yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] obelix:
It was worth a shot. With so many threads discussing progress in gaining access to the file system I wasn't clear where the security boundaries were.

I'm on a Samsung Focus (i917) which is popular in the US and while FileBrowser.exe is accessible, its very limited in functionality.

Plus I'm not sure anyone has figured out yet how to copy files between the desktop and device over USB.

Ideally at soem point there would be a way to not only explore the entire file system but also be able to copy programs to the device and be able to execute and run/install those native apps.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] l3v5y:
I think (I'm digging through it now) that the MS developer tools would let us do a file transfer over USB (I've got XAP deployment, but there's a function for that, but it uses some lower level things internally).

But that doesn't give on device file system access, and is using MS frameworks entirely.
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
My phone wont boot, so can i install a rom from clockworkrecovery?
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
Won't boot in what way? Can you get into fastboot and/or recovery? Since you're asking about CWM, I'm assuming you can get into it.

If you did a Nandroid backup (the main point of CWM for me), you could try just restoring it. If you didn't, I'd try a wipe all settings and then reboot. You should be able to get back to a virgin state on the main OS that way.
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
I can get into it, the problem is i erase all data on my phone. Thanks in advance!
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
???

Is there any way i can get my phone back up and running restoring everything from clockworkmod?
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
I'm still confused what your problem is.

You say the phone won't boot, but then you talk about erased data.

What exactly did you do to the phone? What was the last few things you did before you "broke" it?

What happens when you try to boot the phone (ie., it's powered off and you press the power button)? How far in the boot process does it go?

If your problem is that the phone boots but all your data is gone, there's no way to get back unless it auto-syncs down from Google, or you used a backup program like Titanium, or you made a nandroid backup in CWM.

If you made a nandroid, you should just be able to boot into CWM, select backup and restore and then restore your backup.
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
This is what happened....

I tried to replace my fonts in system that are supposed to work on a different phone. Then when i tried to boot up the phone was stuck on the silver google logo. Now, after that i went into clock work recovery and formated everything in the mounts and storage menu. After reinstalling the phones boot img, my phone freezes at the google logo. I can still get into the clockworkmod recovery. I never backed it up, but tried to use a nandroid someone posted online but i get a md5 mismatch.

Again, thank you for all your help!
[Nexus S General] unremarked:
The Modaco rom(http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=883985) should work just fine. Put it on the USB storage then in Clockwork go to "Install from zip."
[Nexus S General] willyalmanzar:
i have a problem almost like that but my rom manager open but wont even backup current rom or anything, my titanium back doesn't backup either. it said i could not acquire root privileges, this app will not work, please vertify that you rom is rooted and includes busybox, i have busybox and it's rooted. i guess this happen when i update the google update last night from rom manager. what should i do
[Nexus S General] unremarked:
Known issue. There is a thread in the Development section(http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=884499). The OTA "broke root."
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
Ouch. Now I understand.

In the future, always make a nandroid backup before messing around with things, easiest way to recover.

I see you're looking for help in this thread. Maybe they can help you.

You could also try flashing Doc's or Paul's roms also in that section.
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
rom

I tried that custom rom... still didnt work. Im going to give it another shot!
[Nexus S General] unremarked:
Did you wipe/factory reset before attempting to install? I realize that you're pretty much wiped at the moment, but always best to start with that.
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
I did that + i am using version 3.0 clockwork. Still frozen on the google screen.
[Nexus S General] unremarked:
You've tried another NAND backup, besides the one that MD5 mismatched, yar? Be careful not to rename it, as that can cause the mismatch.
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
Nope

Nope i didnt try any...
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
Do i have to rename it to update.zip?

Do i have to rename it to update.zip?
[Nexus S General] unremarked:
The custom rom? No, you just go into recovery, wipe/factory reset, install from SD card, then navigate to where you put the .zip on the SD card.

I see you did try the 2.3.1 NAND backup in the development section. Try downloading it again on your PC, unzip it, then place the new folder on the clockworkmod's backup folder on your SD card. Again, do not rename it.
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
Im trying it now.

