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[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DDriod:
I have followed following Instructions --

but, after restarting the device it Stuck in boot with green HTC logo..

pls pls help ...:( :eek: :confused:

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Instructions

1. Install Terminal Emulator and a file manager (such as Astro File Manager) from the Market.

2. Extract the contents of the zip file to the SD card (this will create a directory called root_files on the card). When done, make sure you unmount your SD card from your computer if you had mounted it as a storage device to transfer the files.

3. Enable Unknown Sources (under Settings->Applications) and USB Debugging (under Settings->Applications->Development).

4. Using your file manager, navigate to the root_files directory on your SD card and select "com.modaco.visionaryplus.r14.apk" to install the Visionary app.

5. Start the Visionary app.

6. Click on "Temproot now." Leave all other settings unchecked.

7. Start the Terminal app.

8. Type the following commands (the $ and # symbols represent the command prompt and should not be typed):

Code:

$ su

# cp /sdcard/root_files/perm_root /data/local/perm_root

# chmod 777 /data/local/*

# /data/local/perm_root

You will see multiple messages scroll by as the programs run. Once you are returned to the prompt in terminal, you will have permanent root (S-OFF), as well as subsidy unlock and SuperCID. At this point, you can also choose to flash the engineering hboot as explained in the wiki. Flashing this hboot allows you to use the flashboot program to flash images from your computer to your phone (which can be very helpful when stuck in a bootloop for example). Note, this is often times the step that bricks people's phones when following other guides. To help mitigate the danger involved, I created a script that first checks the md5 of the hboot file to ensure it didn't get corrupted and then actually performs the flash (many times the bricking occurs because of a typo in this command). If you wish to flash the engineering hboot, type the following command in terminal if you have a G2:

Code:

# /data/local/tmp/flash_hboot

Or this command if you have a Desire Z

Code:

# /data/local/tmp/flash_hboot_z

If you get a verification failed message, you should re-download the files, re-extract them to your SD card, and run the flash_hboot script again.

If you don't want the engineering hboot, just reboot your phone. You can verify you have permanent root by holding volume down while powering on (you'll see S-OFF in the first line of the bootloader). You are now free to install a new recovery and start flashing custom ROMs. If you don't want to flash a new ROM, it's safe to uninstall the Visionary app at this point.

And if you are curious, you can open the perm_root and flash_hboot files in a text editor to see what they are actually doing...

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[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nipqer:
I guess you didn't see the

WARNING - Do not use Visionary to permanent root your G2/DZ - high brick risk! sticky, well that's a shame.

If you managed to flash the eng hboot, it shouldn't be too hard to fix. Otherwise you might have to flash an RUU to get it back to factory settings.

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hoffmas:
sry, but there are quite a few warnings about not using visionary...

ok, so what can you do?

first thing i would try is:

try to enter bootloader (power & volume down) connect your phone to pc, open cmd.exe go to your platform tools folder and type "fastboot devices" if your phone shows up, type "fastboot oem boot"

...if you are lucky you are able to boot into the rom again.

EDIT: or do what nipqer posted... tell us what your bootloader shows (hboot number and s-off?)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DDriod:
On volume down + power, it shows following

VISION PVT ENG S-OFF

HBOOT-0.76.2000 (PC1011000)

MICROP-0425

RADIO-26.04.02.17_M2

eMMC-boot

Aug 20 2010, 16:51:01
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nipqer:
Download clockworkmod recovery

Use fastboot to flash it. Boot into fastboot mode (hold trackpad and power), then run 'fastboot flash recovery recovery.img' from a command line.

Then boot into the recovery, from hboot, and flash a new rom from there.

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hoffmas:
ok, i will leave it to nipqer :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DDriod:
Do i have to use ADB tool to run 'fastboot flash recovery recovery.img' ?

please help me with the step to run the same as I never done this before....

It will be a great help :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nipqer:
Fastboot is an Android tool, but it is not adb.

(Assuming you're on windows) I'm not sure which drivers (if any) you need for it, but if you have installed HTC Sync you will have the drivers.

Download this zip and extract the fastboot for your OS, into the same folder the recovery image is in, then just run the command

fastboot-[os] flash recovery recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.7-vision.img

You could pop into #g2root on freenode for faster/easier help.

Otherwise hopefully hoffmas sees this and feels like taking over as its almost sleep time for me.

