yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bizdady:
Have you tried flashing a sense or stock rom and see if you get text messages there. Worth a shot. If not give your nandroid a shot or even a full wipe install.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
I'm going to a nandroid restore right now. I already backed up all my apps and stuff.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bizdady:
Good luck!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
No luck. I'm on the phone with Sprint right now and all of the reps I speak to are lost. I know it's a network issue and something not being enabled on their side.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
Ok I got off the phone with them and still haven't resolved my issue. They are claiming they can't help me because my phone is rooted. They wanted me to press ##3282 commands but Cyanogen doesn't have those functions built in.

This mess all started off with a texting problem. The thing that baffles me is that SMS has nothing to do with data.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bizdady:
Switch to a stock sense rom and call back.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rugedraw:
Yup, that was my idea.

I'm still a bit taken back at the fact they knew which rom you were using.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
Yeah man the guy was like " I'm looking at your account and I was checking what version you were using and it says Fresh". I told him that it was what I was using before but I'm using Cyanogen now.

They somehow know what version. I think they somehow send a signal to your device so it can send back the info that's in the about section. I thought it was pretty cool. He kept stressing that my warranty was void.
[Windows Mobile] ypsmav:
Hi,

I've been cooking my own Roms for a few months and I'm happy with the results.

One big difference I've noted compared with shipped and other master cooks' roms is the first boot time. My last Rom (21683 + Sense) takes over 10min to boot the first time. After the fist boot, the booting time is normal.

Would you have some tips of how to improve it?

Can it be related to the order that the packages are cooked?

or just related to the size of the Rom (about 195 Mb for a Blackstone using LZX compression and CFC manila)?

what compresion do you normally use? LZX, XPR or none?

Anyway to 'slim' my packages more? (I'll try manual PNG compression on my next cook as OSkitchen PNG compression does not work for me)

Thanks in advance.

[Edit]: Thanks for your good advices. now my Blackstone Rom boots in less than 2 min. What I did was:

- Get ride off some provxml and change them for normal reg files.

- Reduce the size of the rom under 180 Mb.

- Manually reduce png and in some case replace by jpgs.

- S2U2 delay start 120 secs.

If someone have additional ideas, pls advise! I'll try!
[Windows Mobile] af974:
Well, 195 mb for any LZX rom is a bit too much but this depends of what are you cooking into your rom.

Main things that slow down the boot up are:

provxml files, basically .reg files are much fastets.

Check your Config.txt file , as many files are you trying to install after first boot as ,many time it gets to boot up , these are cabs,mortscripts,provxml.

Dont use png compression if you dont want your theme ruined.

In my Leo i use both LZX and XPR and i have 134 and 158 mb roms.

Leave al the unecessary such default pictures in Album folder,some ringtones and wallpapers, these files are a lot bigs .
[Windows Mobile] Farmer Ted:
Yup, provxml's slow things down a ton.

What not to do:

So, you have a reg setting that you put in an .rgu, but it never 'sticks', and you can't figure out why. Someone tells you to put it in a provxml named zzz-BandAid.provxml. Awesome, now the reg setting sticks.

Not so awesome. Now you have two provxml's that run during first boot, one that sets the reg setting to a default value, and a second that corrects the reg setting. XML's are slow (try running one during customization, and you can see just how slow they are).

What to do: Look through all of your provxmls; it's easy to do, just pull them out of the build dump. Find the ones that install reg keys-there are many, and some are huge (mostly the OEM provxml's). Just export the reg keys with a reg editor from your device and put them in an .rgu that gets compiled at the end of your build. Make whatever tweaks you want in that .rgu as well. Make sure you don't eff up the provxml's that install certificates and databases (there are a few that look like reg keys, but it's crap for the databases, so be careful of them). If you use Autorun during customization, there may be an oemprovxml with autorun reg keys in it. Leave that sucker alone; in my experience, it needs to run or else autorun didn't work (I don't use autorun anymore, so I've since deleted it). Put blank or editted (reduced) copies of the provxml's in a package that runs at the end of your build, so that the stock copies are over-written.

