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[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] LAYGO:
Don't know if it's good, but I saw an article that Quake2 is available as a download. 1st time running it will download 40mb in assets! Quake2Android
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mrpuffin:
took about 2 and a half weeks for me to get a refund on something (that kinda pissed me off)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Drewmungus:
I didn't see it on the market, can you post a link.

Heavy gunner 3d and Doom are available on the market, and are good. Nova you have to go to gamelofts website to buy, but it's still a pretty cool game
[HD2 General] nrfitchett4:
Not complaining, just trying to understand the logic.

We all like to have the latest systems/builds right???

So why are most of the custom ROM builders using 23569 when it hasn't been updated in months and is pretty much a dead SYS???

Is there something wrong with the 231xx series that I don't know about? I switched my builds over to 231xx on my tp2 custom ROMs when 23569 didn't get any updates for a few weeks. My 231xx series custom ROM was very stable and fast, played nice with the hd mini lockscreen and the newest dialers.

So, if you build custom ROMs and you are using 23569, why???
[General Questions and Answers] JelloB:
I don't know anything about this programming. I am a complete idiot when it comes to this stuff. I rooted the phone because I wanted to be have full control over it's capabilities going forward, but I didn't realize I'd need to use these programs on my computer to do it. I thought things would be available through simple downloads.

Anyway, I've spent the last several hours attempting to become at least functional so that I could install another OS on my phone. I have no idea what rebooting in recovery or clearing caches or any of this is. I know it's probably simple, remedial stuff to practically everyone reading this but I am clueless.

I'm sure I could learn and was willing to do so. I downloaded SDK and Java update and Eclipse and painstakingly followed installation instructions several times from several sources. And I can't get the adb to function. My computer won't recognize the path. I'm pretty certain that I've installed everything completely and updated the path accurately, etc. I go through cmd, type in adb and it says it's not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I've gotten to the point where I just want to set my phone back to the way it was when I bought it 2 days ago. I want to go back to being a simple lemming and just oblivious to this whole world. I don't belong over here. I'm out of my league and I know it.

Now the problem I have is that it's supposedly easy to "unroot" the phone. You just have to download 3 things and "flash" them. I don't even know what the **** that means though. And if it invloves using adb (or abd...I don't even know that), then I'm screwed.

I'm really frustrated guys. I'm tired. I should have never attempted this, but it all sounded so easy and awesome. Now I just want my normal, restricted phone back. Can anyone help me?
[General Questions and Answers] JelloB:
OK. I got the phone back to it's original state. I know some of you are probably shaking your heads at the decision, but it makes me feel a lot more comfortable.

Maybe if I could figure out how to access adb, it would be different but I just felt handcuffed without it. Well there eventually be ROMs that are more easily installed like re-installing the original was? Will there be ways to just steam it through HTC Sync?
[General Questions and Answers] SupremeBeaver:
i think one reason why u didnt manage to get adb working is because u didnt set up the environmental variables for java. Go into command prompt and type java. See what that returns.
[General Questions and Answers] JelloB:
Thank you for the response. That command produced a long string of information. Is there something in that I should be looking for, or was this just a test to see if it would be recognized?
[General Questions and Answers] SupremeBeaver:
it was a test to see if java was working fine. By string of commands do u mean like this:

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/8440/48798806.jpg

Otherwise the problem may be that you havent specified the environmental variables for the android sdk.

Right click on My Computer and go to properties, under the Advanced tab, hit the Environment Variables button, and in the dialog that comes up, double-click on Path (under System Variables). Now what u need to do is add the location of ur sdk to the end of the "Variable Value".

So if u put the adroid sdk folder in the root of ur C drive, then u would add this line

;C:\Android\tools

to the end of the Variable Value line. This depends on where u put the skd folder though. Whats important here is u dont replace whats already there! Just add the line to the end, even the ";" symbol.

Hope this helps. let me know how it goes
[General Questions and Answers] JelloB:
Thank you again for the response. Yes, that looks to be the same screen information that appears when I run java in command.

