yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kam187:
There's a couple of tutorials about this in another thread.

If I were you i'd follow one of them and also install a custom recovery. Then play around all you like with rooted roms, stock, custom or otherwise. Once you have a custom recovery you can flash anything. The only down side is that you won't be able to install any OTA roms. But to be honest they appear on XDA in a format you can use on custom recovery way way before you ever receive an OTA notification anyway.

Then if you're sure you only want a stock but rooted rom, then install that and then finally flash the stock recovery back.

However if you're sure you don't want a custom recovery and only want root, you can follow the first half of the same tutorials.

I myself have an unlocked bootloader, but if I didnt, I would root, install a custom recovery and never look back. If anything ever happened to my device i'd just flash the stock recovery and stock firmware and send it back.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sergey.petrushin:
Ok, thanks!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viper2g1:
That's good information but I'm unsure if I want to unlock at the moment. Thanks but I'll wait a little longer to see if a solution comes out that this my needs.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kam187:
No, thats the point. You dont need to unlock to root OR put a custom recovery anymore. See here for example:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=710842

So you can root, put on a custom recovery, try different roms and then go back to stock, rooted or not, without unlocking the bootloader at all.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viper2g1:
I see what your getting at, that's what I was looking for but wasn't sure it was working for FRF91 the last few posts in that thread indicated an unlocked boot loader last time I looked.

I thought the update was to fix the security hole that allowed that
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sogo87:
I have read a lot of comments on the guide of how root the nexus without unlocking the bootloader and searched in other places but couldn't find an answer to my question...

I've got at&t version nexus unrooted and I updated it to FRF91 OTA.

can I use this guide to root it without unlocking the bootloader?

If I can, how do I do it? some people wrote that I need to use Passimg.zip

but I think It's for T-mo version only because at&t's version doesn't have the erf79 (I hope I wrote it right).

anyway I'm really confused. can someone please explain?

thanks :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RashaMatt:
Me too - same question... I didn't see any tuts for rooting FRF91 w/o unlocking the bootloader.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] time_shock:
they should work in the same way as it did for FRF83 or FRF85B.. you could always try without harm ;)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sogo87:
this link: xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=717870

is a guide of how to downgrade from FRF91 to FRF85 in an unrooted nexus.

that way you can use this tut and root it w/o touchnig the bootloader
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukbeat:
EPE76 to frf85B

Hi,

I am back from frf91 ota to EPE76 by applaing passimg.zip. My question is how can I move to frf85B ? I've tried to download universal frf85B, change name to update.zip and go to recovery, but I only see exclemation mark. Please advise. Thank you.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blackman778g:
Well, I said no flamers but I have to get this off my chest.

I've noticed everyone one of his ROM have never been finished but, a new one comes out every other day/week. Most of them come out after something new such as the slide and legend ROM's... they don't do anything different same issues,bugs,errors. I used to love those ROM's but I noticed the copying awhile ago as stated above with the same issues etc.

Anywho.. any word on the ruling of this case?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asb123:
you said no flamers, but the majority of your post is flaming kingklick...
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binary100100:
Why is it that just about every time I open up the G1 forum I see new posts about this situation. It is being carefully reviewed by the moderation team so enough about this.

Another post to close I guess.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stylez:
As already stated this is being handled by the moderation team in the meantime can we all get back to development.

On that note thread closed.
[neoTouch S200 General] www.citrofiel.tk:
Hello,

I bought an Acer Neotouch S200 with English HTC Sense Rom v3 or something like that.

Now i would like the original NL rom from Acer on my phone.

I downloaded the file from Acer.nl, but i can't flash the phone, i get an SKU-error.

Is there a possibility to get the phone on a dutch original rom?

Please, some info.

Thanks!

Hans
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h2o pete:
My contacts storage is about 70MB. It keeps getting bigger every day. Any ideas why ad any ideas how I can reduce the size? I have to keep deleting apps because my phone storage is getting low.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaivish:
how many contacts u have? 10 million? keep the contacts pics on sd card might help if u have a lot of them
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beardie79:
I appear to have the same problem, currently 28.58MB.. I have my contacts sync with Exchange server and FB but pretty much all the images are tiny..

