yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Drachen:
I wouldn't worry about it. Android is pretty locked down, so even with su you have to know a little about what you're doing and do a little work to screw up the phone. For example, the /system directory is mounted as read-only and you have to run a command from the terminal to mount it read-write. (Do you have a terminal emulator installed?) Rooting is generally useful to give apps access to protected files or services, so unless your app itself is dangerous if misused, don't worry about it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TexUs:
And su still prompts you for elevations...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hondaracer574:
Unroot when needed??

Hey guys.. Im new to the Android from WM and I just rooted my phone the other night. Im wondering when Android 2.2 comes out how am I going to be doing the upgrade. Do I have to unroot my phone update it and then root it again or is unrooting possible?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamkpowell:
It's a no go. :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcylcruzin:
Rooted!!! Buwahhahah!

Thank you Thank you Thank all of you!

Thanks to the root guides, files, thread replies -I found the courage to successfully root the phone...:cool:

Now let's see if that CPU nanny (setcpu) does what it says and save my phone from crying to momma usb charger every few hours... hey it's a new phone who can resist poking at it every few minutes? Heck I didn't even bother to download from XDA -just paid on market to support the author (I'm trusting XDA peoples -THAT MUCH!) :p
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcylcruzin:
Hey no need to use the SDK for this process!

Guys, all you need to do after copying the "update.zip" to your phone for this to work is to- 1) power down your phone 2) hold down simultaneously the vol. UP and vol. DOWN and Power until the AT&T globe comes up. 3) then just use vol. Down to highlight reinstall and hit the power button... there you go!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcylcruzin:
Uh Oh! Apps Market download/install issue

Guys, really need some help here! Anytime install an app that requires root permission -if I then power down and reboot the phone -then apps will no longer download or install from apps market.

Also, I can't wipe the phone from settings or dialer code and have to go to recovery mode and wipe user data before I can wipe the phone again...

Anyone got any ideas?

EDIT: Turns out it may be just android market and google account issue -this is the supposed solution:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=01984e581a23affe&hl=en
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qqbmed:
Trying to root Captivate

Ok..what am I doing wrong? I put the update.zip file in the root on the Captivate. Shut it down & restarted the phone.

During the time that it was coming back up the volume & power buttons were used until it came up to install.

Used the volume button to arrow down power to select

and watched it install.

When finished installing...... Superuser was installed.

Also installed Busybox. After installing Busy box, it said DONE

phone was rooted.

Now I had an app that was dl to my sd card (apk)

which I tried to install & got the blocked error!!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TimF:
you need to enable the installation of non market apps.

follow this guide.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=738376
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qqbmed:
Still nothing

after adb shell

*daemon not running. starting it now*

*daemon started successfully*

$ su

permission denied

$

typed in su again & permission denied again

shouldn't be this difficult.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TimF:
Make sure that your phone isn't locked the first time you enter the su command from adb shell. The super user program needs you to allow su rights to the adb shell.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sirfearoth:
not sure if i missed something somewhere, if i have i apologize, i was playing around with my phone last night at work and i am unable to get into the bootloader i am guessing that i have missed something that or lost all insanity
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scottdstone:
Not sure if you got any feedback but I was able to successfully root my Captivate using your update. Many thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coolandmellow:
OK i have rooted my Captivate but its no good when i try to install a program from my removable sd card,it says" for security your phone is set to block installation of applications not sourced in Android market"

Now on the T Mobile Vibrant there is another many option where you can turn off signed applications on the F...ing Captivate menu that doesn`t exist.WTF so after rooting i still can not install anything,because there is no method or menu option in applications to turn off signature requirement.

Any solutions would be welcome.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spokenover:
i have tried this several times zipped and unzipped niether seems to work on my samsung captivate. is there any root download out there that works?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenjindomini:
Please read the stickies. Everyone in this section of the forum has had their phone rooted since the phone was launched. If it is not working for you, you are not following the instructions word for word.

