yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaziefii:
Not that I know of. Custom roms require a custom recovery. There is a nice wiki in these forums with all the answers to the most common of questions. For quick reference, here is a link that directly addresses your question: http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=Nexus_One/Guides_%26_Tutorials#Flashing_custom_ROM

Refer to the beginning of that wiki first for other questions you may have. It really does have a lot of detailed & accurate information :D
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinnyjr:
Thanks for your help.

Vinny
[Desire General] mase2hot:
Hi,

had a replacement Desire put in my old memory card but none of the apps or bookmarks are showing. I can see apps that were stored on the memory card amazon for example but doesnt show on phone.

It it possible to get them to work on the replacement? Also my bookmarks are not showing....

Thanks
[Desire General] warlordxxx:
Ok from what i have read might have been a bit easier doing a backup before you swapped out . Your apps you should be able to get working by reinstalling them by using a file explorer like Astro - Just because the APK file is on your card does not mean it will automatically go onto your phone - you may well lose some of your previous data doing this depending what was stored on the card before. basicly your apps that were on the card are still there but they arent installed on the new desire so there's nothing showing in the app folder - reinstalling them again tells the phone that they are there.
[Desire General] mase2hot:
thanks, but how do I know which apps I had I can not remember all.

What about my web page bookmarks?
[Desire General] warlordxxx:
Bookmarks i have no idea if these even would have been installed on your sdcard..

plug your phone into your pc set the phone to disk drive mode and take a look.. in windows click start>search select the drive letter for your phone card search for all files or folders and in the search box put "*.apk" without the "" this will search for all the apk files you had on your sd card.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] nitsuj17:
Ive noticed an abnormal number of issues (across forums and irc ive seen dozens and dozens of the same issues/questions) that people are having with themes for EB01. It seems the main problem is that many people are using the original EB01 leak and that IS NOT DEODEXED.

Your rom/system must be deodexed to use themes. Examples of deodexed roms are adryn's superclean...and now there is a full deodexed version of the eb01 leak.

As of now, you must have 1 of these 2 to use themes on EB01. Or either the theme won't take, or just some parts of it will, or some stuff won't stick after another reboot.

Hope this helps clear the air.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Syn Ack:
Thank you much sir. I'm sure theres tons of people that were confused when they tried to apply a theme and hardly anything happened.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] tnez:
thanks for clearing that up. I just downloaded the stock deodexed version....I'm still on the original completely stock EB01, do I need to clear caches and wipe data before flashing to deodexed?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] nitsuj17:
No meed to wipe data....a cache wipe couldn't hurt though. :)
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] bendbowden:
Glad you put this out there. I was getting endless amounts of questions and issue reports from people who were not deodexed. I now can simply link them to this post.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] tnez:
Sweet thanks! Theme flashing party tonight lol
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] egorzilla:
Well that explains all the problems I was having before I went to SC 2.2.

Thanks for the explanation now if I decide to go back to eb01 stock I'll still be able to use themes :).

Again thank you so much.
[Captivate General] SamsungJohn:
Hello Guys,

My name is John, I recently became the social media analyst at Samsung mobile. I wanted to start opening the lines of communication between XDA and Samsung. First I wanted to say I have noticed your work on our devices on the XDA forums. I think you guys do an outstanding job, I myself am a developer for mobile devices. So let’s get down to business, we’re going to be in Austin from March 10-15 for the SXSW(south by southwest http://sxsw.com/convention). I was wondering if any of you guys are going so that we could meet up and share a couple of ideas I have. I am looking forward to meeting some of you GREAT developers!

