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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PoorCollegeGuy:
Actually, the companies bid every year to see who makes the Nexus device and Google has explicitly stated that Motorola won't get any favoritism just because they own em.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/15/google-motorola-deal-doesnt-guarantee-a-nexus-droid/

However, that is no my opinion. I'd freaking love a Moto Nexus. Motorola has a superior build quality and since the specs on high end phones are nearly identical nowadays, that's pretty much the defining factor for me. It'll have the best and newest screen/processor/camera/Android technology no matter what, but I'd prefer a nice hefty Moto to a plasticky samsung any day.

The only reason I bought an Epic 4g Touch is because the build quality on it isn't that bad.

As for what I'd choose. Once we get CM7, CM9, MIUI (both Gingerbread and ICS) and just your good old fashioned aosp ports, there will officially be nothing about the Galaxy Nexus that attracts me. The ET is just a better phone. If they'd given the Galaxy Nexus some Exynos goodness and the same 8mp camera, then you guys would never see my ass again :P
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sling:
I would expect Google to release such statement it makes good business sense. Did Samsung buy into it? Heck no.

Will Google follow through ? Heck no.

Be prepared for most Nex builds to be moto for now on.

By the look of the rest of your post I'm sure you wont have a problem with that outcome lol

Adding,

Samsung hiring Cyanogen made a pretty big statement to Google that they wont be undercut.

The next couple years in smartphone world will be interesting.

hmm Samsung Galaxy having both Google & Lic.Cyanogenmod out of the box is a great possibility.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rrmzr1:
+100 LOL seriously tho. I'm feeling like there isn't even a phone that can be compared to this one.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Tiplite2004:
Yeah but the GALAXY NOTE is crushing both of these devices
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Success100:
IF you like phones that big. that joints mean as hell but its a mini tablet. even comes with a pen
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Duce HD2:
I'm not knocking their flagship phone, I wanted one as well, but you have to admit that this phone was pumped up to be a revolution for the android world, but it didn't turn out that way as you can see from plenty of reviews on it. Nevertheless a great phone.

The SGS2 on the other hand turned out to be all the hype that was talked about as we all know, thing's a beast.

I just say it how it is from my point of you, if the epic 4g touch had turned out a pos, I definitely wouldn't have held back...

(Nothing with what you said, just adding to my conversation... :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rockethot:
I played around with my friends Galaxy Nexus the other day. unfortunately I was not as impressed as i was hoping. I'd still take it over my GS2 simply because it's a Nexus device and will always get updates right away. But besides that, GS2 has it beat in all areas besides screen resolution. NFC on our phone would have been nice too
[T-Mobile LG G2x] EEngineer:
Obviously, the Contacts app is very important but the default contacts app misses two features that my LG Renoir used to have.

First, I could place Contacts into different categories that I create (Friends, business, VIP, etc). I can then search or browse contacts by category.

Second, I could choose to block calls from a selected category and send those calls directly to voicemail.

On my LG Renoir this was very valuable to me. If I am out at night with friends, I could have all my Business Category contacts go directly to voicemail without ringing my G2X.

Can anyone please recommend a Contacts app to me that has these features???
[T-Mobile LG G2x] dmj2012:
Contapps is one that comes to mind. A more mature, less cutesy app would be Smartr by Xobni which works best if paired with the gmail app you can install through your browser. Both can connect with various social networks and bring in contacts from various places.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] EEngineer:
Thanks. BTW I absolutely do not want to connect my contacts list to social networking and I don't sync my info with Google. Privacy, etc...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jfunk23crx:
Have tried "Go Contacts?" Works well for me.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] EEngineer:
Does Go Contacts let me put contacts into categories?

Can I choose to send some contact categories straight to voicemail?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] GenghisKhan67:
Check out RocketDial, it should do the trick especially if you need call filtering.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DennisDroid:
Hi Guys

i have a problem

i installed gta 3 on stock firmware and all hardkeys from gamepad works.

Now im on latest CM7.2 RC0 and ony the left control panel works, the x,o and other keys dont work!

Whats the problem?!

please help

thanks
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DennisDroid:
Dont start/load game.

