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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beethoven1854:
Thank you dr,ketan but why is it good to wipe cache and data from GB Rom before moving on? Is it going to make the device run faster or what?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.ketan:
It makes system clean

If any leftover remains, you won't get performance on ics.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeeshanonlyme:
As for flashing the speedmod kernel, u can either choose the ODIN way or flash it through CWM . Follow dr.Ketan's way of installing and youll be done in a jiffy :D

Else were here to help :D

Cheers!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baz77:
An ultra squicky clean way would be to format all in mount section, that way you are sure to have a full clean phone. Losing all data and all possible lingering crap that could somehow interfere. Your phone wont reboot, but recovery still works as well as download mode. Which means you must have proper backup for pictures and such. Just dont restore by accident other crappy stuff. Again all this from a safe kernel booted recovery.

Warning: take out external sd card as you can also wipe that, and some instances of cwm have what appears to be sd swapped with external sd, been there done that, lost my backups many times rendering my phone useless, until I put a cwm flashable rom back on external and flashed it. Lost precious pictures to, stored in dcim on sd card.

Warning 2 if you loose imei/productcode/other efs stuff, with the backup you can get that back. Rare when it happens, but it happens, and had it multiple times.

Warning 3 if you ever use a kernel cleaning script, do not perform on unsafe kernel. And do not reboot recovery without flashing new kernel first, haven't made that mistake yet of rebooting without a kernel, but I don't think anything can safe your phone then.

Edit:all at own risk
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beethoven1854:
Thank you all. I really appreciate your help.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeeshanonlyme:
Data on external SD(and emmc) card is formatted while flashing a new rom?

Never happened with me :P

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A good courtesy is to click "Thanks" button of users who helped(or atleast tried to) :P

If you know what I mean .:angel:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blue_penciler:
Okay, by the looks of it I have the same phone as the original poster's. Your advice to update to ICS OTA or via Kies? Mine won't update. Kies says I have the latest ROM and so does the OTA update check. What am I doing wrong?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] keewanchoapsss:
I believe this might be possible. If someone is willing to give this a try, a developer for example? Try to extract your own bootloader from you phone, re-pack it for CWM as a flashable file and upload. I don't know anything when it comes to the proceedure of how this is done, but fishing about this forum area "http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=855" might lead to a few clues. However this is a different device from a different manufacturer, they have managed to extract the BL. Not sure how. But it proves it must be possible, no? :( Im desperate for a bootloader unlock. Can't believe my operator is not allowing this.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
Won't work. Just won't. Adding to the list.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] keewanchoapsss:
Okay, no worries. What about this, wouldn't it work if we managed to load a custom kernel AFTER the original kernel is already loaded? A bit like 2nd-init in CWM? Just suggesting as many things as I can so you can either shoot them down in flames and add them to the list, or if something pops up that we COULD possibly try, you can help forward it for development. If it fails it fails...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] JoelChrist_:
Booting the custom kernel still requires an unlocked bootloader right? Then you are going to have to boot an enirely new android system on top of your basic one to boot custom kernels.

Correct me if i'm wrong

Sent with my Sony Xperia S using a little bit of KA magic.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] keewanchoapsss:
Well the thought behind my suggestion is that since the kernel is loaded officially, it means the key is already bypassed due to the official kernel going through which then means if we can load a new kernel as the Rom loads or just before it loads yet still after the original kernel has loaded then the key must still be bypassed and this new custom kernel can be loaded? People should keep giving suggestions!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] JoelChrist_:
It might just work, but you would need 2 boot partitions right?

We could make a script that boots the second kernel before the first kernel boots the system.

Sent with my Sony Xperia S using a little bit of KA magic.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
It's hardly possible to boot the kernel as late as the earliest possible injection (install-recovery) on locked BL.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] keewanchoapsss:
No way to make a delay on that time given?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
We can delay it, but to be able to hot boot a kernel, we need to push it back (so we can jump in earlier) not forward.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] KeiranFTW:
You can do it on post boot iirc, just overwrite /system/bin/chargemon with a custom script, mv chargemon to charger, and at the end of the script run charger.

only problem with this is you need a way of hijacking in the kernel (I have no idea how to do this).
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
Yeah, the exact problem is we need to hot swap the kernel. It's possible (by using something similar to Uptrack, i.e. dynamically replacing code in memory), but needs to happen early enough so that nothings breaks if it goes wrong.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] JoelChrist_:
Can't we just do something similar to dualboot, but with the option to choose between boot system and boot the second kernel?

