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[Sony Tablet S] bonafidesupraman:
Ok...so I've managed to do it.

Not root the thing, I struggled for hours and just could not do it.

Then I just downloaded the apk file and embarrassingly enough that worked, granted, after a while of trial and error trying to figure out what chinese characters meant.

The problem is now, having installed google play, it wants to associate with an account, so of course I press ok. At this point, it just turns off the application and goes back to the home screen. I guess with the Chinese problems with google they don't want the tablet even associating with a google account.

Any ideas?
[Sony Tablet S] kriyas86:
I Had the same issue..

Hi ,

I also had same problem..I partially solved it. Be

1. Install googleserviceframework.apk

2. then you can add account.

3.while adding gmail account, try by m.ggogle.com or m.gmail.com.

I forget it.

4.install market.

5. But still you cannot access any thing through market..My market is crashing always..I tries lots of vesion.Tell me your result.

6.You cannot root also..I tried ..i cannot..I posted a link here..

7.Now you can use cracked sw to install all apps.'

8.For that install any file explorer apk.

9. If you dont have any file explorer, install it.

Eventhough i dont know chineese i was able to install ES file explorer from it.

I struggled a lot to get upto this..

I am sharing my experience..

If you find anything new please share..

Even I tried sony India customer care for changing the chinese OS, they tolkd me they cannot. Only they can re-install chineese version is possible..

Waste...

Reagrds
[Sony Tablet S] condi:
Everybody who wants to convert his tablet from CHINA to fully working, with market, all the apps and root - AiO v3.1 ! :)

br

condi
[Sony Tablet S] kriyas86:
I already updated to official ICS chineese version

Opps...

What a bad luck for me...

Two mistakes i did ..

I bought it from china and i updated without checking Condi update...

I already updated to ICS version 4.0.3 and kernal 2.6.39.4..

Is there any other option to root ICS(Chineese)?

Rgds,

Riyas
[Sony Tablet S] prince2phore:
You can now root your 4.0.3

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1887447

make sure you get VpnFaker.apk first and re-sign it.

then you just have to change it in the stuff/rootkit...gz (use 7zip or winzip)

you can then use the script to root you tablet !

after that, you can use Aio 4.1 to change the region but... still can't install GooglePlay for me :(

I think after that you need to downgrade to 3.2.1 US and then re-upgrade if you want to US ICS (all pre-rooted using Aio tool).

hope that helps...
[Sony Tablet S] Cat McGowan:
Probably doesn't. You are answering a post that is 6 months old.
[Sony Tablet S] prince2phore:
At least it doesn't hurt, right?....
[Focus General] iamrahul:
Guys, I am having a weird issue with my Focus. In the system disgnostic, the Z axis is stuck at -512 and the phone fails to calibrate. The system also fails to auto rotates.

Please help if u can. Thanks.
[Focus General] DJSave:
My friend's Focus also has this issue

its 90 degrees flipped and Z axis is stuck on -512 preaty much the same

He told me that it was working normaly until he messd it up in diagnose app
[Focus General] iamrahul:
@Tbilisi - Did he manage to fix that? If yes, then please tell me how. Thanks.
[Focus General] iamrahul:
Solved: A Simple battery pull did the job ... :P how trivial can it get
[Focus General] DJSave:
so you just pulled battery out an then put it back and it was set? or you then calibrated it?
[Focus General] Shdwrunner:
Z Axis Problem

I have taken the battery out of my phone to try to fix the problem, and still hasn't fixed the problem. Do you or anyone here have any other suggestions as to how to fix this "Z" problem?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] T0yK4T:
Hi there, I was wondering if anyone had some information about the Google Music android app.

I've got it installed by default on my transformer tablet.

Now, my question is this:

Does the app actually upload any music from my SD-Card even if I haven't told it to upload anything (If that's even possible).

I ask this question because if I try to delete a song from my device, the app tells me the following:

""[SONG TITLE]" has been sideloaded and uploaded to Google Music. Only the sideloaded items will be deleted. Do you want to delete them?"

Where [SONG TITLE] is the song I'm trying to delete.

