yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] zapstrap:
update part III

Since going back to GINGERBREAD.MUGKG3 / 2.3.4 for the GT-S5660M, the wifi crashing and screen blanking behaviours have completely stopped. After two days of running, wifi has not shut-off unexpectedly even once, and the screen does not blank any more at all.

The gps works now; it was not before. It used to sit for up to an hour under a clear open sky, day or night, and never acquire a single satellite. Now it picks them up within 30-60 seconds, though a full lock does take a couple of minutes.

The phone previously always indicated it was roaming, and would frequently refuse to send texts or make calls. I would get full bars for signal strength, but no connectivity.

I even got hold of the fm radio app, which was not included with the M version of the 5660, and manually installed it (phone must be rooted, and file system must be mounted read/write). It works too; a nice bonus.

The camera works, but is a bit flaky, requiring an occasional restart to get it going.

Probably the biggest headache, after flashing back to the 5660M version, was that the phone locked itself again, and wouldn't work on my network. I dumped bml5 page and searched out the unlock code. I had some trouble with this. The search string to get close to the code is supposed to be a sequence of twenty 0x00 bytes, one 0x05 byte, and fourteen 0xff bytes. The 0xff bytes weren't there, and it took a while for me to clue in that if I searched on the twenty 0x00, and single 0x05 byte sequence, I could still pull it out. I got it, and wrote it down in case this happens again.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] zapstrap:
sms issue

Still ticking along with the GT-S5660M; mostly it's all working nicely. I have one question though: I recently ran out of memory for storing SMS messages. It looks like the texting app in the phone wants to put everything on the SIM card rather than on the SD card, but there's no option for moving the default storage location for messages. Is there a simple way to do this? The phone is unlocked & rooted, but does not have the ext2 file system on it.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Peteragent5:
What's the IC? I checked under the battery to confirm mine is a Canada model, and it is.

But my IC is GT-S5660L

Model: GT-S5660M

IC: GT-S5660L
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] zapstrap:
buremily You

Same, GTS5660L ... why do you ask?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kayt0:
So as the title states, I'm not only new to the forum, but to the whole world of stock/custom ROMs, and about 95% of the vernacular that appears in your typical conversations.

Before opening this thread, I did read a few others on the subject of Open Mobile users successfully using customized ROMs of other carriers, but with the loss of 3G and/or MMS. (By the way, the feature that shows similar threads under the title box- genius.) I, too, have fallen into that unfortunate category, but with a stock ROM belonging to Metro PCS. It was completely unintentional, the changeover.

After the first 10 minutes of freaking the :eek: out, I got my act together and found this forum, among others with not a single solution to my problem, or that of other users with a situation similar to mine.

I would simply like to know if anyone has been able to fix this problem.

As proof I've check other threads,

-This one is for an HTC Hero and in page 2, post #11, someone offers a possible solution, but the person referred to doesn't respond. And I can't really understand what it says.

-This one offers three posts of nothingness.

-This oneseems to have a user inventing a Battleship/Bingo hybrid with all them numbers and less-than-average use of periods.

I appreciate any help anyone offers. And if I posted this in the wrong section, feel free to move it as needed.

Again, thanks.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kayt0:
As a follow-up, today I realized that I could access the Play Store by using 3G only. I could also browse/download apps and use apps that require internet/data connections, such as Words with Friends and Draw Something.

Basically, all I lack now it internet access (I was able to download another browser even just to make sure it wasn't the original one that was FUBAR) and MMS capability (I can receive pictures, but not 100%; more like 90%).

Any thoughts or suggestions?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Shibblet:
I have installed Serendipity 9.4 on my SGH-i777. Everything works great until I turn on Bluetooth for use in my vehicle. Once Bluetooth is on, it connects to my device just fine, but after about 10 minutes or so, it will disconnect. Sometimes when it disconnects it will re-boot the phone, or freeze-up the phone as well.

I don't want to go back to Serendipity 8.2. However, the Bluetooth connectivity is the whole reason I bought the phone, and it worked beautifully on Serendipity 8.2.

