yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC One X] Ripley:
Can you add up the total costs over the contract period, it makes it so much easier to decide which is best.

For example, I paid £480 for the phone, plus £10 a month for 250 mins, free giffgaff mins, unlimited data & texts, works out at £720 over 2 years. SIM free though, so no bloatware & sooner updates
[HTC One X] ramheer:
Those offers from O2 suck big time! T- mobile offer the full monty package for 36 pounds plus they always give me a good deal when I renew! For 22.50 pounds a month I get unlimited Internet and data and unlimited texts and free voicemail plus 5 family and friends on t- mobile which I have my mum, wife, mother in law and sister in law and brother and we can all contact each other for free via voice calls, texts and mms! They can have zero credit on their pay as you go phones and can also contact each other for free unlimited! Plus I get 900 minutes free to any network! When it comes to upgrades they always give me my choice of phone for free and reduce my line rental!
[HTC One X] Tel7:
Cheers for the replies.

Good thing is they've started to call me more which is I'm hoping to ask why I want to leave again but I've not answered them yet. I will tomorrow and hopefully deal with retentions.

Ripley,

O2 deals so far offered...

Phone for £104.99, 200 Minutes, Unlimited Texts & 1GB Data for £25.50 a month on a 24 month contract = £716.99

Phone for £79.99, 300 minutes, Unlimited calls to any network, Unlimited Texts and 500mb Data for £27 a month on a 24 month contract = £727.99

Tesco currently offered 250 minutes, 5000 texts, 500mb. £20 a month and phone for £175 which works out at £655.

Cheers
[HTC One X] RBFesquire:
I was quite impressed with the buymobilephones.net offer.

Free unlocked phone (for what it is worth at the moment), T-Mobile.

£26 pounds a month, unlimited texts 100 minutes and 1.5 gig of data. Ok the minutes are a little low, but it was ok for me :-)

I've got 2 phones from these guys and the service is rather good I must say.
[HTC One X] nafpez:
Ive just got this deal, but instead of 100 mins and 1.5gb net, i got 600 mins and 250mb net, i dont get a decent enough signal for HSDPA where i live so the 600 mins were a no brainer. Very good deal if you ask me.
[HTC One X] Ripley:
Apparently p4u are doing a 12 month Vodafone contract @ £36 a month, no contribution, and generous allowance
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mimranmaan:
Hi

I am running wanam lite ics and want to go back to custom GB?

please tell is it ok to flash stright from recovery or I need to follow some specific steps.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The-Hulk:
You can flash straight from recovery, just make sure you follow the roms instructions.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] githoniel:
there is no different! Just wipe and recovery
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] TakuSkan:
I'm looking for a solution for rooting my GT-S5830L in another thread. But while I'm waiting on that, maybe someone could confirm this for me.

I've read that ClockWorkMod can be uninstalled, at least in Froyo, by doing the following:

Deleting: /system/bin/hijack and /system/bin/logwrapper

Then renaming: /system/bin/logwrapper.bin to /system/bin/logwrapper (<- No . at the end)

I've read that in several places, but haven't confirmed that it also applies to Gingerbread. I have 2.3.4.

Thanks folks.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mdfzhi:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1437426
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] TakuSkan:
Well mine is S5830LUBKP7 GB 2.3.4.. and I've already lined up a procedure to flash a ROM of that I got from sammobile with Odin if needs be.

Are you suggesting that ClockWorkMod can't in fact be completely uninstalled without flashing a stock build?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] AnoopKumar:
must reflash with Odin :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] TakuSkan:
2nd opinion suggesting just deleting and renaming files doesn't do the job. Hummm...
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] TakuSkan:
Any more votes?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] dxppxd:
there's a flashable stock recovery floating around somewhere in the forum, use the search, might work alright. Other than that, Odin.

It seems you're probably worried about warranty. If you ever need warranty for some reason reflash the stock rom from Odin and that's it, gone CWM, gone root, gone any reason to own an open source OS smartphone.

Otherwise, it's really not recomended to be flashing custom or stock modified roms without having the option to backup and restore your phone's system, which in my opinion is the most important asset of CWM.

Don't worry, you can always go back to stock with Odin. But once you root and start flashing, you WON'T GO BACK; there's really no other way to go beyond the factory issued limitations of the ACE.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] A4sWorld:
try Odin
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] TakuSkan:
I did check the ROM build on my Ace and found the factory backup on samfirmware. I read up on Odin at the same time, so I'm feeling better about going that route if needs be. I was just wondering if there might have been a quicker and less radical way to uninstall CWM and unroot... and still have have the phone at 99% of what it was rather than start from scratch.