You should also look at the apps that run during startup. This slows down first boot a little bit. For instance, you really don't need to have MSVC to run at first boot. So, remove the line in initflashfiles.dat that sends the msvc shortcut into the startup folder. Figure out a way to get it into startup during second boot, like running a cab during customization (slow, though), or better, using a mortscript (fast). There's a lot of other crap that doesn't need to run, like tmail and poutlook (those never need to run at startup, imo). But you need to figure out how to get them to run after first boot, if that's what you want.

Finally, reduce the amount of crap that gets copied into \Program Files. Most apps run fine out of \windows, and using initflashfiles.dat to copy a ton of files is slow and it wastes memory. Just figure out how to make leaner packages. And don't use cab-2-oem converters. They always create packages that copy files out of rom into other directories, which is almost always unnecessary. It's much better to make packages manually (use kheb to find all the files and reg keys, if you can't do it on your own).

My first boot takes ~85 seconds to get to the alignment screen. Removing all the crap from provxml's saved around a minute on the first boot time. 10 minutes is crazy long, you should be able to drop it to 2 min, easy.
[Windows Mobile] Grumps:
WOW

Thanx for this tut Farmer Ted.

Seems like I also have a lot to do to speed up my first boot :)

Thanx
[Windows Mobile] kristofpetho:
Also check the OEMLang directory for the initflashfiles.dat. Normally, this is 200kb... Mine is 40Kb, and first bootup on my HD2 is 20-30 seconds...

Later bootups are so fast that the HTC Quietly Brilliant animation stops at Brilli and boots the OS... :)
[Windows Mobile] miniterror:
gotta love farmer teds his reps:D

i learn from almost every post he makes:p

think i need some things to be done in my rom to get a even faster boot time:D

edit: one question though

i just updated ervius kitchen to the latest and it has the future to make provxml files from reg files

if provxml makes the bootup slow wouldnt it be better to make it the other way arround?

all the provxml to reg:p(just asking as it could be handy for ervius to make it the other eay arround in the kitchen:p)
[Windows Mobile] kokotas:
Hi,

I don't know if this helps, but there is a tool that you could use for converting some provxml to reg here. It was made for xml --> reg conversion but it is also useful for provxml files that contain "pure" registry settings.

Regards!
[Windows Mobile] RoryB:
Sometimes I have taken the provxml and convert the registry portion to rgu file and delete it from the provxml. Now the provxml only has the file operation and certificate stuff in it.

The thing you have to be careful about is rgu happens early in the boot and provxml happens latter. I learned the hard way by not figuring out why my rgu tweak did not happen. It was another provxml that overwrote the reg settings. Once I found it and deleted those lines everything worked the way I wanted.
[Windows Mobile] kristofpetho:
For this, OSBuilder is the best. You can see the whole registry before you compile, and you can look up what file causes the changes. It really makes cooking a whole lot easier...
[Windows Mobile] Laurentius26:
Great thread, thanks for the tips.

What I'm gowing to try is search all provxmls in my kitchen and convert them to one big reg.

Make a new EXT package and name it 'zzzSample' so I'm sure it overwrites all other regs. :p

If an error exist in the reg created by provxmltoreg the new integrity check in Oskitchen will point me to it so I can easy locate and fix.

After that I delete all provxmls. :)

But first a backup. :p;)

Cheers,

Leo :)

Edit; btw I think you need to take in consideration that some provxml's contain path which are language depended.

So here's my next tip, create a package which contain these regs in separate files.

zzzSample/

0409/app.reg

0413/app.reg

etc...
[Windows Mobile] Rataplan:
Great info, just wondering should it be possible to build a rom and make a backup of the registry, once you have that backup, edit the backup and place it at the end of the kitchen and delete all the provxml-files.
[Windows Mobile] kokotas:
I've recently tried to make a little application for converting provxml files to reg files.

Thanks to AlexVallat's XmlToReg this was possible and I'd like to share it with you guys. Still all the credits go to Alex!

It is supposed to handle all provxml files, meaning even those which have other entries along with registry entries.

