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[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android_newbie22:
That is something I'd also be very interested in. Is there any app/widget that brings together

- Call list

- SMS/MMS

- Emails

- Facebook

- Twitter

- maybe other news like XDA-threads or so...

The idea of having all the things together in one single timeline is really nice. Right now i use the current Wolfbreak-ROM, but the timescape that can be used with that ROM unfortunately does not show any email-messages :-(.

Does anyone know of such an application?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wk15:
I got working timescape on wolfbreak rom.everything work
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elkyur:
Hello guys this question is about the new phone nexus s. I have read the specs and i went in shock, firat of all they have both 1ghz processor and i dont care a **** of benchmarks. 512mb ram on both. Resolution on both 800*480 but nexus s has 0.3 inch bigger screen and it is super amoled, while nexus one just amoled. Nexus s doesnt have micro sd slot and trackball. Best of all is that it doesnt have 720p and fm, but because of cyanogen my nexy haz both. And price is higher on nexus s

Btw i laught badly at them who buys ****ty phone called nexus ****. I bought my nexus one ecause it was really better than others, but this isbonnsame level maybe even lower.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] izmar:
In my opinion, the Nexus S was Google trying to publicize the evolution of Android on a physical level by offering a phone with the new software as opposed to just releasing the software to Android users.

It got some media attention but honestly, the Nexus S is far from being a successor to the Nexus One.

When you take into account that the Nexus One was the first "superphone" (1ghz processor with tons of ram), it really took things to the next level for Android when comparing it to the other Android phones available at the time!

The Nexus S was a gingerbread marketing puppet......

Not to say I wouldn't trade my Nexus One for an S ;)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhantomRampage:
I bought the Nexus S and had it for 2 days before returning it to Best Buy.

It's a POS. It kept turning off on me at random and required a battery pull to get it to turn on again each time. No notification led also killed me.

I'll wait for another nexus by htc
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dirk:
Google have recognised that there is an issue with restarts now and are "working with Samsung to resolve the problem".

Anyway, to be pedantic, the Nexus S is the successor to the Nexus one as it quite literally came after! What it's not is a giant leap forward in spec, although it's good enough to occupy it's own space in the market.

Let's hope the next Nexus model has great specs and is made by HTC!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cool007zqw:
it's a bug of GingerBread instead of the hardware
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xpunksbeendeadx:
I have to agree that the Nexus S is a joke. I kept thinking how Google must have felt seeing all the new dual core superphones coming out during CES. These phones release dates aren't even far off; the Atrix should be out in February.

Speaking of Atrix. Could you imagine that phone with stock gingerbread? I would have died and gone to heaven. That would have been a true Nexus One successor.
[Streak 5 General] carlosjcar:
Many Web sites report AT&T 2.2 officially released from Dell.

Is this True? Any link?
[Streak 5 General] borijess:
http://www.talkandroid.com/23270-att-dell-streak-getting-froyo-upgrade-week-of-january-12-2011/

Should be coming out this week but I would not hold my breath.

Sent from the Iphone Killer
[Streak 5 General] stormtrooper1:
Yeah, it would'nt matter anymore unless the release was something higher that 2.2. Plus I figure it will be loaded.with AT&T's bloatwear. It would just be a plus for those who are not savy in rooting and Tweaking their own OS.

Sent from my Dell Streak

AT&T Froyo 2.2 ROM v.318 + Perf Mod
[Streak 5 General] borijess:
Yes I am glad I didnt wait. Running 1.6.0 and its butter smooth.

Sent from the Iphone Killer
[Streak 5 General] fone_fanatic:
Can people please start putting StreakDroid, SD, Steve's, DJ_Steve's or anything like that before 1.6.0

Sorry i'm not trying to be anal here, it just makes it seem like we're running android 1.6 as opposed to the awesome custom froyo.

Also don't want new peeps to get all confused and then we get flooded with a bunch of redundant pointless topics.

