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[EVO 4G General] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
Apples patent trolling is about to come to and end, they got themselves in front of a judge with a brain this time and he's been making fun of apple throughout the hearings ill get a link in s little bit so you can read some of his quotes

http://m.guardian.co.uk/technology...-naughton-comment?cat=technology&type=article

Just reread article its been updated: case thrown out score - Google 1 apple 0

We are legion, for we are many.

Sent from the DarkSide of the GalaXy with a MEK device
[EVO 4G General] bASKOU:
Really happy after reading this news. Hope all courts around the world will follow the exemple of this judge and put an end to apple stupidity.
[EVO 4G General] evol4g:
Finally a judge that isn't in apples pocket
[EVO 4G General] BuddaBelly:
Wow did anybody read the reviews on that crap phone though. Copy paste example below.

"Don't Bother

Review by Canuck on January 5, 2012 Had This Phone For Just Over 2 Months, Headphone Jack Never Did Work Proper(Loose Causing Popping And Cracking When Jack Is Moved) And 2 Weeks Ago The Mic Quit Working , Making It Pretty Much Useless As A Phone"
[EVO 4G General] IAMDEE7:
HTC reigns supreme! Apples fall to the ground and rot.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] tacomaguy20:
I want to output my video to my dvd screen in my car. My input for the aux of the dvd player are RCA. Previously I was using a 3.5mm jack to output to RCA and this worked with my old phone (t mobile vibrant). Is there anyway to output the HDMI on this phone to rca inputs? Any help is appreciated. I posted in this thread because I'm assuming the fix would be an accessory. Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] RXWatcher:
I doubt you'll find a cable to do it. hdmi is digital and the composite signal needed by the vehicle is analog. You'll need something like this:

http://www.amazon.com/HDMI-Composite-S-Video-Converter-3RCA/dp/B0047PDBP0/ref=pd_sxp_grid_i_0_0
[Galaxy S III Accessories] tacomaguy20:
Thanks for the quick reply, that was what I was afraid of. Guess I'm stuck with audio out for now.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] tacomaguy20:
Possible fix

I finally came up with a solution that works for me. My goal was to output the video of my phone to my dvd screen in my car. The dvd player has RCA inputs. Well rather than buying an hdmi adapter and trying to find a dc power source compatible with my car, I found an alternative solution. My old phone is a t-mobile vibrant which outputs video through a 3.5mm adapter which splits into RCA inputs. It worked fine for playing video on the screen but was outdated and I had to upgrade. The GS3 only outputs hdmi and Bluetooth is not an option for video so I had a great idea. Why not use my GS3 to wifi tether to my old Vibrant and stream audio / video through the wireless connection. So I rooted the phone, downloaded wifi tether from the play store (free) and set up my vibrant to connect to my GS3 through tether. In order to share files, I downloaded bubbleupnp (free with limitations) from the play store and now I can play files from my GS3, which wirelessly plays on my vibrant, which outputs to my RCA inputs. Its kind of a roundabout way of doing what I wanted but it works well. I can keep my vibrant in my car hooked up to a car charger, while my GS3 can be docked and charging as well. The only thing I have to do is remember to turn on my wifi tether when I get in my car and my vibrant connects automatically. And the best part is that if I play video or music from my GS3 library, I'm not downloading anything so no data usage from the wifi tether. Pretty awesome. I imagine this will work with any two DLNA devices so long as one of them has video out through rca or and older adapter. Hope this helps someone out.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SkzBR:
And do you have two cellphones batteries to drain... have you connected 2 car chargers or anything like that? Your car panel will be with too many cables, no?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] tacomaguy20:
Well I do have two car chargers, One in front and one in the back. I do need to get a good mount that has power attached. I've seen the ones that plug into the lighter and they have the power built right in so that will eliminate one cable and give me a nice dock for my GS3. Not sure what I'll do with the vibrant but I won't need to access it very much so might mount it to the inside of my armrest or something. I don't think the cables will really be a problem though. I'm just happy I got it working again.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] paddycr:
My prime won't boot! I restored an earlier nandroid and it booted back fine but when I rebooted it stuck on the boot animation. I then tried to restore again through CWM and got the error message "error restoring /data". I tried to flash a few more roms that I had on my sdcard but all would not boot past the boot animation (but past the Eeepad splashscreen).

