yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Droid DNA] connexion2005:
I wanted to help shed some light on this subject regarding how things work to achieve the $10 OFF credit. The OP originally came to us asking about a group rate. I then replied, see how much interest there is. He came back with an interested party of 60. I told him, if 60 people purchase there will be a $10 credit per person. However, the way this will work is that you may send in the device for modification just as soon as you would like, but the 60 person tier must be met to maintain this $10 OFF offer. This is to protect us from offering a large incentive based on interest when in reality for all we knew, only 30 people would order. Then we essentially offered a discount based on a number that would never accomplished. I then let the OP know that the way this would work is that we would complete the work and hold the device until the 60 person tier was met. However, at any given point a customer is free to pay the remaining balance at hand to receive the device back quicker and avoid waiting for all 60 to place their order. I informed the OP that the tiers would be structured like this:

15 ORDERS - $2.50 DISCOUNT (CUSTOMER MAY PAY REMAINING BALANCE OF $7.50 TO GET THE DEVICE BACK WITHOUT WAITING FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS)

30 ORDERS - $5.00 DISCOUNT (CUSTOMER MAY PAY REMAINING BALANCE OF $5.00 TO GET THE DEVICE BACK WITHOUT WAITING FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS)

45 ORDERS - $7.50 DISCOUNT (CUSTOMER MAY PAY REMAINING BALANCE OF $2.50 TO GET THE DEVICE BACK WITHOUT WAITING FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS)

60 ORDERS - $10 DISCOUNT (ALL PHONES RELEASED UPON COMPLETION)

This is designed to once again offer the customer a great value but also protect MobileTechVideos from offering a large discount based on an expected number of participants that had no actual obligation to fulfill. I hope this helps for those that didn't know. The biggest issue (not his/her fault) is that the OP has been out of town and unable to keep the thread active with new information in the original post. We will be sending this message to all participants that we have and we have extended the code to work into next Friday for those that would still like to get in on this.

At this moment, we have 21 active participants who have placed orders so only 9 more need to reach the 30 participant tier.

TO THOSE WHO HAVE ASKED ABOUT ORDERING NOW AND SENDING LATER, YOU ARE 100% FREE TO DO THIS AND IT WILL CAUSE NO ISSUE. YOU CAN ORDER AND SEND IN AT ANY TIME IN THE FUTURE WITHOUT ISSUE SO FEEL FREE TO DO SO IF YOU'D LIKE TO PARTICIPATE AND HELP OUT YOUR OTHER USERS WHO ARE WAITING ON YOU TO PLACE AN ORDER.

You may call in at 657-444-JTAG anytime if you'd like to check on your order status.

TO ANY XDA MODERATOR, THIS IS SIMPLY US REACHING OUT TO SHED SOME LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT AND NOT A MATTER OF ADVERTISEMENT. IF YOU FEEL IT IS, I INVITE YOU TO REMOVE THE POST/THREAD.

Thanks,

-Josh
[HTC Droid DNA] badogg:
Thanks for the update. I hope you didn't take my post as a complaint as it was not intended. I completely understood your position and agree with it and just wanted to make sure that everyone else was aware that their device was going to be held until the 60 was met or they had the option to pay the additional fee to get it shipped out. You guys are totally reasonable with your pricing, even at 45.00. :highfive:
[HTC Droid DNA] alikaz:
I would totally be in on this but my old phone is a full sim card cdma, so I would need to deal with vz just to switch to a backup phone.... My $20 pledge for a full software unlock is still in effect, and I'm about to up it to $50 :)
[HTC Droid DNA] badogg:
I had to do that with my Rezound too. Just went in, told her that I wanted to switch to my rezound and they gave me a new sim card for nothing and took care of the activation.

It was painless and free. So I'd say - just do it. ;)
[HTC Droid DNA] alikaz:
I have seriously been considering it, I just hate dealing with the vz employees bs. But yea, the weekend is here, maybe I'll reconsider...
[HTC Droid DNA] djwishbone:
I had no idea the phones were going to be held. That really should of been MUCH more up front. I hope my phone is shipping asap as I believe we are all square money wise at this point. Perhaps it was something I missed. I've never seen a group buy on any other forum that consists of holding property until some sort of goal is achieved. It's not that I don't understand your position on the matter, I just felt that it was a bit confusing. --see post 95, and my response at 97 as examples, those probably got buried though by the other chatter. Issuing a code that works ($10 off) under such confusion and then charging more later may perhaps elicit some negative responses.

