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[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Zeekayy:
By the above quoted sentence, my confusion here is does this mean this program only supports this specific CWM recovery?

And what I want to know is that, I'm on a stock HTC Rogers ICS Rom, rooted, unlocked bootloader, S-On and with TWRP 2.6.3.0 recovery. If I want to install a custom rom, all I need to do is download the respective Rom.zip and select it in the Flash Image GUI program and it will automatically detect the boot.img in the Rom.zip and flash it? And then all I would need to do is boot into recovery and flash the rest of Rom.zip and GApps?

And if I want to come back from custom to stock, would this program be compatible with the custom rom, take Pac-rom or CM 11 for examples? And if so, do I need to take the boot.img that is backed up in my Nandroid backup and flash it through this program and then just simply booting into the recovery and restoring the Nandroid backup?

I don't have a computer that I can use at the moment.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] joeykrim:
Good catch, I've removed the quoted sentence from the OP. You've listed out a bunch of questions so I'll answer each one separately:

Flash Image GUI supports flashing any custom recovery .img file or a .zip with recovery.img inside the .zip file.

Flash Image GUI supports flashing the boot.img inside a ROM .zip file, and yes, then you'll load the rest of the ROM .zip and GApps from the custom recovery.

Yes, Flash Image GUI also is compatible as an application that should work fine while loaded in a custom ROM as I designed it to be self-contained, as long as the custom ROM properly identifies the device, which most do, but not all.

Flash Image GUI does support flashing the boot.img file as an individual file on most devices with the warning prompt that the associated modules, such as Wi-Fi will also need to be loaded as they aren't bundled in the boot.img file. The Nandroid backup should have those associated modulles that can be loaded from the custom recovery.

If you have any issues, please post them up with as much detail as possible and I'll work to resolve them. Thanks for your support!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Zeekayy:
Thankyou for answering, and yes I have one more confusion.

Doesn't the boot.img have WiFi modules built into it that is contained in the Rom.zip?

And if not, by selecting the Rom.zip in Flash Image GUI, I guess it should locate the boot.img and all the relevant modules from the Rom.zip and flash them, right? Or no?

I appreciate all the help.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] joeykrim:
Whether the boot.img has WiFi modules built in will depend on how the boot.img file was compiled and where the device expects to find them.

If the boot.img file doesn't have compiled in WiFi modules, they'll be included separately in the /system directory of the ROM .zip.

I previously shared this information as you mentioned flashing a boot.img file from Nandroid, which will likely not include the WiFi modules. In that case, the associated Nandroid backup of /system will need to be restored or WiFi will not work without the matching module being loaded from the /system directory of the Nandroid backup.

There previously has been a bit of confusion around these associations between kernels and modules. I'm not sure whether it persists, but in an effort to be transparent and share best practices, I wrote out a more thorough answer to your question.

Hope that helps clear up the last point!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Zeekayy:
Well then won't Flash Image GUI locate all those modules and kernel from the Nandroid backup and flash them accordingly?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] joeykrim:
Unfortunately not. There is some variation in the Nandroid file formats as well as location, both depending on the custom recovery. Due to the variations and lack of demand for the feature, I haven't done the required extensive research and development to add it.

Thanks!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Zeekayy:
Okay well thanks for all this knowledge! Looks like no flashing for me.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] joeykrim:
Can you clarify why "no flashing for me"? Thanks!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Zeekayy:
Well you stated above over my question that won't Flash Image GUI locate all the relevant modules and kernel from the Nandroid backup,

If I would need to come back from a custom to stock rom I would need to restore from Nandroid backup using this program, but unfortunately I don't have a pc at the moment that I can use as you said Flash Image GUI does not locate and flash the necessary modules that are needed for WiFi and other stuff because of some file format variation in Nandroid. I just have my phone.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] joeykrim:
There appears to be a misunderstanding. To revert from a custom ROM to a stock ROM using only your device, the process would be as follows:

1) Using Flash Image GUI, flash the boot.img backup created by Nandroid

2) Reboot into the custom recovery and restore the Nandroid, which will restore the WiFi module, etc.

