yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Vibrant Android Development] grabiarz:
Having a bit of an issue here...

I successfully flashed the rom, however the I went and started messing around with it. Everything was fine so I decided to try out Jac's Voodoo lagfix kernel. That worked but wanted to go back to the original kernel with colorfix. So I flashed that back. Now this is where I get problems, the phone started complaining that I have no free application space. So I figured it's going to be fine to flash Eugene's rom and be done with it. Well not so much... :facepalm:

When I try to flash Eugene's work it starts crapping out here:

Formatting DATADATA:...

Formatting CACHE:...

Formatting DATA:...

E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

(File exists)

Error mounting /data/!

Skipping format...

Copying files...

E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

(File exists)

E:Can't mount DATA:

E:Failure at line 77:

copy_dir PACKAGE:data DATA:

Installation aborted.

I have nandroid backups but is it ok to restore them? My phone is hardware locked so I'm afraid of brickage potential here..
[Vibrant Android Development] jdkackley:
You didnt disable VooDoo before you flashed the colorfix one did you?
[Vibrant Android Development] ShinyBuddha:
Awesome job Eugene. Keep up the phenomenal work.
[Vibrant Android Development] scrizz:
voodoo becomes a nightmare when people don't read :mad:

:rolleyes:
[Vibrant Android Development] Se7eN43:
Ahh.. That did it. Didn't know about sgs tools. Had tried a different market fix method. Thanks
[Vibrant Android Development] grabiarz:
I assumed (dumb dumb dumb) it will get disabled when I reflash the non voodoo kernel... Then I did 'disable' it after the fact using the below but to no avail

adb shell

cd /sdcard/Voodoo

touch disable-lagfix

adb reboot recovery
[Vibrant Android Development] jdkackley:
No doubt Scrizz! The inability of people to read read read before they flash something to thier $600 phone just astonishes me. Especially as much as its been talked about. Every ROM post has something in there about what to do if this happens. As well as how to avoid this. :confused:

But I will help him in hopes that he helps someone else when the time comes. Its the only way we can bring the community together.
[Vibrant Android Development] jdkackley:
There's a step by step on how to recover from this in Sombionix Bionix 1.4 thread. Read the op in there good.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=782027

Sorry Eugene for posting to another thread in your thread!

Need more help? PM me.
[Vibrant Android Development] CompConfig:
I saw the code posted as a “simple” fix to the Bluetooth issue and I have seen several questions asking for an explanation and a little help in applying the fix but I have not seen any replies. My Bluetooth is also not working and I also do not understand the “simple” Fix.
[Vibrant Android Development] kangxi:
I figured it out. Honestly I don't know if you just have an awesome phone or something but mine plus a lot of others operate very slow without a lag fix in place. I don't think you should assume that people are being delusional for thinking they need one. My phone use to lag for about 5 seconds just from turing the screen back on. As soon as I installed the lag fix, the phone was a lot faster in every way.

I don't install a bunch of stupid apps on any of my phones so there was no excuse for this happening. Something is wrong that the lagfixes solve and I am a living testimony to that.
[Vibrant Android Development] d_bot:
dude! the party in my pants just started.... :)

Thanks for your work man!

I just got back from lunch, and the nav worked like a champ, when i turned it knew i turned, when i took a wrong turn it realized and rerouted within seconds, finally i can say im fully satisfied with my vibrant.
[Vibrant Android Development] grabiarz:
First and foremost kudos to jdkackley for taking time and helping me to get through this. Here are the steps that fixed it:

Steps to break:

1. flash eugene's release

2. flash voodo kernel

3. flash regular kernel

- at this point phone has no app space

4. flash eugene's release (can't mount /data)

- at this point im scared s*tless

(dumb)

at this point i try doing disable-lagfix but what I do not notice is i typoed and created a file disable-lagifx :facepalm:

(/dumb)

Steps to fix:

5. flash back voodoo kernel

6. restore as much as i could from nandroid (all except /data)

7. restart

- at this point phone boots (woohoo!)

