yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gnormal:
i have looked and not found threads with this info.

i know i was supposed to try that first...

i have tried modaco and cg roms on my g2. id like to choose one and stick with it after i decide on it.

1. where can i find the best collection of available roms?

2. where can i find a short description of the nature of each.

3. can anyone narrow it down for me? i want mainly battery life and stability. i dont need speed because im already jazzed about the speed, coming from iphone 3g.

4. i consider it tedious to swap around roms because then i have to reinstall everything. is there a better way? like move all apps to sd? or a backup app that does the whole batch?

5. what would be the reason to NOT wipe prior to new rom install?

6. whats the big deal with cg rom? it looked like stock g2 from the interface. mocado looks fancier and more commercial.

7. what is sense composed of besides flip-for-speakerphone, flip-for-silent, quiet ring-on-pickup? just fullscreen weather graphics? is that it?

8. does anyone know of a 1-click widget to toggle data? i have to pay per minute over here.

9. any great battery saving apps?

thanks a lot for the pointers!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsxtypes72:
Why did you open a new thread when this a development forum. This should be in Q&A.

Mod please close.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ddotpatel:
FIRST & FOREMOST..... PLEASE DO NOT POST QUESTIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT SECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1... ROMS.... Here in the dev section.

2... Description... All the important info should be in the 1st post of the ROM thread.

3... Cyanogen, the 2 Villain ROMs, the MIUI port, the Modaco ROMs and Virtuous seem to be the most popular. All are probably similar on battery, depends if you are used to turning things off when not needed, i.e... data, gps, wifi.

4... Use Titanium Backup to backup apps.

5... I always wipe, saves the risk of encountering force closes.

6... cg? Cyanogen? Its similar to stock, but with a bunch of optimisations and tweaks, definitely superior to stock.

7... SenseUI has a different launcher with the grey bar at the bottom, it has a different dialer, diff widgets. It does look more polished but I feel ROMs without SenseUI a tad bit snappier.

8... Check your widgets,... I reckon ALL ROMs would include something to toggle data on/off.

9... Apparently Juice Defender is a good app.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rUsTyRuSs:
Answer to questions 1-9... Forum Search/Search Thread. Not trying to flame, just trying to help you find answers. Use the search function in these forums. If you have a question there is a huge chance it has already been answered. In this case, 1-9 has been answered extensively. Happy searching!
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
Hi devs,

Are you aware of any work (for other Android phones, for instance), where an altered mtd kernel driver was used to allow (raw) root access anyplace within flash memory? (For example, maybe a raw pseudo-partition which overlaps all the other partitions?) The stock mtd driver creates devices in the kernel device tree only for specific partition slices (boot, system, recovery, data, cache) - for obvious safety and security reasons.

After all these months, I stumbled across this tonight

C:\foo>fastboot oem listpartition
...
INFO[radio]:(OTHER) block start=0, size=332 (42496 KB)
INFO[hboot]:(RAW) block start=333, size=6 (768 KB)
INFO[misc3]:(RAW) block start=339, size=2 (256 KB)
INFO[mfg]:(RAW) block start=341, size=2 (256 KB)
INFO[sp1]:(RAW) block start=343, size=6 (768 KB)
INFO[misc2]:(RAW) block start=349, size=3 (384 KB)
INFO[mfg2]:(RAW) block start=352, size=3 (384 KB)
INFO[recovery]:(RAW) block start=355, size=40 (5120 KB)
INFO[boot]:(RAW) block start=395, size=20 (2560 KB)
INFO[system]:(YAFFS) block start=415, size=1360 (179520 KB)
INFO[cache]:(YAFFS) block start=1775, size=1040 (137280 KB)
INFO[userdata]:(YAFFS) block start=2815, size=1276 (168432 KB)
INFO[misc]:(RAW) block start=4091, size=5 (640 KB)
INFO[microp]:(OTHER) block start=0, size=0 (0 KB)
INFO[nv]:(OTHER) block start=0, size=0 (0 KB)
INFO[tp-melfas]:(OTHER) block start=0, size=0 (0 KB)
OKAY [ 0.071s]
finished. total time: 0.071s

I had never seen references in the Eris forums to the misc3, mfg, sp1, misc2, or mfg2 partitions - I suppose one or more are for boot images. Maybe interesting to boot a kernel image that had access to them, and have a peek at them?

bftb0
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gnarlyc:
You are venturing into an area that is slightly beyond my current level of understanding. (Although we can all learn more.)

