yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jensenist:
Well. Doomed I think.

It was going through the install like you described, I left the room. Came back to a black screen. Let it sit for a bit. After awhile I decided to go ahead and try a restart. Now, joy of joys, the buttons on the bottom light up but the screen stays black like it's booted up but unresponsive. Can't use the volume + power reboot at all now, I don't think. I'll keep trying.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pons:
Since you already did a restart, tried a battery pull? Detected in adb?

I read a quote once (forget from where), it's not doomed till it doesn't power on.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jensenist:
I haven't tried adb -- I'll have to wait til I get home. battery pull doesn't seem to make a difference. Buttons at the bottom vibrate as I run my finger over them and are responsive - just can't see anything on the screen :\
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jensenist:
Ha, I like that quote. And while it sucks breaking stuff, I always learn the most when I've wrecked something to the point I don't think I'll be able to ever recover lol

Not sure how I'm going to try ADB though. Looking at this post: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=709220

I need access to my phone, and I can't get it. I might actually be doomed now. I'll keep researching. If anyone has tips, they're appreciated.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pons:
adb is good to know. It'll let you edit your phone and manipulate it when it's connected to the computer. Very good if your screens broke, and it's quicker than just typing in commands on your phone. Assuming your device is detected, at least. Once you get it up and running, try the command

adb devices
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jensenist:
Well it looks like it's detected. I'm at work, and while they block the USB ports so I can't do anything with the device it is saying "Hey you've connected something, it'll charge but you can't use it"

So hopefully when I get home I can ADB in and fix this nonsense. :)

I am a little confused why volume+power doesn't do anything, but oh well. Onward!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jensenist:
So I'm not super certain what I did. But I pushed volume and power until it booted, I now appear to be back to stock 2.2 thanks to the img PonsAsinorem linked -- but when I try and make a call it says verizon can't validate my phone.

They give a #8899 number to dial, but I want to ask here what's up before I call it and get an operator that's like "YOU ROOTED AND MESSED UP YOUR PHONE, DIE!" or something less or more severe :)

EDIT: Nevermind, I called anyway and it took 2 seconds for them to get it back on. I am back at stock 2.2 and working!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pons:
Even though you already solved it, for future reference, you can dial *228 and then option 1 at the prompt to program your phone. Option 2 will update the PRL.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jensenist:
Thanks, and thanks so much for your help. I must have mashed just the right buttons to complete whatever setup it was stuck in lol.

Anyway, couldn't have done it without your help. Thank you
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grooby97:
okie..so I use the link, d/l the .ZIP file, boot to hboot to restore. After a while, noticed my phone went black and was not responding to anything. Pull the battery out. Now my phone does not boot to hboot (power and vol down). However, it seems to be able to do Qualcomm diagnostic (Power and vol up). Did I just bricked my phone that I just got today?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jensenist:
When you do a standard power on do you notice the home / menu etc buttons light up if you fiddle with the phone?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Spiderm@n_:
Hi, I have a huge problem with my Touch Pro atm.

Ok, today my Touch Pro with TAEL 23683 started doing strange things. First Sence got some how bugged, it wasn't able to start, but I also wasn't able to turn it off, all I was able to see was "Tap to load HTC Sence" and when I tap, it blinks 3-5 times "Loading HTC Sence..." and again the Tap to load line. I made hard-reset and here's where the big problem comes. I copied back pim.vol (I backed-up just before making hard-reset, I was able to load Resco Explorer to do that) but my contacts aren't shown in the list in "All Contacts" on Sence. the Windows build in Contact manager was crashing w/o message. I managed with deleting and copying the pim.vol to open and see the contacts in the build in manager, but Sence still shows nothing. On top of that I can't add/delete/open contact in the build in manager, if I try, the manager crashes, and after restart I can't open it anymore. I can't make ActiveSync connection, it says "Error", I tried making back-up of the contacts with PIM Backup but it gave error that it can't connect to the Outlook Database. What can I do, I don't have older back-up or if I do it's 5+ months old which isn't good option (but I think I deleted them from my PC). Any suggestions are welcome, I want to be able to use my device normally again :(
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Mister B:
Have a look at these threads;

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=310152

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=281421

You could also try using the PIM.vol on windows 6.5 emulator.

