yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] richiehd:
2.3 was just announced. Give it time. I'm sure someone, somewhere might port it. However, I think because the Nexus S is so close (practically the same) to the Vibrant and other Galaxy S phones- they will receive 2.3 first (not including the N1 which will probably get the update OTA soon). I think it's gonna be...

-N1

-Galaxy S

-Droid X/EVO around the same time
[General Questions and Answers] bfdeg:
I'd have to disagree. That might be an accurate estimate of the official schedule, tho OG droid and possibly droid 2 will get it far before the x, and the htc phones will have to wait much longer, but custom roms will be out much sooner. i'd expect an og droid very soon, certainly this week.
[General Questions and Answers] shumar:
Any news about this ?
[General Questions and Answers] me2of3:
got 2.3 for the zte racer just sorting a few bugs then will upload it for you,
[General Questions and Answers] Velibor95:
Is it done? :) because I have racer too, and it would be really good if it works
[General Questions and Answers] giany_rap:
modaco developers already ported it..

more informations HERE

BECAUSE XDA-DEVELOPERS DOESN'T MAKE THE GOD DAMN DEDICATED THREAD FOR THE RACER!!!!:mad:
[G2 and Desire Z General] paintermanscott:
Hey everyone! I'm new to xda, and was wondering if someone can either point me in the right direction or port a rom for me. I owned the cliq up until I just got my g2 from my bro (not happy about it, he switched carriers. Bros misfortunes landed me an AWESOME phone! Yay me) and was wondering if there exists a blur rom for the g2. Thanks in advance guys and girls!
[G2 and Desire Z General] kidd657:
why would you taint your g2 with motopoop?
[G2 and Desire Z General] ibemad1:
I don't think anyone would try to spread out that crap to custom roms.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mdayjr:
WHY???? Get a stock sense 2.1 rom and you'll have favs which is better than motoblur. Don't know if 2.2 has favs. Not a sense lover.
[G2 and Desire Z General] KeithRVA:
Hey, there is nothing wrong with liking MotoBlur, I always liked the look of the Droid X so I customized my G2 to look kind of Moto. I use Beautiful Widgets from the market, there is a Blur style clock you can download. I changed my wallpaper to a droid wallpaper, and now my G2 looks like a Droid...
[G2 and Desire Z General] KiNG OMaR:
This made me giggle. Thanks for the laugh :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] urfavoritemazn:
motoblur....

*gag*

ewewewewewewewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
[G2 and Desire Z General] edwill44:
I made the mistake of buying my Lady that POS Cliq. She is on her 4th phone now. Even after the 2.1 update she's still having issues with motopoop. I'll stick with Sense any day.

sent from my G2 with Sense running @ 1.4Ghz
[G2 and Desire Z General] andrewklau:
Coming from Moto Cliq the first motoblur phone, I simply say "why!?!?!?" :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] JanetPanic:
Come on guys, can you try and be constructive? While motoblur is not for everyone the OP asked a reasonable question. No need to be abusive and insulting.

As of this moment I am not aware of anyone attempting to port the motoblur interface to the G2. The motoblur interface is not particularly well liked on XDA (as you might have noticed) so I would not expect it anytime soon. In general the battle for the hearts and minds of users on XDA is between sense and stock/custom launchers.
[G2 and Desire Z General] KeithRVA:
+1

Yeah, the OP's first post might be his last, and who could blame him. This anti-Blur stuff is stupid. I had the Droid 2 for awhile and the Blur widgets worked just fine. They are resizable too, Sense can't do that as far as I know. I even like the ultra plain look of Blur widgets on top of the industrial Droid wallpaper. It has grown on me and I prefer it to the polished look of Sense.

Sooo, if any devs want to take a crack at porting MotoBlur onto the G2, I will donate a beer :D
[G2 and Desire Z General] stevencpoynter:
I think even trying to port this would be more stress than anything.

Hell, MOTO is struggling enough with upgrading the cliq xt to 2.1! The official motorola support forum had to close the first *official* 2.1 update thread due to stability issues affecting the site from all the complaint posts! Seriously lol.

