yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] hardslog:
You cannot download CWM from the playstore. CWM is a custom recovery and it is specific to each device. You will have to get it from here. Also if you unlock your bootloader, it will stay locked until you relock it, but as a word of advice: do not re-lock your bootloader. If you do any you have something like CWM installed, then you are toast.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] droidxxxxx:
So, once I flash the custom recovery (CWM) is there ever a way to go back to stock recovery, in order to re lock the bootloader to flash a stock rom back to it? If I understand correctly, if I had a custom CWM recovery, I would not be able to flash a stock ICS rom, unless it was th nandroid backup?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] hardslog:
Yea if you start playing with custom ROMs you can always go back. There are threads in the Acer A100 forums with specific instructions of how to do it. Make sure you read them carefully and perform all the steps in order. Essentially you would need to flash the stock recovery back to your tablet, and then from there you can download the update.zip that ZeroNull has posted and then flash it to go back to stock everything. I had to do that in order to create my first ROM based on the newest Acer build of ICS.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] droidxxxxx:
So, logically, once I root, unlock, flash CWM... then I can do a nandroid backup through CWM.. and essentially have a "Stock" image to go back to if I bork something up? And, that being said, since the A100 will never see a true official JB update, would I really ever need to go back to a unlocked bootloader and stock recovery? If I wanted to go back so to speak, I could just reload my backup?

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Oh, and this method looks pretty easy to put CWM on.. i assume I just install the zip on my PC and hook up my rooted, unlocked, and backed up ICS and flash?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] pio_masaki:
The backup won't touch the bootloader and it'll always restore back cwm. There's threads about returning to stock, like full stock. The nandroid would restore you to how it was when you backed up, meaning stock rooted ics with unlocked bootloader and cwm recovery.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] droidxxxxx:
which would be good, since I dont really need to worry about going back to unlocked stock since there will never be any updates.. right? ;) I just want to make sure I have a firm grasp on this ting.. I already had to send it back once and I never even flashed anything.. lol.. Is there any fully functional JB roms yet for this? As for ICS roms, which one is most complete as I use all the camera features and such..
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] pio_masaki:
We've had fully working cm10 for a few months now. All ics roms work also, and you have stock, and modded stock and cm9 to play with there.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] hardslog:
Yea you might want to ask some of those questions in another thread, but check out jellytime by pio. Its about as complete a JB rom as you are going to get on this thing.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] droidxxxxx:
Ok..running the unlock zip after confirming root..and getting this message..the volume buttons aren't working..the icon on the right is a pic of an open door..
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] droidxxxxx:
wait, I got it... i was pushing the volume rocker the wrong way.. lol

its unlocked now... i will try this recovery x now..

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hoe do I reboot into "Fastboot" mode?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Romman0:
The easiest way if your still on stock unlocked ICS, is to download 'quick boot' from the play store.

Question though, way are you going to fast boot?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] droidxxxxx:
Ok, will try now..

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quick boot is another word for bootloader mode?

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the directions in the recovery X program say to reboot in fastboot, then plug device in to flash the CWM..
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Romman0:
Quick boot is an app that will allow you to boot to the recovery, boot loader, power off, or standard reboot. Just by pressing a button.

Ahh, I was under the impression that this app would reboot the tablet for you into fast boot to flash the recovery. So never mind me, if it is telling you to manually do it.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amazinjess:
I have downloaded every android driver in the hopes of rooting my samsung s3 the one from Samsung, the Intel one and another one, however whenever I search for it with the browsing button on my Acer it doesn't recognize it. I followed the directions from this link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1875914 and I have re-downloaded the samsung verizon drivers hoping that will work but I am starting to get desperate. I really want to root it but my stupid computer isn't recognizing the usb drivers.

MOD-Edit: Closed, see last post
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cyanogenmod7.2:
Whats this doing in the Nexus 10 forums?
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 404 ERROR:
Wrong forum.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeromejeremytay:
You're lost, my child.

Sent from my Nokia 3310
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arrtoodeetoo:
Go home, amazinjess. You're drunk.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jotha:
Thread closed as on wrong forum. As there are more than one Samsung Galaxy S3 Sections, depending on the model you have, I cannot even move the thread. So please post again in the right forum.

jotha - forum moderator
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] chik7282:
[Q] I am using twrp. If I go back to stock recovery will it unroot my phone?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrnamster:
It won't unroot unless you're flashing the stock .tar. You can revert to stock recovery and keep root using mskip's Toolbox.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] sllavy:
please guys

I need an image bakup for huawei u8800-51
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Somcom3X:
Against xDA rules sorry

Sent from my Impulse 4g running my CM7 release
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LAVETRA:
Hi everybody

I downloaded Tsf shell v 1.7.5 Beta on google and i install it with lucky patcher BUT 5 minutes after, he say me: i don't paid this application.