Im trying it now.
[Nexus S General] unremarked:
Be warned that if you do get the NAND to restore, you may lose clockwork recovery. I know I did when I first tried to use it.

Don't panic though, because you can fastboot flash clockwork back on from the bootloader.
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
I am pushing the files....

I am pushing the files....
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
Its not even showing up!

Its not even showing up! I got the one where i changed the date that is showing up and thats it!
[Nexus S General] unremarked:
So on your first attempt to NAND restore, you had renamed it? I wonder if it wouldn't get an MD5 if you changed it's name back. With the new download, you have the original name again so you could try that.

In any which case, you placed the new NAND download on the SD Card under clockworkmod under backup, right? Reboot the phone. Sometimes clockwork is a little slow to see new files, at least, in my experience.
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
Still nothing showing up. look at my command prompt...
[Nexus S General] unremarked:
My apologies.

The folder should be "clockworkmod."

EDIT: You should also be able to mount the USB storage from Clockwork recovery so you can drag and drop instead of pushing through ADB. The option should be under Mounts & Storage > Mount USB Storage. Though I'll admit it's kinda hit and miss.
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
No MD5 error but it gives me a restoring system..
[Nexus S General] unremarked:
Errr... I have no idea what that means and I'm super hesitate to try suggesting anything further.

I google'd your error string and it looks like it MAY BE something related to having the wrong format on your SD card/internal storage after you formatted everything. But the Nexus S is different from the other phones I've read encountering this issue, so I'm not sure where to go from here. :/

Sorry, mate.
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
No problem. Thanks for all of your help. I think the best thing right now is to see whats samsungs take.
[Nexus S General] unremarked:
One last idea... I don't think it'll work, but it also probably won't hurt anything. When you did fastboot oem unlock, it reformatted everything on your phone. Try fastboot oem lock, then unlock again. This will however wipe your SD card partition so pull everything off before doing it.

EDIT: And then fastboot flash clockwork recovery back on if needed and try to restore the backup.
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
Did it before and did it now... didn't work....
[Nexus S General] unremarked:
Yeah, didn't think it'd work. :(

If you do decide to contact Samsung/Best Buy, I'd just remove clockwork, relock the bootloader, play dumb, and ask for a replacement device.
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
Hmmm...unlikely that CWM formatted the /sdcard partition as anything but FAT without making you select it.

Might be onto something, though.

Agy1995, you can adb into the phone while it's in CWM, right? So go to adb shell and type "mount". You should get back all the partitions mounted. See what filesystem they have. You may have to use CWM's mount menu option on a few of them.

If you've got anything besides Yaffs2 or ext4 that might be problematic if the kernel doesn't support it. I really doubt this, but we're in desperation mode at this point.

Maybe try supercurio's voodoo kernel...? Really just throwing random thoughts out here now.
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)

tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,relatime,mode=755)

devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600)

proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)

/dev/block/mtdblock4 on /cache type yaffs2 (rw,nodev,noatime,nodiratime)

This is what it gives me when i mount... on the cmd...
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
Just want to ask.... can i install the images of the stock recovery from the command prompt itself?
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
In CWM, go to the mounts menu and mount /system and whatever else you can, then run the mount command again from adb shell. It's /system and /data that we're worried about right now.

I gotta run, may not respond for a while.

Also, I might suggest if you use IRC to head over to the #NSdev channel on irc.freenode.net and see if anyone there has some ideas. Really sharp, really nice folk for the most part. Most of them are Galaxy S owners last time I looked, but they might have ideas for you.

Good luck!

P.S. - if there's a BB nearby you and they have NS in stock, I'm with the other guy who said just relock and return/exchange it.
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
You might be able to with fastboot, but I'd look for images specifically made to be fastboot flashed.

format would be:

fastboot system your_system_file.img

fastboot recovery your_recovery_file.img

You get the drift.

I'm not recommending you try this with the nandroid images, though...I have no knowledge of the risks associated with that.
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
Thanks! heading on!
[Nexus S General] agy1995:
The problem is fixed. I had to format the dev file to ext4 using busybox on the cmd .
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
Great! I saw in the IRC channel logs that you got it fixed. That's where we were heading here trying to see what CWM had formatted you as.

