yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Atrix 4G Android Development] helfrez:
SEE LATEST UPDATE AT THE BOTTOM OF POST.

After quite a bit of tinkering, I have finally gotten to a point where I have nice spartan webtop. It's sad that it doesn't come this way from the factory. I am dropping a few pics, and if there is enough interest, I can share some of the files and mods needed. I am no dev so, don't expect a pretty script you can run to make it one click, but it shouldn't be to hard to replicate. I am pretty much running a full lxde desktop with all of the appropriate hooks and dependencies to allow you to use it pretty "normally". All of the preferences apps, tools, panels work properly. The lxde menus are all intact as well.

I have not destroyed my system and rebuilt it from scratch, but the basics are pretty straight forward.

1. [webtop] webtop2sd 2.0.1

2. WebTopScripts - Fixing apt-get dependencies on WebTop

After you have completed those setups, you will need to modify your startup scripts like so:

WARNING DRAGONS AHEAD, TURN BACK IF YOU ARE NOT COMFORTABLE BREAKING STUFF!!

sudo apt-get install nano (it's just easier this way :-p )

sudo nano -w /usr/local/bin/start-oshwt-1.sh

Press Ctrl+x and overwrite that file.

nano -w /usr/local/bin/start-oshwt-2.sh

Ctrl+x and overwrite

What we are basically doing is stopping startup of all non-essential services, and the lxde+gnome soup that Motorola used, and reverting to all ldxe pieces. You should be able to customize you panel, icons, and desktop by just right-clicking as you normally would in lxde. All of the existing icons from awn should still show up in the lxde menu. It's so simple , once I got it all working, that I am not sure why Motorola choose to slap all the random gui stuff together.

Getting the window manager to behave was a little trickier, the theme is hard to get changed and I don't remember which setting worked. I will have to revert to find the right process. I also wanted to nuke the desktop compositing, but it looks like it is baked in somewhere, and I was never able to completely disable it.

Updates 2011/1/16:

I personally hate the default window decoration. I choose to switch to Metabox
[Atrix 4G Android Development] berniesteven:
Please do. Peace

MB860 - ROM junkie
[Atrix 4G Android Development] rozzco:
+1

Does it work with 2.3.6?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] morepower71:
I would be interested also, thanks.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] htcslic:
Nice looking peace of work man!
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Alaq:
Yea, please share this! Looks a lot better than what I'm running! +1
[Atrix 4G Android Development] sambaeallegria:
Please share. It seems very interesting.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] flexpackman:
Yes! Yes!

Beer Money may be available if your of age!!!

:D
[Atrix 4G Android Development] marko!:
I can help you make a nice script if you pm me

sent from my AL60R!THM Atrix
[Atrix 4G Android Development] deadlymix89:
My first post and so worth it lol. Please share would be much appreciated ...
[Atrix 4G Android Development] helfrez:
Shouldn't be to difficult to reconstruct. I have consolidated most of it to the startup scripts and used pieces that should already be present.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] blingmaster:
Dude this is nice. I was looking to get LXDE running on my webtop, but it is already on there.

This is quick and easy just edit the 2 files and you have LXDE running without having to use Synaptic to add anything.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] ssmr2t:
I want to put iOs on my webtop or windows :D
[Atrix 4G Android Development] ycavan:
This is really slick. :D the only problem I have right now is that awn manager can't save the config file & I had to start aiw from lxterm
[Atrix 4G Android Development] helfrez:
If you are using my files, you aren't using awn anymore. lxpanel has it's own settings. Just right click on the panel and choose "Add/Remove Panel Items". You can add whatever icons/executables you want to the panel. I have icons for lxterm, firefox, ysclient and aiw on my dock.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] helfrez:
Yup, the main reason I used the other steps were to add programs I needed like tsclient for vnc and remote desktop connections. I have profiles for all of my windows and linux servers, so the laptop running fullscreen rdp is actually very very very productive. I use virtual servers I rent with linux and windows via rdp on the web, and I have all of my heavy-lifting tools on-call 24/7.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] helfrez:
Remote Desktop FtW...
[Atrix 4G Android Development] dicksteele:
But how is this dev ? Its like theming webtop really .......
[Atrix 4G Android Development] aaron.a:
dude if you can make that happen you will be my personal hero for at least a week =D

i agree it's not exactly dev, but it's hard to fit this into the other categories.. i know i probably come off like i'm defending my own theme switching thread, but eh. this seems like the best place for this stuff. maybe we need a webtop specific forum?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Scary Guy:
Post about a separate subforum here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=976354

We really need one place to collaborate on things. Either one main one or a separate one on each device subcategory that supports webtop.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] sebbo90:
I agree until we get a separate sub forum for webtop this will have to do. I've emailed and got us on some list. Maybe if some other people do it will show we are interested and speed it up.

