yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slopes:
Freezing in this case means disabling but not removing it from your phone. You can choose to disable the pre-installed applications, or remove them, if you have root.

Android also has a radio similar to WinMob. As far as I know, it is not technically a part of the kernel, but more like a driver. The kernel uses it to talk to the hardware, it controls some of the core features of your phone, and without a compatible radio your phone will not work! The radio software is proprietary, much less is understood about it, and there is still debate about the impact of switching the radio image.

It is logical to think the radio can influence the battery life, and I'm sure it does, it controls power hungry hardware, however, we don't know what the differences between radio versions are, and each carrier has their own versions as well...

One thing we know for sure is, if you flash the wrong radio, or if the process of flashing it is interupted, you have just bricked your phone. I DO NOT recommend playing around with the radio!

CM7 = CyanogenMod 7

www.cyanogenmod.com

It's called "mod" because it is a modified version of Andoid. It is a complete ROM. I am currently running CM7 and recommend it to everyone!

I hope that helps!

Sent from HTC Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phillmiester:
Location Help

Hi after consulting with HTC support i found out that my Desire Z is made for distribution in Italy when in fact i live in Australia (a consequence of purchasing it online), he said even a hard reset wouldnt help, i was just wondering if there was a way to have it set for Australia and if rooting were involved im all for it. Thanks.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dargocitfer:
Custom ROMs such as Cyanogenmod, Virtuous Unity, or MIUI are "international", and can be set to almost any country/language that exists. Certainly "Australian English" is one of them.

If you want to keep the "Sense UI" feel, then try Virtuous Unity. If you want your phone to feel kind of like an IPhone, try MIUI. If you want a modified "Stock Android" feel, then Cyanogenmod is where to look. They all have their fans, and it really depends on what you like.

I would strongly suggest reading through the rooting threads to get a feel for what needs to be done, and then jump in! If your phone is running the Gingerbread update, then start here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1178912

If you are not yet on Gingerbread, then you can start here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1055581

Just be careful, read the instructions, and if you run into problems, search these boards. 99.999% of the time, any issue you are experiencing has happened to many others, and the answers are all here for the searching.

And once you have rooted, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. :D
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ravijohn:
Help! Need to root indian desire z! Cid errors

Hi,

Ive been breaking my head trying to root my desire Z over the last few months.. The last time i tried it i had bricked my fone and had to get the motherboard replaced by HTC India for some strange reason. I have recently updated the fone to gingerbread 2.3.3. OTA but Im facing even more issues than before as Sense keeps crashing every now and then, android also shuts off any app when i switch from it making multi tasking obsolete! now i plan to root my device n install cyanogenmod 7. i tried a few methods using the ROMS given here - 1.34.405.5 (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=905261) & 1.34.707.3 (http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Desire_Z:_Rooting) but i keep getting the CID error everytime.. can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? also please guide me to a link for the appropriate ROM.

HTC DESIRE Z

HBOOT 0.85.0013

RADIO 26.10.04.03_M

MICROP - 0425

eMMCBoot

Gingerbread 2.3.3

Sense 2.1

Baseband Ver 12.56.60.25U_26.10.04.03_M

Kernel Version 2.6.35.10-g7b95729

EDIT

I have attached a screen of the cmd prompt after using these adb commands:

adb reboot bootloader

fastboot oem boot

Regards,

Ravi
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phillmiester:
Thanks heaps dargocitfer :) perfect response exactly what I wanted to know.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dargocitfer:
The problem you are experiencing now is because you have the Gingerbread (2.3.3) update on your phone. The older rooting methods (which you linked) will not work on the update.