I have the SDK in a folder named AndroidSDK on the root of my C drive. I have added the line ";C:\AndroidSDK\tools" to the end of the path. One thing I just realized is that when I double click the AndroidSDK folder, the next screen contains a single folder named "android-sdk-windows". When I double click that folder I see subfolders for add-ons, platforms, tools, SDK readme, and SDK setup. I'm wondering now if I need to include that "android-sdk-windows" in the path line in order for it to find adb in the tools.

I would really like to solve this adb issue. I still want to learn enough about this stuff to root the phone again and feel comfortable working with it. I'm completely obsessed with this right now. It's driving me mad.
[General Questions and Answers] SupremeBeaver:
in that case the line you should add would be

;C:\AndroidSDK\android-sdk-windows\tools
[General Questions and Answers] JelloB:
I can't believe it was that simple!

Actually I can believe it. Thank you so much for your help. Sorry if I came off as a bit of a drama queen in the OP, but I have just spent about 6 hours messing with this if you include the rooting.

Ok. I think I'm going to give it all another shot. Thanks again. I may be back to this thread again if I end up running into another dead end though.
[General Questions and Answers] SupremeBeaver:
Glad it worked :D

Dont worry about it, i can understand ur frustration because this is by no means straight forward.

Hope u enjoy playing with ur soon to be rooted EVO :P
[General Questions and Answers] JelloB:
If you have time to answer another question, I went through the OTA Simple Root process again and everything appears to have worked. But I don't think that finishes the phone in root. I don't have a Superuser app, for instance.

Isn't there something else I need to do? (Install a custom rom maybe?)

If so, how do I accomplish it in the least technical way possible?
[General Questions and Answers] SupremeBeaver:
Im not too sure with that actually. I dont have an EVO (or any android phone for that matter). But yeah i think the superuser app should appear without flashing a custom rom.

I think you might want to create a thread in the EVO section where im sure many EVO owners will help u out with this. Or maybe a mod could move this thread?
[General Questions and Answers] trentlythp:
Disclaimer - I have not used the simple root method.

That being said :) I have helped a few people with this and it seems that the last img file that it flashes does not have super user access. You need to flash a custom ROM in order to fix that. I will post a link to the thread that I was helping in and that should answer some of your questions on how to do that.

Hope that helps

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=722194

Sent via the Sprint HTC EVO
[General Questions and Answers] JelloB:
Just wanted to update this. I finally was able to put it all together. I was previously unaware of the "extras" tab on the OTASimpleRoot program. Just didn't read the instructions in post well enough, which is the story of my life....but I digress.

Anyway, I was able to root the phone again, flash recovery and now I have even gotten to the point where I understand a little bit how to install custom roms. In fact, I just installed my first using Baked Snacks latest update. I've also downloaded ROM manager so in the future I should I have no trouble at all (even though I'm pretty comfortable doing it the "long" way now).

Thanks again to both of the guys above who took the time to read and respond to a complete newbies questions.

I now that I have successfully loaded a custom ROM onto my EVO that it is full root and I don't have to worry about that anymore. I don't have a "superuser" app that I can tell, but I do have a "dev tools" app and folders which I don't think were on the phone before.
[General Questions and Answers] JelloB:
Alright, I do have a superuser permissions app. When I click it nothing happens though. I don't know if that's normal or not.

The issue I'm having now is that when the phone was rooted it took it back to the 1.17.651.1 software version. I went through the steps in the "How to start over: Fully rooted stock 1.47..." thread but the phone doesn't appear to be reading the PC36IMG.zip file. It doesn't ask if I want to update it. I tried it a couple times and then skipped to the second file in that thread (su-2.1-e-unsecure-signed.zip) and got a message about ....something "build". Went ahead with the install but I don't see anything different. Still says I'm on software 1.17.....
[General Questions and Answers] JelloB:
Wireless tethering app doesn't work for me, which was the impetus to dig further into this....deeper down the rabbit hole.
[General Questions and Answers] JelloB:
Ok. This will be my last update but I'm pretty excited because something has happened to correct issues I was having.

