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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zipstor:
Hi there,

I have been battling (and learning) for now over 4 days with a mate that has succeeded installing Android 4.0 on his HD. We are having difficulties on a few points. I have some part of answers I found here and there, however there are still a few dark areas in my research at this stage. I have looked up the sticky one and have not found any answer that suits my issues.

I am at the point where I'm trying to S-OFF the phone, I wish to make a system recovery first. I have tried to reboot to recovery with the help 4ext and Rom Manager and getting a red triangle everytime.

My set is an Autralian HTC Desire from Telstra.

Thanks in advance if you wish to help us.

z:/
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madkai:
You can´t install 4Ext recovery if you aren´t s-off...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Geegeeoh:
Go to revolutionary.io

This will S-OFF and if I recall right also install a recovery.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zipstor:
Okay I've used the revolutionary tool, I am s-offed, thanks for that, now how can I make sure recovery went okay
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Geegeeoh:
Well... try it?

Press volume down + power to get into bootloader, then launch recovery.

You navigate the menu with volume up and down.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
FYI this is the desire not desire HD forum.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zipstor:
Thanks to the s-off I was able to install original HTC rom of froyo, this way I got rid of this evil Tesltra rom thing, that was possibly being the spanner in the works.

Thing is, revolutionnary was supposed to create a recovery file, and I'm still getting red triangle when launching recovery from bootloader.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ascot17:
If you can now boot into android I would recommend the 4ext recovery (see my sig). Download the app from the market and use this to install the latest Touch recovery.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanpr92:
yep 4ext is good can also solve usb bricks although i solved mine with a simple adb command
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zipstor:
sure... but why sould I use 4ext since revolutionary was doing the job in the first place?

anyway I ordered 4ext 4hrs ago and i'm still w8ting for notification and still got nothing

Message from Maximilian Riedel:

The application will be automatically downloaded to your device.

Your order has been sent to Maximilian Riedel.

Maximilian Riedel is responsible for charging and shipping your order. Have questions? Contact Maximilian Riedel.

Feb 6

Maximilian Riedel received your order.

Feb 6

You placed an order with Maximilian Riedel on Feb 6. Google Checkout sent a copy of this receipt to xxxxx@gmail.com

Order Date: February 6, 2012 12:39:42 AM UTC+11

Order Number: 1299xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx130.1

Item

Price

4EXT Recovery Control

€1.98

Tax:

€0.00

Total:

€1.98

Even if I try to get the free version it says that the content is not supported on the phone...and its a .apk..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanpr92:
why not just flash clock work mod touch recovery esentially the same thing all your paying for really is the touch recovery and a few extras

http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.0.2-bravo.img
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zipstor:
I can give it a go... sure..

Any instruction sheet anywhere?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanpr92:
first of all download fastboot commander and the img file i linked boot into bootloader by hold power +vol down for 5 second once in boot loader choose fastboot by using volume to scroll and power to select then your in fastboot conect usb run fastboot commander choose recovery image and press flash on pc you can also flash hboot radio and other stuff but a failed radio can lead to perm brick
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
WAIT!

You mention Desire HD in first post. Please confirm yours is NOT HD.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zipstor:
not hd dude
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zipstor:
Your syntax makes it difficult to understand. I will try this but in the future it would be good if you could improve it.

Shall I extract the img files with an ISO reader or shall I open them with my phone system?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fragargon:
hi,

use 7zip to extract the img file but don t touch the file img... this is the one to flash into your device by the command

fastboot flash recovery c:\wherethe.imgfile.isonyourcomp

i would advice to do first a

fastboot erase recovery

in a cleaner way but not mandatory.

have a look in this following link everything to know to install and use adb/fastboot

look to my signature there is a link to the 4ext dev's thread. he s really aware and give a best support for his work. what i ve seen, i advice to have a look and post your experience. once u got the app 4ext running on your device it becomes really easy to flash recovery (and his is really rockin')

hope this help
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ascot17:
Hi,

My understanding was that you could not get into recovery.

