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[General Questions and Answers] xaccers:
I didn't say android didn't "wow" users, I said it won't have the "coolness" of an iPhone. iPhone is more a fashion item than a smartphone for most people, Apple have spent an absolute fortune building that "cool" image of their products. We know they suck, and android/WM is more customisable/better features/functions, but the great unwashed don't care about that, they just want to be able to show they're "cool" (lame) because they have an iPhone. Someone's already posted elsewhere that his aunt assumed his phone wasn't very good because it wasn't an iPhone.

Android, being an OS and in a similar way to WM, isn't the phone. The combination of the OS and the hardware makes a great phone, such as WM6.5 and the HD2, or the android equivalent. Put the OS on a crappy phone and it's not going to wow anyone. Android have been successful because they have the apps/games that non-sheep want, and its available on cheap phones. I hope they continue to eat away at Apple's share of the market, and continue to improve rather than end up taking a backwards step and following Apple/WP7. Of course, history is littered with the remains of better products which just haven't sold enough (betamax, hydropnumatic suspension, HD-DVD, Amy Studt albums).

RIM are only beating WM through their business model. Once a company has started using BES it's pretty much trapped, it doesn't make financial sense to change, they've paid for the hardware and the licences so they might as well keep using them even if there's a more reliable, functional and cheaper alternative.

In companies, in the UK at least, most people responsible for IT expenditure turn to external companies for advice or decide because they've read something in a magazine that their competitor is using.

External IT companies will have their own preferences for what they suggest; profitability, previous experience, acceptability to business.

Take one of the companies I support who've had years of trouble with blackberrys, they've recently changed network because they were fed up with the handset problems. They've got 40 handsets, that's a lot of money invested in something which often doesn't work. They're still having problems, ironically with the senior managers' handsets which isn't going down well. The users with their own WM handsets set up to sync with the exchange server have never had a problem. Until I arrived on the scene they had no idea there were alternatives.

MS have not pushed the abilities of WM, that's been their biggest failing. They've never acted like they take their handheld OSs seriously. Instead they concentrated on the more lucrative desktop and server business.

At the moment all my bile is being saved for Ray Ozzie (especially after finding out he's the asshat behind Lotus Notes) so I can't spare any for Roz (besides, she's kinda cute).

W7 seems to wow no one of any worth. It looks like it was designed by a new parent after buying their kid duplo bricks :D

I suppose it could be argued that some of us a "wowed" as to how bad it is.
[General Questions and Answers] NRGZ28:
This thread is degenerating into something else... Therefore I'm closing it.

Message to the OP... Chiar trebuie sa intrebi de ce ? Nu e clar ca Iphone si Android domnia marketu' deacum ? Noi, aici la xda, ne tinem cu dintzii de o epava care se scufunda, dar.. asta e...:)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamal717:
I have death spl and all that stuff but the zack 1.5 hero rom wont work it gets stuck after g1 screen
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AdrianK:
You need an ext partition.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamal717:
I got a 2GB sd card what would u recomend and do i have to do ext 3 and 4?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lolmensch:
TUTORIALS :P

anyway for this rom you need:

ext4 (otherwise you will experience issues with gapps) - would recommend 200mb+ for apps

swap 96mb

fat32 rest
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomerod:
http://opensource.samsung.com/

Or, is this the Eclair source?

--Edit--

I just read that the i9000 source code was pulled from Samsung's site. I guess that means what's out there now is Eclair.

--Edit--

10/18/2010

Looks like the Froyo source code for the I9000 has been re-posted to Samsung's open source website.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jags_the1:
I have read this numerous times if a application is faulty it may not aloow your phone to go to sleep . How do we come to know that phone went to sleep ? when back light switches off does it refer to sleep? how to come to know if a particular application is not allowing the phone to sleep?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] im_iceman:
Best thing to do is install Juice Plotter - you should see the graph go almost flat if you aren't using the phone.. if it's not then something is preventing is from sleeping... then it's a case of trial and error to figure out what's causing the problem..
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
It starts snoring. :p
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
[WARNING!] Do Not flash Any ROM (firmware) until you can get the 3 buttons DOWNLOAD MODE working, there is a FIX for that.