Forgot to reason with the new motoblur that is being used on the newer droid phones, it may be less intrusive than the original so who's to say it can't.
[G2 and Desire Z General] blackknightavalon:
This is why all Android phones need to be compatible with vanilla Android.
[G2 and Desire Z General] raydar670:
Just get ADW Launcher or LauncherPro and customize it to look like MotoBlur. The loss of performance (and waste of time making a MotoBlur ROM) isn't worth it.
[Epic 4G General] int3rwebz:
This is something i've been pondering since i upgraded to Froyo last night and now none of my music or music player apps work lol

Also, Will it even offer me the OTA update seeing that i have Froyo now?
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
If you want to wait on the ota you need to go back to eclair. I updated to froyo and had to many ptoblems so im just gonna wait on the ota.
[Epic 4G General] int3rwebz:
Do you know if root is required to downgrade?
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
no you dont need root to go basck. jusdt use odin to flash back to di18. when you do thast it will be like having as brand new phone out of the box. everything is wiped. if you dont know how to do it just nreply basck and ill help you.
[Epic 4G General] diego1985:
Me and you are in the same boat. I should have waited as well. But I'm rooted on froyo, anddont have a clue how to get back to eclair safe and easy. Hopefuly someone can be kind enough to give us an instrutional video. Because these forum directions are too difficult.to me since I'm new to android.
[Epic 4G General] diego1985:
If don't reply I will, I need help possibly a youtube vid cause I'm very slow lol.
[Epic 4G General] int3rwebz:
Yes please :( you are a scholar and a gentleman....First where can i find odin? It seems to be the captivate version im finding
[Epic 4G General] int3rwebz:
I would appreciate help thanks! I think i quoted the wrong person by accident...Im kinda frenzied right now just trying to go back -,-
[Epic 4G General] shook187:
Please help me. I'm stock and not rooted and will like to flash back. What will happen to my apps BTW?
[Epic 4G General] ss4rob:
Hey guys, I wrote up a post on how I went back to Eclair to fix a Froyo GPS problem, maybe there are some pointers in there to help you:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9612709&postcount=50

I went from rooted stock 2.1 directly to 2.2.1 (downloaded from Google) using the stock recovery and I have ZERO issues. Maybe try again or start clean? Good luck!
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=847614

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=794138

The first link is odin and the second is the di18 rom

Download them both easiest is to save them to desktop

Turn your phone into download mode(hold power and the 1 key)

Open up the odin exe file

Plug your phone in and you'll see com and some numbers in the bfirst box. Make sure you do so you know your computer recognizes the phone

Find the pda section and put the rom file in there you just downloaded

Make sure that autoreboot is the only box checked off and hit star

You will see a green proogress bar and just wait

Should only take like 2 to 3 mins and itg will reboot your phoone for you

Don't unplug tillbphone is rebooted

It take a little longer for phone to reboot so don't panic let it do its thing
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
Any more questions just ask
[Epic 4G General] cary328is:
I'm not rooted and I updated to DK28 but now my GPS is blown.

I'm using these 2 files in ODIN3:

victory_8G_100528.pit (came with the ODIN download)

SPH-D700-DI18-8Gb-REL.tar.md5 (got this from your link here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=794138 )

I need to downgrade back to DI18 but when I use ODIN it gives the following error:

<OSM> MD5 Hash value is invalid

<OSM> SPH-D700-DI18-8Gb-REL.tar.md5 is invalid.

<OSM> End...

Any help would be very much appreciated.
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
http://www.multiupload.com/X9AB1U56JV
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
Try that link for the rom and let me know. That one should work. Just put that one in Odin
[Epic 4G General] diego1985:
I feel comfortable with this thanks for the instructions. I probably need to wait and charge my phone up completely for best results.
[Epic 4G General] cary328is:
Yeah that's from the same link I got it from originally:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=794138

