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[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadowCodeGaming:
Flash gingerbread. ICS is buggy/laggy/WIP/whatever. Those are some of the smaller bugs.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OranNuri:
Time to think about A worthy successor for the nexus one.

Nexy can't run ics smooth enough.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadowCodeGaming:
HTC one x.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OranNuri:
The one x is too big for me.

The one s could be perfect if it had nfc and better screen.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LewisGauss:
Sony Xperia S

Sent from my WAREZ impulses.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XeloOw:
HTC One S <3
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NuMb.cfg:
So can u guys help me to restore prvs setting like Resize,SD PARTION?

What is original size of system? :s

cache?

And How To Unpartition SD?

can it be Done By Formatting SD :) ???

System -150 mb

cache - 30 mb

Is it?

please correct me
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tommert38:
You can 'unpartition' your µSD by formatting it with SDformatter and set Format Size Adjustment to ON. Format type FULL(OverWrite) is recommended.
[General Questions and Answers] Profile9999:
Does anyone know how to go about downloading applications for android without having to connect the receiving device to the internet?

I need to be able to download applications on a computer and transfer them via SD card to the device that they will run on. The device that will run the apps will NOT be connected to the net.

Suggestions?
[General Questions and Answers] Faiz Malkani:
Download from somewhere other than Google Play. Or try reverse tethering
[General Questions and Answers] joeclown:
well at least your computer has to have an internet connection and you can download from other forum sites etc..

if not you should get .apk files (android application files) from your friend or something..
[General Questions and Answers] arybaguss:
Using Google Play Store :D
[General Questions and Answers] Faiz Malkani:
-.-

The play store needs internet on the phone
[General Questions and Answers] Profile9999:
So it seems that if I wanted to have a device (tablet) with absolutely no internet connection the only way I would be able to load applications from say Google Play is I would have to download the application and install it on another internet connected device and grab the APK off of that device and sneakernet it to the tablet with no connection.

Google Play does not seem to offer any way to download apps except if the developer offers the apk on their own website.
[General Questions and Answers] badboys8908:
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[General Questions and Answers] Passburger:
I've found a link to a tutorial that may be useful to you:

http://www.addictivetips.com/internet-tips/how-to-download-android-market-apps-to-your-computer-apk-downloader/

I hope this helps.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MoHi96:
Hey guys. I have a friend that has an Epic 4G Touch and we're trying to get him set up with this ROM and it says that Rogue Recovery should not be used.

However, I have a few questions. First of all, where can you find a non-Rogue recovery (CWM only) for EL26? I have scoured the internet looking.

Second, what's the difference between CWM Rogue and just plain CWM? Is there one?

If it helps, we have an unrooted E4GT with EL26. (I have a Desire HD so I'm unfamiliar with all this complicated Odin stuff.)

Thanks so much in advance for your help. You guys are awesome!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Esoteric68:
Umm in that thread you linked to, at the very beginning of the Install Instructions there is a live link to the EL26 with cwm recovery.

Usually these threads include files/links to everything you need but you need to read them thoroughly from top to bottom, read the follow up comments and then re-read the OP before you even dream of installing a custom ROM you are unfamiliar with. Also if you have questions ask them before you flash, not after you've borked your phone. Usually it's best to ask questions about a ROM in the thread for the ROM or look in the general forum to see if there is a discussion thread for it, and there is one for AOKP.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1557109

Good luck and happy flashing!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dante32278:
1. There is none, that was the last official CWM recovery made for this phone

2. Rogue recovery had gingerbread source code so flashing between and GB roms was easy...ICS source code hasn't been released since there isn't an official build yet

If you're going to flash a stock based rom, the recovery doesn't matter as much. However anything AOKP/AOSP should always be done from el26 until TCP releases his source kernel.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MoHi96:
Wow...that's embarrassing. I guess I should have taken a closer look.

And I actually can't post on the development threads just yet. That's why I posted here in the Q&A threads.

