yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] awandroid89:
nice..

beautiful theme.

hope to see transparent statusbar dropdown menu...:D

test it...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] doughy2002:
looking good thanks, will install this when i get home,
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] yken:
can you make Tiger themes compatible with your Rom? Especially it breaks

your add ons for saurom rom.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Siberian Tiger:
Very nice one djb77,i love it.

Vertumus he is so, well i got no words to describe him,he is master helped me a lot with my themes.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] webwude:
Looks very promising - I think now I can switch to JVU :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] perbet:
thanks look good
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Fishmanzero:
Oh finally a theme for saurom come! Thanks for the nice work.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] zziggy:
Nice work. Not sure why but my statusbar clock just reverted to green. Had to go into Statusbar setings - clock color and fix it.

I'd prefer touchwiz 3 if you could make that an addon. I've never had TW4 completely stable. Although it seems good so far.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] zziggy:
heres a little graphic problem in the dialer. The contacts text is dark and needs to move down.

Hope the link works

Oh and my clock reverted to green again :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] djb77:
The issue with the clock has been discussed in the Saurom JVU thread by the looks of it. So hopefully you'll be covered with that.

This is an older TW4, and it's not TW4.5. I've used this version of TW4 for a while now and its quite good.

It should be all fine as the base of my theme is Saurom JVU not stock JVU.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] gargeya_369:
How to remove auto-rotation from phone dialer??

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i figured it out...

Flashed the non-rotating dialer mod from SAUROM(JVU) .

The phone icon changed to stock.

Then i applied the theme again, it is back to the ics phone icon and is free from auto-rotation..
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] metalizer2000:
this theme include wifi fix?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] SAEVARM3:
Is it possible to get CM7 Style battery?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Tuga_Droid:
Next update with toggles and custom menu like in SauroM? Love it but want more ;o)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] djb77:
If you use SauroM JVU the features are already there.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Tuga_Droid:
I'm using my own rom. I know that those features are already in the theme because i'm using it (extracted in the SauroM rom) but i would know if in your theme you have included those features .

Thanks in advance ;o)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] deaffob:
I'm running on AOKP M3/Franco 15.2

Whenever I try to play a youtube video, it just hangs at loading. The loading indicating circle just sits there and this happens both on 4G and wifi.

I tried clearing data/cache but it still does the same thing. The weird thing is, I can play videos fine within browsers. :confused:

:(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cysco24:
Same thing happening to me today. was working fine yesterday. Suddenly today nothing. Stuck loading then errors out.

No update, no new apps installed. Works in the browser, not the youtube app.
[Hardware Hacking General] Lord Inglip:
Hello! Is it possible to replace and upgrade your phone's RAM and solder aftermarket RAM in it?

Thanks!

ps. Sorry for bad English
[Hardware Hacking General] Danmanlott:
I do not think you can, these phones aren't really made for upgrades.
[Hardware Hacking General] SilverTipp:
I have heard mention of this before ... but the compact design of the phone and the ability to find (upgraded) ram that would work with the chipset (soldered or otherwise) seems nearly impossible to find to me.

However, if someone was successful in this I would certainly be interested in hearing how.
[Hardware Hacking General] pmnxis:
I think it is too hard or You cant ('x ' )
[Hardware Hacking General] tsamrein:
Seeing as how the RAM modules built into the phone mother board are BGAs (ball grid arrays) it is nearly impossible to replace them without highly specialized equiptment like a FineTech BGA rework machine and the proper heat profiles for the given parts. That said you are more than welcome to try some methods that are not proven but seem very funny to me. I believe there is a youtube video of a man desoldering a BGA using an oven.

Needless to say of you dont like the amount of RAM your device has you may just have to wait until you can get another device.
[Hardware Hacking General] v6ser:
In especial cases you can UNLOCK the RAM, but it didn't happen as a lot of devs tried and a really small quantity(of devs not phones) reached this point and the only phone that I know is unlockable is the ZTE Blade.
[Hardware Hacking General] xhazk:
As an embedded system with some [normally] tightly controlled schematics and firmware, this would be unlikely for you to acomplish, since you're asking the question to begin with.
[Hardware Hacking General] cdesai:
Not at all related to this, blade had 512mb of RAM in it, but it wasn't accessible- solved by a kernel change

Sent from my fingerz 2 ur eyez
[Hardware Hacking General] stefantumi:
.