Moreover, the zip has not been required for a few weeks. There is a one-click root app for all galaxy S models. See the sticky http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=739304
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spores:
Has anyone had any success rooting the Rogers Captivate SGH-I896?

I have copied the update.zip to the root folder of the internal storage, and updated the script file to reflect my model. It gives me a status 6 error while in the boot loader.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orion_2010:
thanks it works

its works thanks man
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dynamikeee:
I don't know why, but when I'm in recovery mode and click "reinstall packages," it says update failed.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v1rtu0s1ty:
Good evening folks. Where can I find the HOWTO doc to root my Samsung Captivate? Can my cellphone be rooted?

More info about the phone I bought today.

Under "About Phone"

MODEL NUMBER

SAMSUNG-SGH-I897

FIRMWARE VERSION

2.1 -update1

BASEBAND VERSION

I897UCJH7

KERNEL VERSION

2.6.29

jetaek.lee@sep- 11#2

BUILD NUMBER

ECLAIR.UCJH7

Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dani897:
Yes and use the search function in this forum. Not the one at the to of the screen but back up into the captivate development sub forum and to the right above the stickies it says search forum. Type "how to root."

there are tethered one click methods and an update.zip among others. With the update.zip you can download directly to the phone, move it from /sdcard/download or where ever it puts it and move it to /sdcard. reboot into recovery and reinstall packages. No computer needed. Then get rom manager and flash a custom rom with clockwork mod recovery so you have busy box with symlinks and what ever other goodies the dev included. Way easier than doing it your self.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PaulZazzarino:
Failure To Root

A little new to this but the ATT Captivate does not do much after rooting the device.

I ran the Captivate One Click Root program, and it did indeed instal the files and after selecting the volume down arrow the device reboots.

The Superuser Icon is there under applications, but if I put any APK on the device or pull one from other markets it is still blocked from installing.

Two problems:

When selecting the superuser icon the program launches but nothing displays.

Running any other apk displays the message "Install Blocked for security, your phone is set to block installlation of applications not sourced in Android Market."

I am sure others will run into this. I just picked up this device and can forge some ground if anyone has suggestions ?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v1rtu0s1ty:
Ok, I tried what you suggested. I didn't find a thread that says "How to root". I did see tons of results. I found one which says "One Click Unlock". However, I'm not looking for unlocking my phone but I want to root it. I found "Rooting the Captivate" thread and this is the same thread where I posted it. However, looking at the first post of this thread, it's not a HowTo.
[Nexus One Android Development] djmcnz:
Hi, this is a quick shout-out to a kernel dev that wouldn't mind helping me out...

It was 50/50 for this section or Q&A so don't give me grief, the mods will move it if it's absolutely necessary.

I need some assistance modifying a Nexus kernel ramdisk and I just don't have the tools/skills necessary at the moment. I (think I) know what needs to be changed and it's minor, I just can't pull the source back together and test it quickly/properly.

If you're willing to help, yell out, I (think I) have the edits necessary so hopefully it shouldn't be too painful...

Please? :)
[Nexus One Android Development] MrNameless:
i am here, what do you need?

can we talk on gtalk ?
[Nexus One Android Development] djmcnz:
Yep, djmcnz... avail now.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vorob:
Sometimes i see that taken photos are partly blurred, even in good light condition.

I could understand this in lowlight, and if whole picture were blurred, but this taken in daylight and only in some parts. Example:

full size:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5020311/IMAG0855.jpg

crops:

you can see a distant building is very sharp, and nearby road and fence is blurred
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joooe:
Guess what. It's called focus.

You can try and change the metering mode in TD2 to "average" instead of "center area".

The cursor in the middle of the screen tells what it is going to be focused.

