yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jttraverse:
I've decided go give Fresh EVO a try (thanks to all those who recommended it), and have installed ROM Manager to help simplify it as much as possible. But I'd like to ask a few, perhaps noob questions, before I roll with it.

I have the zips for the ROM and the latest Radio/PRI on the sd card, and I think ROM Manager will let me flash both from there (if not, I'd appreciate any thoughts).

I've backed-up the phone, both with AmonRa and ClockworkMod (as well as with Titanium Backup), and copied everything to my PC. Now my primary hesitation is about reinstalling apps, etc. afterward.

1) After I flash the ROM et al, does this give me a basic stock-ish ROM and then I simply reinstall Titanium and reinstall my apps?

2) Do I need to worry about reinstalling data, or any of the various .img files that were backed-up previously? All my contacts and phone numbers, do they come from the 'cloud' when the phone connects to Sprint, or do I have to reload them somehow?

Anything that might be helpful to know, feel free to point it out.

Thanks in advance..

-JTT
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenixjn:
1) Yes, all you need is to restore your apps via market OR from TB (if you need to get like your high scores or alarm settings, TB is the way to go)

2) No, once you log on to your google account your contacts, calendar and google email will be sync with your phone. Any other email accounts should be set manually afterwards.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jttraverse:
Installed Fresh EVO just now...and good to go.

I'm following up on my earlier post to relay my experience after flashing Fresh EVO and the Radio/PRI that were recommended with it.

Perfect! That about covers it in a short version. Longer explanation below.

I had a stock EVO that was fully rooted but had not been updated to 2.2..see my first post. For all others nervous like I was, I read everything I could and obviously posted a few questions to get a feel for any problems that might arise. I decided to pay for ROM Manager since it seemed highly recommended, and then ran everything from ROM Manager. It worked well for backups, flashing ClockworkMOD and AmonRa recovery back and forth to do the backups. No problems. (Caveat: It would not automatically download the Fresh EVO ROM from the entry in it's list for some reason. I had to move it to my SD card after downloading it to my PC. But no worries there.)

From there it was a breeze. Go to ROM Manager, choose to flash from the SD card, pick the Fresh zip (select to backup the ROM -and- wipe), and let it run. It took a few minutes, rebooted, and came up perfectly. (PS..the boot screen and the audible 'freshhh..' was a nice touch).

Now, you can easily go back to Android Market and download ROM Manager again (and the Premium upgrade, which seems to auto-detect that you had already purchased it..sweet.)

Open ROM Manager and the flash the Radio/PRI zip from the SD card.

I reloaded Titanium Backup (the license, if you bought it, should still be on the SD Card), and selected to reinstall any apps I wanted back.

I've checked my settings, and everything looks pristine. I turned on 4G, Bluetooth, WiFI, and went to settings and looked at the hardware MAC address for each and they all show up fine. 4G turns on fine, but at the moment I live in a 3G only area so will double check it tomorrow when I hit a 4G locale.

All in all, it was absolutely painless, once my nerves settled :) But for anyone who cares, I highly recommend ROM Manager, Fresh EVO, and Titanium Backup...they made this a smooth process and I'm back in business.

Thanks to all who answered my questions, and all you brilliant developers.

-JTT
[Android Themes] SkyStyle:
Just so you all know, I gave up on 2.1 lol. I got stuck really early, at the flashing radio bit, but that's another thread. Just, that's the reason, and yeah.

So, as you can see by the screen shot, I have successfully changed my font by just replacing the DroidSans.ttf, DroidSans-Bold.ttf and DroidSansMono.ttf. I used the same font for the DroidSans and the DroidSansMono. But, also, if you look closely at the notification bar, the font for the clock is sort of messed up. Also, when I draw my pattern to unlock my phone, the words with the instructions above the pattern are chopped in half, where half is gone. Adding on that, when I unlock my phone with the button, it doesn't display my service provider; optus.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Doesn't let me post screen shots. If you could help, I got them ready to PM out.

