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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mpavey:
Background: I have had an HTC Hero for a while now and used recovery mode to flash a couple of ROMs (update.zip), so have a little experience.

I have now bought an SGS from Orange UK and would like to root it and upgrade it to a custom 2.2.1 ROM, and then restore a backup of all my Hero apps and user data using TitaniumBackup. (I'm running a 2.2 custom ROM on the Hero.)

My SGS is currently running 2.1update1. Here are the full details from *#1234#:

PDA: I9000BVJM5

PHONE: I9000BVJM1

CSC: I9000ORAJM3

I have read the FAQ document and various other threads by way of background information.

My first step was to check whether I can access recovery mode via Volume Up + Home + Power, and/or download mode via Volume Down + Home + Power. Sadly it seems that neither of these works :( Instead, the phone just continues booting up as normal, into the customized Orange UI.

Since there are several warnings (on the FAQ and elsewhere) never, ever to flash a ROM without being able to access download mode, modifying my phone to enable this mode seems like it must be the next step. The FAQ points to this thread describing a fix for the 3-button combo issue. However, I also found this newer thread which seems to build on that method and looks more up to date and more comprehensive.

In the newer thread, it says that if I am on Android 2.1 Eclair (which I am) with a non-x0 firmware, I should use a method described as "110% safe" and which does not require Odin3. I do not know whether or not my firmware is x0, and the instructions say that before going any further, I must first check this. In order to check this, the instructions say that I need to dump my BML1 block, and that in order to do that, I need to have root access.

So, it appears that in order to fix the 3-button combo issue, I need first to get root access to the phone. I therefore looked in the FAQs for how to do this. Post #2 Q2 of the FAQ says that in order to root my phone, I must meet the following requirements:

Well, nothing happens when I start the phone with Volume Up + Home + Power, so I assume I currently have no recovery at all. Is that correct? If so, then before I can root my phone, I believe I need to fix the 3-button combo issue to allow me access recovery, is that correct?

Of course, if that is true, I am stuck, because I cannot fix the 3-button combo issue without first rooting my phone! :confused:

I'm sure there must be a simple way out of this and would be immensely grateful to anyone who could show me the way.

Thanks

Michael
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azzledazzle:
there are a few rooting apps that can do it for u without recovery mode, look in the themes and apps section or google it :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mpavey:
Thanks for the pointer (and confidence boost!). I went ahead and used SuperOneClick and it turned out to be remarkably pain-free and quick :)
[Vibrant General] itsjusttim:
Rogers captivate 2.2 source released. I don't know if this helps any dev here. Just incase it does...

http://www.androidcentral.com/roger...mpaign=Feed:+androidcentral+(Android+Central)
[Vibrant General] Sdobron:
Hopefully vibrant will soon follow...when was official 2.2 released on captivate?
[Vibrant General] hitman818:
Well the canadian captivate official froyo was release a while back.
[Vibrant General] dligon:
well the way samsung is the source will be released the same time as they release 2.3 for the vibrant so you do the timing on that one.
[General Questions and Answers] jeremyt727:
So I currently have the HTC T-Mobile G2/Vision and I'm looking to sell this to buy the Samsung Nexus S.. should I or shouldn't I? And why? ..
[General Questions and Answers] natet1:
I guess if you are going to be doing some android hacking then maybe the Nexus S is the better choice. But there is nothing wrong with the G2 from what I've seen - I think it's a pretty nice phone.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark28:
Well my X10 usb port is broken and won't charge, so I decided I might as well get a new phone (I looked up trying to fix it and etc but came up with nothing). I bought the phone unlocked and had it imported back when it first came out so no warranty for me. Well anyway the point of this is I decided I don't want to spend so much money right now so I'm gonna stick with phones provided by my service provider which is T-Mobile US, so at the moment I have the choice between the Samsung Vibrant & the myTouch 4G and I just wanted to hear some opinions on that (I don't really like physical keyboards so the G2 is out) I'm still going to do my own research but its always nice to hear other peoples thoughts.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shinja82:
you could just buy a portable charger for the battery...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdZKu7:
RS Online has micro USB-ports, and if you fear that won't look any good it's a good opportunity to hack it into wireless charging:

http://www.rs-online.com/index.html

http://www.slashgear.com/htc-evo-4g-touchstone-hack-adds-wireless-charging-video-1389601/
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark28:
Um a portable charger wouldn't be able to help me if I need to connect the phone to the computer to do things like flashing and etc
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onei0077:
Have you tried another charger? Had the same problem and a new charger worked, phoned my provider they sent me a replacement and I just swapped the charger.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark28:
Yeah tried multiply different ones. At this point I know its a fact its the usb port because its jiggling.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdZKu7:
So what's your plan with the broken device? RMA, selling as defective, or leaving in a drawer?

If the latter then try fixing it first - it's not the first phone with a loose micro-usb port.

A few links:

X10, sounds very much like your problem

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=777721&page=3

Desire

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=822771

A guide valid for mini (not micro!) usb

http://hackaday.com/2007/11/08/how-to-replace-a-mini-usb-port-on-your-cellphone/

If you are not comfortable to attempt a repair on your own (then don't try) there are others on this forum and elsewhere with the tools, knowhow and goodwill to help you.
[Milestone XT720 General] fosteryip:
can any one offer me a working cifs.ko which can help to make the cifsmanger work properly? i am now using the korean offical 2.2rom, but it leaks of this very file. I've beening searching for this file and tried some of them, but it didn't fit. So I want your help. :confused:

Thanks in advance.:D
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tr0llica:
Can you help me pls?, I was running 2.0.A.0.504 rooted and with xrecovery and then I flashed new amss.sim and kernel.sim to get new baseband and dualtouch and also to be able install FreeX10 beta4, everything was succesful and now I am on Freex10 beta4 with newbaseband and dualtouch, but I am not sure if only amss.sim and kernel.sim were changed or there were some other improvements on other .sim files since 2.0.A.0.504, so if I should flash them too

sorry my bad english

thx
[Droid X Themes and Apps] Breakthecycle2:
Hello guys,

All I'm looking for is the Nexus S (with the lines going vertical and horizontal) in yellow. Please let me know if anyone can throw together an apk!
[Droid X Themes and Apps] k0smo86:
Nexus Revamped, live wallpaper in the Market
[Droid X Themes and Apps] Breakthecycle2:
I know that was is there, but that's the Nexus One LWP. I know it's trival, but I want the Nexus S LWP.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] Funnyface19:
try this on Droid Life
[Android Software Development] Irish GrumPy:
Hi guys. Developing an app with a simple enough concept. I want to be able to launch an app that has a textbox that a custom string can be saved to. When an sms message is received, the string is sent back automatically as a reply. So far I have an EditText in the xml and set up shared preferences so the string stays persistent if you exit back to the apps "main menu".

I have seen alot of sample code online but am struggling to get a decent example of my specific requirement that I could implement to what I already have in place.

Can anyone advise on how I could do this with the most ease?

I have researched smsmessagingdemo.java online and it's not really what I need.
[Android Software Development] Rootstonian:
And the "simple concept" is always a "killer" for programmers as they usually end up being hard to implement! LOL Such is the case here.

The app idea is a good one; kind of like your own personal "call waiting" app for texts.
[Android Software Development] kelemvor:
just fyi

There's already a few apps on the market that do something like this. Otterbox is one example: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.otterapp.otter I think state farm has an app that does similar.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Fusio9:
Hi all,

I'm using Oxygen RC7 and I like the green notification icons a lot.

Is there an icon pack or something to change the notification icons of a sense based ROM (ie. Leedroid 2.3d) to those of Oxygen RC7 ?

Last time I've seen the UOT Kitchen I didn't see those GingerBread icons..

Thanks,

-s
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kenpoman:
need some help when I nandroid i get a lock up at zoneinfo.version

so i then reboot the recovery via adb

i then try to reboot the phone

then my phone won't boot i.e. it shows the HTC splash screen then it reboots into recovery.

the only way to get it back is to flash a new rom or go back to a previous nandroid

edit: i was running cwm 2.5.0.2 and cwm 3

if I restore the system partition it will boot but I still can't nandroid
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mitchellvii:
NEW PROGRAM MADE SPECIFICALLY FOR DEFRAGGING

FLASH

MEMORY:

Yep, I know, they say defragging flash memory is unnecessary and wears out your SDCard. But then again, a car that can go 160 mph is unnecessary too, but that doesn't mean you don't want it.

