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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bobby3306:
Or a mandatory tutorial one must watch upon signing up for forums explaining what a search bar is used for.....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] nebusoku.tweak:
FYI

if you see my notes I did a search and which tutorial I was using but, I agree it would be helpful if the tutorial was updated.

BTW I had to create a new user name since i cannot login to my old profile that I had on here since I was hacking and sporting an t-mo MDA.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Richie1409:
This May be a noob question but I'm a little afraid of rooting my amaze and hard brickin it, just happened to my old atrix, so my question is...have u know about any hard brick amaze?

Thx.
[HTC Amaze 4G] hiz99:
Yes its possible to hard brick it. Every android can be hard bricked
[HTC Amaze 4G] squish099:
But since we don't have s-off you can't flash the hboot. Haven't seen a single claim to a hard brick on the amaze forums yet..
[HTC Amaze 4G] jfsat:
So let me get this straight, if we never get s-off there's not much chance that we'll be able to brick? This is my first phone running Android, and I've tried out four ROMs and I'm loving it. Now, if I can't really brick my phone without S-off, I feel a lot more comfortable.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Preaak:
Yeah just have fun...

Hey... what roms do you like... I just flashed my first one... 4th sesnse or something.. seems ok..
[HTC Amaze 4G] ickedmel:
Energy is my favorite and best on battery for me.
[HTC Amaze 4G] seansk:
right now it's 99.999 percent impossible, but if s-off is achieved there's the possibility...I've been on this forum since this phone came out, and have not heard of a single hardbrick...
[HTC Amaze 4G] smatthew45:
you sir, are wrong... since we don't have s-off, we can't hard brick, it's that simple...

also, that's why htc said they are willing to help us unlock our phones, but not achieve s-off, cuz then people who don't know what they are doing might brick their phones and then try to claim a warranty exchange cuz it "broke"

and yet so many people still can't understand why htc won't help us with s-off :confused:
[HTC Amaze 4G] squish099:
It's still a possibility to hardbrick its just alot harder. Flashing any nand chip causes wear. Chip goes bad or gets a bad sector you have a brick. Nothing is impossible anytime you flash non official firmware, including kernels, you run a risk.
[HTC Amaze 4G] glacierguy:
Maybe if you completely rewrite the build.prop, you may be able to brick it. I got a warning while editing my build.prop basically saying be careful and I could brick the phone.
[HTC Amaze 4G] hamza arbeed:
You might brick it. But if you hit in the wall, You will based on my experience. I hit Motorola Atrix when I was angry, and here I go I bought the amaze.
[HTC Amaze 4G] jmhalder:
No, because build.prop is in /system, which can be rewritten if corrupted using fastboot/hboot or recovery. As long as the hboot works, you really can't brick. Also, bringing would be unintentionally making the phone useless, which is different from NAND failure.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lictenau:
Don't try anything till someone comes up with a good root. tried to flash to 1.40 and bricked it. will see if the staff at B&N can help tomorrow.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Indirect:
Ofcourse it bricked, it's a different device. Don't go around tinkering even after I said don't do anything and you won't have a brick. :|
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] GabrialDestruir:
How exactly did you "flash to 1.4.0"?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lictenau:
Just trying to warn others in case they missed your post so they won't end up in the same **** as me.:confused:
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] AdamOutler:
Probly acclaim update... the bootloaders are different, but carry the same signature. Blame Barnes and noble for this.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] GabrialDestruir:
Possibly yes, but we should rule out exactly what the issue is before he goes running into B&N.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] AdamOutler:
I'd say return them without question. This is the price b&n pays for locking bootloaders... lol. I'm serious. They could have chose so many ways to prevent this problem but they didn't. They locked out users and developers in favor of profits. For this reason, I say **** em.

They had the chance to work with us and chose not to. They think they know best...

Take your unit to the store and get a new one. that's their provided solution for improper binary signatures and non-renaming of incompatible acclaim updates.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] DeanGibson:
v1.4.0 & v1.4.1 probably assume 1GB of RAM !!!