P.s good effort on this!
[Atrix 4G Android Development] dicksteele:
I'm not sure if there's enough content to throw in a subforum. I could be wrong.

Only topics I know of are

1. HDMI hack

2. webtop2sd

3. debian in webtop

4. webtopscripts

5.webtop reloaded and 6.webtop switch themes

7.YellowGTO taskbar and icons (which I'm assuming gave the start to 5 and 6)

8. Chrome in webtop

There's not a whole lot of in the Atrix 2 forum

Most of the stuff has been answered in these threads. And there's a lot of duplicate posts because people didn't search.

So if a dedicated forum is started, some organization of what already exists should be done. There's a lot of how to's already in the threads above.

And I'm not sure what else if left to hack on the webtop. More space has been solved, now the desktop manager tweaks are coming along, hdmi hack has been out for a while and is still working. What's left ?

---------- Post added at 08:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:08 PM ----------

So is this all there is to it? The files and mods that were going to be shared ?

EDIT: Nice additions to the first post.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] troycarpenter:
Ok, back on topic.

I actually have xfce4 running, but thought I would try this out since xfce4 doesn't seem to give me session control, multiple desktops, or menu/taskbar icons.

Do you actually get the webtop panel with this setup? I've tried the changes to the startup scripts, re-enabled the auto-starting of the mobile view, but I'm not getting the webtop-panel to show up. The panel isn't strictly needed since I have the mobile view, but I do like it.

I haven't played around extensively (because i foo-bar'ed my first attempt and only got the lxde desktop up earlier today, and I've not really used lxde before (I use KDE on my desktop machines, but I'm not ready to try KDE on webtop...let alone the kde version in Jaunty is very old). I'll play around with this desktop and see if I like it better than xfce.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] dicksteele:
You don't get it. It gets commented out in start-OSHWT-2 script

# start OSHWT 2 scripts

#sfalv -i "awn-autostart"

-------- > #sfalv -i "webtop-panel"

#sfalv -i "webtop-wallpaper"

sfalv -i "lxpanel"

sfalv -i "pcmanfm"

sfalv -i "evbridge"

sfalv -i "window_switcher"

sr-test avahi_start &

And I just added it back in, restarted X and it didn't come back.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] troycarpenter:
Exactly! I can't get it to come back either.

Oh, how do I restart the webtop system without having to reboot the phone every time to test startup script changes?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] helfrez:
I found that in order to get webtop-panel you need gnome-settings-daemon. It doesn't appear to cause problems running lxde-settings and gnome-settings-daemon at the same time. Uncomment it in the first startup file, and it should come back.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] troycarpenter:
Nice. Desktop wallpaper came back with that as well.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] helfrez:
To disable compositing run this from lxterminal:

gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool false
[Atrix 4G Android Development] dicksteele:
Sweet. Forgot about the first script.

And Troy run startx to bypass reboot after changes....

I use hdmi hack so I have to unplug and replug cable to get webtop to "refresh". At least that's for me...
[Atrix 4G Android Development] ycavan:
Offhand anyone know how to put application shortcuts on the desktop? I know how to put shortcuts in the panel. Not really used to lxde, lol.

Also anyone know how to change the icons for apps? The motorola apps just have the generic console icon.

Lastly, it seems odd that vlc plays video really crappy under webtop... Anyone know if there's a way to check for hw acceleration?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] sebbo90:
Right did a complete install from scratch including the rom. I have followed the instructions from the first page but mobile view refuses to show :/ any ideas anyone?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] ycavan:
Bring up lxterm and type:

aiw

See if that brings up mobile view.

