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[Captivate General] Restless101:
I just got into flashing roms and I love it! I love the feeling of having it rooted, being able to customize it, install 3rd party apps, etc.

But my question is- I have darky's rom and would like to try out others. I just never have the time because I have to backup everything, flash back, reroot, etc.

I don't have a problem with it but it's just a little tedious.

I read that some people don't always flash back and just stick the new rom into the phone. So is that wise? Sorry if it's a noob question...!
[Captivate General] newter55:
Honestly the only time I flash stock is when something appears to be broken.
[Captivate General] mcord11758:
You do not have to flash stock. There is a risk either way. In both cases you have to backup all your apps and restore.

I went from a jpy base rom to an armani base without a flash to stock. Disabled lag fix, wiped davlik cache, flashed. all went well.

Be prepared that if something goes wrong you may need odin to recover
[Captivate General] SSJ_Gomike:
I never ever flash back to stock......but I do always disable any lagfix first!
[Captivate General] newter55:
Actually, pretty much every kernel now supports ext4 so disabling lagfix is not necessary.
[Captivate General] Aus_Azn:
I never flash to stock unless something is broken or if I get assaulted with FCs.

Right now, since my phone is acting up, I'm actually Master Clearing too.
[Captivate General] SlimJ87D:
Interesting, so the majority of people don't master clear. Maybe there should be a poll up.

I have Cognition 3.03 and want to go to 3.04 but I don't want to have to master clear, reroot and nada nada nada.
[Captivate General] sixstringsg:
Usually on updates it isn't specified anyway. And I never do either unless something breaks.
[Captivate General] gicuenitro:
Help?

Got a crazy newb type question. Maybe one of you would be willing to help me out with?

I have had my captivate for almost 6 months now. Still as much or more in love with it as I was when I got it. However, I am starting to get a bit anxious for froyo and wondering just how much I am missing in the custom side of things. Ihave spent the past 15 years in graphic design and have a lod of experience in the tech side of things etc so I would not consider myself a total newb, but when it comes to flashing, roms, flashing of roms ;], modems or anything else that goes with it, I am very limited..Still rockin' stock 2.1update1

Would one of you extremely smart people with a little extra free time be willing to meet with me and teach me the tools/tricks of the trade? Or at the very least explain things for me and send me on my way? lol.

Anything would be appreciated....thx
[Captivate General] owmygulay:
I am glad to see this. I would like to see a poll too. I just flashed my first ROM last night was was not sure if this was an acceptable way of switching ROMs.
[Captivate General] newter55:
@gicuenitro,

It is truly an easy process. Stop in the phoenix irc channel and I, or others, would be glad to walk you through it. People are usually around in the afternoon/evenings.

webchat.freenode.net

#ph0enix
[Captivate General] photojunky:
When I first started flashing, roms that is, I always used Odin back to stock. Now I just flash using cwm after backing everything up. No problems.
[Captivate General] alkiter:
Haven't flashed to stock since I bricked my second phone doing it. Now I just download Rom to phone, CWM update, turn on wifi, login to Google account, TiBu restore, launcher restore and done, takes about 15 min.
[Captivate General] modest_mandroid:
I don't bother flashing back to stock unless something doesn't work right after the new flash. For example, I flashed Perception 10.1 over my old rom and couldn't receive incoming calls (though data and sms worked fine). I flashed back to stock, then reflashed 10.1 and everything worked proper. That was the only time I've needed to flash back to stock.

Flashing a new rom doesn't have to be a tedious process if you automate most of it. Here's my regular procedure for flashing a new rom:

1. Do a nandroid backup with Rom Manager, in case something goes wrong and I need to revert the phone back to it's current state, or if I don't like the new rom and want to restore my phone to how it was before I flashed. A nandroid backup usually takes 5-10 minutes. You don't need to do anything in the process, just go read engadget.com or something while it happens.

2. Use titanium backup to back up all my apps and data. The time this will take depends on how many apps you have, and how many you already have backed up. It usually takes me about 5 minutes to back up all my stuff (automated again, you don't need to do anything while this happens).

