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[Captivate General] NascarFastcar:
Its not your phone its the cable. There is a common problem with that cable as you can read in the reviews. "try switching red for video instead of yellow. "

I ordered that cable and tried every combination of colors and it didn't work. It's really hit or miss and I ended up throwing it in the trash. I purchased this one the same day the one you posted arrived and it works perfectly...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GGQ2ZU
[Captivate General] Ragin Caucasian:
it is a weird setup - I found the RED cable is actually the video portion of the component cables. Also, I thought the same thing at first (even knowing the standard video output wasn't it), it seemed to take a while to actually display on the big screen I was connected to (audio would play.....but it would take a few seconds before the video was recognized on the monitor - its not that there is a lag in synch, just that there wasn't an immediate output after plugging in the cables.
[Captivate General] rustyshakelford2:
I also tried all the color combinations, no luck. I ordered an iPod video cable, hopefully that will get the job done.
[Epic 4G General] aburgthing:
First I am coming across product threads to request some information. As stated in my post, "I" am an Evo owner and are pretty well versed in rooting procedures flashing etc. It is my second hobby having rooted eight Evo's and de-facto maintaining them for friends and co-workers. I'm somewhat a flashaholic. However, my wife owns an Epic and recently has asked me to root her phone. Being so involved in the Evo community I really haven't had the time (or desire) to get immersed in a whole new system. So because of my procrastination, I would like to ask two simple questions and I will figure out the rest. For the Epic:

1. What is the quickest, most fool proof way to root and get permanent "S-on"?

2. What are a few of the most popular ROMs/kernals in use?

(I have a full evening to read and get this done, but reading through all the post will take a week so pointing me in the right direction would be a great help. Plus I don't want the OTA pushed to her phone and be locked out for weeks until a new exploit is found).

Now for the warning. I see many asking "what if I accept the OTA and I am rooted"? A warning from what happened with the Froyo update for the Evo. Those who accepted the OTA for the Evo were without root for nearly a month because a new exploit had to be discovered. The first root procedures were long and difficult (no one click roots here, the learning curve was pretty steep). Eventually easier exploits were found and posted but in the long run, accepting the OTA simply was not worth it. The funny thing is I had the official Sprint OTA (rooted) running five hours after it was released! So hold your horses if you are rooted but just itching to accept the OTA. You WILL lose root and it may be a while before you get it back. One of the manufacturers goals is to patch the root exploits and make it as difficult as they can to root it again. A rooted version of the OTA almost always pops up within 12 hours after release.

Thanks in advance for any replies and good luck, congratulations for the long overdue update!
[Epic 4G General] mattallica76:
There are only a few ROM choices at the moment as most chefs/devs were waiting for Froyo and source before developing for the Epic.

Samsung uses a proprietary RFS file system. If you plan on flashing one of the RFS based ROMs, use this One-click to install CWM and root-

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=770388

If you plan on going with ext4 file system, use this One-click root and CWM installer-

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=897612

Bonsai is a very nice/popular ext4 ROM.

Also, I suggest you familiarize yourself with Odin(Samsung flashing utility), as you might need it if something gets borked along the way.
[Epic 4G General] Electrofreak:
One-click root as linked above is the fastest way. It's also stickied at the top of the forum. The one titled "	Samsung Epic 4G Wiki - CLICK HERE AND USE THIS BEFORE POSTING".

