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[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] Claus72:
I came from HTC HD2 with Android where I had in the very usefull function Internet Pass-Throught.

With Internet Pass-Through I can share the internet connection of my pc with my phone through usb cable so I have not to use wifi when I have to download a lot of Megabyte.

Is it possible to do something like this with the Galaxy R or with same apps?
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] lhex:
But wifi is free, why do you need a PC?
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] legion1911:
This is a standard function built into our android. You need no app.

Go to settings... networks... tethering... and there select if you want the R to route to usb or wifi.
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] Claus72:
I need the opposite thing, share the internet connection of my pc with the phone and not share the internet connection of the phone with the pc.
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] Claus72:
Because when I have to download a lot of data (maps or tegra game) wifi need a lot of time than direct connection with pc.
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] legion1911:
Then turn your pc into a wifi access point.
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] ishafiq:
If you have linux, try this : http://blog.mycila.com/2010/06/reverse-usb-tethering-with-android-22.html

You can try the following for windows, but not sure it works!!

For reverse tethering/pass through, you have to connect your phone using USB and go to network devices and bridge these connections : NIC with you phone.
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] astax:
I use Connectify and a cheap USB wifi dongle to share the Internet connection from PC to phone. Good wifi connection speed is 3-5 megabytes per second. So it's less than 3 minutes to download half of a gig (the size of heaviest Tegra games). I wouldn't call this slow.
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] Claus72:
Thanks, I remember now I have made something like that in the past.
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] Prankey:
How do you do that? My phone is not visible as a network adapter when connected. Should I try USB tethering and doing it?

I always used to use this feature on my Windows mobile through Microsoft proprietary ActiveSync software. I certainly miss that feature on Android devices.

Hopefully we get it on ICS!
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] ishafiq:
Windows based Reverse tether tool for android.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1371345

See if it works?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Goliath27:
Here is what I did, and here is what I want to do(presumably)

What I did:

-Installed CWM, did all of the fancy backups, etc. Tried installin g CM7 and it failed, the zip from the CM site keeps failing to install (aborted)

-I then gave up on it and tried installing Eaglesblood ROM which did install correctly. I didn't know that it hasn't been used or updated for a while, but one issue came up.

--Issue: My SD card wouldn't mount(external)? I couldn't recover my contacts or apps that were backed up on my SD card, and searching for it just showed "unavailable" and no option top mount.

-After this failure, I decided to try the Juggernaut ROM and the install failed, because the SD card just wouldn't mount. Nothing on my SD card is usable.

NOW: I want to start over from scratch, and then install a ROM, or just completely delete everything. I don't even want any of the backups on my phone, just a fresh start over again.

Question: What should I do? What would you do as a Noob if you could do it over again the right way?

1.) Clear the phone back to stock again?

2.) Install something more stable?

3.) Find a way to mount SD?

what do I do?!

ps. Merry Xmas
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darock159:
Try formatting the sdcard and see if that makes a difference. I had a sdcard go bad in my wife's phone and it wouldn't mount at all. Swapped in another card and she was golden.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Goliath27:
doesn't give me the option to do so on my phone. I'll do it on my backup phone and see if it works.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Goliath27:
No Go, it reformatted in the other phone, but amazingly all of the files were still there?

Someone help me solve this mystery, this isn't making sense?!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darock159:
Try formatting on a computer not a phone if you have a card reader. Go to my computer right click on the sdcard and select format. Then select fat32 option. Back up your stuff if it still reads on the computer. If this doesn't fix try a new sdcard. That's what I had to do for my wife's phone. It wouldn't mount in the phone but worked.fine in a card reader.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Goliath27:
I tried putting it in my nokia N900, and reformat it from the PC using the N900 as a reader. Unfortunately I don't know where my adapter is.

It wont format that way, it lets me see the SD card and select format, but no go. Tried Fat32 and NTFS, but no format would work.