3. Flash the new rom over the old one. I don't bother disabling voodoo either, just because as someone else already pointed out, most of the roms use kernels that support ext4 filesystems. This also usually takes about 15 minutes (OS boot time included). This also doesn't require you to do anything while you wait.

4. Once the new rom is booted up, I'll do a quick check to make sure all the primary functions work (voice calls, data, sms). Then I download Titanium Backup and do a batch restore of all my user apps/data. This will take anywhere from 5-15 minutes depending on how much stuff you have. If you have the paid version of Titanium Backup, just run the market doctor afterwards to link all your restored apps back to the market, so you can be notified of updates. It takes a few seconds to run market doctor.

Total time for flashing a new rom and reloading all my stuff is 30-45 minutes, the vast majority of which I don't have to actually interact with the phone. After that, it's just a matter of setting up your widgets and email accounts again, which I think you can also do from TB, but I don't bother.

Edit: Actually, come to think of it, ADW launcher will save your widgets across rom flashes if you restore your user data with TB.
[Captivate General] opcow:
I do not. I have never heard any actual theory of how doing so could possibly be of any use other than as a placebo or an easy way to brick your phone.
[Captivate General] mxracer101:
Nice to hear some of you guys are having success not going back to stock all the time. That is a tedious process.
[Captivate General] JoeMap:
TiBu is a huge time saver, especially the paid version. I may start checking out other roms without flashing stock first since so many of you are doing it without issues.
[Captivate General] phoenix2217:
I always flash stock. It's not needed, but I like starting from fresh. I have done it a few times right over another ROM without any issues. Just personal preference I suppose.
[Captivate General] DucatiGuy:
I thought that DG provided an update to take you from Cog 3.03 to 3.04 without having to flash stock nor MC...or maybe that was another ROM? Check his downloads.

EDIT: Sorry there was an upgrade version for 3.03, but not 3.04.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 420-69:
My lock button doesn't work very well anymore. It sometimes takes a few or more clicks to get it to turn on the screen, and I was wondering if I should try to get it repaired. I am rooted and running a custom rom, would sprint still repair it if I paid them?

Thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drtdiver83:
what rom and kernel combo are you using. i had this issue running a kernel with setcpu using smartass.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Buff McBigstuff:
if you have a screen off profile be careful because 128 may take some time to wake up, try 245
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 420-69:
I don't have a screen off profile
[Fascinate General] RepAZ:
Just like the title says, am I able to use Blackhole 3.0 from ROM Manager if I am using DJ05. Thanks
[Fascinate General] tats_06:
No blackhole 3.0 is for DL09 ;)
[Fascinate General] Lodingi:
It should. The rom is for DL09, running on baseband DJ05. I'm running it.
[Fascinate General] sreymj:
I was initially running it on DJ05, no issues.
[Fascinate General] bL33d:
Is there a gingerbread theme for blackhole?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanRo80:
Are there any issues with this known, is there any tests that can be performed on the hardware? When I had WM6.5 I could test various hardware pieces such as the speaker, flash or display.

Non-Rooted

2.2.1

Baseband/32.36.00.28U_4.06.00.12_7

Kernel/2.6.32.9-27240-gbca5320android-build@apa26#1

Build/FRG83D

This is a phone that I bought my friend for his birthday. I have a Samsung Vibrant Galaxy S.

I actually plan to sell mine and get a Nexus One. I really like the phone better then my Vibrant.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XSafire:
If you haven't already, do a factory reset (settings>privacy>factory reset). Since your unrooted it's unlikely it's a software fault.

Second resort, call HTC. Warranty's are device based, not owner based, so if the device is still under warranty you can get a new one

As a last resort, if your warranty is expired, I would root it without unlocking the bootloader. Try a couple different ROM's and kernals and see if you get any results.

I actually had this problem a while back. I was getting FC's every time I tried to access the camera (through any app). I figured I dropped it and broke a connection or something inside. I finally called HTC and they sent me a new one.