In any case, thanks so much for your help! It is much appreciated.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MagicMan2014:
What if I have EL29? Can I still use the EL26 kernel?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MoHi96:
Okay, a bit of an oversight on my part. The phone is completely updated so it has EL 29. Can I still flash the EL26 kernel with CWM without problems? I would assume yes, but I don't want any problems.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dante32278:
As long as you flash the kernel you need for the ROM u want, ur fine. For example, if you are on AOKP there is an fd26 kernel made just for it....after you load the ROM, you clear cache and dalvik then flash the kernel and boot.

If you want to flash any add-ons, you go back to el26 via Odin and flash; just ensure you flash a kernel with the same process as above before reboot (wipe cache/dalvik, kernel, reboot).

Link for AOSP/AOKP kernels is below

http://70.174.60.11:40/~tcp/Kernels/
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dante32278:
@MoHi96...See my last post, same thing really. Kernel el26 should be used to flash, once ready to run your ROM your kernel should be flashed last to support it. GB kernels will not support Android 4.0 and up.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MagicMan2014:
I assume this should all be done in CWM with this order, for example: Flash Milestone 5. Wipe then choose the EL26 kernel and flash?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] T.C.P:
Odin el26 cwm kernel

Boot into recovery

Flash caulks format all

Flash aokp

Gapps

Optional fe07 boot img

Profit
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MagicMan2014:
Ahh, ok. Thanks a ton guys.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dante32278:
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[HTC Desire S] usmanxhmed:
Nobody could help but finally i managed to take the risk and it paid off thankfully.

It is the easiest way to unroot, remove superuser, revolutionary and to restore hboot back to normal and S-On again, to get official updates including ICS.

Download the attachment "usmanxhmed.rar", it has Android Flasher and FlashENGHBOOT.

Attach your phone to PC with USB cable, make sure you have HTC fastboot drivers installed.

Open Android Flasher and select bootloader and browse to the file FlashENGHBOOT which you downloaded in file "usmanxhmed.rar", boot phone into fastboot and click flash.

It will remove REVOLUTIONARY **** from the phone.

Now download your specific RUU from this link http://www.filefactory.com/f/c64d333a2755a421/ i was unsure which is my RUU for the phone as i bought it second hand, my phone was unbranded, i matched the software version and radio version in my software information of the phone and downloaded the specific RUU.

After flashing the RUU my Desire S became factory fresh and back to S - ON and updated my phone with Android 2.3.5 and Sense 3 and hopefully/ may be i will get ICS in future as well

--------------------------------------------

ORIGINAL POST

(Please Don't tell me to search the forums, as my situation is bit different and i am newbie here)

I have Desire S (I bought used from Market and sadly it has S-off with Revolutionary and Superuser App installed)

Problem is that, i get notification of update 1.47.401 and it gets download, when it tried to install after reboot i see android icon with triangle exclamation mark.

Now my situation is different because i have a feeling despite S-off i am on official rom which is 2.3.3, so i want to jump to 2.3.5 and later on official ICS

So i think if i just remove revolutionary and root and S-off to S-On may be, i may able to install the update as i already have official or stock rom in my phone i think.

I have android 2.3.3

software number 1.28.401

Update that i download is 1.47.401

Revolutionary S 0ff

hboot 6.98

I dont even know which hboot i need to get this update to inslall or what i need to do? is there any caring guy who can help beside just taunting as i have seen here?
[HTC Desire S] ben_pyett:
Forget update, simply flash a custom ROM

Would also suggest that you out ENG boot loader over the alpha Rex one

See INDEX (in my signature) for links

Swyped from my DesireS
[HTC Desire S] lynxnoon:
@poster

for u to conviniently use htc OTA updates u need to S-ON again

or just forget it and install custom ROMs like Ben just said

cheers
[HTC Desire S] usmanxhmed:
Thanks both of you for replying, its the beauty of God that we all have different mind sets, unlike most guys here, i am a man who would prefer official/stock rom and would prefer to have official updates instead of amateur ROM. May be because

- It causes far less phones to brick

- Manufacturer understands device better then amateur developers

- i see no special advantage of custom ROM over stock rom

- i can live life without root and s off as i can have more secure android experience

- Manufacturer invests may be billions to understand the best combination of hardware and software may be that's they don't usually port gingerbread on g1.

