yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Desire S] SimonTS:
Start by reading the stickies in the Dev forum. Then read the stickies in the other forums. The use the 'Search' option (if that is down use Google with a site-specific search). Make sure you read and understand what you are doing before you start - but it is all fairly simple and the answers to all your questions are out there already.
[HTC Desire S] teadrinker:
The index thread in the stickies of the dev forum is a good starting point, it has links to several different guides.
[HTC Desire S] aby2aby:
Welcome

*You go to htcdev.com and perform Unlock Bootloader procedure.

-- This step will unlock whatever necessary for you to load a new ROM. (But, Radio and bootloader will be locked)

-- If you press Vol-Down + Power button, you see **UNLOCKED**. But, dont worry about S-ON.

*Now, install ROM Manager from Play Store.

*Select the Flash ClockWorkMod Recovery

*Reboot into Recovery

*Backup Current ROM

*Wiping caches, data and load your ROM of choice [Follow as your choice of custom ROM instructions]
[HTC Desire S] Tidey:
Thanks, i've sorted it now! I'm just glad I didnt get any abuse about posting when there's posts out there which i hadn't seen! I'm just looking around now and trying out different ROMs!

Thanks again :)
[HTC Desire S] Jack_R1:
Your next post will likely be "can't boot the phone, stuck on HTC logo". When it happens, remember that instead of searching, you took the short path of listening to someone who might not know something (as in fact it happened). Just as the guys above, I have no patience for those who don't search, and not going to explain what's missing.
[HTC Desire S] chninkel:
So true...
[HTC Desire S] Tidey:
Haha nope I did it that way but used a different post, I wasn't going to just attempt it using a few instructions and risk screwing up my phone. Sorry to disappoint, and like I said before I searched it straight after and couldn't get rid of the post.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] TrailorParkKid:
I'm having the darndest time trying to figure out a certain issue I'm having. For some reason I cannot edit or delete or even write to certain folders of my internal storage. I have searched the forums for fixes, and the common sense fix keeps coming up, permissions.

In Terminal Emulator I am looking at the permissions for all the folders on my internal /sdcard and they disply as:

drwxrwxr-x

as expected. Yet when I try to delete say for example /sdcard/Download it tells me the folder is Read Only.

I even chmod to change the permissions and they just dont change. The reason I use the Download folder as an example is because I cannot download any files, like an updated ROM from any browser, it just fails. It is extremely annoying. My Prime is rooted, unlocked, and running Virtuous S .28

To make matters worse, I am deployed to Afghanistan and my laptop recently died, so all I have are my Prime and Desire HD phone to work with.

If anyone has any ideas on how to resolve this I'm all ears.

Many thanks in advance.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] craigacgomez:
What's the output of the "ls -l /sdcard/Download"??
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] TrailorParkKid:
app_116@android:/ $ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH
app_116@android:/ $ su
app_116@android:/ # ls -l /sdcard/Download
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 63816 2012-03-07 14:40 -1
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 63733 2012-03-07 14:40 -2
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 334117 2012-03-07 13:03 12th CAB Packing List FINAL.docx
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 62524 2012-03-07 02:35 ALERT ROSTER.pptx
drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2012-07-02 10:29 Adobe Reader
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 346301 2012-03-07 14:40 CJTF computer user agreement.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 10041835 2012-06-18 07:44 DebugfsRoot_v1.8.zip
drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2012-06-23 16:10 FAQ
drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2012-06-23 16:10 MANUAL
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 4045147 2012-06-22 23:21 Phonesky.apk
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 162197 2012-03-07 14:40 SFC CRIST-DA FORM 2875_BLANK FORM.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 4036382 2012-06-23 19:18 Signed_Vending-mod.apk
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 622047 2012-06-23 11:27 UnLock_Device_App_V6.apk
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 4031699 2012-06-23 18:14 Vending-3.5.16-mod.apk
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 16903 2012-03-07 14:40 _CJTF USER AGREEMENT INSTRUCTIONS.docx
app_116@android:/ #
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] CrashR:
File permissions of /data/media issues

TrailerParkKid,

I'm having similar issues. The /sdcard folder is a sym-linked to /storage/sdcard0. /storage/sdcard0 is virtualized from /data/media. I noticed that in this folder the user\group is root\root with permissions -rwx------.

