yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nokia Lumia 800] ChrisKringel:
NCS updates apparently your bootloader...

Sent from my Lumia 800 using Board Express
[Nokia Lumia 800] jrdatrackstar:
could you upload the 7740 ROM for the 710 then?
[Nokia Lumia 800] Tan-Killer:
how to flash this ROM ?
[Nokia Lumia 800] _Madmatt:
I think this thread is really useless. ROM's can be downloaded from NCS and above all, there are no chefs yet, because we can't run custom ROM's yet...
[Nokia Lumia 800] sh4d0w86:
send me a PM.

incorrect. for somebody that will 'bash' a thread, you sure don't follow them... see here for those that can Introp-Unlock and load a Custom ROM, when they become available.

plus, this ROM doesn't have to be used only for the Nokia Lumia 800. parts of this ROM can be used in other Custom ROMs for other devices. e.g. HTC, Samsung
[Nokia Lumia 800] jenesuispasbavard:
If I flash this will it magically let me use the 850MHz band on AT&T's network? Currently I don't get very good 3G coverage with just the 1900MHz band.
[Nokia Lumia 800] _Madmatt:
I know some people can now load custom ROM's, that's right. However they still can be downloaded from NCS. If you want threads for official ROM's to collect them for devs, they'd better make one thread which collects them all...
[Nokia Lumia 800] sh4d0w86:
Radio frequencies can't be unlocked via a software change. frequencies are locked at the hardware level.

why? there isn't a thread count limit.
[Nokia Lumia 800] _Madmatt:
No, but it's much easier to find a ROM if they're collected all in 1 thread. If chefs search for something, they'd rather search one thread (and if possible only the first page) to find the ROM, instead of trying to find the thread that has already gone in the crowd because he searches an old or unpopular ROM...

Just some thoughts...
[Nokia Lumia 800] HazzaBlake:
People need to stop moaning, its this kind of thread that is the foundation of development. It may not be much use to the average rom hungry flasher, but something will come of this.
[Nokia Lumia 800] HazzaBlake:
like the rom bible for the g1?
[Nokia Lumia 800] _Madmatt:
No idea, never owned a G1, never looked at those threads. I'm just giving you my opinion. An overview would be better than a bunch of unordered threads. That's all.
[Nokia Lumia 800] voluptuary:
I'd really like to download this so I dont have to instal ncs... but the link is dead. You wait for your download timer thing and enter the numbers then....NOTHING.
[Nokia Lumia 800] sh4d0w86:
weird. yes, that is the case. will reupload.
[Nokia Lumia 800] sh4d0w86:
Sharebees link is working again. uploaded a FileFactory mirror, though.
[Nokia Lumia 800] luckydog98:
Madmatt, I'm not trying to start anything but if that's how you want it then do it yourself and quit beating a dead horse with stick. Just my two cents worth......
[Nokia Lumia 800] SiL3nTKiLL:
downloading!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] ratweh:
So I used to have a Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100, that was simple because there were a billion custom roms for the one phone.

I recently got a Telstra HTC Velocity 4G, and now apparently it's called three different things in different parts of the world? Not only that, but some have 1.2Ghz processors and some 1.5Ghz?

Anyways my question is, can I flash any Vivid/Raider roms and it would still work? Or is this not the case? If not, where would I be able to find custom roms for my phone (if there are any)?

Thanks in advance, I am only a HTC noob at the moment. I sorta miss being able to play with CM9 on my SGS2 haha.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Aus_Azn:
You can flash ANY region's ROMs without a hitch. I have an American device, and have been on the Aussie stock ROM ever since it came out.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] prahasta:
have a same problem with u ratweh, i'v HTC Raider 4G LTE x710e.

very confused bout why they give different name on different region...LOL, but, AFAIK, after asking this forum contributor, they said, we can flash Custom ROM provide for VIVID on VELOCITY / RAIDER and vice versa without worry :D,

except ICS rom and official RUU off course :p
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] ratweh:
Thanks guys!

So even with the different CPU's and all it'll still be sweet?

