yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] fruchtfliege:
that's the deal. i'm pretty sure your location does not support 3d buildings, as just a few cities have them.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] blahblah13233:
Ahh thanks for ur help but I live in Los angeles and it should right?? And I'll try the nexushd2
[G2 and Desire Z General] krazi3azn:
This may sound kinda stupid lol

So I was wondering if I could change my nexus one amoled screen on to my desire z?

I can't decide on which one to keep so I just thought about this.

Will it be compatible or it just won't fit in general?
[G2 and Desire Z General] infamousjax:
Its impossible
[G2 and Desire Z General] MacaronyMax:
Nothing is impossible :p

Well.. I suppose it could be done, you'd have to make sure they're the same dimensions etc. First so maybe buy a spare desire z display perhaps? Just to check before you open the Z.

And maybe someone could confirm wether you'd need to port some drivers, which should be easy, kind of :D

Best of luck
[G2 and Desire Z General] DanWilson:
You do that and tell me how it goes, OK?

Wouldn't it be easier to use a Desire screen and Desire drivers?
[G2 and Desire Z General] krazi3azn:
i was wondering because I've tried it with a blackberry

i had a blackberry 9700 and the screen broke so i swapped it with my old 8900 i had

and it worked even without changing any drivers, though the 8900 had a smaller screen lol

i cant swap it with desire because i dont have one and the Desires in Canada have SLCD
[G2 and Desire Z General] Sparacis:
Was wondering the same thing screens are the same size both 3.7 is this possible?? Anyone have a amoled desire they wanna give me for the experiment??
[G2 and Desire Z General] Sparacis:
Anyone have any ideas
[G2 and Desire Z General] martonikaj:
This is probably not possible with an extensive amount of work.

Is that really worth it?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Bonusbartus:
Well, I suppose it could be possible if the drivers are in the ROM, and both dislpays have the exact same dimensions and of course the same connector! you probably won't want to solder a new connector to your Z's mainboard ;)
[G2 and Desire Z General] Sparacis:
Screens are the same size only thing not know is the connector. I may buy one and experiment I can probably sell it if it turns out it doesnt work
[G2 and Desire Z General] dhkr234:
gn1 ***does not have amoled***!!!!
[G2 and Desire Z General] crysalis786:
The original nexus 1 did. They refreshed it later with slcd
[G2 and Desire Z General] TheJayyWilliams:
So did anyone try it? And I had been wondering this for a while now. And Samsung has a phone with a 3.7 super amoled, if I could find a replacement for that I would try it in my G2.
[G2 and Desire Z General] TheJayyWilliams:
No one tried this?
[G2 and Desire Z General] desirez_pete:
Just take it apart and see for yourself..

Don't know why people have this obsession with AMOLED. Compared a friends SGS with the Z and it's not a big deal. The viewing angle on the Z is pretty damn good too.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speedysilwady:
I was wondering if someone could take the Super I/O Kernel by Eugene and inject it with some BackLight Notification love? :D
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jrharvey:
Totally agree. I really wish it didnt reaquire a specific kernel :(
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geoffcorey:
Not until Samsung releases vibrant 2.2 (or 2.2.1) kernel source.

"if you amplify everything, nothing is heard"
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nicname:
Especially at night the screen of the phone is to bright for my opinion.

Is there any app to decrease the brightness of the screen?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Daneshm90:
Screenfilter

On market + free = Awesome
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xpcomputers:
What a brilliant little app. That is exactly what I've, been looking for...

Superb!

The only remaining thing I'd like would be a way to turn the screen negative too, so that I can flip bright white web pages to being black background instead. Happy to have the distorted photo colours this would induce.

Although thinking laterally, the better way to solve this in the browser itself might be with local css style sheet over-ride, (if it was possible?).

The negative screen mode would still be useful to flip other bright white apps though. Of course ideally, the screen would be negative inverted as well as having this screen filter available too, so that you could convert background to black and still also reduce brightness of text.

Anyone know if such a feature exists, or could be created easily?

Thanks

Mike
[Galaxy S I9000 General] stevekainth:
wtf :P I changed it too zero couldnt see anything :(

had to remove the battery to reboot the phone :P

SIlly mistake :P
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sionyboy:
You don't need an app, just run your finger left/right on the notification bar to increase/decrease brightness.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Mikulec:
the minimum brightnes is still too strong in dark, therefore is screenfilter needed
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xpcomputers:
Lowest you can get from the notification bar is down to 8%.

