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[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrienspawn:
What's the best way to get a permanent overclock or undervolt? (both ideally)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eigenwaarde:
Bootloader problem

I really didn't know where to put this question, so hopefully it is the right place :) I have perm rooted / S-OFFed and flashed my Desire Z (CM 6.1). It all works like a charm, but I have one ennoying problem.

When I turn off my phone and insert the charger the bootloader is starting?! When that happens there is no option to turn off the phone. I can only choose for reboot and some other options. This kinds of ennoys me since I want the phone to be completely off at night. Does anyone know how this might come and what the solution might be? :D
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
This is a problem with Clockwork Recovery. Right now there is no solution if you don't want it to stay on (it does still charge in that mode), other than flashing the stock recovery back on.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brancuff:
is there an easier way to perm root and s-off my g2 without having to mess around in terminal? i dont wanna mess up my phone
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
In theory Visionary should do what you want. But it works find for some people, and leaves others with a phone that is stuck in a boot loop.

I would recommend doing root manually, via rage and gfree - see the Wiki at http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php...cess_.28Permanent_Root_.2F_.22Permaroot.22.29

Doing it in the way the Wiki shows you is quite safe. Just read it very carefully and ask questions on stuff you're not sure about. If any unexpected error message crops up during the process then you can ask about it on the forum.

With the rage/gfree method the worst that will happen is it just won't work, but your phone will still be useable (just lacking root/S-OFF). If you try Visionary it might work, but you might end up with a messed-up phone.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrLabRatOry:
Is there a signed recovery.img available that has adb enabled? Still playing with my S-ON semi-brick, trying to bring it back to life. I'm doubtful, but thought I would ask. Do any of the recently released RUU's have different recovery images?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ludow:
I have perm root by Visionary and real S-OFF by older gfree method (posted by qpok). What is the right command to S-ON by using new method my Desire Z? Thank you.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
You can use the latest version of gfree to get you back to S-ON :

# gfree -s on

See http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php...Phone.2C_Set_SuperCID.2C_and_Turn_Radio_S-OFF
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .ili.music.ili.:
Is it worth getting an ext partition for apps and maybe using data2sd hack on the G2? My phone is already fast enough for me as it is, but could I make it faster by doing these things?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mmmainland:
Keyboard rollover

I was playing Aladdin on SNESoid using A for left, S for right, K for Y, and ? for B, and I noticed if I held down A and K to run left, I could still press ? to jump (while holding down A and K). However if I was holding down S and K to run right, the ? key just ghosts.

I'm still playing around with it to try and figure out how the rollover works, and I'm wondering if already knows? I'm guessing the keys are grouped into sections that are scanned independently. I'm going to try and figure out what those groups are.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strife242:
Did anyone try to increase the system volume scope or do you perhaps know where this is defined?

I've been going through the system in order to find a way to increase system-wide max possible volume, mainly for headset output but no luck so far.

Would be grateful for some pointers in the right direction.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dyuhas1:
Just wondering what the main reason for the navigation feature not working with most ROMs i have flashed. I've posted on the ROM threads I have had problems with and noone seems to answer. Theres a few ROMs i would love to keep on my phone but since navigation won't work it's just a no-go for me. I disappointedly had to go back to stock :( I'm not posting this to bash devs or or their ROMs, just asking out of general curiosity and hoping there's something i might be missing.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hyunnnnny:
Whats the best kernel or rom?

Is cm 6.1.1 the best rom?

and is 1.8ghz kernel the best kernel?

and how do you root in the easiest way?

sorry for the noob questions :(
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ulluvme:
[Q] Clockwork Rec Freezes in G2

I am a long a time member here but sadly rarely post however read nearly everything. I am a recent crossover from EVO to TMobile Vision G2. I have followed the instructions listed here to permenantly root and had success. I installed Rom Manager Pro and followed the instructions as to install Clockwork Recovery. Unfortunately after numerous attempts Clockwork Recovery consistently freezes after selecting option contained within the recovery boot menu. I have unrooted and re-rooted and attempted to install the Clockwork Recovery image directly however none have solved the issue. The device is relatively new and Im unsure if there may be some restrictions, etc. The current rom is NOT the OTA variety but rather is the original 1.19 variety and S-Off. There are no unusual configurations or changes. Terminal does effectively yield SU. I wonder if anyone else has similar issues.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Its the wrong topic, but try flash a recovery img of clockworkmod rec via fastboot with "fastboot flash recovery *nameofthefile.image*" via adb
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Reza WM:
when i flash any rom except sense rom, my home menu back and search button dont work

vibrate but dont work how can i fix this?!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bpatricia:
Is there any way that a rooted G2 can get the mytouch version of HTC sense UI?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] T.C.P:
yea go here

http://goo.gl/uQFxF its the G2-mt4g rom
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
That's to do with key mapping. Those capacitive buttons are linked to the hardware keyboard, and different phones have different hardware keyboard layouts.