Is there any fix or patch for this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] daverup:
I don't think Serendipity has anything to do with this.

On my vehicle this is an ICS issue. I posted my workaround in the following thread,

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1609686
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] lambition:
Is your car stereo Sony ?

I am having same problem on Semi rom. Pretty sure will also happen on stock rom.

Doing google search about it, I found that is may be problem with all Samsung 4.0.3 rom and roms based on it.

Same problem is reported on i9100 (International version of SG II)

And everyone with this problem was using Sony.

Installing a rom with android 4.0.4 appears to be only fix. (Unless going back to gingerbread).
[Thunderbolt Accessories] syed2007:
I don't know what this guy did, but it had to involve summoning an evil demon:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1424697

As for me it doesn't work. I used up & up nail polish remover.

Should I use paint thinner or is that too dangerous for my other components?

How about painting this phone?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Razznak:
Okay, so when I attempt to flash the CM9 nightly (7.2.12 edition) and the Google Apps ICS from CyanogenMod's wiki page I get a soft brick in reboot loop. What happens is three things (it's happened differently each time): First, I get the white SAMSUNG logo. After that, I get an extra-long black screen before a bootscreen. The first time it was an ANDROID logo with moving reflections. The second time it was the CM9 bootscreen. The third time it was simply a white screen. All three times, shortly after the bootscreen began, the phone froze at one frame early into the animation and rebooted. The same thing continually happened. To flash the ROM, I have the newest CWM Recovery for the T-Mobile Galaxy S II installed. From there, I did this (in this order): wipe data/factory reset, Wipe Dalvik Cache, and then Wipe Battery Stats. From there, I flashed the ROM from the internal SD card and then Google Apps for ICS from the internal SD card. After going to reboot from CWM Recovery, I always got that soft brick (three times now). After each soft brick, I have used CWM Recovery to recover a previous instance on the stock ROM.

Any help will be rewarded with imaginary thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Ends:
wipe cache, format system, format data
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] UZ7:
http://www.teamchopsticks.org/p/install-guide.html

Here are the steps but for me personally I do 3x cache/3x dalvik and I have installed every update just fine. :good:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Razznak:
Okay, worked on second try. Did steps first time, fail. Try again with usual steps, currently in boot screen lacking loop. Thanks!

P.S. UZ7 - Too late hehehe. Thanks anyways, have a cookie.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Razznak:
Okay, wipe cache, format system and data left my device in bootscreen all night. I'm trying the TeamChopsticks method now...

And...

Bootscreen not freezing...

Got soft touch button lights...

Success!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jirafabo:
I'm trying to pull the notifications and ringers from my girls Evo LTE to put on my Epic Touch but I can't access /system. When I plug it in via usb I can only pull up the sd card. When I usb and use the sync option it shows me phone and sd but doesn't give me access to anything but the basics.

Any ideas? I was hoping to do it just drag and drop like in the past....

Edit* I just used root explorer to access the files and copy them to sd, but I'm still curious why I couldn't connect to root via usb...
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Rxpert:
You need root access to get system.

Or you could just download a rom and pull them out of there.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jirafabo:
The phone is rooted.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hairfarmer:
In an attempt to set a factory reset and have an ICS backup ROM after trying to eliminate small bugs from the JB flash (Jelly Belly w/ the fix), I erased everything by formatting data, system, and cache. The bugs were on my side of things, which is why I was trying to build from scratch.

I made the fatal error of formatting all of the above info before I had pushed Liquid's JB, and when it was time to flash the file, I had nothing.....Now, I have my buddy helping me trying to rebuild this from scratch...

I am an idiot and had no attention span today and had the same feeling that you have when you watch yourself lock your keys in your car (unless you are the dbag that doesn't feel it is "necessary to have a car in London." -Shaun of the Dead)

I joke that I was going to send my phone to Koush and give him a challenge....but he is too busy.

Any suggestions are wanted.

