yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sola fide:
Unfortunately there is no simple answer. There seems to be a different fix for different Captivates. Some people claim different ROMs have fixed their GPS while others didn't see a change. Some use different kernels and claim a fix and others did not see a change. Some tried everything and ended up returning their phone and claim the new one was fixed.

It seems that for every successful fix post there are just as many unsuccessful fix posts. The best advice anyone can give you is to continue to look at the posts where people claim a fix and try it yourself. There are a lot of different methods out there. If nothing seems to work and you've bought your phone within the last year - bring your phone back and demand a replacement. No one should have to settle with hardware that isn't working entirely as advertised.

I wish we had a better answer than this. This forum has some incredible users who experiment on their phones not knowing what will happen in the hope it will help others. Take advantage of their notes but remember not everything will work.

Good luck and I hope you find an answer.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wangsc66:
Hi, I have the current firmware is pda:kg9 / phone:kg7 /csc:kg3 (nee) and it says it's the latest firmware in Kies. But in the Android version, it's still 3.1

So why is it and how to update to the latest firmware through Kies? Please help.

Thank you.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wangsc66:
Screenshot attached

hxxp://img6.imageshack.us/img6/8639/18735474.jpg
[Verizon Droid Charge] andrewjt19:
So I flashed back to stock, did the ota update. Rooted with the superuser zip through cwm and deodexed per instructions from danalo1979. I flashed ics fugu tweak. I'm trying to get v6 supercharger to work. It fails- I think its because of the busybox. I don't if it is because it needs installed or its a newer version... Any suggestions? Thanks

EDIT: Solved- downloaded JRummy's app from the market to install Busybox
[Verizon Droid Charge] blueis300:
Thought it had to be below version or at least 1.82 or something like that? Are you running as root?
[Verizon Droid Charge] andrewjt19:
Yes, I figured it out. I download JRummy busbox installer and selected the 1.82 version per the instructions here
[Windows Phone 7 General] deadwrong03:
I've tweeted them @voxer and they told me they have no current plans on bringing it over

http://mobile.twitter.com/voxer/status/143003452509913089

For those who don't know it's a cross platform push to talk app. Currently available on android and iPhone.

I suggest everyone requests the app on here http://support.voxer.com/entries/20685611-voxer-for-windows-phone-7. And in there twitter page @voxer
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
My lady and her friends have been all over this.
[Windows Phone 7 General] deadwrong03:
thats good they're saying its not in their immediate plans hopefully if we can show a demand/want for this app they'll port it over to windows phone 7

even when we finally got KIK over they said they noticed a huge surge in usage of the app it'll only benefit Vox and make us happy over on wp7
[Windows Phone 7 General] brutus_98235:
That woulde be good if we come together.
[Windows Phone 7 General] deadwrong03:
man i just tried this app out on a android phone this **** is amazing its like the kik messenger app but with voice and it integrates with your facebook account so everybody in your phone book and your facebook page with this app is automatically placed into your contacts

we NEED this app on wp7 this is ridiculous its a great app too

ive been getting responses from them on twitter they say theres a update coming and its gonna let u use the app from the web browser but they didnt say if it was gonna work on the phones or not and they still havent said anything about a wp7 app yet
[Windows Phone 7 General] avalon829:
Another way to request Voxer for WP7 is to visit: http://www.voxer.com/m/iwantvoxer
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] livewirevoodoo:
a few notes: all images were kanged from Overstew's ICS theme for Calkin's ROM.

I'm not a themer (hence the .apk files), but I love Jez2cool's Sydicate Ice ROM. So I took the images from Overstew's ICS theme and copied them to the appropriate Syndicate Ice 1.1 apks. No other changes were made.

Crap. Can't link to images (or the framework-res.apk (which is over 8megs) ) because I haven't posted enough. Ummm, bear with me here... Any suggestions on how to get link up?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Nice work! Hope to see more work from you... the locals are ravenous for more themes... I think if u post about 8 more posts throughout the threads you will be able to post that framework...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] livewirevoodoo:
File is too big to post. Would love to get the mediafire link up for everyone tho.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sleshepic:
Hey venum, do you happen to have an empty zip(with the updater script etc) available we could just throw these in to flash?(with like 7zip or something). Sure I could find one if I looked around but it'd be helpful to have one near the top of the thread
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VECTUS:
Lol sure. This is the stock eg30 theme. Keep in mind you will have to resign the zip to get it to run correctly after u add the apks (sorry if u already knew that... u can just delete the extra apks in it...)

http://www.mediafire.com/?b2pgm7gpkbb8bcs
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] livewirevoodoo:
So that would turn it into cwm flashable zip?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sleshepic:
Thanks!

yes that's all you need. If you want take a look at the updater script, in the Meta-infs/Google/com folder i believe? It'll have the language there needed to tell cwm what to do, think you don't want to use just a standard notepad app to write as it may fail.

