yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pshadey:
Im not so sure thats the best approach.. Why is such a big deal that a so called noob ask questions, to ensure that he or she doesn't screw there phone up. And i agree if they would just do some research and read stickies,etc. then they would learn something. But if their noobs, then they are probably noobs to the site, and lets face it although this is by far the best forum available for android development its not the easiest to navigate for NOOBS. And if noobs posting noob questions pertaining to android development means that the forum & Community strengthen, then so be it. And Cbowely lets face it some of todays noobs will be tom elite developers, and they are who we depend on.....
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uwonsum:
If you want root, you will need a shovel, and have to dig and careful not to break the stems. lol, i could not resist.

"root is the user name or account that by default has access to all commands and files on a Linux or other Unix-like operating system. It is also referred to as the root account, root user and the superuser. "

Assuming you are coming from Windows OS environment, Root is like the Administrator account.

How can you get it? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=442480
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmon777:
I am noob. Most of my post are thanks for this. Awsome thing that made my phone run better. Or if I have a slight issue with somthing I may post a qestion. And I have had a thread locked befor...that thought was a good qestion but lokking back it wasnt ... but anyways.

I would like see a noob section. I basicaly leech off of this site and if I could help some noobs out I would be more than happy to so the real devs could get stuff done and work stuff out.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CBowley:
I am not saying that noobs asking questions is a bad thing, but I DO think there COULD be a better place for it than the developer section. I do believe the noobs would actually get help in the noob section because some people like helping noobs out. I know I would as well as a lot of other people I see in threads that help out noobs, I believe those type of people would enjoy helping the noobs.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robbie725:
Damn I can't believe that I am posting here because I don't want no Enemies, I have gotten tremendous help from this forum, not only with making my phone 100 times better but I also gained a boat load of knowledge in the process. I am not one that would start a thread unless I was at the last possible step I could be after long hours of reading and reading and seraching and through this process I have even been able to help out others....

but come on... someone posts a question cause they are having an issue that they need to get corrected with their equipment and wham they get roasted by useless reply's telling them to "use search" one after the another, after the another, after another when all someone has to do is provide the answer and tell them they could have found it had they searched... or they could have just given a link to the answer and the thread stops... like this thread I came here to see if I could help because the topic is "new g1 please help" this is about as useless as someone starting a thread on which color G1 should I use...

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amn just wasted 15 minutes of my life to type this... remember people that everyone that started here had to post their first message, hence we were all "noobs" once when we started as well....

Again I don't want make ANY enemies I just want to make my phone the envy of everyone that sees it(like yesterday when I bought my daughter her G1 and I was typing on my on screen keyboard and they guy at the T-mobile store says hey you got your update, and said no I got my cupcake and man it sure tates good) and if I can provide a link to help steer someone in the right direction so be it...

end of my venting...

peace!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CBowley:
Exactly my point. I'm not *****ing about people making noob posts asking for help, but the fact is they get bombarded with "use the search button" or "this topic has been covered". I am not saying people SHOULDN'T post help threads, but there isn't a place for it.

My point: There SHOULD be a place for people to ask for help.. like a noob forum. Combing through mostly off topic threads, like the rom threads, can take a while and may not be helpful for noobs who do not understand what an spl or fastboot or dalvic cashe is. So with a noob forum, there would be a place to ask: "I succefully rooted, but the instructions say spl, and my english is not very good, so I am having trouble understaing".

This would help

1. Un-clutter the forums

2. From keeping large threads from going off topic

3. Noobs find they want easier by just asking

I mean I agree that asking a simple question that would take a sentence or less to answer would be easier than searching a crap load of threads for hours to find an answer. If I didn't know what an spl was, and I searched, a lot of threads come up, but not many that explain what an spl is. It could take DAYS to find the answer, when someone could just easily easily answer what an spl is.

Again I am not *****ing about noob posts!! Sometimes they need to be asked. It is impossible for a noob to get simple questions answered without spending hours researching.

I believe a noob forum would benefit us all.

