yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] niko1986:
I was in the same boat, I couldn't decide whether to root our not.

I recommend doing your research, think allot if you actually need rooted apps. Then decide on a method of rooting.

Zergrush is the best method if you just want root access. Its the method I used, plus you can easily flash a new kernel using an app like Mobile Odin.

If you feel you don't NEED root don't do it. Messing on with a phone will void the warranty and possibly irreparably damage it.

Good luck :D
[Galaxy S II General] sxi200:
I believe forum's are a great place for asking questions, but an even better place for researching all you need to know. So is Google.

****, when I first started off with the S1 I had no idea about android. But through reading alone I learnt how to obtain download mode (mine didn't have it), spoof product code in kies, flash all sorts through Odin and cwm, as well as root and more.

I didn't care about root until I downloaded titanium backup which requires it. I therefore wanted root access.
[Galaxy S II General] curioct:
what ever you do as soon as you root back up the /efs folder (immediately first thing you should do after rooting no matter what!)
[Galaxy S II General] poch_1421:
i only rooted my phone because i wanted to use setCPU to save battery.
[Galaxy S II General] Harsha Raj:
Since you would like to play Tegra games and the only way in S2 is root and use chainfire 3D. Just root it off and enjoy it :)
[Galaxy S II General] MagicMan3:
With superoneclick you have the option to unroot. Would Samsung know that it's been rooted and still void warranty?
[Galaxy S II General] Athavan:
Unrooting will unroot the device.. It can be done in every other methods also.. But your custom binary counter will increase.. Simply, yes it is possible to find that the device is rooted even after unrooting, unless you reset your binary counter..
[Galaxy S II General] pachi72:
Titanium Backup=reason to root
[Galaxy S II General] gr4ndm4st3r_bl4ck:
Also , Sixaxis Controller app is so sweet if you own a PS3. You seem like the gaming type so you could get a PSX emulator, download your favorite ROMs and whack it off with your PS3 dualshock. Imagine playing Metal Gear Solid on your SGS2 ( looks better then on a real PSone actually :) :)

altough configuring the app is a pain in the a$$

PS. the amount of customization you can do when you root is immense!
[Galaxy S II General] Dmonty:
Use [ROOT] SG2 Easy Rooting Toolkit from zergRUSH - This doesn't increase the custom counter... Very easy to do, unroot is simple also.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1321538
[Galaxy S II General] fred_up:
The simple answer (my favourite type) is don't root.

If you require to run an app that requires root or you want to replace a system app or you just want to tweak the system, then you need to root.

Rooting is simple enough and so is it for getting it back to warranty condition.
[Galaxy S II General] MagicMan3:
Is there a way to reset your binary counter?
[Galaxy S II General] BigMrB:
Do this before changing roms etc.... It isn't a full on root with changing kernal and roms etc.. BUT you can use titanium and cachemate etc... I only rooted to restore backup from previous android devices

I don't think it voids warranty

Then if you want to change your rom etc you can do it later and change your kernal etc

Tbh though, i agree with an earlier comment, if you need to ask why, you probs dont need to root
[Galaxy S II General] sxi200:
Yes there are multiple ways and a ship load of threads on how to reset it.
[Galaxy S II General] Athavan:
Surely you can...
[Galaxy S II General] coolius:
Five Great Reasons to Root Your Android Phone - Lifehacker
[Galaxy S II General] urbanjas:
Lots of mixed reviews from many different types of users makes for a hard decision. I think that if you have a fair bit of patience for "Reading And Searching, Searching and Reading" ***very Important to remember. It's how you get very popular here***. If you think you would enjoy seeing exactly what this amazing phone is capable of, stay ahead of the curve and have a phone that will endure time, then go for it. Also, you truly can make it as easy or as difficult as you like. In my time with Droids (started at 0), I have yet to find a problem that wasn't able to be solved by the many great people here.

And remember to

take your time

and never panic. My phones go to there graves from being driven over, dropped 50' and yes they've even seen the bottom of a well flushing "shizzer", but I have yet to brick one permanently. TY, TY, TY "XDA".

Well, I hope that helps and if you go for it, have fun and good luck.

Now what did that guy say about SGS2's and my PS3!!?? Off I go to search and read!!

