yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InfiniteImmortal:
OK I just got a Samsung Captivate and flashed it to 2.2 but its having problems. Can someone provide me with active links and instructions to downgrade my phone back to 2.1 everything I found did not work or had dead links for files. Please let me know how to do this and if you have the files already then let me know and you can email them to me directly that way I know they're good. :o This would be a big help gone through about 100 sites and still have a screwed up phone.

Thanks II
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] larissad:
did you ever get any emails? I could use the downgrade also.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goob1284:
Search odin3 I believe its jh6. Its a one click. Make sure you have all the drivers. And don't use the stock 2.2 those suck. Get a froyo rom. Anyways put your phone into download mode. Take out battery plug in the usb open the odin3. Press volume up and down and power. Insert the battery and release the power button. let the drivers install and a com 4 or com 5 doesn't matter what number it is after the com. Press download now. works like a charm.
[myTouch 4G General] BeEazy10:
I restored setting to default setting, non SMS Mode installed like Chomp SMS... anyone know a fix for this i can receive MMS but can't send

^_^ finally was able to search the formus without getting an error message and i found my fix
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grichter24:
Hello,

first, I apologize for my bad english :o

I have a problem with Microsoft MyPhone and my HTC Touch Diamond 2

I sync my messages with MyPhone. After my phone crashed, I restore my messages from MyPhone. Until here no problem.

But when I look at the conversation-view, only five conversations are displayed.

In normal view, I have much more contacts, which i have sent a message.

How to create the conversation view with all messages and all contacts?

Thanks

My ROM: Energy ROM 20. Sep 2010 GER
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanstimpy:
G2 Bricked ???!!!

did the manual update cause I couldn't wait for the

OTA. everything fine

visionary rooted fine

permrooted and S-OFF

decided to turn back to S-ON

boots to white screen with a green HTC LOGO.

I can get into recovery mode, uploading the signned update.zip fails:

"D:\TMP\android-sdk-windows\tools>fastboot.exe update update.zip

archive does not contain 'android-info.txt'

archive does not contain 'android-product.txt'

error: update package has no android-info.txt or android-product.txt"

I can try the same thing putting whatever I want on the card, but I can't seem to get it to do ANYTHING useful. downgrade/upgrade/factory reset.

it is now -s (probably why I am stuck in a rock and a hard place), and has the latest G2 firmware installed.

None of the tools I have seem to do help. I've downloaded dozens of firmwares.

I can talk to the phone via fastboot, or put the SD card into a reader and write files to it.

No matter what I do, It wont update, and when it reboots it is stuck on HTC logo screen.

I have another one on order, but it sure wold be nice is someone with a clue could hold my hand and help me get this thing back to working.

I have tools, some skills, and apparently know just enough to F things up.

HELP HELP HELP

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

VISION PVT SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.86.0000

MICROP-0425

RADIO-26.03.02.26_m

Emmc-BOOT

saEPT 27 2021, 11:12:59

[HBOOT]

IMAGE CRC

hboot: 0x32234DEC

boot: 0x1B87420D

recovery: 0xD4AF6AD9

system: 0x40852A5

HELP please anyone!??!?!

stuck completely
[Droid 2 General] HerroMoto:
Hey guys just wanted to know what types of ROMs you guys are currently using and why. I currently don't have any installed and looking for some suggestions. I'm also waiting until Matt releases his 3.0 ROM. (Can't wait!)
[Droid 2 General] newk8600:
I'm running Fission 2.1RC3+ because it's fast and has cool features like reboot option in power menu and android stock applications and widgets. It doesn't bog down like blur and it's made by people I know so it's more personal. I know it's something that only a fraction of the other D2 users have.
[Droid 2 General] want a droid:
Stock rooted rom. With the 2.3.20 update you can't beat it. Battery life is great and the performance is flawless.
[Droid 2 General] JDunc:
Fission all the way
[General Topics] kennethpenn:
Introducing: the Samsung Elite. It is THINNER than the iPhone 4, features a mix-metallic frame, and is probably coming to multiple carriers!

http://briefmobile.com/new-samsung-elite-specifications

1.2 GHz Samsung-Intrinsity Hummingbird processor

Power VR SGX 540 Dedicated GPU

90 million triangles/sec.