No doubt it's the fault of the bootloader, but if the bootloader assumes 1GB of RAM on a 512MB device, well ...

I note that MLO did not change between v1.4.0 and v1.4.1, but did for v1.4.2. I'm guessing that the v1.4.2 update will work on both NT versions, and so the MLO (& uboot.bin, etc) were changed slightly to run on 512MB of RAM.

This might have happened even on a unsigned bootloader that assumed 1GB of RAM. However, recovery would be easier in that case ...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] littleemp:
In the spirit of fairness (and playing a little the devil's advocate), this actually just proves to them the reason for the existence of locked bootloaders and its use. Someone who didn't know what he was doing flashed something he shouldn't have and bricked his device. The real issue at hand is that people who have these new devices need to get it through their thick skulls that things take time.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] AdamOutler:
No. This was an official acclaim update.zip. if the bootloaders were unlocked, we would already have a solution for this problem. This is a problem caused by totally following the manual update procedures provided by Barnes and Noble with incompatible firmware. So **** em... they want to lock the device, this is their punishment. Barnes and Noble obviously isn't qualified to do the job of releasing a device properly. This is totally their own fault.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] littleemp:
Oh nvm me... yes they can go screw themselves.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] GabrialDestruir:
Agreed, if they couldn't take the time to somehow put in a check so previous acclaim updates couldn't be flashed to the device they deserve to have to deal with the backlash of people trying anyways. This isn't the first time and you'd honestly think they'd learn from their mistakes, but obviously they don't.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lictenau:
yes it was the sd card acclaim thingy and when I sent it to b&n they gave me a new one said battery faulty. confused now.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Gwindli:
Sounds to me like either the "I don't know what's wrong but it's definitely broken" response, or the "let's tell them it's the battery to cover up our incompetence" response.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] selfinfliction:
looking to switch from an epic 4g to either a nexus or droid 4 (both are only $99). Can anyone give input on which you think would be the better of the two and why? The phone is used for calls, a few apps here and there but mainly for email and internet surfing (and tethering from time to time).

I do like having the full slide out keyboard, but it's not something that would kill me if it was missing as I have to use the on screen keyboards for my work iphone... It is handy but not a deciding factor - any info is appreciated!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wendellc:
Nexus all the way! Bad ass screen and ICS!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
If you don't need the hardware keyboard, I don't see how you ever consider the Droid 4 over the Galaxy Nexus. The Nexus absolutely crushes it.

Honestly if you're gonna compare a Moto device to the GN you should be comparing the RAZR MAXX to the Galaxy Nexus.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] selfinfliction:
i don't think there are any other phones with slide out keyboards worth a crap on verizon other than the droid, is there? The samsung stratosphere, but it looked to be old technology.

if anyone can, could you check out the phones listed for verizon on wirefly.com and tell me which one is the best model? i work in the IT field with double bachelor's degrees, but couldn't tell you the first thing about these damn phones other than elementary specs because every time i turn the computer on there are new ones coming out.

The sprint lady said we had until March 13th or 14th iirc to get out of the contract with no termination fee so whatever we decide on, it has to be done before then
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
As I said above, if you don't need the keyboard, the Nexus is the winner all the way. The only reason to get the Droid 4 is the keyboard honestly. Because if you didn't need the keyboard it'd be between the RAZR MAXX and the GN, and even then unless you need the battery, the GN wins again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zephiK:
Droid 4 has terrible ghosting when it comes to their screen. Check the Androidpolice review of the D4. It has a video demonstrating it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eman3316@optonline.net:
Galaxy Nexus is a pretty bad ass device. I was coming from an Epic 4G Touch on Sprint and while that phone spec wise is better then the GN, there is just something about this phone that just makes it a winner.

The GN was was to big of a device for my wife so I got her an HTC Rezound. Still a little big for her but definitely better then the GN. The Rezound has a dual core 1.5ghz processor and a 720p screen resolution. Camera is also pretty good on that phone.

