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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KSauzeRK:
Hi,

I recently went from stock rooted GB to ICS Stunner 1.4.19. Lots of things I liked, but I was used to certain functionalities from touch wizz, anyway here are my questions :

1 - I guess the keyboard with free hand writing recognition is a part of TW ? I was actually using that, any way I can retrieve such a functionality in ICS Stunner ?

2 - the backlight buttons always on or off is annoying, I read about it on the main ICS Stunner thread, I don't know if there's a satisfying solution to this ?

3 - FM radio not working, there's not workaround solution I guess ?

4 - I had a big battery draining problems, again didn't see any solution to this.

Then I tried ALBA because I was not sure I wanted to get rid of TW, and from this small experience of tryings different ROMS, the most annoying thing is to retrieve datas / configurations. I used titanium backup, but here are problems I encountered :

- I thought Google stored some configurations like my Wifi network key, but it doesn't or it didn't set it automatically.

- I realized (yea I'm newbie) some of my datas were on my Google account and some on my Samsung account (or locally on my phone ?). For example, I have some events on my S Calendar that are associated to my Samsung account, some to the Google one. My contacts are all on my Samsung account, because my google contacts has too many people (why does Google add so much people automatically to contacts I wonder). This makes it hard to retrieve all datas, on ALBAs for example I didn't find how I could retrieve my S Calendar / Samsung account datas.

- I used TB to restore only a few apps, with not much success : Kindle had lost it's settings, I had to reenter my account informations, download dictionaries again, etc. Opera mobile crashed when restored, so I downloaded, reentered link account informations. And I can't use TB to restore system stuff (because of different ROMS or different kernels, it's not clear to me).

So my question to all the ROM switcher that wipe their phone ten times a day, what is your best solution to : retrieve wifi configuration, APN configuration, contacts, sms, calendar stuff, etc ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frabe8378910:
to 1: There is no easy way to get any Samsung stuff (like TW) running on an AOSP/AOKP ROM. Requires hacking with libraries and the like.

to 4: Try wipe all and reflash ROM again. If that does not help, wipe all again reflash chainfire-repack (I use always Mobile Odin for that), reflash ROM

to you last question: Backup everything ( user apps + system data) and copy it to your PC just in case (I do it with scp from my linux shell and SSHDroid on the Note). Don't restore plain all saved data, but you can restore selected system data (like wifi configuration, contacts ...).

That works fine for me, even when my contacts are saved on google and migrate back from there. You have to find the right items in Titanium for just contact data and such, but mostly on my Note they are colored green and called "Konten", "Kontakte/Anrufe" - but that's a german note. Restore only the data for these system items!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KSauzeRK:
Thanks for answering frabe8378910 !

Too bad for the few S-apps I would have used. Also I'm not sure but I think different pressure for the pen is not supported in ICS stunner.

As for 4, I think I found the cause : there's a "multimedia" process showing in my battery stats , and I guess it runs especially when screen is off because sometimes I would loose several % of battery life when the GN was in sleep note for only a few minutes ! Well, I killed the process and battery consumption seems normal now.

Thanks a lot for the tip for saving contacts, I downloaded sshdroid, I'm on windows but I will use putty, though I'm not sure how it will handle permissions for the files when copied from GN to Windows and back to GN. Maybe I should stick to Titanium...You achieve saving all your datas through "manual" scp copy, or you also use an app like Titanium ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frabe8378910:
I use "Note Everything Pro" for drawings and such with the S-Pen. This works fine for some measure drawings before you drive to a "baumarkt" (google tell me it's an english word too ;-) to buy building materials and furniture.

Yes, I save ALL user apps + system data with Titanium and the copy the whole directory (see below) to my PC.

Concerning the permissions for the Titanium files:

- login via putty to your note

- "cd" to the base directory of Titanium backup folder

on my note Titanium would save to: /mnt/emmc/BACKUP/Titanium, so "cd /mnt/emmc/BACKUP"

- do a "tar cvf Titanium.tar Titanium" which will pack the whole Titanium directory with all files and owner/group/permissions to ONE tar-file.

- copy this file via scp (putty) to you PC. Done!

If you need to restore the Titanium file on the Note

- copy the file back to the right directory

- "cp" to it

- do "tar xvf Titanium.tar"

- and the directory Titanium with all files and permissions is ready to use! :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KSauzeRK:
I'm a bit familiar with unix/linux, should have thought about tar !

Thanks again for your help.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] crimson12:
So to sum it up, I don't personally have a skyrocket, but I have a friend who looks to me for custom roms, root, etc for his skyrocket. I've been doing the ROM flashing thing for like 3 years and I've never had issues. Yet it seems every time I flash something to his phone I'll get a call a month or so down the road saying its unbearably slow or that it takes minutes to make a phone call. Is there some step that I've been missing? How does this always happen? I realize they're different phones, but I've flashed countless roms for multiple periods of time on my Xoom, Gnex, and Eris without any issues. Can anyone shed some light on this? Its been driving me crazy.

