yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G General] bkrodgers:
I don't disagree that people need to read the fine print. But that doesn't excuse the BB employees who are either grossly misinformed or outright lying. They *ARE* supposed to represent the company. It's bad enough that they don't know anything about the products they sell, but they damn well should know the policies of the company they are representing. What you're saying is basically that Best Buy needs to post a large sign on their door saying: "WARNING. OUR EMPLOYEES ARE IDIOTS. DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT THEY SAY." This of course is true, but that's a sad thing, not something that is an excuse for anything.

Also, my impression was that even though the sales people are not commissioned, they have "contests" where you get some kind of bonus (I'm not sure if it's hard cash or otherwise) if either you or the store as a whole sell the contracts at or above a certain threshold. I had a friend who worked there several years ago, and I thought he mentioned something like that. I could be wrong though, it's been awhile.
[EVO 4G General] ViViDboarder:
I had a similar experiance and I was lucky and found an employee who was understanding of the situation.

And... amirborna, this is where you're wrong.

I am fully aware of the policy and noted and verified with all the managers how it works. This is what was supposed to happen...

I bring my phone in with broken 4G radio. They send it away and stick me with a loaner phone. This phone SHOULD have been a device of equal quality, but at the time there were no EVO's at the store so I dealt with the Intercept they loaned me.

The policy is that if the service location they send the device to CAN'T FIX IT IN 30 DAYS they will give me a new one. Well, 30 days went by and on day 30 they sent it back to me... "Fixed". Well, they claimed they fixed it, but the invoice that I received with my phone said "Work performed: " and a big fat BLANK. They performed NO work. How does that qualify as fixing my device? Can someone just say they fixed it and perform no work and show no proof of doing work? No. That's far from right. Because of this they said I'd have to send it in AGAIN for another 30 days and AGAIN after that if the same thing happened before it's a "lemon".

So after this I spent HOURS on the phone with Best Buy corporate as they passed me from department to department before telling me to call the store where they did the same thing. Eventually, as I said, I got lucky and a Best Buy Mobile employee swapped my phone out.

So, I hope anyone thinking of getting Black Tie is aware that this is the kind of practice that their service center users to screw the users over. I am aware this is not necessarily an evil on Best Buy's part, but they should definitely not be doing business with a company like that if they want to maintain their reputation.

TL;DR - Even if you read you can get screwed over by Best Buy. Don't buy Black Tie.

EDIT: And before anyone says that the DO NOTHING BUT SAY IT'S FIXED is totally OK, then I'm starting my own service...

Pay me $5 a month and when you break your phone you can send it to me and I'll play with it and send it back the same as you last had it and tell you it's fixed. Enjoy!
[Android Software Development] ladios:
I compiled the new Busybox 1.18.1 with a lot of warnings, no error though. Will this build work? The complete stdout & stderr is in the attached make.log.txt.

PS: the zip file is not flashable.
[G Tablet General] BO7AMZA:
Q how to format internal partition and make it active (using nvflash)

my g tablet only run (turn on) if use nvflash to restore original factory firmware but moment i shutdown cant turn it on

can install clockmod image
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfound:
So, I've been running the JI6 leak since shortly after it was leaked, but I'm getting tired of waiting for an official froyo release, so I'm planning on flashing Cognition.

Now, as I understand it, my only path from JI6, is flashing back to JF6, re-rooting, installing ROM-Manager/Clockwork, and flashing the latest cognition ROM?

I've seen references to an ODIN flashable version of the cognition (on their wiki), but it doesn't seem to be available/packaged for download anywhere.

Thanks Guys...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
Most ruins have moved away from odin packages. What you listed above will get you were you want to go
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peachpuff:
The recent froyo build is labelled as jpx or jpy, there's a couple roms based on that build in the dev section. I'd skip cognition since its based on an 2 month old build.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] connexion2005:
I made a ROM Flashing video for questions just like this. Check it out at this thread...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=877652
[Galaxy 3 Android Development] als.ob:
Hi everyone, i have a question i couldn't find an answer for.

