yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Droid 2 General] vcarl:
Well, I'm still not sure why it was happening (or how it could've been caused by installing a theme), but the root of the problem seems to have been having multiple messaging applications. I uninstalled Handcent SMS and it only duplicated messages, and I went in and renamed Conversations.apk to Conversations.bak, which ultimately solved the problem.

I have a terminal emulator and busybox on my phone, and despite having a fair bit of bash knowledge, but I couldn't do anything with any of the files in the app folder. It'd be nice if the information on how to do things was more organized, I've been trying to learn.
[Droid 2 General] theecho:
of course arent we all here to learn?:-)

if you were in terminal you should be able to do something such as:

mount -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
rn system/apps/conversations.apk conversations.bak

I believe that would work.

Additionally, it may be something with the theme as multiple people have had the issue. Just the phrase of I want my phone to work how it was supposed to sounded as if you were blaming the developer is all. Just wanted to make sure that we had the canned response of "use at your own risk".
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sakara:
Can i suggest this? :)

Kernel

The Linux kernel is an operating system kernel used by the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] System of a pWne!^:
GSM/CDMA

GSM stands for Global System for Mobile communication. CDMA is Code Division Multi Access. Your phone can only be of one type to access your mobile network. If your are having a SIM-Card, you have a GSM Phone (Even when it supports WCDMA, Wide Code Division Multi Access, also named 3G). A CDMA Phone uses no SIM card but an internal code of the phone to access the mobile network.

//Note: This should be extended a bit

RUU

Rom upgrade utility, used for flashing ROMs to a device.

HBOOT

The bootloader of your android device

ADB

Android Debug utility, shipped with the SDK. It can be used to push files to your device or connect to the phone's shell with a computer it is connected to.

RIL

Radio interface layer. This is a layer between the Radio and the ROM. It communicates with the hardware over the Radio and supplies an interface for the ROM so it can use the hardware. This is similar to a driver.

Whenever you flash a new Radio, you should also consider flashing the corresponding RIL for it. This makes sure, the Radio is getting adressed correctly.

ROOT

In linux systems, root is the superuser which is allowed to do anything in the OS. Rooting your phone means, you gain full access to the OS.

UNREVOKED

UnRevoked is a utility, which allows rooting your phone.

RECOVERY MODE

While being in recover mode, you can modify specific parts of your device. This mode is only accessible from the HBOOT bootloader, so Android is not booted up yet. There do exist several recovery images you can flash. By default, the HTC Recovery is installed which is basically useless but for HTC. But you can flash e.g. ClockworkMod or AmonRa Recovery.

S-OFF/S-ON

Security-ON/OFF. Making your device S-OFF means, you are able to write to the /system partition of your device while Android is booted up. With S-ON devices, you can only write and modify files on the /system partition in recovery mode.

ALPHAREV

AlphaRev is a utility, which allows setting your GSM Desire to S-OFF.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] !PANDA:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=762610

Root- Hacking your device and gaining super-user access. With this you can load themes, load a custom ROM or even over/under-clock the processor.

De-Branding- Removing network specific ROM, any network apps, and logo animation at start up. Just to clorify, a Branded phone has all the things that I have mentioned above.

Flashing a ROM- This is where you install a new ROM (Firmware) whether it is a custom ROM or a hTc stock ROM.

Custom ROM- A Custom ROM is a ROM that has been modified by any developer. This can make your device faster, have longer battery life and better looks (edited themes etc).

FASTBOOT- A protocol used to update the flash file system in Android devices from a host over USB. It allows flashing of unsigned partition images.

Under/Over-Clocking- This is where you Under?over-Clock your processor, Over-Clocking uses more of your battery but delivers better performance. Under-Clocking is useful for battery saving. For that you need root and an app from the Android Market, SetCPU.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thespeedo:
Just wanted to tell all that CDMA does not mean you dont have a sim card.

