yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate General] Xstop:
In my opinion, there's not enough locking of the threads.

Feels like I'm in the movie "Groundhog's Day"

Over and over and over....of the same
[Captivate General] SlappyMcGee:
+1 I Agree man.
[Captivate General] matthewpapa:
It seems idiodic that there is a new thread every day "OmG FroYo TomMorroW, according to this guy I talked to"

I wonder if it would be more effective to lock each of the threads immediately, or just leave one and hope that those guys that would normally post those threads would read it first and relent
[Captivate General] crystalhand:
I completely agree with this. while it may seem annoying for some members especially the newer ones there are a couple of dozen "omg I talked to att/samsung and now have the inside scoop" as well as the ever annoying which rom is better post. These threads get to be bother some fast
[Captivate General] vunuts:
+1

I think this topic would have been addressed if it was PM'd to the mods, instead of making just another thread to clutter up the board.

Depending on the mod, they actually do let you know why the thread has been closed. I know Zelendel does that for a fact.
[Captivate General] zelendel:
Hey guys I just thought I would stop in an say my part. If I close a thread and do not post in it then I am sorry if I thought that the reason is plain, I close threads if the question is answered in the thread and is no longer needed, If it has been talked about over and over. Lets leave the dead horse alone ok:D Example is one of my favs "where is gingerbread", "Best Rom", " I refuse to search for what I am looking for". These threads will be closed on sight.

We all know the rules and one of them is search before opening a new thread.
[Captivate General] boborone:
+1 to everything. We need some major house cleaning in here.
[Captivate General] zelendel:
Ok I will clean up the threads over the next few days. Any threads that are not needed will be deleted and if anyone posted in those threads then your post count will be altered as the posts are deleted.
[Captivate General] infamous702:
+100000000 ..Very annoying seeing the same questions asked over and over and over.. "i just rooted now what?" .."i spoke to VZW and"....."how much is the thunderbolt?"...noobs PLZ search.what ur looking for 1st or go to the discussions regarding ur phone..
[Captivate General] boborone:
Thank you.

Can you set some ground rules for acceptable threads? I know we have read before posting, but maybe if it was laid out what was acceptable and what was not, then we would have something to point at and say you made a boo boo.

Maybe make an announcement and ask for ideas from the community as to what the rules for our forum should be. You being senior mod still have final say, but at least we have input. Just my thoughts.
[Captivate General] newter55:
Mandatory Viewing Before Opening a New Thread
[Captivate General] G-Man.:
+1 im still trying to catch my breath from laughing.... That would be awesome to have that as a mandatory view before starting new threads, Common sense goes a long ways.... unfortunately common sense isn't so common these days :rolleyes:
[Captivate General] TommyZee:
CHILL

what are u guys getting your panties in a knot for? give me a break :mad:
[Captivate General] smokestack76:
I guess i can find other threads to read now :p
[Captivate General] OVCArchion:
Need this as forced viewing, like part of the TOS...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5747059790837116893#

EDIT: someone already beat me to it and posted it, couldnt do it from work... oh well...
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] aamir123:
Is there any way to change the white vibrant bootup logo? Where is this file located and would it be better to use a deodex rom to change this?

Thanks in advance
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] ejamin73:
There's a lot of info on this. Try boot animation from the market. You need to be rooted BTW
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] aamir123:
is there a way to make my own bootanimation if I have a video file? or a pic?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] willsnews:
Check tonicacids threads theres a tutorial on how to make them on his boot animation thread
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Sdobron:
This is not part of bootanimation.zip.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] DEFINITIONOFREAL:
Its called a splash screen, and no I dont think u can change this yet, I think its hard coded into the kernel, but im no dev so not sure, I know u could on the g1 though
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] eunkipark92:
Check develop section. There was one thread about it I think
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] s0niqu3:
General FYI,

The Vibrant uses a 2-stage static splash screen, totally different from the traditional splash.img used on other android phones.

The first is called by the bootloader from the lfs partition, there's a thread in the development section on how to change this logo here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=947331

The second screen (in the case of the vibrant, this is identical to the lfs splash, so it seems like we only have one screen, but we don't, we still have two) is built into the kernel during compile.