The app is provided for free in the OP of this thread. If there are issues with the free app, please post them here. Thanks!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Zeekayy:
Thanks a lot for clearing this misunderstanding.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Zeekayy:
[MENTION=1477081]joeykrim[/MENTION]

So I did a test before going with flasing anything by creating a Nandroid backup of my stock ROM and selecting the boot accociated file (boot.emmc.win) and see what it gives and below is the attached screenshot of what the program came up with when I selected the boot file to begin flash process.

I have TWRP 2.6.3.0, and the recovery created the accociated boot file (as per the details) as a file named 'boot.emmc.win' (16MB in size), the program says to select a file whether in a .img format (boot.img, recovery.img) that it can flash but there's what my backup created, can I get acknowledged?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] joeykrim:
Yes, are you able to rename the file from boot.emmc.win to boot.img? Worse case is opening a terminal on the device in the custom recovery under Advanced, and either copying the file to boot.img (cp boot.emmc.win boot.img) or renaming it to boot.img (mv boot.emmc.win boot.img).

I can also look into adding that file name extension to the filter in the next update release. Thanks!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Zeekayy:
[MENTION=1477081]joeykrim[/MENTION]

Yes, I can manage to rename the file boot.emmc.win to boot.img both from the system as well as from the terminal command in recovery, and on a test base, I also got the usual warning that Flash Image GUI gives before flashing the selected boot.img file.

Anything else I need to do or is this it? Thanks for the help!

Screenshots below.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Zeekayy:
Tried to load the pac_holiday-nightly-20150123.zip today and got this message in FIG, help is highly appreciated.

Screenshot attached below.

And for your ease, I have also attached the boot.img from that ROM.zip.

What if I extract the boot.img file from the ROM.zip and flash it in FIG and then flash the whole ROM.zip in recovery, will that work?

Link to ROM.zip: https://s.basketbuild.com/dlgate/de...iday/nightly/pac_holiday-nightly-20150123.zip
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] joeykrim:
Hi Zeekayy,

Yes, if you extract the boot.img, flash in FIG (Flash Image GUI), then flash the same ROM.zip from the custom recovery, everything should load properly.

It appears this specific ROM developer is not providing the kernel modules separately, which deviates from the format that HTC followed for this device. I think the ideal solution would be a prompt to continue or not continue instead of only a not continue option. What do you think?

Thanks for your support!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Zeekayy:
I think that would be an ideal solution, adding a continue and a not comtinue prompt both, as in these steps I find nothing missing or going out of way as this process works, also depends on the person who understands it.

Thanks for the clarification. Can you please reply to my previous post?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] rignfool:
Actually... The WiFi module is now built into the kernel... So you won't find it at all

Sent from my Nexus 6
[LG Optimus 3D] -_-Help-_-:
basically are you able to do this in clockwork recovery:

Flash-ThiaiZ's ROM then go into CWM and Flash Acuras ROM

>I do not care about loosing my data
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamesey:
I can't seem to find anything that compares. Colorize widget was the closest I could find, but it doesn't work spd shell 3d. Any alternatives that will work without using a common launcher?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rianbechtold:
I feel your pain, I had sense withdrawls when I first switched, then they went away but lately they have been coming again. With all the issues I've had with sprint and the lack of support from samsung, I think I'm going back to htc soon.

Anyways, enough of my rant, the closest I have found is the "android pro widgets", and it's free! It comes as a pack with a friendstream style widget, bookmark, calendar and even people widgets.

