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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjjpowles:
Hi all

I have just sold one of my 2 S2's, and want to flash it to an officially released UK firmware, so that the new owner can, if they want, wait for official releases to come out and then update OTA, something they wouldn't be able to do with the Frankenware currently on it!

Looking at the other threads, it seems that the latest official UK firmware release is 2.3.4 (XWKI4 according to Intratech's thread) but I just wanted to check this is right before I go ahead and flash it.

Hope someone can help!

Cheers

T
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisjcks:
2.3.4 is the latest, & make sure to check product code is XEU after flash.

Have fun.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjjpowles:
Thanks so much for your reply - really helpful of you!

Will flash 2.3.4 later on, and then check the product code after flash!

Cheers!
[Motorola Atrix 2] cheetablaze:
Good Morning! My Atrix 2 has frozen up after having issues saving a single camera picture. I have an otterbox defender on and taking the entire case off to do a battery pull is going to suck. Is there a way to reboot the phone holding a button combo for a certain amount of time? Thanks!
[Motorola Atrix 2] svtfmook:
it will be a combo of hardware buttons. try power, volume up or down and camera

it's usually press and hold a button, then tap power while holding the others
[Motorola Atrix 2] JRW 28:
I'd like to know also, I have the commuter and it is by far the hardest to get off and I've had this case on 3 different phones
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] roccoboy:
Hello everyone

First of all, very very nice forum, a great place to learn and read.

I am having trouble with the stock gmail app.

itf not as push as should be!

does anyone have another app to sync gmail and get it push to the device?

Cheers !!

:)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] ajoshi:
Stock Gmail should do the trick as it's the best there is for gmail sync. Mine pushes straight away everytime.

If you really must look for alternatives then try the Samsung email client as that pushes promptly or K9 mail for third party fix.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Kanalcommander:
Are you sure that Samsung Email is able to push?

For me it does not push my mails, but I didn't try to fix it, I'm using my providers App.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] PolishDude:
the stock email app will push gmail as long as you set it up correctly through activesync...just google gmail activesync settings and put those into the email app
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] ajoshi:
Absolutely I had set up my Hotmail (before official app) and it pushed every single email to me (although i had it set up via imap settings). It even showed all my folders that I had set up on my mail account.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] daoutlawz:
I used both and neither pushed properly, they would sometimes and sometimes not.

You want a good mail app that will push? I can strongly suggest K-9 as one of the best out there.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] roccoboy:
and for using push gmail, I need to create an accout with which type of account??

POP3

IMAP

Exchange (WebDAV)

??

thanks for the help!

:confused:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] daoutlawz:
I'm using Gmail with K-9, when i first loaded it up, it configured it automatically without having to set anything specifically.

All I did from there was adjust my polling/fetching and push settings.

I've noticed even K-9 doesn't push instantly and sometimes not at all, but at least it's a better overall program I find then gmail and the stock samsung app.

I've read that it seems to be an Android thing, I suppose just another caveat you have to live with like not having a voicemail app.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Sebring5:
Use Exchange and set up manually. Server for gmail is m.google.com.

The best e mail client is enhanced e mail available on the market.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndDiSa:
The architecture you need to build for is armv6 / armv6j. Terry has a complete AOSP setup on github, probably you can extract some additional information from there.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeek1636:
Thanks for the the answer and the link provided - it seems that all of these repositories contain Android-based stuff.

As I indicated in my initial post, this is not what I am after - I already have rooted system with an old-ish android installed (2.1). I just want a 'standard' customised kernel (Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu) so that I could then easily build and install the software components I indicated above and possibly lock them in in a security domains using SElinux as well as get rid of all the propriety stuff which currently exists in android.

'open source' android is not where I want to go.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndDiSa:
Yes, it's mostly android, but there you can find also his kernel sources and how to build them. In addition there is busybox, ... i.e. everything you need to build a command line linux. Additional packages, like python, ... you want to integrate you have to get and to integrate from different sources. The "final" setup is to be done by you. What else you are looking for?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeek1636:
Maybe I am not looking in the right place, but from the link you provided I could only see GB-* (gingerbread?) repos with the exception of 'kernel-biff-testing' which contains the android kernel, which, to my understanding, is not the 'standard' kernel and is therefore not what I am after (again, see my initial post).
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ezterry:
Its a kernel for the htc dream.. yes there are are android related components (all under gpl v2) you can if you wish configure them out. And patch it to use some device memory like the camera ram and video ram as general ram since you wont be using the android libraries used by these, you will also want to enable the console.

