yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Venue Pro General] PaullikesWINMO:
Just to let you know I opted for a Nokia Lumia 710 !

Great deal here in Canada for 254.99 (from Rogers no contract) then $10 for unlock code. I know it's a completely different phone from DVP but figured I may as well get on with latest model phone for fairly cheap price. It will give me an idea if next (more expensive phone) should be the Nokia 900.

Thanks everyone for the mainly good comments about DVP.
[Venue Pro General] TheManii:
We've discussed it for a bit here

Though if you're on rogers you actually have the choice of any of the lumias. (as rogers uses the same 3g bands as at&t and regardless prob has more choices)

TmoUSA users dont though, it's either the 710 or the VP or radar. (there's very little selection for AWS devices, that's almost literally every AWS capable wp7 device)
[Venue Pro General] PaullikesWINMO:
Yes... actually I am on Mobilicity which is same band as T-Mobile (1700/2100).

The Rogers Lumia 710 is a penta band phone so yes it works with Rogers 3 G bands and AT&T bands, and of course it works perfectly with Mobilicity ! (had to unlock it though)

Wonder if the T-Mobile version is penta band ? Also wonder why Rogers doesn't advertise this? I did some reading and found out it's penta band but if you read the specs from Rogers website it's only showing as quad-band. Quick trip to a Rogers store and reading the label shows it's penta band.

http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_lumia_710-4276.php
[Venue Pro General] TheManii:
Perhaps they dont want you purchasing one and turning it to another carrier?

For a carrier sold one the supported bands arnt really relevent, as long as it supports their own band obviously.
[Venue Pro General] tai4de2:
I doubt this, because I am not sure that the Qualcomm chipset actually supports pentaband UMTS.

It's more likely that it's quadband UMTS, which would still allow it cover all UMTS frequencies for both ATT and T-Mo. As in, maybe they left out 850 or 900.
[Venue Pro General] TheManii:
Reports are the rogers one works on wind, which is AWS like tmoUSA

That would mean it's at very least: 850/1700/1900/2100, with the question as to if it supports 900.

As: 850/1900 is what rogers uses (like at&t)

and: 1700/2100 for aws (it's more work to have a 1700 device without 2100 then to leave it in)

From my understanding, it's merely what amps the manu decides to put in, and what they decide is mostly politics.

All htc devices are dual band unless they're forced to add more

Most samsung international devices are triband or higher. (though they dont generally use qualcomm chips)

All dell devices are triband or higher (with the exception of the EU Streak 5 as the AWS is uncommon)

I cant actually confirm it as I dont actually recall seeing a 5+ band phone using a qualcomm chip.

Worst case you can do APQxxxx + MDMxxxx and use an external modem that does support it, i believe the MDM9200 explicitly supports 5 bands + lte bands.

All devices with APQ8060 chips do this, as APQ chips are by definition chips without modems. There's a few phones that use this setup.

tl;dr the rogers varient should support at least 850/1700/1900/2100, since at least on at&t they use both 850 and 1900 (not unreasonable to assume rogers does the same)
[Venue Pro General] PaullikesWINMO:
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 - For Canada

http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_lumia_710-4276.php
[Venue Pro General] harmattan76:
Can confirm the ATT version works on Rogers bands. Sold my unlocked DVP (ATT) to a rogers users. He reported it worked fine on 3G.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] kirk999:
does this Rom change my spl 1.10 to spl 5.12 after flahing?
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] ansar.ath.gr:
Hi,

//// ROM prerequisites ////

>> You must have RSPL/HSPL installed

>> IMPROTANT NOTE: Installation of the this ROM does NOT destroy HSPL

Regards, ansar
[Motorola Photon 4G] siad852000:
hi

i wana download ( homebasephoton2.1Ext4remesigned.zip ) but link in forum is broken as well the update ( homeBase-Photon-4.2-update-Signed.zip )

and i search for it on web and i don't find any result .

sooooo ....... can anyone provide it to me plz ​
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
HB is based on old code and hasn't been updated in months. Check the compendium in the dev section for a current ROM's list.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Gene-:
If you don't mind 1.5 or 1.7 I could upload those when I get access to a non-crap internet connection in the next few days. I think I have an update file as well.