If I may make a future suggestion. It may be better to make a retroactive code and issue refunds? That way everyone gets their devices back and then will receive a refund based on total participation. If nothing else everyone should have been told not to send in their devices until the group buy number was reached and paid for.
[HTC Droid DNA] danjull:
Money has been a little tight, but with all the ROMs popping up I might have to fire up the old droid x for a week and get the DNA unlocked. Revolt is calling my name!
[HTC Droid DNA] accord91lx:
If I paid for expedited shipping, would my device still be held? If so, how do I go about paying the remaining balance so I dont have to deal with a hold? Thanks.
[HTC Droid DNA] v335690:
I too was unaware the phones were going to be held. I posted what was told to me. Sorry for the confusion. I'll try to get with them today and see what is up. :eek:
[HTC Droid DNA] wakkadojo:
I have to say, I was EXTREMELY upset when they notified me that my phone was being held ransom. Especially since they did not indicate ANYWHERE that those were the terms to the group deal. Never MTV, never again. I'll pay the extra 10 bucks to use a local JTAG service.
[HTC Droid DNA] badogg:
I wouldn't put it that way. The only iffy part was not notifying that term and I'm sure it was just an oversight in that regard. Honestly, I think it sucks more that a lot more people didn't keep their pledge to get in on it and made it an issue. If people did what they said they were going to do there would have been enough people participating where this wouldn't even have come up. I mean, all the people saying "yep, I'll.do it" and there only being 21 people doing it is worse IMO.
[HTC Droid DNA] cstrife999:
Not really. They should have notified... In all reality that's pretty shady...
[HTC Droid DNA] trickster2369:
I tend to agree 100%. This was a great idea/offer from MTV. Its the integrity of some that is the issue here, nothing shady from MTV. IMO.

Sent from my Nexus 10
[HTC Droid DNA] cstrife999:
I agree to a point, but lacking full disclosure is shady. It's like you buying an item and them telling you later after payment you can't have it till they decide you can. It's not a good business practice and should have been disclosed. It's a mistake regardless in the way of business.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] phnord:
Before making assumptions and dismissing this thread, please read the following. There are a few recent threads asking what you're favorite custom ROMs are -- but that's not what I'm looking for here.

I'm looking to have a better understanding of the differences between the variety of ROMs that grace the development section of these forums. Clearly there are quite a few popular choices out there, but to someone who is not up to date on Android development it is hard to understand what benefits one would have over another. Many seem to have fairly similar feature sets, and the differences that are apparent often are meaningless to someone who has no recent point of reference.

Thus, what I am asking for here are informative comparisons / reviews that explain what you like about various ROMs - the differences between and benefits of their feature sets.

So, who wants to start? I would, but I'm using a really outdated ICS rom that I'm fairly dissatisfied with - hence my desire to see some thoughts on what's currently out there :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] phnord:
[MENTION=471147]shayne[/MENTION]

Please actually read what I wrote before quoting me.

I'm specifically not looking for people to list their favorites. I am specifically asking people to compare the featuresets of the ROMs and explain which they find useful. There's nothing, whatsoever, critical nor disrespectful about that. And it has not been done before - not in any of the threads I've seen.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] shayneflashindaily:
ok well we shall see how it leads then....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ZacksBuilds:
This thread will most likely be closed.... Anyways, I enjoy SuperNexus by Jamie because it is a stock nexus experience, amazing battery life (I under clocked), and buttery smooth performance. I highly suggest this for people who like stripped stock ROMs.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] phnord:
I really am at a loss as to why people have such a problem with this thread. Again,

I'm not asking which ROM is better!

I'm trying to start a thread comparing the features of each. It's very, very confusing and overwhelming to go through pages upon pages of Custom ROMs and try to understand what differentiates them, when the vast majority look fairly identical to the layperson. Hence, a thread elaborating on the differences between various ROMs and explaining the reasons why one might choose one over another is called for - - is it not??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ZacksBuilds:
Because Devs are here because they work hard and share their work. They are not obligated to do so. Comparing to roms to others is a big disrespect. Hence why all the other comparison threads are closed.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] phnord:
I can see how asking for qualitative opinions on which ROM is better would be disrespectful. That is not what I'm doing!

I am simply asking to compare the features that different ROMs have so-as to understand what makes one different from another, and thereby understand them better. I have edited the OP to better reflect this. I don't see how that could possibly be construed as disrespectful.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ZacksBuilds:
I don't care what you do I was just saying that this might get closed after all the other ones that were opened. Its ok calmer.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] StaticMatt:
Have you not read the 1st post of any of the ROM threads? Every single 1st post of every single ROM thread answers your question about what features each ROM has. Read them and if possible flash the ROM. Doesn't take long to try a ROM out and seen if ya like it or not.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] shayneflashindaily:
Thank you I made my point !!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] oka1:
From the moderator

OK Phnord, there is no good way to get people to read your thread objectively....... That is unfortunate ....... because of the nature of the subject everyone just thinks this is a "best rom" thread, which it is not..... But that said most people would rather troll than read.