Use that and a debian or other gnu userspace if you wish, on system, userdata,cache, partitions and ans ext partition on the sdcard..

Not sure how well your ideas for audio will work. Seems somewhere are alsa drivers.

That or look up the openmoko port to the dream.

What you are missing is unlike x86 the linux kernels for arm devices frequently need patches to work.. there is a movement to reduce this but most devices at current require some patches not in mainline.

FYI

Wifi: drivers are open source,

Bluetooth: the serial port is open but the device its self requires a binary firmware blob to be uploaded to it

Mobile (3g/gsm) camera and gps: kernel has some api calls to the arm9 and provides access to userspace.. binary blobs in android userspace talk to these devices so I don't know the details, openmoko is the best place to look at details here.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeek1636:
Thanks for taking the time ezterry! Comments below:

Are we talking about the 'standard' kernel or the android one? If it is the latter that won't be of much use to me 'cos the arhitecture of the android kernel is very different from the standard one (the likes of Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora etc). In addition, there are no SELinux hooks afaik, which makes building and deploying SELinux policies impossible[1].

Moving on...

Do you mean deploying Debian on top of android? If so, this is not what I need - I want native system, one which my phone boots into as soon as I turn it on - without touching anything android-related!

I did, but from what I could gather it isn't complete and has a lot of rough edges.

Erm, yes and no - WL1251 (which is what g1 uses) has 2 drivers - 1) TIWLAN, which is GPL'd, but not very useful as it relies on non-standard (i.e. android-specific) stack. That stack has nothing to do with the 'standard' Linux stack; and 2) 'native' wl12xx driver which does use the standard Linux stack, but seems not very complete and requires a lot of quite ugly hacks to enable some sort functionality approaching acceptable levels[2][3].

Thankfully, I am not interested in bluetooth - at least not at this stage anyway.

Please ellaborate! I did look and Openmoko seems to suggest 3g/gsm status '	fairly complete w/ FSO2' (freesmartphone.org?)[4].

[1] The case for SEAndroid

[2] WL1251 - HTC Linux

[3] wifi firmware - xda-developers

[4] Dream - HTC Linux (core status)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ezterry:
YES You need to download some dream source and look at menuconfig... and yes disable the android specific addons and moduels. and build it

YES you need to ditch the android init, and bionic ect, and replace them with the arm builds from debian or other GNU project source, and change the android ramdisk (root directory) into a debian (or distro of choice) ramdisk to pivot_root to what android calls /system and mount sd-ext if/as needed

YES you need to find the open source AMSS drivers from openmoko rather than use the android binary blobs,

YES you many need a special WPA Supplement (but still 100% open source) to deal with wifi. (its still normal linux networking .. just setup is strange)

NO Android will not boot or exist if you remove lowmemory killer Ashmem, and if it still exists binder from the kernel

NO dalvik will not exist when you install a debian ramdisk to your boot.img, and debian base system to /system and /sd-ext as you see fit

MAYBE SELinux will work with.. maybe it needs some patching.. but once the android parts are disabled in menuconfig you can try to enable SELinux (just the code is modified for the dream and you may find rough edges that need ironing first)

Your direction need be as follows: 1. realize its still the linux kernel (with some new modules that linus is not sure belong in the actual kernel) 2. learn how the linux kernel enters userspace (starts init) yes all of android userspace is re-written from the ground up, so you want to dump androids init and use a gnu-linux one.. and dump bionic for proper gnulinux libc/utilities

_----

It ought to be noted in your links are openmoko and others that effectively tried what you are asking,

It may be rough at the edges but they may have the starting point for you.. but the effectively tried and cleaned up some larger edges on what I am describing. Thus fixing the rough edges in these other projects may be better that starting from scratch.. at least keep them for refference..

I however have openwrt routers and Linux desktops and netbooks for Linux, OS's MacBook for OS's and android phones/tabs for android, and vmware for windows XP.... so have not exactly hadthe need to transform a htcdream to gnu Linux or have reason to.

