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[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] -SGA-:
Hey guys,

I've been flashing and restoring my phone like 3 times a day trying new things for the last week. I was just wondering if anyone knew if there was a limit to how much this can be done. I mean, if I keep doing this will it eventually cause any damage?

Thanks!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CallMeVentus:
If CWM , no .

If Odin , limit yourself to 5 times a day

Herpderp Galaxy Ace.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] wizayne:
Is this based on some type of information? I've never seen this and i have flashed many ROMs using odin.

..edit.. Not doubting the information by the way, just wondering if there was more supporting information?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CallMeVentus:
Flash memory has limited read/writes .

Herpderp Galaxy Ace.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] xdaboy122:
Hey emo what about flash counters? What are flash counters I read about it somewhere that you will get yellow triangle.

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[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CallMeVentus:
The Galaxy Ace has a flash counter ?

Herpderp Galaxy Ace.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] domnic79:
I think i read it on sum thread that it shows d yellow triangle or sumthin like dat.

Sent from Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 using Jusada's awsum ICSunday2 + Slaidmod script.

Dont jus say thanks, use d 'THANKS' button. [XDA RULE]
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] xdaboy122:
Me 2 read it here many times thatswhy I m little concerned ..
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] shriramc4:
How much times we can flash ROM any guess or approximate quantity
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Prawesome:
See above post by emo
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ejdavis:
Overclocking keeps my phone from charging..keeps saying battery is disconnected....then have to reflash rom...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Can you provide more details such as ROM, kernel, and how much you are overclocking and with which app?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] mahanddeem:
Hello

Thinking about buying it ...

1.What Android system version does this phone have "from the box" ?

2.Officially , what updates are there for the android system ? I think through KIES ? and when they were released ?

will not root it or anything ... just official updates ...

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] tehgyb:
Comes with 2.2.1 kies update is available for 2.3.6

Enjoy.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamlord1337:
So I got this phone from a relative, and it's rooted by default. I had to put in a SD card of my own. I want to revert back to the factory settings/firmware.

Here are some details taken from the About Phone section:

Model Number

Hero

Android Version

2.3.5

Mod Version

Elelinux-7.1.0-RC1-Hero-v3.2

Build Number

GRJ90

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Habarug:
Download a Rom like Heroine and put it on your SD card. Reboot into recovery. Wipe data, cache, dalvik and ext. Flash the Rom. Reboot. Download universal Androot (google it) and choose to unroot. Then it should be pretty much stock, just faster because Heroine is faster than Stock. It will look the same :-)

sent with love from me to you
[HTC Rezound] Rocky0931:
Hi bro.

It looks like Rezound is the best spec of HTC 2011, but not really that good for my expectation (Display PPI or battery or SW ICS....). Just wonder which main feature you guys look forward to most for your next HTC phone?? HTC should hear our voice for better strategy!
[HTC Rezound] zetsumeikuro:
Seems like you have unrealistic expectations. :D
[HTC Rezound] txkorm:
I'm a big fan of the call button since it is a phone.

KORM via the beast known as the Rezound.
[HTC Rezound] kgbeezr1:
I'm confused. Are you saying the display has too many PPI, or are you saying it doesn't have enough?
[HTC Rezound] SteveG12543:
Idk how the displays ppi isn't up to your expectations... I think it's beautiful. What were you expecting, 4k x 2k? :o
[HTC Rezound] mmmcfc:
It has 342 ppi, higher than any phone that curre.tly exists. How can you complain
[HTC Rezound] zetsumeikuro:
Cause he's a nexus fan boy and likes dem pixelated displays.
[HTC Rezound] Marine6680:
For me, I think the resolution of the display is about the max you could need in a phone for at least the foreseeable future. Finding individual pixels on this screen is very difficult.

The current performance level is good as well, though who can complain if given more. LOL

All I really want now is better battery life, and a 4 inch screen with a design that fits the hand well. (large screens plus thin profile is uncomfortable to hold and use one handed... think Razr)

I find that the large screens are just getting too big for day to day use, comfort, and ease. 4.3 inch is really the largest I can stand (or really the overall phone size for this range. the Rezound reaches the max size I can be comfortable using) If I could have a device that was similar in size to my old MT4G with a 4 inch screen, current gen dual core, good battery life, and 720p resolution I would be ecstatic.
[HTC Rezound] kgbeezr1:
Even the battery complaint is puzzling. All top shelf Android phones stink in the longevity dept. That problem definitely wouldn't be solved by going to the nexus or razr. From the inspire on att to the droid charge, to the droid bionic, to the rezound, battery life hasn't strayed too far, regardless of specs. But i would definitely like to see all the manufacturers, and Google work on battery management and capacity.
[HTC Rezound] Marine6680:
Yeah better efficiency in both hardware and software is needed.

