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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alienwolf426:
Hi guys,

This is a very nooby question, but i was wondering exactly what benefit do i get for rooting my desire. Is rooting only required to install newer roms?

Also, if i were to simply root the desire would i lose any functionality such as bluetooth not working or wifi not working or the LEDs working?

I'm thinking of following the following guides for rooting:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=696189

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=672770

But before I do that, I just wanted to know what exactly is the point of rooting. any comments would be appreciated
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Giland:
Some benefits are:

Flashing Custom Roms

Marked Enabler ( If you cant get payed apps in your country )

You can Customize your phone a bit more

Flaws :

You loose your warranty...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alienwolf426:
Yea thats what i was wondering too.

I guess I wont root my phone for a bit, until the 2.2 roms are more stable, because i can already search for paid apps :)

thanks for the response
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrk0:
Even more nooby question.. what is this flashing custom ROM?

yea.. im new:p
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 325i.:
Flashing ROMS enables you to customise the phone. On the ROM i installed i did not put facebook, twitter, friendstream, quick office and many other apps that come with the phone as i dont use them.

The main reason why i rooted the phone was to install a ROM with A2SD+ on it.

On standard android operating system the apps are installed on the internal memory which is only around 140mb, Basically A2SD+ installs all the apps on the SD card.

I have installed around 85 apps and still have around 102mb free.

P.s. i used this rooting guide, http://nimbu.amorvi.com/2010/05/how-to-root-your-htc-desire/

But i did not use that way to install a2sd because i installed a2sd+ instead.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
I disabled it but unfortunately it isn't as easy as re-tracing your steps. How do I enable it again. I'm not rooted by the way.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] axelbot:
did you remove any apps from it?

if not, go to Settings->Applications->Manage applications->Launcher and select clear defaults, if you use a launcher other than Android's, replace "Launcher" above with the appropriate launcher, hit home, select use by default, and click HTC Sense
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
You're the man dude.
[General Questions and Answers] darklajid:
Hi there.

I waited a long time for the official release of something from HTC and finally gave in today, chose a custom ROM for the GSM Hero and flashed it.

I followed the steps for that ROM (VillainROM). They provide a release 10.1 and a patch 10.1.1. The former cannot start/receive any call, this is supposed to be fixed with the latter.

I flashed 10.1, a new radio (I guess that was the bad idea) and rebooted.

Now I'm stuck with this Hero

(Minor complains...)

is completely unstable (several services crash/spawn over and over)

cannot start/receive any call

(Major problems...)

USB support is broken. Before the update I could connect via adb and the phone could be used as mass storage device. Not anymore, "Unknown device"

The SD card is unavailable for the phone (seems to be locked by something else). When I read it on my desktop I find files like this on the card: qxdm_20100609_181709_1.dm

Google suggests that I somehow managed to get constant logs from the Qualcom chip or something

(The dealbreaker...)

Both problems (USB and SD card) are the same in recovery mode.

So now I'm sitting in front of my "phone" that cannot call or receive calls, that cannot flash anything new from SD card (because that's not available as soon as I turn the device on) and cannot be accessed via adb or as mass storage.

What I've tried already:

Format SD card

Wipe all data in recovery mode and reboot

Turn off the radio (using these Konami cheat codes) completely

Dear knowledgeable people: Did I brick my phone?
[General Questions and Answers] darklajid:
Okay, I made progress. Documenting it here for others in the same situation:

Basically my phone was set to log qxdm (Qualcomm) log files, which exclusively locks the SD card. Both in normal operation and in recovery mode!

The way out of this misery was to go to fastboot (Power off, Press and hold Volume down + Power, follow the menu to enable fastboot) and to issue this command from a pc:

fastboot oem enableqxdm 0

After that both the normal ROM and the recovery one could access the SD card again: I was able to flash the device again and make the phone usable again (i.e. I can accept and make calls now..).

What still is broken though: USB doesn't work in either normal or recovery mode. Not on windows or linux. Not via adb, nor as a simple mass storage device.

