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[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] PaulKen:
Being positive about Universal

It isn't difficult to be positive about the Uni.

I bought an Athena on Ebay three weeks ago, tempted by TV out, faster processor, USB host capability and bigger screen. (I give talks using Powerpoint at church, I am a Christian.)

Sure it will do a few things that Uni won't do but at a price! As an everyday machine the Uni wins for me.

There are a few dark clouds on the horizon. Cooks WILL move on to newer devices. That is where the action is. As I write these are the numbers viewing the following forums.

Diamond 429

Blackstone 478

Dream 365

Universal 47

I am a machinist, not qualified in any of the computing sciences, neither am I familiar with what is happening at the "sharp end" of rom development on this site, so correct me if I am wrong.

WM 6.5 is out now so there will be no more 6.1 builds. Eventually 6.5 will be replaced by 7.

The new OS is designed for the newer hardware. There is a gap opening up. I believe it is going to get harder and harder for the cooks left with us to get these newer roms to run on a Uni. In my experience 6.5 does not seem to run as well as 6.1. It is not only because most Unis have only 64Mb of ram. I am flashing roms to my Athena which has plenty of ram left after flashing and so far none of those 6.5 roms are as reliable as the 6.1 AP4 rom.

As I say I am not an expert so please correct me if I am wrong.

Having said that...

I am using Tomals 8.9 rom and my Uni could not run any better. 3-4 days without a soft reset. Are the newer devices even as good as this? (please comment)

I use this device. It is a PDA and a phone. It is not a machine for flashing roms and that is why it has a future. It is a great piece of hardware. Big screen, 5 row keyboard etc etc etc you have heard it all before. I have dropped it, sat on it, spilled stuff on it, given it to kids to watch video on (was I mad?:eek:) took it apart to clean metal filings out of it (the speaker magnets kept it off the boards.) and it still keeps going. Its armour plated.

If we never get another rom, if we never get another application, the developers on this site have given us all a great (the greatest?) device plus years of fun tweaking it and it cost us NOTHING. Any money they made was given to them as a donation and I am sure nobody gave up their day job.

So thank you to all the developers past and present who gave us what we have today. If you move on to a new device and forum we wish you well.

This thread is about positives for the Universal.

On TV there are commercials for the 3rd generation iPh**e. (Sorry for my bad language) What is the "latest feature" on this best selling "smartphone"?

VIDEO.

If this is the benchmark, the Universal owner has nothing to envy. Even the new WM devices, what do they do our Uni doesn't do? Not much. I look forward to years of service, God willing, from my two Unis. Love them!:D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] orb3000:
Bump!

Come on Uni owners!

Is this little post the only positive things you can say about your Universal?

I´m sure you have more nice things to say!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] enigma1nz:
I got my first Uni for... wait for it... NZD$18, which, at the time was around USD$10. You can only imagine the state one buys a Uni in for that much, haha.

Not to worry, I got it assembled, fixed and working. Many more Unis in various state of disarray, disrepair and disassembly followed. Such is my job, obviously.

At the moment I own 2 complete Unis (and 2 in parts, just in case :)), one had been assembled by me from 4 different broken units and actually is a hybrid of Imate/HTC/02/Dopod versions and is fitted with black keyboard with blue backlight from O2, waiting for the brand new black body which is going to be purchased as soon as the FX improves. I call it my baby and have no intentions of ever parting with it. It's the main Uni that is set up and running for my everyday needs, another is there to test new ROMs on.

I have other phones, quite a few, in fact (again, due to the nature of my job - can't resist getting some poor crashed invalid for next to nothing and making it perfect and working again), WM, Symbian and flash OS, resistive and capacitive touch screens, insanely expensive and old cheapies, I use them on a regular basis in addition to my Uni.

Thanks to TOMAL (formerly known as Ranju) - kept me interested and excited all this time. :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] enigma1nz:
As for the poll

I clicked 'had chance to change but kept it', although I would also like to mention, that another one for me would be clicking 'If it dies, I'll get another one'

The most amazing story about my Uni: I was robbed once and my bag with everything inside, including my baby-Uni, the keys to the business, house, 2 cars etc, wallet with everything, bluetooth headset, SD cards and other bits and pieces - EVERYTHING was taken! Obviously, I was in a terrible state, cancelled my credit cards, called the police, changed the locks on the business, because I couldn't even leave work. The worst part was that my car was at the back in my personal parking space and I couldn't even leave the business to go and check if it was taken! Most of all I was sad to have my Uni stolen (see previous post). Somehow everything else that was in that bag didn't matter as much.

