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[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJ_MiX:
What tools do you guys use to backup settings or create a backup of entire rom? I'm a Android user that switching over to Windows phone.

BTW I using Deepshining v7.8 Nokia Love Rom, so phone is unlocked os and sim and security unlocked.

I know I can backup phone in Zune if I had orignal rom, not with custom rom?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] showkeys:
I have Sky Vega IM-820L having problem is whenever I connected it through usb cable it shows only mass storage in computer and not recognized as Android Phone in windows 7 64b ultimate. Also in device manager no ADB Interface or Other device option shown only sky mass storage icon shown. I use some other Phone like Black Berry and HTC HD 2, and all of them shown correctly in device manager as android phone. But sky vega lte 4g IM-820L not recognized at all. I have update all the drivers like Pantch usb driver, IM-280L usb driver but all in vain.

Some one help in this regard will be highly appreciated.

Many Thanks.
[LG Nitro HD] SectorNine50:
I have unbricked this phone probably 15 times in the past day trying to just install a custom ROM.

I run through the unbricking process, get root, load the stock AT&T ROM, factory reset, and it boots just fine from there. However, after I load Clockwork Mod and try to load any custom ROMs at all, the phone will just bootloop forever. It also appears to remove the Clockwork Mod recovery image as well, since I no longer am able to get back into recovery after the flash of the new ROM.

I've scoured this forum for hours, and I'm at a complete loss. Any ideas?

P.S. I made a backup of my ROM before doing all of this using the latest version of Clockwork Mod, but was unable to restore it. It seems that the 6.x.x.x version of the recovery for this phone is busted in some way, it always reports that it can't access any of the root folders, even though the phone has been rooted. The 5.x.x.x versions don't seem to do this, but I still have issues flashing.
[LG Nitro HD] lordcheeto03:
Is it possible that your hosts file needs modifying when installing the AT&T ROM? If the LG Support tool connects to LG's servers instead of your local http you set up, it will load the official ICS and completely wipe your phone to install that ROM... With my limited amount of knowledge, that's about all I could see if the process removes CWM Recovery.

Also, CWM 6.x is working fine for me, even manually flashed the touch recovery a few minutes ago, backed up my ROM and installed an updated ROM. No problems at all.
[LG Nitro HD] Swetnes:
I don't know if anyone has tried the unbrick method with the new version of cwm but you might try twrp. When a similar version of cwm was in beta there were all sorts of issues. So maybe they haven't been fixed. Also are you installing cwm from GB? ICS has a locked boot loader so that might also be an issue.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1888910

Now I would start with the unbricking guide for a 16th time but follow the directions to install twrp instead of cwm. You might also find you like it better. Good luck.
[LG Nitro HD] SectorNine50:
I don't believe that the unbricking process would work if the hosts file was wrong, but I checked it again anyway, and it appears to be correct.

The AT&T ROM gets pushed via the abd shell after the unbrick and rooting process. The root appears to work, as the AT&T ROM that I push works fine, it's just not the ROM I want! :P

After the unbricking process (after I get through all the nonsense on the Korean ROM), the phone is running the GB AT&T ROM, from there I push the CWM recovery.img to the phone using the abd shell. All seems to be working perfectly up until I go to flash the custom ROM! I don't get any errors when I flash the .zip either.

Initially I had installed CWM 6.x.x.x using the ROM Manager application. That's before all this nonsense started, and the phone was on the stock (but rooted) AT&T ICS ROM, so I know that's why I "bricked" my phone the first time.

I'll give TWRP a shot, hopefully that will work.
[LG Nitro HD] Swetnes:
Ok so we know it's not the boot loader issue of ICS after dozens if not hundreds of successful installs using the unbricking guide the only thing left is the new version of cwm. Hopefully twrp will do the trick for you. Has anyone out there successfully completed the unbricking guide with the new version of cwm?
[LG Nitro HD] SectorNine50:
I haven't tried the TWRP recovery a shot yet, since I haven't been home, but I figured it was worth pointing out that the CWM 5.x.x.x (can't remember exact version numbers right now) didn't work for me either. Every time I flashed a ROM, I'd end up with a boot loop on first boot, and then when I'd try to go back into recovery, I'd find that it wouldn't go back in there either.