I thought I would go through the root process from start to see if I could get the 1.47 software. Once I got to the second step and did the factory reset, upon reboot it took me to the recovery screen which was different and made me a little nervous. I found the cue to install BakedSnack again from the sdcard and chose that function.

This time things were different than before. For instance, upon booting the phone I got a cool screen saver with streaming, trippy colors instead of the 4G and Sprint crystaline logos. I don't remember this happening the first time I installed this ROM. Once I got into the phone I noticed some minor changes I didn't notice the first time. The music widget wasn't on the second page, nor the nascar or football crap either. I think they were there before. Then I went into apps and saw ROM manager installed and superuser and Wifi tethering. Went straight to wifi tethering and low and behold it works like a charm.

Last but least, I went to check the software and I am now running 1.47. I don't know why it's on their now. This is all still a little mysterious to me. I could swear this Baked ROM is a little different than the first time I had it on the phone. Maybe that's my imigination. Maybe the factory wipe did something. I don't know but I'm very happy now.
[General Questions and Answers] SupremeBeaver:
Congrats :)
[General Questions and Answers] JelloB:
Thanks again man!

What a difference 24 hours can make. At this point last night I was ready to pull my hair out in frustration. By noon today I had unrooted the phone and re-installed the most recent OTA software update and was ready to just stick with that. Now I have re-rooted, somehow managed to get the updated software back on the phone, and have installed and am running an incredibly awesome custom ROM.

I love my new phone. Thanks again to both of you guys who offered help. I think I'm going to be good from here on.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Keegan_P:
Just discovered this great app and I wanted to let everyone here know about it. I recently downloaded android system info by ElectricSheep from the market and I have to say I'm impressed. It can tell me who made all the sensors! Really, check this app out, and post some comments about it, its free after all.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] sadams39:
Which one is it? The one by Google Inc or ElectricSheep?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Keegan_P:
Woops, electric sheep. :-)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] x1tom:
Hum, i see alot of threads about processor throttleing to save battery, but android seems to do a pretty good job already. Only been at max cpu for 10% of run time.

Nice app thanks for the headsup
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] KimG:
Nice app! Thanks.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] piercewei:
downloaded. it' quite useful, thanks.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kartikp84:
hi guys, im stuck...

well not exactly- i have unlocked the bootloader on my nexus one on FRF91.

but what bout after that? i found some links on XDA and it says to superboot? cant do it i keep getting error and most of the tutorials are on windows OS, i use a mac, i would really appreaciate it if anyone can assist me any further with commands on terminal for mac.

i'm a newbie so i really dont know what to do, i've spend almost 8 hrs on this and only got bootloader unlocked.

thanx for your help guys
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blas4me:
Why would you play around with a $580 phone if you don't know what your doing, they had a post showing you how to root without unlocking your bootloader. The other thing is you have to explain exactly what you did, and what stock rom you came from and where your trying to go. I'm not familiar with Mac systems but there should have been instructions for that system to. I'm going to check it out for you and see if I can help.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=636795

Do step IV.

Pick a ROM you like from the list in Developers section, download it.

Do step VI.

Not really hard.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kartikp84:
I have unlocked the bootloader- theres a unlock logo on boot screen, but then I know I need to do superboot n then flash recovery image!!

That's the part that I tried to do but can't do.. I have all the files,but commands don't seem to work.

I've been trying for almost 12 hrs.

n I'm on stock frf91 which I did OTA for

Let me know if there's anything you can do thnx
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blas4me:
Check this video

This site helped me out alot when I first learned, because they have instructions accompanied with video, so it's like you can't go wrong. Sometime the dudes who have just instructions leave out a step and that can f things up for us. When I rooted my N1, the guy who posted the instructions put a period in the wrong place, and it almost had me stuck, but I knew the recovery image and I knew It did'nt belong there. Anyway check this vid, and let me know what happens, start from the beginning even though your boot loader is unlocked.:)

http://theunlockr.com/2010/01/02/how-to-root-the-nexus-one/
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kiserai:
Here's another video with instructions for Mac.

http://www.droiddog.com/android-blog/2010/02/video-tutorial-hack-your-nexus-one/

There are links to files for each step, and the only suggestion I would make is maybe look for the newer 1.7.0.1 Amon Ra recovery image and to not use the Sense ROM that he links to. The recovery image is here on this forum in the Android Development section. I don't use it since I'm still having no issues with the 1.7.0 version that this guy links to in the guide.