P.S. it's not really a dev "file", it's a dev(ice) block (of memory) ;)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kallisti5:
Found a pretty nifty bug on the evo... not sure if it is software or hardware.

* turn wifi on

* plug evo into computer USB port

* start watching streaming video (or any other CPU intensive task)

* eventually the battery will be at 0 and the thing will shut off with a blinking orange light.

The bug:

* the phone never warns you. Because it is "charging" the phone never gives you the low battery warning (quack,quack, orange warning light, etc).

* If you are connected to a power source that isn't sufficient to charge and power a fully loaded phone, it just dies without warning.

* I have no idea what the solution for this would be, it kind of is a catch 22.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Compusmurf:
Most devices have the same issue and I've found many that don't give the warning either.

Remember, USB through computer or whatnot maxes at 500ma, normal usage of the cpu/phone, etc draws more than that. The AC charger was 1a and should be sufficient.

Does it suck they didn't warn you? Yeah, but now you know and probably won't let it happen again. I suspect you can make your own warning system using something like Locale or Tasker and have a SETCPU profile to throttle down your CPU to save power. That's the nice thing about android, it's open enough that you can find a BETTER way of doing things than relying on the devs of the phone.
[Wildfire General] fireice7:
Hi everyone :)

Firstly, my phone is unrooted and running the stock vodafone rom (2.1) that the phone came with on day 1.

I've seen that froyo has been released for the wildfire. Whilst waiting for vodafone to push it to me I was wondering how do I backup my sms messages, contacts, keyboard dictionary etc?

Thanks
[Wildfire General] MaTa69:
You come into market and Download My Backup Pro and creates backups of both apps and data.
[Wildfire General] fireice7:
Are there any free apps that do the same?
[Wildfire General] kevin2516:
Contacts can be backed up to your google account or to sd card via contacts app. sms, use sms backup from market.
[Wildfire General] wilbur-force:
I think the MyBackup free version works fine but when you come to reinstall apps you have to do them one at a time. if you are going to do it regularly id suggest buying the app as its so much easier.

Or try Titanium Backup.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billydroid:
Is there any way to adjust the input levels on the phones microphone?

Example: dsp manger for input
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billydroid:
I'm bumping this because I think it is very useful to figure ou.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chishree:
Hi Experts,

I was trying to load a India official ROM on my UK Vodafone HD2, and it now always shows this ROM is not suitable for ur phone, please upgrade the correct ROM. The phone now only shows this message. I tried to load a Custom ROM through SD card. It installs but at the end when I press the reset button, it again displays the same message in RED.

Please help.

A beer from me if you get this one cracked for me.

Regards

Chirag
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurt-willems:
1st turn back on your previous stock ROM.

Than read/follow this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=591314
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chishree:
Sorry, but how do I go back to my previous Stock ROM?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurt-willems:
1) download the correct stock ROM by using your S/N

2) Connect your device over ActiveSync

3) Run your downloaded file.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chishree:
the phone isnt booting, cannot connect to active sync. it stucks at the message screen.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurt-willems:
Try then to flash over SD

1) Prepares your SD (<8GB SD Card)

a) Format your SD by FAT32​

2) Take the "RUU_signed.nbh" from

your

ship ROM and copy it to the SD card.

3) Rename the "RUU_signed.nbh" to "leoimg.nbh".

4) Reset the device while pressing the volume down button.

5) Follow the instructions on your screen.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chishree:
so i have this ruu.exe from HTC with, how do i get the .nbh from it. ignore my foolishness here, as i m not much tech savvy.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurt-willems:
No problem sir,

When you get the .exe From the ROM; right click on it and select extracting by (WinZip/WinRar/7Zip)

Then you will see a lot of files in it; just take out the "RUU_signed.nbh"
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chishree:
i'll try this, and if it works a beer comes ur way as a thanks from me.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurt-willems:
Make attention to Download and use the UK Vodafone ROM!

Edit;

This was the latest one: ROM version:1.72.161.3
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chishree:
here comes your beer, enjoy.