Edit: sorry, the updater script is in meta-inf/com/google/android
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rickyq12:
Im running ICE right now and love it...porting this theme over would be nice. I like the rom as is, but having options is always nice.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] livewirevoodoo:
Sounds pretty straight forward. I'm gonna take a crack at it this morning post-brunch.

Anyone know where the graphics for the Settings menu (Wireless and network; Call settings; Sound, etc) are located? Would like to change those as well but uncertain where to find them. Thanks.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FULLTIMEIT:
Hi Guys

recently I went to CM7 (with fingerprint scanner) and switched back to Darkside again.

Now i find that my fingerprint scanner do not boot up right away when i switch my screen on, ( I have to wait for a second or 2 before i can swipe and have it read )

or else it won't register the swipe and it will just say please swipe finger sensor

Anyone else had similar problem before?

and yes I do full clean wipes inbetween roms

Thanks
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bruce Lee:
Have you tried any other ROMS to make sure it isn't a hardware issue?

Sent from my Atrix XDA Premium App
[HTC Wildfire S] ShankkOG:
If you would like your idea posted here, please PM me.

This thread's name has been changed from "S-OFF without XTC-Clip conclusions" to "S-OFF without XTC-Clip discussion/ideas/conclusions".

Request: Can moderators please sticky this thread? It is now very popular and we're starting to get somewhere.

​

Hi all!

After hours (well not that much) of research, I hereby give you some conclusions I made about the XTC Clip.

First of all, CDMA phones (A510C) have been cracked without the XTC Clip. And so has the Virgin WFS (with no SIM Slot).

This concludes that S-OFF is related to your phone's network functionality.

Another reason to back this up, is that the XTC Clip has a flex/ribbon cable that connect to your phones SIM slot. This is why the Virgin phone has been cracked.

When S-OFFing your phone with an XTC Clip, you run some XTC software tht creates a goldcard image, and loads the image onto the Micro-SD card you have inserted into the XTC Clip. If you have got hold of the XTC-Clip, can you please send me the software in a .zip folder, as I would like to look into it a bit more.

If you have any theories on how the XTC Clip works, please post them here and I might consider adding them.

On that note, the Bad-Wolf is now going to howl somewhere.

Theories/Ideas:
[HTC Wildfire S] eoghan2t7:
What if you changed the network settings to WCDMA then try the virgin s-off trick?

Edit try

*#*#4636#*#* then goto phone infomation theres a setting in there to change it to cdma

;)
[HTC Wildfire S] ShankkOG:
Good idea! I'll try this when I got some time. Got any links for the Virgin trick?
[HTC Wildfire S] eoghan2t7:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=19448584

;)
[HTC Wildfire S] Tera Tike:
What the XTC-Clip does:

Step 1 - Create the Goldcard and put the PG76DIAG.nbh file on the microSD.

Step 2 - Mimic the HTC service SIM. (Thats why you hook it up to your phone thru the SIM card port)

Step 3 - Press Power and Volume Down to run the PG76DIAG.nbh file in the bootloader.

When I S-off my phone, I hook up the XTC-Clip to my phone using the battery clip (no computer).

Here is a link with the XTC-Clip software to update the device. This might be more helpful to you.

Here is the XTC file. Good luck!
[HTC Wildfire S] m1ndh4x8r:
why not try to flash a cdma rom, then s off the device then back to gsm rom. If it will not brick. dont blame me just an idea. ;)
[HTC Wildfire S] eoghan2t7:
It will brick cuz of different radio.img.

;)
[HTC Wildfire S] Lt.Win:
EDIT:

Changed it, but stuck on JUMPING TO DIAG. Let me try with only the nbh file in the SD.

EDIT 2:

Still JUMPING TO DIAG. :(
[HTC Wildfire S] nowhat?:
it automatically changes back to wcdma preffered....
[HTC Wildfire S] ctt812:
is the file corrupted? my AVG antivirus was trigger off by this file.
[HTC Wildfire S] ShankkOG:
Thanks mate!
[HTC Wildfire S] ShankkOG:
More conclusions please!
[HTC Wildfire S] ShankkOG:
We really have to get this S-OFF thing working!!!!!

