yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hybrid86:
So I am seriously considering Cyanogen once CM7 comes out with gingerbread, but before I do, I have a few questions that have been bugging me, that I can't seem to find answers to...

Can I ever get back to stock Sense if I don't like CM, and if so, how difficult is it? This is perhaps my largest question.

Does Cyanogen Mod update itself, or will I have to flash it everytime a new version is released?

Will all apps install normally, or do some have issues on CM?

Is there any way to get my contacts to only display people with phone numbers, like on sense?

is there any way to get Facebook integration into my contacts like on sense?

Sorry for the newb questions :o
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaykresge:
1. Yup, just flash any Sense ROM (or the stock RUU) as you normally would. There are plenty of guides for going back to stock, to include the stock ROM, unrooting, and S-On.

2. You flash, but you don't have to wipe data (and really shouldn't). Just wipe cache and Dalvik, and it will perform like a clean install, but retain your apps, data, and settings.

3. I haven't seen any apps perform differently on CM 6.1.0 than on any Sens eROM I've used (Redemption, Skyraider, Virtuous, stock).

4. Not sure, haven't messed with this.

5. Yes. The FB app gives you the option to sync contacts. I don't use this feature, so I can't tell you how well it works.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MMBosstones86:
4. Yes

There is an option to only display contacts w/ phone numbers.

The CM Nightlies are going on now, but you don't need every version due to there only being a few changes for each (some none at all). Stick with a version that works (i'm on #10) and wait for a major change.

I loved Sense, until i tried CM
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hybrid86:
Thanks for the response!

Actually, I was referring to how Sense will update existing contact info with information from their fb profile (images, birthdays, email, etc).
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaykresge:
In this case I am uncertain, as I do not use the feature.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g00s3y:
You should always wipe everything and perform a truly clean install. If you ever have a problem with a rom, and haven't done this, it's the first thing you will be told to do.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaykresge:
Not according to the Cyanogen team. When you're upgrading within the same ROM family, this is absolutely not needed. Same as going from Virtuous 3.1 to 3.2, for example.

In rare cases, a ROM developer will usually tell you to wipe data for a specific upgrade, or will have the ROM install do it as part of the installation process.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnKuczek:
Either the Facebook App or CyanogenMod does this on my phone.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teejmiller:
if you use vlingo, it still has force close issues with cm7.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejdavis72:
I agree with you. It only takes seconds to do. I really don't care if someone tells me that I don't have to wipe everything before I flash... I do it EVERY time.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] legacygt777:
I luv my sex1. the phone is easily my fav phone. I just can't stand this keyboard. I bought this phone used so keyboard was not good already.

I want to buy a new x1. are any of u users that bought ur phone have keyboards that still work good?

my keyboard works to a degree and is somewhat tolerable but I was thinking a new phone in which I use my touchscreen keyboard mostly but use the tactile on long texts to help the longevity of the phone.

imho the x1 looks the best, original, uses panels, and relatively easily to tweak.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XtriFe:
Whats wrong with the keyboard? does it input letters twice and so on?

You should have a look at the dissasembly guide and clean it with alcohol. It's something you'll have to do eventually, new phone or not, since its a design flaw with the X1.

Thats what i do. I ONLY use the physical keyboard, i really cant stand touch ones. Hope that helps.
[Fascinate General] G2toVibrant2.2:
Ok so I have a question my I recently rooted my friends fascinate and tried to flash a the blackhole rom but it said error cant apply update.zip so I just needed a solution to this problem
[Fascinate General] soba49:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=861018

Post to general next time unless

A) you have some very interesting and specific insights about moving current development forward

B) you are releasing a kernel or mod for this device.

Swyped w/ XDA App. When in doubt, mumble.
[Fascinate General] suppliesidejesus:
As the poster above me has already pointed out, this thread does not belong here.
[Fascinate General] Thrillhouse847:
Although I agree with the above statements, I'll still offer you some assistance. My first thought is that the phone is not actually rooted. Double check to be sure.