I had to restore everything back to stock since it was running CM6. After everything was back to stock, the camera magically started working again (and I reverted to some nandroid backups from months before and the camera still didn't work then). I returned it for a new unit anyway and HTC didn't charge me or say anything.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenamelessthing:
Hi! Here is the story of my nightmare... I have a Bell i9000m with Android 2.1. I have use GST tweaker tools to root it. I also have do a backup with titanium backup (but I think it useless at this step) After this I have try to change the battery icon with the same utility. When I have rebooted the phone, it stop at the "S" logo for a minute and after the screen go black and the button are glowing and the phone buzz. After this nothing happen. When I go in recovery mode (3e) I obtain an error:

update media, please wait

E:Can't mount /dev/block/st110

(Invalid argument)

E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount DBDATA:

your storage not prepared yet, please use UI menu for format and reboot actions,

copy default media content failed.

I have try with odin3 1.7 to flash the phone but I'm a little bit confused with all possibility...

One stupid thing I have to say, I don't know my original firmware version... ;-(

I have see many good custom kernel... it is possible to fix this and by the way to upgrade to froyo?

It is possible to fix my problem doc?

Thanks a lot for your help!

P.S. Sorry for my bad english, (i'm from Quebec,Canada)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Easiest fix :

Go in recovery and wipe.

Then restart and see if that fixed your problem.

Alternate (Guaranteed solution) :

Go here

Click "Direct Download". If you don't see it try to refresh the page.

Fire up odin.

Extract the zip u downloaded

For pda in odin select the .tar you extracted

Put your phone in download mode.

Flash w/o repartition or nething.

That should work.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenamelessthing:
Hi! I have try the 2 solutions you mention. But always same problem... I have to mention I have installed speedmod-kernel-k12p-500hz it is correct or I have to replace it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Ok then do this :

Get these two

Flash odin with repartition and select the pda,modem,csc

Once done

Go back to odin. Flash just pda with no repartition or nething of the jl2 (previous thing u downloaded in my first post).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenamelessthing:
Sorry for this question but what do you mean by nething? (sorry english is not my first language!)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
So leave everything the way it is.

Dont check mark anything extra.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenamelessthing:
YEAH! You solved my problem!!! You rock man!

Before I do any other stupid thing any advice?

I have visit some european site about android. They offer some firmware.. it is better to keep the "bell" specific firmware?,etc...

I don't know if I already say this ... Thanks you!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Try them.

Now u know

exactly how to restore if nething ever happens ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] splish2010:
Glad to hear you got your problems sorted. Maybe you could hit the "Thanks" button under Daneshm's post.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droilfade:
Thank you! You indirectly helped me immensely!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aadis:
this problem accure bcs of

1.you didnt remove bettry b4 flashing rom

2.some stoke filmware give you error message but if you flash with 521+pda+csc+modem file then tht problem is solve

and i found that I9000XWJM5 filmware is really good if somebody need it then pm me i all send zip file
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mobileoneexpress:
Can anyone tell me how do bring back to life my phone??? I used this on my Vibrant and now my phone is DEAD!!! IT WON'T TURN ON AT ALL

ANY IDEAS??? PLEASE HELP!!! I KNOW I MADE A MISTAKE... ANYONE PLEASE
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azzledazzle:
do u have download mode??

if not buy a JIG or send back to samsung :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grygrygry:
HELPPPP

hi guys, i've follow this guide but my phone it's blocked from 15 minutes... any help please?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ltrademark:
.. ok. call me a n00b or w/e u want, but i understood everything up until that last part. when u go back to odin.

It would help if you can describe the set-up, because clearly i did something wrong... screenshots would help if possible /:

p.s. i have all the files downloaded from ur previous posts... i just need to know the order. also for the second download file, which file is the PDA file? the one with the word "CODE" in it? or i dont even apply that one .. O_o;;;
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaw009:
Hello, i've been having the same problem with my GT-i9003, and even after flashing with odin i still have the same problem. Well, it's not exactly the same, cause my phone will keep on a starting bucle if i try to start it without my EXTERNAL sd card (the one i bought), and if i start it with the external card in, it starts, but i can't use anything that uses the sd card (music, camera, 3g), so yes i can call and message and use wifi, but that's not how it's ment to be. Basically it's like i had no external or internal cards.

