yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SimonTuffGuy:
Haha... I didn't realize I was being brave. I thought I was just following what everyone else did.

My process was.... On 2.1 update 1 with 1.00 radio... I then flashed the 2.15 radio using HBOOT. It started fine, checked and saw 2.1 update 1 with the 2.15 radio. Booted into Clockwork and did an install of SkyRaider 2.5.2. That was running just fine... But I decided that I wanted to go back "stock" and would wait for 2.2 OTA.

So with that, I found the radio and recovery from on http://adrynalyne.us/. That zip contains just the radio image and recovery (radio 1.00). So with that, I did a restore in Clockwork back to my backup of stock 2.1... Shut down after it restored, booted into HBOOT with that zip of 1.00 radio from the adrynalyne website and it restored back to 1.00 radio.

I did not RUU or anything else. My understanding of s-off was that we could flash pieces one at a time without running into issues... That included radio, kernels, etc.

Everything seems to be running just fine from yesterday through today.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spjoneser:
So maybe you just made history because I've been trying like hell to get out of someone whether that was possible? From that point you could I guess flash the ota to take you to 2.0 if you wanted? I am not interested in going back to 1.x but maybe 2.0
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SimonTuffGuy:
The following post seems to say the same thing (http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7692494&postcount=190)

I can't confirm re-installing the leaked OTA that upgrades you to 2.0 radio... But I don't see why it wouldn't work.

I seem to remember a post that warned about constantly flashing radios when s-off first came out though.

I have a new post on the 2.15 radio thread in the development forum for more clarification about going from 2.15 to 1.00, etc.
[Vibrant General] revoc3:
Hey guys, let me start off by saying thanks all the people who run and donate their time to this site. I have followed xda for many years now and for all the untyped thank yous I say it now. One issue I have had with the Vibrant is that my Alarm using the default Alarm and Clock app is not working properly. I will set it to a certain time but when the time comes the screen lights up but thats it...no sound, no vibration, nothing. I thought at first maybe it was because the phone was on silent but I checked my settings and had it checked to where the alarm would still turn on. I then also tried the Alarm without the phone being on silent and it was the same problem. Is there some noob thing I'm missing here? Phone is rooted, fyi. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bangsters:
Hi.

I was checking each build today and noticed that the file structures between builds are different. Example, Matt's or Darkstone's has a rootfs.img and system.ext2 while shubcraft has htcleo_update.tar.gz and root folder, but no system.ext2 nor rootfs.img.

How come the structures are different? Hopefully one or some of the devs can chime in on this.

Oh and how come the initrd.gz cannot be extracted? I tried extracting one and when I opened it I saw a bunch of garbled syntax....

Thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] w0LfNiNja:
i'm not a dev so i can't be 100% sure on this. i can tell you that when i load shubcraft's build up for the first time... the first screen says it is a htc hd2 on the setup screen. the other 2 say n1 or desire i think.

so my guess would be that shubcraft's build is more modified and the others is more image based from the other phones.

1 reason i loved shubcraft's build was that it kept my phone named correctly. i don't like going into my phone's about screen and seeing it named n1 or desire... cause it's not... heh, i have a HD2 and i'm proud of it dangit! =)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mr_billionaire:
Actually, ita very easy to change the phones name on Android, im on Darkstones Froyo v1 and i changed it from saying" HTC Desire" to "HTC Leo" going to switch it back to HD2 tho. But the filesystems im not to sure about.

Sent from my HTC HD2 running DarkStone HD2Froyo v1
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hashnon:
It's just because Shu8i do not supply system and userdata images with it's build, instead he relay on creating that files on first start of Android, that is the main reason Shu8i's build take so much more time to start up at first.

It's just a trade-off, less file size you download, more time to wait for first boot.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Cass67:
It can just use

gunzip initrd.gz

cpio -d -i < initrd

Its a gzipped cpio file
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] w0LfNiNja:
guess i'm not that smart just yet. heh.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jubeh:
There are currently (from the files I've checked) two ways of packaging Android builds; the "Zego" way and the "XDAndroid" way.