And getting back to reasonable size screens would help too. :p
[HTC Rezound] platinumrims:
I would like to see the next best come with an unlocked bootloader :-D and have the HTC hub and such

I might prefer a 4" in the past, but only because I hated that all the larger screens had the same resolution as smaller screens making them pixalated, though I can say I do enjoy the extra screen space on the rezound thanks to the high dpi and rez.. I would maybe like to see an led screen without any lines/banding that doesn't over saturate colors. But the SLCD completely satisfies me anyway because it does not have those issues

Everyone wants better battery life of course. I'm impressed by the life I get from my phone. I can easily go all day without charging it...

Maybe an optical rear camera, and a next generation processor and GPU? Hell idk what else other than continuing to optimize android OS and making it even better.

Oh and I guess nfc options lol

Edit: it would also be nice if the re-designed the LED notification light to something a little more visible and multi colored, possibly maybe make one of the soft keys glow or something neat.

As well as multi color soft keys. Though if they moved away from softkeys, I wouldn't mind if they did others might have preference, they should also make on-screen keys color changeable as well.
[HTC Rezound] MrSmith317:
This is my first HTC phone and honestly might be my last since Verizon doesn't like their stance on unlocking phones. Besides that, when I'm up for a new phone I'm going to compare the specs of all available manufacturers/models instead of being a brand whore and taking up whatever my "fave" is dropping in that time frame.
[HTC Rezound] Serinety:
Battery issues will be over in a few years. Researches are developing a new way to build l-io batteries. These batteries will take 15 to charge and last a few days. Search my posts , I linked the article a few weeks back
[HTC Rezound] compchick813:
+1!
[HTC Rezound] jayochs:
I like how you addressed the entire forum as "bro"
[HTC Rezound] Cares:
Why can't all phones come unlocked and bloat free? :(
[HTC Rezound] fernando sor:
I would like my next phone implanted into my brain. Unlocked of course

sent from my mom's basement
[HTC Rezound] kierandill:
On the PPI discussion, I would be curious to know the theoretical maximum beyond which the unaided human eye can no longer discern a difference. I'm sure someone has done the research.
[HTC Rezound] bluizzo:
Unlocked bootloader and nfc

Sent from my CM7 Nightly HTC Desire HD
[HTC Rezound] a.mcdear:
This phone is absolutely awesome. The ONLY drawback it has (and its a MAJOR one unfortunately) is the S-ON lockdown.
[HTC Rezound] feralicious:
Can't fault HTC for that though. Why not leave Verizon since they are the culprit? Or is that you are a provider whore? ;)
[HTC Rezound] Superguy:
HTC locks on other carriers. Vivid is locked down tightly as well. Keep in mind HTC's policy was too lock bootloaders until they got enough backlash.

Sammy is the only one not locking their phones down at this point.
[HTC Rezound] fernando sor:
I hate Verizon in so many ways but their 4g is the best. That would be hard to give up. I have sprint also and their wimax is non existent

sent from my mom's basement
[HTC Rezound] MrSmith317:
I didn't fault HTC for it, I simply linked the fact that HTC has an unlock policy that Verizon doesn't support. No chance in hell I'm leaving arguably the best carrier, especially when I get a 21% discount on service. No sir...I always go with what fits my life best and suggest that others do the same.
[HTC Rezound] nrfitchett4:
doubt that would happen. Carriers add that bloat to try and make money. You could go gsm and get unlocked devices at full retail and use a sim card.