This is my first Nexus device and I must say I am liking the pure Android experience.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] selfinfliction:
after some more research, i think we're going to hold off. we were looking at the specs of current phones compared to our epic's from 2010 and there isn't much that has changed other than the addition of dual core cpu's. it would really be a waste for us to get new phones now and be stuck with them for two years when the galaxy s3 and a few other quad core phones with possibly 16mp cameras will be coming out this summer.

having an original ICS phone would be good, but not enough to make us sacrifice getting outdated hardware for it. I was actually really surprised to see the nexus to have such low specs with all of the anxiety they produced in december.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Icey34:
Well said.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] axion68:
While the genex doesn't have the greatest hardware specs, it will have the longest support life. Most phones are lucky to get one software update, the nexus line will have software updates to the latest version of android for quite some time. Plus ICS is optimized for the genex hardware.

By far the best phone I have had, even with the stock rom.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] StonedImmaculate:
As someone who's used both, the ONLY thing the D4 has is it's physical keyboard. The functionality of the Nexus versus the D4 isn't even in the same league! I switched over from the DROID series to the Nexus just recently and couldn't be any more satisfied.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eman3316@optonline.net:
Would love to know what you will be able to due with a quad core phone that you cannot do with a dual core phone. How much faster do we really need these processors? These are mobile operating systems that don't even take advantage of dual cores none the less quad cores.

My wife has a Rezound, dual core 1.5ghz processor and an EVO View Tab single core 1.5ghz processor. Do you think her Rezound does anything her tab can't? Do you think one feels faster then the other? I am not even sure they benchmark any differently although I haven't tested them up to each other.

Bottom line, single cores can get the job done plus when quad core phones get released you will start hearing about octo cores or something.

Do you think a webpage will open up quicker with a quad core device? Nope...The only thing it might help with is 3D gaming but no developer is going to limit their games to only quad cores anyway because that would take away from there profits of everyone else who does not own a quad core phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] selfinfliction:
i'm sure it is a great phone, but these are some of the same camera specs that were on phones literally from 2010 and if i buy something that already has antiquated hardware this year, then i'll be stuck with it until 2014 and that's just not a good decision on my part.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Konceptz804:
Coming from a Droid X that has ran everything from Apex to Tranquility. Simply put, the Galaxy Nexus is the best phone on the market because of Ice Cream Sandwich. It is everything people make it out to be. I've only had the phone for about a week, and I will only buy Nexus phones from here on out. I'm running Android 4.0.4 unlocked and rooted. You do not need to change kernels or Rom the phone. ICS is perfect. I might consider overclocking in the future as I've read that the CPU in the Galaxy Nexus was underclocked from factory.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dario3040:
Laughable, you don't the deserve a great device like the Galaxy Nexus.

Let me give you a few hints too:

1. The Galaxy S 3 doesn't have to be quad core, we have already seen Qualcomm's Krait destroy Tegra 3, quad core is just a gimmick.

Samsung are making dual core Exynos processor which might or might not appear in the Galaxy S 3.

2. The part where you said 16 megapixel camera was very funny.

I highly doubt you would ever print anything that big, not that your printer would be big enough anyway, also there would be no benefit of having that resolution on the phone.

But I guess it's ok if you like big useless numbers?

---------- Post added at 12:22 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:20 AM ----------

Nah, even 3D gaming wouldn't benefit too much from a quad core, only if the game was physics or AI heavy.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Aridon:
At this point waiting for the galaxy 3 would be smart. Especially with the simultaneous release rumors.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] selfinfliction:
are you 15 years old? I don't "deserve" to have a specific phone? that's such a childish comment, the rest of your post doesn't even deserve an acknowledgement by dissecting it and providing the proper information. :rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] selfinfliction:
oh i agree that phones now do a decent job, heck i'm still happy with my epic 4g that's nearly 2 years old. but the thing is, why would i pay the same price for antiquated equipment now (the nexus) when I know for a fact that much better stuff is coming out in a few months? That's like going to a car lot and buying a 2009 camaro for $45,000 when you can wait a few months and buy a 2010 corvette for $45,000. see what i mean? it just doesn't make good sense when i've got a phone that already works for what i need it to do.