Inside both builds, you'll find a haret (kernel loader), clrcad (enables audio in android), initrd.gz (initial root filesystem), zImage (kernel), and startup (the script haret uses to set up linux).

The XDAndroid-based builds have, additionally, a rootfs which is a big package intended to allow the same XDAndroid build to run on a wide variety of devices.

IMHO, the Zego initrd is much better because: 1. it allows for "otapackage" updates, 2. It's for HD2 only, 3. It's much cleaner and can run AOSP builds straight from a make (as long as you specify that the build images use ext2).

The disadvantage, though, is that it uses a regular init.rc instead of a hero one (only difference is that hero core jars aren't loaded into the classpath), so it takes a slight modification to get sense builds running.

The XDAndroid initrd, instead, just loads the rootfs and then from the rootfs several scripts run to determine the kind of device that's being used and then when the device is detected, the files used for that device (included in the rootfs) are "pushed" to the system image to allow all hardware to work correctly.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] trancelated:
hello guys,

here's a list of questions I have compiled which were bothering me since i bought my SGS, hope you take your time and answer these:

What is "root"-ing. How different is it from flashing a firmware on motherboard and installing an OS on to a hard drive?

Does rooting an android device kill its warranty?

Which way is the best and reliable way to root my SGS?

How do I bring back my SGS to Factory state after I root my phone?

Is there a way that I can download the AOSP off the android site and install it on my phone.

I'm with O2 (UK) and I'm required to send blank text to a number. My SGS doesnt allow me to send blank texts. How do I send blank texts? :/

How do I integrate my contacts with the ones from Facebook/Google, when I dont want all the contacts from other sources to be shown in my contacts?

regards,

emc
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MOJO783010:
Quick answers:

1. Root = full control of os ( linux superuser capability) it has nothing to do with flashing firmwares

2. YES

3. search the forum or google for Galaxy s rooting (very easy 10 min max)

4. firmware reflash or

*#*#7780#*#*

This code can be used for a factory data reset. It'll remove following things:

Google account settings stored in your phone

System and application data and settings

Downloaded

5. no. that is vanilla android with no drivers. look for vanilla custom rom for SGS on forum

6. I work for a carrier in Romania so i know : IT DOESN'T MATTER IS YOU PUT TEXT IN IT (just put a letter in it and send)

7.CONTACTS->Menu-> Display options

Hope it helps. Good luck.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] trancelated:
thanks, your answers were helpful, but raised a few more question now.

if rooting has nothing to do with flashing firmwares, why does one have to reflash fimware to return to factory state? (can you explain technically?)

I still need to figure out how to setup friends in contacts, I've already enabled contacts from facebook/google.. What I wanted to know is how do I filter people from the list so that I can see only selected of them in my contacts and not all?

-----------------------------------

edit:

just saw that my Kies asked me to upgrade to JM1. should I do it?

If I do it will *#*#7780#*#* bring my phone back to JF3 (default)? or will it bring to JM1
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andrewluecke:
You don't HAVE to reflash the firmware technically, rooting basically just overwrites a few files (generally, the kernel). Technically, it should be possible to simply revert the files to unroot the phone. But the only reason you would probably want to unroot anyway is to send the phone in for service, and first thing they'll do is reflash your phone with a firmware which is known to work anyway.. So you might as well.

In regards to the warranty status after rooting, it's actually a grey area as to whether it affects the warranty. If you flash with the I9000M rom, yes, Samsung probably wont be impressed. It is always better to reflash with clean firmware before returning it to service, but unless there is evidence that rooting messed up the hardware on your phone, it's probably unlikely they would reject warranty. But better to be safe.