I would like to install ClockworkMod on my rooted SG3, but i noticed that this phone model does not appear in the list of devices prompted when installing.

I assume my software version of CWM is up to date as I downloaded it just yesterday from Market

Could it be that ClockworkMod Recovery's not yet available for SG3 GT-I5800?

I read that people who owned SG3 but used SGS I9000 as a choice when prompted managed to install the program, but in the end were not able to back up becouse it froze.

Thanks for your attention and if you can help.
[Galaxy 3 Android Development] Gsam101:
Nop, no Clockworkmod recovery, not yet..
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Thijs96:
In case people miss the default Sony Ericsson apps on their Xperia, I'll all put them together into one post where people can download them.

Always remember to put them in /system/app/

This also means your phone has to be rooted, but since you can't remove the apps with user privileges, I assume you've already rooted your phone.

Included apps:

Gmail - Remember to include Gmailprovider.apk and Email.apk as well

Camera

SE Sync - Remember to include Syncwizard.apk as well

TrackID

Youtube

Mediascape

Timescape

Gallery3D

Market - The new one!

I still need a full copy of /system/app/ from the original ROM. If someone has it, please PM me, I'll give you my mail. Thereby you can help finalizing this thread.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] ttxdragon:
how about searching?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=826849

And a full /system dump in the same thread: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9253147&postcount=37
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Thijs96:
Hm. Handy, I couldn't find them.
[G Tablet General] stugots101:
this is a brand new unit that was recieved yesterday and applied newest OTA update.

I have tried the steps from norgi and that did not work for altnerative steps to get recovery . The screen stays stuck on entering Nv flash mode. I am pretty upset at viewsonic for disabling recovery in their new OTA. Without being able to flash any roms, I am left with no choice but to return it to amazon which will suck. I have put over 4hours into getting recovery to load off my sd cards and it simply will not load. My mistake for updating to OTA but there has to be a alternative way to get into recovery!!?? is there? any help appreciated
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
First off, don't worry. It's very unlikely that you bricked it.

Second, I honestly doubt that VS would have borked recovery on purpose (because how would they be able to do future updates without it?).

Questions: can you link to the post you tried, and the steps you went through to get to the point you are at now? That would help with troubleshooting. If you can get to APX mode, you should be able to get recovery back. Trust me, I've done some really nasty things to my device and I haven't bricked it (yet).

My only concern is that you might have a device that has a different partition structure , which means that nvflash might mess it up. I know that bekit himself had this issue, a few weeks back. We don't know why this is, or how many devices out there are affected.
[G Tablet General] stugots101:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=878751

I didnt brick it, the device turns off/on when it gets stuck on entering nv flash mode when I hard reboot holding down power for 10sec. I followed all the steps. Downloaeded the files, updated the drivers successfully. It never reads my SD card from the computer no matter what I do though. So i have to coopy it to the HD and manuelly copy it over? Could that be it.

I read your twitter post to viewsonic yesterday about they telling us that adobe HASN'T approved flash for tegra two devices. Let me tell you it is a crock of ****. The elocity a7 plays flash perfectly out the box without any hiccups.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CvY8jzyCWI . I hate when company promise something and cant delivery so they feel the need to lie and make up some lame excuse. I appreciate your efforts rohbeet. It's frustrating to put 4+hours of work into something I paid 400bucks with to not have it work. Im not a total n00b...I've flashed/rooted my evo/hero and wii successfully with no issues. So I hardly doubt Im doing something wrong... but who knows?
[G Tablet General] Benblanko81:
Wrong section, try general. Getting old digging through all these questions to find something. No disrespect Roebeet, you the man round here.
[G Tablet General] stugots101:
How is it the wrong section? I am trying to flash my unit, and load a rom
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
No worries. So, if I'm reading this right -- you had the device clean stock (?), then it ran the OTA update automatically when you connected Wifi (I assume it loaded 3053, btw) and then it rebooted into recovery and then what? Did it flash correctly at least once? But now, if you try to get into recovery, what happens? Nothing?

