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[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Gravityrat:
Hope someone can help. Have full root and bacon. Have tried putting a different boot animation in both the data/local and the system/media and if I put anything other than the stock boot animation I just get a black screen after splash. No faster boot time, it actually takes longer.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] mesome383:
I'm having the same problem with a custom boot animation I put together last night. I'm running the CyanogenMod RC and the default CM animation plays fine. Mine on the other hand opens and plays just fine with the boot animation preview app but when I rename it to bootanimation.zip and push it to system/media all I get is the black screen, I don't think it's a permissions issue (chmod 777). I did not push it to data/local but there's not currently a bootanimation.zip in there so I don't think that would affect it either.

Anyone have any suggestions?
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] DJ ELITE:
user is talking about HTC FAST BOOT, found in the DESIRE Z. it allows the phone to power-on in about 10 seconds (or seemingly less). the phone basically sleeps, and only requires a full boot, if the battery is pulled.
[Fascinate General] iwasaperson:
Is it possible to permanently remove voodoo without wiping data and replace the kernel with the StupidFast non-voodoo kernel?

EDIT: I'm on Dirrk's 0.2 LV 1250 kernel right now.
[Fascinate General] ellisz:
I believe that you just need to remove voodoo via the lag_fix file and then install the new kernel. This should remove voodoo. Not sure how complete but that is what I did. I have not seen any problems.
[Fascinate General] iwasaperson:
This worked perfectly, but I ended up just doing the disable_lagfix file, then NANDroid, then flashing a new ROM, so I had to wipe anyway.
[Fascinate General] NOsquid:
what are you running now and how does it compare to before?
[Fascinate General] iwasaperson:
I'm running SuperDark with the StupidFast kernel.

This combination is great, I would recommend it to everyone who likes darkish themes and the Galaxy S i9000.
[Fascinate General] NOsquid:
Feel faster than Dirrk's?
[Fascinate General] iwasaperson:
Much faster. If you are planning on using it, make sure you get spare parts from the market and set the animations to fast. It is very snappy after you do that, but I do not think that it is undervolted, so you may have lower battery life then you would with an undervolted kernel.
[Droid X General] iittaalliiaann77:
I've had my DX since launch day and love it. It's amazing how much more I can do and how much better of a phone this is than my old iPhone 3GS. I have been on the fence about rooting and have been wanting to do it even more now that this Z4Root app has been released. I'm just a little scared that I might screw something up. I have a few questions that hopefully can be answered and will hopefully help me jump into the root world. Thanks in advance.

1. If I hit the *Unroot* button in Z4Root, will it get rid of everything it had installed and return my phone back to normal?

2. If my phone is rooted, will I still get notified about and be able to install future OTA software updates for when 2.2.1 and Gingerbread are released?

3. The main reason I want root: how do I change my status bar from the stock one to the black one everyone has?
[Droid X General] thepolishguy:
1. It says it will. But maybe someone that has unrooted can chime in. I did use the app to root- but I have had no need to unroot. And I should mention this- it is the droidx bootstrap recovery app that appears to be very difficult to "uninstall". Bootstrap Recovery is a separate app that you will need to create back ups of your phone.

2. If your phone is rooted you should get the updates. I was rooted on 2.1 and got 2.2. But only if you don't delete any files from your system that should not be deleted. If you delete stock system files than I don't think you can get the update without either restoring the files or doing the sbf.

3. To get the black bar there are a couple of ways of going about it. You have to be rooted. the easiest way when you are first getting started is to find a black bar mod that comes in the form of a .zip file that you apply using the DroidX Bootstrapper App I was talking about. Most of the threads that have black bars also have instructions for the method to apply them. Make sure the mod is for the rom you have. If you apply the rubix1.6 black bar mod to your rooted 2.2 ota rom- you will be in a heap of trouble. Generally you run the Bootsrap recovery app and boot into recovery. Make a back up first (it will get stored on your sdcard in a file called clockworkmod/backup (i think that is the name). I always reboot after creating a back up.