I'm sorry if I'm being hard on you, but this is dead easy to be aware of. Basic stuff. Even our eyes focus.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vorob:
Well man, certainly I'm aware what is focusing. But its really strange to hear such things from such "clever" boy. We are not discussing here mark ii with 85mm on 1.2 aperture... Its just a phone, everything further then 5 meters is in focus... Its more like to be slow processor and cmos sensor...
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joooe:
Like you mentioned, it's just a phone's camera with poor cmos sensor and processor.

Don't tell me you reached that conclusion only after my reply? ;)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vorob:
And again, partly blurred photo...

original

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5020311/IMAG0339.jpg

crops

i'm interested if anyone else faced such behavior...
[Vibrant General] blackerwater:
What firmware will the vibrant launch with?

Sent using tapatalk :)
[Vibrant General] shivers316:
2.1 (Eclair) with 2.2 (FroYo) apparently coming later this summer.
[Vibrant General] blackerwater:
No I know that :) I mean whats the build number like xxxjb3 or what??

Sent using tapatalk :)
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
I'm interested in this as well. Hopefully we don't get one of the old stale firmware versions.
[Vibrant General] kwbdc:
T959UVJFD is what my baseband says.
[Vibrant General] blackerwater:
interesting close to jf3 firmware from russia.

Sent using tapatalk :)
[Vibrant General] blackerwater:
Have you tried using odin to upgrade your firmware to any other build?

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[Vibrant General] blackerwater:
Scratch that maybe not a good idea until we get a dump and have a restore point. I get mine this week so ill do a system dump and try and put it in .tar format or md5

Sent using tapatalk :)
[Vibrant General] kwbdc:
Yea, i'm going to wait on trying anything until it's verified it works. Don't need a brick! One weird thing I've noticed thus far is that the email doesn't always sync when you schedule it and for some reason only some ringtones I assign to individual contacts work and on others the default ringtone rings. Other than that it is pretty quick, video is impressive on the super AMOLED and swype is even better than the the HD2.
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
The WiFi hotspot app is missing from the Vibrant firmware right?
[Vibrant General] disturkis4u:
yes but a quick root and installation of wireless tether fixes that!
[Vibrant General] MS_Guru:
Just installed jg1 for the I9000

I'll try anything once.... :) But it works, with even the same system folder bug that the I9000 has when running this ROM. Starts out in Russian, but no biggie. Unfortunately I can't post external links yet, so I'll do my best to direct you in a general direction of my sources.

The first ROM I installed is the JG1 ROM. I looked up "MoDaCo Custom ROM for Samsung Galaxy S".

The tools needed are found on samsung-firmware.webs dot com. Sign up was needed. The tools are Odin3, a .pit file, and like I mentioned before the JG1 Rom. I choose that ROM with the intention of installing the MoDaCo ROM above.

So if you've trashed your original ROM, and then somehow you corrupted your flash card at the same time (bye bye backup), then absolutely, this is a viable option. Like I said everything's working at this point, but thats not gonna stop me. :cool:
[Vibrant General] bl4ckdr4g00n:
you mean we can flash i9000 firmware to T9595?

Have you tried I9000XWJG5 ?
[Vibrant General] al74:
This is awesome. So it seems that there is a very good chance for a full compatibility among the ROMs of all Galaxy S variations.
[Vibrant General] MS_Guru:
In all honesty, I wouldn't go there. I'm what they call a glutton for punishment. My learning process... And FYI, the 9000 has a home button, the Vibrant does not. Made things interesting to say the least. If your ever get stuck in that position it's, up volume + power, hold through two power cycles, and you should get to the downloader. Lost root in the process, then adb and fastboot decided they would only communicate with my Vibrant when it suited them.

Anyways, after screwin with that for awhile I was able to find firmware. But don't go flashing it just yet, seems kinda buggy. But it is most definitely intended for the Vibrant. If anything, just snag it and save a copy for the community. This seems to be the only working link left out of four.

