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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasDroid:
Yes, use MyBackup Pro to backup and restore apps and data after you have achieved root and flashed your rom. In the meantime, just backup all your SD card data by connecting your phone via USB and selecting the Disk Drive option to transfer files and folders to your hard drive temporarily before you restore them by transferring back. When you achieve root, in Recovery Mode, do a full wipe before flashing the rom. After flashing the rom and while you are still in Recovery Mode, partition the SD card as suggested and then reboot and you are done.

MyBackup Pro without root access would be very limited because with root access, it allows you to retain all your installed apps (apk's and/or associated apk data). It also allows you to backup things like Contacts, Bookmarks, SMS, Calendar events, Alarms, etc - MyBackup Pro requires root access to the system partition in order to do this.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ghisy:
I need your help again please!

I successfully rooted my phone but I cannot flash the custom ROM.

I get to the recovery menu but when I want to launch the update.zip, I get an error: "E: signature verification failed".

How can I get past this? Thanks!

edit: nevermind, I used fake-flash to launch the recovery image, I didn't get it at first.

edit2: argh, I'm stuck! I'm on the fake-flash menu (Clockwork mod recovery) and I don't see the "Partition sdcard" option. Can I reboot the phone?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnlgee:
Partition SDCard isn't in the ClockWork Recovery mod, you have to do it with either ROM Manager or something like GParted.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ghisy:
But MasDroid said: "Once you have completed the process of performing a full wipe and flashing your rom, you must then partition the SD card while you are still in Recovery Mode (do not reboot phone). From the Recovery Mode console main menu, using the optical trackpad, select Partition sdcard > Partition SD."

I tried booting in recovery mode but I don't see that "Partition sdcard" option. Is ROM Manager an app? Sorry, I'm a newbie at partitioning cards for Apps2SD.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnlgee:
In certain root methods, they provide a different kind of recovery. However, ClockWord Recovery doesn't have the option to partition SDCards. I'm not certain wether or not the new Revoked method does however.

Yes mate, ROM Manager is an app for rooted users that allows you to flash custom recovery images and even partition your SDCard for APP2SD.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ghisy:
Alright so I can safely boot my phone and partition my card from the ROM manager app then? I appreciate the help!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnlgee:
Yup but remember that partitioning will also reformat the SDCard, so make a backup of anything you need.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ghisy:
Ok, I was able to partition using the recovery-windows.bat tool.

Thanks a lot dnlgee for your help! :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasDroid:
Sorry matey, i have not been on the forums for the last few days as I had to prepare for an interview. Yes, i was referring to the older method for partitioning ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ghisy:
Hmmm, I just realized I did not do this part (the recovery-windows.bat tool didn't ask for this I think). Does it matter?

And no worries about not being here, your infos helped me A LOT and dnlgee was kind enough to help me with the tidbits I didn't understand.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasDroid:
Yes, you should still convert ext2 to ext3 as ext will allow for better/faster performance with Apps2SD. Just go into recovery mode and select convert ext2 to ext3.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ghisy:
Errrr, I don't have the option in recovery mode...? (boot while holding back key, select bootloader, recovery then hit up+power, right?)

I only have 4 options: reboot now, apply update from update.zip and 2 wipe options. I'm confused.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andycted:
Hi, something strange happened yesterday.

I had a MCR 3.1 with many programs downloaded and installed (maybe 50), 82 MB free of internal memory left. Then I tried some more roms, wiped, repartitioned, etc, then went back to MCR 3.1 and reinstalled almost exactly the same programs. Now, after one day of usage it's at 110 MB free !

But I could swear (and I could be wrong) that I saw it go down under 100 at some point then back up.

This is not a concern, but it just acting strange...

