yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HD2 General] TheATHEiST:
This thread is just retarded even more then the ridiculous "what the best rom" threads.

Those threads are not "censored" they are simply moved or deleted because people are getting sick of them as they are asked every day and the answer is the same every time but still you get n00bs asking.

Its like going into ice0cream shop and saying "hey what your best ice-cream", just plain stupid.
[HD2 General] IanMc:
TheATHEiST

Well surely this is just your own personal opinion?

One thread in each ROM area dedicated to users findings of the various ROMs for that device could be invaluable for both developers and users instead of the complete labyrinth it is at the moment (although I read that the HD2 forums are going to be rearranged soon). And it might be a moderator decision to close the thread when it gets too large to keep it current, civil and up-to-date.

However I think people like Dave are the only ones who really know what it is like to maintain such threads.

I would like to point out though that such public forums are for public discussion, it is all too easy to say 'hey that subject is retarded' and attempt to frighten or bully people away from discussing a subject that you don't think is appropriate, but personally I think that is wrong and against the spirit of free discussion on the internet.
[HD2 General] shuntje:
Go buy a CHE t shirt and go yell at the white house fight the power and all its censorship. Seriously you accepted rules when you registered here. This is not a democracy this is a privately owned forum where moderators decide if some topic is retarded yes or no.

And i hate to bring it to you like this but a retarded monkey fish is less retarded then that topic. No amount of talking or trying to convince your topic is something different then the next what build is best for my HD2 because i am to lazy to search topic. That kind of topic gets closed nearly EVERY DAY.

So again if you are so keen to fight the power buy a che t shirt and go yell at your local government.
[HD2 General] pkoper:
Did you?

This really does not have the slightest to do with freedom of speech.

Public is like out on the street or speakers corner in Hyde Park.

Xda is privately owned and is in no way obliged to publish everything posted here.

Of course you can always set up your own blog and exercise "free discussion on the internet" there. Which is what the term actually refers to.

According to your reasoning we could all just post stuff on any website we feel like.

I think you are just misunderstanding the term "forum". It does sound a bit public but it is not.
[HD2 General] DaveShaw:
IanMc and myself have discussed the issue at hand and I think we have an accord here.

If there is nothing more to be gained from having this thread open it will end up closed like many of the others.

Dave
[HD2 General] nedevg:
Guys,
[HD2 General] IanMc:
Yes, I thank you all for your input, my enquiry was to why we were not allowed to discuss the merits of ROMs in a forum that would seem to exist for that very purpose and to bring up the whole subject of censorship.

I got some good arguments from Dave and some others suggesting that I go buy a T-shirt

I won't be bullied, I am after all somewhere else on the internet and you can't get me nah, na, na, nah, naaah.

But I would like to say to those who use bullying language, perhaps because they think it makes them look clever? I don't know, I'd like to say that maybe they should think real hard about what it is they are (blindly) arguing for.. in essence you are saying 'Hey we want to be censored, we want to not be able to post whatever we like and to not be trusted with that freedom because we can't be trusted so there'.

I still think it would be a good idea to be able to discuss somewhere about the different combinations of ROM/Radio/Applications. I am currently developing a simple forum in C# and ASP.NET , making it as a web control so perhaps this could be an opportunity for me to get some users, it's obviously a lively discussion topic.

What about the domain name MORROM.com ? it's not taken yet, it's a palendrome and it kinda rhymes too :-) we'll see, I maybe back to ask nicely if it would be possible to put a link somewhere but I would always ask first.

Oh P.S look out for people who post pictures that say things like 'beware of the trolls' because this is their own best efforts to be clever .. a bit sad
[HD2 General] FireMAN999:
If you don't want to abide by the forum rules and feel its restricting your freedom, move along its a big internet.

I think you will find that most other people are happy with the mods work here, in fact i wish it where a bit stricter, so that a lot more pointless posts got moderated. :)
[HD2 General] chrisgto4:
Nope no censorship of that kind....but being a smartass will usually draw a lot of attention. Especially when directed towards mods. Your free speech rights end when they infringe on others same rights.
[HD2 General] IanMc:
Lots of valid views and some good arguments, I thank you all for your input.

Good one TheATHEiST :D hehe.

I think XDA-Developers.com is THE premier site for mobile enthusiasts the world over, and it's big! The existence of this site has been and continues to be a measure of excellence pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved with the mobile device and it is in large part due to this site that mobile devices can do what they do.

Thanks all and a special thanks to the moderators.

ian
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zengelbaddie:
Hi all,

I recently obtained the TMobile G2 and its unlock code.

I inserted a foreign SIM and entered the unlock code.

However during the unlock reboot process, i manually rebooted it.

Since then it has not asked for any Unlock code no matter what.