My favorite (and free) defragmentation program is called:

MyDefrag << Click to D/L.

You can get it online and it goes on your PC (not your phone):

It has a NEW option that is made specifically for defragging flash memory (i.e., your SDCard). I figured, what the hell and gave it a run.

NOTE: THIS PROCESS CAN GET HUNG UP ON YOU (IF IT DOES, DO THIS)

It took 3 tries to get mine to go all the way through the first time. Just exit out of MyDefrag and when restarting chose the "Kill Current Session" option and it will pick up where it got stuck before.

This probably works faster if you pull your card and put it into a usb card reader. Of course, back up your SDCard on your PC before trying this.

THE RESULTS:

1) Even large galleries populate VERY fast.

2) Music and video libraries load instantly.

3) When adding apps/widgets to homescreens, options appear MUCH faster.

3) NO improvement in read/write speeds (but I didn't expect that anyway because the read/write test is just reading and writing 200 mb of data to empty space anyway).

CONCLUSION:

This takes a while so only do it when you have a spare 1/2 hour or more that you don't need a phone. As far as wearing out your SDCard, c'mon, we are flash-a-holics and are beating our cards to death daily anyway. However, I would recommend doing this only monthly or so.

* P.S. - This is also an excellent defragmentation tool for your PC.

** UPDATE: We have been testing this out over at the MikFroyo thread and members have been getting excellent results.

:) IF THIS THREAD HELPED MAKE YOUR PHONE FASTER, GIVE IT A 5-STAR RATING ON TOP SO OTHERS WILL SEE IT TOO :)​
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] triscuit1983:
Hell, I'll try anything once. Thanks for this.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] crstfr:
trying now..i followed it on MikeFroyo post.... .. like he said above . i'll try anything once..... i'm at 94% now on a 16gb class 10...

doesnt seem to be taking as long as some others have......30 mins to an hour ..

edit:.... spoke to soon.. back down to 1% fastfill..hahah
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mitchellvii:
Sometimes it can get kind of hung up. If it does, just close it and start it again. When prompted kill the prior session and it will pick up where it left off. Don't know why it hangs like that but didn't seem to cause problems.

If you have a new card, it is likely not very fragmented yet and will defrag faster.

Mitchell's EVO
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] netwokz:
Just did this on my Wintech 16gb that is about 85% full. Worked like a charm. My gallery loads almost instantly now, before it took about 20-30 sec. The whole process took about an hour and a half(I plugged my card into my reader in my laptop). Thanks for the heads up on this.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mitchellvii:
NP, glad it worked. The whole "SDCards don't need to be defragged" thing is a myth.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] SilverStone641:
Sweet! I'm running it now.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] quocamole:
thanks!

thanks for the tip.

paused on me twice. it actually says "finished" (top left corner) :D
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] freeza:
Can I just use perfectdisk?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mitchellvii:
Looking VERY defragged there :)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mitchellvii:
If it has an option for defragging flash memory then I suppose so. MyDefrag is free.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] gzibell:
Gave this a shot yesterday had to use a card reader and try a couple of times for the software to complete all of the way. My sd card is now Defragmented...did I notice a speed increase...not really but I don't pay much attention to loading times. Makes me feel better and faster and thats good enough for me!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] ibcenu:
crap... no mac version
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] ZombieDios:
Tried it, took less than 1/2 and noticed a bit of improvement. Sweet.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] teh roxxorz:
Not bad...but I just want to say you can defrag without using that program. Connect your phone as a disk drive, then right click it in my computer, properties, the tools, and you can click defrag to analyze and defrag it, and all your other drives.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] gzibell:
I was thinking the same thing. In the OP it is explained that this program is designed for flash memory to reduce the number of read/write. Flash memory can only handle so many write cycles so I decided to let this program do it's thing to minimize the amount of moving/writing to my SD card. I am sure that one defrag with any program wouldn't hurt anything but I fell better know that the program tries to minimize the amount it affects a memory cards life cycle.