Good lord, this is retarded. I still can't post links. Will someone please PM me so we can get these links posted before there dead too... :mad:
[Vibrant General] MS_Guru:
@al74 The only place I had any issues was the radio, and that was an older image I used. I'm pretty comfortable with how far I can push this thing now, which is surprisingly far. I'm gonna go on the rampage again tonight. Maybe I'll try some newer images. But seriously, if this is your only phone, don't do what I do. :D

Sweet I can finally post links. So here's what I've got. Remember anything you do with any of this is on your shoulders. But snag it you should.

Pretty sure this is the real deal, but not really sure where it originated. Boots as tmo Vibrant Galaxy S, but not sure if its official, hacked, partialy hacked. Play it safe and don't flash it to your only phone. I can attest to the fact that its got bugs and may not boot 100% of the way 100% of the time. Either way, have at it...

megaupload

Here's a link to the PIT file I've been using...

depositfiles

And here's a link to Odin3 v1.00...

depositfiles

These are the drivers I used with all the alien firmwares I've installed. There's an installer included, but I didn't use it. I'm just leaving everything I've been using intact...

Megaupload

I didn't keep notes on my sources, because this really only scratch's the surface of everything I dug through to find what worked. But I do leave the files in there fully intact state, so that if need be I can use Google to relocate them later.
[Vibrant General] degeneration:
@MS_Guru How did you get it to work? Now my phone won't detect my sim card and my volume buttons are mixed up and in recovery I can not select things with the power button.... I am starting to get worried I might had to live without m phone for a few days and return it to radioshack and hope no one notices what I did...

Reflashing with odin3 using the files you provided fixed the bootloader... now I just can't get into the phone... I am getting closer though, maybe if i update with the dump on the forums somehow...
[Vibrant General] blackerwater:
Flash the older firmware it should fix it until we get a full dump to restore from..

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[Vibrant General] degeneration:
I believe I did (I started a post like the newb I am titled something about being retarded) but I get a blank screen, but I have the feeling I am doing something wrong. I also tried downloading the dump zip and renaming it to update.zip and tried to install it from the recovery screen but nothing... that or the same thing... ugh, just disappointing to get a new toy and immediatly ruin it for no good reason... and having paid 500ish only makes it worse, but I preordered from radioshack so maybe they will take it back pretty simple...
[Vibrant General] MS_Guru:
Pretty sure we've already talked via pm. But read the whole post. I warned of the trouble of using these. Remember, this is the Development area. You should never flash firmwares without first considering the dangers, especially when I even warned you, a few times at that. But in all seriousness, you'll be fine. Throw that thing in a drawer, grab your old phone, and let these threads mature a bit. The way things are going, you'll be seeing valid fixes in no time. And seriously, even in my best efforts, I am absolutely unable to brick this thing.

Sorry to say it as I'm sure you've learned a tough lesson, but in the future, read the entire post. If someones saying things like, don't know where its from, hacked?, partially hacked?, Official?, I can attest to bugs, those should all be HUGE red flags. I provided this purely in the spirit of progressing future tools and ROM's, not to provide a functional firmware.
[Vibrant General] degeneration:
I ended up here after I jacked everything up... I was hoping that your attempts into using the same roms I was trying to use might help me figure out my situation, but I got my phone back to phone status.

Granted, I didn't read the full post that got me to my trouble or I would have seen "Americans don't flash!" or something silly like that. Oh well... kept me out of trouble for the day...
[Vibrant General] rhcp011235:
Quick question.

I see you guys doing firmware upgrades.

What is the best?

What do i gain by sing a diff one?

what is the cons?

Thanks
[Vibrant General] shin6gc:
is it possible to flash with I9000DXJF4 using Odin on my Vibrant? Ive flashed mine to T959UVJE8 and can't seem to get into download mode again. Avatar can't be played after flashing too. something about the video is locked even though its from the same phone and nothing happens after asking me to unlock it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pecosROB:
This might be a noob question, but I have a question regarding the GPS.

Does it require data to work? Or does it require data to work for certain GPS features?

I am going to Europe and need to decide if I will need to take my N85 unlocked and try and get a local SIM card there. I want to geotag my photos but don't know if you can since the EVO has no international roaming capabilities.