Is this even close to what you are looking for?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=754805

I'm thinking not, since they appear to be resizing the existing partitions, which doesn't seem to be quite what you are looking for.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sickbox:
I was asking about this a while back to see if anyone was able to get read access to the splash1 (i'm guessing sp1) partition so we could dump the REAL original splash screen for people that needed to go back to full stock. This was basically the only thing that is left out of going to stock since the "original" boot image that I had used for the android skateboards in my post about changing the boot logo was just a resized version I found online somewhere which is slightly bigger than the original if you look closely. I had some info laying around somewhere but it was definitely something about people modifying the mtd drivers in the kernel to get this done.

Without the modified drivers there is no way to do a FULL nand dump at this point.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
Well, I'd seen that before - but THANK YOU - your post encouraged me to do a better job of searching, and I came up with this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=542688

[SIZE=+2]Awesome![/SIZE] It appears that no mtd kernel hack is needed - as long the Eris kernels we are using accept those parameters (obviously, a little additional work is needed to get the offsets correct for the Eris).

I knew that partitions could be resized - but I wasn't aware that you could add new partition definitions. If it works for the Eris, then cool. (I have to say - the G1/G2/Hero devs surely have turned over a lot of stones that have helped us.)

bftb0
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Mohahahhahahahaaha (rubbing hands together deviously). I smell either some interesting development or at least some interesting information coming out of this.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
It's working.

More details later.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
If you just want to dump a specific Eris flash memory partition(s) off your phone, there is an even easier method. (Doh!)

Prerequisites:

- 1.49.2000 S-OFF bootloader is installed on your Eris.

- working device drivers on PC and fastboot utility

Steps:

1) Connect via USB to your PC and put phone in FASTBOOT mode (Power up with Send+End)

2) Get the partition names listing using

fastboot oem listpartition

3) Using the following fastboot syntax, plug in the desired partition name (PNAME):

fastboot oem saveprt2sd PNAME -n PNAME.bin -a

for example, the "sp1" partition:

$ fastboot oem saveprt2sd sp1 -n sp1.bin -a
... INFOSaveImageToSD partition file name:sp1
INFOSaveImageToSD output file name:sp1.bin
INFOCmd5 CMD_TIMEOUT
INFOsdcc_poll_status(): i=21
INFOCmd5 polling status timed out
INFOSD: CMD5 fail, rc=2 ..
INFOSD 2.0
INFOHC card
INFO Searching free data sectors....
INFO [SAVE2SD] 131072 bytes saved.
INFO [SAVE2SD] 262144 bytes saved.
INFO [SAVE2SD] 393216 bytes saved.
INFO [SAVE2SD] 524288 bytes saved.
INFO [SAVE2SD] 655360 bytes saved.
INFO [SAVE2SD] 786432 bytes saved.
INFO [SAVE2SD] Done.
OKAY [ 1.728s]
finished. total time: 1.728s

Yep, it really is that simple.

bftb0
[Desire General] benjamin2205:
Hi

On Facebook for Android facebook page they announced push notification.

Some of the comments says it works on Desire, and some dont.

I cant see any push notification on my Desire. (Modaco Rom v9)

Can someone confirm that it works or not?
[Desire General] Lothaen:
May be being stupid, but where should we see it, any ideas?

apart from chat, I can't see any differences.
[Desire General] benjamin2205:
Same here. Just chat. And can choose between notification 30 min, 1 hr ..... and never.. No option for push
[Desire General] madd0g:
And btw about chat: I personally never use it, but since this update I noticed, that it goes "online" to "offline" every couple seconds, when im on facebook on my PC. Facebook 1.5, no thanks.
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Does that online without the update, FB chat is a waste of time

Running 1.5 and it's fine so may as well update
[Desire General] Lothaen:
i always have my chat on web set to offline - I hope this one doesnt keep making me online...