So everythime i try to flash without the external sd card, i get the mounting error, and if i flash with the external card, it seems ok , but i still can't use any of the things mentioned above.

I'm a bit lost, and i believe it's because i'm missing something (i'm new to this). i don't want to send it to samsung (yet)

i've been using the firmware that came with the phone, didn't try anything new.

to sum up: any attempts to flash with/without the external card are irrelevant, the problem persists.

Any thoughts/ideas/solutions?

thanks in advance.
[Droid X General] mikedpa1:
hello all,

i'm running tranquility 3.7 rom on my droid x with blue droid theme.

trying to find out if there is a hack to disable the data governor to uncap the data "throttle"

i've seen in the forums where there have been some zip's developed for other rom's, not sure if any of those will work with tranquility.

thanks for the help..
[HD2 General] farshadfarshad2009:
Hey everyone

Today I realised that my HD2 vibration doesnt work, I dont know why and what happened but it doesnt work, the only thing that I can say and hear is the click that I can hear whenever I try to turn on the phone , it seems its trying to vibrate but cant , only one click and the phone boots up normally , everything else works fine , I can also hear the click whenever I recieve a call or text .

What can I do to fix it ?

Basically I could fix it, the problem was flash cover, camera flash cover or glass as you can see in the picture had been pushed in a little bit and because it is exactly on the vibration motor itd prevent it to work

So I opened the phone and pushed it back , now its working
[HD2 General] farshadfarshad2009:
I fixed it, and edited the topic coz thought it might be useful as this might happen to someone esle

cheers
[HD2 General] daemonfly:
Nice fix. Did the cover or it's supports break, or did it just pop out of position?
[HD2 General] farshadfarshad2009:
It wasnt loose, so probably something from outside caused it pop out of its position.
[Continuum Android Development] bubby323:
If you haven't updated yet due to any number of reasons, just drag the update.zip found here to your root of your sdcard, and boot into recovery using, while your phone is completly off, both volume keys and power and use the down key to navigate to apply update.zip and then press the camera button to select the option. That's it, a painless update, if you still have your bloat of coarse. :P When your done feel free to root with the one click I made. (;
[Continuum Android Development] CrazyKnight122:
Hey man i need some help.

Whatever we did to my phone wont mount my sd card so i cant flash anything via recovery.
[Continuum Android Development] bubby323:
Your still using the failed fake flash recovery jt and I made. Let me dig up the official recovery for you to flash in odin.
[Continuum Android Development] CrazyKnight122:
Ok awesome man. Your just going to have to remInd me how to do it lol.

Sent from my SCH-I400
[Continuum Android Development] jenisiz:
was the odin version ever posted? I needed to try flashing dj05 for a certain reason and now can't friggin flash back. Thought I saw it posted but alas no.
[Continuum Android Development] jenisiz:
Hate to bump...but does the ODIN dl17 exist?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] abmantis:
So, which one runs faster? RAM Roms or NAND Roms?

I'm trying my first NAND rom and it is pretty slow compared to SuperRAM... but I still need to try some other NAND Roms...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] vitalisvv:
I think, RAM Roms runs faster
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] SpiderVenom:
I personally like NAND better. When I used RAM it seemed like it might of been a little bit faster but it had more bugs and seem to freeze a lot on me.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] i n f a m o u s:
RAM is supposed to be faster but I've noticed a difference in bootup times and Quadrant benchmarks. Between gaming and just normal use, there's really not much of a difference.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] STHNS:
From human observation you will not notice any difference with HD2 specification. But technically RAM is faster than NAND, also don't call it ROM as it means READ ONLY MEMORY. Trust me you can write it on NAND :P but I know I know you will say write is disabled thats done though permission base structure.

I know all about allocating things directly into the memory :P been using that for ages in *nix world as we have saying unused memory is useless memory. IRL you won't notice any diff so NAND might be better for you natively.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] abmantis:
I guess I need to try some other NAND build then... Because with the one I am now I notice it is a lot slower than the SuperRAM one...

