yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Vibrant General] applebook:
What speed is the other 14Gb? How does it compare to standard microSD? Class 4 at least? :(
[Vibrant General] Disconn3ct:
Modify the pit, and the bootloader, and (possibly) the rfs partition scheme, and (possibly) the kernel.

People found a pit that changes the layout a little bit and they're getting a higher-than-normal percentage of bricks. (I don't know how high, but look at all the odin threads that warn against using the new pit..) It is doable, but not reliable yet. Did you already fill 2 gigs of app storage? Thats .. kinda nuts.

They claim class 6. With rfs, it is ok until you get to multiple requests - then it goes all thrashy instead of threading properly..
[Vibrant General] applebook:
If it's around class 6, then I'm satisfied. Since that memory is for storing media, I have little use for anything much faster anyway.
[Vibrant General] Calcvictim:
I didn't fill the 2 gigs but I don't use the phone for media really, it's just apps and games and just wandering since it would be nice to have more storage for those things.
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
So what is the size difference between the Vibrants with the larger NAND and the smaller NAND?

What difference does this make in the real world?

Why would they put two different size NAND chips?
[Vibrant General] Master™:
Samsung does some weird things sometimes :confused:
[Vibrant General] veol:
So are you saying that samsung's filesystem (rfs) causes wear and tear to the flash drive? Do any of the lag fixes that replace the rfs filesystem (ext 2/3/4) cause wear and tear to the drive as well? I am personally not applying a lag fix for this reason, but if samsung's rfs does that already, might as well take the plunge with a lag fix...

I read somewhere that the nexus one uses a filesystem created for flash drives - it started with a y, probably the yaffs that you spoke of?
[Vibrant General] Kubernetes:
I took him to mean that a loopback mount style lagfix, like OCLF, can cause premature deterioration.
[Vibrant General] ttabbal:
That all depends on how samsung implemented wear leveling. It would be insanely stupid to do it in a way that would cause premature death of the flash with a loop file system though. Wear leveling is generally done at the block level so that file systems that have to write to fixed locations a lot like fat don't kill that block. As rfs is fat, I think it's unlikely that it will cause issues.

We can't use yaffs2 and friends without replacing the kernel driver for the flash. They don't work on block devices, they require raw flash access. I suspect it will also require a new secondary boot loader. I wouldn't attempt it without a dev phone and jtag access.
[Vibrant General] veol:
Ah... sorry for asking a noobish question and being off-topic a little, but if I were to use a lagfix, which one is best (for the flash drive)?
[Vibrant General] 12paq:
Thanks for the questions and the answers and for laying it out in understandable terms! A good read.
[Vibrant General] jamesey10:
Here's an app called disk usage which visually displays what the data on your sd cards is being used for.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.google.android.diskusage
[Vibrant General] d01100100:
Taken from JAC's thread on nand size for voodoo.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8322865&postcount=131
[Vibrant General] ttabbal:
Honestly, I don't think any of them are really better or worse than the others in that regard. The wear leveling code is at the block device layer, so the FS can't really do anything to the flash directly. The only thing it can do is a lot of useless writes like atime. But even the default of relatime isn't so bad for that sort of thing.

The "debates" come down to a few options.

ext2: A classic, very well debugged and supported FS. Quite fast. Down side is that it's possible to get FS level corruption as we can't dismount properly, and might lose power, etc.

ext3: A little slower, does journaling for FS data so you are less likely to get an un-mountable filesystem due to sudden power loss and such. There's really no good reason to use this unless you can't use ext4 though.

ext4: Journaled, faster than ext3, still slower than ext2, but not by a lot. Nothing you will notice on a day to day basis, but benchmarks can tell. Offers some advanced tuning options we are only just getting to messing with.

As for which Lagfix, pick your poision.

OCLF is an older design, but works very well. ext2 loopback on the RFS /data device. So you create a giant file on /data and mount it like a partition. Fast, possible data corruption, but in practice it's unlikely to ever really cause much trouble. Also causes the system to report low storage space on /data, but you can ignore that. Just don't make it so big that you get the warning in the notification bar irritating you constantly. 1GB seems to work very well.

