yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] microdot:
Hi, i have a thunderbolt running infected rom eternity v r134. I downloaded a voicemail fix zip that i flashed in recovery and after doing a reboot my phone is stock on the htc screen. I am able to get into hboot but it will not ley me scroll down to recovery so i am at a loss. Can someone pleeeease help me on how to restore my phone.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gephoria42:
do you have. radio update on your sd card? i have not had the problem you have but it may be a fair question.

Sent from my ADR6400L using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] microdot:
I eventually was able to delete a file from my SD card which allowed me to get into recovery from boot, so all is good now thanks.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warboy:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1403859

Well, Can we port this?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Notorious:
It's already in the works :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warboy:
Where?.......
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sobaked2921:
jaredthegreat already said he's cooking up something
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sknight13602:
Is their a thread up yet I love sense but would like some of the ics cooked in and that Rom looks like exactly what I want a link plz if anyone has one thnx
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Notorious:
No thread yet they are still working on it
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrickedHouse:
can't wait to see this come alive
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p1mpin:
Thats awesome!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warboy:
I haven't seen any news from jared on it.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] walts:
We have gotten into a discussion of the merits and used of various SD cards on the Nexus HD2 Ice Cream Sandwich forum.

Since the topic is of more general concern and tends to get technical and lengthy, I thought it deserved its own thread. I've copied over the relevant posts from the original thread.

Maybe the admins could make this sticky if it merits it.

Walt
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] walts:
This is the post that started the recent discussion:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] walts:
This from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital#Speed_Class_Rating)

Speed Classes 2, 4, and 6 assert that the card supports the respective number of MB/s as a minimum sustained write speed for a card in a fragmented state. Class 10 asserts that the card supports 10 MB/s as a minimum non-fragmented sequential write speed.[36]

That goes a long way toward explaining the differences for class 6 and below compared with class 10.

My own class 10 card produced

3.7 MB/s write / 11.7 MB/s read

Walt
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] walts:
Next reply:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] iamcxa:
cool, We have similar goal ... see my signature.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] walts:
MarkAtHome replied:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] walts:
I don't want to get into a big controversy here... The Wikipedia article I cited is extensively footnoted, and I downloaded but only partially read some of the reference documents - which are from manufacturers and technical associations. What I took away from the reading is that

most

SD cards are designed for recording videos and photos from cameras, i.e. sequential recording of moderately large files. When we use them for data storage (and especially swapping) we are doing random access. Without fully understanding the engineering involved, it appears that the processes are quite different.

Maybe it would be worthwhile to start a new thread about this, since it is generally of interest to the Android community, and different ROMS use the SD card differently - not to mention the third party apps involved.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Yank555:
Hi Walt,

Thanx a lot for taking the time to start the thread AND re-post some of the posts ;)

JP.

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I belive this is an essential part of the benchmarking as well :

You just need to install SD speed increase app.

- Insert your card (if it isn't already)

- start SD speed increase and set cache to 0 (hit the red "falsh" button to set it)

- run benchmark

- start SD speed increase to confirm cache is still 0

Thanx !!

The awefull performance impact seem only to be bad when using DATA2SD, not APP2SD... so there is something within /data that make ICS almost die when it is located on a class 10 card.

JP.

---------- Post added at 03:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:37 PM ----------

Btw, just saw Dorimanx has posted a new kernel (3.1) with this changelog :

New Kernel 3.1 ULTIMATE

*Fixed apps to SDCARD move driver.

*Tweaked sdcard driver settings.

Might there be something that helps handling class 10 cards ?

The kernel is comaptible with GB NexusHD2 ROM, is it with ICS ??