perhaps they'll be a 1.5.1 soon to fix the missing push
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Push is chat only, apparently (cause of needing to know when someone replies). Rest is still as before
[Desire General] jerrol:
i get notifications in the notification bar for comments, not sure on likes yet, this is a new feature, once clicked it sends you to the notifications tray in the Facebook app, next time i get one i'll post a screenshot
[Desire General] Roscopcoletrain:
i beg to differ. Messages, pokes, etc, all are instant now. unlike before where you had to wait half a day to get a message lol.
[Desire General] EddyOS:
I did say 'apparently' ;)

I've never has a notification for a poke, only for messages/friend requests

Can't say I've noticed them coming in as soon as the email does but I'll keep an eye out. I was just going on what others have said on other forums
[Desire General] benjamin2205:
How is your notification settings? 30 min... 1hr??? or on Never? I don't have the "push" option. Do you?
[Desire General] EddyOS:
No cause you don't get that option. Push just means that as soon as you get a message/friend request FB will push the notification to your phone. Otherwise it'll continue to sync at its selected time, e.g. Every hour
[Desire General] benjamin2205:
Tested it.

Still no notification at all.

Startet Facebook, and pressed the home button. But no notification. And I can see on web browser thare are people have comment on my posts.
[Desire General] Roscopcoletrain:
its only for stuff like messages, pokes, friend requests and such. wall comments are sadly not pushed
[Desire General] EddyOS:
It's not for pokes, just poked myself from my other FB account and got no notification
[Desire General] benjamin2205:
Did also try to send my self a message to inbox. No notification.!!

Does not get any notification at all. Only when someone try to chat.

Then I get notification in statusbar
[Desire General] Roscopcoletrain:
I tried it last night after the update with a few friends. All instant
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Do you not have it set to notify? I get messages/friend requests but I turned off event invites as I get too many...I get an email and a notification when either arrive
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Pokes definitely not working on my phone, and there's no notification option for pokes. Only Messages, friend requests and event invites so you can't get any more unless you have the option to activiate them
[Desire General] snakeeyes21:
Keep it clean, im sure kids read these forums :p
[Desire General] EddyOS:
HA HA HA :p

It was fine until YOU muddied the water LAMO!! :D
[Desire General] Roscopcoletrain:
i just tried it 5 times with a few friends. 4 of them went through. still waiting on the last one lol. seems hit in miss
[Desire General] jerrol:
Here's a couple of screenshots showing push notifications, doesn't work for likes just comments I think
[Desire General] benjamin2205:
I dont get any notification at all :-(

Someone know what cant be wrong here??
[Desire General] EddyOS:
I don't get any of them...hmmm
[Desire General] jerrol:
you tried the old uninstall then install? put a status up and test it, i didn't get the like through, just the comment
[Desire General] Lothaen:
you can poke through the android app? i never noticed that before...
[Desire General] Abandoned-Trolley:
I've got mine set to NEVER and I still get push messages for pokes/additional comments.

Running Desire Oxygen 1.0.3 ROM.
[Desire General] Lothaen:
anyone care to explain how to poke through the app? I couldn't see any option... checked profile pages, via friends, long press...
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Quick poll:

What ROMs are people running on? I'm on RCMixHD and don't get any new notifications
[Desire General] jerrol:
LeeDrOiD 2.2f, get comments only it seems
[Desire General] aleksei87:
Cyanogen Mod 6.1.0 and push notifications work great! I get them instantly. In settings notifications are on but refresh time is set to never. The only problem is that the notification led is blue and does not blink (anyone else?)
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Just liked a post on my other FB account and commented and have had no notifications
[Desire General] madd0g:
Desire's blue LED has no blink setting ;]
[Desire General] aleksei87:
and can i force facebook to blink orange?
[Desire General] benjamin2205:
Modaco CR r9

No notification at all. I tested it many times. Only got notification in statusbar on messages. And that's only when I open the facebook app.
[Desire General] peytral:
I'm on N.S.A. and I'm getting all push notifications. I set the refresh interval in settings to "never", not sure why that's needed now.
[Desire General] XDA mark:
DeFrost 6.1. Push is working great, I was so happy when I started getting instant notifications \0/
[Desire General] owziee:
Completely off topic, sorry for that but what clock is that??? I like it a lot.
[Desire General] benjamin2205:
Just flashed LeeDroid v2.3A

Still no notification. Only on messages when i open the app
[Desire General] sparksalot:
Perhaps its to do with if you added the account as Facebook or Facebook for HTC Sense?
[Desire General] magickiller9:
I am receiving it, however "poke" doesn't seems to be working.
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Hard reset and back to stock ROM, still no push updates
[Desire General] magickiller9:
There seems to be some problem with this. I am only receiving push at random!
[Desire General] peytral:
I never knew there was a poke button... where is it?
[Desire General] magickiller9:
click on their profile, at the top right corner..poke.
[Desire General] Ghisy:
Same for me, running LeeDroid 2.2e.