The easiest way to do comparisons in XDA is to take the op showing what bloat was removed and what features are included in the Rom.... then copy and paste either into a excel sheet or a word doc and then you can make a side by side comparison. The other stuff that outside input would be helpful, (as you see)...... appears to be too much to ask for in this thread.

I do not see the members behaving we respect in this thread so this is the last post, but I hope I helped you get your answers and let this be known the trolls were cited for trolling.....

Thanks ~~~ oka1

......................THREAD CLOSED............
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
Hello everyone

I have in my possession a Bricked Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100, tried to restore as I usually Firmware via Odin with i9100XXKL1 reaching only to the kernel. Can anyone give me a hand?

I've tried with Odin 3.4 coming to the same result, I changed the USB cable (all I have are originals), I tried on 3 computers, all with the same result.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Christian Nothing:
1. Dude You posted in wrong section :p

2. Can you describe more your problem :confused:

3. I suggest you to post in Q&A section . There you'll find more help.;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
I have left the following message when you turn on the phone after wanting to upgrade "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies and try again" (is the explanation that a friend gave me, the team is his, I thought I could give him a hand and he had had a similar situation on my Galaxy S2, which solved .)

As I have already downloaded firmware, full package proceeded to try to flash it with ODIN reaching it in the picture, then odin and not advance, usually gives error, but more than that I failed.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
I can't see the pictures you posted but i'm pretty sure there's a couple of threads that can help you sort this one out.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
Images

Can you see now?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Download the ROM again.

Why gingerbread?

And kill all 4 kies applications.

What model you got there?

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
The rom works, because just last night a Galaxy S2 i9100 unlock using the same firmware file to edit the nv_data.bin and it worked without problems, is version 2.3.6 ...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
I have several Roms, and none reaches the end of the flash. Help please.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Reinstall kies and try another usb port cable and kill the anti virus while you at it.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
I think Kies is not the problem because I tried on 3 different computers, and also tried on all ports of each computer.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
How about the cable then?

Odin versions?

You can't get a corrupted nand outta the blue.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
The cable is perfect, odin 3 v1.85
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Android_Raj:
Bricked Phone

Is there a way to recover your bricked phone or it becomes a useless junk waste.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
I too would love to know ...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Try other odin versions.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
I'm try latest Odin version and not change...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Ok Carlos, how about siyah?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] immortalneo:
@OP:

Time to start over again. There must be something wrong in what you are doing.

Here is a checklist of stuff to try when Odin flash fails:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25731280&postcount=4

Please try each and all, and see if u can flash successfully. :)

"To err is human, to forgive is divine"

Sent from my SGS II
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
I think the problem is not in the kernel, not yet tried the siyah but use those he had used earlier in my Smartphone ...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
Thank you very much! When I got home I try ...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
It's not about the kernel nor the ROM, it's about flashing anything onto your device succesfully.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
And what do you suggest? It can not be ..:(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
New Test

I just try this tutorial:

GINGERBREAD VERSION

1) You have to know the basics of ODIN and flashing (duh )

2) Just to be safe, please uninstall Samsung KIES. It usually interferes when flashing with ODIN. You must have the USB drivers from your phone, so don't uninstall them. Only uninstall the program KIES.

Just in case you don't have them, here are the Samsung USB drivers

3) Download ODIN, the tool that we'll use to flash all the things into our beloved Galaxy S II

4) Download the necessary files : the Recovery Package/ROM (password is samfirmware.com), the Kernel (password is intratech@XDA) and the Bootloader.

5) You must have WinRAR to unRAR the Recovery Package and to unzip ODIN.

You can also use 7zip, as sugested by jermitano

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1457458

Change the Kernel in image...not work :crying:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
Any suggestions?

I honestly do not know what to do so I asked for help ... I would not let this powerful smartphone not working.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
I managed to flash the bootloader, the restart is in the same place, I restart in download mode, flash in Odin attempt with 3 different firmwares with the same result.

Could it be hardware failures Galaxy S2?

When connecting the USB to the smartphone off, I get the message, which was not happening with many failed attempts ...

Firmware upgrade Encountered, an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
As I see the problem is in Nand corruption, began to perform the steps:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1457458

- Flashing Bootloader, this worked.