Honestly I still use HomeBase after all this time because of how well it works(and how it seems like everything else is pretty much just as old or is currently an alpha). I should be able to edit the build.prop file so you don't get bothered to update until the next update too if you like.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Gene-:
Ok, I uploaded the files you asked for-

File name: homebasephoton2.1Ext4remesigned.zip File size: 167.69 MB

File name: homeBase-Photon-4.2-update-Signed.zip File size: 38.59 MB

I'd put them in the homebase thread, but the XDA forums have a '**** you' policy for new people, so they'll have to take care of themselves.
[Motorola Photon 4G] siad852000:
thanx dude ......... i appreciate that

i will not forget that

but last questions .... if i not bothering you :

data on my phone ..... will work or not ?

note that :

carrier : orange jordan

2G band : 900

3G band : W-CDMA 2100

and

motorola photon support :

2G Network : CDMA 800 & 1900 - GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network : CDMA2000 1xEV-DO - HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100

and

who can i make ROM the SUPPORT Arabic reading and writing ?

i cant see the balance ( USSD CODE ) ..... just appear MMI complete >>> so how can i fix it ?

sorry i asked so many question .... i didn't find any answer on net about that ( all told me change the ROM to CM 7 but i don't want to missing MOTOBLUR theme ) and i hope i get it from you .
[Motorola Photon 4G] bpcivicsi:
I know this thread is pretty old, BUT, thank you Gene. I've been looking for homebase for a few days now and finally found this thread. Big ups!
[TouchPad Themes and Apps] jamesissocool:
Has anyone else started theming TWRP? We need some love for the Touchpad.

This one comes from the boys on the Kindle thread. Props to the theme Dev.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1423960

Download ui.zip

Mount your SDCARD

Navigate to X:\TWRP\

Make a new folder called “theme”

Move ui.zip into “theme”

Boot into recovery and this will be your default skin.

Trust me, its WAAAAAY better than working without it.
[TouchPad Themes and Apps] TouchpadBOSS:
nvm, guess I should test before I speak.
[TouchPad Themes and Apps] jamesissocool:
No worries. I was hesitant to try it too. But the basic screen reminded me of my Commodore 64. Your themes are tight by the way.
[TouchPad Themes and Apps] chefcesarpr:
Confirm, It works
[TouchPad Themes and Apps] Lento10:
Thanks, it works and looks great on the tp.
[TouchPad Themes and Apps] jamesissocool:
Background

I have received a few PMs for information about TWRP and I just figured I would post here.

Basically TWRP is a recovery utility like CWM, but it uses a touchscreen interface instead of the volume rocker, home & power button controls. For more information please refer to the dev thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1400649

Personally, I like the TWRP method better overall, but I still use CWM for more complex flashes where devs recommend a specific install process using clockwork. However, rumor has it that CWM may be coming out with a touchscreen UI as well.

The point of this thread was to find out if anyone had created a TWRP theme specifically for the Touchpad. It does not appear that anyone has tried to make art out of the blank canvas yet.
[Nook Color General] lifeisfun:
I installed iVysilani (free app from market)

This app will stream European tv just fine on my Transformer and HTC Desire but for some unknown reason it will stop after about 90sec on my NC ( tried several streams) Any idea why and even better how to fix it ? :)

Thanks
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psmedley:
Which nightly of the TeamEOS MZ601's did you try? Since nightly #8 3G has been working for me, but there were further fixes after nightly #8 for 3G so it might be worth trying it out again.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlommy:
I've tried #10, but then also all 3.2 ones, no luck. there's something up with the radio probably :(
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diigibio:
Yes, I'm having the same problem.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diigibio:
Here is the link to the CG5_0x00000000.smg from the European 3g Honeycomb 3.2 sbf.

http://db.tt/waHaCFaj

Anyone know how to convert it into a flashable radio either as an update zip or as a radio.img?