Why can't the XTC-Clip people help us?!?!
[HTC Wildfire S] ShankkOG:
They live on people's misfortune!
[HTC Wildfire S] ShankkOG:
One more thing. Can the mods sticky this so that people can look at and post their own conclusion/theories.
[HTC Wildfire S] ShankkOG:
Please pay a little bit of attention to this thread!!!!
[HTC Wildfire S] d33ps1x:
Repost from another thread...Now you have the whole package...

Below is a repost of my goldcard image and explanation from another thread.

Now you have the XTC Clip Plus software and a real deal XTC clip Gold card.

Hopefully you can do something between the two...

Again.

This is a gzip compressed image file of the ENTIRE filesystem of a 2 gig SD used to make an XTC Clip gold card with the PG76IMG file that does the job of patching your phone to S-OFF.

It is usually used in combination with the Clip itself and an Mini SIM cable that goes into the sim slot.

So again this is JUST the XTC Goldcard itself. It is universal for ALL Wildfire S's and all Hboot versions.

DO NOT choose flash rom option after the GSM screen. Choose diagnostics. Clean S58 when you have the chance.

It's not really intended to be used as is but rather as a step towards figuring out how to S-OFF and unlock the sim without hardware involved.

This would be in the general section not developers if it was intended as a finished product.

Used Clonedisk on Hiren's boot CD to restore it to an empty SD card of 2 gig or greater. (2 was the smallest I had)

No other image software!

First make sure the destination card is empty of partions by using Mini Partition Wizard Home Edition (also on Hiren's) or available for free from their website.

Remove all partitions and apply the changes

Load up Clonedisk and choose the proper physical device, not the drive letter of the disk option.

Choose the gz file out of the rar's as your source and then hit restore.

Then you have a true Goldcard from XTC with the proper file for patching things.

The theory being that the goldcard itself may have some unique properties and indeed it's considered an unknown file system in Mini Partition Wizard although computers read it as a readable FAT32 disk and assign a drive letter so there is a curiosity there worth looking into.

Also the only files on the 1.8ish gig image compress with the gzip option to only 334.3 MB which is curious as well considering it only has 2 files on it. One being something like 10 MB and one being zero bytes.

The rest is for people on a much higher pay grade then me. :)

Good luck developers...

In a two part rar file from Dropbox...

XTC-Clip_V2_All_Hboot_Ver_HTC_Marvel_Wildfire_S_Goldcard_Clonedisk_Image.part1.rar

XTC-Clip_V2_All_Hboot_Ver_HTC_Marvel_Wildfire_S_Goldcard_Clonedisk_Image.part2.rar

The single gz image on 4shared:

XTC Clip Gold Card All Hboot Versions For HTC Marvel Wildfire S :cool:
[HTC Wildfire S] ShankkOG:
Although I have no idea what you are talking about. Nice post mate!!! :D
[HTC Wildfire S] island3r:
The S-off (or s-on for that matter) flag is stored inside the radio firmware as it is the only code that is executed right when you power on the device. What revolutionary does is to replace the hboot with a modified one so that it won't check the radio for the s-on flag.

The steps taken by revolutionary are:

1)Acquire temp-root while in android

2)Reboot to fastboot

3)Fastboot flash eng hboot

4)Fastboot flash custom recovery

I guess the part that's missing for the WFS is somewhere between steps 1 and 2.
[HTC Wildfire S] the Doctor:
A little 2+2=4 here: So this is why simply changing the network settings to WCDMA in the test menu (*#*#4636#*#*) won’t work and why the radio.img is different so that flashing a CDMA ROM will brick the phone.

Thanks for the info, islan3r!
[HTC Wildfire S] logout20:
look ..I'm from India ..and this kind of things here are rarly available....there are many users from India here .....if you sell the clip to me I can help many other users free of cost..
[HTC Wildfire S] ONeill123:
That isn't a thread to trade for xtc clip.
[HTC Wildfire S] no.human.being:
@ieftm: First, thank you very much for your reply. However, I'm still uncertain about some of the things you mentioned, as they do not seem to match my observations. Perhaps we're just talking about different things, but you are obviously the more experienced person in this area, so I'll try to ask some more detailed questions.