4.3 or 4.5″ Super AMOLED 2 screen

Android 2.3 Gingerbread

Accelerometer

8 MP Camera

LED Flash

Auto-focus

1080p high definition recording

HSPA+ capabilities

16 GB onboard memory

Gyroscope

Six-axis motion sensing for games

GPS

WiFi b/g/n

Universal eBook reader

DLNA capabilities

Bluetooth 3.0

Trackpad (similar to Galaxy S GT-I9000)
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kid Poker:
So I have Fast Boot unchecked in the Applications setting, and every time I do restart my phone, my ringtone and notification sound gets reset. Is this normal?
[Captivate General] crossover37:
I updated to Cognition 2.4 and the phone still lags, i have a couple widgets on the home screens and not too many apps, maybe 15-20. Why does it lag and have delays when I'm using it? Why can't it just run smoothly like my wife's iPhone 4? Is it too much to ask for a phone that is supposed to be capable of being a beast, especially after flashing roms to it to make it faster? I always seem to clear my RAM or restart to try to get it to run stable but after a little while it will stall and lag again. Is it fixable or just something I can't get away from with Android?
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
Try an i9000 ROM.

Such as the one in my sig, or one of the several others.

You'll see a world of difference.
[Captivate General] koreancanuck:
I don't know why you're having problems with the lag. I find no lag with it whatsoever. If you have problems with the lag, try another rom like the previous poster says.
[Captivate General] Smallsmx3:
It did lag a little bit. Issues with launcher 2 and some kernel scripts according DG. 2.4.1 Is now live and has addressed these problems. Rom seems very stable and fast as can be
[Captivate General] crystalhand:
Two answers first the lag is the nature of the beast with roms. Cognition is still in beta because he is using leaked beta source. Some of the releases are amazingly smooth.

Sure iphones are cool and all but can't do nearly as much ie no real multi taking which I'd brutal on ram and cpu
[Captivate General] crossover37:
Thanks guys, I'll try the i9000 rom or Cognition 2.4.1. Is anyone else having problems with the market on Cognition 2.4? I can't download or update anything, it gives me an error every time.
[Captivate General] hellishhorses:
sounds like you probably need to revert to your original Android ID.
[Captivate General] Pinepig:
I had that problem first time around with cog2.4. I had just updated from 2.3, strange it was the first time a cog rom didn't work perfect for me right off the bat ( and I never had to master clear before, just kept stacking new roms on my phone since DG started making them ).

I master cleared with odin ( backup your stuff first ) one clicked back to JF6 master cleared again, one click root, DLed CWM and flashed 2.4cog. Thing works perfect now.
[Captivate General] crossover37:
How do I get that info?
[Captivate General] crossover37:
You don't experience any lag now? Which odin did you use to master clear before you master cleared again after going to jf6?
[Captivate General] Pinepig:
The one from the JF6 one click.

Smooth as butter now.
[Captivate General] crossover37:
Ya i master cleared mine that way too, i thought you said you master cleared it twice. How did you get the market to work? Mine won't let me download anything
[Captivate General] Pinepig:
I did do it twice, first before flashing JF6 and once after I had done the one click back to stock. Make sure the phone is up and running when you do your master clear ( I'm not sure if you are doing it, hell I didn't know when I started ). It'll let you know that it has worked.

As far as the market deal, mine would show the little download icon on the notification bar for a half second or less and then never download it, you could go back into market and cancel, try again and still the same thing.
[Droid Incredible General] netw0rks:
Got pushed to my phone a minute ago. Found it with alogcat.

android.clients.google.com/packages/ota/verizon_incredible/00cb7fa66e35.OTA_IncredibleC_Verizon_WWE_3.26.605.1_3.21.605.1_release_sign.zip
[Droid Incredible General] JakeEv:
Just installed it. Thanks for the link!
[Droid Incredible General] Scblacksunshine:
Doesn't look like the link is working
[Droid Incredible General] ratledge:
Hack the space (or two) out of it between 605. and 1_3...
[Droid Incredible General] Scblacksunshine:
Gotcha. So now that I have it downloaded, can I update it in Clockwork or do I need to use stock recovery to do the update from there? Sorry I know this is probably a noob question..
[Droid Incredible General] lwl209:
Do you have an AMLOD Incredible?
[Droid Incredible General] zeke1988:
i dont know if i should install it or not. i got rooted and using Virtuous rom.

