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[Captivate General] majinzen:
Use adb to get into download mode and flash back to stock using Odin.
[Captivate General] norcal einstein:
What he said.
[Captivate General] wade7919:
My phone did this to me 2 days. Just go into DL mode then go back to stock. then reflash whatever you was flashing
[Captivate General] dinohaven:
Use adb? Can you provide me steps...or a thread that details this? .i am not sure how to do this.

How do i get to "dl" mode?
[Captivate General] dinohaven:
Can't Get Into Download Mode

So my latest problem is that I can't get into download mode! Only recovery mode. I tried the tricks posted (power with volume button down) (plug in USB cable), to no avail. Then I tried a "power button/back button/volume buttons" combo and I got a picture of the Android logo shovelling something...it said "Downloading" do not turn off target!!!! But it just sits there....I can't do anything on that screen. Is that the "Download Mode"?

I am lost...anyone know how to get me into a download state and successfully re-install a ROM???? $20.00 to the person who gets me back up and running (er, via PayPal).

One other thing: When I plug the phone into my computer, I do not see it in my computer...but it seems to acknowledge parts of the phone. I get the USB plug in sound and get the Driver Software Installation which says:

SAMSUNG USB Composite Device Ready to use

SAMSUNG Mobile Modem #2 Ready to use

But again...I don't have access to the phone through the computer.
[Captivate General] dinohaven:
Any Suggestions?

I am still quasi-bricked...any suggestions on what I should do when I get to that Download splash screen? I can't seem to do anything once I get there.
[Captivate General] Pirateghost:
dude.

this is why you dont flash anything without understanding what the hell you are doing.

where did you get the rom? the development section?

go there and READ. there is a ONE CLICK ODIN that contains the stock rom. instructions are in that thread....

for crying out loud...when will the stupidity stop?
[Captivate General] curti.nogg:
Use Odin one click back to stock. Make sure Odin is running first, plug it in, it should show up as COM:# and then click Start and let it do its thing.

Sent from my Captivate
[Captivate General] majinzen:
Dude, if you're still having problems PM me and I'll help you out. I don't feel like typing a bunch of instructions if you're already fixed.
[Captivate General] dinohaven:
Still Not There...

I am not yet fixed (think I am getting closer)...I have downloaded Odin (and drivers) since my last post and tried to run it in Admin mode.

Using: Windows Vista (32bit)

Steps:

1. Plugged in phone to computer (only way to get to "Downloading...Do not turn off target!!!!" screen)

2. Start Odin in Admin Mode

3. Press "Start"

4. System immediately says, "<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 0)"

That is where I am at the moment...any help will be appreciated.
[Captivate General] goob1284:
Alright. I have a lot of experience with this rom stuff I fkashed at least 5 different ones and 2 of them were failed (I deleted the rom off once and didn't worj at all kept vibrating and the other time I unplugged the phone while odin was working)

Start odin3 jh6 (the stock one click odin flasher)

Then take the battery out

Plug in the usb in and hold all three buttons (power and volume up/down)

Put the battery back in and when you put it in take your finger off the power button

Go to odin and hit download

I used this method when I got the connect phone to computer screen a semi brick. Good luck!
[Captivate General] goob1284:
And don't listen to all the idiots calling you stupid.... I had no clue what to do either. akl I have to say is google and a night with barely any sleep are always a good thing for putting on roms.
[Captivate General] Pirateghost:
and yet you are still doing it backwards.

ODIN has to be running BEFORE you plug in your phone in DOWNLOAD mode...
[Captivate General] Dxtra:
Suggestion try it on a widows 7 PC. I was having the same problem untill I restore it using my friends windows 7 laptop.
[Captivate General] dinohaven:
Yepper....Odin Helped

WHOO HOO!

Finally worked..thanks to individuals on this board...Goos, Majin & Curti...I owe you a beer so PM me with your PayPal email address...

Odin truly worked...the problem was that I couldn't do it in the order everyone was saying...I HAD to plug the phone into the computer to get to the Download mode for some reason (screwy). I also used this tutorial, which helped even though it is a little out dated...pictures are always good:

http://www.ponack.net/flashing-captivate-stock/

Ultimately, I just turned the phone on and simultaneously plugged it into the USB...

