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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
Odin will not be able to see your phone, until you can make Windows see the phone

with the error message you mentioned, it means windows have problem with the drivers.

try another set of drivers, or install KiES, link on Wiki

or you can use another computer that is less annoying, Win XP responds better than Win Vista or Win 7

my main PC also have problem reading the drivers, so i went to my old WinXP machine problem solved
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cliffyboro:
Hi Allfamer. I've tried the drivers on their own, kies and pc suite to no avial. I'm actually on XP but I will try on another computer and see if that works.

cheers
[General Questions and Answers] tbzdat00:
:confused:Hi, who can Help me ?

My Problem : In Phone Dial Pad there is a phone icon with a grey square background ... how can i change it ? (Like Dutty or Xannytech Phone Dial Pad)

I have searched in Google .... test many packages ... compared registry from other roms .... :-(

My Head is burning ...

Here a screen shot of my phone dialer and a link of Xannytech's one.

http://www.xannytech.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Evolution2.jpg

Who can give me a hint ? (Registry tweak ... Icon ... .dll ...????)

Thank you
[General Questions and Answers] mwalt2:
You can try looking here and here. I'm not sure what the actual fix is because I do not use HTC Phone Canvases.
[General Questions and Answers] tbzdat00:
Hi, already tryed all this without luck :-(

This fix the position but not the grey background box.

Thank you :-)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blkegk:
I rooted many times before and this is the first time i ran into this problem.

In recovery mode it says E:Can't open /sdcard/update.zip (no such file or directory). I even tried the one click root/unroot program to no avail.

I think the problem started when i was on Bionix 1.4w/Jacs OC/UV/Voodoo kernel and JI5 modem. I decided i want to upgrade to JI6 from bionix 1.5. I did the disable-lagfix in the voodoo folder, restarted my phone and check with terminal and typed mount to see if it was disabled which it was.

Now here is what started giving me problems. After the voodoo was disabled i notice a whole bunch of my apps including the market, clockwork recovery, titanium back up, setcpu and all rooted programs was missing. So before i decided to upgrade to bionix 1.5. I removed the disable-lagfix and rebooted my phone. When the phone was rebooted the missing apps are still missing.

Next thing i decided to do was restore my phone back to stock rom following the steps in the bionix 1.5 thread, which requires flashing it w/ eugene froyo rom then flashing it again w/ stock vibrant 2.1 rom.

Now since im on the stock 2.1 rom i havent been able to root my phone either doing it the manual way or using one click root/unroot program. PLEASE HELP me find a solution
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ld006:
that happened to me once, I just went through the option to flash a zip file and browsed for the file and it worked instead of doing the update.zip option
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blkegk:
Yeah, I dont have that option to flash because I cant get rooted.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blkegk:
I figured it out. Close thread please.
[Wildfire General] tuktukscotty:
I have the my touch music APK but when i try to install it won't install (I took the APK from WildPuzzleRom)

How can I get this on my Stock rom?.

Thanks Scotty
[G2 and Desire Z General] j0nkatz:
Ask questions now. It goes back together tonight!!

Samsung 031 K4X4G303PC-7GD8 EEG095G1

SanDisk SDIN5C2-4G 0352S0S07A
[G2 and Desire Z General] maubig:
Seems to answer that question (from a hardware point anyway)
[G2 and Desire Z General] KiNG OMaR:
Looks juicy...
[G2 and Desire Z General] funkadesi:
SDIN5C2-4G .... I am guessing that means 4 GB....?

Doing a little bit of googling got me this....

http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store...=500201&langId=-1&storeId=500201&listIndex=-1

Still looking for the data sheet, If anyone can find it, PLEASE POST IT!!!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Clackamas:
What does Android report for the internal memory?
[G2 and Desire Z General] larryccf:
well, it looks like we have 4G if the reference in the part number is what it appears to be

in searching for documents for a full descript on that part number, i found something that may serve the developers trying to root this phone, but it's not good news

"The entire iNAND (including the Boot Area Partitions, General Purpose Area Partition, and User/Enhanced User Data Area Partition) may be write-protected by setting the permanent or temporary write protect bits in the CSD."

a general descript on the chip

"1.1. General Description

iNAND is an Embedded Flash Drive (EFD) designed for mobile handsets and consumer electronic devices. iNAND is a hybrid device combining an embedded thin flash controller and standard MLC NAND flash memory, with an industry standard e.MMC 4.411 interface.

