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[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cabarnacus:
I'm aware that this issue is caused by the install-recovery.sh script in /system/etc/ but has anyone else noticed this happen and that it's only become an issue after FRF91?

I load up amon_ra's custom recovery thru fastboot, perform a reboot, and stock recovery reappears.

Its a pain in my ass, can i just rm the script or is there another way to prevent this from happening?

P.S. I'm running stock Froyo with unlocked bootloader and no root currently as i feel i don't need it and no custom project is really upping the game from FRF91.

Can i remove the script without root access through adb or otherwise?

Would a custom kernel stop the script from running?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LaRoach:
I had this same problem. I put on the Modaco superboot and that cured it.

If you want to stay as close to stock as possible I would:

Install amon_ra via fastboot.

Reboot directly to recovery.

DO A BACKUP!

Shell in using adb and blow away the offending script.

Reboot and enjoy
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cabarnacus:
Cheers Dude, that's exactly what i ended up doing. Just changed the script to install-recovery.sh.bak in case one day i feel compelled to re-enable it.
[HD2 General] 111Kestrel:
Over the last week or so I've downloaded a ton of cab files, which have served to not only make my phone look better, but run better as well. When I began reading these forums, I had no clue as to the inner workings of this phone. However, through the well-written guides, advice, and comments offered by the community I have mustered the courage to actually flash the ROM with one of the many fantastic ROMs available (energy ROM with Dinik’s glassy bits). There are so many of you that are deserving of a contribution, I hardly know where to begin. That coupled with the fact that I have recently become unemployed has led me to try and show my gratitude in another way.

I spent some time walking around the house today looking for some textures that might make interesting wallpapers. That coupled with some of the photographs I've taken in the past, I have created a folder of images that some of you may find useful.

Please keep in mind that this is my first amateurish attempt to create wallpapers. The majority these images were created with the Nikon D. 300 digital camera (12 megapixels). I saved them at the highest resolution possible, making some of them a bit large. When I first loaded a couple of them onto my phone, I thought I had locked it up. I hadn't, it just took long time, as much as 45 seconds, for some of them to load. These are fairly high quality images (many of them can be blown up to poster size without losing much image quality), and you can put them into a photo editor, re-crop, and save at a lower-resolution to speed up the load process. Further, you will not be able to appreciate the detail in some of the textures by looking at the thumbnails.

You needn't worry about any copyright infringement since I personally took every photograph in the folder, and you of course have my permission to use them in whatever way you wish. Just don't re-bundle them and sell them to someone else, because that would be uncool. In addition to textures there is something in there for you patriots(USA), nature lovers, and a little bit for you Harley and cobra guys/gals.

Any comments or suggestions -- from those of you out there who, unlike myself, actually know what you're doing when it comes to making wallpapers -- are welcome. I hope yousee something you like.

Cheers, 111Kestrel

http://hotfile.com/dl/56481472/9046aca/111Kestrels_Wall_papers.zip.html
[HD2 General] kor kuiper:
Great, thanks

kk
[HD2 General] Stilts:
That's kind of you, thank you!
[HD2 General] anrabi4:
Very nice of you to think that way! Too many leeches out there anyway...

Good job, mate :)
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
Thankyou :D
[HD2 General] fi3ry_icy:
downloading.. will take a look at the stuff u uploaded..

thanks for helping out!
[Vibrant General] fociz:
The volume while using headphones is entirely too low which is going to be the deal breaker for me on this phone if i cant figure a way to make it louder some how.

Is there a way to turn the entire phone up through its service menu perhaps?

Thx.
[Vibrant General] bahnburner:
Not trying to be an ass, but make sure the headphones are pushed all the way in. The plastic part of the plug should be flush with the phone. The last click is rather difficult.
[Vibrant General] fociz:
Not at all, Thx, i did that, it does take a bit of pressure to make sure the plug itself is fully seated into the phones jack.

The call volume on the Vibrant set at 100% is roughly half as loud as my MT3G is.:confused:
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
That's interesting because I had the MT3G and I found it's volume to be really low.. I was using HTC headphones with the non-standard USB cord though.
[Vibrant General] raduque:
Havin a real weird problem with my music player, need some help.

