yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] vadimsof:
when making a new ROM, developers usually want to upgrade to a new android version( in our case 2.1 to 2.2, or maybe 2.3) 2.1 is based on Linux Kernel 2.6.29

and 2.2 had Kernel 2.6.32 so, yes a new ROM= different kernel. if the community developers develop a new ROM then we would have all sorts of options(overcloking/App2SD etc.) if Huawei releases an update we will also have new kernel, but not as many optional features.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] vadimsof:
so i got tiered of waiting for a ROM and decided to build it myself. i have ok knowledge of c/c++ but little on building android.I just got my ubuntu system up and ready to with the android source =). im current experimenting any helpful hint from real developer would be good.
[HD Mini General] tzacapaca:
check this tool

http://www.jtagbox.com
[HD Mini General] tzacapaca:
or this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=334667
[HD Mini General] tzacapaca:
nope........
[HD Mini General] tzacapaca:
that might be a good idea :D

so we void all the f****** micro$h|t securities :)))))
[HD Mini General] tzacapaca:
:(((((((((((((((((((
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.boonet:
Hi,

I just recently went from the villainromz to the virtuous rom. Now i have a few questions about whether i should use the viruous kernel or the one from pershoot. I know the pershoot goes up to 1517 mhz whereas the one from virtuous only goes up to 1497... But i am more interested in the differences regarding battery life, overall performance and memory usage.

Another thing I would like to know is the difference between governors. I honestly don't know what the difference between the different governors is, in virtuous you have interactive and smartass and ondemand and the others. But whats the difference between those 3? Which one is the more interesting choice to use?

Sorry for my english, i'm from belgium so there might be some bumps in my writing :)

cheers
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the orange bandit:
Here's an explanation of the various governors: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=843406

I would recommend that you use Virtuous kernel unless you have major problems with it. It was developed specifically for the Virtuous ROM, so it's most likely to be the best fit.

That being said, I know some are using Pershoot's kernel with no issues, either. Note that if you use Pershoot's kernel, you need to use the one *specifically built for Sense ROMs* (i.e. NOT THE ONE IN PERSHOOT'S THREAD). The Sense ROMs require certain features in the kernel for things to work properly (such as Bluetooth, RM radio, WiFi hotspots, etc).
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MacaronyMax:
Also... Wrong section :) But my favourite govoner would be Smartass then Ondemand ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Blubster:
Hi all!

I don't usually start new threads for any reasons, as i prefer to find the solution myself whenever it is possible.

In this case, however, i couldn't...

I have been using magldr since its official release, without any issue except the known one from the roms.

My issue is the following. I am trying to flash roms using clockwork recovery v1.1 on my hd2, and it fails every time. I tried with a few zip files, every time it seems to flash, though VERY quickly (less than 5 seconds!), which means not many files are actually copied to /system.

I looked through ADB, and only 1 folder and 1 file are present in /system.

My dmesg shows that bad blocks are detected, and it seems to stop on one.

Here is the flashing part of my dmesg :

<4>[ 6.103363] ---[ end trace 854291214c7425f5 ]---
<4>[ 29.480194] ###BAD BLOCK 2376 12900000###
<6>[ 29.879913] yaffs: dev is 32505858 name is "mtdblock2" rw
<6>[ 29.879974] yaffs: passed flags ""
<7>[ 29.880004] yaffs: Attempting MTD mount of 31.2,"mtdblock2"
<7>[ 29.912109] yaffs_read_super: is_checkpointed 0
<6>[ 29.913818] yaffs: dev is 32505859 name is "mtdblock3" rw
<6>[ 29.913879] yaffs: passed flags ""
<7>[ 29.913909] yaffs: Attempting MTD mount of 31.3,"mtdblock3"
<4>[ 31.286834] ###BAD BLOCK 2376 12900000###
<7>[ 31.286895] block 1752 is bad
<7>[ 31.398529] yaffs_read_super: is_checkpointed 0
<7>[ 36.145660] save exit: is_checkpointed 1
<7>[ 36.172424] save exit: is_checkpointed 1
<7>[ 36.173187] save exit: is_checkpointed 0
<7>[ 36.192810] save exit: is_checkpointed 0
<7>[ 36.197723] save exit: is_checkpointed 0
<7>[ 36.453247] save exit: is_checkpointed 1

In the mean time, ClockworkMod Recovery said only this :

-- Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
Formatting Boot...
Formatting System...
Copying files to system... (this part is quick!)
Copying zImage and initrd.gz... (this is really done)
All done...