Does Geotagging (or any other GPS feature) require data to work or can some GPS functions work by connecting directly to the satellites?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pseudoremora:
GPS will require data, especially if you plan on using some form of Geotagging.

Definitely take your N85 unlocked and have a SIM card -- leave your EVO at home, since the EVO is CDMA based and almost all networks in Europe are GSM based, your EVO won't be doing any calling/texting -- that is unless you want to get a huge ass bill for roaming every second?

I'm not 100% positive, but the way it works is that the GPS on the phone will try to connect to your carriers tower first and get all the information it needs from there... then any information it can't retrieve or has to upload (maps, geotag, etc) it'll use a universal satellites. These satellites are the ones that your phone connects to if it has to be tracked if you get lost (via 911) and are also the same ones Google probably uses for Maps, Navigation, etc -- since they provide a large amount of information.

Hope that helps.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Above information on GPS is wrong, I am not sure where to start to correct it. Lets not, and simply respond to the original question:

GPS is a global network, and works without any data. In fact a GPS device is receive only device, so it cannot even send. If you have a GPS device, it will work all over the world, though it may take a while in clear sky to get a cold fix for the first time after you crossed the Atlantic.

There is something called AGPS or assisted-GPS, which does use data by first requesting a rough fix from the phone network as well as the current position of all the GPS sats, which will speed up the first fix of the GPS a lot, but that is not needed per se, so if you have no phone signal, or no data roaming, GPS still works, just the first fix may take a bit longer.

Mind you, some phones have a broken AGPS implementation, which behaves strange on some phone networks, so you may want to configure it not to even try to use AGPS when abroad. Have it fall back to regular GPS. Then there will be no roaming or attempted roaming on behave of the GPS. GPS will never provide a (navigation) map, it will only ever give you a position, but for tagging, that is all you need.

As to your specific phones, I do not know the EVO specifically, but assuming Sprint did not put in some program to completely bock the phone when out of its network, since it is Android it will simply let you make pictures and GPS tag them without any network.

You do want to bring your Nokia though if you want to call people, Europe is indeed close to 100% GSM based on the 900 and 1800 Mhz frequencies.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pseudoremora:
I figured I was wrong, I stand corrected.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trentlythp:
If you flash the new WiFi and 4G files it should fix your issue. I used the stock ones at first and neither worked. I flashed the new files for the OTA and everything is working now.

Sent via the Sprint HTC EVO
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robuser007:
How can we use our backup apps on the newer cm6 ? They aren't showing on downloads on market (so we don't get updates).

Is there a program to fix this (or that makes excellent backups with downloads on market)?
[Desire General] Exca:
Hello, i have rooted my desire, didn't install a custom rom yet, just rooted. But OTA update doesnt work... it downloads, restarts, starts installing and ends with the phone logo with a red question mark above it. Is this normal behaviour? After that it reboots with the update not applied...
[Desire General] philje123:
You can't run OTA updates while rooted etc. Even if itdid work you would loose root etc.

Phil
[XPERIA X10 General] x10addict:
Apologies if this has been done before. I have literally just got my X10 and my only other phone was a Nokia 1208!

I've just rooted my X10 and cleared all the pre-installed Sony Ericsson apps, leaving me with a blank canvas. I have no idea which are the best apps, so maybe some of you guys could make some recommendations on the what are the really key apps that you need to get for the below tasks.

I have a limited data plan, so it's kind of key that my apps aren't too bandwidth intensive.

Web browsing:

Contacts:

Twitter:

Facebook:

Wordpress:

Gmail:

Maps:

Calendar:

E-Mail:

File manager:

PDF Viewer:

MS Office Viewer:

Media player:

Camera:

Other obvious stuff I've missed:

Maybe someone can create a sticky thread as a beginners guide to the X10/Android, because I know I sure as heck am bamboozled by just how much information is out there.

Thanks!