Empowered with a new e.MMC4.41 feature set such as Boot and RPMB partitions, HPI, Background Operations and HW Reset the iNAND e.MMC is the optimal device for reliable code and data storage.

Designed specifically for mobile multimedia applications, iNAND is the most mature on board SD/MMC device since 2005, providing mass storage of up to 32GB in JEDEC compatible form factors, with low power consumption and high performance - an ideal solution for multimedia handsets of 2.5G, 3G, 3.5G and 4G."

both above quotes from http://omapworld.com/iNAND_e_MMC_4_41_IF_data_sheet_v1_0[1].pdf
[G2 and Desire Z General] j0nkatz:
This might be it.

http://omapworld.com/iNAND_e_MMC_4_41_IF_data_sheet_v1_0[1].pdf
[G2 and Desire Z General] jeeper251:
There's a 4G, 8G, and 16G version of that chip. So I would guess that is GB.

http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store...proto=&rohs=&sel=M&storeId=500201&topSellers=
[G2 and Desire Z General] j0nkatz:
Crap I'm slow!
[G2 and Desire Z General] dthadamaja:
Sweet! Now all we need is a fix
[G2 and Desire Z General] jeeper251:
Found it! Capacity for the SDIN5C2-4G is 3,957,325,824 bytes.

http://omapworld.com/iNAND_e_MMC_4_41_IF_data_sheet_v1_0[1].pdf

Page 24 in that PDF.
[G2 and Desire Z General] funkadesi:
We have it!!!

confirmed confirmed confirmed!!!!

Page 28

part number capacity

sdin5c2-4g 4gb
[G2 and Desire Z General] larryccf:
hopefull that "...may be write-protected by setting the permanent or temporary write protect bits in the CSD" will tell the developers where to look to see if they root the phone
[G2 and Desire Z General] digikid:
Great job TC and thanks! So now that it's confirmed we have 4GB of space, what will it take for the phone OS to see it? An OTA update? Is it an artificial or actual limitation of Android OS? Hmmmm.....tantilizing to see what google/htc/t-mo does now as the ball's in their court. :D
[G2 and Desire Z General] RuncaProfundus:
Great find. Thanks for playing doctor on your phone so the rest of us didn't have to!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Arcadia310:
Great! I knew this phone had 4GB of memory, it was just hidden from the user.
[G2 and Desire Z General] maubig:
...and of course the Samsung chip is the RAM...

K4X4G303PC-XXXXXX 512 MOBILE DDR SDRA X16 FBGA

http://translate.google.com/transla...G303PC&hl=en&rlz=1C1AVSX_enUS392US392&prmd=iv
[G2 and Desire Z General] sino8r:
Grrr... I'm glad you all are happy that you have what we've paid for but... for us trying to root this bastard... this might be more tough than we imagined. We never faced anything like this before. This is interesting for sure... but a little I TOLD YOU SO! is in order, hahaha!
[G2 and Desire Z General] sewred:
Great Detective work
[G2 and Desire Z General] xile6:
I knew from the start it had 4gb. when the free memory was way to close to 2gb. but anyway now we have to find out out to write to the 1gb partion
[G2 and Desire Z General] sino8r:
Wow... thanks captain obvious! J/k
[G2 and Desire Z General] aedv:
Just to confirm....the OP's OS shows available ROM in the 1-1.25gb range right?

I mean, if that particular phone that was just disassembled shows 2gb+ in the OS, then we've proven nothing.
[G2 and Desire Z General] j0nkatz:
You are correct ~1.25GB free on a fresh wipe.
[G2 and Desire Z General] XfooYen:
Hats off to the OP! If I sucked balls, I'd be juggling katz' with my tonsils.
[G2 and Desire Z General] recharged95:
Excellent hardware sniffing. Please do check what the OS reports when its up and running again. Now leaning towards an Android 2GB limitation (32bit JVM issue?) or we got the Desire Z OS version (not the Z's h/w).

And if you can't get it back together, just replace it at Tmobile:just say your hinge is too loose!

Good job.
[G2 and Desire Z General] [hfm]:
Hasn't it been said a few times Froyo doesn't handle over 2G partitions?

WITHOUT MOD?