Also the topics could be formated:

Help: phone looping

When problem is resolved:

[Solved] phone looping
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bladepbc:
everyone is concern about noobs cluttering up fourms with "help o bricked my phone" post yet there is at least 3 of these "remove noobs post" posts...kinda makein the problem worse if u ask me....but hey im still a noob myself so what do u know...:confused:
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CBowley:
This isn't a "remove noob posts" post, it a "we need a place for noob posts" post.
[G1 General] legaleye2005:
What's the best Toggles app? I'm looking for gps/wifi/bluetooth to be widgets on the homescreen. IF that can't be done, then what's the best app?

Thanks
[G1 General] bigtruckguy3500:
Toggle Setting is a good problem (just one icon opens up all toggles), but it force closes on reboot.

Other than that, there is a bunch made by Rounded Labs which appear to be pretty good.
[G1 General] legaleye2005:
I installed Toggle Setting and like you said it just force closes at reboot which I don't want... I'll check out Rounded Labs. Thanks
[G1 General] mikedmeyer:
Try making shortcuts to the settings using "AnyCut."
[G1 General] Phawkes:
def get useful switchers, best toggle out to date
[G1 General] bigtruckguy3500:
Oh, and search the market for Andrew Schwimmer, he's got some good ones as well.
[General Topics] tacomanmcjab:
Where can I get a vista taskbar like this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=499165

For my QVGA htc Touch?
[General Topics] samxein:
Take a look at All QVGA TaskBAR thread. It's just one search away ;).-
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] darkstar62:
I've just put out a 0.2 release of the Wing Linux project. This project is geared towards the development of Linux and Android on the T-Mobile Wing, HTC Herald, and HTC Atlas series of phones.

The project is being hosted on Sourceforge at:

http://wing-linux.sf.net

The files can be gotten at:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=253356

Discussion for this and future releases can be had at:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=253356

See these threads for more info about the development leading up to this release:

Google Andriod for Herald and Tmobile Wing

Installable Linux Image for HTC Herald / T-Mobile Wing (UPDATED: Android Install)

Thanks to all who have helped in debugging, testing, and developing this release!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilwill2806:
i have just lost root, i was using haykuro's 6.0r1 and hard spl i was told to just downgrade and us the original rc29 dreaimg.nbh and then flash a new spl and build but no i cant finish through telnet. once i get to flash_image recovery recovery.img it says thers no such file. then im stuck its using the original bootloader and when i try and flash a new spl during recovery(w/triangle alt+l) it wont let me where do i go from here
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LucidREM:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=442480
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilwill2806:
thats what ive been doing from the start, i have re formatted my 2gb and 1gb sd cards added dreaimg.nbh file and the hardspl then followed the step but like i said when im going throught the steps in telnet it say error noch file or directory when i try and flash a recovery image
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilwill2806:
nevermind i found another sd card thats working i might have a faulty microsd but thanks anyways
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] setter:
Hi

I have a Dopod with the following symptoms

It starts up and gets hung in the Dopod flash screen. Just hangs there and does nothing

It can be soft booted into bootloader ver 1.09

Can be hard reset - gets grey screen - press R on keyboard then space and it takes you back to splach Dopod screen fine

Tried to update to SP7 But gets com error 260 and wont go any further

Tried several ROMS and gets to load screen 1% then gets comm error 260 etc

Driving me mad - it should be salvageable but I cant seem to get it correct

Please help if you have ideas

Kind regards

John
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] setter:
Hi

Ok did some more reading and fixed it by reloading the original early ROM and going from there

All good now!!

