yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] txtsd:
So my college didn't cancel my scholarship, and I have some extra money on my hand now that I want to buy a new phone with.

I have AT&T phone service, and I'm using an unlocked Xperia X1 with it.

I want to buy a new badass android preferably with a big screen, that uses SIM cards so I can use it on my AT&T network. I don't care about mechanical keyboards since I'll be using Swype, and 4G is a plus!

Suggest me some phones! gogogo!
[General Questions and Answers] Dirk:
Are there Phones that don't use SIM cards??

The HTC Thunderbolt looks all kinds of awesome and is coming soon.
[General Questions and Answers] txtsd:
CDMA phones like the Evo 4G doesn't use SIM cards.
[General Questions and Answers] orb3000:
HTC Desire Z and HD
[General Questions and Answers] txtsd:
It's coming soon, idk if I want to wait too long.

I'm considering the HD, since it's decent.

Keep them recommendations coming!
[General Questions and Answers] Dirk:
There are a whole host of new devices coming soon, including dual core phones.

Have a look at sites like Android Community and read their coverage of the recent CES show. There were so many new high-end devices launched it makes my head spin!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avtaxi:
Help

I was trying to unlock my phone and i accidently locked it to another network t959d(telus version of galaxy s) How do I undo this. Am in desparate need of help

Thanks very much

I have backed up efs folder on the computer but do not know how to restore it
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djfoo000:
Hi I plan to unroot my phone for warranty purposes.

I'm using a Desire Z with

baseband: 12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.26_M

build: 1.34.707.5 CL273326 release-keys

I've rooted the phone using gfree method.

This is what I plan to do:

1) Restore back to stock ROM (done)

2) Restore stock recovery.

- i have extracted the recovery.img from this RUU:

RUU_Vision_HTC_WWE_1.34.405.5_Radio_12.28b.60.140e _26.03.02.26_M_release_155556_signed.exe

- Will be flashing using this guide:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=902493&highlight=flash_image

-Yet to flash that .img

3) S-on.

- Using this guide:

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Turning_S-On

4) Restore factory settings.

I have extracted the .img from the RUU i mentioned. My question is whether that .img is flashable on all Desire Zs because it is the same RUU that was featured in the rooting procedure for build 1.72.

I understand that there has been a lot of unrooting threads, but none seem to deal specifically with the compatibility of the recovery image.

Any help is much appreciated.

I'm not sure that if I just skip to S-on then the custom recovery (CWM in this case) will not show up. Does it?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djfoo000:
Can anyone help?

I just need to know whether recovery images from different Vision RUUs (except TMOUS ones) are identical and flashable on any Desire Z.

As mentioned I already have a stock recovery.img from a 1.34 RUU, but the location ID might not be the same. Are stock recovery images dependent on location IDs?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keinengel:
The recovery should be completely independent from the CID. If the partitioning scheme is the same (and you can check that by verifying if the sizes of the images that make up your original ROM and those of the RUU are identical) you should be fine.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djfoo000:
Cool. I went ahead with flashing the stock recovery and sure enough my phone isn't bricked and when I boot into recovery, it is of a red triangle.

Weirdly enough ROM Manager still tells me I have CWM 2.5.1.3 though...

Guess ppl can start using that recovery.img as a stock recovery.

Thanks a thousand times!

EDIT:

I tried to S-On using the guide on the Wiki but it did not work.

So i tried using terminal emulator to do the following:

sure enough when i booted into (trackpad + power button) i see it say s-on.

Am i officially 'unrooted' now?

There was supposed to be a 'sync' command after './gfree -s on', but I forgot to do it. Am I still good to go?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keinengel:
You're okay. The sync command makes sure the caches are written to disk, but since you are S-ON it means they were written.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djfoo000:
so if it so happened this phone gets returned to me after warranty claims, so I just

# cd /data/local

# chmod 777 gfree

# ./gfree -s off

to turn it s-off again? Or do I need to go through running rage again?