I really don't get why touchwiz comes with 7 screens and practically no widgets. HTC makes the only phone I have ever been able to create a nice layout using all screens and not have wasted space.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RayTrue04:
I miss feeds and updates widget that was on the first epic. Don't know why it's gone on the S2. If it's bcuz of social hub they could at least had added a widget for it!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamesey:
Thx, but unfortunately it doesn't scroll for me and that arrow down is flakey
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] roee88:
If you're looking for 3rd party (truly) scrollable widgets for spb shell 3d you won't find any. The reason APW uses a scroll button is the lack of scrollable widget support in your used launcher.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] abhaxus:
I use APW on my view tablet with and it is awesome. Better than sense for sure. If you really want friendstream, switch to launcherpro plus instead of touchwiz. LPP is smooth as hell and the widgets are awesome.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] satur9ine:
I use android pro Widgets on this phone and the timeline widget is just like friend stream.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bigfdaddy:
u could use launcher pro..it has friend stream widget
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] flight01:
Yes use launcher pro!!! The widgets are crazy good like having a little bit of htc sense on this awesome sammy phone

Other options like what's been said is apw and plume is a awesome twitter app with great selection of widgets
[HTC Rezound] a-jive:
Ok, I gotta be a noob for a second. I've been married to this message board since Thanksgiving when I got my Rezound, I've read nearly every word written over the last week since we got unlock/ root..... but I am lost on one thing....

What is this boot.img file all about? There is a lot of talk about how to flash it, but I am not clear on when or why you need it. It sounds like it's part of the ROM zip file, but I'm running BAMF and it does not contain a boot.img file, and it doesn't appear that it was needed in this case since everything is working.

Can someone hook me up with a quick 101 course on this file?
[HTC Rezound] Marine6680:
Basically that file is the kernel of the OS.

The big deal with it is the fact that we can not flash the file directly as part of the normal ROM flashing procedure. This is because we do not have S=off. No ROMs for the Rezound will include a boot.img in the .zip, other devices with S=off will have the boot.img

This means that whenever we flash a ROM, the kernel is untouched by the ROM flash, we must then use fastboot to flash the kernel necessary for the ROM.

This isn't a big deal for ROMs strictly based on the stock ROM. Just flash the ROM and go, you can even switch between stock based ROMs with no problem or need to flash the kernel. (as long as you have not flashed a different kernel)

Now if the ROM is stock based but uses a kernel different than the stock kernel, you must flash the kernel it comes with after you flash the ROM.

This goes for any ROMs not stock based as well. AOSP, MIUI, and others will need to have a separate boot.img file available for download that you will need to flash in fastboot in order for the ROM to boot.

The real problem comes when you want to run a custom kernel (One that did not come with the ROM originally, or not purposely designed for the ROM you are using) This is because there are files within the ROM itself that are unique to the kernel being used. If you want to use a custom kernel then you must alter these files to be compatible with the new kernel. you then must flash those files into the ROM before you flash the new kernel.

Luckily we have a new tool that can do this for us, but the process is still a pain. :D
[HTC Rezound] Xtreme Outcast:
Thanks Man This Information Is Greatly Appreciated. I Definitely Had The Right Idea In My Head And Now You've Clarified That For Me And Anyone Else Who's Wondering.
[HTC Rezound] a-jive:
Much thanks Marine, that's exactly what I was looking for. My confusion has been alleviated... for now at least....
[Xperia Arc General] AwesomeAHlee:
:confused:
[Xperia Arc General] arneh1992:
What do you mean, when it's exposed to sunlight to much or?

When you mean that i don't think so, it have to be exposed like 1000+ hours to light to change the original color...
[Xperia Arc General] punkmonkey1984:
Plus this is not 1990 and the plastic's have advanced since them to stop them doing that.

I very much doubt they are using the plasitcs from 20 years ago lol
[Xperia Arc General] zangetsu2188:
White ipad turns yellowish after some time. Idk about the iphone, though.
[Xperia Arc General] punkmonkey1984:
As the same with the Macbooks that started turning yellow over time, (google it) more down to the make-up of the plastics used or sourced by apple.

Or just down to the dirty dirty people that by apple products and have dirty hands and greasy palms lol
[Xperia Arc General] realfelix:
yes it will after some time, thats a normal effect :P guess why i hate white phones :D
[Xperia Arc General] iridaki:
My X10 never turned yellow, snowy white up until the end!

I hope this will be the case for my Arc S too! :cool:
[Xperia Arc General] reptile64:
Same here... :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dukins:
I'm thinking of exchanging my phone today. I love the phone. But every 3rd or 4th time I charge the phone it reboot. Also 80% of the time I listen to. Any music app and charge at the same time, reboots. I figure this is the best forum to get a quality answer as any. Any thoughts or workarounds before I exchange it?