Thanks to everyone that truly helped...I am wiser now...
[Captivate General] curti.nogg:
I'm glad we were able to help. As far as the paypal goes just donate to designgears for me. :)
[Captivate General] goob1284:
Im assuming "goos" is me... anyways glad I can help! If you ever need help again don't be afraid to ask. We got you!

(P.S. good news I don't have a paypal guess what that means! You don't loose any$$$ :D)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alopez_45:
I have been looking around the forums and I can't find to seem any answer to my question. I was messing around with my phone and I read that google voice was better so I activated, yet I don't like it! I turn off my data to save me battery and get all my voice mail's late. Is there any way to get it back! Thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azyouthinkeyeiz:
Dial *38 ,listen to the two beeps, it's fixed.

Swyped from my *Epic*
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] amorchoo:
Go SMS is an SMS APP designed for Android phone, providing fast, convenient, personalized SMS/MMS experience.

-Chat style interface

-Popup alert with quick operation menu

-Quick contact and SMS search

-Batch operations mode for message and contacts

-Contacts sort, select, group, search capabilities

-Full MMS/SMS support

-Night mode

-More user-friendly settings

If you like it,then you can search it in google android market with the key words gosms.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] frydsh:
GO SMS is really a good app. It has considered almost all of yours intent when you send a sms, mms, and you don't have to waste your time when sms.

Awesome!!!
[Droid 2 General] botnryan:
Ok so I'm new to customizing Android. I had a droid Eris but i never did anything other than changing launchers and such, now i have the Droid 2 Global (in white :D) and im feelin up for customizing it.

Just to give some history on myself i had an HTC Touch Pro and did alot of romming and stuff on it so im not a total noob. However, android is quite different from WM from what ive gathered.

So here's what i get... I've got it rooted using the z4root program and i have bootstrap recovery for it. From my understanding, to rom an android device you go to this custom recovery and (after savin a rom's .zip file to your sdcard) you flash the zip to the phone, bam new rom. (QUESTION 1) Now is there anything else i need to know about flashing a rom, like anything else i should do other than just flash the zip. i keep hearing things about wipe this and that and nandroid backups and such but dont fully understand all that so help there would be appreciated.

Now to more device specific questions (QUESTION 2) i keep hearing the term "sbf". from what i've gathered it has something to do with the stock rom (right?) and for the D2G we dont have this yet (also right?) and if i want to play it safe for now as i am indeed a newbie to this, i should wait until there is a D2G sbf to flash a custom rom just in case something goes wrong i can go back to it(also also right?)

(QUESTION 3) Also, i see a few roms floating around in the D2 forums, but only one (Droid 2 Global Stock, deodexed, busybox blah blah) actually says its for the D2G. Should i stray away from flashing any of the others because they might brick/not work with my phone? Also what does "deodexed" and "busybox" and terms like that mean? Are there similar terms i should familiarize myself with?

If you had the patience to read all that, i thank you. If you have the kindness to answer any or all of my questions, i thank you again! Any help you guys got is much appreciated :D
[Droid 2 General] ram130:
Short answer. No roms are available for the D2G as yet. I know someone who tried the fission rom with success but had a few bugs with it. For now, root works so you can remove all the junk motorola included(well I like them).

SBF is said to enable you to return your phone back to factory if it's messed up or I guess brick. Without this file, no devs are willing to brick their $500+ device right now.

And so the wait continues.

*Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong..
[Droid 2 General] botnryan:
alright, that makes sense, i wouldnt want to either lol. you say you can remove junk by being rooted...how so? all ive been able to do rooted that i couldnt do unrooted is wireless tether and adblock lol.
[Droid 2 General] ram130:
download titanium back up and remove what you don't want better yet just freeze it instead..also be careful..some apps are not met to be removed.
[G Tablet General] Marine6680:
In an effort to get less battery use when the device is in sleep mode/screen off; I downloaded CPU Tuner from the market.

The app has a compatibility test feature, when I used it, the results are not good. It shows none of the parameters are read/write, they are read only.