Right now, it appears that I have problems with the drivers. Remember, the only functional part of the phone is the bootloader and recovery mode. Cannot access USB debugging etc. b/c I can't boot the phone past the google unlock screen

Here is what I/we have done:

changed batteries

tried to load the google 4.0.2 image

load JB, ICS roms and anything stock that my friend has backed up

Reinstall the drivers

reinstall the su.zip

cheers

GN Verizon

No Rom

No Kernel

No Radios

No Nothin
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sfd0124:
Do you have adb? Have you tried to go back to stock following this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1529058
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hairfarmer:
Affirmative on the ADB. Working on trying to push through drivers and everything else right now. The problem is that ADB does not see the device
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] El Daddy:
You don't use ADB to flash images. Use the bootloader and fastboot on your computer.

Follow efrants guide on how to flash back to stock. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1626895

You should be back up and running.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hairfarmer:
Thanks for the clarification. Like I said, I had a safety net installed, but realized it was too late to save it before I wiped everything.

On a side not, I agree with your rant about toolkits and how they allow users who do not know what is really going on to play around with their devices, (users like me). I do not think that this is a bad thing though. I guess you have to ask the developers how they feel about the increased numbers of users and the support given through purchasing apps and their ROMS and Kernels. I am trying to learn how to manually build this stuff, but I never have rooted before, and if you had the ability to flash awesome new ROMS and Kernels that allowed for easy customization on your G1, could you honestly say that you wouldn't flash them the easy way while trying to learn the ropes? This is a function of an advancing technology. There will always be the pioneers who taught themselves from day 1 and are a little upset with those of us who come in and make it mainstream and cause a lot of problems and frustration. There is a learning curve, and the noobs/people-who-suck-at-this make it frustrating for those who have been in the game for a long time. But without a mainstream audience, there would not be the development that you are seeing today.

So I thank you for your patience and help. I am in the same spot you were in when you were teaching yourself on the G1, the only difference is that I have many more options and tools to use, so why shouldn't I use them?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] El Daddy:
Thanks for your comment. I reiterated a few times in that thread that I don't think toolkits are necessarily bad. I was just stating the problems they may cause. They do serve a purpose.

Many people in this forum get stuck and make panic threads giving no information about how they messed up their phone. Which doesn't leave people who are here to help much to work with. The frustration with that led me to make that post.

Your thread asking for help was an informative one and I have no problem trying to help someone like your self. You did it the right way. :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rirawin:
I rooted my phone and installed the Resurrection Rom, however, really would like some of the Samsung apps like notes, calender, memo back. Is there anyway or can someone suggest a rom like Resurrection but with those apps?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheStickMan:
I swear I have deja vu. This has been recently asked.

The answer was: no.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GaboWinter:
Maybe this can works for you: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=28168719&postcount=51951

Btw, that post it's from the Resurrection Remix thread, i recommend to you search on the specific ROM thread before :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dralways:
This just started happening in full screen landscape mode within the last few days, look at the right side where the softkeys live.. double u tee?
[Motorola Photon 4G] 1314id:
Well,my condition is under this:

First,I flashed the original SBF & rooted & unlocked BL & flashed CWM &did a full WIPE,then flashed joker's cm9,the newly build no.0700.

Then rebooted the photon,I've already got a working network &data.After a moment for the phone without any operation,the APN would be lost.Or even I turn the Airplane mode on/off,the APN will gone ,too.

That's annoying.

So I checked it out over the internet,and found a link:

h*t*t*p(sorry for a none URL permission)code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=4234&can=1&q=apn%20lost&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Version%20Model%20Network%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars%20Priority

They encountered the same problem and had already been resolved.So please who can help me with this issue on photon?Thanks a lot.

Sorry for my poor English. ;)
[Motorola Photon 4G] djallen1:
Using a rooted file browser (I use Root Explorer), go to data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases (or it might be labeled 'db') and delete telephony.db. Restart the phone and you should have your APN's back. If you don't, you have a problem with apns-conf.xml.
[Motorola Photon 4G] 1314id:
Wow!!!You are the first man gave me a professional advice yet!

