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[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eyegor:
Get Amon_Ra's 1.7.0G from a sticky in this forum. It is the most commonly used recovery. Works very well. Skip ROM manager and use the terminal :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eyegor:
You can try to install Superuser.apk but I didnt get root with that option enabled, it just failed.

It does not matter really, Superuser.apk only PREVENTS others applications from using root unless you allow them to do so.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] hayer:
eyegor thanks for the fast response so what are the steps i would need to take to install cm 6? would i still need a gold card or anything? update my radio? change spl? anything im missing? ive had my magic for over a year and my first try at rooting bricked it i believe and didnt even turn the phone on at all i had an htc touch winmobo before took the risk and was able to get it to work with 6.5.XX but this is just pissing me off lol ive been going through countless amount of threads looking at roms and seeing easiest way to root and install. Would i need to install amons recovery? or can everything be done through rom manager
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eyegor:
The first step after using this to root it is install Amon_Ras recovery. Then download and put froyorider or something on your sdcard (its based on CM6) and then use the option in the recovery to flash it. thats all. :)

happy modding :P
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] etanonline:
Thank you, for testing the unroot option !

As I explained before, I need to root and unroot my device, depending of what I want to do, so now I'm sure that's the rooting method I need.

Again, thanks for your time ! :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] noroses:
Tried the mount -a command and got something like "unknown command". Afterwards flashed the recovery a few times and one of the times I did not get any errors, just the #.

Rebooted into recovery and finally there it was!

Thanks for your help eyegor!

Probably I'll try radio switcher next ;)

Cheers
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] daehl:
I just figured out why ROM Manager wasn't allowing me to Fix Permissions. BusyBox needed to be installed.

I had already installed BusyBox within Titanium Backup, but I suspect that was a private install. So I went to the Market and downloaded the current version of BusyBox and installed it. Now ROM Manager's Fix Permissions option works. I might give it one more try an see if I can install CM 5.0.8 with it.

If that doesn't work, I'm manually installing Amon_Ra's Recovery next.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] daehl:
Hmmm. Can't get this to work.

I downloaded Amon_Ra's recovery, Verified the md5 as good. copied it to my SDcard's root and typed the following in Android Terminal Emulator (which I downloaded from the Market).

Here's what I see:

export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH
$ $su
#flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0G.img
flash_image: not found
#

The first line is the default initial command of Terminal Emulator. So I'm not sure where the flash_image command is supposed to reside, but it's not located in /data/local/bin and I can't find it elsewhere. Where do I get it?

I looked in /system/bin/ and found the following: flash_eraseall, flash_lock, flash_unlock (but no "flash_image")

I did a Google search for "flash_image: not found" and found others who reported this same problem, but no responses/solutions.

Is the Terminal I'm using okay, or is there another I should be using? I don't really understand how to use USB Debugging mode (are there any good instructions somewhere?) Can I use the terminal on my Mac somehow that way? That would be nice, it's a huge pain typing terminal commands on a touch screen.

While we're at it, what's the difference between recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0G.img and recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0G-cyan.img ???

There's just so much info & instructions on this site, but specific explanations are really hard to find... there's just so many variations of circumstances it's hard to wade through it all. So I appreciate any responses. Thanks!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] daehl:
I found a post on another site where it said to install "DroidRootHelper" from the Market and it can install the flash_image command.

Another post has a direct link to a "flash_image" file that was downloadable and needed to be installed by ADB.

Is it safe to just grab precompiled executable files like this and install them? Why does everyone else seem to have "flash_image" on their Android devices already? This seems really suspicious to me. I do not want to brick my phone!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eyegor:
You can take the flash_image file from any ROM, and since you have root now, you can push it to your system partition and i think you need to make it executable. Then it should work.

Btw, my terminal emulator does not have that first line, but i guess it does not matter.

the "cyan" version is blue, that's all :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] daehl:
Okay, I downloaded two different copies of flash_image from two different sources and compared them (they were identical, not sure why, but that makes me feel a little more confident).

Anyway, I put it in the root of my sdcard. So what commands to I need and where do I put them. Based on what I've pieced together, I'm guessing the following:

su
cp /sdcard/flash_image /system/bin/
chmod 0755 /system/bin/flash_image

Hope that works.