Ok off my soapbox

Also I wouldn't wait for At&t's 2.2... along with all the crap they're gonna put in it, they're definitely gonna remove installation from unknown sources as they have for streaks with android 1.6 sold from bestbuy!
[Streak 5 General] stormtrooper1:
+1 TOTALLY AGREE......

Sent from my Dell Streak

AT&T Froyo 2.2 ROM 318
[Streak 5 General] sukemecuke:
Still no 2.2. Grrrrrrrrr! I'm prolly going to have to gather the balls to try and use qdl again.
[Streak 5 General] p51d007:
I haven't used a carrier specific rom since my old tilt days...tilt, fuze, tilt 2.

Heck, when I got the tilt 2, I told the at&t drone not to set it up, I was going to blow it out anyway. "but...but...you'll void the rom". Yeah, but I won't have the "value" added software bloat either!

I thought about keeping 1.6 on my streak when I got it, just because, coming from windows mobile, it was LIGHT YEARS faster than one of those, but, after delay after delay, I threw qdl, then 318 on it, and it's like a completely new device.

Carriers should GET OUT of the firmware side of things and let the manufacturers handle it, but, since carriers are all about control, don't count on it.
[Streak 5 General] stevenlong:
Waiting is just the worst.

That is the main reason I went to flashing.

And the support here for that is super!!
[Streak 5 General] carlosjcar:
I was thinking it was ROM related so I posted there, But I do get your point. I'll get it straight next time. I am not implying I have the latest AT&T Branded ROM I am actually looking to see about getting the Update.pkg for a custom ROM of my own.

If any one get's it post the link please.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Reserved for qns..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
One more....
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rraaka:
DD, This has been on my mind too and i thought that we could possibly use the tool QtADB which also probably gives the option to back up and restore nandroid , misc partition included. And we dont need to be S Off for that.

Correct me If im off track.Ive done a back up but not restored yet.

I do sincerely hope our recoveries are developed (their bugs ironed out ) enough to be capable of this though very soon.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
I havent used QtADB before, but since it works through adb, it probably acts as a frontend GUI for the same adb procedures..

By the way, our recoveries do work fine..It's just the unofficial builds that havent been tested on the Desire that are buggy.. Alpharev CWM 2.5.1.8, and Koush's 2.5.0.7 are all right..

Will check QtADB out.. Officially they dont seem to support the Desire, though..

And the misc overwrite was what caused bricks..So if we backup our misc with this method, we can future proof against such errors

Edit: Love it. Nice..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rraaka:
Look what I found !

I found this from our forums - i believe you can flash this zip through recovery to repair a corrupt misc partition.

Not used it though :p

PS - Does Alpharev CWM 2.5.1.8 have the ability to partition sd cards ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Yes it does. And other tweaks too.

Could you post the link to the thread on which you found that attachment?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rraaka:
No, I dont bookmark all the useful threads.I found that file with a little note in my Desire pc folder -kept there a long time ago.But if you searched for the zip file with exactly that name in this segment of our forums you might come across it. Sorry.

If the Alpharev recovery is tested and useful why isnt there an official thread for it in our Dev section ? Can it be flashed through unrevoked ? Sorry for going off-topic :o
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Probably b/c Alpharev Recovery is released just like an addon to the main Alpharev package. And also b/c CWM is the base, and Alpharev probably just added a few useful things to the source code. It's not modified much. Probably the kernel is just repacked for the Desire and tested.. Something which udk did not.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ieftm:
This seems like a useful thread for reference, +1.

But: fastboot flash userdata /sdcard/misc.img should be:

fastboot flash misc /sdcard/misc.img ;)

One more addition, for backing up MTD partitions, use the 'dump_image' binary.

eg: 'dump_image misc <location>'

attached for reference (suitable location would /system/xbin)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Thanks! Missed that "typo" :D

Will add the dump_image method to OP... Thank you for sharing.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rastaman-FB:
thanks for this
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lennyz1988:
Do you need alpharev to use fastboot even when flashing a stock image. Let's say you did a nandroid from a stock rom?

