yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] azfxstb:
Again Value = ZERO, I have patients but Im not up on the Tab game so I asked a quick question. Got a great direct response, solved the problem and learned about the limits of the Sprint Tab as far a flashing Custom ROMS..your help none, do your posting patrol someplace else
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] tjeffries4863:
Great response, ill be doing this as soon as i get home :) any clue as to whether or not swype is recoverable this way? I deleted in a rush to try the beta my evo uses. I of course have no swype :(

Tim

Sent from my Galaxy Tab (roto JME firmware)
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] tjeffries4863:
In reference to magic iso post

Tim

Sent from my Galaxy Tab (roto JME firmware)
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] shmigao:
Not 100% sure.

You will need swype.apk from system/app and libswype.so from system/lib

Try it :)
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] tjeffries4863:
Thanks again, didn't need lib but I'm guessing that is because I didn't delete it before. I did have issues installing live wall papers though, I ann going to get the lib files and try again.

Swyped on my EVO-CM6.1.2(turbo v7.6)
[Galaxy 3 General] iomartin:
Hello everyone,

I've been an Android user for nearly a week now. Most of what I've learned was here at XDA. I'm very grateful.

The purpose of this post is to make a constructive criticism and help those who are are seeking information about rooting/flashing.

I have found that information in this forum is quite disorganized. It is there, but it's hard to find it. And sometimes to understand. The home page of XDA does have a FAQ, but it's quite poor. Often there are many discussions inside the same thread and it's hard to follow and to find the relevant part for you.

Here are some topics that I haven't really understood, even though I have searched for them (and in some cases asked) and which I believe are utterly important:

What is the difference between JPA, JPB and others? What is it different from the default firmware? What the characteristics?

What are the custom ROMs available? What are they characteristics?

How do I backup my default firmware?

Can I flash an European firmware into an American phone? If no, why? If yes, then why does it matter (and means) saying it's European?

Is ODIN the only way to flash a firmware? Couldn't we use ROM Manager, from Market?

What is Hard Reset/Factory Reset? Are they the same thing? How do I do it? Why/When should I do it?

What is OPS?

What exactly is the Quadrant Score? I've understood it's some kind of measurement on the phone's speed, but not much more...

These are just some of the questions I remember right now. There are probably others and also those which I have already figured out through digging up.

I think it would be easier if there were sticked threads detailing the procedures for rooting and flashing. With a FAQ in the first post. Take for example the Samsung Galaxy 3 GT-i5800: root, gps fix, upgrading thread that has (at time of writing) 3114 posts. It's too much to read to solve common doubts.

Please don't take this as a "lazy" posture of me. I think it would benefit everyone, those seeking answers and those who are tired of always hearing the same questions.

What do you think of doing a complete guide? I could help with my (limited) knowledge.
[EVO 4G General] d4ngerz:
I got the latest OTA (3.70.651.1) and went to install it. It'll restart the phone and start the progress bar, but at ~25% or so it'll go to this screen:

i.imgur.com/qs7rt.jpg (sorry, can't post an outside link due to being a new user)

I have the stock rom with unrevoked. Any ideas why it won't install? I tried to search but found nothing.
[EVO 4G General] dkd711:
You wanna lose your root? Why you loading the OTA? Grab a rooted 3.7 rom from here and load it!
[EVO 4G General] NewZJ:
+1 couldn't have said it better
[EVO 4G General] d4ngerz:
I thought the latest unrevoked (the one just released) worked with this OTA?
[EVO 4G General] NewZJ:
your trying to take a difficult path for an easy process, there is no benefit to installing the OTA when you are already rooted and can install that software quickly and easily without needing to install ota then rooting again, if your wanting the stock sprint rom 3.70 I can post a link, if you are wanting your radio/pri/wimax upgraded I can post a link for that too,

does your phone boot into your rom our does it go straight to the android guy with the red triangle and exclamation mark?
[EVO 4G General] d4ngerz:
My phone boots normally now.. it's just when I try to apply the OTA that it does that.

I dunno.. it seems simpler to install the OTA and just do unrevoked again. It's what I've done all along and it's worked up until now.
[EVO 4G General] Scnd2no1:
You don't want to do that, even if unrevoked 3.3 works. ( it does I rooted late night with it ) Just pull a rooted Rom here, besides the update is not so great. Not much new a game, Swype, and Blockbuster. Nothing to write home about.
[Wildfire General] pkabia:
hey guys!

after moding my htc wildfire, my 3g crashed /dont work:eek:

(as in 3g i mean: using the enternet without wifi)

i have

android 2.2.1

wild puzzle 2.2.1

with the ockernel

and one more thing.... im not able to do the max oc. if i do, the phone will reboot.. is it any methods to hinder this?

sorry for my horrible english..
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Syphon Filter:
Guys,

I've tried various searches but I can't come up with an answer that works for me.

When attempting a factory/hardware reset one has two choices:

1. Use the software option.

2. Hardware option using button presses.

I'm looking for a procedure to execute option 2. I can get into the bootloader (Vol Up + Power).

Once in the bootloader, I can navigate to the "Recovery" option but once selected my NS doesn't appear to do anything, it just sits there with an "!" inside a triangle and the little android-droid on the screen.

I doesn't move from there no matter how long I leave it and there are no prompts/confirmations.

Once in that state, if I remove the battery and the reboot the phone boots up as if nothing happened...everything is still there, all my accounts still work etc. Basically the actions had no effect.

Does anyone know how to factory reset the device properly? My device non-root btw.

TIA,

Syphon.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ikon8:
I think, for the stock recovery, once you get the ! in the triangle you need to press or hold volume-up and power button again, then it will take you to recovery.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Syphon Filter:
Ah cool.

Thanks for the tip, I will remember that for the next time I need to do it!!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
On my phone, after 2.3.1, it's power button first, then while holding it, volume up, and only while the box dumping an arrow onto the little android is showing (maybe a second or so). Once the "!" in a triangle is showing, no key combo will get my phone into recovery. Timing is critical. Took me a few tries and a few helpful posts here to get it right.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
Oh, also, you can do the ULTIMATE factory reset on this device by doing a "fastboot oem unlock" on the device (then relock it with "fastboot oem lock"). This wipes the sd card as well as the personal data in the rom space.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Syphon Filter:
Awesome, thanks for all the information guys. Much appreciated.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Vampir1c:
Hey everyone, I am glad NAND is finally released (for those that have been waiting for it), but I'm wondering if theres anyone (yes I know the pros of having NAND Android) that prefers being able to dual boot? I'm starting to feel that work will halt on the SD/RAM builds. Any reassurance? Thanks guys.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] stardust240781:
I'd like to keep SD builds as well.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Kailkti:
Naw I think a lot of us non-TMOUS HD2 owners will still use SD builds. Reason being, we just don't have a lot of storage space, which many of us need. Unless Devs perform the ext4 partition thingie onto or sd card, for us to expand storage, storage will still be small for non-TMOUS HD2 NAND users i guess.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] chris_ah1:
Yes, RAM builds are the biggest source of competition for NAND - however, I haven't filled up my storage yet with my apps and still have about 90/100MB left of phone storage.

What about installing apps to SD card???

Signal strength is much better on NAND though for me.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] HectiQ:
Can you report how many %of the.time without signal with sd and %with nand? I believe you but I didnt test nand roughly because of the memory limitation. But I guess thats gone now
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Sun_Storm:
I hope the response will be "No". I use the PSX Emulator (FPSece) on WinMo so I prefer switch on Andoid or on WinMo.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] rogerG27:
Nand is obviously the next stage of evolution in rom development towards running Android natively on our hd2's.

sd card builds have the great advantage of being swapped easily, especially with multiple sd cards (I have two, one stable daily use which is fully configured and one experimental)

Moreover the risk of bricking your previous device is rather low from sd..

I am not very clear about the difficulty of transferring a build from an sd build to nand and vice versa, but if there could be a migration tutorial, as a sticky we could have both, latest builds in nand and the choice of running them from sd..

Is this technically possible? Which factors could inhibit easy migration?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] anap40:
I thought originally MAGLDR was supposed to be able to multiboot Android and WinMo (probably a non-sense version of each due to space)?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pappadj:
I hope MADLR can do the following soon:

- Load SD\RAM\NAND Android from custom folders on the fly

- Allow backup\restore of the data store

- Load WMP 6.5 and maybe even 7

I think this will keep the flexibility of multiple build loads alive which will benefit the user and the devs. I know some of this should be coming but it would be nice to get all of our belated Christmas wishes. :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] terminal 7:
not sure but,,

im not sure but the aMAGLDR menu does also have the option to boot from SD-card, i havent tried it yet though..

also one thing i still want is the ability to boot my ubuntu-sd-card build, now i cant use haret.exe im not sure how to go about the dual booting thing ??

much stuff to try out :)

***edit***

ok, just put the contents of an old sd card build directly onto the root of an sd card (ie, without the 'android' folder) booted phone holing power key until magldr menu shows, then select boot AD from SD and it boots just like the old sd card with haret method, -

so far i see it finds zimage and initrd.gz, then i get the boot screen, .... looks like dual booting is still an option even if it may need a bit of tweaking.. i guess its just the startup.txt that needs to be read for it to boot properly ,

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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] xdabart:
I think in the original NAND release thread, Cotulla explains that a SD build (haret.exe) and a NAND build are very different, to use the SD boot option in MAGLDR, you need to put the content of a NAND build on the SD card, somehow...

edit: xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=10202441#post10202441
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ThaDeanesta:
I would like it if they could implement a better DFT installer, which had options such as

• Install to NAND

• Install to SD

• Customise partitions

• Multiboot

Instead of just being able to install to NAND. This way, we can have a single installer / release for both methods (and this would make it easier for chefs :) )
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] chris_ah1:
I think it's impossible to say for how long - but on Darkstone 1.5 RAM, and MDJ's HD4.6 I would find the signal to have disappeared at least once a day up to three times - requiring a reboot of the phone - airplane mode did not seem to work.

After reboot signal would return to full strength in the same exact spot.

Problem is the signal would be lost in a pocket or on my desk and you simply would not notice it until you went to use the device - in fact the first time I realised it was happening was because I was getting far fewer emails/smses and calls and the phone was utterly quiet - very peculiar for the holiday season and party planning.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jonny68:
I haven't as yet downloaded a NAND build although i may well do that this evening, however having downloading many different builds for Android over the last few months i can safely say Dark Stone's SUPERAM blows everything out of the water in terms of speed it really is very fast which IMO is very important.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] protomanez:
Alright, so I'm receiving my HD2 on monday and have downloaded the necessary tools in advance. I've downloaded HSPL3 and Radio Leo 2.15.50.14, but I was just wondering which I would flash first.

Would I flash the Radio first, or the HSPL first? After that is it safe to install MAGLDR?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bboyrazor:
Hi.

I know this might be a stupid question but how do you flash updates via fastboot??
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
extract the .img from the radio/recovery ect you want to flash, put the phone in fastboot mode and connect it to your pc, copy the .img file to the tools folder inside your android sdk, open a command prompt and navigate to the same tools folder. then use the command (example for a radio) fastboot flash radio xxxxxx.img :) if its a standard update.zip though just flash it through recovery.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bboyrazor:
Thanks alot buddy!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atmasphere:
For some reason my Nexus S will no longer go into recovery mode ... it only restarts the fastboot mode when selected. I'd like to get as fresh a start as I can here, but can't figure out how to get back into recovery mode to get a new image loaded.

I've got the stock-GRH78.zip which seems like the right place to start, but can't figure out how to reload it.

Thanks!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Moved to general :)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atmasphere:
thanks for the move ... hopefully someone will be able to help!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unremarked:
If the bootloader just reloads itself whenever you try to go into recovery, that means that the phone doesn't detect a recovery image. Check the top of your devices as well. In red colors, it should say something about not finding a recovery.

We don't have a true copy of the stock recovery, so you are going to have to use Clockwork Recovery in order to move forward from here. Google has not released the recovery files/rescue .zip so you're going to have to unlock the bootloader/root to fix this. Once you've flashed that on, then you can do a NAND restore of the stock 2.3.1 image linked in the stickied FAQ or in the development section.

EDIT: Just realized AllGamer made a way better step by step guide stickied at the top of this forum: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=895545
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atmasphere:
will run through this ... thanks. I don't see any mention of not finding a recovery image. Red just says Fastboot Mode and that my lock state is unlocked.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atmasphere:
still struggling along here ... in fastboot mode, I can't connect to my device to run commands so fastboot seems pretty impossible. I can connect when the phone is more fully booted, but you can't run (or I can't anyway) the fastboot commands ...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unremarked:
You need to install the drivers for fastboot to recognize the phone. Should be detailed in the link I gave you. If not, try the method below. It's what I used. not entirely sure if it will work for you, however.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=878786&highlight=pdanet
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atmasphere:
I'm on a Mac ... No drivers required as I can tell. It worked pre-root.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unremarked:
Eh, sorry, don't think I can suggest anything else. :/

What worked pre-root? ADB or Fastboot? They're different. Nothing happens when you type in "fastboot devices?" If fastboot doesn't work, I'm pretty sure you're toast. :/
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atmasphere:
Both commands work but not once I am booted in fastboot mode. Then I lose my connection from the desktop ...

... once rebooted, I am still unable to do anything from fastboot mode. ./adb devices shows nothing listed. added the cable once there, rather than with it connected to switch over. sigh.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
I often don't get a connection on the Mac unless I unplug it from USB and re-plug it in after I've entered fastboot.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atmasphere:
Yeah thanks I have tried that multiple times as well as used multiple ports and a USB hub. Maybe rebooting my Mac a few times will do something
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atmasphere:
when I do ./fastboot-mac devices I can actually see something ... that's got to be good! adb shows nothing in fastboot mode.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atmasphere:
resolved ...

courtesy of my waking up and of course the guidance here, I was able to sort this out by flashing over a recovery image via fastboot. I then used the GRH78 Nandroid backup to get my S back in order. whew!

thanks everyone!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
that is correct, ADB is more for when you are already BOOTed up on the phone

fastboot / fastboot-mac is for when you are in the BOOTloader screen

Just a suggestion, since you have a MAC

it'll be best if you set up a VMware WinXP machine set aside with USB enabled

you'll come across a lot of GUIDEs, HOWTOs and other references written for PC users.

LOL :p just saying that reminded me of the MAC & PC commercials :D
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
Kind of ironic that a linux/unix based phone doesn't have the best support for it on unix based computers like the Mac. :eek:

At least fastboot plays nicely with Androids on the Mac. The Galaxy S phones I've had forced me to find an old windows laptop to be able to use Odin.
[G Tablet General] Darkeyce:
I'm seriously confused about CIFS...

I'm new to Android, so i'm not sure what tools to use to accomplish certain tasks.

Here's my drama, I'm running TNT lite 3.1.4, i can see the CIFS.co file in the system folders, I set cifs up to use insmod and pointed it at the right path.

I can set up the share but no matter what i do i get a message that says "mounting has failed with an error Mount: no such device".

My shares are hosted on win7 x64 machines and a few Server 2008R2 boxes. If i use ES File Explorer i can see all drives (C$, etc) and explicitly naemd shares (Videos, Documents) but i can only successfully access explicitly named shares (with correct UID/PWD)

The same shares (User, Video, etc) accessed via CIFS yeilds that above error message...

I'm out of ideas. I believe others have this working...any thoughts?

-C
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
As much as things change around here I may be wrong but I don't think Roebeet put the Cifs kernel into TnTLite. I think that is one of the things he left for the user to patch. There is a Cifs kernel patch for TnTLite in one of these threads that will likely fix what you have going on.. It acts just like that when it is not there... You are using something like CIFS manager to set things up right?
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
The CIFS module doesn't work with the default TnT kernel - I added it just so the user had it available to them in case they added a customized kernel that could use it.

You should consider it unusable OOTB.
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
In case you search and don't find it....

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=889088
[G Tablet General] Darkeyce:
I feel kinda dumb now...i saw the thread with the patch but assumed it was only for full STOCK TNT, then when i saw the CIFS.KO file in the TNTlite folders i thought it was active.

I'll try the 3389 CIFS patch on TNT lite (which is what i think is being suggested) and i should be good to go.

thanks all.
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
Yep.. The latest TnTLite is built from 3389 so the TnT patch will do the trick...
[G Tablet General] vsc:
The kernel I posted for TnTL has CIFS built in, thus the kernel module roebeet include is not required. Grab CIFSManager and use UMASK=0755 as the option.

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[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
Is that the same as this one?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=889088

I don't want to lead anyone on a goose chase if there is a specific TnTLite build... If it is in the middle of the big thread then maybe you could put it somewhere more obvious maybe? I seem to remember post 195 from somewhere?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Tobseren:
Good evening everybody. I had installed NAND Android 2.2 on my HTC HD2 yesterday. Everything has worked fine, everything exceeded expectations, but today, something happened. I had to turn off my phone and find my SIM card to enter the SIM number, because i had to switch operator, but when I turned the phone again, the backlight would not work! If I keep the phone under lights, I could still see the menus, etc. What could be wrong? The light in the hardware buttons still lit.

Tobseren
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Macelangelo77:
Try to turn up the backlight or switch auto backlight on. I've had it on a different build, when sliding auto backlight completely down, it turned of my backlight completely, allthough I could still see the display under a light.

Sincerely,

Mac
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Tobseren:
Thanks for the suggestion. But it did not work unfortunately. I found out that when I put the phone to charge, the little red LED does not light up. I'll try to install Windows Mobile again and then install NAND Android again, maybe it will work.

Greetings Tobseren
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Tobseren:
I have now installed Windows Mobile on the phone and the screen lights up again. I would therefore suggest that the recently released Android version of Cotulla has a bug. Or could it be my phone that there is an error?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Macelangelo77:
You're the first one I know who has this issue, so it's to soon to call it a bug. Why don't you give it another try? Could have been a bad flash.

Sincerely,

Mac
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Tobseren:
I found out it had nothing to do with NAND Android. After searching on other threads here, I found that it is the motherboard that has some bugs. It was thus that the backlight would not work (because of "microperror") and that the phone would not turn on again until it had been without a battery through the night. I sent it in to my carrier, which I hope will replace my motherboard and not say it is a water damage! What could be typical of them to say.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Tobseren
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Macelangelo77:
Glad you figured it out. Hopefully you'll get it (or a replacement) back soon, so you can play along :)

Sincerely,

Mac