Hope some fix comes out! :(
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DeanBoro:
Cyanogenmod has different key structures to stock ROM. thats exactly why it FIFA 12 does not work correctly on CM7 FXP team have already said they will try and solve these problems as it has nothing to do with FXP team it is to do with the game developers.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] KeiranFTW:
It is because also we think the gamepad is connected to the semc keyboard which can't be installed as of now in CM7.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] justinblaine23:
I saw a thread on the international S2 forum regarding the importance of backing up the /efs folder on the phone so you don't lose the phones imei. I was wondering if this is still a necessity on our phone as well? And if so is there a different process to do it than what they used? They used terminal commands to back it up using terminal Emulator or ADB.

This is the thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1068193
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] amk28:
Its very important..ask me..i lost my IMEI and dint have a back up of the efs folder..had to go to the store and get a new phone under warranty.

Please make a backup of it. ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
After 2 months, someone just had EFS corruption last week - so yes, now I think it's a good idea to back it up.

IMO it would be a good idea to image the partition too...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
Can you verify the partition? Is 0p3 the right one, or is it 0p1? I coundn't find a definitive answer by searching.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
For some reason I thought it was p3, but I was wrong. It's p1:

/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 on /efs type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,barrier=1,journal_checksum,data=ordered)

To back it up, get ADB working, and run the following using ADB while the phone is in CWM recovery and /sdcard is mounted (It often is not when you first enter CWM, mount it in the Mounts and Storage menu if it is not) (If you do this when the phone is running, you may back it up as it is getting written to, which could result in a bogus backup)

adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/sdcard/efs_backup.img
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] justinblaine23:
Thanks for the verification entropy!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
I don't know much about linux commands. Is this how you verified the partition?

Also, am I correct in assuming that if the partition is backed up, it would not be necessary to back up the efs directory using a file explorer? Or is there a reason to have both?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] karth500:
You can also run the command from entropy in terminal emulator on your phone. Do su first to get root and enter the dd command to do your backup.

Sent from my SGH-I777
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
I verified it by executing the following command and looking at the output:

mount

It may be easier to restore a folder backup - not sure. A partition backup is the best way to guarantee you got EVERYTHING in that partition, byte-for-byte.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Edgarhighman:
That's crazy. Cause I don't understand how you learn stuff like that but thanks(aka I'm gonna go do this since I mess with my phone alot.) I followed amk28's troubles. What's the difference between efs backup pro and this mehod? They both backup images
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] purpler:
Hi, here is my collection of wallpapers i used on Wildfire until 10 days ago when i bought myself Motorola Atrix :)

Good bye Wildfire, it was a wild ride.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ez9v9296y73kqae/Wildfire Wallpapers.zip
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] al-ien4:
Very good collection of beautiful wallpapers! Thank you and good luck with the new machine! :)
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] purpler:
My work :) http://purpler.deviantart.com/#/d3jos9c
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] doubleon:
Very nice collection ! Thanks for sharing. :)
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] procyon-1:
Excellent collections of wallpapers
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] yash_p90:
Ill post more. Wait. I probably have them bookmarked. :-)

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[Wildfire Themes and Apps] depende70:
excellent funds, thanks for sharing
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] usaff22:
My brother is getting an Atrix, I'm probably gonna get a Nexus S

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On topic, those wallpapers are awesome. Can't wait to try them.
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] yash_p90:
more wallpapers
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] jithinav:
Thank you for sharing :-)

Sent from my HTC Wildfire
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DAGr8:
Rules of development section are very clear : ' if you didnt create it , then it doesnt belong in the development section .

They are to many clones of my rom / mods right now, what my team asks of other devs right now is if they want they can create mods/theme based of our work not a complete rom we will be glad to post links to these theme/mods in the OP of our rom thread .

I have already pmed some devs and will keep doing it , I am hoping some Mods will acknowledge this thread without the need for me to pm them and report the rom chefs still using our files posting it as there rom .

If you guys out there make mods on your own , we/ I am and always have been happy to be of some assistance to help you make the mods yourself , but using my EXACT ROM FILE then calling it your rom has lasted long enough

Our intention here is not to shut down anyone , we encourage variety , and its great thing for the end user to have more choices , but the truth is if you use our files and throw in a few apk and a few *.pngs its not a rom its a theme or a mod at best and it should be posted in the appropriate section that section is called themes and apps .