- Flashing Kernel, and did not work :(

With the PIT archive i checked Repartition and odin stopped in Set Partition.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
So you've flashed a pit file?

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
Yes, in other samsung Galaxy S2 work
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Can you still get into download mode?

If so you may have a shot.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
Whenever I enter download mode. Just never flash operation completes.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
post a screen on where it stops in odin.

See if changing usb ports it gets stucked at the same process.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
This is...

Desde mi Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100

Stock Jelly Bean 4.1.2

Philz Kernel

GALAXY S4 Weather Mod
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Try flashing jb leak.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
Ok... Try again... Thank you...

In ICS and Leaked JB test not work :(

Desde mi Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100

Stock Jelly Bean 4.1.2

Philz Kernel

GALAXY S4 Weather Mod
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
New

Hello everyone.

I keep trying to revive the Samsung Galaxy S2:

- Odin 3 v1.83 and v1.85 with same result

- Siyah Kernel v5.0.1-s2-half apparently works because the binary counter increases.

- With and without PIT

- Flash with Bootyloader successful, but I can not flash the firmware and kernel.

there is little change in Odin, which did not happen before.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
All points to nand corruption. I would try flashing on every pc available to me (family, gf, friends, neighbor, etc).

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
It would be the only option?

I tried on 2 computers working with Windows XP and Windows 7, my Netbook with Windows 7 ... the notebook lend another friend to try too, thank you very much.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
You've already flashed a pit file so y guess flashing another pit file could work.

Keep in mind that if your nand is corrupted you'll lose aome internal storage (2-4 gb) or it would brick your device for good.

You need to either try to flash a ROM on all the pc/laptop you can get your hands on or just start considering a mobo change and start flashing pit files to see if any flash goes thru till you brick it.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
Where I can get some PIT file that you know that works?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Well, there's no way of knowing what's the right pit file because we don't know what section of your internal memory is bad (assuming that it's indeed corrupted). You would have to blindly flash one and see if you hit the prize.

I suggest you give a day to read about pit files and other users experience on this regard.

Who knows, maybe you'll get lucky.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
Uff ... I am just looking for other options to keep trying, I found accidentally changed one pit file 8GB, which I doubt that has passed since the owner of this Samsung just knows how to use ...

I got the PIT from http://www.4shared.com/folder/4FAKzjbu/odin.html

Getting Nothing ... beginning to be considered as a paperweight.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Jtag?

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
As the JTAG, is for when the phone will not turn on at all, in my case turns on but does not advance, but just think it would be a good alternative., because in my country hardly get it, I'll have to buy it from ebay or something ...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
See if you can get your hands on a 'donor phone', you only need the nobo.

These phones are not that expensive in paraguay.

The other alternative is to get one from argentina, with their peso bei g so f*cked up, s2's cost from 200 dollars to 300.

See if alamaula site has got some broken devices.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
I'll see these options, remember that a friend had one with imei damaged that they could not recover, I'll go consult those options I see there are no alternatives.:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Give your pal a call, offer him a bottle of johnny red in exchange for his 600 buck mp3 player :p

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krlosalvarenga:
:p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p

Thank you so much friend, thanks for spending your time in helping...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rrichards:
hi guys

i've a serious problem with mobile network.

Pratically i compared my s4 with an s2 the same mobile network (WIND ITALY) and results that i haven't connection while the s2 has connection.

The asu are very differents, For example, in that moment on the same table, the s2 has 16 asu and the s4 3-4 asu (without connection)

what kind of problem could be? hardware? modem? i've the official fw mdm no brand

this picture contains all what i said.

I hope in a very usefull answer!!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rrichards:
up
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krokis:
Same problem with "Simyo Spain"

I got a Octa core gt-i9500 international version, imported from America.

The phone network working perfect, but some times signal drop to 0 and loss conection.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rrichards:
i've take my phone to assistence.

Hoping well
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krokis:
I solved my problem.

I change a option in simcard services, select "Roaming National" and now work perfect. No more loss network :)

Enviado desde mi GT-I9500 usando Tapatalk 2
[Milestone XT720 General] Zohidjon:
Hello friends !!! I've installed CM9 on motorola milestone xt720 korean . Sim card didn't work before installing. It was factory flash android version.

But sim card doesn't work after installing. What can I do?
[LG Optimus 2x] faizul134:
I want to install p990 stock rom ics 4.04 in su660. because of 80 word sms problem & 3g use problem in Bangladesh. How to install p990 stock rom in su660? anyone pls help :'(
[LG Optimus 2x] ndmuni:
Try this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2173094
[LG Optimus 2x] faizul134:
this is not the official p990 ics rom