Should be fixable OTA, or at the very least enable the other 2G using an "extended internal memory" partition.
[G2 and Desire Z General] biosehnsucht:
Interesting. All the models listed in the table are short some storage to their expected amounts, it looks like rather than having a true usable space of (for example) 4GB by adding some extra storage for wear leveling / bad blocks, they instead have 4GB total in cells but provide less usable because some of that is for wear leveling.

Looks like 322MB is set aside in the 4GB version, 180MB in the 2GB version. Too lazy to calculate the rest, since only the 4GB one is relevant anyways.
[G2 and Desire Z General] biosehnsucht:
I hope they didn't configure specific boot blocks and other partitions then write protect them. :(

This wouldn't affect the loss of changes to system on boot, but might make rooting it (by preventing replacing boot) much harder.

I don't know anything about how much low level IO is exposed by the kernel, can a userspace program with root privs (using temp root) use some ioctl()s or something to talk to the eMMC ?

If so we should look at (page 22) EXT_CSD register:

Parameter Description
BOOT_INFO Boot Information
BOOT_SIZE_MULTI Boot partition size
PARTITION_CONFIG Partition Configuration
BOOT_CONFIG_PROT Boot config protection
PARTITION_CONFIG Partition Configuration
BOOT_CONFIG_PROT Boot config protection
PARTITIONS_ATTRIBUTE Partitions Attribute
GP_SIZE_MULT General Purpose Partition Size
ENH_SIZE_MULT Enhanced User Data Area Size
ENH_START_ADDR Enhanced User Data Start Address

That info may be useful in determining if its going to be possible to make certain kinds of changes, say to the boot code, at all. If it's going to be impossible to rewrite the boot partition for example then we can skip trying to do anything with it and hope that we can find an exploit like the killinitrd Tivo exploit or such to let us fake a signed kernel / system image.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rr5678:
Holy sheet, you're telling me that my 2GB NAND chip came with 179GB wear-leveling storage? UNLIMITED LIFE, YEAH! :p
[G2 and Desire Z General] biosehnsucht:
*facedesk* fixed typo.

G2 has 4GB anyways, so you woulda had only 322MB instead of that "180GB" anyways. :P (unless you have another device, with a SDIN5D2-2G instead)
[G2 and Desire Z General] rr5678:
But I wasn't talking about the G2 :p
[G2 and Desire Z General] daijizai:
Write-protect cannot be on in that fashion as the data partition is writable. Also, the Linux OS does not see more than 2.1 GiB...

This is a compatability problem.
[G2 and Desire Z General] daijizai:
Maybe, but that doesn't explain why the LINUX Os does not see more than 2.1 GiB... There is no partition in the phone at or exceeding 2GB becuse the OS doesn't see more than 2 GiB
[G2 and Desire Z General] biosehnsucht:
I have been reading eMMC stuffs. Short version: portions of the storage (in this case 4GB minus the 322MB wear leveling space) can be partitioned into protected boot partitions, which once taken out of boot mode disappear. So depending on how much was placed there .... that can account for all the missing space. "Replay Protected Memory Block" feature can be used to keylock a memory block from read/write access as well. So far I have not seen anything that would automate the faking of writes (from temp root) and discarding on reboot, though.
[G2 and Desire Z General] vi5in:
Why do you say that? It appears that you can set parts (groups) of the eMMC to be write protected. So the rest of the eMMC could be R/W with a certain part set to RO.

Or am I wrong? :p
[G2 and Desire Z General] adwinp:
There definitely can be no permanent lock, otherwise you wouldn't be able to update your rom via RUU.

In that case, the nand is either (un)locked at kernel level (have to check source in board-vision*/72xx once htc makes the source available @developer.htc.com)

or

there is a temporary lock, which is DEFINITELY released @rom update time, via RUU.

I don't have a G2 (am waiting for the DHD atm), but try the following:

1: extract system.img from the RUU, rom.zip

2: loop mount it (ext3) and add su and Superuser.apk.

3: re-zip the rom.zip

4: launch RUU

I'm curious about the results
[G2 and Desire Z General] daijizai:
I could be wrong on the write-protect, but when reviewing the spec I did not see anything that indicated write-protect was possible on anything but the eMMC as a whole, nor did I see any write-protect configured in the CSD/Ext CSD.
[G2 and Desire Z General] adwinp:
I have posted something which MIGHT help (it's for the DHD):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=805327
[G2 and Desire Z General] roadrunnerx7:
a rep told me that its not an issue with recognizing the memory.. they said supposedly android 2.2 takes up 1gb, theres 1gb for future updates, and 300mb for formatting or something, and add to that some space for the preinstalled apps. sounds like BS to me, but i guess gingerbread is gonna be massive? 0.0

and apparently android 2.2 is 1gb???
[G2 and Desire Z General] rr5678:
They have Gingerbread running on a nexus one, so no, it's not gonna be massive.