We have come to this conclusion as this will help clean up the dev section. and help the end user to know what they are flashing .
[Galaxy S I9000 General] $omator:
keep on whining and you will get 5 points for trolling and then a 2 week ban very soon following :)

what you are rambling about is essence of xda developeers forums and you will not win that fight

what you can do is to create own www and take your users there keepin support on forums like xda and so on but you will not win fight with the copy paste developers on xda :) that again is essence of this place

---------- Post added at 10:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:28 PM ----------

rom section would need some evaluation or WORKING rating systems as stars are not doin the jazz

but only comment i get from top dogs of xda is we are working or it so casual pisof dont ask :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DAGr8:
lmao fun reading but your plain wrong read the xda rules some rom threads have been shut down right here in the i9000 section (not by me) there is a difference between copying the mods of others or using there source .

but downloading there roms, adding a few png /swap a few apk and calling it by another name that is simply NOT development its a Theme , it doesnt belong in Development section , simple asthat

fyi this is not whining its an anouncement that says I use to accept it now I dont simple as that .
[Galaxy S I9000 General] $omator:
FYI it is your right to state your opinion whenever it's right or wrong ;] ive made my statement and am done with you :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hassaan123:
Can you point out which roms have copied your files?? :-D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DAGr8:
you are done with me ? lol ? yea I asked you to come in here and state your opinion , obviously your familiar with the rules *insert sarcasm*

thank you for being done with me, it will save both of us some time as I said read the rules about the work of others ( see bold text in first quote)

fyi accusing me of trolling, I make a valid thread about a subject that is not addressed to you at all Your post in here was absolutely useless and almost of topic ( see second quote down ) so please keep your word and refrain from posting here again , thank you .

and this one is just for you :

no not pointing fingers that was not the intention, the intention is to put it outhere so that devs I havent pmed about this know how we feel about it
[Galaxy S I9000 General] $omator:
oftop: why do you like to use the FOR YOUR INFORMATION so much :)

you use it much in real life ? or what is the story behind it (you can pm me about that)

also please do not input statements i did not made mkay?

maybe calm down and read what i wrote but this time try to understand it ;] so such invasion would not happen next time you reply

anyways if you want to discuss more please use my pm :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pauldiddy:
but it's the truth,sadly to mention that,but it is
[HTC Sensation] Stephen:
I have the sensation with:

stock rom 1.50

stock kernel 2.6.35

stock radio 10.14.9035.01_m

I have noticed that on stand by I get really good battery life, but when I make or receive a phone call the battery really drops. I had a 5 minute phone call and battery dropped 4% Can I change radios or kernels to try and improve battery life during phone calls?
[HTC Sensation] rddocke:
That seems about right for stock everything. You COULD always try a new radio but you will need to be rooted. First
[Gen9 Android Development] Tha0lia:
Good post.

Thanks for the information
[Gen9 Android Development] cajl:
it is great
[Gen9 Android Development] scholbert:
Hi letama,

interesting thread again ;)

Nothing to add...

I found out that a second mbr is placed at the beginning of the "virtual" mmc block device 1. So the internal eMMC chip of the Gen8 devices additionally requires a special layout.

Going down to hardware level, it seems that Archos went back to use raw NAND flashes instead of eMMC for the Gen9 devices.

I found a FCC document of the Archos 80 G9 showing one 8GByte NAND flash device placed on the mainboard.

Could be a prototype as well...

Additionally it could be possible, that the mtd block layout is already handled inside bootcode.

Anyway, what does a cat /proc/partitions print out?

Regards,

scholbert
[Gen9 Android Development] a1Pha:
/proc/partitions:

major minor #blocks name

7 0 159412 loop0
179 0 7282688 mmcblk0
179 1 51200 mmcblk0p1
179 2 195359 mmcblk0p2
179 3 7840 mmcblk0p3
179 4 7028160 mmcblk0p4
[Gen9 Android Development] letama:
Hi Scholbert,

Thanks! :)

Well, kind of, it's not really a special layout. From userspace linux point of view, the two virtual mmcs are regular disks, they could be formatted, partitioned, etc.