Any advice for this issue would be awesome..
[General Questions and Answers] darklajid:
Replying a final time to myself, to document the progress/solution:

Helpful people on IRC and some Google-Fu lead to the term "usb brick", which in turn lead to the diagnosis that one partition, containing configuration parameters, probably got messed up. Other handsets solve this by backing up the "misc" partition and reflashing it in case this usb problem occurs. For me the solution was simpler:

A post here on the forums [1] gave me the right clue: After flashing a new SPL I was able to resolve the USB issues once and for all with

fastboot oem eraseconfig

Everythings fine now, I'm glad my phone is back to normal.

1: Sidenote: I tried to link to the helpful post, but received this error:

(Emphasis mine)

Guys, my link started with forum.xda-developers.... I'd suggest fixing this restriction to really restrict outside links only.
[General Questions and Answers] Swerner1975:
Wich version of SPL I do you flash?

How do you flash it? Like...

fastboot oem rebootRUU

fastboot flash zip SPL_image.zip

in the fastboot konsole?

RecoveryConsole is not useable to me... My Hero is not rooted anymore... And it seems to be very difficult to get root again :-/
[General Questions and Answers] Ampicillin:
Glad you made it by yourself ... :D

well, i don't know that much about this stuffs otherwise i am sure willing to help .. :(

i am also planning to flash VillainROM 10.1 ..
[Legend General] da_hool:
I am in the market for a solid new phone that will last me awhile and the Legend is set to be released in a week here in Canada on Bell. The Legend seems to fit the bill if it will get Android 2.2 Froyo.

But that issue aside, does the Legend's AMOLED screen suffer any burn in problems (especially in the Notification areas) that has plagued some Nexus One and Desire users? Is screen burn-in a byproduct of AMOLED screen technology or was the problem limited to the screen included in the N1/Desire?

Thanks!
[Legend General] noobdeagle:
AMOLED does not suffer from screen burn in my cowon S9 and my legend display static images for ages there is zero burn.

to my knowledge only plasma displays suffer burn in problems and that tech is unsuitable for phones.
[Legend General] Yakken:
I am afraid that is incorrect. OLED as a technology is also prone to burn-in. As the pixels themselves emit light, they will also deteriorate ie. loose brightness when used (just as plasma TVs do). A lit pixel deteriorate faster than a black one, so items that never or seldom move will age the display faster in that particular area.

You should refrain from using an OLED as e.g. an "always on" night stand clock as this will - with an absolute certainty - cause burn-in on the display.

Nothing is perfect and neither is the OLED technology. Burn-in (or more correctly: inhomogeneous aging of the display) is probably THE biggest problem once someone figures out how to bring down costs of manufacturing of the suckers.
[Legend General] rewen:
I've only had my Legend for a few days so I can't say for sure. I didn't know AMOLED was prone to possible burn-in.

If I were you, though, I'd get the phone from Virgin Mobile instead of Bell. Compare plans. My advice is to avoid the big guys like Bell, Telus, or Rogers, and choose one of their counterparts instead.

Personally I have found Koodo to have the best plans and customer service by far. I've spent hours comparing plans and Koodo *always* comes out with the most minutes, and lowest price. Plus they don't have contracts, they have true per-second billing (others are usually only after the first minute), no access fees, low overage fees (5c/mb is a lot better than 5c/kb!). Virgin doesn't seem bad, either.

I grabbed the Legend from Virgin outright @ $350 and will be putting it onto my Koodo plan once Koodo gets HSPA network access (any week now, supposedly).

Anyway, I think you should avoid Bell. They charge $50 more for the same phone and their plans won't be as good, especially for data overages and long distance. Look at Virgin, Solo, Fido, and Koodo. Pick one of those instead.

In fact I challenge anyone to list out their plan with a Koodo competitor, and then price the same thing on Koodo. :)
[Legend General] bb147:
Virgin IMO has some of the best plans lately, especially for smartphones.

Virgin..

$60/mo

200 Minutes

500 MB Data

Unlimited Text/Picture

Call Display

Voicemail 10

Koodo..

$62/mo

150 Minutes

50 Text

500MB Data

Call Display

Voicemail

Koodo to Koodo

Especially since Virgin has been getting some awesome phones so if you don't mind a contract you are getting a pretty sweet deal.
[Legend General] rewen:
bb147 you got me with those plans there, unfortunately making your own koodo plan doesn't save you nearly as much as one of the predefined ones, and there isn't a predefined one to compete with the $50 virgin plan + caller id & voicemail addon. The one you made with Koodo comes close except that it's only 50 texts. On the other hand for the $2 more you get per-second billing and depending on your friends, koodo to koodo could save you some minutes.