Take a look at the thread here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1178912

Follow the instructions for the Desire Z, and you should be able to downgrade, permanently root, and then install whichever ROM you want.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pimpmyfriedl:
BTW: i put the "ghost chili" ROM on it and the battery lasts longer than with the original ROM....
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunkins:
Can someone answer this question in thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1265621

---------------------------

My question is (for details, see the attached figure):

The ROM is ported from a 540x960 screen HTC device, so the display behaviors of some apps are not proper, for this case the Weather.apk. As you can see from the attached figure, the table height was changed to 25px*19 (modify hourly row and size in the integers.xml file) to fit the 480x800 screen of DZ. So, the intervals of ticks on Y-axis (temperature) should be 25 px, but I could not find which variable to modify to fix the problem.

Who can tell me which parameter to modify?

--------------------------

thanks a lot!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iplexus4:
hi, who can tell me how to get gpu acceleration in android?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slopes:
Perhaps you should use the search bar for this one...

Sent from HTC Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dudemaster supreme:
Where can i find the regional data such as language files for android and the android keyboard?

I want to take the chinese 手写 IME from virtuous 1 or unity 1.36 and put it into virtuous 2, as well as the chinese locale selections from previous versions of virtuous.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slopes:
Thanks for the update!

If anyone else is looking for better battery life, consider rooting and grabbing a different ROM, most do better than stock.

Also, there are extended batteries on ebay, I got one, 3500 mAh, $10.80 CAD, from China. Works great, and my battery lasts for 2 days with wifi and bluetooth on ALL the time, gps on, but rarely used by an app,

Sent from HTC Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Klael:
Did anyone find a way to install locations to another ROM. I want to use it in MIUI or CM7 ROMs but could not.

I tried Titanium to restore locations but it did not work.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killj0y:
isn't that 3500mah massive? I got a 1900mah and it fits like stock :) i can go around a full 24 hours plenty of time since i plug it in at night and use it as an alarm clock when i go to bed lol. Plus i always have access to a charger sooner or later (got some at home, a charger in my truck, some at work, etc) I really don't need to recharge till bed though.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohit.joshi:
i want to flash a rom with sense 3.0 on my Desire-Z.

So can i just S-OFF the device and flash a pre-rooted ROM so that i have S-OFF and root alltogether ?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coredalae:
well to get S-off you first need to downgrade etc. And you used to need root aswell (not sure what has changed in the process, but afaik you get temp root, then perm root, then s-off, then flash a custom recovery, then install a diff rom ;)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pantherx12:
What's the likely hood of a tool coming out for the desire Z that will do most of the hard work? ( downgrade/s-off/root)

Not that I'm complaining there isn't one, only the instructions don't seem to work for me heh.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TL24:
N/M - issue resolved lol
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killj0y:
To the guy asking about stopping programs from auto starting, the app autostarts works wonders for me :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlueVD:
Notofication Led

Hello folks

My problem is somewhat common but with an uncommon background:

about a year ago when i had the HTC Desire I started working on my own kernel. I remember that somewhere in the config files there were some options for the led that had a nice side effect: somewhere in the /dev or /system there was a led dir with red,blue,white,green etc dirs that has special files (echo 1 > blue/blinking echo 255 /blue/brightness would yield a blinking blue status led).

I remember at that time that as far as i knew there were NO options of using these colors, most people saying they were not available on the desire.

So my question boils down to this: has anybody open the DesireZ and take a look at the notification led? To see if it is multicolored (has mode than green/amber)?

Or has someone compiled a kernel that supports other colors?

And just in case you think of sending me to find out for myself, I don't have a PC on which to compile the kern, otherwise I wouldn't be asking.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjuice525:
Original Gingerbread OTA update?

Does anyone know where I can get the original Gingerbread 2.3 ROM? I'm talking about the OTA update. I could never update from 2.2 since I'm rooted and have clockworkmod recovery flashed, so I get that error when trying to update. I tried searching for it on the website but couldn't find it. If anyone can redirect me, that'd be great.

Thanks :P
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stargazer418:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1211143
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjuice525:
Thank you! I been looking for this for quite some time.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] epolaris:
I've got a question.. Most of the stock ROM's here are not overclocked and that's fine..