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have no idea if adb will work as we have no power here in DC and my PC is non-functional. The search function does not work too well on this phone either!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] paddycr:
Help! Any ideas anyone? I can access adb but cannot push a new rom to it (says that it is read only) and everything still hangs at the boot animation
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Don_Perrignon:
Just curious. I might get this phone if there are plans for that.

Additionally, does this phone have the NFC in it?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xchasa:
You're kidding right. No chance of a stable sense on gs3 for a long time mate. No stable sense on gs1 yet after 2 years.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Don_Perrignon:
Damn:(... Good Lord, I hate Touch Wiz.

Fine, ASOP then. Having said that, is there an app(s) that I can get the Sense widgets at least? You can't deny the functionality of Sense widgets.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baldilocks:
There are a couple threads already...

[THEME] http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1704378

[ROM DEVELOPMENT] http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1714904
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Don_Perrignon:
Ahhh thank you for this! Again with Sense and Camera... Is this related to the 3.0 kernel?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xchasa:
Wow. I might stand corrected. Hope they get a stable port soon. Nice work.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Having come from a HTC device, which I ran as aosp, my comments are;

Sense widgets were easily replaced from the market. Many alternatives were superior to the sense equivalent.

You cannot have sense widgets without the sense kernel and framework

If it's touchwiz you dislike, just get a launcher from the market.

As a former AOSP developer, I have to recommend that you stay with sammy plus launcher for a while. Sammy roms are feature packed and you will lose loads by going to aosp. Don't jump ship until you know what you've got and whether or not you want it.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] NOFSBIGE:
Hello I need help restoring my texts with Titanium Back up. How do I do this?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] kleeman7:
I don't think you can, but you can get an app from the market just search sms backup.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] NOFSBIGE:
which one is the best?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] RofSpark:
I have been using this quite successfully for a while now - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] droidiac13:
I also use this one. Works well.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mattpannella:
htc sms app does backup and restore too
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] gmac1990:
If you want to use titanium backup, backup your messaging app and then you can click restore (app + data) and it will restore messages b
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Justwannascoot:
Having some serious issues with my phone. I downloaded an unlock app and it said that the phone was unlocked but when I put in my new SIM it keeps giving me a SIM not provisioned MM#2 pop up. I changed the APN settings for what straight talk requires and the settings are saved but it still isnt working. Do I need to unfreeze the phone and how do I tell if it is? What do I have to do to get this thing to work? :crying:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gammonjoshua:
Did you root your phone first? If not, this will help. Read the full post before you do anything.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=803682
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4-2ndtwin:
Which unlock app did u use ??

Galaxy_S Unlock by Helroz from the Play Store is well known and used.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gcamp0730:
Also, try this app - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1731931

Even though it says SGS 1/2/3, if you select the GT-i9000 as your phone and give it your nvdata.bin file it will give you a code that will work. At least it did on my Captivate.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] djjroc007:
Got a pop up notification about an android update is ready for my phone. I'm currently just stock rooted. Should I flash the unroot zip first or can I accept it while rooted? I'm sure I would lose root. What exactly is the update? Couldn't be JB already could it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Speedin07si:
From what I've read it's mainly a security update.

Sent from My Epic Ice Cream Sandwich With Sprinkles!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wramos93:
Just accept it then root

Sorry i didnt notice you were rooted already, you should unroot to accept the update because in order to receive it you need stock recovery, check out this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1743923 download and flash the stock recovery thats on the thread and then accept the update and reroot
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] epicnoob66:
Don't bother. The update is nothing special
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] xrelic:
i was wondering if anyone knows a way to stop this update notification from coming up at all
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Speedin07si:
Unless you use Google wallet. This update fixes it for sprint.

