anything but putting back the stock ROM, saying NoTroubleFound (the story didnot ended here ---> another RMA).
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bendonahue:
Hi, Ok..So I left it plugged into overnight and through the day (about 18 hours) and it charged to 60%. This gave me a chance to test a couple of things; the first thing I did was to install another ROM, in this case, Revolver.

Once it had finished installing...it booted fine, and guess what...The charging worked!!! YEY for Revolver!

I can only assume by this that the Prime ROM I was using somehow managed to get corrupt and kill the battery AND not allow charging.

I am so so so glad that the Revolver ROM has sorted things. I may go back to Prime though as I have never had problems before and like the ROM.

Cheers guys for all the help that was offered! :)

Ben
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bendonahue:
Ok...Spoke to soon! It isnt charging from the mains, so now I do suspect the charger. However the reason I initially thought the problem was fixed is that when I plug the tablet, into the dock, the battery charging light flashes on the dock?!?!?

Almost as if the tablet is charging the dock, but I didnt think this was possible?

Oh I dont know anymore, my little brain is getting all confused!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theraffman:
I'm pretty sure that light flashes regardless, when the tab is mounted to the dock, but don't quote me on that. Also, try the freezer trick, seems like to me that your charger isn't quite 100% dead. put it in a zip lock bag and toss it in the freezer for half an hour and then try it again.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bendonahue:
Ermm.....Really...This one I have never heard before. What is freezing it supposed to do? And surely that would cause more harm then good?

Or is it April Fools *check calendar*...Nope!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bendonahue:
Oh my lord! This actually worked! lol. I have to admit to being a bit skeptical but thanks for the advice, I appreciate it loads!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theraffman:
No problem man, it has to do with a built in temp switch in the charger. You'll still need a replacement but at least you are operating now. Like I said previously,I recommend the radio shack 12v charger with USB end, its the enercell 12v adapter cat# 273-358.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bendonahue:
Thanks, I found a replacment on Amazon.co.uk (I live in England) which appears to be right for the job. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ex-Pro®-Var...ent-supply/dp/B005EWJGXG/ref=pd_sim_sbs_ce_16

Thanks again :)
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
Can someone please upload the stock calculator and clock apps from EE4? I was putting on gummy and I accidentally deleted my titanium backups instead of restoring them...

EDIT: Also I seem to be needing the thinkfree apk as it is $9.99 in the market :O
[Verizon Droid Charge] blueis300:
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[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
Are you on stock? Also, why would you upload to such a retarded website (nothing personal against you)? Hitting the enter key in the captcha box takes you back to the wait timer.

Edit: The bandwidth is.... roughly 68kB/s... Are you trying to waste my time?
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
sorry can't link from phone but look in the roms/kernels/mods sticky in general section for imnuts' thread with debloated stock roms, they're in .zip format so just open it up take what you need and replace/push to /system/app then reboot and profit

blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
OK those are all Odexed. Either you don't know what you're doing or are trying to troll me...

Thanks, didnt think about it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] blueis300:
Yeah I trying to waste your time. It's just a site I usually use and it's better than rapidshare. Here is another website for the ee4 download.

http://www.multiupload.com/6WJ2SFUKO6

http://www.mediafire.com/?p5s3ayddcp2vspd

http://www.multiupload.com/MG4H7JJMPN

http://www.filesonic.com/file/2866146545

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1172182&highlight=stock+ee4

Far be it from me to atleast try. I'll remember to put you on ignore in the future.
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
Sorry,

I did not mean for this to become a flame war or anything, but i screwed so much up today i was getting impatient and reacted badly.
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
So Imnuts' zip got me all my apks, but the calendar is having problems. I copied "TouchWizCalendar.apk" to /system/app and renamed "Calendar.apk" to "Calendar.apk.bak". Now the original calendar is gone, and I do not see the TW calendar anywhere. Not surprisingly the widget isnt available either. What do I do with this?

EDIT: I also broke the gummycharged boot animation but its not really a problem.
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
its not just the calendar apk there's also a 'calendarprovider.apk' or something you need to push in there as well (I don't know much about the stock apps or transferring them as I usually either don't use them or just stick with the ones that come with the rom :p)

hmm I don't think any of this should break the boot animation though..

blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
Calendar provider doesn't work either
[Motorola Droid 3] danifunker:
Is there a way to force mount my external SD card as read only? I'm fed up of constant loss of music and the lost.dir file going up. I have tried all sort of troubleshooting, this is just an android problem ( I never had an issue with my blackberry ).

I don't use my external SD memory for anything else since the phone has built in 16GB anyways, and was hoping there is a way to lock writes to the external card. I am rooted. Thanks!
[Motorola Droid 3] verkerria:
You should be able to use root explorer or a pc, and change the properties of your music folder to read only. Root explorer option is under permissions with a long press on the folder, groups needs write unchecked, not sure what a read only sd card will do, might generate errors, not sure. Quick question, did you reformet the card using the cards format option when you moved it out of your blackberry?

