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[Galaxy S III General] chintan23:
orange

hi im new on this site, what i wanted to know is that my s3 is on orange at the moment, if i flash it and install stock unbranded software i.e so no orange logo on start up will the phone accept any sim e.g a 3 UK sim. my current firmware is LE2 i want to flash to the latest BLG8 also is there any sort of change log for all these updates?

thanks
[Galaxy S III General] InevitableDJ:
no, flashing an unbranded firmware will not unlock your device it will get rid of any carrier bloatware and flashing with the right csc will allow you to update via OTA if unrooted b ut it will not unlock your phone
[Galaxy S III General] chintan23:
so i still have to root and use voodoo simunlock even aftr the BLG8 update?

can you explain whats the deal with having no custom rom but being rooted correct csc and updating firmware?

thanks
[Galaxy S III General] cammel:
Ok, but it is fine that it shows KOR on recovery and BLG8 under *#1234#???

Shouldn't they be the same?

Thanks!

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 usando Tapatalk 2
[LG Optimus 2x] runze:
sorry noob here:p

does Owain's UNOFFICIAL BUILD supports USB OTG to read SD card?

I think I'll order a cable if its supported!
[LG Optimus 2x] salisbury_steak:
AFAIK, none of the O2X roms support USB OTG. Our chipset doesn't support it yet.
[LG Optimus 2x] runze:
so its hardware related?

i thought its kernel related before this!anyway thanks:)
[LG Optimus 2x] Supupa:
I don't think its hardware related, just when its implied it breaks everything.

Well eitherway, we don't have otg yet (:

sent from my wii remote
[LG Optimus 2x] eraldo:
They it working once but i think it screwed the external or internal sd card.
[HTC One X] hostmark:
I need a file from /system/app/htc_ime.apk

help much appreciated ;)
[HTC One X] Ox41464b:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/73054540/HTC_IME.apk

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/73054540/HTC_IME.odex

from: 1.28.707.10
[HTC One X] hostmark:
thanks a lot :)
[HTC One X] Willieumm:
Clicking the thanks button is always easier than typing it. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaSori495:
i have galaxy s plus

and i want to root it

and change rom

how can i do it?:confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mihaixp:
The instructions below are for I9000 but I guess they would work just fine.

First of all, you gotta install a base JVU ROM via Odin (instructions here: http://www.theandroidsoul.com/xxjvu/).

After that, you can root it (instructions here: http://www.theandroidsoul.com/root-xxjvu-firmware/).

And then, just copy the .zip file with the ROM on the phone memory and install it directly with CWM.

Cheers,

Mihai
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stoux2:
DO NOT flash Galaxy S (I9000) Stuff on Your Galaxy S Plus (I9001)

It will **** up your phone..
[HTC One X] brodiecb:
Hi all,

does anyone sometimes have to press the power button (when phone is completely turned off) twice (2 presses to turn on) sometimes?...

so just to confirm

- handset is off

- push power button once (sometimes doesnt come on

- push for second time (and powers up)

im defiantly pushing for long enough

iv have no issues with the button at all when in the UI or when locking/unlocking display

iv done a few tests where i have turned off. then went to switch on, with the same pressure and sometimes it starts with one, sometimes it starts with two presses,

do u think this is a fault? anyone experience this? normal?

just checking...

thanks heaps!
[HTC One X] fallenwout:
I had the opposite on my first one. When I pressed the power button to turn screen off, the screen went black for 1 sec and jumped back on lock screen.
[HTC One X] hasibzaman:
to switch on device you have to keep pressed power button for few seconds or u can keep it pressed until you see lights at the touch keys.. :good:
[HTC One X] PhilipL:
Hi

I don't think many people would turn their phone completely off so haven't found the issue.

When you power off what will be happening is the phone is off as much as it can be, but these buttons are soft off, the battery is still connected and some power must be drawn to run the power circuitry to detect the button being pressed again to signal to power back up the phone, in the same way when you turn your TV off by the remote, power is still drawn to run the remote sensor on the TV.