Just as a side note....I don't know if in the long run it matters a whole lot at all....I can't remember how many times flash memory can be written to but I am sure that I will have a new phone and SD card way before I am in any danger or reaching the upper limits.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mitchellvii:
Actually, this is incorrect. This program is designed to specifically defrag

flash drives

. You do not want to defrag them in the same way you defrag typical hard drives.

In the future, please read the OP before commenting. This fact is clearly stated.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] LudoGris:
Thanks for this! Another great idea from mitchellvii!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] CheesyNutz:
backing up Sdcard now will test this
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] n1ghtl1fe:
just started defragging my 32gb class 4 lets see what it does.

Q: I kno the OP says around 30 min but was size sd was that? I have around 18gb of music and pictures and videos on my card (love me my music anndd my gf ;) lol) just curious if ill get my phone back before todays kickoff
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] MrDSL:
I only got a 16gb class 6 with maybe 9gb used and Im over an hour so far easy.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] n1ghtl1fe:
**** looks like im app less for the game
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] gosmeyer:
Wouldn't complete for me..Just copied card (16g C6) to desktop, reformatted card and copied back..Should have just compressed free space like my SSD's..
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mitchellvii:
Guys, it is possible for the defrag process to get hung up on you.

If it just seems to be sitting there doing nothing for a long time, just close it and restart. When prompted select "Kill The Other" and it will start again where it left off.

I had to do this 3 times on my first defrag. Now it runs very smoothly without any interaction. It will say "Finished" when it is done.

** Everyone, please READ THE OP CAREFULLY. All of this is discussed there.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mitchellvii:
You can just pause it before it is done and your phone will still work. Go back and finish it later.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] n1ghtl1fe:
thanks for the tip. Id rather let it finish tho no big deal i already started drinking :)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mitchellvii:
Cool, some blocks take a while to move, but if it seems like it is hung up for a really long time, just restart it as per above.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mijjah74:
Tried it multiple times. Always seemed to hang, don't know if it did any good or not. Thanks for the idea though. Gave ya a THANKS anyway.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mitchellvii:
We had about 15 people try it at the mikfroyo thread and it worked for everyone.

Mitchell's EVO
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] joey3002:
Didn't work for me either. I just copied to desktop, formatted and copied back. That also sped up access time
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] n1ghtl1fe:
32gb finished in about 6.5 hours. (18gb full on sd). Noticed a slight improvement not sure if justifies the time it took to do it but anything to speed up my phone ill try. As for hanging on me not once. The program did stop responding several times during but i would check back every 30-45 min or so the percentage finished would go up. (had in statistics view)

thanks for the post helped me out :)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] SteelH:
I just use the built-in disk defrag in windows 7. No need to get another app. Works great and doesn't freeze on me.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mitchellvii:
Doesn't do the job as well. That utility is not made for flash memory.
[Droid X General] blueis300:
Well since I cant post in the other forum yet Ill post here. I have issues getting into

clockwork mod sometimes. I eventually get there but its a pain. Anyway I wiped,backtostock,rooted,rom manager,bootstrap and installed liberty. Its loading now so will see how it goes. I was using Rubix and thought it was great but decided to try this. Will have to go back to stock in a few days and I need to swap my phone out.
[Droid X General] blueis300:
Since I already have this thread going I do have a question. I have to return to somewhat stock. Is there a best option in deleting some programs and then unroot to get most stuff off so the carrier wont say anything?
[Droid X General] k0smo86:
This will get you back to stock. Click here.
[Droid X General] blueis300:
Yeah I have that file thanks. I have used it but it still leaves traces of the other programs installed. I did wipe cache and the wipe and return to factory but there are still traces of programs. Do I just go into manage apps and will be able to uninstall rom manager ,z4root etc..? Ahh I just checked your link and maybe I didnt have that exact version. Will try that on thanks again.
[Droid X General] blueis300:
Well I tried 3.4.2 and wanted to go back to liberty 1.5 and thought I did everything in the right order but am stuck at the liberty boot screen. Been there a long time. I can only get back to regular menu of wipe cache etc.. Any help please? Took forever to get into clockwork mode. went back into stock, installed liberty 1.5 again and should be back up in a little. Well now Im in need of some help again .It started to load and finished. I loaded or started to load my rom back on and the battery went dead. Now Im stuck at at black bootloader screen will a corrupt code and flashing low battery. It chargred several hours through usb and home charger but nothing. Do I need to find another way to chargre the battery and start all over or is it dead?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] dialfonzo:
Hi All,

I have flash my HTC Vogue with "system-froyo-all-unodex-15-01-11_18" and everything is realy good.