Thanks for any help,

Ryan
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] chappatti:
Can you expand on what is slow? If it is just apps MOT UISNG internet, then his process memory/cache/whatever is gettiing full. Does he ever reboot the phone? Restarting the phone clears memory and will do wonders.

If he is using any app like Task killer or Task manager then he is screwing things up. With the the SGS II, there is no need to kill processes, since that only worsens things.

If he restarts phone, does it recover its speed? Can u check that?

EDIT: If it is internet - i do not see how that could be related to making a call, but still otherwise - then he is being throttled.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] crimson12:
Thanks I'll text him and see what I can find out. As of now I think he's running the modified leaked ICS roms that came out like a day after the leak. We live on opposite sides of the state so I rarely see him.

**Edit: there's no way he's being throttled. He's the most data conscious person I know. Barely used 300mb of his 2gb the last few months.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] chappatti:
The very first ROMs of the ICS leak had a lag problem. The newer ones quickly got rid of that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] crimson12:
This is a copy paste of his response asking what was wrong:

"I'm not using a task manager at all. First off, the phone freezes every so often and it shuts down by itself when it freezes. That aside, I've rebooted the phone literally dozens of times because it starts acting funny...like, apps will randomly stop working, the home button won't work, etc. Then adding to that, the phone feature is soooooooooo slow. If I tap on the phone to make a call, it takes about 5 seconds to open. Then any numbers I punch in take about 4 to 5 seconds each to appear. If I want to call somebody out of my call history list, it will take at minimum 5 seconds to open, and then selecting the person to call can take up to 10 seconds to respond. Finally, the home screens lag somewhat when I scroll between them and the lock screen is always on, no matter how many times I turn it off. Lol kind of a lot of problems huh?"

So new ICS ROM seems to be the general consensus? Thanks again guys.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] chappatti:
Is his current data very important to him? Looks like a sub-optimal flash. It happened to me before - the exact symptoms. Since he is far off from you, he can do the following:

1. Reboot to CWM recovery.

2. Wipe data/factory reset.

3. Wipe dalvik cache.

Of course his favorite apps will be gone......

The more sure way is to reflash, but this time do the above steps along with Mounts&storage>>Format>>system, data, cache

Then reflash the ROM. Of course again his favorite stuff will vanish,

To avoid this he can do a nandroid backup, or Titanium bakup, but then replacing those apps back MAY re-corrupt his system.

Will check back later.......

EDIT: ALso, in some ROMS if you flash radio, kernel and ROM separately, the order matters.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] crimson12:
I can figure out a way to back his apps up if I tell him how to use TiBu right? I'll be skyping him later thus weekend to try and figure it out. If he wipes this way it won't erase EVERYTHING on the internal storage right? As in camera pictures will be saved correct? Ill try to walk him through a CWM flashing, shouldn't be too difficult. Any ROM suggestions you have currently for me, prioritizing stability over most everything? Thanks again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Girn:
Screw backing up his apps. There is issues with restoring apps and ICS. He should reinstall the ROM or download a new one. And no, pictures and media won't be touched. And I recommend the latter.. Embryo 2.1 is amazing and silky smooth and I have zero issues with it. Had a few that I quickly fixed
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] crimson12:
Are you implying there's issues restoring for ICS and the skyrocket? That would be understandable maybe, but I know for a fact there isn't for just ICS in general. Thanks for the ROM btw, I'll look into it. If it means anything, he's using AT&T.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] madmax49201:
Pm me maybe we can find someone in between who can get it going for him im in jackson.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] droid512:
Lol im similar i have a rocket with no issues using smooth ice and really tried most of the other roms but i have a friend who also has one and when i put roms on his phone he's always having issues a few days later. I know he's doing something dumb that is slowing him down but still he blames me and says just put it back to stock
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] crimson12:
Glad I'm not the only one in that boat. I swear I have no idea what happens to other peoples phones once I flash stuff on them. Mom and sisters nook color is running fine still. Flashed a ROM on an OG Droid for a different friend a few months back and within two weeks he had me fix it because *I* messed it up (How the hell he managed to delete the launcher and google framework packages is beyond me :what: ). Guess there's a reason root is disabled when you purchase a phone :rolleyes:. Although I still don't understand how problems arise weeks if not months later and the fingers are always pointed back to me. /rant sorry.