Any help would be v.much appreciated :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TakashiM:
i seem to have the same problem

i didn't notice this before, but after i updated my desire to froyo, i became quite annoying as, for some reason when the phone is on low space, the phone doesn't sync my gmail and other mail accounts, it can't download any applications, and gtalk just crash even before opening. so i tried to remove the apps that i didnt really need but every single time it when went to low space within 3 to 4 hours of the deletion of apps, i finally noticed that it was the contact storage that was ever increasing, it was 52.88MB while i was registering on the forum.....it's now 53.14MB. so if someone knows a way around it that doesn't include deleting all contacts , your help will be very much appreciated.

i have a feeling that the reason the contact storage is so big is because of all the data the UI pulls from facebook and twitter, but then again I might be wrong.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sjunaz:
I too have problems with this. My phone is now running ridiculously slowly due to what reminds me of a memory leak.

I just removed both the Facebook application as well as removing my Facebook for HTC Sense account in 'Accounts and Sync'. I then deleted Contacts Storage from running applications, and having deleted these, I now only have my Google and SIM card contacts (and phone).

I think the new Facebook is what's responsible for this ****up.

EDIT: I think the new Facebook is definitely what's causing this. A workaround that seems to fix it for me is to select 'Don't sync' in the Facebook settings (not the native Facebook but the one you get through Market). On the other hand, if you let Facebook for HTC Sense sync with contacts, you will still get the information in your contacts screen (Facebook 'link', photo, birthday etc.)

A ****ty solution but at least a somewhat working one.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyberkamote:
I think i have the same problem, i noticed that when my FB starts synching my contacts (coming from a fresh wipe, for example) my phone memory starts to decrease dramatically (38MB down to 17 MB to 15 MB ...)

I say "i think" because I do not know of a solid way to measure how much Facebook contacts actually eat up? any suggestions on where to find this info?

I have my phone contacts linked with their FB profiles so I get bday info, profile pics and stuff, this might be quite a lot (well i only have 500+ FB contacts)..

Is there anyway to have a workaround with this- maybe to store these FB profile pics and info to SD instead? or something, i dunno...any opinions would be really appreciated.

UPDATE 1: so I went into Manage Applications > Running (sorted a-z) and found out that "Contacts Storage eats up 50+ MB - is this the culprit?

If so, here are some questions:

1. If i clear do "clear data" on contacts storage - will it delete all my FB contcts and make it go back to 0 (under view menu on people app)? If so, then how can I "link" my phone contacts to their FB profile pics if they'll not be listed in my contacts?

2. Is there a way toa ctually move these info to SD? (i see that the "move to SD option is greyed out on this one)

Thanks!

UPDATE 2:

So I did try clearing the data for my contacts storage, but backed up all my contacts first. After clearing, it indeed deleted everything. Right now I am not ready to let go of my phone contacts to facebook contacts linking, thus, I still resynched them, but this time I left my Google contacts unsynched (those were like 500+ contacts) so now contacts storage is just taking up 22MB- not bad.

If there will soon be a way to move contact storage data to SD (and, say that process keeps the "read lag" to a minimum) then that would be great!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mpruner:
HTC EVO - contacts using too much memory

I am having a similar issue. I sync the HTC Evo with ACT! with about 2700 contacts. I dont sync with Google or FB - I use Companionlink via DejaOffice. When I first sync the People application (contact storage) displays about 7.9MB used. Within a few days this number jumps to 294MB and the device warns of low memory. I dont include pics on contacts or anything that might blow up the memory. Any ideas?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennethBr:
I have this problem too.

73.5mb contact storage size... really annoying.

Mine is around 3-400 phone contacts and then 3.500 facebook contacts, and it's the facebook contacts that's the big problem here.

