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[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orelsi:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=441834
[Touch GSM General] sastyh:
Hi, im new to scene and already have a Imate jasjam (the TYTN) and have flashed it already to a new rom and works great.

However the HTC TouchFlo that I have seems to modified in some way as to not allow the old style Hard Reset / Soft reset, and has way diff specs for ram etc. It only has an inbuilt menu item to Master Clear the phone, but not rebuild menus etc.

Also the Elf / Elfin utility (dsixda's) to read the pda version etc will not work, and the utility to download the current spl (Dump SPL) fails as well.

and system/ >> Device Information/Hardware menu is missing on my phone

Is this common knowledge? As ive browsed here for a few days looking for the answer. All i can assume is they have implemented some lock to stop reverse engineering.

have i missed a step somewhere?

Here is a Gallery of images, to view.

http://img195.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=image011is.jpg
[Touch GSM General] sastyh:
To add i copied dim application from my other phone (HTC TYTN), and most of the fields are empty. still says rom ver / date blank, radio and protocol blank

hardware. cpu blank, speed blank, ram size 6881394MB flash 7602288 MB, storage 72.78 MB , model and imie blank.

It doesnt matter too much with whats going on, its seems to have been manufactured less that 2 months ago and i have no problems with it.

Would have been good to slightly customise it, but nevermind.
[Touch GSM General] jeremy89632:
Yup, most of the stuff have been changed.

TYTN is slightly older and therefore has more hardware buttons.

If you wish to hard reset, here you go:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryjones/2193904710/
[Touch GSM General] sastyh:
Just to let you know that doesnt work either.
[Touch GSM General] sastyh:
Found out how to hard reset.

Press Power, Camera, Call (green) and Disconnect (Red) , and reset with stylus.

hold buttons for 5 seconds, screen will go BLUE.

Release, all 4 buttons and when loaded system is default again.
[Touch GSM General] zartur:
excuse me, I have the same HTC, from China. Now it has only English. Could you help me, haw I can make it Russian?

Thanks
[Touch GSM General] tomi011:
Help me how to change from france to english

Help me how to change from france to english ,

please can someone try to show me the way how to change language or install a new software,i have a france windows
[Touch GSM General] jeremy89632:
Start -> Settings -> System -> Regional Settings.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veritasaequita:
Just wondering what rom seems to be the fastest of these hero roms listed above in everyones personel expieriences.

by no means is this a contest i just thought it might be helpfull for alot of the users on these forums, thanks
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nolimit78:
lol Poll is what you meant :)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veritasaequita:
haha, hell yea true that, pole is what i meant but poll is what this is...good lookin out though. later, veritas
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nolimit78:
lol no worries, defintally not tring to hate. But I would also say that this isn't a poll on which rom you're using. It's a poll asking you since you've flash both roms which you think is faster. I was looking at it and was thinking " I could see people messing that up " :D
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veritasaequita:
yes, exactly....i glad you noticed and clarified, this rom is really only for those who have flashed atleast 2 or all of these and are voting on the rom they believe to be the fastest of the ones they tried. yea i was also thinking a good bit of people might misunderstand this..later, veritasa
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jubeh:
mine's the fastest :D

It's not listed here because it's not finished, but it doesn't require (it doesn't even support) A2SD, compcache is automatic, you get 80~ MB free in data on first boot.

I just need a few final details to get it working, but when I do it'll be an option for people who do not want/use/need a2sd but want rosie, exchange, and a few widgets.

With the shameless self advertising done, I think akirah's is by far the best, fastest build on the device currently (that I've tried), given all other things equal. But Jac's newest build with cyanogen's kernel enhancements might be faster. I haven't tried it because my phone is busy finishing testing my build.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] david1171:
now i want your's
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veritasaequita:
when you gonna have yours finished?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dontfearthereefer:
Hero2 by far far ahead blazes past the other roms in terms of speed, ive used them all for several days and it just keeps on truckin!:cool:
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soulife:
I heard soulifes ion remix is pretty damn fast. I've never tried it though, just what I heard.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nolimit78:
I've used it and it's a pretty decent rom. I just went with JAC because of the latest update.