The most important feature that I tried to implement is recursive conversion of provxml files in order to automatically do in a few seconds what Laurentius described here:

Example :

To parse all provxml files inside OEM folder(and all included sub-folders) type in cmd prompt:

xml-2-reg_gui.exe r:OEM

When it's done, you'll get all the converted reg files in a subfolder where the application is placed.

If the provxml files had other entries along with registry entries, they will be left where they were but "reduced"(the registry entries will be removed).

If the provxml files didn't have any registry entries, they will be left where they were untouched.

If the provxml files had only registry entries they will be deleted after convertion.

Backing up of provxml files is done automatically.

So try it and see for yourself if it makes things easier or not...

Regards!

EDIT :

I've made a revised version of the tool which isn't based on AlexVallat's XmlToReg but does the same job plus the reverse here.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mindnumbinglyfun:
I want to have all my apps data ( like game saves, login info etc) saved when I flash a ROM update. It's a huge pain to manually re-setup EVERYTHING. Apps and contacts come back which is awesome but all the apps and settings are all back to square one..
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Notxok:
I'm sure you could use root explorer to save the configuration files for these apps and reload them later with root explorer as well... but... you might create glitches or issues with the new rom... (aka it will end up being slow or have FC s)
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Android_Goat:
Titanium Backup will save all of your app data and settings...once your apps are backed up, flash a new rom, download titanium from the market and use it to restore all of your apps with their data
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mindnumbinglyfun:
Where would said files be located? I don't feel like buying tb or downloading it from the web.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] api1996:
Just so u know there is a FREE version of titanium backup on the Android market...
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Android_Goat:
You don't have to pay for titanium backup (though in my opinion you should support Android developers). The free version does it too (unless something has changed since I last used the free version). You just can't do it in a batch which is much easier.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gospodinwizard:
+1 for Titanium Backup....and the paid version is WELL worth the money.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mindnumbinglyfun:
My bad. Thanks.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukester78:
Saw this thread and downloaded the free version of titanium backup to try it out before buying the pro version. but when i try to backup my apps and user data with a scheduled backup, it fc's before finishing the backup. Will this happen with the pro version as well? or is there any way to fix it?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshw0000:
I've never had issues backing up or restoring apps with Titanium free or paid version. Are you using other apps while it's creating the backup? Personally, I don't do scheduled backups. I only backup just before flashing a new rom so that I know everything is current.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukester78:
well with the free version you cant do a batch backup, so i ran a scheduled backup from the schedule screen. i reinstalled the app, and it seemed to run fine. thanks for the response though, much appreciated.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshw0000:
Yes you can. You can do batch back ups and batch restores. The only differences I've noticed between the free and paid versions are:

Free - Only schedule one back up at a time. When running a batch restore, it stops on every app and you must approve to restore them. Special services disabled

Paid - Schedule unlimited backups. Restoring a batch does not require approving each app. Special features, such as Market Doctor, are enabled.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LexusBrian400:
^ Bro - If you have to click on every app to restore, one by one... that isn't really "batch" mode, by definition :)

Get the paid version, well worth it, and nice to support the dev of such a well made and valuable app.

I wouldnt be caught flashing/changing roms without it !

For ppl that have trouble with Titanium Backup, try My Backup Pro. It sometimes works when TTB will not.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshw0000:
It's still a batch restore selection. And it restores app data as well. Only it prompts you on every app and asks if you'd like to install it.But yes, I agree, the paid version is a must.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Izeltokatl:
on the pro version there is a new feature to backup apps to a flashable zip file, which should make the whole restore process super fast. You can just flash a new rom then flash your apps with data back and not have to do manual restoring.

I haven't tried it yet though.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshw0000:
I'll have to look into that.
[Epic 4G General] mynewepic10:
I have noobnl_Andromeda_Galaxy_ROM_V1.1.1a and noobnl Andromeda Galaxy Kernel version 1.4.0.

I have gotten the wi fi tether to work already. Also any themes or any productivity apps I may want to install. I like this rom as I did not have to wipe any data or anything. Very easy to do.

What can I do now?

Thanks.
[Epic 4G General] infamousjax:
What do you mean? You can do whatever you want. Check out the themes/apps section of the forum. You start tethering if you want, you can use setCPU depending on which kernel you want to use.
[Epic 4G General] ravizzle:
Get launcher pro and beautiful widgets and start customizing! Flash some themes if u like and get appbrain if u want app reccomendations or see what apps are hot.