By the way, always used the same A2SD+
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasDroid:
Enter recovery as you did before when executing the recovery-windows.bat push file and then select the Partition SD option, then select Convert ext2 to ext3.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasDroid:
Maybe would have happened because you probably would have peformed a full wipe beforehand, clearing the dalvik cache.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andycted:
Should you do that often in order to reclaim space ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasDroid:
Yes, because the dalvik cache partially stored some of your app data, clearing would result in more free space. I always do a backup first, then a full wipe to get rid of any niggling bugs before flashing a rom.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andycted:
Thanks, please just to clarify: by reading info on the dalvik cache I believe you can clear it even without changing rom / factory resetting, right ?

I've also found this command to issue directly, haven't tried though:

rm -rf /data/dalvik-cache/*

One last question if you don't mind: deleting apk's in the system directory (while in recovery) does not free space for user install as it's a different partition, right ?

Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasDroid:
The only way i know to clear the dalvik cache is by doing it through Recovery Mode menu, you could do it via adb or using a terminal emulator too with the following commands:

To free up more space for apps using adb commands:

adb shell mkdir /cache/dalvik-cache

adb shell rm -r /data/dalvik-cache

adb shell ln -s /cache/dalvik-cache /data/dalvik-cache

adb shell reboot

Or via a terminal emulator:

su

mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

mkdir /system/sd/cache/dalvik-cache

rm -r /data/dalvik-cache

ln -s /system/sd/cache/dalvik-cache /data/dalvik-cache

reboot

I think deleting apk's from the /system partition would free up the internal memory space allocated to the phone, but not tried this myself as it can cause system instability issues.

Here's a link on how to do it if you are interested:

http://android.modaco.com/content/h...apps-from-the-htc-desire-with-adb-in-windows/
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andycted:
Thanks, I've already tried to remove many apk from the system/app folder and indeed once I had to put some back, but it never added not even a single MB of free space where reported. But I also thought it could be that it's not calculating this well, since you're messing with him in recovery...

Edit : just found out that dalvik cache points to sd card, so no value in it
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ghisy:
Ah right, I missed that part! Thanks again, I was able to do it!

Now I have a question about the dalvik cache: is it recommended to clear it on a regular basis? Or it might do harm to the OS?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasDroid:
No worries Ghisy ;)

About clearing the Dalvik cache regularly, it's really up to you :)

It will not do any harm to the OS, infact, it will improve your phones performance.

I don't unless i'm having major lag problems - I currently have have over 60 apps installed, 7 filled homescreens and last.fm is going almost all the time, resulting in my device lagging after a while... even with Launcher Pro installed :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasDroid:
You could try clearing your caches to re-calibrate the memory.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andycted:
Makes sense, thanks.(although I've tried without result)

I'm starting to get my bearing on a2sd. I've got a doubt though, why not symlink /data/data too ? It's one of the most full directory in the internal memory and contains mostly applications configuration...

I might be wrong but our seems to me to be the culprit for internal memory going down even with app2sd
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stortinget:
Another way to check that a2sd is working is installing "Quick System Info PRO", which will tell you the used/free space on the ext partition.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benleong2008:
I have about 110mb of apps installed and still have 78mb of internal memory. Originally it was about 138mb. I did all the steps in the first post and can see that my a2sd is working. But from 138 to 78mb is still quite a lot. Is the a2sd working correctly or working in half? :(

Not sure what this means actually

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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasDroid:
This is because some application data is partially stored in the phone in /data/data/* too. Nothing moves /data/data to SD card, because that results in instability and generally poor performance. You could move the app and dalvik-cache to SD with less trouble, but /data/data is buggy, so that stays on the phone.