Sent from My Epic Ice Cream Sandwich With Sprinkles!!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kopitalk:
Man..you just need to do a lot of reading and be selective in what you read based on what you want to achieve, whether you have the sufficient knowledge and the tool to achieve it..

Next, gain confidence in what you're about to do..read feedback, success stories and setbacks by others.. If the risk is relatively high, be prepared to roll back..

Finally, you've got to try it out yourself.. You know faith without works is dead..:cool:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Monkey_banana:
I've done my fair share of reading, and I still do. Also, I'm not an agnostic when it comes to computers (I'm a developer myself, web/server/network/Flash and Flex, so I'm aware of a few things). I have given faith a go, but you read where I'm at presently (totally unsure and unwilling to do anything).

There's nothing worse than a false sense of security or assurance, you'll hit a wall anyhow (reality doesn't care my friend!). I don't mind handling a stickie and doing all the grunt work. What I'm looking for is to confirm certain basic pieces of knowledge without crapping out my machine (it's expensive, I can't afford a new one every other week), and to share that with other GT-N7000 owners, so we can go about trying stuff for ourselves without a false sense of "that's not a wall, it's mirage, don't worry".

Trying stuff is the basis of discovery, true. But when you try stuff and you can't even confirm what you're actually trying, you won't be able to learn, let alone deduce any kind of principle from it...

This being said, would I be allowed to start collecting these basic pieces of information, to organize them in a coherent manner and to post them somewhere in the GT-N7000 forum?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Monkey_banana:
Oh, Oh, Oh, ah, ... you said "rollback". How? I've read that applying backups in certain states could actually screw things up, like a partial root for instance. Rollback procedure should be defined, and I'm willing to define it for the rest of us.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vishal_Pratap singh:
Very Good set of questions hopefully somebody answers them.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YLNdroid:
Stock Recovery v/s Custom Recovery

I was keen on asking about the difference between Stock Recovery and Custom Recovery, for which I thought of creating a new thread until I came across your topic, Monkey_banana.

Thank you for initiating a relevant thread.

:)

Personally, I have not rooted my Galaxy Note yet. I am unsure about many issues and thus I am taking my time, reading and posting queries (naive and stupid many a times) with the motive of acquiring a strong base of knowledge which I can put into practice and achieve confidence.

:)

Can the Galaxy Note be rooted without a custom recovery or is it advisable to have a custom recovery installed on the device?

:confused:

I sincerely apologise if you feel I have hijacked your thread.

:o
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Monkey_banana:
Hey YLNdroid,

No hijacking felt! I started this thread because I needed to positively confirm basic concepts. The consolidated summary idea is a little ambitious, I admit, but if at least it gets a discussion going (about concepts, not about specifics of every device, kernel and ROM), then all the better.

From what I've read, recovery sits on a bootable partition ( androidcentral.com/what-recovery-android-z/ ):

- Stock recovery allows you to wipe/reset and to flash stock ROM. Very limited, and probably not to be used if you intend to or have previously flashed anything remotely custom (like rooted kernels or Ketan's busybox installer).

- Custom recovery is tweaked and enhanced version (like CWM) that allows backups and recovery, custum wiping, custom ROM flashing and so on. They are probably also different in the way that changes are applied in order to satisfy the hacking requirements of various custom pieces of data.

