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[HTC Amaze 4G] Binary100100:
I almost laughed myself out of my chair with 0.5

I know a lot of "senior members" that give out bad information and it only makes things worse. But don't think they get away with it for long! As a "senior member" I hold them to a much higher standard. Many members are post addicts just for that title though. We moderators call them "post pumpers." They tend to post a lot of off-topic stuff and ask really stupid questions. Then they give inaccurate information and I have to come in and save the day. Then of course when I see this type of activity I will demote the senior member down to junior member by removing all irrelevant and inaccurate posts. This is a quick way to piss off a post pumper.

In regards to the search feature. The feature is really active if the developers and OP's tag their posts with keywords. Example. Some good keywords for this thread would be 'NOOB' 'GUIDE' 'HELP ME' etc. There are a lot of theads without tags.
[HTC Amaze 4G] seansk:
You do not earn not to be a noob by asking 100's of questions, in fact, if you look at my posts before I started helping out this forum I pretty much had everything down, by reading, I was using my N1 for 2 years and I had to read read read read and read more everywhere not just xda to learn what everything was and how to do things.

With S-On things are a little different but, if you start reading and researching on your own, you'll learn a lot...see how many posts I have in october and november of 2010 when I rooted my Nexus one!! First time I ever rooted an android. all my posts just say thanks and I really don't ask questions; I had approximately 10 posts. In july I had some hardware questions and obscure questions regarding galaxy tab 10.1 since it was so new and could not find info online. !! by then I was familiar enough to root my galaxy tab 10.1 and very familiar with almost everything...still learning today!!! If you look at before november when I got my phone and started helping out the forum, I barely have any questions. sure, I might have had a stupid one here or there, but I did not ask 1000's of questions to not become a noob. I still don't consider myself to be a pro like binary and some others here!!!
[HTC Amaze 4G] Binary100100:
I don't call myself a pro by any means. However I take time to read something that I don't understand. That taught me that in grade school. But lemme ask you this. How would I look if I was to wander into another forum with my several thousand posts and 500+ "thanks" and ask what they would consider a stupid noob question? Instant bad reputation!

I wonder if I can get admin privledges to rename some titles from Senior Member to Senior Noob. In fact it should go like this. Junior Noob (10-25 stupid questions), Noob (25-50 stupid questions), Senior Noob (50-100 stupid questions), Noob Forever (100+) and the questions being asked can be voted on by other members. That way even a Senior Member (like myself) can still be elected as a noob if I was to ask at least 10 stupid questions. So if you see someone with 5,000+ posts and is rated as a Senior Noob... maybe keep looking. :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] jjlean:
This thread is funny, entertaining, true and slightly wonderful. I don't want noob forever!
[HTC Amaze 4G] alrosal:
Okay so I proved that I'm a noob forever by somehow quoting my own post.
[HTC Amaze 4G] alrosal:
I could call the thread "hey! Are you looking at my noobs."
[HTC Amaze 4G] ringochan:
Improving XDA's Search function

Hey, I'm glad you had a good laugh with my post. I read somewhere else that you had a bad day, so it's a good sign you still hadn't lost the sense of humor.;)

Actually, though, my intention for posting was more serious than to make people laugh. As you mentioned, for the search feature to work well, we need discipline. The system is just not smart enough yet to become noob-proof. You need to add tags, name thread title properly, consolidate and delete duplicates and inaccuracies (by mods like you), etc.etc.

BTW, I just found out that any one CAN add tags to threads opened by someone else. I just added 'noob' and 'guide' to this thread. 'help me' was rejected because the word 'help' was too common, it said.

Now, if we can request some new features to the XDA management, here's my take...

Question Thread Status: 'Actively Waiting for Answer', 'Answered but Needs More Info', 'Solved', 'Abandoned', etc.

Answer Post Rating: 'Best Answer', 'Additional Question', 'Additional info', etc.

Smart Post Tracking: 'Info in this post is Current/Obsolete', 'Supersedes/Superseded-by Post #999', etc.

Sub-Threads: Questions related or refers to certain threads can be nested so that they appear grouped together. It's similar to the 'Threaded Mode' but at the thread level.

Enhanced 'Threaded (Display) Mode': The current implementation of the 'Threaded Mode' is not useful, IMO. I want to see the entire page nested instead of just the post titles in a small window.

I don't think I need to explain but if someone up there is interested, I will for sure.

Reputation certainly is a motivation for SOME people, not for EVERYONE (sigh...). The 'Noob meter/status' is a good one. But how we (the commoners) can vote/rate someone else's questions without causing confrontations?:o

Fortunately, you didn't ask a stupid question to qualify for the noob status. Make all your mistakes before they actually implement the 'Noob Meter'!!!