I think we have permissions issues in this directory. If I change the permissions to -rwxrwxrwx then things start working, however I don't like that answer.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] TrailorParkKid:
I was unable to fix it by changing any permissions through TE. I was finally able to use another device to download the Stock JB ROM modded with the new bootloader and the current version of TWRP. The new version of TWRP allowed me to use my external SD card to flash, so I used the Full Wipe flash to completely wipe the internal SD card. It was a last resort, but I didn't really have a choice. Since then I have been able to download files without issue.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] CrashR:
My solution to repair /data/media/

TrailorParkKid,

Good to see you got it working. There's always more than one way to fix things. I suspect the Full Wipe of internal SD card probably set the permissions up correctly so that subsequent downloaded files would inherit the correct settings. I did that as well, but then I also restored my backed up files. Those files and directories then got the wrong permissions.

My solution was the following 3 lines executed from /data/media/. Hope this also assists someone else googling...

find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} ";"

find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} ";"

find . -exec chown media_rw:media_rw {} ";"
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kuja:
Hi people, just a simple question that hope has not been made, do you think, in a short time (few months) 2 GB of RAM will be required for our devices to work well?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gum.Walkaz:
The most important is smooth and stable, higher RAM is not neccesary. :laugh:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Markuzy:
Probably as tech gets higher, more ram will be required for later games and applications.

Sent from my GT-N7000 using Xparent SkyBlue Tapatalk 2
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PsycoSkid:
Cellphones today are the same as computer is... the higher hardware it would only be required to those who uses heavy features, like games and developing programs.

So, if you want a device just to basic use, you'll not need high spec cellphones.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hlbhlb:
It really depends on the usage, but there will be a lot of resource-consuming games released soon.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dumbdroid:
Some custom roms like miui also take a lot of memory! 1GB is getting short...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hany Ibrahim:
higher RAM is not neccesary :cool:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gagdude:
You don't really NEED 2GB of RAM, but does help. Better multitasking, mostly.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Leandre20:
me personally i don't think that phones really need 2gb like gagdude said. I think if you have a kernel that makes the phone run faster then not necessarily 2gb is needed but helps alot.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kuja:
Seeing phones like the new Nexus or the Galaxy S3 Alpha are coming out with two GB... I dont know if there will be apps or tweaks like that new one on the S3 Alpha that will not work well in our 1 GB phones soon.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eikeime:
i have a htc desire with cm10 4.1.2, it only has 576mb ram, but still kind of smooth, so 2gb is not necessary, but still more is better, because it will be more smooth, espicially when you playing games.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leventccc:
I don't think it's necessary and yeah you guys are right phones are like computers.

HD Screen

Quad Core

2GB Ram

Powerful gpus

If cpus would be x86 and with a mouse and keyboard you could get a fully working windows 7 on your phone. Even most of the computers at schools and libraries are not quad core.

I think ubuntu realized that and they are developing a fully functional ubuntu for phones with two and more cores.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wcypierre:
Personally, I feel that 2gb ram is needed. Reason being that stock s3 uses around 700 - 900mb of ram. Of course, you may still say that you can install custom rom and decrease its usage to maybe 500 - 600mb. But if you run a lot of apps, it will eventually use more than 1gb of ram and the remaining usage will be send to and forth the swap(slower access).

Despite having zram which improves performance for devices with low rams, but ram is still faster than zram so having more ram is indeed better.

