yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] raptoro07:
You need to search better.
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] bishoprnpb:
there is a "giude to flashing" in one of these theads that is specific to the htc herald which is the name for you "wing" i thing you might find it under "wiki htc herald " you can probably google it. it is a step by step guide. hope that helps.
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] husker91:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=358225 and http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=358615 goodluck
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] apreichner:
I apologize now for the lack of clear answers, and I understand your frustration, even if you did search and read those pages. Sometimes for newbs they can be a bit difficult to understand, and they were for me too, so I'll tell you how in newb language and provide the tools necessary.

First things first, you need to download the folder im going to provide you. Save the zip to your desktop and extract it. Now the fun begins.

1. Drag and extract the .nbh file you downloaded from JustHome and place it inside the RUU folder located inside of the MyFirstRom folder.

2. Turn your phone to flight mode. You can do this in the Comm Manager found in your Connection Settings.

3. Next make sure your phone is connected to your computer and you have Activesync (Win XP) or Mobile Device Center (Vista or Windows 7) connected with a green light.

4. Execute the application Herald-USPL (located in the MyFirstRom folder).

5. Wait for it to verify, press Enter. Wait for it to load SPL, PDA screen will go white at about 70 percent. If it doesn't and it hangs on a tux logo with a little command prompt (on the phone, sometimes this happens.) don't worry and just reset and try again.

6.If everything is successful and the PDA screen is white, press Enter and it'll launch the RUU installer application on your computer.

7. Follow the instructions, Press the Update button when it asks you what ROM you are installing. It should show some version number. Press Next, and it'll start flashing. It will say it will take 10 minutes, it'll go faster than that. After it's finished, the PDA will automatically reset to the new RUU.

If you experience any problems

, don't panic, Soft Reset your device by pushing the stylus into the small whole next to the volume slider. If the phone goes into an endless reset, don't panic... Hard reset your phone by pressing holding the two soft-keys (keys with lines located above the Windows key and Ok key) while pressing the sylus into the reset hole. Release the soft keys while still holding reset and then release the reset. It will come up with a screen telling you you are being set to factory settings, press the Send key. (Green phone key)

I know you asked about HardSPL, but for the purpose of this ROM and some others, you won't need it. I prefer USPL because there's not a very easy way to brick your phone. If something goes terribly wrong, generally you can just Hard Reset and its all better.

Good luck, and I'm not liable for any damage to your phones OS or hardware, blah...
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] bishoprnpb:
that was cool of you to take the time and post all that.wish i had that all explained to me when i started messin around.
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] apreichner:
Yeah, I just recently got started after buying a Wing a few weeks ago on E-Bay. I understand the frustration, and frankly I feel bad for new people... A lot of these threads are so out-dated now, and no one seems to want to help new people any more, with the exception of maybe Ivan who is working on a whole cooking guide. And the past instructions can get a little fuzzy. Even on the second post of Ivan's instructions it says to ask questions if you don't understand, but it seems like questions are just getting answered with more and more links to sites like Google.
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] pungcheer:
Thank for step by step

Now I flash my dopodC800 to ITsPapablack but every time I reset, it's not show SPL

today I will flash again to "gulllums Touchflo2D II"

can I use same step?
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] quicksite:
What's the fastest way to get specific help at User forums?

You are right that many MANY threads are now obsolete, or have conflicting language & directions. Can I suggest that you edit your post to give it an explanatory title, so that it can be indexed by the search engine of this site, as well as by google? That way others may find your very post, which helps them bridge the gaps.

COMMENTARY:

That was good of you to take the time to help. In truth though, many many people help similarly. One of the problems is that the site serves so many different model phones, and so many ROM variations, that the site Admins really try (emphasis on TRY !) to segregate the "I need help with xxxxxx, please help!" threads to their new "Questions and Answers" forum, and keep each phone's ROM threads free of any threads that are not USER CONTRIBUTIONS to "hacking & development".