What about modems? do I have to keep the stock Telstra one handy so I can re-flash it after every rom?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] CasualStarlord:
The CPU's are actually identical, they have different serial numbers to indicate the different modems, one has an internal modem on the chipset, the other has a modem attached elsewhere, the same drivers and such work for both so the difference is ignorable, the Vivid and Raider are underclocked to 1.2 by default however to save battery and for some reason the Velcity isn't perhaps for marketing reasons as its name "Velocity" would be stupid on a phone that is underclocked.

the ICS differences relate to something called the HBOOT, this is different for each device, but once your device has the ICS HBOOT it is perfectly fine to then flash any VIVID/RAIDER/VELOCITY rom on any device by first fastboot flashing the boot.img then flashing the rom .zip via recovery, this is a 2 step process so far because we don't have S-OFF... yet.

I have a HTC Velocity and have gone through pretty much all of the GB/ICS flashing scenarios and provided you read the instructions properly, which I have, I have not had any issues flashing the telstra roms, the at&t roms, the rum raider roms or what I am using now PirateGhosts RumFloat Beta4, which is no longer hosted on XDA due to a falling out, but google it and you can find it pretty easily, I will probably stick with RumFloat until CM9/MIUI is available.

PM me with any questions specifically about the Velocity and I can help you out mate :D
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] ratweh:
Woah haha thanks so much! That's exactly what i needed to hear!

Thanks heaps!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Maxi1984:
OK that's a lot of information i was looking for too!

I have to flash the Stock Telstra ICS (because I have Telstra Velocity) first. So i'll get the right HBOOT for my phone. After i can flash ICS of any other version except RUUs or OTA's because i could get the wrong HBOOT then?!

But there are still two things i'm wondering about:

1. What about the Radio Roms? Are they not different for every version? Or ist it just that they are not included in the Custom Roms?

2. What is if i want to go back to a GB Rom? Do i have to flash a GB RUU first to get the HBOOT back?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] CasualStarlord:
NP, good additional questions though, I installed the Telstra ICS HBOOT by re-locking the bootloader on my phone (because it was already rooted on GB) and then installing the telstra GB rom, then I upgraded to the Telstra ICS rom via the standard method from Telstra, then I re-unlocked the phone and re-flashed recovery and then I was ok for other ROM's, there's lots of ways to do it but this way is probably the most reliable.

other thing 1: there are no different Radio's yet, and we cannot flash them until we have "S-OFF" there are some private beta programs in the works to get S-OFF but until that is public we cannot adjust the firmware or radio, and even if we could there is no radio update available at this stage anyway.

Other thing 2: to go back to a GB rom, I would recommend relocking the bootloader and installing the GB RUU then going through the unlock/recovery installation again just to be safe, though I think you can just flash the GB HBOOT I'm not 100% on that method.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Maxi1984:
Hey, do you mean there are no separate Radio Roms to flash? Because i saw at the Stock Rom Collection that there are different Radio Roms included, aren't they?

I saw also that you are on the Rum Float Rom, can you tell me if there are any other languages included?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] CasualStarlord:
RumFloat B4 appears to support English, Spanish (Espanol) and French (Francais), I believe it uses the at&t rom as a base.

The radio's in the stock rom's are only flashable because they are part of an official secured ruu, without S-off they are useless to phones that are not from that telco.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Ignition75:
Great post, thanks for that, I'm in the same boat. Gonna try your mod, battery life is aweful...
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Ignition75:
Good post, I'm currently using my spare HTC Flyer :o because I've got my completely wiped Velocity only with Bootloader and Recovery on it at the moment. Still deciding what to load and wondering if other ROM's from other phones will work.

Also does my head in that it's called 3 different things in different parts of the world. One thing I'm sure of that I hate the Telstra stock rom and I think the name "Velocity" refers to how fast the battery is drained when in use :p

Will keep an eye on this thread and looks like I might give the RumFloat image a go...
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Pappa5murf:
ROM support

Yeah hi, I flashed my Velocity 4G with Leigh's Nightly build 4 and it works great beside that it has no keyboard installed..

