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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Steev43230:
Anyone know how to install PDroid on the i727?

The instructions are at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1357056

My first question was what to make of the instructions that say, "Make a PDroid Patch for your ROM with the PDroid Patcher and put the patch on your SD card." Seems straightforward enough. But *where* on the SD card? And which SD card, internal or external?

Mostly, though, it appears that CWM Recovery is required. To install CWM Recovery one must first install ROM Manager. kilometers4 advised me in the first (incorrect) forum I posted this in not to use "rom manager with the s2. It is not compatible and could cause a brick of your device."

ROM Manger's Google Play pays says "You must flash a Clockwork compatible kernel first (see XDA forums)." I think that means that before I do anything I have to overwrite my ROM and lose everything I've got. Is that correct? Or am I missing something?

The instructions for ROM Manager say, "Launch ROM Manager and tap the first option that says ‘Flash ClockworkMod Recovery’ and confirm the name of your device." My device (Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket ATT ) isn't listed there (possibly because I'm not using ATT but someone else on a month-to-month plan).

So... Is there a way to get CWM Recovery on my i727 without over-writing my own ROM first? I really don't want to lose all my customizations and settings.

Regardless of that, are there any step-by-step instructions that anyone knows of for installing PDroid, as that's my real goal.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] weezalxc:
I have no idea what PDroid is, but I suggest you read some of the stickies in the Development section by vincom, which will show you how to use Odin to install CWM. Here is one of his posts going into detail on how to do this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=28785461

By installing CWM, you will not be over writing your ROM. You will be installing a custom recovery though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
from PDroid playstore "This app is incompatible with your Rogers Wireless Samsung SAMSUNG-SGH-I727".

you can follow my stickies to root, but install pdroid at your own risk newb, but dont come a crying when it borks your phone
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Steev43230:
Excellent instructions, clear and complete, easily followed in much less time than it took to read them (which I did). No guessing required.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Steev43230:
Understood. When I bring up Google Play, I get "This app is compatible with your Samsung SAMSUNG-SGH-I727." It appears that one other user, lots more experienced than me, has installed it. Not having a deodexed ROM, though, I expect I'm left out since the PDroid patcher will only work with deodexed ROMs.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
its because im on ics, you must stiill be on gb, the guy hasnt updated the app since feb

edit: now when i went to the playstore it says This app is compatible with your Rogers Wireless Samsung SAMSUNG-SGH-I727, lol

still only 400 people have used it, i wouldnt trust it and it hasnt been updated for awhile

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you'll be a power user soon
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jab74101:
Everytime i try and put an ICS rom or any other rom on my lg optimus i get all the way to the screen everything works, but the signal i get no service? I try to search and get an error? Does anyone else have this problem?
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myawan:
Whats your baseband? v10 or v20?
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jab74101:
v10.
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myawan:
All mentioned ROMs support v20 only, so you have to switch to newer baseband. I've heard LGMDP is the best tool for this purpose.
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jab74101:
I can't find good stuff about it and all the download links are broken.
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lolphirae:
What is broken? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1149530
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vlt96:
There is a baseband fix, but don't know the link...

Sent from my LG-P500
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pmvyas:
Here -- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1443473

Thank Aspee for this.
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abanka27:
What country is your baseband?
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jigar Gada:
Need tool to access my phone via PC

I have accidentally installed a theme that is probably of higher resolution than my phone screen. Now in locked mode the unlocking option/pattern/graphics is not visible as it is 'spilling out of screen'. Android debugging is on in my device (thankfully). Please suggest me a tool/method using which i can control the phone using PC(or atleast unlock the phone). I (obviously) cannot install anything on my phone, i found some such apps that need installation on phone.

Last option is to flash my phone in recovery with a ROM, but i dont want to do that if other ways possible. my phone is on MIUI ROM developed on 26/9/12
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] qccoles:
Specifically burnsra cm10. I know 0 about it but it's something that I want to do quite often..I have a thing for transparent status bars(not so for transparent pulldowns).

Where do I get started? I know I may have to re-do it after every release but I'm willing.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] irishrally:
EDIT:[COMPLETE GUIDE] decompiling, theming, and recompiling JB SystemUI.apk [Jelly Bean]

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1814441

Here is some reading material:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1012124&highlight=transparent+status+bar [Post 3 and post 6]

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=9978779#post9978779 [post 62]

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1298591&highlight=transparent+status+bar

Not sure if there is enough recent information here for you to pull it off, but it will give you an idea of where to start.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] sperelli:
Can anybody realize a transparent statusbar for NS?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wazzzi:
Hello! I tried installing CM10 today and it didn't go as I thought.

