yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Droid Eris General] es0tericcha0s:
I might be interested in helping. I have made a few and have a couple of programs that cut down on a lot of the grunt work. Let me know some more details of what you are looking for though. Do you have anything else in mind as far as graphics, colors, etc? I'm not that great at making them from still images, as I prefer to make them from a video. Bounce around youtube or google videos and let me know if anything catches your eye and I'll see what I can do.
[Droid Eris General] synaptyc:
Richard,

Here are a coupe examples of how to make a custom boot animation.

They are very simple. Look inside these and see the folder layout and view the desc.txt file.

I made these using MS Paint in about 5 minutes.

Edit to your liking.

NOTE: use 7zip to zip the bootanimations you make. Archive format = ZIP. Compression method = store. (make sure you remove any "Thumbs.db" files from your folders before zipping or you can get a flicker when the bootanimation runs. Google how to show hidden files and delete the "Thumbs.db" file from any folder that has pictures in it)

1.) Download the desired animation, rename the zip file to "bootanimation.zip" and move into your Android SDK/Tools folder.

2.) Run the following adb command to push the animation into the proper place:

Code:

adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local/

3.) preview the animation (from your computer to your phone)

Code:

adb shell bootanimation

CTRL+C to exit

Portrait:

Main_____________________________Loop

Landscape:

Main_____________________________Loop

"desc.txt" contains the following info:

320 480 10
p 1 0 main
p 0 0 loop

To change the frame rate of the animation adjust the "10" at the end of the first line. Play with it until you like the speed of your animation.

Creating these animations can be pretty fun. Time consuming... but fun :D

~Enjoy!

*** Moderator, this thread can be moved to "Droid Eris Themes and Apps" ***
[Droid Eris General] Skrip037:
@ ^

I wish there was rep on this forum, so I could + you up a bit with that post!
[Droid Eris General] intermediate Droid:
Thanks for ur help guys you helped me alot
[Droid Incredible Accessories] TheDanishDanger:
For all the owners of the 2150 battery

How long is it taking you to get the green light? Today I burned it down to 11%, put it on charge and it's been 3 hours so far. spare parts says its at 98%. Anyone's charging quicker/slower?
[Droid Incredible Accessories] DustinF00:
3 Hours is about right. Then if you turn OFF the phone the battery will take another 30-40 minutes to get the light to go back to green.

Thats what I am experiencing...
[Droid Incredible Accessories] 760hacker:
I would have to agree mine is taking quite a while to charge. Fine with me because it also takes quite a while to discharge!
[Droid Incredible Accessories] DustinF00:
Yeah, you'd need to do the math to determine difference - but if charging the 1300mAh battery takes 1.5 hours sometimes then the 2150 battery taking 3 hours makes sense to me because of how slowing down the charge once the battery approaches 80% is going to slow down the entire charge process.

I'm consistently seeing 3 hours to get back to full charge after I totally killed it...
[Droid X General] :
To anyone who has the Droid x, can you run a touch input test and see if there is a delay? Also someone run fps2d, that would be nice. I just have this slight feeling 2dfps are capped at 30fps(coming out of my ass) because if you watch this review, it doesn't seem that smooth, but I know from another review in 3d it gets 60fps.

[YOUTUBE]<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FMG0Wjnuq3I&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FMG0Wjnuq3I&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>[/YOUTUBE]
[Droid X General] AdamLJ:
Droid X does NOT have the 30FPS cap. In this benchmark he gets over 30FPS on the 3D test.

Whats the name of the app they used to do the touch input lag in this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szOje7dcRlo
[Droid X General] Ryan Frawley:
Touch test
[Droid X General] :
Gears is a 3d app I believe. Anyway I spoke with the editor with mobileburn who has one and he ran fps2d and no cap awesome :D
[Droid X General] AdamLJ:
HTC Evo has a 30FPS cap on the display - period. Doesn't matter if it's a 2D or 3D application. That's why I posted the YouTube benchmark video. It clearly shows 60FPS in a 3D app which means it's not capped.
[Droid X General] :
Huh? I not talking about the EVO at all, I am saying the Droid X does not have a 2d fps cap. You can have no 3d fps cap, but have a 2d one, it's perfectly possible.