Install from sdcard complete.

As you can see, no error message here. Though it wil crash on reboot (stay on first or second screen after magldr), since /system is almost empty.

Here is how my device is after "flash" through CMR :

~ # df
df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 210752 32 210720 0% /dev
/dev/block/mtdblock4 10240 1212 9028 12% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 7969280 6845376 1123904 86% /sdcard
/dev/block/mtdblock3 256000 12000 244000 5% /system
~ # cd /system
cd /system
/system # find .
find .
.
./build.prop
./lost+found
./app
./app/CMWallpapers.apk
./app/CMUpdateNotify.apk
./app/CMStats.apk
./app/CMParts.apk
./app/Browser.apk
./app/Bluetooth.apk
./app/ApplicationsProvider.apk
./app/AccountAndSyncSettings.apk
./app/ADWLauncher.apk

So, i have a bad block that prevent me from using CMR.

In spite of this reluctant bad block, i can use normal DAF based roms without any issues.

Now the question is : how can i prevent it, mark the bad block as bad and get around this issue? :confused:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
There is something you can try in cmr. I am by far no expert, so please take that into consideration, and by far not a linux guru. In cmr the reason for this quick format if I am correct, is exactly that, its a quick format, basically not a real format, but actually changing the first two bytes in the first sector which says its formatted, but in turn its not fully.

Try this, go into CMR scroll down and choose wipe data/factory reset. this will obviously wipe all user data from the phone, and restore it to your last zip flashed rom. After this scroll down to mounts and storage and then choose to format: boot, data, and system, this does a complete format if I am right, once your done with that, then go back to install zip from sdcard and choose your zip.

Hope it works for you cause thats the only thing I can think of.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Blubster:
Thank you for your answer!

Unfortunately, i tried again this morning, using your recommandations, and i still get the same result.

I formatted data, system, boot, and cache, before i tried to install update.zip file. It still goes very quickly when trying to copy files to /system, even the part when it says "Formatting System..." takes longer! :S Then /system is still almost empty...

Maybe i'm out of luck on this case and won't be able to use CMR because of this damn bad block...

Should i also ask this in CMR topic? I was not willing to "pollute" it with my issue, but since DAF flashes are working OK, and not CMR flashes, maybe it is because CMR does not allow bad blocks and DAF takes them into consideration but flashes anyway, avoiding them or whatever...

This would then be a CMR issue am i right?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
Obviously doing this blindly is hard enough, so lets try a couple of steps, because I am not totall convinced of this just yet, so if your willing then so am I (Even though your doing the work). Its a bit of a process, but I just am looking to be sure.

Now download this rom: http://www.multiupload.com/5JPGAWPTSO

(Dont care if you dont like it, its for testing purposes) if you dont have it already, its RaiderX's zip rom. Once downloaded, take the zip rom and add it to the root of your sdcard.

Backup anything you have or need. Once your done. Get yourself a stock official rom, and flash it, dont flash it thru sd card (because of the HSPL will change) but flash it going thru the usb, this way the official stock winmo rom will wipe and format the phone completely and install windows mobile and your phone will still be HSPL-ed. I am assuming you used HSPL3.

Make sure you can boot (which I am sure you will be able to), now shut the phone down, and go into the bootloader. Rer-flash magdlr 1.11 and let it go thru the steps, now you should have that boot loader installed. Flash a nand rom if you want and be sure.

Next install CWM and use the 250mb system partition file. On the sdcard create a folder called recovery and add the two files into that folder. then flash CWM. it will reboot, after scroll to services, then bootservices and then SD path, it will ask you to choose the location, choose the recovery folder you created on the sd card and added the zimage and intrgz files.

Once your done you should be able to choose boot AD SD and go into clockwork, Now, in clockwork choose factory data reset, now choose install zip from sdcard, then choose zip folder, choose the rom I had you download.

See if it installs, or if you get the same error of a bad block. If you do, then The only other thing I can suggest is a task 29 to wipe the phone completely and to start again, if what I said works, then I'm glad I could help out.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Blubster:
Again, thank you for your help, however i am still facing the same issue.