Possible that the card is fried some how, but still readable? The properties show no information on if the SD card is on read-only or not, so I can't figure this out.

Formating it from the N900 says it formats, but all the files are still there after the format.

Mind=Blown
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Goliath27:
Well it looks like it was the sd card afterall, new card and everything works...... For now of course.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AllGamer:
best way to start over from scratch is to ODIN the factory ROM, (check INDEX sticky)

then you'll be back to original, and use oneclickroot to root it again, then install CWR and go wild with whatever ROM you choose ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AmbroseAI:
In order to prevent bad installations in the future, only attempt to flash roms that you obtained from the Developer section of the T-Mobile Galaxy SII T-989 forum. Our phone will not run roms developed for other versions of the Galaxy SII due to hardware differences. You could easily brick your phone flashing something that wasn't specifically designed for it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Goliath27:
Ok well I think I started from scratch again when I updated my firmware using Kies. I lost SU and Root access.

Got it, but I tried it both ways. I think what I really should be asking is:

What roms would you download if this were you?

I really want something in the ICS department but can't really find any roms that are stable enough to download. Anything you recommend?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AllGamer:
there are no ICS alpha/beta for our model yet

wait until the ICS sources has dropped from Samsung, then we'll get lots
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Goliath27:
well, ICS isn't really a big deal. I just want to try out these ROMs everyone is raving about, but there are so many!

Like I said before, I tried installing a rom that just didn't work. And I'd like to try some of the most stable roms out and see which ones I could use comfortably.

This way I don't set up my phone the way I like, just to do it all over again repeatedly.

edit: I see you're running Juggernaut 3.7 + Bullet 2.9 (just like CM7)

Stable enough to try in my n00b state? I understand the risks as well, just wondering how good it is. I know it had some MMS issues but if that's all than I'll survive.

Edit 2: Just installed Jug v4.1 and it's awesome. So I finally got the idea of what I need to do in order to install correctly. Not going to try anything else for a while now lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] skjoldbaerer:
I think you're getting confused... there are a lot of variants of the Samsung Galaxy S II, but they are very different inside. It sounds like the ROM you were trying to install was for the international version, which could easily wreck your phone completely. There are no ICS roms whatsoever for the T-Mobile version of this phone, nor are there any complete CM7 roms. You can safely install any of the roms on the "T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II Android Development" section of these forums, and that's about it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Goliath27:
Right, which is what I was aware of. The rom that messed me up was one that was labeled as a Tmobile S2 rom, but I think the error was a User error(me).

Now that I did it all from scratch, I have it all running well and I'm now avoiding the use of Rom Manager, and only using CWM.

And of course, I wouldn't think of installing a rom from another forum for another phone, I will be sticking to the t989 section here.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alcap12:
Hey there,

I'm trying to install portuguese on the stock ICS keyboard, but I can't seem to find how to do it. Has anyone succeded in installing another language?

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raymond.molenaar:
have you found out already? I'm interested too
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bosch23:
+1...........
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flow-Wolf:
Hi :)

Do you try with more local 2?

I think it could work :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bosch23:
More local changes my phone's and some apps' language. I just want to add an additional language while typing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Yumunum:
Would you still choose this phone? What would you be missing out on? Do you trust Samsung to give you ICS soon? What things do you not like about the stock ROM? Ect, ect. I want to hear your thoughts.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] eep2378:
1.) I would still choose this phone(its a beast, even stock)

2.)You'd be missing out on a lot.....better battery life, themes, custom kernels, smoother/better performance of the OS/UI, improved functionality(apps that require root, i.e TiBu, BLN, SetCpu, etc)

3.) The better question is, Do you Trust ATT to give us ICS soon? Honestly, NO, which is more of an incentive to root(where you can get ICS before ATT gets off their lazy ass)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shishir95:
To be frank, I'm not sure I'd stick with this phone if I wasn't rooted. At the time I bought it, I planned to root this thing and put something faster on, but as of now, I'd get a GNex or even an iPhone -- something that works super fast without needing mods.