The mmc driver is doing all the "magic" (mmc_block.split kernel command line parameter):

- for virtual mmc0, virtual sector is mapped to physical sector 0 - split

- for virtual mmc1, virtual sector is mapped to physical sector split - end.

So, the second mbr is coming from a regular disk initialization, nothing special.

We're still eMMC afaik.

No, gen9 has regular partition scheme, I was able to repartition it without problem... The only difficulty is to do it without killing the device by accident as if you want to keep the 4 partitions layout, you have to kill system and data (and data means also internal storage) partitions, be sure that you don't kill rawfs partition in the process then rebuild them.

Nothing very complicated per se, I would do a ram only initrd with backup of system/data/storage via adb or on microsd. However, as microsd slot is not completely stable for me, the fullly automated option is a bit risky.

My /proc/partitions is this now :)

major minor #blocks name

179 0 7282688 mmcblk0
179 1 51200 mmcblk0p1
179 2 439487 mmcblk0p2
179 3 7840 mmcblk0p3
179 4 6784032 mmcblk0p4
[Gen9 Android Development] Tha0lia:
Hi Letama,

I see you have modify your part scheme but mmcblk0p2 is your android root part (like loop img) ?

You have rewrite your bootloader ? or just android kernel/initramfs (not SDE kernel/initramfs) ?

Have a nice day !

Thaolia
[Gen9 Android Development] letama:
Hi Tha0lia,

Yes, my p2 is now rootfs+system, it's the content of the img, but directly on the partition, formatted as ext4.

No, it's not the bootloader, bootloader doesn't know anything about partition layout.

Like I explained, I did it by patching the recovery as it will recreate partitions if it detects if a partition is missing. Then, I deleted my system and data partition, rebooted in recovery to have it recreate the whole disk. Last was to modify SDE/Main kernel initrd to mount this partition instead of the loopback device.

You can't do this if you don't have a tool to flash recovery/main kernel. I wrote one, but as it's very dangerous for the tablet, I'm reluctant to let it out.

Back on the subject, this is something that could be done with sde only with a properly written initrd. The only downside is that if for some reason recovery detects a partition problem, it will revert to the old layout, but it should work. The other downside is that "stock boot" on main kernel will only work if you dedicate enough space to hold both the squashfs and the rootfs files. Mine doesn't have too as I modified also stock boot, but again, to do that, you need to flash rawfs init file and special flasher.

I don't have enough time (and energy, enough formats these days :)) to do the SDE initrd right now, we'll see if someone takes the baby and if it's really worth it.
[Gen9 Android Development] Tha0lia:
Woaw ! Good work ! Thanks for the complementary informations.

So my hack ("abcbox reboot_into -s sde" at boot) is more secure than flash rawfs if i have understood well.

Last question (sry ^^"), but do you have made a serial connection with your tablet for debugging or dev your rawfs flasher ?
[Gen9 Android Development] scholbert:
Yeah sure, i just wanted to point at that mbr...

Considering the device names it seems eMMC is used, makes sense as this is newer/better technology.

Maybe the FCC doc is of interested.

See attachment... on this device a NAND flash (H27UCG8UDA) is used.

This is definitely raw NAND.

So maybe this is a pre-series model...

Your power supply should be fail-safe at this point :p

Yeah cool stuff... still on my Gen8 though.

Keep on hackin'

scholbert
[Gen9 Android Development] letama:
Yes, the reboot_into -s sde is a good solution to keep booting on sde...

Unfortunately, no, I don't have serial connection. I'd love to have one, not really for rawfs flashing, it's not that difficult, but more for kernel dev, it would help a lot. But opening stuff and soldering things is not my best skill, I'm a bit reluctant to do it yet, at least without a backup device handy :)
[Gen9 Android Development] letama:
Hi Scholbert!

Yes, maybe... Someday I'll get the courage to open up this thing, I'm sure :)

Better be! :)

Well, in fact, it's not such a big deal if it crashes in the middle, recovery will handle partition rebuild, but oups, reformat, flash again stock, re-root, re-enable sde, reflash sde initrd, retry, .... better be.

