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[Focus General] FocusHelp:
Hello I am a total noob to Windows Phone 7 and I will be getting the Samsung Focus in the next week or two and I am planning on flashing(fully unlocking) it. I have done some research on this site and I heard that windowsbreaking method no longer works and the only way to unlock is by flashing a custom ROM. If so, what is the most stable WP7.8 custom ROM that is out for the Samsung Focus and is their a way to just unlock a stock ROM because I prefer to have my phone stock without anything added and don't worry I've modded stuff before :silly: just not WP7 devices :good:
[Focus General] FocusHelp:
Help

Anyone:confused:
[Focus General] shk12344:
If your Focus is 1.3 then go with Dynamic v.2.0. (link below) The best 7.8 rom so far.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2016769
[Focus General] FocusHelp:
Thanks :)

Ok will do this once I get my focus.. I am also very nervous :confused: I hope I dont end up bricking it
[Focus General] TrashSlash:
don´t worry that rom is the best for the samsung focus ever created, i have been using it for a couple of week and 0 bugs
[Focus General] FocusHelp:
Thanks I can try but I am very scared of bricking my phone and my last phone just broke so I am very scared. I will get it for christmas :D Have there been any full bricks?
[Focus General] Testware:
You can't really tell if a phone's completely bricked or if the user is just... um.. unable to do things correctly. Not everyone's a geek and there are people who complain that things aren't working even if they're given clear instructions on how to do it.

I just flashed with the Dynamic 2.0 ROM and it's working great. It does have a bug that I want to report (I have less than 10 posts), but I'll do it soon.

If there's someone else looking at this, here's the bug:

In XBox, when you shake your avatar and make him/her fall down, one of the animations when he gets up is to be pissed and pull the screen to a side so that the games list appears. This ROM (like the Tango ROM I installed before this) mirrors the action. He seems to be pulling on the opposite side of the screen instead. It looks awkward, and I know this is something that worked fine with my vanilla 7.5.
[Focus General] chachin:
Hello I was wondering if anyone could guide me in to look for tool/program to root/unlock my samsung focus so i can update to 7.8.. I dont know what happend to the camera and it wont work anymore.. its still stock from when I bought it.
[Focus General] shk12344:
There's basically 2 step you have to go through to install custom rom:

1) Install MAGLDR

2) Install Custom Rom of your choice

-Link below is for MAGLDR download, read and follow the direction, (download DFT_Summy_Rainbow.zip) Chances are you'll be asked to download several different software to make it work properly on your computer.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1485569

-For 7.8 rom, try the link below for Dynamic 2.0 (that is if your Samsung Focus is rev. 1.3) It will take 10 to 15 minutes to install fully, so be patient, don't panic.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2016769

I would highly recommend you goto YOUTUBE and search for "Samsung focus custom rom" and watch the videos very carefully.
[Focus General] DACHEF81:
Rom Guidance

By far and away, and with the utmost respect to every contributing developer here or there, the most stable 7.8 ROM for the Focus is the 3.05 Clean ROM from Voluptuary. I've had every single Rev 1.3 or Rev 1.4 Rom released for this device and this one is the smoothest. Tiles open and close beautifully, artist match the artwork, no file errors, no unreasonable battery issues, even has a xap file deployer in place for the straight talk xaml. It's just solid all the way around.

Good luck and I hope this helps. Located under Samsung Focus Development. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1528984
[Focus General] FocusHelp:
Thanks I'll install it when I get my focus.. Any beginner's tips for flashing?
[Focus General] DACHEF81:
Happy flashing

Just be patient, make sure you read things through a couple times first and don't be too quick and screw your devices lol This one won't, but I've seen buddies do it. Make sure your contacts and photos are backed via outlook and skydrive or whatever you use, just generally cover your butt. Have Zune downloaded and installed and have your phone charged up a about half way or so. Once you get the hang of it, it's prety simple. Have WinZip or something installed so you can unzip it and the whole thing takes like 10 minutes.
[Focus General] voluptuary:
Thanks for the kind words :)
[Focus General] adi535:
I was a noob just like you and I screwed up big time with m phone :p So after some struggle I was able to get things sorted out. I have prepared a blog post on that. You can refer if you want. Currently Im not able to post the link; you can google for "Unbrick Samsung Focus" and then switch to blogs, first link would be to my blog.
[Focus General] jinxsonu:
Best Focus Roms