Other things that may be important: Backflip, not de-odexed.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] dk2000zx:
Hi, I dont really like the actual status bar's size... is there any way i could make it bigger just like all the other android phones's status bar?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] dk2000zx:
Nobody? Common!
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Nankov:
You will get one by the end of the month when 2.1 is released....
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Bwyan Benton:
For some reason I doubt its coming at the end of the month.....unfortunately
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Nankov:
it will...you doubting it doesnt make it unfortunate..maybe for you. Anyway i dont want to be mean but your post is useless...you are trying to say its not coming by the end of the month when you dont know and your just sharing what your thinking and not helping anyone..based on whats been going on with SE they really cant afford not to release it by the end of the month, on their blog Rikkard says its already done and now its going for testing and approval at different carriers..your comment does not contribute anything to the OP question..sorry but hope u understand my point...
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] dk2000zx:
Oh.... In this case, what happends if I install Framework.apk from different phones?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Vin87:
Your phone won't boot.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] dk2000zx:
Oh thx.. and what happends if i use metamorph themes found in xda android section (not x10 section)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Bwyan Benton:
no hard feelings man.....but on there blog Rikard does not state that its finished...he clearly states according to his new blog that this isn't the final release but we are really close to releasing the final candidates into external and operator testing and approval. Which was posted on Oct 14th...which is why I believe all that wont get done in time for there end of Oct release. But yeah, your right, SE cannot afford to delay it again. My post may not help the OP, but I was just commenting on your comment.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] dk2000zx:
Eumh sorry but this thread is not to start a stupid fight over 2.1 AGAIN. Im just asking simple questions and expecting answers from people here. and no fights
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] SXUsr:
Looking through the Post Your Home Screen in the Android section, I'm not sure they are much bigger are they?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] dk2000zx:
yeah they are like 1, 2mm bigger compared to ours. check the new android 2.1 video from the se blog, ull see what im talking about . or go to market check out apps with screenshots and ull see the default bar is larger
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Bwyan Benton:
lol no fights man....no worries....we're keepin it cool :cool:

Anyways, Ill have to agree with you...I like the status bar now, but I do prefer it slightly bigger...which you will get in 2.1
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] dk2000zx:
yeah i know but im kinda not a patient guy lol
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KCRic:
I know this has been discussed before as an issue with the 3G Slide but I'm wondering if anyone wants to try to get magenta to do something about it. With how much they advertise this phone and used it in everything that had to do with them why did they either not set a user agent for mms messaging, resulting in the server to default to the lowest setting or, why did they set it so low for our phone? My Blackberry 8900 sent pics well over 1MB just fine with no resizing (with EDGE at that) as many other phones do.

I've had enough of the 1KB - 25KB mms messages, sending and receiving. I know a few apps attempt to fix this but even with CM6 having that option built in - it still does it, as I'm sure many of you notice for large pics. So maybe we should do the same thing that was done with the source code and bluetooth code issue. Anyone up for it?

On a secondary note: In the mms.apk the UA is listed as: http://www.htcmms.com.tw/Android/common/mytouch3g/ua-profile.xml which has a max height/width of 480x640 and max size of 307200 (300K). If I replaced that with say: http://www.htcmms.com.tw/gen/HTC_HD2_T8585-1.0.xml with a h/w of 1600x1600 and size of 600K, would it work? Yes I know it's windows but that shouldn't effect the mms aspect.

mikechannon - if you will, please keep this open for a while and delete it at your discretion.
[G2 and Desire Z General] cbmm:
is the new tmobile g2 also called the desire?
[G2 and Desire Z General] rewen:
The G2 is the same hardware as the HTC Desire Z, which is different than the HTC Desire and HTC Desire HD.

The G2 runs without HTC Sense, whereas the Desire Z has a new version of HTC Sense.

They probably also use different cellular frequencies, but I'm not sure.

Edit: see this thread, there are more differences: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=793338
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] MurdR93:
How would I go onto changing the screen density on this phone? Its fully rooted. But I just would like to know how to and what to :) thankyou so much

Sent from my SPH-M900
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] evilkorn:
Application in the market or in the build.prop file (open with a text editor).
[Epic 4G General] noobnl:
I am sad to see everyone fighting over donation ROM which is only worth a few hours of a Modders time.

