yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G2 and Desire Z General] mwburden:
I suspect that it was added since the last time I had checked the OP, but before I wrote my reply. :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] The Great NY:
im in for $10
[G2 and Desire Z General] joebobjoe:
Santimaster, know your place.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Acid_Wir3:
@santimaster

Different thoughts, but the same topic? This is not a market; this is a community. That is two different things. Btw There's a market place here in xda go there do your thing if money is all you want. Shheeeessh

Btw your're leeching on dev's resources here, did they charged you a service fee?
[G2 and Desire Z General] mwburden:
OK, I made good on my pledge.

Any chance you guys can stay on topic a bit here and skip the ego wars?

(I probably just strapped a big target on my chest, there)
[G2 and Desire Z General] mwburden:
It occurs to me to wonder if someone has already gained permanent root access, but is waiting to see how large the pot will grow?

I guess if someone collects the pot at 23:59 on Feb 28th, 2011, we'll know the answer to that. :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] Captainkrtek:
Locking thread temporarily to clean it and warn users, standby

Thread cleaned, keep it on topic here please and no more flaming
[G2 and Desire Z General] boogsta161:
Count me in

I'm throwin' $25 in on the pot. (More coming pending my own tinkering with the source.)

It occurred to me that this debacle may actually go in another direction. Meaning, 'what if' Root isn't obtained and this post evolves into a (dare I say) 'class action pot'...?

I read an interesting article on: freedom-to-tinker dotcom slashblogslash sjsslash htc-willfully-violates-gpl-t-mobiles-new-g2-android-phone

Good luck all. Godspeed. :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] ericc191:
$20.00 donation sent.

Also, would be cool if the total so far was in the thread title.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
P.S. Guys dont worry we are not giving the donations to any smart card stuff. or anything complicated. As i said in the rules. Simple user friendly :)

No jtags

no removing chips

no weird stuff.

Just incase those here are getting nervous.

IF: Up to you guys. they want to give us all smart cards to disable this stuff. and we turn over the cash. We can. Your choices. But, Cards in hand first. I hear they are expensive.
[G2 and Desire Z General] scrizz:
lol, so who's getting me a smart card.

:D

jk
[G2 and Desire Z General] mwburden:
OK, so for the clueless among us, how would the "smart card" thing work? Is this something that we would pop in our MicroSD slot or SIMM slot that would re-write the phone's firmware, or what?

Then would one be given to everyone that was in the bounty pot? What about the people that donated hundreds of dollars vs those of us that only donated $10 or $20? Do they get something extra?

[EDIT]

If I read This thread correctly, they are not talking about giving everyone a smart card, they are trying to reverse engineer the smart card to see how it bypasses the locks.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Yea, those smart cards cost about 2500 each :)

It's not the way to go. Our phones cost 600. 2500 / 600 ;)
[G2 and Desire Z General] mwburden:
So... Anyone heard anything that sounds promising yet?
[G2 and Desire Z General] joebobjoe:
Nope.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
OP. Updated with new Funds. and changed the verbals.

Thanks all
[G2 and Desire Z General] lafa:
im in for $20
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
OP updated with your donation. and numbers fixed again.

Keep it going guys.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sdelcegno:
Gave $20.00
[G2 and Desire Z General] cbmm:
they prolly have it figured out. the longer they wait, the more money. lol

by the way, great job guys... they should get paid for figuring this out
[G2 and Desire Z General] henryr934:
i on with $20
[G2 and Desire Z General] mwburden:
On the off chance that any devs that are doing that are also reading this, I'll point out that although waiting increases the pot, it also increases the chances that the pot will go to someone else! :D
[G2 and Desire Z General] lukesky:
yeah.. there are different groups of people working on this at the same time, so it's a race for the money and bragging rights...
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Send it to the paypal donation link on the OP.

If you have already PM me your transaction id. So i can add it. Or if i already have .

Thanks
[G2 and Desire Z General] joebobjoe:
I heard that having this pot actually makes the root take longer, as the devs are forming separate teams instead of working together.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
That's a bunch of BS. Because if you think about logically.

If there was 1 team doing it. and now people see there is a $900+ pot and now we have 20 teams going for it.

Should go faster.