I know that the reason for this has to do with the fact that HTC hasn't really released the kernel source for the G2 yet (or so I've heard, I could be wrong). If this is correct, has the kernel source been released as yet. As I would really like to see a slightly modified version of HTC's kernel altered for overclocking to 1.492Ghz rather than yet another variant of CyanogenMod's kernel.

I've used the stock ROM's and they are incredibly fast and very stable.. Overclocking is really all that's missing and I have yet to see a Stock ROM accomplish this.

Does anyone have an answer to this?....
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rr5678:
Does anyone knoiw what a good call recording kernel for Virtuous Sense v2 is? I'm trying to use Unity V4 but it's making my phone do so much crazy stuff, I'm about to beat it into a f***ing pulp. For example, if I call someone and then I hang up, the next time I try to call someone, it'll call, sure, but there will be completely no audio, and when I hang up and turn up or down the volume, it still says "in call volume"
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ajhavery:
I tried to cook official gingerbread rom for desire z which i have downloaded from

http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...60.25_26.10.04.03_M_release_199043_signed.exe

to root it, add busy box and remove bloatware from it.

I rooted it, added busybox, deodexed apps in all folders, moved bloatware to /data/app folder, added apps2sd, then repacked it using dsixda kitchen.

I flashed it on my phone but after installation when I rebooted it never got past the white htc boot screen.

I tried adb logcat but it showed "Waiting for Device" the whole time.

Any idea what the problem is and where am i going wrong?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slopes:
Not sure, I thought the calls and everything were handled by the radio (closed source), making it rather hard to get call recording working...

If you find one, please post back here as I'd love to check it out!!

Sent from HTC Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WTF?:
I want program something to keep the keyboard backlight on, any time the keyboard is open on T-mobile G2, regardless of the ambient light in the room.

can a modification to the sensors.vision.so file accomplish this, or do I need to write an app, or will it require a kernel modification?

(currently using a G2 with the G-lite 1.07 ROM which is fairly close to being stock Gingerbread)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yellowmegaman:
Hi everyone! I'm really confused about structure thing of android. The question:

do developers build android for phones without "lunch" target configs by porting from generic builds?

For example i want to build froyo or gingerbread for my htc desire z, but theres no option in lunch menu. Even for my dream it is available (with froyo).

As i understand it is lunch build config,which holds info about cpu and other settings about the phone.

Any help? Thanx in advance!!!!!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ccysio:
Hello! I have question - Where can i find step-by-step instruction how to flash custom rom on HTC Desire Z?

I have tried (Sucefully ofc ;)) flashing WP7 and Android on my Leo so i think ill manage to flash Android phone now. J just would like to read instruction "how to" ;)

Thanks in advance :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mushroomskull:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=916431

try here ccysio, its where we all start, its full of info and advice

anyway, im actually here for help myself, i started a thread in the desire z q&a, but its been a few days now and still no one has seemed to be able to help, if someone could please have a look at this thread and offer some help and information i would be most grateful http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1390666

thankyou in advance :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jwspcr:
Hey,

I just flashed to the latest Andromadeus ICS rom and lost me 4G. It now says 3G. I flashed to the latest radio, still no luck. Is this a common issue or is there a fix for it? Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vchrizz:
im trying to flash a custom kernel using koush's AnyKernel template.. clockworkmod installs my signed zip, updater-script says everything ok, i reboot and still got the old kernel running..

im following arighi's howto but without using the 0001-updater-script patch cause using it, i get the error that mount() accepts only 3args (4 were given) ..

using the search i find some howtos, but none for desirez specific, so im unsure if there might be something different to do?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bogdan5844:
The G2/Desire Z is *not* a 4G phone. Also, when trying Beta/Alpha ROMs, don't orient yourself of the speed via the icon. Many times these are not considered important, and the 3G icon may be used for HSDPA/HSUPA/LTE/Whatever.