8. disable lagfix & restart

9. reflash eugene's release (back to square one and it works)

In retrospect all of that could've been potentially avoided had I seen the damn typo in /sdcard/Voodoo/disable-lagfix.
[Vibrant Android Development] slighpcs:
Could somebody point me to this fix? I have been searching without any luck. :confused:
[Vibrant Android Development] Jamison904:
I am getting a unsuccessful status every time I try and download anything from the market. I have searched for about three hours now and all I found was this post above. Would this fix the issue? Also what you are referring to? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=765906&highlight=sgs+tools
[Vibrant Android Development] CamachoInc:
Thanks for this!!! I flashed it over Bionix 1.3 voodoo ROM and everything works just fine. GPS locks on perfect in seconds. GPS locks in while I'm still in my house and even pin points me in the same side of house I'm in... I'm loving it. Thank u very much!!!
[Vibrant Android Development] DarkAgent:
You got 905 quad and ~8.1 MFLOPs. I got 916 quad and ~8.2 MFLOPs on JFD stock. Sorry to burst your bubble.
[Vibrant Android Development] scrizz:
that's pretty much the same.

like people have said before. Benchmarks don't test user experience

;)
[Vibrant Android Development] DarkAgent:
That is exactly my point. Clearly Eugene's JI5 + JAC's kernel will provide better results than stock JFD; yet I scored higher. Point proven? :p
[Vibrant Android Development] scrizz:
well i wouldn't really call your score higher.

There's a margin of error.

you should run it 30 times and average the results for both.

;)
[Vibrant Android Development] jonjacobmoon:
It looks to me like this ROM is slower than my current stock ROM with the RyanZA lag fix, plus it doesn't fix the accelerometer issue.

So, I am wondering..... can I apply the lag fix after (it looks like others ran into trouble with the Voodoo lagfix) and is there something I am missing that fixes the accelerometer issue (so that the map arrow, for instance, doesn't bounce around from east, to north, to south..... when I am standing still).

I appreciate the work Eugene and others have put into it, but unless it fixes those things it is not worth the risk for me.
[Vibrant Android Development] eugene373:
accelerometer not the Issue.. It's your GPS hardware not locking correctly.. We all have it. Not sure why everyone thinks it's accelerometer issue.
[Vibrant Android Development] eugene373:
Found a tmp Fix for GPS Lock Time :]) Cold boot, 10 second & coming from sleep is about 5 Second to regain Lock on Vibrant!
[Vibrant Android Development] TheBrandonWRX:
Same thing! Where is the fix please?
[Vibrant Android Development] floepie:
The map arrow if I understand the post correctly, is a compass issue. And, it would seem to me, at least, that the accelerometer could subtract any orientation of the phone and adjust the heading appropriately so that the phone would not have to be kept in a horizontal position in order for the map arrow (compass) to be pointing in the appropriate direction.
[Vibrant Android Development] eugene373:
from what I can tell it's not updating the gps when you fire up maps due to locking issue's... Once you rotate the Phone it works fine after, and only after the arrow stops jumping around..

The reason I think this, as I have GPS locking in under 10 Seconds ( Cold or Hot start ) and my Arrow works perfect! but once the arrow starts jumping around again you have to rotate the phone, but not always...
[Vibrant Android Development] slighpcs:
Regarding this post...

It looks to me like BT is loading in the debug messages, but other than that I can't see anything that would be helpful as an answer to a fix. If anyone can spare the time, it would be great to know the cause... and even better to know the fix. Anything to point us in the right direction as I see many are wondering the same...

I also ran across this over in the Bionix thread:

I'm assuming we're still awaiting an upload. Am I correct in my assumption? Either way, any further information would be a big help so we can perform a fix rather than running through another data/app wipe. Does anybody know the answer to this as it would seem only eugene373 holds the key.