I don't think Samsung encrypted the bootloader sequence, and had they been concerned, they would have probably disabled USB debugging within the firmware.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] trancelated:
ok thanks ^_^

now a few more questions:

whats a clockworkmod recovery?

whats a samset?

whats an odin?

do you suggest me to upgrade my firmware?

how do i backup my current firmware?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] PhoenixFx:
If it ain't broke, don't fix it is my moto ;). Do you experience any problems with your handset ? Like lags , lockups or anything of that sort? If you don't, then I think its better if you leave it as it is. Just apply the lagFix if you want to, but I see no reason to flash your phone to a different version right now.

I have flashed many phones before (where it was much riskier than Galaxy flashing) But I still didn't flash my Galaxy S , because I simply dont see the need to change to another 2.1. I'm waiting for Samsung to release official froyo 2.2. I suggest you wait for that too.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] trancelated:
my phone lags a lot :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MOJO783010:
I share phonix view and motto. If you do experience problems post symptoms before doing something like reflash or factory reset.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MOJO783010:
Lag can be easely fixed with a patch. You get root and lag patch in one pack. Will try to post a link.

http://***xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7587405&postcount=417

Delete the 3 stars in front of forum
[Galaxy S I9000 General] trancelated:
updgraded my phone and did a factory reset, phone DOES NOT GOES BACK TO JF3!

just for your info :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MOJO783010:
that's because u upgraded/flashed a complete new rom which replaced the old one there for factory reset will give u the latest firmware/upgrade that u have installed.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ChiGGz:
The Samsung Social Hub app claims it allows for pushing for email. I have it install but can't really verify if its pushing or polling for Hotmail.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] xfile087:
I don't think Hotmail supports push anyway, but I may be wrong
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ChiGGz:
I have Samset installed now, and the market no longer shows the Samsung social hub. But from what I saw, emails I got were very instantaneous.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] AllGamer:
Samsung social hub comes bundled inside Samsung Apps, not Android Market

the hotmail / yahoo "push" is more like polling, i don't think it's a real push like in the Blackberries

the only true push is the Gmail emails using the Gmail app
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] somberi:
Hotmail Push

Hotmail supports push email through the Exchange protocol.

To add a Hotmail (push) account to android devices is to add a Corporate account under Accounts/Syn under Seetings.

Details are as below:

email: yourname@live.com or yourname@hotmail.com or whatever your hotmail email id is.

password: your password

Click Next

Domain\Username: yourname@live.com or yourname@hotmail.com or whatever your hotmail email id is. (Nothing to fill up for Domain so just give your email id).

password: your password (gets auto filled in from the previous page)

Exchange Server: m.hotmail.com

Check (tick)Use Secure Connection

Click Next

Under Account Settings

Poll email interval: Choose Push (Automatic)

and complete the setup and Hotmail Push is ready.

Microsoft has not released this officially but works :D

Just bought Samsung i9000 and here right away on XDA.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] quattro_rs:
Did not work for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] somberi:
Guess some users have to wait for the roll out.

I have mine working.. Maybe the rollout is not complete yet.

neowin.net/news/hotmail-is-gradually-switching-on-exchange-activesync-for-push-mail

The url is not hyperlinked coz I'm new. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Roy Ngan:
I tried, not working.

Account Successfully added, but nothing sync
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ChiGGz:
Same. Here is an email I just got from Microsoft.

From a link to their support site
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Sysiphus1981:
My workaround is a forward to my gmail account. Easy to set up in the hotmail option
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ChiGGz:
That would mean I need to delete email from two seperate locations. I use the MSN Messenger mail notifier when I'm on the computer to know if I have mail or not.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] somberi:
Guys.. Can you give it a try again.. Guess the roll out is happening.. One of my friend got it working on with android 2.1 he has the same setup as mine. (Stock DDJG4 rooted).

Initially it did not work for him, when I tried after the feedback of it not working. But today when I tried it again. It works.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] lorenzo.themax92:
anyone have the apk for samsung social hub ??

i have social hub standard and i don't see samsung social hub with im in samsung apps..
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Davith:
Exchange support for Hotmail did not work for me a a week ago (I even got the email saying the service was not available for Android phones), but now it does.