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
You can use your phone
[Epic 4G General] chefthomas99:
Dial 911 then run yourself over with a lawnmower while recording it on qik.
[Epic 4G General] ravizzle:
Have u ever dialed 911 on it. Its pretty cool u have to hold the dial 911 button for 5 secs b4 it will dial, nice touch so u don't accidentally dial 911.

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] AndrewZorn:
or a nice way to run out of time before the man with the gun slaps the phone to the ground
[Epic 4G General] ravizzle:
Yea true

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] mynewepic10:
I see the themes. I dont really get how to install themes. Do you put them on the SD card in zip format and install from zip? What do you mean depending on what kernal I want to use. With the stuff I put in my first post is there a specific kernel I should use? Also how would I install a kernel without messing anything up? Will I have to wipe data?

Well when you flash themes do you have to wipe data or anything like that?
[Epic 4G General] infamousjax:
Why don't you read some similar posts to yours? Theres dozens of them.
[Epic 4G General] mynewepic10:
Question about restore and backup

When I do a backup this is the message I get

no /sdcard/.android_secure found. Skipping backup of applications on external storage.

Backing up cache...

No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext.

Generating md5 sum...

Backup Complete

When I try to do a restore this is what I get

Checking MD5 sums...

Restoring system...

Restoring data...

.android_secure.img not found. Skipping restore of /sdcard/.android_secure.

Restoring cache...

sd-ext.img not found. Skipping restore of /sd-ext/.

Restore complete

Are those errors I should worry about or is just not able to restore to my sd card so it restores it to the phone memory?

Thanks.
[HD2 General] bahoiz:
Hi,

I have been using LEO more than 1 year and I was very happy with it. But I faced with many problems with my LEO in last 2 months. I never used any costom roms during first one year. Generally I carried it in my back pocket (now I suggest you, don't do that.) . 2 months ago it reset itself and restarted like first start of winmo, it prepare itself for first use. I lost many data at that point , then I think that this was a chance to try custom roms and android. I load a custom rom and android in SD card, all was ok for a few days, but then I started get SODs and WSODs several times in a day. I apply many things that I learned from this forum ( by the way thanks everybody really I learned many many things about HD2) task 29, task 2a, auto backlight off, hard reset, soft reset, original ROm loading etc etc:

What I have done when I got SOD,

-remove battery,

-place battery,

-Then sometimes it worked as expected but more times I got WSOD,

-when I got WSOD (at the begining installing custom rom via usb were ok but last 2 weeks it wasn't enough) then I perform task 2a, tak 29, then I install original ROM from SD card,

-then I perform HSPL,

-install radio (generally 2.14.50...)

-install costum rom

-then all become ok.

But then a few hours later I got SOD again :)

I suddenly realize that when HD2 a litle bit bended ( like in my pocket when I was walking) SOD occured. I observed a litle more than I decide to dissasemble HD2( because it has no warranty ), I couldn't find any cable or connector losen. It is strongly possible that Main board defected while in my pocket.

I searched forum and I find one who has same problem and he/she replaced Mainboard then he/she never get SOD anymore.

So please help me where can I buy a mainboard for HD2? I prefer buy it online, because I am sure that I can't buy it in Turkey.

Thanks for your help.
[HD2 General] anhyeuemmaimai:
you are going to have to google that one or send your phone to htc for repairs
[HD2 General] El Che:
i dont think you can get hold of one other than from htc themselves!

i also put my hd2 in my back pocket...it fits perfectly doesn't it ? :o
[HD2 General] bahoiz:
Thanks, already googled but found only a few bricked mainboard on ebay, all useless.

yeap it fits perfectly, :)
[HD2 General] bahoiz:
I sent it to service, 2 days later they sent me a text message " mainboard defective, it have to be replaced and its cost will be 450 USD" :) ofcourse I reject it. So I have only one possible solution: selling it for parts on ebay or local online shopping pages.