My suggestion of 4ext was due to the fact that is is (IMHO):

- the easiest to install as it can be done directly from within an app

- the best currently available

I was not suggesting that you needed the paid version (which has more bells and whistles). The free version should so the job just as well.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zipstor:
Okay so thats an attempt to use your tips, the phone is connected via usb in charge only mode and here is what I get on CMD

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot erase recovery

< waiting for device >

Are you suggesting me to post on the EXT4 post as well?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zipstor:
That's okay mate, thanks for your concern.

What do you suggest if 4EXT is not getting me anywhere and I get the red triangle no matter what..?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hi guys, i confirm my friend is on Desire, not HD, i'm on HD and have rooted and s-off for too long to remember every step. plus i used visonary which is totally outdated.

What is sure is i didn't run into as much trouble as he did right now when doing my HD.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanpr92:
noob free way install rom manager from app market load it up select flash clockwork mod all automated
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zipstor:
I finally got to reboot on recovery thanks to Rom Manager... go find out what happened before with other methods... anyway...

So now I got this ANdroid 4.0 running finally, thanks everyone for trying to help I really appreciate.

@ seanpr92: I gave you 3 thanks, be greatfull for that, cuz of what I've seen you have not made any effort to emprove your syntax
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Visual360:
Can anyone point me where to put the font file, so it will be available under the:

>Setting>Display>Screen Display>Font style

I can actually go ahead and install font from the market, and it shows in there, but now I just want to transfer some font I have to the GNote.

I was able to go to: /system/Fonts

But, I don't think those are different fonts for the system. Because I don't see any of the fonts that I've installed in there.

Anyway, I want to manually put in some fonts in there (Wherever that folder is located), and make it show on the settings.

I also tried using the Font Installer app, but that doesn't seem to work.

I'm rooted by the way.

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zamboney:
You need a flip font for that. There's a thread with hundreds in the gs2 forum.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordManhattan:
Here's a thread, and here's how to do it: Clicky
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Visual360:
Awesome! Thanks both!!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Keion:
http://img861.imageshack.us/img861/121/imag0221.jpg

So, your thoughts on this?

Taken by my Evo 3d.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] droidx2.3.3:
So I can't tell if this is a joke or not. But if your serious... why?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Pizza4Breakfast:
SMH...........
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Keion:
Why? Why not? If I had some android stickers I'd put them on my ipad. :D

Was expecting a lot more rage though.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] carhauler1969:
It must be a joke cuz no self respecting Android enthusiast would put a crApple iClone badge on one of the best Android tablets currently on the market :eek::o:(:mad::banghead:

Of course if you are going to commit such blasphemy at least you picked the right color, *almost* anything is cool in chrome... :rolleyes:

Sent from one of my rooted devices on Tapatalk Pro
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] carhauler1969:
^^ look up^^ :p

Sent from one of my rooted devices on Tapatalk Pro
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] e.mote:
I can see the rationale. You'd have the only iPad in the world with a built-in keyboard dock. It'd be good conversion starter.

But if you're going to do it, do it right. Get a bigger sticker, and not a translucent one. As it is, it just looks embarassing, like you're ashamed of your tablet or something. Wouldn't wanna be a wannabe.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Kailkti:
Sure man, it's good for trolling ipad people. Especially when they ask if that's the ipad 3.

$1 gets you a reply
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Keion:
The sticker came with my old ipad. I don't wanna spend money on other stickers. :) more for trolling tho

Sent from mah TRANSFORMA PRIME
[Nook Touch General] fifounet75:
Hi,

I made a really big mistake !!!

I didn't know that cloning a nook will clone also the serial number and the mac address... I bough 2 nook touch (n2e) and I rooted my wife one... after that I look for backing up all my work and dump it into mine...

First all worked fine... but after a time I noticed that my nook was disconnected when my wife switch hers on... I made some research to find out why... and I saw the same mac address and the same serial number....

I didn't made a backup when my nook was clean :(

Can someone help me ?

