yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aznprodgy:
after I purchased my phone, I immediately hit the internet and looked up some info on the MT4G and saw the Unlockr method for rooting and following the guide made it very easy. 2 thumbs up for me, and yes visionary 14 works
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvaj23:
Sounds good I'm gonna use that method once my replacement gets here wednesday:)
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h0wlings0nnets:
Best...simpliest...and easy

Temp and permarooted w the steps given....1 try and it was golden and flashing was easy

Highly recommended!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoyalTaco:
i just got the mt4g and i wanna root it but i dont wanna lose swype like i did when i root my mt3gslide. is there a way i can get swype on 4g after i root it?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pnut22r:
@RoyalTaco:

Several of the roms have swype. Including "iced glacier" and "evil's desire hd" (which I'm using now as I type. Love swype)
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kline:
Rooting a MT4G will not remove any applications. Swype is pre-installed, and will stay that way. The only way to "lose" Swype is to flash a ROM that does not include it. In that case, you can go to the Swype website and download it directly by signing up for the beta.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoyalTaco:
oh ok thx guys. :D Using this method i after i reboot the phone i keep getting S-On. what could i be doing wrong?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lanternslight456:
unlockr

I get this far

When I open the file manager app (i tried Linda and OI File Manager) the file isn't there.

I know I did everything, I tried several times, but nothing. Any advice?

Jonathan
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jggimi:
If the file isn't there, I can imagine only three possibilities. Choose one. These are the only reasonable possibilities, but as we're not psychic, you'll have to figure out which it might be of these three.

You did not transfer the file to the SD card at all.

You transferred it to the wrong directory on the SD card .

You're looking for it in the wrong directory.

Could it be something else? Sure. Perhaps you renamed the file. Perhaps you switched SD cards.... but if you're using the same SD card, and you did not rename the file, then one of those three are the likely candidate.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lanternslight456:
Here's the info I know from what I've done in regards to these options (I'm going to try again tonight though)

1. You did not transfer the file to the SD card at all.

My computer can see the file on the lettered drive, (the USB port it's plugged into) there is no other address info in the address bar other than the lettered drive

2. You transferred it to the wrong directory on the SD card .

Again, same as above

3. You're looking for it in the wrong directory.

In the file explorer on the phone the address in the directory is just /

again I'm going to try tonight but maybe this info can clear it up. I'm learning a lot about these things and how they work so thanks for all the help!

Jonathan
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoyalTaco:
unLockr

II. Flash the S-OFF Hboot Image and Gain Perm Root

1. Download the rooting files:

* T-Mobile MyTouch 4G / HTC Glacier S-OFF/Rooting Files

2. Extract the files somewhere to your computer.

3. Plug your phone in via USB cable and mount the SD card so we can transfer files to it.

4. Copy the entire root folder from inside the extracted folder from step 2 to the root of your sd card on your phone (NOT in any folders, just on the SD card itself).

5. Unplug the phone.

6. Go to the Market on your phone and download/install Android Terminal Emulator (free).

4. Open the Terminal Emulator app and type the following with hitting enter at the end of each line (to get the touch screen keyboard to come up hit the menu button then toggle soft keyboard):

su

cd /sdcard/root

sh root.sh

5. Now, wait for it to finish.

6. After that is done, reboot the phone. When it boots back up, turn it off and back on holding down Volume Down and Power until the HBoot screen comes up. Confirm it says S-OFF at the top. If so, you have S-OFF.

i do steps 1-5 but when i get to step 6 and reboot my phone while holding volume down i have S-ON and not off! any ideas what i can be doing wrong. btw i did the temp root b4 trying this.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kline:
Try the gfree method over in the development section. Here's the thread.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LuLuBaby86:
In step 4 where it says you have to enter this on Terminal Emulator:

su

cd /sdcard/root

sh root.sh

Make sure that you space after cd. I had the same problem until I put the space in and then I had S=OFF. Try that.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chamboi42o:
when i had my g2, the tuorial for a permaroot and unlock works perfectly (theunlokr). Now, since I have the mytouch 4g, it doesnt work. it shows s-off, but setcpu does not work because it could not detect root. *shrugs*
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phateless:
With all due respect if you're having this much trouble with the MOST BASIC level of USING ANDROID, I don't think you should be screwing around with root access. I don't think you'll know what to do with it and you're at a higher risk of rendering your device useless.

