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[HTC Droid DNA] bsSkunkApe:
Ya, maybe she meant more along the lines of after the first of the year, they aren't going to give you the option to keep unlimited when you re-up. Even if you purchase the phone outright and you can leave if you want.

Merely speculation on my part though.
[HTC Droid DNA] jc332986:
I'm going to give it a try. My bionic kills the extended battery cause it can't hold a signal at my office. If the DNA doesn't work out after a week I'll return it and try out another phone. Can't get it till the 28th so there should be some good usage reviews. If the HD Maxx had a decent camera I would go that route.

I am worried they will lock boot loader just before release though.
[HTC Droid DNA] Maedhros:
I was going to grab a DNA from Verizon, however I've decided to be a bit patient and wait till MWC 2013.

Y? Because, despite how nice the tech on the jbutterfly/DNA is, I have a feeling HTC will show something just a bit nicer @ MWC. Lets face it - the Camera on the DNA is good, but it is getting dated. Not only that, but HTC routinely dumps a new version of HTC Sense on its newest flagship. If anyone noticed, the DNA sports the same version of sense as on the 1X+.

I am fairly confident in my prediction that HTC will show us something better at MWC. Will it be a huge improvement? No - I suspect it will just be the DNA with an improved camera. But I think it is worth the wait when you factor in worldwide dev support vs verizon only support.
[HTC Droid DNA] 1454:
Yes, but it requires adding a line. So you end up paying ~ the same over the course of two years. As after taxes you are looking at 199.99*1.0x%+9.99*1.0x%+fees. So if fees etc work out to be ~14 a month, you(that's what the dumbphone on my account=) are looking at 14*24+199*1.085(mine state sales tax)=552.99 with taxes and fees.
[HTC Droid DNA] platinumrims:
I have a feeling HtC will release a phone next year that should have been released this year. The DNA with a larger battery and SD card lol. And probably newer cameras
[HTC Droid DNA] geoff5093:
I'm sure they will, but anything shown then won't be released until the summer of 2013, which is quite a while away.
[HTC Droid DNA] nrfitchett4:
Even if they do, Verizon will not carry it, same as the one series. They want all their HTC phones to be along the DROID line.

Ran into a Samsung "kiosk" at the mall today. The note 2 is really intriguing. Really wish Samsung would make a sturdier looking phone, but it was nice to play with.

Probably going to grab the note first and see how reception goes. Might be the deciding factor and can always swap it out with the dna if there is a problem.
[HTC Droid DNA] Ndaoud360:
Just an FYI if your going to buy it off contract don't go to Ebay. A dude is selling it for $1199 and the rest are too expensive
[HTC Droid DNA] boe:
I'm waiting for a detailed battery comparison between the DNA and S3 before I make that leap.
[HTC Droid DNA] bakanpo:
I am wondering about the Galaxy S IV that's rumored for CES in January. Rumored to have 2.0 GHz quad core 1080p flex screen. I'd think I'll wait. DNA isn't bad by any means, just think there will be better very soon.
[HTC Droid DNA] impala454:
Do you think this statement will ever be false? ;)
[HTC Droid DNA] boe:
I'm definitely one of those crazy people who uses their phone to make phone calls. That is one of the main reasons I'm considering dumping my s3 for another phone. The Galaxy Nexus was the worst but the S3 isn't far behind the Nexus for crappy reception.
[HTC Droid DNA] rajuabju:
This was exactly my thought...

You can always wait for the next, greatest, best thing thats just around the corner. But to me, its a silly exercise. If you need a new phone, get one now. If you dont, then keep waiting until you do.
[HTC Droid DNA] luke1333:
you will always be waiting then if you think like i will wait for the next big thing lol
[HTC Droid DNA] bakanpo:
Agreed. But I never really "need" a new phone. As I was saying, waiting another few months is worth having a little better phone as far as space and battery goes. Just my opinion though
[HTC Droid DNA] Ndaoud360:
Think about still today no phone has a better ppi then the rezound. If no one can beat the rez in ppi it will take awhile to get better ppi then this phone. This will have good screen for a long time
[Nexus 7 General] Tasssadar:
UPDATE: released - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2011403

Hi,

I am recognized developer here on XDA, and my "main" creation is multi-boot solution for LG Optimus One, MultiROM: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1304656.