[YOUTUBE]k2ivG0IvckM[/YOUTUBE]

http://gizmodo.com/5669828/watch-a-leaked-video-of-android-30-gingerbread-in-action
[G2 and Desire Z General] phoenix79:
I had 2.2 on my G1, it does NOT take 1GB
[G2 and Desire Z General] JanetPanic:
This sooooooooo makes me want to call T-Mo support. The 1GB for future updates part I can believe. 300MB for formatting is extremely unlikely but possible. (generally EXT3 uses about 1-2%, not 15% but theoretically possible) Even then cat /proc/partitions would have listed the block space used for formatting.

Android taking 1GB is rubbish though, provably so. The total used space in addressable space on my G2 is not 1GB. 190MB in system, 176MB in data, 18 in cache, and 10 in devlog for a total of 394MB. Keep in mind data includes software I installed from the market.

Actually I think I will call them when I get home. The answers I keep hearing here are not acceptable from a company I have held in high regard for customer service for so long.

On a completely unrelated note I find it really cool that protected apps (like angrybirds) get mounted individually on loopback devices when running.
[G2 and Desire Z General] adwinp:
The default allocation of root blocks for ext = 5%
[G2 and Desire Z General] JanetPanic:
blocks but does not use. It appears to be listed as free space in df. I can not run the commands on the G2 but you can do a "df -B 4096" on an empty partition to get blocks and blocks used. Compare that to the output of "dumpe2fs <partition>". The two pertinent lines are "Block count" and "reserved block count". Block size will be within 2% of what is reported by df and precisely the bloc size reported by cat /proc/partitions.

There is a 1-3% (based on some quick math on existing partitions) overhead for EXT3, not including the 5% of reserved space.

In this case though I will say that I could be wrong. You did make me delve deeper into block allocation than I usually would however. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saeed_ashor:
Greetings,

I have problem with sound, i can not hear the alarm there is no sound and i can not hear the call ring, i can hear the music using headphone but i can not without them .

I raised the sound but no luck !
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] padlad:
Have a look in settings > Sound & Display, there are several different volume adjustments in there. Ringer, media and system volume.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saeed_ashor:
volume is in max value in all options .

even i test *#*#0*#*#* and speaker does not work .
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
maybe it came with a bad speaker from factory

return it to get an exchange

but before you do that try installing this app

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8123906&postcount=39
[Epic 4G General] Demianwulf:
Ok, Just got my epic in the mail. It's charging as I type. I ordered a Realook screen protector immediately and I'll probably keep the one that ships with it on there until that one comes in.

So my question is...What should I do first? I want to customize it as much as possible to keep the battery life as long as possible. Should I root it? What roms do you guys recommend? I'm waiting on a case with a kickstand to come out...so i'll baby it for the first month I guess.
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
Definitely Root it!!! So many benfits with rooting (Free Wifi Tether,No ADS, Custom roms, Kernals, Get rid of crapware like sprint stuff and more.

Im running andromeda rom with andomeda kernal. I couldnt be happier. :)
[Epic 4G General] Demianwulf:
This might be a silly question but if I root it before I activate it will that affect the activation process?

The reason I ask is because I don't have a screen protector yet so I was just going to continue using my other phone until it came in. I know its ridiculous, but I just want to make sure I don't give myself any opportunity to scratch the screen on this expensive phone.

So I'll just play with it until I can actually start making phone calls. Hilarious...adults with their toys.
[Epic 4G General] Envynet:
Just realize the epic uses Gorilla glass.. :D Unless you continually drop stuff and try hard to scratch the screen your not going to be able to.
[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
Do you happen to have a respectable source on that one? I have heard that it does, it doesn't, it might and really would just like to know for certain.