Yeah I know what ROM stands for :) but people call it ROMs... Don't ask me why :p
[XPERIA X10 General] vjsaini00:
I M just downloading it,i will update later abt it
[XPERIA X10 General] Jigokuartur:
Where re you from?
[XPERIA X10 General] sparkymarks:
i also received an update notification via PC Companion around 7am this morning (GMT+8) when i hooked up my phone to my laptop.

running 2.1 .24 rooted with installed DT rom

on X10i GLOBAL Generic

didn't update as i dont wanna risk losing root.

maybe this could be the official DT update?
[XPERIA X10 General] divine3155:
if you have the DT, then ignore it.
[XPERIA X10 General] alankstiyo:
so what did you get???
[XPERIA X10 General] batman_112:
If you installed the DT kernel from Bin4ry's thread then, this is a false alarm. See here and here.
[XPERIA X10 General] divine3155:
yup. so you have the DT installed. Don't bother until the official update comes.
[XPERIA X10 General] sparkymarks:
i see.

thanks thanks!:)
[Continuum Android Development] bubby323:
Placeholder for the tutorial, will be up in the next few days.
[Continuum Android Development] torque240:
sooo. hows that tutorial coming along
[Continuum Android Development] nitsuj17:
ahahahah :D
[Continuum Android Development] dfgged:
LMAO

Don't ever expect this tutorial to come to light. Bubby left us a while ago.
[Continuum Android Development] trailblazer101:
Trolololol...

I almost forgot about the Bubby days xP

I literally laughed out loud at that... Thank you for that torque240 lolololol
[Continuum Android Development] torque240:
:) lol :cool:
[Continuum Android Development] bubby323:
Way to troll. :P I'm still around. Wait.
[Continuum Android Development] nitsuj17:
fwiw, if you are still around for the continuum folks...it would have be nice to let them know that at some point in the last 5 months...by all accounts in looking through here you just closed up shop in the night and disappeared
[Continuum Android Development] torque240:
Since you are back, will you be able to finish the tutorial :D
[Continuum Android Development] nitsuj17:
the waiting is killing me :eek:

what an awesome tutorial :rolleyes:
[Continuum Android Development] trailblazer101:
Lolololol... I just gave up :P I mean, I would be thankful if he does release something... i just don't see that happening any time soon xP
[Continuum Android Development] bubby323:
The mods should be hitting up this thread later today to clean it up. Please keep the comments to a minuim and stay on topic.
[Continuum Android Development] nitsuj17:
umm what topic? you claimed you were going to do a bunch of stuff for this phone MONTHS ago, then packed up ship in the night without so much a reason why

then people call you on it...and suddenly you are back ready to help out? :rolleyes:

the continuum would have been better off if you never had tried to play the white knight, which you are not capable of doing clearly
[Continuum Android Development] dfgas:
be quiet my dudes, is this sipthis under a new name? lol
[Continuum Android Development] shabbypenguin:
:/ not so lucky ;P

anyone mad at him should do a bit of reading... its been a lot of lulz ;D
[Continuum Android Development] Bierce22:
you really had to bump a thread thats a year old thx dude
[Windows Phone 7 General] lemonspeakers:
Have there been any tools written to work with the Dell Venue Pro for editing Registry?

All the registry hacks and programs written so far seems to be HTC specific, or at least only HTC compatible.

I can unlock my Dell Venue Pro with Chevron, deploy XAPs but I cannot modify the registry. Argh! No program I have tried can modify it.

Basically, I want to be able to spoof my Dell Venue Pro to an HD7 (just like what we've done with the HD2). - Maybe then my web2go plan can work the DVP after?

If not, IMEI spoofing is another consideration (but we all know why I can't :rolleyes:) - unless.... :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] lemonspeakers:
rebump. anyone?
[Windows Phone 7 General] jessej:
Bump. I'm also interested in this. I would prefer a general WP7 registry hack though. It would help to keep development free flowing across devices.
[Windows Phone 7 General] domineus:
dell - no com dlls...

ergo no provxml

no registry...it sucks
[Windows Phone 7 General] lemonspeakers:
sorry, i didnt understand that. can you reiterate? in layman's terms?