yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] esist:
If its really a big chain as you say, I doubt they will challenge you on it. People saying "It was like that when I got it" is something I doubt they hear a lot from people who just bought the phone, wanting it exchanged.

People who make warranty claims in such situations, I'm sure they've heard it plenty.

Basically the more time you wait, the more suspicious it will seem. Think about the scenario:

1. Someone buys a new phone.

2. Goes home, discovers its likely been used before.

3. Next days returns it, showing the bootloader was already unlocked.

The alternative explanation for the shop, is that you unlocked it yourself in the first day, and then immediately got cold feet about unlocking the BL and returned it. They are unlikely to push such an unlikely alternate theory.

I know it might not have been just a day, but you see my point: the shorter the time, the less likely you are to be challenged. A reputable shop in this situation will not doubt you (not likely, at the very least).

If they don't accept your story, say you'll to escalate it to a local authority or by contacting SE (e.g. if employees use the phones, the managers will know about this, and would fear it becoming public in an investigation by someone else; if it was unlocked by someone else, they risk exposing less-than-ideal distribution channels).

Also, ignore those who are saying you should be happy with an unlocked BL. The official BL unlock is so simple (which is what it is if SE rejected the device), you would never need someone to do it for you. If you wanted a secondhand preunlocked device, you should pay secondhand price.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] kormatoes:
Well if it was me I would be happy but where im from this just would not happen "i hope this is the case"anyway but like he said iff you don't return on day one more fool you moral of the story just flash what you want and move on
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] skyboyextreme:
same opinion here , just move on man , appreciate what you have got :D ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mpiekp:
How was it unlocked, if it was the official way then they will know when the key was requested get that and return the phone to the supplier.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] pioloo:
I hope!

I have talk with the shop and I returned the phone to the Sony reparation center and if they found I haven't modified the phone, the shop said will give me a new phone...

P.S.: I know the Unlock of bootloader is a good thing but maybe the phone was used in wrong ways and damaged in something! I don't know, and sure I haven't the guarantee.

So, if I want isn't too difficult unlock it, but before I have the full guarantee and I'm sure no one has used it.

if I wanted to buy a used phone at least I could save some money!! ;)
[Motorola Atrix 2] alcatel444:
Hi Everybody,

I currently have 2.3.5 stock (non-deoxeded) rooted rom.

I removed alot of the bloatware ( i can't remember which ) .

Now when i try to upgrade to 2.3.6 it starts very well and the progress bar goes to almost 1/3 of it's width then i get an exclamation icon and the device restarts normally and when the phone completely boots up it tells me update failed.

i know this can be fixed by restoring 2.3.5 fxz but i am afraid of doing so and also lazy so is there any easier way of doing this?

Thanks You in advance
[Motorola Atrix 2] 1.18.12:
Laziness is why America is turning the way it is.
[Motorola Atrix 2] mtnlion:
You'll have to flash the fxz. This has been covered in several posts across quite a few threads. The search button really doesn't take much effort.
[Motorola Atrix 2] matt99017d:
Lol.

Dude, just re-flash. Easy as pie.

Why not wait till on of our Dev's put this in a ROM?

Then your set.

If you do flash back to stock and then upgrade to the 2.3.6 don't forget to do forever root.
[Motorola Atrix 2] tmease1:
I don't understand why you have to keep the bloatware on the phone to update it anyway. I'm just taking a guess at this but you could probably contact motorola to see if there is away around it. I'm probably wrong though.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
It is not Moto you need to go to, it is AT&T, it is their bloatware. The updater is performing checks, during the update, to see if the packages exist where they should, so that they can then be updated, it is a requirement since these are just patch files, and you can't apply a patch file to something that is not there, so the update script bombs out and will not continue.