Where can I find the factory rom ? to clean my mac address and my serial number...

Thank in advance..
[Nook Touch General] ApokrifX:
1. I’m not an expert.

2. IMO, factory rom doesn’t have unique info – it’s same for every nook.

3. Since you nook is rooted already, try changing MACAddress in /rom/devconf/MACAddress, then reboot.

If it won’t help, check this forum, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1475613

Try to reach eded333, he might be able to help.
[Nook Touch General] GabrialDestruir:
You're basically SoL. If you still have the box you can grab the serial number from that and you might be able to spoof some sort of separate mac address, but without an original backup of the ruined one there's no way you can retrieve that information, perhaps if you're lucky your router may still have the mac address stored under lease or something, but without the box there's no way to retrieve the original serial number.
[Nook Touch General] ApokrifX:
Serial number is printed on the NST next to SD card slot.

DeviceID = SerialNumber

There are MACAddress, ean, HashOfPrivateKey, PublicKey, MainBoardSN and might be some other stuff.

Might be it’s not that bad to have cloned device – you'll need to buy every book once only ;)

If you reading same book it’ll try to sync the last page you are on.

I guess, that’s about it?
[Nook Touch General] fifounet75:
thanks for your answer...

I tried to modify the serial number (which is in the SDCard place) and also I put a random MACAddress base on the macaddress of my wife's nook... but when I register my nook it check online the information I see my serial number and the macaddress I put but I get an error....

so I will read the thread you gave me...

try to find informations

thanks..
[Nook Touch General] fifounet75:
also the bigger problems is not that I use the same book but my router cannot distinguish the 2 nook with the same macaddress so I lost the connection every now and then...
[Nook Touch General] fifounet75:
Hi,

I was able to get back my MACAddress and my mainboard p/n

but when I put it in devconf, it doesn't change the macaddress...

It still use my wife one...
[Nook Touch General] ApokrifX:
Did you do full reboot?

If it didn't help, I guess, it reads MAC from somewhere else...
[Nook Touch General] GabrialDestruir:
I forgot it's there since mine is rubbed away from constant use of the sdcard removal and insertion.
[Nook Touch General] fifounet75:
Yep, I full reboot...

When I tried to use my serial number and my MACAddress, when I tried to activate the nook (with a restore factory), you can see that is connecting with the macadress of my wife's nook but when you get the device info to send to nook, it's my macaddress...

It's really bizarre....

So in fact to be able to use it, I create another wifi network... with another DHCP server on the same local network... when my wife connect to the first SSID she get her IP, and when I'm connecting to my second SSID I get another one... it's a way to override the problem... :(

Thanks again
[Nook Touch General] ApokrifX:
It means, during NST registration, /rom/devconf/MACAddress is used.

And wireless adapter uses MAC stored somewhere else…

Did you read this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=892426
[Nook Touch General] fifounet75:
I didn't try !

Thanks I will make a backup I try tonight !!

Thanks again
[Nook Touch General] ros87:
I'm sorry to say this but I doubt you will ever be able to register your NST with B&N.

Restoring the serial number and creating a new MAC address will not work.

Also make sure you don't specify a multicast MAC address :)

I've had several cases where the only option was to "fake" the rom data, and none of them were able to re-register with B&N.

We got serial, EAN, mainboard serial correct and also generated a new key pair and the hash for the private key, but still no luck.

In the end all of them have had to skip B&N registraton.

There were also other issues like increased battery drain, wrong charge indication and wifi troubles.

Good luck

---------- Post added at 01:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:33 PM ----------

Btw, I forgot to mention that if you're trying to change the MAC address simply by editing the file "MACAddress" this won't work, it's a lot more complicated than that.
[Nook Touch General] GabrialDestruir:
I think this is a point where we must admit that an alternative rom option may be beneficial to users like this who trash their rom info.