Download. Cache cleaner like CacheMate from the Marketplace, this will free up some space for you.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaldean:
connectbot is very complicated can you explain the whole process fro when you open connectbot to the end, i cant see anything and when i type su it say wrong host format or something like that thanks for the help
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nsx_23:
Mine says:

dalvik-cache -> /sd-ext/dalvik-cache

app-private -> /sd-ext/app-private

app -> /sd-ext/app

Is that ok?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] CDurham221:
ok am i missing something here. i need google voice for work purposes and i downloaded idialer and relized it does not work with windows 6.5 it says because of the internet explorer does not support it. i went to download gvdailer and they are not allowing downloads anymore cant even buy it. and google voice doesnt have an app for wm. so my question is, what do i have to do to get google voice on my phone so i can dial out from my gv number? Thank you in advance
[Wing, P4350 General] suhib88:
hello everybody,

my problem is that it deducting from my balance every few seconds, operator side said it is might a virus sending messages.

i made a hard and soft reset but on both cases it keeps the same behavior.

i cant use my phone.

anyone can help plz?!

thanks in advance.
[Wing, P4350 General] hitman_544:
umm mabye u have a program that uses the internet connection BUT u said u did a hard reset .. well have a look at ur connections and programs again .. thats all i know :)
[Wing, P4350 General] suhib88:
well am afraid it is something stucked in the rom, as when reseting it comes back.

how can i find such scripts?
[Desire General] sonandreas:
1. Do you need a goldcard to root? i read somewhere that you do not need to is this true? if it is for the root guide for windows do you just copy the files to the memory card?

2. anyone know a good solution to back up your phone completely before root?
[Desire General] MasDroid:
1. You only need a GoldCard if your phone is branded. A GoldCard is a special SD card which, when inserted into your device, allows you to flash RUU files with a different CID to your own device. For example, if you own a T-Mobile branded device, this will allow you to flash a generic ROM. Therefore, a GoldCard is only necessary if your device is an operator supplied device.

2. You can use MyBackup Pro version to backup all your apps and data to the sd card.
[Desire General] matttytn2:
hello all anyone brought a fone from buymobilephones.net the HTC desire they shipped it with a Motorola charger! omg! same micro usb and charges it fine but its 5.0v 550ma can I use it as a spare has it technically caused damage 2fone or battery or both.

ppl with one b aware they posted me correct one2day no charge of course

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[Desire General] geccco:
I've used Nokia's usb-chargers without any problem. USB is a industry standard, so it should not be a problem to use any make of usb-chargers.
[Desire General] mase2hot:
Yes me too. If you look its a french version hence no original charger of the phone buy look at the box, thats why we have different chargers. I contacted them about this and there didnt seem to care that I ordered a HTC and received a motorola charger!!!!
[Desire General] RaptorRVL:
As long as the voltage is the same and the mah is not over the max (1A) it's fine. Perhaps even higher amp chargers might work if it's the phone that controls the input. But 1A max just to be sure imho
[Desire General] catdog:
Current does not matter, min 1A for fast charge, it is the voltage 5 VDC that counts. The phone internal battery charging circuit takes care of the current limitation.
[Desire General] matttytn2:
mase they will send u 1 u w8 n c! bet one turns up at ur house in the NX week I didn't ask 4it it just turned up2day... ah well 1 4 in the office then :)

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[Desire General] matttytn2:
ah yes it is French sorry not tryin 2bump up my posts. this app is sweet guys :)

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[Wing, P4350 General] hitman_544:
hey .. i just got a new htc herald ( htc p4350 )

it has WM 5 .. please i want to run touchflo manila2d on it , if i cant .. where do i download the official WM 6 upgrade ?? and after i upgraded it can i go back to WM 5 since it might be too slow or i might just not like it.. please help me :(
[Wing, P4350 General] sk1786:
you should upgrade to 6.5! there are some roms also with manila.

you can downgrade your herald every time to each version. 5 or 6

but if you have 6.5 you wount downgrade to it, because its realy fast and fingerfriendly.

look here
[Wing, P4350 General] bobgeo:
Could some one guid me where can i find tutorial for upgrading my htc wing to win 6.5 .