UPDATE: Got my phone back. Had to re-root the phone all the way from running rage.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djfoo000:
weirdly enough, although the bootloader screen shows S-on, I am still able to use shootme? This means I'm still rooted, am I right?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keinengel:
Yup. Remove the Superuser app and it at least shouldn't be as obvious that you're rooted :D
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djfoo000:
hrmm superuser doesn't seem to be removable by conventional means... I don't remember installing it either. When I push it to the phone, I pushed it to the sdcard. Now i booted the phone without the sdcard, but superuser is still there...

Do I restore factory settings instead?

EDIT: nvm, Factory reset-ed. Everything looked factory. Wish me luck.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemm:
Nice, glad everything worked out...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testerman123:
djfoo000, glad it all worked out for you.

I have a Bell Desire Z, like yours and wanted to do something similar. While your steps are clear, i just wanted to confirm a few points:

1. In your very first post, when you said "Restore back to stock ROM (done)" i am guessing (99% sure) you meant that you restored back the ROM which you had backed up right after you installed ClockworkMod? Or did you use some other ROM image?

2. So even after you used gfree to turn back S-ON, you still had root privileges because of Superuser. How about after you did the factory reset, which presumably removed Superuser - did you still have root privileges?

3. Would it be possible for you to upload the stock recovery img file somewhere? If not, its okay as well.

Thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djfoo000:
1) Yes. That stock ROM i mentioned was of a nandroid backup that restored everything prior to flashing a ROM that restored everything including apps and an unfinished Angry Birds (haha), instead of a clean one.

2) Yeah weirdly enough ShootMe still snaps screenshots. My guess is that root access is needed to install shootme as a system app and is not required beyond that. So even after s-on, shootme continues to operate due to it already being in the system app folder.

After I factory reset-ed, superuser and terminal emulator was gone. Since I was in a hurry to return the phone to the dealer I did not bother to download terminal emulator to input the 'su' command to check for root privileges. Sorry if it did not answer your question regarding root after factory reset.

3) Here's the file I extracted:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K8DVSNLX

I'm not 100% sure if it'll work on other Desire Zs since mine was not a carrier branded Desire Z.

Best of luck!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testerman123:
Excellent. Thanks djfoo000.

Couple of more questions -

1. do you know of any way for me to backup my existing recovery? I still havent installed CwM or other recovery image on my Desire Z (still stock).

Fastboot has commands to erase the recovery or flash a new one, but nothing that i could find to backup current recovery.

2. Also, would having S-ON and CID as 111111111 have any impact on doing a factory reset through stock recovery on the stock ROM? I dont think it will turn S-OFF and even more unlikely that it will change the CID, but will it do anything else? like go into a boot loop or some other weird thing?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djfoo000:
lol i'm a noob user just like you. I just happen to gather enough info to do what I wanted to do.

1) I have no idea of a way to backup the stock recovery. Maybe searching the phone for a recovery.img (if there ever is one in the phone) and pull that?

2) I dunno anything about CIDs...

Might need help from other senior users from the forums.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
1. There may well be a stock ROM/RUU image that you can pull that stock recovery from, as you've mentioned above. Or if not, you could always "dd" the recovery partition to back it up, though I double that will be necessary.

2. Did you mean S-OFF ? No, it won't have any impact, the factory reset won't touch the radio config partition, which is where S-OFF, SuperCID etc are stored.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testerman123:
Thanks djfoo000 for trying - you have been helpful.

Steviewevie, thanks for responding.

I think dd would be the answer as well, now the only question is where is the recovery located? like the "if=" parameter.

After that off to the races with CwM (and a nandroid backup of my existing firmware, of course), and a custom ROM! Steviewevie and djfoo000 - didnt notice a mention of any custom roms you guys were using. any suggestions?

Edit:

Looked around a little bit to see what the if parameter would be.

when i did

$ su

# cat /proc/mtd

under adb shell and terminal emulator, i did not get a list of partitions.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testerman123:
BUMP!! anyone?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ianmcquinn:
The G2 does not use raw flash, so partitions will not show up as mtd devices. You should be able to do a

# cat /proc/emmc

if you are just trying to see the partition map...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testerman123:
Thanks ianmcquinn! That worked great.

Got my hboot, recovery and boot backed up just in case.