:D Oh and
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veritasaequita:
im lovin this hero2, now i just cant decide if i want to do the jac or cyan update listed in the hero post
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veritasaequita:
well just know jac2.0 as 2.1 and keep it rolling.
[Touch HD General] mcurotto:
If you have a SIM card that allows two line numbers, you will always see the line number icon on your taskbar (See figure).

This icon was bothering me, and I didn't find a tweak to remove it. So I came up with the following simple solution:

- The icons are stored on 4 files inside "Windows" folder: Line1.bmp ; Line1M.bmp ; Line2.bmp ; Line2M.bmp. I simply changed these files to 1x1 pixel transparent images, and goodbye icon!

I made a cab so you can easily uninstall;

Also provided the 4 bmps if you like to use it somehow (for example if you use a personalised taskbar, you can change the files inside the cab).

Let me know of any bugs.
[General Questions and Answers] Gabe3:
I'm thinking about ditching my iphone and moving to android, since a htc hero costs about $500, twice what I could get if I sold my iphone:(. I'm wondering if I could install hero's OS onto a cheaper phone. I've heard people do this but I'm not sure what the consequences would be. Is it buggy? Is performance bad? Do the buttons on the phone perform the way they should?

What phones do people do this on? and whats the most recommend phone to do this on?

thanks!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] asda28:
Hi,

I have weird situation with my T-mob MyTouch3G. Did a lot of searching – couldn’t find anything similar. About 3 weeks ago I used Recovery Flasher to load CyanogenMod (4.0.1), later upgraded to 4.0.4. When booting into recovery I see that I am running "Build: CyanogenMod v1.4 + JF". Phone works fine (kudos to Cyanogen), but when i decided to partition my SD card i got into the following situation:

1. When I try to use "parted" from terminal emulator, I am getting "not found" (I do su before), when it is clear that CM recovery 1.4 contains Gparted.

2. When in recovery mode I select "Console(Alt-x)", I get "press enter" in horizontal layout and then white dots start moving on the screen from left to right, eventually (in about 2 min) occupying the whole screen.

3. When I tried to reflash CM recovery through fastboot I get "not allowed" - although this might be due to the fact that i am still running original "perfect" SPL. When trying to re-flash recovery though adb, no error message is shown and the process is done immediately.

So, my question is what is wrong here? How do I get fully functional CM recovery?

Any help is appreciated!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] thisoneguy:
Sounds to me that you hit it on the head... go back through the root process and rid your self of that buggered SPL.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] asda28:
I will try to revert to the original state and then repeat the process, but is there any other ideas? B/s restrictive SPL does prevent re-flashing, but i dont see why CM-recovery rom which is already installed and able to flash roms is itself not fully installed/function.

Thanks!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Themes and Apps] yassero:
I'm on WM6.5. I always thought A-GPS locks position in seconds, however, it used to take almost 3 mins to lock position on iGO 8 & Garmin. I had to use GPS Gate to shorten the time. Now surprisingly after I installed iGO 8.3 & iGO Amigo, both hang at boot & even if they booted, they could not detect GPS. I tried everything including adding port & baud to sys.ini but all failed. I then switched the A-GPS off & here it goes all went well. But still locking position would take the same long time.

Anyone has any idea how to speed up the locking ?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Themes and Apps] TrYde:
IGo never worked "out of the box" with A-GPS. It is a known issue with Kaiser. While it freezes the device on some ROM, it does not find the GPS on other ROMS.

You always have to start the GPS before with GPSGate, GPSTool, GPSTest or whatever GPS program you have... and most of the time, you can get a fix before IGo finishes loading.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Themes and Apps] yassero:
not iGO only but all

it is the same with Garmin & others. I open GPSGate before opening any of them but still it takes around 3 mins to lock position. A-GPS has never speed up the position locking on any app.
[G1 Apps and Games] gamefan231:
is there an app that gives what ever theme im on 5 home screens?? not including the home replacements...
[G1 Apps and Games] Chahk:
Amount of home screens is hard-coded into the Launcher.apk app. However, you can change the (freely available) source code to have as many home screens as you wish (within reason of course - anything over 10 will slow down the phone), skin it to the appropriate theme, compile it, sign it and overwrite the original Launcher.apk app.