Wondering where the custom ROM are hiding and the stock Telstra ROM, cos i can only make calls on it atm, :/ fancy that a phone that can only make calls,, haha.. seriously I kinda need the links please,, (at least its not bricked, Pheww):cool:

UPDATE..

I tried the Stock ROM again,, it also failed,, so I

factory reset thru HBOOT

and low n Behold the V2 wallpaper popped up and viola, keyboard works and the Build4 ROM works like a treat.. I love the smoothness and the goodies Leigh has included.. Adblock fo1.

probably a good idea to include this in the noob files. :/
[Motorola Droid Bionic] The-Captain:
Credits:

dhacker29, made the CM9 ICS Rom

ra3al, for providing the Xperia S launcher + widgets to shobon

shobon, of course because he made this for the Droid 3 and I ported to the Bionic! Nice work!! Be sure to thank him!

Follow me on Twitter for test builds.

Download:

Be sure to wipe first.

Rom: http://www.mediafire.com/?augfi4r09a2t5aj

Gapps: http://www.droidhive.com/forums/index.php?/files/file/2-google-apps/
[Motorola Droid Bionic] brandonnichols360:
What works and what doesnt?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] The-Captain:
Seems people are having Data problem, working on fixing it, besides that, only the same problems CM9 has.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] The-Captain:
New Test Build:

http://t.co/qjbri6pV
[Motorola Droid Bionic] adampa1006:
So this is ICS and can use the new CM9 theme manager themes and such? Definitely interested in checking this out

---------- Post added at 02:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:01 PM ----------

Also cant download Gapps not a member of that forum....
[Motorola Droid Bionic] The-Captain:
Yes, it is ICS, haven't tested the Theme manager yet though.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] The-Captain:
As for the gapps, I will see if I can find them somewhere else.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] adampa1006:
I dont see the theme chooser :-( Wanted to try out the new CM9 themes.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] The-Captain:
It doesn't come on there you can probably add it though.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] adampa1006:
Tried the updated file you posted, and no data buddy. Flashed back my Eclipse and data came back. I really like the look of this ROM and an definitely interested in using it. Thank you for your work.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] The-Captain:
Sorry you had to flash and then flash back. I am going to go about it different next time.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] adampa1006:
What do you mean? Also try to get the new theme chooser in there. I will keep posted on your newest stuff :-)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] The-Captain:
I am going to try and compile it a different way. As for the theme chooser, I don't know about adding it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] collins521:
So I got a Razr from the place than ends with "Bay" lol...so far it's completely stock with no apps installed or even activated. It however reboots a lot, I haven't even touched anything it's stock. After usually the screen goes off it causes it to reboot.

What would you guys say? The seller said he would refund my money if I can prove something is wrong through skype or something which I can easily show him it rebooting constantly. Is it fixable or should I just get my money back and call it a day?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] stkiswr:
Try a full factory reset and check for updates. It should be on 6.12.173
[Motorola Droid RAZR] stkiswr:
Or just rsd the latest and try it then. I have no reboots whatsoever. Also cdma or gsm
[Motorola Droid RAZR] collins521:
CDMA, it's on the version number you said, already did a factory reset too
[Motorola Droid RAZR] collins521:
So you guys think its not gonna live again?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ninevolt321:
Check to see if it is still under manufacturer's warranty and get it replaced
[Motorola Droid RAZR] collins521:
Well I got my money back but he asked to sell it for super cheap but wasn't sure if it was toast or fixable
[Motorola Droid RAZR] pedrotorresfilho:
I would buy it if really cheap. It can be replaced. Older razr is less than one year manufactored, isn't? Then in warranty

You can check this in motorola.com suport page. Provide your email to verify warranty status an correcly version of your device, so you can flash right rom on it

Thanks
[Motorola Droid RAZR] gunness1991:
why on earth would you do such a thing?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] collins521:
Buy it from ebay? Cause it was cheaper.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] collins521:
Well looks like he sold it to someone else so looks like I'm not gonna get it oh well.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] pedrotorresfilho:
I'd buy too. How much did you pay for it, can you tell?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] collins521:
They are going for around 300, I got that one for 240
[Motorola Droid RAZR] pedrotorresfilho:
That's a nice price. If you get a bargain on that for fixing it.