I can enter downloadmoad and Recovery.

- I've tried Odin>PDA>Reboot.

- I've tried Recovery>reset phone>Reboot.

Nothing works. Now, can I fix this or am I doomed?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pliskin721:
Did you try downgrading to cm9 or equal?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TonyStark R.I.P.:
OK so here is a pressure relief thread... While many of you are becoming disenchanted with the way the development threads are running... Yes I am talking about the DEVELOPMENT THREADS! Please indicate the following

What do you think they are (development threads)?

How do you think they should be run?

Do you feel that Modding is not needed? If not/If so why?

What would you change if you could be top of this list for a day

Please realize this list is very short..

It's simply used

for example

Please do not make this personal, act like grown-ups and be constructive​
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrhaley30705:
I think more, many more, mods are needed for each forum. It's difficult got one, or two or three, people to effectively "police" one forum. Last i checked, there were over/about 3 million users on xda. How many mods are there?

And people not using search.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TonyStark R.I.P.:
10 oh wait 9, Red5 is gone
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrhaley30705:
Overall, there's only 9 mods for the whole site, or just in S3 forum?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TonyStark R.I.P.:
And those 9 are busy busy busy. I don't understand why people keep posting EVERYTHING thsy want in development threads
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jasvncnt1:
What ever happened to RED?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TonyStark R.I.P.:
Red has taken personal time. Family, health and work are keeping him very occupied
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brorex:
Because they feel ENTITLED to do whatever they want to do. Because its a public forum. Its a new generation of users who don't quite understand just how important the developer title is in xda developers.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jasvncnt1:
thanks, Didnt know that. Hope all is well with him
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TonyStark R.I.P.:
hey man thanks for your 2 cents;) Can you please bring your disdain to WebOS and see how they feel about that! LOL
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] glwilliams4:
I think development threads should be a place to discuss development issues such as bugs, possible wish lists, explanation of why things work certain ways, etc. I think that Q&A's should be reserved for just commonly asked questions.

In a perfect world a dev thread would be a place where guys could joke and cut up and still get work done. The problem with that however is that we want people to read threads so they don't ask/re-ask "stupid or non-dev related" questions, yet sometimes there is so much joking around in a thread that you can go 3-4 pages no problem without reading a single thing relevant to the ROM. Why would someone new to the scene want to read and find a golden nugget of information if that requires wading through nonsense? You can say "use the search function!!!!?!?!?*" but let's be honest, if you don't search the right thing you won't find what you are looking for. If you don't know the correct name of your problem, you can't search for your problem, so when you ask questions guys say "Why don't you search" or "Why don't you read" and the answer is, because I'm new and can't read through all the bull in the thread.

I'm all for people having a good time but it's frustrating when you get home from work and you see there are 20 new pages in a thread and there could be a few important posts but to find them you have to read through nonsense.

Just my 2 cents. I love XDA and regardless how it's run the community is great, the Devs are top notch both programming wise and character wise in my experience, but I do get frustrated when I'm tweaking a $600 phone and I can't find necessary information because 20 people keep replying to the same old questions with "Go search you noob-loser!"
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] planetjeff:
Probably a very dumb newbie question, but - I haven't been able to determine/discern the distinction between the Android Development and the Original Android Development threads. Could someone please clue me in?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pmura:
The android development thread is usually devoted to people who are hacking or tweaking the stock rom that came with the phone. The original android development thread is a place where people discuss roms being developed based off of the original android source code AOSP/AOKP (such as cm9 or cm10 or putting out custom kernels.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] RTBee:
In very general terms, Original Android Development is for 'Original' development. New roms, kernels, mods and such. Android Development could simply be a port of an existing rom or kernel to run on our device. It very probably has been, or is being used elsewhere and someone has made some changes to allow it to be used on our device.

Hope this helps some. :) http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1762948

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Actually a really good point. 2, even 1 year ago there were a lot less people using android phones, even less hacking and modding. And now, especially with the S3 (and others), there has been a flood of new 'techies' that want the fastest, coolest phone on the planet. It probably boils down to an appreciation (or lack there of) of what it takes to make all that happen. Many are new to XDA and, just like this generation is prone to do, want to skip right to the end of the book, without reading the story first. I'm sorry, maybe I should say, "fast forward to the end of the movie, without watching the plot". :) Maybe we should have them run thru a XDA tutorial first before they're allowed posting priviledges or something. :silly: Just my 2 cents...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Heisenberg420:
As a developer (not on xda) I fully understand the time and work the great developers put in, and as an android user I am very gracious. Not sure if its just me but my experience dealing with bug reporting and asking for help in development threads has not been easy. Mainly if the issue has already been addressed you always get flamed for not searching before you post. Its like some developers would rather argue for 3 pages to satisfy their ego than just answer a simple question.