****ty.

If just the contact storage could be saved on the sd card?!?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyberkamote:
found this: http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile-pulse-pulse-modaco-com/315662/contact-storage-move-to-sd/

but i dunno if indeed there is any truth to that thread...still hoping any genius would find a way to move Contacts Storage to SD...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ajaykarwal:
I just unsynced my facebook contacts... (the facebook app on android is garbage anyway..)

contact storage instantly jumped from 18mb to 10mb

still, 10mb seems really high for just a few hundred contacts....

I've got all my contacts in Gmail and have them synced to the phone.. i dont have any numbers stored on the phone or the sim.

Could this be why?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zmedhaug@hotmail.com:
I had 40 mb! I got it to 2m with 250 contacts. Here is how. I have my contacts backed up by saving them top google. If you didn't do it that way back them up some how. Then I went to settings then accounts and sync. Then I went to facebook and removed the account. Then I went to settings then applications then manage applications then contacts storage. I cleared the data. then google synced and put them back in. I downloaded an app off of the market called SyncMyPix and that put all of the facebook profile pictures back on my contacts. Plus my battery lasts four hours longer.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kmetek:
any other solution?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiwisine:
Reduced Contacts Storage

I had 25mb of Contacts storage used. I exported my contacts to the SD card as a vcf using export option in menu under People app . Then using Application Manager cleared all data in contacts storage. Then imported contacts back in. Result was reduction in contacts storage down to 1.68mb.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] recolor-shrink-spool:
Well, my contacts storage is a whopping 378 MB!

I can't believe it myself.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fibroman:
Hi. There are times when I try to install an app from the market, and it says it downloads it, but when it then attempts to install it, it just keeps saying installing but nothing ever happens. I have let it sit there for over an hour, and yet it still just says installing without any progress.

So, when this happens I cant figure out anything to do but to reboot the device. There must be a better way to "cancel out of a botched install procedure, but I cant figure it out.

Does anyone have any tricks to do this and has this happened to anyone else ??

Please let me know,

thanks.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MSigler:
Whenever I've had that happen I can usually go to markets, find the app it's trying to install, and hit "cancel", then restart it.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fibroman:
Thanks for the quick response. I tried to do what you suggested, and I went to the market, found the app that is stuck in installing mode, but all I see is a greyed out installing button at the bottom and no cancel button or anything like that can be found.

Please direct me to cancel button.

Thanks.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MSigler:
Oops, you're right, you can only cancel if it's still downloading/waiting to download. Once it starts installing it's greyed out. Not sure what to tell you other than rebooting.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] scaricatore:
Hi guys,

I haven installed a new rom in my phone and I discovered some programs is still on my memory and it can run.

I'd like to add a link in the program section(here i can see only installaed programs so if other programs are already inside my system i cant see them)

How can I do? Thanks
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] maff90:
in file explorer you should be able to long tap on the .exe then tap create shortcut, youve then got to move this shortcut to device/windows/start menu/programs

(i have made a copy of all the links and put it in internal storage so when i flash a rom i can just copy all the links at once)
[Touch2 ROM Development] trebuh:
[Discontinued][ROM] 2010-07-03 NOW ONLINE "Rom_MEGA_fra_040C_23563_6.5.5_v1.01"

Discontinued. Plz see the new and fixed version 1.03 at :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=725835
[Touch2 ROM Development] gabrielmihai:
Hi,

Any screenshot? Can you post some?

Thanks
[Touch2 ROM Development] racka_pw:
Is there english languge in the rom?
[Touch2 ROM Development] trebuh:
@racka_pw

No man. Only french.
[Touch2 ROM Development] angelusone:
Hi there, thanks a lot !!! could you pls tell me how I could install it as the file has no type... anyhelp would be appreciated. thx
[Touch2 ROM Development] trebuh:
@angelusone

Hi. First you should read the thread at the following address :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=668926

Don't forget HardSPL. Read here.

