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[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkelley:
I don't even know what a G2 is. but if it's basically a hero with a different case (the only reason I can imagine why it's lumped in with our heros), you should try my following instructions. The worst case is that it won't work in step one (the actual rooting process) in which case you'd have to get help from someone else.

Don's instructions for how to root your hero (yea, I'm Don, dkelley):

- download the one click root apk http://blog.23corner.com/tag/universalandroot/ from the official blog. (newbie points: copy it do your sd card if you didn't download it directly with your phone. checkmark "unknown sources" in settings->applications. install it using a file explorer that you can download from market for free such as "linda file manager".)

- run it, choose root for 1.5/1.6. takes half a minute. worked for me first time, but there isn't any obvious confirmation other than "done" message, so don't expect magical features popping up. It doesn't even install a superuser app or busybox... so you're still borked.... until the next step.

- download the free (old version, crappy features, but functional) superuser app from the market. install it (obviously). now you're just missing busybox. if you know how/want to bother putting it into your current rom, go for it. I didn't so I didn't.

- for sake of app backup, you can't run titanium without busybox (you already have root and superuser though, see post above if it matters that much). I downloaded the free applist tool from market to make a text file on sd card listing my installed apps. stock hero rom can't have too much installed anyway, won't take you THAT long to manually go through list and redownload/reinstall after flashing a new rom.

- install clockwork "rom manager". they say it's in market, I've never seen it. but an apk is floating around the net. it only needs root+SU which you have now. use it to download and flash a recovery rom of your choice. I use clockwork so it's an obvious choice here, but I think you can do amon-ra with this tool also, probably 1.6.x for those who don't care about dalvik wipes working properly.

- do a nandroid backup of your original rom NOW. could be really important... and this 1-click rooter can apparently UNRoot your rom too, so after a nandroid restore it might be the only way to get your phone back to stock. in my case I'm sol that way (hand-made goldcard rooting method, my phone's incapable of going stock ever again using my own skills...)

- newbie points: make sure you have a flashable signed gsm hero rom on your sd card somewhere. Reboot into recovery using "rom manager" or shutdown phone, then start it again but hold power AND home buttons without letting go until 8 to 12 seconds later you're booted into recovery. wipe everything (dalvik, cache, data, ext shouldn't matter yet from a stock rom...). "install zip file" or however they word the "flash rom" process in your recovery.

- reboot and enjoy.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Basil3:
I've got a t-mobile g2 and used the gold card method a while back, so can say that definitely works.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jagger2k:
Thanks guys, I have decided to do the gold card and update it to a generic rom. Can i still get an unlock code to work? is there anyway on unlocking it?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkelley:
I used a goldcard also on my phone months ago. a hero. pain in the butt to get done right... but works great.

this is why I recommended the above steps which are MUCH easier. I followed them (and organized those particular steps) and used them on my wife's hero a couple of days ago. It took me 15 minutes until I was running a new rooted rom on her phone perfectly with recovery installed, nandroid backup/restore, busybox, super user, the whole thing.

I know your phone isn't listed there - but again, downloading and running the apk won't do anything bad. it either works or doesn't, you'd know by now. it might not work but it's WAY faster and easier than a goldcard.

so imho it's worth a try for 30 seconds of your time.

if it says that it successfully roots your phone then just follow the rest of my instructions above to get everything setup how you'll need to.

goldcard works great though too - I just found it a very poorly documented experience. Hopefully it's clearer now.

when I goldcard rooted my phone I found several sets of instructions and they were all different - and not one of them worked on it's own, I had to combine bits and pieces. It was very scary LoL.

Good luck which ever route you take - hope you get a nice froyo rom running soon! :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pumpido:
Hboot stuck

Hi I try to flash my G2 to generic RUU I did goldcard with success and I was doing upgrade trought RUU everything works great but then it says RADIO_V2 - FAIL PU.

Now when I try to turn on my G2 I get hboot screen and I can do anything :(

can somebody help me?