I know... I should def be more thankful with my "Thanks". Workin' on it!
[Galaxy S II General] gr4ndm4st3r_bl4ck:
I'm glad i mentioned something you consider worth rooting your phone for. Go for it! :)
[Galaxy S II General] Harsha Raj:
Hey do I needed to have a PS3 in order to make this work? Just the ROM and emulator will do?
[Galaxy S II General] MagicMan3:
Just being able to change the screen density is worth rooting for me. Love how the S2 looks at 202dpi
[Galaxy S II General] zee54:
I have had my phone over 6 months now and still haven't rooted it as I have no reason to. I kinda like touchwiz and the general speed/feel of the phone, so no need for custom roms.

Tbh I only just flashed my first firmware using odin the other day 'cos i saw 2.3.6 was out and couldn't be asked waiting for a kies release.

I had a HTC Hero before this and the I rooted it so I could use apps2sd and that's it, I never used any of the other superuser options.

So I guess I will only root if I find a good enough reason to root :)
[Galaxy S II General] damienloh:
Why do you need to lower the dpi from 218 to 202?
[Galaxy S II General] vyis:
i root to remove all those bloat that come with my carrier and samsung (and apply V6 supercharger script), by the way, there is one easy rooting method that doesn't require you to flash unsecure firmware, keeping all stock with just added busybox and superuser.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1321582
[Galaxy S II General] damienloh:
I successfully done this root.

But when I use Root Explorer, it said the file system is read only.

Is there something missing?
[Galaxy S II General] Athavan:
Then u might not have been rooted.. Repeat the rooting procedure..
[Galaxy S II General] damienloh:
Just realised Root Explorer default to R/O. :)
[Galaxy S II General] gr4ndm4st3r_bl4ck:
To play PS1 games on your phone you only need an emulator and roms. You would need a PS3 controller to use it instead of the on-screen software controls to play ( by using sixaxis controller app) , but it is not obligatory, you can play without it fine.

So no, you don't need a PS3 :)
[Galaxy S II General] WebghostDK:
If you got a HTC phone with Sense UI then yes, root it to flash a non sense rom.

On the galaxy, only if you cant live without
[Galaxy S II General] Pineapple Express:
It's meaningless if u have an Android phone without rooting it! +1 for rooting.

But it's up to you :D
[Galaxy S II General] lysp:
Definitely. Opens up so many more options for apps.
[Galaxy S II General] zaint:
For me. Just root !! It can do anything that I want
[Galaxy S II General] Skellyyy:
My sig. /10 char

= What are you even doing asking whether or not you should root your phone on XDA?! =
[Galaxy S II General] Gnarfsan:
I for one can't beleive how much faster my phone have become after I have installed a custom ROM and Kernel plus tweaked it a bit. I'm getting far better battery life too.

I would root mine. Dunno if it will void your warrenty though.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renoow:
Hi,

I'v just installed CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 11 - by Koush on a I9020T with I9020XXKF1 radio and I can't connect to wifi.

in the dmesg, I have the following message when enabling wifi :

Firmware version = w10 : Feb 11 2011 17:01:05 version 4.218.248.23

wlan0: broadcom Dongle host Driver mac=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx correct mac address

current firmware_path[]=/vendor/firmware/ff_bcm4329.bin

GOT STA FIRMWARE

SET firmware_path[]=/vendor/firmware/fw_bcm4329.bin , str_p:bf06d8e8

wl_iw_set_country: set country for PF as PF rev -1 is ok

set ISCAN for wl_iw_conbined_scan_set failed with -22

the stange thing is that I can share my 3G connexion thru wifi but can't see any wifi network even with wifi analyser...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrike011:
Flashed radio 20.48.30.0822U_3822.09.08.20_M, after process which was succesful phone stucked in white logo. Any help plese

Hboot is 2xxxx (newest)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stankyou:
You posted on the wrong device section bud.

This section is for HTC Desire not HTC Desire S.

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1030
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LTU:
So, everytime i overclock my Wildfire, doesnt't matter if through cyanogenmod settings, or through CPU Master, or SetCPU. Settings goes back to 352-576Mhz after some time, how do I overclock it permanently? Also, what is the Perflock? When i click Disable Perflock, nothing happens
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkhShadow:
When I was running cm7 I had no problems with overclocking, reflash maybe?