My point exactly. I want the forum search function to be better so that people like you can learn and help others much more easily than it is now. History has proved many times that 'noobs who don't read' will stay 'noobs forever' even if you give them the best tool available on the planet.

As I said above, you can only be 'noob forever' by not reading. As soon as you read through the thread and felt 'funny', you proved yourself to be a non-noob. And when you thought it to be true, you proved yourself to be a pro!! Hehe.

If I were you, I would change the OP title to 'Unveiling the Secrets of Searching' because that's exactly what you started with this thread (at least with some bullet points).:rolleyes:

I'm glad that Binary is with us on these discussions. Some mods would object to these, I know. At least, we are being heard by a non-noob!
[HTC Amaze 4G] Binary100100:
Of course! I'm a member too you know! It's not like I'm an XDA Automated Bot or anything.

I put my pants on like everyone else (not that I've been paying any attention to anyone dressing or anything.)

Yes I was having a bad day... couple of them actually. But I got (what I call) justice and closure. I'm satisfied with the result of the conflict and I'm moving on. Not everyone will be (or is) satisfied with the result but whatever. They can give over it.
[HTC Amaze 4G] pjim:
0.5. Noobs asking hundreds of 'stupid questions' are called Senior Members.

Questions??:cool::rolleyes:[/QUOTE]

Hey,I resemble that remark!

I like small noobs with hard bipples, (sorry couldn't stop myself)
[HTC Amaze 4G] killfist:
Amazingly awesome post!
[HTC Amaze 4G] alrosal:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1458751

I've started another thread hoping to get back to the basics.
[Kindle Fire General] Customz:
I just want to remove TWRP completely from my Kindle Fire.

Could somebody please tell me how to do that? Sorry for the noob question.

Nothing is wrong with it but I want to sell it and need TWRP completely removed.

I've read some things that I just have to download the stock amazon ROM but I just wanted to make sure. Also if you could please link me to the right place that would be great.

Thanks
[Kindle Fire General] asb2164:
http://bit.ly/xUZ6Nc
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] seanzscreams:
Iknow This has been stated else where

but bc of the weirdness this phone encounters when flashing

rom after rom after rom

i am going to post this in one easy file .. This Is for Stubborn Phones

I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR NOT FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS OR THE CABLE COMING UNPLUGGED OR THE BATTERY DYING>> OR IF YOUR PHONE BREAKS..THIS WORKED FOR ME AND RESOLVED MANY FC ISSUES

Odin With 3e and clockwork recoveries

http://www.mediafire.com/?vmidzhiaijdyydw

http://dev-host.org/Xit

First Backup everything in nandroid

Now format Both sd cards under mounts and storage

(either in clock work or under settings in android OS

except save these folders

dcim

download

tapatalk

media

and any other folder you care about

When This is complete

extract the odin.zip

and in the folder i included two recoveries.. (i just found and compiled i am not responsible )

1. so open up odin as an administrator

2. put your phone into download mode

3. open the pda slot in odin and select stock recovery.tar

4.make sure your phone shows in the com slot ..start the flash

5.when done. launch your phone into recovery mode

(unplug cable and hold power and all three buttons..

when you see samsung screen continue to hold both volumes and release power)

6.When in 3 e recovery do a factory data reset (home button is enter)

7. now close and reopen odin

8.pull the battery on your phone and put it back into download mode

9.in the pda slot this time select clockwork recovery.tar

10.make sure your phone is in the com slot and hit flash

11. now reboot into clockwork also doing a factory data reset

12.clearing cache partition

13.go to advanced and clear dalvik cache

14. lastly go under mounts and storage and format system

15. now install any rom of choice .. your phone should be clean
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] seanzscreams:
res.....10char
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] appdroid:
Great thanx sir!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Fortune090:
I vote this be pinned. Very useful info!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
I still for the life of me can not figure out why people are having to do this. As habbit I do steps 11-15 every time I flash a rom and have no issues at all.

I do thank you guys for putting it out there ...definitely helps those that do run into the issue

.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] seanzscreams:
something definitely is weird with the clock work

i beleive even though its the same almost everything

some miscommunication happens with the skyrocket

it wont fix permissions right

and you run into issues where dalvik cache wont clear

or simply put it wont fully clear a partition thats been flash over and over and overand has become corrupt

never had clockwork act like this

i just ran it on my atrix and it took seriously 2 minutes when i chose fix permissions

and on our sky rocket. no matter what ,, its always instant
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] badpanda:
Vote to pinned this post! amazing post very helpful.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] seanzscreams:
pinnd agreed

just did it worked flawless
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] zomgjosho:
I agree this should be pinned.

I just followed these instructions after having a ton of weird FC's (google services framework, market, etc) even though I hadn't made any changes to a stable setup.