I and others developers do real work like Permanent Recovery and kernels, I and other developers took hours of soft bricking the device. People copy my update.zip formatting and use it for their ROM. if i wasn't here, you wouldn't have permanent recovery and CyanogenMod and one click and etc.

To the mods, you did the right thing here :P
[Epic 4G General] muyoso:
Thank you? I honestly don't know how to respond in a way that isn't ridiculously sarcastic and mean, so I will leave it at that.
[Epic 4G General] dondadah88:
Me either. Lol.

How's cyanogenmod going?????
[Epic 4G General] lv2bll:
I love roms but i cant stand the premise on donate ware, it seems many devs do it without even knowing their breaching T&C. I think some type of guide book needs to be set in place so whoever cooks a rom up knows what to and to not include in their posts, sigs, and threads to keep everything going smoothly. Im not against people who give their supporters beta releases but keep it off xda and keep it between you and your beta group. There are many talented devs out there that go about things all wrong(purposely and accidental) and kinda gives other devs a bad wrap for things they may not be involved in.
[Epic 4G General] volkly:
Why be sarcastic and mean? Noobnl has done so much for the community and he only started his view on the matter of roms. That is only because some members are attacking noobnl due to a mod closing threads. But think carefully what made roms capable of flashing to begin with on the epic.
[Epic 4G General] brian_hoffman:
Yes, well your attitude stinks. You are talented but not holier than thou.

Get off your high horse and let it die.
[Epic 4G General] ghostrid3r:
I concur, these donatewares people need to get a real job/career and stop preying on the "flash-heads" who'd do anything to get a rom flashing fix. :D
[Epic 4G General] NotATreoFan:
If people read the rules, which they are required to be aware of and in compliance of, it is clearly stated in Rule 8.
[Epic 4G General] illogic6:
Here's my two cents on this whole thing if anyone cares.

ROM building is basically pushing and pulling APKs and running BAT files other members have already put together. I will be the first to admit that the stupid ROM I've posted really doesn't contain anything new. It's just the same files in a different order with some added, compressed or removed. When I do this stuff, obviously, I'm not coding anything. I'm barely proficient with Linux and would consider myself a novice at when it comes to programming in any language. (I can write you a 'Hello World' program in just about any language you want though.)

99% of the members here, if they had the time and desire to, could make a ROM.

As far as donations go, I can see how it would be tempting to ask for them. After all, even if ROM building is EASY, it does take time. However, I can definitely understand where XDA is coming from. Someone has to pay for this domain and the hosting. With the insane amount of traffic this place gets it can't be cheap. How would you feel if you fascilitated this place and had people setting up shop? If anything I feel like I owe XDA and if ****ty technical support jobs paid more I would have already donated. ;)

I've learned a long time ago that being mad/upset about anything in any part of your life or even disliking people really doesn't get you anywhere. That kind of stuff just poisons your mind and overall wellbeing. So can't we just move on guys?

That's all. :)

Also I want to thank noob for working with Team Douche on CM for our phones. If you guys haven't had an opportunity to use it on another Android device, trust me it is well worth waiting for. No more waiting on Sammy to push updates. :)
[Epic 4G General] muyoso:
Because frankly I don't care how talented you are or how much you have contributed to the community, putting other developers down and calling them "cowards" as he did in the other thread, and then creating a new post full of the most self congratulatory arrogant nonsense I have ever read explaining how the dev scene ain't Sh&t without you, requires nothing but a mean and sarcastic reply.

Edit: No one is questioning that the work he is doing is awesome and that he is talented and at the core of development for the epic right now, but from the last few posts I have read of his, the same cannot be said of his attitude.
[Epic 4G General] bobdude5:
Are you going to show some of that epic cm greatness to douchecast tonight :)
[Epic 4G General] odub303:
Where in the rules does it say you can be suspended or banned for expressing your opinion regarding the actions of moderators?
[Epic 4G General] noobnl:
yup going to compile a new cm6:P
[Epic 4G General] bobdude5:
Sweet deal hopefully those pesky random bootloops are gone in the new one :) good luck man!

