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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spandsbab:
found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=723596

2.What are customROMs? How do I get them?

As of now, the following CustomROMs are are available (not necessarily exhaustive):

Modaco's R3

Doc's RomMod V5

Doc's RomMod Froyo

Sera's JIT-Galaxy V1

XQ55 Arab ROM v1.1

SamSet 1.9f for Android 2.1

Samset 2.0 for Android 2.2

HACKECLAIR v1.0.4

Tayutama Edition v1.1

Rombie v2a

Frankin-Twiz

hope this helps...:D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mickyman:
Thanks both of you :)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbeitel:
Ok, here is a new one for me. I have an incredible, obviously, updated with 2.2 from over the air. I rooted with unrevoked 3.something. I have installed a few new things, better cut, handcent sms, better keyboard, wifi tether. Since all of these installs and the rooting, i began to have this problem (i have other software but it was fine before this), i have this problem where my programs believe it is a fresh first time launch every time i start them. Things like c:geo, trillian, and others go blank and have me reenter passwords and info. I don't know how to start trouble shooting this without deleting a ton of stuff, obviously undesirable. Can you offer any suggestions? Could this be a bad root problem? Help is appreciated..

I also removed some bloatware with apb. moved it to my sd card.

:confused:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ogkhaze:
What all did you remove with adb?
[General Questions and Answers] blackdeath69:
Hey all I have a problem dunno if this is the right place to post but could not really find anything closer.

First I have no access to a PC and I need a copy of the original registry for the t mobile wing. I've been playing aroud with the reg to get access to the Ext rom well I have deleted it and a reboot doesn't bring it back, don't want to try a hard reset because of that. also messed with the t mo data settings I deleted them actually I delete everything that has to do with t mo. and barely got the wifi working or I would'nt be here now!

hoping putting the settings back will return the ext romto normal or my regedits are done till I get a laptop. and dunno if i have to hard reset.

I will attach the reg settings and screenshots if anyone is interested I am able to load up to about 1meg on the ext rom then it gives either access denied or write protected. and it vanishes on reboot as far as i've read this is the closest to actually being able to alter the ext rom on a cid locked and original rom....without a pc, thanx in advance.

T Mobiile wing sim locked[ack] and cid locked.

"My dad always said, "Don't fix what ain't broke", So I broke it!

EDIT:

Ok after 3 hard resets (first 2 failed) it re-installed. Re-edited the reg with the autoload and profile to show the ext rom and it won't show it reg values are still what I changed them to. Any ideas, My phone is punishing me?
[General Questions and Answers] blackdeath69:
Ok did another hard reset and the ext rom is gone, didn't have to reset in first 3 secs to stop installs. can any1 explain to me how I erased a RAM Drive that isn't supposed to be changable without a PC and even better how to bring it back 4 my purposes I was close before I think it has to do with the virtual drive setup in the reg any1 can help with this?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] princearic:
I was just curious to find out if there was a general consensus as to the better app for recovering your phone. I realize that there are quite a few that do the job. I just want to find the one that does the job and does it well, because if my phone does ever get stolen/lost, I only have one shot to get it right. Trial and error doesn't really give me peace of mind when it's something you actually need it to work.

Any opinions?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lralexl:
I use titanium donate version and it does everything I could possibly ever want it to do. Will restore everything, even system settings.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sl0play:
I think he's referring to tracking software...

I've seen some nice Tasker scripts that will lock up the phone and e-mail you its GPS coordinates if you send a certain text to it. This way you would get more for your money since Tasker does so many other amazing things.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StefanB86:
Have you looked into WaveSecure? seems pretty good, https://www.wavesecure.com/wavesecure/android.aspx
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinyBuddha:
I've heard some good things about Prey but in all honesty, it's good to keep things locked down with either encryption/passcode unlock too. I don't know the statistics on recovery of lost phones but being a pessimistic/optimist I'd say hope for the best but expect the worst. Sync your contacts/emails/etc on a regular basis (maybe once a week and you can use tasker for this), keep sensitive personal information off the phone if possible, etc.