JP.
[Galaxy S II General] Nyssa1104:
It appears that Samsung has quietly released a new member of their Galaxy S II family. The Samsung I929 Galaxy S II Duos is the China telecom version of the extremely popular http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i92...h_dualnetwork_support_surfaces-news-3569.php#SMARTphone and is the first Galaxy S II device to come with both CDMA2000 and GSM support. The I929 Galaxy S II Duosis built around a 4.52" WVGA Super AMOLED Plus screen and features a 1.2 GHz dual-core CPU. The company hasn't published the exact details of the chipset, but the clock speed of the CPU suggests that the Galaxy S II Duos runs on a modified Exynos.

More info here > http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i92...th_dualnetwork_support_surfaces-news-3569.php
[Galaxy S II General] EduMonzter:
looks like a rare version of sgs2 only for chinese country, don't spect it in the rest of the world
[Galaxy S II General] stevenwtchan:
Sir,

According to Specification, this phone works with CDMA2000. Can it work with WCDMA? Can I change the ROM so that it can be used with WCDMA?
[Galaxy S II General] veyka:
No, it doesn't have a WCDMA radio (it seems) so there is nothing you can do.

If you want one with WCDMA (aka UMTS or HSUPA/HSDPA) go with the international i9100 if you want GMS/UMTS there is also the SGH-T989 which goes by the SGS2 name but has very different hardware Qualcomm vs samsung exynos.

Depends on which part of the world you live in.
[Galaxy S II General] jlevy73:
that's correct it will work on wcdma only. In china, different telecom companies use different radios. China telecom uses CDMA 2000 while China Unicom uses WCDMA. China Mobile uses GSM only.
[Galaxy S II General] 72THX:
I ask my self why Samsung can't or whon't to release an I929 for europe with WCDMA and all that we need.

-why only for china???? :mad: :mad: :mad:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
I installed the UCKK6 update for the purpose of pulling out the rom parts, by updating from rooted stock UCKH7. This successfully retained root on UCKK6.

From the mount command, I found that the system partition is listed as mmcblk0p9. I used dd to transfer the modem, kernel, and system partitions, and created Odin flashable tar files from each individually. I found that the kernel and the modem flash successfully, but that the system image flash fails almost immediately. Here is the code I used to pull the system partition in android terminal emulator:

# dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p9 of=/sdcard/factoryfs.img

I didn't remember to include bs=4096 in the command line, but then I didn't include it in the pull for the kernel (mmcblk0p5) and modem (mmcblk0p8) partitions either.

So, to those who know, how do I correctly pull the system partition, so that I can obtain a flashable image?

I'm also interested to know if pulling the image from a rooted phone will include root in the image, or how do you pull/create both a rooted and non-rooted system image?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Red5:
This looks like a job for... GTG or ENTROPY!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Peaster111:
Always asking the hard questions... :D

In case this helps... Here's what I have for partition commands:

# dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 of=/sdcard/zImage bs=4096

# dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 of=/sdcard/modem.bin bs=4096

# dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p7 of=/sdcard/cache.img bs=4096

# dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p9 of=/sdcard/factoryfs.img bs=4096

# dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p10 of=/sdcard/data.img bs=4096

They have worked for me so far.... did you try including "bs=4096" for the factoryfs.img?

Regarding the root image... When pulling the a factoryfs.img, it pulls EVERYTHING in the system partition (folders). Files effecting root are contained within the system folders, so when you pull the factoryfs.img you get that too. The thing I don't know is if you can pull the img without having root. My phone is always rooted.

I keep a odin flashable image of my entire phone (all partitions listed above) as a fail proof backup in case I totality dork something up. The odin tar is about 2-3 gig. I can completely wipe my phone and return it to stock, then flash my odin to bring it back. I've used it (in testing) to COMPLETELY restore my phone and data... etc... etc. Pretty cool and comforting to know a can fix a bad screw up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
No but I think I will go back and try again this afternoon to see if that was the problem.

By the way, there was a UCKK6 system partition dump with root prepared by vlara and posted in another thread. He named the file system.img instead of factoryfs.img. When I used it to make an Odin flashable tar, it failed immediately, just like the one I made.