Guess the only reason I'd go back would be to send it in for some reason under warranty. But who knows, at that point there's the chance it might be beyond flashing to factory.

Thanks for confirming that CWM and rooting will be gone if I ever flash back to factory. It's been a crash course in the past few days, going from knowing zip about all this to just staring to get a handle on it all.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] justkarol:
To Fix Android going into “Obtaining IP Address” loop:

rm /data/misc/dhcp/dhcp_list

It seems to come from the fact that the phone requests its previous IP address to the access point, without any discover message, whereas the lease has expired from the AP point of view...

The previous leases are stored in /data/misc/dhcp/dhcpcd-eth0.lease and /data/misc/dhcp/dhcp_list. You just have to remove the second file (dhcp_list) to force the phone to start a new dhcp negotiation.

Thank you Gadgeteer81 for the fix! This really works!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] sumeetsave:
no change

still the same loop
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jibu_tom:
turning of WEP

My router had option of having WPA authentication and WEP enabled. Switching of WEP and having only WPA2-PSK solved the issue for me! Anyway WEP isnt recommended.

ICS device A110
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkmeister:
Hi folks,

Have been going round in circles trying to root and flash my mate's DHD. I've been reading various threads and trying various methods but to no avail.

His DHD was originally on Froyo 2.2 and he took the T-Mobile OTA update to 2.3 w/Sense 3.0 when it was rolled out. As I understand it, it must be downgraded back to 2.2 before we can get full root access?

I've installed SDK on my PC and have been able to push tacoroot and misc_version to the phone. However, when running tacoroot, it reboots to go into recovery and I get the red triangle with the exclamation mark. The phone won't boot into recovery manually either. I've already done a factory reset to see if that helped, but no joy.

What am I doing wrong? Should the phone be able to access recovery completely stock? I never had this much hassle with my Desire - can't believe the DHD is such a pain in the backside. He has the phone with him now (he needs it tomorrow) but we're going to re-attempt tomorrow afternoon.

Am I doing things in the right order? Why do I keep getting the red triangle when trying to go into recovery?

Your help would be much appreciated!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t0mas_:
well, as far as i remember you need to downgrade to 1.32 specifically.

and another thing, have you tried using advanced hack kit? it is pretty much one click solution, but can be tricky if the pc it runs from is not compleatly clean.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZACQ8:
Try this on an Ubuntoo live CD, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1259821

worked like a charm for me..
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkmeister:
I'm running Windows and followed the Hack Kit instructions to the letter. We're making more progress than before, but have run into the following problem:

[Would you like to downgrade? y/n]y

a67daa6baa7ef085307593fef6329d14 *PD98IMG/PD98IMG-GB2.zip

Flash the downgrade RUU? [y,n]y

pushing rom to sdcard - this takes time please be patient.

1690 KB/s (259503624 bytes in 149.887s)

Setting up to temproot....

cannot open 'tools/bin/zergRush': No such file or directory

1707 KB/s (572752 bytes in 0.327s)

1204 KB/s (19240 bytes in 0.015s)

going for temproot using zergRush....

setting mainver lower for downgrade...

--set_version set. VERSION will be changed to: 1.31.405.6

Misc partition is "/dev/block/mmcblk0p17"

Patching and backing up misc partition...

Error opening input file.

Creating goldcard....

HTC android goldcard tool Copyright (C) 2011, Wayne D. Hoxsie Jr.

Original code by B. Kerler. Special thanks to ATTN1 and the XDA team.

/dev/block/mmcblk1: cannot open for write: Permission denied

starting downgrade...

** The phone will now reboot into HBOOT.

** It will then check the file just sent.

** If everything is okay, the phone will

** prompt you to continue by pressing

** VOLUME UP. It will reboot, flashing twice.

**** PUSH POWER WHEN THIS STEP COMPLETES ****

If downgrade is successful, you may set up the phone and try to hack it again.

Once the downgrade is successful, press a key to return to the menu......

Otherwise, cut and paste the output to the screen into a text file for evaluatio

n.... then press a key.

Press any key to continue . . .

The phone checks in HBoot and then comes up with:

"Main Version is older!

Update Fail!

Press <power> to reboot"

Any ideas? I'm drawing a blank.