Thank You
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vido.ardes:
The G2 is T-Mobile UK's version of the Hero, and as far as I know they have locked it down so tight that the only way of Rooting it regardless of what ROM it has(1.5, 1.5 update 1, 2.1 e.t.c), has always only been the goldcard method.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Iamhero123:
You have to use the goldcard method, I tried the other one when I was rooting my G2 and it didn't work.

I used this guide - BTDags guide, can't post a link though.

Google 'Complete Newbie Guide Hero' Its the first link.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Neo Cortex:
I used the Goldcard to root my T-mob G2. I think I used this guide: Jesterz' guide It is a bit of a pain but you only have to do it once.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkelley:
thanks for the info! great to know. silly t-mobile.... like they have anything to gain from doing that....
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
Moved to Q&A as not development.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] checharin:
Hello, I need some help, my G1 with CyanogenMod 4.2.15.1, kernel 2.6.29.6 and firmware 1.6.

DREA*** PVT 32B MFG

HBOOT-0.95.1001

CPLD-4

RADIO-2.22.19.26I

June 25 2009

It was working fine, but a couple of days ago it restarts and now the wifi not working, E/wlan_loader< 407>: init_driver() failed.

please HELp!!!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] checharin:
I updated to 5.0.8 to see if it helped but still WIFI not working, this is the log:

E/WifiService( 148): Failed to load Wi-Fi driver.

D/SettingsWifiEnabler( 311): Received wifi state changed from Enabling to Unknown

Please help!!!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bisis:
How to?

If I choose to install a ROM without Sense I can't able to sync contacts and calendar events with Outlook.

I've a lot of contacts and also a lot of calendar events so this kind of ROM is not usable for me, unfortunately.

I tried android sync but it doesn't work as good as expected... maybe in the future it'll be better.

How do you do?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kmetek:
wrong section but it think it should work......
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bisis:
About section maybe you're right but it's where I found as many as non-sense roms.

What do you think it should work?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kmetek:
IS SHOULD, anyone?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arghness:
Right, HTC Sync performs the Outlook<->Android contact/calendar sync and this is not available on non-Sense ROMs.

I don't know of a good free contact sync application for Outlook, but Google Calendar Sync will synchronise the calendar between Google and Outlook.

I've noticed that certain "advanced" recurring appointments that can't normally be entered in to Google calendar (e.g. "last day of month") will synchronise with Google Calendar and look fine, but then will _not_ synchronise correctly to the Android Calendar -- it ends up showing the recurring appointment on every day.

Simpler recurring appointments (e.g. "every Friday") work fine.

Personally, I'm just wondering what to do about these issues myself. I'd like to move to Google Calendar / Contacts, but the lack of advanced recurrences is a limitation for me.

I'm also looking at moving from Outlook to Thunderbird/Lightning, which have plugins for Google calendar and Google contact sync. Neither seems perfect though and Lightning still sees the issue with advanced recurrences. Perhaps it's an issue with Google Calendar instead of the Android Calendar / Lightning.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bisis:
I can't use Thunderbird... but only Outlook because I use it for my job. Also I use a lot calendar (2 or 3 appointments/day) and have >1k contacts growing day by day for my job..

I think all other ways to do sync are less nice/suitable than HTC Sync software...

Do all other devices (non-HTC) has sync problems?? How they do??

Is possible to add Sense's sync features to non-sense roms?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bisis:
up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Neltari:
I also have a android ROM without HTC Sense and noticed the problem getting the calendar to sync. Is it possible to install just HTC Sense, or do i have to flash to a ROM with Sense on it?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dfs_:
another way would be desire funambol client <-> funambol server <-> whatever (kde,outlook,...)
[EVO 4G General] edufur:
I am surprised this doesn't exist yet. I searched and didn't see one specifically for root. So I would like to ask that it be stickied.

I am pledging $10 for a post 2.2 working root. Anyone else want to add? I will keep track here and update the total.