I love that channel ...everybody gave up modding and played angry birds when you left ahah
[Epic 4G General] churro7:
are u going to incorporate the source code that was released?
[Epic 4G General] lviv73:
You saying that all these roms on here are yours but kanged?I feel if someone added or removed few things from a rom than he should definitely put KANGED in rom's title and give credit to original coder/creator.
[Epic 4G General] Mutiny32:
He's saying he doesn't appreciate people taking credit for his modified Linux kernel and other modifications to bootloaders by asking for "donations," that's all. Take a look at noobnl's Github repo. It is linked to the CyanogenMod source repo, the samsung sources, and other sources upstream. Credit is given and all licenses are followed properly. His releases all have their source published. He doesn't withhold releases under the guise of getting people to donate (pay) for beta testing (early access to software). He has every right to be perturbed at others using a thinly-veiled excuse to basically extort money from people in order to get something derived from his own work earlier than everyone else.
[Epic 4G General] lviv73:
Yeah thats not right,i owned 3 android phones and never have I seen this type of **** we have on epic forum.
[Epic 4G General] sleepy8594:
Noobnl, cm6 is coming out tonight?! Answer me please! Been waiting for this.
[Epic 4G General] FrumRoll:
Lol, am I the only one who remembers this thread?

I agree most of what people do in creating these "ROM"s is trivial but that doesn't mean it isn't time consuming and if somebody wants to pay somebody else to be first in line what the hell do I care. He never asked for a donation he just said donater's would get an early release.
[Epic 4G General] ravizzle:
Nope not tonight. Noobs been working hard but he still has a lot of work remaining I believe.

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] Flak:
I pointed that thread out earlier and my post got deleted. Guess the world is full of hypocrites...

or did I miss the /sarcasm in that thread?
[Epic 4G General] knx2:
I cannot believe these so called devs. First these guys copy and paste **** and think they are a dev. Then they get these guys thinking the same and say.. oh man... anything helps even a dollar. After that they get greedy and think oh man I need to get paid for doing this.

Linux is free and android is free. Keep it that way! You do not get to make money for something that is free even if you modify it. End
[Epic 4G General] EpicFan:
Well said! Besides That developer gave him credit when he launched his ROM, then resorts to name calling him.

"--------------------

Credits

noobnl for the deodexed framework "​
[Epic 4G General] blulitespecial:
You've done a lot for the epic. Sure, you deserve credit. But that first post is obnoxious. You don't have to be arrogant to be proud of your work.
[Epic 4G General] jirafabo:
Hmmm what an interesting link... wonder how long he was banned. Im betting he wasnt, just asked to fix it.
[Epic 4G General] noobnl:
when i realized it wasn't ready to be release, i told them to keep it closed.

By the way, the post wasn't a donate link to me, it was a donate link to CyanogenMod team...
[Epic 4G General] ragnarokx:
I respect your opinion noobnl, and I'd like to thank you so so much for everything you've done for the Epic. No matter what happens, I hope you continue to give us all the great things that makes our phones live up to their names.
[Epic 4G General] jirafabo:
Well... either way. Don't be so mean to others. We all know you are the stud of the Epic development. I like Epic Experience but once you get CM running I'll be jumping ship anyhow. Keep up the good work.
[Epic 4G General] spyderfry:
Haha...I thought I read a tweet from schizo saying he was working at walmart. He probably could use the extra income. All jokes aside, opensource should be open and FREE. Special treatment to people who donate in this environment irritates me. I have since moved on to another ROM.
[Epic 4G General] heathmcabee:
Noobnl keep up the good work man.. big ups. I dont take your comments as being cocky like the others or or a pompouse prick, but a strong confidence that you can get the **** done and keep it clean within the rules.. and thats what I respect.
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
Noobnl, you are a hypocrite yourself. Calling others out for asking for donations to get their work, but then doing the same thing for CM6 build? What grounds do you have to call out anyone on this?

If you were really commendable and wanted redemption, you would post CM6 for free
[Epic 4G General] ravizzle:
His cm6 link went to cyanogen team not himself, and he does not send beta tests to donators only. All his work is released for free. He nvr said cm6 will be early for donators or anything of that sort. So what grounds do you have for calling him out?