With that said, I'm happy I have this phone and even stock it's perfectly fine. In my opinion, for a stock experience you COULD do better than Android, with WP7 for instance.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mike21pr:
im an hardcore rom flasher, tweaker, modder, etc. i have had probably dozens of androids and have rooted and flashed them all...... cept this one.

Honestly i dont need a custom rom on this one, i just have it rooted. all im waiting for is a stable ICS build and im good. Its just that damn good even at stock. which honestly i never thought id say that about any android. so yea... if rooting isnt ur thing SGS2 is also your best choice

sEnT fRoM mY ExYnOs PoWeReD MoNsTeR
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mickey4mice:
S2 is a very good phone, but if I had to stay stock, it'd be a tough choice between this one and an iPhone 4S. iPhone is more polished out of the box, and I must admit, I prefer iPhone's retina display over the one on S2, the pixel density just makes it a more appealing screen. On S2, I couldn't get good battery life on stock without rooting, that's main problem with it.

I'm relatively new to Android myself, after having owned a first generation iPhone and several BB Bolds, it's Android's sheer range of choices in ROMs, mods and other flexibilities that put S2 over the others. I upgraded to S2 with the intention to root and flash custom ROMs but the whole process has been made very easy thanks to a lot of friendly people on this and other Android forums.

Overall though, I'd be more conflicted about choosing S2 over others if it weren't for the awesome customization.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] quarlow:
I've done the iPhone thing. I jailbroke my iPhone to try some customization, but when I got a warranty replacement I stayed stock for 6 months until I got a Captivate. Similar thing happened with my captivate, I was on stock for a while after replacement.

If I had to get a replacent on my Galaxy S II, I'm sure I would stay on stock for a while. This phone is exactly what I wanted. On stock I was unable to open enough apps to get this phone to feel performance loss. I want to run ICS on this phone, but other than that the only reason I don't run stock is themes. I could easily use this phone just rooted.

My wife has an iPhone 4, and while the screen is nice in that its crisp, its tiny. I would worry about the glass, and breaking it. When ever I have to do something on her phone its laggy and sluggish compared to mine. Even after a reboot, the task manager is somehow filled automatically with all the crap that was running before. I have to sit there and close all the apps before I see acceptable performance from her phone. Steve Jobs was the one to say if you have a task manager you failed. Well the iPhone has one, and proved Steve right (but without the task manager the iPhone would be epic fail instead of just fail). I never feel the need to open or use the application manager on my phone.

The ONLY phone I would use other than this one is the Galaxy Nexus. But, until ATT has a subsidized version, that isn't a temptation I have to worry about.

Sent from my Galaxy S II (i777)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
The Note tempts me - but it will also not be available subsidized. (Unless you count the ****rocket-like Crapdragon abomination AT&T is rumored to be getting.)

Plus the GS2 is more than good enough to last me until next January which is my next upgrade eligibility. The GS2 is the first unsubsidized upgrade I've done since the Treo 650. The Infuse frustrated me THAT much...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] poofyhairguy:
I would still get the SGS2 just for the SoC.
[HTC Desire S] bluefoam:
I recently recieved the update to 3.5. I used to have a skin that was very simple a square shaped. Is it possible to get it anywhere?
[HTC Desire S] hendrickchan:
I'm looking for this skin as well.
[HTC Desire S] :
your update is it custom rom or official update
[HTC Desire S] bluefoam:
It's the official Rom...
[HTC Desire S] straian:
You are sure is 3.5 and no 3.0 ?
[HTC Desire S] RicardoAlves27:
I want that skin too!!! :( It has a square dock.
[HTC Desire S] straian:
What's your rom version?
[HTC Desire S] RicardoAlves27:
It`s the new 3.0 sense
[HTC Desire S] olyloh6696:
You have 3.0, not 3.5

HTC removed the skin. It was called 'Slater's

I missed it too.
[HTC Desire S] RicardoAlves27:
There is no way to get it again?
[HTC Desire S] olyloh6696:
Unfortunately no.

