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[HTC Wildfire S] rkleinhenz:
So here's another marvelc wannabe chef that made it to this thread with the same questions. I thought my problem was not having a marvelc file in my edify_defs... thought the _template indicated I needed one.

Corrupted misc... wow... how is that fixable? Or how can I verify whether I have a corrupt misc?

Here is my problem, perhaps someone has ideas how to proceed. I am fairly new to this, as you may guess since I am here and am asking questions :-) I downloaded some ROMs that simonsimons34 cooked up. When I flashed them, the phone would get stuck on boot, on the mfg logo screen. adb logcat would not capture anything when I tried. (I have captured it for a working ROM boot, so I think I know how to do it). I also inspected the recovery.log and found nothing weird there. Then I downloaded 2 versions from insink71 and they both booded, but the newer one had issues running, which for now is beside the point. Point is they BOOTED! So now I tried to cook my own. Trying to start simple I made no modifications, just sent a known working nandroid through the kitchen and recompiled and it get stuck trying to boot. Again no output to logcat, recovery.log looks good. So I came across the edify_defs in the kitchen tools and figure that's where my problem is. build.prop has ro.product.name=marvelc and _template tells me I need a marvelc file. Of course I don't know the mount points. So now I read you don't need it? And insink71 says his ROM did not use a marvelc?

Any pointers from thos that have gone down this road would be greatly appreciated! My environment:

phone HTC Wildfire S Virgin Moblie, A510c

windows 7

oracle VM VirtualBox

linux 11.10 with java6

DsiXDA kitchen 0.183

Regards,

Rich
[HTC Wildfire S] insink71:
help

Ummm all my roms have been for marvelc and all have booted and run decently [by most accounts]; you had a unactivated phone. I would guess that my first build [from shortly after root] was activated. Team marvelUSc will always release working boots; which, should work activated or not because they're using base roms from official RUUs to build with. Until yesterday, I was just working from copies; but today I have RUUs thanks to the wizardry of Football [see first stickied thread in development, contact him, donate to his work- he will probably share openly after he receives enough donations to cover his expenses gathering them] Other roms have been written for marvelc [some of which, may have failed to boot]; not my concern. Whether or not one has a marvelc device to test with [which is what I relayed to you]; potential concern for development; but not mine since I do have a marvelc and I do test my roms. Having a non-booting rom; that would be a grave concern [if it happened to me or the new team; also formed yesterday]...

The kitchen is a tool that people can try, or even [contrary to opinion] developers can use it too [and teach people how to get started; which being helpful and relaying knowledge; which, is the sect of XDA I'm from]. There are other tools as well.

Yesterday, when I got official RUUs, I tried to do the smart thing; [team build]. Simonsimon34 thought it a decent idea, I handed him the vm RUU. I went to who I believed to be a US Cellular developer [see the informative post above... though I won't mention names]; he was busy writing a post launching personal attacks at me [which have already been deleted], I withheld the USCC RUU meant for him. It was my intention to look at MetroPCS, and I did that briefly and made a rom [that boots and works] from it with dsixda's kitchen. If yesterday I sent you a message when my blood pressure was through the roof; I apologize. I will continue to help you privately via email on the version numbers etc for kichen if you wish. Just wanted to tell my perspective.

Rob
[HTC Wildfire S] rkleinhenz:
Thanks, Rob, I took no offense to posts or email from you, all info I got from you has been helpful. There's one more bit of info I have I forgot in the summary above: I had a PM from someone who ALSO had an unactivated phone, and he had no problem flashing and booting simonsimons34's ROM which failed to boot for me! So it's probably not the fact that mine is not activated... I really thought I was doing something fundamentally wrong until I downloaded your ROM and it booted fine. Now I am planning to look through the kitchen scripts to learn more about the process of making a ROM. I'm fairly tenacious and will get this to work some day :-) I'll email you with something you may be able to help me with.

Regards,

Rich
[HTC Wildfire S] zero13th:
so... in summary,

can someone create a template or upload a 'working' kitchen to cook custom ROM for marvel/c?
[HTC Wildfire S] InsaneDDay69:
it works just fine for the wildfire s, as long as the base ROM was for the same phone. I'm not sure about porting yet though, it may need a template.

Sent from my ICDroid X
[HTC Sensation] and1kar:
After some work around with the Htcfmradio.apk extracted from the arhd rom these where the steps i followed to have it right now playing:

1) put the .apk in your /system/app

2) check all the permissions available (using for example root explorer, but be careful that it's mounted as r/w)

3) try to install it (if it installs ok, otherwise reboot your phone)

4) after the restart the app should be in your drawer

5) Enjoy!