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
Go look at the thread and if you could look at all the conversations we had in our moderation forum about that thread. It was donate ware
[Epic 4G General] churro7:
tsk tsk tsk
[Epic 4G General] dearmasfamily:
I didnt want to say anything but i have to,

the only thing that gets me pissed at the OP is the part where noobnl you say "real work".

What is the standard format for an update zip for android?

So any modder would use that format.

Second as i recall you and i know, you copy other peoples work and rebrand it, not giving the OP credit as well. not to many people know or are awhere of our pass disputes, which i decided to leave alone until i seen this.

Most would go your way because of your suppose work for this high end phone,

so my main point is, wipe the dirt from your eye before trying to clean someone elses.

Just a link to the OP to refresh his memory!

http://samsungmoment1.blogspot.com/2010/06/update-you-really-want-know-turth-about.html
[Epic 4G General] infamousjax:
Nobody likes you. Go away.
[Epic 4G General] dearmasfamily:
Another Noob. LOL
[Epic 4G General] xjman:
Just to clairfy, if you are the dearmas from sdx, your roms suck. Not only are they average, and do not fix half of what you claim they do. You claim, to have enabled super amoled mode on the moment, and overclocked a kernel without raising mflop. Both of those are bs.

I dont care what your loyal dingdongs say, or think, the majority of your work was taken from else where as well, in fact im sure if I looked hard enough I could find everything youve done posted by someone else weeks before you have it.

im not exactly a fan of noob rom, but its better than any of yours.
[Epic 4G General] dearmasfamily:
Another Noob with a dummy account LOL
[Epic 4G General] xjman:
I registered this dummy account in 2008 just to have this chance to point out down the road that someone put out polished turds, no.

I simply pointed out my observations on your ability to completely change hardware with software.
[Epic 4G General] dearmasfamily:
Actually everything you speak of already has been addressed, my words were Think!! and it was sarcasm which i use a lot, if what i do sucks to you thats your opinion.

Anyway my statement was to the OP, and nothing i said should have made you "2008 member with a total of 5 posts and non updated account info, lol" make that offensive statement.

and What teachers say, if i can help one person thats good enough for me. Good day
[Epic 4G General] othan1:
Thanks for speaking up, noobnl. Good to hear someone's opinion who actually does development work.

Oh, god. You're here now. At least it seems you've taken some grammar lessons and can almost form a complete sentence now. Congrats on that.

Guess you can't ban everyone you disagree with here like you did on your dead site where you stole noobnl's and everyone else's work from SDX and called it your own.

You were one of the worst types of people who required anyone who wanted your stolen ROMs to jump through multiple hoops. Donations are nothing compared to what you required people to do for your fraudulent offerings.

I could repost all the screen captured hissy fits you threw and all the claims of being the one to teach SDX what they know (you weren't even on SDX until 6 months after all the real work had been done) if I cared enough to do so. Besides, you'd probably just get your keyboard sticky from someone giving you attention; if you haven't soiled yourself already, that is.

Anyway, I won't respond any more to you because you're just a little drama queen and feed off of this crap. Enjoy your day.
[Epic 4G General] TheTruthIsOutThere:
Why is this thread still open? All it is, is constant flaming.

@dearmasfamily I don't really know what the beef is with you, it sounds like you got a bad rap however all the mindless drones here have been told you are wrong so they will believe it. It is not worth your time to try and convince them.

@WDM I have been rocked your stuff back in the beginning of the Vogue days. It was awesome and drama free. Maybe that is the difference between HTC and Samsung.

To all who are tired of Noobnl Just walk though any doorway and he won't be able to follow since his head is too big.

The blatant disregard for the truth is making me sick. The out of context and mis-representations need to stop.

@everybody else there is no use arguing the only thing proved here is that coding ability ≠ being a good person.

@noobnl We get it, no one likes your rom or your kernel, can you please stop your witch hunt? Even after all the good cooks are gone we are still not gonna use the Andromeda stuff.