Thanks in advance,

John

Social Media Analyst

Samsung Mobile USA

Twitter: @SamsungJohn
[Captivate General] boborone:
Is this for real? Please provide some proof you work for samsung.
[Captivate General] wonner:
Sooooo...what's the hold up with Froyo, John?:p
[Captivate General] sf1120:
+1
[Captivate General] Pikabob:
I honestly hope you are authentic. It is about time that the people who make the phones embrace the superior developmental process.
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
Or at least attempt to embrace some kind of something. That'd be a start for Samsung. :rolleyes:
[Captivate General] Athailias:
Sounds like BS advertising to get people in seats at this event.
[Captivate General] jeromekobriger:
Interesting...go through his previous posts once, not exactly his first time posting on the forums...
[Captivate General] minlee85:
So let’s get down to business, we’re going to be in Austin from March 10-15 for the SXSW(south by southwest http://sxsw.com/convention).

The link doesn't work....:confused:
[Captivate General] vunuts:
Troll.....
[Captivate General] aitorTheRed:
Yeah, sounds troll to me, but it will be nice for them to show here...and learn a bit of how things are done :D
[Captivate General] SamsungJohn:
Real

Yes I am the real deal, I am a developer/social media analyst. I don't mind taking a picture of my badge or something to prove my credibility.
[Captivate General] ianwood:
I think he's legit, folks.

If you are indeed an analyst for Samsung, welcome to XDA. I'm sure you've already noticed by now that there is a lot of cynicism both for Samsung and your claim of being an employee. Simple reason for this is that most everyone here feels that Samsung has ignored their pleas for help, didn’t deliver promised upgrades, and left millions of Galaxy S owners with buggy software/hardware, etc.

If your goal is to reach out to Samsung users at the grassroots level, you're in the right place. However, you also have a tough job ahead of you. The disenfranchisement runs deep and it will take a lot of effort to fix.

Here are some suggestions for you to escalate internally within Samsung:

1.	Support the development efforts of the XDA developers. There are many talented people working quite hard to customize, fix and generally improve Samsung firmware. Samsung should make some effort to provide these developers with source code, tools, and help.

2.	Take an honest and upfront approach to product defects that find their way onto store shelves (e.g. GPS, battery, etc). I guarantee the cost of addressing the problem will be fully offset by the shift in customer loyalty. An unreliable product is perceived many times worse if the OEM denies or ignores the issues.

3.	Set a release schedule with carrier partners and stick to it. Apple has set the benchmark for frequent over the wire software updates. Android applications are updated with fixes and improvements on a regular basis. In stark contrast, our firmware lags far behind Google’s releases and FOTA is failing more than it’s working. This has to change. Samsung needs to push out regular firmware updates that are applied seamlessly without loss of data. Forget FOTA and do it like Apple does OTW (over the wire).

4.	Allow users the option of switching to AOSP. Some people like TouchWiz and some don’t. Give them the choice.

BTW, in addition to being an informed consumer, I work in the mobile industry. I know a fair amount about how it should work. The Samsung Galaxy product suite is performing very well but the real question is how long will it last. Loyalty takes effort to maintain and is easy to lose.

P.S. I may very well be at SXSW but I won’t know for sure until a week or so beforehand.
[Captivate General] SamsungJohn:
I understand I have a lot of work ahead of me. As I said before, Im here to establish a partnership with XDA developers. Inbox me to let me know if your going to be there so i can arrange somewhere to meet.
[Captivate General] paulbh:
If he was legit, one of the Admins would be announcing that SamsungJohn is a rep from Samsung; he wouldn't be doing it himself as a post in the forum.
[Captivate General] nickm50:
^^^^^^ that's a good point!
[Captivate General] Pikabob:
If you are in fact telling the truth, I warmly welcome you to the true birthplace of the galaxy s. :D
[Captivate General] Kubernetes:
Why? There's quite a bit of speculation in your claim--why would he have to go through admins to post here?
[Captivate General] nickm50:
You would think that someone who is in the position he claims to be in, would come in a little more professional than just a random post.

He said he has been lurking the forums and likes what he sees. So he has also seen all the dissapointment that is running through these forums as well.

If you were in his position would you not want to come in here, with support and proof of who you are? (there is multiple threads of the same post in other categories, all have been asking for proof for hours)

I'm not saying hes not who he says he is, just think he could have introduced himself a little better.
[Captivate General] ianwood:
Guys, do a little research. Pretty easy to figure out that he is either very thorough or he's actually legit.