I don't have the Google Music desktop application installed, and if I look in my "Music" library on Google there are no songs.

This makes me kind of wonder... Does Google actually store my music in a place where I can't see it?

If it does, how do I delete the stuff on their servers? Is it even possible?

/T0y
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoyohere2:
I get that same message in google music on my Nexus Android 4.0.

I think that message is wrong and they will probably fix it in the future. I think it just deletes it. Nothing was or will be uploaded to google.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] llaen:
Same thing happens to me on 2.3.6. I'm surprised more people aren't asking about this - it does seem a little suscious.
[Galaxy S II General] suzaku:
okay, so apparently SCEF02 FW users r stuck with video recording fps drop when recording in low light conditions (and no official solution from samsung yet)

more about the problem here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1443658

the only FW that seems to fix the problem is the SIEG03, which indicates that the problem is software related and CAN be fixed

however it disables flash in video recording mode & LED torch :(

so can't the devs figure a way to edit SIEG03 firmware to give us flash support?

links that may help (thanks bartekaki for providing it):

https://github.com/GalaxySII/samsun...-i9100-gingerbread/drivers/media/video/m5mo.c

personally, I'll pay 10$ if it happens (or more if necessary)

who else??? :D
[Galaxy S II General] bartekaki:
you copied the link from my post wrong way and it doesn't work:

correct is:

https://github.com/GalaxySII/samsun...-i9100-gingerbread/drivers/media/video/m5mo.c
[Galaxy S II General] radkor:
Dude, you can't even copy/paste links from others's posts...
[Galaxy S II General] Neo.:
I'll chip another 10$.
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
As much as I love the idea, I think having the source for the phone SIEGE03 comes from also might help. Because the hooks for flash would have to be cross referenced and switched over to properly work (If it is that simple.)
[Galaxy S II General] suzaku:
thx man :)

I thought that since I linked to the original whole thread then it's ok...sorry I'll fix it
[Galaxy S II General] suzaku:
this FW came from the I997 (infuse 4G), and this phone already has flash so I think it's possible

what do u mean by source? sorry I'm a newb :)
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
SIEGE03 is a firmware. This firmware is required to run the camera... To access the camera functions, we need a driver. This driver is compiled from source code which is what the link above is...

What probably happened here is that the Infuse uses the same camera module and interface. The flash though might use a different register or address scheme in the source code of the Galaxy S2 to interface with the firmware. So someone would have to figure out the difference between the m5mo.c source code from the Galaxy S2 and the I997 to see if it can be fixed through driver. Otherwise we'd have to reverse engineer the firmware which is too much energy wasted.

The problem with this method is that we'll need to compile a new version of the camera driver. And that, I am not the person to do it. ;)

Another solution would be to pull the camera driver from a stock I997's ROM and overwrite it on our phone to see if it works.
[Galaxy S II General] biopc:
Thanks for share your investigation Myshkinbob. Very interesting.

I do believe is an "easy" firmware fix too.

As you did, i compared both firmwares binaries and took the hope for finding the flash part in the code. Without a reference there is too many unknown data for a trial and error. I mean i tried to copy-paste some code differences in the firmwares but no succes.

Since nothing looks broken i will keep trying...
[Galaxy S II General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
It'd be good to get SGS II simulator on Windows. Without it, it's PITA to load every time APK into phone and reboot it to test one variable lol :)
[Galaxy S II General] Myshkinbob:
Something occured to me this morning, that might help if people are trying to hex edit the firmware binary to fix the flashlight.

Rather than messing with SIEG01 trying to enable the flashlight, you could get far more success editing SCEF02 to disable the flashlight. How so?

Well it's common sense that it's far easier to break something than to fix it.

Apply that logic to this firmware, it's a lot easier to replace a specific working value with a random wrong value, than it is to replace a specific wrong value with a specific working value.

What i mean is it'll be a lot easier to break the working flashlight in SCEF02 than guess the right value for SIEG01. Once you break SCEF02 you'll know where the flashlight control values are in the firmware, and from there you can attempt to insert them into SIEG01.