To keep the drain on the battery as low as possible so the battery isn't completely discharged over months of storage I suspect the power chip waiting for the on signal again is only sampling every so often to save power so it can be in super deep sleep state. This means depending on where in this cycle you are when you press the power button it might seem like it isn't responding, so typically you have to leave it depressed long enough for it to be "seen".

The better option is to just to put your phone into flight mode if you don't want to be disturbed or want the phone off. I do this overnight and lose no battery power by the morning, so it is as good as off. You can add a button to your home screen to do this quickly, widgets are included already for that.

Regards

Phil
[HTC One X] gmoka3:
Mine does the same thing.. Sometimes it does it with waking up from sleep also.
[G2 and Desire Z General] olavnn:
Hi!

Recieved OTA, official update today. Europe. Do not have the details, as i updated it in a hurry. Still same sense/android version. It was minor (about 6mb) "performance" update.

Anyone have any details on this?

EDIT: The update is version 2.42.405.4
[G2 and Desire Z General] aliasi11:
same for me. this the first time i received update while rooted. i downloaded that small update but still did not run it beacuse i am afraid of having S-ON.
[G2 and Desire Z General] craiglay:
The cynic in me think that this may satisfy various insane Apple vs Android things rather than be of any use.

Little sad its not a better version of Android, like 2.3.5.. That would have been nice. I'm happy with Sense 2.1 though.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
Any chance of someone grabbing it off their phones and uploading it somewhere?

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] qwasson:
Update Archive

I've just got this update, and uploaded it here:

www_filedropper_com/otavisiongingerbreadshtcwwe2424054-2424052release258556lmz8pa872xa8ocgl

I can't post it as a link to it as I'm a noob. Oh well.
[G2 and Desire Z General] moolash:
thanks

It is clearly a Gingerbread update.

My assumption is, it is in the best case Sense 3.5. Maybe not even that
[G2 and Desire Z General] crazybadger:
Software Information:

Android Version:2.3.3

HTC Sense Version: 2.1

Build number: 2.42.405.4 CL192788 release keys

never locked Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z General] veesix:
It's still Android 2.3.3 and Sense 2.1

But I think it's a really useful update, in my case I am not having Sense restarts anymore (well, just one, after closing Temple Run). The closing app/going back to homescreen process looks really more fluid now.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rirozizo:
could someone please check /data/local.prop for ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1??

EDIT: downloaded the file... nothing special found... just a bunch of blindness from all those Ps
[G2 and Desire Z General] craiglay:
Can anyone confirm whether its safe to flash if root / S-OFF?

Thanks in advance!

Craig
[G2 and Desire Z General] thunderbillo:
I'm just root and S-off on 2.3 HTC ROM and installation failed.
[G2 and Desire Z General] craiglay:
Through recovery?

I've now had a look through the update.zip and it seems to patch a fair few system apps as well as firmware.zip which contains boot.img, rcdata.img and recovery.img. I'd suggest if these were successfully flashed we'd loose root and S-OFF as well as recovery (CWM or 4EXT).

I'm still really not sure what this update is about..
[G2 and Desire Z General] as007:
I have a question. Does this update eliminates resetting Sense?
[G2 and Desire Z General] thunderbillo:
I've seen the error message in CWM when i were pressed POWER because i were blocked.
[G2 and Desire Z General] olavnn:
I have not seen the changelog, but on mine its almost gone. It happens less often after the update, in my opinion. And i also feel its running abit smoother. That might be a placebo effect:rolleyes:

I have another bug, gallery not updating new pictures, so have to run sd scan to refresh it. The update did not fix this.
[G2 and Desire Z General] craiglay:
I'd imagine because the certificates to flash have changed... I'm not too hot on Android hacking but depending on how you got root, the certs probably got changed or invalidated. It also looks like it flashes a new kernel which may part of the issue.

However, if you've flashed something like Unity v10 like I have, its still a higher version of kernel provided in the update!

---------- Post added at 10:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:58 PM ----------

I've not really seen the launcher reload issue at all before.. I've seen apps closed due to low RAM but the system stays rather stable, killing background apps. Maybe they've been playing with the figures from the Supercharger Mod which tweaks this very thing.

