yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mac11700:
Thanks..appreciate the advise.

I did manage to download the gapps and flashed that (starting to feel pretty good ) and will check out what you suggested as well. I can't get over how much faster this phone is now and love the os typewriter over the stock one. I only made 20 mistakes with it first time typing on it instead of 200 I usually do with the stock one :cool:

I can't wait to show this puppy off tonight at work to the Evo boys...I'm going to have a nice laugh back at them when they see it now,since a bunch of them were putting my "putzy" little Hero down last night.:p:p:p That really was one hell of a motivating factor for me to do this BTW :D I would love to get that matrix type start up screen on this today...if I can keep me eyes open long enough..(graveyard shift) especially if it will work right,that aught to blow their little minds ehh..;)

Mac
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smolck:
Couple easy things would be to download a new ADW Launcher theme (just type that into the market search box) and then you can look at other themes. BlackMod and Dark envy are my favorites.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mac11700:
Thanks...I'll check them out

Mac
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pinoy724:
Welcome to the Dark Side.....bwahahah.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mac11700:
:D

Looks like I'll be doing 3 more hero's for my wife and 2 son's.They all want theirs done now OMG :eek: what have I done.....

Mac
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
which are you using?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mac11700:
Cyanogen 6.0 RC-1

Mac
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sbbamafan:
How long did it take? Have you tried it with Bluetooth?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mac11700:
Well..since it was my very first time doing any of this,about 1-1/2 -2 hours actually doing it...but about a week of reading and trying to understand it:o

I still don't have it down pat and am not 100% comfortable doing any of it,but if your wanting to try it sooner or later your going to have to jump in and get your feet wet too..;)

Yes..the Blue tooth works with my older Platronic's headset very well. That's as much as I have done with it. I don't have any of the external speakers or use it through any radio in the car..sorry.

Mac
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YoungSinema:
There's nothing to really do next because everything is all user preference. I would suggest you download Titanium Backup from the market and backup all your apps+data so you don't lose anything if something goes wrong. Also, do nandroid backups prior to make modifications to your phone. What I did when I first started was just read, read, and read. There's so much to do and the members of XDA are very supportive. Welcome to our world. LOL
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jarome1:
Step by step?

So for a newbie, can you post the step-by-step things you did to root and update your phone?

Like people say do nandroid, and I have not a clue where to get that.

Thanks,

Jim
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mac11700:
The search feature and Google are really a good tools to use here and on the web.You will be pleasantly surprised at all of the information you can come up with.

Now..a step by step guide to rooting my phone..No..like I said..I am still not 100% comfortable doing this yet,and I just don't feel I am qualified enough to explain the process to you..sorry :o

I will give you some good advise though..RESEARCH RESEARCH..and then RESEARCH what you are wanting to do to your phone..before you do anything at all. I spent a whole bunch of hours reading everything from here and elsewhere just trying to get a good idea of what to do before doing anything..and you should too.

1) Figure out what exactly you want from your phone and decide then before you do anything.

2) Take a look at all of the different Rom's that are available and what each offer you, and while your looking at them and reading about them you should be looking at all of the issues each have and decide if you can live with them

before

you do anything.

3) Use the search feature here and Google. You'll have hundreds of hours of reading at your finger tips to digest. Sure..you'll have more questions then answers right off the bat,but keeping researching and you will most likely find enough stuff to help you understand the process enough to jump in eventually.

It really isn't difficult to root you phone anymore nor is it difficult to do a nandroid back up

but you need to put forth some effort

to have a basic understanding of what you are wanting to do and what all the terminology means.. Sorry if this sounds condescending to you, I'm not trying to be in any way, but this is just some friendly advise from one newbie to another.;);)

4) Once you got a good idea of what you would like to try,and a basic idea of what the terminology means, then get comfortable hooking your phone up to the computer and see what happens on it.Look up here or elsewhere what it means to do a nandroid back up..and also backing up a sd card to your computer..Look at what it means to wipe the data and making a partition on your sd card. Once your familiar with all of this...then go look at the universal 1 click method to root your phone and then also look at the guide to rooting your phone via the a terminal that is posted on this forum and what has been said about both of them. See what your comfortable with. Now once you done all of this.. go look the instructions each of the chef's give with their Roms, and see if it starts making sense to you or not. You will need to follow these instructions word for word to make it work right the first time you try this....same for using the long way to root via a terminal too..

