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[Motorola Droid RAZR] 4ktvs:
I know that puts off my 4G issues for a bit when I restart the phone. It may help this as well.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ddfuji:
Mine does that too. But for me it ends with the keyboard applications force closing.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] TheVikingATC:
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Yes, I've restarted when it happens, usually fixes the issue but only for a short time, it seems to happen at random. I'll try installing a new keyboard, but is this a software issue I'm guessing? Also, how do you clear the keyboard cache? I keep my normal cache clear of things I don't need regularly, but have never cleared a keyboard cache before.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] 4ktvs:
I know the guys will get "mad" at me for saying this but same here, but with a 4G issue I have been having.( I am not trying to piss you guys off ok)

Yes try and install a new keyboard. If that does not work, try clearing the "data" on Swype.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] TheVikingATC:
update

After calling Verizon we ended up doing a factory reset on my phone. So far so good, but if it does it again they said they would have to replace my phone. :(
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kevintstephens:
That happens to me a lot. Only in the text messaging app, though. I just close the texting app and open it up again and it usually fixes itself.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] tat2messiah:
Verizon actually replaced my razr for this reason also my screen was unresponsive at times. Now replacing this razr for same unresponsive screen at times
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ymcmbforever:
Hello xda i am posting this tool to help you guys get around having to use kernal cleaners and wiping one thing at a time, this does it for you :eek:

Features

-aligns the disks and data

-converts all partitions to ext4

-memory tweaks

-partition tweaks including spx-ext

Wipes

-Data

-Cache

-System

-Dilvak

THIS WILL NOT WIPE YOUR SD OR EXT SD SO DONT WORRY :o

THIS WIPE WILL MAKE FOR A BUGLESS CLEAN INSTALL AND WILL BE INCLUDED IN MY FUTURE ROM. :D

LINK -

http://www.mediafire.com/?ws6wyt7nh7tm0et

Please hit the thank button would make my day :p
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ymcmbforever:
One more for me
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ymcmbforever:
Another last one for me
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] LiLChris06:
unmount("/data");
format("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p10");
unmount("/system");
format("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p9");
unmount("/cache");
format("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p7");

That is basically what a factory reset and rom install will do. :p
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ymcmbforever:
No it converts to ext4 ported from superwipe
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] drowningchild:
how do you convert ext4 to ext4?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ymcmbforever:
Incase the rom is ext3 or a different filesystem and its a faster wipe then having to click
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tylercarter:
Can I get one that won't factory rest my device? One that is designed for updates. :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ymcmbforever:
What do u mean ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Red5:
All roms for the GSII are already EXT4. There are no EXT3 or any other different file systems.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ymcmbforever:
Well its like a piece of bounty will clean for you just flash and it does the rest.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tylercarter:
Such as if I were on shostock2 1.1 and I wanted to update to shostock2 1.3. I wouldn't want to do a factory reset and lose all my apps and settings and start fresh.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] PatriotXT92:
Around here we use Charmin Ultra. Just ask howtomen :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ymcmbforever:
Well bounty is on sale in sams club :
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Noz85:
Just modify the script to not format data and you won't lose your apps

sent from the Dark Obelisk.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] howtomen:
bounty is like sandpaper compared to charmin... now go to do ur rom instead of using bounty
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ymcmbforever:
yes sir
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] TOA Duck:
My device has hemorrhoids, I like Charmin with aloe.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] hitekredneck:
Sure seems that way to me. OP needs to step in over here -> http://www.theandroidsoul.com/superwipe-for-att-galaxy-s2-a-very-handy-tool-for-rom-flashers/ to straighten this out and give credit where it is due.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ymcmbforever:
Whoow wtf this is not even close to darksides version because if u open the files you would no that and its ok let the little kids fight .
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Stevenrogers_420:
Looks like a port to me... Wow! Stealing someones work and passing it off as your own?..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ymcmbforever:
Ok whatever you say just dont use it .
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dazzuh:
Since a few days ago my phone's wifi and 3G stopped working properly, the icons on the notification bar stay grey, when they're meant to be blue (I'm using an ICS theme) and it limits me to what I can do, for example, internet will only work when I'm using browser, and wont work with any/most other apps. Its happened allot before, but a restart usually fixes it. But it doesnt seem to work now. I've tried lots of stuff, even restored from a backup I made over a month ago.