The problem is circular, though. I'm an information designer so I am often amazed that sometimes site "veterans" forget very easily the idea that for a new user "you don't know what you don't know until you get your toes wet"... then you get slapped around for not following the rules. But at same time, many many new users will pay no attention at all to a very long established culture that is evident in almost every User-to-User forums and bulletin boards on the web/internet... which is:

But, as I say, a very circular problem, because all across the web most Forum category listings on Forum sites are very badly information-designed... generally too cumbersome to read first before a User feels overwhelm, which then flips the User's mental switch from "keep scanning down this really long list" to "Jesus, I'll spend more time here just figuring out WHERE to post than it takes to get a simple answer to a simple question."

It's more than a 2-way street with User and Community. It's more like a traffic jam at rush hour on a complex freeway interchange. Moral of the story is, it's impossible to know "intent" of a poster who answers a request for help with "use search" or just posts a link or two. Sometimes they really truly are giving someone the fastest exit ramp to their desired destination. It just takes too long to qualify such statements.

And yes, at same time there are examples every day of very inconsiderate people bashing newbies in unnecessarily cold ways.

And look how long this "meta" comment is -- which tries to bring a fuller perspective to the problem! Sometimes it's a wonder at all that so many people with so many phones are, every day, able to get so much help customizing their phones down to very specific solutions -- and all for free. Seen it that light, it's a miracle of cooperation! :)
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] apreichner:
Yes.

Yeah... I'll explain my point of view in the other forum, seeing as how this is the ROM development forum, and post a link.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=3836096#post3836096
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] raptoro07:
I was able to figure it out on my own with no posts, just searching. I've never had a problem.
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] DestructDez1:
Yes.Yes.Yes. Every noob situation is different as many already have the concept of a "list" and its purpose. The problem I see everyday is that new people never read the rules. I know I didnt, but I already understood why there iwas even a list. Its too be read and understood that noob questions do not go where it says "This forum is only meant fro ROM issues and ROM development." Its why the admins get fed up. Its really the responsibility of the poster to be informed about where to post on a forum. Even is there is 3 million forums (yes i know its overwhelming at first) there is only 4 subcategories. Read the rules. If you get lost and dont know what to do. Read the rules. Even if you dont get your answer, at least you'll learn to appreciate when someone posts in the correct place. Now im getting worked up on this. To conclude. The poster was very lucky to receive such nice answers to his question.

If only more people had that quality in them the world would be a better place.
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] apreichner:
My point is not to say the information isn't here already, my point is to say the information isn't as clear, as updated, and easily accessible as it could be. If I had my way, you would have a forum specially devoted to Tutorials. And on that tutorial forum you would have a giant sticky that says, "The Complete Idiots Guide on Flashing" (emphasis on complete). It wouldn't give you links to like 20 different libraries of dictionary definitions, wikis, and other guides. It would be like a picture book with easily seen pictures of each step. Who knows we could make it rhyme and it would be like Dr.Seus for nerds. I think after my Complete Cab Collection is finished, I'll work on such a page.

The point is: Herald and Herald Mobile 6 are a little redundant. Why do we need both? What is the point? I read the rules and the forum FAQ and all of that, and I'm not finding an answer to the usefulness of having both. And unfortunately, where are the mods during all of this? From what Ivan says, they aren't taking applications for Mods, but they probably should be. Just look at how long this post is able to get in this thread and you'll see my point.

True eventually you find an answer after reading through 8-10 posts, 2-4 wikis, 3-6 google searches, and 8-10 panic attacks after doing a bad rom attempt. Does it really have to be this way?
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] ivanmmj:
I've been trying to get stuff like this set up. I'm trying to become a mod for partially this reason.

I HAVE posted a complete guide on flashing, but it needs a little updating. The thing about all this is that it's not a business. A bunch of people (like me) read and read and read and gather data from one place and another and put it together to make something useful for our phones. The problem is, being that it's a forum, no one really wants to have to sit there and dedicate hour after hour to just writing out tutorials, when people like me, the ones who have that knowledge already, spend hours and hours and hours making ROMs for everybody else.

