yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] scl1ff:
Yeah, I ended up flashing back to stock with a parallels virtual machine on my Mac. Worked great and then I just went a little slower when debloating.

This is my first smartphone, and I have to say it works really well.
[General Questions and Answers] dswaggz:
Look I just scared the fucc out of myself I some how got into Odin mode but in not rooted nor have I ever downloaded Odin either

sent from my exhibit 2 greatness
[General Questions and Answers] dswaggz:
Oh yeah forgot how the hell did I do that

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[General Questions and Answers] dell4320:
stopping data on exhibit ii

I have rooted unlock exhibit ii, i am planning on using the phone with 10c a min pay as you go plan on AT&T, and wifi at home.

Is there any way I can stop the phone from downloading anything from AT&T so the data would not go against my minutes?

Thank you.
[General Questions and Answers] jose makalolot:
Just disable mobile data

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[General Questions and Answers] samusishere:
Can you give me a little helpp?

I did everything required in this post and I also have the samsung drivers from rooting but when I click the start button it says "please connect phones !!"

any ideas?
[General Questions and Answers] s0unds:
I went through the same thing as you. Maybe I can help you.

If you have drivers installed you have to uninstall them. Uninstall Kies too.

If you plug in your phone in step #2 and it doesn't do the "searching for drivers" you still have drivers installed.

So read up on how to delete all the drivers and keep working on it until you get the "searching for drivers" window.

After you've done that, I'll tell you which drivers to get but I need to know first:

What version of Windows do you have?

What files are in the directory when you do step #3?
[General Questions and Answers] dongphuongsoc:
Thank you for your information.
[General Questions and Answers] tudorva:
Task Manager is crashing the phone

Hi Guys, help needed

Does anyone had issues with task manager after rooting?. When uninstalling the bloatware I probably removed the task manager (not sure exactly how it's called). Is there a way to restore it without going back to stock...

The phone runs great but when switching between apps if task manager accidentally pressed the phone crashes.

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] jvnat:
Go to the Exhibit II 4G dev thread (started by VanillaTBone) and look at section 6. You can download titaniumbackup.zip. It has all of the stock app apk's (put by VanillaTBone). Install what you need from there.
[General Questions and Answers] jocala:
Peach Sunrise

Beta 2 of Peach Sunrise, the first custom ROM for the Samsung Exhibit II is now available HERE
[General Questions and Answers] AndroidSamurai:
I have updated the OP on the Dev thread to reflect Beta 2.
[General Questions and Answers] jocala:
Oops! Broken link :( Rather than link directly to the download, could you link to the thread here?

The download link may change frequently, the thread link shouldn't change.

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] bomberbadj:
Hey, there's seems to have been a lot of progress since I was last here. Awesome, guys! I'd help, but you've moved off to a realm that I no longer understand. :-D

I may try the beta rom, If I don't lose my nerve. :-)

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] AndroidSamurai:
Jocala, link has been updated linking back to your ROM thread. Sorry about the broken link. I'm sick and haven't been able to stay on my phone as usual. Lol
[General Questions and Answers] jocala:
Get better dude!
[General Questions and Answers] jose makalolot:
New forums already added, exhibit ii not included, only galaxy w and y. Too bad.

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[General Questions and Answers] KemikalElite:
Galaxy Y? They should of added the Exhibit II and named the forum under "Samung Ancora: Galaxy X, Y, Exhibit II" They did the same thing for the Optimus aka thunder phones. Is it that big of a deal for them to add another phone? Did we not get enough votes?
[General Questions and Answers] jose makalolot:
I was really hoping our phone will be added. Sadly, not yet. Not yet.

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[General Questions and Answers] AndroidSamurai:
Did another look. Like the Sony look better...
[General Questions and Answers] dswaggz:
O wow how did u do that hey vanilla have u spoke w/ kerza yet

sent from my exhibit 2 greatness
[General Questions and Answers] AndroidSamurai:
No dennis, I have not spoken with him yet.
[General Questions and Answers] dswaggz:
My name is not Dennis itz Dan

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[General Questions and Answers] hotsauce126:
anyone having a problem with failed texts? I'll have full bars ad 4g but texts constantly say "failed" and most of the time I have to reboot the phone to get them to send
[General Questions and Answers] ja5219:
I have had that problem, Full bars.. hit send, immediately get "failed" msg. I keep hitting retry but have never gotten it to work.