Sometimes I don't use the USB cable that comes with the phone FYI. I have other charging cables from past phones. Don't want to take the stock gnex cord with me everywhere I go for a charge. Thanks for any help.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pedmond:
What ROM do you use?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xlillo:
Rebottig phone on charge at my opinion is not normal.

Are you using a custom rom or have the original firmware?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dukins:
I'm on original stock rooted rom. No extras. Basic root.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xlillo:
Very strange, never listen a similar problem with stock firmware.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hitmanre:
Hello Im on Gumminexus rom and frankie kernal. When i connect to my wifi tether it dosnt work the tethering toggle turns off
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Temescal:
I bought my SGH T989 a few days ago and at the store the reps transferred my contacts from my old phone (old verizon smart phone). Today I rooted and installed Juggernaut 4.1 ROM on it, and to my dismay, none of my contacts are in there anymore.

Are they still in my internal SD card? I can't seem to find them. I had done a backup of all my apps in Titaniumbackup as well as a nandroid backup of the stock ROM. Is there any way to recover my contacts either with Titaniumbackup or would I have to go back to the old stock ROM, export my contacts, then flash Juggernaut again?

I had just assumed my contacts were stored on my SIM card and they would have been there after the new ROM was flashed :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Watcher64:
If they did a "Transfer" they were not on your sim they were in phone memory, and if you flashed a wipe ROM they are gone ...

One reason it is best to save/transfer your contacts to google, that way they are in the cloud and sync back to your phone when you set it back up after a flash ...

There may be some contacts in the sim, but that is not where they are "normally" stored ...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Temescal:
Thanks for the response. Would doing a restore to my nandroid backup bring them back? I'm guessing going back to the t-mobile store and asking if they can transfer the contacts again is out of the question. Looks like I'll be entering these contacts in by hand. /Sigh
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Watcher64:
OH, if you have a nandroid, that should put them back , but it will also put you back to the ROM you had before ....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamesey:
Google opened the source. I believe Samsung did as well. There's a ROM for international s2 working with TW is there something i'm missing? Also, why is google allowing TW on ICS I thought the purpose of ICS was to eliminate having to wait for manufacturer/carrier updates and consolidate phones and tablets to the one OS to maintain and innovate.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Overstew:
The Google's Android Alliance is dead. I believe that since manufacturer's are already going back on their word, they're still changing things up a bit. Besides, who would get an HTC if it ran the same software as Samsung's phones? (Or vice versa). The unique feel between all of these devices are marked by their UI, otherwise the phone with the best hardware will dominate all. (although I wouldn't mind an AOSP ICS rom for ourselves.)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamesey:
More money could be invested in the hardware instead of cutting corners to save money for the programming. The net result would increase the lead over iPhone users. Which gives us better hardware, immediate updates, and more software as app Sellers would favor writing for Android. Just my 2 cents.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lafester:
yeah and all the ics roms suck right now. just because they are out does not mean they are ready. damn people sure are impatient these days.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
The Nexus builds are nice but they aren't perfect. I use it as my daily on my NS4G but the battery life isn't the greatest. The devs probably decided to just wait for the official since we are supposedly going to be one of the next phones to get it. They could do it but there would be no 4g and Google quietly pulled the OTA update temporarily due to battery life issues. The gapps tax my battery big time..especially Google+. We will get our turn. In the meantime, try one of the themes with ADW EX or Go Launcher and you can have the look
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kc_exactly:
No official build yet.(period)

I just want you all to know that there is no official build at all for this rom yet. No beta at least. Sprint doesn't have it yet either. Sprint isn't testing the rom nor has Samsung sent them the rom. So, don't expect the update in the next month.

The way is works is Samsung sends it to Sprint. Sprint test it and Samsung fixes any issues. Sprint test it again and when they find no issues it gets sent to the consumer. Sprint doesn't even have it yet to test it.