edited: OTA pushed to my phone.
[Droid Incredible General] Snake42490:
What do I need to do to install this? Rename the package and put it on the SD?
[G2 and Desire Z General] androidFTW718:
Gingerbread suposely came out yesterday?
[G2 and Desire Z General] blakedunc235:
i thought i heard that too,i was so pumped and then nothing...
[G2 and Desire Z General] meltedmoops999:
I wonder what new goodies they are baking into the new gingerbread update. And us G2 users will probably get it sooner than a lot of user since we are running stock vanilla android. SEE, it can be a good thing sometimes. (i prefer vanilla over samsungs touch wiz and motoblur but i do like htc sense alot)
[G2 and Desire Z General] androidFTW718:
I hope we get gingerbread :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] thenotoriouspie:
I love vanilla android but I really liked moto blur on my Charm but touch wiz felt like samsung wanted to make their phone as close to an iphone without actually being an iphone
[G2 and Desire Z General] androidtoy09:
TouchWiz IS iPhone wannabe which is very lame and Samsung fails at it. Look at Samsung’s support for its android phones. Shame
[G2 and Desire Z General] thenotoriouspie:
Tell that to the people on the vibrant forums lol
[G2 and Desire Z General] ccb04:
Whats a shame is that the Nexus 2 is really going to be a galaxy s phone..Nexus S?? Thats a shame :mad:
[G2 and Desire Z General] sino8r:
I couldn't agree with you more... although, I am quite happy with my G2. I'll keep it for a year or more before replacing it anyways...
[G2 and Desire Z General] androidFTW718:
Agree.... samsung touchwiz is just a cheap copy of an iphone's software lmao what a disappointment there we are android not ios. And I said that to the vibrant forum :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] androidFTW718:
I'm confuse about this nexus phone since samsung already said they aren't making a nexus 2 but we will see when the phone comes out
[G2 and Desire Z General] g_grey:
sam**** says a lot of things, i pretty much take the opposite of what they say is true.
[G2 and Desire Z General] hectorinwa:
They aren't making a nexus 2, they're making a nexus s.

El hefe from google said so, the smartass.
[G2 and Desire Z General] SiL3nTKiLL:
wuts the main differences in gingerbread? lol im still waiting for an official froyo for my phone
[G2 and Desire Z General] g_grey:
which phone are you on since you are posting in the G2 forums which came with stock froyo already on it out of the box?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soulmatic:
I just upgraded to the Evo 4G.

It came stock with the Froyo Sprint 3.30.651.2

I was told by a friend that its hard to root the 3.30 builds, and I couldn't find reference to that on here.

Just want to make sure T_T
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
it is HARD to root 3.30 build. what is your hardware? i am willing to help you command by command (because i am nice?) do you have adb installed? pc or mac? first step is install adb. then i can help you more.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soulmatic:
uhm, did i forget to say i am very noob at this T_T what is adb?

and in terms of hardware,. did you mean..

Hardware version 0003?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ageesm:
I was in the same boat as you last week. I had WM for years and was familiar with unlocking and flashing things, had to learn quite a bit of new stuff moving to android. These two threads helped me immensely.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=828437

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=829045

I am not sure how well the first one works, but would be easier. Personally I used the 2nd link and followed the manual method, not only to make sure every step was correct, but it also taught me quite a bit about android.

Let me, the other gentleman in this post, or someone in one of those posts if you need an assistance.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
wow both those tutorials root while turning s-off?!?!? i guess i haven't been reading up on those enough. i thought that they were to turn s-off once shell permissions were gained. if you want to do it manually, you still can, but the first link seems the best since it somehow magically downgrades you to .76.2 hboot. i'm not sure if anybody else has been able to do this in hboot 2.02. or maybe i'm wrong. maybe you just have to flash a pc36img.zip after s-off.