Visit the SGS Wiki for details on how to get into the Download Mode

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S_Series#Recovery_Mode

You'll be saving yourself a lot of tears by installing the 3 button SPL fix before you flash the new Froyo or any other ROM you want to try out on your phone.

Follow the instructions on this topic to get your 3 buttons working again

ODIN method http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=785201

If ODIN gives you butterflies in the belly, you can try the alternative "SAFE" method via

update.zip http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=821698

Enjoy! ...& Happy Flashing

Note: if you are already bricked and you did not apply the Fix before hand, then your only alternative is to send the phone out for repair, or you can make your own JIG cable to unbrick you phone via ODIN following this guide:

[HOWTO] [REF] Make your own homed made JIG cable for phones without 3-button combo
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
[WARNING!] Do Not flash Any ROM (firmware) until you can get the 3 buttons DOWNLOAD MODE working, there is a FIX for that.

Visit the SGS Wiki for details on how to get into the Download Mode

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S_Series#Recovery_Mode

You'll be saving yourself a lot of tears by installing the 3 button SPL fix before you flash the new Froyo or any other ROM you want to try out on your phone.

Follow the instructions on this topic to get your 3 buttons working again

ODIN method http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=785201

If ODIN gives you butterflies in the belly, you can try the alternative "SAFE" method via

update.zip http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=821698

Enjoy! ...& Happy Flashing

Note: if you are already bricked and you did not apply the Fix before hand, then your only alternative is to send the phone out for repair, or you can make your own JIG cable to unbrick you phone via ODIN following this guide:

[HOWTO] [REF] Make your own homed made JIG cable for phones without 3-button combo
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xavieda:
Hi there,

The Odin method posted originally by Richtofen seems to be MIA on this forum. I wanted to try that method as in the thread another user with the same phone as me confirmed it had worked for him. Now, however the link is invalid and this only happened in the last few days (???)

Does this mean the more recent, Hiemdall method is now the preferred way of doing the 3BR fix?

Cheers,

Xav.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xavieda:
Bump? Does a link to Richtofen's method still exist?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jutezak:
I didn't have the 3 button modes on my phone. After updating to Gingerbread via Kies (which overwrites the bootloaders) the 3 button modes worked.

So... if it is the first time you are upgrading, just try to go to Gingerbread through Kies - though I do not know if all regions get the recovery and download modes.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xavieda:
Yeah, I'm here in Australia and there's been no update to Gingerbread via Kies - just checked again recently after an update to Kies - still reports that the 2.2 firmware I have is the "latest" :(

However, from other posts and messages here, it seems if I'm willing to risk a jump straight to a Gingerbread ROM, then the 3BR is also fixed as part of the process. Need to do some more reading I guess.

Cheers,

Xav.
[Windows Phone 7 General] dominicanx:
Hello,

I'm willing to trade a brand new Iphone 4 for a Samsung Omnia 7 when release. If someone in Europe is willing to trade please PM me. I live in the US but the Omnia 7 will not be really here.
[Windows Phone 7 General] spokanedj:
Isn't the Samsung Focus basically the Omnia 7? The only difference is the Focus doesn't seem to have 720p HD recording. However, it will have the quad-band support for AT&T here in the states. I think its really wierd that only the HTC phones in the US are supportined HD video recording.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ryotgz:
The focus has HD video recording.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Phone Titan:
The Samsung Focus is basically the same phone and you should probably just get rid of your iPhone 4 and get that phone.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ericc191:
Its build quality isn't as nice.. at least not from my perspective.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] starnostar:
Its been a while since i rooted a nexus one, i rooted mine back when they came out.

A friend of mine wants me to root his, he is running FRG83, will the old method of fastboot oem unlock, flashing a recovery and then flashing a new rom over still work?