I notice the motorola shortcuts in the menu don't really work. So I took the dev's suggestion and added them to the app launcher and only entertainment center doesn't work.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] tuantuti:
when trying to overwrite oshwt2 i get permission denied. can u point out to what wrong i might have done. the oshwt1 can overwrite ok.

ps: the purpose is to make the sh file looks exactly like how u quoted it, not retyping the whole command lines at the bottom of the file rite???
[Atrix 4G Android Development] helfrez:
Personally, I would recommend just adding the extra lines at the bottom and commenting things out as needed. It make's it easier to rollback and tinker with settings.I often make changes via Root Explorer right from my device and reboot.

Make sure you are using sudo is the only thing I can think of.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Alaq:
This works on any Webtop version right?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] helfrez:
It should, I have used the same setup on 2.3.4 and 2.3.6
[Atrix 4G Android Development] sxg75:
Want to second this.

I tested VLC from standard ubuntu-repos.

Are there later versions of VLC in beta or testing repos? Are there other players e.g. possibly mplayer based which would perform better in webtop native resolutions?

Or would it generally be better to watch via mobileview through lower resolutions?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] DJSYNTHVIRUS:
apparently i borked webtop and changed a theme not knowing what it was before realizing. Can i fix that, and if i can how? at the moment all that happens is webtop wont boot
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] VaMpYMaSTeR:
Can anyone help me with rooting U8800pro running the official 2.3.5 ?

I tried all the methods I was using for the U8800 but all of them doesn’t work... Any advice ?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] linomaniac:
i have the same problem, how to root???
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] VaMpYMaSTeR:
i'm searching everywhere for 3 days now with nothing usefull :mad:
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] dancer_69:
If automatic ways failed try this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1423422
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] VaMpYMaSTeR:
i think its not that easy to me to do it manual :rolleyes:

but thanks anyway for trying to help
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] dancer_69:
Of course automatic ways are easier, but it' s not that difficult, just need a little more time and attention.

The other way is to find a prerooted boot.img and put it to .cust_backup/image folder(replacing the original). I haven't pro model, so my boot.img will not work
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] VaMpYMaSTeR:
i tried this way but it didn't work too.. i found a prerooted boot.img.. replaced the original one but it didnt work
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] dancer_69:
To just say didn't work doesn't help. Write where you get an error and which is. Then maybe I can help you(or someone with more knowledge).
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] VaMpYMaSTeR:
i got the prerooted boot.img file for the U8800pro... replaced it with the original one.. But the phone is not booting.. It stuck on the huawie logo (the 1st logo before the one with the animation) so i had to put back the original one to make it work
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] dancer_69:
I mean the error on manual rooting.

As fro prerooted boot.img file, are you sure that is compatible with ther rom you have? If is from a custom rom will not work. You need the boot.img of a phone with the same rom as yours, just rooted.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] VaMpYMaSTeR:
well, maybe it wasn't compatible with my stock rom.. do you have anywhere where i can find some prerooted imgs ?

and about the manual root.. i didnt got any errors coz i didnt know how to wirte those codes :s
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] dancer_69:
Sorry I' don't know because I haven't a pro model and I don't know if there is a rooted boot.img uploaded fro pro mode. Maybe a member with pro read your thread and upload his img file.

-About manual rooting, you need to open DOS command prompt window. It' s in all progarms -> accessories

If you put the DoomLordRoot program in the root directory of your C drive and rename this folder to DoomLordRoot.v3(if have another name), you need to just put the commands one by one as given on the link I posted.

You just need to put first the command:

cd \DoomLordRoot.v3\files

to go to directory in which adb.exe is.

You can check if you are in the right path if you enter the command:

dir

afterwards. If you are in correct folder you'll see the files which are in c:\DoomLordRoot.v3\files directrory listed.

After that just start to follow the directions of the link. Just hit enter after every command you put. If you don' t see errors after every command you're ok. If you get an error on a command, write it here, for farther help. I don' t think that you' ll get an error, because I've done this proccess about 5 times and never get an error. But if you do, just put it here to see if we can help.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] VaMpYMaSTeR:
Thanks alot bro for the help.

well, i followed what u said but i think i got confused somewhere.. i'll type what i got.