I was just verifying it doesn't have a 2dfps cap, even though I already knew it had no 3d fps cap.
[Droid X General] Pops_G:
Multitouch Visible Test

http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.batterypoweredgames.mtvistest
[Droid X General] AdamLJ:
Then why did you say you thought it was capped at 30FPS in your very first post? The only phone that is capped at 30FPS is the Evo, hence the reason I mentioned it.

Once again, if you get over 30FPS in a 3D app then you'll get over 30FPS in a 2D app. Unless the 2D app is very demanding and your CPU/GPU cannot keep up.

Anyway, we know it's not capped and it beats the Evo in CPU/GPU tests. Gotta love it.
[General Topics] orb3000:
Here

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mmanjj:
question. i am trying to assign contact photos with the vanilla apps .zip installed. It keeps saying i have no pictures in my gallery when i go to my gallery all my photos show up? any help? what folder should i put all my photos in? i am running latest fres rom 0.5.3
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mmanjj:
bump. please help me out
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enyce5434:
hey guys. Im new in htc hero roms. I use to run roms on my HTC Wing and it was easy..lol But now i need help getting use to the Hero ROMS.

CAN ANYONE HELP ME ON HOW TO FLASH the ROMS. A STEP BY STEP ON HOW TO DO IT. its seems complicated but im sure it easy once i get it..lol

THANK YOU SO MUCH
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cp0020:
are you running 2.1? if so then here is a how to root 2.1 guide here. root the phone first. when you want to flash a rom then download the rom you wish to flash, put it on the root of your sdcard and then turn off the phone. hold down on the volume and press and hold the end key at the same time. once the phone turns on hit the home key. then click on ''wipe'' and click ''wipe data to factory reset''. then click ''wipe dalvik cache'' then hit back and click on ''flash zip from sdcard'' and choose what you want to flash. when its all done just restart the phone and first boot will more than likely take atleast 5 min if not longer. if you need anymore help you can pm me
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rulyskull:
Instead of holding down volume and end hold down home(house) and home it brings you straight to the recovery image(after root)

Sent from my HERO200
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bk718:
Think u meant to say hold down home and end button.. lol
[Off-topic] :
Yesterday, my old computer crashed so I went shopping for a new computer. I don't know what I was thinking, but I came home with a iMac 24'' desktop.

So, say goodbye to my cooking days. This DOES NOT mean that I'll be getting an iphone..NEVER. I will wait until October for WP7(not soon enough).
[Off-topic] kareeem:
Moved to Off Topic.

Now why would you choose that? There are a lot of computers coming out with up-to-par technology. Hate to say it, but bad decision.
[Off-topic] galaxys:
Imac :eek::confused: your going to need a drink or two :D
[Off-topic] legion21:
i enjoy my mac quite a bit!
[Off-topic] Austin021296:
Ive never owned a mac but i have heard there not that bad tell me how you like it.
[Off-topic] Diamond_dawg:
if you like it you can enjoy no matter what ppl tell
[Off-topic] :
you can still run windows on it so why hate you're self lol
[Off-topic] [★]:
Because its a mac. Period

:D
[Off-topic] JAguirre1231:
Can't afford one after their latest purchase.
[Off-topic] Badwolve1:
Yeah, so true :p
[Off-topic] Zd0s:
got imac and pc (need for different things) the pc does most things but i find the mac better for the following thing

making movies

making presentations

making music

pc is better for all the other stuff :D :D :D
[Off-topic] Simon_WM:
Sorry but,

I also like Macbooks...

Much better design than a windows machine !

and also much more reliable!!!!
[Off-topic] Simon_WM:
I agree,

PC are only good for gaming, and probbalby hacking =]
[Off-topic] :
Yes, precisely that is the reason why I decided on iMac.

so far I like it. I like it because I didn't have space for the mini/Tower and I didn't care much for HP touchsmart.
[Off-topic] Badwolve1:
the touchsmart is awesome (I have one :))
[Off-topic] :
TouchSmart

I played with it for 5 minutes and personally, it wasn't what I was looking for.
[Off-topic] Badwolve1:
Shame, oh well, we all have different tastes
[Off-topic] hungry81:
What are the specs and how much did it cost?

[Troll]Anyway good on you for supporting apples march against innovation. Steve would be proud.[/troll]

Man up and build your own next time.
[Off-topic] raving_nanza:
...

Man up and build your own next time..

this is exactly what i was thinking, why didnt you just build your own pc..