Pledge List:

1. edufur.............. $10

2. mdassad........... $10

Total $20
[EVO 4G General] mdassad:
I'll throw in $10.
[EVO 4G General] 063_XOBX:
Ever hear of a search http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=751051&highlight=bounty
[EVO 4G General] edufur:
That didn't come up in my search.. and IMO, that thread should be shut down since his bounty is one day past expriration. I am not expiring my offer. And I am keeping track of it.
[EVO 4G General] SilverZero:
Maybe you should look at what happened to the PRI upgrade bounty in the Development section. I agree with the OP of that thread - bounties should be banned from XDA.
[EVO 4G General] cardiox:
My humble opinion I would have to agree with silver. Bounties tend to cloud the focus of the overall objective and could lead to somewhat shady end results. In this case of froyo root believe me the devs have this as a top priority and bounties are not going to achieve a faster result. It would probably be best if one would donate to them now as it could lighten the load and burden now when it really counts.
[EVO 4G General] Joeriginal:
This is counterproductive as much as you think your helping. Pretty soon nothing around here is ganna get done without a bounty, and the whole development thread is ganna be slowed to a halt with devs waiting for a bounty before they do any work. Plus Android isnt owned by anyone of us to claim a bounty for developing on, if you wanna make money through it, there are channels like through the market. Donations are for Churches/Charities so what you are basically doing is bribing people to do the work.
[EVO 4G General] fachadick:
That was only one of a few root bounty threads. I personally completely derailed one of them (I'm not proud of myself) trying to make the same points that others have made in this thread, but they were much more eloquent here than I was there. I know its hard to believe, but I was a total ass in that thread.

Sent from my blah blah blah blah
[EVO 4G General] /b/laZ1n:
A sticky? Are you serious?
[EVO 4G General] kakepner:
im in for 10 smackaroos
[EVO 4G General] MadFlava:
How do you figure? The only dev Ive even heard comment on it stated that they hadnt worked on it at all because they were working on something else instead.
[EVO 4G General] cardiox:
Ya and what was that? The PRI fix? The whole point of rooting is to achieve the best possible tweak of code that gives us the best possible Android experience overall. The only logical step forward is to root froyo. If nothing more it might contain the ingredients for us to eventually root Gingerbread when we get it. Believe me rooting froyo is a top priority.
[EVO 4G General] Andy S:
The unrevoked twitter feed hinted they were working on it this morning.

"You can expect another face on the wall of phones soon. 2.2 folks: stuff is coming

down the pipeline. Inc folks: use Forever before the OTA!"

http //twitter com/unrevoked/status/21474389447
[EVO 4G General] garyfunk:
If you want the unRevoked team to work on this and you want to help them out, then go to their site and donate to the EFF. If you really want to show your support, then donate NOW, not after they then find the hack. Anyone can donate AFTER but only those truly serious will show their support now. So go to their page and show you are serious and show your support.
[EVO 4G General] CentroniX:
Exactly. Unrevoked is the only one I've seen even hint towards it. I think, most of the hardcore devs got their device when it came out and have had root since 2.1, aren't willing to loose root and therefor development time for other projects, and probably don't want to spend a few hundred bucks to buy a cold unit out of contract to test with.

My suggestion: all you bounty guys chip in your milk money together, start buying devices and giving them as gifts of gratitude towards your favorite devs. Devs do this for fun on their own time and surely wouldn't mind having their name on the end-all-be-all-2.2-exploit, but probably don't want it bad enough to go blow a few hundred bucks on. My $0.02 anyway...
[EVO 4G General] MadFlava:
No... it wasnt the PRI fix and thanks for confirming what I said. The 2.2 root has not been being worked on, at least according to the only devs that have spoken up. They dont consider it important, their words, not mine.
[EVO 4G General] garyfunk:
Well duh. You are talking to the wrong group. You need to talk to the hackers.
[EVO 4G General] cardiox:
The whole challenge for a hacker is too hack something that has not been hacked. Pardon me but the last I heard 2.1 was hacked and now the PRI is fixed. Ya I confirmed that much...your welcome. Hackers don't go around babbling about what they are doing until they achieve it then make their mark.
[EVO 4G General] poolphreak:
You must not have looked very hard. There's already 2 of them, 1 of them being replied to as late as today, the other about a week ago, in 2 different forums.