BTW, you left out mmcblk0p1 = /efs and mmcblk0p4 = /mnt/.lfs. Wouldn't you need the efs for a complete backup? And isn't 0p4 the param.lfs?

Also just wondering. Entropy said that a backup of the efs partition should be done while booted into recovery so that it doesn't get hosed by a write during the backup. Would that be true for any of the other partitions? 1, 4, 7 and 10 are read/write. Not sure about 5 and 8.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Peaster111:
Interesting on the system.img... Hard to stay what the story is there.

I did leave out the "efs" blocks... I forgot about that one. I dumped it once when I originally got the phone and just reuse the file. Interesting on the recovery part, I've not heard of that. I don't remember if mine was in recovery or not. It seems to work fine.

As long as you are in adb shell as su, whether the partition is r/w or r/o doesn't matter. You are just dumping (reading) it not writing.

The PARM partition is where SBL stores information. This is the settings for boot and contains the image you see on startup as well as the Download Mode image and others. Unless you need to mess with the bootloader related stuff, I wouldn't do the param.lfs. I'd rather reflash from a stock odin to fix any boatloader related issues. A clean PARM partition would ensure you avoid any bootloader anomalies.

I've attached the full mapping of the partitions along with some info on each.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
OK.

Wiped data. Odin installed UCKH7 stock plus root. Updated to UCKK6 OTA.

Used adb to pull the system image, this time including the block size bs=4096.

Odin installed UCKH7 stock plus root again (so about phone would show UCKH7). Installed Mobile Odin. Flashed factoryfs.img. Flash failed. Phone still reports Gingerbread.UCKH7.

Mobile Odin rebooted into recovery and then the text goes by really fast, but it essentially printed quickly Clearing... Flashing... and then immediately rebooted. I think this is about the same experience that I had with the Odin flashable tar before. If the system partition was going to install, it would take at least a couple of minutes to write half a gig of info to the phone.

So, bad factoryfs.img? Is there any point in even making a tar and checking it out?

I'm at a loss. This should have worked shouldn't it?

Maybe Entropy will pitch in with some helpful advice.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Peaster111:
I've had mixed results using mobile odin. I had a soft brick once trying to flash a kernel. I would try making an actual odin tar image and try flashing that way. That's the way I do it.

There is a good thread in the international SGS2 forums on creating an odin tar. You'll need Cygwin on your computer (assuming you're on windows).

Here's the short "How to" version:

To create a flashable Odin package, you need to pull all of the files off of the phone/sdcard and onto your computer.

Open a Cygwin and change directory to where you are storing your ROM dumps.

Run the following commands to build a package. Be sure to use identifiable names with versions or dates:

$ tar -H ustar -c factoryfs.img modem.bin zImage > package_name.tar

$ md5sum -t package_name.tar >> package_name.tar

$ mv package_name.tar package_name.tar.md5

Include what images you want after the "-c" and before the ">".

A second opinion is always good!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jivy26:
Why not nand and just pull factoryfs.img that way
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Peaster111:
Indeed.. You could. That would work too.

UPDATE: I just pulled mine. I reflashed to my old UCKH7 build (wiped and flashed just the basics) and back to my new UCKK6 build plus all my data, etc. It all seemed to work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
I've never lived in linux land, so I don't have the background to quickly grasp this. I know nand is our phone's memory, but what does your statement mean? I'd appreciate it if you could explain a little. I'd be happy with something to study, but I don't even know what to look for.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jivy26:
On the rooted system I assume you have CWM as well. If that is the case go into CWM backup your phone then boot up the phone. Mount SDCARD and navigate to Clockworkmod > backup > then whatever date and time you backed up and you will see factoryfs.img in there as well as other img files.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Peaster111:
Jivy,

I'm not sure on yours, but my folders only have 3 tar files (cache.ext4.tar, data.ext4.tar, system.ext4.tar) and a 2 img's (boot and recovery). They are each only 8mb. The tar files have all the data. They reflash fine in CWM, but they are not odiin compatible.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jivy26:
Also for the non-rooted system try this, assuming you have Android-sdk installed.