I'd personally would be more interested in *.ipkg as used by openwrt to install Linux packages in the bionic userspace of android (for use on the command line but keeping android, and without need of a full debian chroot)
[HTC Wildfire S] Fruite:
I have my wife's Wildfire S s-offed, rooted and uploaded the shipped european ROM.

Will be an OTA update available for this phone, or we won't get it because of the s-off?
[HTC Wildfire S] Ko_Ka:
I don't think there will be any OTA updates for Wildfire S, I am open to correction though....
[HTC Wildfire S] Fruite:
HTC's customer service suggested me to check for updates in the settings menu. Of course I've already tried that without success.
[HTC Wildfire S] miguelca:
Ko_Ka, and how would a possible update to Gingerbread 2.3.5 come to our phones if not OTA? I'm not expecting HTC to tell customers to use RUU's... :D

Also there is still the possibility that ICS will hit the WFS. For now HTC announced the 1st wave of phones getting the upgrade but like they say (and I quote) "We're continuing to assess our product portfolio, so stay tuned for more updates on device upgrades, timing and other details about HTC and Ice Cream Sandwich.". This came from HTC Facebook page.

The Wildfire S wasn't released that long ago and should be perfectly capable of running Ice Cream Sandwich... :p
[Motorola Photon 4G] iaccax:
has anyone got dsp manager fully working...i have it installed with joker's skinny rom but i when use bass affect.. it completely shuts off the bass need help???
[Motorola Photon 4G] iaccax:
Ok I think I may have found a answer
[HTC Desire S] juergen_90:
Hi!

Because of the dead links and the last update, I would like to aks if someone could write a guide on how to downgrade a branded Desire S. Is it possible to get OTA Updates afterwards by using the Gold Card?

greets Jürgen
[HTC Desire S] Skanob:
AFAIK branded Desire S is not that easy (twice as difficult) to downgrade. And often times, it is not supported or not advised at all.

But I read somewhere that someone was able to downgrade his/her Desire S phone here on XDA. I suggest to search for it.
[HTC Desire S] juergen_90:
I think I already read through this thread but most of the links are already dead. Hope theri will be a possibillity in the future
[TouchPad General] darkm0d:
I'm pretty sure I am not breaking the cardinal sin of asking a stupid question with an answer right in front of me. If I am, I am truly sorry. I searched, and did not find any threads on this.

I recently modded my TP with CM7 (I'm very new to all this). Everything went fine, no issues here.

I plan to use it to play video's from time to time, pre-loaded in case there is no net at the location, etc. I use astro file manager on my phone, and since I love it, I grabbed it for the TP also. Problem is, it really seems like it cant see anything.

I am thinking the folder path mappings are off or something? I see that I can define where I want "external storage" to look, (default is... /mnt/sdcard)?

I even tried to take a screenshot and got... "Error: /mnt/sdcard/tempshot.bmp (Permission denied)" Screenshot saved to null

Anyone know what I'm missing? Thanks!

-- Ps, if I can get this sorted out, my main question was which video files are supported for playback with this CM7 rom through the TP.
[TouchPad General] Rustoak:
These were answered before, but for the most part buried in threads. Your external SD is actually listed as EMMC and it's not in your primary directory, you actually have to go up one.

Android should play most formats it would normally, but as this is still alpha, there is no hardware video acceleration, so anything higher resolution then a internet video will most likely be choppy.

There are some video players that people have had luck with, and overclocking the processor also can help until we get hardware acceleration.
[TouchPad General] darkm0d:
Ah ok. I was somehow able to get the stock filebrowser to see my directories without a problem after I poked around a bit. I then ran into what you already answered for me :P. Video's do indeed seem choppy... I think I'll try to reduce the quality of an avi I have and see how that go's.

I'm not ballsy enough to OC anything. It took me a lot of guts to flash the damn thing anyway, thanks for the heads up though. :)

-- figured I'd post how it turned out.

I used Xilisoft HD Converter and converted using the android specific output setting, and 640x480, runs great using double twist.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] justabrake:
If the galaxy nexus GSM is the same specs in size and form as the CDMA I515 verizon

then Ballistic will have a case like the SG2 had :)

The SG Case incorporates three layers of protection for your mobile device. The case also contains extra thickness in the corners where drops are the most damaging.