John
[G1 General] jooshy180:
When i use it with the normal (un-virtual) keyboard.. the 'predictive text' works fine, but when i try to put a question mark (?) by pressing alt+, it doesnt come out.. it justs puts the comma (,).. i tried searching for this but i cant find anything about it :/
[G1 General] Jason Syn:
Yeah that annoys the crap out of me as well. I have tried turning off the auto-predict feature too but it does it for the hardware and the on screen keyboard.
[G1 General] jooshy180:
i tried that toooo.... i dnt know what that did, but i do know they didnt fix my question mark problem.. oo i just founf out that none of the alt characters works... the only ones that works are the alt characters for the numbers
[G1 General] jooshy180:
is anobody else having this problem??
[G1 General] Pinesal:
There are two alt keys. The left one works, the right doesn't
[G1 General] jooshy180:
oh woww i was going crazy trying to fix this... but thank uuu!!! its still kinda annoying tho, cuz im used to using the right alt key.. is there any fix for this?
[Wing, P4350 General] apreichner:
There's a couple things I'm noticing...

First: People post in the wrong places...

Yes I know that some people are just dumb and don't bother reading. But what's the difference between the Herald forum and the Herald Mobile 6 forum? I'm not sure I understand... Although I'm sure there's a sticky note somewhere explaining it all, but I just took a brief look and didn't find it. I think the forum should be redivided into 4 or 5 sections. Ideally it would have: Herald Tutorials, Herald ROM Development, Herald Question and Answers, and Herald Accessories... So that way it's kind of hard to miss where to post the question and answers, and where to find the exciting tutorials.

Second: A lot of these posts are out-dated.

The ROM reviews seems like it would be one of the coolest, but it's falling behind on some of the best and most recent ROMs. The CAB collection(s) hasn't been updated in a while... There's like 8 or 9 cab collections I think... I'm sure there's a better way of doing that and keeping on top of it. Perhaps we just need some more people who are willing to keep up on all of these updates and post them.

Now I understand this would probably be a ton of work to create these forums and then move the threads that are still fine, but I think it would help a lot. I'd be willing to help in the process... I'm not just here to complain and not do anything.
[Wing, P4350 General] ivanmmj:
I've been interested in rehauling the Herald forums, but unfortunately, I'm not a mod and they're not taking mod applications at the moment...

The whole thing needs a whole overhaul.

Herald and Herald 6 are redudant. The stickies are innefficient. No one posts where they should. If I were to be a mod, I'd spend a few weeks cleaning the place up. Of course, the ROM review thread and CAB collections would have to be updated by the original owner or by someone who had the time to undergo testing all those ROMs and collecting all those cabs.
[Wing, P4350 General] rstweb:
wiki?

another idea is to create a wiki. it should based upon mediawiki (used by wikipedia). there you can create create cab collections, tutorials and so on.

it would be possible to create a seperate page for every custom rom.

discussions could already be done here in the forum. in the forum could be special threads for the pages and there could a be a link from the article to the thread.

EDIT: if some is interested in doing that, i would help, of course. :)
[Wing, P4350 General] ivanmmj:
There already is a wiki, look at the top of the screen. It's just that no one uses it. No one writes to it and no one reads it.
[Wing, P4350 General] rstweb:
i know. don't ask my why, but i don't like this wiki, too.

it is difficult to read because of the design. it is confusing...
[Wing, P4350 General] ivanmmj:
I agree it's a little... ugly. :p

But I think that aside from that, out of the few people who DO write on it, most of them don't really format the articles very well.
[Wing, P4350 General] rstweb:
Yeah, but if the stylesheet is not .. well .. very good, formating the articles doesn't really help.
[Wing, P4350 General] v5HMeca:
Yeah, these guys should really be using MediaWiki.

I can write whatever plugins are needed. I'm fairly handy when it comes to writing plugins. I ported DomPDF to MediaWiki as a means of being able to convert any Wiki article into PDF using only PHP.
[Wing, P4350 General] rstweb:
i've saved a lot of informations i gained form the forum and the wiki in my personal wiki at home (separate wiki only for herald ;) ). when i'm back at home, i will publish these informations in a new wiki and post it here. propably, we can show how comfortable mediawiki and the design is and then propably the admins will use mediawiki :)
[G1 Apps and Games] savethechicken:
Just showed up in the market. Awesome works the 1.5 soft keyboard. Has its quirks but does have some good uses, an update was put out this morning to fix the enter key problem.
[G1 Apps and Games] sino8r:
great find! it's so hard to sort through the **** apps these days. can't wait until we get a well needed market update.
[G1 Apps and Games] wizern23:
Just to let people know they have a message saying it doesn't work on some modified Roms. I'm on 6.0h and it didnt work for me. it went into a force close loop even when i wasnt using it.
[G1 Apps and Games] lbcoder:
Its a step in the right direction, but its not all there quite yet. VERY HELPFUL though

1) There is a problem getting the <enter> key working. I find that I need to roll around the scroll button a bit before the enter key will work after starting or switching users.