AT&T and Motorola both assume if you made changes to your phone that you know what you are doing and that you "voided" your warranty and don't want the updates. If you call AT&T or Motorola, they will tell you too bad so sad, you modded your phone, you are now out of warranty.
[Motorola Atrix 2] tmease1:
I figured that was the case. These carriers love bloatware that most of the time will charge you a additional $10.00 a month to use its service.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Yeah, that is why apps like bloat freezer exist. :D
[Motorola Atrix 2] alcatel444:
Thanks for your funny comment

Well Thanks for your funny comment but i am not American . i wish i was but i am not.

please do your self a favor and stop trying to be funny . you don't have a very slow internet connection that would that 6 hours to get the ~500MB FXz . also you are not busy to a degree that you only sleep 3 hours a day and you don't want to waste a single hour of your day . i am web developer by the way . what do you work?
[Motorola Atrix 2] alcatel444:
That's exactly why they are doing it :mad:
[Motorola Atrix 2] alcatel444:
Oh Finally i am on 2.3.6 update :D:

Here is what i did incase any one is in the same problem.

1) Restored the FXZ ( noobies guide here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1396650) be very patient will flashing and never touch your device until it boots to system and yes it will reboot a couple of times or maybe the screen will go off and on a couple of times ( don't get scared like me :D ) also the last step 20/20 takes a while and after this step don't unplug it still does some stuff

2) Rooted using 1-click root ( found here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1327741 )

3) "VERY IMPORTANT" Used 4ever root method found here http://droidmodderx.com/bionic/maintain-root-through-any-update-bionic-with-forever-root/ ( Yes it works for us too ) Credits to Jim for letting us know about this.( post #5 here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1477656 )

4) Rebooted ( i don't know if it's essential but i didn't know how the 3 lines i added in the above step worked so i rebooted maybe they executed on boot)

5) Installed OTA update (Settings >> About >> System Updates )

6) Congratulations now you have the OTA 2.3.6 updates rooted device

Please use the

THANKS

button if this helped you
[Motorola Atrix 2] Deliberate:
Im sorry but I don't see how sitting on your butt all day pushing buttons is a hard days work. I work in construction. Sometimes 10 12 hour days. Just because your not from America and u hate where u live and are envious. dousnt mean u should hate on people that are from America, making fun of America. No offence to web designers or programmer's. I believe it is tiring work. But not to the point where u come home so sore u just wanna die! "Not literally"

"Ment for... alcatel444"
[Motorola Atrix 2] alcatel444:
LOL did i say any thing bad about Americans? really wondering i said i wish i were American and really it's my dream i love american's and how they are fun people and in same time work people i even eat donuts :) . i think you misunderstood me. wondering if my English is the problem ( i don't think so i work online for a company in the us and i talk with americans at least 5 times a day ) . well i think you have a mind problem
[Motorola Atrix 2] matt99017d:
Nevermind.
[Motorola Atrix 2] Deliberate:
Its like your trying to be offensive but not. At the same time. I don't need to get my "mind checked" lol what u said sounded offensive. So I apologize if u didn't mean it so.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] joecr250r:
After reading a bunch of posts I recently discovered that I could open the zip files to a rom and get into the system/app folder and remove and replace the apps completely in this folder. So since I dont use twitter or facebook I removed them from this location and they vanished off my phone.

Are there any ramifications for messing around in here?

Can I preload apk's that I want into this folder before loading the Rom and have them installed upon boot up? Like putting the apk for Google Currents in there and when I load a new Rom Its there.

Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] joecr250r:
Can anyone answer this question for me please?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] stretchwookie:
i really dont see why not, just know that those then become ''system'' files. may cause issues with updating. i have heard of people who use calks rom (which has go launcher moved to system/apps) have troubles updating go launcher from the market. obviously youd have to edit the system/app folder every time you flashed a rom, even updates, or else it wouldnt match up right. seems like a major PITA to me
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] joecr250r:
yes it does. Thanks for the input!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeromekobriger:
Please help, I've searched for quite a while and can't seem to find any answers. I flashed my Captivate to TeamICSSGS, and want to go back to stock so I can give it to my son.

I've tried Odin as well as flashing Cognition 5.2 from CWM. Odin doesn't see the phone, and flashing Cognition just results in the phone booting right back into ICS.

Any ideas?

Edit: My idiocy, forgot that I had wiped my PC, never reinstalled the captivate drivers. Once I installed them, odin works just fine.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnBlum:
Hello everybody,

Before telling you about my issue, i should mention that i am a complete newbie regarding flashing kernels. This was my first try, and it didn't work out too well.