I haven't seen much about over-clocking lately, but I wanted to throttle back when not using the thing. So until we get a custom kernal, we are out of luck with any CPU tweaking it seems.
[G Tablet General] markgolly:
The tegra processor already does alot of what you want w/o the operating system telling it to energy-save. That is probably why those parameters are r/o.
[G Tablet General] akodoreign:
he point of the overclock widget was to keep the low end CPU values high in older roms
[G Tablet General] Marine6680:
This thing is fast enough without overclocking, and may not need tweaks to lower standby use; though experimentation won't hurt.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] add119:
Sorry for sounding like a newbie and dumb question. But can anyone here work on doing this?

I wouldn't mind waiting for 6 month or something.

This can help us run adobe air & adobe flash player smoother and have google earth working for our device.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] add119:
here a suggestion and tutorial how to cross compile in the link below.

http://emqbit.com/how to cross-compile for the arm

http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/archive/1642.html
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] add119:
here a file of arm7 aka arm cortex a8

http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtai-cortex/

http://lists.o-hand.com/poky/0379.html
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
These requests of developers are really unfair. We work hard and getting insane requests like I've seen you post is not very nice or appreciative to the community :(
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] halrulez:
This dude has done this before., something must be done about him

If you have a problem talk to my butt. Cause he is the only one that gives a crap!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingdazy:
wtf is it with this guy?

"Hey DEVs! Make me the awesome things I want! Nao!"

Oh, I take that back, apparently he "wouldn't mind waiting"...
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Someone made the comment in another thread that I almost replied to but didn't.

The comment was along the lines of "devs are dropping like flies". The posts by OP are one reason why. You share your hard work with everyone, and all they do is cry and complain and beg for more.

This is one of the reasons why I only build ROMs for myself. I don't want to deal with people like OP.

So here is to all the developers present and past who share their work: Thank you.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] user7618:
Ha! OP killing me with these threads. *facepalm*

Hell, buddy, you got a tutorial there. Use it. Make it yourself and quit clogging up the boards with your ridiculous demands.

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Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Froyo-on-Hero action here!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] il Duce:
+1

+1

+1

+1

+1

oh and by the way add119 - YOU POSTED THIS IN DEVELOPMENT, IT'S Q+A - aaaaaaaaagh.

WTF. hey, maybe he saw that killer youtube video from that bestbuy employee about iphone4 vs evo, and was like "hey, everyone, will you make my phone do that", i swear he's working up to it, wait for another USELESS new thread that's titled something like this:

[ROM][DEV] - hey can someone make a rom that prints money, and will build me a f.*&ing island, and then turn into a private jet and fly me there! - 12/10/10

lmao just watched that video again, it's the caca.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] user7618:
I would like a rom that prints money. *shrugs*

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Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Froyo-on-Hero action here!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Twolazyg:
I want a rom that is so fast I cant see it working, but I also want a billion dollars..

+1 for the money printing!

I think somebody should make a rom that bricks his phone so he doesn't go ordering roms like he's in a restaurant. Hell, I'll do it, because I'm not a dev so it will work great :D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingdazy:
I hear there's a really nice ROM that does WebOS, right? :p
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Lol, yeah right :p ;)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fodizzle1978:
LMAO....just doing some reading and came across these posts by the ADD guy (yes I do mean learning disability).....lol this is just too funny!! Just makes me love XDA even more!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laie1472:
Really????????

Root-Hack-Mod-Always™
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmason1015:
So....where are you guys at with developing this????? Let get a move on!

Hahahaha, just kidding.

On behalf of all the lurkers here, I want to thank all the devs. You guys are all great, put out great things, and are serious about having quality products. Thanks a helluva lot more than I'll ever say about the phone manufacturers/carriers.

Most of us lurkers really appreciate what you guys do, and please don't let the stupidity of a vocal minority turn you off.