Sent with my Sony Xperia S using a little bit of KA magic.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
Dualboot needs to be handled by the bootloader or the kernel itself, but we can't modify either on locked bootloader.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Forzaferrarileo:
Dualboot different kernel it's only possible if there's a custom bootloader ( with a 2nd boot partition for the 2nd kernel , and possibility to switch kernel before booting it [ like dualboot BL of iconia a500/501 ]

Dualboot different roms it's possible by having 2 roms that uses the same kernel , so you can switch rom after kernel boot ( like siyahkernel )

For extract bootloader I think it should be possible by reverse engineering fastboot executible ( if it can put .ta key to unlock bootloader , I think fastboot can also read bootloader partition [ it's quite impossible it can write but it can't read ]) and add the command to read and save bootloader

EDIT : for extract bootloader try to extract it from loader.sin ( 7-zip give me that file is broken , but I think it has strange compression method or some protection to avoid extraction)

EDIT2 : algorithm for compress/decompress loader into loader.sin its LZMA but for some reason 7-zip cannot decompress it :confused:

If we'll found a good lzma sompressor/decompressor it will be easier to extract , edit , and repack bootloader for flash by loader.sin with flashtool

EDIT3 (too edit in this post ) : Founded romanger tool that can convert sin to img , but problem remain , tomorrow I will try to use new version of flashtool ( 0.9) to extract loader .sin.... in changelog it's wrote that thay added loder.sin extract from sony fileset ..... maybe it will work
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
You are massively wrong here.

1) hotbooting a kernel is indeed possible, I can give you related links later, but for now just Google KSplice Uptrack.

2) Fastboot has nothing to do with Sony's cryptography, it is a Google tool that is open source as a part of AOSP. If you are talking about flashtool, it is also open source, so there is absolutely no magic involved on the PC. Flashtool reads and writes the loader as raw data, not trying to decipher it. If you still want to mess with loader.sin, it's unlikely to be LZMA compressed because that means an even lower level of software is required to decompress it. A 'good LZMA decompressor' you're looking for is unsurprisingly called lzma, is open source and should come preinstalled in most Linux distributions.

3) To flash anything, even the bootloader, with flashtool or any other method, you'll need to sign it with Sony's key or find a way to bypass the validation in Sony's stock bootloader. This also means that even if you manage to modify the bootloader code, you will not be able to flash it on locked devices unless one of the above happens.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] JoelChrist_:
But where in the loader file, or any stock file can we find the validation of sony?

Sent with my Sony Xperia S using a little bit of KA magic.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
In the file header. The problem is it's an asymmetric signature. So 1) you need different keys to sign and to verify signatures and 2) the signature itself depends on the file's content, so when the file is changed, it'll no longer be valid.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] JoelChrist_:
Are bootloader files also verified by Sony?

I don't think so, because the bootloader is the first software to start so it cant be checked by some other software right?

If all this is correct, cant we pull the bootloader file in some way, and replace it with an unlocked or unlockable version?

Correct me if I'm wrong

Sent with my Sony Xperia S using a little bit of KA magic.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
The new bootloader is verified by the old bootloader.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] JoelChrist_:
In that case, if we remove the bootloader, and flash the other one, there is no bootloader to verify it right?

Sent with my Sony Xperia S using a little bit of KA magic.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
To remove bootloader (== flash empty bootloader), we still need to pass the verification. Also removing the bootloader is very, very dangerous because if anything goes wrong there, the device will be bricked.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] JoelChrist_:
Thrn I give up on this one, I myself have unlocked bootloader, root, custom roms, but I'm curious about rooting on locked bootloader and willing to learn more about the android development scene.

Sent with my Sony Xperia S using a little bit of KA magic.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Forzaferrarileo:
ok , thanks for correction (about all :o ) you're taking me on the right way
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] JoelChrist_:
@keewanchoapsss add me on gtalk jjlchrist@gmail.com

Sent with my Sony Xperia S using a little bit of KA magic.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] 4rch0:
How did it work for SE x10 with locked bootloader?How did it work there?

Can someone explain that to me?:confused:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
It used a bug in the system. That bug is no longer there.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gab2012:
Hey guys, I posted a thread last week of a problem I had with my stock unrooted gnex. The problem was that everytime I went to the settings, the settings app would crash and wouldn't let me press "more" in order to access mobile network modes etc.

I rooted it and flashed a couple of roms and the issue kept returning. I un-rooted it this morning and reflashed via odin the latest stock FD02 tar thinking the issue would be gone since everything was going to be wiped.The issue came back again so I went to the sprint store (thank god for TEP) and the techs were acting like it wasnt a big deal. They reset the phone 4 times (the tech did it in fornt of me) and the issue was still there.

So 1 and a half hour later, the manager comes out and tells me she ordered me a new phone (probably a refurb but who cares at this point :P) and it would arrive on thursday.

the tech started joking around with me at the end saying that if I got a bad gnex from the factory, that he would give me a NIB GSIII. I hope thats the case haha But I still love my Gnex and its peppy updates and hate touch wiz to death.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] onsidekick:
Interesting thanks for sharing bud
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kashb91:
little curious about this. has anybody that has gotten a new phone from sprint through tep had any problems with the new phone? any differences that you can tell from your first phone? sorry about kinda hijacking.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gab2012:
I can say from experience, since I had an evo 4g before the nexus and my wife has an iphone 4s. We have gone through TEP with both devices.