"https://rapidshare.com/files/3527782154/HtcFMRadio.apk"
[HTC Sensation] badai:
boot loop

boot loop
[HTC Sensation] shamdroid:
apk link please

Does anyone have working apk link please?
[HTC Sensation] rzr86:
if you want download this rom and extract the apk you need

http://www.4shared.com/zip/RDcek2mHba/HyperSensation_v18_R.html
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Dox:
My Flyer received the OTA update to Honeycomb over the weekend and, minor stability issues aside, it seems pretty good.

I do have a problem with the Amazon Kindle app, which won't rotate. Well, the library view does rotate, but the reading view doesn't. In gingerbread, when I rotated the device, the lock symbol would appear but in honeycomb this does not happen. My reading view is stuck in portrait, and won't switch to landscape.

Is anyone else seeing the same behaviour? Or, does anyone have the Kindle app behaving properly on the honeycomb Flyer? I've force stop'ed the app but haven't tried reinstalling it, I thought I'd ask here before resorting to that. :-)

Thanks in advance...

Dox
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] n7of9:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMPwQOsbIb4

this video review of kindle app on honeycomb shows screen rotation as working, so i would probably go ahead and reinstall if you want to be sure if it's the app or if your setup that's the problem

i can tell you that on Mantano Reader you can lock the view to portrait or landscape, as well as having many (many) option settings which the kindle app doesn't provide
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] MaxSpeed-msi:
Hi

What name of this apps that u guy talking about b.. is it better than repligo for reading ebooks ... Tanx befor for your asist:)
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] n7of9:
he is talking about Kindle App

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.amazon.kindle

I am talking about Mantano Reader

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mantano.reader.android.trial

YOU are talking about Repligo, which only reads PDFs and is not an ereader app
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Elim:
It is always the same:

After an update from gingerbread to honeycomb (OTA or last leak), you should re-install all apps or at least all with strange behavior..

Many apps didn't recognize this update and still think that they are running under gingerbread. Normally this is no problem but some apps has flags, install different stuff, etc. when they are installed first. And also for many apps exists a different honeycomb version.

PS. It flip but has not the two-side-landscape mode :-(
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] n7of9:
kindle app has never had that functionality
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Elim:
Okay, I check it and you are right, it's only the iPad (and self the iPhone) version which have this mode :mad:
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Dox:
Fair point Elim, and I've now removed and re-installed the app. Now, the rotation lock is gone, the page rotates with the device, but there's no way to lock it.

What appears to have happened is that the technique Amazon used to pop the little padlock icon onto the display when the device was rotated no longer works, so, although the config setting is present, there's currently no way to change it. When my Flyer was upgraded, I had the rotation locked and the app honoured that under HC, but now, after a re-install, the rotation setting is back as unlocked and again, there's no UI way to change that.

Before the Kindle app got a lock setting, I used Tasker to switch off Auto-rotation when the Kindle app was active. At least now, I have the choice to go back to that. I emailed Amazon support who suggested I call their helpline to go through some live assistance... I'll let you know how I get on.. :rolleyes:

Dox
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Dox:
I spoke to Amazon who confirm that the Kindle App doesn't play nicely with Honeycomb. It does rotate (unless you upgraded to HC with it locked) but there's currently no way to get to the control to lock/unlock from within the app. They suggest I watch out for an app update to fix the issue... :rolleyes:

In the meantime I've written a little Tasker profile to turn off auto-rotate whilst the Kindle app is running. That way, it will stick in whatever orientation the Flyer is when I start the app. Not great but better than the display rotating annoyingly when I'm reading in bed...

Thanks to all who offered help.

Dox.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] butterflygirl:
Kindle app rotates 360 on my Archos 80 running HC. I believe the Flyer only rotates one way for landscape and one way for portrait. Kindle app is currently nicer on GB than on HC (more options to customize in GB).

I read most of my books in Moon Reader Pro. Lots of customizations available.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] Blackberrynomore:
Thanks Orlando we needed do that as there have been an increasing amount of people asking "how do I ". By the way if you type Odin 1.85 into Google it will come up with the first result being a link to a direct download from XDA. This makes it easier and faster to download because you get an instant file save dialog.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] Da_G:
I am working on a ROM/Recovery for you guys now, need some testers with adb knowledge in irc.irondust.net #skyrocket :)
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] kralco626:
sweeeeeeet!

I'm going to do this as soon as I get home from work.

Then I can try to do the Hulu hack... Wish me luck with that...

P.S. Is it odd that superuser is already installed on my tab? (I'm assuming it's because Google is super smart and they know I had it installed on my old phone)

P.P.S. What do I have to do to get rid of this 5 minute post restriction :( You guys are worse than AT&T! Restricting my free speech like that! ;)

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Is that bad?

