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[Vibrant General] kizer:
I'll give it a try so basically what you are saying is to use terminal opposed to Root Explorer.

I'm pretty good at console, but I was figuring it would just copy right over. Heck I even made sure the permissions are the same. Go figure. LOL

I'll give it a try tomorrow and thanks for the heads up that Root Explorer could be the cause of the problem.
[Vibrant General] alienator88:
sure thing, have fun
[Vibrant General] kizer:
The problem I'm seeing now is when I load up the Memo.apk and the Memo.odex file into the /system/app/ folder my phone boots and then all of the sudden I get a black screen and the soft touch buttons are lit up.

I figured it was a permission thing at first so I loaded up my nandroid copy and then tried again changing the permissions to the same as everything else in the folder.

I had an issue with my fat fingers so I tried the old favorite SU File Manager and everything copied over fine, but I'm not sure if its the SU File Manager causing issues or something else.

Honestly I just forgot the line on how to change the system directory to read/write so I tried to short cut it via an app. :D
[HD2 General] me:
The included HTC Music Player (latest stock TMOUSA ROM) seems to have serious problems with its database.

Of course there are other options--such as the included Windows Media Player, and freeware solutions as TCPMP, commercial music players, etc.

But I like the HTC Music Player, how it plays from your home screen.

I like what happens when one turns the phone landscape, and sees a shuffle of album covers. Is that a gimmick? Yes, but I like it. Kind of fun to choose an album that way, like shuffling through CDs at home, rather than from a list like in WMP.

Yet, the app seems to have serious problems with its database. Although I have tons of music on it (more than 10 GB, all on the storage card), sometimes it cannot see any music at all.

Sometimes it shows no cover art (which is especially crucial for that album shuffle view), although the cover art is embedded in each song, and if one looks at the .vin file that HTCMP put in the folder, the cover art is there too, put there by the app. But somehow, it often doesn't read it. I do the "download cover art" thing, it shows a connection to Gracenote, but some albums never display their cover art, although it is already right there embedded in each song on the album.

What is going on with this app and its database?

Ia there any fix for it?

Is HTC aware of the problem, and working on a fix?

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While discussing the HTC Music Player, one other thing I am curious about. The phone also includes an HTC Video Player, in the windows folder, but with no link in the start menu to it, so most people will never discover it. (They do call that video player, though, to play the included "Transformers" movies, rather than WMP.) Why did they include their own video player, yet not even have a start menu item for it? Does it have any advantage over WMP for playing video?
[HD2 General] zelendel:
As far as the data base goes it has a problem reading large amounts of music. Still on the stock SD card? Is HTC aware of this.....Most likely as it has been a prob from the start, is there a fix....not that I have found. The video player works from the albums tab as it pics up the movies and displays them in that tab.
[HD2 General] me:
Yes, I use the stock 16GB SD card. Why? Is there a problem with that?

It is unfortunate, since that album art landscape thing is so cool, yet the HTC Music Player does not see the cover art of many albums, although it itself has created the .vin file in each folder, which is a renamed .jpg of the correct art.

And sometimes it cannot find any music!

I sure wish there would be a fix.

No registry fix or anything, that will help it?
[HD2 General] zelendel:
No there really isnt a prob with the stock SD card except it is a class 2 card so it reads and writes slowly, alot of my issues were fixed when I got a 16gb class 6 off ebay. Make sure all your music is in this format, Artist\album. the album art is handled my the id3 tags so make sure those are all set right. there should be 5 .jpg files in each album folder. I have uploaded a folder with the album jpeg files for you to compare yours to so hope it helps
[HD2 General] me:
Thanks. I am downloading your 7z file, and will take a look at it. I have only seen one .jpg in each album folder, which the HTC audio database renames to .vin extension.

Most of the time, that ,jpg is the correct album art for that album. Funny thing is, even so, with many albums the cover art does not display.

