yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HD2 General] motoi_bogdan:
hello,

please try the following.

On the back of your phone, the battery cover (metalic) comes over 2 small metal pins. The phone will detect if these 2 pins make an electric contact, aka if the backplate is mounted. Some HTC have either microcontracts or magnetic sensors to prevent a phone to be flashed or to boot with the battery cover missing or improperly attached. This is because without the cover, there is a greater risk to have the battery disconnected or to fall, thus interrupting a reflash process.

Older HTC's would either prevent a bootup in case of missing cover or simply didn't start-up at all. I don't know what's with hd2 but i had one of them with exactly the same problem, and knowing that i checked those small metalic pins. One of them wasn't making a proper contact with the metalic cover, after i fixed that the phone was able to corecty flash a stock rom from the microsd card.

However, i repeat, i don't know if this is really the case with HD2, i may have just been lucky. One more thing, if in the end the phone woun't recover from this, i suspect a nand memory corruption. Kind of like bad sectors on a hard drive. Back some time ago, i only manage to fix a broken device with this problem after doing some welding on the cpu and connecting the board with a pc via jtag interface. Then i could mark the bad sectors as "unavailable" and correctly flash a bootloader.

Sorry for the english as i live in a non english speaking country.

LE. nevermind that, did a hardware check with some equipment, the battery cover issue is not the case with HD2. The problem seems thermal related, - if you cool the phone to 5-6 degrees celsius, the problem should either dissapear or occur less frequently. I suspect the CPU soldering to be crappy in this model, so when the chip heats up the small solder balls (the chip is BGA mounted) either don't make a proper contact due to dilatation in the chip itself or the solder materrial. Aah, i really don't know how to put it in english. However i still have a hd2 with this problem. It's worth disasembling it and trying some fancy soldering with a smd rework station.
[HD2 General] ersa:
HD2 vibrations

By me it was HARDWARE problem.

Try to give phone to 5 celsius for few minutes. After try to flash.

By it works, but after doesn't want to power on.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ih4ckback:
So I've been able top find everything else I needed to find but I can't seem to find the stock lockscreen files in the framework-res.apk.

Could anyone tell me what I'm missing please?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeyMike01:
Define "stock".
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ih4ckback:
lol yeah sorry I meant the AOSP lockscreen.

EDIT: I just don't know what files I'm looking for.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeyMike01:
They have "jog" in the filename. In framework-res.apk\res\drawable-hdpi.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ih4ckback:
Thanks, once again Mikey.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ian72:
I was just wondering instead of holding onto the home button and getting the 6 recently open applications, can i edit it and add whatever i wanted to? such as the applications menu so to open anything i wanted? and is there a easy way to switch between open apps?

I know this is a 2.2 feature, im running darkys 8.1 gingerbread addition, with the speedmod kernal.

Is this a rom/kernal feature?

Your help will be appreciated
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naoki12:
Help,i terminate a running service called setting storage and my power off menu dissapear there is only power off left,please help :(:(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raziiqdev:
try soft reset, keep holding Power Button until it restarts
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naoki12:
i just tried it but it doesn't work :(:(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Take battery short time out and try again to boot.

jje
[General Questions and Answers] Tyroage:
Ever couple of days I have to re-register to Kindle with my g-tablet. Kindle Tech support can't help stating that my tablet is not compatible. Strange since ViewSonic specifically mentions kindle in the manual. Can anyone help?
[General Questions and Answers] DreamPCs:
Hey guys,

I'm looking for an upgrade to the POS Moto Cliq for my wife. I have a Vibrant rooted running TeamWhiskey's 2.2 ROM, but buying a used Vibrant seems pricey to me.

I'm really not trying to go over $180, but would prefer to spend about $150. Anyway, the best deal I can possibly come up with is getting an HD2 from ebay and just running Android on it. Any other suggestions?
[General Questions and Answers] CTR01:
well if u can get a decent to good condition hd2 for that cheap then go for it. i had a g2 for ~3 months and loved it but recently got a hd2 and put a n1 2.3 build on it and love it a bit more lol
[General Questions and Answers] N8ter:
I have a Vibrant and HD2 for sale, but $180 is a bit too low. $180 for an HD2, and I'll be a bit suspect of the quality of the device (unless they're someone like me who upgraded phones 4 times in the last year and just wants to get rid of them instead of letting them collect dust).