I say this because the same thing happened to me recently (I tried installing Blackhole 3.0 and got an update failed message) and the problem was that I had forgotten to root after odin-ing to stock DL09.

Sent from my Voodoo5/Blackhole3.0 Fascinate
[Fascinate General] Dalamar1320:
Most of the time people miss the step to flash cwm using Odin. Did you do this?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] smittyfiddy:
sHARE YOUR ICONS OR WHAT EVER, :p These r not app specific so if u have some share em lol
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] smittyfiddy:
here

here r sum of my fav wallpapers as well;)
[G Tablet General] Frrrrrrunkis:
Ok, now I am getting annoyed. How is it that my market app was working fine until it magically updated to 2.2.1 or whatever it is from the 1.7 or whatever it was, and now regardless of how many times I do the fix, reset, reinstall, do it with Titanium Backup, IT JUST WONT WORK. I'm getting very frustrated.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Da9L:
So i've rooted my Desire Z with the stock rom of v. 1.34 .. I think i need to send it back for repairs since my green led is not working anymore.. But before i can do that i want to unroot the phone.. can someone here explain to me how i do it ? Im a total retard when it comes to this.. Sometimes i even wonder how the heck i managed to root the device :o

EDIT: Forgot to mention that i've applied a OC kernel.. !
[G2 and Desire Z General] Da9L:
No one ?

5char
[G2 and Desire Z General] wileykat:
I reckon ppl are a bit cautious in giving advice as there have been a few issues.

Lets start with which method did you use to root and s-off?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Da9L:
Thanks man.. Glad you want to help ..

I wanted to able to use this kernel, so i followed the suggested rooting guide from that thread.. Which i believe is this

I just want to make sure i do everything right you know :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] guhl99:
Hi !

I need to know 2 things before I can help you:

1. Did you install the engineering hboot?

You can check this by booting into fastboot mode:

- Shutdown the phone

- Press and hold the touchpad-button and hold it while pressing the Power button.

-> On the screen with the surfing androids the first lines contains either SHIP or ENG. If you have ENG then you installed the engineering hboot.

2. Did you use gfree to achive radio S-OFF

You can check this by using the gfree_verify procedure - see http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#VERIFY_.28using_.22gfree_verify.22.29

if you have @secu_flag = 0 then you are radio S-OFF if @secu_flag = 1 you are radio S-ON.

Please check this and post your results, then i can post your way to go.

have fun - Guhl
[G2 and Desire Z General] Da9L:
1. Nope it shows SHIP

2. Gave me this output :) (My phone has allways been sim unlocked however.. Bought it without contract!)

gfree verify_cid returned:
@CID: 11111111

OK

gfree verify_secu_flag returned:
@secu_flag: 0

OK

gfree verify_simlock returned:
@SIMLOCK= 00

OK
[G2 and Desire Z General] Da9L:
Wow guhl99 that is really really helpfull ! I appriciate it so much! Im gonna try it later today .. :)

However i dont think i got the backup of that partition.. Must have deleted by mistake for some reason

Is there anyway i can find out what CID my phone had originaly ?

EDIT: Another question.. What would happen if i just acceptet the OTA upgrade ? Wouldn't that unroot and s-on my phone ?
[G2 and Desire Z General] guhl99:
Hi !

Welcome, i think it was time to summarize this once. And as I am constantly going back to stock to test some exploits and then reroot i have some practive.

Yes there is. The CID is also stored in the first 8 bytes of partition 17 - the misc partition - (and no one knows why).

So you can to the following (in a adb root shell)

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17 bs=8 count=1 2>/dev/null

The first 8 characters of the output should be your CID (the # behind it is the prompt for the next command as you do not receive a new-line by the command above)

have fun - Guhl
[G2 and Desire Z General] guhl99:
Sorry I did not see this question.

It will unroot but will NOT S-ON the phone.

But something really nasty will happen:

- It will install a radio firmware version that prevents gfree from dropping the write protection of the emmc chip for the radio configuration partition 7. And because of this you are not able to set S-ON again or set your CID back (or restore your partition 7 backup).