I have found a solution (in another thread here) to the problem of when one opens the HTC Music Player, go landscape to see all the albums, and it says something like "no music found", then starts a long search for your music.

It seems like the app forgets its databse every time you reboot the phone. Then when you start the music app, and click anything needing access to the library, it then starts searching for your music to put in the db.

If you add a link to the audio manager file (something like audiomanager_en.exe (in the Windows folder) to your \Windows\Startup folder, that will make it recreate the database on startup, so it will be ready when you want to play some music.

Seems an unnecessary waste of memory and boot time though, to have to do that. You don't need to do that with WMP. It remembers its database, and is there and ready when you use it. If you have added music, you can click rebuild library, and it will then rebuild it. But it does not need to rebuild after every reboot.

Makes me think of stopping the use of the HTC music player altogether, and just use WMP or alternatives like TCPMP and Mort. (Although the latter two don't use library at all, don't know why, just files and play lists.)

But there are nice things about the HTC Music Player--its integration into Sense, and that cool landscape cover art thing. I just wish they would fix the bugs, and get it working properly! (Anyone know if HTC will issue an update for the music player?)
[HD2 General] me:
Just looked at your .7z file. As you say, there are five album art .jpgs inside that folder.

It makes me wonder--what phone are you using? I think your HTC Music Player is different than mine.

The Music Player on my phone only creates one .jpg cover art file inside each of all my music folders, including those that work in showing cover art, and those that don't. (I guess it looks at the art embedded in the music file tags, and extracts the cover art in a separate file. It is a .jpg file, but renamed with the extension .vin.

Five cover art files, as exists in your folder, is non-existent on the TMOUSA HD2.

Funny thing too---In albums that do not show the cover art in the music player app, the .vin file the app created inside the album's folder--is still usually the correct album cover art. So the app can read the cover art embedded in the music files, creates its one folder ,jpg renamed .vin for the art, but still does not display it in the app.

Hey HTC, fix this app!
[HD2 General] me:
I wonder if it might have something to do with the resolution of the cover art?

While it might be able to read all cover art, and make the corresponding .vin (.jpg) file of it in the folder, the app only displays cover art that is in a certain pixel resolution, or a certain range of resolutions?

Could that be why some cover art displays, and others do not?

Anyone know?
[HD2 General] zelendel:
I was using the HD 2. I copied the folders from my music file on my pc to my phone. so that may be the reason for the extra image files. but as it always showed the album art I left them there
[HD2 General] ypsmav:
HTC audio manager shuffle problem

Hi Guys,

This old issue is still unsolved on the last update 3.14, and it is really driving me crazy.

Have you been able to solve it?

Have anyone tried the latest OBOE 1.18 files?

Brgds
[Desire Themes and Apps] Nitin985:
I've just been on my cousins hd2 and I love the flip clock which actually flips I've done a Google search but can't find one that works with froyo :( I would love it so much
[Desire Themes and Apps] Nitin985:
Anyone have any idea
[Desire Themes and Apps] Nitin985:
Nobody I'm sure the desire can handle it
[Desire Themes and Apps] donald-c:
All I know is I'm sure the HTC got rid of the flipping clock on newer ROMs for the HD2 as well.

I quite liked it as well though :(

Maybe there is some mod for Fancy Widget?
[Desire Themes and Apps] Nitin985:
Later I'll upload the flip clock .zip for the hero that flipped
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strauss0829:
Calling all devs who are and who are not working on rooting froyo stock 2.2 ...Lets make this thread a meeting point to discuss the hiccups in rooting the Evo with Froyo and work together some how so we can get this thing done ASAP for the community
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tgruendler:
For real...another 2.2 Please Root Me thread???
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strauss0829:
yes because I am trying to bring the community together to complete this goal
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
The development and hacker community are already together.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDSL:
Come together right now, over me!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cardiox:
Here come old flattop he come grooving up slowly

He got joo-joo eyeball he one holy roller

He got hair down to his knee

Got to be a joker he just do what he please

Come together right now over me

Sorry but I could not resist... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8LZGQ4MkvQ

MrDSL beat me to it...LOL!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nebenezer:
Posting a suggestion like that is not going to accomplish your goal (organizing a root effort) or help get 2.2 rooted any sooner.