By FF'ing out small sections of the SCEF02 firmware prior to the boundary section around the 16000 offset, testing the firmware on the phone, then repeating, you could eventually get to where you break the flashlight for it. I'd suggest working back from the face detection copyright notice at the beginning of that 16000 boundary.

Once you break the flashlight in SCEF02, you've just identified which part of the firmware controls the flashlight.

From there it'd just be a matter of locating that similar section within SIEG01, and further narrowing down the specific values(s) that need correcting.

I'm not saying it'd be guaranteed to work, but it'd be an approach worth trying if people are already attempting random hex edits on the firmware.

I guess the success of it depends on the structure of the binary, whether it's a raw assembly code executable image referencing memory and register addresses, or some sort of packed OS image that is expanded and then runs on the camera chip with it's own driver embedded into it for the flashlight.
[Galaxy S II General] IceCold89:
wish i could help somehow...
[Galaxy S II General] suzaku:
interesting approach indeed

it'll be a lot easier to break the working flash on SCEF02, problem is, it's gonna take a lot of time since it's based purely on trial and error
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
I'm pretty sure that's how samsung codes anyway, we're just lending them a hand in doing so. ;) haha
[Galaxy S II General] suzaku:
how's it going guys? any news?

wish I could help but I'm a complete noob :(
[Galaxy S II General] blunted09:
just thought id bump the thread to get some attention...

btw, does the firmware actually improve camera quality? for pics that is...
[Galaxy S II General] lethalfriend:
Well this firmware really improves the overall quality of the pics but in shooting vids it really shines. Only thing so far missing is flash light during video capturing.
[Galaxy S II General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
I would have moved to SIEG03 if it had had support of LED :(
[Galaxy S II General] IceCold89:
me too, flashlight is a little bit to important for me
[Galaxy S II General] E:V:A:
@Myshkinbob

I think that is a very bad approach! Flashing random errors to harware has never produced much more than either broken HW or a bricked phone...

And, how do you expect to test the Camera/flash, if its main software is making it crash?
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
And what else would you propose? Wait for Samsung to fix it?

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] Myshkinbob:
I never said it was ideal, only that if people were already randomly editing the SIEG01 firmware in an attempt to fix the LED, it would be more efficient to first locate the LED control section of a working binary, and the only way to do that currently is to break sections of the binary until you break the LED control.

Looking at it in terms of risk, it's not true that any edit will destroy the hardware. That's been proved by myself and others making minor edits. I don't think there's any risk of bricking the phone itself either, the camera firmware is totally separate from the phone firmware.

That said, there is a real risk of bricking the camera itself. If you go read through m5m0.c you can see how firmware updates are applied to the camera. They appear to be loaded into the camera's ram using a function of a working firmware, then the currently running firmware itself flashes the new firmware into the camera rom.

We don't know much about the structure of the firmware, but you can minimise the risk by not messing with the first few KB of the rom, since that's likely to contain startup and low level information or at least the rom layout.

So to sum up, yes you can edit the firmware without destroying the camera, no you almost certainly can't brick the phone, and yes you probably can brick the camera if you flash a really messed up firmware.

My advice would be don't mess with it unless you're comfortable with the chance of it requiring warranty repair. Ironically that might even get you a better camera module. You could argue the morality of knowingly claiming warranty repair for something you damaged by editing the firmware, but then you could also argue nobody would be experimenting with firmwares if samsung obliged us with a newly compiled camera firmware containing the SIEG01 updates.
[Galaxy S II General] biopc:
Guys i dont want to be negative about the whole idea. Ive have been busy swapping some binary sections in the firmwares and the conclussion is that its too complicated for my acknowledge.

I came up with the main following problems:

- We dont a have a source or code adresses to use as a reference

- Both firmwares may look similar but i saw offset differences (somewhere at first half of firmwares), which means swapping code could be risky.

I wish i could do more but the possibility to break someting is actually high. I know because i got my first warning by flashing a modified fw.

My camera wasnt starting and i just got lucky i was able to flash again, because it took to read my actual firmware about 2 minutes. Somehow i messed with code containing info for the flashing tool.