Voodoo is newer. It uses some interesting hackery to change the partition map for the internal SD card and re-formats /data to be ext4. Quite quick, but to flash kernels/roms you do have to revert back and if you don't, you get to do the Odin dance flashing 2 ROMs to get unbricked. Doesn't work on large NAND devices at the moment, unless you've already done the Odin dance.

z4mod. This is a bit bleeding edge, but has a lot of potential. Can convert almost any partition to any supported filesystem, and back. Also requires you to convert back to flash ROMs and some kernels. This is a little more forgiving to recover from if you forget to revert as you aren't changing the partition map, but you will probably still need Odin.
[Vibrant General] veol:
Thanks everyone, especially ttabbal, for the great posts. I learned a lot. I think I'll try applying a lag fix later tonight. You'll know if I messed up from an "OMG, I killed my vibrant!" post, but hopefully that doesn't happen :)
[Vibrant General] pavvy:
A question on a much more basic tip than most of those above -- to avoid filling up my SD card (which still has Avatar sitting on it, taking up space, in "/sd/Movie/"), I've been saving music synced from my computer to "/DCIM/Music," and some nonessential photos to "/DCIM/Photos" -- and reserving the "/sd/DCIM" directories (.../Photos and .../Music) for more essential things -- all in the belief that saving under the "/sd/" directory means I'm saving to the SD card, and saving to just plain "/DCIM" means saving to the internal memory. Is this not the case?

My file system doesn't seem to have the "/sdcard/" directory mentioned above; just "/sd"...

Thx
[Vibrant General] Ilmoran:
Someone else can (will) correct me if I get this wrong: You're file browser is starting you in /sdcard/ already; you need root and either to connect to your pc and use adb, or use something like Root Explorer, to see your actual root directory, which contains the /sdcard/ directory. Using the stock file explorer is going to show you only the insides of the /sdcard/ directory.

And yes, saving to your /sd/ directory is saving to the removal sdcard, not the internal sdcard.
[Vibrant General] pavvy:
Thanks, understood!
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
If Vibrant Supported WMA or iTunes DRM and there was a good Media Sync application for it (DoubleTwist kind of sucks, I've tried it), I'd use it for media. But I am already starting to feel like I want to shelve the Vibrant and go back to my HD2. It's such a PITA the get media on it, especially using that DoubleTwist program. I've never run an application with such terrible performance, before...

Samsung really should have released Kies for the US. The only reason I wanted it was to manage the Media on my device (it does Automatic Conversion, etc. and is optimized for Galaxy S Phones).

I'm not a fan of using unsupported versions for a phone I depend on, and for updates I have to keep Kies Mini installed anyways :<

God... I miss just putting everything in my Windows Media Library and just having it sync over automatically whenever I plugged my Jack/HD2/whatever into my computer. Didn't even have to start a program, since the small service ran in the background/system tray.

Mounting SD Cards and things of that like is what we did in the 90s. It's not acceptable any longer, to me :P
[Vibrant General] qtilt112:
Um, you CAN use WMP to sync, you just have to mount the phone as "media player" or "samsung kies", them WMP sees it as a media device. My Vibrant syncs with WMP almost exactly the same as my old WM6.5 Omnia II (besides M$ active sync).
[Vibrant General] ttabbal:
I've been messing with jam11 in the market. Requires data and your computer to be on at home, but works great.
[Vibrant General] Deadsilent14:
Hi, how did you get it to mount as "media player" I keep getting this message "PC connection available only on idle screen. Close running applications" whenever I plug in the usb and fails to mount. I tried ending all applications and it still did not want to mount.
[Vibrant General] Emama:
Yes Same here, i don't have any songs in my phone but tones of games

And one silly question, if, if we finally get the 2.2

so what the app2sd feature means SD card, the 14G flash or can be both?

Since you guys saying the flash is said to be a class6, it is good enough for me if the app can store in that 14 g flash
[Vibrant General] Lancelaut:
I was hoping maybe someone in this thread may be able to enlighten me a little further :)

I would like to know the same thing. I see that the larger is literally larger in filespace size, does this allow it ot run smoother or ???