I think people underestimate the benefit of per-second billing.. For instance I checked my bill last month and 80% of my calls were under a minute, a lot were under half a minute. That means if I made 100 calls I would have used at least 100 minutes with most providers. But instead, I used less than 50 minutes with Koodo. That's just me though. I make a lot of short calls after work, arranging rides, meeting up with people places, etc.

Virgin does offer quite good deals on the phones but contracts and per minute billing are what turn me away.

Here's another comparison of Virgin & Koodo for my own requirements:

Virgin:

$50 Plan:

300 nationwide minutes

7pm eve/weekends

unlimited txt

voicemail & call display

+ 500mb data ($30)

+ 5pm eve/weekends addon ($7)

$87.00

Koodo

$50 Plan:

300 nationwide minutes

7pm eve/weekends

unlimited txt

voicemail & call display

+ 500mb data ($25)

+ 5pm eve/weekends addon ($5)

$80.00

In this specific scenario Koodo's offering the same thing for $7 less, with per-second billing and much more reasonable data overage rates (and no contract - if you are happy with a basic phone)

Since I have this stuff sitting in Excel, here's another comparison (I hope I am not acting like a fanboy):

Virgin

$25 Plan:

100 local minutes

7pm eve/weekends

unlimited txts

+ 500mb data ($30)

+ Voicemail, Call Display, 5pm eve/weekends, and Unlimited browsing ($15)

+ 100 long distance minutes ($10)

$80.00

Koodo

$25 Plan

100 local minutes

7pm eve/weekends

unlimited txts

+ 500mb data ($25)

+ Voicemail, Call Display, and Koodo to Koodo calling ($12)

+ Long distance saver ($2 + 5c/minute)

+ 5pm eve/weekends ($5)

$69.00 - $76.00 (depends if you use 100 long distance minutes).

With this one you can save up to $11 a month if you use none of your long distance minutes, but if you use 100 on each you still save $4 with koodo, and if you use more than 100 then you're paying 5c/minute with koodo or 35c/minute with Virgin so you'll save more with Koodo there, too. Again, you still have per-second billing with Koodo and the better data overage rates as well.. yadda yadda.

Obviously everyone is different and has different requirements but I am likin' Koodo like crazy!
[Legend General] bb147:
Lol its ok. I guess whatever suits your needs.

Anyway.. to get back on topic... I had no idea AMOLED can cause burn-in's... good thing I'm only using this till iPhone 4. I can't imagine having a burn-in on a cell phone, that would drive me up the wall, fast.
[XPERIA X10 General] fm1776:
I'm looking to sell my month old X10i, and wondering best place to advertise and how much should I ask?

No scratches, perfect condition, original everything (box, papers, 8gb, etc..), and unlocked.

Any feedback would be welcome.
[XPERIA X10 General] duffy1807:
Haha, I went into cash generaters and they offered me 110 pound lol. ... was just curious on what they'd offer. LOL, ripoff!!

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[XPERIA X10 General] fm1776:
But they intend to re-sell it. They are a business after all and entitled to turn a profit. :cool:
[XPERIA X10 General] Cinner:
I sold mine for 325 euro (only to get another one shortly after, but that's irrelevant).
[XPERIA X10 General] fm1776:
Any suggestions for good sites to post ad?
[XPERIA X10 General] rocketpaul:
i sold one for 365 pounds but then i bought another one as well.
[XPERIA X10 General] fm1776:
Thats a great price all things considered. I'm in France but would ship to GB in a New York second for 365 GBP. can you suggest a site to post on?
[XPERIA X10 General] rocketpaul:
i sold mine on amazon uk
[XPERIA X10 General] fm1776:
Fantastic, I already have a amazon UK account!
[XPERIA X10 General] fm1776:
I just thought about something. I don't have a UK plug! :(

Edit- I just found the sony ericsson ep700 and it is stocked in the UK, so I could always buy that and ship together!