Just wanted to share my experience
[Galaxy S II General] zaki0saad:
I have an sgs2 that came loaded with the crappy firmware, and I changed my FW to the sieg03 variant which fixed my stutter but caused my light to stop working. However.. I updated just today to the new version of Facebook, the version that includes a camera app (..?) and now for some mind-boggling reason flash works on the sieg03 FW. doesn't work on videos, only works on photos.. but hey, now at least I have flash photography re-enabled with my lag-free sieg03 firmware :D

Just thought I'd add, I'm running ICS - hydrogen ics aokp/cm9 rom. Hope this helps!
[Galaxy S II General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
It always been working in photo mode :P
[Galaxy S II General] skiflyer:
wait guys. not all camera modules are working with SIEG03. mine is normally tbef04 and i can't use the camera any more when installing sieg03.
[Galaxy S II General] Galactus:
I totally forgot the led works with pictures using the SIEGO3 firmware. Ain't flashed my camera firmware since last year o_O
[Galaxy S II General] zaki0saad:
oh no way! lmao fail by me, i just assumed that since it didnt work with video it was the same with still pictures. i didnt even check :o
[Galaxy S II General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
SIEG03 is for SCEF02 only. You can load SIEG03 over other firmware but mostly without results.

I'd install it but flash light in the video is important :( That is the PITA for me :(

:)))
[Galaxy S II General] Galactus:
Yep flashlight is very important. What a shame no ones been able to fix it :(
[Galaxy S II General] milance86:
any updates? is someone working on this?

a) i think we need to cantact samsung about this to fix it or to make new firmware for SCEF02

or

b)maybee to contact a person behind app "Camera Firmware Update" in Samsung Apps Store.. ( i dont see that app anymore in Samsung Apps) ?
[Galaxy S II General] kazantip1288:
somebody..? only a silence
[Galaxy S II General] yahyoh:
i think this issue will never fixed cuz Samsung don't wont to bother them self to fix small **** problem :( and we don't have source code for cam so it will never ever fix if sammy dont fix it

btw SGS3 have pink spot and i'm 80% sure its have frame drops :mad:
[Galaxy S II General] Galactus:
May I ask how you know this? Anyways when I buy this phone I shall use it for a few hours without placing the sim card into the phone, thus allowing me to return it within 7 days if I'm not satisfied
[Galaxy S II General] joromano:
Hi everyone:

this is a message to the developers:

Is there a way for you that we can help us to find the differences between the 2 firmware files?

I don't know anything about programming but I saw the hex files in the github web page, and maybe if you teach us briefly, we can split the files and divide to work in groups to find the differences.

In addition, is there a program that can "translate" these hex files in order to see the instructions?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
I don't believe in samsung anymore, so i don't buy it's sgs3, not now.

The sgs3 is a galaxy s2 with two more cpu cores and a pentile display, so it's a useless upgrade.

My next phone will have:

2GB ram

quad core A15 + T601 or T654 / quad core qualcomm crait + adreno 320

32GB expandable flash drive

LTE

12Mpixel high quality camera with 60fps full hd filming.

I will not give away my money again for nothing less.

Maybe my next phone will be an LG or a Sony. My brother's P990 lg phone is a great piece of hardware, with good materials and assembly (better than samsung) but with bad software support.
[Galaxy S II General] stanomx:
Can someone reupload the sieg3 firmware for camera? I want to try something.
[Galaxy S II General] joromano:
Here you have it.

Please let us know what you can find.

Jorge
[Galaxy S II General] kazantip1288:
Did you find something?
[Galaxy S II General] RippeR37:
I'd like to ask how to return to stock SCEF02 if i would update to SIEG03?
[Galaxy S II General] joromano:
Hi Jack:

just to confirm:

you did what Stephanie from Samsung told you about updating your software and that resolved the issue about stuttering with artificial light?

Let me tell you that I sent a very similar message to Samsung in Korea (like 10 times) to the person who works with firmwares and never received a reply, and also contacted 3 times to the local service support from Samsung by phone (I am from Argentina) but the answer is always the same: go to a service store and leave the phone for reparation, which is not an option for me (I've read a lot of threads related to this issue, and usually the technician who take your device does not even know which is the problem, and in case he decides to change the camera module it is very common that you receive the same crap because actually they don't know which spare part they have for replacements).