1) it would be cheeper

2) personilized to your needs

3) you bought a mac.pmsl
[Off-topic] :
1) Team Edward Wallpaper

2) I named my Mac Macky.
[EVO 4G Android Development] slvdc1:
I tried almost all of these after the OTA hit my wifes phone. No dice. Subscribed to further updates on this thread.
[EVO 4G Android Development] frankenstein\:
I created a PC36IMG.zip file which contained the .6 releases wimax image and the android-info.txt file from the new update. I was then able to successfully flash it with hboot by placing it in the root of the sdcard and doing a down volume power on boot. It found the pc36img.zip file, verified it, asked me if I wanted to flash it. When I selected yes, proceeded to do so. It then reported the flash as having been successful.

I can't tell if the flash actually worked because I don't know where to check the wimax version info...

I don't know if this worked because the phone doesn't care to check the MainVer when flashing just the wimax image or if it did it because I pulled a fast one with the android-info.txt file swap.

I extracted the wimax image from the RUU_Supersonic_1.32.651.6_Radio_1.39.00.05.31_release_171253_signed.exe file.

I wonder if it would be possible to pull the same trick with the larger subset of images from the rooting pc36img.zip files. i.e. swap out the android-info.txt files...
[EVO 4G Android Development] joeykrim:
im guessing the only reason it allowed you to flash a PC36IMG.zip which wasn't HTC signed is because you're using the hboot from the eng build of the PC36IMG.zip which doesn't check for HTC signatures on the PC36IMG.zip file. Not sure if it looks at the MainVer or not ...

once you're on a stock hboot, the PC36IMG.zip file has to be signed by HTC in order to flash!
[EVO 4G Android Development] EtherealRemnant:
I think in order for this to be patched, the bootloader code needs to be disassembled between the two versions to find out what bytes were patched and then either remove the code that checks for HTC signing or find a way to circumvent it.

We had to do things like this when working with mach_kernel when we got ahold of the first developer build of OS X for Intel. It was a pain in the ass and took weeks before we cracked the kernel.

There is even more risk with this though since tampering with the bootloader can definitely permanently brick devices.
[EVO 4G Android Development] 2002wrex:
since my frien did the OTA update yesterday and "bricked" his phone i have been trying to fix the phone (i have access to bootloader so it seems to me that maybe, just maybe i can save the phone) anyways, i have been getting a lot of the same error messages anytime i try to update/load any stock rom via bootloader.

what my question is, is there a way to take a 1.47.651.1 rom/image and put it into an ruu? i have looked all over htc's website, but they don't even acknowlege the existence of the evo, at least not that i can find.
[EVO 4G Android Development] unknown_owner:
Just curious here, regarding the above step, if you had access to a phone that was already rooted, could you use your sdcard in that phone to copy the files into /data and then transfer the sdcard back to the unrooted phone to flash it then?
[EVO 4G Android Development] joeykrim:
Sorry for the long multi quote, there are quite a few good ideas and I wanted to make sure I explored each of them as far as the original poster intended.

interesting ... circumventing the HTC signature check would be perfect and essentially give us an eng build bootloader.

in the RUU.exe rom.zip files, the android-info.txt indicate the MainVer along with a separate hboot.img file. the official OTA didn't have an hboot.img file. It only had a radio.img file which must have updated the MainVer value.

Not sure where on the phone this MainVer value is stored? in the radio?

you're suggesting, compare the bootloader, which is obviously stored somewhere in radio.img as thats the only file being flashed thru the OTA which increments the bootloader version number, against an older radio.img to attempt and find which bytes were changed for the version number?

The radio.img files are all around 22mbs ... ugh

if we're able to find the change in version number on the radio.img, not sure how it would help in flashing over it?

i was kind of thinking down these lines...since the bootloader checks the version number of any file it attempts to flash, the version number is going to be the key.

if we're able to increment (or temp change) the main version number in the file being flashed w/o messing up the htc signature, that could work.

i've heard this was often done back in the WinMo days but i haven't seen anything on this board regarding this approach. if you have any detailed information, we could def look into it!

very clever concept!

i'm not 100% sure on all the different approaches in the suggestion, but here are the ones it prompted me to explore.

unfortunately, every time the /sdcard is mounted on the phone, its mounted as noexec, meaning no files located on the /sdcard can be executed like programs.

also the /sdcard is mounted with uid=1000 and gid=1015 meaning all files mounted on the /sdcard have their uid/gid overwrote so none of them are allowed root ownership.