Trust me, I've been pushing the whole redundancy issue for a while already. They do have a lot of mods, but none of them really work the Herald forum due to the fact that it's an old device with little to no traffic as compared to the other phone forums.

There IS one great positive aspect to doing it this way. On the way to learn what you THINK you need to learn, you end up learning what you TRULY need to learn accidently. We live in a society where everyone wants the answers right away and to not understand the context. Sometimes, the context is more important than the answers. Searching in this manner forces the context on you before you reach an answer.
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] apreichner:
I agree, not everyone can do everything at once. You have done a pretty good job, but you have a life, and a wife, so you can't keep up all of that plus doing your ROMs, plus writing out Tutorial after Tutorial. Maybe that's why you have unmarried people like me here who can complain and write up cab collections at the same time :) . If only we had a female moderator, this forum would be spotless, and she could yell at dumb people at the same time.

I guess that's true, maybe it kind of disappoints me seeing as how I didn't get the Wing too long ago. And what does it hurt adding someone as a Mod... It's not like they are paying you.

I agree that searching forces the context. However, I also think it's possible to put the context together for people. You're right, society is content on finding what we want right away. However, what about the ordinary people who don't really want to dive so in depth into a pool of XDA Development. Should they not be given the right to flash a ROM to a phone, seeing as how it's pretty simple to do now. For people like me... Computer Science Majors... I love learning this context and don't mind the research, but not everyone is exactly like me or you.
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] Zaknafein21:
I think everybody should know what he is doing before he´s trying to do it.

They have to know at least about the things that can happen.

In the last weaks dozens of users had bricked their phone´s by not reading, if there wasn´t the goldcard.

I don´t like the idea of people that come to this Forum, get everything served on silver plates and leave again without giving something back to the community.

I developed nothing by myself but at least i read the threads, try to help others when i can with answers or testing their work and give feedback.

There are countless threads and user´s that proof my point.
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] apreichner:
Of course they should know what could happen. But it doesn't take a whole lot of threads to tell you the risks, it takes a paragraph, maybe two at most. Just read the back of a bottle of sleeping pills. There are more risks to taking those and yet they fit them in the space the size of an inch, maybe an inch and a half. And if things were organized, it would be like, "If these happen, see this thread." and there's a thread full of problems and solutions. And at the bottom, "If you cannot find your problem, try Searching. Recommend using Google XDA search, because normal XDA search sucks balls."

I have seen the posts of people who have bricked their phone. Although, in my opinion, this can be as much to blame as them not reading, as the material is not easily presented. It also doesn't help that organization has ceased to exist...

My idea was not to hand everything on a silver platter, either way, you have to read something or else you'll screw up... My idea is to take the information already available, revise it, update it, and make it easily available. Rather than hidden on page 2, 3, 4, 5. I'm thinking since there are no mods available to come Sticky some of these really important things on pages 2, 3, 4, and 5... I might just bump them all.

To me, all of this is far from being handed on a silver platter... But perhaps if you are unhappy with gratuity, just don't do anything at all here, instead of expecting more... Leave it to the people who are happy with and feel good about receiving thanks. It reminds me of some guy calling to get support and all he is is directed to an automated service, sometimes you just WANT to hear a human voice for once in your miserable support seeking life...
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] ivanmmj:
The problem is that most new users expect the busy people who already create everything to put together something that would take hundred of man hours for them. Someone has to do it, but unfortunately, I'm too busy to do it. Someone has to step up to the plate of becoming the researcher and write up some nice walkthroughs, properly formatted. I tried doing that for a while, but people ignored those posts and still spammed the forums with the same questions over and over. If we can get some good walkthroughs and a general (here's the links for everything), I'm sure we can get it stickied... but again, it's the responsibility of the new person to read the sticky. Although a lot of new people won't read them, at the very least, it will help those who WANT to try to search. ^_^
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] apreichner:
My point exactly. Thank you Ivan.
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] Zaknafein21:
That´s not what i was trying to say!

