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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] GigsX:
I'm getting my Samsung Galaxy S2 X Hercules(pretty sure this is the right forum) on Tuesday. I had a few questions though being a first time smart(or super in this case)phone owner, and would like to try and get as many answered as possible before I actually get it. (I've been searching, but I can't seem to find definitive answers on a few of them).

#1: Does installing 3rd party apps, or even cracked apps void the warranty. There's alot of apps that I would likely install, but don't want to end up spending an extra 100$ on the phone if need be. Would probably halve that amount with a few 3rd party apps.

#2: If installing 3rd party apps does void the warranty, I've read that you can "Root" but am unsure of exactly how this works. Would it work for installing 3rd party apps(if they do void the warranty). Is this similar to Flashing a piece of hardware to a newer/older firmware?

#3: How is the default media player on this phone? Should I invest in say, Poweramp and Mobo player for both my audio and video needs?

Second, I need to convert my current library for use on this phone(to save space, without sacrificing much quality) I'm considering converting to .mkv which will save me about 20-30% file size on most of my library and I don't see any noticeable difference on my PC at least with the file quality. This is supported by the Mobo player im assuming, since it's a pretty standard format.

Last question for the media player is over half of my Video's have either intergrated subtitles(within the file itself) as well as the subtitle files .srt are these both supported by the player? Mkv supports this naturally, just wondering if the media player did as well.

#4: Final question, I have thousands of Rom files for GBA, SNES, NES, N64, PSP etc etc etc. I'm going to be buying emulators to run these. Does anyone know if they'll support the roms if they're in .zip files or would I need to invest in an archive app, or unzip all the files before loading them onto the phone.

Thanks for your time, I'm just trying to get these answered because when I get my phone I'll have about 2-3 days to put everything I need on it before I'm gone for a month and a half. I already have 10 16gb microsd cards ready to go for my phone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Teo032:
Apps shouldn't void warranty but rooting does. However you can always unroot.

Don't know about the player, i just use Google music
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Teo032:
Oh search emulators in the app section
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] GigsX:
Thanks, good to know I don't need to worry about using 3rd party apps and as for the emulators, I'm still looking but haven't really found any information. I guess I'll figure out more once I actually install the apps. Just hoping to get things done before I leave.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xcrazydx:
Be careful with sideloading questionable apps.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Teo032:
sorry here's the thread, i actually started it, but was too lazy when i was typing on my phone... while at the mall.... with the lady... lol

um the roms should work fine zipped. Some might be different.... not sure, but the ones i played are zipped. the psp format for psx also works.. save a lot of space.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] danielblakes:
congratulations. :)

no it does not

rooting gives you essentially administrative acsess to the phone. I highly recommend it. It DOES void your warrenty, but should you ever need to return the phone, there is a very simple way to return to stock (unrooted).

I prefer Google music, since it can hold 20,000 songs in the cloud. I would look into that. For basic playing needs, the default apps are fine. For non-standard formats, invest in a 3rd party player. I use mobo for my mkvs.

truth.

the default media player doesn't even support mkvs, so no. Mobo does support both types of subtitles IIRC. I know for a fact it supports .srts

this varies by emulator, but our phone can natively unzip zip files, so you're safe either way!

Best of luck!

Sent from the darkside of my Galaxy S III.
[Nook Touch Android Development] Zydraka:
Thanks roustabout! It works great and it was super easy to do! I just got done installing a bunch of apps from Amazon.

Update: I just posted a tutorial with a video for noobs on my blog.

One thing to note, I didn't do the reboot that you mention in between the 1 and 2 packages and everything worked fine. I just installed 2 right after 1 and haven't had any problems.
[Nook Touch Android Development] chefchuck:
Thanks for this, rooted last night everything is as it should be, the only issue I've run into is that I can't seem to install the Kindle app. It's not in the amazon market place, I tried backing up the APK from another device via EStrong and transferring the apk to the microSD, and I get a parsing file error. Any tips?
[Nook Touch Android Development] roustabout:
I have not been able to get Tasker to install yet, either.