You would then have to downgrade the firmware again to 1.34 (using a procedure that is documented in this forum) and is even more complicated. And after the downgrade (that includes installing the stock rom as i described above) you would have to continue at point 2 of my description above.

SO DO NOT ACCEPT THE OTA (it would not brick things but needs another 2 steps).

have fun - Guhl
[G2 and Desire Z General] ianmcquinn:
Guhl, could you use Gfree to restore your backup (or go S-ON) first while you were still rooted? Then with S-ON, use the PC10IMG.zip to restore back to the shipping ROM (which should work, assuming the zip to be signed).

Just wondering if that extra step of temp rooting before using gfree is necessary...
[G2 and Desire Z General] guhl99:
Hi !

You are absolutely right, you could do it this way.

The reason why i always remove s-on as the last step is just to have the system and recovery partitions write enabled till the last step.

So if anything goes wrong you still have options till the end.

But if you don't need that extra security you could do it your way.

have fun - Guhl
[G2 and Desire Z General] d12unk13astard:
So we all know tmobile was lying about the 4gb internal memory available (should have been @ least 8 in the first place anyways) and instead we see around 1.5 or so. I'm just wandering if the dev/hackers are looking into a way to counter this and unlock the extra internal memory were supposed to have from stock.
[G2 and Desire Z General] steviewevie:
There is no way to unlock the extra memory, it's set like that in the factory. See the Wiki for a detailed explanation.

Sent from my HTC Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z General] djfoo000:
if they can find a way to repartition the 1.5GB into 4GB, which i think is impossible. The wiki explains a lot.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ionic7:
They did not lie there is that much its just being used for differnt functions dont get your panties in a twist kiddo
[G2 and Desire Z General] dhkr123:
No, it actually *IS* a lie.

The physical part is capable of being 4GB, but half of it was sacrificed **permanently** in order to boost performance and integrity.

There is more than 1.5 available though, its actually about 2.1 total available, 1.5 of which is in the USERDATA partition, the rest is in the SYSTEM and other partitions.
[G2 and Desire Z General] 5thave174:
Full explanation located in Wiki

If anyone wants the details on the magically "missing" 2Gb of memory, there is a good explanation in the Wiki.

The consensus is that the hardware has 4Gb but it is permanently partitioned to serve as a 2Gb device with good redundancy and speed.

Explanation: The "missing" 2Gb
[G2 and Desire Z General] TheMan42:
Wow, this whole missing memory theme won't ever die, I wish it would already.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] XeQtuR:
Can anyone do up the stock gingerbread battery for me without percentage so I can flash it in recovery, Thank you

Phone galaxy s I9000
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gustavct:
I'm travelling to US and wanted to buy a new phone and unlock it. I would like to know which phone do you guys recommend as long as I can unlock it to use with another GSM carrier. Which method to unlock should I use?

Samsung Captivate SGH-i897 Black 3G GSM Smart Phone for AT&T Only or Samsung Vibrant SGH-T959 Black 3G Cell Phone for T-mobile Service Only

Thx
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gustavct:
Do this method work?

http://www.communityhosting.net/sgsunlock/
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oniyuri:
Well, I can't advise you on the unlocking part, but you'd probably be better off getting a tmo vibrant over the captivate for 2 reasons.

1. Vibrant has froyo officially

2. Vibrant can also get AT&T 3g (though ymmv)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gustavct:
If I flash the phone with a new ROM it will still be locked right?

How do I get the unlocking code with T-mobile?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oniyuri:
Yes, I do believe that even if you flash a new ROM over stock the phone will still be locked down to the carrier.

AFAIK, you would have to have been a Tmo customer for a while before you can ask for the unlock code.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gustavct:
If I know someone who is a tmo customer, can he gets me this unlock code?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oniyuri:
Theoretically, it might work but I'm not sure if the phone has to match the one your friend has attached to his acct.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zharptitza:
I'm running a Vibrant on AT&T. In most cities this works great, though you may lose 3g in cities that don't have the 1900 band. I just used the SGS unlock from Heroz (I think that's correct). It worked great. A person with a T-Mobile account can get you the unlock code as well, though it will take a day or two.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrapnelx:
I would check which frequencies the carrier you intend to use the phone with uses, and pick the phone that matches those frequencies better. They are basically the same phone aside from the radios and physical appearance.
[Galaxy Tab General] kriptixpwnz:
i keep gettin this error below does anyone know how to fix it?