The thread is kinda chaotic, so let me explain: the main ROM is in internal memory of the phone, while the other ROM(s) are on the ext partition of the sd-card. ROM on sd-card are installed via modified recovery, you just select the ZIP file and it is installed to the sd-card. During boot, a simple boot manager appears, which allows you to choose which ROM to boot (see attachments).

I've recently got my very own Nexus 7, one of the only like 2k which arrived to Czech Republic so far, so the question is following:

Do you think that it is worth it to port MultiROM to Nexus 7?

There are of course some differences between N7 and Optimus One, mainly the lack of sd-card, I can imagine having multiple ROMs in internal memory and/or booting from USB flash drive, though.

Another thing is that there are other systems than Android available on N7, I believe(?). MultiROM would need some work to support those, because the boot manager runs after the kernel is loaded, so it cannot change it, unless some workaround is used, maybe reflashing the kernel after selection of the ROM and then silent reboot, or kexec (anybody has it running on N7?).

So, what do you think? :)
[Nexus 7 General] nphil:
I would be very interested in this, especially if you can dualboot between Ubuntu/ChromeOS and Android.
[Nexus 7 General] Räph96:
+1
[Nexus 7 General] daveheart14:
We have the same question on the French forum???? : http://forum.frandroid.com/topic/125722-dualboot-sur-nexus-7/ ;)
[Nexus 7 General] davidstech11:
I would say “no". But then again, I doubt a lot of people would comment just to say no like me. I would think most who comment here would say yes.
[Nexus 7 General] smirkis:
i was just sitting back talking with sblood86 about this, if you create multirom support, cannibalopentouch can be properly ported to support multiboot.

i would find this very useful when ubuntu comes around to being more stable and usable. bouncing between ubuntu and jellybean would be awesome. especially for us 32gb users!
[Nexus 7 General] luckylui:
+1

#Galaxy Nexus HSPA+
[Nexus 7 General] Sharpen3d:
I gotta be honest, this seems like a great idea and could be very fun, but that seems to be the limit: fun. I personally don't feel there's enough development on the N7 to warrant the need to toggle between builds for more than a novelty sake.

That being said, I would like to see this come to fruition for the hope that it inspires more development on the N7. You got my vote, good luck!
[Nexus 7 General] smirkis:
it is fun, development and testing is fun. being able to flash new roms to try them out and not have to keep backing up/wiping/restoring would be great. having bone stock on one partition and super custom aokp or whatever on the other would also be great. a lot of custom add ons leads to new oem features n the long run.
[Nexus 7 General] dinesh690:
Sounds very interesting would love to see this on the nexus 7

Sent from my LT18i
[Nexus 7 General] yonkye:
+1

Dual boot android/ubuntu
[Nexus 7 General] rebel1699:
I think dual boot would be extremely useful, especially if it could be made to boot to a rom on otg devices. Ext hdds, thumbdrives, etc.
[Nexus 7 General] Alejandrissimo:
Shut up and take my nexus

Haha yeah I love dual boot on my s3, it will be pretty awesome to have it on the n7.

Don't forget the OTG charging patch.
[Nexus 7 General] aLPaSLaN07:
I'd say "why not?"
[Nexus 7 General] brando56894:
I'd give this a go, as another user stated it would be pretty nice to not have to backup, flash, restore to try out a new rom and then if you don't like it restore. This would probably only be useful for people that have 32 GB (like me, i have a ton of games installed and still have about 20 GB free :D ) and possibly those with 16 GBs. I remember I tried a multi-boot manager on my Incredible about a year ago and it didn't work that well, but then again that was about 2 years ago.

Multi-booting Android, ChromeOS and Ubuntu via this would be EPIC
[Nexus 7 General] erica_renee:
+1 more..

Would be awesome to have a rom that you could play with and not Bork your device every time . For rom Developers and moders this could be a invaluable tool..

Would love to have total stock experience and still be able to use the bleeding edge rom development features...

Please please .
[Nexus 7 General] Tasssadar:
Okay, so the main reason seems to be dual-booting ubuntu. That looks cool to me, and should be possible from what I can tell. But there is one problem - it would require kexec, and it does not work for me. It just freezes the device.