Clean Rom and Dynamics rom both are really good and stable rom's. No issues or bugs reported so far.
[LG Optimus 2x] hightmare:
hi i have official stock rom v 30a and i want to have a custom one so i installed rom manager my issue is that when i try to install flash clockworkmod recovery i get the message that my device is not listed what do i have to do?
[LG Optimus 2x] cesarib:
onymolo from

I have the exact same problem, and i cant manually install the recovery either. im in v30a aswell and my pc is running on windows 8. dont know if that might be the issue.
[LG Optimus 2x] SuperSkill:
Rom manager ain't compatible as ics got new bootloader and partition table. Everything's changed now, many gets confused :)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjimenezjj:
As the title says, I'm getting notifications to upgrade my Nexus 7 to 4.2 even though I have 4.2 already. If it were the 4.2.1 update that it wanted me to update to, wound't it say 4.2.1 instead of 4.2?

Info on the device:

Rooted

Bootloader Unlocked

Stock ROM

I went ahead and tried installing the update many times and while it shutdown to do its dirty work, it eventually error-ed out (while the little Android guy is on his back). I have even done a factory reset and I still get the prompts to update to 4.2... from 4.2. Errors are there as well. Thank you for your help.

John J

P.S There are pics
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phonic:
This has been posted about before.

Yes, the 4.2.1 upgrade says "4.2" in the update screen. Your device is trying to go from 4.2->4.2.1.

The upgrade however seems to be failing. Since you are using a stock recovery, there is no indication on what part is stopping it. It could just be a glitch or, more likely, you modified something. Did you install any mods or root and modify any system apps? Freezing them in TiBu/etc. will break it too.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjimenezjj:
I did read other posts but they didn't seem to help.

After I rooted the device, I went ahead and pasted the original browser.apk in the System/App folder and installed it from there. From what I read, that was most likely my problem. I deleted it but still got the error. After that I said "screw this" and applied a data factory reset thinking that would solve my problems :(

Thank you for your reply.

John J
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phonic:
Yes, that modification would certainly break the OTA update.

Doing a factory wipe won't help. That won't revert the old system apk back to stock. Nor will deleting it.

Your best bet is to download the full 4.2.1 image and flash that. Or, you could find and restore the original browser.apk.

This should serve as another reminder to people who make tweaks - always backup the original file!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjimenezjj:
It's not that bad. Everything works fine except for updating the thing. As for the restoring the original browser.apk, if you mean Chrome, I never touched it so it is there.

My guess is that I didn't install the CWM Recovery correctly because I can't boot into Recovery Mode. It just hangs and stays in a loop. I will re-install CWM and see if that helps.

John J
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjimenezjj:
Re-installed CWM Recovery and flashed 4.2.1 from there. Lost everything but I had anything important backup already. All is good :)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] P.Mobile:
im s-off so i flashed the radio firmwear zip in bootloader.. and then i flashed new stock rooted jelly bean rom.. ever since that when i go into display then buttons.. i try and change it so my recent app button is menu.. but not it wont work and before it worked just fine?? go into display then recent app button then choose the middle option 2# one that should make recent app the menu.. worked just fine before:confused:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Riff76:
The menu button on recent apps doesn't work on the home screen. You gotta be in an app or the app drawer for it to work. I know it sucks, takes longer to change skins and wallpapers now
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] P.Mobile:
wow that sucks big time!! why did they change that? it was nice before the way it was.. i hate having to pull the notifaction bar down just to get to menu..:(
[HTC Incredible S] ePYK me.:
Guys, I was looking for hunterwu kernels and I unfortunately landed on this Page. Is that really possible? If that is in Chinese (partial or full) can we ask that guy to port in complete english here?