-Nipqer
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Mustafa Hamza:
After I did the root for my device , I moved this file build.prop by fault from another ROM for sony Xperia and the device is restarting now >>> I didn't make a back up what to now ??? :(:(:(:(:(:( android V 3.2.2
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] lexobys:
Flash CWM suitable for your phone,and do a factory reset once you are in it. It will boot up fine

Sent from my blek krupuk
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Mustafa Hamza:
Hi bleck can you be more specific please ?

I did not install a CWM in my device
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Spex:
flash another rom

custom or official doesnt matter

or just do factroy reset in recovery mod
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Jrhodes85:
So who's heard of it,amazing phone on AT&T network

FULL HD CAMERA SUPPORT ( F&B)

1.5 GHZ DUAL CORE PROCESSOR

1GB INTERNAL RAM

16GB INTERNAL STORAGE EXP. UP TO 32GB

NOT SURE ABOUT OS, IM GUESSING ICS 4.0

4.3 INCH SCREEN

By the sound of the specs mentioned on G4.this phone might be better than Galaxy Nexus
[Optimus One, P500, V General] ebe_robert:
It has Gingerbread onboard.. Should be updated to ICS
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Jrhodes85:
Ugh,it doesn't come out til next month,I just don't get why the phone wouldn't have ICS
[Optimus One, P500, V General] oprz_5:
and don't forget the massive 1900mah battery....anyways y z diz in an o1 forum?
[Nexus S General] infamshxr:
Hey guys,

First off, I don't post much on here, but have been doing alot of reading to stay "up-to-date". Yesterday, I just got the Nexus S 4G through Sprint cuz my Epic 4G took a crap and they were backordered so I said sure to the Nexus S.

I spent most the day yesterday looking for ROMs for it and found out about ICS and got all excited for that. So, after looking around I decided on Crossbones 0.1.3 ICS. Overall, I'm liking it but after using it for about a day now, I am noticing the battery life (in comparison to my Epic, which ran the current Legendary ROM with the Samurai Kernel) is HORRIBLE. I don't want to be quick to say it's the phone, ROM, or ICS though. Maybe there's a different way of closing out unused apps that I don't know about? I did just find that you can swipe away unused recent apps. Will that help?

Basically, for a ROM, I look for stability, battery life, speed, and looks. In that order. In GB, I always used Launcher Pro, btw.

So, my question is for those that use or used Crossbones, what are your experiences so far? Also, if it's recommended that I go back to GB for awhile until things get a lil better on ICS (I heard its coming OTA soon), which ROM are people liking? With ICS out now, searching for a good GB ROM has become a lil difficult. So far I read about MUIU (or whatever it is) and CM7, which my gf has on her Dinc2 and her Nook Color. I'm kinda "eh" about CM7. It "just works" imo and I think that's what they are going for. Def not a fan of the looks though. I also miss my power options in my notification pull down too.

PS-

That and I can't get Facebook to add to my account sync. When I go to add it, it does it, goes back to the accounts screen, but its not there. Very strange. Ok, gonna shut up now. this is long enough. lol Thanks in advance.
[Nexus S General] davidsteele1975:
I've had my Nexus S for a couple of weeks now, I put the stock ICS ROM on the first day and during this time my battery has significantly improved. There are probably three reasons for this, but perhaps not all will apply to you?

1) I've stopped turning everything on, all of the time and constantly tweaking / fiddling / admiring the AMOLED.

2) I've refined how the device uses battery (logged out of Google+).

3) The battery has matured a little.

There's another side effect... ;)

4) I've stopped worrying about the battery so much as I get a day of use from it.

Ice Cream Sandwich and ROMs using it are gonna improve in time. Gingerbread has been out for a year or so and has all this development. So from this there's a lot of potential from ICS... :D