<ID:0/003> Added!!

<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..

<ID:0/003> File analysis..

<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/003> Can't open the serial(COM) port.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
[Galaxy Tab General] rangercaptain:
You didn't have your tab in download mode. Completely power off your tab. Then at the same time push power and volume down and hold until black screen has a yellow image. That is download mode, and now, start odin, and connect your tab. One of the rectangles will turn yellow and say COM....You are ready to flash!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lhayati:
I have an locked Orange UK HTC HD2 with SPL-3.03

As Orange have only recently acquired the phone and this is the oldest firmware. Is it possible to downgrade the spl to 1.66?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurt-willems:
First;

Like I have already communicate, the previous Orange UK stock ROM is a hard to find stock ROM, I just takes some time to look on several servers. And it seams that it isn't present.

Secondly, it isn't needed to post the same question on 3 different places, and at the same time opening a thread with the same question (it seems more a spam than a question) :cool:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lhayati:
Sorry it's just i've been looking for it for over a week now with no luck and didn't really know where to post it.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] sileshnair:
Screenshots

Stock ( Green )

Cool Blue

Procedure

Copy the downloaded zip file to openrecovery/updates and apply using OR. Androidiani OR is recommended. Wipe dalvik/cache in OR before applying. Use Cyanogenmod settings to change your date, time and notification ticker color to white(ffffffff) .

Download link

( There is no lockscreen mod in this build. If anyone needs it, let me know)

Stock Green

No Animation - http://www.mediafire.com/?u4m8q5q8kccs1s1

Bounce Animation - http://www.mediafire.com/?qaiaun916eebsko

Flip Animation - http://www.mediafire.com/?vk5nbnpkm13ssw0

Fold Animation - http://www.mediafire.com/?k28pgbp29u8fc75

Flying Animation - http://www.mediafire.com/?pcf8ok9u3hey5ht

Cool Blue

No Animation - http://www.mediafire.com/?xzd797tfedof18f

Flip Animation - http://www.mediafire.com/?e8iz7f6521gvqhd

Fold Animation - http://www.mediafire.com/?6lzzzdzvqt0tskb

Bounce Animation - http://www.mediafire.com/?48kwwarr8oacxkn

Flying Animation - http://www.mediafire.com/?wa5ert6vwrnxcw2

Additional Info

Links for earlier versions have been moved to post no 2.

Note

: You can also find the Sense theme for CM6 here and CMMix theme here.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] sileshnair:
CM 6.1.2 - 0.05 - 15-01-2011

​

With lockscreen mod to have seperate wallpapers in lockscreen & Homescreen

http://www.mediafire.com/?t962c58afi3a39l ( No animation )

http://www.mediafire.com/?h843a35c3siqokk ( Bounce Animation )

http://www.mediafire.com/?38pqkilngy8lp6m ( Flip Animation )

http://www.mediafire.com/?g3ubt8j3xj2iblt ( Fold Animation )

http://www.mediafire.com/?kqv4q0ebvd1p0yz ( Flying animation )

Without the lockscreen mod. Same wallpaper in lockscreen & Homescreen

http://www.mediafire.com/?fipckzeet4ly2wo ( No animation )

http://www.mediafire.com/?m4s5924rp15dqt ( Bounce Animation )

http://www.mediafire.com/?r019ggokta14ofo ( Flip Animation )

http://www.mediafire.com/?xxiokhizpa3fdog ( Fold Animation )

http://www.mediafire.com/?4u9oh7vz9t3ke6d ( Flying animation )
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] sileshnair:
for future use
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] fernandotakai:
For me, it's working really ok.

Thanks!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] kopus:
Nice work! Works fine here.

In the future I suggest the default or no lockscreen image or one version with no animations and default images.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] sileshnair:
There is already a version with no animation. By no lockscreen image, you mean black background or the same background as homescreen?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] -SAIUN-:
It would be nice to have this option. I changed mine so that the locksreen wallpaper is just solid black (no offense but I don't like your pelican image) but I'd like it to behave the same way as the regular lockscreen does.

Other than that, very nice theme. Black menus, animations, proper Gingerbread looking notification blind. Good work.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] sileshnair:
I'll upload versions without this mod tomorrow.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] kopus:
Exactly. Thanks for the effort.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] HellbillyDeluxe:
Thanks a lot for this!

Will you update your theme for future updates of CM for Milestone? I'm using the theme "GingerStone" right know but have some problems with the latest version of CM and this theme, so I would like to know if your theme is "futureproof".
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] sileshnair:
You bet. ;)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] mav3tan:
Awesome, been waiting for this since the last update to CM. Thanks!

Can u make one with the Power widget & Notification power widget look green as well?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] HellbillyDeluxe:
I just installed your theme and it is totally awesome! Thank you a lot for the hard work you've put into it. It is much better than GingerStone.

I have only one problem: I can't decide which animation I should use :D

Edit: I just found out that the clock on the lock screen and clock app still uses the old Android font. Can you please replace it with the one from Gingerbread?

I attached the font to this message.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] sileshnair:
Itstead of including this to all the animations and uploading again, what you can do is copy the fonts that you sent me into the fonts folder under /system folder in the theme zip file and apply the theme again in OR. Wipe dalvik/ cache before applying. I'll make sure to include it from my next update. Ok.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] sileshnair:
@mav3tan, i'll see what I can do.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] HellbillyDeluxe:
Thanks for the tip, will do that!

One more request (sorry if I bother you!): Can you make the background of the notification bar transparent?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] sileshnair:
I wont make a version for everyone as it will cease to look like Gingerbread then. I'll see if i can make a version for you alone. Which animation do you want it for?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] HellbillyDeluxe:
That's really nice of you!

I would like to have the Flying animation, thank you!

By the way: I just changed the font and it works, but the clock app still shows the old font. I guess one has to modify the APK in order to get the new font...
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] sileshnair:
I'll check and let you know. You are talking about the clock font on the lockscreen, right?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] HellbillyDeluxe:
Thank you!

I'm talking about the font on the clock app itself. I was able to change the font on the lockscreen by replacing the font with your instructions.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] :
That involved editing the clock app. Will you post a screenshot of the clock app and which font to change? I am not on CM6 now.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] HellbillyDeluxe:
Here's a screenshot. I would like the big clock to have the same font as the clock on the lockscreen. It's the font I attached a few messages ago.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] :
Got it. That's the deskclock. I'll get it done tomorrow. Its 2 am early morning at my place. Got to get some sleep. :D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] HellbillyDeluxe:
No rush, take your time! Good night!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] :
Download the atached zip file. Right click and extract files. You should find a folder app with Deskclock.apk inside.

Open up your theme file and copy the directory "app" as such to the folder /system. So after copying you should have /system/app/DeskClock.apk.

Reboot into recovery, wipe dalvik/cache and apply the theme again. Please backup just in case. and let me know if it works.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] HellbillyDeluxe:
That worked like a charm! Thank you so much for your quick help.

But please go to sleep now ;).
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] :
I just got the honeycomb system dump. So you can expect a new release from me tomorrow.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] mav3tan:
thanks!

I personally like the Flip animation most :D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] HellbillyDeluxe:
Sounds goooood, I'm excited! :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] :
Not very different from gingerbread except for the wifi and network icons which are blue and are vertical instead of horizontal. Also its made for the tablet, so there are a few changes.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] -SAIUN-:
sileshn this is probably hard to believe but I think your theme has stopped my Milestone from sleeping.

After I flash the latest CM build my phone sleeps for around 10% of the time that the screen is off i.e. screen off for 1 minute = 10 seconds of sleep

When I apply your theme and making no other changes my phone no longer sleeps at all, no matter what settings I change afterwards. Does this sound at all plausible or have I gone completely mad?