I 'll try it out and give you a feedback later!
[Motorola Photon 4G] 1314id:
Hey,I think it should be useful.

Sometimes i shutdown the phone for a while,maybe five minutes or so,to let it shutdown completely.Then power on,the apn usually appears,and network works fine.

The pull-down menu shows that service is "中国联通"。Next time I turn on/off airplane mode,the APN must be lost,and the pull-down menu shows "chn-cugsm",which i've already defined in spn-conf.xml。So I guess there are something wrong with the RF or SIM mechanisms,when the phone wake up from airplane mode,it can't get the really MCC/MNC,and of course the Apn will disappear.

Under this condition,when i make a call for a long time ,the phone will show:"No SIM or SIM card error".But both phone call and SMS work fine.Weird.:confused:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] redm1st:
Is there any way to root the phone from the phone?

My phone just lost service for 10mins. Then magically lost root access.

I restarted it. And still rootless. Would re root, but left my laptop back at home.

XDA mobile
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] joshuaw84:
Haven't seen anything yet. There are a few apps on the market that attempt to keep root. Or if you upgrade and support the dev on one of the su packages it has one built in. I say dive in go s-off and you won't have that problem anymore though, so just my 2¢.

sent from my LTEvo
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] redm1st:
yeah, just re rooted, and finally got s-off after a billion tries.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ilostmypistons:
Palm screen capture doesn't work on my 32gb pb. Anyone else have this problem?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] stevesprivateaccount:
Nope. I have the Sprint 32GB model swipe for screen capture works just fine
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] stevesprivateaccount:
I should mention that it isn't a Palm Swype, but the edge of your hand. Like you are chopping at the edge of the screen and then sliding it across
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ilostmypistons:
What an I missing I have it checked in the motion settings?it just won't work for me
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Zacisblack:
Watch a YouTube video on how to do it? It's obviously user error.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dcaplinger76:
You and me both pal
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ilostmypistons:
Yup user error

I didn't know the side of the hand had to be touching the screen

I'm dumb :p
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dcaplinger76:
Yep, just figured this out myself and came here to tell. Ya beat me too it... Doh
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] s3xda:
just hold power and home
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hahmjt:
I understand that stock battery has the NFC chip inside.

Now the question is whether replacement third party batteries will work with NFC.

(such as ones on ebay)

If you guys have any idea please let me know!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DevilStrider:
You kinda answered your own question. If the OEM battery has the NFC chip you would have a third party battery with it as well I guess. I bought a replacement OEM battery and charger from sprint.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] -Arturo-:
Strange thing happens to my phone from time to time. About 3 to 4 millimetres of the left side of the screen stop reacting to touches. I don't think it's a hardware problem because when I switch on auto rotation and rotate my phone a bottom side of the touchscreen becomes the left side and it doesn't register touches. What could be the problem? I am on jjdoctors Rom JJ's HYBRID ROM v3.1
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AtoZ0to9:
I assume you can still access recovery? Try putting CM9 on the external SD with a card reader, and flashing that...

EDIT: Just saw you can't access CWM... Try recovery again... all three until ATT comes up, immediately let off power... Try multiple times... Leave the battery out, hold all three, have someone else insert it, and let off power at ATT... When going into download mode, leave the battery out, hook it up, hold boths vols, and insert the battery...

The Unknown device issue....

Uninstall your drivers... Here are drivers to manually install, they are 64bit... so try right clicking the Unknown device in device manager and doing a manual driver update...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4-2ndtwin:
OP,

See this thread... Captivate Connection Issues...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kScorpion:
B-Naughty: Thank you. I have tried this & that no luck. Even loaded Linux Mint 13, however heimdall is being a !*&#@ in loading the firmware...Perhaps if you would know any (proper) packages for a Samsung Captivate i897 via heimdall id be grateful. I used heimdall-suite-1.3.2 command line & frontend. Will try again tomorrow. Although still haven't figured out whether or not it read the phone in Linux (it's a different world for me)

4-2ndtwin: My friend, thank you for the detailed link. I have been doing this for over 48 hours ... nothing. I'll give it another shot via Linux, if not i'll try Ubuntu. Truly am just confused out of my mind, never had this before.