Thanks
[Epic 4G General] Envynet:
search for gorilla glass on youtube.
[Epic 4G General] crabjoe:
1st?? Why not make sure the phone works as advertised? My suggestion is to check how the well your GPS and other features actually work. Once you get a good feel for the phone, then the rooting should start... ;)
[Epic 4G General] Demianwulf:
I am so accustomed to rooting, modding, or putting a rom on every smart phone I have ever had that it only seems natural to start that way from the get go. Besides, I'm fairly confidant that stock performance is going to pale in comparison to what I'll see once I've customized it a bit.

But, you are right I'll give it a go stock for a little bit (a day :)?) to get a feel for the device before I start slicing and dicing it.
[Epic 4G General] Demianwulf:
http://www.corning.com/gorillaglass/devices.aspx

It states plainly that the Galaxy S has gorilla glass, so I think we can safely say that the Epic has it since the Galaxy S is AKA the Epic.

So, I understand that Gorilla glass is supposed to make this thing nearly indestructible, but I've read around these very forums that people are still getting scratches on the screen. Might as well protect my expensive overpriced phone....Sometimes I think who the heck cares since I have insurance and why bother with a case either?
[Epic 4G General] Demianwulf:
http://cgi.ebay.com/SAMSUNG-EPIC-PH...772937?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item2c57c02bc9

Getting this cheapo ebay case for the time being until they release a functional case with a kickstand that I like. I read a review on this site here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=797833 that gave me some hope in buying the triangular shape case. *Crosses Thumbs* Hoping it will hold me over.
[Epic 4G General] houkah:
I scratched my screen within a week of getting the phone. I customarily leave my keys in the same pocket as my phone. I did this for 2 years w/ an iphone and didn't have a single scratch so i figured the epic would fare similarly. 1 week and there were little micro scratches all over the epics screen. I had other problems with that phone so sprint exchanged it for another one and i promptly got a screen protector. Hopefully i'm the exception and not the rule.
[Epic 4G General] Demianwulf:
I do the exact same thing...I constantly put my phone in my pocket with my car keys. I notice every little scratch...they gnaw at my subconscious even when i'm not using the phone lol. I thought the Iphone and epic both had gorilla glass...odd that you would scratch one and not the other under similar circumstances.
[Epic 4G General] herbthehammer:
If times get desperate, you could always trade it for crack...

Just kidding!

I haven't been a smartass in the forums for a while, so I couldn't resist!

Use it dude! Don't put it on your mantle and worship it while burning incense and chanting, USE IT. Lol
[Epic 4G General] Demianwulf:
haha....I wasn't going to burn incense...just chant and worship. I'm trying to get a mini keyless remote for it, so I can leave it out with no fear :p
[Epic 4G General] Zzim:
You sir fail I know for a fact that this would scratch the iFails screen. Who in their right mind would keep their keys in the same pocket as their phone?
[Epic 4G General] houkah:
Sorry man, it's the truth. I'm not flaming the phone or anything, and i'm pretty sure my experience is a rare one. But yes. I'm a fool who keeps his keys in the same pocket as his phone. Miraculously there were no scratches on the iphone3g after about 1.75 years. In case you think i'm somehow trolling the epic you need to realize i disliked everything else about the iphone and even paid the early termination fee to switch to the epic. BTW beside that one negative experience w/ the scratch and wobbly screen (the same unit) i love this phone.

So back on topic. I recommend a screen protector of some sort.
[Epic 4G General] bomix:
make a phone call? Congrats on your new phone! you'll be satisfied!
[Epic 4G General] Demianwulf:
You know I've waited this long for this phone...I think I can hold out another few days before my screen protector comes in.

I'm probably going to root it today...I'll ask again does anyone know if rooting will hinder activating this phone?

Otherwise, I'm just using it as a PMP for now :P.
[Epic 4G General] ravizzle:
Rooting won't hinder activation, however using an aosp rom might. So if u just root and use noobs rom or just leave it stock rom u will be fine.

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] Demianwulf:
Thanks! I might just wait then to activate it first before rooting because the main reason I wanted to root is to install a custom kernal/rom.

Battery life sucks on stock so far by the way...I'm getting about 7 hours a day with light usuage before I have to recharge. Admittedly, I have not done much to tweak it, but its a shame that a stock offering from sprint can't hold a whole days charge. I mean what if I wasn't as inclined to rooting/tweaking...I would have to live with the phone like this? Definitely, unacceptable. If I don't see at least a days charge with some light usage on a custom rom/kernal I might consider waiting for another droid phone with a better battery life. I have read some positive results from people with custom roms achieving the battery life I'm looking for so I'm hopeful.