Froyo might let you remote wipe (I heard it would be a feature for enterprise lvl stuff) but if the person who found it is tech savvy (pretty much anyone who can flash a rom) they might just pull the SIM & wipe the phone which would moot any security features you might have in place. I could be wrong though, I don't have a lot of experience in anti-theft and should probably look more into protecting my own phone too and seeing what options are available.

I do know that insurance will cover the loss but it doesn't help if you don't have a backup of all your important info somewhere. Oh, and before I forget, in addition to contacts/email you can sync your calendar too. You just need to make sure when you create an entry that you save it as a Google calendar entry and not to the phone. That way it will sync too.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Master™:
MyLookout - It also has backup & virus protection
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] down8:
+1.

10char

-bZj
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjhart85:
Sim Checker Pro - Because if someone changes the SIM card, you can't send it a text message for other programs.

When the SIM card is changed out, it'll send me a text message (so I have the new number) and an email with the GPS location.

I also move the app from /data/app-private to /system/app as well, so it can't be deleted with a system wipe either [I just tested this.....Sim Checker is still there & it remembers my password]. Odin can obviously destroy it, but we're assuming this is stolen/found by someone who just thinks your phone is cool, not someone who knows the ins/outs of Samsung Vibrant hacking.

Another plus is if they do a wipe they'd probably lose root (forgot to verify this), which might be good as well.

From there, there are TONS of apps that will send back locations with GPS updates, Wheres My Droid is a popular example.

I would move all of these apps into the /system/app section to be on the safe side.

If I were to find a phone and decide not to give it back (hypothetically of course, don't blast me for something I haven't done), I would power it down & wipe it before doing anything...having them in your /system will help with this. I'm sure most people would probably just yank the SIM card.......either way, if you use Sim Checker, you'll be safe, but make sure you have another option like Wheres My Droid as well.

Also, I'm pretty sure if Sim Checker is in /system, it'll be able to turn the GPS on as well.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lotherius:
Okay, I have two batteries on my Vibrant. Both are official Samsung batteries bought at the same time. The one that came with the phone is dated August. The one that I bought separately is dated June.

Problem is, after using the August battery for a while, if I switch the June battery into the phone, it won't register a full charge properly. My external charger says it is fully charged, but when I put it into the phone, it immediately shows 88% charge. If I plug in the phone to charge with it in, it quickly jumps to 100% and says fully charged. But within seconds of unplugging the charger, it drops back to 88%. There's no way to get a full charge on it.

I have a feeling one of the two batteries has around 12% less capacity, probably the June battery. Very annoyed as it was bought with the phone at T-Mobile.

Anyone run into this and know if that's actually the case or if it might simply be a difference in needing to reset the phone's internal "battery meter", which I'm not sure how to do on the Vibrant?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lralexl:
Let the battery die. While turned off, charge it overnight or ~10 hours. Go into clockwork recovery and under advanced, choose wipe battery stats.
[Droid 2 Android Development] hockeyhead019:
Hey everybody,

I have the Droid 2 for a little while now and I'm interested in putting a custom ROM on it, which requires rooting lol... now that i've just stated all the obvious haha I wanna know if there is a one click method for linux users (my windows is too messed up to use and the driver doesn't install)

So ok the sum up of my question. Is there a one click method I can use for Linux (Ubuntu 10.04), if not can somebody point me in the direction of a noob friendly way to do it. I've never rooted a phone before but I have some experience with command lines and things of that nature.