Try rooting, intalling razrboostrap and wipe cache, user data and dawyck cache. You should be good. If this doesn't work you'll have to go motorola services. Had you checked it's warranty status? It tells you also your exactly model/carrier. Wish you luck on this

Thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CONTACTMC:
Seriously can't work this one out, do I get my screen changed or not?

Should I wait to see if ICS makes it any better?

This phone is perfect for me except this issue with the blacks / greys. Even when i zoom in on dark parts of pictures taken with the phones camera it turns into a pixelated mess, so this is defiantly not a low quality source issue, its hardware or software related, but which?

Advice please guys. Many thanks!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] razorhanny:
I know! Right?

The screen Is freaking awesome, simply the best on any smartphone, but why those blacks haven't been fixed yet???
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davexeno:
I really am at a loss to what you guys are complaining about. I'm either not that fussy, or deluded to the fact that what I think I am seeing as 'bad' I pass off as something else.

From what I've read around the forums, what should be a shaded series of greys/blacks in an area are appearing as blocks of black/darkgrey instead of a gradual change.

I've always thought this was down to how videos/images where compressed or decompressed and displayed - which would almost certainly be software and not hardware?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] richlum:
Same here. My blacks look fine most of the time. When I do get grey blockiness I'm pretty sure it's due to poor compression in the video file, because other videos, large black areas look fine.

Can anyone give a link to a video available online in which this problem occurs (and the point in the video we should be looking at).

Maybe then we can get some objective testing with everyone using the same source file.

Maybe even have people doing screenshots to compare screens.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knightnz:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1366014&page=4

I'm rarely using my phone in dark enough conditions to notice.

ICS should improve gradients, but won't fix the black crush if it is indeed a problem with the screen hardware.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CONTACTMC:
I am probably going to regret this, as my Note was perfect except for this black crush issue, but I sent mine back to be replaced. And the issue was not just on videos for me so poor quality encodes are not the problem, I was getting it even with pictures taken with the phones camera. Said pictures taken with the Note displayed fine on my pc and my wifes Galaxy s 2, so it is deffo a problem with the device.

Please lets not turn this into another "who cares" or "its not that noticeable" debate like the other threads, all I am aiming at with this thread from now is to find out if there are any Notes in existence that do not have this issue!

Thanks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mystic38:
I refuse to look for a problem that is not there.....

There is no phone or portable device in existence that is color accurate, either tonally or temperature or gamma correct out of the box, and to expect such is to be, well, expecting quite a bit too much.

Why do i make that statement?.. Well, given that a monitor or TV at ANY price are not accurately calibrated.

To get an accurately calibrated monitor requires a display worth using, then a color tone/temperature/gamma calibration system (which is ~$200 & up) and software that can use the resulting calibration profiles...

The SGN is a phone... tbh there is no "fault" or "problem" here, other than unrealistic customer expectations...

Would a settings app that could set globally set color temp & gamma be helpful? sure.. there is enough color temp variation in the spread of production tolerances in phone to make this useful... stop a ll the pink white /blue white issues

But will it make the SGN a color accurate display?.. no.

So... lets wave a magic wand and make it so... whats the point? the camera does not justify it, the movies you watch are overly compressed and not color accurate (never mind compression artifacts of banding, blocking and shading), youtube videos have no quality controls.. online TV, website videos and stills have major color saturation issues.. so what content will you access that is going to be useable on a color accurate display?..

well, 4 beers down and 2c more spent.. :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CONTACTMC:
Dude, my pc plays / displays these movies and images fine with no artifacts, as does my tv, as does my partners Galaxy s 2, as does my Nexus s, so how can you say that there is no problem?

