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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] electech13:
Whether it will work or not can't say for sure but the FIRMWARE between the 747 and 747m is DEFINITELY DIFFERENT. its not major difference but different and biggest part is different modem or broad bands which in some cases will brick a phones IMEI# to 0's when wrong firmware is flashed. Hope this helps. In your position its probably worth a shot anyways to get back to basic boot able working order then maybe u can recover from there but as for your question yes the firmwares are different
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aimadlol:
im flash my I747M with international S3 ROM. now i need to jtag of my I747M in the Riff Box support only I747, my question is if i select I747 in Riff Box is work or not for unbrick my device ??

Thank you
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] electech13:
Like I said I can't say for sure for your exact scenario. To unbrick it I would say probably yes and at this point u have little to lose.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] devles:
Do NOT use i747 to i747M

Do not jtag with RiffBox i747M using i747

EFS will be dead after - NO IMEI

will not even Boot after

Use RiffBox to read from a working one.

Full flesh is the only solution for now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tomtommy306:
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-iii/
[HTC One X] breathandascream:
Hi guys. I've had this problem for some weeks now, and it's bothering me cause i didn't have this problem one i bought my one X.

When i go into and out of the camera app, the screen brightness stays set at a very high level and then drops to the brightness level i have selected. And don't even have the auto brightness on...

Does someone know how to help me? Thanks:good:
[HTC One X] mwilky:
Its this way on every HTC device, its just the autobrightness readjusting
[HTC One X] tomascus:
Well the camera app forces 100% brightness. Once you exit the asp it slowly returns to your normal selected value
[HTC One X] breathandascream:
Seriously? Lol, didn't know that, and cause i'd only noticed that a few weeks ago, i thought it was some kind of bug or something. Thanks for the replies, i'm more relieved now.

Cheers, guys.:cool:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androguide.fr:
Maybe a noob question, but how do you guys split and repack SGS3 boot.img ?

The usual perl scripts don't seem to work with any S3 boot.img I came across (neither for the Galaxy Tab 7.7 boot.img's btw).

I keep getting this error :

Thanks for answering.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qwerty12:
To unpack, you can do this:

abootimg -x boot.img && mkdir newramdisk && cd newramdisk && zcat ../initrd.img | cpio -i --no-absolute-filenames

Of course, that assumes you have abootimg installed. The above will split the zImage and the ramdisk from the boot.img and then proceed to extract the files from the ramdisk. Some ramdisks are not Gzip compressed so in that case use cat instead of zcat. Also: run that as root to make sure you don't mangle the files' permissions. I haven't tried repacking, though. ("find . -print | cpio -o -H newc | gzip > ../initrd.img" followed by "cd .. ; abootimg -u boot.img -r initrd.img" worked for my U8800pro, but I've had no need to try it with GS3 images.) I'd start by looking at the tools that come with the official Samsung source distribution and guides that tell you how to build a Samsung kernel.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androguide.fr:
Thanks a lot for this thorough answer :)

Trying this right now.

Couldn't find a specific Samsung kernel-related tutorial, though good idea to go take a look at Samsung's official kernel documentation.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gp6294u04:
Great!! Thanks for your information.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b-eock:
Here is what I use. Inside there are three binaries and two perl scripts,, copy the binaries into /usr/bin/ or you can add them in their own place and add that to the path. Then use this to help you use the files
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androguide.fr:
Thanks for that too, ima try those scripts
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androguide.fr:
Getting this error :

Apparently, from what I have been reading, Samsung uses a different type of kernels than other manufacturers.

Although there's a huge number of custom samsung kernels out there. There might be a way^^

Here is the kernel i'm trying to edit if anyone wanna give a try at unpacking it for me.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b-eock:
That is true up until the S3 boot.img/kernel They have always used a zImage. Now Google has forced them to move over to EXT4 system and change the kernel format.

That file is only 2.88 mb's that is way too small to be a full kernel. Even for stock with no tweaks. That's why you are having an error.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androguide.fr:
This is the original boot.img from the CM9 for Galaxy Tab 7.7 update.zip

However i get the same error when trying to unpack S3 stock boot.img or even CM10 boot.img, although when i try the same scripts on my Xperia Play's kernels they unpack properly.