Lets start with the Evo.

I was getting a lot of dropped calls, the speakers were worn out sounding poorly, it started turning on and off by itself. Went to sprint, the techs diagnosed that there was no water damage or accident damage so they didn't ask for the deductible and ordered me a phone. Replacement arrived in a generic white sprint box, the tech used the same battery I had and gave me a working phone (no scratches,dings or anything looked brand new)

My wifes iphone 4s

The bluetooth wasn't holding a connection to her cars bluetooth system or any bluetooth device at all. The techs diagnosed it and gave her the same treatment. The phone came in a generic box looking new and worked fine.

The story behind whether you ACTUALLY get a refurb or a truly new phone is this.

When the rep places the phone order the system tells him if there are any refurbished units at their warehouse. When there are none the warehouse itself sends a totally new not refurbished phone in the same generic box.

How do you know if you got a new phone or a refurb? Theres no way in my experience (I've had to order around 4 phones in the past 5 years with TEP and they have always worked great and looked new)

If you file a claim with asurion (theft, accidental damage or water damage) they send you a brand new phone after paying the $100 deductible.(happened with 1 phone that I dropped and cracked the screen)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kashb91:
interesting. what i was mostly wondering about was the screen on the gnex. i remember when i had the nexus 4g, people that went through tep said that the screen was replaced with a different one. it wasnt oled, or whatever the original screen was.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Fstall303:
I had the issue when I flashed cm9 and paranoid android Roms. But the issue was only the roms
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gab2012:
Interesting, It could be a temporary outage of the parts.

I know for certain that for the iphones, the refurbish process is done by apple

So I would think that samsung is responsible for supplying sprints refurb units. Since the screen is made by Samsung themselves they should focus on putting the right screens.

and thursday can't come fast enough :( My gnex is now getting delayed texts. A lot of people text me, like once an hour the phone is ringing all of the messages that were sent to me at once during that period of time.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] cybermage1:
I just got one of these from Amazon:

Exact (TM) X Design TPU Case for Google Nexus 7 Android Tablet by Asus Black

I like it okay. Obviously it's not a travel case and provides only minimum screen impact protection with a slightly raised bevel. If you're going to keep your tablet on your coffee table or nightstand, this is the kind of case you might want.

The problems I see are that the long sides tend to bulge the slightest bit off of the device when you're handling it. Over time I can see it stretching off the device where the long sides don't fully wrap around anymore. They should have made the harder plastic X on the back more of an asterisk and provided additional support in the middle of the long sides. As I put it on, one corner caught my screen protector and smooshed it up a bit.

Also the X on the back picks up fingerprints worse that the screen of your Nexus 7.

The buttons built into the case for power and volume work perfectly, and the speaker and microphone have cutouts as do the USB and headphone jack.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] white97dsm:
Just posted pics of mine in the TPU thread.....

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=29544213#post29544213
[Nexus 7 Accessories] blahblahyoutoo:
are you the one that left the review on amazon?
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] glennlevi:
Just wanna ask, which is better, 32MB swap or 256MB swap? Also I've read somewhere swap size was supposed to be RAM x 2, but then again that would be pretty huge.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Chamiakas:
Neither, and 2x amount of RAM is only fitted for PC's. In reality it should be 1,5x. I myself tried using SWAP, but it slowed down my SD card a lot (reading, writing speeds). I suggest you should disable the SWAP completely because SGY has got a very good RAM management by default, thus no need for SWAP. I myself never ran into RAM-related issues. Also, as you know, SWAP is A LOT slower than RAM.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] emompong:
just use 256 bro.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] kykemejia:
I'm using 256 MB. Is stable with a2sd.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Kevin_pampangeñO:
I'm afraid to try this one...i've read some threads about it, and is it safe for me to do it even if my sd card is not class 10?, sorry im just a newbie
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] -CALIBAN666-:
When using swap the lifetime from sd card will go down.

