yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G General] HarlanPepper0010:
I say give it a shot hip. I'm using it now and have had no problems. I know a lot of people are wary because of a possible brick, but don't we see the same warning when we flash roms? I mean if we saw a sign on our cars that said "there is a possibility you could crash today" would that stop us from jumping in it everyday? Just sayin... :D:p

Sent from my EVO 4G using Xparent ICS Blue Tapatalk 2
[EVO 4G General] jamieg71:
I hear they have toilets that "wipe" for you.... Jussayin' :laugh:
[EVO 4G General] HarlanPepper0010:
My next toilet...

Sent from my EVO 4G using Xparent ICS Blue Tapatalk 2
[EVO 4G General] ben.nesheim:
that is goddamn epic

completely worth an offtopic post imo :P
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
True that, but the last version of TWPR actually WAS bricking phones. I think Throwback has that all fixed now, though
[EVO 4G General] HarlanPepper0010:
I think it was the 2.0 or 2.2 version that was bricking some phones. The problem was fixed in 2.2.1

Sent from my EVO 4G using Xparent ICS Blue Tapatalk 2
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
It was 2.0, which was from quite a while ago. The issue was fixed in 2.2, though I was using 2.1 with no issues as well.

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Current Device: HTC EVO 4G | ROM: 5.07.651.1 Stock Rooted (Throwback-style) v2.2- ODEXED | Kernel: Classic-v1.5 - SBC
[EVO 4G General] Mavman42:
I switched from Clockworkmod after it basically nearly bricked my phone. So I switched to Smelkusmod 4.3 had no problems since. Never will I go back to clockworkmod.
[EVO 4G General] HarlanPepper0010:
I think everyone in here can agree in regards to cwm...:p

Sent from my EVO 4G using Xparent ICS Blue Tapatalk 2
[EVO 4G General] ropodope:
cwm blows monkey chunks and feeds them to newbies.

ropodope

What did the five fingers say to the face? Sa la ppa.
[EVO 4G General] HarlanPepper0010:
to put it lightly... :D

Sent from my EVO 4G using Xparent ICS Blue Tapatalk 2
[EVO 4G General] smelkus:
Cool. I started to google smelkus and it had a bunch of auto complete options about my recovery and then this I noticed this thread. I agree with everything in here except auto reboot was already in the nandroid source code a long time ago. It's just nobody had added it to the UI. I got the idea on my own when I fell asleep waiting for backups to compete and let my phone die in recovery. When I went to investigate, I realized it already existed on github. Thankfully drellisdee helped me get it working right. Didn't come from reading xda directly though.

I agree a default backup name like the date would be nice in TWRP too.

Good discussion.
[EVO 4G General] Magnum_Enforcer:
I've used both TWRP and Smelkus. They're both good recoveries, but as of late I've been running Smelkus and have no plans to switch to anything else. The wipe options and autoreboot feature are quite handy, not to mention the fact that it's RA-based :cool:
[EVO 4G General] rydog66:
great thread, thanks everyone for their objective input and opinions for others to make informed decision
[EVO 4G General] Diablo67:
I've used every recovery thats used for the EVO and in my opinion smelkusmod is the most stable recovery,hands down.
[EVO 4G General] jamieg71:
I think if the number of devices bricked, by any variant of the aforementioned recoveries, is taken into account..... Smelkus wins in a landslide. Nothing against twrp, I'm running it on my LTE, great recovery. But on an OG Evo.... Smelkus or stock for me.

Sent from my EVO
[EVO 4G General] polar2792:
Same never had a problem with Smelkus
[EVO 4G General] jlmancuso:
Well I have used all the recoveries and was a victim of a Twrp brick. Now I mostly use smelkus mod but started using Twrp when I was testing nandroid manager. Now Twrp 3.x won't flash most of our zips but if you use 2.2.x it flashes everything fine. Plus you can que multiple zips. My major turn off is the long boot time.

All the ra based recoveries are good. The touch is kind of a poor setup but is better than hard keys. Which for this elderly device is a must for some. Darn volume and power button break often.

So yes I think a merge of the two would be great.

Sent from my death star via darth vader's helmet.
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
The latest TWRP version is 2.4.1.0 :confused:?