- Official update can remove few bugs where as most custom ROMs have bugs as we often read in almost all the posts here thst camera or wifi or tethering is not working yet and so on

- Customs ROMs can over heat the hardware and can damage it as they lack proper hardware knowledge, training and research.

There are endless points due to which some poeple like to stay stock, unlike most here and by above points i am not saying lovers of custom that they are wrong or not demotivating them at all, just sharing my own thoughts due to which i think i better have stock rom in normal circumstances.

So is there any (expert) guy who can help me to resolve my problem instead of telling me to get custom ROM, which i know my self, and which i said i don't want. Its ok not having 2.3.5 but i will be unlucky not to have official ICS if it gets available on my phone.
[HTC Desire S] ben_pyett:
Wow! where to start...I'll leave that for now (although you may wish to re-consider your use of the word amateur as its rather insulting).

I believe that you need to flash the (98.2) ENG hboot over your Revolutionay (6.98).

See previous post of instructions here

You need to know if the phone is branded or un-branded and from which country/region its from in order to download the correct RUU.

I'd then suggest that you download your stock RUU and run that from the PC which will reset your recovery to stock and un-root you phone, you should then be in a position to request an OTA.
[HTC Desire S] amidabuddha:
@usmanxhmed

A simple question comes to my mind after reading your post: why are you posting your issue here instead asking HTC support? I hope they will be as half friendly as Ben is. Thanks to God of course

Sent from my HTC Desire S
[HTC Desire S] usmanxhmed:
Well? support from HTC? firstly they may not bother to reply being HTC, not the best in customer service like any big company, secondly my phone is rooted, so its not there fault for them to fix it, thirdly here i have common guys just like me, may be someone with situation just like me.

Yeah use of word Amateur sounds rude here, bit insulting too, but if we are willing to face the reality, that is truth, they are not developing to earn living, they are not manufacturing devices giving warranties, instead saving there soul in every post we are not responsible, as they are greatly unsure about the validity of everything they are teaching/guiding here and on and on and on, so all of this must be categorized as Amateur.

See the people of Revolutionary? after ruining/screwing the warranty and OTA of all phones, they are unable to give simple guide to undo there mess? Most procedures here are with warnings and posts users that they bricked there devices? With custom ROMs no processor is converted from single core to dual y magic so i should want custom ROM so badly.

It may work, it may brick phone, my screen stuck there, it stuck here, camera not working, wifi not working, lagging? For a poor guy like me who can't change phone weekly these things are somewhat burden. Nokia/HTC/Apple will give one click software updates and they will not tell you do it on your own risk, you may brick your phone, they online tell you if you disconnect cable than your device may not work, it does not mean they are brick prove, but more reliable thats why they are professional and brothers here are amateurs.

I don't know, i just bought used phone with revolutionary root and i can't install update even after downloading it, i don't know my phone belongs to which compnay, which RUU i need, which hboot i need out of 20 out there, single mistake can brick my phone without even letting it fall on ground from my hand, let me sleep and live with 2.3.3 :)
[HTC Desire S] Nazri786:
huhu...i dont think that peoples here are amateurs...they've come up with much better custom roms than official one i believe...
[HTC Desire S] amidabuddha:
I believe this can be quite long and useless discussion. Just to mention some of the devs around ARE working for the big companies.

Anyway back to topic. To restore to stock you will find all the necessary info in the second half of the amateur guide about emmc in my signature. Good luck

Sent from my HTC Desire S
[HTC Desire S] ben_pyett:
For someone after assistance, I do find you're attitude negative and insulting. The forum is full of various guides and sticky threads which contain most of the information that you require, your problem is not unique and therefore had been solved many times over in the past and therefore is well documented here on the forum.

While you may be correct in that many people here at Xda are either young and starting out or merely interested novices and therefore could be classed as ameteurs

I think that you'll find that the developers of the most popular ROMs are in fact professional programmers who code here, in their spare time for the benefit of others.