Or do you lose s-off when fastboot flashing a stock image? Just asking because I've read some people from a cmda device, who don't have a stock .ruu Then this way they could get back for warranty.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Yes, as posted on Alpharev's site, only with an S-OFF can you get the fastboot flash commands to work.

Your other qns can easily be answered. You dont lose S-OFF if you fastboot flash a stock boot image. Unless you tamper with the hboot of course. If you follow this method and flash images for the sake of taking it back for warranty, note that once rooted, the recovery.img will be the rooted recovery, and with it on board, HTC will recognize the stamp of the rooting process. You could also argue that one could flash the HTC RUU (PB99IMG.zip) after removing hboot.nfo and hope to pass it as a unrooted phone. Or use the recovery.img from the stock PB99IMG.zip But then, the pink "Alpharev" branding on fastboot screen would give it away. :)

One could take a chance and hope HTC doesnt look at the Alpharev logo. It's a long shot though ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andQlimax:
Very useful thread!

Some doubts I have about the ClockWorkMod recovery:

1) Does the CWM do the backup at the same way (cat command)?

2) How about the restore? I think it doesn't use fasboot

3) Could we (s-off user) ever have a recovery that restore the img backups (example system and userdata) throught some fastboot flashing? Isnt more easy, fast and safety?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Hmm..I'm not sure about how Clockworkmod works. I've only skimmed over the source code superficially.

However, take a look yourself. You can download it here.

The main advantage of CWM/Rom Manager Recovery is that it is self sufficient. You can do it from the phone itself. However, if you're comfortable doing it with a PC and adb/fastboot, a very simple program could be written to "shell" the adb/fastboot commands. But I think it defeats the purpose. The only advantage of the method which I described, IMO is that you neednt reboot. You can make backups on a running system. Restoring of course, would need a reboot.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rastaman-FB:
Alpharev should make a "covert" hboot for those who want to be under cover that looks just like the standard hboot and even says s-on :P

only the person who flashed it would know its actually alpharev hboot
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Lol..

I'd been wishing the same. Would solve everything. :)

From another universe
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andQlimax:
The different hboot is not a problem i think..The RUU restore the standard one..It restore all as for what i know..Also alpharev site say that the ruu restore the origninal and make u lost s-off
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
The ruu makes u lose everything. Both root and s off. If alpharev hboot was inconspicuous, we could flash the original recovery before returning phone to HTC, and flash back cwm on getting it back. They'd never guess!

From another universe
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rastaman-FB:
you could flash a complete unrooted stock image while maintaining modified hboot so EVERYTHING is normal to the eye, it would be usefull to return to any stock without having to go through the downgrading process as well

leave HTC scratching their heads for a bit
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
They do boot into stock recovery to wipe data, and the alpharev s off text would give it away! ;)

P.S: Wish someone would explain "Multi quote" to me.. :sheepish

From another universe
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rastaman-FB:
i was refering to if they made a covert hboot.....

anyway found a slight problem with post i think

Ive just tested the method of flashing via fastboot from sdcard

"fastboot flash recovery /sdcard/recovery.img" results in "error: cannot load '/sdcard/recovery.img' "

putting it on my c drive works with fastboot flash recovery c:\recovery.img

i dont think it can reference sdcard or internal file structures in fastboot as they are not mounted
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Ah.. No wonder..I was thinking why you said that right after you described why we cant use it like that. :D

Thanks for catching that! :) ..I'll mod the OP to include that.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ieftm:
Nope, you're right. SHIP hboots don't allow you to flash anything.

Signatures (as they are in RUU's), are done over an entire zip file (like PB99IMG.zip), not seperate partition images.

Basically the only thing ship HBOOT will let you do is:

-fastboot erase cache

-fastboot oem rebootRUU (and flash an entire signed zip through that)

Once could easily just fastboot flash hboot as well (with the stock hboot), and return it like that. Simple as that, I'd say.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Thank you for that useful info! :)

Ah..But we dont want to lose the S-OFF. Just want HTC to think we still have S-ON. :D

You know..like taking the phone to HTC for showing them a dead pixel or a battery not charging..something like that, where they usually look the phone over and return it immediately..