Anyway, the next day I got a call from a lotto shop next door, telling me they have my bag and found me because there was this 'little silver machine, like a computer' inside with my details on it. Yep, it was my Uni. What do you know - EVERYTHING inside the bag was still inside and the only things taken were my cancelled credit cards. The dumb thieves didn't take my Uni and here it is, still with me!!!!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] orb3000:
I left the poll for all to choose several options.

My most amazing expirience with Uni was:

I was in a taxi to airport at 5am, so I was kind of sleepy, I arrived to airport and leave the taxi and my Uni was there!!

I did not noticed untill after 15 min, so I run like hell to go downsatairs where taxis leaves airport, so I saw my ex-taxi, I run because he was just starting to move, I stop him and my Uni was in the same place I left on passengers seat!!!!!

I was ready to loose my flight to Bangkok to recover my Uni!!!

It was amazing!! I got it back!

All this story happened in one of the most populated cities in the globe: Mexico City: 22 million!

-------------------------------

Other time I left my Uni on the table of a restaurant (Too much drinks :) ) and when I was leaving the place, the waiter came and said to me: "Hey you forgot your calculator"..... LOL it was true!

I´m sure if he noticed the amazing device he found perhaps he will not give it to me!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] PaulKen:
excellent idea. I voted 1,2 and 4 :D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] tomal:
My wife never liked my Uni. From her point of view, I'm simply carrying a brick. :)

If someone gives her an opportunity to destroy anything...whatever she likes I'm sure she will destroy my Uni at first place, LOL.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] -Jonny-:
I had to replace my Psion Revo. This was excellent device - small, stylish with good keyboard. I decided to buy device with phone and computer in one... so after research I went for the Universal.

I needed

Good keyboard (taking notes during church service - PaulKen, I'll have to attend one of yours! :D)

Plenty of additional memory (my revo had no SD slot, and I wanted SD because it was swappable with my then phone (MMC) and camera).

Flash upgradeable (like my MP3 player, just means the device never goes out of date!)

Large screen. Very useful for many things, but especially for sharing with others. Now we're in a digital photo age, I hardly every was able to show my photo's to people in person unless printing them all off, so best way get a big screen!

Something which I can put my Bible (translations) and commentries on. Again needing storage as well.

Navigation. If you're gonna spend out on navigation, what's the point in buying a dedicated device - better to get a PPC which you can do so many other things on (and again, you need a screen large enough that you can actually see it!)

Sync diary with filter for work/church/personal

Play games (at least Yahzee for wife :))

Camera - I always carry my PDA around with me, but not always my camera. So I always get shots that I would otherwise miss out on.

Carryable - not necessarily top pocket stuff, but can at least fit in a pocket somewhere (before I was carying a PDA + Phone)

Did I say large screen, and useable keyboard. Sorry, just had to rub it in :cool:

Oh, and as for 'if my Uni dies'...

bought new digitizer to replace scratched one (... now use screen protection)

bought another Uni to replace broken screen and will keep for parts

bought another Uni to upgrade to 128MB (will be selling 64MB uni soon to reclaim some costs)

So I voted that if my Uni died I'd buy another one...

But also, I haven't got enought money to buy another one. I now have my eye on the Rhodium. But I'm waiting until I see it eBay for about £100-£150. So I'll most probably see you all there in about 5 years! Until then, my Uni will do me good.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] orb3000:
Bump

I think it´s worth to keep this thread alive!
[General Topics] dodgen247:
There is an interesting topic on one of the blogs I regularly read. I think there needs to be some more support from people pro modifying phones. This is a very sensitive topic is seems for people, lets give them our opinion!

http://jkontherun.com/2009/06/28/do-you-believe-hacking-your-phone-is-allowed/
[General Topics] orb3000:
Let´s put it this way

If I didn´t know about this site my experience with WM would be so bad that by now I probably had changed OS...