Swyped from my DesireS
[HTC Desire S] usmanxhmed:
I have nothing against the love for developing, that people have over here, obviously its a skill, but do let me know they develop for the benefit of whom or i mean what are the benefits of developing to a normal consumer.

Over here i found good guides for revolutionary and rooting but there is no detailed/complete guide to undo the stuff, in fact the most of famous guide to undo now claims that i closed this topic, you can find that forum everywhere here which most people link to me, the guy says he is sick of brick phones so he is taking off the guide.

No guide tells for which stock version which hboot is required, nobody tells which RUU version i need when i don't know my Desire belongs to which country, as i cannot find where to locate it.

The only thing i understand here revolutionary dirt is most painful to undo as i remember i unrooted my xperia x10mini with almost one click with some software like superone by connecting to my PC.

Now i understand what benefits developers are giving to consumers here, which can be

- Loss of warranty

- Plenty of dead phones

- One developer narrates if your phones bricks during my guide and if you will complain from me, i will laugh on you, sure you must

- Robbing you from facility of One Click OTA

- OTA usually remove bugs and adds functionality so you can't have it

- And on and on and on

According to my thoughts, xda developers should be bringing solutions to current problems and limitations, instead of doing above mentioned thing to already working phone, Now i think my Old Symbian phone was better at least i could get OTA just by changing product code in a second with ease.

Anyways thanks for everyone who tried to help and i am sorry for being bit cheeky and playful here.
[HTC Desire S] mackhenri:
Buddy I hope you get well soon...really bad way to ask for help and insult people here....if you have so many problems with you phone please return it and never buy a HTC phone and before you say something about other have a look at their profile and I belive this is the most friendly forum and no other forum would ever tolerate what ever you have posted....

Anyways all the best....

Risk it to get the biscut...
[HTC Desire S] PeejPeej:
Let me see....

- Overall (way) faster phone

- Batterylife that doubles or more (this alone is worth a custom rom!)

- OTA updates are still added to the custom roms, so no benefit for you :rolleyes:

- Sometimes bugs that the 'great HTC developers' :rolleyes: left in are removed

- Lot`s of 'under the hood' tweaks that make your phone faster, safer and better

- Garbage from HTC that is removed

- Nice tweaks in screenbrightness, wakeup with volume keys etc. etc.

Since you are already s-off with revolutionary i can`t see why you want to take the hard and tricky way to go back to s-on. (The OTA reason is not legit and your warranty is already gone)

Just fyi, there are also 100% stock untweaked up-to-date roms you can flash with ClockWorkMod Recovery...
[HTC Desire S] Cole07:
Hi,

I can understand you. I was thinking nearly same like you when I bought my DS. After 6-7 months later of purchase my DS, I decided to S-OFF and flash a custom rom. First I flashed Endymion (than 2-3 roms too but used them for 1-2 hours) and I started to like my DS again. It took months for Sense 3 update and we're still waiting for ICS for ages. I can understand about your worries but XDA's Dev community working harder than manufacturer's devs. Getting new updates very quickly, and there lots of ICS roms by devs. So you should respect them.

You can flash Eng Hboot (this topic) then download official stock 2.10.401.8 rom from here. Follow instructions after connect your DS to PC
[HTC Desire S] usmanxhmed:
Thanks for helping and being kind, my rude language was partially explained by my current rude life may be and thanks for tolerating me. Custom ROMs may be cool, but don't you guys think the % of bricked phones are more here? for example if i download and install a ROM from clockwork by following instructions, can i be next to sure if i will boot up next time?

I may have to have it the hard way or i will have to ignore android versions and just use the phone for the sake of phone like an Old Man or a Girl.

Yet i hope, men at Revolutionary or at XDA could bring one easy and assured way to undo revolutionary and its root.
[TouchPad General] reverendkjr:
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[TouchPad General] lauterm:
Thanks for posting this video. It makes me very excited to move up to the latest nightly. Is there a tutorial on creating these theme .apks anywhere? I've done a wee bit of CM9 theming, but it is very frustrating trying to keep re-doing the theme every time a new nightly comes out.