Plug phone into PC with usb debugging enabled.

Download busybox here

Put it on c:\

Run CMD with Admin privileges.

Below are the commands you will type in CMD. For below I am assuming your SDK is in the same location as default, if not just change as neccessary.

Once its done you can mount sdcard and the tar with system will be there waiting :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
Oh. nand for nandroid backup. It does not contain factoryfs.img. It has system.ext4.tar which contains the directory sturcture and contents of system in the file system, not a partition image.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jivy26:
Misunderstood what your goal was. Like earlier mentioned you need to have:

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p9 of=/sdcard/factoryfs.img bs=4096

That wont flash in odin you still need to make it 512M so quick run down in linux

Download this http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53644280/ext4_utils.zip

So you can view contents of .img

mkdir tempdir; mount -o loop factoryfs.img tempdir

To repack img w/ 512M

./mkuserimg.sh -s /some/directory/ ./factoryfs_custom.img ext4 ./temp 512M

Then making a TAR ball. *Just included everything i've normally seen in one*

tar -c boot.bin factoryfs.img hidden.img modem.bin param.lfs zImage >> PDA.tar
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
Kewl. That non-rooted dump will include the busybox directory though won't it? On a rooted system, it would capture the root tools too I expect.

Only, when developers provide a package like Entropy's Return/Unbrick to stock packages, or DesignGears original One-Click downloader for Captivate, those packages contain partition images, not file system images. I would really like to learn how to dump the system partition so that it can be used to create Odin flashable tar files.

Thanks for your input.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jivy26:
I posted that before I knew what your intentions were. The above would give you a stock /system in .tar . Since busybox is stored in data/local not system/xbin, it wont be in that tar. So you'd have a stock /system, but not the .img you're looking for.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
When I pulled the system image using the above dd command including the bs=4096, the resulting file did come out 512M. It still didn't flash.

So do I need a linux box to do this? Don't have one of course. I've been making the tar files on my phone in Terminal. Can I do the above commands on the phone?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jivy26:
Never tried from phone. Cygwin is an option to run linux scripts and what not in windows, but not sure if it can handle the above mentioned.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
OK. I'll play around with it and see what happens. Really appreciate the help.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
I was going to work on this once I got home, but others are welcome to give it a try.

To flash in Odin/heimdall, the system image must be a "sparse" ext4 image.

You did dump the system partition correctly, and if you dump a rooted system partition, it will include root.

However there are some tricks needed to make an image Odin-flashable. Unfortunately I'm on my laptop so I'm not sure if I have the link...

Found it - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1081239

You need to loop-mount your dump on a Linux machine, and then use mkuserimg.sh to make an Odin-flashable factoryfs.img

Another option:

Extract the individual .tar files from the Odin One-Click for UCKK6. vladm7 or vlara mention the trick for this in the UCKK6 thread.

Extract factoryfs.img from the .tar file

simg2img it

loop-mount the image

The image probably won't have free space, so copy it to your local file system:

sudo cp -aR system/image/mountpoint/* some/location/

Add su and Superuser.apk to files copied above

mkuserimg.sh them

Or wait until I get home after new years. :P
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
:& Expect that's what will happen, but I might make some progress before then.

Appreciate the info, thanks.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hearmeman:
well ihave the transformer

great tablet

i can play 720P videos with no problems

i tried to play a 1080P mkv video and it really lags

although on my galaxy S2 it plays great

im running krakd rom 1.3.1 with OC to 1.2 GHZ

anyone knows how to fix it?

or maybe it just cant run 1080P
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
Problem is with the mkv. Tegra2 has trouble with the mkv coding.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hearmeman:
So how can i convert it to another format
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tekkitan:
Google shall tell you :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danny-B-:
What player are you using ?