See http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=847824
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
The "best" kernel/ROM is the one that best suits you. We can't answer that question for you. Try some and see. Make sure you do a nandroid backup of your ROM via Recovery Manager/ClockworkMod before you flash anything (once you have root/S-OFF), then you can try another ROM and easily go back if it doesn't suit you.

CM 6.1.1 is certainly very popular, but there are lots of other custom ROMs. e.g. Virtuous contains Sense, and CM doesn't. Try one and see.

Some people say that Visionary is the easiest way of rooting, but a lot of people have ended up messing up their phones using Visionary. I recommend using the method in the Wiki - http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php...cess_.28Permanent_Root_.2F_.22Permaroot.22.29

That method (the Wiki) might *look* scary and complicated, because it involves the command line. But it's not complicated, it's straightforward. Because you are using individual commands, if there is an error you can see exactly what is going wrong. And it won't mess up your phone if there's an error. You will need "adb" setup on your PC to use that method, and there's a guide on how to get that working at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=865685
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DankDomo:
I'm running virtuous rom on my phone right now and was wondering if it was possible to get music controls on my lock screen.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkphoenix2012:
Is there a file similar to the dreaimg.nbh file from the g1 days? I know there is a pc10.img file for sense, but is there one for Tmo USA vanilla froyo? I ask because I'm running into problems that nothing else has fixed so far, stock device not rooted. Restore did nothing, and I'd like to try this next.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
You'd be best to post up in the Virtous ROM thread on that ;)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkphoenix2012:
In my build.prop, what would the best settings for hspa since it is supposed to be fast in my area. I had an old g1 and i cant really tell faster data rate. Im scoring about the same speeds on speedtest.net as on my g1 using 3G.

Upgrading to a G2 is it mandatory to upgrade to a 4g plan? Bought the G2 from a friend. Rooted it and flashed sense to it. I noticed in my build.prop my g1 had higher values, could be because sense is euro??? Either way id like to know any tweaks for speed now with root.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DressedUpPanda:
Perma root?!?!?

Im kind of new to the rooting... I was able to root the G1 with no problem but having issues trusting myself to not brick my G2 now. Is there a recent forum with visionary r14? I don't want to make a mistake >.< hope someone can help!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 03mach1:
I rooted my G2 and I download a ROM place it on my sd card. ince I do that I go into my Clockwork Recovery and wipe everything and then install the ROM.zip file and once I reboot the phone, nothing changes or happens. Just all my stuff is wiped. What am I doing wron? lso, I am kind of confused on the Recovery Image? I used Cyanogen to root my phone btw. ADB style! HELP!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
There are some threads including videos to help you with rooting using Visionary, if that's what you mean. Though personally I recommend the much safer and more up-to-date method using gfree, even if it looks more complicated, which is in the Wiki - http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php...cess_.28Permanent_Root_.2F_.22Permaroot.22.29
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
Which ROM were you trying to flash ? It sounds like the flash didn't go ahead. It was really a ROM image and not an RUU, I presume ?

Clockwork should be able to flash new ROMs, yes, but clearly something went wrong in your case. You still have S-OFF, right ? (when you go into hboot you can see that, i.e. with your phone powered off, hold Volume Down and then hold down Power until it switches on).
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DressedUpPanda:
Ok im trying to use the gfree way but I can't push anything on the computer side for the temp root :confused: can anyone help?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zkid2010:
Start with making sure you can talk to the phone via ADB. A good test would be to adb push some files onto the phone, or even send an adb reboot command to make sure the phone reboots. Of course, adb devices should show you an identifier for your phone if everything is properly setup and communicating. Until this is absolutely working you shouldn't probably try doing much else yet.

Now, if you have adb setup and working and it's all good to go, how exactly are you not able to 'push anything on the computer side'?

You can almost never provide too many details when requesting help with tech stuff of this nature :D
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DressedUpPanda:
Ok well I think my problem is that idk what the adb is.. i was just using the CMD from my computer and it kept telling me that "adb" wasn't a proper command. From what you are saying, I need the adb, my phone plugged into the computer and connected as well so i can run the command from my computer?:confused:
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
adb is a useful tool to get going on your PC, in terms of helping you out with your phone. There's a guide on setting it up at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=865685
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wing_Zero85:
I've searched online a lot, without finding any answer. But the question is simple:

If I want to build a stock gingerbread rom for htc desire z I follow this guide:

http://source.android.com/source/building-dream.html

but, i need to get the correct vendor files to build android for my phone.