Maybe we should tell him that it is a welcome first step to see him here.

He is an analyst so he's going to have to escalate pretty far up the food chain to be effective. Hope you're a good communicator John.
[Captivate General] boborone:
Prefect. Could not have said it better.
[Captivate General] boborone:
I can stumble upon someones twitter, see their job, make a profile on a forum that relates to my new found identity claiming I'm that person too. That ain't hard.
[Captivate General] ianwood:
And the senior analyst who welcomed him on Twitter and has a linked in profile and is based in Dallas, Samsung's US headquarters?

Get him to post something in his twitter about XDA.
[Captivate General] nickm50:
That has been asked in other threads.
[Captivate General] or.saeros:
I have to admit, I'm a little curious, but want to rule out any kind of trolling and fakeness. If you really are from Samsung, and want to create a relationship with the xda devs, I think you should maybe not focus so much on the event, and maybe just say HEY XDA here's some source code!!! Lets develop!!

Just my 10char ;)
[Captivate General] nickm50:
thanks for the pics!

If you just took these would the pic numbers not be in order?

edit: and is that not your device in the second pic?
[Captivate General] nbarsotti:
welcome aboard

Welcome aboard. I hope this is a new chapter in my Captivate owership. The previous chapters have been pretty weak.
[Captivate General] SamsungJohn:
Please tell me how i could have done it more "professional"? Maybe i didn't make it clear, I am on top of the food chain, when i said "lets get down to business" i meant it. I am here to help once again.
[Captivate General] SamsungJohn:
I guess when i uploaded on imageshack it generated those numbers, but i hope now you guys see im legit.
[Captivate General] nbarsotti:
Hi SamsungJohn, what do you mean by "I am on the top of the food chain"? The top of the social media analysts? or top of what chain?
[Captivate General] comdei:
I think "getting down to business" would be to completely release the captivate source code, and such.

then go bye bye :)

even better, and we know your working on it, release the gingerbread code for the galaxy 4g :) (i know you must be working on it..)
[Captivate General] blazin619:
You think an official samsung rep would show up on this forum without froyo being released yet for our device? I dont think so. I know this is fake and i would be more enraged if he was an official rep.
[Captivate General] kegobeer:
What exactly does a social media analyst do? Does that involve interacting with users of various social media websites (ie: this forum) and using that interaction to devise marketing strategy, and to promote the Samsung brand name? I don't suppose you can post your job description for us? It will definitely help people to ask questions that are in your field, and hopefully prevent people from asking questions like "when will we get froyo?"
[Captivate General] id10terrordfw:
John, first off, welcome! I quite like seeing device manufacturers reaching out to the development community, that is quite a large difference over a certain fruity company that seems to want to block devs at every turn.

Second, I think a lot of the response here is based off a couple major frustrations, most of which seem to be communication based, for lack of a better phrase.

Hopefully, we can all work together to make the Galaxy S Series of phones something truly unique in the cellular realm.

The frustrations I speak of have to do with two major areas that I have seen on a regular basis.

First, the lack of updates or even true status reports on said updates. For most of us here, Froyo has been available through leaks for a while, just not in a refined form. Any attempt at finding out more info from either AT&T in our case, or Samsung seems to be met with the old "blame game". There have been so many conflicting reports, such as AT&T has it and hasn't released it to Samsung not intending to actually update our specific variants to at least 2.2, let alone 2.2.1 or even 2.3.x. Having some definitive (or as close to it as the legal departments will allow) word on this would be greatly appreciated. Considering the very similar spec'd Nexus S has 2.3, I would hope that an upgrade to it is not out of the realm of possibility. Really, what most of us here are concerned about is the source code, but I do personally know a few non-technical Captivate users who are even frustrated by 2.1.

Second, odd hardware issues that seem to plague certain users. This is the random shutdowns and GPS issues. There has been no definitive fix for these issues, other than luck of the draw it seems. At least knowing that it is not being ignored since the JH7 Captivate firmware release would be greatly appreciated.