Good thing if Google made Samsung do kernels like others :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goister:
Hi,

Did you manage to unpack/repack the SGS3 boot image? I'm trying to modify init.rc in an international SGS3 (i9300).

I've managed to unpack the boot image (from /dev/block/mmcblk0p5) as per qwerty12's command but how do I repack it?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] failly:
Hey,

Does using a launcher other than TouchWiz like go launcher or adw laucher or 360 launcher drain ny battery?

If yes whats the best lightweight launcher.

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jogibush:
Lightning launcher or zeam launcher shouldn't drain your battery like the others. But I prefer the apex launcher because he has a lot of custom settings by a moderate drain.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] failly:
Will try them, I run GB so cant use Apex :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jugster:
To drain or not to drain... To drain!

TouchWiz drains battery too!

All launchers drain battery. In fact, everything running on your phone drains battery.

I just recently switched to Holo Launcher, very lightweight (size wize) and it has the features I need.

I am happy with it.

/J
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] failly:
Does touchwiz drains more battery than Holo laucher?

And how can i close touchwiz completly when im using another launcher i dont want to drain battery 2 times so fast...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pignata#man:
holo launcher is a good one, is fast, light,i'm using it since it was beta.

If you use it, you can freeze tw launcher with titanium backup, you can also uninstall it as I did

Da tapatalk
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] magicnob:
I have tried everything, and nothing works.

My main problem is this :

Main software version: 3.06.631.7.

phone is always in ruu mode or ruu usb when i plug in the usb cable.

only fastboot working no adb.

if anyone can help me with this problem I would be very grateful.

............................................................

Operating system: Windows.

Tools folder and fastboot file(s) created.

The folder containing the IMG files was not found.

No Nandroid folder was not found - "Restore" button disabled.

STARTING PRINT OF DEVICE INFO.

-----------------------------------.

SPL/hboot version: 1.76.0008.

Radio version: 6.35.08.29.

Main software version: 3.06.631.7.

cid: vodapc23.

cpld: 12.

product: sapphire.

mid: sapp10000.

security: on.

build-mode: ship.

-----------------------------------.

Print of device info SUCCESSFUL.

This device does not have s-off nor eng hboot.

ARE YOU SURE THAT THIS IS THE RIGHT TOOL FOR YOU?.

###Calling fastboot with: getvar version-bootloader###

version-bootloader: 1.76.0008

finished. total time: 0.036s

********************************

###Calling fastboot with: getvar version-baseband###

version-baseband: 6.35.08.29

finished. total time: 0.002s

********************************

###Calling fastboot with: getvar version-main###

version-main: 3.06.631.7

finished. total time: 0.001s

********************************

###Calling fastboot with: getvar cid###

cid: VODAPC23hÅ¦,

finished. total time: -0.000s

********************************

###Calling fastboot with: getvar version-cpld###

version-cpld: 12

finished. total time: 0.001s

********************************

###Calling fastboot with: getvar product###

product: sapphire

finished. total time: 0.001s

********************************

###Calling fastboot with: getvar mid###

mid: SAPP10000

finished. total time: 0.001s

********************************

###Calling fastboot with: getvar security###

security: on

finished. total time: 0.001s

********************************

###Calling fastboot with: getvar build-mode###

build-mode: SHIP

finished. total time: 0.001s

********************************

this information i get with mumilover Fastboot Commander v.1.51
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] magicnob:
Anyone ???
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] magicnob:
mumilover fixed it. :good:
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] soloman56:
Hey Everyone,

Recently I've been wishing for a side-by-side multitasking app that would allow you to view two (or more) applications side by side (or with one above the other), similar to the 'Snap' feature in Windows 7. Whilst investigating this, I came across a piece of software called 'Cornerstone' by Onskreen. To be honest, I know little about software development, but does anyone know if this/something similar could potentially become available from the Google Play store? I think it's been included in Cyanogenmod but no other ROMs as far as I'm aware...