PS: The phone's data is wiped & it's stuck at AT&T when loaded via power button. Booting into DOWNLOAD MODE isn't a problem. All combination to load into recovery, did not work. I mean...there must be a way! There always is...Any further ideas or should i simply through it out and buy a Galaxy SIII?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AtoZ0to9:
I897UCKK4 Stock, Wipe, with option to install Bootloaders, Param,and Repartition-Heimdall One-Click

And try all of your USB cords, I don't know what you bought, but a bad one, or a lot of times an aftermarket one won't work...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Red_81:
Edit:

I saw you can get into download mode. So my original post doesn't help much.

Have you tried installing the Andoid SDK and downloading the nexus drivers from there? Perhaps your device now thinks it is a nexus. It might be worth a shot.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4-2ndtwin:
^

+ 1

Yes... I second this ^
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nowseewhatudid:
This happened to me and I just reflash the boot loader and reinstalled the same from to keep my data

Decrapitated Samsung
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kScorpion:
Thank you all for the support.

At this point I've installed SDK Manager w/Google USB revision 6, latest Java, all proper drivers...nothing. Tried all usbs on all systems.

Q: If the phone goes into download mode, is it not in a default state and must be detected? I have a samsung galaxy tab 10.1, detects immediately. Samsung YPS3 mp3 player detects immediately - Samsung Captivate however, nothing...

I set up a clean Windows 7 Ultimate x64bit (all june 2012 updates + .Net 4.0). Installed all usb drivers...same thing, UNKNOWN DEVICE - so the usb cable works...but now when you go and manually upgrade driver via device manager, it says that the best driver for the unknown device is already installed.

Anyone want's a free captivate lol...

At this point...I dont even know what to ask...since i've tried everything. I'll try to revisit Ubuntu & Linux later this evenings and report status!

Thanks for the I897UCKK4 Stock, Wipe, with option to install Bootloaders, Param,and Repartition-Heimdall One-Click link, i can't use it since the phone isn't detected by the application :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Red_81:
I would say you need to uninstall any/all drivers for your captivate. This includes heimdall installed drivers. Make sure to uninstall the drivers for the "unknown" device also.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AtoZ0to9:
Seems as though you have a hardware problem with the phone, or a s/w problem so messed up you're down to Unbrickable Mod

---------- Post added at 08:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:34 PM ----------

He had a fresh Windows install and install drivers...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kScorpion:
Unbrickable MOD - wont be able to do this my self, would need an electric to look into it. I mean the phone isn't bricked, it accesses download mode i just have to get it to connect via usb to be read as a "samsung composite device" to flash the bootloader. As now, it would be stuck at the AT&T screen without giving access to CWM.

I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 - set up java 7 - loaded Heimdall One-Click stock rom provided above via java...tried all USB's phone not detected via DOWNLOAD MODE. Phone not detected at all!

This is just insane...If it's in DOWNLOAD MODE, it should be accessible, not the contrary. Ubuntu doesn't need usb drivers, should be plug&play...Both XP & Win7Ultimate at least recognized the phone as an unknown device. On Ubuntu it does nothing at all, as if it never was plugged in.

The microusb slot on the phone is not damaged / cable is stock, also have another one from Staples. The system w/XP is reading all devices on a plug&play basis and read the captivate before flawlessly. Same applies to the Asus P43 laptop, which read the device without hesitation on Win7 Ultimate x64. The Ubuntu is now on the laptop...tried connecting the Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Samsung) it recognized it immediately...with full access to files etc.

Last plea for Ideas...before i'll send this captivate to hell, to where the journey isn't captivating at all!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Red_81:
It sounds like you have a bad flash. You need jtag to fix this issue. Contact mobiletechvideos and Josh should be able to repair it for you. I think at this point you've tried every other option.