I needed to test the USB OTG/Host Functionality for a project at work, and i read that it was possible to enable it on the Nexus S by flashing a custom kernel (kernel_usbhost_build5_icsnexuss from sztupy). It's probably worth mentioning that prior to this i updated the phone to Android 4.0.3.

So i started this morning by rooting it, unlocking the bootloader and installing CWM.

At that point i realized that the recovery mode wasn't accessible : the graphics of the droid with an open belly appears for half a second, and then it gives me the black screen treatment for about a minute before rebooting.

However since there are other ways to flash kernels, i figured i could do without recovery so i didn't look more into it.

I then flashed the kernel using fastboot with this command :

C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot flash:raw boot H:\data\Downloads\kernel_usbhost_build5_icsnexuss\kernel\zImage
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 3446784 bytes
sending 'boot' (3366 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.422s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 0.500s]
finished. total time: 0.922s

From the trace i figured that all went well, but when i reboot it stays blocked on the splash screen with the Google logo. Since then i tried flashing several other kernels, without any success. Also tried to flash an update.zip (both ICS and GB) over fastboot but i get this error :

C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot update H:\data\Downloads\upd
ate.zip
archive does not contain 'android-info.txt'
archive does not contain 'android-product.txt'
error: update package has no android-info.txt or android-product.txt

So to sum it up i now only have access to the bootloader, without recovery mode.

Before you all jump on me, i know what i did is bad habits (i should have tested the kernel before flashing it), i did it in a hurry without checking i had all sufficient knowledge, and to be honest i would probably have been more careful if was doing it on my personal device.

Truth is now i'm really desperate because i turned my company issued phone into a brick and don't have the slightest idea what to do about it...

Is there any guru out there who knows how i could get out of this ?

Thanks a lot !
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
Download clockworkmod recovery and use fastboot to flash it.

Fastboot flash recovery yourfilename.img

Enter recovery and mounts and storage and mount USB storage

Transfer the kernel you want to your SD card. The one you flashes isn't a kernel I'm almost sure.

Try a different one.

Then transfer a rom to your SD card.

Factory reset/full wipe, then go to mounts and storage and format everything except your sdcard.

DO NOT FORMAT YOUR SD CARD!!!

Once that is done go to install zip from sdcard and flash the rom and then the kernel and reboot. Should be fine then. Keep me posted.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
Ha ha oops! Forgot that part! :)

I usually just cd to the one where I have recovery saved! ;)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnBlum:
Thanks a lot for answering so quickly !

I'll give it a try on Monday, let you know how it goes.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
No I just cd to downloads (where recovery file would be) in terminal, type: fastboot flash recovery xxxxxx img

And that's it.

I set the path to fast boot and adb in environmental variables in device manager.

Maybe that's why.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnBlum:
Just tried out your tips, worked like a charm ! :D

However I had to wipe everything twice before it would let me update to 4.0.3, I would get this weird error :

file_getprop: failed to stat "/system/build.prop": No such file or directory

Anyway now I'm back on ICS and, following your advice, i found another kernel to flash : Matr1x. No problem with this one, now I can test USB OTG.

Thanks again, you guys rule !
[TouchPad General] chaubaby:
I recently updated my Touchpad to 3.0.5 which was a terrible idea. Somehow it messed up my android side, so I decided to doctor the Touchpad. Unfortunately when I did, it would not boot up. It is stuck on the palm.com/rom screen and now when I try to doctor it, it gets stuck on 12%. I'm running OS 10.7.3. Can anyone help? I've googled solutions but none of them seem to help.
[TouchPad General] colin_404:
You should run ACMEUninstaller, that will remove Android.

Then run Doctor again and you might be lucky, if not it gets slightly more complicated.

the webos doctor will hang at 12% for a while , so give it time.
[TouchPad General] siralsmooth:
You may have to doctor with 3.0.2 to get the correct partition resizing, then re-doctor to 3.0.5, and then re-install android. I believe that 3.0.2 was the last doctor that adjusted the partition tables prior to installing, but check google/xda first on that, as it has been discussed before.