Thanks for any help/advice,

-Jim
[Droid 2 Android Development] darkonion:
The answer to your question is Stickied. Easier 1-2-3 Root for Droid 2. Just follow directions for Mac and Linux.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitrius:
Some time ago i rooted my phone with Unrevoked, at that time it flashed Clockworkmod 2.5.0.1 to my phone. Since then i've been upgrading my recovery through ROM Manager, or so i thought anyway. Because using "Reboot into recovery" from ROM Manager, takes me to recovery with version 2.5.0.7 of Clockworkmod, but if i manually go into recovery, by turning the phone off and holding down the volume and the power button, i get to Clockworkmod 2.5.0.1 still.

Why is it like this? Almost like there is "different levels" of recovery modes? Do i have two different recoveries installed on the phone or something? And how do i flash my recovery so that when i boot into recovery the manual way, it's the latest as well?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitrius:
Been doing some thinking, the reason ROM Manager doesn't seem to update the version when am booting into recovery the manual way, is it because of this S-ON thingy?

Did some reading on: http://alpharev.shadowchild.nl/ and there is some kind of security on /system and /recovery(which Alpharev can remove, but i haven't tried it yet), is this the reason why ROM Manager doesn't flash the recovery?

If so, when i click "reboot into recovery" from inside ROM Manager, what kind of recovery does it take me to, since the version obliviously is updated there?

Edit: Maybe it's only doing a "fake-flash" of the recovery from inside ROM Manager? Because of this security thingy on /recovery? If so, how do i permanently update the recovery? Is it only possible through unrevoked? And if i use Alpharev, will ROM Manager then be able to permanently update the recovery?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mortenmhp:
Yes you are right assuming it has to do with s-off. Koush circumvented this by using fakeflash which is automatic applied when rebooting using Rom manager.

And yes making the phone s-off will make Rom manager able to flash the recovery, but it won't because at the time it was made s-off wasn't available. So it will need an update from koush.

To flash a recovery you download it as an img file to your computer and flash it using fastboot.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitrius:
Okay, thanks for the answer.
[Captivate General] Bowsa2511:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=790686

According to the source, they have a method of having Rooted Froyo with 2e Recovery. and that's for our cousin the i9000!

Can this be done?
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
Honest question, what's the advantage of 2e?
[Captivate General] alphadog00:
Flashing unsigned update.zip files.
[Captivate General] Bowsa2511:
I'd like to flash my themes lol
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crystalhand:
I might be completely crazy for asking this but is there a way to move data and apps from 2.1 to 2.2? i have tried using titanium backup but get the AT&T non market app restriction message.

I had installed 2.2 earlier today and after rooting the phone it went crazy. I think i screwed something up bad because i was getting constant force closes of system processes. one would pop up every 5 or so seconds and appeared to be related to receiving a cell signal because the signal was going up and down from 1 to full bars in an area where i should have full.

Long story short i ended up restoring a backup through ROM manager. I am not thrilled about doing all the work to get froyo back especially if my apps and data are not going to transfer over.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flashman2002:
Haha well you kind of have to start over if you want Froyo and your apps. Right now there is no one click so you either flash Cognition 2.2 or you do the adb codes to root your phone. The reason you were getting the error message of not being able to load apps is because you have to enable side loading on the phone or use the sideload wonder machine. It is all in the Froyo 2.2 hack thread.
[Captivate General] pjs2004:
Does anyone with Froyo know if there is a new timeout adjustment for the bottom button lights? I cannot believe that this would not be fixed. It's the single most annoying thing about the phone. Even aside from the problem of the lights going out after like 3 seconds, they don't even light up when you hit the power button to wake up the phone! How dumb is that? My GPS is fine. I want a button light fix!
[Captivate General] climber1872000:
Unfortunately not.
[Captivate General] k2snowboards88:
Haven't you gotten used to it by now? It was annoying for me for the first week. Now, I could press any of those keys with my eyes closed.
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
This......
[Captivate General] erezak:
Have you tried looking in various settings databases on the device itself?
[Captivate General] pjs2004:
Yeah, I know where the buttons are without looking, but if you hit them with the tip of your finger, you have to hit them right in the center. In the dark, I end up missing 1 in 4 times. If they were lit up like it should be, I'd never miss them. Since those buttons are used so much, it's just ridiculous that they aren't lit up the same time as the screen, or at least have a setting for them. To me, it's the worst design flaw of the phone, and actually, for me, it's really the only flaw. Since it wasn't fixed, I'm guessing the lights aren't tied to the OS. Maybe it's tied directly to the hardware, which would really suck.
[Captivate General] pjs2004:
I looked through all of the settings. I don't have Froyo, but climber1872000 said there's no setting for it.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] tzb:
Hi guys, Could a ROM developer please create a ROM that uses fronts and icons that us middle aged+ people can read without going and finding a pair of glasses?