P.P.P.S I talk a lot... yes I know... tell me something that my gf doesn't tell me every day :-P
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
Flash counter means that they can detect a custom flash, meaning warranty is void.

If you have your phone synced maybe it restored superuser.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] kralco626:
I have brought my phone back to the att warranty center for replacement and I don't think they have ever checked a flash counter...
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
I agree with this. You most likely will never have them call you out on a flash counter. Have to put the disclaimer in though.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] kralco626:
HAHA, ya have to include those disclaimers.

I am rooted, as confirmed by root check basic :)

I'm going to try to make Hulu work now, I'll post the results if I can get Hulu to work!
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] kralco626:
So I ended up downloading Flash Video Browser from the market, it doesn't even require root... It just runs flash websites as if they were running on a desktop computer.

Hulu worked great through that! Brought my tablet to the gym and ran on the treadmill while watching hulu! YAY!
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] minkmeister:
Big thanks to Orlando, Croak and especially Da_G. 24 hours in to owning my tab, I am rooted. Now to find a hotspot app...
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] Croak:
Shame I didn't back up my Bell ROM. Bell doesn't disable the built in hotspot functionality.

Good news is, there are several international versions of the Tab 8.9 LTE about to hit the ground in Asia and Europe (along with another Canadian carrier). That means that the chances of getting a good "generic" ROM leaked are looking pretty good. Check with Samfirmware on a regular basis. :)
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
there are a few guys who have bell who may have just flashed the kernel and not the ATT stock first. Maybe they can do a system dump?
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] kobygold:
Hi guys!

Is it possible to reset the Flash counter in this Tab using a JIG ?

I have a microUSB JIG I bought for my SGS2.

Can I use it also for the Tab...?

I guess I can buy a standard USB to microUSB converter,

and connect it to the Tab's original USB cable.

The question is if those are the same pins in the Tab's connector as on the USB JIG,

Or the Tab needs different pins to be connected (with the 300 Kohm resistor)...
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] Croak:
Newer bootloaders from Samsung are jig-proof. No resetting the counter at the moment.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] the_hatrix:
Does Root remove the Bell SIM lock?

Or another way of asking, is there a way to remove the SIM lock without getting an unlock code?
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] kobygold:
Thanks!

I understand our 8.9 LTE Tab is one of those... :)
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] Croak:
You'll need to get a code the conventional way.

So far it looks like Samsung finally caught on (or rather, finally cared, or rather the carriers made them care) that it was stupid easy for the end user to unlock a Galaxy device. :)

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If it makes you feel any better, my flash counter is up to 41 at the moment. :)
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
Lol what have you been doing Croak?
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] Croak:
Experimenting with overclocking. :)
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] the_hatrix:
Do you know any legit place or sites to get the code?
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] quitofire532:
So does that mean that if I flash this back to my device, I lose my root and it is as if I never had it? I am considering updating to ics, and I know that I can't without going back to the stock rom. Just checking if that is it, or if there is something else I need to do. Thanks so much!
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
when ICS comes out I would just Odin back to stock.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] quitofire532:
But where do I get the file to put in Odin? Is it the one from the original post?
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
Sammobile.com
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] BallerOnABudget:
Need help fixing a mistake.

I got an SGH-I957 from a friend for a 3gs iphone and picked up a red sIII with my AT&T upgrade (android>apple btw glad i risked the switch love my SIII). Anyways, I have little to no knowledge in rooting and flashing but i figured it would be the same as jail breaking. I wanted to practice on my tab before I went into my sIII so I went in with little to no research. I looked up my model number in the forums and downloaded odin and got a successful root verified by root checker basic. Then I flashed Da_G custom kernel and wanted CWMR. This is where i fail. I clicked random stuff to try and get it flashed on in a hurry on before i go to work and also load AOSP 4.1(didn't check for compatablilty between 8.9 tabs) through the zip file. When i did that it went black only backlit with nothing else showing and now i cant get it to recovery mode or to get a reset it just stays backlit. I got back the original kernel but don't know what else to do. The tablet works fine it connects to wifi and data will play music, check email, play youtube and everything else it just won't factory reset or go into recovery. I can also access download mode.

If any of you could help me it would be greatly appreciated. My end goal would be able to get a factory reset.

Thank you.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
Never ever click random stuff and try to flash in a hurry with odin. Very easy to completely ruin your device.

Anyways get the stock rom from sammobile.com and flash that through Odin. Try every key combo possible to get into download mode.

And, there is no aosp with this tab, again very dangerous to flash incompatable roms
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] BallerOnABudget:
Thanks I'll try that out asap hopefully it works. Do u have a back up file u can send me to restore through skies maybe? Idk if thats possible or not just asking.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
If you had a working recovery you could make a nandroid but that doesn't seem to work for you.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] BallerOnABudget:
Thanks so much!

ahhhh thank you so much man i got a full reset after flashing the firmware back on.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] sunsfrk:
wifi tethering

Stupid question. My stock i-957 has the wifi-tethering disabled by at&t. If i use the custom ROM, will this feature be enabled?