I am from India and we have CDMA mobiles with sim cards and we can interchange them just like GSM.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bteljuice:
Thats kind of wrong. These devices are WCDMA (like the Touch pro 2 and Desire)

CDMA do not have sim cards AT ALL (i.e: HTC EVO, MOTO DROID X), there is no SIM card Slot to insert.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nitemarc:
Sorry but I just don't get this definition at all. Does it mean it affects only branded phones? Also, how can I check what RADIO has been used on my Desire? Anyway I would appreciate it, if you could clear things up and also give some examples if possible.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PTKDev:
RADIO is a part of a rom, this runs the phone network (3G/2G) for calls and internet connections. Each radio has features that make the consumer less appropriate according to the telephone operator (orange / vodafone / wind / plus), which uses a different frequency, if a particular radio set is better for some frequencies, for example -75 dBm and 19asu (drawer -> setting -> battery -> network) with certain radio I have a better battery performance compared to other operating frequencies higher. If yoi have «branded phones», you have at default better radio then «not branded phones» becouse ruu of «branded phone» have different radio of «stock ruu» for wwe.

Radio stock: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=687464
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thespeedo:
There is a site samsung CDMA .in please check it.

I know the difference between CDMA and WCDMA and GSM.

and we have been using cdma in india with sim cards.

If you want i will send you a pic of my CDMA phone

Nokia 6255

Nokia 6275.

Please dont get offended mate.

I know people from europe dont have CDMA with sim cards.

Also in India we dont have a single operator which offers contracts.We can buy whatever phone and whatever sim no phone is sim locked here except Apple Iphone(wich is sim locked but still without any contract)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nitemarc:
@PTKTheBest: Thanks for clearing things up! Although one question remained unanswered: how can I check what version of radio is used on my Desire? If it helps, I have both unrooted and unbranded one.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3722:
The radio is the "baseband" in "software information"
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nitemarc:
Thx mate, got it :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simba91:
odex / deodex

I'm always troubled by these two words. Can somebody give a clear explanation? Thanks!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0semaj0:
BFS

Brain **** Scheduler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Fuck_Scheduler

CFS

Completely Fair Scheduler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Completely_Fair_Scheduler
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] resadent:
Thanks for all that useful vocabulary, helped me to understand some strange concepts
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michallp:
FC - force close
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codemann:
I would like to see an explanation of those two too, I'm not sure what they mean yet either.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dexter93:
Wow! good job guys that was necesary here ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alsager512:
A2SD++ & Data++ ???

Dear, All

I would like to know, what are these items in following means:

1) A2SD++

2) Data++

I found roms for each types, but I do not know what is best and fast.

please give me some information.

thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elrombios:
Has anyone think about change RAM hardware chip with new one, but with more memory? I know it's unrealistic, but i think in this forum we can expect people, who can do it
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ro4sho:
Could you think about adding this ?

Data++

A2sd
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WRson:
Thank you for your great thred !

Helped a lot !
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harm007:
Thanks a lot : very helpfull.

I propose :

REVOLUTIONARY

Revolutionary is a utility (from AlphaRev and unrevoked) , which allows you to "s-off" your phone (you can flash other hboot) and update the recovery tool.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] womble_sanfran:
Thanks for this post, very useful. I would like to see the section on 'kernal' expanded to explain what it actually does for our phones and why we can update it independently of the ROM. Is the kernal like a set of hardware drivers for the components in our phones?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aisPanais:
Good info thanx!

Suggestion for useful expansion:

Explain step-by-step where each of the above comes into play when the phone is turned on, and where each is stored and how/when they are accessed and altered.

eg.

When I turn on my phone the first thing that works is the HBOOT? And this is the same as saying "bootloader"? Where is this stored and how can it be changed?

Then the bootloader looks for the ROM? Is the ROM the same as the file we download in order to update the phone, or is that file somehow uncompressed/compiled when it is installed on the phone? Where is it stored? In what modes and how can it be accessed/altered?