all smartphone devices have x amount of ram. say if you have 1gb ram in your phone you might only be able to use 868mb of it . it is becous your phone uses 128 mb for your gpu. it is plausible to make some of your gpu ram available as regular ram and that is done with an kernel mod. for my phone(lg optimus) 2x it is called a ram hack. it always comes with some faults depending on how much you take from the gpu. i have a 32mb shared ram hack so i cant reboot just have to turn the phone on and off
[Hardware Hacking General] neophob:
hey all

I guess it would be possible, however it might not so easy, I upgraded the ram of a wrt router some time ago: http://neophob.com/2006/01/wrt54g-ram-upgrade/
[Hardware Hacking General] haidari:
There's no chance of upgrading a mobile phone RAM .
[Hardware Hacking General] enko2974:
I think the same,no way to upgrade ram on mobile phone
[Hardware Hacking General] EniGmA1987:
This is possible, but as others have said the complexity and difficulty to desolder a BGA ram chip and then put a new one on perfectly without messing anything up is incredibly high. And in addition, you have to find a ram chip that is compatible with your device (pin count and configuration, physical size, voltage, timings) and of a higher density, another difficult feat. So while it is technically possible, the practical answer is no it is not possible for anyone to do in the real world.
[Hardware Hacking General] Coder-R:
Hmm dont think you can.
[Hardware Hacking General] PersianSphinx:
ive seen it done, it can be done. its just really hard and nerve racking :)
[Hardware Hacking General] showlyshah:
Man bga chips are pain in a$$, unless u have sophisticated workstation.

A single short circuit/ loose contact can blow up ur entire CPU/motherboard.
[Hardware Hacking General] KMyers:
Hate to say it but no, in many of the SoC (System on a Chip) devices, the RAM is a soldered component of the main board. They are using RAM Modules rather then SODIMM Chips. It would be nice though
[Hardware Hacking General] nathanspears:
Parts

Anyone have any ideas of where you could even start to look for ram that would work? I have a HTC Evo 4G. I wonder if its possible to find parts from a HTC Evo 3D and modify.
[Hardware Hacking General] hipojarty:
seems so

just from the CoE course, revers engng and tweaking hardware is a good start :)
[Hardware Hacking General] scrizz:
it's possible, but if you think you'll save money that way, you're wrong.

lol
[Hardware Hacking General] voksal888:
can installing android 4.0 on xperia x1?
[Hardware Hacking General] ajojohn:
let me know if its possible...
[Hardware Hacking General] dgenx210:
You're reply to the thread is very irrelevant.

Since you're obviously to lazy to backread, I'll sum it up for you.

Possible: Yes.

Practical: NO.
[Hardware Hacking General] PersianSphinx:
yes you can, but you need to learn how to develop android first. if you can' there is a Work in Progress CM7 port for the x1 that is still in alpha. no one knows when it will be finished. no other ROM can be installed into the device, only if you use sd card partitions and thats not good.

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lets rephrase:

Practical: IT DEPENDS ON YOU, YOUR TOOLS AND YOUR EXPERIENCE.
[Hardware Hacking General] source06:
yes, at first I thought about this too, yet the lack of skill and lack of tools make it impossible to do for me. and I think it will be better if we just bought new phone
[Hardware Hacking General] icenight89:
I've read through the posts and i would have to agree with the major consensus. Soldering ram onto an SOC device like a smartphone is highly impractical. The amount of money I think it would be required to acquire certain ram modules anyway make it unrealistic. Simply better purchasing a better phone. Try kijiji or craigslist
[Hardware Hacking General] showlyshah:
More over u may find pin/ voltage differences in ic. So some times u may have to swap the pins, which is impossible in a soc bga ic.
[Hardware Hacking General] hakansilbir:
go and buy a new phone :D be sure it is so good for all of us .D
[Hardware Hacking General] bconover93:
even if it were possible, it'd be hard. you'd be better off just buying a new phone... unless you want more than 1 GB. Then you'll have to wait
[Hardware Hacking General] dgenx210:
Whatever fills your boat fella.