So, how install it for a long time PLEASE !!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LAVETRA:
Thanks you !!!!!!!

I'll try it after i'll say if it's really good but ;)

it's gooooooood thanks you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gagdude:
Both of you GTFO of XDA pirating is NOT condoned
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] egorre:
Can somebody else confirm this? I can't send images over NFC on other phones at least on any non touchwiz gallery or any phones other than galaxy S III or Note II.

I tried sending a picture over to my Nexus 7 and my T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II running AOSP and ultimately lead me to Google Play Store. It's sending the gallery app which is not on Play Store instead of the images.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] ssCISengineer:
I thought the s3 and nite were the only ones to support sbeam I may be wrong however
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] egorre:
That's kinda sad knowing android beam works on all androids with NFC. :/ I tried transferring images from Nexus 7 and GS II to my Note II it both worked but not the other way around. I am disappoint. :/
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] obynio:
​

Hello world !!!

I've created a project of a new kind : The RecoverX Project

The goal of this project is to gather ALL the recoveries for ALL android devices in ONE tool which install them on the devices. RecoverX is coded in C++ thanks to QtSDK and allow to install a recovery on more than 150 different devices !!!

You just have to select your device and the recovery, click "Install" and RecoverX does the rest !!! It's that simple ;)

This program require different prerequesties, depending of your device

- Wether you need an unlocked bootloader to flash the recovery partition (and fastboot drivers on your PC)

- Wether you need root access and usb debugging activated (if busybox is not installed, RecoverX will ask you the permission to install it).

This program have been published on XDA News : Here

Here is the list of supported devices :

​

Finally, a small preview ;)

Awesome !!! Where is the download link ???

Here : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1773227​
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] mskip:
This thread has been closed as it is a clone of the original which is against xda rules (spam).

If you wish to post please use the following thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1773227

Mark.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goldiman:
Hi I would like to increase the stock rom (version 4.0.4) system partitions.

How can I do that?

Thank in advanace
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goldiman:
bump
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cosmic Blue:
no, if you tried you would end up bricking your phone. Playing with the partitioning on phone is only done in extereme cases to fix a soft bricked phone. Not to gain extra space.

use an external sdcard and transfer files to that.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goldiman:
Thank you, If put a cyamogen rom is it going to solve the issue?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cosmic Blue:
what issue are you trying to resolve. more information is need.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goldiman:
It's said that the system partition is full because the system partition on SGS2 is 512MB and i would like to increase it to 1024MB
[About XDA developers] Entropy512:
Gary - there IS an XDA general discussion forum that you apparently missed - http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=263

As to the RD tag - if you recall my currently ongoing G+ saga, I did mention that the RD program had some serious issues at the end of 2011. That was why the ERD program was created, and also why the rules for becoming an RD were made stricter/clearer about a month ago. (With the addition of RC/RT tiers, it's easier to "raise the bar" for RD since there are now lower titles available to those who don't quite make the cut.)

I think some aspects of XDA's process might need to be better documented/clearer - for example, I wasn't even aware of the "Moderator Committee" account until today. I knew there WAS a Moderator Committee, but didn't know exactly who was on it, and that there was a "catchall" account for PMing them all simultaneously.

Unfortunately, I think the rules are indeed unclear in terms of, for example, single-APK modifications. In the I9100 forums, these seem to be split 50/50 between "Themes and Apps" and "Development" - The defining line for some of these is so vague that usually, the moderators let it go unless it's obvious. For example, if you just replaced graphics assets in something, it obviously belongs in "Themes and Apps". If you did smali hacks - it's borderline. In my opinion, if you just post a smali-hacked APK, it goes in T&A. If you actually documented the process for performing the modification so others could apply it to different devices/firmware images, then it probably is justified as "Development". Knowing your past work and ethics, I'm assuming your modifications were from the latter category, however I currently can't review them.
[About XDA developers] garyd9:
Damn, you're right - I did miss that forum. Well, between the PM I sent to "moderator committee" and its somewhat obvious location here, I'm sure it'll get moved soon (and I'm good with that.)

As for RD - I'll save that for another day. ;)

Take care

Gary
[About XDA developers] reinbeau:
I've moved this thread into the General 'General' section. Gary has some good points, I also think it's strange that development, real development, discussions have no real place other than General, where good work can easily get lost - however, if you have an issue with a moderator you need to take that up with the moderator - you can, of course, report your issues to the Moderator Committee as Entropy has mentioned.
[About XDA developers] garyd9:
Ann, I TRIED taking it up with that moderator in a private message and was ripped by that person for doing so. I was told to keep my thoughts to myself and that I wasn't supposed to submit feedback.
[About XDA developers] Entropy512:
THAT particular issue, in my opinion, was uncalled for. (uncalled for from the Moderator you tried to work things out with, not uncalled for from you.)
[About XDA developers] garyd9:
Thank you for the second move. I just hope it's read by the proper people.