And, there are people working on making a non official build but it doesn't work great yet. It is missing a lot of key features. I am thinking we might see some usable roms at the end of the month.

Sprint is currently fixing the ICS for the Nexus S. When that is complete they will start on the Epic. You might see that update in 2 weeks. The epic should be done in 6-8 weeks(this is a early guess, I will know more in 3 weeks).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
Development is horrible for the epic touch on xda because every single thread, regardless of the original post, turns into a flame war. I have been told by two devs that this is the reason they stopped developing for the epic touch on xda.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jerdog:
SEARCH BEFORE POSTING! ALL of this information is available elsewhere on this forum - sorry you don't want to search before you post. Or read other threads.

And the flaming and trolling - seriously?

Closing this thread.
[Galaxy 3 General] nosyaj444:
Galaxy mini creates their new hack for the internal memory...

they can increase the internal memory as big as they want...

can you do this for our galaxy 3's?

here's the link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1398797
[Galaxy 3 General] turboblaz:
I think that its only for GB(correct if I'm wrong)and becide this destroys your SD card(again correct if I'm wrong)But it would be realty good if we could use this hack (:

Accidentally sent from ICS_Nexus S powered with Matr1x 1.46 GHz
[Galaxy 3 General] Kaleptik:
That's basically data2sd...
[Galaxy 3 General] alb3rtt:
its already been done..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScottXe:
I have two questions on the app and seeking your advice to set it.

1. How can I add Holiday calendar that is in other calendars of my Google Calendar in this app?

2. Colour code of each calendar - how can I change the colour code for each calendar as I notice one colour for two calendars.

Thanks!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AzureusPT:
If you feel limited with stock calendar app you can try Jorte to help you on the tasks you can't do on stock.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScottXe:
Did you mean the built-in calendar does not provide such basic functions so I need additional app?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AzureusPT:
Havent really spend much time with the stock calendar app, so now it might support it, but from when I tried, it was so limited I changed to another calendar that fits my needs better.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScottXe:
Does anyone know if the built-in calendar provides the following functions?

1. How can I add Holiday calendar that is in other calendars of my Google Calendar in this app?

2. Colour code of each calendar - how can I change the colour code for each calendar as I notice one colour for two calendars.

Thanks!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] godsosall:
for the first one you actually add the holiday calendar to your "Google calendar" on the web and it would be synced on your phone later.

for the second bullet I never though about it really. maybe android 4 supports it
[Galaxy Tab General] spike1985:
Hey guys!

Great news. Just read an article in the German Bild-Zeitung that HTC and Samsung confirmed a "limited feature" version of ICS for SGS, HTC Desire, our beloved Tab and other "older" android-devices.

New years first good news!!!
[Galaxy Tab General] Byrana:
hey spike thanks for the heads up but I would like to read it with my own eyes. do you have any link, since google gives me zero results.
[Galaxy Tab General] dirlan2001:
Hmmm, and the online pages of Bild.de don't return anything neither

:D
[Galaxy Tab General] Byrana:
yup, i have checked there also.
[Galaxy Tab General] Sadmod:
Its not a limited version, its just plain Android without Touchwiz.

That was a translation error when they translated it from Korean :)

Here is a link (Sorry, german, don´t know a english source and I am to lazy to use google right now)

telekom-presse.at/Galaxy_S_und_Galaxy_Tab_bekommen_doch_Ice_Cream_Sandwich.id.18079.html

PS: Can´t post links because of stupid XDA forum rules
[Galaxy Tab General] Byrana:
@ Sadmod

Thanks for the source. I read something similar a few days ago. Unfortunately, it is still nothing official in my pov. It is mostly a translation of what has been posted on XDA news a few days ago. This all is still based on rumors. Until there's no official confirmation I am trying not to get my hopes to high.
[Galaxy Tab General] ashrack0:
here it's confirmed no ICS:

http://newtechnik.com/definitely-no-android-4-0-ics-for-samsung-galaxy-s-gt-i9000-tab-gt-p1000.html
[Galaxy Tab General] priyana:
that is also old news.