A few posts I've read say that you need to preface each command with 'busybox' since these commands aren't included with android and they are part of busybox. But I tried a few commands that are included in busybox without typing busybox and they worked by themselves.

I read somewhere that "/?" should bring up a list of options. Such as

ls /?

but that isn't working for me either. is there a decent instruction guide to the Android shell or manual for Busybox anywhere???
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] daehl:
Nope. Doesn't work. the result is:

$ su
# cp /sdcard/flash_image /system/bin/
cp: can't create '/system/bin/flash_image': Read-only file system

But I'm logged in as root, and as far as I can tell, root has rwx permissions on these directories.

Here's what I see when I check permissions on those directories:

#ls -l
drwxr-xr-x root root 2010-02-12 13:00 system

#ls -l system
drwxr-xr-x root shell 2010-08-12 20:39 bin

How to I make the file system read-write? Or is there a switch for cp to force it to copy?

I found an article on a droid site that says to issue the command "sysrw" right after "su" to unlock the system, but, surprise, my MT3G doesn't include that command either. If that's true I'm stuck in a catch-22 right? This is so frustrating... help please!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] daehl:
Hmmm. Found this article. I'll try it asap.

http://www.pocketmagic.net/?p=757

It says to use the mount command to remount the /System as read-write. I do have the mount command so that's promising...
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] crypysmoker:
Dude.. you are severly hurting my head here. All of what you ask could be found in a multitude of stickied threads here.

If it cant find the recovery image on your SD card then its eithe rnot there, named different, or you put it on Sd card and it hasnt seen it yet so you need to reboot or unmount sd/remount (if you ask how to do that then I doubt you will get anymore help here)

But all of what you are doing is beyond pointless.

Do you know how to use ADB? do you have ADB installed?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] daehl:
Dude. You totally misread my questions. The error clearly says it can't find flash_image command, not that it can't find the recovery.

And I am following instructions on this site, but the instructions are not complete.**

No, I have not tried ADB yet, because the instructions on this site say I don't need to.

Thanks for your response, though.

** I don't mean to insult this site, as it's been a great resource for assistance, but clearly no one's able to anticipate every circumstance, and many of the instructions just don't work without extra information.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] blabeen:
you r not alone ,, I have the same problem here ,,
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eyegor:
Mount the system read write with this command:

mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtd3 /system
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] daehl:
Thanks, eyegor! I will give that a try.

UPDATE: It worked!!! I was able to set /system to read-write, and install flash_image command, and set it's permissions. Next, to finally try and flash Amon-Ra's Recovery...
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] blabeen:
@daehl

If you r looking for one stop shop try this wiki

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Sapphire_Hacking

full of useful stuff ,,

If u dont have "perfect SPL" its easy to flash a ROM using fastboot and without flashing a recovery rom ,, u can run a recovery image file in your HDD from your phone without the need to flash it ..

just look in the wiki link and follow the steps

good luck
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] daehl:
Thanks, blabeen! I will take a look at that info now. Maybe it will explain to me what a "perfect SPL" is and how to figure out whether I have it or not ;)

Seriously, this is quite a learning curve, and there is so much to figure out. Thankfully there are those willing to help and share advice and explain.

UPDATE: I have a "perfect SPL": HBOOT-1.33.0006 (SAPP30000). Looks like a very complicated process to fix a perfect SPL, and I'm happy to avoid that.

So I'll continue on and attempt flashing Amon-Ra's Recovery.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] daehl:
Darn. Something still doesn't seem right. What I don't understand is, shouldn't the recovery flash be permanent? I've tried this multiple times now, and each time after I successfully flash Amon-RA's 1.7.0G recovery, I am able to immediately boot into it in recovery mode! But as soon as I complete a normal system reboot, then any further attempts to perform a recovery boot and I revert back to the default Android system recovery (looks like this):

Android system recovery <2e>

Use trackball to highlight:
click to select.

reboot system now [Home+Back]
apply sdcard:update.zip [Alt+S]
wipe data/factory reset [Alt+W]
wipe cache partition
---------------------------------------

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/com
mand

This just doesn't seem right to me. My best guess is that stock Android 1.6 re-flashes the recovery back to default upon a completed system boot. But I can't find any mention of that in the recovery flashing instructions or how to prevent it.