Thanks

Phil
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlommy:
that should be no prob! great stuff. will update you if i got any progress
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diigibio:
The radio (CG5.smg) may contain other bits, so probably a good idea to restore to 3.2 before flashing.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ydaraishy:
Have you tried reverting back to the stock images from Motodev (moto.ly/xoomsoftware), rather than using the SBF?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diigibio:
Yes. Tried those images using fastboot and relocking OEM but no joy. Tried both the 3.0.1 sbf and the 3.2 sbf still no joy. Running out of idea's. Starting to think the hardware has blown. System doesn't even recognise a sim card removal or insertion. :-(
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlommy:
well of course it won't recognize it, if the modem is gone. Modem is the one the RIL layer talks to, and no modem = no SIM card notifications.

It's NOT hardware....it's something else, just need to find it...
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maol1974:
See the post "Flashing a US/CDMA 3G+WiFi Xoom Honeycomb ROM onto a European/UMTS one" on the blog felipe-alfaro.org/blog

... it help for me in the same case.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diigibio:
Thanks will give it a look. ;-)
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diigibio:
Not quite what we need. We have already overwritten our UMTS Radio with a CDMA one and we are trying to get our UMTS Radio installed back onto our xoom.

Can anyone help? Gonna try a few things when I get chance.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevlarman:
No help I'm afraid, but just want to mention that I also lost 3G.

I have a Telstra MZ601 and I believe I lost 3G long ago when I first flashed one of the Tiamat ROMs.

I have tried flashing the official Moto images, and even a Telstra SBF using RSDLite with no joy.

I have "baseband unknown" when I go to about tablet.

I thought flashing the SBF was supposed to reset everything including the radio to stock?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlommy:
@kevlarman: can you put your

1) dmesg from normal mode

2) dmesg from recovery mode

3) adb logcat -b radio

to some pastebin and give us a link please?

just to compare my trouble with diigibio and some other ppl.

@diigibio: can you actually do the same, m8?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevlarman:
Radio logcat

http://pastebin.com/2Xh0K5R2

Normal dmesg

http://pastebin.com/4bBkrbE3

How do I get a dmesg from recovery?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlommy:
boot CWM recovery, adb shell to it and dmesg...
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevlarman:
Yeah that's what I thought (and did) but adb returns "device not found."

Doing an adb devices shows no devices.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diigibio:
Got this from recovery

Got this picture from recovery.

Here is my normal dmesg: http://db.tt/CMoRaKAO

Here is my recovery dmesg: http://db.tt/QJT9vzrb

And attached is a minute or two of my logcat for radio (buffer)

Logcat is taking forever......
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigrushdog:
Ok guys, couple things here. First, none of you have actually flashed a cdma radio. If, somehow, that was the case, your device would be perma-bricked. For now, I recommend everybody stop playing with these damn sbf's. SBF is a ****ty implementation of flashing to the system. You will only create more problems for yourself.

I'm not sure, but it looks like that sbf is for some USA model? Either way, are you absolutely certain that that sbf successfully flashed without error? Actually, are you certain that that sbf was not for USA verizon 3g cdma?

This information is pulled from different places. Some is pulled from the bootloader. Some is from boot image cmdline text file. Some is pulled from the misc block.

Also, run this

cd /mnt/sdcard
cat /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/misc > misc.img

Then on computer

adb pull /mnt/sdcard/misc.img

Then open the image in a hex editor and search for "android" Post up what it returns.

EDIT: I found this while digging around. It's polish translated to english
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diigibio:
misc.img

Here is a picture of what was returned by searching for "Android" in a hex editor from the misc.img dump.

Thanks
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevlarman:
I see the exact same string in my misc.img as diigibio has shown. Is this good or bad?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diigibio:
bigrushdog e-mailed me and said that we didn't flash the radio it was just a rom otherwise we would have a brick.

So maybe getting someone with a working 3G European xoom to dump their misc.img and then maybe if we flash the misc.img (I'm assuming: fastboot flash misc misc.img) then we might be back. Maybe. I'm gonna ask.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ydaraishy:
fastboot will not flash anything other than boot, recovery, system, and userdata. You might have some luck with dd, but I don't even know what misc does so...
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diigibio:
Thanks for the info on fastboot. Please can I ask what you mean by "dd"? :)

dd as in linux commands? Like this dd if:/mnt/misc > /sdcard/misc.img or dd if:/sdcard/misc.img > /mnt/misc

Would "fastboot erase misc" work?