Is there any fix to this? I'm guessing its a software problem considering internet still works with some things. Thanks in advance
[HTC EVO 3D] weezymagic:
Hey guys, so here's the problem... I've had my 3vo since release and its always been in my otterbox defender with phone insurance through sprint. I've noticed over the past few times having my phone plugged into my aux cord to a radio or just having headphones plugged in that the left side would lose sound. Originally I thought it must've been my aux cord but after testing, the only common denominator is my phone, specifically the headphone port. Being rooted and running eternity rom, what are my options? Good sprint now and see what they can do, unroot and goto sprint, just call them?

Any advice is helpful. Thanks guys
[HTC EVO 3D] marcusdgd:
I'd run an RUU. Then go to sprint. Unless you don't have 1.50 bootloader. If you have pre 1.50 then install a stock rom
[HTC EVO 3D] weezymagic:
I'm on hboot 1.4. So do I ask for a new phone or what. Will I be able to root with a new phone?
[HTC EVO 3D] sitlet:
Depends on if you are still under warranty or not. If your phone is less than a year old, then it's under warranty. Just flash a stock rom, take it to a corporate sprint store, and tell them the problem. They may be able to fix it, if not they will give you a refurb 3d.
[HTC EVO 3D] weezymagic:
Awesome, ill try that today. After I find a stock rom. Lol. And shouldn't all 3vos still be under warranty? They came out last june
[HTC EVO 3D] sitlet:
Good point. I came from the Original Evo, I forgot the 3d came out in June.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mojoe_24:
So I bought a SG2 a couple days ago (moving from Iphone 3gS). I'm kinda disappointed in battery life and my friend recommended installing a custom rom. I have CM9 on my Touchpad so I figured I'd give it a go on my phone too. As it is, I like the look/feel of the stock device (maybe I just don't know better) so I am thinking that using something more stable like CM7 would be more beneficial. Is there any major differences?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Biporch:
Cm9 is based of ICS and Cm7 of gingerbread.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mojoe_24:
Yes, I knew that, but is it worth using a more unstable build vs CM7?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] trell959:
Cm9 isn't unstable. I'm perfectly fine on it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Thegodfather156:
CM9 is real stable for nightly status
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
In my opinion, CM9 is more stable than CM7 ever was on I9100/I777.

There's a variety of reasons for this, it's mainly that 6 months later, everyone involved knows MUCH more about the device than they did when ICS was first released and most of the CM maintainers either took breaks or started working CM9.

This especially holds true for I777 - When atinm took a break and codeworkx started working ICS, we didn't know a fraction of what the REAL differences between I9100 and I777 were that we do now. As a result the I9100/I777 device trees are MUCH closer together now than they were for CM7.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] stone_ship:
Just guessing, but I think CM9 will end up being better overall. Each version of Android brings unique challenges for the devs. For instance, CM7 on our device suffers from a Market bug that will cause periodic freezes. I don't think anyone is reporting that with CM9.

On my old phone, under CM6, they had a hell of a time getting the OS to read the voicemail number from the SIM card. When Gingerbread came out, it was never a problem from the beginning.

If battery life is your main concern, I recommend Entropy512's Daily Driver kernel. (Samsung-based ROMs only). He's working on one for ICS but his GB kernel has been used by thousands across what I guess to be dozens of ROMs.

EDIT: ^^The man himself^^
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] NJGSII:
x2

Never had a single problem with it so far. CM7 would only last 30 mins on my phone before I had to uninstall it due to stuff not working or crashing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] halfsoul:
No clue what matters to you, but here are some specific differences as of April 9:

CM9 does not have the headphone volume bug that CM7 did, BUT...

...on CM9 the correct volume does not get restored after playback is interrupted by a notification

CM9 does not support notification LEDs, BUT...