Some ROMs come with pre-modified launchers (CyanogenMod, xROM, etc.) and there are several stand-alone launchers that are being developed by XDA community members. Take a look in the "Dream android development" section. Keep in mind though that those launchers are not themed, and may not work on all ROMs.
[G1 Apps and Games] gamefan231:
can i jus take a launcher.apk file from someone's theme and jus install it, for example the one from the hero theme?
[G1 Apps and Games] NguyenHuu:
u cannot just take the hero launcher and put it in if you are running a non-hero rom. you can take another launcher from another theme and put it in as long as its for the same rom as you. always make backup just in case as it can cause you to have bootloops or non-booting.
[G1 Apps and Games] gamefan231:
can someone tell me how to edit my launcher.apk file to make it 5 homescreens?
[G1 Apps and Games] nmesisca:
you dont.

you can edit the SOURCE of the launcher.apk (if you have it), then recompile it and include it in a rom.

or, as suggested before, get one already modified (but may not work with all roms).
[G1 Apps and Games] gamefan231:
i found a launcher.apk file and the source code...but i dont know how to edit it...can someone post some steps??
[G1 Apps and Games] nmesisca:
I really dont think its that simple.
[G1 Apps and Games] Senorkabob:
You might wanna take a look at this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=540880&highlight=launcher.apk

Its not technically a "home replacement" since it uses the original tweaked android code. You just replace your launcher.apk with this one.
[G1 Apps and Games] Chahk:
Here's a link that might be helpful: http://tinyurl.com/mwnvnk
[G1 Apps and Games] gamefan231:
well thanx for the help...i got my answer!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Docavelli:
Hey guys. I fell in love with the transparent Rosie that i used to put on Hero. I dont know what happened but this new crop of Heros wont take it.

I originally took the transparent Rosie.apk from one of the palmhero themes, if i remember correctly. I would then just copy through terminal to /system/sd/app_s, press home, and after the screen reloaded, voila, transparent Rosie.

I've tried this on a couple of the newer Heros and it just froze then up. Im running JAC 1.8. I havent tried it yet on this but thats because ive just been putting it through its paces. And I dont want to have to reflash yet. Ill try it in a while. But until then....

Can someone explain this and possibly tell me if its still possible to do on these newer Heros?

Thanks

Edit:

I just tried it on JAC-SKI 1.8 and the strangest thing happened. It went back to a cupcake stock look?? I checked settings and it still said Hero. Really weird.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h.nocturna:
As far as I know, only TwistedHero has the transparent drawer look on it, you can either try pushing his framework over, or you can try flashing his ROM, then the JAC1.8 Boot Kernel over it for the BFS support or leave it off for multi-touch. Your choice.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Docavelli:
Thanks h.nocturna. Ill try messing with twisteds framework.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jake_gt:
Thanks Charrion. As usual, battery is dead, so I will try tommorow and post results.

Also, how do I install Flashrec from desktop to Dream?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] david1171:
The same way you install almost any .apk (meaning not core system apps) by putting it on the sdcard and installing with package installer
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Reverend Gridlock:
Wow, rogers threw you guys the perfect spl, that is some major suckness, why do providers just let us power users do what we do, it's stuff like custom roms that advance the os and get people hooked to stay with the os, just let us do our thing, damn it
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charrion:
My guess is it was a support decision. Fewer people rooting their phones, fewer support calls from people who bricked their phones claiming it's 'defective'.