So, it's the one giving me the hash error. Is it possible to go all the way back to DG27 and then OTA to DI18? I think I read that somewhere and saw that some folks were successful with that method. Anyways, thanks for your help!!
[Epic 4G General] diego1985:
Nevermind it worked. I had two of the same files on my computer, i just deleted one. And also i didn't put in the rom files in odin until after i saw my phone.
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
Yeah use the one for the dg27 I'll and the phone should update for you. I'll get u a link. http://firon.net/xda/SPH-D700-DG27-8Gb-REL.tar
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
I'm sorry about the links guys I can't remember where I got the one for my phone that I use and im not home so I'm trying tondo this in the car on my phone
[Epic 4G General] hardrock121:
So after doing this.. get gps lock on google maps..and just go back in to recovery mode ( power,volume,camera button) and then update from update.zip (which I used initially) right??? thats it
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
Oh so the second di18 worked? Great!
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
That's what I read was working I haven't tried it I'm just waiting on the ota to come out.
[Epic 4G General] TraceU:
Can someone please test if video out is operational after the update ?

(composite , via the headphone wired connection)
[Epic 4G General] dangerdsd:
I Just got one of the Official Samsung cables and upgraded to 2.2. So far it doesn't work at all. No video or Audio. No options for TV out either in settings.
[G2 and Desire Z General] steviewevie:
Shamelessly stolen from the G2 forum :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx3pdWBlZ34
[G2 and Desire Z General] steviewevie:
More on Gingerbread :

Official info on 2.3 - http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.3.html

SDK now available - see above or also http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.3.html to upgrade your SDK or download the whole package at http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
[G2 and Desire Z General] foxfire235:
Can't wait till it's ported to the G2 / DZ!
[G2 and Desire Z General] steviewevie:
The Google (Samsung) Nexus S has been officially announced though (shipping on Dec 16), so that'll be first with 2.3. Hopefully it won't be too long before we get some custom ROMs cooked up (which is bound to be sooner than an official update for our phones).

http://www.google.com/nexus/#!/index
[G2 and Desire Z General] H4rry:
Before the D Z was released there was lots of talk about whether it would meet the min specs for gingerbread. I've not seen mention in any of the posts about gingerbread across the net as to what these specs are. Does anyone know?

Will the D Z run this comfortably?
[G2 and Desire Z General] steviewevie:
Gingerbread is only a minor update, not the major update people thought it was originally. And the whole minimum spec thing was debunked as false a while back, I believe.

So yes, it'll be fine.
[G2 and Desire Z General] H4rry:
woohoo, cheers for that mate. :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] wolek76:
Is any of you Android techies able to tell whether this 2.3 update will fix the Bluetooth initiated voice dialing?

I couldn't find anything there except for 'BlueZ' whatever that is....????

sent from htc desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z General] prinzhernan:
From what I've read usually a phone gets updated once or twice. Wish they would skip this then.
[G2 and Desire Z General] steviewevie:
BlueZ is the Bluetooth stack. So I guess we can hope they might have fixed this if it was a problem ? Sorry I have no idea whether that's the case or not, just that the notes do say that BlueZ is updated.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] reubenbubu:
Are you ready to donate to the first one who ports this to HD2 ?? :D:D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] -deuces-:
you cant port a nexus s to hd2, u can port its os (android 2.3) witch is not yet out.

and yes i will donate when this is available, but dont expect it too soon.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] shu8i:
i beg to differ
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mindstormmaster1:
It shouldnt take to long 2.3 is already going out to the N1 so shouldnt it be super easy to port over in a day or two?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Spl4tt:
i freakin hope so!! xD
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] aarick:
Can't wait!!!!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] NotATreoFan:
Let's keep the thread on topic, please. No need to accuse someone of being a non-intelligent derriere.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] vista1984:
i don't see any major attractive things make me update to 2.3 immediately.

the most excited feature is the improved voice command. and improved keyboard.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mstrk242:
What interests me is the new dalvik-cache handling, supposed to speed things up a lot.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] PlayStation:
Multi touch keyboard sounds fantastic. Can hardly wait for Nexus 1 to get the update.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mstrk242:
Yay, score another for Engadget. Don't those guys ever actually check their sources?

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Gingerbread-Android-2.3-Nexus-One-Nexus-S-android,news-9247.html

Update was a false alarm, the nexus one is getting updates, but they're still 2.2. :(
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pack21:
So what?

