yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[LG Nitro HD] burningembers:
Find me something that shows DarkLord is the genesis of this general approach to rooting and I'll be more than happy to thank him/her. Heck, maybe toss in a donation. :)

Otherwise, feel free to have the mods lock or delete this thread if they think I'm in violation of something.

On an unrelated note, I'm dropping dev for this phone and jumping ship to the Skyrocket. See most of you around, I'm sure!
[LG Nitro HD] harolds:
Nice job repherb, one less developer.
[LG Nitro HD] burningembers:
Aww, don't blame repherb :(

Phone just wasn't working out for me like I wanted. Plus my eyes are biased towards over saturated AMOLED screens.
[LG Nitro HD] schwin97:
I doubt the decision was made based on one person's post. And there is no reason to continue throwing jabs around - best to just drop it and move on...
[LG Nitro HD] LiViD:
Dev's just seem to think that LG was too late to the playing field with Android, and thus don't want to support their products. Oh well, I'm waiting for ICS anyways.
[LG Nitro HD] netnerd:
But does LG support their own products?

Where is the recovery rom??

If you tried to tweak this phone and phone won't unable to boot,

there' no ways to restore this phone to factory!

On my old Sony x10, I can reflash the rom even I'm on the latest os version.
[LG Nitro HD] schwin97:
When I talked to LG support they said the lack of a recovery image was at carrier request.
[LG Nitro HD] netnerd:
I don't believe this BS !

I think it's just LG excuses to point finger.

How about a "leaked" rom?

htc and samsung phones so popular cus there's always a "leaked" rom for it.
[LG Nitro HD] repherb:
To be quite honest, I personally feel for burningember as i prefer AMOLED screens too. I use the Optimus for the PPI. I didn't jab or flame or bad-talk him at all, and he knows for sure i never accused him of violating anything and I was quite positive. All i did was point something out, nothing more. his post after that was informative even to me, and he got thanks from me for it. He even admitted it had nothing to do with me at all! I have seen what he is up to, and to be quite honest i feel a sense of loss regarding his decision to drop from the LG Nitro/Optimus LTE dev scene as i am quite sure he would have been a serious asset. I wish him the best on his current and future projects. and hey, you never know... he may come back to us in some capacity!! Good luck buddy, keep tabs on us over here okay??
[LG Nitro HD] aquariuz23:
Hi Burningembers,

I understand that you are switching over to the Skyrocket. However, while you are still in possession of the Nitro, would you mind helping us as much as possible, any way you can, with whatever you can find on that phone? We are very limited with the help from Devs so any help is greatly appreciated.

Also, if it's possible for you, could you stop by once in a while with anything you can find about the phone? I'm sure you will be busy with the skyrocket but if you ever have some spare time, please help us. :)

Thank you for your contribution, present n future :D
[LG Nitro HD] burningembers:
Ohh, I think maybe there's been a miscommunication or misrepresentation of some sort. I'm hardly a seasoned developer. I'm a software dev by day, but by night I'm a complete noob android developer.

I'm more than happy to contribute what I can, when I can, but I'll be honest - it might not be much. On the plus side, the Skyrocket is also on Gingerbread, so at least for a lot of core things there may be some applicable crossover.

I'm just learning. But its definitely fun, and if and when there is crossover with anything I do (which again, might not be much) I'll gladly contribute what I can. I do hope CWM or something makes its way to the Nitro though, that's huge in getting things going.

Also, my two cents, the Nitro's a great phone. The screen is pretty darn gorgeous, the text is crisp and clear, and it seems really prepped to receive ICS (heck, the soft keys on it seem like they were designed with ICS in mind). So I really do hope it gets some lovin' :D
[LG Nitro HD] repherb:
Well, i'm in the same boat: a hardware tech with a streak of helping those with laptop issues for free by night, and a full time dad of 3 (i'm Mr. Mom here, wife has...other...responsibilities). I've been helping out here for a bit, but since i acquired the P930, i've been pouring more time into it than my past phones.

I _may_ have found a way to recover from the "lost" launcher black screen issue. I'll post in the proper category if i can successfully fix it.
[LG Nitro HD] rydeN-:
Hi guys, I'm with the Thrill 4G team and it seems that if you could get z4Root or Gingerbreak it works fine.

Just remember.

