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[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] smithisize:
So, I love to flash my roms. I'm addicted (thank you for that, xda! lol jk). But I haven't yet found a really good way to back up all of my stuff :/

I use PIM backup to do my contacts and everything it does and then XDA UC to update that, and all that is good. But apps like my Garmin GPS can't be installed with XDA UC (well, I don't have a cab for them, only the PC install via activesync), so that is a pain.

Anyways, point being, what procedure do you use before flashing a rom?

Regards

Smith
[Desire General] GANJDROID:
I'd appreciate any help.

Not sure when it started, but I flashed LeeDroid 1.4b after a wipe, as usual. But since then, I noticed that a2sd wasn't working. Installed Quick System Info and it said a2sd storage information was unavailable.

Since then, I've repartitioned my SD via recovery, and it still isn't working.

Ideas?
[Desire General] GANJDROID:
I have since tried Pays, OpenDesire & DeVillian again. Still nothing. I entered a2sd cachesd into the terminal, but it said 'a2sd permission denied'

a2sd has completely died now :(
[Desire General] GANJDROID:
Get a2sd working w/ an ext3. However, I can't clear it. At all.

Using ClockworkMod recovery and it wipes data and cache fine, but sdext always fails.

Also can't update Rom Manager. Flashed the 2.06 a2sd fix, bit it always fails on installation?

Help? :(
[Desire General] BrainMcFly:
i would use a linux-live-cd with gparted (google for it) and a cardreader, so you can repartition and reformat your sd-card with it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skantman69:
Does anyone have a pico protector working with the evo? Was just curious how it would work with the new hdmi output hacks everyone is working on. If someone could figure or a way to output sprint tv out to one of these projectors it would be bad ass. I know there was talk of pico projectors here in the past but haven't heard anything in a while.

Sent on my Sprint EVO using 4G speed
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metalmenance:
Ok im rooted and have the downloaded update (720p etc)

If the new froyo update comes to phone,,,,

will I be able to ignore, and unroot (if wanted to) go back to plain stock,

then when phone reboots back up will update still be there to install?

or will it maybe dissapear after unroot?

I ask cause I am really interested in the froyo but the rest of the update I

already have from installed update.....

decisions, decisions............
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] socalracer:
my thinking is that if an ota comes out with froyo, someone will logcat it to get the link and then pull it down, then throw it on megaupload or something, so we could manually update with it, so then you shouldnt have a problem.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NickkxNekro:
Just go to settings, about phone, system software updates (i'm running 2.2 right now, on 2.1 i think it was software version, then you can check for updates inside of that). If it sees theres an available, update, itll give you the option to install. If you hit no, it doesnt go away forever.
[Desire General] memphisuklf:
Installed adamg`s open desire rom and after installing cant seem to get the phone to boot, just stuck on htc screen. Tried to restore my nandroid backup but does the same thing after installation.

It does give an error after installation in the custom recovery, it reads

Restoring Sd-ext...

E:Can`t mount/dev/block/mmcblk0p2(file exists )

erroe mounting /sd-ext/!

Skipping format...

E:Can`t mount/dev/block/mmcblk0p2(file exists )

erroe mounting /sd-ext/!

Skipping format...

Have a partition installed 512mb taht was working fine today?

If I did a factory reset would i lose my custom recover and backups?

Any ideas
[Desire General] LeeDroid:
double check your partitions, make sure you have FAT32 + EXT3 @512mb then flash the chosen rom again, this is your best chance.

go with my rom, linked through my signature, the update will wipe the Cache + dalvik cache but keep all of you personal data and apps. :D
[Desire General] memphisuklf:
How do i check the partitions? Cant boot so can`t see them that way and haven't got card reader or anything. Im sure its got something to do with partition. Does this seem like it is causing the problem?