One thing which sometimes works where other approaches fail (if you have the .apk file) is to ssh into your device (I use quicksshd) and log in as root, then cd to the directory the APK was copied to and issue the command

pm install blah-blah.apk

I have not yet tried that with Tasker, but it may also help with the Kindle app? I did need to do it for one of the apps I use, although I can't recall which one.

Edit: the 3.1 kindle app Zydraka points out works for me as well.

By default, the Kindle app is pretty unusable, very slow page turns. But by using the gesture-enabled screen refresh hack, it's very useable. (I found that using the no gesture version led to lots of apps just ignoring the hack's presence. I think Renate has a way around that, but I haven't read up on it.)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=22800284#post22800284

I got Tasker to install, but needed first to copy in the Maps jar and xml (to framework and permissions respectively) reboot and install via ssh - it might have worked just to reboot.

Since others may want Tasker available, putting the maps.jar and maps.xml files into the tinynooter is trivial, and I'll probably get to it soon.
[Nook Touch Android Development] Zydraka:
I found that the older version of the Kindle app works, version 3.1.0.30. There's a donwload for it at Android Freeware. http://www.freewarelovers.com/android/app/kindle
[Nook Touch Android Development] kim1406:
So, after this, will the glowlight work in all apps? I need to make sure that, moon+ reader and EZpdf will glow in the dark, before I purchase the new nook.

thanks.
[Nook Touch Android Development] roustabout:
The glowlight seems to work in all apps. I'm not clear on how exactly it's turned on and off; it might be possible to have an app that uses a long press on the N button for something else, and that might interfere, but so far it works fine in the launcher, in the Kindle reader, in fbreader, in Newsrob (that I know I've tested.) even if you had an app that was doing something funny with that long press, you ought to be able to turn it on from the settings menu that comes up on a short press.

Once the glowlight is on, it seems to stay on until your screen goes to sleep, regardless of what applications you may also be using.

This is part of why I didn't get into the boot environment at all in this approach - I knew from manual rooting that I didn't have to change out uRamdisk so I decided to leave it all alone.
[Nook Touch Android Development] glowco:
Thanks for tinynoot! It's working well for me, and glowlight behaves normally.
[Nook Touch Android Development] eded333:
You know, it should be nice if before using the packages other people create, for your own project, you asked them for permission to use them, if not, at least create your own scripts.....

Yes I'm refering to me.... :mad: thats not cool.

Anyway, the two step process is not necessary here, thats just for preventing some Gapps database corruption, you edited that code away allready and there are no Gapps installed, so add the code to correct the permissions on the first zip, and everything should work fine, no need to rm dalvik either if you arent modifying framework.jar, etc, it should also speed the first boot time.
[Nook Touch Android Development] roustabout:
I apologize - this was intended to be a quick hack and largely for my own use (as I was testing stuff on both my and my girlfriend's glowworms) but I realized there were a lot of folks trying to root their gw's manually. I thought it worked well enough to share.

I didn't intend to present it as original and if I appeared to I apologize.

Say the word and I will yank the thread outright, and I would have no objection to your asking the mods to do so, either.
[Nook Touch Android Development] eded333:
Don't worry, just stating that before creating a thread with others people work, you should ask them.

Everything is fine, ;) It didn't even pass my mind the idea of reporting it, we are a small niche community, active members must be praised, so dont worry, and I encorage you to keep deving ^^, just that before using other peoples work and starting a thread with it, ask them for permission, no one is gonna deny it and it's the kind way of doing things :).
[Nook Touch Android Development] GabrialDestruir:
I'm planning to get my hands on a Glow tonight, so over the weekend I should be able to get together a full Nooter for it.
[Nook Touch Android Development] roustabout:
tiny noot - also works for older NST

Just so folks know, I've confirmed that the tinynoot rooter also works on the NST running 1.1.2 firmware.