The reason TWRP fails flashing many of the zips is because they use outdated update-binaries. I've started updating my ROM zips with the newer JB binary to make it flashable with all recoveries. Would be nice if everyone else did the same too :).
[EVO 4G General] jlmancuso:
Yes captain that is the problem. I have changed a few of my zips but there are many of the older stuff that is not supported anymore. I have used the newest Twrp and while it has a couple of extras that 2.2.2.0 doesn't it is not enough to make me upgrade. Rewriting scripts can be a tedious process. So if since the older version doesn't brick and will flash the newer jb source I see no reason to change.

Now yes I have started reading up on the new scripting code and am planning on implementing it later. I want everyone to be able to use it no matter which recovery.
[EVO 4G General] CNexus:
You're talking about Edify right? The thread in the link below is a great resource that I refer to all the time for Edify, maybe you can get something out of it

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1611615

I saw your post about the kernels, just wanted to say best of luck to you and dont get frustrated when you dont understand something, all great devs started out with a clean slate at some point! Again, the best to you and hopefully you are able to do what you wanna do.

Just my two cents. :good:

Sent from my PG06100
[EVO 4G General] the.emilio:
What's a recovery? :p
[EVO 4G General] Chad The Pathfinder:
LOL!
[EVO 4G General] jlmancuso:
A recovery is where you go to get off drugs and alcohol or what ever you are addicted to. All of need a good recovery program so we can get off our phones
[EVO 4G General] Diablo67:
Hahahahahahahahaha,tooooo funny.
[EVO 4G General] the.emilio:
^ seems legit. Lol
[EVO 4G General] JM-PDA:
I just installed TWRP last night. Yeah, I was a little nervous about the bricking I have heard about.

But, so far so good!

Before this, I was on Smelkus (which is awesome).

TWRP is like a "new toy" on my Evo. So I am enjoying the nice interface.

TWRP also interfaces much better with ROM Manager and ROM Tool Box.

I agree they both have strengths. I do miss the Smelkus "Auto Reboot" after an install is done.

Will stay on TWRP for now.

Cheers!
[EVO 4G General] jlmancuso:
jm-pda just remember that twrp 2.4.1.0 has the jellybean source so some of your zips will fail to install. I suggest to everyone to either update all your personal zips or downgrade to 2.2.2.0. enjoy your new toy!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] lakmal88:
Hey guys, i rooted my Xperia mini pro (4.0.2.A.0.62) by downgrading to .42 and rooted it..

then Upgraded to ICS via PC suite and not the rootaccess is unavailable :(

what happened? what should i do? how can i keep ICS and being rooted?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Someguyfromhell:
Did you follow the tutorial about rooting ICS? Just updating ofcourse doesn't keep root.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] usman_fareed:
follow this tutorial http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1709880
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] lakmal88:
Is that so?

But I still have the SuperUser app in my app drawer and it shows the apps it has granted root access but actually those apps can't access root.

Should I have to flash Roms again? Or can't I make superuser app work again?

And should I have to root each time I upgrade via Sony or flash a custom Rom?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] thomas1991_12:
Ive build AOKP today from KangXperiaProject sources.

So its got all the latest updates from the KangXperiaProject (all credits to them).

Works with sirkays aokp kernels.

Gapps: http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-ics-20120429-signed.zip

Download link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?k143kltyy238ojy

Not working:

bluetooth a2dp

To fix torch:

Download attached zip EXTRACT. DO NOT FLASH.

adb push libcameralight.so /system/lib

adb reboot
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Ridho1:
Thanks. But what is the working/non working?

SS please.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] thomas1991_12:
As far as I know everything works (although not 100% sure about Fm radio)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] muppetmania:
You're building this yourself from source code?

Or just modifying other phone's binary to work with the Ray?

If compiling from source - are you publishing your mods anywhere etc?

I'm still learning how to build/compile for the Ray, so interested in chatting about your work here.

Thanks!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] thomas1991_12:
Ive build this from KangXperiaSource (https://github.com/KangXperiaProject).

They have published a pretty good tutorial on how to compile: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1767578

But you will get lots of errors you need to fix, ive put some fixes for ray on page 9 of that thread.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] muppetmania:
Thanks heaps!