Any help appreciated.
[Desire General] memphisuklf:
bump, need help
[Desire General] djoni1980:
have you wiped everything before flash?
[Desire General] memphisuklf:
I wiped with rom manager after downloading rom. Not sure of all the custom recovery options as rom manager usually does it all for you. Not sure if i should wipe date, cache etc, will this wipe my backups? Tried removing sd card but wont boot, not even sure how I would get another custom rom on sd card so i could flash that. I have both defrost 2.4a and opendesire aswell as a nandroid backup on my sd card but can't get these to boot either
[Desire General] memphisuklf:
Must be something to do with the sd card partition. Everything I try I get the message

E:Can`t mount/dev/block/mmcblk0p2(file exists)

error mounting sd/ext/!

Don't know what this means but think its causing the problem.
[Desire General] jdebunt85:
perhaps a bad sector on the SD?

try backing up everything on the SD, format it again & try the roms one by one to see which possible causes the issue :)
[Desire General] philicibine:
U need to try an alternative recovery.

Try using unrevoked, and flash and different recovery.

Sounds like the fake flash recovery u got with rom manager Isn't clearing ur partitions.
[Desire General] memphisuklf:
My Wife has got same phone so I have full sd card backup from before I partition this morning. Might format sd card and put that back on. and restore backup from that. Format will remove partition wont it?
[Desire General] jdebunt85:
usually does :) some programs allow you to keep it tho but 90% of the cases its just gone :)
[Desire General] memphisuklf:
formatted card through windows but its still saying i only have 3.18gb. How do I get rid of partition?
[Desire General] jdebunt85:
in Windows XP Disk Management, right-click the existing partition,

and click delete, that will leave the whole card as unallocated space. Then

right-click on the unallocated space, and click new partition.

edit : or install http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/sdfv2000.zip

free SD partitioner :)
[Desire General] memphisuklf:
in disk management it only shows the size as 3.18gb, I made the partition through rom manager which I think formats it in linux which windows doesn't recognise.

Taking the Sd card out gets in onto the animation screen, so a little further, but still doesn't boot. Very frustrating. \\\\\any more help appreciated.
[Desire General] :
Flash a ROM that doesn't use Apps2SD.
[Desire General] memphisuklf:
can you link one for me pal, ripping my hair out here, lol. By the way how do you do full wipe in custom recovery ie data, cache, is that it?

edit. Don't matter. Sorted. Copied an earlier backup of sd card onto spare sd card and did a recovery. Still need to know how to remove the partition from other sd card using windows.

This was definitely the problem and won't be using rom manager to do another partition.

If someone does know how to remove partitions using rom manager from sd card via windows then would appreciate it if you would let me know...
[Desire General] :
Stock rooted ROM: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=694564

Full wipe can be done using the "wipe data/factory reset" option in ClockworkMod Recovery.
[Desire General] Thunderclaw:
To get rid of the ext Partition get gparted or something like that. Normal Windows cant see ext partitions because its a Linux filesystem. You can also take a Linux live cd.
[Desire General] :
Can't you just take ROM Manager and partition your SD card again? Swap 0/Ext 0/FAT 32 All
[Desire General] Thunderclaw:
It looks like something isnt ok with the partitions so i would recommend to delete all partitions and make them new i also had a problem once with my sd card but after deleting all partitions and repartition it everything was ok again.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beanjune85:
I wanna first start off by thanking all whom helped me on rooting my g1 and mytouch 1.2.....ok...now I wanna do my stock nexus one...however I have to questions...will cyanogen mod 6 have flash player10.1 support??being that it is update 2.2on the build......and will cyanogenmod 6 have wireless tethering...like my stock n1 build has....not the "ad-hoc" like on hd2 and most devices cannot see....I'm talking "infrastructure"....like my n1 has now???...any comments and help will be gravely apreciated..I wanna go to cyanogen mod 6 but don't wanna lose my online matchups on my wii...lol...lol...thanks:)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yayramen:
I am fairly certain that CM has all those things. However, I'm not totally certain, as I don't use CM, I use asimROM, which is based off MCR. And I have flash support, Wifi tethering. To prove this, I turned it on, and switched my laptop from my network to the unsecured wifi network that my n1 is generating, and am posting from that. However, I am not sure if CM has any of this.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dudebro:
CM6 has all stock froyo features plus more.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SeEsAw12:
Yes, download the Hotspot Toggle widget and you're good to go.