And then you tried ngorgi's nvflash trick but that's not working, I assume? How far do you get? Windows 64 bit user? APX drivers working? What do you see when you type "nvflash --bl bootloader.bin --download 9 clockwork.img"? Any errors? Sorry about the questions but the details are still hazy. I think the hardest thing about nvflash is getting the USB drivers working, especially if you are running Windows 64-bit.
[G Tablet General] stugots101:
I cant even get into recovery... Thats the problem. When i hit power L+R volume i get the viewsonic splash screen then it goes all black. And stays black until i hard reboot.

When i ran his workaround,, i got the whole way through. Ran CMD file, it download, flashed... apppear successfull. But the screen stays in "entering nv flash recovery"

'

Correct 3053
[G Tablet General] rothnic:
That isn't how you enter recovery.

v+ and power = recovery

v- and power =apx/nvflash

If you hold + and -, it goes into apx, hence the black screen.

BTW, handling flash isn't the same as being approved by adobe. I bet elocity isn't approved yet either. The gtablet handles flash perfectly.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
These are my results:

Nvflash started
rcm version 0X20001
System Information:
chip name: t20
chip id: 0x20 major: 1 minor: 3
chip sku: 0x8
chip uid: 0x1714400944400297
macrovision: disabled
hdcp: enabled
sbk burned: false
dk burned: false
boot device: nand
operating mode: 3
device config strap: 0
device config fuse: 0
sdram config strap: 0

downloading bootloader -- load address: 0x108000 entry point: 0x108000
sending file: bootloader.bin
| 928956/928956 bytes sent
bootloader.bin sent successfully
waiting for bootloader to initialize
bootloader downloaded successfully
sending file: recovery.img
| 3862528/3862528 bytes sent
recovery.img sent successfully

And I also see the "Entering nvflash recovery mode".

It sounds like nvflash is working for you. If you want to throw caution to the wind, you might want to go one step further and try to completely flash your device's partition structure. I have a post here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=861950

It's basically the last resort before throwing in the towel and returning it.

I think I used to press both, initially. It might actually work that way, but using just vol down is easier.
[G Tablet General] rothnic:
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but he said he can't get into recovery. Not apx. If you hold both, you can't get into recovery.
[G Tablet General] stugots101:
Ok i did the volume + and power and it is sitting on the detect recovery key pressed booting recovery image screen for about 4minutes now? Is that normal
[G Tablet General] rothnic:
Ok, that's what it should say before it boots to recovery, but that is way too long.

Have you tried flashing clockwork with nvflash?
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
My bad, you are correct! I was so busy looking at APX mode that the answer was right in front of me. Yes, it sounds like he's just using the wrong key combo for recovery.

Here I am, looking at the most complicated solution. D-oh! EDIT: Uh oh, never mind....

Yeah, that's way too long. Recovery might still be borked - should take 5-10 seconds.
[G Tablet General] stugots101:
I just did the nvlfash command and

C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\tegra_froyo_20101105>nvfl

loader.bin --download 9 clockwork.img

Nvflash started

rcm version 0X20001

System Information:

chip name: t20

chip id: 0x20 major: 1 minor: 3

chip sku: 0x8

chip uid: 0x171411884060c317

macrovision: disabled

hdcp: enabled

sbk burned: false

dk burned: false

boot device: nand

operating mode: 3

device config strap: 0

device config fuse: 0

sdram config strap: 0

downloading bootloader -- load address: 0x108000 entry point: 0x108

sending file: bootloader.bin

| 933404/933404 bytes sent

bootloader.bin sent successfully

waiting for bootloader to initialize

bootloader downloaded successfully

sending file: clockwork.img

\ 393216/3862528 bytes sentdata send failed NvError 0x30012

command failure: partition download failed

C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\tegra_froyo_20101105>

Still sits on the detect recovery key pressed screen
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Well, it could be that your efforts to fix recovery might have broken recovery. I would go with my suggestion earlier, if you can't get the clockwork.img to work. Or, try part9.img (that's the original recovery image).
[G Tablet General] rothnic:
Ok, yeah that means you are using the bootloader.bin from the nvidia folder. You need to use one of the gtablet ones. Try the bootloader.bin from the tnt update.zip.
[G Tablet General] stugots101:
im good now! it works. Rohbeet was right, i think i broke it, trying to fix it, but then uninstalled everything and started from scratch. Thanks for the excellent help!
[G Tablet General] rothnic:
It was broken because you used the wrong bootloader. That is why it says flash failed. Make sure you take note or next time you try to nvflash you will have the same trouble all over again.
[G Tablet General] stanglx:
For us poor uneducated folk out here.. which method got you up and running...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcwiker05:
So I had an EVO before my MyTouch and when I saved a contact it went straight to my GMail account. I noticed contacts were missing from there today and was confused, I found out when I save a contact the default location is T-Mobile's sync app. I tried disabling it under accounts and sync and all I can do is turn off sync but when I add a new contact it still defaults to that account. Now I know I can change it in the little drop down but I would prefer just to have GMail as the default so that I don't forget to change it or something. Plus every time I do change it this stupid warning pops up.

Anyone know how do make GMail default? I can't find settings for it ANYWHERE!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kline:
Hi, please search next time :)

This has been asked and answered, here is the relevant post on how to (AT YOUR OWN RISK) completely disable T-Mobile sync: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9922041&postcount=5
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcwiker05:
Does nothing, I am fully rooted running stock ROM but when I search that and delete everything T-Mobile sync stays in my setting and when I restart all those files come back if I seach with root explorer again...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kline:
You can be "fully rooted" with permaroot, but are you S-OFF in hboot? If not, any modifications to /system will revert on any reboot.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcwiker05:
Yes, S-Off HBOOT 0.85.2007 I used this method

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=858996

to root and gain S-off. If it is any connection I also can't get any of the over clocking kernals/mods to work on my phone. This is a replacement MyTouch, my last ones screen shattered. But I was able to root and over clock that one, never tried this deleting T-Mobile sync till I got this replacement phone.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ags29:
Just uncheck "tmobile" from the view menu in the contacts screen. Then it will automatically select Google as the default save location.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcwiker05:
Also does nothing, at least for my phone and my stores demo MyTouch... Still defaults to T-Mobile and you can't remove the account in settings either because it says to master reset it.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XfooYen:
Make sure you don't use faves. If you have any contacts in faves, T-mobile becomes the default save for contacts. I just froze the faves app and widget along with applying all the other suggested fixes and so far google remains my default save.

...also, delete data in contacts storage app and resync everything to google.

Swyped on my rooted MyTouch4G
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcwiker05:
Thank you!!!!!!! I just deleted anything that had to do with My Favs as well as all the nab files in root explorer and now it defaults to Google most of the time, seems like depending on who you enter the contacts menu it switches from Google to phone. If I go to contacts via the app drawer and add bee, Google is default, but if I click the phone in the launcher bar then go to add a contact it makes phone the default. Doesn't matter to me though I go through app menu most times and either way at least its not on T-Mobile. I'll use the thanks button when I get home the app doesn't have the option.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XfooYen:
No problem. If you look at my post history, a couple weeks back I wrote a pretty detailed process on how to keep Google as your default contacts. It explains how you need to unlink (or better, delete) all contacts and basically only use Google to sync. Glad to help.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shlongwoodian:
This doesn't appear to be correct. One of the first things I do when dealing with Contacts is change the 'View'. I only have one Google account and my Facebook checked for my View Contacts > View options and when adding contacts, I keep T-Mobile hidden, my other Gmail account hidden, etc. T-Mobile is still the default Contact Type.

In regard to this post...

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9922041&postcount=5

...instead of actually deleting anything to do with NabService, I found that using Titanium I could freeze NabService...

This seems to have the same effect, since now I no longer have T-Mobile as a Contact Type when I go to add a new contact...

What I don't like however, is that of my 3 Contact Types - Google (Gmail #1), Google, (Gmail #2) and Phone, Phone is the default Contact Type now when adding new contacts...