Wouldn't it make more sense to just do whatever it is you want to do, in one of the existing threads?

Large forums would be so much easier to navigate, if people weren't so quick to start new threads, without even bothering to see if there are already ones that have been started.

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[EVO 4G General] garyfunk:
unrevoked

EVO Froyo 2.2 users stuck without root: don't worry, we haven't forgotten about you.

So all of you that have pledged, here is your chance to donate.

http://unrevoked.com/recovery/

Click on the names at the bottom of the page.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] borgey420:
ALL CREDIT GOES TO MANUP456 ON THIS THEME!!! All I did was port it to CM6 RC3 For Droid Incredible.

Original Thread : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=736487

Install Instructions : Put update.zip on root of sd card, boot into recovery and flash. First boot can take a little bit. I recommend flashing this on a fresh CM6 install. The Lockscreen in the screenies (thank you Androidbruce) must be installed using MetaMorph. You can get MM in the market for free. The icon pack (thank you G_Money) can be applied by using bettercut. You can get bettercut in the market also. Notification Bar will be white when first flashed. I left it for user to set up how they like. Keep in mind most icons are white also so you won't be able to see them at first until bar gets changed black. You can do this by going to menu/settings/cyangoen settings/user interface. You can apply the alternate circle battery icon by flashing the zip in clockwork like you would any ROM.

Download Link : http://www.mediafire.com/?ojcicjodbhqcw6j

Lockscreen Link : http://www.mediafire.com/?0bdce6h8diw7hf9

Icon Pack Link : http://www.mediafire.com/?c7kxxd1pbcb21nt

Alt. Circle Battery Icon (added pic to screenies) : http://www.mediafire.com/?j6oomc2myan43td

You can get themed wallpapers, icons, fonts, keyboard and other goodies in the original thread.

Screenies : http://s839.photobucket.com/albums/zz315/borgey401/evo port/

Icon pack preview : http://i34.tinypic.com/30aqa6v.png
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] kep0ne:
nice work borgey. works great on CM6-RC3.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] GMK83:
Nice work borgey
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] ghostrida:
Nice work. I'm gonna link to this thread in my sense theme thread. People keep asking about the CM version.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] mrchambo:
Text in Notification Bar is mostly white on white on my dinc. Installed over existing CM6 RC3. Could have something to do with it, eh?

JC
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] borgey420:
I left it up to the user to sort out how they wanted the notification bar via cyanogen settings. Of course it's going to be white at first but that can be changed very easily :)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] HoosierDaddy2442:
change your notification bar to black under cyanogenmod settings > user interface > notifications colors > check custom notification bar and choose black.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] kep0ne:
<insert borgey: damn noobs link here>
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] mrchambo:
Yeah, I know...noob city. And it helps to read the whole post. Everybody's a noob at some point. I'm getting better...thanks for your patience...

JC
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] borgey420:
Nah, no worries at all. I hope you enjoy the theme :)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] GMK83:
How do we get the circle battery that he's done. When trying to flash it I get boot loops.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Instien:
Thanks Borgey. Looks great!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] BertoJG:
Nice work!

Thanks

-Robert
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] whewstoosae:
Thanks for doing this! Loving the theme.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Ruggerxpunk:
Just an FYI: This theme causes a bootloop in the new RC3 Nightly from 8/22.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Teh_Higgins:
I've been having random reboots after installing the alternate battery.

Also, it seems like the battery gets stuck. Stayed at three notches all the way down to 10%, and now with the alternate batter it hasn't moved since 85%.

Awesome theme besides that.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] aaronjb:
Ditto, same for me. (The bootloop on new CM nightly, that is)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] coalesce:
+1 bootloop for Alt Battery on CM6 Nightly 8/23.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] borgey420:
hrm. i will look into it but I have had no issues at all with it. i plan on doing a couple more of Manup456s themes including nextheme,nextang, and some others also.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] barnettc2:
Caused my gmail app to force close every time I open it.