well, when the iphone4 came out and all that retina display talk was going on, they said at proper viewing distance, you couldn't see pixels on it (hence retina display). And the rezound has more ppi, so should be better. I haven't seen anyone complain about seeing pixels unless they had a dead one... I zoom all the way in on text and can't see jagged edges, that is good enough for me.
[HTC Rezound] feralicious:
I figured as much. But isn't the only phone you're guaranteed unlocked on Verizon the Nexus?
[HTC Rezound] zetsumeikuro:
Yup. It's also probably going to be the last as well. Probably going to be no more guaranteed unlocked phones, as well as no more Nexus' on VZW.
[HTC Rezound] Tachi91:
So far the rezound fits fine... As for any hopes for 2012... Better battery life is a most... Screen as long as below 5inches (too big). More cores are useless on phones... And software has to take advantage of dual CPU/gpu cores 100% ... Having 720p resoultion is fine there's no need to keep bumping all this **** up when its a phone... Nobody is going to give up their 42inch TVs and 17inch six core laptops yet

Sent from my ADR6425LVW
[HTC Rezound] Tachi91:
More like 2012, leave hardware alone and focus on software

Sent from my ADR6425LVW
[HTC Rezound] zetsumeikuro:
They will always push new hardware despite the software inadequacies. I'm sure by the end of 2012 we will see multiple quad core phones despite dual being a fairly newer tech on mobile devices. It's all about marketing and making that $$$. As in terms of battery tech http://www.intomobile.com/2011/11/17/new-battery-technology-allow-devices-10x-longer-battery-life/ looks pretty promising. I know it's an older article but this has promise.
[HTC Rezound] MrSmith317:
Yeah but I've had 2 Motorola's and a Samsung on Verizon and all were unlocked(eventually). Granted I'm having more fun experimenting on my locked phone trying to find exploits and holes in the system that can be "abused". But it does stick in my craw a little that 2 of the other "big 3" are unlocked.
[HTC Rezound] Rocky0931:
Haha~ Forgive my stupid, I thought iphone 4 has higher PPI than mine originally! ;) Anyways~ If only one feature I can pursue, that will be "Fast recharge"! Think nowaday ppl are rush to do anything, don't have enough time to fill up BIG capacity!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dchurch85:
Not trying to bring up more battery issues buy I didn't want to read 50 pages on my issue. My battery was down to 1% and I was going to take screenshots to try to help solve the battery problems. I have a mod that allows me to take a screenshot by holding power button, power button mods. Anyways, instead of taking a screenshot i accidentally rebooted my phone. Now my phone is displaying 100% charge and hasn't shut off in about 20 minutes since then.

Any ideas or suggestions or has anyone seen this? I've only been getting 7 hours with an extended battery until its off. I think the best was 8 hours. I'm trying to get better battery life out of this phone but so far nothing has worked.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] FrayAdjacent:
Oh crap... you got the new di-lithium crystal battery!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xja:
I got a jump from less than 10% to 40% after a restart.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lynxboy:
Your stats are screwed. I've had similar issues after flashing different ROMs, constantly rebooting into recovery etc. I've even seen the percentage slowly increase over time as if it were charging. It isn't dependent on you doing that, the stats could have got messed up another way, but I would root (if you haven't) and either wipe stats in clockworkmod recovery, or download an app from the market called 'Battery Calibration' and do it there.

Follow the usual protocol (charge 100%, use until power down, full charge after).

Regards.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Elganja:
thanks for the heads up on this app... MUCH easier then rebooting into CWM
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dchurch85:
I have been using battery calibration, I'll re try it today. I see people getting 20 hours of use and that's what I'm looking for. My phone shut off 30 minutes after this post so it was close to dead. When I plugged it in it showed 100% but wouldn't turn on for awhile.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] pakakid:
Hey guys I am quite worried. Currently I had jugg 3.7 and wanted to upgrade. I did a full wipe and then was about to install however could not find it on my sd card and pressed back and then it said back button disbaled and then i pressed update from sd card and now its showing a yellow arrow to the green andriod sign. Any help please guys im really worried
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tigerz0202:
pull battery and get back in recovery , then look in your downloads folder to flash it ,its probably in your internal SD card folders download folder , if not there look in external sd card for same downloads folder
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] pakakid:
Thank you! Its working again
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Adauth:
As a christmas gift to myself.

This thing rocks!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] theROMinator:
Nice, mine comes in tomorrow!

Where did you get yours?