Thanks for all your comments everyone. (Rocketpaul thx)
[XPERIA X10 General] Cinner:
I used a local Dutch site, so I doubt it will do you much good ;-)
[XPERIA X10 General] jimsey:
i bought mine on ebay for £240, one month old, immaculate condition with box and all accessories.

a definite bargain but the seller was miffed with the battery life, lots of others going for about same price on flebay
[XPERIA X10 General] k1sr:
You guys should have just swapped... :)
[XPERIA X10 General] fm1776:
LOL :D:D:D:D
[XPERIA X10 General] rocketpaul:
Lol I did manage to make a decent profit though lol, about 50 pounds
[XPERIA X10 General] needmoregigs:
Sold mine for 500 USD. Took a loss though. I want to buy it again if there is confirmation of a widespread software update or root. Right now I'm just rocking the N1 and waiting for froyo official build.

I honestly miss the X10i now that I've parted with it. It really is a fantastic phone. It's just the nerd in me wants a really expensive toy to play with so the N1 drew me in.

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[HD2 General] kyleds:
hey guys,

i'm looking for a cab. or maybe rom that cn allow me to see korean letters on my phone. they only pop up as squared.
[HD2 General] Zentury:
Goto

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=659057

read post #5
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sloth3:
When I bring up my launcher it has two qik logos I cant delete one!! How do I get rid of it?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nunyabiziz:
Uninstall the update via marketplace, reboot, reinstall
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] dj13241:
Can anyone give me some guidance on this? I am looking to dump the SPL and Radio from the device (not an NBH file ... that is easy).

Can someone running a stock ROM attempt to extract the SPL using the command pmemdump 0x9a000000 0x80000 spl.nb ... If I can get a copy of this from a stock ROM, I can compare it to the SPL included in the stock ROM NBH file.

pmemdump is part of ITSUTILS.
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] diamondfuel:
I also would like to attempt this.

I have just received a new TP2 and discovered it has a newer radio 2.18.02WV and would like to see if it can be extracted from the device.

Suggestions anyone??
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] dj13241:
Can you run the command listed in post 1 and post the output file? I can compare this output file to the 2.18.02WV radio to verify that the addresses are correct.

Thanks.

DJ
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] Topone:
Hi, have you already got this?

I can do it for you.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Breakthecycle2:
I'm using Modaco's Froyo ROM. I can't connect at all.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pzumk:
Server error? Had it too. But on 2.1 and it seems to be fixed now.

Maybe Google is adding some stuff like the search suggestions ("did you mean.. [insert word]") which came out/is coming today(?) for FroYos Market
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Breakthecycle2:
Hmm..It's weird. It keeps saying "server error" like I have no 3G or wifi, which I do.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pzumk:
Tried to restart the phone?
[Desire General] jatt:
Hi All,

I am posting this reluctantly after struggling for 2 months

If I change phone to vibrate, I never get any vibration notifications for text or calander reminders even after vibration being selected?

Can anybody please help?

Thanks
[Desire General] jatt:
Anybody!!!
[Desire General] ferus:
Do you have Vibration turned ON directly in both sms application and the calendar?

Or did you only change the phone profile to vibrate?
[Desire General] gyro11:
get a free app called sound manager and goto the virbation menu settings and make sure it is turned on in there. This fixed it for me
[Desire General] jatt:
Gr8

The sound manager app solved the problem

Thanks guys

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[Desire General] benko286:
Yepp same problem I had, Froyo has fixed this by adding vibration option for SMS/e-mail/etc only in Vibrate mode :)
[Click General] nelenzi:
Please people, I need a original android 1.6 from HTC...

If you have download link, send me here...
[Click General] kandemirb:
http://rs584.rapidshare.com/files/2...WE_1.67.405.6_WWE_release_signed_NoDriver.exe
[Click General] Draken Korin:
Mod. edt: not dev related, moved to general
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chemist80:
Hi

I've managed to lose my nandroid backup of my T-Mobile G2 Touch. I was wondering if someone could provide me with a standard nandroid backup for my handset?

Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaymac407:
You can use:

ftp://xda:xda@ftp.xda-developers.co...le_UK_2.73.110.26_release_signed_NoDriver.exe
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chemist80:
thanks dude
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ddotpatel:
Dont use that one!!!!! Thats the RUU isn't it,... You'l lose root then.... and have to install the custom recovery again.

Update zips to flash through recovery.