There's a thread about this in the captivate section, with a specific post about the second splash here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10851192&postcount=118

I tried playing with kernel dev today a little bit, but am having an awful time getting everything setup, even using existing, good kernel source like ttabbal's dragon kernel.

Anyway, hope this helps, cheers, =)
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Alex9090:
Its here...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=947331

Edit: Oops awesome Jocelyn explained it already.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] aamir123:
Thanks everyone for pointing in the right direction! I'm prolly gonna want to change both anyways but may not be able to change the splash cuz of my limited knowledge. Also where is the splash img located? Is there asn apk I have to decompile?

ps.- jocelyn I have seen you help so many people why is you thank meter stuck at 7?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] s0niqu3:
Hey again,

The first splash (the one called by the bootloader) is stored in the lfs partition, the first link I provided has a great video walkthrough on how to change it. Basically, you have to flash a new param.lfs to your phone that by default doesn't contain a logo_T959.jpg image.

Then you create your new logo, 480x800, and save as logo_T959.jpg, keep filesize small (the video mentions ~20k being the optimal size.) Then use his provided batch script to remount the lfs partition read/write, and push the new logo to the phone.

The second image is vastly harder to change, since it has to be compiled into a kernel. The second post I linked to contains a walkthrough to make the image, but you then still need kernel source, and a build environment setup to compile your custom kernel with your splash screen.

Basically, you have to use GIMP to save your logo as "C Source Header" and then run a shell script to convert it into the proper samsung logo format, drop it in your /kernel/drivers/video/samsung directory, and compile the kernel.

Sorry, I've not been able to configure a build environment yet to successfully build a kernel (even from known good source, like ttabbal's dragon kernel) on my OSX partition, and I'm too stubborn to triple-boot mac/win7/ubuntu again.

Oh, and my thanks meter is low because I haven't posted much here since it was implemented, the lack of credit/thanks burned me out on android and xda-dev for a couple months.

Hope this helps, cheers, =)
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] aamir123:
Yea but alot of what you said sounds like chinese. Ill give it a try and it seems too hard its best left alone I guess. And your one of the best on these forums thanks for everything.
[myTouch 4G General] HTCMDA:
You may have seen this, you may not have. It's only been up 8 hours...

seems sweet to me!

[YOUTUBE]AUgv7FNfQLA[/YOUTUBE]

http://www.akaskriller.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=1077
[myTouch 4G General] nickf123654:
Looks pretty straightforward and simple. I downloaded the file but won't be able to try it until I get home from work later. Has anyone had success with this yet?
[myTouch 4G General] epsix:
Dude do not trust that site... why can't you guys the method on xda everything is confirm by us
[myTouch 4G General] Jaskwith:
This honestly looks like it took longer then it took me to root my MT4G with the visionary method.

Sent from my MT4G running Gingerbread :)
[myTouch 4G General] option94:
I'll look at it. I've been trying to build a one click root for 3 weeks now, and im not sure if its actually possible with the tools we currently have available.

edit: Yeah, he got exactly where i did, only i decided it was pointless to release this. It just pushes the needed files and then you have to run everything as you normally would through the terminal emulator. makes pushing the files easier if you dont know what needs to go where, buts thats about it.
[myTouch 4G General] TrueBlue_Drew:
This is not a new way to root but a way for people that cant follow instructions very well way to root. This is using the methods found here in the forum allready like gfree but it has packaged everything together and he has written a script to execute some of the steps and to install things where they need to be. I am surprised that this hasn't been done sooner by someone. I am already rooted so I cant test it out, but I did look it over and it all looks great. I am curious to see the feedback. I didn't have a problem using the other methods and could do them just as easy as this is but I do have a little more experiance than alot of people that are trying to root their phone.
[myTouch 4G General] TrueBlue_Drew:
Damn!!! I hate when I am typing a response and then I post it only to see pretty much the same thing I just posted :p

I figured this was pretty much what you had going a bit ago but I never saw you say anything about it after u sent it to that 1 guy. I think this will help a few people that have a hard time understanding where to put stuff and what have you.
[myTouch 4G General] h0wlings0nnets:
Just use theunlockr.com method...fast...easy..simple...
[myTouch 4G General] ELBdelorean:
It seems legit, but I haven't tried it, so I wouldn't know. On an unrelated note, the guy in the video seems like a cocky douche and the other guy is laughing for no reason most of the time.