Thanks for your confirmation, and regards.

Jorge

Argentina
[Galaxy S II General] war4alll:
hello

i got SGS 2 i9100 JHLPC

cm 10.1 nightly Rom

wondering how to install - SIEG03 this into my phone because i got back camera dark \ wired colors \ not working most of the time .

so i dont know how to install the . BIN file thats here for download

Little help plz :D

tnx
[Galaxy S II General] openforu:
ok so now is 2015, and its still unfixed :(

But I have some news..

Theres is 2 good firmwares - SIEG03 and little better SEEH05

But in both LED isnt working because that phones have only FLASH LAMP, so if u install that firmwares you phone is using LED as a flash lamp, so u cannot use torch light.

Easiest way is find new firmware from phones with LED lamp.

Someone know what is smilar phones to i997 and its got LED not flash?

---

(I think) I know how to fix led, but dont know how, what program use..
[Optimus One, P500, V General] kiranforu:
Can some one post mediafire links of Official CM7 nightly builds? The connection is too slow with CM server and the download is interrupted in between. I wanna try it.

Any help would be appreciable.

~ Kiran
[Optimus One, P500, V General] aspee:
http://goo-inside.me/cm/p500/nightly

aspee
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gauravdirt:
hi can any one help me in activating my motorola xoom with out sim card as its sim card slot has been broken.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theking_13:
Use wifi?

Sent through the XDA App on my Samsung Vibrant running ICS Passion v10.6
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gauravdirt:
i am not able to activate it. it stuck on the main screen that showing tablet is not provisioned please insert valid sim card
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MONKY_1:
Hello nexus community! Here we go, my original two year contract is up when I got the OG Droid.

My questions are...

is Is it worth purchasing the galaxy nexus?

How is the camera? (1-10)

What are the pros and cons?

Is extended battery necessary? (Official by Samsung)

Screen protector necessary?

Is the screen easy to crack?

Could you live with the phone for 2 years?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jd1001:
Hey I would say yes! I had an SGS2 before and I love my Nexus better. I find the camera perfect and having no shutter lag is cool. I would give it a 9. Also all the benefits of ICS are great. I would highly recommend one. All the best.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Herman76:
What he said.

Minus: I didnt have sgs2 before (SGS1).

Plus: Love having updates from google directly (Not having to wait for "It will be released in the 4th quarter of the year bloopety bloop).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jayxpx:
If the phones your comparing are this and the thunderbolt there is no comparison. This phone is far better than the thunderbolt in many ways, 1 being the operating system, 2 being the battery life, 3 being the screen and phone manufacturer, and last but not least would be the updates direct from Google. This phone is pure with very little "bloat" from Verizon on it. The camera is AWESOME due to the no shutter lag...the quality is just fine for me at 5mp but could have been better for those who need it. I have rooted mine, which is not necessary but this phone is probably the most fun phone out today when it comes to tweeks and tinkering...just my opinions!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wil2bm:
I'm not sure if it's possibly my phone or kernel settings but I've had nothing but awful battery life with my Nexus - Don't get anywhere near the amount of battery life I was getting with my bolt (have the verizon extended battery's for both).

Was actually debating returning my nexus and seeing what comes out later this year but missed the return deadline by one day :-/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Herman76:
There is a BIG difference in battery life with the GSM and the LTE version of the Nexus. LTE uses much more battery then the GSM version.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jayxpx:
Im using LTE as well and the only battery you can compare with the Tbolt extended battery is the new Superpowered Seido extended battery. The verizon extended battery is basically a standard battery and adds no bulk. The Tbolt extended battery is hideous looking and feels very weird in the hands.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wil2bm:
Yea was never a fan of the tbolt extended battery... didn't help that the second day I was using it I dropped my once protected by a case phone and shattered the damn screen lol :-(

But I could at least get a day with moderate use out of the battery.

If I stay on wifi it helps alot with battery life so I know it's the LTE - I'm using the AOKP rom and hoping they fix the issues with the power saver cause I think the "LTE off" when the screen is off feature would help alot but can't get it to work smoothly on my phone.