Ps. My eyes are fine. No need to bash the caps button.
[Hardware Hacking General] Cheeseman-:
Technically it should be possible. I remember a while back a few people were upgrading the RAM on their Dell Axim x51v from 64MB to 128MB. Obviously a different platform and operating system, but aside from the tools and experience, along with whatever the limitations of the OS it might be possible, but quite irrational.
[Hardware Hacking General] stefanuc111:
I Think it's impossible to upgrade ram on android phone because the ram it's soldered on de device
[Hardware Hacking General] anubisj:
I don't think that smartphones are designed for RAM upgrade.;)
[Hardware Hacking General] dozz01:
That would be nice - and i hope we will see that in the future - but for now i dont think so

probably it will be difficult to get the right RAMs, but it would be interesting to know, which role play drivers and firmware scripts, so if changes need to be done
[Hardware Hacking General] shujun:
very hard

I want to upgrade RAM size from 512MB to 1GB for my kindle fire too.

But it's very hard.

Don't try , unless you hava prefersional skill and tools
[Hardware Hacking General] itzdarockz:
I wish there was an easy way. :(
[Hardware Hacking General] firebird112:
its possible but it will cost you more money.
[Hardware Hacking General] Roli21:
Dont listen to that guy :))

Its not and it will not be possbile for example Galaxy S2 has 1Gb of ram , everyting is on a chip , thats why they call it Soc 'sistem on chip ' so everything is there the cpu , gpu , ram , controllers etc ...

Its a chip , u can not do anything with it , so stop asking stupid qustions about upgrading ram in phone .
[Hardware Hacking General] dexter93:
At last! Somebody said it.

Take a look at a phones disassembly video on YouTube. If you ever manage to find the ram pm me :rolleyes:
[Hardware Hacking General] king..kranium:
Um bombshell kiddos master mind Zeppelinrox got that ram upgrade... Google it...
[Hardware Hacking General] tangbunna:
so it is possible to upgrade flash memory from 8gb to 32gb MicroSD card on Kindle Fire ? normally SoC chips they do has microSD card support but crazy Amazon disabled it like bluetooth port. MicroSD just have 8pins http://elasticsheep.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/sd-card-pinout.png and the SoC CPU of Amazon kindle may be hiding somewhere in the form of "Test Points".

Please someone help to find it out
[Hardware Hacking General] boonkeat8:
If can I will Like too
[Hardware Hacking General] Stranyer:
Just upgrade your phone :P
[Hardware Hacking General] Naghmah:
why to do that ! replace it completely.
[Hardware Hacking General] Tekkaro:
nope, the RAM is not included in the SoC
[Hardware Hacking General] JeffKit0616:
use swap on your phone internal memory can get the similar effect of upgrade ram

but the most efficient way is buy a new phone absolutely:p
[Hardware Hacking General] gleft:
the soldering is one problem, but i think the most difficult is to find the right chip.
[Hardware Hacking General] dexter93:
LOL... You fail to recognise irony...
[Hardware Hacking General] dgenx210:
So what else isn't on the SoC?
[Hardware Hacking General] gundamboy:
Wishlist for 2014: Swappable Ram and GFX Chips in our smartphones, so we can play TESVI xD
[Hardware Hacking General] rezesius:
no it is not possible as everthing in the mobile comes as a single unit.
[Hardware Hacking General] epro2k7:
maybe but hard

Hi guys.

I read through this thread. and on my experiences and opinion that you can split the upgrading Mobile device into 2 parts

1. Logical

-That mean you can increase the usable RAM on your device, but total ram not change. Do this by hack ram (Use the manufacturer not allow to use - spare RAM - cause of some reason like future upgrade) or use trade-off by decrease the GPU share....

2. Physical.

Someone said that RAM in o Soc (System on Chip) , so i think that is not true for all devices.

For example the New IPad (you can see the same one some teardown videos, pics from ifixit....)

Two 4Gb RAM (yellow square) (8Gb RAM = 1GB RAM) i think that can replaceable cause i known the Type of RAM is mass manufacture so you can find some similar RAM on the same vendor.

And the last and difficult thing as some guys stated, You must have good skill and tools to work with soldering work (include split chip on board and re-assembled with new one ) without affection to other parts.

If some pin loose or short circuit , whole system will failed and unrecoverable

BRs
[Hardware Hacking General] devulaxe:
thats cool dude !
[Hardware Hacking General] h.motawee:
Changing ur phone will be easier xD
[Hardware Hacking General] youlingyo:
mostly , RAM and CPU are made in one IC package , hard to chang Phone's ram.
[Hardware Hacking General] ricky1001:
The answer is plainly and simply ‘NO‘
[Hardware Hacking General] ciolansteen:
To all those "NOPE, CAN'T DO!!!" / "Better buy a new more performant one" kinnda guys - stop wasting time on learning forums and use it better on ebay... in the end that's what you guys are ment to be - buyers.