---------- Post added at 11:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:52 AM ----------

I believe the misc partition contains the following:

"This partition contains miscellaneous system settings in form of on/off switches. These settings may include CID (Carrier or Region ID), USB configuration and certain hardware settings etc. This is an important partition and if it is corrupted or missing, several of the device’s features will will not function normally."

Quoted from http://www.enfeuman.com/2011/06/10/android-partitions-explained/

Could explain a few things. Getting hold of a euro 3G misc.img could be important. Then a way of flashing the misc.img would be good.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlommy:
@bigrushdog: tried many OTA packages too, didn't work

Flashed stock, relocked, disabled fastboot and called motorola.

A courier will pick it up tomorrow.

See how it turns around

To anyone in UK - don't go to carphonewarehouse for repairs, they'll try to charge you 60 quid for "sending it to vendor"
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlommy:
flashing misc is the same dd if=/tmp/yourfile of=/dev/mmcblkxxxx
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maol1974:
... but it helps me. I had treat my Xoom as an US version - because all the informations that I could get from tablet talks about it that way - and prepared the European version of OTA 3.1 upgrade and... it works! I have the 3G again, in the M601 style.

BTW, the link in the Bigrushdog post is to my article :) The second thought is - why the problem is in the misc.img? As I guess, the problem is with the rdl.bin file. Or mayby I'm wrong and my method was only an accidental case?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diigibio:
You were definitely lucky. I did what you did several times and no luck. The problem may not be in the misc.img it was suggested my Bigrushdog to dump the misc partition and use a hex editor to show what was listed if you searched for "Android" in the hex editor (Probably because me and andlommy had dumped information from several sources. I didn't know what the misc partition contained, so I googled it and found that it contains hardware settings and CID information and is very important. And hardware may not function if the misc partition is corrupted or missing.

Bigrushdog is in the states so they will just be getting up soon. And may have other advice. Here's hoping.

@andlommy: let me know how you get on pal. :-)
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlommy:
@diigibio:

well after i did

fastbood sbd_dis

there was nothing much i could do, 'cause i got fastboot locked.

Otherwise i would end up sitting in front of my computer for another couple days.

Kind'a killswitch

Good bit is that now motorola front line techs can't do

fastboot getvars

that would show you

iswarrantyvoid:yes

because all fastboot functionality is locked.

And i also hope motorola 2nd&3d level support guys won't care about that and reflash low-level the whole thing.

I must admit i zeroed out the whole thing at some point

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmc1blkX

trying to zero out everything i had.

Guess that was bit foolish, but hasn't changed the behavior

eventually data in /misc partition got written back at some point.

maybe not all of it, i don't know.

But formally the sbf (yeah i know they may be rubbish) reflashes, or even erases the misc partition (i got a USB trace to show it does that)

can't think about this topic anymore, hope moto are nice to me
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diigibio:
Im back to original firmware, started at 3.0.1 official images from moto then performed oem lock then allowed it to update all the way to 3.2 which included a new bootloader flash at 3.1 which said it was installed successfully. Then tried to do an official factory reset through official recovery. Where I get this:
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diigibio:
@andlommy I hope moto are nice to you too mate. Well since I am no closer and essentially have a wifi xoom. I might order that Asus Transformer Prime! And sell my xoom as a wifi only model.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevlarman:
Cheers for the help guys.

I have tried both flashing the official .IMGs from the Moto site and the Telstra SBF I found floating around somewhere. I even re-locked the device using the official method. Each of the procedures completed successfully, but in each case, I was greeted with an uknown baseband. Everything else works as it should.

I think I will try once again to re-flash to factory, then do an erase from the official recovery.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlommy:
@diigibio: if my moto repairs work out, why not give out yours for repairs too?