As far as ROMs are concerned, I highly recommend going with either CyanogenMod 5.0.8 Stable (because it has fewer issues and is a good place for a noob to start) or with one of the more stable Froyo roms, like Kang-O-Rama .9.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] stewroids:
So I'm trying to flash my Nexus One to Cyanogen 6.0 and I followed the steps very carefully. I dragged the rom and Google addon onto my SDcard, turned off my phone and loaded bootloader (track ball+ power button), waited and selected Bootloader, then Recovery.

A couple of seconds later, my phone was on the original Nexus One logo screen, and then all the sudden there's a caution sign (!) in a yellow triangle with a little green android robot right beside it. I waited it out (5 minutes) and nothing happened, so I took my battery out of my phone to restart it.

After that, I decided to upgrade to Froyo through my phone. I clicked "Install Now", and it said that it will be installed and needed to restart my phone. It rebooted, went to the Nexus One logo, and then the same caution symbol with the little green android logo popped up again and it froze. Once again, I had to take the battery out.

Does anybody know the cause of this?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Keegan_P:
You soft-bricked your phone. You didn't follow the steps completely right I'm guessing. This is repairable, reflash a stock rom, reroot your N1, then try the steps again.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] stewroids:
Thank you for the reply.

Could you re-direct me to a link on the proper way to unroot, and flash a rom? I remember I ran into a problem with Windows 7 not reading my Nexus One which really messed something up during the process.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] arifqur:
In all of Dutty's Roms since HG3.8 I have experienced that Satellite Fix in Google Maps is achieved within 10 seconds or so.

In comparison all other Roms that I have tried and I mean all of them, as I am a Flash-A-Holic, it takes sometimes 1 to 3 minutes to get a Satellite Fix.

So now I want to use NRG's latest GTX Rom but the GPS Satellite fix takes forever.

Any ideas how the Dutty's Quick GPS Satellite Fix can be implemented in other Rom's?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] de Wolfe:
Just keep in mind to update QuickGPS periodically (or set update modus to auto-update).
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tidy_x10:
Hello all I am looking on where 2 find a new touch screen for my x10i can anyone help I have tryed uk Google and uk eBay :(

Thanks for / any help
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gpmg762:
Try searching for "x10 digitizer" on ebay.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mtechfan:
The digitizer and display are two different parts. It depends on what he wants in specific? Some people think the touch screen is just one piece.

Display only -> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sony-Ericsson...UK_Mobiles_Accessories_RL&hash=item45f3e21e36

Digitizer only -> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/XPERIA-X10-DI...UK_Mobiles_Accessories_RL&hash=item3caeb8f15b

My advice to the OP is to get it repaired by a service center. Swapping the digitizer on this phone is no easy task.
[Desire Android Development] dj_denims:
thats pretty cool mate thanks ill try it out tonight when i get home from work :)
[Desire Android Development] qubz:
Thanks for this! Will give it a shot when I have a moment
[Desire Android Development] alias_neo:
Script?

Anybody fancy writing a nice script to do this for us? I'm on Holiday in Spain so I'm feeling pretty lazy.
[Desire Android Development] d3sm0nd:
Awesome, thanks a lot!

I'm on DJ Droid's Sense with Froyo 2.2, will try it.. hope it works! But do you know why it's rom specific? Is it because of busybox?
[Desire Android Development] peewster:
I tried this out, and got stuck on bootubuntu from the bootloader menu.

command not recognized. . .

everything works ok until i try to boot ubuntu from the bootloader menu.
[Desire Android Development] morsdyce:
Works great for me, SixOclock rom with busybox 1.16.2
[Desire Android Development] doinbox:
Try ./bootubuntu instead
[Desire Android Development] peewster:
as soon as i get home, i will.