EDIT: But it looks like it's Windows only, so I can't try it.
[myTouch 4G General] TrueBlue_Drew:
I agree completely!!!
[myTouch 4G General] option94:
Yeah that where i ended up. I wasn't happy with it since you still needed to manually do everything in the term emulator, which is really the only tedious part of rooting. Everything else is simple. To use this you need to setup adb, but by itself is enough instruction to learn how to copy the needed files to the specified location. could still be helpful, and it definitely wont cause any more issues than the normal root procedure.

Working on the oneclick, i got to the point where i could root my phone in about 30 seconds longer than it takes to reboot twice, and this might take longer for me. lol.
[myTouch 4G General] neidlinger:
this is for people who don't know how to read and follow simple instruction and IMHO, and i know some will share this opinion.

If you cannot read and follow SIMPLE instructions you shouldn't root your phone.
[myTouch 4G General] option94:
I pretty much agree with that. Theres to much harm you can do with a rooted phone by being uninformed.
[myTouch 4G General] neidlinger:
I'd lay down my phone in a bet that more Android phones have been truly bricked by ignorance more than anything else. I also wonder how many people that have thought they've "bricked" their phones really haven't but because they do not want to take the time to learn and and get out of the boot loop or a flash stuff via fastboot.
[myTouch 4G General] TrueBlue_Drew:
Actually he included the adb files in his zip so it sets it up so his script can do the file transfer.

I do completely agree though that if people just learned, read and searched a little bit more about Android and their phone, they would be alot better off and have less problems.
[myTouch 4G General] option94:
Still need drivers installed. could be a point of failure for people unwilling to do it on their own.
[myTouch 4G General] OptLynx:
LOL this guy is a comedian at least.

"It is semi-automatic, its not a gun its a program."

"If you don't know how to do that, thats you know a whole another video I guess."

"See how the cords going of on to the fk'n black abyss."
[myTouch 4G General] HTCMDA:
I laughed several times when I watched. hehe I like the black abyss part
[myTouch 4G General] signal15:
The Visionary/gfree method takes no more than 5 minutes if you include the reboots and checking to make sure it worked.
[myTouch 4G General] HTCMDA:
I rooted my MT4G with this method, and this was the 1st time I've ever tried rooting the MT4G. I own a G1 and have rooted it in the past. This method took me about 2 minutes.
[myTouch 4G General] lphillips80:
Worked

Worked fine for me. It took only 2 minutes.
[myTouch 4G General] mightyab:
I've tried this way and I get to the phone reboot part and it doesn't turn back on. I have to take the battery out and when I reboot in hboot it still says S-ON. Any clue why it does that?

Sent from my HTC CyMod 6.1.1 Vision/G2
[myTouch 4G General] option94:
I've never heard of that. You're not trying this on your g2 are you?
[myTouch 4G General] joeyklatzko:
I feel like my chances for a bricked phone have decreased since learning how to root/ROM my phone. Not to mention having a custom recovery to fall back on.
[myTouch 4G General] epsix:
This thread should be DELETED NOW...askriller is not a trusted site anyone using this method..er...well tough luck...
[myTouch 4G General] mightyab:
Oh no, I have a g2 also. I did this step by step tring to veer away from adb but it didn't work. Oh well I'll just do it adb. That's at least guaranteed. ::)

Sent from my HTC CyMod 6.1.1 Vision/G2
[myTouch 4G General] vabeachfc:
hahahaha i filmed this. and for the guy hating on skriller you should chill. stop being an xda fanboy. it appears your the only one up here hating.
[myTouch 4G General] darinmc:
Three people at work have handed me "bricked" phones that I took home, read for 15 minutes and recovered.
[myTouch 4G General] epsix:
I'm not hating or anything if people's want to join your site its find with me. HTC is not samsux it does not need no lag fix lmao.
[myTouch 4G General] bastage:
Yea thats it.. Ya know maybe we should all call tmobile or htc & ask them if xda is a trusted sight?
[myTouch 4G General] option94:
I downloaded it when if was released to make sure it was ok. I dont think theres a point to this at all, but it wont do any more harm than you'll be likely to do yourself rooting your phone. Its not a virus or anything of that nature.
[myTouch 4G General] Don_Perrignon:
This method works. All fine.
[myTouch 4G General] smirkis:
if u can't come up with a 1 click, make a 2 click method.

first click temproots, pushes files, gfrees, reboots

second click finalizes permroot and reboots again.