About time we had a PIM viewing/editing PC app !
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Spiderm@n_:
The problem is that it seems pim.vol is corrupted, ROM is the same, I tried by reflashing it again (the same image I used before) and still nothing. PIM editing tool would be nice, eventually it may rewrite the data and fix the issue.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Farmer Ted:
I haven't used manila in a long time, but as I recall, you need to shut manila down before over-writing pim.vol. Otherwise, you end up in re-boot cycles like that. I remember it happening once to me where the device would be fine until I went to the contact tab and tried to access a contact. Then it would crash, and be impossible to use.

So, you have three choices:

1. Don't use Sense. It's total crap, anyway.

2. Try turning Sense off, then restore pim.vol. Do a soft reset. Then re-load Sense, and watch all your ram and processor power disappear.

3. Use a different backup utility. I've found that SK Tools does a very good job with restoring pim info. It's better than pimbackup, imo.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] borisku:
use task 29 before flashing the rom. Did you sync with outlook on the PC? So you should have a copy of your data ...
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Farmer Ted:
Task 29's not going to help. The problem is that Sense/Manila throws a hissy fit any time you sneeze in its direction. It can't handle having pim.vol over-written while it is running. I guess if effs up the contact tab. But as I recall, the only way to restore your contact photos was to restore pim.vol directly. Pimbackup doesn't restore the favorite contact photos (I think sk tools might, though). You just have to get the process down correctly, in order to avoid the hissy fit.

You're better off just disabling that sense crap permanently, though. It's just a giant band-aid, anyway.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Spiderm@n_:
Ok

1) I don't have Outlook installed (not even Outlook Express)

2) With overwritten pim.vol I can't make ActiveSync connection

3) I make back-up by copy pim.vol for 2-3 years already

4) I only have PIMBackup but it doesn't connect to the corrupted pim.vol so I can't make back-up with it

5) I flash ROMs from SD card, and I do format with RAPHDIAG.nbh before flashing new ROM with RAPHIMG.nbh

6) I only have the corrupted pim.vol so I can't make new back-up from it, I can only make attempts to fix the one I have.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Farmer Ted:
Are you sure that it's corrupted? Can you copy it to another location (like on your sd card) w/o getting an error? It shouldn't have a problem if you can copy it.

Try scanning your sd card. You can also try to export the data from it with a database editor. If you have SK Tools, you may be able to open the database using the database tool and the 'mount volume' command. Or, you can try Phatware's Pocket Database Editor and see if you can open it up (I've opened copies of pim.vol on my sd card with each in the past, but sometimes it doesn't work).

Edit: Phatware opens it up fine, and you can copy things out to another database. SK Tools will open it if you rename it (like to pim2.vol).
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Spiderm@n_:
I had no problem copying it using Resco, I also copied it on 2 different SD cards, both copies act the same. I found the problem after I made hard-reset and copied back in root folder, where phone should start using it. I actually use command in SDConfig.txt to copy it, it always worked before, and worked last time I flashed that ROM, now I only made hard-reset (first, then made re-flash of same ROM). I'll try with the tools you said.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Farmer Ted:
I wouldn't do it with sdconfig.txt; if Sense is already loaded, you'll run into major problems. You really need to disable Sense in the Home Items settings, then do the over-write with Resco, soft-reset, and then re-activate Sense.

Restoring pim.vol is weird. I don't use manila, and I use a mortscript that restores pim.vol and a bunch of other files during customization. For a while, it worked great, and I would have all my contacts restored after first boot. But it hasn't worked in ~6 months for me. I have no idea why. I have also found that it's important to reset immediately after doing the over-write. Sometimes, if I wait a while, the over-write won't 'stick' after the soft reset, and I'll have blank contacts, or worse, when I try to open the contacts, the device will freeze for 15-20 seconds. So now, after customization runs, I do the restore manually and then soft reset immediately, and it's always worked fine. It's a faster process than using a backup utility, so I prefer doing it this way.