I'll be checking out the two ROMs suggested here shortly then making a detailed email out to him. Thanks again everyone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
Haha, let them figure out how to modify their own devices. It will only help them to know what they are doing and you will have less problems.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] crimson12:
You are most correct. For the most part, unless its a close friend I will refrain from doing anything. I've had too many instances where people don't understand what I'm telling them. For example, the mere installation of juicedefender on a colleagues phone caused "me to be unable to get Facebook messages or words with friends notifications instantly unless I turned the screen on and I had to take it to the store to get repaired" :banghead: WELL YES. What did you think I meant when I told you your data services would be suspended to save battery while the screen was off? TLDR: Family only or I'll make you learn yourself (or sign a waiver :p)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
Yes, I have learned to be very selective in helping people run roms and such. If they don't understand what it means to clear cache, dalvik, fix permissions, etc.. they are gonna have problems. They need to understand the basics of custom roms, rooting, and the like before they can even consider using anything but stock. They simply have no business running a custom rom, and some are buggy, which makes it far worse. Our ICS leak needs some TLC and some knowledge to keep it running and debug when problems arise. This is something a "buddy" with no knowledge is not gonna be able to fix, and he will have problems. Even Gb customs have issues which require basic knowledge to fix. Our "buddies" need to read the forums and equip themselves with some knowledge before doing or running anything other than stock.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] crimson12:
I guess I'm just used to having phones with a larger development community (Nexus, Eris, OG Droid, Nook). The one here is stellar, don't get me wrong, but I've had numerous android devices with flash and forget ROMs that I may have incorrectly assumed all phones had these. My apologies to anyone who takes that offensively, it wasn't intended to be. There are tons of great devs here who continue to impress me, but the population of this dev forum compared to the GNex for example, is much smaller.

Tldr again: I incorrectly assumed most phones had flash and forget ROMs. Is there anything close to stock I can just flash and root for said buddy? Ideally a stock rooted ROM would be best I think.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1486480

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1426590

I used both of these for while. Both were rock solid. The second is just a more themed version. Both are GB, but not stock. rooted, deodexed, zipaligned, etc
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] crimson12:
Thanks a bunch. I'll say its safe to assume there's no stable ICS yet? I don't mind GB at all, I just foresee issues converting said friend to use GB since he's asked me most every day up till the leak about when ICS was coming.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
Well, I consider it stable with both seanz's ucld2 sky ics and nexusmods beta 7, but there are a couple bugs. If your buddy just needs a rom that runs and doesn't need fixing every now and again he should probably stay on Gb.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] crimson12:
Sounds like a good plan.. is there anything in particular I need to do to go from the leak down to GB?
[Hardware Hacking General] dudemaaan:
I'm a pretty smart guy and I pick up on things quickly, but how people can take a consumer device (xbox, ps3, iphone, router, photoframe, digital camera, etc) and figure out wires and resistors that appear random in many cases to build a jtag connection and then magically dump the firmware and develop their own tweaks or custom firmware just escapes me. I've built jtag connections before, modified or replaced countless firmwares, but every time someone else already did the leg work and supplied a step by step with either pictures or a video. You have guys like geohot who hacked the iphone at like age 19 and then the ps3 shortly after.

I have an aluratek photo frame and I all I want it to do is automatically start the slideshow when the frame is turned on. Something seemingly so simple yet I wouldnt even know where to begin. I imagine it has a feature to upgrade the firmware either by usb or sd card. But I would first need a copy of the OWF and then I would have to know what to change to enable the feature. Maybe it has a jtag connection, but which wires go where I could only guess. I dont see how or where people learn this kind of stuff. It's definitely more then just a google search,
[Hardware Hacking General] Paderf:
1: about jtag pin :

finding Jtag pin is easy :) check what cpu inside your hardware and serach shematique now 90% of cpu schema can get from china books, than you need just trace lines to get good soldering point :)

2: about hacking

after reading flash use any disassembler, ida is very good and with same skill you can reverse what you want
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] lojak29:
Someone possibly posted a binary counter reset zip for the att note obviously renamed it as att reset counter zip,which was probably for the wrong model phone... can anyone help cause i believe that is what happened my m****fin phone wont reboot and i followed the instructions and the provided download link for the att reset-counter zip

after i flashed it in cwm the note wont turn on i get and can hear usb recognition when plugged into pc but screen is black , battery pull wont work download mode wont come on

Feeling like a victim here with no solution??

HELP ANYONE?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] the2rrell:
Well just because the screen is BLACK does not mean that your phone is not in download mode.......i would put the phone into download mode and plug it up to odin anyway....see if goes yellow for the com port #

and if your accusing someone of blatently bricking your phone with a false file......you will be hard pressed to prove that here. i dont see ANY i7000 dev thread over here.

so just be a little more careful next time.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] lojak29:
no i followed the links in xda that is supposed to be reputable

I used the att counter reset .zip NOT THE ROGERS NOT THE TELUS!!