It was basically acting like when I flashed the ROM that it overwrote the recovery partition, except no one else seems to have this same issue. Yet, if I didn't flash a ROM, I was able to go in and out of CWM recovery as often as I wanted.

Bah.
[LG Nitro HD] drumist:
Can you clarify exactly what method you are using to flash the ROM? I just can't imagine a scenario where flashing a ROM would overwrite the recovery. What ROM are you flashing?

Also, please confirm what phone you have.
[LG Nitro HD] SectorNine50:
Sure, I may be using the wrong term (my first experiences with custom ROMs date back to Windows Mobile, so the terminology probably blends together), but I'm basically loading the .zip from the SD Card in CWM. I've tried both the CM9 P930 ROM and Paranoid Android CM10.

That was my thought too, I didn't think that the custom ROMs even had recovery images in them. I may be wrong in saying that it deletes CWM, but after the wipe and flash I am no longer able to access it.

I have the LG Nitro HD, and from what I can gather, that is the P930, correct? I hope the issue I'm having is as simple as I'm flashing for the wrong phone...

By the way, thank you all for your help and input, I really appreciate it!
[LG Nitro HD] lordcheeto03:
You are correct, the Nitro is P930. And I'm sure this doesn't need pointing out, but when you download the ROM, make sure it's for P93x and not SU640. Most of the ROMS in the developer section have versions for both models.

Also, when you say you can't access CWM after flashing a ROM, how are you trying to access it? Holding Power+Volume down until the Factory Reset screen pops up? It still shows that screen even with CWM installed, but when you press the power button to perform the factory reset it SHOULD take you into CWM Recovery instead.
[LG Nitro HD] drumist:
To access recovery, turn the device completely off. (If you're in a bootloop, pull battery or hold power button for ~20 seconds until screen stays off.) Then when phone is off, press and hold volume down and power buttons at the same time, not releasing until you see text asking if you want to factory reset. Press power button twice to confirm and you'll get to recovery.

Is this the method you're using to try to get to CWM?

My guess as to why you are getting bootloops is that you aren't wiping data first.
[LG Nitro HD] SectorNine50:
Yup, that's how I'm accessing CWM. After the flash, after I press the power button twice, I get something similar to a boot loop. A recovery boot loop, if you will.

Well, I've tried a couple ways now. I've tried using the "factory reset/wipe user data" menu item in CWM, and I've tried going into each partition and wiping them individually before flashing as well.

Just got home, I'll try flashing using the TWRP and let you guys know.
[LG Nitro HD] drumist:
Good luck. Other possible things to try:

1) Check zip MD5 hash (or just redownload and replace) to make sure it's not corrupted.

2) Reformat entire SD card.
[LG Nitro HD] SectorNine50:
Interesting update:

I decided to give getting back into CWM recovery one more shot before I went through the process of re-unbricking again, and this time it managed to get in (for whatever reason).

So, I did a factory wipe, cleared dalvik cache, flashed the ParanoidAndroid ROM, backed out, did another factory wipe, and tried to reboot into the newly flashed ROM.

No luck. Boot looped, and didn't even get to the ROM animation. Following that, I had trouble getting back into the CWM recovery. Managed to try about 5 times and finally got in, however CWM stated:

CWM-based Recovery v5.0.2.7
E:Error in /cache/recovery/last_log
(Read-only file system)

So... my phone may have potentially unrooted it's self, somehow... Interestingly, it still shows the file systems as mounted.

So, now I'm doing a full SD card reformat. Figured I'd get that variable out of the way before I go any further.
[LG Nitro HD] drumist:
You are installing the wrong version of CWM. Never use anything older than 5.8.2.0. This is the one you want: http://download2.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.8.2.0-p930.img

Anything older than that is known to not work.

Second thing: You seem to have an incorrect understanding of what "root" means. Having "root" simply means you have administrator access to your current ROM. When you install a new ROM, whether you had root access to your old ROM is meaningless frankly.
[LG Nitro HD] SectorNine50:
Ah, thank you! I must've been viewing an old thread. Now that I look at the version number, it appears that's the version I had been hunting for since the newest one didn't work.

Interesting, I most certainly misunderstood, I was under the impression that "rooting" the device was a filesystem level permission change. Good to know!