Will that not reduce the life of the device? Or burn it?:banghead:

OMG
[HTC Incredible S] itsbeertimenow:
It is possible but the lack of stability wouldn't be worth it, not to mention your phone heating up which could cause saulder to melt and short your device.
[HTC Incredible S] poondog:
Raise the voltages and it might be possible. Other than cooking eggs and benchmarking though, it's not a good idea :)

Sent from my Paranoid Nexus 7
[HTC Incredible S] zukri90:
You can open a food stall if your phone is at a very high CPU frequency ;)

Sent from my brain
[HTC Incredible S] poondog:
You still need food supplies and lights.

And, a phone this size isn't big enough to cook anything substantial so you might have a big line of people waiting outside your shop
[HTC Incredible S] ePYK me.:
Got it!
[HTC Incredible S] poondog:
The food?

Sent from my Paranoid Nexus 7
[HTC Incredible S] ePYK me.:
Barbecue.. Lol
[HTC Incredible S] zukri90:
You got hotdogs sizzlin' on her grill..

Sent from my brain
[Asus Transformer TF700] ishamm:
so i (stupidly) installed a stock kernel on the cm10 nightly, without checking which i had downloaded, and am obviously not able to boot. This is after a full wipe as well, so i dont have any roms or kernels on the internal sd. now, i have a dock and sd with a rom on it, but cant access it from CWM recovery, as far as i can tell. i've tried flashing through adb with update, and pushing files to the machine, but neither work. are there any other methods i can try? my brain is somewhat fried and i'm out of ideas :P thanks!

EDIT: i guess a good answer may be to install a img of a cm10 kernel through fastboot? is there anywhere i can get that?
[Asus Transformer TF700] Pretoriano80:
You could flash a CM10 kernel via fastboot and you should be fine.

But usually flashing a full rom from recovery should do the trick because even if you flashed a wrong kernel the recovery shouldn't be affected.

P.S: Use the internal microSD slot instead of the SD slot from the dock.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
No Nandroid backups to save you?
[Asus Transformer TF700] ishamm:
I don't have a micro sd and no backup, did a complete wipe. Is there anywhere I can grab the cm10 default not over clock kernel img? Thanks
[Asus Transformer TF700] buhohitr:
Did you wipe the O/S too?? I suggest you should flash a full rom instead.(not just the kernel)
[Asus Transformer TF700] Pretoriano80:
Just buy a cheap 2GB microSD, download the full CM10 rom (you will find the link in the official CM10 thread) , upload it to the microSD card and then use the custom recovery to install the rom.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Accessories] darksabre_x:
Hey I hadn't seen this posted yet so I figured i'd go ahead.

Power A has a promo going on to celebrate Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour's release with a free controller promo:victory:! (And a copy of the game but let's face it, you know you're more interested in a Bluetooth controller.)

You have to pay S&H and it's for the US only, but I suggest grabbing one. It came out to a little over 5 bucks for me.

Use the promo code "SecretSanta" and you're good.

Only good today. (Well tomorrow till noon cuz they got pounded earlier and took the site down.)

here's the site

http://www.powera.com/Products/MOGA-Mobile-Gaming-System-Android

Enjoy!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Accessories] apristel:
Important Information

The promotion code "SECRETSANTA" could not be applied because the promotion has expired.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Accessories] hramos20:
Not working any more, says the promotion code is expired.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Accessories] darksabre_x:
Yeah I guess they sold out. Sorry thought I'd try to get the message out as quick as I could.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Firehawk_1066:
Jellybean is terrible IMO. USB debugging is always automatically enabled even though I repeatedly turn it off, even if I turn off developer mode it still turns on. My wifi keeps turning on even though I turn it off and disable the sprint connections optimizer. My 3g keeps dropping (never did before the update).....Not to mention a handful of other bugs that I just dont want to deal with. It was clearly rushed and full of bugs. Newer is not always better.

Can anyone point me in the right direction for going back to ICS?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Riff76:
Flash an ics rom
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Abominabel:
My 3G is continuously dropping as well and it's beginning to really upset me.

Sent from my EVO
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] schnergun:
make sure your AUTOMATIC CONNECTIONS are disabled. this is a ****ty thing (imo) that sprint is putting on phones. it will always search for the best 3g, lte, and wifi signal. in doing such it sometimes will drop and then not reconnect always. i work at a service and repair center and you would be suprised how often we just turn that "feature" off and peoples phones work a lot better.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] TaintedByte:
Jellybean does not suck. Please understand the difference between Sense plus carrier bloat and a pure OS experience. That's like saying Windows is horrible because HP put a virus before shipping the PC. Just wanted to make this clear for anyone stumbling here in the future to know why you said what you said.