I tried to look for it too a long time ago when I first used Sense 3.0 (back in September)

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Sent from my HTC Desire S
[HTC Desire S] RicardoAlves27:
F&%cK :( :(
[HTC Desire S] ejtnaj:
It's kind of sloppy from HTC, I can't imagine why they'd take it out other than forgetting about it.

I've been looking for new skins since I got 3.0, no succes.
[HTC Desire S] bluefoam:
Sorry, you are all correct, I should have said 3.0, not 3.5.

Still upset I can't get the skin....
[Kindle Fire General] screwyluie:
Seems like everything new on the market isn't compatible with both my fire and my captivate, which makes getting the apks for sideloading challenging... Wondering what others do in my situation?

Is there a way to trick the market into letting me see/download incompatible apps? Is there a site out there that facilitates getting the apks from the market?

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] okizen:
Do I always need to power off my sgs first to get into either download or recovery or can I do the 3 button combo while my phone is on?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Erakko:
I've never tested, but why don't you just try it by yourself?

And if you have ext.powermenu you can choose "download" or "recovery" from there. In CM "recovery" is under "reboot"
[Miscellaneous Android Development] d33dvb:
So freaking sweet, great work on RW!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Dochoppy:
I used Wendal's tool to decompress the cramfs file system.

As for the /system, Because the device uses cramfs, and based on everything I have read, using Wendal's tool to decompress the file system, make the changes, and compress is the only way I can see to be able to

customize the rom for the device. The image is rooted, but after the update.img is compressed, the /system file remains read only. I tested this using root explorer, but anything requiring su works fine. But all hope may not be lost, I was reading on a chumby forum someone suggested using mkfs.jffs to make it writable, but further down it notes that you would need to change the kernel (easy enough to recompile I think), to utilize a different file system. The boot loader would also need to be modified, something I am not ready to try and tackle just yet, I think I would be bricking my nextbook pretty quickly.

It is a start and I am actually learning a lot as I go.

Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] d33dvb:
I am definitely a long time user / cyanogenmod / aosp fan, but as far as ripping open .img files its definitely new territory, I tried to find an internal SD card like the nook has, to maybe dump it, but I cannot find such a beast. Any progress you make is awesome. So do things like root explorer work, just not on /system due to cramfs?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Dochoppy:
Correct, root explorer does work, but due to cramfs, it does not allow you to toggle to rw from ro on the /system.

Working on taking apart apk's and customizing and rebuilding and resigning next.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sgtfoo:
just flashed this rom and it works great!

How would I go about doing a custom boot animation or image?

... even if it means flashing a new rom from clean?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dodoclub:
This is great. Thanks. The only question I have is why do I see so few items in Market? Does it have anyhting to do with compatability?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Danno65:
Calendar & Sync Access

First, thank you for your work.

Before I update by Next7P, have you included Google Calendar and Sync access in this update?

I use MyPhoneExplorer and will need calendar sync to work so I can fully use for business.

Thanks.

There is another method to get Google Market on the Next7P, I am a new user so I can not post the link, but google , forums Whirlpool net au archive 1756859

, very easy and works great, but cannot get sync to work.

Dan,
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Dochoppy:
Thanks for the responses! :)

sgtfoo : You can use Wendal's rk29xx tool to take a copy of my rom image, or the original update downloadable from nextbookusa.com, and

unpack it. You then have access to the system directory in an editable format. you can go into the system folder /system/media and replace the bootanimation.zip file with another one. Just be sure the image format is 480x 800 and that the zip file has 0% compression ratio. After you make the changes, just repack .img file via Wendal's tool and reflash.

dodoclub : Not sure why. I have a full market. You might try clearing the data and cache for the market. My market shows pretty full, I.E. I got 31050 entries when I searched for facebook in the market.