It seems like we are getting closer to a solution here. Thanks for your patience!
[LG Nitro HD] SectorNine50:
Well, that appears to have been my problem the whole time! That's kind of embarrassing, considering how much time I sunk into this and how simple the solution was!

Anyway, thank you all very much! I assume that TWRP would have also solved my problems as well. It would seem that both the older and newest versions of CWM have some problems (at least for me!).
[LG Nitro HD] drumist:
Yeah, the new one (6.0.1.5) just came out. I'll have to test it to see if it works for me.
[LG Nitro HD] Malnilion:
For what it's worth, I haven't had any issues with 6.0.1.5 yet. The touch version is a must, though.
[LG Nitro HD] Swetnes:
Have you had a chance to compare to twrp?
[LG Nitro HD] Malnilion:
I really enjoy the integration Rom Manager/CM Updater has with CWM. If twrp is capable of running the install scripts those two use, I might consider trying it out, but I don't really like manually going through the steps to flash a rom every day.
[LG Nitro HD] drumist:
6.0.1.5 does work for me, however, I've noticed making a backup takes an unbelievably long time (perhaps about 5x as long as it does in 5.8.2.0), and even after it's finished, has wasted an extra ~500MB on the SD card for no conceivable purpose in the "/sdcard/clockworkmod/blobs" folder. I'm not sure what's going on there.
[LG Nitro HD] SectorNine50:
I was on a rooted stock AT&T ICS ROM when I flashed CWM 6.0.1.5 from ROM Manager. Even thought it appeared to flash the recovery correctly, could the fact that I was running the ICS ROM have screwed me up?
[LG Nitro HD] drumist:
Yes, that will prevent custom recoveries from working on the P930. The ICS updates come with a locked bootloader. That's why you are supposed to downgrade to a Gingerbread ROM (which come with an unlocked bootloader) before installing a custom recovery.
[LG Nitro HD] Malnilion:
I hadn't tried a backup until your post, but I wasn't even able to get mine to complete. My error log says: "Error while making a backup of /data! result was NULL, message is: assert failed: backup_rom("/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2012-10-15_CM10")"
[LG Nitro HD] SectorNine50:
Ah, okay that makes more sense. Sounds like this whole issue was one misunderstanding after another. I figured that since it was able to flash CWM, that it should be able to flash ROMs. Clearly incorrect, as this saga has very painfully shown me...
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jesan9:
im using Democracy rom 3.3 and everything works well but when i use

jelly bean theme https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.driffex.theme.jelly_bean&feature=search_result

or this two ICS theme https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonny.theme.ics&feature=search_result

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonny.theme.icsmdpi&feature=search_result the only issue is that quickpic force close and i dont know why... plz help!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sarandroid:
Go to System Settings --> Apps --> Manage Application --> Quick Pic --> Clear Cache, Clear Defaults. Hopefully this should help. :good:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codeknight11:
Or else. Uninstall quick pic and re-install it
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] QNBT:
My quickpic once FCed a lot when I made it into a system app, if your app is installed a system app, try reverting it into a internal app.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] taqulic:
Found this interesting market app that shows items currently on sale.

Also allows you to filter results.

Google should have been doing this all along.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.tsapps.appsales
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] mfucci:
I also highly recommend this app. Great way to get a heads-up on some great deals.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] greyopaque:
I even have the RSS feed pumped right to my Google Reader, along with Amazon AppStore's feed, so I'm always ready for a great deal,or a freebie.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Apocalypse487:
I didn’t know that existed.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] taqulic:
It would have been nice if Google had thought to highlight apps on sale,

And also I like the ability to sort by category..
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] aisvidrigailov:
Interesting, can you please share those RSS links? thanks!
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] ts-apps.net:
You can find our feed links on the right of our website: www.app-sales.net :cool:

PS: I'll open a new thread about our app in the App Category as soon as i managed to get 10 Posts (pretty hard without spamming the forum).

PPS: We are currently working on AppSales V3 which will have some nice improvements. Stay tuned for some announcements in the upcoming weeks :)
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] partyondude:
Thanx for this usefull tip, already found some interesting apps :)
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] O2Blevel:
+1
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] tibrisch:
I just rooted my i9305 and found some interesting stuff ...