It will probably work on earlier firmware also, since it is not replacing uRamdisk or framework files.
[Nook Touch Android Development] IBNobody:
Are Supermanager and the Busybox Updater supposed to work? Supermanager crashes back to home, and Busybox won't install.
[Nook Touch Android Development] roustabout:
Did you apply both files, and is there an sd card in your device? I just tested the busybox updater and was able to get it to update the installed busybox. It requires that you have an sdcard inserted to work - I remember being puzzled by that the first time I tried using it on a device.

supermanager is crashing. I hadn't tried running it on the device before, and hadn't noticed that.

Looking at logcat, yes, supermanager's crashing in the background quite a bit. It seems to be looking for things which are not available, for instance, a dialer, and erroring out when it can't find them.
[Nook Touch Android Development] bobstro:
Supermanager has always been a problem, at least for me, using TouchNooter. I believe it's intended to provide file manager capability, particularly for installing APKs on uSD. Once I get Market (Play Store) access, reinstalling supermanager fixes the problem. At that point, I don't need it anymore.

I've always had to work around this when rooting my Touch devices. I'd suggest a basic file manager be provided instead for Day 1.
[Nook Touch Android Development] glowco:
I'm rooted with tinynoot. Recently I've been experiencing excessive battery drain. I'm eliminating apps I'd installed to if that helps. Wondering if anyone has experience with apps that are problematic in that regard? Dropbox? Amazon Appstore? Facebook? 1Mobile Market? I assume nothing that was provided by default with tinynoot. Thanks.
[Nook Touch Android Development] dr_diem:
Hi Glowco,

I'd suggest installing task management apps to get a view of what is actually running (not all processes relate to an installed app icon that you can uninstall). I use Advanced Task Manager to view running apps, and Autorun Manager to control what processes start up at boot time.

Ian
[Nook Touch Android Development] glowco:
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. In the meantime, as an experiment I uninstalled several apps including Amazon Appstore, 1Mobile Market, FB, and Wireless ADB. Good result - my battery charge hasn't decreased in an hour and a half. If I decide I miss them I can try adding them back and use your method.
[Nook Touch Android Development] dr_diem:
That's good news!

I'd suggest that Wireless ADB is not to blame, since it does not stay resident once it's closed and in any case does nothing until you click the big red button ;)

Of the others, I have Amazon Marketplace installed and I don't experience any battery issues (I'm Glownooted not Tinynooted but don't think that's relevant in this discussion), but I can't speak for the other two apps. If I were paranoid (and I am! :D) I would point at Facebook, since it's purpose is marketing and wants to follow your every move :p

Ian
[Nook Touch Android Development] roustabout:
Yeah, I'm afraid you may regret having uninstalled ADB wireless, though you can reinstall as long as you have a decent package manager or file manager installed.

ADW is a huge convenience, though, as the more 'droid devices you have, the less well your wired ADB connections play.

In general, network polling is often associated with power consumption being high - one of the simplest things to try is turning off wifi when the device isn't in use. There's a widget called toggle wifi that makes that very easy to do, a pushbutton toggle you can add on the homescreen.

edit: there are a boatload of wifi toggle widget apps. I can confirm that WiFi Toggle Widget by Jason Hull works on the glowworm. I picked it over the others because the author states that it does not leave a running service. If I find his email address I'll ask him if it's ok to package it into a root toolset, as tinynoot at least includes only Amazon, and I didn't see this app on the Amazon appstore.

Speaking of which, the Amazon appstore does do network polling. I haven't seen really big battery issues with it installed, but I don't track battery use that carefully - I use Newsrob and sync articles every 4 hours, so I expect battery life to be lower than spec on mine.

I tend to think Facebook may be the big problem child, but that's probably in no small part because I'm suspicious of Facebook from the git-go :) I don't know if any of these apps can actually turn wifi on if you've actually turned it off, though - I would hope they can't.
[Nook Touch Android Development] glowco:
I guess I panicked and uninstalled more than I needed to the day that I saw my charge drop to 07%! I'm cautiously adding things back, but foregoing Facebook. So far things seem pretty good. I had never used ADB Wireless. I tend to download apps directly or transfer them using Dropbox. Oh, and I am careful to turn off wireless when I'm not using it. Thanks for the input.
[Nook Touch Android Development] scales11:
I followed the directions and everything worked on my 1.1.5 glow.