I have also tried factory reset as well but it did not help. Please support!!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wileykat:
But the sim is still not showing any network? Make sure the sim is not old/out of date/.... make sure it is working in another handset. If it is, then you will need to gfree root and super Cid as there have been issues regarding network unlock codes.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zengelbaddie:
I tried two sim cards which worked fine on the other phone, however did not work on my G2 - showed up as no network.

what is gfree root and super cid? any pointers on that?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
Just use gfree, it will SIM unlock as well as giving you full radio S-OFF and SuperCID. See http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php...Phone.2C_Set_SuperCID.2C_and_Turn_Radio_S-OFF . You will need at least temp root to run it.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zengelbaddie:
Thanks folks...

After i use gfree/ do a temp root. How to i verify if the phone is unlocked?

nd how to revert back from that root?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
To verify it is unlocked you will need to put in a different SIM card from the network that the phone was locked to, and see if it will recognise it.

If you only did a temp root, then if you reboot you shouldn't have root any more.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zengelbaddie:
I temp root the phone- i try to insert new SIM i need to reboot rite and ill loose the root.

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_G2

this page says- "......

@CID: 11111111 <--- this response means you have superCID!

@SIMLOCK= 00 <--- this means your simlock is off.

@secu_flag: 0 <--- this means your radio is S-OFF.

....."

now what should the value be for "@SIMLOCK="??
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
You can run gfree without a SIM or with your old SIM in, you don't need to put in the new one that the phone won't recognise whilst it's locked.

I'm not sure I understand your last question. I don't know what the value will be before you run gfree to unlock it, it will have some sort of value which will equate to the network it's locked to. After unlocking with gfree it should set that value to 00 as it shows.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zengelbaddie:
Oh! my mistake.. if i unlock that means the SIMLOCK=00.

Ill try it out now

Thanks for the help steviewevie and wileykat as well!!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhkr123:
Just run "gfree -f". There's no point in only unlocking part of it. Might as well own your phone... it is yours, right?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zengelbaddie:
yes.. what does that command do?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wileykat:
from http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_G2
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zengelbaddie:
Neat!! Thanks..

This is what i should do -

Unzip the gfree_temp-root.zip files to a folder.

And using adb-

$ adb push su /sdcard/su

$ adb push Superuser.apk /sdcard/Superuser.apk

$ adb push rage /data/local/tmp/rage

$ adb push busybox /data/local/tmp/busybox

$ adb push root /data/local/tmp/root

$ adb shell chmod 0755 /data/local/tmp/*

ON The PHONE:

Launch Terminal Emulator

$ /data/local/tmp/rage

Wait for the message: "Forked #### childs."

Menu > Reset Term - Terminal Emulator will exit.

Launch Terminal Emulator, it Force Closes. Launch a second time, and you'll have a root shell.

Now i have temporary root:

then in the terminal emulator

# ./gfree -f

:: This should unlock for all networks and after reboot the phone would be unrooted.

Is this correct?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KoolKidsKlub:
You left out some commands, like the really important one where you set the permissions on gfree, just make sure to follow the guide to a "T" and you should be good. If something happens, I'm sure that one of us can help you.

EDIT: And the point of using GFree is so that its rooted not unrooted. If you don't understand it fully, I wouldn't do it, bad things happen when people try things that they don't fully understand.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
Edit - never mind, didn't notice the other answers from my phone.

Sent from my HTC Desire Z
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksnexusone:
As the title says why don't everyone chime in here for a minute and say what ROM and maybe even what kernel you are running and why you chose that particular one.

I will start.

MicroMod Gingerbread ROM (at the moment),

some overclocked kernel,

and I am running this one because I have ran about everything for my N1 i can find in here and this one is good.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] momomok:
Running MM GB ROM v.20, with stock kernel.

Reason? I can't wait any longer for the OTA :P
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lythandra:
CM 6.1 cause I'm to lazy to try all the different ones out there.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LFact:
enomther's TheOfficial Nexus1 -> MIUI(0.12.31 with Wildmonk's kernel)

for enomther's, I needed app2SD+ badly when I tried custom ROMs, and it works OK to me.

for MIUI, I just wanted to try something different.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] siddharthsai:
GB v.20 ... its almost the full port of GB and its smooth as butter
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GHOST99K:
Cyanogen Mod roms ONLY, since day one of having my first android device.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jersey_609:
MM desire HD with redstar 20110112_0141 just trying something different normally run cyanogenmod..... I change every week or so
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b1337:
stock miui, because nothing else comes close when it comes to user interface and efficiency..and weekly updates are the ****!! **** Gingerbread..yawn
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChongoDroid:
Miuimod 2.4.2 running wm kernel... 20+ hours of battery and I get 12 down from wifi about 3.5-4 down on 3g and honestly I haven't experienced lag yet...

