yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Accessories] Motto26:
Connecting two batteries in parallel should do the trick but it would take time to recharge the battery. How were you able to create a custom back cover? can you show it to us?
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Accessories] mai77:
on ebay you find a 10 EURO 1500 mAh batt pack , and a 2800 mAh pack for 15 EURO.

sticks into usb socket.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Accessories] mai77:
portable mobile charger 1500 mAh

I got meself one of 'em at 10 EUROs.

it has got a Samsung + mini USB socket to charge it. if stuck into SGY, the bottom face is flush with SGY bottom cover.

at 15 EUROs one gets same thing with 2700 mAh of juice. These things are less hassle than changing batteries.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Accessories] DerBobo:
Yea but the Device just takes what it needs. So two batteries (1100mA) results (2200mA). The phone takes what it needs (1000mA in a hour may be) so it takes 2,2 hours instead of 1,1 hour until the juice is out ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] hajj_3:
Hi, i have "Facebook for android" installed on my Sony Xperia Mini and the text is too small for my mother to read, the facebook feed won't zoom when you pinch the screen. This also doesn't work on my ZTE Blade CM 7.1.0.1 but used to work and may possibly still work on my stock HTC Wildfire.

It looks as though that it might be a problem with Cyanogenmod I think.

Has anyone got a non-CM android phone to test "facebook for android" with?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dk147in:
Hi All

Can anybody tell me or have encounter such an issue where no more ROM flashing is possible if yes then after how Manny flashings.

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamir5:
i flashed different croms,kernel around 40 times i think, still my sgs running buttery smooth and fast.

as long as your sgs is running,you can flash over and over again.

cheers
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daggi78:
As often as you want. There are no limits for flash ROM. I have flashed my sgs maybe 150 times ...

To ask ... how often you can install linux on your PC? :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fps249:
As far as i know, there is a symbolic limit to flash a device wich is not comparable to install a OS in a PC. That's because if you install linux/windows/whatever youre doing it on a hard drive, while when you flash a rom to a phone you do it over a EPROM memory. Please correct me if i'm wrong.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dk147in:
Yeah great guys..!!

Thanks a ton to build confidence in me --- so i can flash atlest 150 times as daggi78 has mentioned in his post.

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daggi78:
I must correct me.

fps249 is right. EPROMs can be rewritten up to 200 times, then they are consumed.

So i have to pull the break otherwise my phone is dead in a few weeks. :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ehomer:
fps249 is wrong!! then it was a damaged ROM from beginning

"the maximum number of rewrites are 1 million or more"

Source: Wikipedia @ EEPROM

Look at "Failure modes"
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fps249:
Have you read what I wrote? I specifically said that there is a SYMBOLIC limit. By that, I mean that it's almost imposible for a person to reach that limit, but it doesn't mean it's not there. And i said that it's not the same flashing over an EPROM than installing an OS over a hard drive, wich is right.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dk147in:
Guys pleas don't get me confused, atleast 100 time i can flash my phone....sure...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fps249:
You're right, sorry. Yes, you can flash at least 100 times.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hadkeren:
Even 150 times! ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abazz:
It depends on the memory chip used, for example, a typical nand flash chip will have a data retention of 10 years and a 100 000 program/erase cycles.

Flashing is just one aspect of program/erase cycles you also have to take into account downloading and installing apps as this also counts toward the total. I'm not upto speed on the android file system but there are also what they call leveling algorithms that try and make sure that all memory cells within the flash are used evenly. If, for example, you read/write the same addresses over and over again they will wear out quicker than the rest leading to bad blocks.