I also keep other types of backups. I have a few pimbackup copies (never use them, but keep them just in case), and nightly I have a script that runs sk tools pim backup. Every once in a while, I'll also load myphone and backup my pim info there. You need to have more than one backup just in case something happens, like your sd card fails.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Spiderm@n_:
Well, Mortscript is executed later than SDConfig, and actually I think the one I use makes the customizations before Sence run for the first time. Anyway, for more than an year that copy method works, and it worked on that ROM 3 times just fine, just till now there wasn't corrupted DB file to copy (problem caused before backing it up, not after copy back). I found 2 bad records in my Contacts database with PhatWare, looking for ideas how to delete them, Phatware DB Explorer crashes when I select them and I can't delete them.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Farmer Ted:
Well, at least you're getting somewhere. You should maybe just trying to copy all the databases into an empty pim.vol except for the two that are bad. I've never really copied stuff out from one database to another with that tool, but it might work.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Spiderm@n_:
Unf I can't, thought about that too but no such option, I have only for full table, but it crashes because of the 2 bad records.

Any ideas about PC DB tool that can open them, I hope it won't crash on bad records and have a bit more options :D (I think I'll need one for DBs, not related to PPC that much)
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Farmer Ted:
I don't know about a pc-side editor.

You could just try exporting each of the databases to csv files, and then see if you ca re-import them to a clean pim.vol.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Spiderm@n_:
I can't export them, it stops while it get to the records with errors and the file size is 0 bytes.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Spiderm@n_:
Guess no one has more ideas :/
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vlug:
Im tryin to take a file from a rom. I kno its possible but i jus dont know wat i am looking for... so, I am tryin to take the notification bar from a rom. any idea on where to look?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vlug:
Bump
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHausx:
You should be able to find it in system/framework/framework-res.apk. Just open it up as a normal .zip file.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vlug:
how would i flash it onto my current rom... if i can do that
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
NOT easy. if you have s-off (nand unlocked) then you would pull your current framework-res.apk. open it up in a program like betterzip (mac) or 7zip (pc) that opens zips without actually unzipping them. DO NOT ACTUALLY UNZIP. then make changes and save. boot your phone into recovery, and wipe cache and dalvic TWICE each. then use this coding.

if using amon

adb shell

mount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system

exit

adb remount

adb push framework-res.apk (this is the new one) /system/framework/

adb shell reboot

if using clockworkmod

go to partitions menu on phone

select mount /system

on computer:

adb remount

adb push framework-res.apk /system/framework/

as a sidenote, while amon is harder, it works better more often.

have fun with your new mods!

dk
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aamikam:
Actually... the notification bar for a non aosp rom is both in the framewrok-res and com.htc.resources apk.

So... u want both of them.

Now...

U have to be on a deodexed rom, but I think u know that already.

U can push the files into your device while in recovery (cuz while u using the phone it simply wont work) or make a flashable zip.

Also, u need to wipe cache and dalvik-cache before booting into the rom otherwise u will either get fc's or wont see any change.

I'm not sure which rom u using and whether the rom dev made some changes on some of the .jar files in the rom so keep in mind that if it doesn't work u would also want a few more files from the /system/framework/ dir such as services.jar and maybe a few more.

If u want to grab a notification bar from a diff device then u would want to grab the images and such cuz it wont work for u if u push those files.

Hope that helps u a little.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vlug:
thank you guys for responding i will try what you guys said. And i have amon on BS 1.8 so
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yiannisthegreek:
Hi all...

I am just wondering what the most current version of KIES is here in Canada?

I am still on v1.5.1.10074_45 and have seen users with newer versions here on xda (from other countries I believe) but there seems to be no update available when I try to update in KIES itself.