This is the best of my knowledge, can anyone confirm?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srik02003:
boot loader is the first piece of code that runs after power on and loads the kernel. flashing kernel or custom ROM does not effect boot loader on note. check the following link for booting process

http://www.androidenea.com/2009/06/android-boot-process-from-power-on.html

go to settings->about phone-> Radio version. This will be your modem build. Modem is mainly responsible for making calls and data connections. Modem is usually independent of rom or android version you are using. unless you are experiencing poor signal it is not much you get by changing a modem. Some roms include a modem some don't. check out modems thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1645202

They refer to different releases of ics from samsung. any operation involving format operation with these build might result in bricking of you note. check this emmc bug thread for more info http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1644364

Dalvik cache is a cache folder for dalvik VM running on android. Odex is how things come stock. It takes up less room but making modifications or taking apks from other roms is hard.

Deodex basically takes the odex file and stuffs it into the apk as a classes.dex. First boot it dissembles the file into /dalvik-cache (i believe). Now there is basically 2 copies of the odex, one in the apk one in cache. This makes it "portable". This allows modders to work on the apks & easily change stuff. If you want themes or stuff like lockscreen fixes you MUST use Deodex.

got it from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=710648

first do check if there is any damage to your sdcard since you are an effected kernel. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1709054

For you case i suggest you to flash GB ROM from this thread [LINK]http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1424997[LINK] and then root it and then flash abyss kernel 4.2 from mobile odin or pc odin. If you flash with mobile odin it won't cause flash counter to increase but pc odin increase the flash counter resulting in a yellow triangle.

once abysskernel 4.2 is flashed go to recovery mode (volumeup + home+powerbutton). from there you can wipe dalvik cache+ wipe cache + wipe data. once that is done you can flash any custom rom you like. go for roms with cm9 kernel as it is safe from emmc bug. i am stunner and it great.

wipe operations usually format the corresponding partitions.

try to paste some test file in to /system partition and delete it. if you have a proper root that you should be able to successfully complete those operations.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NiceMrMustard:
I see this regularly but I've never seen any "real" documentation yet.

I've only seen some flashing docs from well intentioned people for whom English was a third language and who assumed every acronym was well known to their readers and which is written in a toned down l33t style (although with lots of colours). This doesn't really help.

All I've found from Google was dev documentation which didn't really address this specific topic. (since I have an itch to scratch in that area I'm slowly making my way through it, maybe I just didn't find the right bit yet)

I know that writing documentation is complex and yields many traps. I have written enough in my time (and was one of the few to actually enjoy it). However as an old time Unix user, I'm still trying to figure out Android and still haven't found anything that was worth the read. All I found were recipes that were really hard to understand.

Now I know that good documentation takes ages to write, so I'm certainly not downplaying what we have. At least we have it. But it *is* terrible.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Monkey_banana:
Hey srik02003,

Thank you very much for the ton of info. Particularly the link about the bootloader... Precious information very well explained.

I'm reading everything and will later update the original post to organize what we've got so far.

Again, thank you!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p107r0:
Wish you luck, seeing lots of threads with repetitive questions and problems, it seems a very good idea, especially to help absolute beginners
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srik02003:
i am glad it helped you...if you could summarize, it will sure help a lot of android beginners :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Monkey_banana:
Summarizing and sorting at the moment. I'm going through everything in an organized fashion and modifying the original post as I go along.

Do check the original post from time to time and feel free to make comments, refute, or provide more information.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shoey63:
Only one thing you need to know (don't worry about bootloaders etc.) And this is coming from a guy who recently superbricked his phone. (more about that in a minute). Anyway, here it is.....

ONLY FLASH FROM or do WIPES/FORMATS/FACTORY RESETS ON a kernel that has eMMC_CAP_ERASE DISABLED!

There's the whole superbrick scenario summarized in a nutshell. If CAP_ERASE is disabled, you wont brick your phone.

So which kernels am I talking about? - the following:-

SAFE!

Stock or CF-Root GB

Abyssnote 1.4.2

DAFUQ

SpeedMod

Franco

Th*r

PC or Mobile Odin

UNSAFE!

Stock or CF-Root ICS

CWM ICS

Any custom kernel where it has not been verified that CAP_ERASE is disabled.