So I rewrote the msg in a different form and it sent immediately. I have no idea????

Only happened once which was strange still and annoying, but glad it hasn't happened again.
[General Questions and Answers] jocala:
I had that happen with stock several times. Both handcent and stock, but google voice was fine.
[General Questions and Answers] jgrinst1:
GoSMS Pro is also fine. Stock has a problem.
[General Questions and Answers] jose makalolot:
Mine has issues with GoSMSPro also. But not all the times.

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[General Questions and Answers] francabernal:
How did you uninstall the tethering manager? I rooted my phone but when I go to uninstall apps this is not listed in there. I am very new at this so please forgive my ignorance...
[General Questions and Answers] dswaggz:
Dude the rzrecovery has been updated will it work for us plus there's new plug in's

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[General Questions and Answers] KemikalElite:
Where's the download link? I checked the thread.
[General Questions and Answers] ravennevar2012:
Does anyone know why there are two My Account applications (My Account 5.4.16 and My Account 2.7.2.0) and can someone please explain what each one of them does? Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] jocala:
One is your original, and the other is an update, downloaded from the market. You can use Titanium Backup to merge system updates into your ROM, or you can do it yourself (as root) using the command line or a program like Root Explorer.

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You're not going to get any kind of recovery, until we have a booting custom kernel. That's just how things work. Recovery as a working system consists of the kernel and an initrd that starts recovery, the program (clockwork,rz,whatever) rather than booting the phone software.
[General Questions and Answers] ravennevar2012:
I froze both of them with Titanium Backup. Only one of them seemed to be actually doing something. Also, the icons are different. Is there any advantage to merging the system updates with the ROM? I'm slowly freezing apps from the "safe list" that was posted previously and keeping an eye out for any ill effects. Thanks for your help jocala!
[General Questions and Answers] jocala:
The original app in /system/app is effectively frozen when the update is downloaded, so the merge moves the update from /data/app (where downloads live) to /system/app and deletes the original. It's a bloat-removal op really.
[General Questions and Answers] akashvani:
francabernal

I rooted my Exhibit II recently. In Titanium Backup, going into Backup/Restore tab I was able to see and uninstall TetheringManager app.
[General Questions and Answers] dswaggz:
Screen shot

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[General Questions and Answers] francabernal:
wifi hotspot

Did you save these apps prior to uninstalling them? I have Titanium so I could back them up, as I've seen other people say to do in these forums. However, I don't even know where I would be backing them up to (in case I did want them later) How did you get the wifi hotspot to work? I have tether but can't figure out how to do hotspot.

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Yes, I got it. Thanks for answering...

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Hey guys, I see lists of apps that can be uninstalled safely. My question is: are all these apps actually making the phone slower? using up battery? I don't mind having icons on my phone as long as they are not draining battery or slowing down my phone. What I really want is a list of apps that are causing one of these two things to happen. In your opinion, has removing them really made a difference? I'm afraid to remove things that I may want later, and I'm also afraid that in removing too many things I might remove something that is vital to the workings of the phone, as I've read here of some people who have done this.

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Hey guys, I see lists of apps that can be uninstalled safely. My question is: are all these apps actually making the phone slower? using up battery? I don't mind having icons on my phone as long as they are not draining battery or slowing down my phone. What I really want is a list of apps that are causing one of these two things to happen. In your opinion, has removing them really made a difference? I'm afraid to remove things that I may want later, and I'm also afraid that in removing too many things I might remove something that is vital to the workings of the phone, as I've read here of some people who have done this.
[General Questions and Answers] trickbiker121:
I'm confused at step 10. I have term.apk in system>App but it does not show up in my launcher menu. I tried installing term.apk it first says do you want to replace the app then it says App not installed. Am I missing something?
[General Questions and Answers] imhumanoid:
*been stalking this post for awhile now*