God, I love that widget.
[Vibrant General] Deleted member 1589139:
I know most people are gonna tell me I should root my phone, but just hear me out really quickly...

I just got my Samsung Vibrant and I truly love the phone. It's a huge upgrade from my G1 in pretty much every way I can think of. I had my G1 rooted since like the second week I had it. I started off with JesusFreke's ROMs and then made my way to Cyanogen's ROMs with a few others that I tried here and there. I tried a bunch of different themes and I used quite a few root apps. I know my way around the rooted Android scene (or at least the rooted G1 scene) pretty well, but I'm not entirely sure if I want to root my Vibrant and here's why:

I'm afraid of voiding my warranty.

There's not really anything that I want to do with the phone that it can't already do (for example, it has plenty of space for apps without the need for A2SD).

I don't want to risk losing things like my text messages over and over again from switching to different ROMs (this happened to me quite a bit with my G1).

My G1's battery and overall performance were much much worse than my friends' G1s which were not rooted. I don't want this happening with my Vibrant.

Some people will think that these reasons are either unimportant or nonexistent, but I disagree. Again, before people start saying "these are the risks of rooting, deal with it or leave," I want to stress that I'm not a newbie at this.

Anyway, the main reason that I DO want to root the phone, regardless of the fact that I told myself I wouldn't, is because of all this junkware that T-Mobile preinstalled the phone. I didn't know the phone came with this crap (like GoGo, TeleNav GPS, Slacker, etc.). We all know that you can't remove this stuff without rooting...I've counted 11 apps that I want to remove from the phone because they're effectively advertisements and I don't want them. So before I make a decision, I'd like to ask some questions...

Would you root the phone if you were ME?

Is it possible to root the Vibrant, remove the apps, and then unroot it, thus leaving the apps gone?

If not ^^, then is it possible to root the Vibrant and keep the stock ROM? I really don't want any custom ROMs...I just want to remove the junkware.

I'm sorry if similar questions have been asked before, but I feel like my specific needs and concerns probably aren't shared by most of the XDA community so I created my own post...

Thanks,

Gerard
[Vibrant General] SykesAT:
actually I think what most are going to say is search the forum... There are several threads on the topic.

You don't have to add any roms if you're rooted. Yes you can remove the bloatware with root. Yes its easy to take your phone out of root, but with the bloatware missing its not hard to see that you have had root at one point.
[Vibrant General] lisap006:
I actually did root my phone just to remove the junkware....and then used titanium backup to remove what I didn't want....it took me 3 mins to root compared to the 15 mins it took for my nexus....i say its worth it....you can't even tell its rooted so I'm pretty sure the warehouse will never catch it if a exchange is ever needed.....you ll personally make up ur mind as soon as u see the cyanogen 2.2 rom come out hopefully that will be soon....I SAY GO FOR IT
[Vibrant General] sfsilicon:
I'm not bothering to root while I can still return the phone (1st 30 days) and not all the HW issues are know. Once a decent custom ROM is available I'll start looking into rooting, customer recovery, etc. The only thing I'm missing a bit from not being rooted is my Wifi tethering...
[Vibrant General] Deleted member 1589139:
Thanks for the replies, guys (and/or girl(s) it looks like lol). I'm glad I wasn't destroyed by people telling me to search the forums...

I'll probably end up doing root sooner or later with very few modifications (if any). I'll wait it out a bit, though. My questions have been answered.

Thanks again!

Gerard
[Droid X General] Mikerrrrrrrr:
My droid x keeps on freezing when I try to use voice to text in any setting, such as swype or the search widget. My entire phone locks up with the rotating throbber frozen in the center of the screen, and I have to hit home in order to get out.

Everything else is fine, and I have no issues as long as I stay away from voice to text. Does anybody else have this problem? I think it's the google voice to text service crashing, but I'm not running a task killer, though I used to. Turning my phone off and restarting makes everything fine.