Having said that, its more likely that your phone will die from other causes before it becomes a problem
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gopalasubramanium:
No Limits

There is no limit as such...till your hardware is fine, you can continue flashing. I don't even remember the number of times i have flashed my device. Don;t worry on this one and have fun :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayeshup:
5 lac times i think !
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Villu666:
150 times?! it means you flash every 2 day durring a year... c'mon aren't phones meant to be used to call and message rather than flashing daily? what is the point of such practise?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dk147in:
ThanXXXXXXXXXXXX

thanks guyz for the gr88888 info.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fps249:
"Thanks" button is your friend. ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mrl3086:
This morning in my half-awake state I accidentally pressed "OK" to my phone asking me to go ahead with the (I'm guessing) 2.3.6 update. I KNEW I would end up doing something stupid like that. GRR!!

Anyway, the phone then launched itself into a white screen with blue text saying that it is doing the update, but nothing happens and it appears to be frozen.

I am rooted and was trying to avoid this update; like I said, I was half-awake.

I can't even get it to boot into download/recovery mode, it always goes straight to the white screen. Hopefully this isn't a double post; I checked here and google first but couldn't find anything for this phone. I'm really at a loss here. I have Titanium Backup and I got an external SD card, but I'm not sure if I actually backed up the apps to the external card (new to TB). I did a Kies contacts backup a few days ago so that at least is safe.

Is there any hope for my phone? If I can just get it back to a working state, I can live with my apps' data being erased. Any help appreciated.

Thank you!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jvanbrecht:
Doh... sorry to hear that.. are you also running a custom rom, or customized ATT rom (I have the stock rom from the developers forums over the standard root after having tried a few custom roms).

I got the update message as well this morning, but I postponed it for 8 hours, however I am unable to get rid of the stupid notification, and am curious if after the 8 hours, it will force the update or let me postpone it agian (that will get annoying fast if I cannot disable the OTA update..)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] lyndone58:
I'd like to know how to cancel the update as well. I have it sitting in my notification bar. >_<
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mrl3086:
I'm still running stock 2.3.5. All I've had time to do is root and TB apps, haven't had the chance to play around with ROMs yet for this phone.

Yeah I postponed it for 8 hours, too. The 8hrs must have expired right as my alarm went off because the "Install this update?" message popped up and I hit it, thinking it was the snooze button -_-

Let me know if there's any way to get off of this screen my phone is stuck on! And then disable the obnoxious message for good.

Thanks again =)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] lyndone58:
Maybe try to remove battery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mrl3086:
I have about 10-15 times since it first happened this morning. I also tried taking out the SIM and microSD cards. It's the only way I can get it to stay off to try to boot to recovery mode (which it still won't boot into); if I hold the power button to turn it off it just resets back into the white Software Update Screen (won't stay off).

Has anyone successfully applied this update yet?

Any other ideas? I appreciate the feedback so far!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Petropavlovsk:
Similar thing happened to me. I pulled the battery and booted in to CWM just fine. Restored from there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mrl3086:
I don't believe I have CWM installed? How would I have known if I did? When I volume up + volume down + power and wait until the Samsung logo comes up it boots back to the white screen. Maybe I'm doing that process wrong?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jessielooloo:
Same thing happened to me this morning! :(

almost identical story

I've tried literally every combination to get to the reboot screen. ugh :'(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Lucidmike:
I haven't been rooting as much as some of the guys here, but I think if you take the battery out and it won't boot back even into recovery, you're hard-bricked and you're gonna have to start from scratch with a fresh stock rom. Go to download mode (turn off, hold vol up + down, insert powered usb cable) and put a stock rom back on using odin.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1342348

You will basically get back to what your phone was when you took it out of the box and you'll have to install everything, your data (other than the data that is on a microSD card) won't be there.

If you have a backup that you did with CWM, then you can restore the backup after you do all this.

I think you got unlucky with the worst case scenario of what shouldn't happen during an update.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mrl3086:
Thanks for the advice. I'll give it a try when I get home from work and will let you guys know how it goes.

For the future, is it generally recommended to de-root before doing any straight carrier update? Or is this just a total fluke that some of us are experiencing?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jamesd86:
Will adb recognize your phone? If it does just adb reboot recovery
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jessielooloo:
AMAZING!! Thank you so much! Not only is my phone up and working but the update has installed!