Any news on a custom kernel for this phone?
[General Questions and Answers] nevrlow:
Its like a mini sgs2 :)

sent from an HTC sensation on CM7 alpha #10
[General Questions and Answers] dswaggz:
Jocola was up w/ the kernel an can we use Mobile Odin to flash ur rom an otherz

Sent from my SGH-T679
[General Questions and Answers] jocala:
Sorry, no. I don't have a working custom kernel. I have been able to modify initramfs, but my compiled zImage still bootloops.
[General Questions and Answers] dswaggz:
Damn it may tha force be w/ u jocola

Sent from my SGH-T679
[General Questions and Answers] Baddude8:
This Beta Rom, would it work for the Exhibit 4G, which is what I have, instead of the Exhibit II? Think the camera processor on the Exhibit gives a little higher resolution on the camcorder. I wonder if the same drivers work for both camera.

Thanks.

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I like that keyboard layout, what is that one called?

Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] stab244:
That would be SwiftKey.
[General Questions and Answers] AndroidSamurai:
Swift Keyboard and the GB theme I think.
[General Questions and Answers] dswaggz:
Hey can we use this zpwebsites.com/android-app/ubuntu-install-guide/devices/

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[General Questions and Answers] jocala:
Sometimes you have sarlacc for dinner, sometimes sarlacc has you :)
[General Questions and Answers] dswaggz:
Jocola can we run the program Ubuntu

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[General Questions and Answers] jocala:
Dude, it's an OS, not a program. It's been done on other phones with hardware less than ours. It should run off your sdcard or external_sd. Go for it :)

btw, I'm jocala. Jocola is a popular sweetened carbonated beverage.
[General Questions and Answers] dswaggz:
Sorry my bad but will it brick our phone an do I need root

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[General Questions and Answers] aeyea:
This is very important. The T759 (Exhibit 4g) adb tether drivers everyone links to for this T679 (Exhibit II 4g) works for transferring files and rooting, but doesn't seem to cover ODIN mode. You need the complete USB drivers package, otherwise you get "driver failed to install" when you plug in your phone in ODIN mode.

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Has anyone actually successfully restored a system application with Titanium Backup on this phone? For me it happily uninstalls system apps, but when I try to restore from my own backups, TB just hangs forever rendering the whole backup process rather useless. Tried a bunch of things to try to make restoring work, but without any useful error message it's shooting in the dark. I had mistakenly deleted the IM chat app thinking it was obvious you could download an official gtalk chat app from the marketplace (you can't). Reflashed to stock with ODIN to get everything back.

FWIW, I prefer swonsay's adb bat script (linked in Dev forum) for cleaning up the phone. It's fast, very transparent, and has good lists of safe and unsafe apps to use. Going to see if it's possible to modify the script to freeze/unfreeze apps by renaming them rather than wiping stuff.
[General Questions and Answers] trickbiker121:
Make sure unknown sources is checked. go to settings>Applications and now the first option should be Unknown Sources. Now the titanium Backup restore process should work. It worked for me. Hope this helps
[General Questions and Answers] Eskasoni:
Looking for help with Odin on an Exhibit II 4g

stubbakatt

Looks like a great explanation but I am having a problem getting it to work for me.

I have a T-mobile Samsung Exhibit !! 4g.

Windows XP SP3 and was successful in installing the T679 drivers on the PC

The phone was rooted, Titanium backup pro etc. and I froze a few programs and all seemed to work fine for 10 dayss. Then last Thursday I found that when I turned the phone on and unlocked it I no longer got the typical "screen" but was shown a black background with a selection of the last 4 programs (I think) I had run. No other icons on the screen, no ability to swipe down etc, I could just jump to theses applications. Then after a couple of hours my phone seemed to be soft bricked. It will boot through the t-mobile screen, shoot the andriod up, and go to a black screen SAMSUNG in white and the SAMSUNG will pulse brighter then dimmer also the four "buttons" on the bottom are lit up.

I tried using your ODIN zip file but get an error.

Odin starts up fine, sees my phone in download mode on 1 (COM6).

I successfully select Ancora.aps

Select One Package

Select the md5 file.