Now, I had the same problem (just flashed the update to test it out, went back to CM10 right away) but try what schnergun said, it worked for me.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Firehawk_1066:
well IMO jellybean sucks for me.

Is there a stock 2.13.651.1 .ruu somewhere I can run to downgrade?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] swaze:
Go buy a new phone and switch to Verizon :P
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jkt97401:
This update is the best thing that has ever happened to my phone. It's running smoothly, battery life is amazing and I don't find any annoyances within the ROM (after I removed all the bloat).
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] youdug:
Theres a Q and A section where this should be... because its a question.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] funcrusher:
I'm not having any of those problems. How did you update? Less crying and more information on how you got the update and maybe someone can help you.

I'm assuming you were stock, unrooted and took the ota?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] xHausx:
Thread moved to Q&A.

It sounds like you may have flashed over top of a custom ROM, did you try wiping to see if that fixes it for you?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] drlzanej:
I like jelly bean,,,,thats all i gotta say bout thaaat
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Sim-X:
Hard Reset, Fixed
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Firehawk_1066:
Yup...stock, unrooted and took OTA. Honestly I just want to go back to ICS. Can someone tell me if there is a way for me to go back to stock ICS and how to go about doing that?

I found a ruu but I keep getting the error 140 bootloader version error> Does that mean I need to unlock my bootloader in order for me to be able to downgrade?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Sim-X:
Just do an HTC dev unlock don't worry about rooting the stock rom, once you are dev unlocked flash a recovery and flash a rom. Who cares about rooting the new rom if you are just going to flash an ics build anyway. I would still try hard resetting first.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] thefsfempire:
You mean Sense sucks? This isn't "Android". This is "based on Android". Just saying... try CM10 and then say you don't like Jellybean. This is why Android gets a black eye sometimes - these companies think they know better than Google. Ha.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jkt97401:
If the icon for USB Debugging is bugging you that much, just add this to your build.prop file:

persist.adb.notify=0

It will leave USB Debugging enabled but not tell you about it when your USB cable is plugged in.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] NORCALkID:
You cant go back... You are stuck with jellybean unless you unlock the bootloader and flash an ics rom... Thats one of the good things about having an S-OFF device
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tyler.durden:
This right here ^^

Exactly the reason that I never update my phones anymore until a rooting and S-OFF method is found.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] irishgreen:
Is this thread a joke? JB sucks??.. lmao..obviously someone didn't know what they are doing :-X
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Firehawk_1066:
Thanks for the helpful post. Obviously you cannot read so let me say it again. All I did was accept the update on a stock, non rooted phone. There was nothing special for me to not know what I was doing. I just dont like a lot of the changes including the keyboard, and the fact that every time I plug in my phone to charge on my pc I get several windows popping up like when you want to mount your phone as a storage device and no way to stop it. Also the usb debugging crap, and the fact that many stock apps I was able to disable in Ics I cannot disable anymore in jb.

And last I checked my opinion does not need to be validated by you. I don't like jb so it sucks for me. If you like it great, I really don't give a crap.

I came here for help and not your useless opinion.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] o0adam0o:
I know why JB is giving you problems.

Cuz you are rude.

I loooooove the new JB update. Best thing that ever happened to my phone! *Dances around with phone in hand *
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Firehawk_1066:
Another person with a helpful post. Yea I'm rude to people who talk out of their a$$ and say I don;t know what I am doing when didn't read my previous post before making a comment. To me those people are the rude one's
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] scoot0073:
Like the previous poster said.

Htc Dev unlock bootloader.

Then flash a custom Recovery.

Then flash a ICS Rom.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Androidfreakz:
U suck op and you are a cry baby..
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Firehawk_1066:
whatever...your post is as useful as cancer
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Firehawk_1066:
thanks scoot. I am doing that now. IS it necessary to do the recovery? I am only looking to reinstall the stock sprint ruu
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ckoadiyn:
yes ruu wont let you down grade
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Firehawk_1066:
thanks ckoadiyn, unfortunately I am very new to this and I don't know much about this stuff. Would you be so kind as to tell me what program I could use to flash a recovery? I am not rooted, just bootloader unlocked with HTC method and from what I can understand from searches those two are not the same thing.