If you do your homework and still can't figure out what it all means..then in all reality you really shouldn't try it..at least not till you at least understand it..This is how I did it..and my suggestion to you is to do the same. I know the terminology is strange and it may seem overwhelming at first..but if you spend enough time researching it,it will help you in the long run.

Mac
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jessedav:
Well said, Mac.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jwhistler:
You are now on the slippery slope of obsessive tweaking! :p

I was just like you...sweating over taking the plunge. But once I put my toes in the water, it was all in all the way!

I started with CM6 RC1...after a couple weeks, I flashed CM nightly 9/7 and saw improvement. Just yesterday I flashed Darc's #14 kernel. AWESOME... more speed....more zippiness. I LOVE my Hero :)

Don't load up a bunch of crap. You don't need task killers and such. I did pop #2 for SetCPU and run my Hero very nicely at 729mhz. Can you say "zing"?

Enjoy your phone, and say "Take that, Sprint!"
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jwhistler:
This is what I used to get started...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=694572
[General Questions and Answers] dar3:
Hey guys,

I have just changed my windows on my new laptop, it had installed Windows 7 Home Premiun and i changed them to Windows 7 Professional. But i have a problem, now my wireless adapter driver is missing... Can u help me with it? It is an adapter called, Acer Nplify 802.11b/g/n

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] basily:
I don't know what I've done to my phone, but I am unable to add or edit any of my contacts on the phone. I removed the stock contacts application - I wonder if that cause the trouble.

I am using aContacts now, and if I try to add or edit a contact the program crashes. I am given the option of emailing a crash report to the developer, which I have done, but I am pretty sure that it's not aContacts fault as the same happens with any contacts application that I use.

If I go to the phone application and press the Contacts tab I get a "Sorry!" blue window that says:

"The application Phone (process com.sec.android.app.dialertab) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. ..."

Does anyone have any ideas???
[Captivate General] Belaflek:
So long that you can get to download mode you SHOULD be good. When you plug in the usb..you need to pull the home dropdown..select usb and tell it to mount. I may be telling you what you already know but download mode is hold both volume buttons from the battery screen...one black screen...att screen...black screen and release pwer but hold buttons. I had problems with this so what I did was unplug the usb...volume buttons...hold power and see att boot screen...(plug in usb)...black screen...att boot...black screen and release power til u see download mode. You can use Odin and set back to stock from there normally.

If the PC is showing unknown device..you are kind of stuck til you fix the driver issue. Maybe remove and reinstall or something not sure on that but that's the first order of business. Go to the dev forum and try reinstalling from there. (One click Odin downloader has teh drivers)

If your phone boots or can get into recovery or download mode you are ok. I ran into the problem where I couldnt even power it on.
[Captivate General] ByTheLight:
Well by now I know that download mode is the holy grail to get things fixed. Recovery mode, I used to be able to get to, but didn't show up. I'm wandering if somehow my USB port got shorted or something.

The drop down option to make it mount is why this all began, it disappeared and never came back.

Trying your steps specifically, first couple times would just end up back at the battery screen. I eventually ended up at recovery mode. Did I end up at recovery mode for releaseing early or late?

I've reinstalled the Captivate drivers a couple times now and tried clearing all past installs of it. Still unknown device. At the moment I have it in recovery mode, so I've rebooted my tower into Ubuntu(Which has the sdk, but never tested with it). Since I've kept reading that Linux doesn't need drivers. Well ./adb start-server and ./adb devices still show nothing...