And it said flash successfull.

when i reboot from cwm nothing nothing !!

and every other follow up said nothing but yay and awesome and worked perfect!

What gets me is wtf happened.

i can see it recognized when i plug into my pc and when i hold power button i can hear stuff on the pc but the screen has no response I tried to see if i could get a port to recognize by vol down and power but no com ports appear
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] hyukki:
Calm down, there is no reason to call anyone out.

You knew the risks of flashing beforehand. If your phone is recognized by the computer then it means it's not bricked. Don't just assume it's bricked. There are things called jigs, if you have done your search before freaking out.

Just saying.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] lojak29:
Well ive also read that qhbusb dload is a bad sign meaning hardbrick

since it accepts the device as unrecognized

the screen of death so called is being described as what im dealing with on forums
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] drksilenc:
just an fyi on all samsung 2.3.6 the jig was disabled by samsung. you now have to have the device jtaged by an asr
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] i_max2k2:
Yep mine was in that state and a jig dint work, got it replaced by ATT cause they cant really figure with the phone in that state.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Donjuanal:
So just to confirm, you have blindly tried to get into download mode, you do have the samsung SGH-I717 USB Drivers installed on your machine, and ODIN does not recognize the phone? If you havent done all of that, start with the USB Drivers, then try to blindly get into DL mode via vol down+power from a hard off state. Wait for the vibrate then let go, with the drivers installed and the phone in "DL" mode Odin should recognize it. If it does you can flash back to stock with the appropriate files.

Hope that gives you a place to start.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] oka1:
Lojak et al: Flashing .....

YOUR PHONE IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY........

Know who made the rom/kernel etc and read carefully BEFORE flashing things..... 99.8% of the ppl in XDA are good responsible members, just have to watch out for the exception.

But, bear in mind what you do to your phone is YOUR issue not anyone's here and....... caveat emptor is the advice Everyone can only offer. Many here might be able to help you resolve, just calm down and think it through, then post logically the issues and the members will offer some ideas up.... they always do....:)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] stulzerl:
Why would you want to reset the counter? My understanding is that Samsung will still know whether you flashed your phone or not...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] arch3lau5:
I was under the impression that as long as the counter is 0 they won't know you've flashed it. Is this wrong?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] wase4711:
its interesting to see how worried people are when it comes to a flash counter issue if you turn your phone in to be repaired/replaced under warranty.

when you think about the thousands of phones that go in weekly for warranty claims, do you know how many techs they would have to employ to start checking all the phones binary counters?

I'm sure that if any testing at all goes on, with a warranty claimed phone, is no more than just trying to turn it on, and if it doesn't come on, then its just moved on down the return line...

Obvious signs of abuse, would probably give them a reason to take a closer look, but how many people do any of you know that have warranty claims turned down because they flashed a custom rom?

I've been on phone forums for many years, and read thousands of posts, and I can't even think of a handful of times that I read about someone getting turned down for warranty repair/replacement because of their flash counter.

Hell, Sprint even has an official "policy" on how to handle warranty issues with rooted phones.

The yellow triangle annoys me, so I will try and get rid of that when it shows up, but I don't care what my flash counter says..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] svenerator:
So after a while I would like to give MIUI a try again, it seems there are a lot of different versions. I am tempted to just flash the official MIUI ROM. Do you guys have any advice, or you have really had a good experience compared to the official ROM of MIUI. I would like to know, Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
RULES

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1612881

In other words you search you try .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
OP, I know you didn't technically ask about best ROM or whatever, but I agree w/JJEgan. No one can advise you on what you will like or not like. Flash it and try it yourself.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craxat:
hi all :)

i'm new on this forum :o and need help!

after finish downloading by odin3 get this error:

(copy'n'paste on your browser:) freeimagehosting.net/aj45y

thank you all :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yahyoh:
u need to flash rom with pit file an it will work :cool:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigdaddy rob:
I've seen several post as to some of the issues the GN is having is related where the phone was built. But I haven't seen how to find out this info.

Does anyone know how to find out where and the time your phone was built/put together?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Underneath the battery or on the box itself.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] CMNein:
Location is behind your battery.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Shark_On_Land:
Samsung

I am Shark On Land, and I approve of this message.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sarveshvaity:
Dont see location

My phone only says its made by Samsung, not where it is made.
[HTC One X] RobSha:
Hi,

I need a car dock that will fit both One X and Desire HD phones. Mrs has the DHD so the official One X dock is out of the question.

Not fussed for active dock as position of the usb port is different on both.

Suction mount for screen preferred.

Any recommendations?

Rob
[HTC One X] MancUK:
I bought this & it's absolutely great! It will definitely fit both phones & is very sturdy. I have it mounted on my dash (using the supplied pad) but the suction device seems that strong I'd have no qualms putting it on a windscreen. Cheap as chips too.