Good news coming from this front ;)
[Gen9 Android Development] letama:
A little up, I updated first post with some news...
[Gen9 Android Development] gen_scheisskopf:
Nice :)

So what are default (safe) offsets?
[Gen9 Android Development] letama:
Well, don't do anything before end of mmcblk0p2 end block (10760 if you stay in default fdisk mode). Check your partition table before to get the proper value, mine is not a good example as it has been resized before to 300M, normal is 200M.

Basically, get your current mmcblk0p3 start and reuse this number (you may need +1, but fdisk will adjust)
[Gen9 Android Development] scholbert:
Hey letama,

i'm in with my new A80 G9.

Quite nice device, but also suffering a little on this display issue.

Don't care much because... you may guess it already... i'm going to look inside the next days.

I'm a bit afraid though, because everything is held together with these plastic clamps. Hopefully i'm not gonna break anything.

Anyway a new thread will be born soon and i'll report my findings (boot_mode signals & other stuff :D).

Enough small talk...

As you pointed out you are using a real ext4 partition already.

This might be my plan as well, because i don't like this loop mounting on real devices as well.

Yesterday i installed the latest ICS ext4 image file from surdu_petru.

So if i understand it correct this attempt is basically pretty similar to SDE image on Gen8.

If i got it right stock (unrooted squashfs image) and custom (rooted ext4 image) share the same data partition in this case.

What if we reduce size of mmcblk0p4 to increase mmcblk0p3, put our custom rootfs in it as a real filesystem.

Why did you increase mmcblk0p2 instead... in this case we'll have to wipe the stock image completely, right?

So no dual boot anymore...

Could you leave some thoughts on this?

Best regards,

scholbert
[Gen9 Android Development] letama:
Hi Scholbert,

Cool! Nice to have you onboard with g9!

You purchased SD or HD model ?

Anyway, no, on both models, squashfs.secure is on p2 system partition, rooted ext4 is on data on p4 (internal storage is also on data for SD model) .

Yes, that's what I did. You can use p3 as ext4 directly, or you can use p3 as extended and create 3 partitions into this extended partition like I did. Check first post at the top, you'll see that, p3 extended, with p5, p6, p7 (p8 doesn't work). Benefit is that you dual boot on two custom rom and I needed a separate cache partition for clockworkmod recovery.

This was my first tentative, it was before Archos told me that p3 is for us and that we can do whatever we want with it. As I didn't know that, I didn't touch p3, extended p2, and put both squashfs.secure and my unpacked rooted build on it. Dual boot was working, but it's less elegant than what I currently have.

PS: if you do that, be careful when you reformat p4, you have to leave unused blocks at the end for drm I guess. Check recovery, it has the math.

If you want, I can give you my script to do it. I can even give you my ram only initrd with adb+cwm, you can then umount everything from adb then re-partition and format properly. Without ram only, you won't be able to umount and kernel will not refresh partition table.

PPS: careful with empty space for bootloader ;)
[Gen9 Android Development] scholbert:
Hey letama!

SD model, don't like moving parts in mobile devices.

Yeah sure... i refered to the loop mount of an ext4 file.

I knew it got stored on p4, so this partition is used for different purpose then and no fat anymore.

Mmmh o.k. tweaking p3 and p4 would be sufficient i guess.

After shrinking p4, it would be a nice idea to use:

p3 = extended

p5 = system

p6 = data (seperated for the custom system)

Some mountpoints will have to be tweaked then...

O.k. got it. I agree that p3 is a gift.

Thanks for the hint, i'll step through the scripts first :cool:

Would be helpful indeed, thanks a lot for offering need my mail address.

May send you a PM.

Thanks for the warning but i'm aware of this Archos specialty.

Best regards,

scholbert
[Gen9 Android Development] gen_scheisskopf:
Don't forget about /cache- CWM needs it.

Or /cache as ramdisk?

Only in kernel init, stock recovery won't touch p3 and p5-7 unless partition table would have to be rebuild (BTW- in ICS p2 size is increased from 200 to 300 MB)