With a device that has to swap to and forth the swap and ram, battery life will be reduced and the performance will not be that good as the instructions of the code inside the ram has to be done then only it can be swapped with the instructions inside the swap and so it reduces the performance(in theory, you may not feel it unless you run something i/o intensive)

Go read up more on ram, zram and swap and you'll get it why I'd said to get a device with more ram.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daundead:
Platform fragmentation on android will surely slow down this process. Also the maximum heap space available for a Java application (opengl textures and native code are excluded from this limitation) doesn't make extra RAM so important for many apps.

But for sure I wouldn't complain if my phone had more RAM. :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muabaylentroi:
1GB is enough. 2GB? You will play Asphalt 7 & Modern Combat 3 at the same time?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gagdude:
Why not ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muabaylentroi:
:D Not only your device is multitasking, but also you are multitasking. :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idrito:
please help me, my battery is draining like HELL on my ace, i have just installed CM7 Apocalypse because on Stock it drained too much, but now is worst. It started dropping from 100 to 74 now its stopped at 74 but anyway help, i have used all kernels.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madman:
Battery = Samsung stock roms
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idrito:
That doesn't help man.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jleonnn:
Probably a battery calibration problem... Wait until ALL the battery has drained, when it reaches about 2-3% then screenshot. The battery's indicator in the ace is quite buggy. When it says 74% it probably means 90%
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idrito:
I will try, thanks
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timmy turner:
Also you can try juicie defender, search it on the playstore.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pseudonym:
Just fully charge your phone. Not when it hits 100% in 30 minutes you gonna pull the charger.

Sent from my GT-S5830
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] [N]ano®:
If your ROM drains too much battery, try another, such as droidace, or maxiAce I'm using now, both of them are good at battery as well as the UI.:p
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idrito:
I did it, its the same

Which i can use for a GOOD battery? i have tried everything
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Galaxy_Rohit:
This is common in Cyanogenmod roms. So, Firstly, change your Battery Status Style to Icon.

The instant when battery says 100% or charged, actually it's not fully charged. You'll still see the spark in battery's icon. Keep it charging for extra 30-45 mins. Also, when the battery is fully charged, you'll not see that spark in battery's icon while the charger is plugged in.

Sent Via XDA™ Premium
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maniaczek1111:
Wipe baterry status should help, go to CWM recovery / adwanced / choose it: wipe baterry status and restart. :)
[HTC Amaze 4G] Mashkawizii:
Go to a long page in browser, go to scroll down but then go onto where the soft buttons are and move your finger left and right, didn't know that we could do that.

Phreaks play on the Fone, and the HTC Amaze 4G, - XML
[HTC Amaze 4G] Double0EK:
Umm..whats it supposed to do. It's not working for me on Energy Rom.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Mashkawizii:
Like zoom in then try to scroll left and right at the soft keys and it still works.

Phreaks play on the Fone, and the HTC Amaze 4G, - XML
[HTC Amaze 4G] Perry977:
What is it supposed to do? I hope ur not talking about the over scroll glow lol
[HTC Amaze 4G] EclipzeRemix:
I know what he means, right on top of Tue leds the touch screen still works
[HTC Amaze 4G] eggydrums:
Yep, soft keys are part of the screen, found that out the first week I had this phone :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] Retarded Timing:
Glad to see I'm not the only one this happens to. I can't for the life of me figure out how to remove "Tue" from my dictionary. That is so annoying, it almost always happens when try to type "the".
[HTC Amaze 4G] Double0EK:
Lol...same here. It's kinda annoying. Even in landscape it does it.
[HTC Amaze 4G] howhi50:
Settings > language and keyboard > touch input (press the little equalizer icon) > edit personal dictionary > hit menu then delete and get rid of whatever words you no longer want.

Cleared mine out the other day and typing is so much more smoother, but still a little quirky.

Sent from my HP TouchPad
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Atlas7:
Way we after JB cant OVERCLOCKING? we now stuck at 1.4GHz :confused::crying:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] SteveG12543:
Asus most likely removed the 1.5GHz and 1.6GHz from the kernel since those frequencies aren't used on a stock unrooted Prime.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kdeli:
I am about to flash this ROM

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1312201

I'm wondering which radios will work with this. I'm new to rooting/flashing, fyi. I've been studying immensely.