I might dump all partitions for you to test out, but i fear there's something ELSE that's not shown to us. for example i am quite sure there is a location in nvram where fastboot configuration is being kept (like is device unlocked, has it ever been unlocked etc), and who knows where radio module config data is kept...
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diigibio:
Cheers, will hold off selling the xoom for now to see if your repair works out (fingers crossed) but I have ordered my Asus Transformer Prime and should have it in the next seven days. Can't wait. Shame there is no easy way to flash/clear the nvram. Hopefully will get some time to play around at weekend in between playing with the kids and housework etc. :-)
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigrushdog:
At this point I can only come up with one other idea. Go block by block and diff against the same blocks from a properly functioning device. If you find the offending block, you should be able to use dd to write the correct image. But do tread carefully. dd is a very dangerous tool. And be very leary about overwriting the bootloader.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diigibio:
Thank you for your help bigrushdog but I don't think I have the balls for that one. I can always tether my all you can eat data from my desire HD. But I hate having options on a device and not be used. But the wife is going to take that niggle off my hands and as funny as it sounds I will have my Asus transformer prime which doesn't have native 3g at all. So I will be tethering that, but at least I won't be thinking about the built in 3g anymore. Hope that makes some sense , it does to me. It's like having a washer/drier combo and only using it to dry your clothes, washing them with a separate washer. Does my head in. Lol. Yep, I'm special. Lol. Thanks anyway. :-)
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kdhu:
Hi Guys

got stuck with the same problem

The logcat dump shows the same config

model=MZ600 and CDMA

did you guys manage to get anything working...
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlommy:
my xoom should be back from repairs this or next week (hopefully they're not gonna make too much mess about it)

Will then dump all partitions out for you guys, but something tells me there is an undisclosed memory area somewhere where information such as "is device locked" is posted. That memory area might also contain the missing information.

As far as i looked through the bootloader, it even has support for nvflash, which is disabled with probably another "switch" in that "hidden" memory area. something similar to PC's BIOS settings methinks.

fingers crossed for motorola now :)

Interesting also how it could get messed up....

update from motorola

aaahhh...sweeeet....
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlommy:
got it back. as broken as it was, although the repair log says "it now works flawlessly"...hmm...let's see what motorola has to say about this...

update:

rrrright...they "couldn't find what's wrong with the unit because it "didn't say on the top of the box with capital red letters"

scheduling for 2nd repairs in a week :(
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlommy:
...Ages later.

Unit received from SECOND motorola repair.

repair log says "replaced mainboard"

I'll let the unit to warm up for a while and post an update.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlommy:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot getvar all
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1049
(bootloader) product: xoom-cdma
(bootloader) secure: yes
(bootloader) model: MZ600
(bootloader) memory-info: 0x303:0x5454:0
(bootloader) mid: 001
(bootloader) version: 0.4
(bootloader) serialno: 037C710043415xxx
(bootloader) version-baseband: N_01.100.05P
(bootloader) version-baseband-2:
(bootloader) battery-status: 37%:7.446V:0.9782A:25.75C
(bootloader) unlocked: no
(bootloader) iswarrantyvoid: no
all: Done
finished. total time: 0.514s

looks good.

Don't remember whether i had any baseband version in fastboot getvars previously.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kdhu:
Good to hear that you finally received your xoom. And thanks four posting your fastboot. Just wanted to check if your xoom is 3g our CDMA. As I get similar fastboot for my mz601 too.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlommy:
Mz601.

Wonder what data may be useful to try to recover everyone's Xoom that suffered from bad flash.

Good news that Motorola does repair devices that were OEM unlocked.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] berylz:
hey guys!

are there any news on this topic?

seems that i have the same problem...

flashed back to stock and relocked but no luck, baseband is still unknown :/

edit:

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1049
(bootloader) product: xoom-cdma
(bootloader) secure: yes
(bootloader) model: MZ600
(bootloader) memory-info: 0x303:0x5454:0
(bootloader) mid: 001
(bootloader) version: 0.4
(bootloader) serialno: 037C62024160Cxxx
(bootloader) version-baseband: CDMA_N_03.1A.44PS
(bootloader) version-baseband-2: ltedc_u_03.6f.00
(bootloader) battery-status: 25%:7.378V:0.9636A:23.25C
(bootloader) unlocked: no
(bootloader) iswarrantyvoid: yes