You became the owner of this thread when you hit the "post new thread" button, you have the OP to do with as you wish. This thread isn't going to just start filling with reports of what people have tried. If you want this thread to serve as a "status-of 2.2" thread then find out what people have tried, try some methods yourself. Post the results of your searching and rooting attempts.

If this thread does become a place where people can come and see the current status of the rooting effort it will be because you keep the OP current.

I'm rooted, and I don't know enough to help blaze this trail. I know what a few people have tried and I know what methods some think are promising but I would like to see a breakdown, similar to THIS THREAD.. well, I WAS gonna link a 2.1 Root-Effort thread that was in the Hero forum before Regaw released his guide. I tried a half dozen searches (my search-fu is not weak) and all I found were a few rooting guides and a BILLION "ROOT???" threads...

Anyway, the guy had all of the methods that he had tried and others had submitted listed in detail along with the outcome of each attempt.

Also, I imagine a list like this would help cut down on the redundant threads.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverZero:
The sticky thread is already hosting a discussion about this. Some of the Unrevoked team is even there.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] regaw_leinad:
If someone wants to help me pay for one (haha) I'll get in on it!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sombdy:
That's exactly what I was thinking! Lol!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] regaw_leinad:
hahahahaha
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxomus:
Right...you know they should just start merging all these threads...or deleting.

Sent from my phone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nebenezer:
D..D..D..Dan Wager!! Where you been man?

If anyone can root this thing The Dan Man CAN! :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] regaw_leinad:
Hey man, yeah I wish I had one now, my brother won't let me try anything on his new one. Kinda bummed because I don't have anything to test my ideas on..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strauss0829:
well regaw i would love to hear some of ur ideas and maybe the other devs can mess around wit them
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snandlal:
If only the impatient woulda flashed unrevoked forever first.....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverZero:
Except it didn't exist yet when most people accepted the OTA.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tiffany84:
One question. I know there is currently no way to root stock 2.2 but does any one know if any of the amazing developers on here have made any ground at all or does it just not seem not possible.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strauss0829:
No worries

Its possible Nothings Impossible so just keep ur hopes up
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] regaw_leinad:
Yeah look at my signature... I don't believe in it... lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Ok taking into consideration that I have become somewhat obsessed with the overall workings of the PRI: Product Release Instructions. I was real curious as to ask you about the Hero PRI. When rooting the Hero did the PRI downgrade? If so was it version 1.34 before/after? Does the Hero now have 1.40...I mean was there an OTA push? Have you any knowledge of how the PRI is implemented? I have heard that it was in 2 different files so my conclusion is that one is the Product Release Instructions and may just be a document...the other may have something to do with Process Roaming Indicator.

Ok that was alot of questions...LOL!!! A simple I don't know or I don't care will work...HAHAHHA!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] regaw_leinad:
Well, first off every phone model has a different PRI. The newest PRI on the Hero is 2.20_003 and before that it was 1.70_003.

I assume the EVO has 1.34_*** and 1.40_***? Not too sure because I don't own an EVO lol

And in my rooting, no it did not change the PRI. Well, unless you ran the new RUU to upgrade to 2.1 before rooting (the 2.1 update included a new PRI).

not exactly sure how its implemented, but I know flipzmode does (he changed the name of the stock pri on the Hero for one of his roms). My guess is that it is stored in the nv.img in the RUU zip.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strauss0829:
regaw steal ur bro's evo and make this thing happen lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nebenezer:
*cough* evo-for-Regaw donation thread *cough*
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
If nothing more I like the quote: "I don't believe in impossible"...combine that with the previous credentials and you definetly need an EVO. I am not real sure how an appropriate thread should read but I would hope someone could place one in a donation effort to get you one. I feel it would be in our best interests...:p cough a do too...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] regaw_leinad:
\hahaha I'm just imagining his reaction now lol

Me: Hey David! I just rooted 2.2 on the EVO!!