Now. I flash with HTC_MEGA_ROMUpdateUtility, from this forum.
[Touch2 ROM Development] angelusone:
Thanks Trebuh, I renamed the file as NBH and the upload utlity recognized it.

I'm running it right now and it's great !!!

Just the quick menu not working properly (ie volume icon not showing and HTC volume neither when we use the volume buttons...)

The rest is really cool:)
[Touch2 ROM Development] trebuh:
@angelusone

Thank you for your feedback.

Have you installed mmtaskmanager? It helps for the quickmenu icon issue.

I didn't notice the problem with the volume button. Probably because I've already remapped that button using AEBPlus (plz google it). Now I use that button for <arrow up> and <arrow down>. I have remapped <volume up> and <volume down> on the windows and backspace hard buttons.

Hope I helped.
[Touch2 ROM Development] angelusone:
Hi trebuh,

yes I have installed mmtaskmanager and disable the windows taskmanager icon, I was just mentioning the icons when you click on the clock (appearing below) something is strange even with the volume icon... I can use the volume up & down buttons but I have the "windows" volume appearing and not the HTC one... but it's not a huge problem, I can use the phone normally....
[Touch2 ROM Development] trebuh:
@angelusone

Yes. The HTC volume screen appears only when you touch the mmtaskmanager windows icon, and then you can adjust the volume by touching that volume scale or by using the hardware volume buttons.

Using the hardware volume buttons when the HTC volume screen is not shown calls an other kind of volume screen that permits to separately control the phone volume and the device volume. I say it a "plus".
[XPERIA X10 General] damirbusic:
I must check Gmail datasync in Settings so my e-mails can be synced but then my phonebook gets al those Gmail contacts ! How can I unlink that so it does not touch my phonebook, only Gmail app and e-mail in there ? I have used to do it before but now I dont remember how.

Tnx a lot
[XPERIA X10 General] damirbusic:
Found it:

Go to Settings and then click on Accounts & Sync and click on your gmail email, then uncheck contacts.

But I cannot click on Gmail, just put or remove tick, instead I must enable Google Sync and there uncheck Contacts. Hope it will help someone.
[HD2 General] 00Nuclear00:
I´m using wktask since i got my hd2 but now i flashed a new rom (Clean Ex DsE V14.5) where i can not use the x button of wktask.

Is there a way to move the clock a little bit to the left?

The skin function of wktask works but it hides the half clock.

And how can i disable the current programm caption on the upper left side in the taskbar?

I also want use the stock icons in the taskbar, how can i get them back?

cheers, Nuclear
[HD2 General] dan138zig:
I encountered this problem too. It's annoying. I ended up installing ArkSwitch. Pretty good.
[HD2 General] 00Nuclear00:
i try to make a trasparent X icon and use it as skin in wktask.

Then i have to to press on the clock in the taskbar to close a program.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SNaReX:
I'm looking for Call recorder for HTC Desire(rooted)

Is there any that works well ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Barmaleo:
Try Desire CallRecorder.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpideRMaN-17:
I never saw one that works, i think it's a no go on the desire (rooted or not)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] hjna:
I have installed Opera 10. How do I get to add favourites in the favourites menu in Sense? Tried adding bookmarks in IE Favourites, but that didn't help.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] karaern:
if thats possible would be great...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] hjna:
Anyone who can help with this issue?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Januwar:
Open the Bookmark-URL in Internetexplorer and let the page be loaded fully. Then close Explorer and preview will be showed. Works not on all pages but most of them

Good luck
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] johnboatcat:
This is how I did it.

This worked on my Miri ROM. When I click on a blank internet tab shortcut it takes me to the Opera 9.7 bookmarks even after making Opera 10 my default. I had to switch back to 9.7 as default and set all of the sense tab shortcuts with images generated.

When you do this it creates a number of image files in the Windows/Thumbnail sub-directory with long coded names. It also creates an .icn file in Windows/Opera9/profile/Images, named as the www url name of the shortcut.