Merry Christmas, and I hope Santa brought you all new SDKs. :D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] add119:
Can ya delete this threat i dont need arm 7 processor i got my droid 1 back. I have flash content.. Endless to say, this was stupid threat i shouldnt of start from the first place.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sputnikk23:
you also need to learn to spell.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Asadullah:
thanks ilduce for reminding me of this threat (see what I did there). I needed a laugh
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] il Duce:
no problem
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rochford77:
this cant be real

yeah jeeze! why cant aosp and darch just put their heads together and make the perfect rom, and also i want deca to make my hero to run at 1.2GHz. its not hard just make it work!

can we please hit this guy with a ban hammer?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ILikeBubbles:
Arm7 -> Snapdragon Dual Core???

i 2nd that. :) shouldn't be on XDA ordering the altruistic beautiful devs (I LOVE YOU ALL!) if you don't know the difference between hardware and software, and hardware constraints and limitations.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mid3vil:
sigh.. I think as11 can explain his mental processing

ORG $8000

BOOT CLRA

TAP

BEQ BOOT
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] add119:
Lol
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bray424:
i also would like a rom for my hero that would allow me to fly through the air like superman here is a tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnhgpVb-u5s

i dont mind waiting
[Nook Color General] txskeets:
So, anyone come up with a way to block the NC from receiving its firmware updates from B&N? I can see Barnes releasing a update and it just installs itself and wipes out the root we have. I'm sure they cant be happy about all the stuff we are now doing on the nook, but I'm sure they are especially not happy about us being able to install the Kindle app! In my mind, its the best of both worlds, but I'm sure B&N wouldnt see it that way. They could (for all practical purposes), put out a 1.0.1 update that blocked that app and kills our root.
[Nook Color General] weichel:
The "default way" of disabling OTA updates on Android might work (make sure your device is not currently updating or something):

mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
cd /etc/security
mv otacerts.zip otacerts.zip_DISABLED_OTA_UPDATES

Although the key contained in that ZIP file does not look like it's really used (its name is testkey.x509.pem).
[Nook Color General] big.t_03:
Edit: Please disregard my mindless ramblings below (I feel like the noob I am, now). I took a closer look at the code once my mind had emerged from whatever haze had been blocking my deeper thought processes and realized what needed to be done to get it to work (I learned a little more about ADB, which helps). And what's more, I think I did it the right way. *grin* Now, if we knew for sure this would block updates, we'd be set. I suppose we'll find out soon enough.

Thanks for posting the code, Weichel.

Just to make sure I'm on the right track (noob here), I'd want to do an "adb shell" then run the script above? Also, read-write access for the NC system partition is probably necessary, yes? I haven't enabled rw access yet, didn't want to take any chances of accidentally bricking my NC.

I tried the code above (without going through to proceedure to enable read-write access to the system partition), but it didn't return any messages confirming success or failure.
[Nook Color General] xboxexpert:
just looked in that /etc folder and I see install-recovery.sh I wonder what that does.
[Nook Color General] ZeroSX:
Overwrites corrupted/custom recovery with stock one on boot. At least, that's what it did on the OG Droid.
[Nook Color General] leeh41:
disregard. wrong post
[Nook Color General] ClarkSt:
I don't understand the confusion here. You have a rooted Color Nook. Install Root Explorer and go to /system/etc and click the Mount R/W button and then long press the ocacerts.zip file and rename it. It's that easy.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] philly0429:
So I downloaded poweramp full version from applanet and when I opened it it gives me an error saying it can't be verified on the Android market. Is there a fix for this? Thanks in advance.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] kusotare:
you're asking someone to help you use pirated apps, which isnt allowed on these forums. so no, nobody is going to help you.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] iwillkillyou:
Applanet is a scam, diffrent.type tho. Its all with donations. Servers.die, more donations given to.them. Try.a diffrent version or try.a pirated forum
[Droid 2 General] ljbaumer:
I was looking through the lists of roms for the droid 2 and I saw that all the roms are either stock or blur or half blur.... I was wondering if it would even be possible to port the MIUI rom over to the droid 2. It is made for the incredible, nexus 1, original droid, evo, and a few other big name phones and I was thinking we should port it over to the droid 2.