The curious thing, though, is that the stock unbranded recovery from 1.34.405.5 RUU that djfoo uploaded is only 3.85MB, while my backed up recovery is 8.5MB. whats up with that?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djfoo000:
i can confirm that when I flash the recovery.img i uploaded, the unrooting works fine. And it is 3.85MB as mentioned.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arpitnathany:
thanks for this thread.

flashing the original recover was the only way i could get the new ota update to install (1.82.720.1).

clockwork recovery wouldnt let me flash the ota and i didn't want to instal the wwe ruu (i am from india).

i do not care much for root but i still have s-off after the flash.

thanks everyone on this thread.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lloll:
Hi guys

i do the same thing as he but when i type the last line on terminal emulator <./gfree -s on> i get this message :

attemptin to power cycle eMMC....failed

module failed to power cycle eMMC.

HOW can i solve this problem?

by the way i tried wiki's guide for s-on my device but it didn't work....

please HELP ME ...........:(:(:(
[Fascinate General] fupamobile:
got this phone about 2 months ago.

went and did the the tutorial "HOW TO ROOT..." etc: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=798064

when i did it, it told me to install voodoo so i did. I dont even know if i have voodoo4 or voodoo5.

luckily everything went fine.I came back to the site today just to see if there was anything new on here.

then i read this that was a response in the stickies: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=869370

seems like voodoo sucks and i dont even really need it.

questions:

1)since i have voodoo on here, is there anything that I should NOT do?

2)how can i find out if i have 4 or 5

3)I went to the "completely remove voodoo" thread and at the top it says that it will wipe all my data off my phone if i remove it. WTF?? no contacts or apps??

4)someone said geekniks kernals are better. should i get rid of voodoo and get that instead? do i even need it?

5)what exactly is a rom

6)what is the benefits/dangers of putting on a rom like "superclean"(got the most votes)

7)can someone define what dj01 dj05 and dj09 are?? also define what adb is?

8) have there been any OTA updates? i havent gotten any notifications.

9)will going back to stock also erase all my data?

i know its a lot but i really need help. thank you!
[Fascinate General] Ahodson1985:
www.google.com

Sent from my sch-i500
[Fascinate General] kmalinich:
hey, at least it's in the general section..not development.
[Fascinate General] neh4pres:
Voodoo is the greatest thing sense sliced bread... Far better than stock.. If your gonna just start flashing things based on other ppls opinions rather than a need or want of different functionalities. Then there is no reason for you to flash anything.. Until a need rises, or you research something that you feel will add to your experience. Stick with what you have..

Rocking dj05 and jt's voodoo 5
[Fascinate General] fupamobile:
anyone else want to help?
[Fascinate General] jselden:
3. Yes it will remove all apps, contacts and data. You can always use Titanium Backup and restore later.

4. Its all about need and preference. All the devs work hard on all of their kernels. They are all good, it is what you need. I have not found a need yet so i am still running stock DL09 rooted and themed.

6. Benefits of putting a custom rom is user experience, AOSP rom will give you the closest experience to stock android that Samsung hasn't screwed with and made it worse.

7. The difference between these are updates pushed out from samsung and verizon. DJ05 was never released officially but the devs here made it work great. Fixed issues like GPS. They are all Maintenance releases though that are not necessary but usually helpful.

8. DI01 and DL09 are OTA updates. You did not get them because you are rooted and running a custom rom.

9. You pretty much asked in 3. But yes it will format to a stock image.

10. Do your research next time. All the info has been posted here in all of the threads, multiple times. I am more than willing to answer, but like everyone says, use the search button going forward.

11. As stated above you should not modify what you have unless you have a need for it or actually a use. My phone is rooted, themed, and modified in other various ways. My Wifes is bone stock and doesn't want me to touch it.(Even though she gets pissed off at the lag.) Always make a backup with Rom manager and Titanium Backup in case sh!t goes wrong.
[Fascinate General] onemotodroid:
Leave your phone as is.

BE HAPPY!!

Take two weeks to do a lot of reading before making anymore changes.
[Fascinate General] fupamobile:
shouldnt i have at least gotten a verizon message telling me of the update?

how should i go about keeping my phone up to date now?

Dont I have to know which version I have before I put kernals and roms on here? How do i go about doing that?

my gps sux!
[Galaxy Tab General] drksilenc:
Ok im trying to get the samsung kies app store because i hear they have a working version of nfs shift.