Take some time to read up on the basics of how to USE the device before you try to modify it.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phateless:
*sigh*

Now that you have S-OFF, run visionary again (temproot, then permroot) THEN root will stick. READ THE DIRECTIONS.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Domvillan:
I am having the same issue, I had mytouch 4g rooted broke the screen ordered a new one tried goin the unlockr route but was unable to get S-off I also tried the gfree route and when I type in ./ gfree it tells me I dont have permission, can anyone help?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phateless:
Temp root before gfree. Slow down, it's all in the directions.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] big fancy:
worked great for my mt4g
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Domvillan:
Yeah I followed each step very carefully, im not so new on rooting, I have rooted a few phones in the past, after foing thru all the steps when I reboot into bootloader S is still on
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neidlinger:
If you have used the root.sh method and it's not rooting your phone. There is a good chance you have a bad eMMC chipset. If that is the case i wouldn't root the phone with ./gfree. At that point it would be ticking Time bomb. Read the thread marked "post your eMMC serial number" in the general section.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Domvillan:
Hey man thanks for the help I read up on that site and I do have what maybe considered the "bad" chopset.

I factory restored my device and deleted all of the old rooting files. Then tried gfree again... Only this time I only copied the single gfree file into cd /data/local/ and rand the terminal commands. It did its thing and then I went into hboot and had S-off temp rooted and the attempted perm root and now. Everything is good to go. Only suggestion is to clarify to move only the gfree file or else the proccess will not work.

Thanks again for the help patience and suggestions!

HTC Glacier

Happily Perm-rooted w/ S-off
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenotoriouspie:
When I did everything with my phone I only got s off and used the temp root to put on the custom recovery because once you flash a new rom its pre rooted. Worked pretty good
[Venue Pro General] jessej:
I think we should turn the thread a little more positive. So with that said here are the things I really enjoy about the Venue Pro.

1. Form factor and build quality are outstanding on this phone.

2. Much faster loading the majority of (if not all) games than my wife's HD7.

3. LG Voice to Text is awesome and works great on the Venue Pro. There is a small pause when jumping directly to the home screen from the app but the app has been perfect.

4. Having the ability to type on a physical keyboard when it is in the single digits and waiting for the city bus is a life saver.

6. Screen is very high quality. I would like a more accurately calibrated screen and I would pay for a screen calibration app if anyone is capable of achieving this. (I am a video junkie so the colors can be a distraction at times.)

7. Camera takes very good pictures in well lit environments.

Anybody have recommendations on other apps to sideload? Are the custom color accents working for the Venue Pro yet? I know a good portion of things require read/write access which we don't yet have to my knowledge.
[Venue Pro General] canadariot2312:
Probably the most beautifully designed phone of 2010. I am probably saying that because smartphones are just copying each other. It is probably the easiest phone to type on because of the curved glass, it is curved outwards and it is actually quite noticeable.

Unfortunately because of the availably, we don't get fun features like custom color accent. I think that is because the developer doesn't have a Venue Pro.
[Venue Pro General] 937dytboi:
how did you get the LG voice to text app, i would like to try that out on the VP
[Venue Pro General] jessej:
It is actually a very simple process. The first thing is to unlock your phone either with ChevronWP7 or with a developer unlock. Once you have done that there is a thread in the developer section with a XAP file that you unzip. Then you can install it using the developer tools or with one of the other sideloading methods. I used ChevronWP7 and the developer tools. There is a great guide on installing ChevronWP7 in the general WP7 development thread. This is also where you can find the XAP file. I guess it is actually a RAR file that you unzip. If you look in the section that says HTC hub for everyone there is also a link to a supposed led flashlight app. It uses the recording feature of the camera and turns the led on. Brilliant idea if you ask me. I was going to try this today when i get a little time.
[Venue Pro General] MO3iusONE:
I love the design, the OS.. the slide out keyboard feels solid, the loud speaker is LOUD!! lol.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keyboardcowboy:
is there any android app that allows to send and receive Nokia OTA Bitmap (.ota) through sms
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] adminlt:
After several cycles on WP7 the batt was fully drained and now it won't charge (charge LED goes on for few seconds and then goes off). It won't load either, just switches off on DFT screen. Batt is standard.

Guess it is critical not to allow batt to drain fully on WP7?

Is there any solution to this?

Thanks for any ideas.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] bdkinney:
Had a similar problem with Android...battery drained completely and wouldn't charge. I solved it by cutting the end off of a spare USB cable, removing the battery, and charging directly from the cable (red wire to positive/black to negative). After about twenty minutes I put the battery back in the phone and it booted Right up. Or, if you have more sense than me, you could just pick up an external battery charger...I'm just the hack apart a cable and do it caveman kinda Guy...
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Gustopher:
I can confirm a similar experience; I thought it was worth trying the fully-drain-then-fully-recharge regime suggested elsewhere on these forums as a means of extending battery life, which does struggle a bit on WP7.