...on CM7 Notification LEDs causes a wakelock (battery drain)

CM9 does not have as many extended features as CM7 (yet)

CM9 GPS is (at least anecdotally) not as good as CM7 (for now)

CM9 overclocking/undervolting support is brand new

Edit: CM9 does not have Theming (yet)

CM9 does not support USB Mass Storage, need to use MTP (inconvenient on Linux)

CM9 will not have Phone Goggles

The biggest factors (for me):

CM9 is ICS

CM9 has developers' attention
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] MaxRabbit:
Brilliant explanation! Thanks! Should be linked to by the CM9 thread!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] qwertyaas:
There is an app for USB Mass Storage. I prefer using it over MTP.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24084600&postcount=113
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tekkidd:
CM9 is based on Android 4.0 ICS and is currently in the Alpha/Nightlies status.

CM7 is based on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and is currently the Stable branch of CynaogenMod
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mojoe_24:
I just figured CM7 would have been more stable. Maybe I'll look into CM9 then. I plan to root my phone today. Part of the reason I wanted CM7/9 was to get rid of bloatware, but it seems a root can do it too.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] hbar:
You know there are other options than CM, right? If you aren't one of the ridiculous TouchWiz haters (doesn't seem that way since you mentioned you like the default look of the phone) then go download and install SHOstock2 from the development forum. It's fast, stable, and just flat-out works. Easily the best of the ICS ROMs, IMO. When CM9 gets to a stable release state I'll give it a try, but the AOSP ROMs (mainly CM9 and AOKP) just aren't quite ready for prime time IMO if you look at the issues/bugs that still exist in them. Some people enjoy flashing new builds all the time and taking part in the dev process...personally I just want something that works. That's not to say that SHOstock2 is a finished ROM yet, but it's way farther along than the others. Give it a try - as someone who only recently made the leap from stock, I couldn't imagine ever going back.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] TiCaLuVeR:
Ditto... I'm running ShoStock2 for the better part of two weeks and can't deny that I'm in love. Previously to that I ran UnNamed and ShoStock for GB and loved both. The best thing to do is give them a try to see what you like. Our opinion may be biased based so I suggest you give the ROM's a try so you know what you like.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mojoe_24:
I'm actually kinda confused on what exactly Touchwiz is. If it's only the launcher than I switched to Launcher Pro, but I can't imagine it gaining that much hate if that is all it is.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] qwertyaas:
It's built into the framework. It's not just a launcher and theme.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mzaur:
AOKP is pretty damn stable. The only bug is the mentioned CM9 issue with notifications lowering music volume. Also GPS is slow to lock sometimes for me. Other than that it's a great ROM. I gave ShoStock a try but just prefer the look of AOKP
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Pirateghost:
touchwiz is so much more than a launcher

its the entire UI, the phone dialer, the contacts, the lockscreen, the SMS app, nearly everything you see on your phone is a Touchwiz UI. it is an overlay over the real android lurking below.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] TiCaLuVeR:
TouchWiz is a launcher and is Standard for Samsung GSII. It's all about taste if you ask me. I personally enjoy using ToichWiz or Apex launher over anything else. It's really up to you to determine what you like and how you want it to function.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] GeneralSky2004:
I installed CM9 Alpha2 on my phone. Everything is working fine, however, when I installed Facebook, there is no sync option in the Facebook settings.. Any idea as to why? I use that feature frequently to sync pictures and things. It worked fine on Calk's ROM. :/
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mimis_69:
Use Haxsync from the market, it works well. Only 99 cents :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rwilco12:
It's a known compatibility issue between Facebook and ICS. Basically Facebook and Google are having a little tiff and we have to suffer while they duke it out. Hopefully they'll get their acts together and we'll all be able to play nice again. In the meantime there is Haxsync. $.99 and it works great!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] GeneralSky2004:
I just type in "Facebook Sync" in the Play Store and found a free app. It's working wonderfully! All is well. Thanks for the input guys. :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cal4877:
I'm currently running miui, now eveytime I want to take video it tells me that my card is full when I know is not.it has nothing on the memory card 8gb.Do I need to repartition?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] alex.odell.2011:
Hello mate,

Do you have any partitions on ad card already?