I learned the following:

-you pretty much need a pc (not a mac) to do all the downloads correctly. I used a friends.

-to get your phone into download mode when it's frozen from the update, you have to hold down either vol + AND vol - (or just vol -) as well as the power button, simultaneously hold down power and also simultaneously plug in the usb. Then let go of the power button and remain holding down one or the two volume buttons.

THIS WAS JUST WITH MY SKYROCKET EXPERIENCE

I'm so happy. Thank you LucidMike
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] viralriot:
This just happened to my friend's phone. White screen no matter what. Stock everything, too. She's pretty bummed that there's no way to recover the videos and pictures on her phone before resetting it. Apparently she went to AT&T and they couldn't figure it out. They called tech support for her and THEY couldn't figure it out. She's currently on the phone with Samsung, but I doubt they'll be able to help either. :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mrl3086:
AHHH!! Tell her to hang up the phone right now!! Use this method to fix her phone!! All of her data will still be there after it's done! After the process is complete, back it up to a computer (enable USB storage and just copy + paste and I used Kies to copy my contacts) and THEN do a full factory reset (reset recommended by everyone to ensure smooth function of phone). The method in the link will return her to the original stock version; I believe it may trip a counter that AT&T can use to determine if you've hacked your phone, but if you want a working phone...and there's also a chance that it WON'T trip the counter (some people say it did and some say it hasn't).

EDIT: Pictures and videos that I took with the phone are saved in /sdcard/DCIM/Camera, so you know where to copy her stuff from.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] AngelWings8:
I'm trying to fix my boyfriend's phone (he actually didn't hack/root it or anything...but yesterday's update messed up his phone so it was stuck in the "SOFTWARE UPDATE" and "Loading..." frozen white screen). We tried taking out the battery, restarting it, everything. I tried your method of holding all three buttons while plugging in the USB and then letting go of the power button. What do you press when it asks you if you want to continue (up vol +) or cancel (vol -)? I chose vol -, and when it took me back to the white screen, I did it again and pressed vol +. Now I'm on a ODIN MODE page...will this affect his warranty or anything? What do I do next?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] silver03wrx:
You need to have odin on your pc and the stock .tar and flash it. Here go here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=1509978

Read carefully follow directions exactly
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] AngelWings8:
Thanks! I read on the first page of the thread that it needs to be rooted though? This phone is brand new and never been rooted or hacked...will doing this void the warranty or anything unpleasant? (I'm the one that likes hacking my devices like my Nook Color...my boyfriend is a little more paranoid and would rather have it stay covered under warranty :p)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] silver03wrx:
No actually. Thats incorrect..the stock tar. Is just as it sounds. The stock firmware the phone comes with.....dont need to be rooted to use odin. Actually if u odn the stock tar. It removes root.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] viralriot:
Tried doing this, but this is all I get.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 0)

<ID:0/006> Added!!

That's it. Nothing else happens. Help?

EDIT: Nevermind! Plugged it into a different USB port (COM:6) and it worked flawlessly. All data is still on phone and it works like new! Thank you!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mrl3086:
Anyone have an issue where the flash worked and everything is fine, but the SIM card isn't recognized? At least I have wifi for now ^_^
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] shaggyskunk:
Did you try removing the Sim, reboot with the card out, replace the card & reboot again?

Sent From my Two Tin Cans & String Device on The Wookie Network
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mrl3086:
Yeah I did, should have said that originally. This same thing happened when I first took the phone out of the box and that fixed it, so it was the first thing I tried. But with no success this time.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] shaggyskunk:
You could try calling your carrier and see if they might be able to "reset" your Sim , or better yet, if there's a outlet near you... go and tell them your Sim is pooched and get them to give you another one?