I know there are going to be a bunch of complications but I still don't really understand why a bunch of these roms don't work yet for the droid 2 and what is involved in porting them over...

thanks a lot,

ljbaumer

EDIT: forgot to add the link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=823494
[Droid 2 General] jrhoades858:
i fully agree, i was excited about coming from the eris to the d2 in hopes that this rom existed for it. i've been pretty bummed out since vzw swapped me out because the eris dev community was so strong... i would love to see a miui rom though...
[Droid 2 General] Pantheon.:
I am in the process of doing this. Last two attempts have been unsuccesful. I am trying to get help from the devs that have been succesful.
[Droid 2 General] jrhoades858:
that is awesome. if i knew ANYTHING about development i would be the first person to help you. thanks for doing this, anything that provides more options gets us in the right direction.
[Droid 2 General] Matt4542:
It would be hard, but I am gonna work on it after my AOSP build. I would be buggy though, because it is an aosp rom.
[Droid 2 General] jrhoades858:
right on man, sounds great. how is unleashed 3 coming along?
[Droid 2 General] ljbaumer:
If we were able to get MIUI on to the droid 2 would we be able to use a similar strategy for porting sense over?

Also when is someone gonna work on a kitchen for the D2? I feel like once we get a kitchen set up for this baby we're gonna get a bunch of cool new roms
[Droid 2 General] HerroMoto:
I came from the Original Droid and the Dev community was HUGE! I would practially have a new ROM every week and I could switch so easily with Rom Manager. I loved it, the D2 just seems too hard to root, I've had to do so many sbf restores, I miss my old OG Droid. :(
[Droid 2 General] Thornfulless Rose:
The droid 2 isn't hard to root at all. Why don't you use the one click root methods?

via XDA on DROID2
[Droid 2 General] HerroMoto:
Sorry I should have rephrased myself. Rooting is terribly easy compared to the old way on the OG droid. But I meant installing roms is such a pain on the D2
[Droid 2 General] stupidpopmediareference:
I am another former Eris user. There were a TON of really great ROMs on that phone. I said it before, I'll say it again: I knew eFuse would mean a diminished number of ROMs and a smaller dev community but I was honestly astonished at how small it is. I'm hoping the Matt churns out his Unleashed 3 here real soon as that would be the perfect basis for a kitchen. Having a good, solid kitchen would be all that we'd need to see some more good, non-Blur ROMs pop up.
[Droid 2 General] ljbaumer:
I am from eris also and I made roms for myself (not for the public). It was a great community and I did a lot of beta testing for the developer of white widow rom series ( which was a big hit).

I wish some devs would move over or we atleast get a kitchen...
[Droid 2 General] mrm0rbid99:
well how were the first few miui roms ported to previous devices, and how can we do that for our D2s? im interesting in helping in any way i can. it sickens me, this is the first device ive ever had to have less than a few roms to play with.

Edit: foot in mouth.
[Droid 2 General] ljbaumer:
I guess I could PM the evo developer who ported it over... ill try and to that later tonight
[Droid 2 General] newk8600:
You can thank Moto for locking the bootlader and making us jump through hoops and using work arounds to get what we want out of our devices. If we had an unlocked bootloader then we could just install a new kernel but I assume new devices will have similar securities on them so at least from moto get used to working around until someone on the inside slips the keys.:)
[Android Themes] soneracar:
I would like to start a thread that will consist of example launchers. No, not launcher themes but unique alternative homes that we have not seen yet. For example the kite ui or lifescreen launchers. Here I would like to see what people have designed that they think would make a great alternative launcher. The goal of this is to get everyone involved to create a perfect home replacement.

I do not want this thread to discuss adw nor pro launcher themes or launchers in the market in general since I want this to be new ideas.

How can you make this?

I used fireworks to make this in 15 minutes. This its nothing but making an image with the program so please don't ask about building any launchers until we have a few listed. Above is an example to show kind of what I am looking for. I know it sinks but it is there to get the point across. So hop on photoshop, illustrator, or what ever else and CREATE!

What I will do is try to gather some info for you guys like screen resolution, icons, wallpapers, ect. Right now I am on my phone so it is a but difficult.
[Android Themes] soneracar:
Reserved for gallery.