We've been running leaked FroYo for months, and root was not an issue. Kernels compiled from the OTA source have not had root issues either.
[Epic 4G General] lloydcabraham:
I too am an Evo owner and was flashaholic until I found myn's Z with the SBC kernel and DT's a2sd with Davlik running on SD. With that said, I also own a Epic and have switched back and forth due to the GPS bug and no DT a2sd. I've finally settled on something that works though. I've used Superoneclick universal root since it's extremely easy, tried all of the roms until I settled on Truly Epic Rebirth 1.5 with EXT4 support since it's the only one that gave me consistent GPS (I use GPS alot being in Medical sales) and then I used the one click odexer tool to speed it up and reduce my Dalvik cache footprint. No DT a2sd but I have offered tkirton $50 to port his app over so I can use it on my epic (Just waiting on him when he has time).
[Epic 4G General] crawrj:
I am new to android as the Epic is my first android phone. The easiest root option I have seen is the one click 2.5.5 in dev section. For roms I can't offer a suggestion but would wait until 2.2 drops. And for the warning all of the leaks were rooted with the same one click method. So unless they did something drastic rooting will not be an issue after the update. Plus I am sure the devs will have prerooted roms out within a few hours of the release.
[Epic 4G General] Schuby:
I have an Evo and an Epic. Everyone here seemed to answer your question already but I wanted to inform you there is no "S-OFF" with the Galaxy S series. That security feature is only apart of HTC Android phones as far as I know. A simple "OneClickRoot" is sufficient for full access to the system.
[Epic 4G General] aburgthing:
Thanks for all your replies. I guess it's time to get busy!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhamhawker:
Ok, I can't figure this out, despite researching across a bunch of threads.

I've been trying to root my fiancee's Evo for almost 2 hours now to no avail.

First I tried the "autoroot" method, but it failed. Then I tried the unrEVOked method, and it kept getting hung up on "installing unrevoked service...".

Somehow, after getting through bootloader, et. al. a few times, I got to the screen with triangles\exclamations in each corner. I got out of that by running an RUU. Well, that apparently wasn't right, because then I could not get any of the Root methods to work.

I downloaded an older version - EvoRoot - and tried it. Seemed to be working....until it went to flash recovery, and now I'm stuck going between the Bootloader screen and the red triangle-exclamation.

I can't, for the life of me, figure out how I can get out of this mess.

The Evo has never been rooted and it's only a few weeks old. It was originally on this:

RUU_SuperSonic_S_Sprint_WWE_3.70.651.1_Radio_2.15.00.11.19_NV_1.90_release_161482_signed

And is definitely Android 2.2.

I think I accidentally ran this:

RUU_SuperSonic_S_Sprint_WWE_3.26.651.6_Radio_2.15.00.07.28_NV_1.40_release_140444_signed

to get myself out of the 4 exclamation point screen.

Can anyone help me at all?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Well the red triangle with an exclamation means you are going into recovery. but no recovery is installed. Boot into the rom use/download rom manager, and flash clockworkmod recovery. That should do it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhamhawker:
I can do one of a few things:

V-Up + Power = 4 options. I can't "update.zip" because it says "no such file or directory". Wiping does nothing, just returns me to red ! screen.

Get to Bootloader - nothing I do there does anything but take me to red ! screen.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
No, don't boot into the bootloader, just start the phone up normally; or can you not do that?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhamhawker:
Rebooting the phone normally just brings me straight to the red ! screen after showing me the htc EVO 4G white intro screen.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
I'm attaching amon_ra recovery [I run clockwork, but this works just as well]

Take the battery off, and mount your sd card to your computer via adapter, put that file on the root of the sd card, do not modify or extract it. Once done, start the phone up and boot into the bootloader, it should ask you if you want to update, and say yes.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhamhawker:
Ok, downloaded, added to card. Upon booting into bootloaded, it reads the .zip and then just kicks me back to the bootloader. It won't ask if I want to update at all.

Also, I can give some more info on the phone real quick:

Supersonic EVT2-3 Ship S-ON

HBOOT-2.10.0001

MICROP-041f

TOUCH PANEL-ATMELC03_16ac

Radio-2.15.00.07.28

Oct 15 2010, 12:07:00

I can jump on a number of chat accounts if anyone would rather walk me through it in that fashion.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Well you're S-ON...no bueno. Try running unrevoked3 again. But before you do, do you have the Hboot drivers installed?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhamhawker:
Yep, HBoot was installed fine.