Now everything's running smoothly and haven't seen an FC.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] voldomart13:
Does the odin have bootloaders?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] badpanda:
Will this method trigger flash counter?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] seanzscreams:
No its not one click

And all your doing is flashing recovery not even touching system or boot
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] seanzscreams:
will not trigger flash counter

Just recovery
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bacheezy:
I have noticed that if you are running a t-mobile rom the fix permissions takes signifigantly longer...just an fyi
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] urundai:
Awesome instructions and helped me in fixing some weird issues I had with my phone.

BTW, if you using OSX or Linux (as I do), you can do this with windows running inside vmware if you use the SGS Drivers from Softpedia.

I used this one 1.4.8 sgs drivers
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
So it's necessary to format the external sd too? Our would just internal be sufficient?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] eghoti1:
I did this last night, just the internal SD card. Took my 16GB microsd out when I did it. The ROM runs nearly perfect now
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tek310:
im having problems formatting...

keeps saying

"error mounting sd card"

"skipping format"

i try to mount it and it tells me "error mounting sdcard"

what do i do
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] seanzscreams:
Format on a computer. Or skip it and wait till your in android then format
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tek310:
you can format while you are using the phone?

and what do u mean wait until im in android?

also i only have the choice to format "/sdcard" no choice between internal or external
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] seanzscreams:
Wait. And boot back to android. Then under mounts and storage. And format the sd card.there
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tek310:
okay thanks man!

---------- Post added at 04:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:02 PM ----------

awesome... im stuck at boot screen after system format.

im guessing i was supposed to transfer a rom onto sdcard before doing so...

now i have to odin one click some ****
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] seanzscreams:
Lol. Just 3e factory data reset

Then.clockwork with odin.

Then mounts and.storage.

In clockwork

Then

mount sd card

Then

Transfer. Then install
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tek310:
i dont have a extra sdcard, i just odin flashed stock to start over...

thanks for your help
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] fukenbiker:
boot into android

I'm more dense and beg pardon that you may have to type extra ...

boot into android is when I boot into recovery same thing? Scary dos lookin' screen, where you use volume buttons to navigate, that we all use to wipe and flash, correct?

I used the backup and restore in there, and when I get all fouled up I go in there to flash back to where I was before the foul up. Like yesterday when my wifi quit working...

Ok, the big deal I want to ask is about formatting the SD card. I would venture to ask, that wipes all the stuff clear off my 32GB Micro SD card I put in the external slot right? I have 20 gigs of stuff stored there, and don't want it erased.

So before I try this I should prepare to save everything on it somewhere else, correct?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
So are the steps in the op more effective than just formatting sd card as well as data system and cache?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tek310:
No just format the internal SD card. Not your external for personal use.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tek310:
They worked for me. I don't get the steps of removing clockwork installing 3e back and then back to cmw but, that's what he said do so I Odin flashed the recoveries

No FCs fore besides dsp manager. I just fix permissions for that though
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] badpanda:
So after formatting sd cards my notification bar disapeared...

how can I fix this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tonyfiore75:
I'm having issues downloading the file from the OP. I click on Direct Download and it says that it can't download the file. Is there some other way to download the file or am I missing something?

Thanks in advance.

---------- Post added at 11:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:20 AM ----------

Never mind... got it. Sorry.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] appdroid:
Well i was able to dload it from deposit file. just scroll down and you will see link for deposit file and dload it from there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] peoples_flip:
Worked like a charm, thank you very much
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 2leaponover1:
I'm having problems dling this as well. Megaupload appears to be the next casualty of our nanny state and all the other ones want to dl this ilivid bs. anybody have a link that's working? I am getting force closes with the market and have to use this process.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] number16:
I am getting weird FC's ... if I follow these steps, and then restore a NANDROID backup, would that fix the FCs? Or would the defeat the purpose of 3e ODIN?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] seanzscreams:
Ill repost tonight
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] number16:
You mean you'll repost the ODIN-3e file tonight? Or a new ROM? If you are posting a new version of the ROM tonight then I won't do the ODIN-3e recovery till after :)

I can dl the ODIN-3e.zip no problem.

Oh and after ODIN-3e should I install the ROM and start from scratch? Or can I do a NANDROID restore Sean?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] orlandoxpolice:
Factory reset or reflash rom
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] seanzscreams:
back up

.........
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
So is this fix still necessary if I use the t989 darkside super wipe script, or do they both have pretty much the same effect? Here's the link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1477955
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bacheezy:
Ideally w/ tdj's script you SHOULDN'T have to do both, that's why it's 'kind of a big deal'. We won't know for sure till someone proves u still get fc's after only running script for wipe. I personaly ran script and wiped nothing else w/fresh rom flash w/no problem so...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bacheezy:
Sean; assuming you've run tdj's full wipe script, what is your opinion of said script?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] firepro1110:
Instructions Written for people who already know how to do it.