Is the same true (i.e. that Phone is the default Contact Type) after deleting anything to do with Nab?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcwiker05:
My default seems to stay google now that I changed it from phone the very first time after deleting nab and my favs. It did originally default to the phone though. Also it seems like it may depend on how you actually enter your contacts. If you go in through the Contacts app via the app drawer google is the default, if you go in via the little phone in the launcher bar it seems to make phone the default. odd?
[Captivate General] sclRanger:
Looking for the stock AT&T update.zip file. I did search, but now luck. Thanks.
[Captivate General] Dungeon47:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731989
[Captivate General] sclRanger:
I just need the update.zip file. Thanks anyway.
[Captivate General] Dungeon47:
No problem. That was the closest thing I could find. Best of luck with whatever you are doing.
[Captivate General] a40dayflud818:
Are you talking about the update.zip file to root your device? I have that.
[Captivate General] sclRanger:
No, the stock update.zip file. I am running stock and tried to run the restore and it said the file is missing. I was going to put it back on and try and run it again. I've been having trouble powering on. I can only power on if I have it plugged up.

AT&T is sending me a new phone, but I just wanted to try and restore it for giggles and also to make sure my data is gone.
[Captivate General] Pirateghost:
??

there isnt a stock update.zip........
[Captivate General] sclRanger:
The phone says that update.zip cannot be found on the sd card when I try to restore. I'm running stock on it. It may be that its just fried. Once it boots up it seems to run ok. I just got the new one from AT&T and going to send the old one in in the morn. Just wanted to try one last fix because everything worked great the past few days, even the gps was working better. I guess I will see how the new one does.
[Captivate General] Pirateghost:
i dont think anyone here has any idea what you are talking about.

the stock phone doesnt have an update.zip on it. reinstall packages in system recovery doesnt mean it reinstalls stuff you removed from the OS. it allows you to flash zip files created for things like clockwork mod recovery and rooting on the 2.1....
[Captivate General] foxbat121:
There is no update.zip for stock firmware. Reinstall package in recovery mode is for flashing ROM updates and other stuff. If you delete something from stock ROM or messed up, there is no way to get it back or restore other than flash the stock ROM via ODIN3 and load stock firmware file.
[Captivate General] avgjoegeek:
Actuallu dg posted one... Unfort I dont have the link
[Captivate General] foxbat121:
DG posted OneClick ODIN flash to stock. It is not an update.zip OP would like to have.
[Captivate General] avgjoegeek:
....... No the .zip like the OP was requesting... If my sig shows up you can find it in the link
[Captivate General] foxbat121:
I think you're confused with the JH7 update.zip that DG releases. It is not a recovery package zip OP like to have. You have to install CWM in order to flash this zip file.
[Captivate General] emuneee:
What the OP doesn't exist. For the Captivate there are two options unless a developer creates another one:

1)Odin One click to I897UCJF6

2)ZIP of th I897UCJH7 firmware

/thread
[Captivate General] connexion2005:
I would advise you use the ODIN 1 Click to resolve any issue your having. I made a video on how to do this in my video archive thread...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=877652
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b_allert:
cans ome one tell me how to do it, i remeber trying a while back and it never worked, i mnight have made a mistake, i cant even find the threads for it, partially because i have a splitting headache and partially because it is so damn hot in my room i need to leave. please and thank you.

p.s. i did search for about 7 minutes, between the tempature and the fact that so much has the words clockwork and amon in it its just to much right now.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ICEReaction:
The easiest way is probably to download ROM Manager onto your phone. It may ask you to install ClockworkMOD again, but that's fine. Once that's done, scroll to the bottom of ROM Manager and select 'Flash Alternate Recovery' or something like that and that will install Amon_RA 1.8.0 onto your phone. Afterwards, you can remove ROM Manager since that only works with ClockworkMOD.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b_allert:
is there any noticable difference, and how will i know its done correctly i thought i tried this once...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b_allert:
mine says no alt. recovery available