Sent from my Google Phone
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elias.alberto:
Got my phone (AT&T Captivate, firmware 2.1-update1 version JH7, kernel 2.6.29, build eclair.UCJH7) on december 28 from a AT&T store (it even came with a pic taken december 20 :confused: ) and I've already been able to boot into download mode (power off, hold volume keys then plug usb) and into that menu used to install packages (power off, hold volume keys then power on). Guess my hardware and firmware are ok, so I may be able to recover my phone by myself in case things go south.

I've been doing my homework lately (been reading stickys, tutorials and faqs for 10 days) but I'm still confused about some procedures. I'm not going to list everything I've read here, but I would like someone to correct me if I've learnt wrong. I don't really need the easiest methods, I want to understand the options available and to choose the best ones (aka the hardest path).

First of all, it seems I need to root my phone in order to be able to create backups, carrier-unlock it and flash custom roms. But it doesn't make much sense to me, since rooting it seem to be enough to prevent it from receiving FOTA updates - and I want to make the most comprehensive backup possible, in such a way I could restore my phone to 'factory condition' if needed.

Second, I realize there are many ways, programs and guides to root the phone - the most famous ones, One-Click root/unroot and z4root, seem to be listed in the wiki (http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S/SGH-I897), but there is also CLShortFuse's One-Click Root and Allow Non-Market Apps, which sounds interesting but I don't know if it is undo-able. So there are different ways to root the phone, but there is little to none information on what's the difference between these methods, which is 'better' and what difference does it make if I root it permanently or by some reversible method. Does it affect performance? How each of them work? I have no clue.

The mess gets even greater when it comes to creating backups. People mention different programs to make these backups (clockwork recovery, titanium backup) but I don't understand if they back up different parts of the phone. Some even seem to change the bootloader of the phone - shouldn't it be backed up prior to any modification? Do I flash these backups using Odin? Which programs should I use to have a full backup? Is there anything left I should back up manually?

I'll quit talking for now because I've already written a lot and I still have many questions; if I write all of them at once, no one will ever have the patience to read them. :p
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supaphreek:
Erk, a long post deserves a long answer :)

So first off, il tell you about recovering your phone. Since you just got it, you can go back to the store and play dumb to get a new one in case anything goes wrong. You can also use the 3 button combos to get into download mode and use odins back to stock to get back to your original 2.1 eclair firmware :). To do that you would need to get into download mode. Now there are a couple ways to do this, and i can only explain two since ive actually used two. (Well 3 actually, but il get to the third after these 2)

The first method is using the 3 button combo which you should already know. The second method is using adb commands such as (adb shell, adb reboot download, adb reboot recovery, adb devices). The third way :) is building a jig. Thats basically connecting 301k 1/4 watt worth of resistors together and placing them on pin 4 and 5 on your micro usb slot. You can read more about that on the tutorial on how to build a jig for your phone.

To restore to your factory setting, odin's one click back to stock thing should do the job. It simple installs the stock 2.1 eclair all over again (without the root).

To root your phone, any method from the wiki should work. None of them are really "better" :S, they all do the same job and give you super user permissions. None of them root your permanently since you can always go back to stock using Odin's... It does not really affect performance, not to any extent i have noticed :S, and unfortunately, i dont really know how it works.

As for creating backups, Titanium Backup is the best solution. Whether you have the few extra bucks to spend for the premium one or simply want to use the free one, its one of the best tools out there. I personally use it and its one of the best. It backs up all the data (except for my text messages). It creates a folder on your internal memory which you can just copy to your desktop. When the time comes that you need to restore your backup, just copy the folder back into your internal memory, load up titanium backup. Restore it and voila :).

I think ive answered everything, if ive missed anything, let me know :D

Edit : Forgot to mention this :). If your truly interested in customization. Custom roms are the best :) there is a howto in the themes and apps section on how to install it. It comes pre-rooted (if that is the word to use :S) and theyre much better than the stock firmware. Im currently using serendipity v3.0 :) (flashed it yesterday)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elias.alberto:
supaphreek, guess I'll have to thank you twice: once for reading my enormous post, and again for you supacompleteanswer. :D

I'm being paranoid with recovery because I actually bought the phone in the US then came back to my country (Brazil), so I'm a few thousand miles away from the simple lets-return-this-thing solution.

From everything I've read, I believe the most instructive were the wiki at http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S/SGH-I897 , the FAQ at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=858765 , the PDF guide from user nbs11 at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=761819 and the wiki at http://www.capfaq.com/w/FAQ. These contain most of the info a newbie user would ever need and I'd definitely recommend them to any newbie user who happen to be reading this. And for everyone afraid of bricking, it's a tremendous relief to know pretty much any mess you do can be reverted using download mode and Odin, so the first thing to test is if you can get into download mode using one of the ways described by our buddy supaphreek.