By the way thank you.
[HD2 General] vahapzade:
merhaba

bende anakart arıyorum bugün elektropower diye bi yere vermiştim hd2 yi anakartta sorun var dediler.siz buldunuz mu acaba .teşekkürler
[HD2 General] DN41:
why dont you have warranty? :D

DN41
[HD2 General] adamelphick:
I was told by HTC UK that HD2 carries a 2 year warranty.....
[HD2 General] bahoiz:
hayır bulamadım hala. özelden görüşebiliriz isterseniz.
[HD2 General] bahoiz:
If you bought your htc from UK, ok you have warranty in UK. But in my case I bought it when I was in US, then I came back to Turkey, and my phone hasn't warranty in Turkey and I will not visit US in the near future.
[HD2 General] fig_jam_uk:
If you know someone in the UK theres this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HTC-HD2-Mobile-Phone-Screen-Cracked-/130452670122?pt=UK_MobilePhones_MobilePhones&hash=item1e5f95c6aa

Or

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Htc-hd2-leo-windows-mobile-main-board-uk-/270660138958?pt=UK_Mobiles_Accessories_RL&hash=item3f0499f7ce
[HD2 General] bahoiz:
Oh thanks , you are the man :) I'll ty to get one of them.

thanks again
[HD2 General] bahoiz:
The final of the story:

I sold it (for parts), 250 USD.

Thanks for all.
[HD2 General] dzi0bas:
Hi,

I need new motherboard for hd2. WHere I can find it?
[HD2 General] pvii:
You can get one from HTC ;)

More real modality is to buy from eBay a damaged T8585 for parts (i.e. with damaged sensor but able to boot and make calls).
[HD2 General] osatata:
i bought my HTC HD2 motherboard from gadgetsaving.com and it work perfect. they had it for the lowest price on the net. shipping was fast and the motherboard came with a 7 day money back
[HD2 General] enigma1nz:
Would be a good idea if the site wouldn't take me all the way to check out, asked to enter a country and a region, then proceeded to tell me they only ship in USA and Canada.

I am also looking for motherboard, had been looking for quite some time too, I check eBay and such regularly, but it all comes to the seller's unwillingness to send to New Zealand. Willing to pay $85, but nobody is willing to send :(
[HD2 General] htccraze:
Despite what some people are saying you

can not

buy parts directly from HTC themselves.

Excerpt from HTC repair website:

Q: Can I just buy the parts and fix my own phone?

A: We do not sell any parts directly. Link found here.

Your best bet would be to price match parts and seller reviews from Ebay and Google.
[HD2 General] Secret ninja:
Try eBay people sell there's for parts
[HD2 General] abumaha:
U need send me pm
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dragonithe:
I've got a little problem that is draining my battery.

When i press the power button, my screen turns off, but two second later it turns on into the lockscreen.

Already tried a full wipe to look if some app is causing the problem, but nop. it still had the problem.

However the weird thing is that when i use the phone it never turns the screen off. it does sometimes pop up the power menu, but that does not happen often.

I hope someone can help me, because it annoys the heck of off me that i can't even get 7 hours out of my phone w/ minimal use.
[General Questions and Answers] darkblackcorner:
Hi

I'm trying to obtain a copy of HaRET in order to give Android a try on my phone, but all the links to it seems to be inactive.

Any idea where I could get a copy?
[General Questions and Answers] Ryan79:
it should be in the Android folder of the build you downloaded.
[General Questions and Answers] darkblackcorner:
Heh, ok thanks I'll look there.

Newb mistake, lol...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chaqmol:
Hello

Is there any way to port mediascape(or Timescape) on desire?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -WP7User-:
Maybe there would be. I'm not an Expert at this, but I think though it would be possible, it wouldn't be very easy. 'Cause I don't think that SE's UX (User Xperience - the SE UI) is Open Source. Sense isn't too, is it?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
I dont think its possible as it would require the se framework, plus like the above poster said, we dont have the source code
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loogielv:
I'm desperate for the smooth circular blue battery mod to work on my vibrant. I will video myself punching myself in the face...HARD, and post to youtube as a thankyou if you someone can make this happen for me!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slim8605:
Let get this going!