With a few different brightness widgets you can get down to 0%, which is still blindingly bright and not much darker than 8% to be honest... especially at night in a dark room!

This "screen filter" software lets you make the screen much darker than 0% by adding a grey lens over the whole screen for when you want it darker. It works really well.

Mike
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nitecafe:
Wow i didn know screenfilter exist. *Rushing to check it out*. Finally no more blinding light when in my bedroom.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Adevem:
ScreenFilter

don't set it all the way down lol ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] spooksie:
Everyone wants 2.2.1 but what are the benefits over 2.2?

Reason I ask is that I updated from 2.1 to 2.2 last night. Feels much snappier so far.

Should we just be waiting for gingerbread?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pitkali:
I had Quadrant score 857 on stock Eclair (XWJM2). This went up to almost 1000 after I re-partitioned to XWJPA/XXJPP/OXAJPO. With XXJPX I have score of 1182. So I guess there is some improvement ;)

I haven't been using 2.2 though, so I can compare only Quadrant score here…
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jaju123:
The Quadrant leap is nothing to do with the fact that it is 2.2.1, but more the fact that Samsung finally got their **** together and made a new kernel and optimised the rom I believe.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BuddyLee:
The mail app is not laggy or slow anymore.

Performance on the phone is awesome

Camera/Video interface/menu a little different.

When caller calls you can press power to mute the ringer ... it was in 2.1 but not in the 2.2 ... now 2.2.1 its back

Battery seems to be better.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] HarpingOn:
Gallery now shows most recent first. I don't know if there was ever a setting for that but its a biggie for me. Saves me scrolling through 500 odd pictures to find the one I just took.

And the phone is just so fast. I'm super happy with JPX
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BuddyLee:
Also start up time is quick.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tehpriest:
You can input UK post codes in the ZIP code field before it only allowed numbers.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] stephengoo:
Sound good, I'm waiting for stable Doc's XXJPX rom release :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] crocodylek:
This feature was in 2.1, 2.2 and now 2.2.1 however in 2.1 you had to use vol down key and in froyo power button.

Cheers!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zolah:
Boots up super quick now.

Performance has improved big time to the point where i havent even bothered reapplying a lag fix to it, as i cant see it making much of a difference now.

Its kinda sad really. I always liked messing with my phone but they have done such a good job with 2.2.1 that theres not really much to mess with now.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] _dsk_:
Some things ive noticed in 2.2.1

Quicker boot time

Better battery life

Advanced exchange email options (peak, non peak time)

Facebook sync notifications work flawlessly

Web browser speed improved over leaked JPU

Contact list has full A-Z
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cydiamante:
Separate wallpaper for lock screen.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] icejagans:
Dont think it has been mentioned but you can now use the stock headphones to change songs via the mircophone. Double pressing in quick succession allows this.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zmsudu:
hi,

anyone knows how to sort apps from A-Z. i have upgrade sgs from 2.2 to 2.2.1, and now all my apps are disorder?

thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] neoMJ:
very good, but lag is there

The 2.2.1 update is pretty good actually. I'm impressed.

The lag is less visible, but it's still there. Especially for the NewsRob application which I use very frequently during the day.

It's very unlikely but I just hope that Samsung switches to ext4 like Nexus S did.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] damieno218:
Games are smoother. I used to have occasional stutter.

If you are using stock 2.2 try the game Ant Smasher.

After installing 2.2.1, the game is smooth.

Installed the game on a friend's 2.2, the same lag appears.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sackynuts:
Doesn't RFS generate lots of garbage (system error data) over time, which results in the system lag. EXT4 shouldn't do that... So isn't theres still some point in using a lagfix?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Azriaphale:
create a directory called media on the sd with a ringtones directory in that and move your rings there stops them showing in the music player. Just like the N1 does. Will probly work with nofification and alarms as well
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alexhull24:
I flashed JPX last night (over the top of full JPU), product code was KOR, used the dial method to change to XEU, factory reset and the battery drains really quick!

Anyone else experience this and know if there's a cause or fix?