I'm going to keep my device running the standard ROM for the time being as it's my daily driver, but wanting a device to potentially brick and hack. Thinking about the Galaxy S. :o
[Nexus S General] infamshxr:
Thanks for the reply. So far in terms of battery saving tricks, I've disabled animations, the screen is set to about 1/4 brightness, only thing that constantly does anything is k9

mail to check my inbox every 15 mins (that I'm aware of lol). So it could be that my battery needs to "mature"? Btw, are there any good themes out yet? I miss my transparent text msg threads and I really miss my power controls on the notification pull down. I'm def not digging the white on the contacts and SMS screens. Lol
[Nexus S General] infamshxr:
::BUMP:: Seriously? No one else?
[Nexus S General] BrianDigital:
Well is was getting bad battery and weird force closes on cross bones, i'm on vhgomex(thinks that's right), it's been a lot better for me and it has the notification power widget in it
[Nexus S General] infamshxr:
I havent had any issues with the rom running or any FCs... Took a look at gomez. Gonna do a nandroid and give it try. Looks promising, and FB sync is supposed to work. lol
[Nexus S General] jesusice:
I think you're not getting many answers because your issues have already been addressed. A simple search will find many (most) ROMs with notification toggles and Facebook sync. I personally recommend AOKP.
[Nexus S General] Solarian:
I'd say it's just the rom. I'm on an ICS rom, everything works great and I have significantly better battery life than before.

I'm on AndroidME with Eugene's speedy-3 kernel. I don't have Facebook sync and power toggles in notification though, but I don't really care for those two features anyway.
[Nexus S General] infamshxr:
Well I'm on Gomez now. Things already seem to be better. Absolutely no issues so far. I'll know for sure in a day or so.
[Nexus S General] Shark_On_Land:
Well I uninstall bloat.sys apps I don't use with root uninstaller

As for Bette battery life. Honestly think. What could someone do to the phone to put out better battery life. Almost nothing but SBC kernels and the CPU speed and goveners. That's it.

Most of you guys don't have battery issues you just play with your phone all day instead of doing your work.
[Nexus S General] infamshxr:
A: that was fairly rude. I'm legitimately asking for help and advice. I didn't make the thread to be judged or ridiculed on my phone usage. I don't judge others on how they use they're phone, so why should I be?

B: I'm comparing this all with my epic. I don't over clock or mess with the CPU settings cuz that's beyond my knowledge atm. Like I said, battery seems MUCH better now with this rom . Now my only gripe is volume. Way quieter on this phone which seems to be a known issue. Trying out volume+ soon. Also, at the end of my day, I'll post my battery stats and see what you guys think. But like I said, I think its OK now.
[Nexus S General] dark06:
Im on bigxie's rom and icup kernel im getting great battery life with this but thats just me.i dont know whats great for you.try this rom its somewhat minimalist or pure stock with just statusbar widgets and other features.no 'omg' tweaks that cause more harm than good.and it has trebuchet which is perfectly put into the mix.im satisfied with this :).been with this rom since build 1 and ive been happy with its consistency.no bugs encountered :)

Sent from a Nexus S
[Nexus S General] infamshxr:
Thanks for the opinion. I'll keep that one in mind if this doesn't work out. Sounds a lot like Gomez. Gomez has basically just what you listed. I'd def take stability over extra crap. Lol
[Nexus S General] infamshxr:
Sry for the double post,but to report back, totally forgot to post my battery stats, but they were definitely better. By far. Still not much luck on the sound tho. Got an app the boosts my media volume but my ringer wasn't affected, which sucks. Anything on this that I haven't possibly found?
[Nexus S General] Shark_On_Land:
I'm going back to CM7. 7.2 is out and honesty its just more optimized for this device. CM optimizes their ROMs to very fast high standards and do stuff a lot of you newbies can't even think of. (Yes, these will be implemented in BESTROM.)

So I'm going back. To smoothness.
[Nexus S General] Deleted member 2574792:
You really shouldn't be so rude and demean other members of this forum like that. Frankly, no one cares if you're going back to CM7 or not. But thank you for your belittling feedback.

To the original poster, I'm running Pete Alfonso's nightlies along with Mathkid's Matrix CFS kernel. With a bit of overclock and tweaking of the kernel settings, I get great smoothness, stability, and decent battery life. To me, any battery life that gets me from "up in the morning" to "home at night" is fine, because I have my charger at my desk. But typically, I can survive a full 24 hours on one charge.

Who knows, though. Maybe I'm just too much of a newbie to realize the full potential of what my device can do and therefore it's my fault that the battery life is as good as it is.
[Nexus S General] Snorkumler:
Hey! I've just recently switched to my Galaxy Nexus, but was a Crespo owner since it came out. Been reading your post but I would agree that you should try out the AOKP rom along with a custom undervolted kernel for longer battery life.