Pretty much what I mean is the hierarchical order of the terms explained in this post, and the different storage media on the device (flash, nvram, internal storage...), what each serves, and when they are accessed.

Also, what parts are "locked" from the manufacturer, what's locked by the operator, how can they be changed?

Thanx for all your hard work already put in this post.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamilmirza:
HBOOT

how can i get in HBOOT?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Niakoi:
Apparently nobody knows what is...:p
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdeaton:
Another suggestion: explaining situations for these terms. For example, with HBOOT, it would be nice to tell how to access what a phone has.

I also agree that Data++ should be added to the list.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zisoft:
Can somebody please explain what cm7r2 means?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MIMi King:
To all those who want to know what is Data++/CM7r2/Stock/Sense,...

Your phone has got an internal memory of 576mb.. then actually as you might know there are some partitions in your phone(system,data,cache), just as the partitions we have in computers. as described in the first post, there is something called Hboot. if I expand it , it will be Hboot partition table..Hboots tell the phone that how much space has System partition got, how much Data has got and how much Cache has got from the internal 576mb.. Getting back to business Data++/Cm7r2/Stock/Sense/Fatsys/... are Hboot partition tables.. you flash them based on your need. like if your rom needs a lot space on system partition then you have to flash Fatsys . Or if it doesn't require much space you flash Cm7r2 or data++ which dedicates more space to data for your user data like apps,messages, ...more info here : http://www.alpharev.nl

And about A2SD, it stands for Apps to SD.. They are some scripts out there that let you put some of your user data into you sdcard if your phone has ran out of internal memory.( usual when using fatsys or other hboots which dedicate a lot of space to system partition)..

How ever A2SD is a little old these days. You can try other scripts listed here :

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25782354&postcount=3

Hope that everything is clear. the concept is really easy to understand but you have you test it yourself to see the difference.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zisoft:
Many thanks for the explanations, things are getting clearer now...

How can I find out what partition table my phone currently has?

Pressing Volume- and power gives me the following info:

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-6.93.1002

I got the phone from my son, don't know what he has flashed in the past. Now I want to understand those things for myself... :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MIMi King:
If it writes nothing about the hboot then you have stock.. if you want to flash another hboot , then first go to recovery, do a backup, then full wipe , then flash another hboot.. If you don't do the full wipe before flashing, then it may cause errors with some recoveries like 4ext being crashed right after loading. so be sure to do the full wipe..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alucarpd86:
hi all,

nice post :)

i need to know what means bsod.

i can guess that is an acronym of Black screen of death, but i'm not sure about :confused:

thanks in advice
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keen91:
Actually originally it's blue screen of death, the one that ms windows has. On this forum it is used as a short for any kind of hangups when you have to pull out the battery to bring your phone back to life. Correct me if I'm wrong.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jsp_1983:
I'd like to know what R5 is - I'm guessing it's a bootloader, but from the few mentions of it that I've seen, it looks like it's installed differently to RA or CM7. What's special about it?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverRanger:
Thanks, would be nice if you can add all the different "arrangement" (don't know the right word here) e.g. A2SD, D2E etc
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RossPierreDaLaThor:
The best method is to check partition sizes with "df" command. Via adb, or on the phone using any kind of terminal app.

Just look:

root@android:/ # df -h|grep mtd
/dev/block/mtdblock3 250.0M 247.1M 2.9M 99% /system
/dev/block/mtdblock5 147.6M 36.3M 111.3M 25% /data
/dev/block/mtdblock4 40.0M 1.1M 38.9M 3% /cache

There's a nice table on Alpharev's homepage which shows what are partition sizes for all popular hboots. From there you can see mine is definitely STOCK :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TonyStark R.I.P.:
There is a Thanks button. Please use it.

There is no reason to post a thank you comment. Please post only if you need help or you have a suggestion to add.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bruno.unna:
V6?