Per flock is something in some HTC kernels that prevents over/underclocking, so its not in cm7 as it has its own kernel.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Winamp_zg:
when you are using programs like CPU Master you have to check "Set on boot"

also I never had problems with overclocking
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LucidSomnia:
That is also up for using the cyanogenmod settings. Plus I also never had overclocking or underclocking problems.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .xxx.:
Guys... When you overclock, what does it really do to your phone??? And what are its advantages??
[LG Optimus 3D] kurnik_94:
Can anyone post a video (review) of the LG Optimus 3D running Android GB 2.3.5, please?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Accessories] shadowdogg:
Hi,

I am thinking about getting a new battery as the stock one just doesn't last long. Does anyone know the capacity of the stock one? I really don't want to open the back to just check capacity (yes I am a lazy ********). As if its something like <1000 mAh, I may as well upgrade.

Also, I was looking at:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GOLD-2430...678?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2eb89962de

Anyone tried that battery?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Accessories] vallentine:
Stock battery have - 1350 mAh
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Accessories] klinker:
OMG :confused:

I order this battery 5 days ago. We will see :p
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Accessories] kmarci:
Read this: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=19768839&postcount=92 :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Accessories] Rushyang:
WOA!:confused:

Who said you need to open the case to check stock battery capacity?? You could also Google it. :p

& yeah, That battery is good. I have read reviews. It is definitely better than stock one.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Accessories] CallMeVentus:
I heard from the other thread that it's missing a failsafe mechanism
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Accessories] -SGA-:
If you check the listings on a number of the batteries some sellers disclaim that the battery capacity is claimed by the manufacturer and they have no responsibly for the actual capacity typically around 1000 mAh... But if you buy it and it works out let me know because I would want one too!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PondaRox:
this is a long story, so bear with me, please:

i used to be on JPKH1 (this was the rom that came out of the box)

i was on XXKI3 when i decided to flash nightly #116 of CM7. i followed the instructions, got it working and had no real issues. however, i felt like CM7 made my phone old-ish (loved it otherwise), so i decided to return to a custom rom. prior to all this, i was on VillainROM 3.0

i flashed XWKJ3, business as usual, and then Batista70 rom. when i did that, something...strange, happened. none of the system functions worked (SNS sync, android system ringtones, etc.). i was overall dissatisfied with it, so i switched to Omega rom 6 XT.

i did that, and installed the relevant version of ICS domination theme by vertumus, and that's when it first happened - both the camera AND android system ringtones were force closing. also, when a system notification came on the unfortunate moment my phone was asleep, there would be a moving pixel on the screen and nothing else until i woke the phone up. nothing i did would fix it, and believe me, i tried EVERYTHING (restore nandroid, fix permissions, reflash rom). at last, i factory reset it, which did the trick but took some of the 'omega' out of 'omega rom'

i flashed stock XWKJ3, factory reset, flashed Omega 7 XT, and the problem persisted. it starts whenever i reboot the phone, for any reason, even if it doesn't change anything on the phone (just a simple power on/power off)

now i was pissed, and went back KI3 and VillainRom 3 and all SEEMED good. there were VRTweaks i wanted to use, but the above DID happen, after all. i rebooted into CWM recovery, took a nandroid, booted up again and sure enough, 'it' happened AGAIN!!!

this has me driving myself crazy, and no one on the Omega thread seems to believe in the existence of my post there (that's how well they're ignoring it). WHAT SHOULD I DO?!!!

by the way, i have NEVER flashed a .PIT file (since i've read in so many places not to touch that thing on the S2) and my binary counter is at a service-center-scaring 7. and for the love of god, don't just read this and go away (that's happened to me before), GIVE ME A HAND!!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paradoxxx:
Stock rom via odin, and reroot.

Sent from HydrOG3N MOD S2.

Technology Evolves, Android Evolves.

HydrOG3N is THE Revolution.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PondaRox:
tried that already

flashed KJ3, then omega 6

flashed KJ3, then omega 6

flashed KJ3, then omega 7

flashed KI3, then villainrom 3.0

or were you implying something else?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omegajester:
Try wiping dalvik/partition/cache before and after installing the custom ROM
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PondaRox:
I do that out of habit when installing custom roms, as in the above cases
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcadam:
Have you tried fixing permissions? Might be worth a try
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheFaixy:
the pixel on the screen is because of app called noLED or something like that just uninstall it like any other apk and your that problem will be solved it automatically installs when you flash OMEGA ROM
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PondaRox:
@thefaixy: well, solved i guess

@macdam: nope :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mungulz:
Random but I had an issue on my phone that followed me through different ROMs and kernels like some sort of ghost.