Personally I want the #g2root guys to do it. But, whoever does it first :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] chevy383surfing:
Very grateful for the DEVs!

I am very grateful for the dev.'s here. I have twenty for now. Wish I could give more, but I am, unfortunately the president of the unemployment club.

PHH
[G2 and Desire Z General] kgold708:
I sent another $10. I'll prob just keep tossing in a few bucks here and there.I like to think of it like the way I play the lottery, except this one everyone wins.
[G2 and Desire Z General] o>c:
yeah they might be betting on ripping the largest pot possible, so we have to wait
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
We broke a grand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Vote this to the front page!!!!
[G2 and Desire Z General] s0nniez:
Waiting patiently :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
So guys, I saw people posting the cards are down to 650 now.

I'd be willing to buy one with the bounty money. and people in the USA can send me and ill ship back. What do you think?

Just wanted to throw the idea out. Id need a contact for the card :)

But, Im willing to do it it all for you.
[G2 and Desire Z General] franky1029:
nay, id prefer to see this go to a way we could all root easily.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mpmilestogo:
I was going to post something about the business part of this but decided to not risk anyone flaming me for being a money grubbing capitalist :-). I would be willing to provide additional money to help defray the cost of the card. I've already given 125.00. I'd be willing to double that with another 125.00 and have you buy the necessary gear and offer it as an alternative but only after we see whether the work going on now is productive and results in a permanent root that can be easily provided to all hands.

I was considering how the business side of this would work a bit. If a group gathered the necessary funds to purchase the card which is required, perhaps a senior member of XDA could act as the flasher of phones which would be sent. I'm not sure how this all works but each phone owner would make an individual decision to send their phone to the developer that would then unlock the phone and send back.

I would help financially with this endeavor but only after we collectively see that the current effort will not work after TJ does his diligence, produces a concept approach to achieving S-OFF, and we see a unique ROM made available perhaps by Cyanogen or Enom that would take advantage of the exploit. If we set timelines to this, its around November 8th now. I would say we allow until December the 1st and see what's happening.

I'd like to help on the business side of this, ensure we have a method of tracking phones, find a community representative willing to do this work, etc.
[G2 and Desire Z General] KiNG OMaR:
Gentleman we have root.

Being discussed on the IRC AS WE SPEAK!
[G2 and Desire Z General] zloboman:
put me down for $25, sending now. go root!
[G2 and Desire Z General] wngmv:
Er....When do you plan to close the donation? I'm really broke right now...But would be able to do this later this month.
[G2 and Desire Z General] lightningtrip:
sending $20 now...

Confirmation number: 7FG59045X74488840

Donation amount: $20.00 USD

Total: $20.00 USD

Purpose: G2 Root Fund

Reference: G2_Root_Fund

Contributor: Mark Williams
[G2 and Desire Z General] henryr934:
Question where we going to send are donation?
[G2 and Desire Z General] lightningtrip:
http://tinyurl.com/38z5f35
[G2 and Desire Z General] mummy8402:
I'm stuck with my bricked G2 (no networks after input unlock code). I'm in for $200 if rooting/nand unlock can unlock my phone.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mpmilestogo:
No need for fancy cards. S-OFF is within reach. Congrats to the entire team of developers, those that documented and provided bandwidth, support folks, and the common every day user which turn things around each time with communities.
[G2 and Desire Z General] starkruzr:
Hope Scott enjoys that $1K :D :D :D :D
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
So,

I have confirmed PERM root + eng S-OFF.

I will be talking to scotty and rest later on how they want the money.

If anyone wants to make more donations before. It has to be in before 4pm EST.

Also, If you want to thank me for me putting this together. you may donate to me via my link below.

Thanks all for making this possible!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Jorsher:
I would like to donate later this week...waiting for a new debit card to come in.

Will you continue accepting donations for them or possibly wait til the end of the week for all of us that were waiting for root to donate?
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
You guys may make donations direct to him.

I am stopping this fund as of 4pm EST today.

As my job is done.

P.S. Those who did not pay up. Please do so now. You are obligated.
[G2 and Desire Z General] kidd657:
sent

i just sent my 10 dollar verbal agreement. from email kidd657@gmail.com
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
sundar2012 - $50 (Verbal)

Jamalia - $20 (Verbal)

WilliamStern - $20 (Verbal)

adp21 - $20 (Verbal)

Guys pay up. if you have. and i have your names wrong on the post. Please do say so and provide the paypal trans id
[G2 and Desire Z General] Corylulu:
Dear Mods,

Can honorary "Donation Stars" be given to all that donated in this thread?