I did roms years ago on a windows device. I thought i would do a rom upgrade and this thread supposedly has the instructions for doing a back up. Going through the thread I included questions about them. By the way the first step in the ROM upgrade was to come to this thread and do this backup. Then I have to go back to the Rom update and do their remaing steps.

These are probably pretty simple for poeple who have done this before but for somone starting out, they are virtually impossible. Below are some observations

Now format Both sd cards how under mounts huh? and storage huh?(either in clock work or under settings in android OS more mystery/research

except save these folders save where

dcim

download

tapatalk

media

and any other folder you care about

When This is complete

extract the odin.zip how and where do i get it

and in the folder i included two recoveries.. (i just found and compiled i am not responsible )

1. so open up odin as an administrator huh?

2. put your phone into download mode okay so i need to learn a couple things, but why not hyperlink with simple instructions

3. open the pda slot in odin and select stock recovery.tar huh?

4.make sure your phone shows in the com slot god knows but i dont, and i am sure people who have done this before, wait these are instructions for people who dont know how to do this..start the flash hyperlink would be nice

5.when done. launch your phone into recovery mode hyperlink

(unplug cable and hold power and all three buttons..

when you see samsung screen continue to hold both volumes and release power)

6.When in 3 e recovery do a factory data reset (home button is enter)

7. now close and reopen odin

8.pull the battery on your phone and put it back into download mode If i pull the battery how can i put it in download mode?

9.in the pda slot this time select clockwork recovery.tar huh?

10.make sure your phone is in the com slot and hit flash huh?

11. now reboot into clockwork also doing a factory data reset huh

12.clearing cache partition am i supposed to do something?

13.go to advanced and clear dalvik cache i think i understand

14. lastly go under mounts and storage and format system who knows

15. now install any rom of choice .. your phone should be clean maybe in 10 hours of figuring i can do get to step 2

First of all thanks for taking the time to do this, I am not totally stupid but the only people who can pull this off, either, already know how to do it, or will spend hours to learn everything. Is there anyway to get better instructions.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] shaggyskunk:
Firepro.

I've got a feeling that you probably should be asking your question in Q&A ....and not in the development threads..

Check these instructions:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=19223405

Sent From my Two Tin Cans & String Device on The Wookie Network
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
It's not necessary to do all this if the room is working fine. youshould try just flashing darkside wipe script before flashing ROM. Dl link is in dev forum. just download ROM manager from market and choose option to install clock work mod (cwm). Pick the one for galaxy.s ii t989 for t mobile. Then if you pick reboot into recovery on ROM manager you will be in cwm recovery. Choose install zip from sd card and pick wipe script, then after it's done pick the ROM zip. this is called flashing something. Then reboot and put in your Google account info and go back to recovery and flash update if you're flashing sky ics.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] m4570d0n:
Been reading some threads about people somehow hard bricking their phone trying to follow these instructions so I thought I would try to make it a little more clear.

Part 1:

1. Boot into Clockworkmod (CWM) Recovery

2. Backup everything with a nandroid backup (Select "backup and restore", then "backup")

3. Move or copy nandroid backup to external storage, such as your computer or an external harddrive.

4. Now format both sd cards under mounts and storage (mounts and storage>format sdcard).,except save these folders:

dcim

download

tapatalk

media

and any other folder you care about​

This can also be done after a normal boot under Settings>Storage>Format SD card and Settings>Storage>Format USB Storage

Part 2:

1. Open up the Odin exe as an administrator on your computer (In the example in the OP, right-click on the "Odin3 v1.85.exe" file and select Open As Administrator)

2. put your phone into download mode

Connect USB to computer but not your Phone.

Take out and put back in the battery.

Then, hold Vol + and Vol - , and plug in USB to phone while still holding down the volume buttons until the Odin Mode screen appears.

3. open the pda slot in odin and select stock recovery.tar

4. make sure your phone shows in the com slot ..start the flash

5. when done. launch your phone into recovery mode

(unplug cable and hold power and all three buttons..

when you see samsung screen continue to hold both volumes and release power)

6. When in 3e recovery (it will be Android system recovery <3e>, not CWM), select "wipe data/factory reset" (home button is enter)

7. now close and reopen odin on your computer

8.pull the battery on your phone and put it back into download mode again

9. in the pda slot this time select clockwork recovery.tar

10.make sure your phone is in the com slot and hit start

11. now reboot into CWM Recovery and do a factory data reset

12. wipe cache partition

13.Wipe dalvik cache (advanced>wipe dalvik cache)

14. lastly, go to "mounts and storage" and select "format system"

15. now install any ROM of choice .. your phone should be clean
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] H3rk1m3r:
Good post...you left one thing out as a warning. While in Odin MAKE SURE repartition IS NOT checked. That will brick you.