I hope we can discuss these issues in a constructive way, with information being a two way street. If Samsung can do this, I know a lot of people here who will be quite happy.
[Captivate General] ninjuh:
Lol this is bs
[Captivate General] SamsungJohn:
I am on top on both media and the development side.
[Captivate General] id10terrordfw:
Those are timestamps from today, one at 16:40 and the rest at 20:50.

Also, one of my best friends works at a T-Mobile store and has two Vibrants. One she bought, the other given by Samsung for being what I remember her calling a "Champion". I personally have two Captivates and a 3GS, but only one active SIM card.

Just some feedback about your questions.
[Captivate General] nickm50:
Thank you!
[Captivate General] id10terrordfw:
Always glad to help! I want this to be real as much as everyone, maybe it's the thought that a device manufacturer doesn't want to be like Apple. Which amazes me.
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
Samsung is doing their best to steal as much from Apple as possible.

That's the problem.

From the CheeseWiz UI to the "**** you it's not broken" policy.
[Captivate General] nickm50:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11300099&postcount=78

Confirmation from a mod/writer in the Epic4g thread that he is for real!

Welcome aboard John! :)
[Captivate General] id10terrordfw:
Trust me, after spending 18 wasted months being a drone behind a so-called "Genius Bar" I have zero respect for Apple. Not to mention, any Apple employee who posted like this on a message board would immediately be terminated by the (actual name they are called) Gestapo.

Everyone is trying to steal Market Share and Revenue from Apple, not their business model that led to "You're holding it wrong." That business model only works for one company. Apple.

The best thing Samsung could do in my eyes is a big Mea Culpa and to make it right. That would go a long way to helping their image, especially in this community. However, you can't have a true first part without the second. Just saying "Whoops, our bad!" then leaving us as a community in the cold would be even worse.

Maybe, to borrow an old tag line, Samsung is trying to "Think Different" with this outreach(if it truly is such). If Developers knew that an entire platform, 10 million strong, actually had manufacturer support for customization, that could revolutionize an industry that for lack of a better word, is stagnant in its business model.
[Captivate General] xtremekilla09:
Alright now that the fake/real issue is out of the way. Lets really get down to business.

What can you really do for us?

If we make request can they be at least acknowledged?

Samsung has a pretty bad reputation with the developer community and I am glad to see you are trying to fix that.

Lets hope something awesome comes out of this.
[Captivate General] SamsungJohn:
That's why i am here, stay tuned, there will be another thread opened, I will have all the exclusive details inside.
[Captivate General] ScottyNuttz:
Hi SamsungJohn, got any bones you can throw us? Around here we kind of go nuts at the slightest rumors about our Captivates. So is there any juicy gossip you can share?
[Captivate General] nickm50:
XXXXXXX2 definately waiting for some info!
[Captivate General] Uncle Irish:
I like my Captivate. I hate the way it came. GPS was useless, updates are non existent and the "you're getting Froyo" garbage is annoying. You have a killer piece of hardware here that is crippled by the device manufacturer flubbing it with their fingerprints. Release a solid version jump update and don't let the carrier dictate. Release the updates yourselves and do them in a timely manner. We're not asking for much, just the ability to use the device to its full potential.
[Captivate General] alex4lex:
Has Samsung worked on Gingerbread for the Galaxy S series, or is that just something only the devs are doing? Because the experimental builds I tried were pretty smooth, minus the non working camera and gps (but when did that ever work?) My suggestion, John, if you really want to win the community over and look good in the light of public eye is to send us straight to gingerbread. That would seriously one up the competition and help people forget your less than stellar track record of updates.
[Captivate General] blazin619:
How about some financial rewards for the amazing devs on this forum for making the huge pile of crap samsung sold us useful.
[Captivate General] mnjm9b:
Oh here's an idea... let's all be jerks .,.