Thanks again for all of your hard work eugene373.
[Vibrant Android Development] eugene373:
That debug is because I fixed it.... I'll updating Frankin-twiz to update 4 tonight with gps Locking Fixed & BT fully working!
[Vibrant Android Development] slighpcs:
I assumed that was the reason, but what I (we) are anxiously awaiting is an answer/direction leading to a fix. If it's an easy fix, and won't take up much of your time, can you fill us in?
[Vibrant Android Development] eugene373:
I'll be releasing the fix after I release Update4 tonight.
[Vibrant Android Development] slighpcs:
I apologize for drilling you, as I know your time is VERY VERY VERY limited and appreciated. I will patiently wait for your fixes.
[Vibrant Android Development] solarpanel:
after flashing this i've noticed that my data (exlucing wifi) no longer works... regardless if i have GPRS, EDGE, or HSDPA. the green upstream arrow lights up but the red downstream arrow does not and i can't surf the web or download anything... has this happened to anyone else?

actually... let me add on that it's after i flash JAC's OC/UV Voodoo kernel over this... (worked fine from UVJFD)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hwibowo:
I'm really a noob in hacking my captivate. So please bear with me with all my questions.

I've tried my best to educate myself about different mods, especially clockworkmod and nandroid. But I couldn't understand what each of these does. I did "Backup Current ROM" in ROM manager recently. (1) Is that considered to be a ROM backup that I can use in the future if I want to restore to stock ROM?

If so, (2) what is the different between that backup method and Nandroid method? I didn't do Nandroid backup because I don't understand how to install it.

(3) If not, am I screwed? Cause I already performed several mods: Voodoo lagfix and ATT app removal. But my captivate is running fine.

I just wanna make sure I can restore back to my Stock ROM when 2.2 update is available. (4) Do I need to restore stock ROM in order to receive and install 2.2 update?

Please educate me on this matter. Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] askpcguy:
I use nandroid once I installed a firmware or ROM and apps (Titanium Backup User apps + System data and restored on the ROM Missing Apps + Data) to make a backup.

Now I can restore Nandroid and all my settings/apps are there.

Use Titanium backup to get your apps/settings onto a newly flashed firmware or ROM.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LinuxNewb:
2 good options... My favorite is to use rom manager to do a rom backup.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
1) clockwork mod and nandroid (ROM Manager) are the same thing.

2) as clockwork stands RIGHT NOW (should be changing soon), backing up your current ROM does NOT change your kernel or modem. clockwork is also incompatible with voodoo (you have to disable voodoo to use clockwork, and you can restore voodoo once you're done)

3) to restore to stock "out of the box" state, you will need to use the odin one-click downloader for the Captivate.

4) the process for updating to 2.2 is unknown at this time, we won't know more until the option starts rolling out.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hwibowo:
Thanks alot! That clears a lot of my confusion.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] static416:
Thing is, this isn't EXACTLY "out of the box" state. This is a new install of the stock ROM, but it's missing some things that are on the original phone like the file with the easy to get unlock codes.

What I would like to do is backup the entire device as is when it comes out of the box. Basically create an image of the existing device. That way, if I have to revert at any point I know I'm not just reinstalling the stock ROM, but actually reverting to this phones original state.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mobius911:
Hmmm, good question. The only way to back up that I know of is to use ROM Manager. Since that requires rooting the "damage" may already be done.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] himmelhauk:
The date of the kernel is different from the stock one as well, someone else tried to flash the original stock kernel but said while Odin showed the kernel took, the phone still shows the same with the different date. It would be nice if there was a way to get a completely original stock ROM, so if you have to exchange or something at ATT. I don't know how in depth they get at the store so maybe we'd be able to get away with just the Odin One-Click and they will accept it. If they check the kernel date though, you're screwed. Either way though, once the update comes out, rest assured that someone will post it on here for those of us not running completely original out of the box stock, which I always appreciate.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] tdavis42:
Tonight Google released Car Home as an independent app in the market. It has a ton of improvements like assignable buttons and drag and drop icons. I can't get it to download with Cyanogen(Koush) nightly 09302010 but I know I can through ADB.