Failing that.... go to ANOTHER store & see about getting the phone replaced... odds are they won't even try to turn it on :)

Sent From my Two Tin Cans & String Device on The Wookie Network
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahhoe:
My phone cones default with above launcher. I just changed to go launcher ex and wanted to remove tw . My phone is roots. Can someone guide me on the removal? I tried holding onto the icon but the "x" does not appear. Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RorixRebel:
you can download root uninstaller from market and find the twlauncher, and remove it

i wouldnt do it tho, in case your go launcher fails you will lack a launcher to do stuff
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] engloa:
you can also delete the tw launcher using root explorer.just navigate to system/app
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
But as you have been warned delete TW launcher and not replace it phone cannot load .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
As JJE has pointed out, removing TW is fraught with danger.

If you really don't like it the best thing to do is install a launcher you do like then freeze the stock launcher in Ti or similar. This way your launcher of choice will be the default. Also bear in mind you can't completely get rid of TW, it is very much baked into your rom and its services are always running in the background/the launcher you use runs on top of it.

I also use GoEx & have the default Miui launcher frozen in Ti. I don't recommend removing anything to do with the stock launcher.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bubba949:
Go launcher allows you to make it your default launcher when setting it up so there's no need to mess with removing tw.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigMrB:
Or flash a rom that doesn;t use TW - like Illusion - go launcher as standard
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
I have about three launchers in the system / apps folder and use home switcher to change but only really use TW .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahhoe:
I have already made go launcher ex as default. But once a while when I kick on the centre button, the same prompter will appear asking me to choose btw go launcher and tw launcher. Everyttime I tick the box and make go.launcher the default, the prompter will appear again.

That's why I am thinking of removing it altogether. Or perhaps Bro/sis know how to solve the jnial problem?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bubba949:
Have you changed default through go launcher settings as well? because I'm using it and never have that problem. Maybe try clearing defaults in application management for go launcher too.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
OK. Because I'm an all round good guy, I'll repeat this for the 2nd time.

Get Titanium Pro from the Market (or Gemini if you don't want to pay, or several other apps that can freeze apps), and freeze the stock launcher. I have done this in Miui and am using GoEx as my default launcher without having to tick any boxes or without the stock launcher prompting me or appearing out of nowhere.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahhoe:
Thanks all :)

Manage to remove that ignoring prompter with the help of u guys!! Keep it up !!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] ieftm:
Hi!

Seeing as Asus released the unlock tool for the Transformer Prime, we made a Clockworkmod Recovery image for it.

One caveat:

This uses the internal sdcard for the Prime. So you won't be able to mount usb mass storage, or use the MicroSD. But that should not be too much of an issue.

Download link and instructions on Androidroot.mobi.

Enjoy!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] 05GT:
Damn, that was quick! Nice work!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] LNKNPRKFN:
C:\Users\LNKNPRKFN\Downloads\XOOM FILES\android-sdk_r10-windows\platform-tools>c
d
C:\Users\LNKNPRKFN\Downloads\XOOM FILES\android-sdk_r10-windows\platform-tools

C:\Users\LNKNPRKFN\Downloads\XOOM FILES\android-sdk_r10-windows\platform-tools>c
d..

C:\Users\LNKNPRKFN\Downloads\XOOM FILES\android-sdk_r10-windows>cd..

C:\Users\LNKNPRKFN\Downloads\XOOM FILES>cd..

C:\Users\LNKNPRKFN\Downloads>cd ASUS TRANSFORMER PRIME

C:\Users\LNKNPRKFN\Downloads\ASUS TRANSFORMER PRIME>cd RECOVERY FILES

C:\Users\LNKNPRKFN\Downloads\ASUS TRANSFORMER PRIME\RECOVERY FILES>cd wintools

C:\Users\LNKNPRKFN\Downloads\ASUS TRANSFORMER PRIME\RECOVERY FILES\wintools>cd t
ools