Sucks, but I can understand why they choose to do so. I wonder if they would provide a means to replace the perfect SPL with a flashable one once the contract and/or warranty expires.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jake_gt:
I need help installing flashrec. I copied flashrec-20090815 to the root on my SD card. I have a path to tools and e:\ but when I try install command from SDK it returns

"can't find 'flashrec-20090815' to install" I have removed and re-installed drivers but same result

Thanks for any advice...
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charrion:
If you're using adb to install it, you need to have the apk in the directory from which you are running the adb command. To install it from the sdcard use a file explorer like Astro, browse to the sdcard's root and tap the apk there.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Reverend Gridlock:
Yeah I guess but an unrooted gphone is boring, the android os is so bland that it needs a lot of help, I mean a tremendous amount, without great devs like drizzy, jac and cyanogen I would have done gave back my phone
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charrion:
True 'dat. I went from liking my phone to loving my phone by installing CM and Ted's Hero theme. But then I came from a background in computers and have some Linux experience, the rooting and modding wasn't too difficult and what problems I had I was able to work out by hunting around XDA and the net at large.

Some of the people attempting to root their phones now are a little out of their league and probably shouldn't be making the attempt without a little more knowledge and really shouldn't be messing with the experimental roms.

I don't mind helping people out from time to time but I'd hate to be a support person for any one of the carriers dealing with someone who bricked their phone.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tahnok:
Hey,

I just followed your steps and it booted into the custom recovery.img. I'm using and HTC dream with 1.33.0010 SPL.

Thanks a TON for these instructions by the way, but I have one more question. If it boots into custom recovery, do I still need to change my SPL to 1.33.2005 or can I just go ahead and flash a custom ROM?

_________

Rogers HTC Dream 32B (Black)

SPL 1.33.0010
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charrion:
If you want to use any of the mainstream roms like Cyanogen's without using the Rogers customized one, then yes because you also have to flash the radio image mentioned in haykuro's rooting thread. If, however, you wish to stay with the Rogers specific Cyanogen rom or any rom specifically for Rogers phones you should be able to stick with the 1.33.0010 SPL.

But, having said that, I've never tried it myself so I don't know for sure. I do know that if you plan on using any other non-custom rom you have to replace the SPL among other things.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jake_gt:
Finally root

Thanks for the thread Charrion, I finally rooted last night. Had to force the apk extension on flashrec (for some reason my PC downloads the file as a zip)

after that, your instructions worked without any problems.

Let me buy you a beer!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamieownsu:
Hey.

I'm new, so silly question. How do you find out which SPL you have?

Also, why do people make 'Rogers' ROM's when rooting your phone allows you to install any ROM you want? Right? Isn't that how it works?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] david1171:
honestly do search take away a part of your soul...

you honestly have no clue what searching is at all... camera and power for bootloader which will tell you what spl you have.

edit: Charrion said why below me why rogers rom have to be cooked. Thank you Charrion

one more time... i don't even have a rogers phone or well know anything about rogers other than the name but for reason i came across that info... search!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charrion:
No, simply rooting a Rogers phone doesn't allow you to install 'any' ROM.

The main reason is that the Rogers phones use a different radio image than the others. Using a standard rom will not work with the default radio images the Rogers phones use. Therefore, you have two options, you can flash your radio to match phones like the T-Mobile G1, etc. or you can use the roms customized for Rogers specific radio image.

The main argument is that because the customized rom works with the radio image supplied by Rogers you shouldn't experience problems with 3G, sms, etc and it's easier to return to the stock rom. However, with the standard roms, you don't have to wait for someone to cook a custom rom for your Rogers phone.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jisri:
Thank you

Thank you so much Charrion.

I applied this and it works on my Dream

was: 1.33.0010

now: 1.33.2005

I was hopeless since the goldcard method did not work for me.

Thank you.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charrion:
Good to hear. I tried just about everything after I foolishly installed the update with its dreaded 1.33.0010 SPL, even the goldcard. I just hope Rogers next update doesn't include the kernel patch that blocks one-click. I'm sure someone will find a way around that too, but it's a pain.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamieownsu:
Thanks for your reply Charrion. That cleared it up perfectly for me.