Is there some way to factory reset using my SDCard to mount images?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
The only real way is to run the RUU.

Try running the 3rd option.

http://www.shipped-roms.com/shipped/Supersonic/ Let me know what happens.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhamhawker:
Ok, downloading a stock rom and going to rename it to update.zip. Hopefully I can get that to work through the Android recovery.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
I haven't heard that method, but I'll be around so I'll check back in, in a couple.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhamhawker:
Ok, the "update.zip" file opens, but then says "Signature Verification Failed".

How do I run the RUU? While the device has the red ! screen?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] remman:
You need a factory reset PCIMG36.zip of the RUU I believe.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
In the recovery, where it says install from zip, scroll down to signature verification, and select it to toggle it off, so it doesn't check and it should run.

Boot into the bootloader, and select fastboot, then run the RUU exe.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhamhawker:
Neither of these worked. However, with my screen just at the HTC Evo "white" screen, I was getting the error "Your battery is under 30%" when I ran the RUU*.exe file on my comp. I switched to a different battery (with an unknown charge) and tried, but got the same. Have one of the batteries charging right now, so maybe that will change my luck??

I'm downloading the stock RUU PC36IMG right now (I think), too.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHausx:
It is a very bad idea to try different root methods one right after another and to randomly flash stuff unless you are purposely trying to brick your phone. The bootloader stopped you from doing just that when it locked you in the black htc screen but if you would have had your nand unlocked you may not have been so lucky.

If you flash the 3.70 RUU so that you have a clean start you should be able to root fine. There's no telling if you will still have 4G or if anything has became permanently corrupted though. Just run it as a normal exe, do not use it as an PC36IMG.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhamhawker:
Ok, Holy Mary Mother of Tebow, but I'm finally out of the pseudo-brick state.

Thanks a ton for your help on this. I really, really appreciate it.

I now am setup with the following:

Android 2.2

Baseband 2.15.00.07.28

Kernel 2.6.32.15-g746f4f0 htc-kernel@and18-2 #58

Build 3.26.651.6

Can anyone help me successfully root this phone now?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Okay good. Now run unrevoked3. Once it starts, just put the phone down and let it run. Should reboot 2 times, let it run the full course.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhamhawker:
How long should the program be hung up on "Installing unrevoked service"?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
It could vary...typically maybe a minute or two. In some cases more, but you have to be patient. :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhamhawker:
Ok, still hung up on it. No reboots or anything yet.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Do you have HTC sync installed? If so, you need to un-install it; you can re-install afterwards if you like.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhamhawker:
The message "This was a triumph" has never been so fitting.

Thanks a ton for all your help. Much obliged.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Excellent...did all the reboots? And no problems man. :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhamhawker:
Looks to be all golden now. Thanks a ton.

Now - just for clarification - I have CWM installed now, right? So I can power off and then power on into CWM recovery?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agreeler:
Same here, those four words made my evening when I first rooted after hours and hours of failures.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Right, you have clockworkmod 2.xx installed; you can boot into recovery now. Though if you flash clockworkmod 3.0+ you can't use amend scripting [old style] and you'll get an error message saying a file you flashed wasn't installed. So you can stay on that, or use amon_ra 2.3 . If you decide to run a CM7 mod, you need clockworkmod 3..0+ or amon_ra.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhamhawker:
Awesome. Everything looks brilliant now. Mods can lock this if they need.

THANKS!!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Glad that it's working. :D
[G Tablet General] Brian Oshman:
I searched the threads on this but can't find specifically what I'm looking for.

I purchased the Z Pad dock for my G Tab and just got it in and hooked it up. It will charge through it and the USB works, haven't tested the RJ-45 connection but I connected it to my TV and it will not display anything. My TV has a DVI connector and I have a HDMI to DVI adapter and I know the adapter works because it works with other devices.