Used the zip here to reinstall it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=746644

Problem solved!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] the4czars:
will this work, or will you update for CM 6.0.1?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Taylor08:
Works for me, only thing is that i have Sprint where Verizon Wireless would be. Also cant get metamorph to work to change it back to my droid 2 lock screen. Anyone else having trouble with metamorph?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] execute_method:
Boot Loops on 9/03 nightly. Please fix, I know many of us love this theme. Also, thanks for porting this. We appreciate your hard work.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] SifonX:
So, last night I installed CM 6.0.0.2 and now the battery on the status bar is displaying a constant X. Anyone else having this issue?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] floez1985:
wrong thread.
[Android Apps and Games] mr_black03:
well, Ive launched a new blog http://andyappaday.com(best viewed from mobile) and I would like to post applications from indie developers like the people here in this forum so please, if you are up to it, just post here and we will post your app on the blog. They will be posted in no particular order. I just want to do my part to help the dev community :D
[Vibrant General] SkOrPn:
Hello everyone, I got a question. I just got a class 6, 16GB msdhc card in today and when I went to transfer some files onto it it occurred to me that maybe I might need to have a second partition for something in the future, i.e ext4 or maybe a yaffs partition. I see others making a 1 GB partition on theirs and formatting them to EXT.

Is this something I should do to mine and what reasons/benefits are there to doing this? I keep hearing about something called apps2sd. Does that mean I can install apps to my external sd card when I run out of onboard memory or is it something else?

I have Paragon on my Netbook already and just wondering, lol.

Thanks in advance for "friendly only" replies.... ;)
[Vibrant General] SkOrPn:
anyone please?
[Vibrant General] Shagman68:
I don't see why, the phone has 2 gigs of memory reserved for programs.
[Vibrant General] SkOrPn:
Ok so no other reason? Speed, efficiency? I installed it without creating a partition and did a bench on it and its twice as fast as the internal nand according to J Bench.

Thanks for the advice
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] GinoAMelone:
My coworker has a non-rooted Droid. She recently got the OTA to 2.2. She's complaining of serious loss of signal quality.

Signal is iffy in our building for all carriers. But, she's gone from weak signal to none since the update.

Is this widespread? Was there a radio update in the OTA?

Any other thoughts?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] stormrain:
Basically I'm interested to know just that. How could I change the name of an app into another name.

I have my device rooted, I'm sure I've crossed this info in the past (not here I think), but I fail to find it at the moment.

I hope I posted it in the correct place, I was between this subForum and the Android Developement one. :o

Thanks in advance.
[Off-topic] saintdice:
What the hell is it?

FroYo, xda, beer, repeat.
[Off-topic] Original Android <3ers!:
Aaahhh shiz my foots asleep shiz shiz shiz! Damn it bro!
[Off-topic] saintdice:
Yeah

FroYo, xda, beer, repeat.
[Off-topic] Original Android <3ers!:
Buuf is a Theme. (Source: my BRAINZ!) so I'm not too sure br0. Check up on dat shiiiiiz!
[Off-topic] es0tericcha0s:
It is a theme based on this: http://mattahan.deviantart.com/ This guys work started the ball rolling and it just expanded from there. There are many different desktop and rom customization options along this line whether it be icons to colors to various wallpapers.
[Off-topic] saintdice:
Right on. I knew it was a theme that was obviously based on something. Didn't know if it was a comic/graphic novel or something like that. Thanks for the info.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] comptontravis:
Hello everyone : )

Is there anyway to reduce the amount of screens from 7 to something smaller like 5 or 3? I have a rooted copy of 2.1 and I don't want to use any of those 'theme' apps like aHome or anything unless someone knows of one that doesn't bog down the phone. I'm more interested in a different ROM's,

Thanks in advance for any help!
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] es0tericcha0s:
I'd go out on a limb and say that only ADW and LauncherPro consistently provide the fastest, most stable home launcher applications. Have plenty of customization options including how many screens (ADW stock is 5 and LP is 3). They both have free versions, while LP has a Plus version with a few more options. Try them out and see if you like them. Worst case scenario is you lose 5-10 minutes of playing around with them.