Has anyone else had this problem? and what does that error mean about the cache? Is that a clue that I need to wipe my cache partition?

I'm just not sure what to do next. None of the instructions here that I've read mention anything about flashing being a temporary thing. I can perform a Nandroid backup, but how will I ever be able to restore it if the recovery is wiped on reboot?

My MT3G (32B) says it's hardware Revision/SPL is:

SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G

HBOOT-1.33.0006 (SAPP30000)

CPLD-10

RADIO-2.22.23.02

May 27 2009,19:06:41

UPDATE : Well, I gave it a leap of faith, and did upgrade my ROM to CM 5.0.8. And after updating, the Recovery has remained intact. So it would appear that stock Android does replace the recovery on reboot, but that is prevented once you change the ROM. I made a nandroid backup of my stock configuration beforehand, and then reverted back by restoring that backup (to test the restore process) and it worked. Right back to where I started (as I hoped). Next I tried CM 6.0.0-DS-RC2. It seems slower than CM 5.0.8 (touch screen is less responsive), but has some cool new features to play with.

It's like I have a whole new phone now. So much more to play with and learn about...
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] blabeen:
Glad to know that you finally nailed it ,,

Thanks for sharing your tests ..
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eyegor:
Great!

I'm glad it finally worked out!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] korterry:
tg

My G2 root success!!SPL1.76.0007
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ownhd2:
Hi not sure if this as been posted before,

but as anyone been and use this site http://samsung-firmware.com/

because i see you can download the 2.2 firmware from there plus its got a guild to install.

now my question is as anyone tried this from there site

is there any bugs with the 2.2

Thanks for your help
[Galaxy S I9000 General] stockfeed:
yes mate head over to the development section of this phone forum and you'll even see some custom roms for 2.2 that are out. all the info you want is in there.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mickeko:
Did you even try searching before posting news that are weeks old? Duh...

Try a search for samsung-firmware and you'll get tons of hits. How the heck can you not know its been posted? Geesh..

Sent from my Personal Dis-Organizer GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Bynar010:
Omg omg omg. This is even better than the how do I root my phone thread.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ShezUK:
No need for the elitism, not everyone has trailed through all of the available Samsung websites, it's perfectly fine for someone to question the validity of a site that wants to install stuff to your phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] miker71:
I'm running XXJP3 Froyo - it has lots and lots of bugs and in my experience unusable without editing build.prop (which needs root)

I'm sitting tight for the final golden Froyo release which should be end of September.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] peterfz30:
It is good of you to lift the quality of this site, chill out, give the man a break. we are not all as clever as you.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] M4zinkaiser:
Hi all, noone know how to handle with the issue (and it seems is a common thing with a lot of rom) of Videocamera recording app, where the volume button dosen't control the Zoom in/out anymore after the update into 2.1? (i'm absolute sure when i buy it with 2.0.1 they works), it's really strange because with the photocamera app they still works.

The downside is, i can't find ANY third part app from market (or else place) for replace the default video recording application -.-

I'm hunting down a solution for that, any suggest? maybe install videocamera app from another device or whatelse?
[EVO 4G General] EtherealRemnant:
I posted this in the PRI bounty thread but don't want it to get lost and I'm curious what other people's results will be with it.

I noticed something interesting today that may be an Evo bug... So I turned 4G on when I was in traffic on 6th Avenue to run some speed tests... got 8megs, no surprise there... but I left it on... later I was in Denver waiting for my group therapy class and was downloading and browsing and noticed it was flying. Did a speed test and I was getting 1.7-2.1Mbps consistently.

I shut off 4G and went to test later and was back to 500-900 speeds. Turned 4G back on and was immediately back to the 1.7-2.1Mbps levels.

I noticed when I turned on 4G that the 3G data arrows started moving like crazy each time, then stopped.

Can someone test this for me? To do this test you need to be on a tower that you KNOW can handle the faster speeds. I tried it all over the place today and even at home where I can't usually pass 300, I got 600. Turned off 4G and back down to 300. Turned it back on, back up to 5-600. Hit 900 at one point.