T-Mobile UK 2.73.110.26 ROOTED update.zip

Non Rooted

Taken from Modaco's Stock ROMs + radios in update.zip format for GSM Hero
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] El_Nino9:
thats rite dont use the RUU unless you want to lose root and set to factory for warrenty purpose. T-mobile on the other hand will wipe the phone clean and install it back to factory.

my friends G2 has been sent back to them 3 times and its always come back saying they've reflashed the rom aswel as changed the screen or w.e
[About XDA developers] agent0014:
Would it be at all possible and easy to add the breadcrumb trail (xda-developers > General discussion > About xda-developers.com for example) to the bottom area of the page when an individual thread is viewed? This would provide an easily clicked link to get back to the main page. I've been on a few boards that do this and I find it really quick to click through and only read the threads that I'm interested in reading. Thanks!
[About XDA developers] -PiLoT-:
Whats wrong with the one near the top of the page
[About XDA developers] agent0014:
Well, lol, it's at the top of the page! I'm a bit of a power-reader when I'm running through the latest topics in the forums and it takes that extra action to scroll back up. It's not nearly as bad on xda since there's only ten posts per page, as opposed to some sites with 50, but it's still an extra half second per thread. No biggie if you'd rather not clutter up the bottom of the page any further, of course.
[About XDA developers] sum_guy55:
I agree it would be a nice feature. Not mandatory of course.
[About XDA developers] -PiLoT-:
ill mention it to admin
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coderedpl:
I just want to verify a few things I've been reading about

My phone is rooted.

1. The current releases of Froyo are off the pre-release that was leaked, correct?

2.Hence it wont have all the features?

3. To upgrade to a froyo release i would have to wipe, update radio and then flash the update?

4. If i want to go back to say cyanogen 5.0.7, do i have to wipe, revert back to previous version of radio, and flash cyanogen?

---or is flashing back to previous radio not necessary?

5. If i made a nandroid backup of my current cyanogen installation, and I try out froyo, but then decide to restore the backup, do i need to flash cyanogen first before i do so?

Thanks in advance!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pikipirs:
1. Correct.

2. I don't know. It appears to have all the features that were promised on the I/O.

3. No need to wipe, but it's somewhat recommended. Radio is included within the update.zip if you download the correct zip of course.

4. Don't know about the specifics, but you don't need to reverse the radio. If you don't, then video recording won't work, and SD mounting might get buggy. You could always switch to CM 5.0.8 test3. It requires the new radio.

5. Nandroid does a backup of everything, except the radio.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coderedpl:
So in order for video and mounting to not be buggy to work with 5.0.7 i would need to flash back the radio, correct?

And for the nandroid, i just restore and no need for wiping or flashing?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pikipirs:
You would need to flash the previous radio back, yes.

If you do a nandroid backup, then flash the froyo with the new radio, you will have to flash the old radio before you do a backup restore, if you want everything back the way it was. If you just want to test Froyo, do a nandroid backup and then flash the version without the new radio. Everything, except video recording (and buggy SD unmounting), works.

And yes, no need to wipe nor flash on a nandroid restore.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coderedpl:
Rather have everything working to get the full experience, i dont mind doing an extra re-flashing step :)

Thanks for all the help!

P.S. Any recommended froyo builds?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pikipirs:
There's only really one right now: the stock one. All others are just apps added to the stock one. Real builds will follow after Google releases the source of the Froyo.

Until then: http://android.modaco.com/content/g...ed-update-zip-no-radio-option-online-kitchen/
[Droid Eris Android Development] ihtfp69:
This is a total noob question, so feel free to hit me.

I really like this Phone.apk from the N1. It works just fine on my phone, but when you bring up the dialpad in a call, the last row is slightly covered up (it was obviously designed for a higher resolution phone). It's not a huge deal, because you can still press the buttons. I was going to fix it with apktool but simply resigning the file causes it not to work anymore. Does anyone know how to fix this? I didn't think files in system/app needed to be signed.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
hey i know this doesnt answer your question,

but i was able use the youtube.apk from the Evo on my unrooted eris

how come i cant use this on my phone as well?

it just says, application not installed
[Droid Eris Android Development] ihtfp69:
I guess the answer to my question is this is just a plain system file which is open source so I should not need apktool. Since it was so different, I thought it was custom.

To answer the previous post, you cant install this file. It has to be pushed or flashed since it requires replacing the original system file which requires root access.