The fully discharge bit was easy, but it is worth everyone bearing in mind that magldr - as advised, I believe - will not allow the phone to charge. As a result, I was getting into WP7 (just) only for it to almost immediately shut down. But it was at least doing a small amount of charging before it did.

After a sweaty fifteen minutes or so of restarts (I was having to take the battery out to force the restart as it wouldn't start on the power button), it decided it had enough charge to...well, charge and all was well.

My suggestion would be not to risk going beyond the critical warning WP7 gives, at least until magldr is able to offer charging.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Nevralgeek:
Almost the same issue here, without having let the battery fully drained...

I can't charge my hd2 anymore.....if it's turned off.

But, it Can be charged if wp7 is running! I don't know why...

I had This issue when I received the phone. It took me a whole Day to charge the battery the first time : orange LED turning off after 10seconds (HD2 switched off or in wm6.5

Once the led is off, can't turn the phone on or charge it again until I remove and put the battery back.

It was in summer so I thought the phone was too hot, so I cooled the battery with a fan, replaced it, retryed... At least 10times, and it finally charged.

SO weird, I'll test This again with wp7, who knows?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] adminlt:
I am wondering whether it is some kind of magldr bug?

I'll try the trick with the cable directly to the batt. It is not very practical though if you drain your batt, where there is no access to spare cabling.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] TheATHEiST:
This should be put into the sticky rollup thread for people who have let their batteries drain.

Why dont you do some pics bud and create a topic?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] adminlt:
I am cutting the cable as I write. Will take some pics.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] jemaho:
If your battery drains completely, just remove it, replace it back. Without starting the phone, connect it to your PC. start and enter the bootloader. You'll be then able to charge. I did it like that last week.

Sent from my HD7 using Board Express
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] adminlt:
Running cable directly to the batt is confirmed to work. Just revived mine with this trick.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] adminlt:
How do you enter the bootloader, if the phone is not responsive at all?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Gustopher:
Less of a bug and more of an unwanted side-effect of having this excellent capability, I think. I seem to recall that the developers are aware and looking to see what can be done.

I guess it is possible to completely drain the battery, in which case this won't work. But if there is some power, removing the battery and replacing it should kick the phone into life for long enough to do this. This was going to be my first try if persistent rebooting hadn't eventually worked.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] jcsy:
having this problem and definitely charging below the amount...

i cant fully charge the battery as well
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] jemaho:
Like I said, if connected, but not started, to your computer, you'll have enuff time to start it then and entering the bootloader, of course, you gotta be quick for this to work.

If it doesn't respond, don't laugh, confirmed to work, remove your battery like explained and put it for some mins in the fridge before replacing it (it's only chemistry playing here, somehow better than cutting a USB cable in 2).
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] lilikin:
You know nothing about chemistry at all! Cold kills battery charge if your going to use temperature use your armpit for 5 mins!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] lilikin:
double post oops please delete
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] jemaho:
"storing them in the freezer might be more practical. These kinds of batteries lose their charge after a few days when kept at room temperature. But they'll retain a 90% charge for months if you store them in the freezer. Just like alkaline batteries, you'll need to wait until they've warmed up before using them. However, this isn't a problem when you need new batteries for your digital camera or other electronic gadget. "

I suggest you to be more polite when answering and learn your lessons before posting!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Nevralgeek:
I finally made a dual boot Android/WP7.

At first, Android said my battery was fully charged, just like WP7, which is totally impossible as I used MAGLDR to format the SD card (wp7 & android partitions) and that it took me almost 1hour, without any possible way to charge the battery while I'm in bootloader mode.

But when I turned the phone off, plugged into the wall.......TADAA It was finally charging, with phone turned off :)

So, it seems that dual boot may be a way to solve this issue
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Gustopher:
You're arguing against yourself here aren't you? Cold may be fine for storage but you need heat to coax a little more power out. You even say 'you need to wait until they've warmed up before using them'.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] bdkinney:
If you could do some pics that would be great...I have two, "My computer's broken," calls to deal with today. Visuals might help some...it's appreciated.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Nevralgeek:
:( Wrong idea, sorry guys.

I thought that HD2 was charging since I installed WP7 and Android in Dual Boot. But it's a fake : if the phone is turned off, and that I plug it, the orange led turns on. But that's all, even if I unplug the phone, the led remains turned on !!