Thanks
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] zc1:
There is a web browser named OverSkreen that is floating. I use it when I want to make notes from an online resource -- have word processor open behind the OverSkreen window, with OverSkreen using top or bottom half of screen and word processor the other half.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Lennyuk:
The 10.1 note will launch with side by side multitasking, I played with one recently, it works pretty well.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] mjlim:
I wrote hovernote, a floating notepad app for $0.99: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mjlim.hovernote

There are some other apps that exist for different niches, like overskreen (browser), aircalc (calculator), and airterm (terminal emulator) but I'm finding for some reason that the play store won't let me install them on the nexus 7.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Compusmurf:
Onskreen by Cornerstone and overskreen and other "floating" apps aren't the same thing.

Onskreen has to be built into a ROM as it modifies framework heavily to give your system true windowed apps.

Really a great concept, open source and possibly being added to Cyanogenmod in the future.

For those that have no clue what this really is, check this:

http://www.onskreen.com/cornerstone/
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] mjlim:
Cornerstone is probably not going to be added to cm9 in the future. See the comment by Dianne Hackborn here for rationale against: https://plus.google.com/100275307499530023476/posts/ViCME1bb8F6

I thought I saw somewhere a comment specifically saying cornerstone wasn't going to be included in cm9, but I can't find it.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] soloman56:
From what I've read, Cornerstone on CM9 is too 'clunky', but Cyanogen was keen to implement something similar...
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] CharliesTheMan:
There is some cornerstone work going on, it's too early in development for me to promise they will keep working in it but I know some people that have started working with it to bring to the N7 if possible.

I found a need floating calculator app the other day that will sit anywhere on the screen and can be moved around and stuff. I'll have to go back and look to find the name of it.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] raznalab:
I think you are talking about darkcalc. It's pretty handy, for me anyway.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] soloman56:
Yeah I've had a look through various floating apps for different tasks, such as note taking and calculating, but it'd be nice if I was able to use the apps I have already and not be limited to just floating apps. I was really hoping that something like Cornerstone would be widely available so that I could have a game open in the main section and perhaps a website or two open in other, smaller, panels.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] eviloar:
Really? That's cool. Can you give a little more detail as to how it works?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] okantomi:
AirCalc...works great.

We have Cornerstone nightlies on the Xoom (teameos, ICS builds, iirc).

I used them, but there were eventually too many conflicts with my third party launcher. Great idea, though.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Nizda1:
I've used a rom a few months ago on my touchpad that someone added the cornerstone functionality too. It was actually awesome and cm at the time was playing around with it too and was gonna incorporate it I thought for cm10,but haven't heard anything in awhile. It really makes a true multi tasking environment.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Lennyuk:
You can see the video samsung released today for the device.

Basically you pick an app to fit the left side of the screen and one for the right :)

Video is here - http://news.yahoo.com/samsung-unveils-galaxy-note-10-1-tablet-again-115057005.html
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] sparky77:
I would love the Nexus 7 to do this,
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] player911:
Supposedly only a few apps work side by side. I don't think any app will do it. Probably Samsung apps only... at least what the hands on review said. Maybe more apps loaded later.

Its also releasing with ICS with no date of JB. With Samsungs track record it could be a while. LG pulled this stunt with the G2x and it was months. Samsung don't update their devices very fast. They rather throw out a new device first.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] dhruv.always:
After hard bricking my phone.. I learned a lesson.. Whenever your flashing stock rom through KDZ or LGMDP or whenever you're in emergency mode..

NEVER REMOVE THE BATTERY WHEN YOUR PHONE IS IN EMERGENCY MODE..!!!

Do anything but don't ever remove the battery!

It will hard brick your phone.. You will have to JTAG it or change the PCB mainboard (which is costly)..!!