Turned out to be a corrupted video file in my ext SD card which was basically crashing the phone constantly and causing all sorts of strange issues.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PondaRox:
thanks for the suggestion, mungulz, but i suppose we don't have the same problem. i went through all my internal AND external data and saw nothing out of the ordinary

on that note, introducing another twist in this ridiculous predicament, NO app (and with the exception of root explorer, NO app) can see my songs (external sd). if i use root explorer to force an app to use it, the app force closes
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PondaRox:
and just a thought, but i keep fixating on the .PIT file. your thoughts?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veyka:
Have you done a full wipe including user data? Might be something left over that us causing issues, take a titanium backup first though
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PondaRox:
if you mean the CWM one, then yes, plenty of times. basically, each time i flashed something on the phone in this period, i factory reset. if i do it now, that will temporarily solve the problem and i'm pretty sure of it. one reboot later, i'll be back in hot water

i'm aware, of course, that there are other ways of factory resetting...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gasmias:
1) Flash Stock KI3, with pit file and re-partition

2) Back up everything including the int. SD to my PC.

3) press *2767*3855# it will completely wipe your device.

4) Once phone reboots, place custom rom and pictures + titanium backup onto the int. SD

5) Flash a custom Kernel

6) Reboot recovery, wipe data, wipe system, Flash Rom.

7) Reboot and restore the DATA only

or without pit file and uncheck re-partition
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PondaRox:
i had to go for tuition, so i couldn't do all the things gasmias said; just factory reset with *2767*3855# and then restored the apps ONLY with TB. and...my phone is back!

huge thanks to all of you for trying to help (lol, too many thanks buttons to press) :p. i guess it was just corrupt left overs. but dammit, now i'm scared of putting VRTweaks back in :confused:. eh, i'll take a nandroid back up

in light of these events, anything i should keep in mind for my future flashing endeavors?
[GT540 Optimus General] droid000:
I have installed Cygwin and packages and I have put kitchen in C:\cygwin\home\username

And when I launch cygwin I type this:

cd kichen (that works)

./menu (here i get error. It says The aplication 'java' is not installed. The kitchen will not function properly without it, etc...)

What to do??

P.S. Java JDK and JRE is installed on my PC
[GT540 Optimus General] jhonnyx1000:
I'm not that familiar with Cygwin and kitchen but maybe 'sudo apt-get install java' works?
[GT540 Optimus General] droid000:
It says: bash: sudo: command not found
[GT540 Optimus General] jhonnyx1000:
Do 'su', then 'apt-get install java'.
[GT540 Optimus General] droid000:
when I type 'su' i get: user root does not exist

when I type 'apt-get install java' i get: bash: apt-get: command not found
[GT540 Optimus General] jhonnyx1000:
I think those commands are not available or are not in PATH. Is the environment linked to the computer's operating system, meaning Do you have access to your computer's files from Cygwin?
[GT540 Optimus General] droid000:
This is in my path:

C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\android-sdk-windows\tools

I don't have access to my computer files from cygwin
[GT540 Optimus General] jhonnyx1000:
I found http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=5626300&postcount=3 (I don't know if you're that)

It shows how to use Kitchen with Cygwin.
[GT540 Optimus General] droid000:
Nope, still the same
[GT540 Optimus General] eoghan2t7:
im working on a cygwin auto installer with java so keep your eye out :)

;)
[GT540 Optimus General] droid000:
Nice, notify us when done :)
[GT540 Optimus General] Zahovay:
Still not ready yet?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] DUTCH Van Atlanta:
There appears to be some problems with the Phone Finder/Device Location/Ring application/feature on HTCSense.com. Follows is the reply I received from HTC Support:

Has anyone else been experiencing this?