Sorry but how much is the beer cost? let me know and i shall transfer to ur paypal.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurt-willems:
:D You are free sir, there is no minimum. :D

happy christmas.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chishree:
3US$ in ur PayPal now, thanks once again
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chishree:
Hi,

Any idea on why my external speaker isnt working?
[HD2 General] Razorbacktrack5535:
Hi,I bought an htc hd2 that show only HTC green logo without red information. The seller told me that He bricked it flashing a rom (that I don't know if it is a wrong rom). What should I do ? Thanks in advance :(
[HD2 General] rob-ra:
Try pushing vol up + en power button when the phone is off. What do you get then?
[HD2 General] Razorbacktrack5535:
What should I push ? vol up and end call ?
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
hold vol down, tap and release power.
[HD2 General] the-wrangler:
i cant say for certain whether yours is the same as the situation i had, but my original hd2 wouldnt boot and would only show a white screen with the green HTC and none of the rom/radio info in red in the bottom corner..it ended up being toast and had to be replaced under warrenty. not saying yours is, but thats what happened with mine.
[HD2 General] AndrewSh:
Wrong rom? Probably - wrong radio... Congrats! You bought a nice paperweight.
[HD2 General] kevinjpg:
I had the same a week ago. I had my phone for just 2 hours, then it suddenly stopped working when I restarted it. My HD2 wouldn't boot and did only show the white screen with HTC logo. I tried to do a hard/soft reset, and I even updated the rom, but nothing worked. I't happened because I was removing a app in the Windows Mobile Device centre and it crashed. My phone is now in repair.
[HD2 General] xlr8me:
Follow the 2nd part of this guide:

http://www.htc.com/europe/howto.aspx?p_id=297&id=182

Had the same prob with op and kept sticking at white logo htc and didn't progress any further. Just do that guide and phone will return back to normal.
[HD2 General] kuwait:
Download from HTC site the original ROM from you phone using the serila number under the battery. Unzip it in some directory. Rename the file RUU_signed.nbh to LEOIMG.nbh. Put the SD card from your phone in the computer, format it to FAT32 and copy LEOIMG.nbh file to the rot directory of SD card. Put the card back in phone (phone should be switched off). Then put phone in boot loader: push and hold VOLUME DOWN button and push for short the POWER button, keep holding VOLUME DOWN button until bootloader starts (4 colors screen). Follow the instructions on screen. The phone will be flashed with the original SPL, ROM & Radio from the file LEOIMG.nbh on SD card.

After that it should work normally. After flashing perform hard reset.

Note that battery should be well charged before flashing.

If above does not work your phone probably has hardware defect which could be rectified only in service by changing of some PCB inside. I had similar problem but not related to flashing and service changed power PCB (on warranty).
[HD2 General] Razorbacktrack5535:
@AndrewSh

The seller tell me that he flashed a rom from emulr
[HD2 General] AndrewSh:
You know - English is not my native so can you please be more specific - what do you mean by emulr - emulator or anything else?

Anyway - open the battery rear cover, find the Reset (bottom left), press and hold Volume down and push reset with a stylus or pen or whatever, holding Volume down. It will try to enter to bootloader mode. Do not release Volume down until the three-color picture will appear on screen.

Read what you see and write down here....
[HD2 General] Razorbacktrack5535:
Sorry I made an error. I would say emule ,the filesharing program
[HD2 General] kholk:
If you can see the HTC logo your device isn't bricked.

This means that SPL is still alive and working. You only need to enter bootloader mode and flash a FULL RUU.
[HD2 General] Razorbacktrack5535:
@kholk

Can you tell me what should I do ? Can you give me the link to the files that I need?
[HD2 General] rbadal:
Did u even tried that? I am 99% sure that that will work!
[HD2 General] AndrewSh:
I told you what to do and what to write here afterward. Then we will see what to do after you read your current SPL info....
[HD2 General] Razorbacktrack5535:
Hi,