Edit: Although I don't think it's a Windows issue, I'm downloading the Ubuntu live disc and will try it with that.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marsdta:
You have a couple of issues from the output you posted. In the beginning it couldn't find the zergrush files to temp root. This leads me to believe it was a bad download of kit. Did you verify the md5 for file integrity? And the second was an error with the SD card. You might want to try a different one
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkmeister:
Checked the MD5 - came back fine. Have swapped the SD card for another one - formatted to FAT32 with nothing else on it.

Will re-run.

Still downloading the Ubuntu disc (!) so will try that in a mo if a re-run with a new SD card doesn't work.

Thanks for the input, much appreciated!

Edit: Exactly the same issue again. Will try it under Ubuntu.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] glevitan:
That doesn´t seem to be an sdcard issue. Download the Kit again and extract it all in the same folder...The cases experiencing your issue are mostly for missing files in the hack kit.

Look this in the code you pasted: "...cannot open 'tools/bin/zergRush': No such file or directory..."
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marsdta:
I guessed the issue with the missing files but he said the md5 check out.

I mention the SD card because of the line of error writing to mmcblk1. After the line creating goldcard, but you spend more time helping out in the irc to know better than me
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] glevitan:
Yeah, those are the cases I have seem, but maybe something different comes out....it is hard to know without the whole information...:)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkmeister:
Thanks to everyone who offered ideas and support; I've finally managed to do it.

<hugesighofrelief>

Thanks again, also to the chaps and chappettes in the IRC support channel.

F
[Galaxy S II Android Development] lyriquidperfection:
Just thought I would continue Odia's work for anyone who would like Insecure Kernels for their devices.

These are all tested and confirmed working!

Just Unzip and Flash the '.tar.md5' File in Odin.

Insecure Kernel Repository - Browse (Dev-Host)

Original Kernel Repository - Browse (Dev-Host)

Insecure Kernel Repository - Browse (Dev-Host)

Original Kernel Repository - Browse (Dev-Host)

Insecure Kernel Repository - Browse (Dev-Host)

Original Kernel Repository - Browse (Dev-Host)

Please don't be a leech! If I have helped you and you find these useful then please buy me a packet of smokes! :)
[Galaxy S II Android Development] lyriquidperfection:
Reserved!
[Galaxy S II Android Development] sam razzy:
So cool... will prepare for a test...!!

TapaTalk Gnex Galaxy Sii
[Galaxy S II Android Development] lyriquidperfection:
Insecure Kernels for the latest ICS Firmwares have been tested, confirmed working and uploaded to Dev-Host.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] lyriquidperfection:
More Devices will be supported as soon as I recieve some feedback.

BR, Gaz
[Galaxy S II Android Development] webjunky:
just got my SG S2 last friday and now i'm looking into rooting the device.

when i look at the kernel my phone say's 3.0.15.-1900XWLP4-CL299729

witch kernel do i download in order to keep it original ?

this is my first Android phone this is all new to me :eek:
[Galaxy S II Android Development] lyriquidperfection:
Use any above to provide root shell but search for an original XWLP4 Kernel before flashing an insecure one so you have an original to flash back. :)
[Galaxy S II Android Development] leonalewis:
is it right that the original kernals are required only when anyone wishes to go back to stock ROM whenever. And insecured kernals are to be used only at the time of rooting the device and are no more required for installing Custom ROM ?

thanks
[Galaxy S II Android Development] lyriquidperfection:
Yes thats correct. :)
[Galaxy S II Android Development] lyriquidperfection:
More Insecure Kernels have now been added! :)
[Galaxy S II Android Development] ugokind:
??

unknown comprssion method

winrar cannot expand any of the above zip!
[Galaxy S II Android Development] lyriquidperfection:
Use 7zip! :)
[Galaxy S II Android Development] 77cats:
How do we do that? I quickly tried to look on Google but it's past bed-time for me and I all I've seen looked like chinese. ;)
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Phil3759:
Thank you for this thread,

A nice one now that most dev left us for the s3
[Galaxy S II Android Development] lyriquidperfection:
More Kernels Added! :)
[Galaxy S II Android Development] rhoberto:
Anyone with XXLPN insecure Kernel?
[Galaxy S II Android Development] lyriquidperfection:
Ill sort it later. :)
[Galaxy S II Android Development] dxdestiny:
Was able to get su app and the root is successful but cant update su app and use any root app. any idea? On ICS GS2
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Emexrulsier:
A little bit of advice on kernels I have the i9000p which I am pretty certain would use the same kernel is the i9000 as NFC is gunna be os/hardware dependant. Anyways my kernel is PXXLPC I could put on a normal insecure kernel to root but I am then wanting to put on the official non secure one afterwards but struggling to locate it