I've just finished building a gcc 4.6.3 ARM cross compiler, so I'll have to give it a go.

Thanks for putting some fixups in the thread :)

Tim
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] funiewski:
Earlier kang versions had problems with bt music, is it fixed now?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] thomas1991_12:
Dont know for sure. Cant test it, you should give it a go.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] cxj1995:
downloading now will try add ss ltr :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] -Jesco-:
i want to see SS before i try the rom out ~
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] cxj1995:
Here Are The Screenshot...Hit Thx If I Help :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] funiewski:
no bt a2dp
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] cxj1995:
Lucky patcher is not working :(
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Roio:
It´s not bug of ROM, it´s the new lucky patcher. After update it even doesnt work on GB.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MintiIceCream:
Hello Everyone,

I want to ask you how to stream youtube in HQ?

Looking forward for your answers :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoolAndroid1:
With the YouTube 2.4.4 app
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MintiIceCream:
Can i use other apps?

I would like to use Mobo Player on ICS, do i wanna know the link form for HQ :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] realzahed:
I use this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lifecom.youtubestream&hl=en
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MintiIceCream:
Thanks, but i can't choose Soft decoding to have no lag on ics :(
[Nexus 7 General] khaytsus:
Reserving for any followup info, particularly around if the market permission doesn't clear "immediately".
[Nexus 7 General] khaytsus:
A partial list of apps that work/don't work, but all will install now and previously would not. If anyone tries another app or has more input I'll update this post.

I've also started a list of apps I know of that have altered their permissions in the market so that they should show up natively on the N7 without the fix.

Work Perfectly (maybe mirrored)

Paper Camera - Mirrored

Google Translate - Mirrored, maybe upside down.. Wonky, but does work.

Work With Caveats

Grocery King - Barcode scanning crashes, otherwise completely usable

Don't Work at All

Google Goggles - Blank image, although you can load images you took with other cameras

Retro Camera - Can't find camera

Fixed market permissions

Camera FX Zoom - Use landscape, or things are mirrored and flippped
[Nexus 7 General] rex.regis:
This worked great for me...thanks a bunch!
[Nexus 7 General] Wilks3y:
Ima give this a go when I get home, thanks :)
[Nexus 7 General] DavidTheBourne:
Nexus 7 camera permissions

Hi,

I have an app on the market that uses the front camera and sadly I cant get it working on the Nexus 7. Could someone please assist me in what permissions I need to change exactly to get it running?

From reading the posts above I now see that it's not the name of the camera (which I believe is 0) but it's permissions around that.

As a noob to the Nexus 7 permissions can anyone step me through it?

Thanks

David
[Nexus 7 General] khaytsus:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...ort-for-android-application-manifest-assembly
[Nexus 7 General] khaytsus:
Just wanted to bump this thread and let everyone know this still works for 4.3. However, I'm not sure what one would need to do to make it work faster.

I installed the XML file on my N7 about three days ago, cleared Market data, rebooted etc, specific apps still showed as not compatible.

Finally today I look, and compatible! Perhaps it's on Google's side, it only updates every so often.. I dunno.

Anyway, so it works, but it might take a few days for it to propagate ;)
[HTC EVO 3D] jamesdal1:
Hello,

I'm trying to find a site where my daughters can order customized cases, but NONE for evo 3d, i know about skinit and uniqueskins but those go on your actual phone, is there something that goes on the case?
[HTC EVO 3D] jamesdal1:
one more note, i personally don't care about cases, as long as they protect it, but girls are different and they like style. Thats the only thing they complain about the phone, they like android but complain about boring cases.
[HTC EVO 3D] Avi8ion:
http://www.decalgirl.com/skins/HTC-Evo-3D-Skins

This is the closest thing you can get to A "Customized" Look. Good luck.

P.S. i have one myself. For me, it does the job in "Protecting" it.
[HTC EVO 3D] jamesdal1:
So is it a skin or a case?
[HTC EVO 3D] Pauly_k:
Those are skins.

In terms of cases I've posted this before and used them in the past.