What do you mean with NVRAM (non-volatile random access memory)? I've only heard this term applied to RAM (e. g. DRAM/SRAM) that has an additional backup power supply so that it does not lose its contents when the main power supply is cut. The CMOS memory on a computer mainboard is what I would call NVRAM. However, I don't see that kind of memory being used on a handset. It's either fully volatile (RAM) or Flash (EEPROM).

If this is so, then how does Android perform over-the-air updates on an S-ON device? Does it first somehow "authenticate" to a lower level firmware (the radio firmware?), which in turn removes the NAND lock? If this is how it is done, couldn't we somehow "fake" this authentication from a process running inside Android with root privileges?

Finally, I don't see the MSM7227 offering "hardware NAND protection" at all. It doesn't seem to be listed on any of the datasheets that are available for this processor or similar models. On controllers that do offer it, once it is enabled, the blocks that are protected can never be written to again over in the entire life of that controller. But obviously, on our devices, they can be written to by HBOOT (when it gets a goldcard/xtc-clip presented) and also by Android itself (when performing over-the-air updates). I don't see how "authorized" software could bypass NAND protection that was implemented on the hardware level.
[HTC Wildfire S] djpc:
Android does not write to /system when performing an OTA, thats why you have to reboot and it goes into the bootloader/updater and flashes to /system so it is more low level than android.
[HTC Wildfire S] no.human.being:
Ok. Then let me get some more theses up and please tell me whether they are right.

The NAND lock is enforced by the memory controller. NAND protection itself is volatile and starts out "unlocked" as the device is powered up. Disabling NAND protection is not possible once it has been enabled. That's why GFree works on eMMC devices, where the memory controller is on the same die as the memory itself, so GFree power-cycles the eMMC and the controller "forgets" about the locks. On "standard NAND" phones, the memory controller is integrated into the CPU and as such cannot be power-cycled without resetting the entire phone, which would cause it to execute the HBOOT code again and this would again lock the memory. This is why GFree doesn't work on "standard NAND" phones.

Is this the right way to think about it? If it is, the only way around it is to somehow get a "hacked" HBOOT/recovery image signed. But it would be really weird if Revolutionary did it that way. If they make use of a well-tested signature algorithm for signing the ROMs, such as RSA, they certainly won't be able to fake the signature. So effectively we just found that S-ON is more or less impossible to break. But obviously it has been broken on other devices by Revolutionary, so it seems that some of the claims we made just can't be valid.
[HTC Wildfire S] djpc:
I cant be 100% sure I am correct on this but i think that what you wrote in the first paragraph is correct. However there are other ways to trick the hboot into s-off like current cdma exploit. I have not looked in detail how it works but I dont think the files are signed. I think i similar method to the CDMA one could be used on the GSM it just needs editing cos there are differences between the cdma and the GSM hboot/radio/everything.

Im not saying this will work and i might need to go back and look at the original threads then the s-off was achieved but i think they were using some of the hacked files from an xtc clipped wfs, this may have been a cdma one and this is why we have had no success with the gsm. it may be the files need editing in some other way to get them to work.

We really need to speak to the guy who developed the cdma s-off solution and get a little more detail on the process. The desire is also a NAND device AFAIK so maybe look into how they cracked it. We need to look at how other NAND devices have gotten s-off cos looking at how eeprom devices did it is useless. I dont actually own the wfs, i have a desire z, its my brothers so i can only do limited testing and devlopment.
[HTC Wildfire S] meanmug:
He didnt develope that solution he used the file that was left on someone else's goldcard after using xtc-clip, it worked because cdma dosen't have a removable sim so no need for xtc-clip.
[HTC Wildfire S] ONeill123:
Schnello has uploaded the diag files from his goldcard after xtc clipping.

I have tried the files, the md5 checksum is different, but doesn't work.

The xtc clip must inserted in the sim slot while working the diag.

Maybe we can emulate a non sim slot phone while the diag files working? Or rewrite the diag files that they don't check for xtc clip.
[HTC Wildfire S] csoulr666:
Rewriting the diag files will be a bit tough......cuz extracting them is a problem....I have tried nbhextract and YANG but both say it to be an invalid nbh file..
[HTC Wildfire S] Balthus1:
Sorry to post a useless message - I've been lurking for a long time and awaiting a solution to this darned s-off issue. Out of all the forums, this one seems to be the most productive. Keep it up and THANK YOU!
[HTC Wildfire S] ONeill123:
I have a question:

What ere the diag files. Are they official from htc or what? And in which programming language they are written, in c?