I've never had this bug.. on 2.42.405.2
[G2 and Desire Z General] rschroed:
I was offered the update today, and I installed it on my stock Gingerbread Desire Z. As far as I can see nothing much changed, but Windows 7 doesn't seem to find the device anymore when trying to connect it as USB mass storage device. Anyone else seeing this, or could I be having some other problem here?

Cheers,

Rob
[G2 and Desire Z General] aliasi11:
i tried but the update failed may be because of S-OFF. i think phone should be s-on in order to run that update.
[G2 and Desire Z General] utx:
I just succeeded with the update on my rooted system.

Here is what can succeed for people with stock system, just with superuser+busybox installed.

Note that this update will unroot, so you have to re-install SuperUser ZIP package from the recovery menu.

These commands are needed on Linux system with root privileges (I a not sure, whether update images are UID sensitive.)

#!/bin/sh
rm -f update.zip
mkdir update
cd update
unzip -XK ../OTA_Vision_Gingerbread_S_HTC_WWE_2.42.405.4-2.42.405.2_release_258556lmz8pa872xa8ocgl.zip
mkdir firmware
cd firmware
unzip ../firmware.zip
rm recovery.img
#rm rcdata.img (this part is not needed, most people leave radio and rcdata in random state during the rooting process, this just sets it to value for WWE phones)
rm ../firmware.zip
zip -r ../firmware.zip *
cd ..
rm -r firmware
zip -r ../update.zip *
cd ..
rm -r update

Then flash update.zip from the recovery menu, and then the upper mentioned SuperUser package.

(Note: Not verified! I forgot to add firmware.zip to the image, so I needed to flash system.img separately as PC10IMG.zip.)

---------- Post added at 03:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:42 AM ----------

If there is anybody with unchanged and unrooted stock system, then it would be nice to provide patched system.img as a strart point for modders.

Steps to do it. (It should be safe.)

1. Have at least 600 MB on the sdcard mounted on the phone (and not on computer).

2. Get fre3vo from the downgrade howto

Run this on your machine with adb:

adb push fre3vo /data/local/tmp
adb shell chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/fre3vo
adb shell /data/local/tmp/fre3vo -debug -start FAA90000 -end FFFFFFFF
# Exploit should succeed.
adb shell
# You should get # prompt here
cat /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 >/sdcard/system.img
rm /data/local/tmp/fre3vo

Then reboot for dropping the temp root and post system.img somewhere for others.

Note: It is safe to apply this vendor update even if you plan to root sometimes in future. This update did not patch the security hole exploited by fre3vo, so this utility still works on HTC_WWE_2.42.405.4.

@qwasson: How did you get the file you posted?
[G2 and Desire Z General] tun4f1sh:
Flashable ROM with this OTA merged in:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=26040258&postcount=6945

Just sharing.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mrpovilas:
Hello,

I have installed ICS Stock V2 rom, but he dont find usb, so what i need to do to activate USB mod?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mrpovilas:
I have look now that only charge about 80 % and dont charge. Can some one tell me how to do? Becouse i try to get out battery, wait for 5 min and it wont work.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] AnoopKumar:
Please try USB MOD in Linux :what:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mrpovilas:
Maybe you know another ways?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] AnoopKumar:
:what:

Windows os + Samsung driver
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] abhibnl:
Well i guess ics stock rom was already updated to v4. check it first. And samsung drivers are must for usb storage mode. download them or install kies. both will do the task
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mrpovilas:
I dont see he was updated tp v4. I download KIES but nothing. Phone just say charging and about usb nothing
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mrpovilas:
Thanks guy, i fix it. Can lock this theme.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stranded.eu:
Hey, if you've ever used SEUS you know what I'm looking for, is there and application to do the same stuff with HTC phones?

Also I would like to backup my whole phone, what software should I use? I don't care about what's on the sd card or in the phone nor apps/apk since I can just redownload them. I wanted to backup everything, current firmware, all default HTC stuff, how do I do that?

My phone is not rooted, branded etc. Desire Z, not Vision.

Thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Untill your rooted I don't know of a good way, don't think there is one. Once rooted a simple nandroid does that
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bogdan5844:
Doesn't HTC Sync do that?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stranded.eu:
There's no option to simply recover the phone, basically I want an official software so when I just want to go back to my stock ROM I just one-click it and it restores it from their own databse online (the latest available build).

That's a great Sony Ericsson feature. Too bad HTC Sync doesn't have that, or maybe I just can't find it.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stranded.eu:
Problem is I can't be rooted until I downgrade which removes my stock rom forever, correct?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bogdan5844:
No. Rooting doesn't necessarily involve flashing a new ROM. You can keep it stock. After you downgrade/root, you can flash the official Gingerbread ROM, which is exactly the same as you have now, just rooted and with bloatware removed.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stranded.eu:
Can you please point me some directions to that official Gingerbread ROM then? It's really hard to find something legit.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bogdan5844:
Of course. Here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1169004&highlight=pc10img

This is the official, stock, untouched but rooted ROM for the Desire Z, World Wide Edition. You can find root tutorials in the Dev section. Good luck :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] RatusNatus:
What the Devs say about this? Do it have a chance to be better than Android?

"This year’s CTIA Wireless conference in New Orleans is surprisingly short on major new smartphones. But at last night’s MobileFocus press event, I happened across a fascinating, one-of-a-kind handset which I hadn’t seen in person yet: Mozilla’s alpha version of a phone running Boot to Gecko, its project to turn the web technologies behind Firefox into a stand-alone mobile operating system."

Read more: http://techland.time.com/2012/05/09/this-phone-is-all-firefox-all-the-way/#ixzz1uTjwVoxf
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] LiLChris06:
Check here - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1518467

It's been on the i9100 for a while ;)

DO NOT FLASH THAT!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Smacdallas:
Que?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] RatusNatus:
Ok. not to flash it.

But is becouse is not working on i777 or it is just a crap?

What do you think about that?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] LiLChris06:
Because its not for our device, it may or may not work with broken calls/keys but I haven't tested it myself.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jthatch12:
Out of curiosity, why would anyone decide to flash it ever? It's not like play store will be accessible. It's a feeble yet very stupid attempt by Mozilla...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] LiLChris06:
Flasholics? :D

Honestly I don't have any details about that OS.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] RatusNatus:
Thats a pre Alpha...

For sure another "player" to this market will be a good thing. More updates, more releases, more everything.

Funny thing on that picture is that it is an International sg2 but there is an AT&T logo there. Check the pic.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] LiLChris06:
That's most likely the carrier its being used with, which is perfectly normal considering the tech site is probably located in the US.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tory13579:
I think its a neat different Idea... Do I think it will go anywhere like android and ios? Not really (would be cool if it did).

I would flash it, but only when its ready for our phone. I would love to at least try it. Who knows it could be the next best thing since the cheese wheel!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] JuannTwo3:
I personally would not mind flashing if LiLChris were to ever port it :rolleyes:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] LiLChris06:
I tried once, attempt failed...I'll look at it again when I get a chance. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ronii1123:
Anyone looking in to this? I'm really curious on using it, just to mess around.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] devoured321:
I tried flashing this about a week ago...failed in Odin and wouldn't boot past recovery...was using siyah whick stated b2g support....had to flash stock and restore nandroid ... not sure what went wrong but there are some issues there...so beware

I tried to see if it would boot at all just for ****s....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ronii1123:
There is a flashable zip somewhere in the original thread in the i9100 forums. I'm using it, I just don't get to use it because I have to build something which I can't do...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Min1123:
i777 with B2G

Boot2Gecko uses a different kernel from Android, still Linux, but with many different things compiled into it. If you go to the page with the i9100 image, you'll see a .tar.md5 image, which is really just a TAR image with some extra. You can untar it and get out the boot.img, which is the kernel. You can then use ODIN to flash the image, and if it is inoperable you can use Heimdall to flash the boot.img directly as the kernel. I stopped quickly with this because my i777 only partially worked with no radio on the last try, and it became unusable quickly. It was also getting extremely hot near the top of the unit, so I went and flashed back the AOKP image I had been using previously.

My attempts to build from scratch have been unpleasant to say the least, and it seems the Nexus is on the list of hardware along with the i9100, but the i777 and i9100g and others are not on the roadmap yet.