I've put my ringtones and notifications in all the different locations that the media player is supposed to ignore, though not all at the same time

/sdcard/ringtones

/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones

/sdcard/sd/ringtones

/sdcard/sd/media/ringtones

etc, same for notifications

No matter where I place them, though the media player still is picking them up. I would put a .nomedia in the folder, but prevents them from showing in the ringtone/notification lists in Settings.

Is there any way to stop this from happening? I first noticed this behavior after rooting, but would just installing SU and busybox really cause music player to read these folders that are supposedly hidden to it?

This is driving me nuts when I'm listening to music and suddenly my ringtone starts playing and I think I'm getting a call!

Thanks.
[Vibrant General] renegadedj:
this problem has been driving me nuts too. but you putting it into words just gave me an idea, try the no media thing, so it prevents them from showing up in the settings lists, but then try going "oldschool" (lol) and using rings extended from the market. it was an app first released for the g1 to see and select ringtones on the sd card that the settings lists weren't picking up.

00000

where exactly did you put the .nomedia? and what kind of file was it? or was it the name of a file or folder?

i'm down to help figure this one out ucz this music player is starting to piss me off with it's badass look yet completely lacking in options.

ps: another good feature of the stock android music player was that if you hit the context menu while a song was playing, it had a "delete" option. this was great for someone like me who dumped tons of new music i just wanted to have on the phone, and when i party shuffled, i could be like, "WTF is this unworthy for mobile listening sh!t? *delete". haha miss that option so... :mad:
[Vibrant General] DKM119:
yep...this is bugging me too...i just download a game and all the SFX shows on my albums list...and the ringtones that i have download from zedge...however a easy solution for me is was creating playlists...i really like this phone and it getting better and better...specially now that i found out that there's a equalizer in the music player...excellent.

Hopefully there will be solutions for this little bugs...i'm still keeping my phone the way it is.
[Vibrant General] raduque:
Playlists works too, except I have like 3gb of music on my card, it takes a long time to go through and individually add all the songs to a playlist.

I found out that the music player ignores .mid files, so I just renamed all my .mp3 files to .mid. Phone still picks them up for use as ringtones/notifications.

I tried both a .nomedia file (just create a new file on your computer named whatever.nomedia, copy it to your phone and use Astro or Files to rename it to .nomedia) and naming the folder .media, but in both cases none of the ringtone files showed up in the ringtones list.
[Vibrant General] renegadedj:
thanks for the .mid tip. hoping something more substantial comes up, as i have tons of my own ringtones i made haha. let's keep on this as it could be included in a custom rom hopefully
[Captivate General] PUTALE:
hi, for those who got the ATT Captivative, do you konw if the phoen comes with FM radio? I searched online and it looks like the phone may not come with it.
[Captivate General] Croak:
Doesn't have the software for it, may or may not have the actual hardware.
[Captivate General] decepticon:
Doesn't come with FM. The hardware *may* be there and if so could possibly be enabled with a custom kernel but no one knows for sure yet.
[Captivate General] pongothemagnificent:
The hardware is there, theres just no drivers in the shipped kernel, but yes theres also the chance that att decided to request samsung to remove the fm radio chipset, so that people would use att radio services etc.
[Captivate General] Dxtra:
Sick and tire of AT&T. Why disable the fm radio?
[Captivate General] shaneaus:
ATT wants to make more money off of their subscribers by making them use the ATT app which causes the user to use data (pay for a larger data plan) and pay a monthly subscription fee.

The Euro version comes with an FMRadio.apk I installed it and the GUI works fine (even detected that I didn't have my headphones plugged in) but, threw an error that the app couldn't start the radio.

So, my conclusion would be that we just need to get the drivers from the Euro version of the Galaxy S and put them into a custom kernal and install the FMRadio.apk = we would have a working FM radio.