I find the performance on 2.2.1 MUCH faster and smoother than 2.2 (JPO).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] HarpingOn:
Stock browser in jpx only allows 4 pages instead of 8. Don't think it bothers me. I was always closing down pages anyway :)
[Nexus S General] hansmrtn:
Your gonna need the recompiled fastboot. Then it makes it super easy.
[Nexus S General] brian6685:
So whats the advantage of having a rooted/insecure boot image as opposed to not? Sorry for the noob question ;)
[Nexus S General] rashad1:
thanks x1,000,000

I would be lost without this, thanks a lot!!!

took me about 10-15 minutes

Didn't know I was going to lose all my data though, luckily I've only had it a few days and it all can be replaced
[Nexus S General] WilliamStern:
You freaking rock man! Thanks for this. Ill be rooting mine very soon.
[Nexus S General] WilliamStern:
I'm a little confused here...

About 1/5 of the way down on that page, find the link for "su-2.3.6.1-ef-signed.zip", which is the link for the Froyo version of Superuser. Control-click (right click) on that link and choose "Download Linked File As..." Save that file (called "su2361ef") to your desktop and then copy it to the main directory of your mounted phone ("NO NAME").

Am I to change the name of this file to "su2361ef" or leave it as is... "su-2.3.6.1-ef-signed.zip" than place it into my main directory?

Thanks
[Nexus S General] WilliamStern:
Help please.

I'm down to the final steps, but when I try to get into recovery mode I keep getting a little Android with an "!" over it.

What am I doing wrong? I've pulled the battery, and tried it over a few times, but I keep getting the same thing.
[Nexus S General] Amin Sabet:
Glad it was helpful. You should have gotten a warning on your phone screen about losing the data in Step 10, and you could have turned back at that point. I've now edited the post above to make it clear there as well.
[Nexus S General] Amin Sabet:
When I did it, the zip was already called "su2361ef". If yours is called "su-2.3.6.1-ef-signed.zip", I would leave it like that without renaming. Just remember the name so you can choose it in Step 21.

Which step were you at? I hope someone can help you. I don't have any expertise :(. I only shared the steps above because they worked for me.
[Nexus S General] WilliamStern:
I keep getting the "!" above the little Android, but when press power button plus volume up I only get 4 options.

-reboot system now

-apply update from /sdcard

-wipe data/factory reset

-wipe cache partition

I'm not seeing any of the other options you mention above. :(

I WANT ROOT! :mad: lol
[Nexus S General] nxt:
You did not flash the clockworkmod recovery correctly. The Triangle with exclamation point is the stock recovery image.

Redo the step that says fastboot flash recovery etc..etc..

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] suhas_sm:
How about a noob guide for windows also :P Not that I wont be able to figure out from other sources when I want to root for the first time. But a noob guide here will come handy as well ;-)
[Nexus S General] WilliamStern:
Err... I give up. I just can't seem to get anything to work. I've followed everything step by step and nothing. I think it's my bootloader that won't unlock?
[Nexus S General] jroid:
we can't help you much if you don't provide any detailed info other than you're not in the right recovery. Boot the phone on again and type this in terminal:

./adb reboot bootloader

check status of bootloader: LOCKED / UNLOCKED

and we go from there.
[Nexus S General] WilliamStern:
I think this is where I'm having an issue? Nothing seems to happen whenever I input a command into my terminal on my computer.
[Nexus S General] Michael.B.:
What happens if you plug your phone into the USB and type adb devices?
[Nexus S General] WilliamStern:
I'm new at all this, so I'm sorry.

this is what I get

-bash: adb: command not found
[Nexus S General] Michael.B.:
Seems like you have not installed adb yet. What OS are you on?

EDIT: Duh, looked at the thread title. I may not be of much help, but did you update your path directory to look at the correct folders?
[Nexus S General] WilliamStern:
Yeah, I did the updates.

I'm gonna try again from scratch. Thanks for the help.
[Nexus S General] Amin Sabet:
William, what happens when you plug your phone into the Mac, open Terminal, and copy/paste the following command (don't forget to change "Amin" to the name of YOUR home directory):

/Users/Amin/Desktop/androidsdk/platform-tools/adb devices

Typing just "adb devices" won't work because we never set the path to adb, but the above code should work (and give you a list of connected devices, which would be just your Nexus represented as a number) if you correctly did Steps 1-4 above.
[Nexus S General] firesign:
I will try today.
[Nexus S General] Double 0:
So how do you unroot on mac?
[Nexus S General] jiggytak:
cant find mount r/w on etc

Hey guys i am kinda new to the rootiing thing..So i followed all the steps and was going fine till i had to download the root explorer on the market for about 3 bucks and then when i chose etc folder on the directory i couldnt find mount r/w could someone please help//
[Nexus S General] stefano.m:
Hi , thanks all guys for helping us , nice thread , very clear and professional ...