Give BSPlayer a go, its free on the market before you go converting them.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ngu1k:
I don't think it's the mkv coding. I think Tegra2 can't play any 1080p format. Samsung Galaxy S2 can play it, because it use different cpu.

ngu1k@xda-premium
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rootkited:
i play everything with Daroon Player .... even DVD ISOs mounted on my Notebook .. give it a try ;-)
[Vega General] astrah:
New to the vega and have just installed Vegacomb 3.2 Build 9n and 9b Update3. I can't seem to be able to get iPlayer to work, all I get is a message on the site saying 'You need to install Flash to play Mock the Week. Download the Flash player now.'

I presumed that Flash was built into the rom? I also managed to get the apk for iPlayer as it wasn't showing on the market but that just comes up with a blank screen. Youtube videos play fine through the built in app but not using the built in browser or Dolphin HD.

I have tried searching but come up blank, I found a 'fix' on another post but this didn't help.

Any pointers would be appreciated thanks.

*Just checked in applications and the version that is installed is 10.1.120.10
[Vega General] astrah:
Sorted now, kind chaps over at Tablet Roms told me how to fix.
[Vega General] yani2000:
Found that thread.

You could at least point out for the folks on XDA that you had to update Flash Player to v11 thru the market and had to install an alternate browser like Dolphin Browser HD.

Good that you got it sorted out!
[Vega General] MikhailM1:
To run iPlayer on a Vega like tablet you can do it by installing iplayer v1.0 apk. It is not available on the Market, but can be found by searching on Googe. If you have problems finding it, I could upload it and give alink.
[Vega General] nicks90:
Installed latest flash player off market.

Runs iplayer after installing it from market.

;)

Zero problems - but I'm on vegaics. Mayge its just doesn't like honey :confused:
[TouchPad General] gribblefish:
Does anybody have either a work around or an app that will let you rent movies from the market on the touchpad. Thanks in advance for any help
[General Questions and Answers] LDJ37:
Who can help me with the next problem:

I want to download an app in de Android Market and it reports:

'This app isn't compatible with you're samsung galaxy device'.

Now I know there is a program (another app.) which can do something with the settings of the simcard. Change the landcodes or something like that? I can't find any of these programs in the market. Does somebody know which one I need or were I can find the app.?

Thanks for you're help in advance!
[General Questions and Answers] Dark3n:
I don't think there is an app to do that, as landcodes don't cause that error msg.

You want to spoof your device ID:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=973919
[General Questions and Answers] LDJ37:
Or maybe the provider settings? I've never done something with spoof, you think this will resolve the 'not compatible' thing? Thanks for you're help!
[General Questions and Answers] LDJ37:
By the way, I own a Samsung Galaxy S 9003
[General Questions and Answers] Dark3n:
Yes i believe so.

Read that thread and google some more, you will have to change the values to a device that is compatible with the app, this will trick the market app.

I've pointed you in the right direction, do some research now :-).
[General Questions and Answers] LDJ37:
Great, I will... again, thanks!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vilbs:
Hi there. I have just updated 8.6.5.21 UK FOTA but cant see any difference. Is there a change log any where? Thanks in advance.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scorpion_s66:
i got it too, update happend 1 min ago
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vilbs:
Can't notice any difference. Can you?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xufuchang:
check the Setting-Output-Camera-Kernel, maybe there's a gift from Santa :D
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomertwo:
I just got the update as well. No clue what was changed but then I am not rooted due to the fear of bricking since my unit is a B70 model.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neofreek01:
i am rooted and interested in the changes made anything good or just closing up the razorclaw exploit in app-backup
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d1001541:
Fixed HDMI Issue!

Fixed issue with HDMI on my Sony and looking on other forums fixes Panasonic HDMI issue. Thanks Asus
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rootkited:
can confirm that my panasonic works great !
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Davidsmonkeyroost:
Certainly stops me from using Razorclaw to root it. Now I have to figure out how to downgrade....
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChaoticWeaponry:
Does anyone know if it patched the Razorclaw exploit??