You brick, I'm not to blame, bit its worth a good go! ;)

Hopefully we will have out Thrill Nitro ROM finishes soon.

Late Merry Xmas mates!
[LG Nitro HD] repherb:
uhhhhhhhh??????? thrill ROM on a Nitro??? Did i miss something folks??? Someone please enlighten me...
[LG Nitro HD] schwin97:
We already have root, the problem is accessing recovery or the bootloader. We also need to get cwm ported over to our phone... some of us are working towards porting cwm .
[LG Nitro HD] rydeN-:
I can give you a Script to port CWM via Thrill, it would work the same way.
[LG Nitro HD] burningembers:
Please do. It's worth a shot.
[LG Nitro HD] rydeN-:
xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1363132

Just please be careful, this is a LG Optimus 3D .img

Before you risk this, find an LG Nitro HD boot.img & recovery.img before you port.

This is not my responsibility if you Berk.
[LG Nitro HD] V@no:
Oh, I can't thank you enough, I thought I totally bricked my phone today, when it got into boot loop, su would return segment fault (as usual) and SuperOneClick would fail re-root...
[LG Nitro HD] rydeN-:
So a success? :)
[LG Nitro HD] V@no:
Yes, total success with first try, in fact I just copied paste the entire first list of commands from the OP into CMD window.

What's strange was, when my phone was looping, adb would stay connected without disconnect, but in SOC, in each loop it would display "waiting for device" and start over.

And also SOC uses outdated version of adb, maybe that's why? Manual method used latest adb version and took 5-10 sec, while SOC usually takes up to a minute.
[LG Nitro HD] repherb:
so, let me get this straight: you were trying to root your phone V@no, used the OP commands to achieve root manually, and gave thanks to someone other than the OP??? did i miss something??

---------- Post added at 12:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:09 PM ----------

I knew i was scared to do this for a reason...... but i can say for sure that the recovery partition is /dev/block/mmcblk0p27 and it looks like the boot partition is /dev/block/mmcblk0p13 so can anyone for once and for all straighten this out as there is some confusion here???
[LG Nitro HD] V@no:
Yeah, you did, you did miss something :p ;)

Since I didn't quote anyone in my "thank you" reply, it automatically goes to the OP and that's besides the fact that I also hit the "thank you" button :cool:

P.S.

there is a "show/hide" link to see who thanked.
[LG Nitro HD] repherb:
i think i need my kids to hit me over the head again and let me go for a nap, we old men need those every so often to "wake up" LOL!! :P

(offers V@no a baseball bat, 3 chickens and a racoon)
[LG Nitro HD] aquariuz23:
So when i get my phone, should i try this or the superoneclick method? (which i dont know where it is anymore, buried under all these posts lol)
[LG Nitro HD] V@no:
You still waiting for your phone???

For me SOC worked at first try (don't count attempts install/update drivers through it, which wasn't successful so I download it from official LG site). It's easier and you probably could guess how many clicks it requires :D

Also worth to mention, that even though this method worked for me, I actually already had root, it's just when phone gets into boot loop, the su command doesn't work until it re-rooted again.

Another thing needs to keep in mind is the stupid way LG made the debug mode on this phone, you can't activate debug when selected connection to PC is set other then "PC mode". Charge only, storage, will automatically disable debug mode (I had some issues with Titanium Backup because of that)
[LG Nitro HD] V@no:
Damn, looks like I finally managed brick my phone and they say you can't brick it by just messing with SystemUI.apk and framework-res.apk - WRONG.

As usual got into boot loop, when animation would loop indefinitely, it stops for 5 seconds and starts over. This time the loop is shorter then other times and zergRush doesn't have enough time to complete it's exploit :(

Can someone please post complete output of adb shell ./data/local/zergRush ?
[LG Nitro HD] bytecode64:
well the MAIN issue is not to port cwm or any other recovery software , the ISSUE is how to get into recovery , we dont know the combos , the adb reboot recovery doesnt work , also no one was able to get into stock recovery so the first thing is to find a way to get into recovery mode

---------- Post added at 03:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:16 PM ----------

found my test subject :D http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=20764895#post20764895
[LG Nitro HD] V@no:
Ok, you can say it: guinea pig

I'll wait for a reply at zergRush forum, maybe someone will be able customize it specifically for Nitro, which hopefully will have enough time to complete the exploit between the loops. (anyone here know how to compile C ?)