Thanks

Bob
[Wing, P4350 General] suhib88:
hello everybody,

my problem is that it deducting from my balance every few seconds, operator side said it is might a virus sending messages.

i made a hard and soft reset but on both cases it keeps the same behavior.

i cant use my phone.

anyone can help plz?!

thanks in advance..
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gameking7:
I have a submenu in my app drawer that I don't need. I tried dragging and dropping it into the trash, but that didn't remove it from app drawer and I went through settings also, but I didn't see anything for removing submenus. I tried Advanced Launcher, but that gave me the "Low on Space" notification and it also messed with the theme I have. I am currently running CyanogenMod 4.2.14.1. Does anyone know of a way to delete the submenu without using advanced launcher?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Woosh91:
After flashing to Cyanogen my keyboard is gone. I tried installing the HTC IME but it keeps saying it doesn't work for this phone. Help?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ayush20m:
Reflash the ROM. Install the base before the ROM
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Woosh91:
Okay I'll try that again.
[HD2 General] asctony:
Had my HD2 for a couple of days. Used WM before on MDA, Wing, Omnia. I find two short comings with the HD2.

1. When viewing Pics:

a. Scrolling thru pics is very slow compare to Iphone.

b. You cannot just turn the HD2 to portrait or landscape and the pic automatically goes to that position?
[HD2 General] asctony:
Just figured it out. I was using Photo & Video instead of Albums. Thanks anyway.
[Droid Incredible General] RXWatcher:
I'm curious if we could find a jtag connector.
[Droid Incredible General] 1wingangel:
http://www.youtube.com/v/eF-Nztd24eI&hl=en_GB&fs=1&

that's all I can find
[Droid Incredible General] jrebeiro:
That video was awesome

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[Droid Incredible General] kcasner:
Yah it was.
[Droid Incredible General] mattwood2000:
Does anyone have any hi-res photos of the circuit boards?
[Droid Incredible General] morphius2036:
I had the same hopes for the Droid Eris, of JTAG and took mine apppart, lets just hope they didn't remove that option from this phone. Good luck fellas on root. I would start making friends in really low places to find a developers rom.
[Droid Incredible General] heavensblade23:
Could jtag be used to dump the protected parts of the firmware?
[Droid Incredible General] mattwood2000:
Yes...if the JTAG interface is not locked on the snapdragon, then it could be possible to read the entire NAND flash.
[Droid Incredible General] smokeynerd:
The flash is an e-NAND which has its own controller built in. It could be a blessing in disguise as far as hardware reading the flash is concerned but could be a real bummer if it's secured internally which means no matter what you wont be able to read anything without a key. One plus is that Hynix claims "Simple read/write memory using standard MMC4.3/4.4 protocol interface" But of course as others have pointed out its not a solution for the masses.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] innuendo1973:
Hi, I wanted to ask for help WAD2 I installed on my pocket pc, but I changed idea and I uninstalled it, only when you share the power of Pocket PC comes with a windows saying "can not open file WADStartup. with digital signature trusted certificate is not available or can not find one of the components. if the problem persists, reinstall or repair the file. how can I not writing this to get out more?? thanks in advance for any help valid
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] orb3000:
Do a hard reset and prob solved
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] innuendo1973:
nooooo!!! i think that this operation can't be considered, i have a lot of software installed in the pocket pc and settings . please do you have another solution for this problem???
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] -Jonny-:
Look in Windows\Startup for shortcut and delete it. If not it may be in registry "Software\HTC\BootLauncher\Apps".
[Desire General] Fatriff:
Hi all,

I put my desire onto charge and as I picked it up and touched the outer casing I could feel this electric charge vibration on my skin, you can clearly feel it as you run your finger along the side of the metal part of the case.

What I want to know is.. Is this normal for this kind of phone or I have a dodgy one where something is touching something it's not supposed to be?

I had a laptop once that did the same, It had a metal lid.. A portege 3110 years ago and I assumed it was faulty.
[Desire General] gerryr:
I have the same thing, more so on the left side. Thought maybe everyone had it, be weird if they dont
[Desire General] foyrtcw:
It's perfectly normal. I would have thought that having a laptop that does the same would have confirmed that.
[Desire General] UltraLinx:
Yeh I have the same, it's perfectly fine

Even my iPod Classic does the same, had it for 3 years and it's still going strong.