Can you still get into the usb loader screen when you power on/reboot and hold the volume up key?
[TouchPad General] rr5678:
Do you have a Windows virtual machine?
[G2 and Desire Z General] c0rpse_grinder:
hi, ive tried out quite a few roms and most of those who were with Sense, while beautiful, they had lag like crazy. i ve ended up with CM7 and MIUI as the top 2 candidates for daily rom however if you ve tried a rom with sense that is also fast and stable, id like to try it so let me know :-)
[G2 and Desire Z General] aDeQ666:
Try the Virtuous Affinity v2.05.0

Link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1346500
[G2 and Desire Z General] Athrun88:
+1 for Affinity. Despite it being a Sense 3.5, there is little lag even on stock speeds and without supercharger.

If you want something alittle more stock, try Sense 2.0 from Virtuous by rmk40. I've been on all of Virtuous' ROM's and have yet to be disappointed by their Sense or AOSP ROM's.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rirozizo:
beatmod bliss sense is the best in performance...

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[G2 and Desire Z General] coldsun15:
i use RCMix4.0 energized blue, and works great, without swap nor supercharger
[G2 and Desire Z General] mike102871:
Definitely try the sense 2.0 been running it for 3 weeks. No lag at all. NONE.
[G2 and Desire Z General] antinerd:
What you said is very true. Although the expertly crafted sense 3.0 and 3.5 roms have reduced lag to a manageable level, once you run a few intensive apps, then return to the rosie you will experience some lag, unless you play with scripts and/or swap. The issue is not with the excellent work of the devs here, but with the severely limited ram on the Vision.

However, I have yet to experience and kind of lag on a sense 1 or sense 2 rom, and have not required swap. There is so much more free memory with the old sense roms, that rosie reloads just do not happen.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mputtr:
I'm 2nding mike102871 on this. If you really want to use sense as it should be, use sense 2.0 since it was crafted to work on the g2. using sense 3+ is nice, but the g2's spec doesn't actually meet the basic minimum requirement.

I suggest Virtuous Sense. It's the best out there for 2.1
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Notor1ouS-:
Hi,

Ive currently no DSL line at home, iam now using the modem function of my desire, which is connected via USB to my pc.

well it works, but the responsive time of my pc is quite shaky/takes longer, it sometimes takes 2-3sec until smth happens. no matter if i browse or simply do smth else.

any experiences on that? ive also tried to disable most IP protocols in my LAN settings. Disabling IP4 Protocol solves the problem (no lags anymore) but no inet then :P. using win7 x64 sp1 here.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] joecr250r:
Is it possible to replace the button icons with different images? For example depending on the theme you have the Mms icon is different. How can I chose just the icon I want out of the them instead of the whole theme?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] g4me0v3r:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=824656

This thread has a bunch of icon packs you can download and it also tells you how to change the icons on your homescreen, dock and Appdrawer.

Hope this helps.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] EL TEJANO:
Which button(s) are you referring too? If it's on the home screen or dock it's fairly simple when using Go Launcher EX.

Simply long press the icon , wait for the pop-up menu, choose replace and you'll have the option to select Default icon, Theme's Icon or Custom icon.

If it's in the app drawer then it's a little harder as the icons are set within the theme package itself and as far as I know there is no way to change just one icon from here on the fly.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] joecr250r:
Thanks g4me0v3r.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] EL TEJANO:
Anyone know where I can download ROU Launcher? I've searched all over the place for it & nada.

Looks interesting that's for sure:

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] R0CKSTAR3N3RGY:
Looks like it's still in Beta development.

Here's the official thread, keep in mind it was closed.

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1268704

Also, here's the beta test sign up form:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...mkey=dGNTVEQyTlA4T3hSMkpCN3p0ZDFTSlE6MQ#gid=0
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] TheArc:
I have an Apk of Rou launcher but when I hop on my PC ill give u Apk file.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Bhawan:
Hi,

Actually I want root my LG Optimus One .I have INDIA phone with official V20c Rom. Can anybody help me how to root my phone without any risk of bricking it. I have also read many thread about rooting 2.3.3 through super one click {like this one h**p://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1200167} but people were saying something about force close errors... So can anybody provide me a successful and error free method of rooting it. and Please also share me the method to unroot it.