That or perhaps after they get it looking decent... perhaps having them take it into the store (if there's no obvious "HEY that serial doesn't match your MAC address" errors and just playing ignorant to get one that isn't SoL.
[Nook Touch General] ros87:
Yes, absolutely, but it's not that simple due to stuff like different battery types, wifi calibration data and more..

But yeah, a modified stock rom where all the B&N specifics are removed would be something that a lot of users could benefit from.

If only I had more spare time ;)

I have a couple of users ended up doing just that :), still waiting for feedback on those cases.
[Nook Touch General] ApokrifX:
Ros,

There is HashOfPrivateKey only – where is the PrivateKey itself?

And what is PublicKey exactly?

I would imagine, it should be signed PublicKey - i.e. certificate. (B&N private key is needed to sign it.)

And from B&N perspective, (if I were them :)) they shouldn’t allow registering a device without valid PublicKey.

But from another hand, as fifounet75 found out, MAC sent to B&N and actual MAC are not the same.

Changing MAC in /rom/devconf/WiFiBackupCalibration might create clone, at least from B&N perspective.

No idea about implications like “WiFi Calibration”, different batteries issues, etc...
[Nook Touch General] ros87:
It's exactly what its name implies, a public key to encrypt data.

The private key is required to open what was encrypted.

Where is the Private Key the hash was made from? Well, I haven't figured out this part yet and it's role in the B&N registration process but one guess would be that it's stored in the B&N end, linked to the device Serial, and this is why it's impossible to re-register a NST when you loose your original keys.

Now where does he say that?

The way I'm reading it is that his NST connects to WiFi with his wife's MAC address, but the MAC address shown under "Device Info" is the one he faked.

This is exactly as expected :)

Besides, the MAC Address is not part of the registration process at all.

How do I know this? Because I've spent my time studying it..

B&N doesn't give a rats ass about what's in the WiFiBackupCalibration file as far as device registration and usage goes.

But using that file from his wifes NST can be problematic for more reasons than just duplicating her MAC address.
[Nook Touch General] fifounet75:
Hi,

Thanks it works I have my own mac address :)

So now I can use the same Wifi as my wife. I only need that :) so that's great !!!!
[Nook Touch General] ApokrifX:
Ouch… I do realize, it’s much easier to read text file instead detecting assigned MAC ;)

May I suggest we open new thread: “NST - how to backup unique data… and how to create perfect clone” in dev forums?
[Nook Touch General] ros87:
What people need to do is make full backups, using the guide that is advertised all over this forum.

And people need to start looking at their backup images!!

If you back up something that is 1.82GB in size, and you backup file is 250MB, well, then you did something wrong!

Having a backup of your rom data is good, but using it to create a restore image requires:

1: A full NST backup image (which the user wont have if he only backed up his rom data)

2: Access to Linux

3: Knowledge in mounting image files in Linux

4: Knowledge about putting it all back toghether into one image file ->OR

4:1 Someone like us, who can do it for him..

So, whats best? Full backup or just the rom data?
[Nook Touch General] ApokrifX:
For an average user full 1.82GB backup is no-brainer option.

For me, easier to have backup on unique data (/rom + /factory ~32-64KB) and email it to myself to have it available always. Then use edd333 [NST]Touch-Formatter to put it all back together.

As of now there is neither automated tool to create backup of NST unique data nor a way to feed the unique data to Touch-Formatter... yet.
[Nook Touch General] GabrialDestruir:
That seems to be an issue with a lot of us devs not enough spare time, and the people with the spare time have no knowledge. The devs outside the Touch devving arena all see something like CM a waste because the Touch isn't a real tablet. So it's just hard to find people to port CM or even AOSP over.
[Nook Touch General] ryanpl:
Gabrial and other NST devs, While I have neither any dev experience or a great deal of free time, at the moment, if there is anything I can do to help with developing a system for our NST please let me know.
[Nook Touch General] radlo87:
well long time ago, when tablets were just starting out i thought that someone should make e-ink tablet. for now nook touch seems to be the closest that we can get. thare is one company that is working on e-ink smartphone so i guess there are some people that understand that some of us aren't looking for portable media player but a solid piece of a device for work. already with the tweeks made by forum members nook touch shows some jaw dropping cappabilities. i saw on youtube nook touch with no refresh mod running sonic on sega emulator and i was like wtf e-ink can do that? with a custom rom and kernel supporting tweeks for e-ink this little beast would be the besttablet ever in my book. maybe we could gather up some info, vids and make a post either on xda or cm forums to interest one of the experienced devs to look more into nook touch.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Disputed:
Hi,

anyone has any idea why the face effects "smile" function on the video calling or any camera use doesnt work on Nexus S?