The reason I'm wanting to flash a new rom is because I'm running cyano 7.1.1 and my bluetooth piece will no longer connect to my phone. Would you folks recommend I flash a new rom? Or only new radios?

The current radios I have are: 1.48.00.0817r AND 0.01.78.0802w_3.

ALSO, if I may ask, what is the difference between RUU and Radios? How are the two linked?

Thank you very much.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wyckedfunk:
Radios really aren't rom specific. more like whatever works best on your phone.. sometimes updating to a radio that works or fixes someone else's problem isn't necessarily going to fix someone else's . If that makes sense.. I honestly haven't changed radios since I first rooted in 2011..
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dark Jedi:
Really what works great for one person might not work great for you. Most you can do is just try different radios over s few days and come up with your own conclusions of what worked better on your phone.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mooneyspam:
reestipt reactions.

RUU = rom upgrade utility. Basically usually the stock roms from HTC.

The radio usually affects signal quality and speed.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] iranz:
so i'm in need of good ringtones, unlike the ones that come stock on the S3. can anyone post a good link on this?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] capcanuck:
Download zedge from the play store.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lazarat:
Zedge yes
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Aerowinder:
Zedge is great, but another option would be to edit your own music files with Audacity (if you want music).
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] JUSMEJOSE:
Zedge ... Or like me as always make my own ringtones using sound forge :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jgalan14:
Zedge for new ring tones but if you want your part of your mp3s get ringdroid to make ring tones as well
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Markor13:
Zedge all the way.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] psykhotic:
In PowerAmp I just click a song and say.. Ringtone.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] K_esco:
Zedge FTW or ringdroid to cut ur own mp3 files.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] AustinKnight45:
Been doing this for years, if you don't know well now you know!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] stevessvt:
I dont think anyone mentioned this, but ever hear of Zedge?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Teo032:
ITunes..... Oh wait sucks for them. Zedge
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] iranz:
i'll be downloading zedge from the play store.. i'll check it out. thanks,
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ronin4740:
download egdez from the Play Store.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] h3ck:
Audiko.net is one of the best to me. Even has different cuts of popular song already prepped for ringtone.

Sent from my Galaxy S III
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jschurawlow:
Yet another vote for zedge - been using it for at least a year now. Has tons of the popular tunes to use - everything from star wars to old stuff like A-Team etc plus lets not forget TV series and music of course.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] iranz:
theres a ringtone that i heard in the movie, 'Die Another Day', where james bond picks up the phone when it rings.. thats the ringtone i want. but how can i get it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] prkchop:
is there any way to change the searchbar at the top, i like both ics and jelly bean but id also like to make my own, how do you edit it? anyone know? and im not interested in downloading nova launcher or any of that garbage
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itm:
I've just reflashed CheckROM 5 after a hardware repair, and can't get apps to see the external SD card (/mnt/ExtSdCard). I can access it using the My Files app, and in ES FIle Explorer (using the SD Card Analyser), but other apps don't see it as a storage option (e.g. the stock camera app, BeyondPod). This wasn't an issue before I sent the phone for repair.

???
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
Most apps are too stupid to search for the sdcard and either require it to be in the location they have hardcoded *rolleyes* or none.

Could you please verify if the name is really ExtSdCard since that is ont the default name on the S3
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WolfShooterX:
hello everyone,

i'll go straight to the problem... i cant browse to my external SD card from any computer via USB cable.... but i can access the card within the phone just fine. this card has videos and photos only, no weird files or anything, so i have no idea if this is a problem with the image? or is it a problem with a setting i might have click or unclick by mistake that i dont know of? or what's going on?? :confused:

here is my phone info

GT-I9100

4.1.1

3.0.15-Siyah-s2-v4.1.5

Resurrection Remix JB v3.8
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The-Hulk:
Dont post questions in Development, moving to Q&A, please ask all questions there.