Any news on ICS camera though? I know it's getting annoying, but I don't see this discussed anywhere.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erichung_13:
It's not being discussed because there is nothing be be discussed. the devs are working hard but unless the source is released by htc there is not much they can do. It is just a waiting game unless the devs can crack something. Be patient and it will come eventually
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaxWiz:
There is no real news about the camera. It is a case of either cracking/hacking the gingerbread drivers (probably have only basic features working) or a leaked/released source of the driver from htc so that a native ics driver can be built (very unlikely but would give us full features). A third possibility would be to reverse engineer a ics camera driver from another handset. My guess would be this third way will be what happens. Genuine ics driver from htc released rom with some parts of our handsets gingerbread driver.

If we are clutching at straws and desperate for news. Virtuous have added back in a camera icon on the lock screen. This was there for the first few betas. Taken out for a couple of betas then added back in beta 8. Might suggest that they have access to a camera alpha and want the icon in place so they can test. Long shot I know, but a possibility.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChpStcksRlz:
If I were to release a customized ROM, do I need to inform the devs about it? Because I've sent a PM to about 3 devs by now, and they haven't responded at all. I'll be sure to give them credit and everything
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Finswimmer:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=22055172

This is not meant as a cross posting, but I saw this thread to late.

And as I think, that this thread is more often read by devs I want kindly ask for help.

The intention of this is to re-assign those special keys as cursor left/right.

Thank you

Tobi
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aurelbu:
Sorry, wrong thread. Removed.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luisgibe:
Hello everyone!

I'm trying to get my Desire Z to be Bluetooth ERTM capable, but the lastest ROMs have the 2.6.35 kernel version, and 2.6.36 or greater version is required for being stable.

How can I port the code from these newer versions, or flash the kernel of my device safely?

Thank you in advance!

L
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theansible:
Likelihood of CM9 version is high! (?)

After reading the latest "Progress on CM9" blog post (on cyanogenmod.com/blog), I saw it mentioned that the next (devkits?) to be released will be "a whole array of Samsung phones", followed by "devices based on the Qualcomm MSM8660 and 7×30 chipsets".

Since the HTC Desire Z / G2 has a Qualcomm MSM7230 chipset, it looks like that falls under the aforementioned "7x30 chipsets" category.

So I'm guessing that the likelihood of there being a CM9 version for the HTC Desire Z / G2 is very high! Am I right? Now I just wish we knew when...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timskyline86:
Can anyone tell me which lib controls the handset speaker.

I'm working on the T-mo Wifi Calling and I got everything to work except for some reason when the Proximity Sensor kicks in and turns the screen off, it also cuts off the handset speaker.

The loud speaker works fine and handset works fine as long as the screen is on.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bogdan5844:
Although it ain't officially confirmed, Andromadus *is* the working base for CM9, from what I have understood.

There have been many discussions regarding this subject in that thread, but the general idea is that CM9 will most surely come on the G2 and the Desire Z.

This is supplemented by the fact that Cyanogen's favourite phone is (or at least was) the G2. So the chance of getting CM9 is surely 100%.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiger2wander:
Hey guys, come on and enjoy new thread about kernel 3.0!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1526329

Cheer!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phoenix09:
trying to compile the tun module from HTC's source (2.6.35.10), but I get this error when trying to load it:

﻿insmod: can't insert '/system/lib/modules/tun.ko': invalid module format

and when compiling the kernel:

arch/arm/mach-msm/htc_battery.c: In function 'htc_rpc_charger_switch':

arch/arm/mach-msm/htc_battery.c:1175: error: implicit declaration of function 'ds2746_charger_switch'

make[1]: *** [arch/arm/mach-msm/htc_battery.o] Error 1

make: *** [arch/arm/mach-msm] Error 2

can anyone help?

edit: used older compiler, works.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] catherall:
You have to get S-OFF on your HTC Desire Z to be able to flash any custom ROM:

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_Vision_.28G2.2FDZ.29_and_DHD

CyanogenMod is an example for a good custom ROM for the Desire Z. Install guide see:

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Vision:_CyanogenMod

Best regards, Catherall
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vacanopaez:
G2 sim unlock

Hi all, is there anyway that i can unlock the sim on my G2, i'm trying to put an ATT sim card in it and so far not so good i tried following this guide but it fails all the time

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_Vision_.28G2.2FDZ.29_and_DHD

is there a rom with this feature or can somebody guide in the right direction.