Should be very possible and very likely to happen!
[Captivate General] sumsimpleracer:
If you want it to just listen to the Radio, try IHeartRadio it has an extremely large collection of Radio stations across the nation streamed to the phone.
[Captivate General] shaneaus:
Once again: that uses data. I think we were hoping for a REAL WORKING FM RADIO. This should be possible.
[Captivate General] PUTALE:
thanks for the feedback guys. I really don't understand why ATT always want to cripple these devices:(.

Hopefully someone will get it to work.
[Captivate General] decepticon:
Can't blame AT&T solely here. It looks like none of the US spec Galaxy S phones will have FM radio.
[Captivate General] tnerb123:
I heart radio only has clear channel stations. So if the station you want to listen isnt owned by clear channel, you need to find an alternative.
[Captivate General] nolesrule:
I use RadioTime on my squeezebox for both local and non-local radio, and it appears they have a (pay) app.
[Captivate General] shadow65781:
pandora app in store but it uses data to stream your music,just music of your choice nothing else
[Captivate General] cesierra:
what is the outcome of this investigation?
[Captivate General] jamespaulritter:
I use this portal http://www.thestreamcenter.com/ and streamfurious http://www.streamfurious.com/ but I agree! We need to get our FM radio hardware working. I did this with my Fuze and Tilt II thanks to xda.
[Captivate General] kkeo:
Doesn't make sense, since the HTC Aria has an FM radio. My guess would be Samsung didn't take the time to get FCC clearance for the FM radio.
[Captivate General] caelestis2:
Why did this thread fall to page 3... It's still a problem and I want to know if it has an FM radio or not.
[Captivate General] TRusselo:
Dont get me wrong, all cell companies are evil. but dont blame them for something that the hardware manufacturers are obviously doing.

im in canada with rogers with the i896 version of the i897 model, NO FM.

not even the international version of the i897 model has working FM.

dont blame att.... for this. :)
[General Questions and Answers] vphani:
How to set mp3 as Ringtone in T5388+ ( WMM 6.5 )
[General Questions and Answers] orb3000:
A please is always nice!

Move your mp3 ringtone to Windows directory or to ringtones folder, then you can select it from ring options
[General Questions and Answers] vphani:
It wont allow me.
[General Questions and Answers] stylez:
Should be fine on the root of storage card, same as sms tones.
[Droid Incredible General] silverxbv2:
How in the hell do I get my phone contacts to sync to Google? I tried settings_accounts_Google sync but it only pulls my gmail contacts to my phone. I want to put my phone contacts to gmail. Backup assistant works fine, but some of the custom roms out don't use it. I can't find any info on this. HTC told me when I create contacts and choose Google instead of phone that they will sync. What about the 80 or so that backup assistant did upon activating my phone? And also, if I save future contacts as Google contacts and not phone contacts, does backup assist still back these up too?
[Droid Incredible General] Nathanjb7:
In phone book hit menu and export contacts to sd card. This will give you a file that can be used to import your contacts on gmail.com
[Droid Incredible General] qmartman711:
or just go to backup asst online.. vzw.com/backupassistant, and then export your contacts to a .csv file..which you can then import into google..doesnt take long.
[Droid Incredible General] jstuart91:
In order to get the ones already saved in your phone to sync to google I think you're going to have to go with one of the options they said since I dont think there is a way to change them from phone contact to google contact.

However, when you add new contacts there is a drop down toward the top that you can change from phone to google so that after you save them it will sync automatically.
[Droid Incredible General] silverxbv2:
So if I import them to Google, it will sync. I get that. Now if I add new contacts as Google contacts does backup assist still back them up also?
[Captivate General] okmft:
I am posting this message from a PC tethered to my unrooted unmodified Samsung Captivate...here's how to do it yourself using Samsung Kies:

(Anyone else notice that the USB settings are set to prefer Samsung "Kies?" Well, that moderately useful media manager is not available in the US due to AT&T/Samsung restrictions because the software lets you tether your computer and thus share your phone's internet connection.)

Here's how you do it (no root needed, or anything like that):

(1) Download your copy of Kies at http://www.all-samsungphones.com/samsung-wave-s8500-software-kiespc-sync-download.html/

(2) Set your phone to tether under Settings->Applications->USB Settings

(3) Connect, and enjoy.