Thanks,

Joe

i-957

i-777
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
Use a Rogers custom rom maybe?
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] sergey1977:
use quick tether from market. it enabel wifi-tethering
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] Jcossack88:
Custom ROM

Can we flash the P7300 ROMs on the ATT version, or is it the same as mobiles where the ROMs do not work for different model numbers?
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
7320 is the closest to ours
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] Jcossack88:
But we can flash those ROMs correct?
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] KitF:
No, the 7300 has an entirely different processor.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
7300 and 7310 do... 7320 is like the i957.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] Ubertool:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_8.9_(AT&T)

Apparently we have CM9.

LIES!!!!
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] psycotic11:
Anyone know how to restore this thing to stock? I need to send it in for warranty and want to remove root/superuser
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] kunals.shah:
Download stock firmware from sammobile and flash it with ODIN.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] psycotic11:
Unfortunately I have the Rogers version
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
they have that version too
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] atomiX_X:
I can't seem to find it either. They have Bell (I957M), Telus (I957D) and AT&T (I957) but nothing for Rogers (I957R I believe).
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] theREDlegion:
i'm having a real hard time rooting my tab. I have a rogers galaxy tab i957R, i tried method one several times with no success, weird cause its very straight forward and method two doesnt seem to work either. Superuser is installed and i can open it but apps that require root cant access it. checked android terminal with the SU command and nothing. I flashed the danno 2.0 rom, think i will restock. I made a backup right after installing CWM from the first post, will restock and try again.

Anyone else had a hard time rooting??

BTW I'm surprised that there isnt more development on this tab i thought there was alot of people that own one. Im surprised people arent buying these tabs like hot cakes. There are dozens of craigslist and kijiji ads selling these for about 350. The tabs a great deal with LTE and the processing power is pretty good, i own a nexus seven and you can say what you wanna say and throw your (mostly pointless) benchmarks at it but there is very little noticable differences. Just my two cents, figured more devs would have got their hands on them. But im happy with the ICS release. Just gotta retry this darn rooting.
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] heliosue:
RATS!

I was expecting to run into trouble when I decided to root my new i 957 (ATT) but I didn't expect it to happen so early in the process. I have downloaded Odin 1.85 (shows up when I click on it) I've downloaded both the

http://ponack.net/TPC/dagnarf/sgh-i9...-kernel-v2.tar

and the CWM Recovery and have them in my download folder. The next step is where I hit the roadblock. I try to place the tar file in the PDA slot and it won't go there. I've tried extracting the tar file and just putting the image file in the PDA slot and it won't go there. I then tried to see if it would work with the CWM download, and it wouldn't go there.

I know I'm going to feel very foolish (if and when anyone can help me figure this out) because after so many have used this process for rooting, I'm sure it must be something really easy that I have neglected to do.

Another, less important problem is that I keep getting an ATT message on my display panel asking me to insert a SIM card. I will never use this tab as a phone and I will not activate for data with ATT. If I ever figure out how to root and install a different ROM will the ATT message go away?

Do I need to do an unlock?

I would really appreciate any help anyone might have to offer. (I'm very anxious to start playing with this tablet.!)

TIA
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] Scouter33:
Hi everyone, I am new to the entire Android rooting business, and was looking to install Jelly Bean on my i957r Tab. Reading through this thread , it seems people are having trouble rooting the Rogers version of this tablet. I was just wondering if anyone out there has successfully rooted, and if so, what method was used.

Thanks!
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] heliosue:
Edit: Solved
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] theREDlegion:
i'm having weird results rooting my ROGERS tab. I got it "partially" rooted I guess. I restocked the tab and followed method 1 when i booted the superuser app seems to be running okay until you update the binaries, at that point root breaks and superuser fails to initiate root access. I re stocked again and did not do the built in binary update in superuser, i then installed titanium backup which asked for root rights and was able to obtain root access but every other program fails. So i only have titanium backup that works and says it's rooted, es file explorer and other apps don't seem to be able to trigger superuser ???? dunno whats up.

Anyone else have anything they might be able to share?
[Galaxy Tab 8.9 SGH-i957 Android Development] theREDlegion:
Well after having many problems with my ROGERS tab and the root methods from this thread, I decided to flash the jellybean rom that is offered since it comes with a different rooted kernel for jellybean and FIXED. Rooted and everything works fine.

So for other ROGERS tab owners who are having a hard time rooting give it a try.

the thread can be found here