It's still no big deal for us who've done the procedure (root-Soff-unroot-back again) too many times..We can do it in a jiffy :D

One qn I wanted to ask though..Why cant Alpharev include a one stop root+S-Off? Is it a technical reason?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rastaman-FB:
they can, but i think its out of respect for unrevoked as unrevoked do not normally share their methods but they gave alpharev their nand unlock exploit that made it all possible
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDevil:
currently using custom mtd. should i ever need to flash my misc backup (done before custom mtd), do i need to revert the partitions to the original state?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Old question.. But I don't reckon so. It should be possible to flash it quite independently if ever your misc gets overwritten

Sent from my Desire running Supernova Extreme - Gingerbread goodness with Unlimited Internal memory
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CRACING:
Hello,

I have few noob queries. please help if you don't mind.

I took backup of misc partition in case I face usb bricked in future. Using cat command and dd command (two backups).

At present I have CWM recovery (pre flashed/installed by first owner) and took backup of all partitions except misc since it doesn't take that in CWM.

1. Do I need to take backup of all other partitions using cat command or backups from CWM is enough? Just in case usb is bricked.

2. Sorry but what is dump_image.zip? Is it another way of taking backup? Do I need to take it as well or backups using cat or dd is enough?

Thanks...

Best Regards
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
A corrupt misc partition is the cause of usb bricks. Once you flash back a good misc, it becomes un bricked. So I'd recommend that everyone create a zip of misc and the binary flash_image to a drop box. That way you can always restore it back easily. Newer recoveries come with this binary and a good copy of misc, so this is not so relevant now

Yes, dump_image dumps a binary image of misc. refer ief's post on the 1st page.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CRACING:
Ok done. Thanks. :)

And to restore the same image, I can use "fastboot flash misc misc1.img" right?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
Yup..........
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kva123:
Ok this is the thing I receive picture text on my Samsung Captivate and all that but only when the 3g data network is on. I have unlimited texting not sure if that includes picture text but ya I cant receive it when 3g data is off and once I get it and see that I did I turn my data plan on and then try too retrieve it but it says downloading forever and I never get the picture. If anyone can help me with this problem I would really appreciate it. Thank you
[Android Software Development] modplan:
Alright, I'm writing an app that writes to /system

I am having no problems remounting the system, changing permissions and then writing the file

UNLESS of course

The Nand is locked.

Now this normally would be easy to detect, but instead of getting what I expect, users are getting an immediate force close and then the phone reboots any time I try to write to /system (I thought I read it should say Out of Memory or something?)

I am hitting this problem with a ton of Z4 rooted EVO users who's Nands are still locked. How can I detect the nand being locked so I can do a check for it and pop up a dialog explaining so the z4 Evo users will stop saying the app is horrible and reboots the phone??

The only way I could think of was to write a blank file and then check for it, but of course that reboots the phone.

I know this is possible because using root explorer, these same users can make a new file in /system and it doesnt show up of course, but it DOES NOT reboot the phone.

I tried 'touch'ing a file through exec and creating with java, same reboot result for both.

Any thoughts?

Thanks for the help guys!
[Android Software Development] bisko:
Why not just detect if `su` is present? Most of the rooting procedures put su on the phone, which means that it's unlocked.
[Android Software Development] rjm2k:
Can't you just look at the mount to see if it's ro or rw?

or handle the exception that must be firing?
[Android Software Development] modplan:
This is how I detect whether the phone is rooted, the problem is there are methods to root your phone, that do not unlock the Nand, such as z4 temp root on the EVO.

Even though the nand is locked, it still lets you mount the partition as rw and even change file permissions, but as soon as I try to write, I get the exception and then reboot.