I have been scouring the forums for over an hour now and cant seem to find any information on it, did google disable fastboot oem unlock (thats the impression im getting). The only methods i can find are the rage against the cage methods.

Would it be easier just to use this

hxxp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=803682

which appearently works with FRG83, then have rom manager flash clockwork mod recovery over, then flash over a new rom? Do i still need to unlock the bootloader with this method?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GldRush98:
Yes

fastboot oem unlock

fastboot flash recovery whateveryouareusing.img

Then you can flash what ever rom you want from the new recover (I suggest Amon RA)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
You're looking in the wrong place. Read my sig...
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] txinstrument34:
so im new to the whole developing thing but i did make a tweaked version of frost using various parts of other themes that works with the aosp magic rom. if anyone wants to try it out let me know. i will be sure to give credit where its due once i compile a list of all the people involved in making the orginals.i will also add that the only actual editing of any sort that i did was of the services.jar to make the foont on the notifications bar white instead of black.

(I am not responsible for anything that may happen to your phone.)

Things themed in zip:

Framework-res.apk

TWFramework-res.apk

New Fonts

Settings.apk

Youtube.apk

also added...

Captivate Keyboard

KeyboardManager <----- My favorite thing ever

mediafire.com/?6z719n5wc46v1gh

Thanks to:

Manup, Ludeboy, Threax, Frostman89, dashultz, ne0fhyk, All of the Dev Community.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] bblanski:
I will give it a whirl.. got some screenshots?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] frostman89:
Don't include setCPU. The developer has asked for it not to be distributed in roms and/or themes.

Just giving you a heads up.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] txinstrument34:
my bad lol. i remember reading that now that you mention it. like i said. new to this. thanks for the heads up.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] txinstrument34:
So I can't actually post links but the semi url in the post is the link out at least it should be ;-)
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] aecky01:
I downloaded the theme and like it alot. A couple of suggestions to make it better though:

-When downloading apps the font is black on gray and is really hard to read, if it was white it would be much better

-I'd love to see the stock lockscreen thrown in the ROM if possible

-The green font is kind of neat in the menus but, having the green text entry box limits your theming options
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] txinstrument34:
I will take a look at these things and see if I can make those changes. Probably won't be until tomorrows though. Kinda busy...
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] stevonyc35:
where is the link?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] BAleR:
I like this! Diggin the status bar and icons ++1, wanna see more of this
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] stevonyc35:
do we install this thru cwm?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Domush:
This makes the AOSP look fantastic!

Three issues:

- The bold seems to be forced to non-bold, as an app I have which normally lists unread in bold and read in non-bold, which now lists ALL entries in non-bold, now.

- The green subtext in settings is tough to read and detracts from the larger white titles, as they are now non-bold. A grey would be better served instead of green, and re-bold the text.

- The download notification text is black and is nearly hidden. Making it white or light grey is best, here.

Thanks for making the AOSP ROM look less like a 1994 era HTML page and more like a modern UI
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] dakoop:
Am i missing the dl or link?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] aecky01:
This is especially annoying in Gmail since new emails are shown in bold. Also the stock lockscreen can be found over in this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=793479&highlight=deodex. It works fine since ASOP magic is already deodexed.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] txinstrument34:
it is more than likely the font that i have installed im going to start taking a look at all these other things right now. probably have an update and/or another zip for the stock font tonight. thanks for all the input btw. considering this is my first attempt at anything im glad to see that for the most part it is liked.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Domush:
Any updates coming soon? I'd love to keep this theme, but the lack of bold is killing me
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] frostman89:
I have a flashable zip i made for someone a while back with just the stock font if you want to use it in the meantime. It will give you back bold.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8555878&postcount=39
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] txinstrument34:
Thanks frost. Sorry guys my hdd went out on my pc lol.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Domush:
Frost with bold and no extra apps

I love this Frost theme, but hated losing bold and had no use for the added apps included, so I made a stripped down version with bold support.