P.S. a bit off topic, but Nitro doesn't seem to have recovery (?). When I execute adb reboot recovery it reboots and I can see android's standard recovery image for a second, then it continue with normal boot.
[LG Nitro HD] bytecode64:
LOL, did you tried pressing any button when you saw the andriod logo? cuz ive read somewhere that you need to press something like power button or some combo from there to get into recovery ,
[LG Nitro HD] V@no:
I'm back in business. Hammered it down with zergRush from v1 package at this topic:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1321582

A warning to anyone, there are two places in SystemUI.apk where some settings can be changed for HSPA and WiMAX - DO NOT CHANGE THEM! either of them will brick the phone and with the first one it's the worst brick I yet to experience, was trying revive it for last 10 hours...

But the good news, I found how to activate CRT off animation (CRT on is too complicated for me just yet). Will post it this evening.

P.S.

regarding recovery mode, pressing buttons, tapping screen have no effect
[LG Nitro HD] aquariuz23:
Can someone try this, I kinda got this little tidbit from my boss who uses a Droid Razr n today did a soft brick on his phone while doing an OTA update.

So wat Bytecode64 said reminded me of something. On the Razr, in order to get into recovery, even after choosing recovery option, you need to press the two volume buttons together (aka both up and down at the same time) which then triggers the recovery mode.

Maybe this is what we can try on this phone? Try pressing the two volume buttons.

Also remember, the 3 hardware keys (menu, home, return) also function even when the phone is not booted into android yet (can be seen when accessing hard reset by pressing power, down volume and home buttons at the same time during bootup for 3-4 seconds). So maybe try a combination of home and menu? or home and return etc etc.
[LG Nitro HD] V@no:
I've tried, but it's wrong topic :p ;)

Bot vol up+down = download mode

With vol down + any other buttons = nothing
[LG Nitro HD] gte460z:
You do NOT need to press the home key to get into hard reset mode just hold vol down + power when powering on the device. Vol up + plug in usb when phone is off is download mode. Softkeys are not required for any of the discovered modes so far.
[LG Nitro HD] aquariuz23:
Is there a hidden button we don't know about on this phone? -_- Can we have a tear down on this phone lol.
[LG Nitro HD] repherb:
<Breaks out a diamond bit chainsaw> MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....................
[LG Nitro HD] aquariuz23:
Anything?? hehe!!
[LG Nitro HD] repherb:
Yup, found 2 pairs of underwear, a duck, and a little green robot with PWNED BY LG stamped on his butt!
[LG Nitro HD] chrisd1a1:
stickied
[LG Nitro HD] kevace1:
Can someone explain to me how they got this to work????? I have tried all root methods and its a no go for my nitro. From teh first connand i get

adb: permission denied???

what am i missing? i knwo my adb is working fine and my lg drivers are installed and everything. adb aknowledges my phone beeing connected.....super on click does not work for me. its gets stuck on shell root step #7 waiting for device..then windows gives me the message "not responding" on the toolbar :confused::confused::confused::confused:
[LG Nitro HD] dubbaa:
SuperOneClick worked for me perfectly on the first try. I did not even try any of the other methods posted on this forum.

I had USB debugging and Unknown sources enabled on the phone before running SuperOneClick. Also make sure you have the latest version.

Here is the link to developers site:

http://shortfuse.org/?p=193
[LG Nitro HD] Blazeitup123:
Make sure timeout is turned way up and try SOC again. That fixed it for me before
[LG Nitro HD] Childofthehorn:
2.3.5 ------- No root obtained by trying multiple times with all forms of zergRush.

SOC gets hung up on all 2.3.x in both Linux and Windows x64 systems.

WTHeck
[LG Nitro HD] lan_baba:
2.3.5, no luck at all. tried all the different ways. Anyone got lucky?
[LG Nitro HD] zapper_master:
Root for official ICS update please....on my knees begging any and all the brilliant developers. Thanks in advance !!!
[LG Nitro HD] MrSchroeder:
As of today's date, the manual method in OP here does not work. Neither does: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/LG_Nitro_HD:_Full_Update_Guide

Edit, much later: I tried the full machzelet unbrick/root method and the alternative to it at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1784709

Superoneclick failed as well.