i've been using Talk, Google+ hangout.. and who has Galaxy Nexus or SGS2 can use it.

Thanks :-)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Disputed:
^

any one has the same issue?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Disputed:
nobody?
[Milestone XT720 General] mrmako777:
some of you may remember this thread i posted last year (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1155478) asking about a sim unlock code from cincinnati bell. better late than never, jboxer posted up saying he could get an unlock code for this phone. while i was quite skeptical, i decided (today) to give jboxer a shot to unlock my phone since im now with tmobile...

sent jboxer my imei number and $17.95 via paypal...about 20 minutes later, i received a pm from jboxer with my unlock code. did it work? yup, sure did, and to top it off, i even reflashed the cbw sbf (giving the phone to my wife) to make sure this was a permanent thing. put my tmo sim back in after reflash, and BOOM!, still unlocked. screw you cincinnati bell!!! LOL :D

so...i decided to make this thread because i know a few of you were interested in getting your phone sim unlocked. hit up jboxer for yours!
[Milestone XT720 General] tharan.a:
$11.95, I've used these guys before and had no problems whatsoever either.
[Milestone XT720 General] mrmako777:
Nice! Lets give people options!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lenik:
1. don't use kitchen, there are just a few changes, very easy to make manually

2. wifi is broken because of CWM, you have to reflash another properly made and signed update _twice_ to make it work.

here's my repack of latest firmware from 2012.02.28:

NOVO7B_update_4.0.3_20120228_repack-signed.zip (191159519 bytes) or RapidShare mirror

MD5: 45e2322563032869e040bd67f463159f

1. added Superuser v3.0.7 -- root access should be available right after update.

2. default language -- english.

3. deleted chinese IME and software.

4. no CWM required for update, should reflash well with original recovery.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpawN-:
Hi there,

So I just flashed this ROM : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1474878

It was last night, I hopped that battery issue drain by Cell stanby~Android System would be fix, but it didn't worked for me..

I flashed the ROM correctly, everything was OK. Wiped data/cache/dalvik and even formatted /system.

I don't understand why, my battery is really strange, sometimes I lose only 2 or 3% during many hours, other times I lose 20% per hour (with inactiv use).

I never had battery issue before ICS.

I got a Nexus S i9023, I hope some of you gonna be able to help me, I really want to fix that battery !

Best regards,

SpawN-
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Disputed:
flash a rom that doesn't suck your battery! Or try some kernels that helps you to save battery :)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpawN-:
Yea sure, but this ROM was just here for the problem with battery, so it had to fix the problem, but didn't work for me, that's why I don't understand =/
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
sounds like it could be gremlins, or an app app wreaking havoc. also, apps that need to check for notifications drain battery quickly. i usually turn off all notifications(except gtalk/gmail).
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpawN-:
I don't have any apps making annoying notifications, my Wifi and 3G are OFF and I often use Task Killer to kill useless processus.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] margag:
I read that the porting of 4.0.4 for ns gsm was really smooth and battery save
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cttttt:
This ROM wasn't even intended for your phone. All bets are off for stability...forget about battery life.

Seriously, though the behaviour you're seeing may not be the ROM. It could be programs keeping the phone awake during standby. To confirm, there's an app called Better Battery Stats on market (and in the Android Development and Hacking section on these forums) that may be able to help you figure things out.

- chris
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thiib:
Hello,

Have you tried to change your RADIO ?