Here is the exact steps i have followed this morning just before leaving to work :

- I have HSPL 2.08, as recommended by cotulla in the magldr thread, i reflashed my stock Orange rom, v 1.72, and flashed just after that again radio 2.15.50.14 so that i was in the clear for android later (stock rom reflashed radio 2.07.51, incompatible with android) ;

- after both flash, i hard resetted the hd2 ;

- then i let it boot fully to windows mobile, no issues now.

- i went to bootloader then, and flashed magldr 1.11 ;

- i flashed the 250M partition layout from CMR thread, no issues here ;

- i copied the initrd.gz and zimage from CMR v1.2 (new one, i was hoping it would help... ^^) to a folder on my sd card ;

- i also copied the Raidroid_HD_HD2_v1.0.zip file ;

- i selected the folder inside magldr, and booted CMR, without apparent issues ;

- i then formatted every partitions on nand (boot, data, system, cache) inside CMR

- i then tried to install Raidroid_HD_HD2_v1.0.zip

- again, no error appeared inside CMR, though dmesg said this :

<4>[ 117.247589] msm_nand: critical erase error, 0x12900000
<3>[ 117.247650] msm_nand_erase: erase failed, 0x12900000
<4>[ 117.247985] ###ERROR CHECKING BLOCK 2377 12920000###
<6>[ 117.654510] yaffs: dev is 32505858 name is "mtdblock2" rw
<6>[ 117.654571] yaffs: passed flags ""
<7>[ 117.654602] yaffs: Attempting MTD mount of 31.2,"mtdblock2"
<7>[ 117.693176] yaffs_read_super: is_checkpointed 0
<6>[ 117.693847] yaffs: dev is 32505859 name is "mtdblock3" rw
<6>[ 117.693847] yaffs: passed flags ""
<7>[ 117.693878] yaffs: Attempting MTD mount of 31.3,"mtdblock3"
<7>[ 119.222412] yaffs_read_super: is_checkpointed 0
<7>[ 186.267333] save exit: is_checkpointed 1
<7>[ 186.361968] save exit: is_checkpointed 1

To me, it looks like even format failed!

This time though, it took a lot more time to "complete" the file copy to /system.

I then checked the content of /system, (i copied its content to the sd, then compared on my computer this evening), much more files were present, but ther was still a lot missing...

When i tried to boot this morning, it stayed at the first screen, as before.

After five minutes, i removed the baterry, put it again, booted in bootloader mode, and did a task 29.

Again, i flashed magldr, flashed the 250M partition layout of CMR, and booted CMR. Install of the zip resulted in the same result, incomplete /system, though i did not get the "block 1752 is bad" these times (even before task 29, as you can see). I did not compare results with the first time, i was getting late for work and had to leave... I reflashed through DAF at work! ^^

I attached the complete dmesg from the first install in CMR, and the list of the file in my /system for the rom Raidroid_HD_HD2_v1.0.zip after installation...

Again, thank you for your help...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
Try this one, install this cwm and the 250mb image.

Short of this again, I am no expert, but doing a complete wipe should have cleared the bad block, only other thing that can cross my mind is sdcard, short of that, I have given all the ideas I have.

Just make sure to copy the 2 files, zimage and intrigz not using the USB storage in cwm, but put the sdcard into the computer and copy it that way if werent already, I have read a few threads stating issues they had copying the files within cwm, and they decided to do it thru the computer.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Blubster:
Ok, thanks again, i will try that now!

I will try by putting the sd card directly in the computer with an adapter...

I will just do a task 29 this time, followed by magldr, partition layout then the rom.

EDIT : it seems using another sd card (which i did), and an adapter did the trick! all is working now!!! :D

I am finally able to enjoy using CMR!!!

Thank you VERY much for spending your time tracking down the issue with me, it was (maybe) my hardware all along!

EDIT 2 : i tried to narrow down what is happening, the sd card is fine, either the task 29 or the adapter did the trick, would go like you with the latter... ;)

So happy it works! :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] chrisgto4:
why not flash a stock windows rom to start u all over again at windows then do a Task 29 to completely wipe everything. then flash radio, magldr, and then folliw steps toinstall clockwork and rom of choice.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
Glad you got it working, and glad I could help.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Blubster:
well me too! ^^

Finally, i really think it just was the way to copy the update.zip to the sd card that was the issue, i tried my old sd with the old files, and it failed as before!

I put my old sd in the adapter, removed the update.zip files, and put them again still using the adapter, and it works perfectly!