I tried to power on the phone after some days and it didn't show nothing,black screen.I opened It and the "power keyboard" was broken in two parts (the connector and the keyboard).So I bought a new one and The phone doesn't want to show something.What should I do ? Please,Please help me :'(
[HD2 General] Razorbacktrack5535:
Up :'( Please help me
[HD2 General] Razorbacktrack5535:
Little Up :'(
[HD2 General] Marvlesz:
When I first started reading posts in this thread i thought you had some hope, but now, your device is officially bricked ;)

Send it in for repair, even without warranty . You have to, unless you know how to fix it. Sorry :(
[HD2 General] Razorbacktrack5535:
How It become full bricked ? Why It was semi-bricked and now Is Fully bricked ? What did I do ?
[HD2 General] Archer:
What is the "power keyboard" that was broken, and you've now replaced?
[HD2 General] msm_jaamejam:
Its Wrong !
[HD2 General] Razorbacktrack5535:
I mean this :
[HD2 General] pokerfreakje:
Does it matter what radio or SPL you currently have ?

I have this

If i follow the instructions i should have stock rom?

BTW!!

I BRICKED MINES(DIDNT GO ON), BUT THEN SOME ONE FIXED THE BOATLOADER!!(I KNOW SOME ONE WHO FIXS THE BOATLOADER, IF YOU LIVE IN HOLLAND OR NEAR MAYBE I CAN HELP FIX THE BOATLEADER!!)

SOLUTION: NEW MOTHERBOARD OR GET SOME WHO HAS ADVANCED SKILLS IN JTAG (BOATLOADER RECOVERY!!)

Edit: Sorry for caps, but i think its important message if some one focked up boatloader and want to get it fixed.
[HD2 General] Razorbacktrack5535:
I'm from Italy
[HD2 General] Razorbacktrack5535:
Upp,does anyone have a motherboard?
[HD2 General] Archer:
If it were me, I'd just take it to someone who can repair it.
[HD2 General] Razorbacktrack5535:
I don't know anyone in Italy
[HD2 General] Razorbacktrack5535:
Can anyone help me ?
[Blade General] immaculate:
Could someone please be so kind to tell the physical screen size?
[Blade General] mercianary:
look here.

:edit: Or do you mean size as in inches???
[Blade General] stylez:
Had to laugh...

Think shows mm on device database top of forum.
[Blade General] immaculate:
DB lists the device size, not the screen.

If someone has a ruler, I'd be very grateful.
[Blade General] mercianary:
77 by 46 (mm)
[Blade General] immaculate:
Thank you for your help
[Android Software Development] pr0cs:
My Android project is well underway, it's about 60% done. I just need to tie the pieces together and do a lot of testing.

I realized however that my art skills are terrible, my icons in my app look like clubbed monkey drew them so I wonder if there are any artists out there interested in getting their name on a project.

I don't plan on selling my project but I will be publishing it on the market.

I'm open on icon design, would need option menu type icons as well as app specific icons but since I have no artistic style I'm open to suggestion.

Will be able to give copy of alpha app once we discuss the work required.

Anyone interested? Would like to see some prototypes of your work. The icons MUST be your own, no image piracy.
[Android Software Development] hometownrival:
I'm a designer and would possibly be interested in helping out. Could you PM me and let me know what you're app is about?
[Android Software Development] Rootstonian:
Hate to burst your bubble Home, but to OP....just Google "Free Android Icons". You may be able to find some you can use.
[Android Software Development] bompo:
Google provides templates for icons which makes icon design a lot easier.

Google for "Android Icon Design Guidelines"
[Nexus S General] alitech:
Just looking at the deals for the Nexus S. I am already in contract with T-mobile for another 8 or 9 months so locked in really. I have a Xperia x10. I want this babby asap.

Only thing is that the prices are different on PAYG for the different networks

http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/choose-tariff/NEXUS-S-FROM-GOOGLE/PPAY/NEW

My understanding is that the Nexus S does not come locked to any network, so why is the t-mobile price so bloody high?

Why wouldnt anyone just buy the cheaper version from the offers of the other networks and plug in a t-mobile sim?
[Nexus S General] Rusty!:
That'll be a cockup, that was it's original price.

Besides, just buy it SIM free to avoid the mandatory £10 top up.