I can grab a fresh computer that never connected to this thing to try, but I'm kinda doubting it will do this trick at this point. I'll download the odin w/ drivers on it and try that.
[Captivate General] ByTheLight:
hmm.... just ran over to one of the computers here that had absolutely nothing to do with android on it, no drivers, no sdk, no software, nothing.

Went to

[STOCK ROM] Odin3 One-Click Downloader and Drivers(new user=no links)

Downloaded the Windows X64 drivers, installed and rebooted

Plugged the phone in after it rebooted and I'm getting

Unkown Device, I'd pull some info from the Device Manager, but all it is reporting is scewed due to it being a usb device and Windows installed dummy drivers.

All I've got left for testing is my brother's Win7 x32 laptop, granted all I've been able to try with here has been x64 so far. Also on the first computer I was doing all this with. The drivers DID work, they WERE installed and functioning. Previously I could ADB to my hearts desire and I've used odin before. I used the same USB port, used different USB ports, tried different cables.
[Captivate General] Belaflek:
I had some strange issues on mine. When I would try to go to download mode. All of my USB stuff (KB and mouse) froze up and I had to plug in via PS2. I had the unknown device issue and Not sure how I fixed it. I downloaded and installed the Samsung Kies program and I also downloaded the driver. Ultimatly after banging on it for a bit it worked..not a Unknown device but it was some king of...Gadget Driver or some stuff was messing with me. Try installing Kies and see if that does anything...also make sure you remove the drivers before installing. It acted really squirrly to me too tho. From what you say..it sounds like a borked driver. Im on 32bit XP and took it home to my 64 Vista and got it working whne the 32 was jacking me around.
[Captivate General] ByTheLight:
Just had a chance to try with Kies real quick, I'm not so much thinking i killed my drivers but that somehow the cell phone changed it's id calls. I'm going to give it a shot with kies on a fresh Vista x32 system at work. I still can't seem to get it into downloader mode, but I'm getting more consistent with Recovery and getting the thing to boot back up. If I consider the Battery screens to be your blank screens then I can get it to go recovery or "normal" boot. But still can't seem to get download mode at all.

Up until recently, I didn't get Unkown device showing up even when the system was in "normal" boot. Before, originally it would only show up in device manager in recovery mode, and then it would be the unkown device.

Just out of curiosity could you spare the driver specs for your setup so I can compare? Like Date, Version, and any Hardware IDs? I'm wandering what hardware IDs this thing is giving off since windows wont show me.
[Captivate General] ByTheLight:
Well not sure what suddenly happened. But after enough reboot--attempts, recovery mode is finalyl appearing on my office computer as SAMSUNG Android USB Composite Device. Win Vista x32, only installed Kies and download SDK(speaking of, adb still doesn't see devices). Just finished redownloading odin(wish i'd had a thumbdrive on me when i was at home) and am about to see if I'm going to be lucky by vista somehow.
[Captivate General] jonscapri:
If you still keep having issues find a way to short the phone out and tell at&t that the phone just got really hot and then turned off. They should replace as a bad unit and get you hooked up with a new one.
[Captivate General] ByTheLight:
Well that thought has occured, that and magnets lol

I think i might have found a clue to the cause. I think it was tied to the whole usb thing. When it appeared to show up at all first time around, i had tapped the menu button while in recovery. And the natural way I'd been holding it applied just a little pressure on the usb cable. Well I got the phone to finally show all the notifaction tab options for debug and storage when i held down the usb plug in the phone down a little bit. I'm guessing that the pins for power are fine but maybe the data pins, or maybe one of the data pins is loose and thus it's an unkown device since it's not responding correctly.

I didn't have time to finish trying to fix it at work, and i'm stuck in class now. I'm'a see if i can get admin access on my terminal here and download everything while the teacher does his orientation. Otherwise i think i can fix it once i'm home now.