If i remember correctly, i used magldr usb mass storage option to copy files, NOT a good idea! ^^

So for now i will stick to copying files using an adapter if i need to flash again...

Thank you, again, very much! :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] sam razzy:
I Read this completely !! :P
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Blubster:
It was epic wasn't it?

I never had this issue again...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raheelk:
I switched to Gingerbread Keyboard (ported by Steven Lin) and tried Smart Keyboard Pro, however, both of these keyboards are posing the same problem.

When I switch to landscape mode in 'Compose E-mail', the textbox shrinks to such a degree that I can barely see it as it is blocked by 'Send, Save As Draft, Delete'.

This doesn't happen with the STOCK 2.2.1 keyboard (Touch Input). Anybody have an idea as to why this is happening?

I'm using Ice-glacier 1.1.4 ROM btw.

--raheel
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] iasi_me:
live wallpapers on diamond2 ?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] wavesshock:
just a few. search google. ;) but they're kind of unsafe, which means they install and you are not able to uninstall them. You won't find Wallpepers, but just apps which do the job-
[Droid 2 Global General] Aaron1017:
Could someone post the build.prop of a stock D2G with latest OTA updates applied?

Trying to edit mine to disable the OTA update I get twice a day!

The certsota.zip to certsota.zip.bak trick isnt working.
[Droid 2 Global General] kelemvor:
attached, but I'm running fission.
[Droid 2 Global General] leobg:
How I got rid of mine is to disable couple of APK's -

BlurUpdater_VZW.apk

Fota.apk

no more notifications there are updates and useless downloading of updates (which make phone work worse in GSM mode, but that's another topic...)
[Wildfire General] Astral07:
Hi guys, i recently got a wildfire for my GF but i have an opportunity to get the optimus gt540 and maybe sell wildfire?

It would seem that both have it's advantages and disadvantages, the main ones (as i see it) would be:

gt540 has a better resolution

gt540 has a better cpu which can be overclocked to 800mhz

gt540 seems to have rather good graphics - you can easily play raging thunder 2 or similar heavy games

but...

wildfire has a bigger 3.2" screen Vs 3" of gt540

wildfire has a much better camera (gt540 doesn't even have flash)

wildfire has more RAM (384mb vs 256mb) but i somehow find that not important because it seems that gt540 can run froyo without any RAM problems

wildfire has a worse cpu but i have it at 700mhz so not that bad

and finally, wildfire cost me 150€ while the optimus would cost me only 40€ (both on contract)

i think if we take the cost into account the gt540 is a winner but let's say they both cost the same and only look at the features, what do you think? which to get?
[Wildfire General] Alex_GP:
the GT 540 has a TFT resistive touchscreen (aka old type that can be used with a stylus, not a glass surface like the wildfire.

Personally I`ll take the wildfire. Or the Optimus P500 if they have it... it`s better than gt 540.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msong06:
so the problem is the gf epic 4g phone time is 11:58am and i send her a text at 12:00 and when she texts me back its sends at 11:58 for her but instead of the text moving down to a new row, the text moves UP above my text at 12:00.

i both live in the same city but how come the time is different and why does her text move up instead of down?

is there a way she can fix this ? but disabling something?

please help and thanks.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DiGi760:
What cell provider are you with?

It sounds like your provider and Sprint don't agree on the time. Since the stock sms progam appears to sort by the time the message was sent, I doubt there's a good way to fix this. Either of you could try manually changing your time, but it will change back next time you switch cell towers. She could try handcent or chompsms and see if either of those sort differently.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msong06:
the strange part is, when i bought her the phone last month, it was never a problem till this morning.. but i am with t-mobile. i recently asked her to download handcent and lets see if that works out.

thanks
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musclehead84:
I have this problem with.my epic.and.my wife's evo

Sent from my Evo Killer!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msong06:
Weird, another problem is when the screen turn all white u can see static lines like something is bugging it..
[Epic 4G General] Seanc13:
Is it possible to remove the kb springs without affecting the abiliy to remain in place when open or closed?

I want to make it open and close similar to the way the droid 2 does, I don't care for the pop open style it has now.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Escotric:
I recently androided my Vogue and have been quite happy with Super Froyo.

My question is how do i reset back to WM6? (I tired hard reset, still booted with linux)

Thanks.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] thoughtlesskyle:
what carrier are you on?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Escotric:
My carrier is Verizon wireless.