If I catch the exception, no force close happens, just a reboot about 3-4 secs later which makes me think it is something in the OS causing the phone to reboot if I write to a mounted rw nand locked phone.
[Android Software Development] modplan:
Figured out the problem for those that hit it in the future.

on a NAND LOCKED phone you can:

remount to rw

change dir permissions

create a file

None of this is actually done, but it lets you think it worked

The reboot is when you try to change the permissions again after you try to write a file, specifically on that file you tried to create on the locked NAND

Hope this helps someone
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dressanderc:
I've gotten a couple of offers on the marketplace thread. I just look at it as too big of a downgrade. What do you guys think? I love android and miss it, but I had a captivate and the gps and lack of support from samsung just killed it for me. I want an inspire 4g but I'm not sure when it comes out. Also, do you guys think I have a better shot at trading the iPhone for an inspire, or the n1 for an inspire? Thanks
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] izmar:
I find myself wanting an iPhone 4 some days. The camera is, man, so so good. And nothing ever goes wrong with it. I don't need to worry about ROMs and Kernels and Radios to get great battery life, or reception. It's the small things in Android that upset me.

The iPhone 4 has tons of apps etc, you know what the iPhone 4 has and doesn't when compared to the Nexus. I think moving from Android to an iPhone, I would miss the widgets the most. I depend on the news widgets!

As for trading, I'd say your iPhone 4 will haul in more cash than the Nexus. It definitely will actually. The average price of a used nexy, assuming it's a t-mobile, is around $300-400 I think, depending on condition.

Depending on the GB of your iPhone, you could get up to $450. Just check the internet, ebay, craigslist, the marketplace here, to get an idea of the price you could sell it for!

I think more people are looking for iPhone 4s than Nexus Ones.

I suggest waiting a few months, as there are some great phones, including 4g phones like you mentioned, that are coming out soon! 20 on AT&T alone. I think Verizon has more planned to release, but I dont remember...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dressanderc:
Thanks, youre opinion is highly appreciated.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1404:
well the iPhone 4 is one sexy looking phone i agree. But I find myself wanna do more with my phone rather getting attached with the computer. iOS depends a lot on iTunes and I seriously hate using iTunes. iOS devices are so similar to each other that makes me think WHY do people keep buying the same thing when they have already gotten one? for example : WHen i have an iPhone, I don't think i need the iPod becuz it's just a downgrade for me. I don't think i wanna buy an iPad when i already got the iPhone either even though the iPad does have larger screen but to a bigger view, They're all the same. In my opinion, I'd rather have devices that don't look or operate as one another so i can find the usefulness of each device.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kernel null:
i've always used the mentality that the android is more for a techy and iphone for someone who doesnt really care and just wants a cool phone. I have a N1 and my friends have the iphone4. I find myself winning the battles of "can your phone do this...". I have 5 different Roms ready to be flashed on my SD Card, i go through them often depending on what version i feel like playing with. I am a developer so i make my own custom apps, and with app inventor made by google it makes it extremely easy for mere mortal to create apps now. Wow...

Personally i have never had these issues with my N1 about rebooting, kernels, roms, battery life... all of those things are extra and not necessary, but they are fun to mess with. I also agree the more people are looking for the iphone4. Its popular, android is fairly new still and people don't like taking chances typically. Why would someone pay a lot of money for a phone that is not the most popular phone...

I assure you though, either decision you make, you will not be disappointed. This many people can't be wrong about each device.
[Fascinate General] iofthestorm:
I figured it would be interesting to discuss punkkaos' twitter. I'm new to Android, but apparently he did a lot of good work for the Eris and had a Fascinate before and just got one again, and he seems to be doing lots of great work based off of the stuff JT and mrbirdman have been doing. Check it out, I think this is definitely something any impatient people will want to subscribe to.
[Fascinate General] TheSonicEmerald:
Gotta love punkkaos, he's bringing cyangenmod to the Fascinate just like he brought froyo to the eris.

Rockin' DJ05, Minimal Icognito, Clocked at 1.3Ghz
[Fascinate General] agsded:
Yeah, I've been watching that, too. If you look back a few, he replied to someone saying he was working on cm6 and gingerbread both side-by-side. Pretty cool.