Where I can get the vendor files for desire z? so that when i run "lunch" i can pick up my phone?

Thanks in advance for the help.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bled82:
MIMO monitor ???

Is there any way to connect the MIMO touchscreen usb monitor to the g2 or another android devices , I want to mount on in my car so i can use my phone on a bigger screen for gps/music/videos you name it , it has linux drivers so i would hope some one could make them work for android .
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DressedUpPanda:
Errrr.. apparently I am doing something wrong. For some reason the HTC sync isn't finding my phone and I have no idea why. I am using the original USB cable that cam in the box, downloaded the latest htc sync program but I am not getting anything about "connecting to htc sync" on my phone and when I open the program on my computer, it shows that no device is connected.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wing_Zero85:
why this discussion has been closed? :confused:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=898856

I can't see the reason.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
Because it's a question, and so belongs in the Q&A forum. Or you could go and check out Android Chef Central at http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=613 . Either way, it doesn't belong in the dev forum here ;)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
Try the Q&A forum. But I doubt it without dismantling the phone, the Vision doesn't have a video-out port. The only thing you could do is use DLNA and Wi-Fi.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bled82:
Do any of the current kernals for the vision support usb Host ?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasonfascio:
Hi,

I recently received my T-mobile G2. Currently it's running stock, and overall I'm satisfied with it. But, after rooting my old Touch Pro 2, I'm itching to root this device, too.

Are there any community released roms for the G2 with complete or near complete functionality?

If not, can I root my device, load it with the stock rom, and then proceed to load it with the apps and such posted on these boards?

Thankyou, and sorry if any of these questions come off ignorantly-- as I'm new to this for the most part.

Respectfully,

Jason
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lymsaga:
Hi, I just got a DZ and it shows s-off already, but I still cannot get root even temproot. visionary never responces when i try 'temproot now'. I always get 'permission denied' when i type 'su' in the terminal. Is there anything I can do? Thx
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
Yes, there are plenty of custom ROMs to choose from here. Not sure what you mean by "complete" functionality. Typically the apps pre-loaded by the carrier will probably have been removed, but there will be other stuff to choose from.

A couple of the most popular ROMs appear to be Cyanogen and Virtuous - the latter has Sense (like the Desire Z ROMs), the former doesn't include Sense.

If you root your device and *then* load a stock ROM you will lose root and will need to re-root, since that's done within the ROM itself. You need to root and get S-OFF, install the ROM Manager app and then flash Clockwork recovery. Then do a full backup of that stock ROM via ROM Manager/Clockwork so that you can easily go back should you not like any custom ROM that you flash.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
Try opening a new thread in the Q&A forum.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ninj:
Hi guys,

I spent some hours around here, and nothing seemed to answer my question. Is it (theorically) posisble, on the Desire Z, to change the behaviour of the trackpad in that way:

Currently

When you move your finger top, you move the cursor up some lines/characters/whatever you're on. In games for instance, it's unusable!

Needed

Would it be possible to have it to continue moving in the same direction as long as your finger is not up (out) of the pad?

Example

In game, i would put my finger on the trackpad: nothing happen.

I would then move my finger right and i let it there, on the trackpad: my character moves right, and keep moving right as long as I keep my finger on.

I remove my finger from the pad: the moves stop.

I guess this is probably not possible, as the trackpad only monitors direction inputs, and i don't think it informs the driver wether the finger is on the pad or not. But then a workaround could be to have the moving direction back to zero when the finger comes back slightly on the opposite direction. That would probably mean reseting sometimes the input by replacing your finger but it would still be so much better in games!

I'm only looking on how to get this trackpad useful in games :) I'm sure some of you would love to try the challenge!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mo94:
Bonjour! Je pense que vous parlez francais? Seulement parce que votre pays... votre anglais est tres bien :)

Mais je pense qu'il sera plus facile pour moi de parler en francais. Excuse moi si ma francais est pas parfait - je suis d'apprentissage en l'ecole.

Si vous voulez l'aide en francais, m'envoyer un message private. :)

For English speakers who are curious as to what I said: Hello! I think that you speak French? Just because of what your country shows up as... your English is very good :)

But I think it'll be easier for me to speak French. Sorry if my French isn't perfect - I'm just learning it at school.

If you want help in French, send me a PM :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ludow:
Hello guys!