Would be much appreciated :D

Sign

Everyone that Donated
[G2 and Desire Z General] kidd657:
i second this =D
[G2 and Desire Z General] sentientpc:
+10$

From: SentientPC

To: All the devs that made this possible. Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z General] mpmilestogo:
Just donated the second 100.00 as promised in this thread by me. Thanks to everyone that participated, documented, gave of themselves.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Guys please inclue your xda names with donations. Or ill post your names

Thanks
[G2 and Desire Z General] Corylulu:
Just for funs sake.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
Guys we all helped scotty.

Is this not enough? We don't need badges all we did was supply money. That's just my two cents.
[G2 and Desire Z General] franky1029:
Agreed. We did this to help the devs. We don't need anything to hold over other members heads. Our user names are already in this post. Thats all that needs to be said on it.

Thanks to all the devs that worked so hard to get this done, RHCP for making the thread, and last, but not least, all the people who chipped in to make a handsome pot!
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
The deadline ends in 20 minutes for those who have not paid up.

And you will be marked on XDA. As verbally saying you'd pay and not.

If you have please give me your paypal ID. If i have missed you.

If anyone else wants to donate to this. You have 20 minutes.

Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z General] kidd657:
also.. root was just established ... maybe you should give the other members who have made a verbal agreement but not paid some time.. people have jobs and what not
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
After 4pm. which is in 2 minutes. I will be asking this to be locked.

and i will be speaking to scotty about the bounty.

Thanks all!

My job is done after 4pm. They may directly deposit to him.
[G2 and Desire Z General] starkruzr:
Thanks for all your help managing this, man.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Corylulu:
Not that I really truly care, its just fun. Part of the forum experience, might as well use it if its there.
[Captivate Android Development] Joe Smithereens:
What IS your current configuration?
[Captivate Android Development] Stephenv1971:
Exactly!, If this is working for you, why don't you package it up and share! I would kill to get VC working with bluetooth, but I don't have the time cycles to play around with it, what with 5 kids and all.
[Captivate Android Development] iamamp3pimp:
I bet it's in his sig.
[Captivate Android Development] boomerod:
See my signature line.

It's pretty much already packaged for you...click on the links in my signature line.
[Captivate Android Development] Joe Smithereens:
I can't see it on the xda app. I guess I'll quit being lazy and walk across the room to the pc.... :-)
[Captivate Android Development] Stephenv1971:
Not really, I'll need to flash full 1.0.1 then youtube, then stock screen, then swype, then reoriented kernel. Sounds like at least 2 hours work there. ;)
[Captivate Android Development] wmwilker:
It may take 5 minutes if you take a break between flashes.

I loaded them all on my sd card and flashed one after another in CW. It takes longer to restore the apps than to flash
[Captivate Android Development] Stephenv1971:
Ok, I'll play around with it this weekend and time it to let you know. If I'm smart I'll even package it up and put a donate post up. Could use some extra revenue.
[Captivate Android Development] dowenprs:
Just as a suggestion, this thread would be a good place to compile which Roms would work with other modems/kernels. Like, I am running the Cog ASOP rom, i like it, but would really like it with HSUPA, but i'm not clear if it would work or not? Also post a general "how to" in this thread would be very useful. This thread should be easy to find though search. Just a suggestion.

Peace

Dan
[Captivate Android Development] ggonzalez7777:
Totally agree!! I'm on AOSP and love it but I really would like faster d/l's and better battery life.
[Captivate Android Development] di11igaf:
alls you have to do is download excaliburinhand's reorient kernal in this same forum, put it in the pda part of odin..then download the jpm modem which you can find in the same thread, and i posted it the cog 2.2 thread around page 495 or so. you unzip the jpm modem if its in .zip format and put the modem.bin file in the phone slot of odin, put in download mode, hit start and your done. youll have working hsupa and the option to flash i9000 roms if you want(as long as you keep that kernal)
[Captivate Android Development] Stephenv1971:
And bluetooth will still work too? Seems like theres a tradeoff every time you need to switch kernels or modems.
[Captivate Android Development] Stephenv1971:
I am 54 minutes in.