16 of Dez the Nexus2 must be in stores, and sellers must try a couple of days before that, to know what are selling.....what we need is a leak from Nexus2.....like football did, with desireHD.;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] spbeeking:
I already gave infinitybiff the system dump for android 2.3, so we'll see something soon.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pack21:
really, where did you get the dump?

dont joke with my feelings.:p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Tautvydas:
:O

Please keep us informed about the progress.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] spbeeking:
Straight from the sdk. I'm not kidding. I've already run the emulator on my pc. The new theme for certain icons looks kinda nice. I'll get a screenshot up in a minute.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pack21:
And with that the dev can make a port to HD2, dont need a real dump from a device?

sorry for noob coding questions.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] spbeeking:
Not really, but the actual dump from a real device would be nice, because it has drivers, and things like that. When infinitybiff makes a release, rest assured, not everything will work right away. I quote infinitybiff when I say that.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] -deuces-:
at least its good to have something out early, then work on fixes....good stuff
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] spbeeking:
Heres some screenshots of the (slightly) new theme for gingerbread.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pack21:
thanks for the shots.

and this real dump?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=863317&page=2
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] spbeeking:
Yeah, but I put up a link to my own just a second ago in the HD2 section, cuz HD2 devs arent gonna look at the nexus one section.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=863484
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pack21:
thanks, i think is better to post in HD2 android Development theread.

;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] spbeeking:
Do you think I should post it in the android development section also?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pack21:
offcourse, is where devs and all users are, almost dont come to this section during the day....and the dumps are development stuff.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] spbeeking:
Fair enough.
[Captivate General] t-readyroc:
Since the hardware is so similar, can anyone with chef-wisdom comment on the possibility of porting Nexus S ROMs?

Engadget overview

TechCrunch review

Needless to say, the frequency of Google updates to their "flagship dev phone" has me super excited at the possibility of porting those updates to my Captivate...
[Captivate General] shep211:
I think we can with no issues. I am preordering it so I will let you know asap. The only issue I can see is if Google did not use samsung rfs partition. Im pretty sure they wont use it but who knows. If it is not rfs I think we would have to reformat are storage then load the rom. Im not a expert on android partitioning so we will need help with that but im sure tons of people will help out.
[Captivate General] t-readyroc:
Definitely count me in & contact me if anyone needs any help on doing this work. This is probably the best news Captivate owners have had since buying the phone. Heh.
[Captivate General] joedon3:
Sweet Action! I'll be supporting the devs with donations. :)
[Captivate General] alex4lex:
The second I read this morning that it had a hummingbird/identical specs, I was thinking.... YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEAH! Porting goodness :) Go dev community go!
[Captivate General] t-readyroc:
Me too man... me too. You have no idea how happy I was when shep211 chimed in with the "affirmative." :D
[Captivate General] nybmx:
Yeah same here. I felt like I was the only person rooting for the Nexus S to not have a dual core and push boundaries but rather be similar to our devices.

If porting turns out to be easy then this is huuuuge for all Galaxy S owners. You can pretty much live in any country, and be on any carrier and will have the option for a Galaxy S variant with a huge amount of custom roms available.
[Captivate General] IpodLover77:
i guess im the only one whos skeptical that samsung will allow us to flash a VANILLA rom over their own touchwiz..
[Captivate General] alex4lex:
Haha, I totally know where you're coming from :p when I read rumors of the dual core I was like nooooooooo it should just be an sgs with AOSP 2.3 :D

Hopefully the whole Nand thing and partitioning won't be too much of a hold up...and if it is...well let's keep our devs sauced with donations! DRINKS ALL AROUND!:cool:
[Captivate General] t-readyroc:
Err... Perhaps you should read some of the CM threads....
[Captivate General] alex4lex:
Erm... I don't think you're the only one who is skeptical of that...but I don't think that's what everyone is excited about... I think we're all excited here for the rom porting opportunities...
[Captivate General] skinien:
Look like the Nexus S is going to be sold unlocked after 12/16. It should have no problems working with at&t's network, right?