And I don't see any poke button at the top right corner on my friends' profiles!

FB really needs to get their s*** together and release a decent update!
[Desire General] Lothaen:
thanks - i couldnt find this either
[Desire General] chichoko:
Exactly this.. it seems that the Facebook app.. once you open it and check whatever you want on your profile.. when you go back to home screen.. it either gets closed by the system or goes to a deep sleep state and doesnt deliver push notifications ever... too bad because when i get a push notification i get really happy that we are somehow equal to the iPhone app..(in terms of Facebook only ;) )
[Desire General] gavinchappell:
Ignoring all the notification stuff (for the record, I'm on CM 6.1.1, push notification mostly works, but I wish it didn't! I can't believe there's no option to turn this off, I really don't care about comments and pokes so wish I could go back to just checking messages once an hour!) has anyone found that since upgrading, their Facebook phonebook sync is broken? I've got loads of numbers in as "44xxxxxxxx" which isn't a valid format, they should either be "0xxxxxxxxx" for UK-only use, or "+44xxxxxxxxx" for international use. I didn't notice this before the latest upgrade.

Sorry for taking the thread off at a tangent, but there's obviously a lot of activity in here so I'm hoping some people are subscribed and will see this post, and can either confirm or deny that this is happening.

I've cleared my Facebook app data and re-signed in, re-established contact syncing, but it's still syncing in the same broken way. Anyone else getting this and have a solution/workaround?
[Desire General] willy792003:
facebook push notification used to be working. but it has stopped working for me for sometime now. i am using the latest facebook app v1.5.1. anyone has any idea why?
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Been like this since forever, no fix as yet as it's how FB records the number - not the app
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikecsmith:
Hey,

Wondering if anyone has come across this problem before... whenever I plug my phone into the mains charger it charges fine but when I unplug it, it causes the phone to hard reset. If it's charging from USB on my laptop then the phone does not reset. It doesn't appear to be ROM related or charger related as I've tried two chargers and it occurs on both DeFrost and Oxygen.

Only things I can think of at present are a recent Radio Update, AlphaRev S-OFF and N1 Boot Table (or a hardware fault). Anyone have any ideas?

Mike
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mariosraptor:
maybe it is a battery issue. before excluding, you can try with another battery. after that you can always try official rom to exclude hardware and in the end if it actually is hardware you can take back for warranty,
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikecsmith:
Thanks,

Just identified the RUU I need to bring it back to stock, was wondering if you could answer a quick question on that though. As I've done S-OFF and installed the N1-Boot Table, will I need to manually switch the N1-Boot back to normal boot table?

Pretty sure the S-OFF will revert back to S-ON when I flash the RUU although please correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks again!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mariosraptor:
yes you rather do it manually before proceeding because actually it will fail if you don't do so. N1 table is to small for sense roms either way. as you have done it already it is really easy to do so. just double check MD5SUM.

i included a really small file to check MD5SUM in windows.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mariosraptor:
i think you will get it now
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nbedford:
Any update on this issue? My desire has started doing the same thing, reboot when unplug from mains charger :(

I also have S-OFF with n1 table, can anyone help fix this problem?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jrc91:
I've had a similar issue, can't say if it will happen to you, but shortly after my desire started rebooting when i unplugged it, it developed more serious problems.

E.G. bluetooth wouldn't work and I couldn't connect the USB to mount the SD Card to a PC

I had S-OFF but with the default partition layout.

I'd say it's a hardware fault, but thats just me.

I managed to update my Desire to the latest RUU and have sent it in for repairs, should get it back later this week.