Got the tatuyama installed. It hangs badly, fc on boot.

I'd get maybe the 2.0.1 kernel installed if I could figure out how to do it, somewhere around page 30 of the xcaliburinhand thread Boomerod said he would post instructions, but he didn't.

Then theres the question of the jpm modem, go to samfirmwares, dig around the site to find the i9000 jpm kernel? or should we extract the jpm kernel from tatuyma's site, no wait, that one is using the ug8 modem right?

I wanted to do this as quickly as y'all said it could be done but it can't, not without detailed instructions.

Going back to cog 8.1. I apparently can't swim on this end of the pool.
[Captivate Android Development] Stephenv1971:
10 minutes in, I have cog 8.1 configured and all apps restored.
[Captivate Android Development] di11igaf:
i did post instructions but not very detailed..the biggest thing is knowing how to use odin without messing something up which, if you do everything right everything will be fine. are you sure you downloaded the right version of tayutuma's rom? if you flash the reorient kernal, you can use any i9000 rom you want. you just have to make sure that the rom your flashing does not overwrite the reorient kernal, and if it does, you need to extract the kernal from that rom, and put the reorient kernal in. if this is all too much, maybe it is good to keep to something like cog that is user friendly(but is still an excellent rom). and like i said in my previous post, i have posted the jpm modem available for upload in a few threads, just search my posts if you want it.
[Captivate Android Development] wired leprechan:
I am running one of Shepps Roms:

Fully Loaded JPM\JI6 rom with 2e kernel 10-15-10

Then I flashed the modem file from his first install of that rom.

This file listed below:

I897UCJI6-OCD-REV02-Low-MODE

After flashing the 10-15-10 rom I was getting horrible reception and tons of dropped calls, which I have never had prior with this phone or my Nokia N82 or 6682. So I tried about 3 different modem files ending up at the one listed above. That one gave the best reception and the fastest internet speeds for non-HSUPA modems. I average over 2000kbps download and 350 upload in the dallas/ft. worth area. I have no FC's or soft reboots of any kind, up time thus far is 94:44:38. Also my GPS is spot on and finds my position very quickly, better than the 2.1 roms I was using. I am happy so far.
[Captivate Android Development] tjsooley:
all the problems we have will be resolved when a bell I9000 froyo build is leaked.

Bell i9000 have the correct bands for us and just tend to work better with the captivate using the custome kernal
[Captivate Android Development] slider2828:
Awesome Boomerod!!! Good thread so people stop complaining about signals and stuff....

If you want something to burn the i9k rom, try the universal lagfix. Its ridiculous fast...... but its i9k based rom, so autorotation blba bla bla don't work....
[Captivate Android Development] boomerod:
Instructions

Moved to OP.
[Captivate Android Development] Killemalll:
I flashed JPK last night, and got poor performance the whole day. I enabled the 850 band but the phone doesn't seem to switch to 3G even when it shows no bars in HSDPA mode. :confused:
[Captivate Android Development] wmwilker:
Odd, when I flashed all bands were enabled at the start.
[Captivate Android Development] Killemalll:
Did you flash the JPK modem? Does your phone uses any frequencies other than 1900?
[Captivate Android Development] wmwilker:
Yes, that's why I replied to your post and yes I have 850 and 1900 in my area.
[Captivate Android Development] PuffinNugz:
After 48 hours, this is still the best, most stable rom I have run yet. Had so many issues with all the Cog builds after 2.16. Not of those issues with this. I've had 2 FC's. One in appbrain the first night when i was reinstalling all of my apps and one in my custom launcher pro with 7 pages of widgets. Other than that, it's beautiful.
[Captivate Android Development] noidd:
After some posts about the cog ji6 modem working, I tried again. My signal was much better, could actually make a call. Then I decided to replace the lockscreen with android stock that I downloaded from the main post. Worked fine and then started having soft reboots after awhile. Came to the point to where everything I selected cause a soft reboot.

Not sure if this was the lockscreen or not causing this but it'd be my guess. Back on cog for now. May try again at some point.