I would like to play it because i payed for it.

I know it says doesnt work on galaxy tab but what im trying to figure out where all these people on youtube are getting working versions from and i see that alot of them have gotten it from there.
[Galaxy Tab General] brilldoctor:
The samsung apps on the device. I dont use nfs shift since you cant change the control type
[Galaxy Tab General] ronjon31:
yeah just go to samsung apps on your tab and download a working and free version of NFS shift.
[Galaxy Tab General] drksilenc:
ok im guessing sprint removed it because i do not have a samsung app except for media hub
[Galaxy Tab General] zomnia2:
Hi, kai v2 does not connect good with the tab-slow and poor ui.also cannot tether(?). Uninstalled and back with old version 1.5. Can download 98mb for about 15 min using kai v1.5. An hour or 2 using normal laptop connection!!!!

Other members may have different experience though.
[Galaxy Tab General] brilldoctor:
The one in kies is for bada
[Galaxy Tab General] vtikha:
Its on samsung apps on the device itself. The download is big (100+Mb) so better be on wifi.
[Galaxy Tab General] drksilenc:
meh wish that us carriers didnt strip it from the device...
[EVO 4G General] web1b:
Stitcher Radio is the only audio app I'm using. I haven't even saved any MP3 files to the phone since I did a hard reset. AVRCP bluetooth control through Stitcher Radio was working fine until the last update and now AVRCP works only sporadically with the app. Apparently part of the reason has something to do with HTC's music player hogging the controls even if you never use the player.

Is there any way to find out if that's really the cause and if so, fix this or disable the HTC media player?

I'm hoping Stitcher radio fixes this, but maybe this problem is a result of them trying to fix Stitcher hanging on to AVRCP controls previously.

I know there is an AVRCP control app in the market for the HTC Hero "headset button fix" for this very problem, but it isn't for the EVO and it would be pretty kludgy to have to repeatedly run an app as a workaround for this defect.

This is was someone from Stitcher support said:

Why does anything need to be a permanent default for AVRCP anyway? That's really dumb design!! It should only be the controller when the app is playing.

This is driving me to the iPhone because I use Stitcher for my daily commute every day and it is such a distracting and annoying problem to have AVRCP fail so often.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] dsimages:
I guess i will start this one...

Current Setup..

Last two setups..
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] lolo33:
:D
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] DmMc:
Cool! Can you describe launchers and widgets used?
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] eku:
Great theme!!

could you tell us the programs that u use?

Thanks
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] lbhocky19:
The white honeycomb is awesome
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] anurbanlegend:
Cool homescreens! I would BEG of you if you are going to post your homescreen, please describe the widgets/icons etc you are using... will save every other post being a 'hey what widget is that?'. :)
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] dsimages:
I posted a HD wallpaper pack in this thread.

Read the thread you will learn how to apply the images properly.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] lolo33:
Fancy meteo

SiMi Clock

SiMi Folder
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] JeG81:
i cannot post external links yet, so find screenshots attached to this post :D

apps:

LauncherPro Plus

Beautiful Widgets

Minimalistic Text (a lot of it!)

SwitchPro Widget

Folder Organizer

Desktop Visualizer

icons:

LauncherPro Icons

icons.mysitemyway.com
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] sondeu:
- Launcher Pro

- Circle Battery Widget

- Minimalistic Text

- Snowstorm

- OneSeven

- HG/Icons from http://hd2.meinblog.us/

another:

Cya, here, @archosfans.com or android-hilfe.de :D
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] jakkrith:
Very nice wallpaper.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] lolo33:
Yes, similar to the new Asus EeePAD. :D

If you want this wallpaper in different sizes.

www.wallpaperweb.org/wallpaper/3d_landscape/afternoon-shadows_1600x1200_34483.htm
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] jakkrith:
Home Screen

Special Thank to lolo33 for very nice wallpaper. :D

Other Screen
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] F-GT:
How'd you get your fonts like that ?
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] lolo33:
It's just icon for SiMi Folder.

www.droid-den.com/android-guides/android-asmoothstar-icon-set
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] Tzbob:
Thought I'd join in, Archos 43IT so I usually hold it in portrait.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] xkdm:
I present you my archos 28.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] macemoneta:
The icons on the top left called Multimedia, Network, Organization, Games and Tools are provided by the 'Apps Organizer':

http://www.appbrain.com/app/apps-organizer/com.google.code.appsorganizer

This lets you label applications, and then display those labels on your desktop. It's conceptually similar to placing applications into folders, but with the added benefits of automatic sort, custom icons, and the ability to associate multiple labels with an app.