Contains:

FONT: Zegoe (Light and normal) font -- so bold is less bold and normal is really light, taking up less pixel space per character

No extra apps

Original Frost theming changes

Simply flash through recovery as always
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Dhuss:
Thanks! I will have to try this when I get home.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] suzook:
Any possiblity of getting this theme for the EPIC? I had a fascinate and love this one. Im now using an Epic, and really missing it. I could get you the files you need from Epic...let me know....thanks
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Protonus:
I'd basically like this theme, but with transparent status bar pulldowns and dialog boxes... ala a "smoked glass" theme...
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Domush:
If you post the Epic version of the files in this zip, I can give a try at porting it over. I'm beginning to get my head around how these themes are made.

I think I know what you are talking about. I'll fire up photoshop and see if I can't glassify more of this theme.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] frostman89:
Good luck, let me know if you figure out how to get a transparent dropdown, a few others, including me, all have tried and failed. Making all images in framework-res and twframework-res which are associated with the dropdown, transparent, yielded no results and still had a gray background image behind them, which we cannot locate anywhere.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] suzook:
Im guessing just the framework?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Domush:
Yes, looks like just that one
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] suzook:
http://firon.net/xda/stock.di18.deodexed.nokernelmodem.updatev3.signed.zip

That link will download the complete stock rom...i would greatly appreciate it...im sure alot of other epic users would too.
[General Questions and Answers] danh74@gmail.com:
Hi,

I am trying to root my phone but without success.

I am getting error "Validation error:'CE Serial InUse' missing" from unrevoked.

I try Google it but did not find anything.

please your help.
[General Questions and Answers] danh74@gmail.com:
somebody??
[General Questions and Answers] mbcommunications:
Same problem here anyone else come across or solved this problem also on wildfire.
[Fascinate General] dc82:
ok so here is my problem...

My phone i showing 0.00B of storage space, same issue as other posters. However, something corrupted my SD card so I have no CWM and no CWM recovery or backup. What I have done so far...I have flashed the stock ROM and Kernal via Odin. My phone will power on and I can use it like normal, however, I have 0.00B of space and cannot download or install anything. I have restored root and am unsure of where to go from here since I can't just download CWM via the market and go from there. Can anyone please help me? Also, this is my first time rooting etc, so I am not familiar with every acronym and process, if someone could just take the time and write out in simple terms what I need to do to get my phone back to normal I would truly.....truly appreciate it, thanks in advance to anyone who will try and help. :(
[Fascinate General] tonyb81:
I hope someone can help you out, but I hope this also serves notice for others who are first time rooters. If you aren't sure what to do, either don't do it, or get some help before possibly ruining your phone.
[Fascinate General] jason1332:
Well...you couldn't have predicted your sd card failing. Do you have another? Head over to cyanogen mod forum and see if you can get the apk on to another sd card.
[Fascinate General] dc82:
i do have asnother SD card. I am re-rooted and noty sure of where to go from here. If someone could help me out from here I'd be very grateful.
[Fascinate General] selem:
Sounds to me like you had a voodoo kernel installed and then installed a stock kernel, without the voodoo properly uninstalling. If this is the case, I would try the following:

Get the CWM update.zip and put on your sd card.

Put the old voodoo kernel that you had on your sd card.

Boot into recovery and run the update.zip, putting you into CWM recovery.

Reinstall the old voodoo kernel.

Reboot, if everything works and you can download apps again you will need to completely uninstall the voodoo kernel. Follow the instructions posted in this forum to completely uninstall the voodoo kernel. You can find these instructions in this thread.

Make sure you use the manual install, I did not have any luck with the zip file uninstall. Also make sure you do the final step and wipe the data.

Once these steps are completed, you should have your original kernel installed with voodoo gone completely, and you should have your disk space back.

If this is not what happened, then I am sorry I am not sure what to try. I know that these are the same symptoms that I had and this is what fixed mine.