I just enabled kexec in kernel (CONFIG_KEXEC=y) and tried some kexec binaries for other devices, and the one from debian, but result is the same, just freeze (or nothing happens on the screen, adb or anything for a long time). /proc/last_kmesg looks like this:

[ 187.155128] CFG80211-ERROR) wl_cfg80211_disconnect : Reason 3
[ 187.163564] cpu_up(2)+
[ 187.165085] CPU2: Booted secondary processor
[ 187.165742] cpu_up(2)-
[ 187.170464] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: CN
[ 187.173526] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #2
[ 187.173858] wl_android_wifi_off in
[ 187.174192] Wake32 for irq=340
[ 187.174332] Disabling wake32
[ 187.174407] gpio bank wake found: wake32 for irq=67
[ 187.174481] Disabling wake32
[ 187.174670] wifi_set_power = 0
[ 187.174807] Powering off wifi
[ 187.475191] =========== WLAN placed in RESET ========
[ 187.479449] max77663-rtc max77663-rtc.0: rtc_shutdown: clean alarm
[ 187.479692] wl_android_priv_cmd: Ignore private cmd "BTCOEXMODE 2" - iface wlan0 is down
[ 187.482678] dhd_prot_ioctl : bus is down. we have nothing to do
[ 187.482765] dhd_aoe_hostip_clr failed code -1
[ 187.482899] dhd_prot_ioctl : bus is down. we have nothing to do
[ 187.482972] dhd_aoe_arp_clr failed code 1
[ 187.509574] smb347_shutdown+
[ 187.511945] smb347_shutdown-
[ 187.512152] Starting new kernel
[ 187.512239] Bye!

Problem is, I have no idea how to debug what is wrong. Anybody tried kexec on N7? Or am I just doing something wrong with the parametrs, I did this:

kexec -l ./zImage --initrd=./boot.img-ramdisk.cpio.gz --command-line="$(cat /proc/cmdline)"
kexec -e
[Nexus 7 General] jcgtreize:
If we are already talking about a vote (one more), mine is definitely positive. I want to keep my Android Devices on genuine Google Rom:angel:, but I really want to try alternative Rom at the same time, or even install a linux distribution, so ...
[Nexus 7 General] crackcaffeine:
Would it be possible to boot from USB?

It would be absolutely amazing to have the ability to boot USB if an image is detected. 8/16/32 is IMO pretty limited if the goal is to have multiple functional boots.

Ubuntu + Kaos Droid + Stock (as backup) would be amazing.
[Nexus 7 General] Foka002:
Man, I would be soo happy if u could port dual boot on ours N7. This device is missing it... Big time.
[Nexus 7 General] MrWulf:
I'd also be very interested if you could dual boot Ubuntu and Cyanogenmod.

I don't think I'd be that interested if we were talking about dual booting two different types of android (which isn't to say don't do it, but it would bring anything to the table for me).
[Nexus 7 General] HellcatDroid:
Regarding kexec:

I tinkered around with kexec when I made the first dualboot on the S2 (not that anyone remembers it these days till others adopted my work without giving credit, but meh....) and it can only be done with a huge ammount of work porting it to the target platform / device.

So I decided to look for other ways to do it.

What I did later on, was using a seperate kernel for each ROM to boot right from the beginning.

On the N7 it's rather easy for a quick start as we already have two seperate kernels that can be chosen from at poweron time ("normal boot" and "recovery mode").

I even had a couple ideas that didn't require overwriting the recovery one, basically flashing the required kernel and reboot (kinda how kexec does it, just not in memory but actually writing the new, required kernel) - incl. a fancy bootmenu at power on....
[Nexus 7 General] Alejandrissimo:
As I can understand, dualboot system use 2 roms based on the same kernel, so ubuntu as second rom is not easy to get unless you can execute the ubuntu kernel as temporary kernel (like the fastboot boot boot.img command)

Anyway ubuntu on nexus7 is pretty useless and i think is better to have 2 nexus android roms as start goal. This can be very usefull for developers and others to have a rom to play with stuff and a reliable rom for normal usage.
[Nexus 7 General] Tasssadar:
Yes, I suppose it should be possible to just flash_image the required kernel, and keep track of which is actually in boot partition. I'll try to do that.

On the other hand....

I wonder if this could be used in some way...is bootloader's source code available? All I can see in my android repo is bootable/bootloader/legacy, which I suppose is...well...legacy bootloader.
[Nexus 7 General] kwurky:
+1 from me. I would love to multi-boot between different Android ROMS, Ubuntu, and perhaps even ChromeOS. Support from USB host flash drives and my personal fave: microSD cards using a memory card reader would be Awesome.
[Nexus 7 General] Aleemz:
I have Tega V2 tablet triple booting Windows 8, Windows XP, and Android (X86) and find the facility to boot between the different OS a very useful feature.