Maybe just get a new phone on contract if you can upgrade?

I'd trade the Vibrant for a Bold 9780 in mint condition if it doesn't have the common keyboard double type defect, though... The HD2 I'll let go for an iTouch - 3rd gen at least.
[General Questions and Answers] CTR01:
lol yeah just wait for this later this year : )

http://phandroid.com/2011/02/16/nvidia-quad-core-tablets-in-august-phones-at-christmas/
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaider_516:
I experienced this problem with two X10, when you are on WCDMA only mode and data connection is active, try switching to GSM mode only. Your data connection will not restore until you enable then disable Airplane mode.

Anyone having this same problem? Both X10 have different manufacturing date and tried it also with different provider but same results
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roaringhere:
Mine doesn't do that. I do this all the time when I don't want to get over my limit in one day which is 1GB of data...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vangelini:
Mine does the same thing. I have no problem switching from 2g to 3g. But when I go back from to 3g to 2g I have to turn on airplane mode to enable data again. I am running GB 2.3.3 JVB. But the same thing happened on 2.2.1. Being searching like crazy and havent found any solution. Anybody know how to fix this? Maybe its a network problem not a phone problem.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChicoByte:
Hi there.

I have the same problem. Do you have any news?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] s0niqu3:
Hey everyone, I just posted this in the Vibrant forums, but its universal, anyone on Android that hates the carrier tab in the market, here's a solution!

Ok, so while I was re-theming the newest market update for myself, I was finally annoyed enough with the carrier tab/channel in the android market to find a way to disable it entirely.

Simple, SIMPLE change takes care of it.

Decompile Vending.apk, and open /com/smali/android/vending/AssetBrowserActivity.smali

look for the following line:

invoke-virtual {v5}, Lcom/android/vending/model/GetCarrierInfoResponse;->isCarrierChannelEnabled()Z

a couple of lines beneath that, comment out the following two lines:

if-eqz v5, :cond_4

if-eqz v2, :cond_4

And then immediately after you've commented those out, add the following:

goto :cond_4

So the final code in my Vending.apk looks like this:

invoke-virtual {v5}, Lcom/android/vending/model/GetCarrierInfoResponse;->isCarrierChannelEnabled()Z

move-result v5

# if-eqz v5, :cond_4

# if-eqz v2, :cond_4

goto :cond_4

And voila, no Carrier tab/channel anymore!

PLEASE NOTE! This will remove the carrier tab entirely, there is no way to browse the carrier channel using this method.

Anyway, hopes this helps someone else too.

Cheers everyone, =)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkness122:
why is the spell check messed up? also, does anyone else miss the old keyboard (i used to use the droid multitouch keyboard)
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] jdkoren:
I like how HTC sense clock comes with stopwatch and timer modes, but of course I'm running CyanogenMod, so no more senseUI. Can anyone recommend a good stopwatch and timer app?
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] mcnsteve:
UltraCron - Paid App, but very good replacement if your used to the sense timer. Also has a free version with less options...
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] ziggy34:
I use ultrachron also, great app
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] jriv:
Just use the app called stopwatch and timer its free and does what your asking

sent from a guy living in a van down by the river
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] jdkoren:
Will either of the ones mentioned continue timing when the phone screen turns off? I tried Kitchen Timer and the timer would pause whenever the phone locked.
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] ziggy34:
I use ultrachron for the count down timer, it works fine when the screen is off.

I have not really tried the stopwatch part of it, but my guess is that it would work with the screen off also.

Download and try the FREE version of ultrachron and see if it works for you.
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] excarnate:
"StopWatch & Timer" continues to run. You have an option to keep the screen awake, but the dev recommends turning that off to save battery.
[HTC Inspire 4G] r34p3rex:
I think I managed to brick my Inspire some how :D I tried using a nandroid backup to restore to an older ROM. Everything restored correctly apparently, but when I go to restart it, I just get stuck on the HTC white screen.

Tried reflashing a few different ROMs, but its still stuck on the HTC screen. How long is this screen supposed to take after a fresh flash?

Any other ideas?

EDIT: SOLUTION FOUND. DO NOT USE CWM 3.X!! More info here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=956367
[HTC Inspire 4G] JCreazy:
What is the longest you waited?
[HTC Inspire 4G] r34p3rex:
30 min :p

I just flashed CM7 and it booted right up. I think it's a problem with CWM 3.x and Froyo ROMs. From what I've gathered, CWM 3.x is unstable with Froyo based ROMs.