I request MODERATORS to sticky this please! So that no user bricks his phone after this!
[Optimus One, P500, V General] lipe082:
I always use LGMDP with phone in emergency mode and i have done that sometimes and never bricked phone plus it reboots phone when done only if you dont let finish the work the only thing that soft bricked my phone once was LG offical updater, have you taken phone to warranty and say that phone bricked while using their updater if you have warranty they fix it for free :)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] dhruv.always:
My phone is with LG.. they are replacing the mainboard
[Optimus One, P500, V General] lipe082:
Good good i think kdz is a phone killer

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1793031

If users use lgmdp like the way above there will be no bricks..
[Optimus One, P500, V General] cupliz:
As i have read post by someone on xda if im not mistaken, he said to charge the battery at least 80% before using emergency mode. So its mean will get the problem if battery die before you done the progress... so i never tried to remove the battery also...

Really good information i though..

Sent from my LG-P500
[Optimus One, P500, V General] ayazm.140895:
What are we supposed to in emergency mode if are u not able to fix the phone and u want to turn it off!!!!!!!
[Optimus One, P500, V General] dnle71:
We already new that..:)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] -DarkKnight-:
the more the better. there is nothing wrong with saying it more. there might be new users who didn't know this yet

---------- Post added at 09:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:33 PM ----------

LEMME CLARIFY

if kdz isn't in progress. lets say it isn't plugged in to a computer then taking out be batter is ok

BUT ONCE IT IS CONNECTED TO A COMPUTER AND KDZ ALREADY STARTED, THEN DO NOT UNPLUG IT, OR TAKE THE BATTERY OUT
[Optimus One, P500, V General] allenwalker1998:
Tried it 15 times. My phone never got bricked. Depends on your luck I guess :/
[Optimus One, P500, V General] -DarkKnight-:
Sadly phone got bricked
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Jrhodes85:
Bad experience myself,when first using LGDMP. I did exactly what is mentioned as the topic..I got frustrated because of the program stalling so I removed the battery and well had a shiny brick of a phone..I have never used KDZ ( thank god)..funny thing is in that picture tutorial it does say do not remove battery while in E.Mode...but c'mon were all men here and to smart to read directions..LMAO..anyways about JTAG,it would cost more to do that than the USA retail price,you might as well use that money to get a better phone or a hooker for the night
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Cresqo:
Well, i'm the latest victim. KDZ failed for the first time in 50 flashes and I cant flash anything anymore (LGDMP etc etc), only way is to remove battery which woohoo! A hard brick.....
[Optimus One, P500, V General] joker12:
just disconect cable withot take battery and use LGMDP.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] joker12:
change the title to dont use KDZ.

so many phones bricked in a week...
[Optimus One, P500, V General] dhruv.always:
Changed! All of you please ask the moderators to sticky this thread! Pls we will save many users! Pls!
[Optimus One, P500, V General] YZ:
I have already given this thread a sticky ;)

YZ.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sammyz:
@OP, wouldn't the same apply to KP500 utility????
[Optimus One, P500, V General] dhruv.always:
I just got my phone back from service center. now i'm charging it to see if i can root it.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] ashirviskas:
I can't wait for mine ^_^ said maybe this week:p
[Optimus One, P500, V General] dhruv.always:
call them everyday.. otherwise they wont do it
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Cresqo:
I sent it to service centre, and they said the cost of repair is SGD240(10k rupee or something like that)....they had to say it 5 times before I came back to my senses(in my mind I was praying it was SGD24 lol) and I declined for my phone to be repaired with my personal opinion and their advice.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] :
OK guys I think I know why they are asing for so much money..

I went to service center today and said that I wanted my previous board... they said that 1300 rupees were the cost of "replacement" of board.. not the cost of a new board.. new board costs very high.. he said the old board will go to LG and I think LG will reuse it..
[Optimus One, P500, V General] ashirviskas:
Da **** ???? Thats the price of the used galaxy S... well at least here in Lithuania it isn't that costly - another time when service repaired it was 35 SGD (80 LTL). Why is it so costly in Singapore :confused:(Singapore, right? :D )

BTW how much is rupee, what country ;) ?

---------- Post added at 11:47 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:45 AM ----------

Or maybe it is because the service i go to does JTAG ?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] camvar97:
WTF????

I have removed the battery so many times when I'm in emergency mode, and my phone is working just fine!