Black/Black

Samsung SCH-I515

A.G. Findings

SA0789-M005
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BiGMERF:
Gsm is slightly thinner.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] justabrake:
How do you know that ? is it said somewhere in charts ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pukemon:
Well its been said over and over the lte version will be slightly thicker. I think his conclusion that the gsm version will be slightly thinner is valid. And that has been the case mostly for lte and gsm variants of the same phone.

I invented cyberspace. You're trespassing.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] justabrake:
OK found the answer @ WIKI

Samsung Galaxy Nexus I9250

GSM

135.5 mm (5.33 in) H

67.94 mm (2.675 in) W

8.94 mm (0.352 in) D

Weight	135 g (4.8 oz)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] justabrake:
I did hear that but I wanted to be positive on the specs
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArghSims:
GSM Galaxy Nexus will be sold in Canada, so that might be a cheaper place to order accessories to fit GSM models than from UK and the rest of Europe...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] justabrake:
But I want a AGF Ballistic case like they had for the SG2 IMO it's the Best

Soon someone will put up a youtube of the 2 and compare where everything sits
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] justabrake:
Getting giddy of the thought of an LTE-powered Galaxy Nexus? Well, Google, has just unveiled a full 360-degree view of the Verizon-bound smartphone, and it's packing a bigger caboose. Around 0.6mm thicker than the HSPA+ version available now in the UK, the 4G-stuffed version loses, at least visually, some of its curved charm and the chin's become more prominent too. Fortunately, as the tech specs confirm, the slightly bigger body does cram in an extra 100mAh of battery juice, presumably to feed that LTE radio. Will it feel any different in the hand? It looks like we'll have to wait until Verizon decides to furnish us with one -- whenever that is.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/11/ltehspa.jpg

Customer Service krissi_e@agfindings.com

8:47 AM (4 hours ago)

to me, customerservice

Hello,

I do apologize, we will be producing a Ballistic SG case for the Galaxy Nexus Prime. At this time, we do not have a release date yet. Please check back on our webstore for the release of the Ballistic SG case.

If we can assist you with anything further please feel free to contact us.

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[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jgalan14:
I'm planning to get another nexus s 4g , the other one that I got back in may my wife wanted after I got the evo 3d so I have it to her, I still want the nexus s cause it will get ICS first and I would like to know If I get a nexus s 4g for 100$ is good price or I should try lower?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewjrr:
is that on a contract? how many years?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattallica76:
If it's $100 with a clean ESN, that's a great price.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jgalan14:
Well is a used phone person said esn is clean and yeah I'm gonna connected to my other line before I paid him
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kindatired:
What condition is the phone in?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Killasmoke:
For 100$ its great price I would do it in a heart beat!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dexterboy1106:
I just got mine

I bought a nexus s 4g 2 weeks ago and paid $170 no contract clean esn

A month prior i bought one with a crack witch I didnt mind for $70 but esn

was bad had to return to seller cause he said it worked on Sprint.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jgalan14:
Good condition has a zagg shield and esn is clean :D 100$ it is then lol
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malibu_23:
Truth be told $100 for a used one is a ideal price, (maybe $175 new) as its value will go UP once ICS is OFFICIALLY released for it. the 4g version is only like 6mo old. I had been shopping around for one right after the ICS keynote. As I KNEW the NS would get it 1st before any other already released phone. (or even new ones coming out now, lol) They're going to go up to back around 150-200 range used once ICS drops. Id grab one now if u can for 100 or less if u can haggle or dont care about the condition.

Luckily i found a goofy on Craigslist who traded me for my Evo4g up front. it was a new refurb, so it was in mint condition.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jgalan14:
I got me a nexus s for t mobile 90$ the screen is cracked in the top (black top bezel) does anyone know hoe much is to replaced a digitizer
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaestreetss:
Like 75-100$
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jgalan14:
To fixed it? I think I just leave it like that is no on the screen
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jgalan14:
Btw since when can't you download large apps in the market , only on wifi never saw the on my old devices (evo , thunderbolt , 3d, b

Nexus s 4g,etc)
[Captivate Android Development] Przekret:
I897UCKK1:

Android 2.3.5

# begin build properties
# autogenerated by buildinfo.sh
ro.build.id=GINGERBREAD
ro.build.display.id=GINGERBREAD.UCKK1
ro.build.version.incremental=UCKK1
ro.build.version.sdk=10
ro.build.version.codename=REL
ro.build.version.release=2.3.5
ro.build.date=Tue Nov 8 16:21:23 KST 2011
ro.build.date.utc=1320736883
ro.build.type=user
ro.build.user=se.infra
ro.build.host=SEP-76
ro.build.tags=release-keys
ro.product.model=SAMSUNG-SGH-I897
ro.product.brand=samsung
ro.product.name=SGH-I897
ro.product.device=SGH-I897
ro.product.board=SGH-I897
ro.product.cpu.abi=armeabi-v7a
ro.product.cpu.abi2=armeabi
ro.product.manufacturer=SAMSUNG
ro.product.locale.language=en
ro.product.locale.region=US
ro.wifi.channels=
ro.board.platform=s5pc110
# ro.build.product is obsolete; use ro.product.device
ro.build.product=SGH-I897
# Do not try to parse ro.build.description or .fingerprint
ro.build.description=SGH-I897-user 2.3.5 GINGERBREAD UCKK1 release-keys
ro.build.fingerprint=samsung/SGH-I897/SGH-I897:2.3.5/GINGERBREAD/UCKK1:user/release-keys
# Samsung Specific Properties
ro.build.PDA=I897UCKK1
ro.build.hidden_ver=I897UCKK1
ro.build.changelist=614489
ro.flash.resolution=1080
# end build properties

Download:

http://hotfile.com/dl/134663966/eae6f67/SGH-I897_I897UCKK1_UC_ATT.rar.html

Pass: sampro.pl
[Captivate Android Development] nakedninja42:
Thanks!!!
[Captivate Android Development] crt60:
Its about time, not a big fan of KJ3

Thanks Przekret!!!!!!!!!
[Captivate Android Development] popfan:
Man, they just need to finished with this and give us a final update with source.
[Captivate Android Development] edtonn:
Here we go again! Maybe I won't flash a KJ3 ROM yet haha
[Captivate Android Development] IlluminatedOne:
Great. :D

Yeah me too. KJ3 has lots of bugs of its own.

Though I was expecting new leak to be 2.3.6 instead of 2.3.5 :p
[Captivate Android Development] ddoubt:
hmmm I wonder if UCKK2 will be leaked tomorrow and UCKK3 the day after...

anyway... I am still downloading this one!
[Captivate Android Development] crt60:
I don't think they'll give the captivate a 2.3.6 ROM like the infuse, even though according to the smali code, it'll work for both.
[Captivate Android Development] stoobie-doo:
Man, figures, as soon as I installed KJ3 that this would drop. Time to try yet again to see if my soft reboots are firmware related or not.

Has anyone actually noticed anything overtly different with this vs. KJ3?

Any sense as to whether this is actually the build that will actually be release via Kies? If I recall correctly, Froyo came out officially in the order of Epic, Vibrant, Captivate, Fascinate. Wonder if we will see the same schedule again.
[Captivate Android Development] 4-2ndtwin:
Przekret, Thanks again for the leak ! Much appreciated !!
[Captivate Android Development] ddoubt:
2.3.6 infuse rom will work on our cappys?
[Captivate Android Development] IlluminatedOne:
Yeah me too. Who know if another leak drops sometime this week itself.

It should, provided a compatible kernel is there.

I have seen one guy in Apex thread who was using Apex 9.x and 10.x on Infuse with Infuse kernel and modem without any significant issue.
[Captivate Android Development] ddoubt:
I don´t know about you but I think I´ll wait a few days till I move my ROM to another base...

Hmm.. cool... I think I´ll mess with that later! :D
[Captivate Android Development] IlluminatedOne:
I guess I will be moving to KK1 (unless something really drops by Friday :D) because KJ3 is not as solid as KH3. And I do hope that gallery issue is fixed in KK1. Although I am gonna run KK1 complete stock for next 2 days to get a feel of it.
[Captivate Android Development] ddoubt:
please let us know how it turns out!
[Captivate Android Development] tmease1:
Does anyone have a kernel yet?