Just flashed CWM 2.5.1.3, gonna see if I can get this damn thing to work :D
[HTC Inspire 4G] newter55:
The new clockwork requires changes to the update scripts be implemented by the devs/modders.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=954654
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jabes27:
I have a htc hero cdma and i did a backup with nandroid (the usual) but my got wet, etc etc, long story short......the company send me a new phone and i put my memory card, and did everyhting again, rooting, rom manager, etc etc, i install the gingerbread ROM to see how it work but i want to go bck to my htc sense 2.1 but i cant because the backup that i had of 2.1 is not working, now i am stuck with gingerbread.....i try to put the android 2.1 update software from htc but is keep putting me a error "140"

Please help
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDowntown12:
If you want a completely stock rom while maintaining your root, I would use this rom Here

Its completely stock, with the newest sprint update, and you can still be rooted.

Just do your wipes and flash it and you should be good to go.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jabes27:
Thanks! I will try that....i didnt see any market app....so illl guess that is already install on the rom... well try that, i let u know if it work
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PMGRANDS:
Does it have to be the Stock Rom? If Not, There are other Sense based Roms that in my Opinion are 10 Times Better! LiquidSense 2.1 is one of them!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukekirstein:
HBoot: 1.33.0013d

Radio: 2.22.27.08

So I tried turning on my G1 today to get it ready to sell for a friend, figuring nothing has changed. The initial power-up kept rebooting, so I figured I should try reflashing another ROM. Tried flashing SparksMod 2.1 to get this interesting scenerio.

The phone will boot up, get pass the G1 screen, and then get stuck. It boot-looped once but now won't do anything after starting up. Attached is the log with the fatal error causing the problem. Any solutions? Thanks in advance!

sysproc ( 471): System server: starting Android runtime.
sysproc ( 471): System server: starting Android services.
SystemServer( 471): Entered the Android system server!
sysproc ( 471): System server: entering thread pool.
dalvikvm( 471): threadid=7: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x400207e8)
SystemServer( 471): Entropy Service
AndroidRuntime( 471): *** FATAL EXCEPTION IN SYSTEM PROCESS: android.server.ServerThread
AndroidRuntime( 471): java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: [generic]
AndroidRuntime( 471):	at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Process ( 471): Sending signal. PID: 471 SIG: 9
AndroidRuntime( 471): Error reporting crash
AndroidRuntime( 471): java.lang.NullPointerException
AndroidRuntime( 471):	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$UncaughtHandler.uncaughtException(RuntimeInit.java:76)
AndroidRuntime( 471):	at java.lang.ThreadGroup.uncaughtException(ThreadGroup.java:887)
AndroidRuntime( 471):	at java.lang.ThreadGroup.uncaughtException(ThreadGroup.java:884)
ServiceManager( 222): service 'SurfaceFlinger' died
Zygote ( 466): Exit zygote because system server (471) has terminated
ServiceManager( 222): service 'media.audio_flinger' died
ServiceManager( 222): service 'media.player' died
ServiceManager( 222): service 'media.camera' died
ServiceManager( 222): service 'media.audio_policy' died
ServiceManager( 273): Waiting for sevice SurfaceFlinger...
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndDiSa:
You flashed a 2708-compatible kernel?
[Fascinate Android Development] kmalinich:
Not the easiest mod, and there is a chance for brickage or data wipe... Noobs beware...

Needed

Rooted Samsung Fascinate (tested with EB01 superclean 2.4)

Working ADB

Latest Heimdall (the Epic 4g thread warns against odin use, it says he soft bricked with it, and I used Heimdall anyway)

Hacked param.lfs to flash HERE

New jpeg boot logo size 480x800 (preferably less than 64k.. I flashed a 65k one and it booted fine though... just be careful)

Steps:

Enter download mode

Flash hacked param.lfs IN HEIMDALL IN THE BOX THAT SAYS PARAM.LFS, NOT FACTORYFS

Reboot normally, if it boots into recovery just reboot again

Ignore garbled text on bootup

Copy your new bootlogo to /sdcard/logo.jpg

Open ADB shell

Enter these commands:

su
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl6 /mnt/.lfs
cp /sdcard/logo.jpg /mnt/.lfs/logo.jpg

Reboot and enjoy!