C:\Users\LNKNPRKFN\Downloads\ASUS TRANSFORMER PRIME\RECOVERY FILES\wintools\Tool
s>fastboot -i 0x0b05 flash recovery tfp_CWM5.SOS
sending 'recovery' (5312 KB)... OKAY
writing 'recovery'... OKAY

C:\Users\LNKNPRKFN\Downloads\ASUS TRANSFORMER PRIME\RECOVERY FILES\wintools\Tool
s>fastboot reboot
< waiting for device >

\\then i keep getting ANDROID WITH "!" hmmm

i did it with vipermod 4.5 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1427125
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] tylermaciaszek:
Holy Crap that was quick as hell thank you very much

---------- Post added at 09:27 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:21 AM ----------

Could I put all those codes into terminal emulator
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Evo_Shift:
Awesome can't wait to do a full wipe. Once I see a stock rooted rom up there in Dev I am all in.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Striatum_bdr:
It should work as well, I often did this on my phone, standard dd linux command. Download the file directly on your TFP, and run Terminal Emulator, su, and the dd command, just need to modify the path to blob file.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] tylermaciaszek:
So I can just follow the same commands or what do you mean by modify the path to the blob File?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Striatum_bdr:
Once in terminal emulator:

su

dd if=/data/local/blobfile of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4

Modify this part depending where is the file you downloaded is... It it is in /sdcard/Download or anywhere you put it after download.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] tylermaciaszek:
Okay thank you very much will be doing it later
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mutiny:
Wow! Now I'm one step closer to unlocking my bootloader.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] stephen44:
Brilliant

let me ask a newb question - if i do a nandroid backup using this - and then ota update to ver .14 and get the reboot issues - can i use this to revert back to .13 ?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] barryflanagan:
I don't think the OTA will work once you have unlocked the boot loader.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Striatum_bdr:
Confirmed: works as attended using Terminal Emulator.

-Download blob file. I renamed it as CWM.blob as moved it tyo /data/local

-Run Terminal emulator then :

$su

# dd if=/data/local/CWM.blob of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4

(change bold part according to your own situation)

You'll have a couple of secondes to wait, then a message saying that xxx bytes were copied.

Put TFP off, reboot by pressing Vol Down + Power until you see some line of text, and then WITHIN 5sec press Vol Up ..

Here you are.

---------- Post added at 04:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:02 PM ----------

No more OTA when boot is unlocked. That's part of the agreement you sign before unlocking it.

Ther will be zip files to update through Recovery don't worry about that.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Colombiano80:
this may be a really newbie question, but i ask more just to understand. there are a few (or alot) of us that simply type and do what the instructions tell us to do.

when you type in that DD command, what exactly are you doing. are you essentially redirecting the bootup prompt to point to the CWR? if not, then what.

thanks.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Hawkysoft:
dd = copy from / to, and overwrites
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] barryflanagan:
Hey - hot on the heels of CWM:

CyanogenMod for Transformer Prime:

http://androidroot.mobi/2012/02/22/cyanogenmod-9-for-asus-transformer-prime/

Fantastic!

Have to unlock now!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Colombiano80:
wow that was so easy it was dumb. thanks!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Epedemic:
Nice. Doing nandroid backup now.

However i started out with the fastboot method, and it looked like it worked, but it still booted up in stock recovery...

Blob method worked fine though...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] adalgiso:
AndroidRoot.mobi has a demo of CM9 running on the Prime: http://androidroot.mobi/2012/02/22/cyanogenmod-9-for-asus-transformer-prime/

Edit: Damn, Barry beat me to it.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Epedemic:
Also hope the 5.8.* recovery shows up (touch based)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Swiftks:
Well if you have CWM recovery installed, there's no way you're getting it back to stock, b/c the bootloader is forever unlocked and the warranty is forever void. Even if you were able to get rid of CWM, you can't relock the bootloader. Might as well just brick it, if you're going to return it, and say it stopped working. That way they don't try to resell it to someone who unknowingly buys it without a warranty.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] grneyez:
I see, thanks for the info.