Just did a test in my room with 2 bars and got 750... turned off 4G and shut the phone on, turned it back on and got 500 consistently. Turned 4G back on and got 876, 1114, 1140, 865, and 974.

Maybe the PRI update fixed the link between 4G being turned off and slow 3G speeds? Try it and post your results...

Oh and use the Xtremelabs speedtest - speedtest.net is crap.

EDIT: By the way, previous to this, the fastest I ever saw my phone go was 1Mbps - in the same areas I was testing today.
[EVO 4G General] epphllps:
What the F, Batman!?! Definitely makes a big difference. From 75 kB/s to 139 kB/s in one test. Bars of service shot up from 0-1 to a solid 2, also.

Sent from my EVO, the true iPhone killer!
[EVO 4G General] sombdy:
Sorry...cannot confirm. I had no discernible difference with 4G on or off. I have 5 or 6 bars with 500-1000 kbps download and 150-200 kbps upload. Get the same readings on Xtremelabs with 4G on and off. Sorry.
[EVO 4G General] skantman69:
Seems to work on my end. That's an interesting find. Seems if you turn 4g on and its nor available where you are they boost the 3g speed. Very interesting.

Sent from my cursed EVO using 4g speed
[EVO 4G General] csmall:
I could be wrong but it seems like I get better data speeds with the 4G radio turned on in a non 4G area.

I'm not rooted. Running the latest software release.
[EVO 4G General] sombdy:
Went back to the house where I have one or two bars of signal and I still do not see any difference except that my overall speed is about half what it was. But no difference between 4G on or off. I'm running Fresh 3.1.0.1 with stock kernel in a non-4G area.
[EVO 4G General] jnewkirk10:
I ran three speed tests with it off and three with it on and then averaged the max. While it was running, the sustained throughput was almost exactly the same. The averages were:

with 4g off: 1142 down 199 up

with 4g on: 1156 down 217 up

Not much difference.
[EVO 4G General] RTC88:
I think that many people don't get that the 3g speeds are subject to change at any given time, that is why there can be drastic changes in speed. Too many people on this board are succumbing to the placebo effect. Just my observation.
[EVO 4G General] TeknoJnky:
agreed.

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[EVO 4G General] im0rtalz:
Im just waiting for the fix to the PRI issue hoping that when it comes out people find their 3G speeds remains the same. Now how eventful would that be. :eek: Cause maybe its is just a matter of towers cause I'm on 1.34 pri and 3G test still hits 1016 down and 200 up.
[EVO 4G General] TeknoJnky:
Then they will just say that the pri fix is broken!
[EVO 4G General] EtherealRemnant:
Sorry it didn't have positive effects for everyone.

In the Denver area, at the very least, I've confirmed it on my Evo and a coworkers Evo. We regularly are getting two megs now... if we shut off the 4G, it takes about 10 or 15 minutes but we will drop back to 900 and stay there. Turn it back on, back to 2megs.
[EVO 4G General] Jim M:
Just for grins I tried turning on the 4G to test my results.

I'm not rooted and running 2.2

3G alone = 1296kbit/s

4G on (no 4G service) = 1102kbit/s

So, it didn't do anything for me.
[EVO 4G General] EtherealRemnant:
As I said, this is for SLOW 3G speeds, meaning >600kbps - with those speeds, you're probably not being affected by any sort of a bug. I had never seen 1Mbps much less 2 on this phone until that fix.
[EVO 4G General] TeknoJnky:
I still doubt the PRI has much of an effect, but perhaps there is hope that you can go back to 1.40 soon and find out.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7602569&postcount=70
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dimkagfx:
Hello.

Today my Desire slipped off the cover, and fell onto concrete floor.

Result - Cracked screen, scratches on the front panel. The back panel is intact.

Touchscreen seems to be working fine in every part of the display, and AMOLED itself seems to be OK - cant see any damage through the broken glass.

I guess that it's the protective glass broken, not the screen itself?

The main impact was on the corner.

So a question - could somebody suggest, where could I buy front panel replacement, with the protective glass?

I would like to hear any suggestions.