You then switch back to Opera 10 as default and Opers 10 uses the page image shortcuts. You can edit the Windows/Thumbnail images and save the new image with the same name and you will get the new thumbnail image directed to the same url it was originally associated with.

Set 9.7 as default in Settings/Advanced. You need to re-install 10 to set as default as it only asks on install.

The long coded names change with each assigned url. I do not know how they are generated or how they relate to the .icn files. If this process was known it might be possible to change the shortcuts without reverting back.

If your original default browser was IE you may have to do the same, but roll back to IE not 9.7.

I can only say this worked on the Miri ROM.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] erdoke:
Opera Mobile 10 has a big advantage, it can sync bookmarks, speed dial icons and history with any Opera Link enabled desktop Opera. It's enough to use a portable version, that can import IE favorites as well. On top of that the password file (wand.dat) is also compatible.

I find it much more convenient to manage this data on my PC and then sync it to the PDA.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Deke Martin:
I followed 42turkeys' excellent How To Root and everything seemed to work as it should. I then used the ROM and root updates from andrewb84uk and they went on OK with no apparent problems. Andrewb84uk has since seemed to lose faith in his own ROMs, although other users, like me, are happy with what he's done. My phone seemed to be working fine, I can boot into recovery mode, and I really like some of the new features on 2.1.

So, my question is this; how can I tell that the root worked OK? I never really investigated the OS too much when it was running 1.5, so I'm not sure I'd spot too many of the subtle differences. Also, it is an updated OS, so any change I see may simply be an update rather than the result of root.

Does simply the fact that I can boot in recovery mode confirm that root is successful?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] strider96:
Go to the android market and type in Screenshot in search...

Download the app and see if it works...

If it does your rooted!

It it doesn't your not rooted!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Deke Martin:
See below...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Deke Martin:
It works! Many thanks...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] strider96:
Yippee!!!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Deke Martin:
OK, so now I can search the Android library for 'rooted' and see what comes up... :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] strider96:
This is what I got...

Towards the end i got bored...

​
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Deke Martin:
If you search in Androlib there's 27 pages of rooted stuff:

http://uk.androlib.com/r.aspx?r=rooted

:-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Shakor:
Hi devs,

I was trying to compile the eclair AOSP with hero profile. Everything compiled correctly and it boots up on my hero but why does my touchscreen not work??

Anyone could give me a hand on why the touchscreen is not working on my hero? I am using godmode kernel.

Thanks in advance,
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maxisma:
Use this kernel + wlan.ko:

http://github.com/loxK/android_device_htc_hero/blob/froyo/kernel

http://github.com/loxK/android_device_htc_hero/blob/froyo/wlan.ko
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Shakor:
Thanks Maxima! :)

But this is for Froyo or also working for eclair?

And another question is it a special kernel config that I need to enable for the touchscreen to work? As I did use a working .config from another 2.1 rom.

Giving those files a go anyhow :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Shakor:
Argh! I recompiled the kernel with the config from the kernel you posted. But still touchscreen does not work.. :(

Also the unlock (pincode) screen does not popup so I cant make any calls.

Can anyone please give me some hints on why this is happening?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dipje:
In the kernel is a AOSP-version of the touchscreen driver and a Sense-version. Don't know why the difference is there, but if you look at your kernel source files you'll see a file in there with 'AOSP-fix' in the filename. Use that version of the .c file (overwrite the original or backup the original first) and compile your kernel. The touchscreen will work now.

Or (like the previous answers) use an already compiled kernel with this fix in it :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Shakor:
Ah! Thanks. Recompiling :D

btw and what about the pincode popup issue? Why am I not getting that popup when starting the phone?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Shakor:
Works! Nice! Thanks. And my other Question? Pincode unlock is not poping up. I cant get a signal from my provider :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Shakor:
Anyone has a clue?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Shakor:
I have tried to enable keyguard options to false/true 0/1 but still no joy.

Now checking settings it seems my build is not seeing the baseband versions. It says: Unknown.

Maybe this is something anyone has experience with?