Well ****. Looks I better learn to love ICS and stock ROM :|

Edit, later than that: Ya know, I'm going to go try Machzelet's one more time.

Edit: After trying Machzelet's one more time, I tried the first one linked above again after a full factory reset, and all went well. Rooted!

Now for my CM10.
[LG Nitro HD] jSterling:
Correct, but isn't this also just commands? Commands that have been around before? Yes DoomLord put them together in correct order, but just cause someone makes a cake, doesn't mean they have to credit the original inventor of cake everytime they make one. Just saying.
[LG Nitro HD] Mrozik1990:
What am I doing wrong if I see something like this? :
[LG Nitro HD] Mrozik1990:
Ok I got it. Tutorial which is on 1st post is ****ty, here is a better one: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_p930

But now I have an error like this: "Hellions with blue flames!" and phone is'n rooted. What now? :confused:
[LG Nitro HD] Swetnes:
Yeah, this is way (like 3 years) out of date. This method only worked with the original version of Gingerbread that shipped with the Nitro starting in October 2011. Instead use this to root: https://www.dropbox.com/s/p5iqdbpbw0zgbnh/root_su640_jb.rar.

Then if you want a custom recovery, so you can install a custom ROM, go here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2598278
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chubby_Skunk:
DELETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] x986123:
After wiping and re-flashing an MIUI rom, my recovery has disappeared! Like i cannot enter it at all, it's just stuck at the Samsung screen What do I do?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] goobieracing:
you can get it back by flashing a different kernel with cwm. Then reflash rom.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] x986123:
I can't even boot up...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] qkster:
Sounds like you got a soft brick. Can you get it into download mode?

You will need Odin or heimdall to get it back to stock.

DEV section : one stop. Gtg or adam outler
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hydraxan:
I can't get any live wallpapers to work. I'm 99% sure it's my fault.

Problem:

I download a live wallpaper (eg Multipicture Live Wallpaper) from the market. It downloads fine, and appears in my app drawer. However, when I try to select a wallpaper (longpress screen -> wallpapers), the only options I get are "Gallery" and "Wallpaper Gallery". There is no "Live Wallpapers" option.

Background:

I believe that my Note was the Netherlands version, came with some apps that I didn't want (Buddies Now, Digilezen, Samsung 3M widget, etc).

My Note is rooted, and I installed Titanium Backup. I did delete some of the things in this list, using Titanium Backup and an apk list that I found (forum won't let me post the link to the list as I haven't posted 8 times).

I didn't do a backup or backup anything I deleted (stupid, I know).

I suspect that I removed an apk that is required for getting Live Wallpapers to work.

As a test, I've tried installing an apk using Astro as well as ES File Explorer, (Buddies Now - I know I definitely removed this one) and neither program could install it.

Questions:

1) Can I re-install the apk that I removed?

2) Which apk is needed for Live Wallpapers?

3) If I can't install the apk using Astro or ES File Explorer, can someone recommend another method?

Thanks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novastorm17:
If you're trying to use a live wallpaper on the default launcher. you're doing it wrong.

Press the 'menu' button when on the desktop (thats the bottom left button on your device) then press 'Wallpaper' then 'Live wallpaper' It should appear there. Good luck
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richy99:
are you sure you didnt remove the livewallpapers apk?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] taycuong76:
I agreed with the above answers.

1. Recheck the "Live wallpapper" by: On the home screen, press hard menu key, sellect Wallpapper --> Live wallpapper -> Choose 1 suitable one.

2. If #1 not work, maybe you have uninstalled/disabled file "LiveWallpapersPicker.apk"

Try to find on web the file for Galaxy Note and test if it works, ex:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=944069

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0Ag43oj7rLQP4dENZcmhGN0ZUa3pHSENVeXlqUm5vV0E&single=true&gid=0&output=html
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anishmirza:
Some live wallpapers nt working... Reboot phn... It will work if u hv nt removed any apk..
[General Questions and Answers] Col.Kernel:
First off, I didn't know where to put this. I was hoping for a generic Android forum, but General seems to be as close as I can get. This is a device independent question about Android, and of a more philosophical nature. Although there may be a practical solution in here. I've flagged this as a question, and I have a lot of them here (IANAL) but I'm hoping for some good discussion as well.