I try to help and would help to start the walkthrough threads but i don´t think this would help. The Stickys allready there aren´t bad especially this sticky

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=369397

I am not frustrated about the done work, i am frustrated about lazy users.

If my point wasn´t clear i think i have to blame my limitited english.

Agree.
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] apreichner:
It's dissapointing that one person I recently met just bricked his phone because USPL doesn't work correctly on Windows 7 x64... I bet you wont find that on the stickys, or at all for that matter. My point wasn't that the information already there wasn't good enough, it was that its not updated enough, and the updated information is not easy to find.
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] ivanmmj:
The people who cook (me) don't use Windows 7 so we can't warn ahead of time.
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] apreichner:
I wasn't trying to offend the cooks. You are doing an awesome job, but I think the problem is the people who feel that nothing needs to change. Something should change... Not to hand everything on a silver platter, but to make the information they need more easily available.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] nicola_it:
Hi everyone (sorry for my English): maybe it's something known, but when i turned on my HTC Magic holding "volume -" button, a new menu has appeared.

SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S.ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0004 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-2.22.19.261
Apr 9 2009, 23:20:40

HBOOT

<BACK> FastBoot Mode

(the led has a beautiful blue color...)

Sso I've tried to press some button. When I've pressed the trackball for some seconds something changed and some text appered, like loading some ".zip" files.

Pressing the <back> button (the usb cable connected to a vista pc) "FASTBOOT USB" appeared and vista asked me for the driver (Android 1.0) that I've found in the 1.5 framework directory.

Hoping those information are useful (and my English is human-readable...).

Thank you for reading ;-)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] testing567:
YOU FOUND FASTBOOT!!! Which could be the key to gaining root on the magic. I'm a G1/Dream user. Fastboot is a very convenient feature that allows you to directly flash the phone through USB. On the G1, the phone ships without Fastboot capabilities. I needed to root the phone first and then install a Fastboot capable SPL. If the magic ships with Fastboot installed, then it is completely possible to install a custom recovery.img console directly to the /recovery partition.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ronylicha:
nice play dude (U are french no?)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] avimak:
Yeah, but what next? we must get this root access!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] pdagenius:
I can confirm I also get the same thing. In addition if you press the <Back> button to go to FastBoot mode (no USB cable connected) you get another menu:

<Vol Down> HBoot Mode

<Send> Reset Device

<Action> Restart to HBoot

<Menu> Power Down

I did not have a USB cable connected, but will try this later when I get home.

Having been on the Fast Boot screen, pressing the <Vol Down> takes you back to where you started except that pressing the <Back> button for 2/3 secs and releasing causes the phone to check the SD card.

"SD checking...." and proceeds to look on the SD card for several image files. Sorry it happens a little too quickly to register what the files are.

Hoping this is useful to those in the know :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] duffnut:
it actually checks the sd card without you holding down "back", it just takes a while to start doing it.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ronylicha:
i receive my sapphire tonight from france i will try this !!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ronylicha:
it's workinggggg
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] angelsanges:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-02 H

HBOOT-1.33.0008 (SAPPH10000)

CPLD-12

RADIO-3.22.20.17

Apr 29 2009,02:28:53

HTC Sapphire TIM Italy
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] buffet:
Seems like everything in TIM version is newer than Vodafone. Could you try this command from Terminal to see how much RAM you have?

cat /proc/meminfo |grep -i memtotal
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Draxter:
HTC Magic Vodafone Netherlands

SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G

HBOOT-1.33.0004 (SAPP10000)

RADIO-2.22.19.26I

Apr 9 2009,23:30:40
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] T1B0:
meminfos

I just updated the connectbot app and get the virtual keyboard support, so there the cat /proc/meminfo on my french sfr sapphire :