Now I have a question:

I have a Google Nexus S , with 2.3.4 Android & build GRJ22 updated via OTA .

Do you think it will works on my phone ?

Tnx you very - very much .
[Nexus S General] bennyling:
First line is your problem, that is running adb not fastboot.

Essentially you want this to be:

$ fastboot oem unlock

but in your case, you (probably) want:

$ ./adb\ fastboot oem unlock

that's if fastboot is in a folder called adb.

Otherwise if you've got fastboot in it's own folder that is on the desktop, you want something along these lines:

$ ~/Desktop/fastboot/fastboot oem unlock

Hope this helps.
[Nexus S General] idelgado782:
After I made my last post I continued with trail and error. I went back and essentially started from the beginning and downloaded the files, restarted my phone via battery pull and quit & restarted terminal. I agree with you adb not running fastboot, I realized that and so I made sure I had the write file with fastboot in the right location. Also I was not copying and pasting. When I started from scratch I copied and pasted and achieved unlocked bootloader!

However something happened and it seemed as if the clockwork mod I had was corrupt so I kept getting errors when trying to install the su file. I went directly to clockworks site downloaded the lastest file, replaced the old one in the sdk folder and repeated step six. Now clockwork had no errors.

Last problem I encountered was the fact that I failed to put a rom on my SD card so my phone was stuck on the Google splash screen. I searched around for Miui, downloaded the latest rom, mounted the SD via cwm copied the rom, ejected from Mac, unmounted from Mac, wiped factory data/cache, and installed zip from SD. It seems like it burned/installes with no issues. I did a reboot from within cwm and I got the Google splash screen again. I did a battery pull and turned on normally and the google splash did show up but after about 5-10 seconds the Miui splash screen came up. I let the phone turn on completely and I have officially unlocked bootloader, rooted and installed a custom rom on my nexus s using my Mac!!!!

It took lots of patience, LOTS of trial and error, lots of using the search button as my friend but it happened!

If anyone has similiar issues when trying to complete this via Mac, please feel free to reach out to me and I can try to help!

Thanks guys for the write up and thank you bennyling for responding so quickly to my post!

Sent from my Google Nexus S
[Nexus S General] stefano.m:
Tnx Benny for help us . Tnx very much .

Can you post it down the steps necessary to root the nexus with 2.3.4 ?

Cheers
[Nexus S General] aNdroidnut:
Edit: Problem Solved ;)
[Nexus S General] Lehcen:
trouble rooting nexus s
[Nexus S General] 0987363:
thx,try it
[Nexus S General] mapin0518:
Astro won't work for you. I use File Expert which is free. Launch it and it starts you off viewing the SD card contents, so touch the back arrow on the upper right corner, and then it will let you choose "/" as the root directory to view. From there you can scroll down to /etc, tap it to go into it, and then scroll down to the install-recovery.sh file. Tap your capacitive menu button, choose "More", choose "Mount", choose "Mount as Read Write". Long press the install-recovery.sh file, choose "File Operations", choose "Rename", and type in the .old suffix to the end of the file name. That should do it !
[Nexus S General] d-lab:
Hi,

I have an Nexus S i9020 with 2.3.6 relase on board.

Can I use this method to root my phone??

Thx so much.
[Nexus S General] EraqEE:
Yes you can! I tried this myself yesterday and it worked.

I had to reboot the phone a few times for clockwork recovery to install and for some reason I never saw the installation bar to know if it was installed or not.

Everything works fine now!
[Nexus S General] d-lab:
Well, thx so much. I'll try
[Nexus S General] Skillz1318:
I just want root access for ICS font and a new kernel. Do I need to unlock as well?
[Nexus S General] sundyx:
Thanks a lot. It seems that few Mac users are using Android phones at the same time.
[Nexus S General] Sykkr0:
Thanks!

+1 for the Mac + Android combo :)
[Nexus S General] sean_engadget:
Same deal. Just did this for the first time yesterday and had 0 issues.
[Nexus S General] devius:
Great option to Root on MAC...