I haven't really tinkered with my Nexus S in awhile (I gave it to my gf when I got the Galaxy Nexus) but the last thing I remembered was either installing aokp or cm9. In due time the custom ics roms will improve and the power widgets in the notification bar will be brought back, but they usually want to focus on stability then add new features little by little. Hope you are having fun your Crespo!
[Nexus S General] infamshxr:
So far I'm still rocking gomez's. Really loving the battery life. Only issue I've had is 3g doesn't always come back after using wifi. Not a big deal tho I guess. Really stable too. I was thinking of using mathkidskernel but don't wanna possibly screw up what I got now. I'm backed up so maybe one of these days. Heard alotof good things about mathkids kernel. Heard good things about aopk too, so that's my other go to. Lol
[Nexus S General] Shark_On_Land:
sorry if that was rude but you have to take in count that

I myself is using modified CM7.1RC0AOSP2.3.7GB as base. But far as CM9AOSP4.0.3ICS goes its still not ready for folks like me for DD yet.

As I described below how extensively its optimized and most of it is outside the scope of current XDA.

What you have to understand is performance is not measured via synthetic benchmarks (ex: Quadrant). The biggest issue with people is that they don't know enough to know that they don't know, so they compare it with silly numbers (ex: score) they can't comprehend what they see, much less put numbers behind real life activities that's not applicable in controlled environment.

OS development which eliminates most of it but on software level custom base rom (ex: CyanogenMod) is highly optimized and tweaked to run on optimal performance. Mostly, but not all. But does it mean it can't be tweaked any further? (Rhetorical) No. How do I know? We (scope outside of XDA) tweaked it to the next level. How you ask?

1) Optimized ext4fs: reduced r/w rate (healthy NAND lifespan), improved journaling (corrupted data writeback integrity) = Which improves the IOPs and performance access rate.

2) HC3.x fugu binaries, patched sqlite libraries, mSD read ahead buffer fix.

3) Modified VM: OOM (Out Of Memory), LMK (Low Memory Killer), VM heap (Virtual Machine), DRA (Dirty Ratio), DBR (Dirty Background Ratio), DWC (Dirty Writeback Centisecs), DEC (Dirty Expired Centisecs), SWP (Swap), VCP (VFS Cache Pressure).

4) Increased minfree value: Background, Foreground, Empty, Hidden, Visible, Secondary, Content.

5) Optimized cache: File and Drop cache, Forced cache (resident loop).

6) Custom kernel: OC/UC, UV/SVS/VDD, BFS/CFS, RSU/NP/VR/SP supported.

7) Custom ROM: Optimized Rom script and props (ex: CyanogenMod).

this as its tweaked to THE next level. I'll stick with AOSP2.3.7GB until ICS4.X is more stable and we understand more as most memory grouping and adjustments might be changed.

I bet most of you only do 2 of those thing (6&7)
[Nexus S General] marfillaster:
i suggest you try androiduser aosp rom with icup kernel. you dont have to do anything else and with normal usage you'll get 24+ hours
[Nexus S General] infamshxr:
Uh, yea... totally out of my scope of knowledge there. I just do kernel and rom. If it works, it works. If it doesn't, I look for a fix or move on. I measure the performance based on comparison and noticing how everything runs. As long as everything I do on my phone works the way I would expect it to, I'm happy. Oh and battery life lol.
[Nexus S General] infamshxr:
What's normal usage for you tho? For me, its having the phone off the charger for roughly 12 hrs, texting throughout the day, checking fb every couple hrs, using wifi while I'm at home cuz my house is a signal vault lol, randomly going on the internet, playing music somethings for maybe an hour, and maybe 1 or 2 15min phone calls.
[Nexus S General] :
Actually, I don't *have* to understand anything. I think what *you* have to understand is that here, we don't put other people down just because they don't know as much as you do. We don't call people names.

To the original poster, at the end of the day, it's about your experience. No two devices are identical. No two people use their devices in the same way. People here have given you suggestions - take everything with a grain of salt. The advice is a good start, but if you're really interested in trying out a good ICS rom, just flash one and test them out in daily use.