without being able to "su" to root access, we aren't able to run any programs with root access.

trying to chownto flash_image to any reference file as root results in:

chownto flash_image /system/bin/chown

Can't change user/group to root!

chown root flash_image

Unable to chmod flash_image: Operation not permitted

if i missed the suggested approach, could you elaborate?
[EVO 4G Android Development] :
Oh boy...... I thought I was alone in this. I try everything I can and now gave up. Any one can rooted this new OTA please let me know. I really need to downgrade from this.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Mikesus:
Made me think of a problem that happened with the Directivo a few years back...

ht t p://dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22154

So, is there a way we could compromise the kernel? If so, then...
[EVO 4G Android Development] notmike:
Subscribed...

Not really interested in rooting until froyo is working, and I could really use the wifi fixes this OTA is supposed to offer, but I'll hold off installing it until we know it can eventually be rooted.
[EVO 4G Android Development] joeykrim:
i read thru the thread. im not clear on how they used BASH_ENV or any other method to load a 2nd kernel.

unfortunately, i think we have an extra layer of security that they dont. thanks HTC!

without nand unlocked on the kernel partition no data can be stored there including a 2nd kernel.

appreciate the link and info. perhaps the ideas or concepts will spur some innovation!
[EVO 4G Android Development] 2002wrex:
the thing about winmo ruu's (here's a topic i DO know well) is that they are always in a zip. you decompress the zip and have access to all the files. one of them will be the ruu, the rest are all the supporting files/images/rom. all of the android ruu's seem to come as on large exe that doesn't allow access to the files, it merely runs itself. in the winmo days if you got a rom with no ruu, and didn't want to flash from SD, you just took someone elses ruu and dumped the rom image in to the decompressed folder containing the ruu.

i appreciate the help joey, obviously you are busy with your own problems and a lot of people around here just throw you the old "SEARCH BUTTON" response. any help is greatly appreciated!
[EVO 4G Android Development] joeykrim:
interesting again .. so the RUU .exe files for android, do have a payload stored in a rom.zip file which is dumped to a temp directory after the RUU .exe starts and before it finishes.

now, the rom.zip files have been pulled and posted in each of the two RUU .exe threads we currently have. these rom.zip files do contain all .img files which are flashed to the phone. the catch is though, just as the PC36IMG.zip files used in root, these rom.zip files seem to have a special HTC signature (checksum?) in their header.

if you open these rom.zip files from the RUU in winzip, it will error out, but using 7zip, they open just fine.

im new to HTC, this is my first HTC android phone and its almost been 4 weeks so this is as much as i know. it seems, if we're able to alter these rom.zip files either used in the RUU .exe or naming them PC36IMG.zip flashed thru the bootloader and the phone excepts them, we would be golden!

to help save you some searching and let you see what im talking about, here is the latest RUU rom.zip file

http://www.joeyconway.me/evo/stock/RUU_Supersonic_1.32.651.6_Radio_1.39.00.05.31_rom.zip
[EVO 4G Android Development] mntbkr:
Subscribed, I was able to Order my EVO today so I will be watching for development. I pledge my donations to whoever is able to figure it out. I really appreciate the efforts of this community.
[EVO 4G Android Development] ricoo25:
I second that pledge for donations! I, like many others here, updated while knowing that I probably shouldn't have. I knew better...
[EVO 4G Android Development] AHrubik:
Subscribed.

Thanks for all the effort and work. I hope ya'll get it figured out. :D
[EVO 4G Android Development] Stillmatic:
dang, I just got my evo yesterday and got the update message so I thought it'd be ok to update it as I thought it might have been old.

Came home and was excited to do all my customization and tweaks, but w/ no prevail :(
[EVO 4G Android Development] EtherealRemnant:
So my local best buy will not give the phone to the customer without pushing the new OTA to it :/

Apparently all of the stores will be doing this per Sprint and HTC's request.
[EVO 4G Android Development] webs05:
Try calling them ahead of time before picking it up and asking if you can just swing by and pick it up yourself and call Sprint to activate yourself. Tell them you are in a rush, make up a story, and see if they just let you pay for it and run.
[EVO 4G Android Development] enormous:
If you put the files into /data/local, wouldn't you then need to do this?