For the rest including this thread starter - YES IT CAN BE DONE! Replacing bga is not such a big deal once you have the chips matrixes, a good heatgun and some dozens of hours of solder / desolder IC's on old boards to practice until you mess with your toy. The main problem in my opinion is the lack of harware specs / documentation. Anyway... with a good match of components (voltage / pin layout / chipset compatibility) i'm pretty sure it can be done. The chinese market is full of tools for this kind of work. I remember back in 2001 when I was working for a GSM repair workshop that we used to replace bga ic's using this kind of hot air gun. As a conclusion - Yes! It can be done if you have the right set of documentation / tools.

Happy Modding! :)
[Hardware Hacking General] jim2san:
NO, you can't :) Buy phone with more ram :)
[Hardware Hacking General] Benzonat0r:
It's possible but I wouldn't do that if I were you.
[Hardware Hacking General] crascer:
I think it is not possible
[Hardware Hacking General] header2k:
i think that the ram is in the SoC of many modern phone, but i know that there is an onlineshop offering ram upgrades for _ really_ old Windows Mobile Phones which have seperate RAM blocks (Ball-Grid Array). And i know that there was a chinese tutorial on how to change the ram byself, altough i can't find it anymore.

As ciolansteen mentioned before, you'll need either an expensive device or try your luck with a heatgun in order to upgrade those.
[Hardware Hacking General] CyanoFan:
That would be a dream ;)

I think it is possible but not for "private modding"
[Hardware Hacking General] Entropy512:
It really depends on the device.

If it's a device that uses PoP RAM (such as nearly all OMAP devices) - I don't think even AdamOutler could pull off the soldering job required for this. It goes way beyond the normal difficulties of BGA reflowing/soldering.

If it's a device with a separate RAM chip - maybe, but the amount of equipment required will come close to the price of buying a new device.
[Hardware Hacking General] amiaaka:
you can easily do soo
[Hardware Hacking General] jeffreya93:
possible

you can do it
[Hardware Hacking General] AndroidGadgetCyprus:
Only a full upgrade will do the job(like CPU,GPU etc...)
[Hardware Hacking General] TheWeirdOne:
You've all heard of Swap Partitions, haven't you? Technically, you aren't *replacing* The RAM on your phone, but you could always create a swap on an external sd, probably one with a higher class, so read/write speeds, and storing/recovering information would be much faster.

Just create one, via CWM, or your pc, and boot into the terminal emulator, and type "swap 0". Or, you could just get an app from the market, if you're too lazy to do all that.

Trust me, your phone does seem a tad faster after doing that.

If you've heard of all this, well, Pardonez-moi.
[Hardware Hacking General] wipeout_uk:
Heh, same here - worked for NEC back in the 90s. So much easier to get the BGAs off then back on again...

I don't know if modern phones ever reuse the same boards for diff. models (eg high end with more RAM chips, low end with empty spaces on the board for them), but if they did, upgrading a board to same spec as higher end would stand more chance of success IMO. :)
[Hardware Hacking General] Undead Maleficar:
So many people saying it's impossible. It's not; nothing is impossible except dividing by zero, and falling in to a black hole and living to tell about it, and... well okay, I guess a lot of things are impossible, but this isn't.

It would however take much more skill and prior knowledge than you probably possess. After all, if you have the resources and knowledge, even if the RAM doesn't exist... you can make it.
[Hardware Hacking General] wpra3:
Its been done, at least on xda exec

http://www.ppctechs.com/O2-XDA-Exec_500/upgrades/RAM.htm

Its really depend on the type of RAM imo, and the availability of the higher density RAM wih same configuration
[Hardware Hacking General] CallMeVentus:
Not all phones are good with swap (some ROMs in the Galaxy Ace cause bootloops after making a swap).....and especially if your sdcard sucks (like a Class 2 or something)
[Hardware Hacking General] Dong12:
Answer

In fact,it is impossible..after phone made,it's RAM can't change..
[Hardware Hacking General] hongromeo:
I think, can't upgrade RAm on any model mobile. because can effect to any device different inside mobile.