Does anyone know where I can get the gapps for my device?

Thanks
[Nook Touch Android Development] roustabout:
Redo your root with glownooter, which supports gapps.

From the OP, tinynoot is "not trying to support the google apps or the many interesting screen refresh hacks."

Basically, I wanted a very minimal root. Supporting Google on the Touch or Glowworm is a fairly large undertaking and for some folks it's not necessary.

Gabrial, who has a clue or three, knows that folks want gapps and supports them.

Fortunately, we've compared file lists and file names and at least for now are satisfied that you can safely install Glownooter on top of a device you've already run tinynoot on, so you don't have to do a restore to stock (but it's not a bad idea to do one, in case something changes on either side.)
[HTC Rezound] autotuneuser:
Alright, so I've got an S-On rooted Rezound and I'm stuck in the boot loop. YES I've read all the posts about logging in and dialing *#etc and also to go into Mobile Network and switch to LTE/CDMA, but I can't dial anything because the phone cuts off before I get a chance, and the LTE switch does nothing. I've tried flashing several different kernels, using the adb method and the PH98IMG methods, I've tried installing several different ROMS, I've done at least 10 different wipes/factory resets, I boot my phone without the cover, SIM card and without the SD card..and I'm still stuck in this boot loop. Someone please help a noob :(

---- EDIT WITH SOLUTION ----

Here's my "solution" to this issue. I'm sure it's located somewhere in these forums, but I couldn't find it so I imagine others can't either. Essentially, you're going to have to S-Off. Here's the solution:

I believe my recovery started acting funny after I failed to S-Off properly the first time. Amon Ra was all gimmicky and said stuff like "E: can't find cache" and reinstalling the recovery/wiping everything (and I mean everything: external SD, internal SD, cache, partioning SD card etc..) wasn't working. I tried re-installing Amon Ra through command prompt with the adb, I tried reinstalling my ROMS but my phone wasn't having it.

It got to the point all I could boot into was a white HTC screen, so I then tried out Twrp's 2.1 Touchscreen (I wasn't S-Off yet) recovery (I don't have enough posts to post a link yet ) which INITIALLY reported the same "E: can't find cache" errors as Amon Ra, BUT when I wiped my files in Twrp it seemed to actually fix them...I'm not sure exactly what I wiped or formatted that fixed the "E: can't find mount/cache" issues, so try everything.

So my ROM installed but I was still stuck on the white HTC logo. This is where I INSTALLED A NEW KERNEL THROUGH ADB. I wish I knew which kernel I installed, but I have like 10 and I just picked a random one. The point is if you're still stuck at a white HTC screen, install a new kernel.

So I got a recovery on the phone, and then I tried to S-Off again but I didn't have a good ROM installation so that was hanging at the HTC white screen. I then installed CleanROM DE 1.4 and I was able to boot into it, but ran into my initial problem of it crashing after dialing a number and entering infinite reboot. However, it would stay on just long enough for me to run ControlBear's program to S-Off.

So I S-Offed, I downloaded the Gingerbread RUU (the .exe version for Windows), I installed it, and now I can dial numbers and I'm all goodie again. Unfortunately, I honestly think the only way I was escaping my trouble was doing an S-Off, unless they leak a Ice Cream Sanwhich executable for Windows.

TL;DR Install Twerp 2.1 through adb, wipe everything, install CleanROM DE 1.4, install kernel S-Off, run Gingerbread RUU .exe
[HTC Rezound] Magestic12:
Have you tried running a RUU to put it back to factory like you just bought it?

I can't tell you how many times I've had to do that to fix stuff.
[HTC Rezound] autotuneuser:
I think I have downloaded the stock RUU..but just to be sure could you possibly link me to the correct one to run? Also I thought it was impossible to go back down from Ice Cream Sandwhich to Gingerbread?
[HTC Rezound] tekhna:
It is if you're s-on. Also, what did you mean by "P87etc," are you flashing the files properly?
[HTC Rezound] Magestic12:
People say a lot of things are impossible, most have the virtue of never being tried.