Still apart from dealing with egos, its well worth it for the service they provide.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TonyStark R.I.P.:
hey guys that have posted here, send the disgruntled user here. I know most of you that have posted so far and we tend to all be like minded. I really want to hear from the folks that aren't in the same frame of mind. I am interested in how they tick. What are their thoughts on this matter.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] neverends:
Tomween1,

Here is my issue. I have been an xda member for a few years now and I have never seen as much trolling and s#!t talking as I have seen here in the s3 forum. When I joined people here were helpful and every time someone helped me with a problem I intern helped the next person with a similar problem. But everything has gone down the drain over the last year or so.

now here are my concerns...

First.... The addition of a second development thread for just cm and AOKP is pointless in my opinion.

Second... If you have a ROM running on your phone... ie... Cyanogenmod CM10.... Then all discussion of bugs and flaws and features specific to that rom should be discussed in that thread. The search tool should be used before a new post and as much information should be provided to help dev duplicate and resolve problem

Third.... If the Rom is not installed.... You don't know how to install it.... Or you wonder how the battery life is or how one rom is compared to the other.... Then go to general or q&a

Finally.... Show some f#@*in respect. It doesn't matter if you are a dev or not.... You chose to develop for a phone.... You chose to post it on xda... You agreed to abide by xda rules which means show members respect.... Even if they are a noob who asked a dumb question in the wrong forums.

Moderators shouldn't be deleting as many posts as you guys are.... It's borderline pointless and it's censorship.

If you made a ROM be respectful to your fans... And if you don't want to answer questions then let other members answer people...

Good examples of threads were the devs are respectful and mods have to work less are Caulkins threads cyanogens threads... Worst example of needless hostility and over moderating is Tasks AOKP thread

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Also a more useful approach would be to have all ROMS & KERNELS in one development thread and all mods / hacks / feature ports in a separate dev thread...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jethro650:
I think one of the main reasons devs get frustrated and its been mentioned many times, dev forums are not the place to learn or expect handouts. The handout is givin with the ROM. Now its up to the end user to learn how to use it, search out problems and try to solve things themselves. Everyone is worried about thier new 600 dollar toy but not many noobs take the time to learn what they are actually doin to their phone. The dev forums are not the place to learn. The dev forums are a place to get the latest greatest and reply with "heres my problem, here's my log cat" after searching for an answer. It seems pretty simple to me. Although not a dev it would piss me off also to clearly state in an op that your phone won't do the dishes, then have 6 or 8 people say that you ruined their phone cause they threw it in a sink of water. As far as letting other people answer the questions, that's the reason for the q and a threads, to let the community help itself. No one should be posting in the dev forum without a logcat.

My two cents, take it or leave it doesn't matter.

.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] neverends:
That is the problem - people who are posting here are being told to go F*%$ off instead of being asked to provide a logcat or provide details. Also alot of Devs in s3 forums are not providing complete bug lists in the OP and if they did they are not keeping it updated so when a noob or someone new to the rom comes to check they cant find the info and ask dumb questions.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kangi26:
I've been in the XDA community for 6 years now, and I've seen a TON of changes here. What I now see the moderators trying to do is add a little bit of order to the madness. The dev threads were specifically designed(and ALWAYS have been) for Development and development issues only, not even about wish lists. When a developer has to pour through pages and pages of "I wish the ROM had this, or how do I install this ROM, or why does my (fill in the blank), not work". It get very frustrating to find posts from people, who are posting real issues that affect the actual development of the ROM.

It is suppose to be the place that the guy/gals who are putting their time into these ROM's that we get for free, get the feedback from us, the endusers, to actually make the ROM's better. When we clutter the thread with jibberish, we're making it harder for them to get to those real issues, and are disrespecting them and the time they invest, and in the end, we're only shooting ourselves in the foot

While I was on the AT&T Captivate, we had a similar structure of the Dev thread, and a Q&A thread for most of the available ROM's, some of the dev's didn't seem to mind answering all of those questions, but the Q&A still existed, and they all seemed to be very successful. They were very lax and the topics could got entirely off topic, they seemed to be more of the "social hangout" type of thing. Take a look: http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=746

With the incredible popularity of the SGSIII in all of the variants, there are bound to be tons's of ROM's that will crop up for JB. I believe it's that much more important to try to create some sort of structure for the 4Million + XDA mambers
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brapian:
GT-P7510 (wifi/us)

Hi, today my tab started to show some real bad screen corruption. The colors are all garbled and the text very blurry. No matter what setting on the tab, nothing makes it right.