...and that's it. If you still can't get it to work, you might try downloading new Captivate drivers from the Samsung website first (they are available, but you have to use MS Internet Explorer for it to work).

Best wishes,

okmft
[Captivate General] decepticon:
Samsung has no love for Macs :(

Hoping someone can get wireless tethering up soon
[Captivate General] shadow65781:
i dont have any software other than the drivers and I can tether before I rooted the phone go figure
[Captivate General] jhego:
Kies doesn't support Windows 7 64-bit :(
[Captivate General] NamelessGRL:
Why did you say that? Cause i have win 7x64 aswell, i tried running Kies but its not working with my phone. Says "Connecting the device... Please wait" and it stays like that forever. I already intalled the latest driver for my captivate and all. Even if i try to go to contacts, calendar or memo in Kies, it says SGH-I897 The device does not support this service.

Hope theres still something else to do.. i would hate to think that its like this because of win7 x64 >.<
[Captivate General] arwalker:
I've used it on my Windows 7 64-bit machine at work. I did install the 64-bit USB drivers first, have you done that?
[Captivate General] a_fuegon:
I was able to successfully tether my PC as well with KIES. My concern is whether AT&T will know we are tethering or not. I recall we had to use PDAnet to tether via Active Sync in order for AT&T not know we were tethering. I could be wrong, but that's what I was led to believe and how I tethered using my previous WinMo's. Doesn't AT&T charge for tethering? Hence why we needed to use "backdoors"?
[Captivate General] Battlehymn:
Yes, AT&T does charge for tethering ... I think it's $50 a month for 2GB now (freaking iNazis).

What I was told about this was that they can "determine" if you are tethering by how much data you are using, though this was a couple years ago, and I doubt that that still holds true ... or if it ever did.

They are not supposed to be capturing and deconstructing your IP packets so I'm not sure of any way they would be able to see it unless the phones software somehow alerts that the phone is tethered.

I would imagine you could give yourself away though ... by say, playing WoW while tethered may raise a flag or 2.
[Captivate General] Kasey Clark:
Kies

Has anyone tried any of this in Ubuntu?
[Captivate General] Beanor:
Nope, I had an iphone before my captivate. played wow all the time. it doesnt use alot of bandwidth unless you are patching.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
I'm sending my device back to Optus for a replacement.

Where can I get the "odin3" that the following post mentions"

http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=2812085
[Captivate General] Shadow77895:
Does anyone have any experience with those "proxy" SIM cards that sit in between the actual SIM card and the phone? Since it doesn't seem like any of us are going to be getting our AT&T sanctioned unlocks for another 10 months, these cards seemed to me like a possible alternative.

If anyone has one, I'd be interested in hearing if you can get it to work with your Captivate.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TT1986:
I'm trying to use this feature of Froyo but it just refuses to work. I'm signed in, in both my browser and my phone. I've downloaded the extension in Chrome and the app from http://code.google.com/p/chrometophone/downloads/list (the 3rd link on that page).

The app is installed and I've registered my account on it. I've selected "Automatically Launch Links." I've tried it both on Chrome and Firefox (after getting the add-on) and when I click on the button, both come up with the "Sent to Phone" message.

But my phone receives nothing!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TT1986:
Ok out of some 10 links I sent, about 15 minutes ago, I suddenly got two of them on the phone. That's a massive delay between the time I received "Sent to Phone" on the browser and the time I received it on the phone. Not to mention that's only 2 out of many that I didn't recieve.

But my phone was not lacking any connectivity in the meantime at all, because I was browsing on it in those 15 minutes to confirm that very thing. Oh and it's still not working as it should by the way, I'm still getting nothing when I send something to phone.

What's going on?

More testing: It seems to be working in intervals. Works for a couple of tries and then stops completely. If I change to 2G, it works again but then stops again. Then I change it back to 3G, same thing, works again and stops again.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Karolis:
Happens to me too, but I was just playing around rather than actually needing this feature, so I couldn't be bothered to investigate.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ohgood:
update to the latest extension for chrome ... it seems more reliable
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TT1986:
Would that be v1.2 from here: http://code.google.com/p/chrometophone/downloads/list (3rd option)?