Notes

Download mode might not show the download mode logo. It doesn't show on mine. Still works though.

In order to flash another logo, you have to re-flash the hacked param.lfs and then copy the new logo.

In order to flash completely back to stock, flash this param.lfs HERE

References/Credits

Connexion2005's support over PM! Thanks!

Connexion2005's site with info and bootlogos

Original i9000 Thread by Connexion2005

Epic 4G Thread

Vibrant Thread

Blademonkey's bootlogos
[Fascinate Android Development] connexion2005:
Thanks for the kudos. Glad I could drop a hint and you could finish it before I had time to even reply with a file!
[Fascinate Android Development] kmalinich:
Hey, without you, I would have no idea what I was doing.
[Fascinate Android Development] grenade01:
So I can have an apple logo before the bootanimation instead of a Samsung logo now!?!!!!

Jk

Haha

Thanks!
[Fascinate Android Development] kmalinich:
If that'll make you happy, actually, yes you can.
[Fascinate Android Development] orion421:
that's awesome lol...who knows might make our updates come out on a set schedule ;)
[Fascinate Android Development] iwasaperson:
Is this perma-brickable like the SPH-M900, or is it possible to get back into download mode?
[Fascinate Android Development] kmalinich:
It's possible that if you really broke the param.lfs it wouldn't boot into download mode and show the graphic, but it would still be in download mode, just with nothing on the screen.
[Fascinate Android Development] Pfredd:
Has anyone, other than the original poster, have more guts than I do and tried this?

I am itching to do it (I want to piss off my friend by having an Apple logo :-) ), but I am a bit afraid to try it...
[Fascinate Android Development] iwasaperson:
I tried it, it worked.
[Fascinate Android Development] BlackHoleSlam:
like flash in odin using PDA section right
[Fascinate Android Development] kmalinich:
Yes, it would be PDA in Odin, but i highly recommend Heimdall...
[Fascinate Android Development] Rodderik:
i never had any luck getting it to work with odin (even putting it in the big tarball) ...like kmalinich said i had many soft bricks testing but none of them prevented me from going into download mode...you should be safe so as as you dont mess with the boot loaders but still use caution!

glad to hear u got this working on another phone besides the epic kmalinich...props!
[Fascinate Android Development] Pfredd:
Where can I find Heimdall?
[Fascinate Android Development] BlackHoleSlam:
I thought heimdall only ran on linux
[Fascinate Android Development] iwasaperson:
... and Mac, and Windows
[Fascinate Android Development] baron4406:
If you flash that in an "PDA" section of Heimdall you will get what I got two hours ago, a serious brick!! You have to look in the Heimdall front end and notice there is a "param.lfs" box that you must flash it from (I assume anyway). Trust me I was dead in the water I had to delete heimdall for Odin to work again.

I think it should be clear in the first post, there are several posts about flashing it in PDA which is incorrect. Or am I wrong here?
[Fascinate Android Development] kmalinich:
In Heimdall, everything except the PIT file is under the PDA/Code heading. I think that's what you're reading. The first flash selection under PDA/Code is FactoryFS...
[Fascinate Android Development] calebv2:
heimdall link

This worked perfect thank you
[Fascinate Android Development] onionz:
Worked for me with a 215kb photo!
[Fascinate Android Development] CrimsonKnight13:
Here's the boot logo I'm using right now :D
[Fascinate Android Development] onionz:
Thats nice crimson.
[Fascinate Android Development] Desperato:
link broken for hacked_param.lfs can replace please

B.R
[Fascinate Android Development] kmalinich:
i fixed it. Sorry about that, I moved some files around in my Dropbox.
[Fascinate Android Development] alex6999:
flashed captivate, 3 times.

third time with logo from this topic.

all 3 time i have garbage on boot screen.

why?
[Fascinate Android Development] kmalinich:
Probably because this is a Fascinate-specific mod.