Let me know if you can get it to install through the market.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jersey_609:
If u have root explorer just delete car home then install from market
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] usn.mustanger:
I was able to get it to install from the market on Skyraider Vanilla 3.0 RC3. Works well except for the fact that you cannot assign shortcuts to the customisable buttons (e.g. direct dial shortcuts), only app and navigation shortcuts. Seems like a peculiar oversight.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] GMK83:
Anyone post the apk?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] tdavis42:
Why? Its a free app.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] GMK83:
I wouldn't ask you to post a paid app
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jimbobalu:
I got Car Dock to install from the market after deleting the old car home apk but I cannot see an icon in my apps listing. I checked under Applications-Manage Apps and it is there. Any ideas?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] crow26:
EDIT: Nevermind. AppBrain allowed me to download it. To those who can't get it from the official Market, use AppBrain.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] tdiman:
CyanogenMod CarHome Instructions

Car home contains two components, the activity (this is the app we're updating) and the launcher. The activity contains the guts of the program, but the Launcher allows it to show up in the app drawer.

If you're using CM6, you have CarHomeLauncher.apk already in system/app and just need to install the com.google.android.carhome-1.apk file. If you are not using CM6, then you may need to install both the Launcher and the carhome apk if the carhome app doesn't show up in the app drawer.

adb remount

adb shell

mv /system/app/CarHomeGoogle.apk CarHomeGoogle.apk.bak

install attached apks. Let me know if there's issues.

As an aside, both LauncherPro and ADW have the capabilities to create shortcuts for activities, bypassing the need of the Launcher, but it still will not show up in the drawer.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jimbobalu:
When I installed from the market it put com.google.android.carhome-1.apk in the /data/app folder, is this the correct location?

When I go to the app from appbrain it shows it as installed but the open button is grayed out.

Reading the app comments it looks like you can't launch it independently anymore but will launch when placed in the dock, I have yet to verify this.

Works, but has to be in the dock.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] mozetti:
I'm running a Sense ROM (Virtuous 2.7) and I installed the Google Car Home using Appbrain. If you click on the Sense Car Panel App in your drawer, you're presented with a pop-up to choose which app you want to use: Sense Car Panel or Google Car Home. I just checked the "use as default" box and selected the Google Car Home. Now when I click the "Car Panel" icon in my app drawer the Google Car Home launches instead of the Sense Car Panel.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] luvit:
Where is the information that shows this is a product made by google?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] TheLynxy:
If you're using ADW.Launcher, you can make a new Custom Shortcut, choosing ADW's Activity List, then selecting Car Home's main activity CarHome(.CarHome)

You can then launch it fine without any problems without needing a dock. Atleast it works for me...
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] fgarcia10:
Thanks for posting the APP, it wasn't showing for me in AppBrain or the Market.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] iLHaNroID:
I hv installed Google Car Home app yesterday and cannot see it in app drawer, nor in the applications settings despite it is shown in downloads tab in the market app, but open button is inactive. How to run and use it? confused!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] tdiman:
I updated my post with a link to a Launcher APK. Install it and it should allow car home to show up in the app drawer. It is from CM6.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8404454&postcount=9
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] iLHaNroID:
Thank you so much tdiman.. it is now working... happy :)

just wondering why it is not working orginally and why google retrieved it from the market
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] NYC Coyote:
I added the app from a link I found on droid-life. You don't need a home replacement as they state.....

I simply used BetterCut to place the "activity" of the car home on my screen. Once in I started customizing things like removing the Music Icon (since it doesn't work) and replaced it with Mixzing. I also removed the People Icon and Dialer as I can just use the Voice Search to do everything in the car so I don't need to look at the phone.

My only wishes for this: that you could add toggle widgets (such as Vlingo's Safereader) and that google would allow Bluetooth to initiate voice search instead of a call directly.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] tdiman:
You're welcome!

You can't install it in the first place because you can't update apps in system/app through the Marketplace. This is also probably why it doesn't show up in the Marketplace - Verizon doesn't sell any "google experience" phones so they disallow it on Verizon (this is just a theory).