/data/local/flash_image misc /data/local/mtd0.img
[EVO 4G Android Development] fallentimm:
Hold vol down power on phone go to fastboot type

Fastboot flash misc /data/local/filename.img
[EVO 4G Android Development] gamblz:
Correct...I accidentally just cut and paste from the other post...I did use the data/local for the purposes of my testing. Thanks for clarifying.
[EVO 4G Android Development] gamblz:
error: cannot load '/data/local/mtd0.img'
[EVO 4G Android Development] fallentimm:
You might need to repush to data local or sdcard while in fastboot

adb push mtd0.img /data/local
[EVO 4G Android Development] Vinny75:
You can probably execute that from whatever directory you have it in on the host computer just

fastboot flash misc mtd0.img
[EVO 4G Android Development] fallentimm:
Oh fastboot reads local file? Listen to vinny then
[EVO 4G Android Development] Vinny75:
it did when I was testing kernels... just assume it would work for others
[EVO 4G Android Development] gamblz:
Gave it a shot...

Fastboot flash misc mtd0.img

results:

sending 'misc' (640 KB)... OKAY [0.344s]

writing 'misc'.... INFOsignature checking...

FAILED (remote: signture verify fail)

finished. total time: 0.415s
[EVO 4G Android Development] enormous:
Same results here:

fastboot flash misc mtd0.img

sending 'misc' (640 KB)... OKAY [ 0.343s]

writing 'misc'... INFOsignature checking...

FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)

finished. total time: 0.437s
[EVO 4G Android Development] Vinny75:
what values did you use when creating the mtd0.img?
[EVO 4G Android Development] fallentimm:
Anyone have a nandroid before upgarding to ota to try fastbooting?

Can you fastboot boot a older signed recovery from eng?
[EVO 4G Android Development] enormous:
cid = 11111111
rom = 1.32.651.6
[EVO 4G Android Development] gamblz:
CID: 11111111

Rom Version: 1.32.651.1

RUU from Toasts Rooting part 1 thread
[EVO 4G Android Development] gamblz:
what file would you flash from a nandriod backup?

I have:

File

Size

boot 2,560 KB

data 122,890 KB

nandriod.md5 1 kb

system 201,651 KB
[EVO 4G Android Development] Vinny75:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=704640

I wonder if using 00000000 instead of 11111111 would make a difference

or if entering supercid first would matter

** read thread above before trying since this is advanced **
[EVO 4G Android Development] epphllps:
Forgot a 0 in the link Vinny.

Here it is: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=704640
[EVO 4G Android Development] Vinny75:
Fixed, thanks.
[EVO 4G Android Development] hydraulicquid:
No luck...

Tried changing 11111111 to 00000000 during mtd0.img creation...same signature verification error as before.

Tried the entering SuperCID mode, may have done it wrong, but below is the outcome:

>fastboot oem h

... INFOcommand list

INFOkeytest

INFOheap

INFOboot

INFOreset

INFOpowerdown

INFOrebootRUU

INFOheap_test

INFOrtask

INFOtask

INFOenableqxdm

INFOgencheckpt

OKAY [ 0.019s]

finished. total time: 0.019s

>fastboot oem changeCid 00000000

... INFO[ERR] Command error !!!

OKAY [ 0.008s]

finished. total time: 0.008s
[EVO 4G Android Development] gamblz:
No luck...

Tried changing 11111111 to 00000000 during mtd0.img creation...same signature verification error as before.

Tried the entering SuperCID mode, may have done it wrong, but below is the outcome:

>fastboot oem h

... INFOcommand list

INFOkeytest

INFOheap

INFOboot

INFOreset

INFOpowerdown

INFOrebootRUU

INFOheap_test

INFOrtask

INFOtask

INFOenableqxdm

INFOgencheckpt

OKAY [ 0.019s]

finished. total time: 0.019s

>fastboot oem changeCid 00000000

... INFO[ERR] Command error !!!

OKAY [ 0.008s]

finished. total time: 0.008s
[EVO 4G Android Development] fallentimm:
Can we fadtboot boot recovery.img from toasts root? That should be signed right? Then we can flash misc in recovery to downgrade hboot
[EVO 4G Android Development] danknee:
I didn't run the OTA update (I still have root), but I just wanted to clarify that creating mtd0.img with CID 11111111 worked to downgrade from .6 to .1. Successfully flashed the first original RUU despite having the .6 update.

Good luck on the quest to reroot! :(