PS:Sorry for bad English :)
[Hardware Hacking General] hairplayer:
If it is possible, share how..
[Hardware Hacking General] acoy:
Hairplayer: it's not commonly done but certainly 'possible'. Speaking with friends who've done that sort of thing (on embedded devices, not phones), the hardest thing is getting it all to fit together again, as well as being careful to not short circuit stuff as you solder the new module back in.

Best option: check out the manufacturer of the RAM component (either through the phone's spec sheets or the writing on the component itself) and select the most similar module (same model/line) with more space. Then, desolder, solder in the new chip and cross your fingers. I'm not 100% sure with Android but you may need to slightly modify the ROM as well (less of a problem if you chose a similar chip). It's a bit hit and miss and by no means an exact science, and generally turns out ugly.

If you're interested, check out the dd-wrt forums, these kinds of operations are relatively common on routers (similarly embedded devices). The big difference there is that there's a lot more space to work with there and the components are a little easier to access and more spaced out.
[Hardware Hacking General] mahan21:
it would be nice if it is possible :p
[Hardware Hacking General] mmkaplan:
has anyone been successful at this?
[Hardware Hacking General] IAmAN00bie:
Here you go!

http://www.downloadmoreram.com/
[Hardware Hacking General] SPBoss:
Yep you can also upgrade CPU and GPU.. nuclear powered batteries are also available. My battery is at 91% after 6 months heavy usage.
[Hardware Hacking General] bruara:
I think this is impossible, at least without damage your phone :)
[Hardware Hacking General] fame220:
impossible, u can crash ur phone....
[Hardware Hacking General] setoz:
If you can upgrade RAM, what about the CPU? the GPU? or the system memory?

lol

I doubt that you'll be able to do any of those properly on a phone, when its hard to do that in even some computers, like the macbook air.
[Hardware Hacking General] .:ICEMAN:.:
Unfortunately mobile phones don't give chance to upgrade system RAM or CPU as they are integrated into the motherboard. You may able to create extra free ram from an external storage but it will slow your system down as internal storage always faster than external (SD) storage. It is also cheaper and better business possibility for factories to just integrate everything on the board so if yomething goes wrong you have to change the motherboard in the phone. Hopefully in the near future we will see some improvements about upgrades but i don't think it will happens for a longwhile as the business reqirements are different then our expectations
[Hardware Hacking General] guitarplayerone:
they are just not yet released for the consumer market because of some stupid 'sterility' thing.... but there are hacks to get it to work;)
[Hardware Hacking General] Renate:
I don't see a lot of successful reports of user RAM upgrades.

I would think for this to work, it would have to be a service shop with tools and experience.

Also, specifying and buying one chip is a hassle; a shop could buy a handful.

I don't think that there is enough demand for RAM upgrades to make anyone bother with this.

A slightly less improbable scenario would be upgrading the WG7310-2A to -0A on the Nook Touch.

This is a 96 pin LGA and would add Bluetooth capability to the current WiFi.

I'd be willing to pay $25 to have this $1 chip substituted.
[Hardware Hacking General] hongromeo:
There's no chance of upgrading a mobile phone RAM .
[Hardware Hacking General] card10:
There's no chance of upgrading a mobile phone RAM .
[Hardware Hacking General] Yisheng:
Impossible

You CAN buy a better phone with more than 512mb of RAM, i bought a optimus black with 199€
[Hardware Hacking General] andyshim89:
Impossible thing ... Smartphone ram is different with computer's ram
[Hardware Hacking General] E:V:A:
Nothing is impossible! But what people here tend to forget to mention, is that most high-end mobile phones feature PoP technology with the RAM attached on top of the CPU, which makes de-soldering and replacing almost impossible, unless you have your own lab of course! (Entropy512 already mentioned this in post#68!)
[Hardware Hacking General] alveena6:
How we upgrade our RAM pleas tell me if anyone knows that?
[Hardware Hacking General] msn.debord:
You could reflow to desolder it ;) Though it would be a pain and might not work too well
[Hardware Hacking General] paarthdesai:
u shldnt risk though :p the risk is mre heart beating thn paying fr a phone with mre ram :D hhehe:p
[Hardware Hacking General] d0ct0ru:
@E:V:A

Hello

If everything goes well and I can manage to solder a new chip with the same characteristic (for example I replace the 512Mb with 1Gb) do I need to perform also an SW modification??

Or the sistem will automaticly detect the new amount of ram (like on the PC)???