Finally, what recovery are you using?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nbedford:
Actually, i think I solved the problem, it appears it was caused by a bad flash, which led to the USB-BRICK, which has been mentioned elsewhere on the forums (i just hadn't actually tried to mount sd-card over USB)

Anyway I followed the instructions to fix the USB-BRICK (i.e. flashing misc mtd0.img) and now my charger is working fine again, so glad I didn't have to send my desire off for repair.

btw. I am using CWM recovery
[Desire HD General] alfa71omega:
Hi all, I found this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=779797 about removing the HTC Sense from HTC EVO4. I'm wondering if it's going to work on the Desire HD too. Is there someone who test it??
[Desire HD General] sHaHiN786:
It's optional on the EVO 4G, whereas the Desire HD is not. Your best bet is to use a different launcher, I changed ROM to Cyanogen, best move ever, no sense makes better sense.
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
+1 ...Ive said it a few times but if I had to go back to sense Id sell my phone.

My Desire HD without sense :)
[Desire HD General] alfa71omega:
It looks pretty good! Witch Rom are you using?
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
Cyanogen RC2 with Delicious theme.
[Desire HD General] cubitusclaudius:
Is there something you regret about stock rom?
[Desire HD General] alfa71omega:
I'd like to test the speed of the phone without anything than o.s.
[Desire HD General] Frostyeo:
Hmm, how do I go about using a new launcher? Must I root?
[Desire HD General] ruchern:
Probably you need to root to remove Sense UI
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] latetext:
is there a way to get higher quadrant scores (faster lagfix)? I'm scoring around 1250 right now... Any way to get 2000+ with cognition?

Thanks in advance!

Rohan
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
Is your phone running fast? Do you have a lag? Quadrant scores are generally useless and inaccurate. That said if you want really high quadrant scores flash either perception or assonance, and tweak the ulf settings and overclock to the highest settings. Your phone will likely freeze up constantly but your quadrant scores will be amazing
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ganii:
Now Nexus S kernel source available for download.

Maybe some devs can play with this and do something for

Desire Z/G2?

http://android.git.kernel.org/
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MacaronyMax:
Thats great news ;D
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ganii:
Yes,maybe a Dev can do nice things with this! :D
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flippy125:
Ill see if there's anything good for us when I get home tonight
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ganii:
Any updates?
[Galaxy Tab General] foxmeister:
Not Tab specific, but useful info.

So, Three have announced today that they will scrapping the 1GB limit on their "One Plan" and going truly unlimited.

The important parts are here:

And here:

My TMo contract is up at the end of the year - I wasn't going to renew, and was planning on going month-to-month, but this changes the game for me.

Regards,

Dave
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikecsmith:
Hey,

Sorry if this has already been answered, did use search but no joy, I'm after a copy of the Vodafone UK RUU for a SLCD HTC Desire in case I need to send the phone in for a warranty repair. Anyone know the one I need?

Cheers,

Mike
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
2.33.161.2 is in Developers, go through the pages and it's there somewhere
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikecsmith:
This one?

http://www.shipped-roms.com/shipped...9.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_157522_signed.exe

Just found it on shipped-roms dated the 30th of November for Froyo so assuming it will work for both AMOLED and SLCD Desire's...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mariosraptor:
that is the one. it works on both.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
That's it as it's a FroYo RUU, any of the 2.xx.xxx.x RUUs are for SLCD and AMOLED
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yeziwanlove:
can anybody help me with my phone?

it's UK vodafone branded ,s-off,rooted,maybe with a slcd screen

now,everything seems ok,but without display,even run into fastboot model,

i don't know what the reason is,i have tried some ruu but with no luck,

what shall i do next,thank you
[Defy General] crazyVII:
hey guys,

the default lockscreen seems really laggy.. so any ideas in replacing this?...

would be great...

saw another post where widgetlocker is proposed.. but i dont need widgets on my lockscreen :=) a just want something similar to normal android 2.1 / 2.2 lockscreens :=)))

fast and responsive :=)

thanks guys :=)
[Defy General] Higgsy:
Seriously mate have you tried widget locker? it's awesome - my most favourite app ever, well worth £1.29.

for those that don't know what it is heres a screen of my lock screen
[Defy General] crazyVII:
oh yeah.. sry.. just checked the screens in the market and didn't want to test it...

but you're damn right.. it's wonderful..

may is ask which weather widget u're using?

thanks a lot for response :)

cV

omfg: addon: suddently it unlocks to normal unlock screen?!!?! :=?