I was gonna make a script to do all of it since I suck, but got lazy. if u did a GUI 2click or something. that'd be awesome.
[myTouch 4G General] setzer715:
Just thought I would throw in my .02, since everyone else has. It's amazing how lazy some people have gotten. Upset it takes 5 min to root instead of 3 min? Seriously. I remember when the MT3G was first rooted. Had to use gold cards, flash 8 different things, then maybe, if your lucky, it worked. G1 was much more too, downgrading to rc29 to use the telnet backdoor to gain root, etc. etc.

OK, rant over.
[myTouch 4G General] holysmokesbatty:
The guy in the video has Zune media player installed on his computer.

He clearly cannot be trusted.
[myTouch 4G General] froggg:
This is funny. Somebody comes up with an easyer wsy and he is mocked for it. Why. Its like some bull**** web gang turff. Get a life
[myTouch 4G General] neidlinger:
Dude you have a developer here, a member of TeamRoyal who builds custom ROMs who says it's not possible.

No one has given them flack. So and i quote
[myTouch 4G General] bastage:
OMG I still have my 1gb microsd set aside from my goldcard for my mytouch 3g.. I Could do without that **** ever again.

Edit: also I just used this method to root the wifes mt4g. It is very simple just like its supposed to be. For a 1st time or someone who is just rooting to use rom manager & wont be doing anything else beyond that this method is great. Dont learn much & thats about half the fun, but its effective.
[myTouch 4G General] epsix:
@halfcab123, know one is hating you bro. We all appreciate everything or anyone's helping out or offer their work. We know you put alots off efforts into your work for us. Just that i don't like to be forced to give donation when once signing up on your site without trying it first. Hell.... 5 buck is nothing to me or others here. Why don't you post your work here. I'm sure once people's use your work, they're more than likely donate to you more than 5 dollars
[myTouch 4G General] nevrlow:
i know halfcab123 personally and he does good work. i watched him make the mytouch 4g root batch file
[myTouch 4G General] los0325:
This guys a fraud Google noaskaskriller many devs don't like the fact he steals there work and charges people
[myTouch 4G General] bmakk2055:
I used this method to root two mt4g, it really does work and simple. S off and sim unlock
[myTouch 4G General] Lianthe:
All I can say is that this guy rooted my MT 4G with 2.3.4. and S-ON... and, unlike the people on xda who are just sooooooooo above the noobs, answered questions.
[myTouch 4G General] jr_718:
I guess your in luck... i tried and no luck for me, even gingerbreaK nope.....still waiting for an alternate solution...mt4g 2.3.4
[myTouch 4G General] HTCMDA:
I never met the dude, but the sheer fact it was damn near fool proof (and his sense of humor). I gave it a go, its how I rooted my phone the day I posted the OP.

Although he's updated the method or files, it still works. Bought my mother a MT4G and used this method to root, then flashed 2.3.4 so she can video chat with her friends now.

still get a +1 in my book halfcab.
[myTouch 4G General] jr_718:
Am going to see if I can in touch with him...I tried his method, and I was getting error, basically I didn't get the serial number so u decided not to move along..
[myTouch 4G General] Jack_R1:
Read the Wiki, it points to MT4G downgrade guide. Downgrade and then root.
[HD2 General] davidez2:
Hi,

I have a SE hcb300 bluetooth car kit which worked perfectly with HTC cruise.

I upgraded to HD2 and now i have some problems with it.

I can pair my phone with the BT but i cant accept or initiate calls from the car kit. ( I know that HD2 has no voice commands so not being able to dial out is not such an issue but i want to be able to accept calls from the cat kit).

If I dial out or accept a call from the phone itself it is transferred via the car kit's speaker.

i read that the problem is in the BT stack used in HD2.

Is there a way to change it or is there any rom that uses a different BT stack?