Also, HDMI and DVI video are exactly the same digitally as far as signal go so my question is, has anyone else used an adapter to connect it to the DVI port and if so did it work or not?

Just wondering if it needs to be specifically connected to a HDMI port to receive other feedback from the port to the device to turn it on. My Droid X will connect with this method.

Also, When I got the dock it had a rattle, so I cracked it open and the counter weight was loose as the mounting tabs were busted off. It was banging on the ribbon cable to the dock connector. I disassembled it and examined the cable and saw no damage and since all of the other features work I figured it might be the connection method but want to make sure. I secured the weight and closed it back up.

I also ordered a HDMI to composite RCA converter but haven't received it yet as I want to be able to connect it to any available display so I am not able to try that yet.

In short, has anyone else tried to connect it using a HDMI to DVI connector and not have display output? P.S. I did have the charger connected to power the internal dock board as it is not just a passthrough.

Just want to know before I attempt to send this back as a defect or hunt down other methods of connectivity.

Thanks in advance,

Brian
[G Tablet General] drumdumb:
I have found that the hdmi out wont work unless the power supply is connected! so basically make sure the tablet is charging when you want the HDMI to work! Hope this helps!
[G Tablet General] Brian Oshman:
Yes, I know that and said I had it plugged in. Thanks. Just wondering if someone else had trouble using a HDMI to DVI connector with the G Tab.
[G Tablet General] foobaz123:
Brian, Not sure how much it helps but I have a Ztab and it is working fine going HDMI --> HDMI on my TV. Are you having problems with a HDMI --> DVI connector? If you haven't already tried it, you could try rebooting the tablet with it in the dock. I've found that helps with mine sometimes.
[G Tablet General] Mrwoodchuck:
well Brian I can tell you that Hdmi to dvi Works well.

I have the same dock, and i use it at work all the time via dvi adapter.

I assume your dock still works not using the adapter?
[G Tablet General] KnightCrusader:
I plugged mine into my TV and it showed right up, but of course, I am using HDMI to HDMI. The only thing I can think of that might be a problem is you'd lose sound in the process, unless its smart enough to know the sound isn't connected via HDMI and keeps it coming out the speakers.
[G Tablet General] Brian Oshman:
I did try to reboot it and it did not show up. Thanks for posting that it did work with the DVI adapter as that is how I have it set up. I know the adapter works as I use it with my Droid X and it works with that.

I will play around with it some more and wait until the coposite converter I ordered comes in as that is HDMI in to Composite out and see if that works. If not then I will send it back as a defect. I bet the counter wieght being broken loose inside did something to the ribbon cable.
[G Tablet General] Mantara:
Anyone use a HDMI to composit/RCA hookup yet? Mine is on order and am hoping I can use it on my older 4:3 40 inch Hitachi.
[G Tablet General] 2manytoys:
Do you use it to display text? I find the quality from my Zpad, using the dock, to be pretty average for text. Did you change any settings?

Cheers, Mal.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] procupine14:
Can't seem to get my last.fm to play on my streak. I'm up on the official 2.2 froyo and it just isn't playing. It acts like it is going to and just sits there. Of the 70 or so times that I've tried it I've gotten one song to play part of the way through just once.

Anyone know what's going on with this?

Thanks a lot
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Telal:
Don't bother with last.fm they went to a subscription only service unless you're on a windows phone. Ditch them, give them a 1 star rating, leave a bad comment, and uninstall.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] ramtix:
are you using stock music player? if you do, that wont work.

Use DoubleTwist from the market, it works perfect with last.fm
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] procupine14:
See, I downloaded it and set it as my default music player and last.fm is still not functioning. I'm starting to wonder if I'm actually setting the default player properly.

for the other comment, I actually pay for the subscription so it really isn't about that. Say what you will but I love last.fm much more than pandora and, quite frankly, the subscription is so cheap i could really care less about paying for it. My feeling is if you like something support it.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] procupine14:
bump.