So What is the reason Voodoo Beta4 can't work on Larger NANDS? I know this is the case but I just want to understand why. Is it because of what I kept in the quote for z4mod? Does Voodoo require changing the partition map of the nand or something?

Agreed totally! Thanks guys!
[Vibrant General] ttabbal:
Voodoo overwrites the partition layout information with pre-made data. To do this without really screwing up the devices ability to read the map, it needs to know it's writing the correct data. It has a check for the size of the internal SD to do this. If it's not right, it gets confused and doesn't know it can do it. The reason the froyo that doesn't brick trick works is that it re-partitions the internal SD space so it looks like the small NAND devices.

As for why the different versions, who knows? Samsung probably just ran out of the smaller chips and put the slightly larger ones in because they could.

z4 also changes the partition map, but it only changes the type of the partition, not the actual layout like Voodoo does. I don't know that I'd say one approach is really any better or safer than the other. The z4 way is a little more flexible, as all it cares about is changing a couple bytes and it knows where they are and such, so it's pretty basic.
[Vibrant General] Lancelaut:
thanks ttabbal :) I appreciate the easy to understand answer! I'm slowly learning more and more about the phone :)
[Vibrant General] qtilt112:
You have to be on the touchwiz launcher to mount to media player.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] candymann:
After having some pretty horrible battery life I started searching around on some of the widgets I was using--it looks like some of them barely touch your battery while others drain it. I was curious what other users have seen and if they found any decent alternatives.

The ESPN Scorecenter widget killed my battery. Haven't spent enough time with Google Scoreboard or Sports Tap, but they seem to be better and allow you to set how frequently they update. The ESPN app doesn't, I think it's pretty close to a constant pull.

Anyone see much difference with using a Weather Channel widget vs. not? Any good alternatives?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] luongquyen:
ROMs based on "Generation 10":

HTCMAG_ROM_WWE_F1

Release date: XX

Alternate name: 3.07 WWE

XX????
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] Moto62:
Cotulla just work on it, so be Patient and wait until you can download this Release
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] jovan.asanin:
How to be patient when that word "soon" means next year or never... :mad:

If he is too busy why not he publish sorce of roms or instructions how he made the roms so other cookers can make roms for magician too? I respect his work but he is selfish... :(
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] Moto62:
But today he is the only one, who can made it.... ;)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] tweakradje:
Don't hold your breath so long :)

It is ready when it is ready.

Check this to see how busy this man is http://xdaforums.com/search.php?searchid=42608493

Cheers
[Dash 3G, Snap General] popi2003:
Hi

I'm using snap with 6.5

I would like to move my inbox to SD card.

I researched the forum and the answers are mostly for WM6 and somehow I can't get it to work.

cany help ?
[Dash 3G, Snap General] tech_girl:
If its the email inbox, follow the instruction at: http://www.joomlacurve.com/windows-mobile/61-move-email-and-attachments-to-storage-card.html specifically for WM6.1.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x3gypxtianx:
This just happened yesterday after I used the camera and went through the gallery for a little bit. My power button doesn't lock/turn off the screen anymore, unless the lock screen is the one displayed. It still does all of its other functions properly - just doesn't lock and turn off the screen when I press it if I'm in an app or on the home screen. Anyone have any idea what happened and how it can be fixed??

It's a pain right now to have to wait for the screen to automatically turn off, so any help at all would be greatly appreciated!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scouzer:
I don't have any suggestions for a fix, but if you can't figure anything out, there's a workaround. Get one of the widgets from the market that locks your screen... not the best solution but better than nothing.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x3gypxtianx:
I ended up resorting to flashing a ROM all over again.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thedy01:
If you have Spare Parts installed, its the reason... Go to Spare Parts/End button behavior and change it to "go to sleep"... i had the same issue today :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snapper.fishes:
And why is this in development?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ed10000:
Do you guys realize that this thread is over 5 months old? :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] filou75:
Yup ^^ but thanks above for the "spare parts" solution ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gravis_jg:
Power button

How to ser Power Button to end call ?? I heard thath possible...