PHONE: LGP500h

BASEBAND: V20a

ROM: MIUI.us v4 ICS (ALPHA)

KERNEL: CM9

CARRIER: Rogers
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Virusbetax:
I use kd very strictly! Thinks like battery and stuff like that I don't touch while the phone is getting flashed. Maybe it was a sudden interruption with the pc?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Darthnilus:
mine got bricked while back took it to the lg service center,they said motherboard and touch gone they repaired and gave it back the same day though :)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] ashirviskas:
You are really lucky.. But in my country the official services does not do JTAG, they just change motherboards. And it is very costly. So you have to go to some unofficial services and give them your phone and wait very long time, or you pay huge money :D

Also another time when my phone was at same service they took one moth, because nobody wanted to try to fix LG phone LOL. Just when my phone went thru at least 10 people who are fixing phones one accepted my phone and did that in few hours, and sent it back all the way thru those 10 people hands, until it reached the first service where my phone was left :D. Yeah, in Lithuania we fix in strange (and not overpriced) ways :D (time is money :) )
[Optimus One, P500, V General] :
Hey guys, yesterday i just saved my phone from bricking after using kdz again.. im such an idiot..i have permantely deleted kdz and lgmdp from my pc.. i am thinking to make a guide on how to unbrick after kdz error?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] neko95:
> that would be a very helpful guide :good:
[Optimus One, P500, V General] auroszx:
Well, mine got bricked last year, but I told de carrier that an electric shock damaged it, and they told me they'd send it to repair. And here It is, alive :P Now I now I shouldn't use KDZ, but the problem happened with de Generic 2.2 Stock Rom, with 2.3.3 (Rumania) everything works fine o.O
[Optimus One, P500, V General] naturist:
added this thread as a reference here. There is no point to stick this thread, too much stick thread would look messed up forum.

[FAQ] General FAQs + Quick guide to rooting/flashing roms

Q. KDZ can brick my device?

A. Yes, if you planning to remove your battery while your phone is in emergency mode, it can be bricked. For more, you can check this thread.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] ayazm.140895:
Suppose a phone is bricked its in emergency u know u can't fix it but how to turn it off!! Take it to service center!! What should I do if it's stuck in emergency mode first thing don't remove battery!! Then what!!!
[Optimus One, P500, V General] jhonatann_989:
brick is a posibility

i bricked my old o1 few months ago. the problem was that i didn't disabled lg modem drivers. during the upgrading, kdz updater gave me an error: "error 2xx" (can't remember the exactly mumber) when i take off the battery and put it on again, my o1 didn't power on. i bought another o1 and when i use kdz updater, i ALWAYS make sure that lg modem driver are disabled.

(sorry for my bad english)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] kprsnt:
but for me i hav no problem with v20d

last time when i flashed v20d i hasn't disabled lg modem .

but it flashed correctly with kdz

---------- Post added at 07:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:50 PM ----------

is is must to flash through d kdz when phone is bricked..

y dont v flash just recovery image using lgmdp...??

just small doubt..

because last time when phone was bricked i just flashed recovery using lgmdp..

it saves so much of time n effort for us..
[Optimus One, P500, V General] jhonatann_989:
well.... when i bricked my phone i was a newbie :eek: and kdz updater was the only tool that i knew in that moment. i usually downloaded and change firmwares constantly for testing the perfomance of each one. since i bricked my phone and i bought a knew one, i installed 20g version. then i just stop using kdz updater.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] PanzerIV88:
F*ckin great I could finaly access the root of my phone through Voice Commands but I've tryed as suggested on another thread to use the (KDZ_FW_UPD_EN) but it obviously failed and then no matter what I do the cellphone cannot get any power and is now 10000% bricked. I'm so pissed off! Why offer tools for people to flash their phones if it's so unrealiable and results in a dead phone most of the time... :mad:
[Optimus One, P500, V General] -DarkKnight-:
I've done many times but my phone hasnt been bricjed once

You just got trolled by Darkknight
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Junior Einstein:
Moderator please stick this thread, it will help lots of users to prevent bricking their phones