** another way to deal with this is to use a different shell. For some reason, using full bash instead of sh works. There are other (great) advantages to this (more on that later).

2) You can't see what you're typing when in landscape mode, which is the only way that the VK is actually practical -- keys are too small to use effectively in portrait.

3) If you use a colored shell, the colors screw up when switching to/from the vk. Must be something to do with how he's buffering and redrawing the console.

On using bash instead of sh...

Advantages:

1) color

2) BASH HISTORY

3) scroll wheel = arrow keys

4) lots more -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash

How:

copy bash into some executable part of the filesystem

create a bashrc file anywhere at all in the filesystem.

put in your bashrc the following:

PS1="[\w]\\$ "
HISTFILE=/some/path/file/with/write/permissions

** this is of course a regular shell script, so add whatever startup code you like in there, like a custom PATH, etc.

IN the "better terminal emulator" program, menu --> preferences --> command line and set it to "/path/to/bash --rcfile /path/to/bashrc"

And of course, running the following:

su -c "/path/to/bash --rcfile /path/to/bashrc"

will give you root with bash and the same setup as your regular user, including a shared history file (note that the history file is only updated when bash EXITS and so it is current as of the moment you initially LAUNCHED the terminal app.

Note: I like to write that su -c line into a wrapper I call "subash" that I place in the path.

bash is attached for convenience, its a .tar.gz file with an extra extension to confuse the newbs (and trick the forum filter into allowing it).
[G1 Apps and Games] th4r:
@lbcoder

Thanks Great tip! :)
[G1 Apps and Games] bhang:
using bash as default shell

Id love to use bash, its the shell im used to and since Im not that good at *nix having bash would help, 1 cyanogen rom had ash(i think) and then none of the scripts floating around worked and so they needed to be edited(something that sounds a bit tedious)

Id also like a decent prompt, maybe color ls and all those bells and whistles, I think this could be well received with all the bugs worked out and maybe a script that would make any scripts found on the device into a format that bash needs...

the biggest is the lack of history, I have used a good variety of linux and unix shells and droids is the first without cmd history, a prompt with 'pwd' and tab auto complete...

cant we just get a REAL shell, is that so wrong?

bhang
[G1 Apps and Games] tgi007:
Job Control

Very nice and very useful. Thanks for providing this!

One feature lost in this build of bash: Job Control (^Z, jobs, fg, bg, and %number commands to manipulate jobs). Hitting Ctrl-Z suspends the bash shell and all its child processes.

The existing sh shell supports job control. This build of bash does not.

I'm going to have to learn how to set up a cross-compilation environment. Another project to add to the list...
[General Topics] l337h1um:
I have set up a WiFi access point at work to use Enterprise WPA with RADIUS using Protected EAP encryption with username and password authentication. It works fine on our PCs; I created a GPO in the Active Directory so that the WiFi is automatically set up on our computers, and it works great. Two of our guys have iPhones and it works fine on those too. Yet on my Windows Mobile phone, after I enter my username and password, it gives me "Cannot log on to the wireless network. This network requires a personal certificate to positively identify you." But the network DOES NOT require a personal certificate! It uses username and password authentication! It's pretty embarassing that my WinMo phone, which is supposed to be a business/enterprise tool, won't work with Enterprise WPA yet the iPhones do.

Anyone got any suggestions? Thanks :)
[General Topics] l337h1um:
Aaawwww :(
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Naruto@Pro:
Hi,

I try using Advance Configuration Tool to prevent GPRS from connecting automatically but it fails..

Is there any application that can do this?