Nevermind....I think that plan is in full swing already...
[Captivate General] ccdoggy:
Please dont let the haters get to you. just some bad blood from lack of contact with Samsung and faults and promises falling short.

I hope this is the beginning of something good because I believe that everyone can benefit from sharing between grass-roots devs and samsung. Just think of a rom developed in tandem between samsung and xda-devs, the great things in a short amount of time that could happen.

I am sure you have noticed 'supercurio' and his voodoo sound apps which make the audio allot better. from what i gather he has been working with someone in samsung to integrate his changes.

It will take commitment from samsung, a large commitment and support to get past older issues. But think of the amazing software we could develop together.

If you want someone to get some ideas from or bounce ideas off of please feel free to PM me.
[Captivate General] boborone:
Welcome to xda, glad to have you. Hope you become a contributing member and we can get some communication going.
[Captivate General] TRusselo:
First off once again welcome, there is the potential for many great things to come of this.

i am just a little disappointed in the members of this forum and their blame game. (aside from the legitamacy issue)

first its is TRUELY impossible to blame SAMSUNG for 2.2 not being released by ATT. Rogers released it. Got it from samsung. and the phone released in canada months after it did in the usa. ATT had a head start with the phone. altough to be fare, not sure when each provider got their release of 2.2 from samsung.

this would be great but wont ever happen that way. however a good way for samsung to "think" of XDA is an

alternative "post-warranty" software support solution

, and any provided tools to help in that way may be easier to ask for.

and XDA may be a great place to find future samsung tallent.

these are my thoughts on the subject so far. i hope they bring up some

good

conversation starters
[Captivate General] shadow65781:
I hope this is real, however for me personally its too little too late.

I am going with the atrix or the inspire.Ive been running stock laggy software patiently waiting for for 2.2. the infuse is enticeing untill you remember your exprience with the captivate. too bad really, all my phones have been samsung, back to the blackjack, then the epix,which was a lttle buggy but it was so far ahead of everything else at the time it was a good tradeoff. no more. the competition is stiff and samsung better start listening to its customers or it will continue to lose them.

I cant decide, atrix or inspire, I know the inspire isnt the same hardware, but the desire hd has been out a while and it has a huge advantage in the dev community, not positve but from my research I believe I can root and rom the day I buy it.

But Damn the specs on that atrix are sexy.
[Captivate General] axis01:
The number one thing that will be ESSENTIAL for you is THICK SKIN. :D

I too hope Samsung listens to the great minds here at XDA. They have done amazing things for not just Droid, but for all the platforms. People are definitely concerned over software issues and the lack of software support. I think most here will agree that the cappy has some of the best hardware available. We just need the software to compliment it.
[Captivate General] supercurio:
I confirm :)

Sound was an opportunity to develop relationships with Samsung Korean management but also engineers.

Because I have contact with Wolfson too I know it came back to them in order to validate some enhancements before it becomes integrated in Samsung code.

Too bad I didn't hear about SamsungJohn initiative, because Korea management and I were already working on a very similar one together. I hope it's not jeopardized.

In this effort, here is a document I wrote 2 weeks ago for them:

Open Source strategy for Samsung Mobile proposal

Comments welcome! It's now public ;)

PS: I very welcome SamsungJohn anyway, it's definitely a move in the right direction, even if I pictured it in another way.
[Captivate General] Mac11700:
This would alleviate alot of BS that's for sure...

While it would be nice if everyone was respectful to the individual..can you blame anyone for not taking this individual seriously ?...If he is indeed who and what he says he is...he should atleast go through the proper channels and let the admins here the oppourtunity to introduce him properly.

This way..he could be accepted as being an actual Samsung representative..and not a troll.This would be the correct way to open a proper dialog with the developers here...not just posting something on an open forum. Even if he is being truthful ...I would not be wanting to face the angry mob here...with all of the pent up anger for the way things have been going...and truthfully..as I said before...if he is indeed sactioned by Samsung to make this type of overature here....it was done all wrong,unless his alledged employer is feeding him to the sharks...;)

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