...
[Fascinate Android Development] tmlhodge:
How on earth is that 64k
[Fascinate Android Development] kmalinich:
Well it can be more, it's just risky.
[Fascinate Android Development] dustinface:
I just told a friend I was going to make this bootscreen, and turns out I find it hilarious.
[Fascinate Android Development] agsded:
Here's one I made from two others hosted on the original site merged together with photoshop.
[Fascinate Android Development] agsded:
Here's another I photoshopped together from some images on one of the news sites.... android Dr. Zoidberg

Mulder's poster:

Federation logo:
[Fascinate Android Development] DAGr8:
funny nobody us ever mentioning the OP about this in any of the threads ..
[Fascinate Android Development] kmalinich:
I don't understand.
[Fascinate Android Development] dustinface:
Characters
[Fascinate Android Development] agsded:
Its a cool mod tho, should get more respect.....might be what the post is inferring....
[Fascinate Android Development] davey11:
Just did this today...is really cool

The jpg file is in the upper left corner of the screen when booting. Any thoughts on getting it centered?

Thx

Forgot to say that the jpg is not 480 X 800...its around 400 X 400...

So if cannot use say a command in adb then I would need a full 480x800 file to fill the screen? Just guessing here
[Fascinate Android Development] tmlhodge:
Yes you need it to be 480x800 no getting around it.. :(
[Fascinate Android Development] davey11:
Thx man ... I kinda figured so
[Fascinate Android Development] davey11:
Holy sh#t this is gonna freak out my friends
[Fascinate Android Development] CrimsonKnight13:
I used Paint.NET to optimize the size. It looks great on the actual screen. I took it from a very hi-res image, too. I've attached the original for anyone that wants it.
[Fascinate Android Development] agsded:
Nice!
[Fascinate Android Development] dfgas:
Is there any way to make a rom flash this when flashing the rom? through recovery. If so can you please explain for all of us on how to do it?
[Fascinate Android Development] dustinface:
I highly doubt it. :(
[Fascinate Android Development] kmalinich:
No, because recovery doesn't write to partitions that are the file system that the param uses. I think.
[Fascinate Android Development] sidicious:
Since when does CWM not do that...
[Fascinate Android Development] davey11:
I loved this mod when I was on my fascinate. I am on a charge now. You guys think this can be done on that phone?

I would guess the /dev/block/stl6 partition would be different on other samsung phones. What would be the way to find out what partition to use on the charge?
[Fascinate Android Development] jt1134:
Look in init.rc. and be careful :p
[Fascinate Android Development] davey11:
Guessing you would need some adb command? I am a adb novice...can you provide the command to get the init.rc?

Thx
[Fascinate Android Development] sidicious:
I have a mesmerize... which is also an i500. Anybody try pushing this to anything other than a fascinate?

Im about to, lol.
[Fascinate Android Development] kmalinich:
CWM does not support writing to J4FS partitions. When android is loaded, it can barely write to it. It's very limited.

And IIRC Connexion2005 did a version of this mod for the Charge.
[Fascinate Android Development] bigwilly90210:
hey anyone here using the CM7 build from jt1134? if so, anyone know what technique he uses for the custom CM7+Galaxy S boot logo? its before the animation, but my custom logo only stay for like 3 seconds max... idk whats going on. it doesn't matter if i install the custom before or after flashing his ROM. just curious as to what's going on. ha. thanks guys! love having my fakey iPhone boot logo. especially amidst the current lawsuits. lol
[Fascinate General] triple486:
Just flashed SC 2.4 voodoo rom and have some questions about it.

1. how do you delete the home screen? (I have 7 home screens now.. which is too many for me)

2. When I turn on Camera, it says update firmware. do I have to update firmware?

3. how can you customize shortcut on the bottom (a grey box that have call, app list, browser icon)? sry its kinda similar question as #1.

4. What kind of launcher does Superclean rom use? when i see task manager, icon looks like Touchwiz.. but overall interface and app list look like ADW.. but doesnt have ADW options though.. I'm confused.

I thought I had more questions but I forgot :(

I will edit this post if I think of more.
[Fascinate General] mrodsunshine:
1,3, 4: its pretty much the stock aosp launcher, so any kind of home screen customization is out of the question unless you get something else like launcher pro/adw. Its called launcher2, I believe, taken straight from aosp source. So, if you want to change stuff, you're going to have to look at other launchers.

2. Yes.
[Fascinate General] jenisiz:
And if you're looking for alot of customiziation options along with neat transitions built in...try launcher pro. I've been using it for years on different androids and love it.
[Fascinate General] triple486:
you mean I can't even set numbers of home screen with 'launcher2'?? thats not good..

what does aosp stand for?

If I use launcher pro or adw, stock launcher will be running in background? running 2 launchers will consume more battery and RAM?