As for david1171, see the following:

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an assembly, meeting place, television program, etc., for the discussion of questions of public interest.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beav_35:
Thanks Charrion for the info but do you know what problems are people experiencing?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charrion:
Some people in 3G coverage areas have claimed they don't get 3G when they use the non-Rogers roms but I'm not sure of the veracity of that claim.

Sadly, I'm not in an area that gets 3G, yet. I do know that I've used the non-custom Cyanogen roms since 3.6.8.1 and haven't experienced any problems thus far.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caldebre:
Hi, has anyone rooted this dream yet?

32b post 911 update

i have tried for 2 days and nothing, but everything is at least a year old

anything new
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ezterry:
It was re-rooted post e911 update last july:

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=Rooting_HTC_Branded_EBI1_Dreams

IF you are with rogers you may wish to stick with the ebi1 (3.22) raido as rogers will disable your dataplan if you change it without signing the wavier..

if not or if you signed their e911 wavier your dream is nearly the same as any other, and supports the extra ram of the 2708+ radios, After completing section D, you can flash the 2708+ radio with fastboot: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=831139

(from the 3.22 radio the only way to do it without bricking is via fastboot using those instructions no shortcuts or you may brick your phone)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andrew87:
hey guys i followed all of these steps everything seemed to work perfectly, after i apply update.zip from recovery mode the phone reboots into recovery mode:S and now i cannot get past the rogers screen unless i boot in recovery is my phone bricked ?

if it helps at all when i boot into hboot(camerapower) its says no image!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charrion:
You are now rooted but have no rom. Your next step is to download one of the roms floating about, I'd recommend Cyanogenmod 4.0.4 for a first time rom. It's stable and reasonably trouble free and there's plenty of themes that support it if you're into that sort of thing.

Once you've downloaded the rom, put it on your sdcard as update.zip (replacing the other update.zip) and flash it using the recovery mode. The first boot after flashing will take a few minutes, usually between 3-10. Then set up the phone and go. You likely won't have any net connection on first boot since few of the roms include Rogers APNs so go here for the info to set up the Rogers APN.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timino:
stuck at step 6

no matter what I try, I'm stuck at the ROGERS screen.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!

T
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charrion:
If you reboot without holding the home key what happens?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rvin:
Wow, can anyone help me with my issues. I have:

DREAM PVT 32B ENG S-OFF

HBOOT -1.33.2005 (DREA21000)

CPLD-4

RADIO 3.22.20.17

Apr 20 2009, 15:30:43

I keep trying to load the ROM but they don't seem to take so I just get stuck with the ROGERS logo loading screen and nothing else after that.

I can access the system recovery utility, I am using the CyanogenMod v1.2 + JF. After I apply sdcard update and rebot I get stuck on the ROGERS logo.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fingerlickin:
after flashing a rom it can take up to 15 mins on the first boot. Are you waiting long enough?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rvin:
Waiting and waiting....

I've waited in upwards of 30 minutes for something to happen but it just sits on the ROGERS screen so I just yank the battery and start over.

At this point I just wish I could go back to where I was before I tried all this rooting and rom'ing.

Did I mess something up and brick my phone?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charrion:
You still need to flash the radio image in haykuro's root thread. And probably flash to the v1.4 + JF recovery image, also in haykuro's thread.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hjlow:
this is what I have:

DREAM PVT 32B SHIP S-ON d

HBOOT-1.33.0010

CPLD-4

RADIO-3.22.20.17

and when I tried to flash 2005 spl last time it bricked. anyone knows why it says SHIP S-ON d?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mahasmb:
Would I need to follow any special instructions to UNROOT a Rogers HTC Dream? Or can I just follow any tutorial in these forums?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charrion:
Unroot instructions are in the first post of this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=544654
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mahasmb:
Gah!

I even remember seeing that weeks ago. I forgot all about it in my frustration. Searched so long for the answer when it was right under my nose.

Thanks a bunch, Charrion.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hjlow:
what about the radio that the rogers update uses? do you need to change it before you flash the spl?