Thanks to XDA-DEVS and it´s great community WM is something to stick!
[General Topics] dodgen247:
Same as I feel, the carriers cripple the WM platform so bad I am surprised Microsoft hasnt pitched a fit!? What they do really discredits the platforms capabilities, and the phones capabilities!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lsouvkei:
Hi, all!

MTTY ver 1.42 is not working on TD2. How can I format my TD2? What program is recommend?

Thanks all:)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lsouvkei:
How to fix a bad ROM flash on Topaz? Does anyone can give me a hand?

Thanks a lot!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeeGee_Tokyo:
I think with HardSPL you do not need MTTY. With HardSPL it should be no problem to reflash your device, even after a bad ROM flash.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lsouvkei:
i flash to others rom, but still can't fix the problem.

Mute on making calls, how come?:(
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeeGee_Tokyo:
Most cooked ROM's here do not include a radio. Did you try to reflash the radio?

You can find them here.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lsouvkei:
Thanks for your quick reply. But I flashed to original HTC rom, it still can't work.

Maybe the hardware is broken.:confused:
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeeGee_Tokyo:
Just to make sure its not the hardware,

a) did you try other radio ROM's?

b) did you do an explicit hardreset after flashing (ROM and/or Radio)?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lsouvkei:
A) Yes, I did...I flash original rom which is from HTC

B) Ofcoz I did an explicit hardreset after flahsing....what can I do now:(
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeeGee_Tokyo:
About A) -> Did you try to flash only another Radio ROM?

If this doesn't change the problem, I do not know what else to do :(:(
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lsouvkei:
I'll try now...anyway, thanks for help.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lsouvkei:
I reflashed Tom_Topaz_Radio_v3.45.25.22_HTC, but still can't work.

Maybe I need to send it to HTC for rapairing...thank you.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vovan10baran:
Yeah, I know your problem. I suppose so flashing is done with an error (it`s about shipped roms). Unique solution is flashing your device via COM port. Everything will be OK.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bruce Inman:
Dead thread.......
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arazvan2002:
mtty

mtty 1.42 is working with topaz just like with diamond 1. I did format twice my topaz. Follow the steps in the diamond mtty thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=540290
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wuub:
i confirm that... just follow the step by step guide and you shouldn't encounter any problems... I don't so you shouldn't ;)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bruce Inman:
This thread is almost a year old. It's DEAD!

New member revived to increase posts only! :\

Let it R....I....P
[General Questions and Answers] yogi1982:
is there an application that lets me use my pocket pc as audio in and out device while it is "active synced" to my desktop. i know of a webcam application (webcam plus) that enable use of pda as audio input but what about audio output? such an appication will let me hear wheni dont want to disturb anyone else in the room.

thank you :)
[G1 Android Development] Gary13579:
Please add this thread to the sticky!

If you messed up your ROM, and want to just reflash, but don't have your update on the SD card... or you mess up apps2sd and you need to clear them, this thread is for you. I've needed to do this MANY times, and it's a pain in the ass to remember how to do it every time.

Get into the recovery, and ./adb shell (if you can). Otherwise, hit alt + x to drop into the terminal. Then type this:

echo /dev/block/mmcblk0 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file

Then, if you need to unmount:

echo "" > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file

This allows you to drag/drop files right from your PC to the sd card.
[G1 Android Development] dbhatesyou:
.... this is why i have card readers.

on another note, if you can get into adb cant you just

adb push /sdcard/
[G1 Android Development] kiler129:
Simplest way - if you dont`t have update.zip on card simple click Alt-S. Recovery menu mount sdcard and show error (update.zip not found) but don`t unmount card ;)
[G1 Android Development] Gary13579:
Because then you'd have to mount the sdcard to the device, it's easier to just do it this way. Although the post below yours does give a good example of how to easily mount it, I often keep updates on the card.

So by using this and mounting it to the PC, I can easily change files/names/etc.
[G1 Android Development] hoyitzpnoiboi:
thanks

dude i registered just to thank you for this piece of advice. thanks gary works perfectly
[G1 Android Development] alapapa:
this works for me and is much simpler:

adb shell

mount /sdcard

exit

once you do that you can:

adb push updateofyourchoice.zip /sdcard/update.zip

edit: you can even shorten it to:

adb shell mount /sdcard
[G1 Android Development] Mikey:
Learn to speak with out school yard language.
[G1 Android Development] Markus214:
just bookmared this page hahha
[G1 Android Development] alapapa:
agreed, this bit ought to be in the index...added to the "how to" section
[G1 Android Development] bassbox:
mhm

how to access my ext3 partition so i can format it ?? (i'm using vista x64, adb works fine)
[G1 Android Development] pixel-painter:
Yep, I have to agree, this is what I do too... much easier really ;)
[G1 Android Development] VGPOP:
First of all, thanks for this thread!

When I get to this point, I get a Permission Denied message.

(The way I typed it was echo /dev/block/mmcblk0 press enter /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file)

Long story short.

I have Hero ROM (2.4). I had the FAT32/Ext2 partition. I used Paragon Partition Manager to complete delete partition and created a new FAT32/Ext3.

After I did this, it said that my SD card was not "formatted". I hit FORMAT button, but it gave me a force close error. I had no other choice but to turn off G1, when I turn on again (since HERO depends on your SD Card FAT32/Ext2,3 to load correctly, not it won't get pass HERO screen, it loops forever).

I will buy a SD card reader today (The way I have been working is thru another Phone (T-Mobile Wing, I removed SD card from G1 and put it on the Wing, but now it won't even read that, so that's another issue), regardless of this outcome. But I wanted to share my story.

I want to format my SD card thru the recovery console, if it's possible.

By the way, I typed also:

adb shell

It says Not found

Thanks in advanced.
[G1 Android Development] random_username_:
thanks :D:D:D
[G1 Android Development] bassbox:
after typing this in i get

"mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 on /sdcard failed: No such file or directory" no matter if my sdcard is inserted or not.
[G1 Android Development] AdrianK:
Ya'know, if you have Cyanogen's recovery image (which is awesome, has JF recovery features and more) you can just use:

to mount and unmount, works great.
[G1 Android Development] Sistum Id:
Wow, thats easier to remember, thanks!!! Now if he could add this into his menu would be even better!
[G1 Android Development] nolimit78:
From Terminal:

# mount -o rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system/sd

# rm -rf /system/sd/*

# reboot recovery
[G1 Android Development] jundy:
ive gota say top advice from all of you!! it would have been a paper weight untill i got home but all working now.. :p
[G1 Android Development] Eutherin:
YOU SIR

Are a lifesaver.

i thought i'd ruined my phone which means my om woulda killed me. but i didnt thanks to your halp! :D
[G1 Android Development] HTCinToronto:
not the best at unix and assuming 2nd partition is your ext2/3/4 ...

from console or better yet adb shell

mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system/sd

cd /system/sd

ls -l (to see the contents)

rm [filenames] (to delete the files)

rmdir (to delete empty directories)

.
[G1 Android Development] gbs.ben:
its a great idea and just what i needed thanks
[G1 Android Development] BolecDST:
I second the request from the first post, please sticky that or add a link in the all-in-one thread.
[G1 Android Development] ThR1LL:
Like stated in previous posts i find it easier to use adb mount /sdcard or ums_enable/ums_disable.
[G1 Android Development] kingklick:
lol yah what ahout ums_enable.......
[G1 Android Development] mrandroid:
Yea, that's the easiest way.. use Cyanogen's 1.4 Recovery and all you need to do is go into console and type

ums_enable

then type ums_disable when you're done...
[G1 Android Development] roadrunnerx7:
i was about to come in and post the same thing lol

the code should be added to the first post...
[G1 Android Development] roadrunnerx7:
[HOW TO] mount sd card in recovery(cm 1.4)

to mount:

ums_enable

to unmount:

ums_disable

done! :D

i hadnt seen a thread specifically for this(except that other one, but i HATE adb{i never got it to work on my laptop:(} so this is easier/better:P)

anyway, i know for sure it works on cyanogens recovery 1.4, dont know about other versions/recoverys. anyway, this is very useful for when your phone wont boot, and if you dont have a sd card reader. oh yeah and if you dont have adb

more specific instructions:

1. turn your phone on by pressing the home and power buttons and holding the home button until you feel the vibration, you can hold it longer than that but i dont think it matters

2. the recovery screen should come up, go all the way down with the trackball to "go to console" i think its called

3. click it. lol.

4. slide out your keyboard because you have to use it for this.

5. press enter

6. type the code and press enter.

a window should pop up on your computer and you should have access to your sdcard. im not sure if removing it without typing in the disable could will cause damage, but why find out? i always type the disable code when im done, so unless your stupid and want to see if you can ruin your sdcard somehow, use the disable code too.
[G1 Android Development] david1171:
i do not think it will work in versions previous to 1.4, but i could be wrong. i know it won't work on 1.2 because i tried to help someone with 1.2 one night and he could not get ums_enable to work. i do not know about 1.3 or 1.3.1, but either way, YOU SHOULD BE ON 1.4 because it is killer.
[G1 Android Development] rpcameron:
Why wouldn't one just enter:

mount /sdcard

from the recovery console? And if one needs to modify other system files, or access the ext2/3/4 partition on the SD card (if you have one):

mount /system
mount /system/sd

But, like the previous posters, was there really a need for a full thread on this topic?
[G1 Android Development] roadrunnerx7:
because ums_enable is umm 3 characters less than your way :P

i can add your way to the thread too if you want. AND, i already explained why i made this thread not explaining myself again :)
[G1 Android Development] rpcameron:
It wasn't about the number of characters being more or less, but rather nature of one method being more semantic/self-explanatory than the other.

Also, my reply was posted to the thread indicating cyanogen's recovery v1.4 before it was merged with this thread, and that thread did not include any reasoning or explanation as to why it was still active.
[G1 Android Development] kingklick:
still think this is kind of a pointless thread.....

IMHO :D
[G1 Android Development] cj_fiasco:
Once the Rom is up can you delete it from your sd
[G1 Android Development] AustinAce:
I have a question, does ums_enable work on 1.6?
[G1 Android Development] AustinAce:
None of these have worked for me so far.
[G1 Android Development] carz12:
there is a mount option in the new RA recovery for the terminal illiterate lol
[G1 Android Development] AustinAce:
Well I don;t have a mount option lmao
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
power off phone, remove SD card and put the files you need on it via PC?
[G1 Android Development] lookout4theyeti:
If you have amon RA's recovery, then yes, you do. Its labeled something like "Toggle usb ms", where ms=mass storage
[G1 Android Development] AustinAce:
I just did that thank you though. :)
[G1 Android Development] rori~:
Thanx, old thread, but saved me a lot of time now :p
[G1 Android Development] karunadheera:
This does not work on my Galaxy S. Please help.
[G1 Android Development] Chahk:
Different device - different partition tables. What does

mount

in terminal return?

Or in ADB:

adb shell mount
[G1 Android Development] hwosyto:
I think SD Card Recovery for Mac and Windows software is fine.

I review it sdcardrecover.com
[G1 Android Development] erchen99:
mount SD card in recovery

If you failed to mount sdcard with all the above method in recovery mode. Try this:

1. adb shell

2. mount /dev/block/mmcblk0 /sdcard
[G1 Android Development] Androidwolf:
when i try this it says it failed and that i dont have permission to do that. it had worked once initially then stopped after that.
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
old thread, outdated

current custom recoveries have usb mount built in.

explore the menus
[G1 Android Development] TylerPadfoot:
how does this work? i dont understand.
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
read post above yours
[G1 Android Development] TheCrius:
Nice, thanks for adding this. Just needed it.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] TechnoHippie:
Probably a basic question - but I had been on Sprint for years so I've had CDMA phones until recently with my Fuze on ATT.

So unlocking - what exactly is it and what's the advantage?

I understand the HardSPL thingy is needed to put new ROMS on the phone - and I've done all that...

But from what I see there is SIM unlock and CID unlock - what are these exactly - and what's the advantage of dong this? If I was to do these two unlock thingies - do I mess up my current ATT connections and stuff?

Again - know it's a dumb question - but hey new to GSM ...ha