Any ideas?
[Droid X General] dvation191:
I've been experiencing this since day one, even after the update. It doesn't happen often, but when it does I just kill the voice recognition app and then it works okay. It's only locked up on me once that was bad enough I had to do a battery pull.
[Droid X General] Mikerrrrrrrr:
What's the name of the app you kill? And after you kill it, can it be used again, or is it just disabled until you restart your phone?
[Droid X General] dvation191:
"Voice Commands", and "yes" respectively.
[Droid X General] gobbles23:
I've ben having same problem.
[Droid X General] Mikerrrrrrrr:
I have no clue what's causing this problem. Killing Voice Search/Commands seems to be the only workaround at this point, and that doesn't exactly fix things either.
[Droid X General] gobbles23:
I just did a factory reset to clear up another problem and it seemed to have fixed the vice search also. I recommend trying it.
[Droid X General] mdhaliwal:
I have had the same problem as well...but I think mine only locks up when I'm using the swype keyboard. So maybe that has something to do with it?
[Droid X General] richardsintexas:
speech to text locking Droid X

I too have been having my speech to text lock up, and notice it happens when using other programs ie. Handscent with swype. move to multi-touch keyboard and it is fine. Has happened with other programs and swype as well.???
[Droid X General] richardsintexas:
Doesn't help when killing voice commands on the Droid X. Only when changing from Swype to Multi-touch keyboard. I love Swype, but maybe love Handscent more :-(

Need to make them play nice together!
[Droid X General] Fireplug:
This is happening to me and I don't use swype. Has happened on and off when using pretty much all "voice command" type situations. Will lock up once, then after a force kill will work fine next time.

Not sure about this, but doesn't the voice recognition feature have to "call home" to the internet to work (and that is why it takes so long for voice commands to initialize as well) so could this be a problem with connectivity timing out? I could swear I read somewhere that one of the future update plans includes allowing the speech recognition to work without having to connect to google online.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] IMissPalmOS:
While surfing around at work, I found a link back to here (XDA) where everyone was just about peeing in their pants because of a working overclock app for the TP2 (but only while on AC power or something). Had replies pouring in as of yesterday, so I figured it would be easy to find. Made myself a mental note to come back here today and read all about it... But of course now I can't find it.

Where did the thread go and why isn't everyone talking about it? Thanks!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] lilecho:
.....

.....

.....

The thread didn't go anywhere, Here it is
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] IMissPalmOS:
Thank you, that was the thread I was looking for.

Why do you say it "didn't go anywhere"? It looks quite promising to me!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] fone_fanatic:
I think what he meant was the thread is still on the forum. not that its content didn't go anywhere.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jigglywiggly:
I either put them on my webserver, or just email them. If I email them, then the install button on the email shows up... using Froyo. Don't think it works in Eclair.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gessin64:
I was wondering the same thing any ideas guys?

Sent from Jesus¿ using XDA App
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iangsta217:
Yeah I have Eclair running damagecontrol any ideas how to do it?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skiz220:
Dropbox and oi file manager :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gessin64:
Use Bluetooth it just work for me....

Sent from The Mighty One using XDA App
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sporkman:
drop box for the win

or get BUMP from the market
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zone23:
Depending on what file manager you use some have options to send via bluetooth and some don't. I use "Root Explorer" and it has an option to send via bluetooth. Once the phones paired I can send just about anything including apk files.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iangsta217:
Thanks imma try all those options
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supdawg:
Email to Gmail... Use gmail save attachment from market to save on local phone from gmail.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drbgotenks:
How do you upload an .apk to dropbox, or any non music, text, video file?

Thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kperry1911:
You can upload to dropbox from the pc via their upload tool (select upload and navigate to file).

Via Android app on your phone: Menu / Upload / select file type and proceed accordingly....

-kp
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drbgotenks:
I understand from the pc. From the phone, when I do Menu / upload/ I don't have an option for selecting an .apk. I don't have a file browser/search option.