Last week I flashed the stock UK ICS rom via the Odin method from this forum. Everything was great until today...

I do not think this problem is related to the rom, because it happend before in HC 3.2 BEFORE I even rooted the tab.

Also, the problem persists even when the tab is "off" as you can see the corrupted charging screen. Recovery and download modes also show the corruption.

Has anyone experienced a similar problem? What can be done (the tab is out of warrant).

I attached photos of the tab exhibiting the problem.

Thanks for your time!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Panos_dm:
If you search the forum, you'll find that a few others had the same issue. If I remember correctly, they had to send it to Samsung, as it is a hardware issue.

Sent from my amazing 10.1 galaxy tab :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Snappy Phoenix:
I created a VPN connection on my S3 but was forced to enter a PIN or a swipe pattern but now I am tired of having to unlock my phone everytime I wanna access it . I have put the auto lock to the max which is 30 mins but I still don't want my phone to be locked.

Is there a way to completely cancel any security / pin / pattern lock while keeping my VPN connection?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Snappy Phoenix:
anybody home? :confused:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] uber_mike:
As far as I have read, no. There may be someone else to chime in with an app that bypasses it.

I wouldn't recommend it though, as part of the VPN your phone is "directly" connected to the computers and servers of the network you are connecting to. If it is a corporate network and someone who knows what they are doing should happen to find your phone, things could get ugly. The chances of that happening are slim, but enough to warrant the required lock.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] kyler084:
Hi there, I have created a fruitcake of the stock 2.2.2 Froyo operating system, Something that many of you have been looking for :)

please enjoy, any issues let me know and I will try my best to get them worked out :)

MANY THANKS TO SAMCRIPP for his Rom factory App that helped make this possible.

Many thanks to everyone in the thread that has helped work out the issues with the updater-script.

This Fruitcake is based off of The 2.2.2 Tmobile-UK rom, Try this on other regional Motorola Atrix's at your own risk. There are reports of the ROM working on ATT Atrix's .

Good Luck and enjoy

---ROM DOWNLOAD LINK---

http://www.mediafire.com/?aqzowdn8w5z2osu

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WEBTOP IMAGE - download below:

ftp.samcripp.com/osh.img

A prompt will appear.

username: atrix@samcripp.com

password: atrixuser

Instructions:

flash via fastboot

fastboot erase osh

fastboot flash osh osh.img

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CUSTOM KERNELS - Many thanks to Topogigi :), links are below also on page #14, #15

This kernel is for EU-INT-UK Atrix, Flash using recovery, Be sure to apply my RAM-FIX.zip after flashing this kernel located in the fixes below to regain all RAM.

View attachment 1294198

This kernel is for US Atrix, Flash using recovery, This kernel is for the US tegrapart.

View attachment 1294199

Once again, Many thanks to Topogigi for compiling these.

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FIXES:

The Playstore and other app force close issue has been fixed, Download buildprop.zip attatched to this post.

extract the file to /system/ with root explorer.View attachment 1249987

RAM FIX

For those of you having ram issues where System shows 378mb e.g, total ram, Flash the attatchment FROYO_RAMFIX.zip through CWM. This fix is attatched to this post.View attachment 1249986
[Atrix 4G Android Development] kyler084:
Download Link

There we go guys enjoy !!

re-upping working build now, keep checking first post. :)
[Atrix 4G Android Development] AkaGrey:
Tnx guy /)
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Demo3827:
downloading and thanks u just did my dream come true =]:victory:
[Atrix 4G Android Development] htchoi5609:
upload when? :confused:
[Atrix 4G Android Development] kyler084:
The links in second post
[Atrix 4G Android Development] DomeATRIX:
Hi, I'm a little bit lost. Why is this a great thing if there is ICS and Jelly Bean? I'm sorry for the dumb question.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] kyler084:
Because its stable, and the atrix community have been wanting a stock froyo rom longer than I can remember, so I decided to make a stock froyo rom for the community :)
[Atrix 4G Android Development] kyler084:
Im thinking of developing a custom froyo rom for the atrix, would anyone like that? :)
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Demo3827:
i Downloaded and when i try install it install fast and wont pass Unlocked screen did someone else have same problem o is just me?:confused:
[Atrix 4G Android Development] kyler084:
Sorry forgot to mention , i have only tested this on UK Atrix, other regions may require a different kernel with the correct tegrapart.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Demo3827:
hanks anyways ill try make it work on my Atrix:rolleyes: