yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mattfmartin:
Raiderx uploaded a rom in zip format. Can't you guys just take that and compare it to another build to see the differences?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] rafpigna:
The big issue to converting a NAND to UPDATE.ZIP is not about the files (just unpack boot.img and system.img and put the contents in the relative folders) but making the updater scripts specially for symlinks that ZIP not support so is needed that symlink are deleted and recreated on-the.fly by the updater script

updater scripts are under META-INF folder in the zip
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DroidTh3ory:
My head just exploded.. LMAO. but Seriously, I see what your saying. Any tips on updating the Scripts? Would starting from a SD or RAM build be a better way to start?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mazda:
LOL...I have to agree once more with DroidTh3ory because my head just started to hurt when I started reading all of that.......I think this is the reason even more why we need a Developers hand in all of this. I know we are all looked at as little vampires that suck the very last drop out of what you guys have to offer but we would honestly would love to help instead of just coming on here to download stuff and complain about how this doesn't work and that doesn't work and just be a pain in the devs butt........So if any Developer is watching from up above....PLEASE, show us the way...LMAO
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Scabes24:
I would say since raf explained the basics for converting nand to update.zip that nand would be a good place to start :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] rafpigna:
Sorry guys

to make the updater scripts you have to understand a little bit about symlinks and packing/unpacking stuff.. otherwise will be a lot difficult

basically you just need to unpack the .img files and put the contents in the folders. than you need to creat/modify the scripts for the META-INF folder, that basically are different for any build.

that's it.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] 2happy:
its always nice to see members helping each other.after all the devs are done marvellous job in recent days.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mazda:
Ok Rafpigna....here's what I got in my update script that I put together the best I can using other update scripts from different ROMS and builds that I've collected in the last 3 months.

show_progress 0.1 10

run_program PACKAGE:remtool.sh

copy_dir PACKAGE:system SYSTEM:

show_progress 0.2 40

copy_dir PACKAGE:data DATA:

show_progress 0.3 80

copy_dir PACKAGE:sdcard SDCARD:

show_progress 0.4 100

If there anything I should include or take out or should I go and jump off a building now?...LMAO
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mattfmartin:
Hehe.........
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mazda:
Ok so after I put my update.zip together and thought I was on top of the world......I get the stupid NAND Kernel open failed message that I got last time....I don't know what I'm doing wrong...this sucks!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] 2happy:
ok i changed it;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mazda:
Ok so I got somewhere....in the middle of all of this mess that I've created, I manage to basically extract a custom rom like JDMS....edit it to where I like it and then create a system.img and got it to load perfectly as if it was the original that was created by the developer of JDMS.

I know...I know...this isn't what I set out to do but what I did do was create a loop hole where normal "brainless" mortals such as myself can take a custom rom and run it on the HD2 without waiting around the computer hitting the F5 button in hopes that some Developer is going to release a rom at 2:45 in the morning...LOL....

Here's what I did....I used wunyaffs which is basically just like unyaffs but it runs perfectly on Windows to extract the original system.img that was created by the Developer....once extracted...I created a folder on the desktop called system1.

I then used another program called Gizmo Manager...NO, not Gizmodo....LOL....that program lets you mount images and input things on to it but I didn't do that....I used Gizmo to create an image and I set the size at 150mb. I then took everything I had in system1 and placed it onto the image that is currently mounted on.....once I did that...I took a few files that I previously edited while creating a theme and placed it with the files I just place on......once I did that....I just unmounted the image and flashed it with the tools that the DFT team has provided the community with.

Hope I didn't confuse anyone.....Oh and I'm still working on trying to create a ZIP that works...LOL

The two programs I was talking about can be downloaded by just googling them real quick.....let me know if you run into a wall...:)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] rafpigna:
not a good think

using windows screw up all your permissions on files. not a good idea.

Android = linux

if you want to mess up with android, you NEED linux.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mazda:
It booted up just fine....I was able to call...installed Angry Birds and I'm playing it as we speak....No disrespect but, what are you talking about?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] singcheng:
will ubuntu on windows do the job?

or we have to have a pure linux machine?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] boldman78:
LOL LOL

LOL :D:D:D:D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mattfmartin:
You can do it through windows using a virtual machine
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Karcus:
OK so RaiderX303 already did it. Lets ask him instead.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] RaiderX303:
unlike making a standard nand build, you can use windows to make update.zip files as when the files are compressed into a zip anyway all permissions are set to 755, the updater sets any required permissions during the flashing, no version of linux is required. in the update.zip there is 3 folders, boot, system and META-INF, for the boot folder you put the zImage and initrd.gz in there, in the system you put the contents of the system partition in there, and the META-INF contains the updater-script to tell the recovery what to do with the files, you can just use the META-INF from my released ROM for any rom released, the zips DO NOT need to be signed before they can be flashed.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] 2happy:
its very nice of you to join the lads for a help.deeply appreciated for leading the way to make a better rom for the forum.:)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DroidTh3ory:
Go mazdarider... I went to bed and woke to you putting it together. I was on it for a couple hours last night and I can not get past the error system.img appears to be a .tar, it is supported but failed to extract. There are many days I miss my mac. I still have 2 days off so i am going to continue to figure this out.

Raiderx, thank you for dumbing it down for us. I noticed when I tore your .ZIP build apart there were the 3 folders. I have one question about the META... Is that all script only, can that be a universal folder to span across the builds being put together or are there things that would need to be edited per build... (i.e) file names for build, build mold (Sense/Vanilla/Etc). Or is the flashing procedure universal?

Thanks to everyone will to help.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] kazuni:
Nice development thread here. I'm heading home now and I'd like to pull down a couple of builds and start messing around with the kitchen so that I can convert a couple of NAND builds into update.zip's. Glad that they do not need to be signed. I'd probably start off with a few DesireHD / CM / Z builds =)

As I can recall, there was a few SD builds that actually uses ~500MB system.img images; that'd be a nice place to start off with data.img on SD builds for update.zip formats as well....

But let's not get way too ahead of us now, I'll start off with the smaller ones first =)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DroidTh3ory:
The more the merrier!!! With the Introduction of CWMR.... I see NO benefits to NAND??? Damn, I can download and flash a new ROM in my car, make a NANDROID Backup, and pull off the simple stuff like Clearing Cache, Dalvik, etc. ALL FROM MY PHONE WITH NO PC REQUIRED!! Everything I used to love about the DEV community with my N1, Vibrant, MT4G, Etc. Yesterday... It became offically ON!! LOL.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] orangekid:
wait, there's a clockword mod recovery for HD2??
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DroidTh3ory:
LOL, Yes sir.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=898913
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DroidTh3ory:
I am having a hell of a time with the system.img and boot.img files... Nothing but errors trying to extract them. I have tried 3 different programs that supposedly support both .tar and .img?

And I am out of coffee.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Digital Outcast:
You will need yaffs and squashfs tools... what programs are you using?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DroidTh3ory:
I am forced to lean on Windows programs.. I have a Corp laptop and setting up virtual for Linux is a no, no. There has to be a way to extract these images without going to linux.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mazda:
DroidTh3ory....if extracting the images is what you're trying to do...why not try wunyaffs? Do you need me to upload it for you to use or have you already tried it before?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Unconn:
Sorry. Wrong thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10323548&postcount=94
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mazjed:
what a thread ............amazing

Hi Every body

i was impressed of what you are thinking to do relay brilliant

OK my question might be so bump for some off you > but forgive me

cause its gos in posit direction

what is the best way to make a NAND build works form ram or even SD

thanks in advanced .
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Unconn:
Actually this might be valid for this thread... it may or may not help, but it gets you A Nandroid restore from any running NAND ROM.

If you want to create a CW Backup image from any NAND install: You should have your NAND ROM running on your phone, follow the directions in my link, but make sure to "Reset to factory settings" before making a second backup (The one you will share).

The files will then be on your SD card in ./clockworkmod/backup/%date-time%

It is not an update.zip, but it would be restorable by any of us running CW. See the link and let me know if this helps at all.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jpyper:
What about using Cygwin?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DroidTh3ory:
Thanks, I will check this out!!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mazda:
Well DroidTh3ory...I figured out how to do it. I took HD2ONE's RAMZIP and extracted the META-INF folder and placed it inside another folder that contained the sytem folder(with JDMS's system files) and the boot folder with the zimage and initrd.gz files and I ziped the entire folder and named it update. I then took my autosign.bat file and signed it and just place it on my SD card and it booted up just fine. The only thing I saw that was different was that HD2ONE took the META-INF files from the DESIRE SENSE ROMZIP so when you boot up your ROMZIP if you use my method, it'll say Welcome to DESIRE SENSE but that's nothing....nobody cares about that right??

Let me know if you need the autosign tool and I'll upload it for you or you can google it if you want...LOL

[EDIT]

Oh this is somewhat important and I completely forgot to mention...when you transfer over the system files....leave out the xbin folder and just use HD2ONE's xbin files....for some reason, I couldn't get it to boot up with JDMS's xbin files so I just left it alone and used HD2ONE and it worked just fine.....AND ANOTHER THING...if someone DOES care that it says Welcome to DESIRE SENSE or whatever...you can change that in the updater-script...just place it inside notepad or whatever and change it to whatever you want it to say....and then just save it as is...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DroidTh3ory:
Damn, Great work. So basically, if we use the META-INF, and the Boot folders we can substitute any system folder and ZIP it?

The autosign tool would be great so I know I have the right one.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mazda:
Here you go....

I attached both the autosign tool and I also attached the META-INF files just in case you didn't have it so that way you don't have to download the entire ROM......let me know if you need anything else or help doing whatever.

Just keep in mind that with the autosign tool...you need to have the android SDK installed along with JAVA and once you start up the autosign tool with admin rights of course....just press 1...let that run is course and then 2...and 3 and then place the folder inside the autosign folder and use the 4 option....
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DroidTh3ory:
Very cool... SDK and JAVA DEV is in... My mission is to take the NAND MDJ GINGERBREAD 1.3 and create a flashable... Now that we have the direction to do it, I just need to can the System.IMG extracted. The 1.4 is too buggy at the moment.

Hell of a job banging this out!!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mazda:
I need me a copy of that Gingerbread 1.3 as well....mind if you upload it somewhere like megaupload or rapidshare so we can all eat brother...LOL.....you have the wunyaffs tool right in order to extract the system.img?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jrip777:
I've been following this thread and become quite interested. Sorry if I missed this or not but was the JDMS build that you did convert successfully was that a NAND build or a SD build?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DroidTh3ory:
I have the wunyaffs tool but I am having a hell of a time using it. I will upload the 1.3 and post a link.. Give me 10.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mazda:
It was the NAND version.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mazda:
Take you time man.....I've got all day...lol
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mazda:
This is a lot of fun....LOL

I'm flashing the iNexus Rom.....I just replaced the framework-res.apk file along with a few others but is should work....will update after I check it out a bit further, make sure there ain't no bugs or anything....hahahaha

[EDIT]

It didn't work...I got a boot loop cluster and I tried to fix it and ended up in a mess....back to what was working...JDMS ROMZIP
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DroidTh3ory:
Here, Your mission if you choose to accept it. LOL

MDJGingy1.3NAND

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OMD62WTN
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ChriGothiMark:
Does all work?? and the data.img is supported?? thx buddy
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Digital Outcast:
I've been trying to do this all day as well. Right now I'm working on "CMYLXGO's Desire HD - NAND Edition v1.2n"...

I unyaffs the system.img, build the zipfile structure, tried several different meta-inf folders, zip it up, sign it and flash it via recovery... and it sits on the initial bootup screen. If I do a logcat during bootup it shows the message:

link_image[1995]: failed to link /system/bin/sh
CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE

I wonder if it has anything to do with the squashedfs in that build. I've tried both unsquashing it and leaving it squashed to the same effect.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DroidTh3ory:
It works... that is the 1.3 version. Prior to m_deejay switching to CM. My favorite ROM... I am just not going back to MAGLDR.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mazda:
Thanks for the upload dude!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mazda:
It depends...what META-INF file are you using. I'm not an expert (I'll be the first to admit that..) but I know that if you use a META-INF file from a CM6. whatever rom you can't use it with a SENSE Rom like I tried to use the HD2ONE META-INF file with Mdeejay's eVo Sense v.2.3 ROM and it failed just like yours did....it was stuck on the black screen with the green letter HTC......so that might have something to do with it....I know you said you tried different ones but try one that is almost similar to it....if not then you'll properly have to create one using that dsixda kitchen.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DroidTh3ory:
I am getting somewhere.. I am putting together what you may call a frankenstien ROM. LOL. Started with Gingerbread 1.3 from MDJ, with somethings that are getting fixed from 1.4. I may need to jump to 1.4 because of his switch to CM7??? 12:00am and fixes started to happen. LOL

I will be sure to update and let anybody who dares to try it. :) Ahhh Nothing to be scared of with Nandroid on your side.

How about you mazdarider? News? updates?
[Droid 2 General] swimman2867:
I am running fission 2.4.3 on my d2 and have been trying out a lot of different themes simply installing each over the other. When I finally found one that I liked, I went to flash my non-themed 2.4.2 backup so that I could start fresh. However, upon bootup, my camera and camcorder apps couldn't be found anywhere on the phone.

Please help because I miss my camera :(
[Droid 2 General] rusty815:
Install the multimedia package from frm
[Droid 2 General] swimman2867:
I saw this add on in frm and was wondering if it would be the fix. I will dl right away.

Any ideas on why I didn't need to do this on the first go around?
[Folio 100 Themes and Apps] Mr. Clown:
Welcome to the themes and apps forum created for the Toshiba Folio 100.

I am Mr. Clown your Forum Moderator.

If you have any problems with this forum or suggestions to make, please contact me. I cannot promise to act on every suggestion that is made but it will receive my attention and my best effort.

Thanks
[Droid X General] blackarsenic:
I have Gummy Jar 2.5 and I can't seem to find the stock video player. Everytime I want to watch a video my only options are the players I downloaded or movie or camera options. I'd appreciate it thanks, love the DX.
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
For gummy, I'm not sure if you will be able to use the stock apk (not sure off the top of my head what it is...). But I'm pretty sure Gummy is stripped of blur, and this would be a blur component... Making it difficult to try and just put back in.

Could be wrong tho...
[Droid X General] blackarsenic:
That sucks. There's no way to use the HDMI feature then.
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
True. Check out this thread...talks about X roms with hdmi support:

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-x-roms/107486-roms-hdmi-support.html
[Droid X General] raziel36:
Many apps/games have no problem auto-scaling, but some of the most used apps/games on my phone just don't play well with my 190 density. Is there any way to force scaling or would I just have to resort to begging the app developers to implement a fix? I love my 6 rows of space, using LPP, and would hate going back to the ugly 800x600 Windows PC look lol
[Droid X General] Jiggity Janx:
Don't mean to thread-jack, but I'm assuming you are using a ROM that has a different dialer than stock? Otherwise, can you tell me how you got it to work with a different density? TIA
[Droid X General] zehkaiser:
In Spare Parts (comes with most custom ROMs, or download from market) at the bottom uncheck the "Compatibility Mode" option. Reboot your phone.
[EVO 4G General] njfoses:
Noticed in spare parts today that google voice had partial wake lock time of close to 60 min? I did receive a few txt via my gv number but certainly not anything close to 60 min worth. Anybody else every experience this with google voice?
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
I don't know about that specifically but I can say that Google Voice is the only app to ever give an alert, with out having froze/force close, for breaking my CPU usage limits on watchdog.

Honestly, it seems like the Google Voice app is overall pretty low quality.

Practically every update breaks it and causes performance decreases that render it virtually unusable. Thus causing a need for another update.
[EVO 4G General] drmacinyasha:
Go into the Applications>Services and kill the Widget Service. Nobody knows why, but that's what causes the wakelock.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
Will this effect, in anyway, the functionality of Google Voice?

[Not speaking about the widget, obviously]
[EVO 4G General] drmacinyasha:
Nope! No effect whatsoever.
[EVO 4G General] njfoses:
As soon as i receive a txt through gv the service starts back up again. Any will to kill the service completely without installing a task killer type app?
[EVO 4G General] Hrshycro:
I have to agree. I've noticed this as well and its chopped about 4 hours off of my battery life, if not more.

Every update makes GVoice worse! More FCs, more battery suckage, have to clear the data and force close it to actually get it to work sometimes. Complete ****, but it has been for the past 3 updates.
[EVO 4G General] drmacinyasha:
Not that I know of. :(
[EVO 4G General] njfoses:
Its a shame an app produced by google themselves has this type of problem.
[EVO 4G General] tfhiv:
Google voice has been keeping my partial awake time waaaay up (as viewed in spare parts) over the last week. On the days where google voice stays awake, my battery time is cut by 4-6 hours. When I catch it, I usually reboot and am ok the rest of the day but by then I've killed a lot of battery. I have never used a task killer but at debating downloading one just for this reason.

Anyone have any thoughts? Is a task killer ok for this purpose?

Thanks!

Evo 4G, 0002

EViO 2 v1.7.6

ziggy kernal that came with that ROM build

Oh, and I'm not using the gv widget.
[Android Apps and Games] Haimi_2011:
Hi, this is the way, I have a iPhone 4, is a frequently used single. (So I Spotify

Streaming media directly to my airport express) I think this is a wonderful feature.

Now I'm thinking of buying a Andriod phone to my boyfriend.
[Android Apps and Games] Javi97100:
Probably the motorola backflip on att
[Android Apps and Games] RisinT96:
I think the HTC wildfire will be fine for you, i was going to buy it but i decided to buy something bigger with a better proceccor (800MHz instead of 512MHz), and there is one more small problem in this device : the resolution of the screen is 240X320 even if the screen is 3.2" (The screen is a bit big for such a resolution it would be better if they put 320X480), but all the other things in this device are great as many reviewers said.
[Android Apps and Games] dEris:
Huawei Ascend from cricKet. $129 no contract.

[ Sent from my Huawei Ascend | MyAscend.org ]
[Android Apps and Games] Wharmaster:
)

This. 600mhz processor stock, no contract, unlimited text, talk and internet in 50 states. A little tweaking and this phone becomes a little beast :)
[Android Apps and Games] dEris:
Yea, it's a nice phone for the price for sure.

[ Sent from my Huawei Ascend | MyAscend.org ]
[Android Apps and Games] vijay555:
In the UK, the Orange San Francisco (a ZTE Blade) is great.

Higher resolution (480x800), overclockable and nicely moddable. Runs Froyo very well. Modaco has a nice kitchen going on.

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/orange-san-francisco-901915/review

V
[Android Apps and Games] 22VIN:
Samsung I5500 Galaxy 5 looks really nice and in Romania it costs ~140eur no contract. But it lacks multitouch and proximity sensor.