It supports:

GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900

HSPA: 900, 1700, 2100

Even though we may get the software ported onto a Captivate, I need a phone with working LBS.
[Captivate General] tylerdurdin:
this is the best news ever. what a christmas gift!!!
[Captivate General] joeclark:
I am also very curious and cant wait to hear.
[Captivate General] joedon3:
http://www.samfirmware.com/WEBPROTECT-i9200.htm

This has got to be the firmware for the Nexus S. Android 2.3. A month ago, we couldn't do much with it. Will the new SDK help?
[Captivate General] alex4lex:
The only thing I'm slightly worried about is if it's got a legit 512MB of RAM as opposed to our sorta 512MB RAM... and if it will make that much of a difference.
[Captivate General] t-readyroc:
It shouldn't. The HIGHMEM fix was included in 2.2, iirc.

**Edit - to clarify - since the code that addressed allowable memory was already included in a version many here are already unofficially running, the amount of RAM shouldn't make a difference. It'll be like putting 6GB of memory in a PC w/a 32bit OS.

That said, there may well be some performance differences, but I've not read where Gingerbread's all that much more demanding on the hardware than Froyo.
[Captivate General] malicenfz:
I will definitely be donating to the developers with the nexus S ROM
[Captivate General] joedon3:
I'm hoping they can find a modem that will allow for AT&T 3G... right now, it only supports EDGE.
[Captivate General] t-readyroc:
Interesting. I assume that, like the N1, they'll release models for each carrier, but yeah, the pre-order page is only showing Tmo as a carrier.
[Captivate General] ipxnsv:
It has the same hardware architecture. We have 384 megs of ram with 128 1nand
[Captivate General] alex4lex:
I was going to look for that picture but I was too lazy, lol. Well, if it's this close to our phone, good news!
[Captivate General] t-readyroc:
So, I'm not very familiar w/the whole modem thing, but is this something that's hardware-dependent? Or could you, say, take a Nexus S ROM & incorporate the software for a Captivate modem into it?
[Captivate General] kronck:
http://www.google.com/nexus/#!/tech-specs

Network support	Quad-band GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900 Tri-band HSPA: 900, 2100, 1700 HSPA type: HSDPA (7.2Mbps) HSUPA (5.76Mbps)

is this true?

NM, received some education regarding the differences between T-MObile and AT&T bands.....
[Captivate General] nkrick:
Supported bands is hardware dependent. While it is possible to have hardware support for a certain band and not enable it in the software (modem), that is highly unlikely.

AT&T uses 850 and 1900 for HSPA (3G). T-mobile uses 1700 for HSPA. According to the specs, the Nexus S supports GSM 850 and 1900, but that will only give you voice and Edge on AT&T.
[Captivate General] t-readyroc:
OK, so, if I'm understanding this correctly, what that means is that someone's going to have to inegrate the drivers for our (AT&T/Captivate) modem into any ROM ripped from a Nexus S? That seems like something that'd be possible... right?
[Captivate General] Seraphimos:
I would think so. However, the hardware will need to be changed before the Nexus S will support AT&T 3G bands. It's the same reason that there were different Nexus One models.
[Captivate General] veive:
It was, that's why I sold my N1.

Google posted multiple statements when they released the N1 stating that there would not be a version that got 3g on AT&T... the day after my return period was up they announced the AT&T version. I was so upset I went to a blackberry for a while.
[Captivate General] jakemochas:
Agreed... XDA devs have already played around with modem files, so that should not be an issue.... Also, the identical specs make it a givin that we shall see Gingerbread by xmas!
[Captivate General] newter55:
Considering that they already have it pretty much functional on g2, and bootable with data on evo, I am sure the captivate will get it but probably only through the same route as everything else, handed down from vibrant or i9000
[Captivate General] Dani897:
err sort of. well the cappy doesnt have hsupa only hsdpa. the bell vibrant modem or one from some carier in newzeland would give the right bands but the compatability from modem to kernel and rom has proven iffy on the captivate. its all trial and error. some drain batery. some have poor sound quality, mostly over bluetooth, some need to go through a procedure to get the 850 band working. the bell vibrant jk3 modem and i9000 kernel modded for the captivate sensor orientation and headphone logic and touch buttons have proven to be the first nearly fully working combination. we can only hope it will work in ginger bread but mixing files from different android versions isnt likely to work well.
[Captivate General] anggoromurti:
I hope They make it fast....