Thanks,

David
[HD2 General] fred_up:
I have never used any bluetoothheadphoes or car kits with my HD2, but it does have voice commands - if you download and install Microsoft Voice Command v1.6.
[HD2 General] davidez2:
The voice commands feature is less important - I really need the ability to accept calls with the car kit.

Will android installation help?
[HD2 General] Alkerion:
Hi !

Exact same issue since months with my HTC HD2 on my Audi S3, never been able to find any working solution yet :-(

Seems to me that HTC and MS doesn't really care.

BR
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] lightyear420:
This is the standard Pandora v1.5.3 app, just reskinned to look a little cooler lol

Install with Xrecovery

Download here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GL7CR5P9
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] swapniladsure:
awesome work
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] maxorpio:
hey what theme you are using in the pic. for dock
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] lightyear420:
Cyan Extreme:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=947064

It is a mod of sempiternal's X FX10 theme made for cyanogen :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liquorun:
Hi There:

I have the Bell Samsung Galaxy S i9000M. I upgraded to the bell 2.2 before they recalled the upgrade and last night my Galaxy finally crapped out on me. I was listening to music and then it shut off; rebooted it once, would not recognize any media files, so I rebooted again and it wouldn't get past the:

Galaxy S

GT-i9000M

Samsung

white text logo screen. It just keeps blinking.

It will not go into recovery mode; however, I can get it into download mode.

I flashed it with the stock JL2 with Odin, however, it did not do anything.

Am I out of options? What do I do? I can't afford to wait a month to get it fixed or so without this phone and they charge a deposit of 250 for a replacement smart phone.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!:(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tuhoaja:
Use this thread... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=946646

It will help! :)
[HD2 Ubuntu Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] alikhalesi:
hi

is there any way to load ubuntu 3 for hd2 from nand android?
[HD2 Ubuntu Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] vasilisxxx:
+1 yes it is possibly ?
[HD2 Ubuntu Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] alikhalesi:
1. i copied the files on my sd-card.

2. renamed initrd.cpio.gz to initrd.gz

3. renamed zImage_htcleo_usbhost_2.6.32.9-38182-g6ad7e77 to zImage

in magdlr:

1.i go to 9.services then 1.boot setting then 2.always menu

2-i go to 9.services then 1.bootsetting then 3.ad sd dir and select linux folder

3.shut down

after power on the magdlr menu appear, and if i select boot ad nand, android will boot compeletly, and if i select boot ad sd haret will execute, but after complete loading and when mouse pointer appear, phone will restart,whats the problem?
[HD2 Ubuntu Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] TheATHEiST:
Wrong!

haret is a windows mobile executable and it has nothing to do with magldr.
[HD2 Ubuntu Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] alikhalesi:
yes,but haret executed,and ubuntu loaded.when mouse pointer and keyboard appear, phone restarted.
[HD2 Ubuntu Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] plopper:
linux and android don't in the same way.

ask the cook of your android rom to enable kexec on the kernel in his next release, then you should be able to boot ubuntu from within android.

a bit like haret on windows.

plopper
[HD2 Ubuntu Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] alikhalesi:
is there any android build that kernels support kexec now?

and if i download it, problem will be solved?
[HD2 Ubuntu Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] plopper:
not that i know off, so it's up to some rom chef to enable it so we can test it.

plop
[HD2 Ubuntu Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] was2103:
Interesting thanks.
[HD2 Ubuntu Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] mjharis:
Well is it now possible to boot ubuntu from android? :D

And is there a tutorial? If not, may anyone post something about that.

I'm using the Typhoon Android and it would be a funny gimick to boot Ubuntu :D

Ehm i read somewhere that someone booted Win98 oder 95 on the HD2 is there a Video up or a hp?
[HD2 Ubuntu Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] mrxkills:
only if someone ports a similar Haret app on Android but im pretty sure theres other ways via terminal not sure
[HD2 Ubuntu Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] losje:
I am also very interested in a haret for Android! This would be great.

I use NO windows anymore (on any device for that matter) and would like too keep it that way ;)

Super cool job, looks great in the youtubes...
[HD2 Ubuntu Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and General] alpinemobile:
it would be very nice to know if there's a way. thank you all