=====EDIT=====

Well getting the phone into Download Mode was a bit easier with Ubuntu via ADB since I don't have to wait for Windows to load the driver. Then just rebooted the box into windows for Odin. Long painful story short, I didn't setup Rom manager to be able to undo my changes when the USB port went bad/inconsistent and didn't expect those changes to complicate the recovery without USB. So I'm making sure it's a rather provable issue and going down to ATT with it. 7 Days from receiving the phone, and I'm goin in for an exchange due to bad USB. Funny.
[Desire General] narcoustic:
I was using bbc iplayer yesterday on the mobile site (which requires flash) And it was absolutely fine, but today its saying my device is not supported. I'm using pays-Rom froyo aNd the full iplayer site works fine (apart from its not optimized for mobile).

Anyone else had this?

Http://WWW.bbc.co.UK/mobile/iplayer
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Might need to get the latest Flash version, works fine for me

Has to be on WiFi, mind...and I'm using the latest Flash 10.1.92.8 build
[Desire General] narcoustic:
How do I find out what build I'm using? And did you update flash recently?
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Go to Settings>Applications>Manage applications>All and it will be listed there - click on it and it'll say the build...

I use an MCR r8-based ROM so it has the latest Flash release in it already, I can provide a link to the APK if you need it (or just Google 'Flash 10.1.92.8 APK' and you'll find links)
[Desire General] narcoustic:
IT'S not letting me install it. It says "application not installed" , don't know what's going on here.
[Desire General] EddyOS:
What version are you on at the moment? I also take it you're using a file manager to install it and have 'unknown sources' ticked to allow non-Market apps
[Desire General] narcoustic:
10.1.72.7 Yh I'm using astro file manager and unknown sources is checked. I select upgrade and it starts installing then stops and says application not installed.
[Desire General] narcoustic:
Anyone know why its not installing?
[Desire General] foxmeister:
I had the same issue with MCR6, and in order to update Flash I had to delete it from /system via recovery. Once this was done, I could reinstall again.

I think it is probably because Flash is installed /system, and you can only update /system apps via the Market. Note, this is a theory, not a fact, but I notice that later MCR builds have Flash installed in /data.

Regards,

Dave
[Desire General] narcoustic:
Ok thanks Dave, how do I remove an app using recovery? And how come flash isn't in the market yet?
[Desire General] foxmeister:
I believe Flash is in the Market, but unless your build.prop indicates you are using a Nexus One, it won't appear.

Vis-a-vis deleting whilst in recovery, I should have been more explicit in that you use ADB whilst in recovery to delete the APK from /system.

Regards,

Dave
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] blue inc:
Hi all, please please help me. Every time I start my phone it shows the normal screnn with SPL 2.0.. screen and then the three colured screen. It doesnt go pass it. What can I do ? please please help me.

All these happend after I took it for screen repair, It worked good for a month then the screen would freeze from time to time. Now, it doesnt start. HTC shops around here dont know how to help me. :( :(

Lincoln N

nokolg(at)tuks(dot)co(dot)za

University of Pretoria,

South Africa
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] gutek85:
First step:

Try reflashing your device. If it doesn't stop after complite flashing, you have hardware problem:(
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] flyin_fish:
Hi all,

Ive read most posts regarding Twitter issues and think I have a new one.

Yesterday my Twitter crashed (and restarted sense) while updating, now it does not even load up through the sense tab. Ive checked in the Windows dir and some of files are there (png,qtc), in window\htc the twitter folder is empty, and also the icon has disappeared from the start menu. I assume that the program has deleted itself from my hd2 in the process. Now for my questions:

Does anyone have the program files for htc twitter (I understand that there is no CAB) that I could copy back into my windows or prog files dir?

Is there any other way to get it back without doing a hard-reset?

If none of the above work can anyone recommend a prog better than either motweets or Pocketwit.