In the message window I see

<1> Added!!!

<1> Detected!!!

Check MD5 FileName...

Then in about 2 seconds I get an Odin Multi Downloader pop up.

Odin Multi Downloader has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost

For more information about this error click here.

When I close ODIN dies.

I have read through the discussion but don't see anyone with this problem.

Appreciate any suggestions you folks might have.

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] jocala:
ClockworkMod 5.5.0.4

I've rebuilt our recovery image with ClockworkMod 5.5.0.4. Please test it, ok? It's HERE
[General Questions and Answers] jose makalolot:
And it works... currently testing restore after nandroid backup. Will test more tomorrow. Thanks man.

Sent from my mp3 player with Android.
[General Questions and Answers] jocala:
I'm seeing that booting into recovery is now more reliable with clockwork than samsung. VolUp-Power works every time now. YYMV of course.
[General Questions and Answers] jose makalolot:
Yeah! Samsung recovery is hit or miss, either to recovery or to rebpot.

So, next is kernel?

Maybe you can share a cwm based rom for refence for us flash addicts and rom disectors... :)

Thanks again.

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[General Questions and Answers] jocala:
The Peach Sunrise ROM is a tribute to my wife of 40 years who took the theme default wallpaper picture with a Nikon D300. So I'm biased :)

What I would really like to see is folks take Peach (once it's done) and fork the hell out of it. Credits are nice, but I really don't care. This is a really nice Android phone, at a price point that will make it affordable for folks who haven't been able to play yet. So I hope a thousand flowers bloom :)
[General Questions and Answers] jose makalolot:
We will plant more to see more flowers. :)

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[General Questions and Answers] majakat:
What case is are you all using? They are pretty hard to come by it seems, I think I am going to try this one-

http://www.amazon.com/Skin-Cover-Sa...ectronics&rps=1&ie=UTF8&qid=1326813848&sr=1-6

Any other one piece covers out there?
[General Questions and Answers] aeyea:
I'm using this one which seemed to be popular:

Amazon ASIN B005QUE8Y8: "T-MOBILE SAMSUNG T679 EXHIBIT II 4G SMOKE BLACK TPU GEL SKIN CASE, IN QUBITS RETAIL PACKAGING" (can't post links yet).

It looks pretty similar to the one you picked, and is dark transparent gray in color. I like the semi-soft gel transparent material of these cases. I imagine all the 1-piece gel snap-on cases are more-or-less the same, and you might as well the cheapest one with shipping in the color you like. The one I got fits quite well. It's a little slippery, but I'd rather have that than something that stuck in my pocket. I also bought some cheap screen protector sheets, but for now just clipped the tag off the original plastic protector that came with the original packaging and kept it on because that was easy.
[General Questions and Answers] jvnat:
I've got this exact case, but in clear.
[General Questions and Answers] hotsauce126:
so I'm kind of new to all of this, so forgive me if I sound like an idiot, but I was reading the wiki for the phone that a member wrote

and even if we can't do cm9 yet, if we can flash custom roms now can we flash vanilla ics?
[General Questions and Answers] s0unds:
It's a good question. Let me try to explain...

Ice Cream Sandwich source code was released by Google in December 2011.

Exhibit II source code was released by Samsung I think in November (I didn't bother to check exactly when).

So the most "vanilla" custom rom for the Exhibit II would actually be built from Samsung's source code. It would look a lot like the stock ROM from T-Mobile but without the bloat. There's a big problem though - if some of the drivers or some of the system apps were missing (nobody knows, it's never been tried) it might not work correctly. (Just as a side note, Samsung's code is based on Google's Gingerbread release, so Samsung only provided part of the code.)

So just for fun, assume that Samsung's code worked 100%, everything perfect on the first try. A dev like me could then study the code and apply the drivers to Google's Ice Cream Sandwich so that it could run on the Exhibit II. This is what it would take to make the "most ordinary, vanilla Ice Cream Sandwich ROM."
[General Questions and Answers] dswaggz:
@s0unds please try that would be so awesome or a pure 2.3.7 would be nice w/ some cyanogen goodies ;)

via Dan swagger
[General Questions and Answers] trickbiker121:
Thanks Jocala CWM works great. Does anyone have the stock recovery backup?
[General Questions and Answers] s0unds:
Totally agree - it's what I've been doing! But let me finish up what I'm doing with heimdall...

by the way...