Since I'm not in a 3G area (East Texas), the modem in the rom does not work. I love the rom though.
[Captivate Android Development] raychang:
I am not sure about this. The comparison on JG8 vs JPM modems must be done within a very close time instances to be meaningful. In my area, AT&T cut the 850 GSM and WCDMA bands since 3 days ago. My JPM can only work on WCDMA 1900 even if I force the selection to be WCDMA 850 only. I ijust used Odin to flash the JG8 modem, the result is the same, WCDMA 1900, the reason is that AT&T shutdown the 850 bands. I now flash back to JPM again, it is innocent. 4 days ago, I did see WCDMA 850 when I dial *#0011# (debug screen->basic info) and it was 4 bars, while WCDMA 1900 only had 2 bara. After that day, I can no longer see in 850 bands, I guess AT&T shut it down in most areas beside my area.
[Captivate Android Development] boomerod:
The other part of my post indicates the experience I had with a clean flash (from JF6) to Tayutama's 1.0.1, which has the JG8 modem. If you don't do it in this sequence, I've found that selecting the 850 band through Combi does nothing more than lead you to believe you have 850 working. Similarly, if you flash the JG8 modem over the JPM or other Froyo I9000 modem you don't get anything new; it's as if the phone ignores the modem, other than updating your phone info to tell you are on the other modem.
[Captivate Android Development] jslee1020:
wheres a link for 1.0.1 w/ jg8 modem?

tayutama's original thread in I9000 forum does not have DL link for 1.0.1

Can i just the link for jg8 modem in this thread that someone posted and flash via ODIN in the PHONE slot?

Then flash full tayutama's version 1.0.3?
[Captivate Android Development] raychang:
Yesterday afternoon, I made another experiment by flashing the JH2 modem over JPM in the stock Sep211 I9000 ROM. The Google Maps Navigation worked well, but the Speedtest.net (Standalone) always got stalled and FC from the beginning (never succeeded). I then flash back the JPM modem, the speedtest.net worked well again.This experiment tell me that the flashing (overwrite) by Odin on modem part should be effective, it is not illusional.
[Captivate Android Development] Killemalll:
I agree. It has to be. The modem driver itself gets replaced when flashing over. I don't understand how the phone could possibly not use it.
[Captivate Android Development] newter55:
I can tell you that something strange does occur based on the order of flashing. I am runn doc's i9000 rom with sztupy's kernel today using mods to key mapping to enable search as home key and I flashed to stock then cwm to new rom, no cell service. Flashed a modem I know works, still no service.

Flashed back to stock, then flashed same modem as in steps above, then cwm to doc's rom, profit!!

Ican't explain why this occurs but it is. I know my particular case does not affect many of you but I have to hook up to gsm at my house and even though a modem says this band is enabled, if I don't flash an alternate modem first I can not connect no matter what settings I modify.

Sent telepathically using vulcan mind meld app.
[Captivate Android Development] boomerod:
Ray, unfortunately, this experiement does not take in to consideration all the variables. We can't rely on any one experiment, under the circumstantes. My post was worded carefully to not be categorical. It is the sum of the various experiments by numerous people that I draw conclusions from. Nevertheless, I still was carefull to not speak with absolute certainty, as that is not prudent (in my experience).

Having said that, I do not doubt your results; what I doubt is those are the results you'll get evey time. I read every single post in this and related threads and try to summarize them, test where I feel it's warranted, correct myself when I'm wrong, etc. Well, you get the point. :D
[Captivate Android Development] boomerod:
The JG8 modem is attached to the OP. I did not notice that T pulled down the link to the 1.0.1 version. I'll post it later this evening, as I still have it on my laptop.
[Captivate Android Development] brafrog:
http://www.multiupload.com/1I9DKC4P5H

http://www.multiupload.com/IH10MKXLED
[Captivate Android Development] boomerod:
Done. Thanks.
[Captivate Android Development] boomerod:
Thanks for that...it looks like he took the links off his post, but the files seem to still be available, at least for now. I'll update my post with this you link you provided.

---EDIT---

P.S. For those wondering, yes, I often forget there is a Multi-Quote button!!:eek:
[Captivate Android Development] raychang:
It is the time that science and engineering have to consider Voodoo!

Will this problem have anything to do with CSC file or product code used?