Did it ship with 3.2?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] tmacgarris6727:
got mines today from bestbuy 449
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] theROMinator:
Ah but tax is killer :(
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Darky135:
I got it 2 weeks ago, came with 3.1

but I've allready rooted him and now I'm waiting for CM9 ROM or another ICS ROM.

Which one do you have? Wifi or Wifi + 3G ?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] etbob623:
You'll love it even more with CM9/ICS ... all residual lag is gone :)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] JHewey:
I just got one for Christmas too. Came with 3.1 but there was an update for 3.2 that I did. Now rooted on stock from with OC kernel.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Timbits93:
I just bought mine yesterday. $388 Boxing Day deal :cool:

Running 3.1 atm, waiting on the 3.2 update :D

Hows your case? I'm still looking for one :p

And actually how do you determine the manufacture date of the tab based on the 5th "Letter" in the serial number?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] YBCold:
I picked one up for myself Monday as a trade in from a Kindle Fire and I am so happy!

The price difference well worth it and since I was able to put the money from returning the Kindle Fire I was able to grab a 32gig tab, simply awesome!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] JHaste:
mum picked one up today (i went with her obviously) for 439 at Costco, and it was bundled with the official samsung leather sleeve... wifi only here

90day no questions asked return policy and 2 year warranty... not a half bad deal in my opinion
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] brownstar69:
Is yours a Rogers or wifi Tab? If its Rogers you can update Android but if wifi only then Samsung have yet to release 3.2 for some reason
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Timbits93:
Wi-Fi model.

Yeah after reading into it, realized that the Canadian Wi-Fi models didn't receive the update yet :(
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] vlucchetti:
Got my wi-fi model today, rooted and custom rom on within 15 minutes.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Caesarg:
Got mine on the 23rd. Am loving it so far. Not sure if I am going to keep it though. I also have a Transformer Prime on order that will get here sometime the first week in February.

I want to compare them side by side but I only have 30 days to return the GTab that I picked up from Sam's Club. I may return it and then repurchase one or with the problems that I have heard about with the Prime so far, I may just keep the Tab.

What should I do? What should I do? Hell, maybe I will just keep them both or sell one later on ebay or CL. :confused:
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] theROMinator:
I ran into the same dilemna!

Just got my tab today and i'm loving it; she's a keeper :)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] jawedzebra:
+1 to that!

Sent from my Galaxy Tab 10.1
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] HawaiianLaker:
The tab gets way better once you change to a custom rom.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] lexvandoef:
True! I'd recommend task's for smoothness, funtionality and stability.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] joemill:
First thing you want to do is root this bad boy and install a custom ClockworkMod recovery, from that you can make a nandoid backup of your stock rom, then flash away. Id recommend you try tasks rom beacuse it is still close to the stock feel plus its fast, stable, and loaded with features. Enjoy!

How to root samsung galaxy tab 10.1:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1239185
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] ceejay83:
I'd keep the galaxy tab. With the transformer prime's problems I'd wait for new tablets to come out like the nexus tab or ipad3
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] mcmb03:
GOt mine at Best Buy today too!! SOO PUMPED. Just about to flash GalaxyTask :D
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] IronReaver17:
Same here... Those taxes brought the total cost up around 470ish though (I'll check the receipt when I get home). I'm thinking about returning it though so I can buy the Transformer Prime... I have 84 days to decide >.<
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] scifitrekkie:
+1, have to agree.... Rooted mine on 1st day :D.

Install Task and get Boosted's ICS theme, this is the completed package and both looks and works great.

Thanks to all the dedicated developers giving thier time to bring us these. :) :) :)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] lexvandoef:
The coincidence, I'm running b00sted's ICS theme too.... :cool:
[HTC Wildfire S] Fruite:
Finally I have updated my wife's wfs to 2.3.5. There wasn't any problem with the stock 2.3.3 but as my desire s got voice (and video) chat feature in gtalk I thought that wfs 2.3.5 will contain this, too. Of course wfs don't have a secondary camera on the front but voicechat still could be a very good feature.