Anyway, I just had a look at my cousins Galaxy Note and that one is playing these movies fine, and is displaying the pictures taken with my Note without the chess board effect, so if you are happy to pay over £400 for a defective device thats up to you, but many of us expect to get what we paid for.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CONTACTMC:
I just found this on you tube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a8aIGeLERg many people find this a problem.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brockyneo:
I agree with you it is a problem and even supercurio has been on it and he is a developer so someting isnt right so lets hope it gets fixed cause many people suffer with it
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdodd:
The problem is clear enough to see there, but it's not one I've ever noticed on my Note. I just tried playing this YouTube clip on my Note....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syxd2n8S4AE

and could see nothing wrong with the video performance in a darkened (curtains drawn during daytime) room. I wonder how well this clip plays for other people on the Note.

I made a video of the Note playing this clip and I'm uploading it at the moment. It will take a while (81 minutes remaining at the moment) as I shot in 1080p. I'll post a link when it's ready.

FWIW I'm on the latest official ROM and my phone was sourced from Germany in early November. From my perspective there is no problem, which might make it quite hard for Samsung to fix.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkBluu:
My Note is running on ICS (CM9) and the color rendering is substantially improved over stock GB. Gradients are smoother and blacks are rendered cleaner.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdodd:
My video is up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl0SKxnqa2I
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bioweb:
I've played the same clip on my Note and it looks exactly like yours, no banding/crushing/clipping whatsoever.

I've tried a lot of Youtube clips and movie trailers but in only one of them I could see obvious artefacts during a fade out. I played the same clip on my pc and saw the same thing happen there so that's probably just lousy encoding.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CONTACTMC:
Thanks for putting that video up, I hope my replacement looks like yours, its due tomorrow.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CONTACTMC:
I got me new note, this one is set to uk language instead of german like the one I returned. It has the exact same issue, drops from 4 grey to 3 complete black and i am still getting the clipping, bloody Samsung, this was meant to be an upgrade from my nexus s, but most stuff looks better on that! Not gonna excahnge again, I will wait for ICS and see if Samsung actually acknowledge the issue.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rapturoso:
@Mystic38. Whilst I agree with you that most consumer devices don't come calibrated to industry standards and that most consumer devices lack the essential settings found on the most basic of professional displays, I fail to see how any colour, contrast, hue, gamma or brightness calibration would affect the overall appearance, unless of course you are cranking the settings beyond anything useful and crushing the dynamics intentionally.

It's difficult to introduce visual banding or blocking in high BIT rate video or lightly compressed images by tweaking settings and calibration by a couple of percent alone, as there are near on 17 million colours. This leaves thousands of grey levels to play with and the human eye shouldn't notice banding or blocking with that many greys.

This presumably points to an issue with the way that video is presented to the screen driver or how the screen driver drives the screen. There's probably an issue with crushing where the hardware converts the digital signal to electronic levels of each AMOLED element. I have seen this problem on other devices, not just phones and most of the time it was rectified after a software upgrade.

Another thing to remember is that companies like Samsung are fully aware and accommodating of the fact that a lot of people now use these types of phones as monitors for photography and video production as I do. I use DSLR Controller and have no problem with crushing. Using the phone as a monitor has been extremely helpful and negated the expense of something which would have cost over 10 times the price.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdodd:
I just got round to trying the ,png gamma test file on my Note. It fails the test. Everything below 4 is black and as you go through the numbers from 4 and above there are bands grouping four levels into one tone. Worse still, the tones alternate from greenish to purple instead of being shades of grey. Interestingly if I perform a screen capture the capture is a true reflection of what I see, which implies to me that the Note is actually sending bad values to the screen rather than a hardware problem, because surely the screen capture only cares about the data, not the physical appearance produced.

Looking at the same file on my laptop everything is presented correctly, so obviously the file is not the problem.

Yet despite failing this test I have never noticed a problem with the Note to cause me concern in normal every day use.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pboesboes:
Have you viewed it in the gallery or in a browser? With my Note everything below 4 is crushed in the stock ICS browser but I can see everything in the gallery.