Take care

Gary
[About XDA developers] jerdog:
The correct process is to direct this sort of thing to the Moderator Committee. Especially make sure to include the PM from the FSM.
[About XDA developers] garyd9:
Pardon my ignorance... "FSM"?
[About XDA developers] garyd9:
Would it be helpful to post the pmid's of the PM's sent back and forth?

(If I post the pmid's in this thread, can a moderator access them but not anyone else? I don't think it'd be appropriate to post the contents of all the PM's in a public location. I've also very carefully avoiding calling out the name of the moderator.)

Also, the issue that that moderator is only a very small part of the overall thing. If there were CLEAR rules to begin with, I think there'd be less of an issue with specific moderators.
[About XDA developers] conantroutman:
Gary, please either forward your concerns about specific moderators to myself or another member of the moderator committee via pm when you have the chance.

Although it sometimes might not seem like it I can assure you that we intend to keep xda as developer orientated as we possibly can, however we cannot do that without feedback from people such as yourself.

Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....
[About XDA developers] conantroutman:
Sorry, I see you've already sent a pm to the mod committee account. Disregard my last post. Well, the first part anyway.....

That's what I get for skimming the thread..... :rolleyes:

Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....
[About XDA developers] garyd9:
I've sent you a PM, conantroutman. If there's anything else I can do for that particular issue, please let me know.
[About XDA developers] garyd9:
In my post, I mentioned the inconsistency of the moderating and dealing with the so-called "Development" subforums. I had a post moved out of that subforum and was told (among other things) that "The only thing in Development will be true development. Roms and kernels."

Since that time, a few other threads have been posted in there.

One is nothing more than a deodex of the stock firmware. No "development" in running a deodex script. (I had to deodex the stuff I posted before working on it... no effort there.)

Another is (and this is some high end "development") an empty edify zip file. I'm serious. Someone made a generic .zip file that has nothing in the /system directory, but will copy everything from that (empty) directory to the device system directory.

Finally, there's a thread with modem dumps. Seriously, a "development" subforum thread containing dumps of a "dd" command.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1986556

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1986645

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1986480

If I'm going to be attacked and have my threads moved when they involve actual development effort (even if it's only a single apk), then I don't see how purely stock stuff or empty shells are permitted. At least what I posted changes the behavior of the device when installed.

I'm not even sure who or what to blame for this. Is it that a specific moderator was attacking my post? Was it that each moderator has a different idea of what goes where? Is it that the rules are so vague that it's perfectly reasonable for a moderator to roll dice to decide if a thread should be moved?

This message isn't to attack the posts above. Personally, I think the development subforum is a reasonable place for at least the first two. (The modem dumps should probably be a sticky in the general subforum based on what I've seen in the past.) However, based on the guidelines quoted to me by moderators of XDA, none of this stuff should be in there.

I really hope this gets addressed.

Gary
[About XDA developers] Fallen Spartan:
Some rather interesting points being made here which I think we, XDA, should take on board. We obviously want XDA to be easy to navigate through, plus we also want it to be easy for people to contact us (The MC) amongst others

Personally, I thought it was rather easy and straight forward, but then again I've been here for years, it may not be so easy for others, especially new users

I'm going to create a new thread in the "About XDA" forum asking for users to give feedback or recommendations on site layout, contacts, procedures etc?

I hope you add any thoughts you may have

Rick

Moderator Committee
[About XDA developers] garyd9:
Here's the kinds of things that this leads to:

I'd like to post a thread trying to document and catalog the CSC variables in a samsung stock firmware, how to change them, and the impacts of changing them. This single set of variables can change nearly any aspect of a phone from what settings are available for the user to what color scheme the stock email app uses.

Which subforum does it get put in? Its certainly targeted for development purposes. Does it get put into "general" (and get lost in the clutter of "Post pictures you take with your phone")? It's certainly not a theme. I have NO IDEA the proper place to put this, and now I wonder if it's easier to just not contribute to XDA than to waste my time trying to navigate the mess.

This one amuses me: There are now SEVERAL threads in that development subforum I had my stuff moved from that are nearly identical to a post I made (and which was moved out of dev.) I mentioned these via PM to one of the moderators who supported moving my stuff before. He responded that he'd look into those new posts last night. Yet, they (and many more) are still there without being moved.

What message should I take from that?
[About XDA developers] Entropy512:
I think you're touching on one of those issues where XDA's growth has caused difficulties to manage things, and an ideal solution has yet to be determined.