I think an explanation of V6 Supercharger is due. I would provide it myself, but I'm not sure I've fully grasped the concept behind it. :eek:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmcclue:
Maybe something like this??

--V6 SuperCharger--
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bruno.unna:
Actually… no.

I was thinking of a short definition, clear and concise, well written. Just like those that appear in the first post.

As you know, each and every one of those definitions can be found in at least some other place, with bells and whistles, and lots of colors, like the reference you have kindly provided (which I already knew, thanks anyway). zeppelinrox is a magnificent script ninja, no doubt about it. But his user documentation is not exactly what I would call… spartan. ;)

What this thread is aiming to, IMHO, is a straight, plain, short source of information. Like a reference, of sorts.

Just for the sake of completeness: right now I'm not looking for solutions around V6. It was just that while reading this useful thread, and trying to add some value to it, V6 just came to mind.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ravenreza:
Very useful. Learned a lot
[Vibrant General] Rodriguez92:
1. Okay so I dont remember what was the name of the app but basically it was the app where you have a 30day free trial and you can watch live tv on it from your vibrant its a decent app but not good at all for 10bucks a month but anyways it says if you dont cancel your subscription they will start billing you every month an extra 10bucks so i forgot to cancel my subscription before I flashed Bionix1.7 and now I dont have the app anymore and cant cancel my subscription how would i be able to cancel it now?

2. okay I like the captivate camera apk on Bionix1.7 but i like the original camera apk from the JI6 build is there any way to flash that one over to Bionix1.7? and if so can someone please provide me with the apk for the camera .

Thanks in advance.
[Vibrant General] Lamchops3:
First one sounds like MobiTv. Maybe you could call Tmobile or something.... If nothing else just flash back to stock, cancel and reflash Bionix.

Can't help with #2. Actually I didn't help you with much but a bump....

Good Luck!
[Vibrant General] Rodriguez92:
Yeah I think it is mobitv but I don't wanna have to go back to JI6 then reflash bionix because I'll have everything wiped once again.. Hopefully I can call tmobile tuesday
[Vibrant General] dmolition:
On Bionix the developer has a link to download the GAPPS, or bloatware.

These are all the original apks. You can just flash that file (.zip) and MobiTv will be there if not, then try looking for it on the Market, you can cancel thru the app.

For #2 there is a post on development on how to flash the captivate camera and I am pretty sure it also has a link for the original Vibrant camera so you might want to take a look at that.
[Vibrant General] Rodriguez92:
Question if I did a nandroid When I was on stock can I restore that then restore back to this (by creating a nandroid backup of course before I restore stock) or will something go wrong?
[Fascinate General] jbrdr985:
The AM/PM area on the notification bar is starting to burn in on the screen. If you download "Screen test" from the market, you can see this on the red and blue tests. I saw someone on another forum mention this, so I thought I'd check, and sure enough it's there.

Don't really see it becoming a huge problem, but it still sucks.
[Fascinate General] saps:
Use the 24h clock

Sent from my 1.2Ghz voodoo fascinate
[Fascinate General] DeezNotes:
Confirmed on the blue screen. Hopefully this doesn't affect anything over time.

Screen Test:
[Fascinate General] tonyb81:
Have you guys had your phone since it was released? I've had my 11 days and I ran that screen test and saw no burn in.
[Fascinate General] DeezNotes:
I bought it the day it came out.
[Fascinate General] a62gtypek:
i've had mine since day 1, no burn in as of yet
[Fascinate General] CouchSpud:
I bought mine 2 days after it came out and mine shows no signs of it.... *knocks on wood*

Although my notification bar is black which might have saved me.
[Fascinate General] broncobiker:
Im seeing a little starting to show. Is this something to be worried about?
[Fascinate General] jbrdr985:
If it gets too bad I'm going to return the phone. I've had the phone about two weeks and I can already see the burn in happening pretty bad. This can ruin pretty much anything you do on the phone (games, etc.).
[Fascinate General] garywojdan81:
Yep, got mine the week after launch and I can see a hint of it starting too. Is it recoverable or is this something inherent with samoled? Does it happen with lcd? Some of the alternative launchers give you the option to hide the notification bar. Could that help? I tried adw at first but actually got better battery life with touchwiz so I went back to it.