GREEEEEEEEEETZ!!!
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Vire Holland:
Does link2sd support for swap?
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] kickthefreak:
No it doesn't

[ fly away with my SGY-5360 on creed3.5 and some magic spell ]
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] kykemejia:
Yes, link2sd support swap but you Kernel must support swap to work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] gunzshy:
Hey All,

Im a complete Noob...

i have rooted my Bell Galaxy S before and had to use that crazy adb programming rubbish. Now i thought that i would try rooting my galaxy note i717m with instructions from the root my galaxy note website...fail! no disrespect to him he is doing a fine job but i think that he should take down that it works for Bell at least. My question and problem is that now its stuck on the boot screen. i can still get in via odin re flash(i think thats right) but i cant seem to get any further...Help ...i've already tried flashing with Da_G pda.tar. and i got a different boot logo(original samsung/bell for the i717m logo) but still stuck....again help!!!

ps i did the ics update if that helps

thanks everyone

G
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Clark Joseph Kent:
Sounds like you odin Gingerbread root on ICS...I would run the update again in download mode, to get a new complete fresh install or put CWM touch on to flash a custom ROM or if your gonna stay stock, (I use touch CWM)...and to put the ICS latest stock or Custom ROMs,

are all listed on the GNote Super page, see my links in my signature for all the ROOT for ICS and all the stock/custom ROMs.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] gunzshy:
Huh?

still stuck but thanks...

i have tried to flash the bell pda.tar stock and get the same. it was currently running the Bell ICS update ...where do i find the Bell pda.tar file for ICS so i can flash on to ClockworkMod...i have read almost everything...i know READ READ READ...any help will be great. thank bro...where do you fond time.
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rohitsk:
I was setting up adb and fastboot and when i rebooted to the bootloader using ad recovery-bootloader it showed be a fastboot menu.

fastboot devices did not show up anything. I could not reboot using adb so i manually restarted the phone.

Now when it starts, i get a white battery icon and it disappears and phone never starts.

Does anyone know what could be the issue here? Anything else I should try before giving up and reflashing?
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GobletSky31689:
I am guessing you are on AOKP or cm9(redpill or earlier).

That was a bug in the rom.

It was removed from cm9 after bluepill, don't know if its removed the latest AOKP build or not.

If you don't want to flash a new rom, try this:

Pull out charger cable,if connected, wait 10 seconds,

1.LONG PRESS (3-5 seconds) power button. If you see charger logo again, LONG press again. It will boot normally.

2. You can also try going into recovery and then rebooting from there.
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rohitsk:
I had to keep on rebooting and finally I was able to boot into the device :)
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrcorey:
An easier way...when you see white battery, hold power down again until LG logo. It will start
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Heisenberg420:
I just got the iFaraday stylus for $12 and its great so far. The tip is made of cloth and slides great on the screen while wiping off fingerprints. It works with barley any pressure, even on the soft menu and back buttons. So if your looking for the perfect stylus I think I found it.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] bldvx:
what do you use it for?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Heisenberg420:
I mostly use it for swype text input, I can get up to 40 words per min

I guess its not the greatest stylus for drawing, but I wouldn't know because I never draw

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
[Galaxy S III Accessories] w98seeng:
I was thinking of getting a stylus for my phone, but it's not like the Note where there is a place to put it, it has to be carried around in a pocket.

It's too much of a pain since I would probably forget it all the time.

Ian
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Heisenberg420:
That's a good point. I really only use it at home. I don't use it on the go. Some have that plastic piece that fits in your 3.5mm headphone jack on a tie on the stylus which is a decent solution

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
[Galaxy S III Accessories] KingOmega:
is the tip sharp enough for draw... say in S memo?

or its tip as big as finger
[Galaxy S III Accessories] scarrmrcc:
http://adonit.net/product/jot/

I bought one of these awhile ago, for drawing... and the JOT is how you do a precise stylus. anything else (as far as I have tried) is like drawing with a piece of sidewalk chalk.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ProfJonathan:
Agreed--I just bought one of these as well, and was pleased that (notwithstanding some warnings) it works quite well even through my Skinomi screen protector. Makes Graffiti entry quite reliable too. Not only that, but I bought the Mini version, and it fits in the other pocket of my SIII's belt case, so I can carry it everywhere. {ProfJonathan}
[Galaxy S III Accessories] scarrmrcc:
ok... I will admit it.. I bought the mini too.:good:
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Heisenberg420:
Its a decent stylus for drawing, there's an edge that's easy to find, here's a pic

I think they also offer a different selection of tips

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
[Android Apps and Games] eviltango:
What is the fastest and easiest app to select pics on your gallery and add them to Facebook album?

Sent from my NOTEORIOUS BIG 5.3" Bell Canada
[Android Apps and Games] eviltango:
Bump

Sent from my NOTEORIOUS BIG 5.3" Bell Canada
[General Questions and Answers] cloehler:
I recently installed Ice Cream Sandwich on my Samsung Captivate SGH-I897 and since then I have not been able to establish a connection to my PC over USB with debugging enabled. I use MyPhoneExplorer to sync my Lotus Notes calendar, and it requires debugging to be enabled. I can connect fine in mass storage mode. I never had any problems when I was running Gingerbread. I have tried 3 different ICS ROMs (TeamNyx, Cyanogenmod, and one other that I don't remember - it was really buggy). I'm currently running Cyanogenmod 9.0.0 RC2.

I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas.

Never mind - I found the problem. I had to update the ADB device driver on my PC.