On the rooting matter, I found no discussion at all about which is better, so they should be pretty similar (though I have no idea which is the oldest version, I'd assume the recent ones might be a little improved). There is some discussion on what's the better lagfix and many of the cooked ROMs already come with some lagfix installed, but this is another story...

Once I get my phone rooted, it seems to be trivial to carrier-unlock it. There's even an app on android market for this, so I won't even need sideloading. Since all this procedure does is just give me a number, there's hardly any difference among all the unlocking procedures out there.

For the backup, I'll still do it using both titanium and clockwork, as suggested by nbs11 on the pdf I've linked on this post. Better safe than sorry, right?

And yes, I'm truly interested in customization and I'll go deep down that path, I'm just packing up my head with some knowledge to avoid being desperate if things eventually go fubar. :cool:

As a last question, is there somewhere I can get 1-click Odin with my exact firmware version? (2.1-update1, I897UCJH7, Kernel 2.6.29 jetaek.lee@sep-11 #2, build eclair.ucjh7) And how important is it to get the exact same firmware?

As I've done my research, I found 1-click odin with JF6 here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731989

I've also found the 'standalone' I897UCJH7 on this topic (where this guy even flashed succesfully his phone using old JH2 firmware without problems, so finding the exact firmware version might not be the greatest issue): http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10056254&postcount=36 but this process is a bit more complicated and uses regular Odin and clockwork recovery. Nonetheless, from what I've understood, I can still use any old version of odin to flash JF6 then use my own clockwork backup, right?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supaphreek:
Hmm, unfortunately, im not sure if there is a specific Odin for that firmware :S. However what you can do is use one that reverts you to any stock version, and then flash the version you want through clockwork mod :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elias.alberto:
I'll do that. Thanks again!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sixstringsg:
Also if you one click to stock, you can OTA update to the most recent firnware. I suggest titanium premium if you are going to flash a lot of custom roms, it is a lot faster to restore and also syncs with dropbox
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newter55:
Be careful trying to flash with odin. Some newer builds get instabrick flashing back to jf6 and must go with jh2 or newer.

So, you may want to invest a few bucks in a jig setup before blindly using odin.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elias.alberto:
Thanks for the tip, sixstringsg. :)

Newter55, as my phone is brand new I believe I may have one of these insta-brickable devices. If I happen to try flashing it with a recent rom, does it get recoverably bricked (fixed by flashing an older rom), or I'm left with a $500 paperweight?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newter55:
You just need to use the correct firmware version of odin if you manage to get in trouble. Many people flash rom over rom, including myself, but it is highly likely that at some point you will need odin if you are flashing roms so it is best to ensure that you have that set up first. Look for the odin thread by c3popl (sp?) in development forum and you should find what you need. Read through that and look for others with your base firmware. Or look through q&a at the "help I bricked" threads ;). On my phone and posting links is a pita or I would make it easy for you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GGXtreme:
If your phone came with JH7, follow this guide:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10056254&postcount=36

If you use one of the Odin one-clicks and brick your phone, you'll need a USB jig to recover.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elias.alberto:
You guys are awesome. Thank you newter55 and GGXtreme for this info! I hope I'll never need it, but I'll buy a cable and make a jig.

The news: I've rooted my phone using One Click Root / Unroot by TGA_Gunnman (for the record: it worked with my JH7 Captivate bought in 28 dec). Once I booted windows, installed dotnet framework 4 and the samsung drivers (easy too, but a pita), rooting was easy and failproof. However, someone using linux might find it easier to just download 1-click root, find the root.zip file in there, rename it as update.zip, put the zip in the internal sdcard, boot the phone holding the volume buttons and then 'install packages'. This way there will be no need to fight Wine nor install anything nor look for a windows computer with admin privileges.

Also unlocked my phone using SGS Unlock Tool, available in the Android Market. The unrooted option won't work, but once rooted it worked like a champ. Next step: I'll do the backups, and then... start messing up my new toy! :D
[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] bnight:
Hello Guys,

After we have root I want to ask you guys is there any app that give us an usb tethering I have barnicle for Wifi Tethering but my Ubuntu don`t want to work with it. My Windows 7 does.

So I need an Usb tethering for my X8 because i want to use my Laptop with the 3g connection from my phone.
[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] propc:
barnacle wifi tether..
[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] Buddha:
http://code.google.com/p/azilink/

try this ;D
[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] muzik_demon:
"pdanet" search for it in the market
[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] koolad4ms:
I use pdanet.search in the market
[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] bondgold_x:
i have ported my xperia x8 with gingerdx v010 and every thing works fine, but unable to do usb tethering.Can any one help me?