Thanks

The-Hulk
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] av4tar:
Has anyone else noticed this?

Mainly when playing a game or browsing the Web. Lines flicker Cross the display horizontally

Sent from my Lt30p
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] jonsmith709:
Yeah, I get a slight flicker, but like as if the auto brightness is still on but not as strong.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] av4tar:
I turn auto brightness off, but I know what you mean.

These are actual lines
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Macflurry:
Mine looks like the auto brightness gets a bit jittery. Usually when on the net but I've had it in a few other places. It makes it look like the processor is struggling to handle what ever is going on, it isn't, but it gives that impression.

Maybe the transition between brightness levels is set to too big an increment so it appears to jump between levels instead of smoothly fading.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] LadFromWales85:
Turn off auto brightness.

I didn't notice it until I sat under a certain light in my house. I guess the luminance in the room sits between two thresholds and causes it to madly flick between them. It looks like a bug which will hopefully get fixed! :)
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] av4tar:
Nope, as stated its not auto brightness, I have it turned off.

I've noticed its not on every app. Farm invasion USA it will only have the lines flickering when the character respawns. Browsing the Web that often, watching a movie it doesn't do it at all.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] av4tar:
The app I mentioned I think it may be normal upon respawn, I'll test it on my SXS

Still, it flickers on chrome, and it's also done it just while in the dialer
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] LadFromWales85:
I've only noticed flickering when I had auto brightness turned on. I've been using my phone and N7 exclusively for the last two weeks as I had no access to a computer, so it got enough viewing!

With auto brightness on, in some lighting situations I am able to reproduce the flickering by angling the phone so it borders on the threshold it changes to the next level.

I've turned auto brightness off, and have not noticed any flickering while using Chrome/Tapatalk/Spotify/WhatsApp/Talk/SMS etc etc.

Only thing that bugs me so far is the noisy vibrate, bugged me so much I had to turn off haptic feedback.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] brion1020:
I installed the hercules kernel posted by faux123 from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1372690&highlight=kernel

The situation:

I was on break for lunch, about to make a call then my phone crashed and restarted. The boot screen appeared starting the phone and froze on completion. I tried restarting multiple times, taken out the battery for a long period of time and even tried booting into recovery mode. No positive results came. The frozen screen is still there.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] h.nocturna:
I would try going into Download Mode, restoring a stock ROM, and then re-root from the beginning.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Octane70:
Could you please provide a bit more information?. What rom did you install it on? and which faux Kernel you installed??.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] brion1020:
that was my initial thought, but now I'm home and just flashed recovery first then flashed the stock rom. Had problems starting up at first then i did a full wipe (dalvic and system). The phone booted like a champ. do you know a stable rom or kernel?

@Octane, I installed the kernel on a stock rom and I used the gingerbread mainline edition kernel from the link.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RTFOP:
It sounds like you installed the wrong kernel, maybe.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Teo032:
Probably not a compatible kernel for the Rom.. Did you make sure it's for tw or aosp?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RTFOP:
Also, it's possible you wiped something you shouldn't have. Maybe Darkside super instead of cache? Something like that.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] brion1020:
are you imposing I should try Darkside super wipe?

My phone is up and working on on 2.3.6 ULVk1

I'm still a newbie to this stuff please don't use acronyms. (identify tw and aosp)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] born2gethard:
Tw= touchwiz. Samsung stuff

Aosp= android open source. Like cyanogenmod and android open kang project.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] brion1020:
According to the thread by faux123, the kernel is samsung based so im guessing TW
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] born2gethard:
I bet one is for gingerbread, and the other is for ics.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RTFOP:
I reckon.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] brion1020:
sorry my phone rebooted and is stuck trying to boot up. I've havent been focusing on my replies, but yes its for ginerbread
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] datrapstar:
Just reflash it to stock and reroot it. Saves you a ton off headaches in the long run. Or if you can get into recovery just flash another rom and you should be golden
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mintharis:
What ROM are you currently running?

Sent from my SGH-T989