That's my question.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davesters81:
you can transfer apps between phones using bump. Bump doesn't have this feature on iPhone, but it does on Android. I transfered a few games and Swype to my wifes phone using bump.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SayWhat10:
download Astro in market (free)

its just a file manager

go to where .apk is on your sd card

click it

menu pops up, just choose send (then it'll ask how you want to send, either gmail, etc,choose gmail or whatever email program you use)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gessin64:
Email only works in 2.2 froyo not 2.1

Sent from the clouds using XDA App
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SayWhat10:
well thats not true

i have 2.1 on my evo, im still dreaming for froyo

and i just did it,worked fine

but i am rooted, but astro doesnt require root
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] nickboygta:
when i push the Off/screen off button, and want to start the screen again i get lines in my screen and then i have to pull the battery out:S But android works fine:) Does somebody have a pakkage witch doesn't got this problem? or just one that works fine ? or a fix:p:p
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
This is a symptom of wrong panel type, if you are using panel 2 try panel 3, if panel 3 use panel 2.

Panel 2 and 3 are almost the same, but there are differences, usually these show up when coming out of sleep mode.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] nickboygta:
Welll how do i do that(A) i'm new to this stuf...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] nickboygta:
Whoot wel i found this in the defaukt-kaiser file :P 1=sony 2=topoly 3=topoly(probably just the same as 2) What do is need to change?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
Ah, depends if you are running from SD or installed in NAND ( if you have to run Haret it's SD ).

If SD then you need to edit the Default.txt file in the same folder that haret.exe is in, look for the line 'board-htckaiser.panel_type=' and change the number there, if it's 2 change to 3, if it's 3 change to 2, save and run haret again

If you wiped WM and installed to NAND, then you will have to edit the NBH, this is best done using Loserskaters NBH editor, which you may already have, depending which kernel you are using, and where you got it.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] nickboygta:
wel 2 works fine buth the screen just looks un-sharp.... So lets try 1:P
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
Won't do any harm, however the sleep issues usually only affect panel 2 and 3, ( as it says, 'probably' the same as 2, it's almost, but not quite ;) ).
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] thomascw:
i just switched from panel 2 to panel 3(nand), i was getting the lines on wakeup with 2, now i get white screen initially on wakeup. otherwise i can't really tell a difference. i did have to reboot on panel 2 this morning. does this sound like typical behavior?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] ppelleg2003:
Thank You, Zenity...

Really new to Android's World, looking to revive a very tired Vario III, I'm testing different versions of Eclair and Froyo.

Today I put on the VaniljEclair_RLS7c (1) and I got a couple of black screen when resuming from sleep...

I noticed a crappy display too (similar to low-color display). Now I set panel type 2 (I don't know why in default-kaiser.txt, board-htckaiser.panel_type was set to 1) and the display gets very clear...

When the device wakes up, I see black and white noise for a while, then the display is drawn and - it seems - everything goes well.

Thank you again, Pino
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] ggoogle:
My symptom is show command lines when wake up, but it is back to normal after a few seconds. I am planning switch from panel 3 to 2 for testing.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] ekoandrew:
Is there anyway the White Screen can change to Black? or some image?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] yusufmotiwala:
Hi,

I purchased a MyTouch over ebay which was locked initially. Somehow I reseted the phone and I am into Google screen now without any data access.

I inserted my sim card and it asked for unlock code which I entered successfully (code procured from unlockingonline).

However, still I am stuck at google screen. It does not offer any option to setup APN or WiFi so I can't make any progress. It's kind of a deadlock situation. I tried to turn it off and on again without any success.

What can I do now? Please help.

Thanks
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] AdrianK:
Press the menu button, it will allow you to change your APN.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] yusufmotiwala:
Thanks AdrianK. It did help.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] keebah:
The droid x has a feature that allows it to print at retail stores straight from the phone...is it possible to port this feature to the evo?

pocketnow.com/tech-news/droid-x-makes-it-easy-to-share-and-order-prints-of-your-digital-pictures?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pocketnow+%28pocketnow.com%29

Sent from my HTC Evo 4G