Actually I'll try the first option and see how that goes.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] productofusa:
Same thing here, N1 stock FRF91, funny cause it worked yesterday when my computer was running Win XP, today its running Win 7 (Hell Yeah). I exported all my saved config in FireFox to this new install, no worky, finally unistalled both off the phone and FireFox then reinstalled back on both, still doesn't work. Oh well not a big deal, just annoying.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uansari1:
Latest apk file works perfectly. It's got a new icon for Chrome to Phone as well...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TT1986:
version 0.5?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uansari1:
Nope... that's the Chrome extension. The latest apk for the phone is v1.2.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TT1986:
Ah yes sorry, that's what I meant. I have both 0.5 and v1.2. I got Froyo only yesterday, so those are the only versions I've been playing with.

Oh well, I'll just wait a few months when more phones are on Froyo, we'll have a better idea.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uansari1:
Did you register the Chrome to Phone app on your phone?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TT1986:
I certainly did. I have it selected to "Automatically launch links."

As I mentioned, it works some of the times, but not every time. And sometimes I get the link I sent upto 15 minutes later.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] productofusa:
Well my install decided to start working today, then coincedentaly about 10 minutes later I got a popup saying there was an upgrade available on the FireFox side to 0.9.2, tried it again and it worked again. hello shi**er. hah. :D
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TT1986:
Upgraded the Firefox add-on just now!:D

I'll test it for a few days and report my results here.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] shortstuff086420:
Hi guys Ive looked around and haven't been able to find a solution to my problem. I come from wm6.5 omnia and I used to be able use the phone to give wifi to my pc. I dont have a wifi card for my computer but I was able to get wifi on my omnia and give my pc internet through usb. I know we can use the evos network to give the pc internet but can we use the wifi connection the evo gets instead? any prgrams that do that.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TJDuckett:
I just turn wifi on on the phone, and it works automatically when I plug in the phone. Just set it to internet sharing.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] shortstuff086420:
thanks bro i wasnt kissing keeping it simple haha that was easy lol
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TJDuckett:
Yea, I can't lie. I was surprised how easy it was when I first did it myself.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jp50:
i am rooted and have so far enjoyed aloysius v11 and v12, evil eris, zen express. but lately any new roms that i try to flash i get a boot loop. no matter what rom i try now it boot loops.

i did nand and can always restore to my curent stable fave aloysius v11.

any idea why i keep boot looping? is it my sd card? i even tried a diferent card and same thing ( i was trying to flash celbfroyo)

:confused:
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thewanton:
Boot into recovery, and wipe it. Go to wipe, then a full system wipe and after that, whip the dalvik cache. Then flash whatever rom you want, then restore via nand. (:
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jp50:
i wiped and did dalvik before flashing.

what do you mean by restore via nand?

1-f.s. wipe/dalvik wipe

2-flash the new rom

3-restore the new rom via nand? :confused:
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thewanton:
I mean go to Backup/Restore, and hit Nand Restore. All that does is restore your apps, settings, contacts, etc. It has no affect on your rom, just like how wiping has no affect on your rom. That way, if you want Evil Eris, but have Kaos Froyo, you can wipe, then flash and then restore while still having the new ROM.

If that doesn't work, though.. I'm not sure what to do.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jp50:
Okay thanks for clearing that up. I'll give it a shot.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
100% wrong.

A Nand restore on the Eris restores the following partitions:

/system (the O/S or "ROM")

/boot (the kernel, initial ramdisk, and initialization scripting for the "ROM")

/data (settings, application state, your data)

+ SD card /ext{2,3} partition (if you did a Nand+ext backup).

That boils down to pretty much 100% of the OS and the application settings and data.

Some bootloops are caused by ext3- or ext4- partitioned cards, depending on which ROM is involved. You might try seeing if you get a different result using no SD card, or an SD card which only has a single FAT32 partition.

bftb0
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thewanton:
Oh ****, sorry then. I was under the impression it only saved your data. :/

My bad man.