Might not be to everyones taste though.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/EASECASE/H...&submit=Search&_fsub=868362018&_sid=149381558

Don't be put off by how they look there. There are various designs. Once you pick a design you can customise the colour of the leather. And stitching colour and also get a name stamped into the case.

I'll have a look and get back to you there was a place that allowed you to upload a pic and they print it onto a back case for you. Would that be an option?
[HTC EVO 3D] jamesdal1:
That was not what was asked for...
[HTC EVO 3D] Pauly_k:
What your asking for doesn't exist either get a custom case with a design on it (Like I was going to look up for you) or try and stick skins to a case somehow.
[HTC EVO 3D] jamesdal1:
then that is all i needed to know, not someone promoting their ebay store.
[HTC EVO 3D] drio1389:
i would LOVE a case with the memes on it :) if you guys know where can i get one let me know plz :D
[HTC EVO 3D] Pauly_k:
It isn't my ebay store. I was just offering some help.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] treIII:
been having overclocking issues. on meanrom 1.7 oc wouldnt work even with mikeys init.compostboot.sh. on meanrom 2.0 oc worked great. today i upgradedto meanrom 2.6 now the oc will not work again. can anyone explain whats goin on? is busybox supposed to be on the rom when i install it? the rom is on the internal sd card.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] treIII:
i just put meanrom 2.0 back on my phone and it ovrclocking fine. am i getting bad down loads on some of mikeys roms or what could be causing some versions to overclock and some to not?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cantos:
Did you do a full wipe before the flash? Mounting in r/w mode and opening the file in text editor mode?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] treIII:
misspelled os;29751490]Did you do a full wipe before the flash? Mounting in r/w mode and opening the file in text editor mode?[/QUOTE]

I mount in ro mode. It says file is read only if I try to open text editor in rw mode. I wipe dalvik cache cache factory data reset and system. What do you mean mount in rw mode? Please explain. Ty
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cantos:
You need to use something like Root Explorer (a few bucks in the play store and totally worth it) and click the mount in r/w mode. Then long press on the file (/etc/init.qcom.post_boot.sh) and click "Open in Text Editor". Make the changes to the file (follow the guidelines at the top of the file and change the overclock number from ZERO to whatever you want it to be) and hit the back button. It will ask you if you want to save the file -- click yes. Reboot the device.

You are now overclocked.
[HTC One X] saxelfur:
Hello,

I'm coming from a HTC Desire, and when reading the guides how to install roms on the HOX, the neccesity to flash a separate boot.img for every rom via fastboot was new to me.

Is this always the case? And lets say I have a stable 4.0.4 installation and want to mess around with CM10 - I get that have to flash the CM10 boot.img before installing the ROM, but would I then also have to re-flash my old boot.img before rstoring my old nandroid backup, or is the boot image included in the backup?

Thanks aheasd for an answer,

saxelfur
[HTC One X] faiz02:
i guess yes.. you have to re-flash the boot.img of the rom that you are restoring...
[HTC One X] saxelfur:
Okay, thanks - so I suppose right now there is now way to restore a backup from a different rom on the go. Oh well, I should be able to live without that ;)
[HTC One X] panooos:
You do not have to flash the boot.img before restoring a nandroid backup...Y

ou restore everything, boot.img included.
[HTC One X] saxelfur:
Great, even better!
[HTC One X] hopscotchjunkie:
Not true; if you're restoring a backup which used a different boot.img than the one you already have installed, you need to manually flash the boot.img from your nandroid backup in fastboot.

The reason we have to use fastboot to flash the boot.img is that, thanks to HTC's security policies, it is not possible to write to the boot partition from recovery. Hence when you flash a ROM the boot.img isnt written, and has to be manually flashed. This also means that when you restore a backup in recovery it is still unable to write to the boot partition, so the boot.img from your backup is not written and must also be flashed manually.
[HTC One X] panooos:
Really? I once flashed a kernel and could not pass the loading screen...everything got fixed as soon as i restored my backup...
[HTC One X] Alex240188:
Lucky for you. But these guys are correct. The only way to flash boot is through fastboot.

Recovery restore cannot restore a boot.img
[HTC One X] hopscotchjunkie:
Yep. Boot partition simply isn't writable from recovery (without s-off). There's no difference between recovery trying to write a boot.img from a zip on /sdcard and recovery trying to write a boot.img from a folder on /sdcard (if there was we would just need to modify recovery to treat new flashes as restores to get around the problem).