It's really heavy on the battery though, especially if you compare it to Gmail push. I might have to go back to normal sync.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ChiGGz:
wow, I think this might be why I suddenly had battery drain. One time it practically drained 100% overnight! What kind of push is this? Doesn't push use a standard protocol, meaning there are no optimizations to be done, it just is what it is..
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] adirtymonkey:
Just set it up my hotmail.co.uk on with a 'corporate' account. Spot on, sent and received no probs. Sync'd my folders too.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Davith:
Gonna give it another try this night. If it remains above 90% then it means it's not draining my battery. If not, then back to automatic sync.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] XlAfbk:
apk please? seems to be missing from all my firmwares :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] swrajjoshi:
+1 I don't have Social hub in my device too.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] joedirt7:
What is the difference between the social hub email and the regular email app on the galaxy?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] qsgsg:
Good job Somberi! It works well.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] kinghorsey:
Samsung Social Hub

I believe Samsung Social Hub is only available from providers that wanted it (i.e. Bell).

You can download it here (also attached to this post).
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] samickjp:
The regular email, dont support HTML code
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Naka_Timo:
So far, it got goggle talk, yahoo n MSN. Dont have FB chat yet???
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Rashar:
Samsungs email client from the social hub works well with rogers account as I receive emails within 30 sec to a min. I power cycled my unit for that to work.

My rant? Why wouldnt they include a search function to search emails? Also, you have to download yiur attachments and save them to a folder rather then just opening it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] silverstorm:
Just tried this on SocialHub and stock Samsung email app on 2.2.1 JPY. Couldn't get either to work... :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] gbjack:
I have Galaxy S 2.

The social hub is working very well here with Yahoo, Hotmail live and Gmail. Offpeak sync only have manual setting. So I set "push" from 9am to 11:59pm with Gtalk, MSN & Yahoo Messager login all day.

Battery drain still good so far. Very usable.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] samickjp:
yes, but doesn't sync folders, only manual sync.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] seamus24:
My version of Social Hub for my new Galaxy S IIX (t989) appears to be "crippled". It doesn't have separate Hotmail Live account or Yahoo like the previous version of Social Hub Premium I had on my Galaxy S. To input a Hotmail account I use an Exchange account but this is not optimal as it drains the battery real fast.

I'd really like to get the non-crippled version of Social Hub so I can save my battery. The workaround I use right now is to use SEVEN's official Hotmail app for Android, but there are problems with its integration and the ability to update contacts.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poundcake7:
Does anybody have their calendar synched with facebook? should be simple but I can't figure out how :-s
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] misfit41:
Add the events into your calendar yourself....
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephyrix:
http://www.facebook.com/?sk=events

"Export Events"

copy the url.

log in to calendar.google.com

import from url

paste

sync
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speeee:
For some reason it doesn't copy Birthdays over, i looked into this a few weeks ago as i wanted all the birthdays to be displayed on my calender widget

Any ideas how without inputting them one by one?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gnayres:
I did it with a spread sheet and import. So of far no issue.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poundcake7:
Spreadsheet eh? I thought there would would be a much easier way that would could possibly auto update.. Ah well..Thanks for the info!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kud0s:
Would be a very nice idea for an app I think.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] im_iceman:
Think this works on 2.1. My missus has a htc legend and it works on hers
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ungruntled:
It would be good to have an option to sync events that you have accepted but I get SO many that I'm not interested in. So hopefully if they add it they will let you filter out the crap!

If anyone's interested, I've tried a few calendar apps... I wanted one with a decent widget and a nice "full app" to go with it. And then I found Jorte and I'm sooooo pleased with it. The customization may be a little too deep for some users, and it's not synced to your Google calendar by default for some reason, but once set up its GREAT! It might even make entering your Facebook events manually a joy! Well probably not.