David: NOOOO WAYYYY!!!!!! But... wait... how..? you don't have an EVO.....

Me: Ummmmmmmm... I just found this one on the curb at the park...

David: Wait.. where's mine...?

Me: ????

David: (***** gun)

Me = dead
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strauss0829:
lol

Classic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Yikes...I will donate for pushing a Root but Geez pushing a Daisy Root is not part of the deal...LOL!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superlinkx:
That made reading this thread completely worth it! So funny! Please don't do it, we want root, but would prefer to keep our best devs around to tell about it. LOL
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] regaw_leinad:
haha good luck with that one..

that is probably the only way I would be even able to get one though lol Maybe I'll just wait for the next cool phone, when I have an upgrade w/ Sprint.
[Captivate General] ronandi:
Just thought some people not following their twitter might want to know:

@SamsungFirmware: BAD NEWS MAYBE WE HAVE TO CLOSE OUR WEBSITE! BECAUSE COPYRIGHT! We are checking it out.

This was posted an hour ago

UPDATE:

@SamsungFirmware: We missed a Disclaimer about our website.. We fix it all tonight and hope we keep running!

UPDATE:

Updates from their twitter:

@SamsungFirmware: Samsung wants my domain... Because of the name. samsung-firmware.com is already down they have the same problem.

@SamsungFirmware: We are busy with a new domain so site could be offline soon again YEAH :@:@

@SamFirmware: Site DOWN Why because we change it to www.SamFirmware.webs.com Later we go to www.SamFirmware.com

In the last post you can see they changed their twitter name
[Captivate General] Bowsa2511:
this is bad news indeed!

Looks like they have to go... underground :eek:
[Captivate General] b0bfath3r:
Quick everyone, Start downloading and archiving it all before it is too late!
[Captivate General] Clienterror:
Not sure how its a copy writing issue, they aren't making any money off samsungs property (roms). They aren't editing them and releasing them as a samsung property....should be interesting.
[Captivate General] ronandi:
I've asked if they can provide any more details at this time. Will post if I find out more.
[Captivate General] dc41:
You don't have to do anything wrong to get a letter from a company lawyer. If some exec gets a bug up his butt and sics his legal department on you, right and wrong have nothing to do with it. :(
[Captivate General] Clienterror:
That's true. But out of curiosity I've been looking up forms of copy write laws, and they all basically deal with either taking someone's work and putting your name on it exclusively, or selling it or both, or a combination of the two. Besides that the rest applies to copying music which is obviously considered illegal but that is still kind of a gray area. And of course copying games and programs.....but that's targeted towards paid games/apps. So as far as "Copy write infringement" by definition it holds no water. Then again if someone can sue NC Soft for making Linage II too addicting and actually successfully start a lawsuit anything could happen rofl.
[Captivate General] rajendra82:
I can see why they would get in copyright hot water over what they do. All the work that they host is technically property of Samsung and their partners after all. I would hate for them to be killed off, as their releases have helped us a lot. Samsung should think twice about this though, because I bet without the glimmer of hope shown by the GPS improvements in JH2, there would have been a lot more returns Samsung would be dealing with.
[Captivate General] ronandi:
New update from their twitter:

@SamsungFirmware: We missed a Disclaimer about our website.. We fix it all tonight and hope we keep running!
[Captivate General] rob989_69:
Well, either they've taken it down for updating, or it's down completely, either way I can't get to it right now.
[Captivate General] nahrah:
From facebook:

Samsung-Firmware Webs SITE IS DOWN. WE HAVE TROUBLE WITH SAMSUNG. WE ARE WORKING ON NEW DOMAIN,
[Captivate General] djgleebs:
way to have your **** together... >.<
[Captivate General] Sledutah:
It figures, the day that I decide I'm going to update. Hope they can get it back up soon.
[Captivate General] ronandi:
Updates from their twitter:

@SamsungFirmware: Samsung wants my domain... Because of the name. samsung-firmware.com is already down they have the same problem.