Anyone know what is the newest for us here in Canada and the best way to get it?

PS... I know that KIES sucks but am still on official JH2 and waiting as patiently as possible for official froyo. :p
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t1mman:
last time I checked, it was still on JH2
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yiannisthegreek:
Im not talking about the firmware for the phone... Im talking about KIES iteslf. Do you know what the newest version of KIES is for us Canadians?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
all Kies are created equal

it finds your ROM via your phone model, not Kies version
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yiannisthegreek:
If this is true then why are there so many threads here with people talking about the newest versions of KIES and how it seems to be connected to when they get firmware updates, etc? And why is there so many different versions then? :confused:

EDIT - Does this mean that the version of KIES I have now IS the most current version for Canada?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpaik:
1.5.3.10093_81
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yiannisthegreek:
Thank You jpaik. How did you get KIES to update to this or did you download it directly from Samsungs website? I have tried to update through KIES but it just sits there and does nothing (typical KIES) lol!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpaik:
I update through Kies itself. It's a hit-or-miss process. I suspect their server is getting hammered at certain times of the day. I have often closed and re-opened Kies several times until I make a connection. Either an update will start or the message states that this is the latest version (which itself is sometimes untrue!)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
the download link for the latest Kies is on the wiki

just click my SGS wiki link and get it

Kies is not related to the ROM releases
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tb5...:
i updated to 1.5.3.10093_81

i have a 19000ugJG9 phone... still havn't been able to connect to kies to fix my 3 button issue... pretty queer.

edit: downloaded the version from bell canadas site... 1.5.1.10072_3 in hope i would be able to connect it to my phone...

still nothing... says 'connected' on my phone but never manages to connect to kies.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ajam100:
I have nexus one. This is my story. I had rooted my phone using universial android. I installed cyanogen mod and was a very happy user until I saw the MIUI Rom and then I flashed that. Then I saw that it was to unstable so I restored to a backup I made of cyanogen. After I started using cyanogen mod again it was very unstable and had random reboots and lots of force closes. So I just decided I was done with the rooting business so I was gonna use a passimg. Acsently I flashed the Korean passimg and I can't flash any of the other ones(except the frg33one because i cant update to frg83 after and lose root) So on the Korean Rom I rooted and installed clockworkmod. Then I noticed I couldn't install any custom rom(i tried CM6, CM6RC3,MIUI)and I kept getting errors.So while I was in clockwordmod restored one of my old stockrom backups before i had flashed any roms and it worked. But still when went to go and try and flash a rom it still gave me errors. But the most ANNNOYING thing of all is i would flash clockwordmod in rommanager than i would touch reboot to recovery. It worked. I got into clockwordmod but then when i would try and go back again a second time it wouldn't be there. It would be the stock android recovery and even when i would go to recovery though the bootloader it would still be stock recovery. I dont know what to do. As i said my bootloader isnt unlocked because i dont want to void my warrenty. my inital plan was if i ever needed to return this ting i could just i could just run a passimg and restore to to stock everything and there would be no traces. If i have to return my phone it would have to be last resort because I live in Canada and I would have to play ridiculous duties and taxes on it. Now i just want to make sure im able to install gingerbread on when it comes out. Also i forgot to mention that everytime i try to update my phone to 2.2.1 it always fails even though im on stock recovery(although even when i go into recovery and it is the stock recovery rommanager still says im running clockwordmod) PLEASE HELP!!!

ps. Im only 13 but i consider myself to be pretty techsmart for 13. I wouldnt mind using cmd/terminal and im running ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krohnjw:
If you installed the original passimg then you'll have 2 files you'll want to remove if you don't want the stock recovery to keep flashing back when you reboot ;)

Remount /system rw and remove:

rm /system/etc/install-recovery.sh

rm /system/recovery-from-boot.p

Remove those, flash your custom recovery and you should be good to go.

With respect to the errors: Clear out the cache and dalvik-cache. Wipe and install your rom of choice, be it a stock repack, CM6, Enom etc.