For those who want to know what this is, it's a Linux kernel that boots into a special version of Firefox, and then uses web documents and web standards to do everything. All of the OS is coded in HTML5/JS/CSS and has new JS implemented for controlling and using the phone's hardware. The "apps" are websites that are accessed remotely and then cached so that they do not have to be updated until the remote version changes, so the OS can upgrade extremely rapidly.

I'm looking forward to seeing this remove some of the mess made by the manufacturers and providers, and to see some much needed user control brought back into the system.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] RatusNatus:
Big question since i'm brazillian, WHY BRAZIL?

http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/firefox-mobile-os-2013-84721
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BytecodeMe:
To all of you who have completed the conversion. What problems have you had?

What would you say is the best road, battery, external housing and chassis or just battery and the external housing?

Thanks!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] aety9:
I would like to know the same, is it worth the $100+ (and voided warranty)?

I'd love to get a decent battery in this thing.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BytecodeMe:
Already voided my warranty! :)

I just want some confirmation as I've seen cracked screens attributed to the battery switch. Since I don't have a warranty I just wanted to know what was the best road
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mkarps:
How are people getting cracked screens from the conversion? Dropping it while converting? :p
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BytecodeMe:
They are getting cracked screens from the chassis flexing and therefore putting the screen under pressure, cracking it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] tech_head:
Which is why you do the whole conversion including the optional frame.

Converts the phone, truly to a Razr.

Also, be careful while doing the conversion.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BytecodeMe:
When you send the phone into them do they give you the chassis for free or do you have to specify that you want them to give it to you.

If you don't specify whether you get the chassis do they just grind your down your case and it fits correctly?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] fade79:
The RAZR MAXX chassis costs extra. If you don't order it they or you will have to grind down the original one.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] dewired:
It's not that difficult to do if you decide to go that way. Take your time.

It helps if you have hobby skills or are familiar with small electronics.

Use a heat with a low setting or hair dryer very sparingly. Warming the phone softens up the double sided tape so you can remove the back cover and battery easier. This is where people are probably cracking screens, . . Removing the battery. Again, . . take your time.

Do the conversion on a flat hard surface. Use a mat, thin towel or microfiber cloth.

I already own a full set of torx bits and heat gun so all I needed was a plastic pry tool. I used a guitar pick and a magnifying glass under a bright light.

The only issue I ran into was knocking off the volume rocker during the process. I didn't realize it until I had put it black together so I had to take it apart again.

The battery life is amazing in comparison. At the end of the day after heavy use its around 40%.

Sent from my Droid Razr Maxx
[Motorola Droid RAZR] dewired:
I need to add, use the Maxx chassis. It will be one less thing to go wrong plus dremeling the stock chassis may weaken its integrity.

Sent from my Droid Razr Maxx
[Motorola Droid RAZR] tech_head:
Use the replacement chassis, because if you ever have a warranty issue you can return to stock, then back to Verizon. Yeah, voided warranty, whatever.......
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Notyours:
I did the conversion without the new chassis and had to grind away at my old chassis. It took a lot more grinding than what I expected in order to get the back housing not to flex or put additional stress on the screen. My advice is to get the other chassis. If you don't, do not force the back housing and do not over tighten the screws that hold the chassis to the board - that too can cause excess stress on the screen that could lead to cracks.

Other than that, take your time and everything should be good. I am very pleased with the upgrade.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] capsali:
Hello!

So my razor is 651.73.30.XT910.NonEFIGSRetail.en.eu and what i've seen on the forum most of the users have only Retail and in the flashing thread there are no nonefigs roms . So can or should i flash a Retail firmware ? Does the nonefigs affect me in terms of updates or different methods of root/flash etc?

So what should i do?

I'm from romania and i bought the phone from vodafone although i dont think its branded (havent tried another sim card) .

Thanks for ur help!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] maarawoe:
I have the nonefi too and it didn't affects rooting or whatever...

I simply reflashed with the retail without any problems.... ;-)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] capsali:
So you did reflash with retail firmware?so its safe to reflash?would i get updates after flash?