I need some some help and recommendations. I have stock rom installed, perm rooted and S-OFF. I would like to try and USE custom roms. Where to start, really? This is not A vs B question. I am just utterly bored about my stock Desire Z rom. It seems other phones, like SGS, has plenty of different roms. Please help. :o
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ninj:
@mo94

Hi! I think we should rather speak english here, as it's an universal forum. You seem confortable with this language (dunno where you come from) so let's stick to it if you don't mind ;)

But when you're speaking about help, does it mean you're able to dig into my idea? If yes, why not to open a new thread on XDA and let everyone benefit from it?

Thanks :)

@ludow

Hi. You're on the right place, but not in the right thread. But I cannot advise you better than going around the general Desire Z section (not the dev one, to start) and check what is there about CR.

Some example of CR threads for the DZ:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=841754

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=841275

There are other ones, some with Sense, some without.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wing_Zero85:
some help? I've tried to used the cyanogen one, but with stovk gingerbread, they doesn't work.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
You may well have already tried this, but is this any good ? http://developer.htc.com/
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KarlosTheJackal:
Just wondering, on the stock G2 ROM, is there a way to edit what is displayed for the carrier name?

I'm having a problem with mine displaying duplicative text & I want to edit it out :-)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wing_Zero85:
I've rooted the desire z with the reccomended way present on the wiki: using RAGE + GFREE.

The i've installaed rom manager and clockworkmod recovery.

After that i've wiped all and installed the virtuous rom: but now, when I try to switch off the phone: it reboot in clockworkmod recovery.

The same thing append if it take off the battery, and the plug in the charger: the recovery starts. The phone nevece switch off completely O_o

Is that normal?

EDIT: I've this issue only if the usbcable is plugged in. otherwise the phone switch off correctly.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wonderwout:
It's normal behavior for Clockworkmod recovery when charging
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wing_Zero85:
Why in every rom i've tried the system, see only 380 mb of RAM? and not 512?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
Because part of the RAM is used by the GPU and radio. So only 380MB or so is available to Android.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htcdesirez1:
i might be a bit behind but i am new this, rooting, ROMS, etc.

I have done a lot of reading and just wanted assurance of a couple of things. My main question is, is this order possible to do on my desire z? i havent updated any official ROMS.

1. perma-root my phone the gfree way (with s-off and CID)

2. update to cyanogen 6.1

3. backing up using rom manager

4. overclocking

my main concern is overclocking as i am not sure if its possible with gfree root.

and also will these bring any problems?

advice would be appreciated. thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
That should all be fine, except please do a backup via ROM Manager/Clockwork *before* you flash any new ROM. That way it will be very easy go revert if you want to.

Most custom ROMs, including Cyanogen, include a kernel with overclocking support, which you can then enable. Overclocking doesn't have anything to do with gfree specifically.

Sent from my HTC Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htcdesirez1:
thank you for this quick reply,

just one last question. I've read on the wiki that "gfree is known not to work for radio firmwares with higher versions then 26.03.02.xx"

my baseband version is 26.03.02.26

does this mean i cannot use gfree at all?

thanks again
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
It means you can't use gfree if you upgraded your radio to a later version than that. 26.03.02.26 will be fine :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saintory:
ROM Source from htc: Desire Z vs. T-Mobile G2

Firstly, I'm new to Android Development but since getting my G2 I've started getting the itch to mod it. Of course there's a wealth of information at this site but sometimes it's overwhelming.

To get me started, is the source code that is provided by developer.htc.com what compiles into the ROM?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jigi:
Eng hboot

Hi!

I´ve got a unlocked desire Z with scandinavian keyboard

This is what I´ve done with it so far:

I had permaroot and fake S-off with Visionary r14 and eng hboot and made nandroid backup1. Then I flashed the 1,4Ghz godspeed kernel. While after that the phone offered me the 1.72 OTA, which I accepted but it wouldn´t install(luckily) as I got the eng Hboot. After that I got real S-off with gfree(I´m not sure if my CID value has changed since my DZ was unlocked as a stock) and made a rom backup2. Tried Virtuous 0.9.0 but came back to backup2.

My question is, is it possible to flash only a "stock hboot" (where could I get one?) so that I would keep the root and S-off in the process. I understand I could flash a stock RUU/ROM but after that I´d have to root it and install all my stuff again(if I understand it correct, I couldn´t use either backup1/2 as they would bring back eng hboot?).

I´ve fiddled around with my DZ, but I´m still quite noobish with all the android and adb stuff...

Thank you guys for this great forum.