I'm reposting this again, since it was inadvertently removed.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] ronnie498:
It was deleted because you had 2 posts of the same problem.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] DUTCH Van Atlanta:
Please point me to the 2nd one; and do feel free to delete this one, if it is indeed a duplicate post.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jngtt:
it does works sometimes...
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] radi0chik:
I haven't tried it yet, I have enough issues with my battery going down, I feared this would just drag it down more. Does it seem to make batt life worse? I wonder how often it "checks in" to the mothership...
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jaxboater:
HTCSense has been hit or miss (mostly miss) from day one.

I haven't notice any additional battery drain.

It you try the phone finder it Wii provide the last known GPS location and will start the GPS. If no GPS then you'll get 'tower location'.

I haven't tried the ringer option on the Vivid yet.

When it worked on the Inspire it was fairly loud.

sent from my HTC
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] radi0chik:
I've been using an app called moostrax (.com) on my blackberry to do similar "where am I" type things for friends to find me on holiday trips and such. They now have an android app and you can make your own maps/websites for it. Think I'll stick with that instead of HTC's version.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cds80:
Hi guys,

I'm at my wit's end with this one.

I have a 1.2GB data.img file created with Clockworkmod Recovery backup. I believe it was one of the older versions, in the 3.x.x.x range. When this was created I had plenty of space available on the SD and the MD5 was created successfully.

I have had no luck restoring this with any version of CWM. Restoring simply results in a system that won't boot; I am presented with either a black screen or a boot-loop. I have since learned that this is because my backup has too many files. Apparently CWM is hard-coded to restore a maximum of 10,000 files and will not restore anything past that point. I found a thread where someone had edited the source code to increase this limit to 50,000, compiled and flashed it, then successfully restored their backup. Aside from the initial editing, I would not know where to start to do this for my phone (SGS2)

Furthermore, I cannot extract the contents with unyaffs.exe for Windows. When I try to do this, it extracts a small portion of files (around 170MB), then exits with the following report :

read image file
: Bad file descriptor
read image file
: Bad file descriptor

I have since learnt that this is due to NTFS limitations with the length of pathnames. 'No problem' I think, and decide to install Ubuntu 11.10 so that I can use the linux version of unyaffs to extract the full thing without these limitations.

After a bit of messing around, I successfully compile the unyaffs source (I'm no expert in these matters). I then attempt to extract data.img and after a short while processing I get another error! :

Segmentation fault

Out of interest, I checked how much data had been extracted and got 9,544 items, totalling 204.2 MB. So I'm roughly 1 GB down.

Please help, you might not believe the hours I've spent to get to this stage and I still can't get all of my data back. I need my contacts (Google didn't back them up apparently), messages, app data and anything else I can get my hands on. If there's a better utility I can use for extracting, or perhaps a modified version of CWM I can flash onto my SGS2 so that I can restore the backup properly, I'm all ears.

Look forward to any responses and thanks in advance.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cds80:
Just to update, I have now tried ext2explore on Windows 7, as well as yaffs2 explorer on Android. Both will open the .img file but display a blank window.
[HTC Sensation] Ultrakiller:
I tested skype and sipdroid.

Once connected through wifi (signal very strong) doing call bringing the phone to ear (without hands-free), screen goes black (caused by proximity sensors) call start to be unstable causing a lot of lags, just move away from the phone ear, the screen turns on again, I notice that the call back high quality.

In hands-free mode no issue over wifi....and the strange thing: with 3g connection, hands-free or with phone on my ear, quality is very good,no lags, no issue!!! :(:confused::eek:

This issue happened with STOCK rom ( 1.50.401.3 - s-on) and custom roms (s-off).

Can someone do some test?
[HTC Sensation] Ultrakiller:
SOLVED:

Over Settings / Wireless & Networks / Wi-fi Settings

Menu button -> Advanced

Enable Best Wi-Fi performance item! :o:o

(htc wrote under this setting "May consume more power"...it's incomplete, more power and more stability through wifi calls -.-' )
[HTC Sensation] tibere86:
Thank you so much!!! Finally I have lag free Skype calls.
[HTC Desire S] shrike011:
I flashed 20.48.30.0822U_3822.09.08.20_M radio, from recovery, everything went fine, but after reboot phone is stucked at white logo. Hboot is 2xxx (new). Phone is s-off and rooted

Help pls...
[HTC Desire S] shrike011:
Solved! :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1178143&page=43

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