Thanks in advance.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Bhawan:
Help

Hey Help me...!!! I had search XDa and finally found this thread h**p://forum[DOT]xda-developers[DOT]com/showpost.php?p=15454927&postcount=7

Is this method works for me.. and is its a safe method..!!!?

And where did i found these files for rooting as per the discussion in this thread...!!
[Optimus One, P500, V General] mak.3736:
hello

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1200167

this worked for me without any problems.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] S.J:
There r several methods....

But I will suggest u to use unlockroot.exe to root ur device .....
[Optimus One, P500, V General] rangerxlt:
I rooted my 01 using superoneclick(newest release) and made sure I unmounted the sd card. Worked great!!!, my 01 was also v20c on GB2.3.3 hope this helps!!:)

Rangerxlt
[Optimus One, P500, V General] papax:
agree, superoneclick should work for you.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Bhawan:
Ya it works like charm.. perfect..

No problem at all from last 3 days...
[Optimus One, P500, V General] ikunalgautam:
is sd card shud be mounted ???
[Optimus One, P500, V General] shikherg:
superoneclick

please tell me where I can find superoneclick for

"lg p500 android version 2.3.3 kernel version 2.6.35.10-perf lg-electronics@INFBA00091#1 build no. GRI40 software version LG-P500-V20C"
[Optimus One, P500, V General] -DarkKnight-:
superoneclick

that didnt work for me

instead i just installed cwm through lgdmp and directly flashed a custom rom
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Gigabitex2:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1633092
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Krishna Mangal:
lgdmp also worked for me.

Instead its the best and error free way to root and install custom rom.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icreater:
I want to do Nandroid Backups in Cwm but there is no option. Is there a way to get the option. Do i have to update my Cwm somehow.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brettdwagner:
"Backup and Restore" isn't an option from the root menu of cwm?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Apodidae:
Which version of CWM are you running? I see backup & restore in 3.0.2.8.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icreater:
I dont have what you have. The only options are factory data reset, cache wipe, screen calibrate, internal and external thing. It doesnt say the version, can i update any way?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aabbondanza:
Stock recovery or CWM?

Sounds like stock recovery instead of CWM. Look at the top left corner. What does is say?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icreater:
I think im going to go into viewsonic gtab for dummies and nvflash cwm 3.0.2.8 there
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aabbondanza:
Go there & follow the instructions. You can either install either via nvflash or stock recovery.

Al
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adca14:
sorry for maybe hijacking this thread, but i'm on bootloader 1.1, could i just download the nvflash file that has the stock 1.2 rom with the cwm preinstalled? Or do I have to go to the stock 1.1 then 1.2? I'm currently running gtabcomb 3.3 with cwm v.08.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aabbondanza:
Code Yellow when switching branches

Wanting to install a 1.2 rom?

Yes you can nvflash 1.2 w/cwm preinstalled. Do Code Yellow on dummies http://viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummies.webs.com/. If you want your apps, remember to back them up with Titanium...reinstall after you get you intend rom installed.

Al
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PinnerProxy:
Does anyone know when that game comes out?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SuperSwagSauce:
It's out on iOS. No idea when it's coming to android.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] R0CKSTAR3N3RGY:
it's scheduled for release mid-February, so just hang on a little longer!
[Vibrant General] se7en10:
Why Why Why!!

It seems that every time someone that wants to test out my phone (Android), it hangs or lags. Their comments "Oh, iPhone doesn't have any of these problems."

I've gone through weeks/months with no issues on custom ROMs, always happen when someone else plays with it. :eek:

Vibrant on ICS (waiting for Wi-Fi Calling)
[Vibrant General] Jeffe5:
Sounds like you have the dancing frog syndrome!

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[Vibrant General] YodaEXE:
It's because they're putting their dirty, Apple loving hands on it. The phone wants to get away as quickly as possible before it gets infected, so it lags and acts up so that you take it back.
[Vibrant General] cashmundy:
It's the Curse of Undead Steve Jobs, the malign control-freak, now literally from Hell!