Still having this issue. When I open the Last.fm app it just sits there saying "tuning to station." It will act like it is playing but the progress bar stays blank as well as the time. However, the artist picture does show up and it will change songs as if it were actually playing.:confused:
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] procupine14:
Well, the plot thickens. I finally got it to play two songs today but that was about it and then it went back to being silent. I'm guessing that there must be something up with the app itself.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vampfy:
Using oxygen 2.0 and so far VERY impressed, however one small snag, I'm struggling to find how to manually link Facebook contacts with Android contacts (for picture purposes)

Since this is my first "Sense-less" ROM I'm a bit lost :-P

Any help would be appreciated!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meaple:
Download the Facebook app, go into the settings of the app and choose the syncing option which allows you to link phone contacts with contacts. It will only link some contacts that have similar names, or you can do it manually by going into you phone contact, menu, edit, press menu again and press join. This will allow you to link your contact with a Facebook contact. Hope that wasn't confusing for you.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vampfy:
Beautiful! Thanks, this Android contacts is baffling compared to HTC people lol, thanks again :-)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meaple:
Yes it is. SenseUI makes it a lot easier to set up. You just got to get use to Android :P

Took me a while to figure out how to do that. It is only because Android doesn't come with Facebook installed. Once you install it, you can sync it. That is why it is easier on SenseUI because it is already there.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] gunnermike:
Is there any way to get that stupid phone button to route the music from the 3.5 to the usb port so we can use the car dock without the sammy music app? in order to listen to anything with the car dock other than the sammy music app you have to open sammy music play something go to the now playing list and press the button, then pause sammy music bac button till you get back to car home. NOW you can play pandora or audible or win amp. its nice that it works, but its still broken. it should be a setting or an app, not a feature available from only one app.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] mbh87:
This mod?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=955650
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] gunnermike:
no. that makes the aosp music app work with the sammy car dock. it doesnt have a phone button either.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] gunnermike:
c'mon. i can be the only one annoyed by this!!!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] azzaj:
Hi all

Have a Telecom NZ Milestone a853, was running froyomod (about a month old) fine until yesterday when some of my sdcard files ended up in the lost.dir, then more and more, i grabbed what i could via card reader into my pc and put back into phone to format.

Once booted i got the notification that teh sdcard was damaged or unknown format, when i try and format it flashes up on the screen that sdcard is removed. If i leave it for a while i can format on the phone and even copy files at some ungodly slow rate (usb1.1??). And all is fine til i reboot and it misbehaves the same way again.

I have tried 2 cards a class 6 8gb and bought a new class 10 16gb yesterday. both cards are fine in windows and run as fast as the card will allow.

I have tried flashing back to 2.1 with rsdlite which appeared to work however the card needed formatting but there was enough time to copy open recovery across, take a nandroid backup of the phone and flash to 2.2. 2.2 showed a sd card issue but it formatted fine and i copied across the hono 2.3 nandroid image.

2.3 was fine for about 10 minutes and since then it has been back to square 1, sd card sometimes appears but needs formatting and then the transfer rate is slow and the data is temporary.

Firstly had anyone else had the same issue? did you manage to fix it and how?

Nextly where can i find a TNZ XT sbf for my phone cos it looks like im gonna have to flash it back to stock to return under warranty even though i can probably get them to repair it with the custom rom as we have in NZ a consumer guarantees act which trumps all silly manufacturer opt outs, it will still be less hassle to take it back stock.

thanks in advance guys.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] consolation:
+1 for a clean XT nandroid/*.sbf I forgot to backup before I flashed...
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Caz666:
I had this issue with my first milestone. It still works (handed down to an employee) but i had to switch the sdcard.

I dont know if you have the same issue...but i would try another card.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] neato4u:
I had the same issue with my milestone microsd. I ended up fixing it by formating the card via laptop instead of the phone. Don't do a quick format, do a full format instead.

Hope that fixes the issue.