But my Exchange account dissapear from time to time... sometime twice a day.

Any idea ?

Tanks

(sorry for my bad english)
[Touch CDMA Android Development] mrkite38:
Are you using the .32 kernel? that's a long-standing issue.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] dialfonzo:
Humm..

I think i am using the one before...!

It's ".25" i think...

I should use ".32" to solve that ?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] mrkite38:
No, it's supposed to work on .25... but you could always try .32 or an older .25 kernel.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] n2rjt:
I'm pretty sure it isn't a kernel problem, but I have not tried 2.6.25 for quite a while. I do have the same issue.

Between this and the NAND problem, I always keep a fresh backup. Whenever my outlook goes away, I reboot and restore the backup.

There are some apps in the Google Apps (gapps) that we don't have installed. I once tried installing all of them, wondering if any of them are required to keep the outlook account, but my phone wouldn't boot correctly. I think I might explore that approach.

I have a different problem keeping me off of Android right now. I have a Kaiser, and Android started eating my SIM cards. Every few days I have to go get a new card. The old one says "no SIM card installed" regardless of what phone I put it into. So I'm using WM65 for a few weeks to see if that cures the problem or if it is failing hardware. But I have a backup kaiser, and I will put Android on that and try to investigate this Outlook issue, using WIFI. No promises! I have investigated this before and never made progress.
[General Questions and Answers] polatkanfatih:
hi,

i made partitions by using clockwork 3.0, i select 1 gb when it ask first, and 512 mb for swap. However, i dont know if this 1 gb partition is ext2 or ext3 or somehing else...

how can i see my sd card partitions...?

thanks....
[General Questions and Answers] ..Xperiencer..:
Hi polatkanfatih,

You can't directly access the ext2 partition in Windows. Basically ext2 is a linux partiton. But still there are some 3rd party softwares available in the market which adds ext2 abilities to windows Operating System.

As per what you have written, i understood that you used Clockwork 3.0 for partitioning your SD card.Personally i don't know about clockwire.

Instead i'm using ''MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2'' which you can download for free from the MiniTool website.The software is pretty easy to use.With this software you can see the partitons you have created(including ext2).You can't access the files inside the partion, but you can format any partition using MiniTool.

Hope this helps........
[General Questions and Answers] polatkanfatih:
that program doesnt make that work.

i need some adb code or somthing else to see how my sd card partitioned, how many partition are there and their sizes?
[General Questions and Answers] natet1:
have you tried typing

mount

in terminal emulator or adb shell? That should give you a listing of all mounted partitions...
[General Questions and Answers] polatkanfatih:
i made it with 'parted' adb command.

thanks..
[General Questions and Answers] zenosteam:
i didn't undestand but still reading
[Galaxy Tab General] Wolf1203:
I flashed from Roto's JMC (didn't flash JME) to the latest JMG yesterday. Did a full install and also did factory reset. The Tab connects with Kies and Kies shows the device as well. But for some reason I cannot export contacts to my Tab nor does Kies detect any contacts in my Tab. I manually added a couple names in my Tab but after connected to Kies, the contact list is blank in Kies. Tried adding new contacts to my Tab through Kies, it saves but when I look into my Tab's contact list -- nothing.

I tried reflashingJMG upgrade, cleared cache, factory reset a couple more times, formatted internal memory, reinstalled latest Kies and even tried older versions of Kies, nothing works!!!

I went through lots of threads but no one else seems to have the same problem... any help would be appreciated.
[Galaxy Tab General] Wolf1203:
Flashed to JMI, tried both full and upgrade version, still no luck :(