Then reboot into recovery again. Apply .zip from sdcard. choose the .zip. apply it.

the whole thing was very confusing for me until I did it a few times. And everyone talked in very vague terminology. For instance - no one explained- the volume rocker buttons move the curser up/down. the camera button is the enter or select button. and the back button is still the back button.

Once you get going on it- if you need clarification- I will try and keep an eye on this thread.

good luck.
[Droid X General] iittaalliiaann77:
Thank you very much for your reply. I will try to look into the bootstrap app you are talking about to see if it is simple to unroot and go from there. I appreciate your time and hopefully I will root soon and I will post my outcome.
[Droid X General] RaptorMD:
I just returned by D2G and went got the DX, (the keyboard was too small for me). But you are right the Boot strap Recovery app is a pita to remove. Every time I turned my D2G on or rebooted it came up in Boot Strap Recovery which I was aware it would do. Not a big issue, but removing it is a PITA.
[Droid X General] dogpuke1:
If you do the 2.3 update you can forget rooting with that program
[Droid X General] Briss23:
Now that I have 2.3, how can I root my phone to remove Madden NFL 11?
[Droid X General] NotATreoFan:
If you have the latest OTA, .340 (Android 2.2.1), z4root will work in a matter of seconds.
[Droid X General] kdkinc:
once you go root you'll never come back to plain and boring.

Root, Rom, Theme.

Read all the threads lots of good info here and other sites....
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anttaz:
Hi Is there anyway to add more rows preferably or row and colums to shortcuts in all tabs in htc sense without having to instal CHT or max sense or spb mobile shell etc?

:confused: Please help :confused:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] afr33s:
Why not install CHT? The only thing that need to change is the shortcuts... I'd go for 1.7.1
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anttaz:
becaus i am happy with htc sense

the default sense bar is good cookie not looking as good dont wanna lose sense bar, also tried spb...and not to my liking
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pakure:
default sense bar can also be used in cht...the additional cht softkey bar can be disabled...you need to know the power of cht..and only when you try it will you know,

anyways its your phone...so search for vovichek's cab, but some people have had problems on the new 3.14 rom
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anttaz:
I want to try it, but want to keep origional htc sense bar look and feel just want more shorcuts within tabs, do i also need to instal cht editor to achieve this?

How do i keep sense as i know it as stock, i use chainfires turbo 3d it rocks just dont want to mess up my tabs, home screens and sense.

vovichek's cab has major issues when installed thats why i was wondering if this could be done without installing anything.

How would i achieve my goal using CHT then?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] curiousGeorge:
1. Install Cookie Home Tab (Either the new 2.0 or the previous 1.8 series).

Done. Sense bar you say? It's there. If you get a rom or build of CHT that doesn't have it enabled by default, then it's a piece of cake and go to step 2.

2. Install CHTEditor. Re-enable the slider bar.

Then if you're still not happy (you should be at this point but still):

3. Tweak CHT. You can get 4 icons, 5 icons, different sizes of icons, etc. You can do a lot with this powerful piece of software. Trust me. :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RicksterX:
Time for a CHT upgrade

I've been away for a while and just come back to this forum. I have CHT 1.7.1 running on vodafone 1.66 which does everything I want but the phone does slow down and lock-up occasionally (..now, in fact)

I know that it depends on what else you have installed but think it was all there before CHT with no problems. Would a CHT upgrade help in this area?

Thanks... :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pakure:
i think you might have been using the cht lock screen...... disable it and see...anyways, 1.8 and 1.8.5 were robust..with 2.0, its awesome- especially also with chtscheduler
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anttaz:
:) Your right very powerful software tried it removed cookies slider tab thanks for telling me how, only problem now is when i connect to pc via cable there are no options pop up any more previously it gave me choices 1-sync 2- mass storage and 3- internet sharing how do i get this back?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pakure:
go to settings/other/usb to pc/uncheck the box
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TrevE:
My old evo decided to commit suicide

Anyway got a new evo in, trying to get it rooted. Got as far as getting S-OFF which seems to be important:

Flash MISC, run the pc36img. Everything seems sane, then i do the rageagainstthecage exploit again, load on a recovery image. as soon as i reboot to recovery my /system/ partition size gets cut in half and then i can never boot again because random files are missing. Also flashing images fails because half the files dont copy. same with nandroid restores.