But yeh I wouldn't worry about it, tbh I get turned on from the electric charge from my BEAST ;)
[Desire General] Fatriff:
I am super sensitive to things like this, It actualy makes it difficult for me to use the device while plugged into the charger. I stuck my multi meter on it to check and I get a high reading from the outer part of the case that surrounds the screen, even with the phone off charge and just sitting on the table I can get a decent reading.. Is there a design fault with this phone that's causing it to leak charge into the case?

I've checked my old N95, O2 Zest & Moto Droid for the same issue, I thought the droid would be the same since it has metal casing too but it's not.

Are you 100% sure this is normal? And what are the side effects of being continualy pumped with current while using your phone plugged in?
[Desire General] :
no, you should not be getting charge in the case....it does sound to me like you have a problem.

Mine has no such feeling when charging.

I can't imagine there's any dodgy side effects, it's only 5v at 1A. that's less than sticking a 9v battery on your tongue, but it's still not right i don;t think.

If you do send it back to HTC, get someone to take a picture of you and the multi-meter clearly showing the charge on the case. it's just an extra bit of evidence in your favour.
[Desire General] riz157:
I don't have any such problems.
[Desire General] ardsar:
For those of you that can not feel this, try the following.

When the device is being charged, very lightly run your finger along the "metel" edge part of the screen.

Its the same effect that i have when in bed with an electric blanket on and i lightly touch the brick wall!

On another note, there is no "tingle" when charging from from a pc.
[Desire General] localh0rst:
Same problem here.

When i charge it on my Acer laptop with Windows or Linux, everything is ok. Today i connected it to my EEEPC with Linux on it, and after the battery was approx. 90% charged again, it started to "wobble" when you touched it. Maybe it was there before, dunno ...

I can feel it on the screen and on the bezel. If i hold the phone with 2 hands, i can't feel it. And yes, i'm very sensitive to electrical currents :-)

I don't think it's "fine" ...
[Desire General] GaelForce:
I have the same problem, just assumed it was a faulty charger as my sisters charger, and my car charger don't replicate it.

GF
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] abatrour:
Hey everyone. Unfortunately my phone is still running 1.5 and the video recording quality is horrible so that made me want to change the encoding settings.

After doing some searching I found out that some settings are stored in the build.prop file but when I look through it I find there are hardly any settings for anything.

Does anyone where such settings would be stored in 1.5?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eViL D::
I'm currently looking over the classes.dex in HTCSettingsWizard because I want to get rid of the app Icon and the Learn More icon. If I just remove the app, I lose some USB funtionality, like disk drive, which I can replace as a separate app, but again it adds an Icon. I also lose HTC sync.

So, does anyone know how I would make the apk not display the icons? Any app dev that can let me know how they make their apps show and I can reverse it?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] The Professor:
+1. There's plenty of stuff that needs to stay that I just... don't want to see.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Deleted member 2182971:
Only thought that comes to mind is using Advanced Launcher; you can create folders to put apps in. I'm sure there's more functionality than that.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] zer0day:
The visibility of icons in the launcher are controlled by the AndroidManifest.xml file. The activities for which icons show up will have an intent-filter with the name set to android.intent.action.MAIN and the category set to android.intent.category.LAUNCHER.

If you remove the intent-filters, the icon won't show up but there is no guarentee that the activity will still be accessible.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eViL D::
Thanks for the tip, I'll have a look and see if this works.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Deleted member 267841:
hi,

is possible to edit the manifest.xml (with a binary edit) on the .apk file in order to

forze the icon hiding? how?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kendong2:
installation & usage instructions

please read the first post before you install dualboot!

instructions for windows:

instructions for linux:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kendong2:
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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] developing:
Holy... this is incredible. Great job on getting this out.