Thanks!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] kiay:
hahaha, it's kinda easy to set it actually, i've posted the same question here before but no one answering my question, but then i found the way to stop it myself. try if this helps...:D

Start>Setting>Connection>Connections

you should see there are 2 conections in this page if i am not mistaken, one is from your service provider's internet setting and another 1 is your work network, right?

then, click on the "Advanced" beside "Tasks" and click "Select Networks", choose the "Programs that automatically connect to the Internet should connect using:" from your service provider to "My work Network", done!!!

hopes this helps...:D
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Plomiwn:
On some roms choosing My work network doesn't work anymore as blocking.

There is an application called Nodata when you can choose what profiles you want to block ( mms, gprs, etc. etc.)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Naruto@Pro:
Hi where can i get the Nodata application?

Thanks!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] kiay:
are you using touch pro? if you are, i believe my method will help you out as i am a touch pro user as well... :D
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] kiay:
http://htcdriver.com/index.php?page=nodata

you can download it from here... try to google it, and sure you'll find it, hopes this helps... :D
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Naruto@Pro:
Thanks for the reply Kiay.

Will try that out...
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Plomiwn:
Belive me i'm also using Tp and on some roms changing to work network doesn't work.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Naruto@Pro:
Hi,

Yah it doesnt work...

Anybody got the NoData Cab file? thanks!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Plomiwn:
Click on a link 4 posts above. and you will get it ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] kiay:
dude, i thought i've given you the link?:confused::confused::confused:
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] potato.hk:
I find that Diamond 2 has lag problem on play back some WMV format media.

For example, ORB, I did tests on Dell V51 (updated to wm6.1), Atom O2 (WM 5.0) and Diamond2 with Bandwidth limited to 160kbps from WIFI.

Both O2 and Dell works fine. However, Diamond2 has serious lag problem.

I increased the bit rate from 160kbps and 320kbps, it did not improved anything on Diamond 2.

I also find some WMV file storaged in memory card has similar problem, while it does not happen in neither Dell nor Atom.

I doubt Diamond 2 has problem on play back WMV.

Anyone has similar experience?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muuu:
I haven't tried many wmv files yet, but video playback is somewhat bad if you dont convert it to mp4 (H264+AAC).

So have a quick look here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3830181&postcount=11

If you have to use WMV then reduce resolution, framerate or bitrate.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] potato.hk:
Did you try test of CSPAN from http://test.orb.com/streamtest/wmp.jsp?

It seems that it is ok for playback of CSPAN.

If I connect to my ORB server, however, it lags seriously no matter how low bit rate it is. It does not happen in Dell or Atom.

Therefore, I doubt Diamond 2 may have trouble on some WMV encoded format and its WMV implementation may have bugs.
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] robin.w2009:
Hi, I would like to ask a question about x1 phone, where is the boot loader file? Is in the Sector 0 of the built-in NAND flash? Coz I am worry that the gadget will not go into the boot loader mode if I read/write the entire NAND flash especially the sector 0 data.

Many thanks for people who answer out!
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] robin.w2009:
Anybody there who can help out about this issue?
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] okokur:
Q:\PDA\cooking\itsutilsbin-20080602>pmemdump.exe 0xa8000000 524288 SPLdumped.nb

CopyProcessMemoryToFile(00000042, a8000000, 00080000, SPLdumped.nb)

i heard, that this is saving your bootloader.
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] robin.w2009:
Many thanks for ur reply okokur.

Lets assume that way is working for the saving data of bootloader, but can i restore the saved data of bootloader if the Sector 0 data is destroyed (it even can't go into first bootloader mode, there is no Active sync for it)?

Any idea for that?
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] fards:
If it wont go into bootloader then I think you're stuck, and it's a replacement device. This is another reason why we tend to use "hardSPL"..

however it might be best to ask in the general "questions and answers" thread or dev&hacking.

I did think mtty might help, but it needs to access bootloader from what I understand..
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] coskc:
I need to know how to display battery status on my HTC fuze. It doesn't show %.

thanks