Is this a know bug on ROM ?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cal4877:
It could be the Rom, Im installing anothe one right now. This happen after I install windows Tango, than when i went back to android I start having this issue.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] alex.odell.2011:
Do you issue still on New ROM?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] GuestK0097:
Waaazuuuuppppppp Guys????? :D

Can anybody tell me if it's dangerous to overclock the CPU to it's stock clock speed (the stock 1,5 Ghz of the OMAP 4460, not the stock 1,2 Ghz of the GNex).

I was thinking that it will not harm the CPU in any way because the OMAP was designed to run at that clock speed, am I right?

Hope anybody here can help me with my question :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hEaTLoE:
Depends on heat really. I'm sure it can run 1.5Ghz, but the increased voltage needed and the associated heat will shorten the life of the processor. I've had issues while charging and using nav on the phone where it reboots due to heat on stock clocks...I'd really not advise going to 1.5Ghz without proper ways to cool.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rusty815:
Every phone is different, some handle overclocking better than others, I haven't had any of the problems described when overclocked to 1.65GHz, but I'm sure others do.
[Nook Touch Android Development] probbiethe1:
This is still a work in progress but the Nook Simple Touch can now boot from the sd card. If you would like to learn how view klausef's comments in post number 27 (http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25325319&postcount=27).

I will continue to update this post when there is new information

Thanks to klausef for working on this and creating a solution to my question.

Thanks to all of those that contribute to nookdevs and thanks to everyone else that has commented on this topic.
[Nook Touch Android Development] Googie2149:
I wonder what would happen if I were to write a backup of the Nook onto an SD card and put it in (with the Nook itself wiped so it can't boot from the internal flash)
[Nook Touch Android Development] mali100:
Nothing, because the mountpoints are wrong.

It should be possible, but I never tried it:

-partition and format the sd in a similiar way like the nook,

-unpack the uRamdisk and edit the mountpoints in the init.rc from mmcblk0 to mmcblk1

Again, I'm not sure if it works, thats what I read somewhere. And even if it works, it will be slow if you don't use a really fast sd-card.
[Nook Touch Android Development] Googie2149:
Onwards to experimentation!!!!
[Nook Touch Android Development] ApokrifX:
He meant not SD class (sequential I/O speed), but random (SD brand mostly)

Explained here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1102704
[Nook Touch Android Development] probbiethe1:
So it is possible thats good news. Do we know of any body thats working on it? or can someone instruct me on how to edit the files that need to be edit?
[Nook Touch Android Development] Googie2149:
Yes, I know that. I wasn't planning on using this for day-to-day use, just testing to see if it would boot.
[Nook Touch Android Development] probbiethe1:
Have you got anything to boot off the sd card?
[Nook Touch Android Development] Googie2149:
Haven't tried yet, been busy with a school project. I finish it tomorrow, so I'll try then. Maybe. Probably. :o
[Nook Touch Android Development] probbiethe1:
Cool good luck with your school project
[Nook Touch Android Development] klausef:
Forgive me if this explanation goes through too basic of things for you but I am trying to establish context. Basically here's the status:

When you hit the power button on the nook touch, it calls some bootloader software called UBoot, that's kind of like a BIOS for embedded systems. UBoot looks for a file called UImage and a file called URamdisk. These two files contain the kernel and the root filesystem (and maybe a few other things, I've not taken the time to learn too much about UBoot). When UBoot finds these files, it loads them to RAM and starts executing the kernel.

Now the first thing the kernel is going to do when it starts up is to run the program 'init.' Init performs all the necessary stuff to start the system as you know it. Part of what init does is run a script called 'init.rc.' This script does a lot of things, but an important part of what it does is mount all these partitions.

So all we have to do to run the device off an SD card is to get UBoot to use the UImage and URamdisk from the SD card instead of internal memory! It turns out that this has actually been done before. This method is exactly what touchNooter did to root our nooks. Of course, it was created with other things in mind.

What I did was burn an exact copy of the nook's internal memory to an SD card, but then took the files from the touchNooter image that make UBoot work, and copied them over to the boot partition of the SD card. I'm not sure that you have to copy all the files I did, but anyway here's the ones I took from touchNooter:

u-boot.bin

cfg.bin

boot.scr (This is essentially a UBoot script that tells it what to do with UImage and URamdisk to set up the rootfs and start the Kernel)

I also made all of the boot images black so I would be able to tell if the nook was using the SD card.