For example, on the topics of how certain types of development discussion (like figuring out a register map) might not be considered "development" in the current rules even though they should be - If you don't use the current rules, what DO you use? If you're not careful, you wind up with Development subsections cluttered with threads of "Let's fix X" (even though we have no clue how) - Some users consider that "development" even if they're in WAY above their heads and the thread has zero actual development.

It helps when moderators for a forum are developers themselves. It helps them make those "grey area" calls - as a result the I9100 forums are in pretty good shape because a number of the I9100 moderators were experienced developers, and a few senior moderators/admins owned the I9100 and hence hung out in those forums. (For example: Pulser). But as XDA grows, it's harder to get FSMs that have development experience for all forums, without overloading them and frying their brains.

What's the answer? I don't know - but please keep in mind that unfortunately, for some of these, there is no easy answer.

BTW, there is some planned rework for organization of the "Development" sections that was mentioned in the "Future" part of Jerdog's "XDA: Past, Present, and Future" presentation at BABBQ. Unfortunately, issues with the conference center network prevented the talk from being recorded/streamed as was originally planned. BTW, this is one reason I think you should apply for RD status - some issues like this are things that do get discussed in the RD forums.

As to your example of CSC modification - I think a comprehensive guide for this WOULD be highly useful. The problem is, you know that within days, someone will see that and throw up a "hey everyone, throw this **** in your build.prop and it'll be AWESUM!!1!!!1!1!" thread... A detailed technical analysis of each entry and what it does would be something I'd consider "development" especially if some research needed to be done (including baksmali'ing, etc.) to determine something's true function - but just "OMG THIS WILL MAKE UR PHONE AWESUM!!11!!!!" threads wouldn't be... And that's the problem, how do you let the former reside in Development without the latter creeping in? Decisions like that are going to be difficult for many moderators.
[About XDA developers] garyd9:
Perhaps some form of OP moderated post? Any replies are reviewed by the OP before being visible. Sadly, I don't think XDA's forum software supports this type of thing.

As an alternative, a thread locked to all but the OP. The person who started the thread states that comments/additions should be sent via PM and will be added if deemed appropriate. (I read somewhere that RD's can moderate their own threads... if true, that might be the perfect solution.)

There'd still need to be some moderation, as surely as I write this, you'll have certain people starting those types of threads everyplace one doesn't already exist regardless of their own ability to test things, etc. (Just look at how any time a new device section is added even weeks before anyone has the device, there are instantly "post your homescreens", "guide to kernels/roms" and other things the mods only allow one of.)

Oh, and Entropy512... sorry about trying to give you more work in that other thread that Fallen Spartan started. ;)
[About XDA developers] garyd9:
Heh - at this point, I doubt that would happen. In the past 2 days, I've managed to get quite a few people on XDA pissed at me. It's not that I've tried to, just that I got to the mental point of speaking "plainly" instead of trying to be politically correct.

As well, and to be completely fair, I haven't been posting most of my code contributions here on XDA lately. Then again, there's no good place to post things like "add support for sms messaging over bluetooth" on XDA. It's not product by itself, but something that needs to be compiled into a larger project - hence there's no home for it here.

(I'm (perhaps incorrectly assuming that the RD program on XDA depends on a certain number of things posted here on XDA.)
[About XDA developers] KidCarter93:
Hi Gary,

First of all, I'd just like to say that I've read through your posts in this thread and the "feedback/ recommendations for xda" thread and you've had some great thoughts and ideas which I reckon could definitely improve certain aspects of this site. The main problem just seems to be putting it into action and making sure the ides stays as true as possible to what it's meant to be, rather than filter off into something which will fizzle out and have nothing more mentioned about it.

Now onto the suggestion of OP moderated posts.

While this could be a great idea on other forums, I don't really think it's feasible here on XDA.

If a thread is at the stage where it may be needed for the OP to review what posts are allowed, that is the exact same moment when that idea would simply become unmanageable.

I think this because no matter what the persons "level" on XDA is, there would be too many posts to review to give them time to do anything else. This is especially true for those who are developers, not just RDs.

As a result of it being too much for them to handle, things would revert back to the system currently in place. We've then gained nothing.

The same would also ring true if OPs would need to add posts themselves, out of all the PMs they'd received. Even if the OP of a thread was happy to wade through all the PMs they receive, it's quite easy to accidentally miss some messages.

Even mods have missed a message of mine at times simply because they have loads come through. The OP would surely have even more PMs come through meaning that loads more messages could be skipped by accident.

And yes, RDs can moderate their own threads but only to the extent of closing/reopening it. They can't remove comments like moderators can.

James

''Absolute power corrupts absolutely, but absolute powerlessness does the same''