@SamsungFirmware: We are busy with a new domain so site could be offline soon again YEAH :@:@

@SamFirmware: Site DOWN Why because we change it to www.SamFirmware.webs.com Later we go to www.SamFirmware.com

In the last post you can see they changed their twitter name as well
[Captivate General] Clienterror:
So if they are getting in trouble due to basically posting roms from samsung and nothing else what do you call it when people modify their original code to make custom roms? Are they going to jail because not only are they posting samsung property their modifying without samsungs permission.
[Captivate General] martey:
This is probably a trademark issue, since their domain included Samsung in its name. If it was a copyright issue, they couldn't just change the domain name and continue operating.
[Captivate General] Relief2010:
Dont forget that what xda does is illegal too, but its been tolerated by the companies so far because of the positive effects xda has on the popularity of the smartphones from these companies.

I dont think that samsung has a problem with what these website does, but purely of the use of her brandname. For example: the first time i heard of samsung-firmwares i thought it was something official by samsung. After visiting xda i learned it was not.

So the reason is just that samsung doesnt want to be associated with this website, because of the experimental stuff. You will get lot of stupid people complaining to samsung about broken smartphones.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimmy956:
I know this problem is probably in other threads somewhere, but I've been looking and I haven't been able to find this same situation in any of them, sorry for being such a noob.

I was running aloysius v12, used clockwork mod to do a nandroid backup. I tried flashing a purehero ROM, and got stuck on the white startup (skateboard) screen for about 30 minutes. I pulled the battery, booted into recovery, and tried restoring the nandroid file, but every time I try it says "Error while flashing boot image!" and won't continue.

I have it plugged in, so it isn't low on battery. I still had 4 gb free on my sd card, so it's not low on memory. When I try to look at the files on my sd card on my computer, it won't recognize my phone at all. I also tried restoring my original stock rooted backup, but had the same problem. I'm not really sure where to go next, what do I do?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshw0000:
I don't use clockwork but in amon ra you can't put spaces in the file name if you rename it. If you can't access your sd card on your computer, maybe your sd card is corrupt.

I STRONGLY recommend you get rid of clockwork and install amon ra. I've read horror stories of bricked phones using clockwork. I do not know if clockwork recoveries will boot in amon ra, so it would probably be best to install amon and boot a fresh rom.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshw0000:
...you did turn enable usb when you plugged your phone into the computer right?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimmy956:
How do I do that from the recovery screen? That's all i can get to right now.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimmy956:
And i'm still really new to this whole rom/rooting thing, sorry to be so clueless, but once i can open my sd card on the computer, then i download a new rom to it and flash it right? do i need to get amon ra before i flash a new rom? is that even possible? maybe i shouldn't have done all this without completely understanding it haha

Edit:

I found how to mount USB mass storage device. Now do I just need to follow the instructions on installing amon ra, or will they work while I'm in recovery?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshw0000:
You should be able to select usb ms toggle from recovery (at least you can in amon ra) when the phone is connected to the computer and move files to your sd card. If not, power the phone off, eject the sd, insert it into your computer, and put the file on that way. Make sure you wipe data, dalvik, and ext partition (only necessary if you have a partitioned sd and you're using app2sd on a 2.1 rom). Then flash your new rom and enjoy.

There are a couple ways to change your recovery from clockwork to amon ra. There's a how to floating around xda somewhere for changing from clockwork to amon ra. I'd link it but it's late and i don't feel like searching for it. You could also use the RUU method to unroot your phone and then do the 1 click method to root it again. This would automatically install amon ra. I have not tried either method, so please read and fully understand them before you attempt it.

I'm just curious, which method did you use to root your phone and how are you getting into recovery?