Good luck.
[Fascinate General] dc82:
selem thanks a lot...but problem is, I do not have CWM, and I cannot download it becuase I have no space on my phone. Also, I do not have the Voodoo Kernel saved to my SD card because I have noything on my sd card, that's the problem. Without anything on my sd card and without an internal memory to download anything how can I return to stock?
[Fascinate General] GoBruins:
Can you take your new sd card, go into recovery, and format the SDcard by any chance? Can you do this with your old one?

When you have a clean, fully functional SDCard, can you flash CWM then?
[Fascinate General] dc82:
when i try to boot into recovery mode I get this message

E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (invalid argument)

I cannot flash CWM if I can't download the app. Since I have no space on my phone it's not allowing me to download or install anything, and without and existing version of Rom Manager on my SD card I dont know how I will be able to boot into CWM recovery.
[Fascinate General] namebrandon:
I'm not sure I'm following this.. Your SD card does, or does not work?

If you flash the Voodoo kernel back you should get to the point where you can then download whatever you need since that should solve your zero free space problem. You can flash the Voodoo kernel via Odin. Just download the Voodoo kernel you want, open up the zip file, and find zImage. Extract that. You might have to put it into .tar format to flash, or Odin might just accept a plain zImage file. I'm not sure. Always use "PDA" when flashing with Odin, never ever ever ever ever ever ever use the "phone" box. Always PDA.

Assuming you have a working SD card, recovering from this should be pretty straightforward.

The key here is you obviously need to extract the zImage file (which is the actual kernel) to flash via Odin. This removes the need for ROM Manager, or any access to the GUI.
[Fascinate General] namebrandon:
Like I mentioned above, use Odin. If you want CWM recovery, flash CWM kernel via Odin. Then you just need to put the CWM update.zip on your SD card. Boot into recovery, apply update.zip.

Here is update.zip (the CWM version).
[Fascinate General] dc82:
namebrandon, thanks for your instructions. I do have a functioning sd card now, I got a new one. THis is one blank though, so no information what so ever on it. If I understand correctly, I can install the Voodoo kernal via ODIN using the "PDA" option....and that's it?? (Of course using the steps you mentioned about extracting etc)
[Fascinate General] namebrandon:
Nope, two separate things, Voodoo and CWM. I'm going to edit this, but I'm hitting "post" now so you see it and hang on while I finish typing.

This is the instructions for flashing CWM via Odin.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=788099

That will get you a functional CWM recovery. You'll still see that error in stock recovery since your mbr is still set for Voodoo.

If you want to apply Voodoo back, and try to correctly uninstall it, you'll need to flash this (Voodoo zImage). I've extracted just the zImage form Dirrk's SV_1100 Voodoo kernel.

You'll need to flash it, it might do the conversion, then once you've booted into the OS, you'll need to create the disable_lagfix file. How to do that is in one of the "How to Uninstall Voodoo" threads.

file attached.. you need to remove the .zip extension.. it should just be .tar , but xda doesn't allow .tar files.
[Fascinate General] dc82:
ahh thanks a lot. So I can either install the CWM Recovery update.zip onto my sd card and then just apply update.zip and return to stock completely

-OR-

flash the Voodoo Kernal via odin and my 0.00B problem will go away and I will continue to have the Voodoo Kernal? Sorry if these are dumb questions
[Fascinate General] namebrandon:
100% correct. :) Going back to stock takes an extra few steps after CWM, so I suggest trying Voodoo first. The problem with 0.00 free space is that your mbr is still set for Voodoo. It didn't get put back to stock, so ideally you flash voodoo, then uninstall, and the uninstall sets your mbr back to stock.

CWM is for other troubleshooting, if you need it. I'm not going to be around for a bit, but it sounds like this should get you to a point where you can recover from. I highly recommend joining the irc channel and having someone walk you through it step by step.
[Fascinate General] dc82:
ok let's see if I got this....if I flash this .tar file you have attached for me via Odin, I can reboot into the OS and use my phone with Voodoo running on it and my 0.00B problem will go away? AND going forward, I can use the disable-lagfix file to uninstall voodoo correctly should I choose to go that route?