The N7 booting Android, Ubuntu, and Chrome OS would be great.
[Nexus 7 General] Tasssadar:
Soo... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM4mn0_8qAI

It uses two boot images, one for ubuntu and one for android. Both of them are injected with special init binary, which handles the transition. No gui, just proof of concept - it works!

Currently, / of both android and ubuntu are in the same folder, which is, well, not ideal, I suppose I'll have to copy all android files into some special directory or something.
[Nexus 7 General] dympy:
Even for a really early proof of concept, this is a very nice thing!

I used to have the same dualboot method on my old phone (The Samsung Galaxy Apollo), with the up and down buttons, though ROMs had to be optimized to work properly.

But this is a lot better!

Can't wait to see and test the early releases (:

Dympy.
[Nexus 7 General] Tasssadar:
All right, everything is going okay, I am currently multi-booting stock rom, cyanogenmod 10 and Ubuntu with _kinda_ UI.

The problem is, I am not really sure how to do the installation, especially installation of Ubuntu. Ubuntu is full-grown desktop linux, which means it will update it's kernel by itself every once a in while. That is a problem for me however, because it overwrites MultiROM.

I could make Ubuntu not-to-overwrite MultiROM, but it would require some changes in the installation image, which is clearly not ideal, because I would have to keep the image updated. Or is it possible just to install old image and then apt-get dist-upgrade? That would be okay then, I guess.

Anybody has any thoughts/ideas on this?

PS: Also, I am being told that flashing boot image every time I want to switch from android to ubuntu is a great strain on the mmc memory chips. I do not really think that it is true, because for example /data must get much bigger IO load than boot partition, no?
[Nexus 7 General] ontoptherock:
well you say no, but the thing is if you dont want it then you simply just dont use it. So that is why yes is more of a viable answer as those who want it are able to use it and those who dont simply ignore it
[Nexus 7 General] davidstech11:
Indeed
[Nexus 7 General] zeno07706:
Very interested in this and it's looking promising - the opportunity to boot to Ubuntu or/and ChromeOS would be fantastic. Can't help dev-wise I'm afraid Tasssadar but any user testing I would be happy to do.:fingers-crossed:
[Nexus 7 General] death 90:
this sounds very interesting and since my nexus 7 3g should be arriving in a few hours im very interested. has there been any progress about a week now. id be willing to help test or grateful if you pm me an alpha version
[Nexus 7 General] Wilks3y:
Please do it, would love to fiddle with dual boots on my N7.

As stated before, this would be great for trying new roms as you could keep the stock ROM separate and not have to backup/restore for every flash !
[Nexus 7 General] Tasssadar:
Progress is certainly being made, the actual multi-boot part is already done. I am currently working on the modified recovery. I've decided that installation and managing of MultiROM will be done by the recovery only (as opposed to LGP500, where I've used android app), so it is quite a bit of work. Nevertheless, almost half of it is done. There is a little sneak peek to MultiROM UI attached :)

I probably will not do booting from USB flash drive in the first version however. I do not have USB drive fast enough* (when I tried, it literally took hour and half to just install Ubuntu), and it is pretty much _really_ dangerous hackfest to boot Ubuntu from USB drive without kexec. I would really want to make kexec work, but it is simply too low-level stuff for my knowledge.

And I am terribly tired right now. Well, good night :)

* Yes, I know flash drives are really cheap nowadays, but only if you get several hundred $ salary each month :/
[Nexus 7 General] death 90:
this is exciting. the damn UPS man must of decided to make me his last stop im getting anxious waiting. Ive never tried any android programming so in my appreciation for your work i will pledge 25$ to be donated on the release of the ROM. (hopefully i can just use a CC to do this, i havent played around with paypal in awhile. either way ill make sure and get you a nice little "thank you") keep me updated!

edit: i should make it clear im using a nakasig, thats with GSM/HSPA+ so i hope you are working on this for 4.2+ models
[Nexus 7 General] PromaneX:
exciting! Can't wait to have a play with it :D
[Nexus 7 General] chaplinb:
This would be awesome :D. The layout looks real nice too, really cool. Obviously I think this would be mainly for people running something that isn't android, COS or Ubuntu. I'd love this so much.