Baseband: I9100PXXLPC

Kernel: 3.0.15-i900PXXLPH-CL378510

Build: IML74K.XXLPH

Any help greatly appeciated
[Galaxy S II Android Development] DF21:
What are the differences between stock kernel and XWLPM Insecure (4.0.4)? and can I do wipe via CWM, which is included in your XWLPM Insecure kernel?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kpm197:
hi, is there an ics rom for the sgs2 which hasn't been samsung-ized? i guess the same as what's on the nexus.

i've spent about half an hour looking round here and google. i found this

http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s2-pure-ics-rom-50788/

but it's a couple of months old and wondered if there was anything more recent?

thanks, kris
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keeganmccallum:
I think this is what your looking for http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1601518
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
There are indexes of ROMs in both the Android Development and Original Android Development sections. You'll want to look at the ones labelled as AOSP or AOKP. Look them over, research them, flash them to try them out yourself.

---------- Post added at 01:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:36 PM ----------

Yeah, that (F1) is one option... Not sure why, but it's not listed in either of the indexes.

Neither is this one (CBR).

Both of these (F1 and CBR) are those developers attempts to capture the true Google AOSP feel of ICS.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kpm197:
perfect, thanks both!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thracemerin:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1419102 is also an option, most of the other AOSP/AOKP based ROMs use the device specific repositories from Cyanogen for the SGS2.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caioluizdangelo:
I am using a pretty good one too. It's the Resurrection Remix (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1436854).

You should take a look.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r0nnie:
The pure rom is released in a special version 2.0. I like this rom. It's based on a official samsung rom with a ics theme and the aosp apps. The samsung bloatware is removed.

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9100 mit Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jackeduphard:
I tried to flash SlimICS 3.4 Base and essentials then it got stuck on the loading screen. (My phone was on 4.0.2 and then got the notification today 4.0.4 was available and tried to install it and got a Android laying down broken sign half way through the install, so that sparked me wanting to get a new ROM and this whole problem. Thanks for your help)

I went back in and wiped and flashed again. Now I am stuck on the Google Page.

So I need some help. I am trying to find odin for i9250 and I think i can flash it with ODIN.

I am not sure so what I know so far:

I am using the ToolKit and i can see the device connected to my computer (This gives me hope that I will be able to get my phone working again!!!!)

I need links for ODIN.

(Edit found i9250 for oden: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1405327)

I need a ROM or something that i can flash in ODIN.

I am not sure what else ... and I would like a good build of 4.0.4 build that is real light on its feet and is fast ... Thanks guys.
[HTC EVO 3D] kittykat858:
reserved #2
[HTC EVO 3D] ssojyeti2:
First for the first time:D
[HTC EVO 3D] LfnsR:
Second. will give it a shot. Thx Chad. Good to see you back on XDA - even if limited.
[HTC EVO 3D] youdug:
CONGRATULATIONS! :D

......thanks chad ;)
[HTC EVO 3D] moonpie28:
I'll try for sure....
[HTC EVO 3D] cobraboy85:
chad i'll flash these after i finish my other test with rls04_1858
[HTC EVO 3D] Dzevo3d:
Will do

Sent from my 3D
[HTC EVO 3D] HeckNoTechnO:
Cool thanks
[HTC EVO 3D] Evo3D21:
Definitely going to try one out. Chad's kernels set the bar!
[HTC EVO 3D] Unknownforce:
So I've been running this for about 15 minutes now and the battery life is awful!

Kidding! ;)

Looks good though chad. :)
[HTC EVO 3D] kittykat858:
****, its HTC base, i wont even flash it :) once you go QC, you dont go back

j/k - but the QC kernels on my phone on the sony xplod rom last me all day then some... i charge every night anyway... and i use the phone a lot. gtalk is always running, etc...
[HTC EVO 3D] droiddawg:
I see your cat is hard at work coding. Make sure he gets tuna for this. :P
[HTC EVO 3D] P.Mobile:
chad is this the kernel that was supposed to be just like the old 2.08 rls 9???? i kno on the infected site u said u will be coming out with a kernelike the old rls 09 kernel
[HTC EVO 3D] pstevep:
Y you no talk to me anymore?!