Thanks.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jspina:
zedomax did a video of how to do it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qAT...DvjVQa1PpcFNggtGX91XouIltC7-WI5TtrvTGsvBIr-Q=

I dont know if it is the same way as the guide that you posted but it worked for him...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vacanopaez:
i get, attempting to power cycle eMMC... Failed. when I try ./gfree -S -f any ideas
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vacanopaez:
ok, i was able to downgrade and this is the results with version gfree02, gfree07 and gfree05 did not work, i'm rooted with S-Off i just need simunlocked, this 2 versions of gfree seem to do the job until i run gfree_verify and it's driving me crazy, here it is.

HT09JRxxxxxx device

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools\gfree2>adb shell

# su

su

# cd /data/local

cd /data/local

# chmod 755 gfree*

chmod 755 gfree*

# ./gfree -S -f

./gfree -S -f

--sim_unlock. SIMLOCK will be removed

--secu_flag off set

--cid set. CID will be changed to: 11111111

--sim_unlock. SIMLOCK will be removed

Section header entry size: 40

Number of section headers: 44

Total section header table size: 1760

Section header file offset: 0x000138b4 (80052)

Section index for section name string table: 41

String table offset: 0x000136fb (79611)

Searching for .modinfo section...

- Section[16]: .modinfo

-- offset: 0x00000a14 (2580)

-- size: 0x000000cc (204)

Kernel release: 2.6.32.17-g9ab3677

New .modinfo section size: 204

Attempting to power cycle eMMC... OK.

Searching for mmc_blk_issue_rq symbol...

- Address: c029c72c, type: t, name: mmc_blk_issue_rq, module: N/A

Kernel map base: 0xc029c000

Kernel memory mapped to 0x40009000

Searching for brq filter...

- Address: 0xc029c72c + 0x34c

- 0x2a000012 -> 0xea000012

Patching and backing up partition 7...

patching secu_flag: 0

Done.

# sync

sync

# stop ril-daemon

stop ril-daemon

# ./gfree_verify

./gfree_verify

gfree verify_cid returned:

@CID: T-MOB010

OK

gfree verify_secu_flag returned:

@secu_flag: 1

OK

gfree verify_secu_flag returned:

@secu_flag: 1

OK

gfree verify_secu_flag returned:

@secu_flag: 1

OK

gfree verify_simlock returned:

@SIMLOCK= 01

OK

gfree verify_simlock returned:

@SIMLOCK= 01

OK

gfree verify_simlock returned:

@SIMLOCK= 01

OK

#:mad:

can somebody give a hand with this, i want to able to put an att sim card on my g2. Thanks again
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ceedoubleyou:
Hi guys,

Is ther anyone who knows if the camera driver will be fixed for the HTC Desire Z/Vision/G2 for ICS?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dargocitfer:
Considering that every single ROM developer who is building an ICS ROM is working on this problem, and how Cyanogen himself is still using the G2, then answer is...

Maybe.

They are all trying, it just depends on a number of factors, some of which are external (HTC releasing drivers, for example).

The current ICS ROMs have a hacked camera driver which *mostly* works, so it's also possible that they will be able to tweak the hack and make it function 100%

It's also possible that this is currently as good as it's going to get. It's really impossible to say for certain.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timskyline86:
Is there a way to create a logcat with errors only?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ajhavery:
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/debugging/ddms.html
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timskyline86:
How would I get this .apk to read the .jar file?

Package com.movial.ipservice requires unavailable shared library jsr-api; failing!

Is there something more that needs to be done other than dropping it into the framework folder?

Complete n00b here, thanks for the help.