And now, Android as well as WP7 are telling me that the battery is fully charged but I'm sure it's not even 50% full.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] popab:
I think i can help you

It's a magldr bug.You have to charge it to a battery charger(it's a special charger that doesn't connect the phone to charge,only battery),or change the battery.I hope it was useful
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] jcsy:
getting the same problem

i only worry that we are not getting to charge to full and we might be damaging the hardware, whether its the battery or the internal circuit

understand that 1 might need to charge using an external charger to get the right readings but im charging to 90% only now and it indicates its full, both in WM7 & Android

this is sad
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] lilikin:
You have no idea what your talking about what I am worrying about is you telling some kid to freezer his battery. "remove your battery like explained and put it for some mins in the fridge before replacing it" your own words mate please don't back pedal this isn't about your pride but some guy/gal damaging his/her device!

please lose the pride and stop misleading people to do things to damage their device, I wont go into what I do for a living cause I know it will turn out you will claim to be the dean of science at Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial college but there is a lot of online documents backing me up so please google it before fridging your battery!

last confirmation of you want to get a little bit more out of your battery put it under your armpit 25DegC is a good temp to have most batteries at and heat will speed up the reaction for a short period! Over heat and you will damage them but a short spell under your armpit is ok! Hopefully this might let you turn on the bootloader etc!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Stom:
I'm having similar problems. MAGLDR 1.13. Phone went flat last night and I muzzily turned it on again while dozing this morning.

It started booting, restarted a couple of times, then shut off. Original charger/wall charger/usb power didn't bring up a charge light. Couldn't get into bootloader etc for long enough to plug the cable in.

Battery out for three or four mins, under the armpit, back in, plug it in then booted up first time. Problem solved!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] jetsetwilly:
Just had the same problem - this seemed to work for me too. Thanks.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dazza9075:
I mentioned the warming battery thing ages ago, bout time some one agrees with me! Its also worth noting an I'm not sure if its already been mentioned that charging the battery in magldr menu works a treat too, note of concern is the wether ot not the battery controller will kick down to trickle charge or not, so I use abit of applied math and work it out on paper to around 90%, wp7 takes care of the rest, using wp7 to do the full charge leaves very inconstant results which is a pain in the arse but give me an excuse to disconnect myself from the world one every few days =)

So for cooling down batteries, I'm on my phone just now an can't be bothered searching, by logic tells me that reducing the reaction of chemicals Leeds to less life, when I go up mountains in the middle of winter my head torch runs down quicker , dims quicker ...if I can be bothered I'll look for some data on it or perhaps someone else could drop some factual knowledge on here?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] misiek00001:
Hi. I am new in forum,and new in android system :(

I have Xperia X10 with android 2.1 2.0.A.0.504 . Soft is branding from my operator (ERA Poland). My question is: Can i root my phone? Is any have simple and fast rooting method? Sry for my english :(
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fr3nlysmil3:
use z4root !!!! it is a simple one click root application !!!!!
[General Topics] androidfeen809:
T-Mobile just confirmed a sidekick 4G android device will be coming in the next few months

http://www.gizmocrunch.com/android/4841-samsung-galaxy-4g-htc-sidekick-t-mobile

It sounds interesting, I have had a sidekick before and the design is hot imo however the software (danger OS) was terrible the market had no apps compare to android.

So what you guys think about this? Do you see potential in the device since its android afterall, and don't come comment things like "its a teenager phone" because I've seen old people with it before LOL
[General Topics] androidfeen809:
the only thing I see not making me excited is the possibility that htc won't be making it, we all know that the best processors are currently made by htc and samsung, and I only buy htc phones! lol
[General Topics] canadariot2312:
When the Sidekick was released, apps were not an issue, it was never really an issue. In fact, I am sure that it decline because the iPhone was a smartphone that didn't feel like you were carrying around a brick. I had the Sidekick 3 which was released in 2006, it was heavy, but it was a pretty cool phone despite the fact it was not exactly portable.

Also, neither Samsung or HTC will make the next Sidekick (lack of involvement with the brand is one reason). Most likely it will be either Sharp or Motorola. Leaning towards Sharp because they didn't have issues with their Sidekick versions.

Fun fact, the guy behind Android founded Danger Inc.
[General Topics] aznprodgy:
I had the Sidekick 08 from launch all the way up until a couple months ago when I purchased the myTouch 4g. I enjoyed the phone while I had it, never had any problems with it(except for the whole data loss incident). I got the MT4G because the sidekick had been worn out over the past years, but it was a good phone
[General Topics] androidfeen809:
If htc ain't making than no sidekick for me lmao but we still don't know for sure any one could make this new sidekick we'll see!
[General Topics] vicmora5:
This is awesome news!!

I had the latest sidekick Lx and I loved it, still love that keyboard for texting, i miss it ):
[General Topics] hazard99:
Do you all think they will have still have that flip screen.

I recently had to use one and let me tell you i hated every minute of it.

See I like a lot of people text when we arent suppose to. Having to flip that screen everytime to send a text was painful. I really dont see how kids get away with texting in class.