Glad to see you back. You know where I am if things get crazy..
[HTC EVO 3D] jrmatics:
OK lets go, gonna help out
[HTC EVO 3D] kittykat858:
sup boss :)

HI!!

thinks are always crazy
[HTC EVO 3D] alammori:
Nice to see you chad with a thread here at XDA . :)
[HTC EVO 3D] kittykat858:
no - i just got sick of people complaining of battery life, so im doing some tests so see if battery issues can be fixed

the RLS9 test is in the hands of freeza, and it didnt go as expected :(

full change log in OP for this one
[HTC EVO 3D] XsMagical:
woot, its good to see more kernels from the master him self on the site again.
[HTC EVO 3D] mozman:
Looking forward to checking it out.
[HTC EVO 3D] kittykat858:
item 7 on the universal zip's menu is RLS3 of this experiment

the ONLY difference is the zip file its in

the modules and zimage are the same

- so if battery changed, so did something else in the rom thats causing the change

"1 GB-EXP-latest", "RLS9-Linux 2.6 / GB 2.3.x SENSE",	1,
"2 GB-STABLE-latest", "RLS4-Linux 2.6 / GB 2.3.x SENSE", 0,
"3 GB-STOCK-AnthraX", "RLS1-Linux 2.6 / GB 2.3.x SENSE",	0,
"4 ICS-Linux26-latest", "RLS4-Linux 2.6 / ICS 4.0.x Sense & AOSP",	0,
"5 ICS-Linux30-latest", "RLS2-Linux 3.0 / ICS 4.0.x Playground ONLY!",	0,
"6 ..comming soon", "comming soon",	0,
"7 XDA Experimental", "RLS3-Latest XDA Opensource Kernel",	0,
"8 100% HTC STOCK", "RLS0-100% STOCK HTC Kernel from 2.17 RUU",	0
);
[HTC EVO 3D] oldjackbob:
Okay, I re-read the revisions I made to the spreadsheet this morning and I did indeed post that the test kernels had good battery drain but the Universal 043002012 kernel had poor drain.

I've been updating or revising that spreadsheet daily since the first day of the test.

Nevertheless, I'm going to re-test the rls03 kernel's overnight drain tonight and will report.
[HTC EVO 3D] mrrogers1:
THIS! Since its the only kernel in the public folder where the OP link takes us it's a little confusing since we were supposed to be doing the experiment and then all of a sudden people are talking about this new Universal kernel and I'm like, WTF, I'm lost (but still happily rocking RLS3). LOL!

Chad, when will you be compiling RLS4? If it's coming today, I'll wait on it, if not today, I'll see if I can confirm on the Universal like OldJack.

EDITED: UM....SCRATCH ALL THAT! The "Universal" is your combo kernel aroma installer. It's not a "Universal" kernel. I would have known that if I had of tried to install it (downloaded but not installed) since I used the aroma installer with the last QCBase you did. Ok, I'm holding for RLS4 as I haven't changed anything on my end and the RLS3 kernel is the same in the "Universal Kernel Installer".

Maybe a new name for the zip would make it clear. Maybe call it the "G.O.O.D.KernelInstaller.zip". :D

OldJackbob, LMK if you need the "non-aroma" RLS3 for any reason, I still have it readily available.

THANK YOU!!
[HTC EVO 3D] oldjackbob:
Thanks, I still have the non-aroma rls03, reflashed it already and it's been hanging at 58% for the last hour or so, so I'm expecting good battery results over the next several hours ... and that's in a poor reception area, lol!

Edit: I'm afraid we pretty much destroyed any hoped-for results of this experiment when the Universal zipfile was uploaded, because I've got a feeling almost everyone jumped on the RLS9 Linux 2.6 kernel, just because it's new and (hopefully) contained Beats, which everyone's been crying for in all of Chad's recent xda threads for the last several days. But that kernel (RLS9) may not be part of the experiment ... in fact I doubt it is, because it's getting the poor battery life we all disdain, which suggests to me that it isn't in the same build family as the test kernels. But that Universal zipfile is now the only option listed in the download link in this thread's OP, so everyone thinks that all the kernels in that zipfile are part of the experiment, and I don't think they all necessarily are. And even if they are, people are reporting that "the new kernel is getting poor battery life" without actually specifying WHICH kernel, which is further confusing the entire collection of reports. What a mess..

In any case, RLS03 is delivering excellent battery life for me, and for the record I've not seen a single report which stated that RLS03 was delivering poor battery to anyone. So lets make sure we have our facts straight, because I'm pretty sure we really don't.