answering your question: adb is the driver that allows for your phone and your computer to talk. it was developed by google to help app developers, so it is perfectly safe and legal. it is used for just about every manual hack/mod on these forums. really, it is the most useful tool you can have. once again, pc or mac?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soulmatic:
pc =]

either one running xp x32 or one running 7 x64
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ageesm:
Yea I had read up all on rooting, flashing, etc before getting my Evo last week only to have to search more when none of the other methods worked. Fortunately those posts got me everything I needed.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stroid01:
Maybe you guys can shed some light for me on this issue. I attempted to root my phone using the tutrial on this site named How to root evo 2.2. Everything went well got into bootloader and when it was time to load the image files from the pc36img.zip it would never load the files. My guess is because the hboot file in the zip is hboot 0.93.0000 and i have hboot 0.97.0000. All the info i see about rooting is relating to hboot 2.0.2 which is not the hboot on my evo. Any ideas? Thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ageesm:
The hboot 2.0.2 like we have is the one that is more difficult to root. I have mine rooted, but I did not downgrade it like some have tried or possibly have done. If you have an older hboot and are on the 3.29 stock rom you shouldn't have too much problem following the basic guides, or even many of the 1-click root options. I personally don't know which to recommend because none of them worked for me, I would read through the android development subforum and see what has worked for others though.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
hah ya you need to redo the mtd-eng.img step. that is why it wasn't accepted. i sort of went off on my own boat last night and rooted 3.29 flawlessly by running 4 pc36img.zips (from 3.29 to 1.47 to 1.32 to rooted 1.32 to eng spl 1.32) and 3 different exploits (mtd-eng exploit, flash lite exploit, no security exploit, and simple mtd-eng exploit). it really worked well, but took hours of downloading. thats like over half a gig of files. if you have questios about my method just ask.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soulmatic:
where does it say what hboot you have?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
boot into bootloader (turn phone off. once fully down, hold power and volume down) should say hboot-(version) or something like that.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kajolishot:
I, too am confused as to what method to use or if I have to wait.

My hboot version is 0.97.0000

Hardware is 004

Software 3.29.651.5

PRI 1.77_003

Has anyone applied the unrevoked3 method for this config? Also, if 3.30x is a new release, it's weird why my "System Update" does not find any new OTA updates.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
That is the weirdest verson combo I have ever seen. really no idea.
[Galaxy Tab General] Jyveafk:
So, after having the tab for a day and a half, was getting twitchy on making phone calls.

I want that Phone icon on the screen!

So, after rooting (uber easy actually, z4root works a treat), got adbWireless to enable me to connect and got a shell.

Bit of juggling, mounting the /system and pushing in the Phone.apk's.

I've tried a whole bunch of Phone.apk's from anywhere I can find them basically, and still no joy as of yet.

In fact, getting a few errors now in a few places (PhoneInfo and TabletInformation errors).

Makes sense it's not trivial as we'd have seen something already probably.

And don't know if it's the phone.apk or the radio being used that's set to block.

How's everyone else getting on?
[Galaxy Tab General] xexes:
Thanks a lot for posting... I am anxious to see if we can do this... a friend of mine thought this would be a simple "install the phone apk" but we found that didn't work on Wednesday.

The only other one I've seen who's trying (publicly maybe?) is jdmadonna who posted his results over in the Tab Themes and Apps forum today that he rooted with z4root, then installed the phone.apk as you did, then the Tab started vibrating every few seconds and showed the message android phone has stopped working. When he rebooted, everything locked up apparently... he said he lost the network provider and baseband and could not bring them back, so he returned the tab. He had been looking for the Euro phone.apk, so I'm not sure if that's what he used here...

Guess it will not be as easy as we had hoped.... hopefully this nut can be cracked somehow.

Adding insult to injury is the Samsung T-Mobile user manual for the Tab which refers to it as a phone throughout! However, the pretty much useless pamphlet that T-Mo provides call it a "device."