Cheers in advance :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] hartleyshc:
You could use a titanium rom (23xxx version) and turn the font size up (settings>screen>font size).

A default windows titanium rom will be much easier to read than Sense. Also make sure the start menu is 3 columns and not 4 or 5 like some cooks like. Theres a cab around here somewhere... Ill link to it if I come across it again.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] tzb:
Thanks for the advice, I'll give it a go.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] modus81:
Is there a way to increase the timeout on the capacitive touch buttons on the fascinate? It would be great if the buttons would stay on when the screen is on.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] keith.mcintyre26:
Its in system/lib/hw. There's a file called lights and I believe that's our answer, just haven't had time to play with it.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] taypotts:
I'm really hoping we can get this fixed.. leave it up to the dev community to fix what a big company messes up. hahaha!
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Irishpride:
I think I can speak for almost anyone who owns a Fascinate when I say that we all want this.

Sent From My Galaxy S
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] wasupwithuman:
so i figured something out....hahaha... atleast on my phone.

set your screen timeout to 1 minute, and make sure your lockscreen is enabled...

now turn the screen off, and then turn it back on. press the home key twice, then unlock the phone....

your capacitive touch key will now stay lit.... until you use them.....

hahahahaha..... works for my phone.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] chronster:
definitely not on mine
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] wasupwithuman:
You using puzzle lock?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] wasupwithuman:
You using puzzle lock.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] devlp1213:
lmao that worked on mine and I'm on puzzle but like he said once you use the key the timeout resets and just go right back off funny bug but not a fix sadly :(
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] bikeandestroyx:
I have been trying to figure this out for a while now. On the epic you can edit an xml in settings.apk, which extends the keyboard backlight timeout and the capacitive touch buttons. I tried this on the fascinate but no go.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] farms:
This is a known issue with this device, I believe samsung will be addressing it with the 2.2 update :)
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Guardian_Bob:
So I've put up an app to address this on the market.

KeepTheLightsOn will keep the LEDs illuminated while the screen is on. Just leaving the LEDs on, rather than using CPU to figure out when to turn them off actually saves battery.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] gregie:
it works kinda slow but I was able to install app called hotspot toggle and I was able to pick it up on my ipad and netbook took awhile to get an ip but it worked!! I haven't figured out how to change the settings to put a wpa and stuff but indeed a nice solution for now till a root occurs
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] nabzilla1990:
Awesome won't have to go back to my nexus one
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Master Loon:
Great find. !
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] mingkee:
This is also useful on nexus one as I don't have to go through all the hassle to turn on hotspot.

Great, I'll go out to buy G2 this week!

But how can I change the mobile hotspot settings on G2 when it's hidden?
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Master Loon:
Good question. I would like to know. Have yet to make a successful connection. But it is sending out a wifi connection. Just can't obtain a ip address. Only tried to connect N1. And to tired to find my laptop. Will try in the am. And post back
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] acis:
Can't get a connection but it is transmiting.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] mtl171:
some people also tried it here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=798247

apparently it broadcasts a SSID but doesn't assign a ip :( guess tmo knew what they were doing. pretty sure we could overcome this with root.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] mingkee:
According to what OP said, it may take a while to get IP.