I cant seem to find anyone else with this problem, ive tried it several times with different recovery images. WTF am i missing?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] david279:
Have you tried unrevokeds unrooter? I used it when i got my second evo with 2.2 on it and i had no problems. Maybe the root method is causing the problems.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkansi:
I had the same problem. I ran RUU using fastboot and it restored me to stock.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oracleminder:
Same issue...

I was able to get su with hboot Super one click.. I can post a place to download if needed. My issue is with the crappy quality of this hardware ver (003) my wife has the original and i love it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oracleminder:
also

I also cannot get any roms to load... I used the traditonal push with no success... Although i have noticed on significant thing that seems to keep happening.... its always fails with the boot.img. I tried loading Fresh through the Rom manager and all it would do is kick me to recovery.... try to do it manually and all roms fail on the boot img.
[Vibrant General] All~G1:
http://tinyurl.com/2bwsdsr

Pretty sure some have seen this on engadet, but thought id share for a couple of reasons.

1. Horray!

2. From what I can gather RFS was made in mind to be a more secure FS. Maybe with the rumours going around with the nexus $, recent attempts of manufactures locking phones, & the "implementation of a more secure handset" with "DRM baked in", this kinda news is good for the GS community. Good in the sense that "technically" we, the GS community are a step ahead with a supposed 2.3 Dev phone in line & supposed big app players coming in with the advancement of security.

Sadly with that said it's fairly obvious that if this is the way the android (especially the GS) community is going, we may see less of the true "open, vanilla android" that we all love. I guess we may have the divide of app/ROM devs. This would differ from having "modded apps" or modded ROMS & still keep that same level of open development for both!

While this is mostly SPECULATION on my part, it made sense to me at the time (mind you I haven't slept for 36 hours), that maybe we should be looking past what we don't have and more into what we have & what we can do with it (RFS). Ehhh... Just . $1.00 of thoughts lol.

Ps. I am in no way a developer or would know what it would take to develop any type of code.
[Vibrant General] lqaddict:
Well I'd say this, with the Microsoft entering the smartphone arena the things seem to look for the best. Don't get me wrong, I am no way supporting the company with their crazy screaming monkey boy CEO, but they seem to introduce competition, well at least here in the US, where Apple shot themselves in the foot signing with AT&T only, and Android flourished on all US big carriers.

Competition should push Google to keep developing and innovating Android if they want to stay in mobile communication business, and that's a good thing :)
[Vibrant General] Chalup:
And with all the people abusing return policies after bricking their phones, can't say I blame Google et. al.
[Vibrant General] barmanham:
As far a RFS is concerned one of the devs working on CM 6 said the lag isn't caused by that its samsungs ****y coding touchwiz etc I just wished the damn GPS worked
[EVO 4G General] postwick:
The past couple days I have been having a problem where for a while everything is fine, but then for no apparent reason my Evo doesn't play my messaging ringtone and does not vibrate when a text message comes in.

I installed Sound Manager and checked the settings, and everything is set correctly. The only thing that fixes it is a reboot of the phone, which is annoying to have to do three or four times a day.
[EVO 4G General] ivwonka:
I had this problem. Uninstalled advanced task killer and its been fixed.
[EVO 4G General] postwick:
I'm not using a task killer.
[EVO 4G General] roscoenr:
that also happened to me. Are you using rings extended if you are try uninstalling and reinstalling from market that fixed mine
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SinX7:
Is there a guide that can show me how to Root my T-Mobile G1 to the latest update?

Thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodboynyc:
Hi all. I've been doing some digging now that I'm on my 2nd Evo because I somehow lost the ability to connect to 4G on my 1st handset. I was using ClockWork and Rom Mananger then and at some point I wasn't able to connect to 4G.