please help

upps Ive found it...--->Settings --> Accesebility -> Popwerbutton end call
[HD2 General] Vampire2800:
might is stand for "On Probation" or what? we all know it's not "Operator"
[HD2 General] Marct77:
My guess would be 'Original Poster' as in the person who started the thread.
[HD2 General] bcpk:
Octopus Protector.
[HD2 General] Richy99:
opening poster i would have thought
[HD2 General] sumflipnol:
OP = original poster (the one who started the thread)

Discussion closed!:D

...Would have been better if this thread was in this sub-forum, for it has nothing to do with the HD2...;)
[HD2 General] telegraph0000:
OPtimus Prime
[Vibrant Accessories] Shrivel:
Just a heads-up:

If you happen to have a Big Lots or Odd Lots store in your area, they carry a "MizTech Designer Technology Genuine Leather Holster Case" with a hidden magnetic closure and a rotating belt clip. It is listed as being designed for the iPhone 3GS, but it works perfectly with our Vibrants. The phone will only fit in the case facing forward, though. The price on this case was 7 bucks.

Beware that they had several different styles of cases, but this was the only one that worked with my Vibrant
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hittori:
Hi all,

On monday I was looking forward to download Froyo, and since then I live a nightmare. Everything starts cool, it downloaded, it installed itself, and when it restarted.... NIGHTMARE, it started to keep on restarting every two o three minutes after saying the system has a problem.

Since that moment I lost Wifi and mobile features, as well as SD-card reading posibilities.

What I found after some reboots is that I could get into the bootloader and select Recovery, and so I did... and I chose wipe data/factory reset. Everything got delete, and now I could see the screen when it loads (HTC Sense screen).

After this I have tried almost everything, a goldcard to copy a new update.zip file (but when I do it I got the following message:

Verifying update package...

E:failed to verify whole-file signature

E:signature verification failed

Installation aborted.

And this had happen with any single update.zip file I found in these forums and others.

I have tried to use revoked3, and I got an error saying it can not keep on installed.

So... do i have a brick or does someone know how to fix this problem?

Thank you very much in advance for any piece of help.

Guillermo
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mitchsub:
did you update to the latest radio ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dezborders:
I haven't used revoked recovery, but I know that ROM Manager recovery has an option to 'disable signature verification' (or similar wording) that should get rid of your verify option. As for the reboot loop, usually if you remove the SD card completely, and go into fastboot mode and wipe storage, you get booted up ok.

In my experience, its pretty near impossible to permanently brick an Android handset, so keep at it. You will get it working fully again in the end.

(I lost SD, BT and USB functionality in late July and had everything working again in 24 hours - after lots of panic and stress!).

Feel free to PM me if you get totally stuck.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hittori:
When and how??

I think I did not, but I did not know I have to do it. I mean, my phone was working fine, I download FROYO, it crashs.... when should I put a new Radio????

Best regards
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hittori:
Solution at last

Thanks to dez_bordes, we found out that I have to use r6 method and it does works.

Thank you very much indeed.

Guillermo.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trungkien245:
Welcome. hope you help me a job

I have HTC's Desire ROOT

The state of the machine is still up normally and works fine, but Andoid not get the memory card, no recovery

As children learn to bring the phenomenon known as USB-Brick, Brick SDCard. and on the forums have dealt with software Address. Today I read of your experience you should want to help

because no good at computer should not know

wish you a detailed step by step guide 1 is not?

bban hope this helps for me. tks you more
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] xmoo:
For China (dopod T9199 China Telecom) WVGA

Manila 2018 ;)

http://www.vbnfiles.com/xda/xmoo/Leo/TEST/RUU_Oboe_Dopod_CHS_1.02.706.0_Radio_0.82.50.0809_Test.zip
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] skr_xd:
After dump it seems to have only manila 2017 and some 2018 packages???:confused::confused:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] xmoo:
New Mirror is up!!

HTC is testing core 2017 and 2018
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] totalcmdext:
I believe that HTC is developing the new version of Manila for the WM7 devices.