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\User>cd\

C:\>cd DoomLordRoot.v3

C:\DoomLordRoot.v3>cd files

C:\DoomLordRoot.v3\files>adb shell

$ chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/zergRush

chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/zergRush

$

$ ./data/local/tmp/zergRush

./data/local/tmp/zergRush

[**] Zerg rush - Android 2.2/2.3 local root

[**] (C) 2011 Revolutionary. All rights reserved.

[**] Parts of code from Gingerbreak, (C) 2010-2011 The Android Exploid Crew.

[+] Found a GingerBread ! 0x00000118

[*] Scooting ...

bugreport dir[/data/local/tmp] exist.

[*] Sending 149 zerglings ...

bugreport dir[/data/local/tmp] exist.

[*] Sending 189 zerglings ...

[-] Hellions with BLUE flames !

$

$ ^C

C:\DoomLordRoot.v3\files>adb shell

$ chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/busybox

chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/busybox

$

$ /data/local/tmp/busybox mount -o remount,rw /system

/data/local/tmp/busybox mount -o remount,rw /system

mount: permission denied (are you root?)

$

$ dd if=/data/local/tmp/busybox of=/system/xbin/busybox

dd if=/data/local/tmp/busybox of=/system/xbin/busybox

/system/xbin/busybox: cannot open for write: Read-only file system

$
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] julle131:
Put su or sudo before command. like this "su /data/local/tmp/busybox mount -o remount,rw /system"
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] dancer_69:
Yes, seems that you didn' t give the su command before(I think I've include command su, on my tutorial but I' m not sure. I'll check it).

If you see the symbol $ this means that you haven't get root rights yet.

Seems that zergrush succeed, so everytime after adb shell command, first you need to give the command:

su

If device is rooted, you'll see that the symbol changes to #

I think that you' re in good way though.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] VaMpYMaSTeR:
when i put SU in the begining it give me this :

su: permission denied
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] dancer_69:
if you rebooted the phone you must run zergrush again.

Zergrush is the hack that unlocks the root account temporary. If you didn' t success to put su program on the right place, rooting access loosed after rebooted. su makes root permanent, busybox is an advanced shell and superuser is the app which used to give or denied root rights to apps which asking for this.

First be sure that zergrush is copied to data/local/tmp and you give to it the right permissions(all commands are in tutorial)

These messages mean that zergrush running

after that check if root succeed by input su command. If you get the # sign you're good to go to continue(exit shell etc)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] VaMpYMaSTeR:
i'm so sorry, but what do you mean with "If you didn' t success to put su program on the right place" ???? what where is the right palce ? :confused:
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] dancer_69:
Some of the commands on tutorial handle the su program.

Push it to /system/bin(this is the right place), change its ownership, permissions etc.

For these commands to succeed(and also the commands for busybox and superuser), first need to enter to root account, by command su:

adb shell (press enter)

su (press enter)

these give the # sign which means that you are root.

If you don' t do this all commands will fail with errors as:

permission denied or cannot write to...
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] VaMpYMaSTeR:
now i'm getting this:

C:\DoomLordRoot.v3\files>adb shell

* daemon not running. starting it now *

* daemon started successfully *

$ chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/zergRush

chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/zergRush

Unable to chmod /data/local/tmp/zergRush: No such file or directory

$

i think i will give up :rolleyes:
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brando56894:
Can someone give me a quick how-to how to load the Arch installer on my TF101? I'm already rooted, but I haven't felt it necessary to run Ubuntu on it because I don't really need it and am not really a fan of Debian-based systems. There is a distro for Arch compiled for ARM (and it supports Tegra 2) but the only guide they have is for a device called TrimSlice. Once I get the installer running, I'm good after that since I have installed Arch multiple times.

ArchLinux|ARM
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] *Detection*:
http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1720&sid=43b8c641e6e82affff4365d6d452cc15
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ishankgupta20:
Well this thread is about the galaxy ace Problems arises due to custom ROM.All post here about questions and we definately give u the best answer.So dont post in developer section and make threads clean:D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Lijop:
this thread aint a question ? so why is q ? anyways nice initiative
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ishankgupta20:
actualy i mentioned something wrong yes of course it is someway a question like proble and solution hehehe
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ishankgupta20:
For proper calibrating battery no fake signs give do 4 step guide and takes actual battery

1.turn on phone charge until it says 100 cent not fully charged.disconnect cable power off phone.