With Amon's latest recovery *1.8.0.1 you can flash both signed (google) and signed (test) packages, so the official update will flash as well as a repack. If you flash the official 2.2.1 remember to pull remove those 2 files again or it will blow away your custom recovery on reboot.
[Off-topic] generic.imitation:
I use objectdock as a replacement for my taskbar. I hide the taskbar, but always have to unhide it to view stuff in the system tray. Any sidebar widget, or rainmeter object that can show stuff running in my system tray? I have a pic of my desktop as it is right now, so let me know if you have any ideas. thanks!

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2793/screenshotuz.png
[Off-topic] flyboyovyick:
get BitTorrent instead of uTorrent as it made peer discovery and my downloads faster.

Also you desktop is too plain. add some folders or something.

Check mine out:

http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/5164/89096704.jpg

(i have two screens)
[Off-topic] generic.imitation:
thanks for your critique of my desktop, but just looking for something that provides the same function as the system tray.
[Off-topic] Captainkrtek:
Rain Meter is pretty cool
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raillery:
Is there an app that can edit app launch preferences, not just run and kill the apps as they start? Or is there a file that can be edited to keep certain apps from launching on their own? Thank you!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erikivy:
I think you can use Titanium Backup to "freeze" apps, but I don't know if that is persistent or it resets upon reboot. You could give it a shot.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baknblack:
TB does keep them from loading once you freeze the app.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dglowe343:
Autostarts.

Sent from my HTC SUPERSONIC
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raillery:
So TB doesnt just kill them as they start it actually tells them not to load?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _MetalHead_:
+1 for Autostarts.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] posguy99:
No, it freezes them so that the phone doesn't know they exist (they're not installed any more), so their launch-on-boot entries aren't there any more.

In other words, if you freeze them, they're not installed any more, so you can't use them.
[Captivate General] gordec:
After Froyo leak, the Cappy is now officially an almost perfect phone. GPS works great at stock settings for over 1 week now. I use NDrive GPS app, and I get lock in like 10 secs. Whole trip is accurate to 5-10 feet with no lag. I don't turn on GPS status or anything like that, but I do have to leave it on the dashboard of my car. If I hold it in the passenger's seat or back seat, the antenna doesn't seem to be strong enough to hold accurate lock. Google navigation isn't working accurately for me. I don't know why.

Daily unplug random shut downs now resolved with turning off GPS when charging.

2.2 is fast even at unrooted state.

Android phone functions are just awesome. It's a great PDA and a great phone.

Hope others are experiencing the same. My GPS was mostly unusable when I first got it.
[Captivate General] BigEHokie:
That has been my experience as well. Took it on a 400 mile road trip from Richmond, VA to Mt. Pleasant, SC and it did fantastic as long as it was sitting on my dash, constant lock.
[Captivate General] bwolmarans:
yes Google navigation sucks.

Edit: That was a little harsh.

The truth is it looks awesome. Good job Googies!

But the voice is truly horrible, and the accuracy is useless most of the time.
[Captivate General] dptnl:
+1 Same goes for me, since I did gsm reset (use with care, will wipe your data) navigation works as long as

the phone is on the dashboard/attached to the windshield and finally I started to enjoy this phone, I'll keep it.

Flashed to cog2b6, works great.
[Captivate General] roblo:
Tap and pinch to zoom is buggy.
[Captivate General] pdxrealtor:
Getting rid of mine. GPS on dash, need for lag fix, random shutdowns, all very frustrating for a top of the line phone.

To me it was just unbearable. Ill miss a lot of it but not all of it.
[Captivate General] bwolmarans:
you'll miss the screen.

so big.

so bright.
[Captivate General] pdxrealtor:
Actually side by side to the G2 its not that much of a downgrade.

That's another thing about the captivate- the screen is tinted blue! Others I've read are tinted more yellowish or reddish. But wait- there's a fix for that! Lol.

Honestly I really wanted to like the captivate.