*update* been trying the jscreenfix from the market & switched to 24hr clock with adw hiding the notification bar most of the time. Can't see faint burn-in anymore during screentest app. The vibrant & captivate forums have alot of info on this as well.
[Fascinate General] mgmtm3:
Yep its really hard to see but under the grey screen I can see the AM/PM logo. I know there is a Jscreenfix out there to help with stuck pixels and screen burn. Another app that might work well is the hypnotic spiral set to black and white. I have it sped up a bit, ill get back with results.
[Fascinate General] adrynalyne:
This shouldn't even be possible with samoled....
[Fascinate General] mgmtm3:
It's very possible, check out the Nexus One forums about screen burn. If you are talking about the principle that this should not be happening with this new of a technology then I agree.
[Fascinate General] LX.SF:
I've got a line of green running down the right side of my screen that's pretty evident while displaying whites, is anybody else experiencing the same thing or have any idea what's causing this?
[Fascinate General] mgmtm3:
The green line is normal.

Edit.

The green line is normal if it is running down the left side right on the edge of the screen. It is most evident when displaying white/gray most notably when using the window shade.
[Fascinate General] kamakazman:
No burn in here, and I use my phone alot.

Sent from my crippled with Bing, Galaxy S phone.
[Fascinate General] LX.SF:
Yes I'm sorry, I mistyped while writing that post, it is on the left side. Thanks for the reassurance.
[Fascinate General] mgmtm3:
No problem. This burn-in is OCD hell. ONCE SEEN CAN NOT UNSEE!! :)
[Fascinate General] ErisDev:
Had mine since it came out. I anticipated this with super amoled so I just keep it locked with the screen off. I checked and saw no burn in. Just don't abuse your phone by leaving the beastly screen on all the damn time.
[Fascinate General] mgmtm3:
I have never kept my screen on a static image for very long at all. The problem here is the items that don't move on the OS which is mostly the AM/PM white text. Putting this on military time should ease this a bit but this sounds to be something thats going to happen to all of our phones eventually. Also I do not consider keeping a phone screen on for a bit to be abusing it at all. I call this normal use especially when you set the phone to stay on during debugging mode. I'm not going to make excuses for this phone and say its not an issue. On the other hand also not going to return it because of a hardly noticeable burn-in. Using jscreenfix for a couple of hours now has *seemed* to fade the AM/PM burn a bit. This could just be my eyes playing tricks but it does seem to be less noticeable.
[Fascinate General] destroyerbmx:
agreed, I use the crap out of my phone but no burn in, I dont let it sit for 10 hours of the day on the home screen
[Fascinate General] jbrdr985:
You guys are acting like you need to leave the screen on for hours for this to happen. I have a 1 minute auto lock incase I forget to lock it. Everytime I use my phone I lock it immediately after to shut the screen off (unless I forget, then it turns off in one minute).

I would hardly call this abuse; I call this normal usage.
[Fascinate General] ErisDev:
Either your lying your you have a lemon. The basic concept of burn-in is simple. Mostly seen on plasma televisions due to the high amounts of heat. When you constantly watch something on the television like the news, network tv, or sports that always have a static image in one corner or another the hi amount of heat produced by the plasma gas can burn that image onto the screen and make it visible even when the screen is off.

Let me ask you this.

Do you see the AM/PM when the Fascinate is off?
[Fascinate General] jbrdr985:
I'm lying huh? I guess everyone else is lying too. And no, I can't see it when its off.