The reason it didn't show up for you might be because whatever ROM you have installed (default HTC Incredible ROM?) doesn't have the Launcher built in.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] iLHaNroID:
It is working but there are some bugs, which can be the reason why Google retrieved it back from market; I get FC when trying to set a custom background from gallery and also as soon as tap on the "android settings" option in the app settings menu.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] ViViDboarder:
Launching Car Home as an Activity not using the Launcher APK works well.

Totally digging the launch when connected to specific bluetooth devices!

I'm noticing though that when I exit it to go back to ADW I get the helicopter view of all my screens instead of just going back to my home screen.

When I use the Car Home Launcher APK it works just fine.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] thatdudebutch:
@Vividboarder You used to dev for LockInfo on iOS right??
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] ViViDboarder:
Yep. Same ViViDboarder. My sig links to my MacRumors profile. :D

I still try to keep my plugins up to date though as I'm learning about Android.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] thatdudebutch:
Yeah man.. I went Android and never came back.. good to see ya here!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] GatorsUF:
I can't find it in the market.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] tdiman:
I posted it in the first page of this thread.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jbeitel:
i dont see it in market
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] ViViDboarder:
For those that don't see it in the market... what phone are you using? What ROM are you using? What version of Gapps are you using?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] GatorsUF:
Htc incredible w/ redemptive revo 1.5.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] ViViDboarder:
Is that a Sense rom? If so then I think you're SOL. Someone else may be able to confirm, but if that's AOSP then you need to flash the latest version of Gapps.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] najaboy:
That's because Google is currently restricting it to the Nexus One and Motorola Droid. I would suspect that those who are seeing it in the market have a ROM that's using the N1's fingerprint.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Argent36:
FYI - I was able to find it and install/update it in the market on my Incredible running IncDoes MIUI v0.3 and it shows in my app drawer in Launcher Pro
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] motli:
GoogleCarHome

Many thanks. works like a charm on my desire with MIUI-au_0.11.19.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Guto ViP:
Nice, installed the two files on my SGS and now Car Home is working! :D
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] BenEadir:
Hi Guys,

I'm running Darky's ROM 9.2 and downloaded the two APK's but when I try to install them I get the following error message "No application can be found to open this file".

I've downloaded and opened other APK's so not sure what the problem with these two can be?

Thoughts anyone?

Ben
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] baldmosher:
I don't like the Google Car Home app very much (IIRC it's unsupported by Google), but the Car Launcher will work with any dock app you like. Just add the Car Home icon to your phone desktop if you don't have a physical car dock to auto-launch it, then select your default dock app when running for the first time. My choice is Custom Car Home. Simple and it works and nothing flashy.

I spent ages trying to find this thread again and only then did I realise the Launcher was still in my Downloads folder where it had been since I downloaded it months earlier. :rolleyes: Thanks for posting it! :)

(Desire, Android 2.2, not rooted, UK T-mobile stock/branded)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] tripleintegral:
I am on Bi-Winning V3 on the Samsung Vibrant and was looking everywhere for this. Surprisingly, the two files work flawlessly. Thanks!!!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Lothaen:
anyone got the newer 2.2.1.4 version of carhome?

thanks
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Lothaen:
ah i found it...

carhome 2.2.1.4 (still needs launcher though from this thread)

not sure what has been updated though!

i also ended up swapping voice search -> voice dialler - found it worked much better with BT headset too (hold down 2 seconds for voice dial)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] i8qbert:
Thanks!

10char
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] RamBo-ZamBo:
I installed carhome 2.2.1.4 and the launcher from this thread on this ROM: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1315961

When I hit Car Home from the app drawer it launches the Locations Navigation instead of google car home. In fact, most of the time it just launches nothing. How can I set google car home as my default navigation?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] shawn12350:
I'd like to know how to do this myself.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] RamBo-ZamBo:
Check this post out: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=18897401&postcount=1571
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] cmlusco:
Works great. No issues with opening from the app drawer. It's very dark and hard to see though unless you turn the brightness all the way up.