Cheers for any help on this,

FlYiN<*}}}><
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] chris10230:
You could also hard reset but that is not what you want to hear, what rom are you running? no doubt that will be needed for the right files
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stuart.upton666:
Okay so i recently got a HTC desire and i tried to root it and failed, so i did some research and found that thanks to the 2.2 OTA it has made the phone unrootable at the moment, Hboot is 0.93 and to downgrade hboot it has to be 0.92. Can somebody point me in the right direction as i am going crazy and going in circles here. :confused: :confused: :confused:

Thanks

stu
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teppic74:
It has nothing to do with hboot. You can follow the same guide to downgrade Anrdoid and root the phone, but if you have an SLCD screen you'll have the same problem with the screen breaking in the process.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stuart.upton666:
No when i went to downgrade hboot it told me it was failed....Dude
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teppic74:
Then your software version must be higher than stock froyo, in which case it's not possible to root in any way at the moment.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stuart.upton666:
Isnt there a way i can downgrade to 2.1 instead and then root? :confused:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teppic74:
Nope. The downgrade works on any software version up to 2.09.405.8 but nothing higher. You can't override that check without rooting, and you can't root without downgrading.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stuart.upton666:
Ahhhhh f**k!!!! >.<
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] heinz_pt:
Hi, I have installed the K9 app, but I can't make it to auto sync. I need to do it manually. Is there any settings to do auto update.

Best regards.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] heinz_pt:
No one can help me on this?

Best regards.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] benjymous:
Ok...

Get to the Accounts screen (If you're in the inbox, press Menu Button -> More -> Accounts)

Long press on the account you want to auto sync. An "Account Options" menu should pop up

Select "Account Settings"

Find the "Folder poll check frequency" option, and set it for how often you want it to check (obviously the more often it checks, the more battery it'll drain)

There are other options that you can use to decide how many mails to download (e.g. just those from the last day), and how much of large messages it should download
[Android Apps and Games] scottslc:
Looks like this is going to be the first into the android tab pool. Here's my question. Will the tablet have the gmail and calendar app installed on it? I was looking at an archos with android and it wasn't there. I'm hoping this can be a tethered companion to my nexus. Anyone know?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emudojo:
I'm trying to nail down if this is normal behavior or not my phone always shutdowns itself when the battery level goes below 7%, no matter what.

then I turn it on it boots and shows 0% of battery left then it shutdown again, next time I try it's totally dead.

Tried with a battery calibration improved the overall battery life but that mark is still there.

Is that normal? I mean when I used to have a G1 it lasted until 1% or so.. 7% can be very well an extra hour of usage that I'm loosing.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CmraLvr2:
I've noticed the same thing. It'll be interesting to see if anyone has a solution.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rcxquake:
7% of battery life is just a number. It could very well be inaccurate, and simply reporting 7% when you actually have 0%. When you reboot and it shows 0% just backs this idea up. You are not "losing" an hour of battery life, you simply never had it.

To check this, use spare parts to look at the voltage of your battery when it approaches 7%.

Also, this belongs in the QA section.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emudojo:
I'll give it a try, interesting is the fact that both Cyanogen RC3 and Battery Monitor are reporting the same thing.

Will keep an eye on the voltage, what should it say ? something near 0?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zen kun:
seriously?

AFAIK li-on battery never be below 5% or 7% why?

because if you get below of this the battery will be dead and will not work anymore. so thats normal.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pzumk:
I've also read its normal but if its normal why isn't it calibrated to show 0% when its actually at 7%? My phone goes off at ~10%

btw there are so many battery threads lately.. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=702167
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galaxys:
Yeh, mine also goes off at around 10%.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emudojo:
it seems normal then :P, time to get myself a spare battery ... travel can be painful if no power outlet / usb port is near me :P
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
Yes its kinda normal. My phone has always shut down at 8% from day 1. I think its because of what we're talking about in the battery cal thread personally.