Thanks
[Touch CDMA Android Development] l1q1d:
Copy one nbh from windows section's rom and flash it like android.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Escotric:
I'm not sure if i follow.

Do you mean download a rom from the windows section and rename it androidinstall and put it in the andboot folder? Tried that. My PC wont recognize the device under activesync because it isn't windows mobile.

Has anyone tried switching back to WM?

Thanks
[Touch CDMA Android Development] l1q1d:
rename the nbh file from one of the windows rom,

put it in /sdcard like for android one

flash it like android.

or

boot the phone in 4 color mode

start the customruu in windows of the selected rom.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Escotric:
How do I boot it into 4 color mode again?

Thanks a bunch.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Josue_181:
Power button, camera and stylus pressure
[XPERIA X8 General] mmlbbntr:
Hi all,

I thought I would start a thread to determine, based on users' experience, what stock apps can (and cannot) be removed. Of course this concerns those with a rooted phone (on Android 2.1 in my case), who use Titanium Backup to remove useless stuff (of course "useless" is very much a personal preference and will vary from user to another...).

I started by removing the following:

- The games (Crazypenguin, Towerbloxx, CA Gold...)

- User guide

- Support notes (or whatever it's called?)

- SIM Toolkit 2.1 (didn't seem to do anything)

- Roadsync (I just stick with gmail)

- Timescape

I personally like to minimise clutter, simplify the menus and make room for useful apps. I will continue testing and see what else can safely be removed, but your experiences would be interesting to hear about - please share and we can compile a list.

Tony

Updated list, no reported problems (in progress:)

- The games (Crazypenguin, Towerbloxx, CA Gold...)

- User guide

- Support notes (or whatever it's called?)

- SIM Toolkit 2.1 (didn't seem to do anything)

- Roadsync (I just stick with gmail)

- Timescape

- Wisepilot

- TrackID

- Backupandrestore

- SEMCSetupWizard

- Email

- PlayNow (appinstaller, client, etc)

- Facebook

- Remove /data/dop.iso" it won't ask you any more if you want to install PC Companion connecting via USB (13MB of free space ) - Thanks Inge Morath

- Youtube

Things NOT to remove (in progress); you will possibly get the "com.google.process.gapps process has stopped running" message or other errors/dysfunctional phone

- gmail

- gtalk

- Market

- Customizedsettings

- Omadatasyncservice (Thanks Hansz73)

Ambiguous

- Anything else Google related (have not tested removing gmaps, navigation, places, calendar, latitude, geotags, for example)

- Anything that says "sync" (apart from roadsync); once again, seems risky, I seem to have removed some sony ericsson sync things with no apparent problems, although when I carried on I eventually ran into the "com.google.process.gapps" error. Need to figure out which an which cannot be removed!

I

assume

(but have NOT tested) the following would be fine to remove:

- Calculator

- Alarm

- Stopwatch

- Timer

- Music player (will other music apps still work?)

- FM radio

- Video (will other video apps still work?)

- Postcard (latest 2.1)

- OfficeSuite (latest 2.1)
[XPERIA X8 General] spider1163:
Hello,

thanks for starting this topic,

I removed games, SIM toolkit & Roadsync with Root Uninstaller.

I'm not sure about disabling User guide, notes & Timescape because there are sometimes multiple parts like Timescape, Timescape provider & Timescape plugin.

Same thing for backup & restore, SE sync (& assistant), Google talk (& service & storage), Sync, voice search, configuration guide, installation assistant, email (NOT gMail).

Sorry for my bad english I'm French not sure about translations

SE Xperia X8 FR ROOT Jit-Link2SD-xRecovery
[XPERIA X8 General] inge morath:
As far as i know you need google talk to enter properly to the market.

I uninstalled:

Musik

geotag.apk

EManual.apk

EManualLauncher.apk

playnowappinstaller.apk

playnowback.apk

playnowclient.apk

Sync.apk

backupandrestore.apk

SEMCSetupWizard.apk

SetupWizard.apk

Wisepilot

Track ID

PlayNow

roadsync

apps you could also remove

Maps 4.6.0

Streetview 1.5.0.6

facebook

Stopuhr

Rechner

Notitzen

Timer

edit: i forgot, if you remove "/data/dop.iso" it won't ask you any more if you want to install PC Companion connecting via USB (13MB of free space :) )