HEY! XDA will be DOWN tomorrow 8AM to 8PM!

Join us on irc.geekshed.net #exhibit2dev during that time.
[General Questions and Answers] stab244:
What time zone?
[General Questions and Answers] jocala:
You have the T679UVKJ1_T679TMBKJ1_T679UVKJ1_HOME.tar.md5 file on hand, right? Untar it, the file recovery.img is the stock recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] trickbiker121:
thanks yea i have that file. I just wanted to make sure i had a way to go back if I ever needed to in the future. thanks again
[General Questions and Answers] Jaymer81:
I just got this case yesterday, and I'm pretty happy with it too. It's stickier than the Exhibit's plastic back, so you're not as likely to drop it; but it's slicker than rubber/silicone, so it's easy to take out of your pocket.
[General Questions and Answers] dell4320:
google voice used my t-mobile minutes !! Please help

I recently installed google voice, had a google number, when i dial a number of my contact lists the phone asks if i want to complete the call with google voice or without it. I always choose yes.

To my surprise, every time I do that my 100 minute allowance from my T-Mobile are been used.

Is there any way I can just complete the call with google voice not utilizing google minutes? Please help me..

I am on T-Mobile 30 dollars plan, unlimited data, text and 100 minute voice.

My phone is exhibit ii, rooted.
[General Questions and Answers] stab244:
You'll need an app like GrooveIP. That's what I use. It will user your data instead. The app isn't free though.
[General Questions and Answers] francabernal:
Skype as supplement to the 100 plan minutes

I'm on the same plan. Tried Groove IP, but gave up because it seemed unreliable. Some times it worked, but most of the time there was echo, it was choppy, scratchy, they couldn't hear me or I couldn't hear them. Even following all the fixes and tweaks, could never get it right. If you need a guaranteed good connection, you cannot rely on groove. IMO it was waste of $5.

I am now trying Skype. You can test a one month subscription for ~$3. It's much more stable than groove, although if you're in an area of very low web signal, it will also be choppy. In my experience though, much better than groove. If I can get ok with it I will buy a skype number ($30) and a yearly subscription ($30 for unlimited calls to the US and Canada) to use as a supplement to my 100 plan minutes. If anyone here knows of a better way please let us know.
[General Questions and Answers] jwsm:
You sure hit the nail on the head regarding Groove IP. I am just glad I only wasted $5 on this app. Even after trying all the recommended tweaks, it is still totally unreliable and sometimes downright unusable even on good 4g signal or over my home wifi(echoes galore, one-way audio, connection issues). I have also tried Talkatone for Android(beta) and while I think it is more reliable than Groove IP, it has echo issues as well, mainly on the receiving end(the person on the other end hearing their own echo). Hopefully they will work on that and that will be fixed in the final release.

For now, I get by just fine without using any voip solutions since I use my phone for data more than I do for voice and have never even come close to exceeding my 100 min.
[General Questions and Answers] Nilpotent:
On google voice website it is written something about that. Apparently, only international calls are using google minutes, if you make a national call you use t-mobile minutes.
[General Questions and Answers] francabernal:
Google voice using T Mobile minutes

And that has been my exact experience; I call Mexico and Colombia and when I dial those numbers the call goes through GV without using my minutes, otherwise for domestic calls it uses minutes. In other forums people are saying that you can in fact use GV without using minutes, but in one case the person posted later that they actually were on the UL voice plan (all the while thinking they were on the 100 min plan). So they were using minutes after all.

Another person said that if we configure it right it will not use minutes... I have tried every configuration and haven't been able to get it to work. Are they telling the truth? I don't know, but when I ask for help with copying their settings there is no response.

If anyone has more insight into this, please do share. I would love to be able to call through GV without using TMobile minutes
[General Questions and Answers] joshua.justice:
Any idea what size SD card the phones max capacity is?