When I stuck the SD card in and rebooted, lo and behold, the screen went black all the way through the boot process. It worked! The only issue is, it turns out that init and init.rc are somehow loaded into the UImage or URamdisk, so when init runs, it still mounts the partitions that are on the nook's internal storage. From this, we can deduce that the only thing running from the SD card is the kernel, and everything else is as before.

The solution to this is to recompile the UImage and URamdisk using B&N's provided source with an edited init.rc to mount the SD card's partitions. Another way we could do it is to somehow edit 'boot.scr' to make UBoot to pass an argument to the kernel when it gets started to use a different, modified init. (Much like pushing `esc` on a linux bootscreen and typing init=<binary>)

The first solution is harder but more correct, while the second solution is easier but much more hackish.

I am somewhat new to UBoot so I would appreciate it if someone else could correct any inaccuracies I may have made.
[Nook Touch Android Development] ApokrifX:
You can easily unpack/edit/pack URamdisk

mali100 explained everything and posted scripts here. I’m reposting his scripts below:

Unpack (xuramdisk)

#!/bin/bash
#if (test $# -eq 1 && -f $1)
if [ -f $1 ]; then
dd if=$1 bs=64 skip=1 of=rdisk.gz
# Uncompress
gunzip rdisk.gz
# Extract
mkdir ramdisk
cd ramdisk
cpio -iv < ../rdisk
else
echo "No Ramdisk found"
fi

pack (mkuramdisk)

#!/bin/bash
find . -regex "./.*"| cpio -ov -H newc | gzip > ../ramdisk.gz
mkimage -A ARM -T RAMDisk -n Image -d ../ramdisk.gz ../uRamdisk
[Nook Touch Android Development] Googie2149:
That's great! Even as you have it right now, this could be a great way to test new kernels!
[Nook Touch Android Development] ApokrifX:
If nook doesn’t boot, but respond to shutdown button still,

you can replace uImage or uRamdisk on nook internal SD by booting from noogie (well known fact)

or removing external SD card.

Otherwise (nook doesn't respond to shutdown button - semi-bricks)

you need to open it and disconnect battery or wait till it got discharged completely

And you may need to pop nook open to start it charging again in some cases

Either way, I don’t see how booting from external SD card helping much with kernel testing.

Am I missing something obvious? :o
[Nook Touch Android Development] klausef:
I use my Nook to read textbooks for all my classes so I cannot afford to experiment through the internal memory.

At any rate, digging around the forum it turns out that people have known this for a while (OP even mentioned it in the first post), so I apologize for the bulk of that post.

I tried editing the init.rc to mount the SD card's partitions (replaced all /dev/block/mmcblk0 with /dev/block/mmcblk1) and it seems to just hang. ( I made sure to wait a long time to make sure it wasn't just lagging from the speed of the card reader, although I may not have waited long enough... )

This lead me to believe that the card reader is not initialized yet. To test this hypothesis I edited init.rc back to something that worked, but this time added `ls /dev/block/ > /data/blocks` right after the data partition is mounted, to find out all the block devices the Nook sees at this point. Unfortunately, after the system starts up I found no file named 'blocks' in /data/blocks.

EDIT: Found the culprit! After boot, I looked at dmesg:

init: /init.rc: 19: invalid command 'ls'

So we can't use `ls` for this. No problemo, I'll just pack busybox into the uRamdisk and use `ls` from there.
[Nook Touch Android Development] probbiethe1:
Wow sounds like your really making progress. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
[Nook Touch Android Development] case-sensitive:
Would it be easier to use cat? (this is not a snarky remark)
[Nook Touch Android Development] klausef:
Haha thank you but nah, most of the stuff that I have done is known. I'm mostly just trying to replicate and document what has been done as precisely as possible.

I am not sure cat would work in this case since we are trying to get a directory listing of the directory /dev/block/, not concatenate or list two files.

Anyhow, it turns out that 'init.rc' is not a bash script, but instead uses the syntax described here: http://www.kandroid.org/online-pdk/guide/bring_up.html (See 'Android Init Language' section)