This part is off-topic. I noticed a DSLR Controller icon on your homescreen. Does it work fine with the CM9 on the Touchpad? Do you need a USB Host cable for it?
[TouchPad General] reverendkjr:
I haven't figured out how to create themes yet. I'm working on that.

As far as DSLR Controller app, yes it does work. I will be doing a video on this eventually. Still working out a few bugs in my setup. Yes, you do need a host cable.
[TouchPad General] lauterm:
I now have a host cable on order. Thank you!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jcracken:
If you don't know what it is, Xobot is a rewrite of ICS using C# instead of Java, and, apparently, is a lot smoother and more optimized than regular Android. The group behind the project has open-sourced their work here, and it would seem cool if it can be ported--might mean an even better performance boost.

I'm not demanding somebody do this or anything--just wanted to ask if it was possible/worth doing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jcracken:
Fine, don't answer me. See if I care.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Phalanx7621:
Hahaa actually kinda interesting I know nothing about it. But I'd be interested to know if its possible.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] NEME5I5:
I would also like to see what could be done with Xobot. I contacted their devs, and they as a company are not interested in it as a product. I hope it could be an excellent jumping off point for a free software project. It certainly sounds cool.
[EVO 4G General] Pivo187:
What will the new evo 4g lte have spec wise? Also will 4g service be an extra charge? I just recently used a friends razor on verizon 4g network and its extremely fast, I was getting almost 2mb per second...I wonder how much coverage sprints 4glite will have and if it will be on par with verizon...since we really never had 4g on the first evo...
[EVO 4G General] PhxkinMassacre:
specs: http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=3742

4g: the 4g will be the same $10 charge we pay for the current wimax 4g

Speed: no one knows how good the lte will be yet but it will almost definitely be above 2mbps since you can get about 5mbps on the current 4g and lte is much better.

Coverage: they just started rolling out lte so it will be a while before it covers anything near what verizon has. but if the rumors are true then we should have lte just about anywhere we have 3g at some point in the future

hope this answers your questions :)
[EVO 4G General] id_twin:
For specs http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_evo_4g_lte-4665.php visit here. In short, the screen on this phone has been voted by some, as the best on a smart phone yet; as well as the camera.

Id recommend on also do a comparison on 4g vs lte to see the true differences, but lte should bring a much faster network to us. In reality 2mb down is very slow for lte speeds, and in many areas it's common to get 15mb down or more.

Also, chances are that if you are not receiving 4g services currently, you will more than likely be one of the last ones to receive the lte service. LTE or not, this phone is definitely worth the upgrade on 3g alone.

Hope this helps you a bit.
[EVO 4G General] Pivo187:
Why is it def worth the upgrade for 3g alone? BTW I just started modding my evo 4g LoL maybe I should visit sprint & see how well the 4glite network is in my area...maybe wait til it goes full swing to 5mb like you said...also I just ordered exdended batteries 3 weeks ago!! lol
[EVO 4G General] id_twin:
If you are still enjoying the EVO Og, and it is doing everything you need it to, there's nothing wrong with stick with it until more details emerge on the LTE network. For a lot of us, we've been flashing and modding since the phone first came out and it's time to move on.

A few big reasons to consider still switching over though are:

- Mod support - a large chunk of the top devs from OG Evo are making the switch, meaning, most of them will likely stop development on this phone.

- The battery life upgrade is going to make a huge difference, or at least we hope. Considering the fact that no one has one in hand yet, we don't have an accurate depiction of the actually battery life - but consider it safe to say that it will easily outlast the OG.

- Screen wise side-by-side it is night and day. Although OG screen isn't bad, a decent comparison is when you first made the switch from watching standard cable to hd (assuming you have).

- Processor is much, much, faster. This will allow for better game play, smooth transitions, and a better overall user experience.

I could literally write at least another 10 - 20 reasons on why to make the switch, but really no need. As I said, if you're still happy with the OG and don't feel the need to switch just yet, you likely will not miss out on much anyways.