but there is something that no one is considering here, what everyone keeps comparing these quad core phones to is dual core and single core processors running SINGLE THREAD applications, because there are not that many multi-threaded apps out for phones yet. I'm going to be stuck with whatever I get for 2 years out, and will guarantee that by the end of this year as apps get more complex and programmers get deeper into their thing, they will start using multi threads on most stuff, especially the droid OS itself.

i'm not sure how old you are(you may have seen this develop as well), but i've been working in the computer industry for over 13 years now and this is the identical issue as what happened when multi-core cpu's came out for computers. people were screaming bloody murder and how senseless multiple cores were on a computer and now i don't even think the cheapest cpu's are single core. I couldn't tell you how many times that people were hating on the multi-core cpu's talking about how their single core p4's were the best. As soon as they started programming multi-thread applications, those guys put their heads back in the ostrich holes because they knew they were wrong
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Kit:
Mr been in the industry for 13 years... I been in it for like 4 years and even I know that about the only multithreaded mainstream programs used in desktops are computer games and even then its rare :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] selfinfliction:
there are plenty of database applications that utilize multi-threads, we actually have a couple of GIS mapping programs and plugins that use 16 cores at a time. ( you'd be surprised how processing intensive 500-1000mb maps with 50 or 75 layers is :D ) I can't get into the specifics of it, but there are hundreds if not thousands of every day applications that take advantage of simultaneous multithreading. what i manage is just a microscopic amount of what is available.

You'll have to forgive me because i'm not up on phones too much but i would say i'm fairly decent with computers, after all i do have an associates in network systems, a bachelors in information systems security, and am finishing up with my masters of information systems in June. Just these damn phones change so much and i don't have time to keep up with anything that doesn't have to do with school or work.

I really didn't mean to offend anyone about their nexus if this is where the thread is going, just because i don't think it's a good deal for me, doesn't mean it's not a good deal for someone else. heck, i've really been super happy with my epic since i switched it over to ICS, that makes a world of difference even on an old phone so i'm sure it runs great on the nexus as well.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 Themes and Apps] Gaugerer:
Has anyone got the Sky Go app working on the WIFI version of the 7.7?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 Themes and Apps] Richdog:
What is the point of the question... is it not working for you?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Joy2DaWurld:
I recently figured I had a bad firing pin in my micro USB port when pressing Home would result in going to the Dock home screen. Researched that to see that it was a small hardware issue.

I'm guessing my phone thinking it's charging when it's not is also related to the micro USB port...but hopefully not. Has anyone else come across this to see it's a software issue?

I'm on:

GBaxe 1.5, stock kernel

No extraordinary scripts or mods

Again, I'd rather hope that it's not a hardware issue, but most probably is :/
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Scribes:
Is there a current ICS leak that has cwm built into it after loading it now?

I am currently running Calkulins.E4GT.ROM.v2.8.1 with Rogue recovery...

Is there an ics i can flash using that recovery, and once done still have recovery?

Is that what this Rogue *Stock FB17* v1.2.1 (CWM Zip) is, from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1390393 here?

I dont ever want to touch Odin again, i seem to have problems with that.

I also want to be able to flash back to a stock backup if i need, so i dont want to lose my recovery ability.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] meatwadathf:
Technically, not really.

The official way to do it is flash calks fb17, boot up, and then odin rogues fb17 kernel/recovery.

HOWEVER.... Once booted into calks fb17 you can download rom manager,

Flash recovery from there selecting sgs2 as the phone and NOT e4gt

Boot into recovery from rom manager

Flash Rogue's fb17 kernel/recovery

Worked well for me.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Epix4G:
ics