Thnx
[Desire Android Development] munkimatt:
Is anyone nice enough to break the ubuntu.zip down into the 6 files and upload separately?
[Desire Android Development] Kalashnikitty:
good job, works fine on SetRom 3.5
[Desire Android Development] nesquix:
someone can post screenshoots ???
[Desire Android Development] ghiki:
?¿?The uncompressed "ubuntu.zip" has a 2Gb .img!!!
[Desire Android Development] KuRouZu:
humm, are you get any error in this part?

cp -f fsrw /system/bin

cp -f bootubuntu /system/bin

cp -f unionfs /system/bin

cp -f mountonly /system/bin

and, where are you launching the bootubuntu command? You need do it from adb shell (at least until you set gnome) or terminal client directly from your phone, like better terminal emulator. Don't forget do "su" before launch bootubuntu. If it still does not work I recommend you start again the guide :)
[Desire Android Development] lilnev:
why would anyone want to install ubuntu on a phone?
[Desire Android Development] abc27:
Why would anyone not want to install ubuntu on their phone? :D
[Desire Android Development] peewster:
Ok, so it worked. I'm now logged in through adb into Ubuntu. But how can i run ubuntu directly from my phone ?
[Desire Android Development] abc27:
VNC?

10chars.
[Desire Android Development] peewster:
I was wondering if you can run ubuntu (shell) directly from phone instead of adb
[Desire Android Development] atomfix:
Anyone got screenshots?
[Desire Android Development] BaGRoS:
CM7 not work :(
[Desire Android Development] Mefistozisimo:
htc sense 3.5 sense

anybody plz could tell me if it work on sense 3.5 sense this method of instaling ubuntu on desire!???
[Desire Android Development] VITTman:
thx u

One of the algorithms has helped to run it on my HTC Incredible S with android 2.3.5. So thanks u very much fot your help.

There was kind of three skripts to mount ubuntu, run x-desktop and close x-es. Plz add the most helpful solutions to the 1st post.

---------- Post added at 11:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:33 PM ----------

It doesn't depend on htc sense version. all u need is: NONE of apps (games especially) should be installed on sd card.
[Desire Android Development] peewster:
Not yet :)

just logged out, and now i'm trying to log in again, but it won't work.

OUTPUT:

bootubuntu

mknod: /dev/loop2: File exists

ioctl LOOP_SET_FD failed: Device or resource busy

mount: No such file or directory

mount: No such file or directory

mount: No such file or directory

net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

Setting /etc/resolv.conf to Google Open DNS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

bootubuntu: cannot create /data/local/mnt/etc/resolv.conf: directory nonexistent

bootubuntu: cannot create /data/local/mnt/etc/resolv.conf: directory nonexistent

Setting localhost on /etc/hosts

bootubuntu: cannot create /data/local/mnt/etc/hosts: directory nonexistent

READY TO ROCK AND ROLL BABY!

Brought to you by NexusOneHacks.net and the open source community!

chroot: can't execute '/bin/bash': No such file or directory

Shutting down Ubuntu

failed.

failed.

failed.

failed.
[Desire Android Development] freaksey:
u can. watch the video on the nexusone hacks page
[Desire Android Development] peewster:
ok i will.

thnx
[Desire Android Development] peewster:
hmz i don't know if i'm doing something wrong but every time i run:

sh ./ubuntu.sh it shows me the bootloader, and when i type bootubuntu, my phone reboots automaticly and that's about it.
[Desire Android Development] abc27:
If my understanding is correct, all we need to do is create a small application which opens a shell and executes the command to start ubuntu?

Sounds easy, will give it a shot, first have to actually get it working the manual way ;)
[Desire Android Development] peewster:
I just read the last post on the howto, and somebody said something about problems with 16GB sdcards. . . And that's just the card i have :)

i reflashed my rom, and now i am logged in again. Now i have to look how i can get logged in after logging out.
[Desire Android Development] zheads:
Same **** here... DeFrost 2.0c