Thanks
[Nexus S General] Billchen0014:
sorry

aready rooted and installed ics build, lost my old account, so i have to send 10 messages then i can start posting proper messages, sorry about this :)

---------- Post added at 06:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:52 PM ----------

the phone's touchscreen is a little laggy(delay), no matter which rom it had, it felt a bit weird. just wondering if any of you guys have the same problem i9023, vodafone ultra cheap $299 outright (a little too cheap?) and the screen seemed to be a little smaller than the 4' on the galaxy s 19000, many because of the curve?
[Nexus S General] Lemon1:
When you update do you loose all of your applications? I've had trouble with getting them all back even after i've logged in with the google account associated with my applications.
[Nexus S General] allahsnackbar:
i screw it up
[Nexus S General] coolove23:
thanks a lot...
[Nexus S General] jmelick07:
Big time help needed... I am stuck where you need to mount your phone after you unlock the bootloader.... when attempting to mount clockworkmod says "E:Can't mount/cache/recovery/command E: Can't find misc E: failed to find cache partition to mount at "/cache"

HELP PLEASE!!

---------- Post added at 09:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:23 PM ----------

Also should note that I am doing this on osx 10.7.2 and with a nexus s 4g

---------- Post added at 10:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:41 PM ----------

I restarted my phone and it wiped my data as expected...

But now when I try to go into recovery it stops at the google screen with the unlocked logo which makes me have to do a battery pull in order to get it back up....

I think from research this means I installed the wrong cwm? Can anyone point me in the right direction of one that will work for my phone?

Also, when in the bootloader it shows my status as being unlocked, does that mean once I have the proper cwm I can now flash roms?
[Nexus S General] aek_of:
I just switch to Mac and the step not different to much from Wndows, Thank a lot
[Nexus S General] Pi3rluigi:
It works also with ICS

I can confirm it works also with ICS!

At step 10 replace the file "su2361ef.zip", with the one in this trhead

[GUIDE] CWRecovery flashable working Root SperUser for stock ICS 4.0.3

post #152 su+binary

Sorry but I can't insert link :D

Obviosly at step 17 search the file you have just downloaded.
[Nexus S General] :
Man, I had a similar problem -- just today, actually. Here's what I did.

Make sure that you have ClockworkMod 5.0.2.3 flashed. It's located here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=988686. Make sure to use 5023-cyan.img.

Then download the correct stock rom for your phone version: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1063664 (you can, of course, download something else, like cyanogen). Based on your phone's specs, it looks like you should use this one, which will allow you to flash from the bootloader: Android 2.3.6/GRK39F/UCKF1 Radio/KA3 Bootloader

For more information, go to the thread on the front page of Nexus S General called "Confusing Software Brick." Some bright, very helpful scholars gave me some great advice. I hope it helps you, too.

Oh, and I used a Mac to do all this, as well. Give an update as to how it goes.
[Nexus S General] sundyx:
The ICS is out now. I expect the root method to be updated.
[Nexus S General] Pi3rluigi:
Give a look at my post #207,maybe can help :)
[Nexus S General] lazyGG:
Pi3rluigi is right, you can follow this guide even i f you're using ICS. You should just get the latest recovery: you can find it here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=988686&highlight=recovery

You have to flash this file on step 6, so you'll have to type something like this

~/Desktop/androidsdk/tools/fastboot flash recovery ~/Desktop/androidsdk/tools/5023-cyan.img

Remember to put the 5023-cyan.img file in the same folder of adb and fastboot.

From the CWRecovery guide you can also get the latest Superuser: you have to flash it on step 10.

However, the author of this guide won't update it anymore so don't ask for it!
[Nexus S General] cyrus_e:
Thanks a lot for this Guide!!

But you absolutely need to update CM recovery. The V3.0.0.0 is too old and phone gets stuck at Google Logo if you flash any ROMs/Kernels/etc.
[Nexus S General] magnumfloyd:
Will this work on ns4g
[Nexus S General] Pi3rluigi:
Yes,just choose the right version of CM Recovery as described in the link in post #211
[Nexus S General] tupac19861013:
Indeed this tutorial is helpful guys, thanks a lot....!!!
[Nexus S General] rogerdm:
I've earlier successfully used this tutorial to root my Nexus S.

However I lost my root after updating to ICS a while back.

Now I want to regain root, can I just follow the steps again or should I do something else?

Thanks