There have been many many bricks when trying to flash from ics back to gb .. The data partition on several phones has been fried leading to unrecoverable brick .... so far most going back to gb from ics have been using odin to be safe .... dont touch the cwm touch recovery with ics .... it leads to bricks .... The safest so far has been odin a gb rom then odin cwm recovery and then run your nandroid from there ..Be safe
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RigorousNinja:
I am running the ICS FB17 pre-rooted leak and flashed the zip with rouge, it had the stock ics recovery so i went back to this page (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1342728) and downloaded the latest auto root and ran option D and the option A to flash the rouge for the FB15 modem.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wase4711:
If you are concerned about having to "touch" Odin again, then you shouldn't be flashing any of this stuff for now..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ralphie1:
ICS/CWM

did just as RigorousNinja went back to GB 4.0 by PhathomHacker no problems:)http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1342728
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PinkDroyed:
The oneclick installer will put cwm on any ics build I have seen so far. I just used it on FB21 Rooted in fact. Just run letter D then CWS-15;Rogue

http://uperoo.com/index.php?r=dl&a=1293311

Sorry to whoever for reposting but I have no idea where I got it from now..

Thanks to Steady Hawkin for FB17+CWM-Rogue(repack)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
It is available in the Auto Root sticky in Development or in my signature.

The latest one includes FB17+CWM-Rogue as well.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SuperSwagSauce:
Can you elaborate why it is bad to flash back to GB through CWM? I've done it twice already due to overheating in ICS and haven't had any issues. I just want to know if damaging my phone by doing that :/
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
It isn't bad to flash back to GB through CWM per se.

It is bad to fake flash CWM Touch onto an ICS linux 3.0 kernel and do a restore or wipe. The combination of CWM Touch and the ICS linux 3.0 kernel has caused many people to hose their /data partition in such a way that even repartition using ODIN doesn't allow /data to be written to anymore.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SuperSwagSauce:
Ahh so it's a CWM Touch issue you say? That's a relief :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
That's the one people happen to have had bad experiences with, but the general issue is "fake/temporary" flashes which end up pairing recoveries with kernels they may not have been intended to work with or may not have been tested with, then trying to operations on your phone which may overwrite sections that are hard to recover from.

CWM Touch if integrated (ie repacked with) and tested with a kernel it appears to work ok.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] smtolman:
Honestly, just take the time to get to know Odin... its really safe and useful when you invest the time (which is very little). and this is coming from a 'noobs' perspective. As for CWM i have used it as well (not touch) and been okay, but like everyone else has warned... be careful.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SuperSwagSauce:
Gotcha, so my steady hawkin FB17 kernel/recovery should be good.
[LG Optimus 2x] bollux78:
Hi all,

I could not sleep thinking of using chrooted linux on my 47" 1080p LCD, fine, but we a re limited to the hdmi mirroring, which is 800x480 stretched to fill the screen.

Thinking about the video player, which does proper 1080p output I tried to fool the system somehow with video playing and task switching, menus, back btn presses, and found something:

Using temasek´s kang + ironkrnl #251 32mb hack, qemu lcd density 210

You start playing a video, can be through native video player or mxplayer, HW or SW mode, then you press menu once or twice to show the options, the video freezes for a moment. then you press back twice rapdly, VOILA, you have a working gallery (works until you flip the phone to portrait, this resets the display to normally scaled screen) in 1080p in the lower half of the screen.

If you were using mxplayer, the top half of the screen will have the player controls as they were on the phones screen during video playback. everything is repeated side by side almos three times (I think it´s the difference in resolution being compensated in the framebuffer or some sort of scaling bug).

All in all, does someone have any idea on how to invoke a mirrorless 1080p picture on hdmi? (or mirrored and downscaled/croppped on the phones screen), apparently only gallery is capable of displaying in 1080, any other app works in the phones screen but the image keeps frozen on hdmi with sound ok.

Imagine chrooted linux in 1080 with BT mouse and KB!

Pictures attached:

edit: tried with	1202221503-ETaNa_48 kernel and could not reproduce it, later will try with etana 64 and other ironkrnl
[LG Optimus 2x] Scougar:
What a great little bug. It would be nice to have it actually run at 1080p for the Android screen and things like the word processor. Would make using the phone as a mini computer so much better.
[LG Optimus 2x] ShunSeb47:
Great find dude...!!

Sent from my LG-P990