Wish someone from Samsung would anonymously step in and help us out. The t-mo salesman I worked with (who was very helpful wrt to possibly using it as a phone) said he'd heard that some folks were/are? threatening a class-action lawsuit against the carriers... obviously a money maker for the lawyers... but I don't care... if it'd make them let us use it as a phone, that'd be fine with me.
[Galaxy Tab General] Paten:
Couldn't the carrier block phone access for the device by the IMEI number? Then it wouldn't matter what the user did, the tablet would never be able to make a call.
[Galaxy Tab General] xexes:
Here's what guyverunit had to say in this thread at post no. 52:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=832643&page=6

Someone else reported this too... when you press activate on the Verizon phones at the start, they MAKE CALLS OUT.... this is what he said:

"so knowing that Verizon was selling there version at Best Buy i popped in there today to check it out, see if there plans or anything were better. they had just taken it out of the box and were setting it up. i went to work and on my lunch went back. they had the display set up so i played with it. it was still at the activation screen, i pressed activate and behold it dialed out to do the activation. even had a phone icon in the top bar.

so i talked to the best buy mobile manager there and ask if they had gotten it passed the activation he said no but he would try again. he tried and it dialed out. i said oh so it can make calls, he said yes its just not put into the software to do it for the user end but yes, it can make calls. he also said he gives it two weeks till the DEV community hack it to do just that. LOL"

The t-mo phones do not make phone calls to activate... at least mine didn't... the sales guy activated it by using the bar code and the computer and no "activate screen" came up at all... went straight to browser.

Don't know if that means the phones themselves are different... or if Verizon just kept the Euro phone activation approach...

Maybe the Verizon phones would be the best ones to work with?
[Galaxy Tab General] Jyveafk:
One of the Phone.apk' did that for me too. The Phone.apk I'm using now has stopped showing me the connection in the top bar, so looks like that's related to that as well, but at least it's not crashing like it was.

I should really reflash back to base (is that possible atm?) and see what's doable.

I'm still holding on for a euro rom that's flashable to enable everything.
[Galaxy Tab General] xexes:
Do you think the Euro rom will work with US hardware, or should they be identical?

I was curious about Paten's question re the IMEI no. possibly being blocked and did a little searching...

I found a freelance programmer's site... codepainters blog....

http://codepainters.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/android-imei-number-and-the-emulator/

and in the course of saying how to change the IMEI number, he says this at the beginning:

"Anyway, code analysis shows that IMEI/IMSI request goes down through all the telephony layers (see the diagram), eventually getting to the baseband device."

I find this interesting because jdmadonna and you describe the phone.apk causing problems down to the baseband level... as did you...

Obviously, IANAAD (I am not an Android developer - my programming days are way in the past)... so maybe there are myriad other things that can cause a problem down to the baseband level...

Maybe it's just as simple as unblocking the ISEI no. as Paten suggests...

I'm also hopeful about the Euro flash, but am not brave enough (nor do I know how) to do it!
[Galaxy Tab General] smithdc:
You guys are using a different SIM from the one you received with your Tab right? (if you got it on a plan). One that you know voice calling works on?

In Australia, the Tab does not have voice disabled, but they force you (for the initial launch) to sign up for a data only plan. The SIM you get on this plan is blocked for voice, but works for 3G and even sending SMSs.

You just might want to make sure that the SIM you have in actually works for voice in case you DO get it working from a software perspective, but it is just the SIM that is stopping the call.
[Galaxy Tab General] Jyveafk:
Aye, swapped the sim over from my other phone (though the PAYG sim I got actually did support voice/data apparently, but I didn't want to risk it so took a known working sim)

Phone.apk

Radio stuff

imei

Don't know. Could be any of them, or combo of 2 or more even.

It's really crazy. I appreciate they probably want to keep it simple as a tablet device, but they're missing out on revenue. "Want to use voice? that's available for another 10 bucks and/or a different(more expensive) sim"

Keeps it working for people who just want a tab, and gets more cash from people who want to dump their phone.

Think it's telling that ALL the telco's are limiting the voice as if anyone of them broke ranks and offered voice, they'd all have to.

Guess we'll see which Telco chickens out first!

/sigh
[Galaxy Tab General] xexes:
Re the SIM card... the holder mine came in does say data only, but the tmo rep said it could still handle voice.. seemed odd to me... since jyveafk has tried switching it, guess I'll wait to see if a solution turns up... or the tab is going back and I'm not getting a new phone when my contract's out in protest!
[Galaxy Tab General] TheGrammarFreak:
I can phone from mine...
[Galaxy Tab General] Croak:
Everyone loves a nice ass...nobody likes a smart ass. :)
[Galaxy Tab General] TheGrammarFreak:
I'm just saying. Mine came with ability to phone. I bought it unbranded, with no contact if that makes any difference.

Swyped from my Galaxy Tab