Is it possible to write a own diag file which only rewrite the secu flag? In which storage adress the secu flag is stored? You can check the flag with fastboot getvar all and then u see the secruity on or off.

And in diag you can select info and see secuflag too. So is this the diag file or what is this?

Please answer to all questions ;)
[HTC Wildfire S] m1ndh4x8r:
I know how xtc clip works to s-off gsm, you need the clip to communicate with the phone otherwise its s-on. come on guys this is algebra in the clouds. find a cellphone shop to s-off your phone. If your not a modder you don't need s-off, maybe need a battery to last for 3 dAys. What you want s-off for? data2sd I know it. link2sd is working on stock roms but its crap. S-OFF only for adults not for kids, sorry I'm just drinking solo of Absolut Mandarin. To drunk ignore this post he he. :D
[HTC Wildfire S] no.human.being:
They have the extension *.nbh and these are ROM images.

This is probably the most important question to answer on our way to S-OFF.

No, you can see HBOOT check for "P76DIAG.nbh" and "P76IMG.nbh" on the SD card when powering the phone in HBOOT mode. When it finds such a file, it will probably flash it ... as long as the file is signed.
[HTC Wildfire S] MikeChannon:
Tread closed at OP request
[HTC Wildfire S] logout20:
Hope so .....why don't we contact alpharevx...we already have all details of xtc clip like manufacturing....

we can contact the guy zulea who claims to programs the original xtc clip software.....he can give all details and solution......
[HTC Wildfire S] SebastianFM:
We don't have eng hboot for WS and on phone with s-on we can't flash modified hboot. Revolutionary tool on phones with emmc flash memory (Sensation, Evo 3D) after temp-root uses exploit to powercycle emmc and disable write protection. It is probably Gfree exploit or something similiar. Gfree was written for Evo 3D. It changes only one byte in one partition to disable security flag.
[HTC Wildfire S] island3r:
Actually, WCDMA is what regular 3G GSM is called. Weird I know ;)

Yes it uses the fre3vo exploit. Nevertheless, older devices with regular nand memory could be s-offed using Alpharev following the same procedure.

Also, I thought I saw the eng hboot floating around here somewhere.
[HTC Wildfire S] Lt.Win:
Yeah, meanmug posted it in some other thread, I don't remember which.
[HTC Wildfire S] ONeill123:
I know, where the eng hboot is posted ;)

Here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20056976&postcount=212

Hope that helps to find a way to s-off!
[HTC Wildfire S] Lt.Win:
Thanks! Has anyone sent the above file to gray clouds?
[HTC Wildfire S] the Doctor:
So then what does CDMA mean in the other menu options on a GSM phone? :eek:
[HTC Wildfire S] island3r:
Nothing, roms are generic and they are the same for gsm/cdma phones. The most important difference the gsm/cdma phones have is the radio.img and of course the kernel of the rom. Apart from that every rom is the same. That's why gsm phones have cdma options that don't work, and cdma phones have gsm options that don't work as well.
[HTC Wildfire S] *se-nsei.:
Yes, I've sent it to him on the chinese forum and his profile on XDA. Haven't heard from him though.
[HTC Wildfire S] :
OK! Nice posts! Sorry for being a troll but......................... I DON'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!

Please don't be offended, I wasn't shouting! It's just the thought raging in my head!
[HTC Wildfire S] island3r:
So, has anyone with a wfs handy (and balls of steel) tried this method? (just the rooting part).

The guide is for the Glacier. But you can try using this hboot, and the latest clockwork image.

(Edit: preferrably someone that hasn't upgraded to the latest ota)
[HTC Wildfire S] ONeill123:
Hmm, the eng hboot posted in the link isn't a image file. It is an nb0-file. IDK how to flash it with the method you posted for glacier.
[HTC Wildfire S] island3r:
Ok, I got hold of my father's wfs for a bit and I tried it out myself. Some observations:

1) The psneuter returned the [1] illegal instruction error, so I used the zergrush method instead to get root.

2) Tried to get the first md5 reading but it turns out the wfs uses a different partition than the Glacier (dev/block/mmcblk0p18)

So I guess the next step is to find out which one.
[HTC Wildfire S] matt5eo:
Another IDEAR!!

We know that we can update system apps, without any problems, down and upgrade them, so why don't we try to rewrite a system app which give us the rights to read and write in the system folder. This would work, I think so..