REALLY nice widgets though. Sorry to wander off topic but I've not seen much mention of it and I think it's worth a cheeky mention.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] im_iceman:
Jorte - excellent - I'm now officially converted!
[HD2 General] brent372:
Hey HD2 peeps.

Not sure how many of you hang out in the TP2 section, but I have made some Sense25 mods that should work on the HD2 as well.

You can check them out on my website at tp2.bfgreenberg.com/Sense25New
[HTC Aria General] fightingcrest:
I recently installed a MOD ROM and it doesn't have the Android Market installed...anyone know of a way to get this back?
[HTC Aria General] khaytsus:
Search the thread of the ROM you installed, failing that (which I doubt), ask in that thread.
[HTC Aria General] craig.cabrey:
Install the gapps pack assuming you installed CM6-Liberty
[Droid X General] quadjacks:
Is deleting apps viz Root explorer (click mount rw, drill to app, long press and delete) the same as -rm in adb and uninstall from the market?

Thanks in advance!!:p
[Droid X General] Enndr:
Yes oh and 10 characters.
[Droid X General] quadjacks:
Uh huh, 10 Cha....?
[Droid X General] Enndr:
I couldn't just do a post with "Yes." It wasn't at least 10 characters long. Which the forum requires.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] halla29:
Can someone port the CM6 white glass theme for CM6 RC3. Thanks.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zer0-1ne:
I just noticed that people/contacts can only export 50 contacts from my phone. I noticed this because i saved the same number many times an upon exporting it gives me the 1/50 until it reaches 50/50 contacts exported to sd card, i also created dummy contacts to see if they get saved but they didn't, they showed on phone but trying to export they never show up. Ive lost several numbers that way thinking i was saving them then resetting my phone then importing them back in only to find out never got saved besides the original 50.

I have no clue right now where to start to fix this any one had similar problem that can help?:confused:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elegantai:
It may not be the answer or resolution you are looking for but I would highly recommend just syncing your contacts with google. Then you don't even have to worry about it because once you sync them, google will save and restore them with no need for interaction. Automagically if you will :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zer0-1ne:
sad face

Thats what the sprint rep told me. Rather save personal things offline to do myself. Really thats just a cop out with the price of the phone and its stature of a super phone.

:D Imagine the 1st landline phone people used and it gives you problems, you write to the company and they write back saying hey at lest you can scream out your window and they will be able to hear you. :)

he also told me to take it into a sprint store for them to trouble shoot. Now i have to root the phone back and put stock. major hassle. Unless there is a solution i can take to avoid all that. After that most likely i'll get new phone with stock 2.2 that cant be rooted as of yet.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stillryan:
I can tell you that i have never seen your problem before. I'm a tech at Sprint and i have done many contact export and imports, sometimes several hundred contacts and never had a problem unless it was the sd card.

You said that you might take to a Sprint store but will have to unroot and flash to stock first. Before taking it into Sprint, try going back to stock and see if that fixes the issue. Could be a rom issue that no one else is noticing or not reporting with whatever rom you might be running.

Also, thats not really a cop out when people suggest using google to backup your contacts. Thats how the phone was designed to work. If you must have that physical backup, then just backup your contacts to google, then import to outlook. Not the solution you wanted to hear I'm sure, but it's another alternative.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistersquirrle:
Also, if you just sync with Google, you can export straight from Google into a couple different formats.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zer0-1ne:
thx

Thank you will do. Will try that 1st.

Thanks never synced anything with Google before and didn't know it had different options to export, was thinking of the issue at hand never thought of an interim in the mean time until i get the solution fixed. thanks.

Ill post back here of/if any solution.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistersquirrle:
Yeah. Google recently changed their whole contacts page, but just go to contacts > More actions > Export... and then just choose all contacts, and the format:

Google CSV format (for importing into a Google account)
Outlook CSV format (for importing into Outlook or another application)
vCard format (for importing into Apple Address Book or another application)