---------- Post added at 06:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:55 PM ----------

I have similar expectations as you. Pete Alfonso's nightlies + Matrix 14.5 CFS @ 1200/200 overclock with the InteractiveX governor and Deep Idle on. I can unplug before I go to bed, go through a typical day that you're describing, and have enough to get me through the evening when I can charge again at home. Oh, and I work in a hospital where reception is always in and out, so that's a huge drain on my battery.
[Nexus S General] infamshxr:
Yea I work at a hospital too. Lol ive been hearing that mathkids

14.5 with lulz governor 800/200 is really stable. What is deep idle?
[Nexus S General] :
You can do a search for "Ezekeel" and "Deep idle" to find out, but in short, it's basically a low-power mode that isn't available by default on Nexus S devices. It's a kernel modification that allows better power savings.

Pete's ROM's are all about looking like stock and being very stable. Battery life is good with Matrix kernel.
[Nexus S General] infamshxr:
Oh OK. Sounds good.
[Nexus S General] SA-07:
Please post feedback in my threads :D
[Nexus S General] Shark_On_Land:
I'm glad you saw the optimizations. I think if you add those in your kernel it would be hands down, be THE kernel to run.
[Nexus S General] swamp goblin:
I am really, really, really looking forward to your next installment of brickROM, i hope it brings such amazing tweaks as you mentioned above.

;)
[Nexus S General] wsstk:
Kangy's And i love it, i tried most roms that are in the DEV. Follow all the guidelines. and Kangy's runs the best on my device.

CM is nice. but something went bad on it, i dont recall so i switched. and i havent looked back. :cool:
[Nexus S General] rjerikz:
cyberGR for me is the best as of now in either gb or ics rom.. fast and smooth with the advantage of good battery life.. try it and you would not regret it..
[Nexus S General] infamshxr:
Everyone loves cm7, and I know its good, but I'm like eh about it. I have it on my gf' nook and it freezes a lot.
[Nexus S General] jesusice:
Your gf's Nook ROM experiences are not at all relevant to this discussion.

*if you didn't wipe /system and /boot it is NOT A FULL WIPE*
[Nexus S General] infamshxr:
I was just mentioning an experience with cm7. Works good on her phone. And I know how to install a rom, ty. Besides the install process is different for her nook anyways.
[Nexus S General] resetreflectt:
Well I use bigxie's ICS build with the Matrix Kernel and have it set to lulzactive on NStools. The first day had **** battery but I gave it one more day. The next day after about 9 hours I was still at 86%. Its amazing.

Sent from my Wallet.
[Nexus S General] BrianDigital:
Yeah cause the maintainer of the nook also does the nexus s?

When cm9 hit s a final your gonna be hard pressed to find a ROM that's not based off it
[Nexus S General] astmacca:
Bigxie's ICS is pretty good. At the moment though i am running the latest CM9 with CMSettings installed, and the battery percentage text mod.

Have been having good experiences as far as smoothness and battery with eugene373's Speedy 5.
[Nexus S General] travisd4est:
This. Lolololol
[Nexus S General] RushAOZ:
Hey do me, (or the rest of us) a favor. Go smash your ns4g and never repurchase another one again. Kthnxbai
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xunair:
hi

im on 2.3.4 stock and rooted and i have converted file system to ext4 before backing up.(is that safe) or should i convert to rfs? and then backup?

im kind of scared to flash custom roms, i wana flash ics onecosmic.

i did a backup in CWM now if i flash ics rom and something goes wrong can i just revert back to previous firmware by doing a restore in CWM?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bedo1987:
Sure!

If you had backup everything (most important thing is ROM) and with the term everything I mean EVERYTHING (mp3, images on SD etc etc) you can now flash from CWM the .zip you want.

I'm on teamhacksung's one (still ICS) so I don't know well the procedure to flash it,

but on the thread it's all documented!

Hope to have another ICS soon ! ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xunair:
ext4 doesnt matter?

i just flash roms thats it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bedo1987:
If you wanna be 100% sure "downconvert" to RFS again, backup again, then flash what you want!

2 backups is better than 1. ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stesancri:
I suggest you to revert back to rfs before flashing any custom ROM.

Lagfixes can cause problems when flashing and go back to rfs isn't harmfull or complicated.

Than follow exactly what is written on the OP of the Rom of your choice and you're ready to go.

When you have everything backed up, in the worst case of a bad flash you can always go backwhit your NANAD backup or to stock with Odin and Download mode. I was scared like you but now I flash ROMs like crazy even if I'm not so experinced!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xunair:
ok im gona do it now

thanks alot guys

:)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bedo1987:
man we are all crazy!!

flashing ROM is kind of a second job 4 me!!