Bear with me as a say some very obvious things, I want people to follow my train of thought from the beginning. I'm also dead tired and don't want to take any of my presuppositions for granted.

It seems to me that locking bootloader is done by companies to prevent people from modifying the OS (DuH!). Yet is also seems to me that the purpose of having an open source OS is for that OS to be freely modifiable. So when a company locks the bootloader on the hardware they have violated the intent of the open source OS.

Now I know that the intent of a contract or license may not be enforceable in a court of law, and few will risk the money to attempt to resolve this through litigation.

Given the above, can or should the GPL be modified to take the unstated intent of allowing modification to code by anyone and "hard code" that intent directly into the GPL?

It is my assumption that such a change to the GPL would not be retroactive, but rather would apply to newer releases of the Linux kernel. So what would the fallout from a change of this nature be? Could it kill Android as Google is forced by the rest of the OHSA not to continue kernel development past a certain point to avoid having the revised GPL ruin their attempts to proprietize Android? Could the GPL be changed to be in effect from a certain date onward rather than from a certain revision on?
[General Questions and Answers] zelendel:
Only the kernel is covered by gpl and that only states that you have to post the source code for the kernel if it has been modified. The rest of the OS is not covered by the GPL and neither is the hardware. As long as they give you the source code they do not have to allow the code to be changed on their device.
[General Questions and Answers] Gusar321:
This already happened. It's called GPLv3. However, the Linux kernel is GPLv2 and will stay that way. Not only would moving to GPLv3 be extremely difficult because of the large number of contributors to the kernel, the main developers don't want it. Linus Torvarlds consciously and deliberately made the kernel GPLv2-only in 2000 or so, a decision he still firmly stands by.

Also, the GPLv3 already has fallouts like what you state. For example, Apple did not go beyond GCC 4.2 (the last GPLv2 version, newer versions of GCC are GPLv3) and is instead financing the development of Clang.

The GPLv3 would not so much kill Android (Google would transition to a new kernel), it could kill Linux, as companies would potentially be moving away from it, similarly to how Apple is moving from GCC to Clang. Or, quite likely, there would be a fork of the kernel.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mattfox27:
Im trying to see were/what to edit to change miniumum brightness when using auto-brightness because these white distorted colors in low light look horrible to me. I know its a complicated venture but where to begin? Would that be in services.jar, android.policy.jar somewhere around there?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mistawolfe:
Build.prop I believe.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] pickthecrowdup:
Juice Defender has an option that changes the minimum brightness. It goes down to almost black. Can change max brightness also.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Reiematza:
hey I am very new to those things. I maybe getting something fundamentally wrong and I'll be glad to learn someting new from you.

As i said I'm tring to apply galaxien on my SGS. I fallowd the instraction but I can't understand what dose it meens to "extract zImage from Galaxian....tar to the internal memory of your phone" I'm not familiar with what is "tar" and "zimage"

I have spend last night tring to fill the gap with no sucsses.

so I need to know how to make it work?

and if you can explain to me what is the zimage, tar and hoe all of it comes together? It will make me happie:)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buttwad:
Your probably better off installing it using odin

- use Odin and choose Galaxian....tar in PDA section (without pit file, repartition or bootloader update!)

Basically boot phone to download (vol down/home and power on) connect to pc open odin, click pda click galaxian click start
[HTC Sensation] durabio:
Sorry to make another wifi thread, but I did tons of searching and haven't found a solution.

I have a sensation running ARHD 4.1.9 with Radio_10.58.9035.00U_10.15.9035.02_2 with hboot 1.17. My problem is that I cannot get wifi at all after rooting. I have tried different roms, different kernels, and different radios, but my wifi still is unable to scan. I know its not my router because I have 3 other devices connected to it. The wifi just toggles on and off with the inability to scan.

I'm open to suggestions :/
[HTC Sensation] victy23:
The speed leads to the unstable connection?
[HTC Sensation] durabio:
There isn't any speed because it cannot find :(
[HTC Sensation] durabio:
to the top! really could use some assistance :(

FWIW when I flashed CM7 I get an error saying "application settings (in process com.android.settings) is not responding" rather than an unable to scan when I use a sense rom
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Gary86:
I don't get notifications like I did on my old iphone . Ill go into the app and have a bunch of notifications but the phone didn't alert me? Anyway to fix this or is there an app add on?