Have a look in /proc/1/task/1/fd/4 on your phone, there are loads of important data stored there. I think that it could be some kind of eMMC

1|root@android:/data/local # stat /proc/1/task/1/fd/4

File: '/proc/1/task/1/fd/4' -> '/dev/__properties__ (deleted)'

Size: 64	Blocks: 0 IO Block: 1024 symbolic link

Device: 3h/3d	Inode: 11797 Links: 1

Access: (0500/lr-x------) Uid: ( 0/ UNKNOWN) Gid: ( 0/ UNKNOWN)

Access: 2012-10-14 18:06:32.000000000

Modify: 2012-10-14 18:06:27.000000000

Change: 2012-10-14 18:06:27.000000000

area in that file. Anyway ...

Here is a hexdump from the first 16 of that file. The first row is whith flash counter=5 and second row, flash counter=6

04 01 00 00 a5 01 00 00 50 52 4f 50 76 4f 43 45

04 01 00 00 b5 01 00 00 50 52 4f 50 76 4f 43 45

The 5th byte look suspicious, don't you agree?

Anyone with more input on this?
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] viewer2008:
chainfire - TriangleAway v2.0 to support i9305

I have told chainfire about it.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] tibrisch:
Seems he managed to find a solution. Would be interesting to know what that file is though. So if anyone knows, feel free to enlighten me.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] btemtd:
read my thread [Tool] Triangleaway its on the 1st page of this forum. it links to chainfires thread and has user experience
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] tibrisch:
I am taking about:

/proc/1/task/1/fd/4
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] btemtd:
Ok sorry I don't know what that is lol
[Thinkpad Tablet General] rushfunn:
Hi all,

I'd headphone jack working for almost 10 months now, just two days back I plugged the device to pc to copy data and since then the headphone jack stopped working, I tried restarting the device but no lucky.

I'm running official ics upgrade and haven't rooted the device. Any help is highly appreciated ...
[Thinkpad Tablet General] K1Andy:
Still under warranty? Do you use the headphone jack a lot? There have been several reports of people whose headphone jack stopped working, presumably because the mechanical sensor contact in the headphone jack is cheap/defective, and no longer detects when a headphone plug is inserted. In most cases, the tablet had to be sent in for physical repair. If you haven't changed ROMs recently, it may unfortunately be such a failure. I doubt it had anything to do with connecting to your PC.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] rushfunn:
Thanks, I'm glad I've not Rooted or changed a ROM and Lenovo will fix it under warranty. Thanks for the suggestion K1Andy ...
[Thinkpad Tablet General] K1Andy:
You said you were running the Lenovo ICS upgrade - they may still ask you to reinstall the original "official" Honeycomb image before you send it in for repair, just to be "sure". If so, I assume you know that there are instructions on how to do that in the Lenovo forums: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad...1-Stock-Rom-120109-Bootloader-Fix/td-p/713621
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] angry_machine:
hey Guys here at sony..im just from the other door here from the galaxy phone :P

Been using and modding s1 and s2 for long...but i was Always an ericsson user before that, and im kinda in love with the new xperia display and everything else...

So over to the s2, i want to replace also being tired with galaxy..

So what are your thoughts...should I go for the S or the acro S?

Or wait for the T's? V'S?

Thanks :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] realfelix:
Better buy T or V. Or do it like I will do, wait for the 2013 flagship. Looks promising! S4 Quadcore chip mdm9615 baseband(LTE) 1080p display etc.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Ben36:
The T is out already
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] angry_machine:
What are your thoughts on the HTC ONE X AND THE X+ ?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mrsatan:
The X+ looks like a good phone. I am not a fan of the original X because it has terrible battery life and had some hardware issues. If you want a one x, get the x+. The new Nexus should be launching soon so I would wait a bit and see what happens there.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] gazhead:
Xperia V ffs
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] martopoulos:
OK, I may get yelled at for asking about this considering the number of Wikis and threads out there, but I wanted to be sure: are there instructions for ClockworkMod Recovery installation specifically for the Boost Mobile version of the SPH-D710, which ships *with* ICS? Most of the tutorials I've seen ask you to use Odin to install a gingerbread rooted kernel, if I remember correctly, which I imagine will blow up in my face if I try to install it on a stock ICS installation. The eventual goal here is to get a CyanogenMod 10 nightly installed.