Do I have to be rooted in order to flash a custom recovery or is the unlocked bootloader enough?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] drmclove69:
Just bootloader flash TWRP and then flash whatever Rom which in ur case an ics one.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] KommodoreHeinz:
You mad bro..

Anyone else see how this guy goes from a raging jerk to the nicest person on the face of the planet?

Take a chill pill.

Oh and by the way, I find the comment about cancer to be very mean, hateful and hurtful. I'm personally dealing with testicular cancer.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Firehawk_1066:
Bro, take a look at the history of people reply's. Do I not have a right to be a jerk to those people who come into my thread and make posts saying JB is so great for them so I have no right to be unhappy with it and that I didn't know what I was doing when I hit the HTC update button?? How rediculous is that? So sorry to have formulated my own opinion oh and there is not way to hit the HTC update button incorrectly when running a completely stock phone.

About the cancer sorry to hear it. I myself am dealing with thyroid cancer, which is why cancer came to mind.

I am not a raging jerk to others who are respectful and think about what they are saying before they say it. I am usually a really nice guy until some idiots spew some unwarranted crap out of their mouths in an effort to put me down for no reason. I will call those people out on it...jerk or not they are bigger jerks.

Everyone else with helpful posts thank you for your help
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Firehawk_1066:
one other question. Will the RUU let me downgrade after I flash a recovery or does it have to be a non RUU rom?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] funcrusher:
Did you ever try a factory reset to see if that clears up any of the issues you're having with JB?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Firehawk_1066:
Yea I did fix the wifi problem. 3G still drops out now and then. But my bigger issues are not really bugs but interface changes and a lot of small changes that were not mentioned in the change log.

Another problem I am having is with Astro File manager. I cannot seem to be able to change the backup directory after the JB update.It just says select file, which I tried directing it to my external SD card but it doesnt see to want to do anything once I am in the directory. Oddly enough if I pick an actual file like a ringtone or a backed up .apk it will select that as my backup directory.

Lots of other small things like this happening since the update and I see in other threads people are having all kinds of issues with Navigation as well as other issues so I know I am not alone.
[HTC One X] ImPeCcAbLE:
Just did a custom rom... installed Renovated 12.1.2..

everything done .. but its been now like 15mins and the rom hasnt booted yet :S .

please reply asap ..

**** scared :(
[HTC One X] dragonesdenano:
Have several options,

Use a nandroid backup

Install another rom

Btw, remeber to flash boot. Img.

Not big issue. Also can enter recovery and charge ur hox. :)

Enviado desde mi HTC One X usando Tapatalk 2
[HTC One X] tomascus:
Probably didn't flash the new firmware
[HTC One X] ImPeCcAbLE:
yup .. didnt do it first .. got it back to my first backup i made :) ..

thankyou buddys xD

I love this forum :)
[HTC One X] ImPeCcAbLE:
one question ppl .. i now have STOCK ROM

when i try to check my CID --shows as --NONE

. so thing is what do i need to do to install Jellybean with a good Custom Rom like Renovate ?
[HTC One X] ShyamSasi:
You may need to run this command

fastboot oem readcid

To find the CID. Try this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1924003 it much easier.
[General Questions and Answers] vance74:
I try to do the upgrade through my system upgrade in About My Phone. My phone is rooted btw. When it downloads the 381mb file it reboots and I get error messages saying it verify package. Can it be done on a Rogers SGH 1747.?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] fbazaldua:
Google Voice Typing is no longer available on the the keyboard for text messaging. The microphone icon is now missing, and under Settings>Language and Keyboard, Google Voice Typing is greyed out and unavailable. Anybody else have this issue? I used this option a lot before updating to JB.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gameaddict8:
Use the apk from android central post
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Robert542:
Its there, its on the right side of the space bar. Long press gives you voice to text
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] fbazaldua:
I'm sorry, but I'm using the Standard (Qwerty) and I don't see anything next to the space bar, and long pressing it does nothing but type multiple spaces.