Thanks.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x01a4:
Search ebay for "Digitizer HTC Desire"
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dimkagfx:
i36.tinypic.com/2921lie(dot)jpg

You mean, that it's not the protective screen, but the digitizer?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x01a4:
Well, I'm no expert on this...

But since the Desire has a capacitive touchscreen panel, I assumed this must be the top layer....
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dimkagfx:
Okay, today i've recieved my new toucscreen.

Installed, and everything seems to work fine, but.

It is kinda bugged - sometimes it changes screens spontaneously, in some places it dont respond on my touch.

I dont know what to do now, any suggestions?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gilg@mesh:
Hi

is there a program out there that can handle more than one parked car? I know there is program that can show you were you parked your car but I need a program that can handle more than one.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khaytsus:
ANY geocaching program will let you drop waypoints.. I'm sure there are other things that will as well.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kennethkc:
I want to unroot for ota in hk later, but there is no RUU for hk now

can I unroot without RUU?

original link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=750285
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kennethkc:
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[HD2 General] vassabee:
After a few hours of research, I found the way to make this "machine" display Armenian fonts.

In "Windows" folder of the phone there is a tahoma.ttf font which is~144kb, while in Windows 7 this font file is 632kb, gotcha!

So just copy the tahoma.ttf font from windows 7 fonts to "Windows" directory of your phone, replaceing the old 144kb with new 632kb one.

Do the same for tahomabd.ttf font.

Soft reset, and you can enjoy your phone with a more complete language support (this affects mailing, messaging, internet browsing... etc.)

I suppose this will give support of several other languages too.

p.s. you may need "resco file explorer" to replace the fonts.
[HD2 General] hagba:
I have been looking around for the Armenian Fonts since long time now,I will do what you have recommended and will report back later,just hope will not have to hard reset my phone,since with Windows directory you just cannot fool around.!!

Thanks
[HD2 General] vassabee:
I've done this on 2 HTC HD2 phones, no problem yet ;)
[HD2 General] hagba:
Not working here,what I did is the following:

On my laptops W7 found the tahoma file in the Windows Font folder there were to files in it ,one tahoma.ttf 681kb the other tahomabd.ttf 632kb,I copied them both to my Pnones Windows directory with Resco explorer,reset,Twice!!.

No Armenian fonts on any website is displayed,also sent an SMS in Armenian from my wifes Iphone, just the same,square caracters,no fonts displayed.

Did I do anything wrong?
[HD2 General] hagba:
Ok just discovered that those two files on my HD2 Windows directory are not being overwritten no matter waht I do,Im using Resco Explorer.

BTW.the files on my phone are 299 and 277kb respectively.

Anyway,Thanks for the help.
[HD2 General] vassabee:
hmm... you can try to delete those files or rename them, after that just copy the new ones... sometimes it does not let you to replace but lets you to rename or delete.
[HD2 General] hagba:
ok I will try.
[HD2 General] hagba:
hey Vassabee,I will declare you the man of the year man,works great Just overwrote it and reset,looks loke I was doing something wrong before.

Thanks a million.
[HD2 General] vassabee:
u're welcome :) now I need an armenian keyboard as an extention to the default HTC keyboard to make more use of my tweak :)

Found the russian(4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=144008&st=20&p=3468086&#entry3468086), but still cannot find Armenian :(
[HD2 General] aradjan:
I may confirm, it's working. Good job!!!

Thanks
[HD2 General] bluechalenger:
thanks bro ( shnorhakalllllll) helps me so much .... works on tuch2
[HD2 General] lusjash:
Could you send them over?

Barev!

Do you mind posting your Tahoma files here so i could download and use them on my HD2? or send them via PM

Shnorhakalutyun in advance
[HD2 General] hagba:
I tried to upload it but giving me the message Invalid File.

PM me with your email adress I will try to email it to you.

Hagop
[HD2 General] lusjash:
Shnorhakalutyun

Shnorhakalutyun

I found it on one of the computers with Windows 7. I didn't understand in the beginning that you meant Win 7 PC, i thought it is WM7, which i don't have an access to.

Thanks, it is solved now with Armenian in facebook.

hajoxutyun

Ara