Do it :D
[Nexus 7 General] Tasssadar:
Is the Chromium OS released yet? All I can find is video.
[Nexus 7 General] ibis93:
This is great. Thanks for the effort you are putting into it!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xelanetloads:
Figured I would try out the ROM. Awesome ROM however, the HDMI output via HML Adapter feature isn't functioning at all. Worked perfectly on JMTX and a few other ROMs. Is this a problem for anyone else testing this ROM?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] boricua10:
Same here man.. not working for me neither... not sure if its even enable on aosp.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
I have the same rom and this workedhttp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2000135

Follow it to the tee and i used system tuner to do the mod

---------- Post added at 11:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:28 PM ----------

O and if you want to video call use the talk app and a bt headset or you will get feedback on the mic
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suzhipack:
resurrected with riffbox and reflashing 4.0.3 but suddenly i have this errors but before i didnt encounter this :(

E: failed to mount /efs (read only file system)

E: mount fail : EFS partition

E: lfs pass open fail

E: failed to mount /efs (Invalid argument)

E: failed to mount /efs (Invalid argument)

any solution out there? please help me guys thanks

MY PHONE SAMSUNG s2 HD LTE e120s thanks in advance
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Immortalis:
EFS partition is damaged. Have you got any backup of efs?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suzhipack:
i did not back up anything..

please help please
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 23732:
Then you're screwed. As mentioned many times in this forum, ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR EFS FOLDER!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suzhipack:
how to solve this guys? please help
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] postfatal:
Check on your internal SD card for an image file called efs or something. Or check for a folder called efs, efs backup etc. If you haven't backed it up I'm not actually sure what you do/ if it can be fixed. I think you're pretty screwed.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suzhipack:
how to check? ive seen my efs folder in my system it has a folder named BLUETOOTH, IMEI, WIFI but all of them are empty..

i havent back it up before i flash it, but some of our technician here in philippines has the solution but i need to pay for them to fixed it so, XDA BRAINS do we have the solution for this? :( thanks in advance :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suzhipack:
up up up
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hustlergraham:
Hi,

I have the same issue only with an S3 :( But... I have a backup of my EFS folder on my PC. Is there anything I can do? Tried to flash stock firmware via Odin and still did not fix it.

Any help will be much appreciated!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tommytky:
[Galaxy Note II]

I have some questions/problems and I need solutions from the Pros here:

Maybe I'm outdated or something but I didnt own S3 and my old S2 doesnt have these problems... now that I have used Note 2 for 1 week, I start noticing that Google and Samsung have changed the policy of storage management in their new devices...

1st problem:

- Phone memory is no longer divide into 2 partition which is good, so we can fully use that 16GB BUT what to do if 16GB is finished?

- They (not sure Google or Samsung) removed the "move to SD" option in the application manager.

- Means when 16GB is finished, nothing we can do but to uninstall some apps to free up the space, and there is NO way to move files like game datas into our "external microSD card" and I have searched everywhere in the net and none of them have solution for this at the moment and all apps (App2SD, GL to SD etc.) in Google Play does NOT support S3/Note2.

2nd problem:

- USB Ultilities/ USB Mass Storage (UMS) mode is no longer available?! (WTF??!? again not sure if this is Google or Samsung's fault)

- Now tell me how are we gonna transfer our huge files from Phone/ExSDcard to our computer? MTP? **** MTP, you probably need years to transfer big files using that mode...

- I have studied that, due to the non-partition phone memory, phone memory is NO LONGER able/impossible to be unmount and remount to computer as a mass storage. So nothing we can do with internal storage.

- BUT why the hell Samsung cant even include an UMS mode for only the "External microSD card"?

- Can the Pros here tell me HOW do you transfer your huge files from phone/ExSDcard to computer and vice versa (without having to take out the microSD card and plug it into computer)?

3rd problem:

- I have just tried to connect my pendrive to my Note 2 via OTG cable and it works.

- BUT after disconnected it from the phone, there is a problem charging the phone. I have to reboot the phone to make it back to normal.

- Do you have this problem too? can anyone please confirm this because I want to know whether it's firmware problem or hardware problem.

- I found someone having the same problem like this in XDA forum btw.

Thanks a lot and your reply, help and suggestions are really much appreciated! :good:
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tommytky:
anyone please? :P
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emprize:
1,2 use app

3 never try
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tommytky:
Thanks for the reply...

Can you share which apps you are using for those solution?