I hope the UI to be better and more close to Android platform.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] xmoo:
Don't think so ;)

WP7 is going to be stock.

this is for WM6.5.3. devices in china. china won't get WP7 a.t.m.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] totalcmdext:
Is it possible to upload file with Manila 2018 because it is mix of Manila 2017/2018.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Dewinter:
1.03 debug is out in china, will be released soon
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Nixeus:
MMM :)

Hope the 1.03 will be out soon :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] FloatingFatMan:
I've been wondering this for a while but can't find anything on the forums about it.

Does A2SD have to be installed as part of a ROM or as an update.zip? Can it not be installed as an APK at all?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] FloatingFatMan:
*bump*

Anyone?
[Vibrant Accessories] vgz01:
I've tried browsing a few pages in, and either I'm stupid and just missed it (very possible :) ), or there hasn't been a thread about just back covers themselves.

I'm curious to know if there are any replacement back covers for the phone that aren't just plastic. I was hoping to see if there was a more rubbery back cover I can slap on, or (and this may be out there) a brushed aluminum-type of back cover, like the ones found on the HD2 and Nexus One. Personally a black brushed aluminum back cover would be so nice...

I ask because I've tried the gel case from Tmobile and saw one of my coworkers' hard case protector, and I didn't like either of them. I ultimately want to avoid a case alltogether and just find a nice back cover that has a better feel to it, and possibly add just a tad bit more weight to the phone so it feels better while holding it. The cheap plastic back cover just isn't doing it for me.

Thanks, and apologies in advance if I blatantly missed this being discussed elsewhere.
[Vibrant Accessories] vuvsion:
I'm sure soon enough these back covers will pop up like mushroom on ebay, but nothing on the horizon at the moment.

There's a DIY thread for painting the extra back cover with rubber coat that looks pretty decent.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=729133

Lots of folks here have the mesh case that IMO the best looking with just the right thickness for the Galaxy S.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=730699
[Vibrant Accessories] rembonjaski:
I just got something similar to the mesh cover.

http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=752079

While it's not really a back cover, it's got a bit of a rubbery feel and very low profile compared to gel cases and "full" plastic covers.
[Windows Mobile] bobsbbq:
Well I have had this problem since 2017 and on 2018, so just wondering what has changed? I went back to 2016 and the soft keys are visible. They are there and if you tough in the right place they work but you can't see them. The one on the left is 2016, the one on the right is 2017. Also it does not have this problem if you go straight through the Album from start menu.
[Windows Mobile] patensas:
Could it be you're using on of the latest Media Toolkit packages? How about soft keys in changing backgrounds?
[Windows Mobile] ai6908:
I have the same problem and i am using Album 2014. I dont think this is album related.

I am using Media tool kit 2017 what are you using Bob?

EDIT: Using 2014 Media tool kit pkgs fixed the issue. Thx patensas...
[Windows Mobile] patensas:
See i knew it ;) You're very welcome
[Windows Mobile] bobsbbq:
Yes it was Media ToolKit for me also. Thanks my friend.
[Windows Mobile] maesus:
the new Album 2017 2018 has been 'facelift'ed that works in pair with the 2018 media toolkit.However, this new Album does not support Facebook. Anyone know how to make the new Album support Facebook? (Facebook Album, share at Facebook)
[Windows Mobile] ai6908:
Yup thats the only reason why I still use the old Album...I dont think we can edit it to show facebook...pretty soon FB photo upload from Album will vanish I think...
[Desire General] claudioita:
Hi,

Just bought few days ago a HTC Desire unmbranded and unlocked. Did NOT check at the time if GPS was working (so I cannot tell).

I did the upgrade OTA few days ago. Now I have:

Android version

2.2

Baseband version

32.43.00.32u_5.09.00.20

Build number

2.09.405.8 cl218634 release-keys

software number

2.09.405.8

GPS is NOT working. Does not get ANY satellite: tried with google maps, speedview, gps status.

ZERO satellites. In the top of phone GPS icon is blinking

ANy suggestions?
[Desire General] nasimdejai:
2.09.405.8

hi,try running google maps with the GPS turned on for some minutes, say about 20mins and then check if the GPS locked.I had the same problem when I updated my unrooted,unbranded and unlocked Desire on Monday.It took almost 20mins for the GPS to lock but after that,the GPS locked everytime i try to use Google Maps.I hope this idea solves your GPS issue.