I'm not saying it won't work if you don't; if you're switching between Sense ROMs or restoring an earlier version of the ROM you're using then there's a good chance that the ROM will still boot and run fine, but you'll be running with the kernel & ramdisk you had before the restore.
[HTC One X] panooos:
Always learning sth new... Ty :)
[HTC One X] kylegibson:
Well shoot. How do I get the boot.img from the stock rom that came with it. It wasn't exactly in standard .zip format for me to extract the .img......
[HTC One X] peedub:
If you did a nandroid backup it's there in plain sight.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] heldunder:
says it all in the title, I'd love to see a photon Q forum start up, esp since it's suposed to have an unlockable bootloader! =D
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] heldunder:
bump... -_-
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] stumpyz9:
This is pointless, theres already a thread made to vote on new forums for devices. Next time, please search before you post
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] heldunder:
i did, and didnt find that, a link would be great!
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] burdman:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1660354

There are a lot of useful threads such as this stickied in the about xda section
[Android] wojtal:
I'm reading and trying to follow this tutorial: http://www.koushikdutta.com/2010/10/porting-clockwork-recovery-to-new.html

The problem is my connection isn't as fast as I need to do a full "repo sync" and, as far as I understand, I need only to make something called "otatools". The question is how can I download only what I need and what exactly do I need to sync?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MMcCraryNJ:
Anyone else seeing this?

I could have swore that on my first Nexus device (RMAed due to bad speaker), I could turn the brightness all the way down and use the tablet on the lowest setting.

On my new Nexus (no issues so far), if I turn the brightness dial all the way down, the backlight totally shuts off, causing the screen to be impossible to be seen.

I'm not RMAing this one because it's perfect otherwise, it's just very weird behavior
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jabsys:
I got the brightness on mine all the way down & the screen isn't off.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ag25:
Did you find a solution?

I have the same problem. If I turn down to minimum brightness (10% or less) my screen goes black. The only way I can see what's on the screen is if I shine a light, and then I can barely make out what the screen says. I assume this is an easy software fix. Also, if auto-brightness is on and I'm in a dark environment the screen will occasionally dip to the lowest setting and turn off.

I'm on my second device also. My first one had bad screen lift, flickering and occasionally screen glitches with black lines flickering through the screen. This one had no noticeable screen lift out of the box, but I'm reserving my judgement, as the device I just returned was fine for the first few hours and then got worse as I used it more.

I have both devices side by side, since Google mailed me the new one first. Comparing the two, I notice the old one's screen is slightly brighter, maybe about 10% or so, but definitely noticeable. Also my new one has a little bit of bleeding on the left side; not terrible as some pictures I've seen, but definitely there.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ag25:
Update: The screen flickering returned, so I just requested a second replacement. This is actually ridiculous.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daniel_gsp:
Hi all!

This may sound quite noobish, but I feel better doing the right thing from the start.

On the equipment manual they ask you to charge your phone before first usage, however many people defend that since the battery has some charge when unboxing, that the battery should first be drained (phone usage) and only then charged.

Can anyone shed some light for me on this issue?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daniel_gsp:
I'll ask in a different way since no one answered me...

what did you do with your phone, first finished the half-charged battery that came with the phone, or before first use you charged it full?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adz63:
i opened the box and set up my phone and used it til it fully drained and turned itself off. then i charged it whilst still turned off when i was asleep (about 8-9 hrs). turned it back on .... i also only put the charger in now if its under 15% (dunno why i just do ) maybe its my ocd lol
[Thunderbolt General] mattevandavis:
Not my work but PROPS!

http://www.thunderboltforums.com/fo...9-all-one-htc-thunderbolt-tool.html#post91530
[Thunderbolt General] quickdraw86:
yeah, trter10 made the all-in-one tool. i never tried it as i have no desire to unroot, but the tool has numerous positive reviews, trter did a spectacular job on it. there was no need to share the link, and your thread will likely be locked or moved as trter has a thread here for his all-in-one tool in the development section and elsewhere as well.

* Thunderbolt 4G *