2.charge phone in power off mode.disconnect cable until it shows 100 cent.disconnect cable

3.switch on phone again repeat step-1

4.go to recovery delete battery stats under cwm it is in advanced reboot phone

5.Follow Step-1 but dont shutdown volla your phone now is show no fake battery sign
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ishankgupta20:
For battery performance people using cm roms or custom roms do the following

1.Search CPU master pro in market.Download it

2.make profile for charging.Under clock mobile to 480-787 to full and correct charge mobile

3.make profile when screen is off to 787

now see the battery
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ishankgupta20:
Guys who r facing market force close issue

1.place attached zip in sd-card

2.Delete vending.apk and vending.odex via root explorer in \system\app in root folder

3.Reboot in CWM

4.Install in recovery and and update

Volla now market works
[Droid X General] jacksheadache:
I'm seriously stuck here.

The only thing I can access is the Bootloader (30.04) and can't get to the recovery menu.

A small amount of water made its way to the phone. The screen was freaking out (like it does in the rain), so I restarted it. From then out it was stuck on the Motorola logo.

I've tried this (all versions) Linux distro package:

droidxforums.com/forum/droid-x-sbf/23638-linux-solution-your-windows-rsd-lite-problems.html

I've tried to SBF using RSD with every SBF file I can find that's related to the Droid X and Verizion. From FroYo to Gingerbread. All of them say they complete.

I'm holding the home key and then pressing power, then release power, and the recovery menu isn't coming up, at this point it just stalls at the Motorola Screen.

I am at a complete loss here. Any ideas?

Thanks!
[Droid X General] infazzdar:
It sounds like your phone is fried.
[Droid X General] jacksheadache:
Not what I wanted to hear. But, that's what I expected I guess.

I'd like to believe it's software and broken but at this point it sounds like hardware failure?
[Droid X General] jacksheadache:
If I push hard enough, is it at all possible to use an upgrade before my time is up with Verizion? or close an account avoiding early termination fee?
[Droid X General] infazzdar:
Your best bet would be to call Verizon and see if they can help you in any way. On occasion I here they give some people early upgrades, so maybe you'll get lucky.

Until then, continue trying to SBF your device, maybe something will happen.
[Droid X General] Sleuth255:
Sounds like water related issues. They usually disappear after everything dries up. Unfortunately it can take 3-4 weeks with the battery out and the back cover off in a warm dry place to fully dry out a wet phone.
[Droid X General] RandomPooka:
If you're on a multiple person plan, you can always use someone else's upgrade on your plan if there's one available. My old Devour die a while back and I used the upgrade from my mother, who didn't want one. She's content with her old flip phone and has no intention of ever getting anything else, 1.3mp camera and all (Which sucks when she takes pictures of the grandchildren. Looks like she drew it in crayon)

And at this point, if you're on a plan by yourself, you're throwing more money away than necessary. My parents, my wife and I are all on the same plan and it ends up far cheaper for all of us that way

---------- Post added at 07:28 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:25 AM ----------

Did you try the standard water damage thing? Pull the battery and pack it in dry rice for 24 hours? The rice sucks moisture out, but since rice takes a whole LOT of water to cook, you don't end up with sticky rice all over your phone. Then try powering back up
[Droid X General] infazzdar:
On a seperate note, how did you go about using another line's upgrade?
[Droid X General] UserDoesNotExist:
I second this. I had an old laptop that whenever I spilled soda on it, the thing would shut off immediately and wouldn't even POST. Letting it air out always fixed the problem, and by the next day it would be up and running. I even dropped a phone in a bucket of water once, and letting it dry out did the trick.
[Droid X General] bigshotrob22:
Put the phone in rice. The rice will soak up any water/moisture
[Droid X General] ddrt:
I'm pretty much in the same position with a friend's phone. Had them put it in rice for a few days and now the phone will turn on but the screen remains black. However the touch screen still works and it will function but you can't see anything. I'm going to attempt to have them bleach the sticker and try to get it fixed.