Droid 1 Rooted (ChevyNo1 0.9MV Kernel, LGB2.6)

Droid 3 Rooted (Stock Kernel, Custom lite De-bloat)
[Motorola Droid 3] ChaoticWeaponry:
This ^ You could also do it via a command prompt or disk management. Depends on your skill set.
[Motorola Droid 3] danifunker:
You can't set those properties on an SD Card. I will try to set the read-only checkmark on the filesystem, but it is FAT32 and file permissions aren't very good... I tried using an NTFS filesystem to no avail...
[Motorola Droid 3] eww245:
busybox mount -o remount,ro /mnt/sdcard-ext , it could be added to /system/bin/loadpreinstalls.sh for a permanent solution.
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Could we just change permissions on the folder we keep music in? That way the phone can still write to the card if needed

I tried running chmod 055 /sdcard-ext/Music but when I check the permission in my file manager nothing has changed

Sent from my rooted xt860
[Motorola Droid 3] danifunker:
Endroid,

The problem is that the FAT32 filesystem is too basic for anything including file permissions. The filesystem becomes corrupted because it isn't being properly dismounted (for whatever reason), so even if you denied write access to specific files using a different file system, I'm sure the the corruption would still happen.
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
So ultimately no matter what I do my music is gonna keep moving to lost.dir. even if I reformat to NFTS

Sent from my rooted xt860
[Motorola Droid 3] danifunker:
The phone doesn't even read NTFS... It only takes FAT32 as the SDCard. The best option is the one that was outlined by eww245, mounting the card as a read-only to avoid file corruption.

Although I am relieved to see that my device isn't the only one that is experiencing this sort of issue.
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
has anyone tried remount the sdcard-ext yet. does it work and did it cause any issues?

also will this affect the usb transfer

edit: seem to be getting alot of high CPU usage warnings. gonna try a reboot to see if it will fix, then rerun command
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Did a reboot and reran the command. No CPU issues now, however already some files have moved into lost.dir. i have no experience writing/editing scripts. If anybody wants to write a quick script i could set to run on boot that would be appreciated.
[Motorola Droid 3] danifunker:
Actually someome earlier mentioned to throw that into the loadpreinstall.sh under /system/bin

But there seems to be a caveat. If you plug the phone in through USB when the phone gets unplugged the device will get re-mounted. I'd like to change the properties of the internal mount instead of overwriting it each time. I have done a lot of checking around and found the vold.fstab file but don't really know how it works.

Another point of interest, what kind of MicroSD card are you using? I've got a Lexar 32GB SDHC10 card installed.
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Lexar 16GB 4.

Do I just put

Busybox mount -o remount,ro /mnt/sdcard-ext

At the end of the script?

Sent from my rooted xt860
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
So this may be completely unrelated, but I ran the command Sunday, and my CPU went nuts. Rebooted tried again and all was good. Didn't use my phone much that day. Today(Monday) my phone died in 4 hours! I did notice my CPU seemed busier than normal. Did a bit of twitter websurfing then my phone went in my pocket for use as a music player. I use my phone with headphones everyday for music for 4-5 hours and I still have at least 30-40 battery left. Only got 3 hours of music. Now, is it possible that my music player(poweramp) is trying to write to the card, or someother app/system process is trying to write to the card, and since it can't it keeps trying. Is there a log I can pull on adb to figure this out? Has anyone else tried this and experienced anything similar?

Sorry for the ramble but I wanna get this figured out

Sent from my rooted xt860
[Eee Pad Transformer General] gunswick:
This guide will help transfer files from an Android Phone (HTC Desire running 2.2 Froyo) to the Transformer - using only Wifi anywhere.

I have only quickly tested this so the technique will probably simplify as I try more combinations.

This example will transfer files from Transformer to Phone as that is what I tested yesterday very very quickly!

Step 1:

Install "File Expert" from the Market on both Phone and Transfomer.

Step 2:

On the receiving unit for the file transfer, i.e. the phone. Start a WiFi hotspot so the phone is creating a wifi signal. (I am not sure yet how important it is which device does this step so standby for an update). Set a password to prevent unauthorised access to your phone!

Connect the transformer to this WiFi network (i.e. to the phone) using the password you set above.

Step 3

:

On the receiving unit (phone), open file expert app, click "Share" in the toolbar at the bottom and press "Enable WiFi File Receiver".

Step 4

:

On the Transformer (the file sender), open File Expert too. Long press on the folder or file you want to send, scroll to the bottom and select "Send via WiFi". It will search the WiFi network for a few seconds and should find the other device (phone). Accept any confirmations on the phone/Transformer and the files will directly stream over WiFi.

Notes

:

+ This does NOT require an internet access, so if you are on the train or somewhere without internet, you can still do the transfer.

+ It is totally secure as long as you use a password on the WiFi hotspot.

+ I need to test if it matters which device sets up the WiFi hotspot, or which device is doing the file sending/receiving or if you really need to press Enable file receiver in the receiving device. This process will hopefully simplify to allow you to simply click a shortcut to wifi hotspot activation and the other device will automatically connect if WiFi is turned on - then hopefully just open File Expert on the sender device and it will send. This info will come or you can try for yourselves.

+ If your phone cannot do the device hotspot, look in the market as I think there are apps for it, Froyo has this built in so I didn't need any extra app.

+ This is the ONLY WiFi direct method I have found that works for me with my phone and transformer, the apps that claim to create FTP servers where you type in ports and things do not work properly in the android browser, only on your PC/Laptop browsers.

+This is faster than Dropbox because you are not hindered by your upload and then download speed connections.

Please test and see what you think :) :D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stealthl:
Good find. Works great for me........