I had been using Myn's 2.2 RLS2 to tether some laptops while on 4G at one point when I flashed something else(I can't remember what it was) but I had lost 4G by Nov 1st. I even reverted to some backups but that didnt fix anything.

I've read that ClockWork doesn't backup the WiMax settings/keys, which in turn could lead to losing the ability to connect to 4G, is this true?

Is there a way to prevent another catastrophe?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] david279:
Don't go around flashing wimax radios. Thats a safe way to keep your keys. And make a nand backup with amon-ra 1.8. It makes a backup of your wimax partition.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodboynyc:
I never actually flashed WiMax radios for this reason. I've only flashed Roms, kernels(netarchy, kings, and stock) and a few fonts/notification bars.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cy_n_ic:
Amon ra backs up wimax partition like david says. It can be flashed easily from rom manager app.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] johnny quest:
Ok, I must have posted this question somewhere but I would like to know the answer cause no one has answered it. "how do I get the stock phone app to modify?. How would I get it and put it back into my phone? please I would like to know.

38 views and no response?
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] Bimmer323:
the .png files for the phone are actually in the contacts.apk.

Are you asking how to modify the apk, or just specifically where are the phone images?
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] synesthete:
To copy the app from your phone just do: adb pull /system/app/Phone.apk

That will put a copy of the file in your "tools" directory in the android sdk folder

Then when you want to put it back on you should be able to overwrite it with: adb push /system/app/Phone.apk

What exactly are you planning on doing with this file?
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] johnny quest:
Thank you. I want to create my own images to make it look different then the stock colors.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] jonathanphx1:
There are 2 apks that contain dialers, one is the Contacts.apk as stated bfore that brings up the phone when the phone icon is pressed the second is in the Phone.apk appears once a call is placed, and the persons picture appears of the person you are calling.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] johnny quest:
I don't know how to do a adb pull. can you explain?
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] synesthete:
In terminal or command prompt, navigate to the tools directory in the android SDK and run the following commands:

adb remount
adb pull /system/app/Phone.apk

That will dump the file in you tools directory.

If you are having trouble with this, let me know what operating system you are using and if you have the android SDK installed.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] johnny quest:
This is confusing. I didn't think it would be so hard. I do UI's for iphone and ipod touch and this is way different. There are so many different things. Its discouraging in some ways. Sorry. I would love to create an app but of course its different. So, I stick to creating themes.

I would love to take a ROM and mod it myself or even modifying Launcher pro but it has that 9.pngs which makes it hard.

Ok, I have the Eris 2.1 rooted with Tenzo Rcmix2.0 installed. I have the SDK installed but don't know what to do with it. I appreciate you taking the time to help me out. I really want to create and mod lots of apps.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] johnny quest:
this is what I've done to a phone app I downloaded from the market:

-I created my images through Photoshop and saved them to a folder with its correct name used.

-I opened draw9patch and saved the images with the correct name again to a folder.

-I named the folder drawable-hdpi that belongs in the Res folder

-took the files and folder and created a zip out of it.

-opened the AvaboxV2 and signed it.

-loaded to my phone and changed the name to the correct name and installed it

but it keeps saying application not install, I just don't get it. What step did I messed up on?

Anybody? anybody?...............................
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] icbeer:
This is what you need to do:

1. Open Contacts.apk in 7-zip

2. Copy the images over top of the original images in drawable, drawable-mdpi, and drawable-mdpi-finger (notice I didn't say anything about hdpi)

3. Close the archive.

4. Copy it back onto the device with:

adb remount
adb push Contacts.apk /system/app

Your phone may not appreciate you pushing Contacts.apk while it is running, so it may become unstable at this point. I would recommend restarting.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] johnny quest:
thank you but I'm trying to understand what you mean by push ADB. is that the one in the sdk folder? if so, I open it and it just flashes for a few seconds then closes.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] brtnbrdr:
ADB is a command line program that allows you to debug and move/edit files on your phone. You need to run those commands from a command prompt (should be a link in the Accessories folder on the Start menu if you can't right-click on the sdk folder and open one). Navigate to the tools folder, then run the remount and push commands like icbeer said to get your modified .apk on your phone:

C:\users\brtnbrdr> cd c:\android-sdk-windows\tools
C:\android-sdk-windows\tools> adb remount
C:\android-sdk-windows\tools> adb push Contacts.apk /system/app
[HD2 General] tippingvan:
where can i find the cab. gor the amazon mp3 downloader app that comes with the new ROM update. i found one in a thread, but it is a link to rapidshare, and i cant download from my phone on there. is there just a cab somewhere on here i could download directly to my phone? thanks lot
[Android Apps and Games] howzcat:
hey guys..i was installing showpedia from the market, and it got stuck during installation.

I've tried to delete the market cache and uninstall the market updates (on 1.6 it used to show that option, now on 2.1 i don't have it :(...)

can someone tell me how to:

1) uninstall the market update

or

2) send me the .apk to Showpedia - TV Show Guide (it's FREE, don't get excited about it)

http://www.appbrain.com/app/showpedia-tv-show-guide/com.sunilsadasivan.showpedia

many thanks :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcmikecruz1:
Please delete
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcmikecruz1:
Please Delete
[Android Apps and Games] Bandage:
Anyone know of an App for Android that functions like Corel / Jasc PaintShop programs on PC? I make alot of my own Icons, etc...and would love to be able to do this on the fly.

All the paint programs I've seen out there for Android are basic finger paint type apps. Anyone found something similar to MS Paint and the previously mentioned programs?
[Android Apps and Games] ii Candor ii:
I remember reading something about Adobe having a robust HTML5 site for that kind of stuff. Not sure if its built for mobile browsers though.
[Android Apps and Games] pingling:
Depends on how much features you need. There's a "Pixel Art Editor" which as long as you are hand-crafting icons may be quite useful.
[Android Apps and Games] Bandage:
more features

Yeah looking for something a bit more featured. Everything I've checked out is very basic. Anyone know of something more along the lines of Paint Shop Pro, etc for PC? If not...let's get some people together and get one ported! LOL!!

Seriously, I'd be more than happy to donate towards the production of an app like this...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PizzaAmerican23:
So my newest captivate did not have the 3 button method to go into download mode.

I flashed to cog 5.5 v2.2 BETA5.5 a month ago and decided no to touch it until a fix came out.

I read on designgears page that flashing back to jf6 will re-enable the 3 button method, so i decided to go for it.

I got into download mode using adb, and then tried flashing with odin3 one click downloader (the one DG provides on his page)

while flashing, it gets stuck on the 3rd step that says "file analysis". I tried a few more times but always the same result, so i pulled the battery and tried to boot the phone back up.

Now i get the "phone-!-Computer" on my screen and i cant get into download mode at all. What are my options? I have heard of this homemade jig that you can make, but I'm not all that confident in my soldering abilities.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AhmadAlmousa:
try this

1-run odin

2-take out the battery and everything else (SIM & micro sd card)

3-reinsert battery

4-HOLD DOWN both up and down volume buttons

5-plug the usb cable (make sure the other end is already plugged into ur computer)

u might get into download mode now !

if so, reflash to whatever rom u want :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PizzaAmerican23:
This only works for phones that can access download mode using button combos. My phone can't.

Any other suggestions?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diablo009:
When did u buy ur phone? What is its manufacture date? I got mine under warranty exchange, and this has manufacture date as august end, and this has 3-button download mode.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PizzaAmerican23:
got this about a month or so ago. My first one had it, cracked the screen and exchanged it and now this one doesn't.

DG recommends flashing to jf6 to enable it, but in the process i bricked my phone. Ironic?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PizzaAmerican23:
i ended up making a jig and got it to go into download mode that way.

Its pretty easy and i recommend it to anyone who cant get into DL mode.

Also i think there was something wrong with the first version of I897UCJF6-final-OCD-REV0 that i downloaded, because once i downloaded it again, flashing worked fine.