Danno65: Actually that is something I have been working on. I can get my google calendar to sync, currently I am using a calendar from the market called Jorte, which works great, how ever, googles actual calendar.apk closes unexpectedly, I am thinking it is just a version problem with the calendar, but haven't had a lot of time to follow up on it.

FYI here is the link to Wendal's tool, which makes it much easier to work on the update.img file.

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B8hUXYDeoy_hNTc1YTVkYTMtNTNjZS00YjI2LTgyNDYtYjRjZjFmODdiZTQ1&pli=1

Cheers!

If you have any request or questions please feel free to ask, I will help anyway I can.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] terminander:
Thanks Dochoppy

Got one of these tablets for Christmass to replace an old broken tablet I use for work.

Google hosts our work email, so I still need to get Contacts and Appointments going, but I maybe able to side load them.

Noticed build.prop still has ro.secure=1. This prevents adb from having root access??
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Danno65:
Calendar & Sync Access

DocHoppy,

I came across a post where the "Calendar.apk" and "CalendarProvider.apk" files must be in the "system/app" directory to work properly, I tried to copy these files to the above directory but found it to be read/only, will wendalls tool have to be used to get access to the directory?

Also, did you get your google calendars on your desktop to sync with Jorte on the Next7P, I tried but no luck.

Thanks

Dan

The updated image file worked great, thanks again
[Miscellaneous Android Development] d33dvb:
Thank you so much for your work in building a new rom for this thing. I am anxiously awaiting a new filesystem so we can have true root. How do we manage to recompile the kernel for ext4 support and change the /system fs?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] markmatters:
Hello, first of all, thanks for your work!

I am having trouble loading this rom. it says there's an invalid image file in my sd card and if I want to delete.

Now, I don't know if my tablet is a never or older version of what you guys have...

Next7p

2.3.1

kernel: 2.6.32.27

build: v2.0.7.....

my serial is also different from alot..it starts with YF0511

any help or tips?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] d33dvb:
I would say the serial number would have something to do with it, check on the site for nextbook and see if your serial is in the same *batch* as ours, if the original serial is in a different group, im assuming the hardware may be slightly different? If so, you can always use his method to repack the original with root.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] xxProphecyxx:
First off I would like to say that I was very pleased when I came across this thread from another one. I haven't flashed this ROM yet, but plan to. Thank you for your work on this as I have been searching the whole internet since I got this thing [4 weeks now] for some sort of custom ROM. It is hard to use this tablet when I have ICS on my Captivate and Vibrant. GB just isn't as cool.

One thing I hope we can work on is root access, so we then can use Titanium Backup. Then we won't have to manually reload everything when new releases come out.

With all that being said, if there is anything I can do to help, I would love to. Like I said, I plan on flashing this probably tomorrow or Tuesday. Thanks again.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sgtfoo:
For the record, I got titanium backup working fine on this rooted rom. it is capable. You just need to reboot after it restores a backup.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tingchung_chin:
i'm new to android. glad to see rooted rom finally, keep it up!!!

i have a clarification, any improvement in the booting time? my device took 1min30sec (power ON to ready to use, for me, 90sec seem like not fast enough).
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sgtfoo:
Good luck on improving boot time. And besides a tablet is best used when on all the time... try using the suspend state to quickly wake it. We're just starting with the early versions of this rom... give it time to grow.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mingolianbeef:
Build.prop editing

Okay so observation:

Our tablet is not recognized as a "tablet" by the Android market, only and android device.

What prop would I have to edit in order to have us recognized as I tablet. I noticed this when:

I finally managed (through some internet tutorial before this rom) get the market working (the first version, not 3.1+). And when I downloaded apps (I'll use Minecraft Pro as an example) I noticed that the way mine looked and the way the tablet version looked via android market photos and Youtube, ours looks like an enlarged phone version rather than a tablet optimized version. What can I edit to fix this?