The little green android guy in the center left is a widget provided by the Advanced Task Killer:

http://www.appbrain.com/app/advanced-task-killer-froyo/com.rechild.advancedtaskkillerfroyo

I can just tap the icon to kill any apps that I've selected. This is useful for stopping misbehaving apps, or reclaiming resources from the apps I want (vs. what the system determines automatically).

The 'Starred' folder lists a subset of contacts that I've selected (synced to Google Contacts). This gives me quick access to information for folks I regularly contact.

The long strip of buttons at the bottom is provided by Widgetsoid2.x:

http://www.appbrain.com/app/widgetsoid2-x/com.jim2

This provides a customized selection of functions. I've enabled WiFi on/off, Manual sync, Bluetooth on/off, Orientation lock, Display brightness, Battery level, Free memory, Free storage, and 'flashlight' mode (screen all white).

On the lower right, you see a group of four little icons, provided by Perfect System Monitor:

http://www.appbrain.com/app/perfect-system-monitor/com.rookiestudio.systemmonitor

They show CPU utilization, CPU frequency scaling, Data upload rate and Data download rate.

Along the right edge, you see the dock provided by LauncherPro:

http://www.appbrain.com/app/launcherpro/com.fede.launcher

Each icon actually has two functions, as LauncherPro allows a swipe action as well as a tap action. I've added commonly used applications for quick access.

The large widget in the top right is the Android Agenda Widget:

http://www.appbrain.com/app/android-agenda-widget/com.roflharrison.agenda

This highly customizable widget syncs to Google Calendar. You can enable any or all of the calendars that your Google Calendar is using.

The wallpaper is from this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=929578
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] DS1495:
I don't even own an Archos device. But I just felt the need to compliment that home screen. It is absolutely beautiful! congrats man!
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] lolo33:
:D

Honeycomb Clock.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] bk9iq:
@jakkrith

Plz what are u using to get such a User Interface ???
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] Tesla74:
Here is my homescreen/setup:

LauncherPro (paid version)

http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/productivity/launcherpro_gxph.html

MultiPicture Live Wallpaper

http://www.androidzoom.com/android_themes/wallpapers/multipicture-live-wallpaper_kyzn.html

My-Cast Weather

http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/weather/mycast-weather_qtfu.html

Simi Folder Widget (Weather, Games, Media, and Internet)

http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/tools/simi-folder-widget_psrx.html

Widgetsoid2.x (System Toggles)

http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/tools/widgetsoid2x_kefz.html

System Info Widget

http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/productivity/system-info-widget_gunl.html

Weather

--County Rivers

--My-Cast Weather

--PYKL3 Radar

Games

--3D Invaders

--BattleShip

--Checkers

--Connect4

--Klondike

--Minesweeper Classic

--My Paper Plane 2 Lite

--Raging Thunder 2

--Solitaire MegaPack

--SparkChess Lite

--Sudoku 10'000

--TurboFly 3D

Media

--Gallery

--Music

--Photo Frame

--TuneIn Radio

--Video

--YouTube

Internet

--Mail

--Messenger

--Skype

Browser: Dolphin Browser Mini

Keyboard: Smart Keyboard Pro

CPU Mhz: 1000Mhz (Settings | About device | Power management | Power management mode | Overdrive)

Wallpaper:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=929578

Not rooted, but may use Archangel if no signs of problems in the next few weeks.

Edit: I noticed that macemoneta posted another system monitor widget called Perfect System Monitor. I think I like it better and it is free!
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] toniolol:
Hi,

does your BT switch works on Widgetsoid, mine make an FC when I switch BT Off.

On is working but Off not !

And same one many toggle widgets apps.

Regards