Why? - Crap firmware. The GT N7000 doesn't like to have its eMMC chip formatted (even if only a partition). It damages it and eventually turns it into a superbrick! This happens during flashing new ROMs, doing factory resets, formatting partitions and wiping data. HOWEVER! If MMC_CAP_ERASE is disabled in the kernel, then the format instruction reverts to a simple, (and harmless) delete (like on a PC) and no damage occurs:good:

How did I brick my phone? Easy, wiped on an unsafe kernel after having a few beers and not DOUBLE CHECKING which kernel I was on before I did so:crying: (New MoBo being replaced under warranty as we speak)

Hope this helps.

BTW. I have rooted, flashed, un-roooted, reflashed, re-rooted wiped, formatted etc. for about 6 weeks until I had a brain-fade and did it on the wrong kernel.

"If you drink and wipe, your a bloody idiot!"
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Monkey_banana:
Firstly, thanks for participating in the discussion!

Secondly, although I understand your "forget about it, only consider the eMMC brick bug" recommendation, it presupposes some form of knowledge to forget about (which not every user has). You are able to formulate that your phone needs wiping because you figure that some operation, let's say a custom ROM flash, was not clean, or that it created some conflict between the various parts of your system. Right?

Lastly, a newbi or noob is not that far off from a baby in Android terms. I don't know if you've ever watched a baby, but they seem pretty drunk to me, wouldn't you agree?

All that being said, even seasoned developers/modders end up in dark places from time to time. The difference with noobs is that they have a pretty clear idea where that dark place is, how they got there, and how to get back into the light. Your recommendation is excellent at that point ("don't wipe unless you're sure your kernel is safe, or you'll go from a dark place straight to hell"), but not sufficient to fully grasp what is going on and to formulate a correct way out.

That's why I will pursue this basic knowledge round-up I have started. Again, thanks for the knowledge, I definately will integrate to the original post.

Cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LaCroyx:
Before considering flashing any custom rom, rooting is required. Where can you learn how to root your phone? Well there is a thread here at xda, or there are other sites such as rootgalaxynote.com which explain how to root or unroot your phone. And the ideea of flashing custom roms and rooting and whatever is that each and everyone of us is required to do some research. It took me 2 days of researching and reading before i rooted and overclocked my note and another week before i flashed a custom rom. Bottom line, everyone who wants to flash anything: do some research and read the instructions provided by the devs. I never ever had a single problem because i read, read and read again the instructions.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Monkey_banana:
Indeed, that's very well put: "can't root, can't mod". [ not sure: It is an actual test for the unlocked bootloader prerequisite ]. I'll integrate that! (That's what we need, verifiable knowledge).

Although I strongly agree with the responsibility to read and inform oneself, there tends to be a crucial lack of referenced/verifiable information in the various posts across the forum. This leads to false knowledge and ultimately, a flurry of nonsensical questions that bog down threads and frustrate developers and readers alike.

Reading sets of instructions is cool and all, but it doesn't prevent you from formulating a question like "I've rooted my bootloader and wiped my phone. Can I Flash your kernel safely now?". That person read a series of recipes and applied them one after the other without a logical understanding (no better than a robot).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shoey63:
Yeah you're quite right, I'm not a developers arsehole. But I do know what will brick a phone. (first hand experience!) Sorry if I appeared arrogant before, but I'm still mad about Samsung selling brickable SGN's. Just hoping that if a noob like me runs into this thread he will be pay a bit more attention to his kernel before he does anything drastic - flashing wise.

And yes there are plenty more questions to be answered, Like - Why are virgin stock ICS builds seemingly immune from eMMC bug (Or are they)? Samsung reckons they cant replicate the problem!! (WTF!)

And another one - Does rooting and/or CWM increase the likelihood of bricking? (On ICS) and if so, why?

BTW Latest CWM9 builds are safe (as long as you dont flash from a dodgy kernel)