I found the writter and I'll ask him to put additional mobile hotspot settings on his application.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] khaosxiii:
Awesome! Shows up as Open Connection - connected ...

releasing and attempting to renew now ...

EDIT:

Didn't pull an IP - I'm not convinced that there is a DHCP server running on Vision with just toggling the connection.

I now have a reason to install a Terminal Emulator and check out IFCONFIG xD

....

Tried IFCONFIG under normal and temp Root - nothing displays

Was this part of busybox previously?
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] AZ2ENVY:
Just got PDAnet and it seems to be working great :)
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] mingkee:
The problem is: both easytether and PDAnet don't work with Cradlepoint routers.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] AZ2ENVY:
Wasnt aware of that . Thanks for the heads up !
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinyBuddha:
Hey all,

So I was on the phone with my bro and wanted to take a picture of something while I was talking to him. So I hit the Home button, got to the main screen, clicked on my Camera icon and it said "Camera not available while using phone". So I did a search on the forums and only found this thread. It made mention of 3rd party apps but is/are there a rom in development that overcome this limitation? If not, what are some recommended apps to use. Honestly, I like all the features in the stock Vibrant camera app and didn't know if any would actually utilize all their options. This isn't a OMG my phone sucks item, it'd just be filed under things that would be nice to have since my old iPhone 3g actually had this capability.

Any recommendations/help are always appreciated.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yankee0750:
FxCamera is what I use. I like it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjhart85:
My old G1 had that capability as well.

I could also use the camera and media players when the battery was almost dead.

HTC seems to understand we aren't children that need to be smacked when we want to do something they don't think we should [Maybe Apple just didn't think of it though].
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Owenv:
I remember my last samsung phone started to limit what you could do when the battery was getting low. nice to have 3rd party apps now.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinyBuddha:
So I tried the FxCamera app. It's not too bad. Any other recommended apps that get around this annoyance?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yankee0750:
I only use FxCamera just in case I take a pic during a call. I like stock better. You can make a shortcut by long pressing homescreen,choose shortcuts,scroll down till you see FxCamera Quick Launch and choose what effect you want (I always use normal) and thats it. So when you are on a call you only one click away of taking a pic instead going in to the menu and choose what effect you want.
[Fascinate Android Development] jorge3687:
ok, after a few trys at different things i now can say that by disabling the autosync feature, the Fc errors will stop, just go to settings, accounts and sync, then just check off autosync.
[Fascinate Android Development] bblanski:
I haven't had a single fc since the update. Lucky I guess..
[Fascinate Android Development] BACARDILIMON:
Very lucky. I had to return the phone and get another new one. It forced the update. signal sucks.
[Fascinate Android Development] ballaholyk84:
May I ask the point of returning the phone?
[Fascinate Android Development] jorge3687:
mmmmm i went back to my previous backup, i like the syncing feature, woithout it i dont get up to the minute emails, twitts etc. i will better wait for a more stable rom
[Fascinate Android Development] Protonus:
Having these FC's as well, as a result of syncing in this ROM, just flashed it yesterday. Tried deleting all user data, doing the permissions fix, and clearing all caches, using Clockwork, didn't help. Also setting up any account to sync like facebook/twitter/myspace, fails during the "Loading..." section after you specify your account info, with the same force close. Any way to fix this? I like this ROM a lot other than this, it's the only problem I really have with it.
[Fascinate Android Development] jorge3687:
that is the pro blem, is a nice rom but the onli way to fix it is to turn the autosync off, and if you can live without accounts syncing, go ahead that will fix it
[Fascinate Android Development] Protonus:
Try the new one he just posted, should fix the random and sync related FC's, the fix, fixed them on my phone so we should be good now. :D
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j03uen:
Hi guys,

I have a Nexus One PB99100 (900Mhz Version) and I want to go on a network which runs on the 850Mhz (Telstra NextG Australia, like AT&T).

What I want to know is, what will happen when I use a 900Mhz phone on a 850Mhz network?

Thanks