$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal : 98920 kB
MemFree : 2128 kB
Buffers : 12 kB
Cached : 22088 kB
SwapCached : 0 kB
Active : 77064 kB
Inactive : 6684 kB
SwapTotal : 0 kB
SwapFree : 0 kB
Dirty : 0 kB
WriteBack : 0 kB
AnonPages : 61672 kB
Mapped : 14676 kB
Slab : 6416 kB
SReclaimable : 800 kB
SUnreclaim : 5616 kB
PageTables : 3604 kB
NFS_Unstable : 0 kB
Bounce : 0 kB
WriteBackTmp : 0 kB
CommitLimit : 49460 kB
Commited_As : 996288 kB
VmallocTotal : 155648 kB
VmallocUsed 64232 kB
VmallocChunk : 65532 kB
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] brosen:
Currently I am running the stock version R1, Thanks
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] poetryrocksalot:
R2A Rom is less buggy than R1A just upgrade to R2A and stay away from the UK R3A.
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] nik40:
Couldn't agree more about R3, however, the one posted is almost certainly - although not mentioned- a beta version. I had to downgrade back to R2
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] michaelthemage:
Did you get the 'taken' memory back with downgrading to R2?

The R3 cost me about 9MB !

Look in Settings/Memory/ storage went from 277.x down to 268.51MB. So what do you now have?
[XPERIA X1 General] Euroman28:
Hi own both a S/E C905 and a S/E X1i and the funny thing is even with the new firmware for X1 we still don't have geotagging for the X1 eventhough I paid 1000 USD for the X1 and only 500 USD for the C905...

Here is my youtube vids of it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVawNLN8-ws (part1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SAF8l94rs4&feature=channel_page (part 2)
[XPERIA X1 General] Rudegar:
you can't really compare x1 with other sonyE phones as sonyE can only do minor changes to wm on x1 where they got piles of control on symbian or whatever os they use on other devices
[XPERIA X1 General] artesea:
Well I have geo-tagging on my X1
[XPERIA X1 General] xudo:
Geotag is in the beta release of r3aa I suppose, with other new stuff? It's not in the official release though.
[XPERIA X1 General] Euroman28:
I know its the cab formally known as R3A camera file. That camera adds a gps coordinat tag to a picture using GPS reciever (not A-gps). But neither GMAP 2.0 or GMAP 3.0 on the X1 can read these coordinants like G Map can on C905.

So that isn't "real" geotagging feature in my opinion.
[XPERIA X1 General] artesea:
Sorry, to me Geotagging is marking the EXIF with the Lat/Long. Just because the WM Google Maps application doesn't read it doesn't mean the phone doesn't have Geotagging.

Upload the pics to Flickr or Picass and you'll see the location.
[XPERIA X1 General] Fr@:
Yeah, I totally agree with you.

Euroman28, have you tried itje's ROM (ot other ROMs) with Topaz Camera? That Camera has the Geotagging feature too.
[XPERIA X1 General] slavyan5:
I have the new X1 ROM, and I see the satellite when I start the camera and I wait for the waves to show up so that I know it has locket, but when I take the picture, how do I see these coordinates afterwords. I couldn't find them anywhere.

And what software do I use to read them. I tried Picasa, but when I open the picture, there is a Geotag button underneath it, but it doesn't show me the location, but ask to add one.

So when I take a picture, with what software and how do I see this picture on the place on Earth that I took it??? :confused:
[XPERIA X1 General] jackleung:
Couldn't agree more. In fact, there is HTC footprint to do the same thing on X1 too.
[XPERIA X1 General] slavyan5:
Am I the only one who can't see the geo tag. Please, can someone answer my question.
[XPERIA X1 General] slavyan5:
Please guys, can someone help me use my geotagging too. Can someone answer the question I asked, please.
[XPERIA X1 General] Gonzo_x1:
Hi everybody,

i've got the same problem. I am not able to get my photos geo-tagged by the camera. I've got the latest firmware update (R3AA007), but there is still no geo-tagging support. I've developed a simple windows app to read lang/long from exif, but it failed. I've also uploaded the photo to flickr, but there is just no geo-tagging.

I am really pissed off, because i've spend 600 euros for a device that has built in gps, but doesn't support geo-tagging. I will certainly not buy the successor and spend another 600 euros, just for some very trivial software changes.