Is there a gtalk version somewhere which contains voicechat?
[Motorola Droid 3] oostah:
Originally Posted by verkerria

Here is a question I've never seen asked before. We have succeeded in hijacking the bootloader and getting clockworkmod recovery working. We have succeeded in using genius methods to run android via a zip, off an sd card, and even flashing nand on many different types of phones. Now here is my question... I'm going to use some metaphors here... let's say the kernel loads up during startup... what if we "shoved" the GB kernel into a closet after the 2nd system initializes, and load a custom kernel instead? ( don't know if its possible, as I don't really know how android boots up... but it is just a question, and if you have time to explain it, I would feel rewarded for my thoughts

Droid 1 Rooted (ChevyNo1 0.9MV Kernel, LGB2.6)

Droid 3 Rooted (Hashcode gave me some Ice Cream)

this may help some till some one can get more in depth.

http://www.androidenea.com/2009/06/a...-power-on.html

it shows the booting process from power on.

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Originally Posted by verkerria

That's was a rather informative article. At what point during that process does the safe rom start loading? Could a second kernel load and take over after the safestrap loads into the second rom, and the first kernel confined somewhere in the background?

Droid 1 Rooted (ChevyNo1 0.9MV Kernel, LGB2.6)

Droid 3 Rooted (Hashcode gave me some Ice Cream)

that kinda depends if you use safestrap, bootstrap or flash from rom manger

if im not mistaken using safestrap you are dual booting the two roms. with the other two you are replacing the rom.

Originally Posted by verkerria

I'm talking about putting a different kernel in the safe system rom of a safestrapped device, instead of trying to run the safe system rom off of the kernel in the non safe system

Droid 1 Rooted (ChevyNo1 0.9MV Kernel, LGB2.6)

Droid 3 Rooted (Hashcode gave me some Ice Cream)

maybe this will help

hash explains how it works.

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/8752-romd...ost__p__248383

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I got the general gist of the function when I started using it. My mind works in kind of a weird way, I'm trying to figure out if the system just checks to see if the kernel is intact and continues loading, and if the system would notice if we put a script into the bootup process to squash the original kernel after it is checked and load a custom one in its place. I apologize if I am confusing anyone, I'm trying my best to iterate it the way I'm thinking it lol
[Motorola Droid 3] oostah:
I got the general gist of the function when I started using it. My mind works in kind of a weird way, I'm trying to figure out if the system just checks to see if the kernel is intact and continues loading, and if the system would notice if we put a script into the bootup process to squash the original kernel after it is checked and load a custom one in its place. I apologize if I am confusing anyone, I'm trying my best to iterate it the way I'm thinking it lol[/QUOTE]

i understand now what you want to do.

kinda like how we over clock the cpu but have it put a kernel in the place of over clocking

the kernel boots before init dose is the scripting not done in the init part of the bootup?

here is a another good link to how android boots up

http://elinux.org/Android_Booting
[Motorola Droid 3] sarreq:
I (think) I understand you fine, and think it's a good idea, but whether it can be done I have no idea.

just to clarify, the normal boot order for an android device is

[B]Ⅰ — firmware[/B]
A — first-stage bootloader runs
• it detects if a special key is held, and can launch the recovery
image, or the 'fastboot' bootloader
[I](I would assume this is where the bootloader protection checks
to see if the officially signed kernel is intact, but I can't find
anything to corroborate)[/I]
B — eventually, a kernel is loaded into RAM (usually with an initrd)
• normally, this will be the kernel from the 'boot' flash partition.

[B]Ⅱ — kernel[/B]
A — the kernel boots
1 — core kernel initialization
• memory and I/O areas are initialized
• interrupts are started, and the process table is initialized
2 — driver initialization
3 — kernel daemons (threads) are started
4 — root file system is mounted
5 — the first user-space process is started
• usually /init (note that other Linux systems
start /sbin/init)

[B]Ⅲ — user space[/B] (I'll skip this since it doesn't apply to the issue)

What you're suggesting is to somehow trick the bootloader protection by letting it keep the correct kernel, but then prevent the official version from loading. instead, loading a different, unofficial kernel. in which case the boot process would look like this:

[B]Ⅰ — firmware[/B]
A — first-stage bootloader runs
1 — special key detection
[COLOR="Red"]2 — BL protection verifies official kernel is present[/COLOR]
B — eventually, [I]a[/I] kernel is loaded into RAM (usually with an initrd)
• normally, this will be the kernel from the 'boot' flash partition,
[COLOR="red"]but instead is loaded from somewhere else[/COLOR]

[B]Ⅱ — kernel[/B]

[B]Ⅲ — user space[/B]