This is the one I used to fix mine when I screwed up the partitions on my phone. I will warn you, the link in the thread takes you to another site & you have to sign up to download it. Its completely free & legit, but it won't let you download unless you register which is STUPID!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25664508

Let me know if that helps

Oh & BTW I was & still am on the ICS leaks when I did this, so you'll be fine. You will lose everything on your phone though, because it wipes everything. But if you can't use it, that's not really an issue I guess.
[HTC Rezound] autotuneuser:
The PH98IMG file. And I believe I'm flashing the properly..I do it twice; flashboot in adb, it tells me success, I then flash again right there, and then I reboot back to the bootloader and flash again so I do it 3 times in total.

I'm downloading the Vigor executable now. It's going to take a while but I'll report back with my results.
[HTC Rezound] Magestic12:
PH98IMG is not going to help you in this situation. You are going to have to download & run the RUU that I linked in the previous post. Trust me on this, not only have I already tried that before, I've blown my phone up enough times to know. :eek:
[HTC Rezound] autotuneuser:
Ok, I went to use the RUU and at first I got error 150, so I read somewhere I should lock my bootloader, so I relocked and now I get error 140, whcih is bootloader verision error. I think that's because I'm on ICS with S-On right? Is there any ICS RUU I can use to restore my phone? I downloaded Vigor_Stock_Doedexed_3.14.605.5 before but it still wasn't working for me.
[HTC Rezound] an-dru:
And as far as this goes yeah you can't use the .exe if your on ICS firmware with s-on and there are no available .exe's for ICS
[HTC Rezound] mikeyk101:
Unless you are already on the gingerbread build, and it sounds like your not, if you are s-on, it simply will not work. My suggestion is to download the latest leak and that should get you going. If it were me, and I aleady did it, download the latest leak here: http://android.thesmallprint.org/ICS.LEAK.3.14.605.5_PH98IMG.zip. Rename it PH98IMG.zip and put it on your external sd card. Should take less than 10 mins to download. Reboot into bootloader and let hboot install it. Make sure you are locked or relocked. After that is installed either delete or change the name of that file. Reboot into bootloader, unlock, and install either amon ra or tpwr and you can reinstall that rooted rom.
[HTC Rezound] michaelbsheldon:
what he said

mikey's comments just previous are totally right, but after install, i would recommend

a factory reset, maybe even twice.

your bootloop problem should be cured then...
[HTC Rezound] Magestic12:
I was on the latest ICS firmware running an ICS ROM when I had to run the RUU I gave the link for & it worked fine for me.

Here's my suggestion & you can take it for what its worth.

I would download the latest HBoot & Radios & flash them.

Then if you can get into recovery, wipe everything, manually wipe the system, boot, etc. Then after that try running the RUU.

I just did this earlier in the week & it worked fine & my phone was all screwed up because the partitions were mounting to the wrong places & just all messed up.

I am by no means a dev or an expert, I'm just telling you what I did.

WHATEVER YOU CHOSE, YOU DO AT YOUR OWN RISK, but I don't see where you really have a choice.

Let me know if I can be of anymore help as I know what its like to have a phone that's freaking out on you. You can PM me or post here which ever you prefer. If after that we still can't get it fixed, we'll go find a dev to help us.
[HTC Rezound] autotuneuser:
Well now my recovery is saying it can't mount various things like "E: can't mount b dev/block/ blah blah"

And I tried flashing my ROM through Amon recovery but it's saying it can't open the file because it's (bad). I formatted the SD card and I'm still getting the issue. Any ideas?
[HTC Rezound] mikeyk101:
Did you download the one from the link? You don't flash that PH98IMG.zip in recovery, you boot up into bootloader and let hboot find it. If when you get to your bootloader and it is fastboot, use your volume key and select on bootloader option. Then hboot will find it and ask you if you want to install it. Install it. After that, you will then need to reinstall either amon ra or the other but stay away from clockworkmod. But to reinstall the recovery, you will have to unlock again.
[HTC Rezound] autotuneuser:
I did install in hboot. I then installed Amon so I could flash the ROM and that's what's giving me all those errors.