Thanks!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] martopoulos:
Okay, after some additional googling, I found this:

HXXP://androidforums.com/galaxy-s2-boost-mobile-all-things-root/619169-boost-sgs2-fh29-root-achieved.html[/url]

(apparently I can't post links yet)

The instructions start off as a "how to root" guide, but later the author discusses additional steps to CM10. Will try it out soon, unless anyone has a more current guide available.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Bannjio:
I had my phone on stock ota ff18 then used Odin on PC to flash on chris41g safe el26 with cwm. Then flashed on from there.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Febby:
Just do this,

1. Download the CM10 test build/ROM (No official nightlies, just test builds) of your choice. Don't forget the gapps! Transfer the files to you sdcard.

2. Download EL26 stock with CWM on your pc. (Search it, easy to find).

3. Download Odin is you don't have it. Open odin, press the "PDA" slot, and select the EL26 kernel.

4. Put phone into download mode and Connect the usb from your pc to phone. Lastly, click start on odin to flash the EL26 kernel.

5. Once the kernel is flash, the phone will not boot into the ICS ROM of course. Boot phone into recovery.

6 Clear data, cache, and dalvik cache. After, Select install zip, select zip from SDcard, choose the CM10 or ROM of your choice, let it flash. Then select the gapps zip to flash. (Press, VOL down, VOL up, and VOL down. this should enable the option to press power button for selections.)

This are the steps I suggest to use because EL26 is the safest kernel we suggest to use when flashing any AOSP, AOKP, and any ROM in general. If you want to be on the safe side.

Enjoy!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] martopoulos:
Thanks for the detailed instructions! I will try it out this week at some point.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JUSMEJOSE:
Or you can use

SPH-D710.FF18_CL663858_ROOTED-OneClick file it come rooted injected ... its the same file for the epic touch 4g so it works for both carriers
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Doctor Mohamed:
ICS sph-d710

Ilike your applications thank you
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] eitanc:
What is the Recommended Rom for save battery life??????
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] The Scientist95:
If you are really concerned about a good battery life, then go for stock firmware or stock based roms. Such as Jana rom.

I use Jana rom and the battery life is quite good. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] eitanc:
i am trying it right now
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Eduardogv:
Or maybe try the new cyanmobile by squadzone. It´s amazing how can a cm7.2 based rom can perform a battery live semejant to the stock ones
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] eitanc:
link please
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] yackovsky:
use your head for once, there's a support thread in general section...
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] A_U:
nice one XD
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Cipul:
Use stock rom for better battery performance..
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] ribljaarctica:
emanoN v7 is the best one according to me you should try it cyanogen ate my bat and this one is very durable evn tho i overcloked it lasts for a day with music and internet surfing and when im not using it alot it lasts for a few days lol
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Coolakki:
I think cm7 by mebitek has the best battery life...and its quite stable as well...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zgintasz:
Hi guys,

I've got a little bit stupid question. Is it possible to boot a linux or windows os instead of android? I saw something, if I remember right, there was an app which booted linux os. But it should be like custom ROM. Just want to know :D.

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devwithzachary:
On some devices you can have a native port of Linux, if your rooted you can use my project to install Linux on top of android.

Only way you can get windows is using qume to emulate a desktop CPU as windows can not run on ARM procssors
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zgintasz:
Thanks, but is it possible to somehow run linux not on top of android, run instead of android? How I imagine it, it should be like a custom flashable ROM :).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zgintasz:
Do you mean like a custom ROM? On which devices?

EDIT: i'm sorry for double post, I thought forum will merge posts...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devwithzachary:
Well yes in the sense there's no android but its not really a ROM in the sense of the word used here.

Only some devices have native ports as they need unlocked boot loaders and the dev team to get it working
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zgintasz:
Thanks, but you didn't said which devices have. By the way, if it isn't hard, can you post a link where is that rom, want to take a look?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devwithzachary:
Well I know the Asus transformer has a version, the HTC HD2 and I'm sure others, if you check there sub forums you should find them.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speed_bot:
you can even run debian but you can't run windows
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zgintasz:
On which devices? Can you post a link for more info?