yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
there a few ways to root our nexus s, maybe thats the confusing factor. the easiest way to root it(basic outline)...

1. install drivers to computer

2. install fastboot.

3. get proper filed together. recovery, rooted rom, etc.

4. use fastboot to "fastboot oem unlock". will wipe everything

5. flash a recovery to your nexus s using fastboot

6. place a rooted rom(and google apps if needed) onto storage of phone using usb option in the recovery of the phone

7. flash said rooted rom(and gapps if needed) in the recovery and reboot

8. enjoy

i did say that this is a very basic outline.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suprakarma:
Mmm I see , like I said coming from the vibrant, got so used to its ease of flash. Will do more reading before going crazy on this phone, thanks alot for the advice.

On a different note, how could I get the 2.3.3 ota?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenvan19:
There are quite a few great threads about rooting in the development section as well as a reference guide for the ROMS, themes, and kernels available (written by me lol and ironically the only themes missing are the ones I ported xD) Just go pop in the development section. Should answer all your questions :)
[Atrix 4G General] reddog:
Hello Everyone,

I have search the Atrix forum and have not found anything about the FM radio function.

Has anyone been able to enable it? I know it is not a high priority action.

Thanks for any info on this.
[Atrix 4G General] mister_al:
It's not currently enabled. with the Nexus One, Cyanogen had an updated ROM to enable the Tuner. I think one of the droids had an update to turn the tuner on. This is quite probable. Companies like Motorolla can sometimes spread revenue over multiple quarters by doing things like enabling new functionality down the road
[Atrix 4G General] reddog:
I tried a Droid x hack for the FM radio.

It behaves as if it will tune..detects the headphones etc..even the volume control works and shows it is FM volume.

I am no where close to some of the experts on this site..but it looks like an easy hack..I hope someone else can take a quick look at this..

I know it not high priority..any insight or direction would be nice
[Atrix 4G General] danilo2k:
Any news about this? Did anyone made it possible?

Thanks for the info!
[Atrix 4G General] danilo2k:
C´mon guys, no one except me wants to hear FM radio on the Atrix?

I would donate if anyone makes it possible.

Thanks!
[Atrix 4G General] h8rift:
From what I remember from the Nexus One FM radio, a kernel change had to be made. Not sure if that applies here or not. I would note that the Bell Atrix seemed to have a TV/Radio app (on a screenshot I saw). Now, whether this is an actual FM radio and not via streamed data, who knows. Just something to look into.
[Atrix 4G General] reddog:
Same here
[Atrix 4G General] reddog:
Is the Bell unit out yet..can someone confirm the app? Can it be pulled and posted for us younglings to try?
[Atrix 4G General] NFHimself:
It's sirius, not a tuner
[Atrix 4G General] reddog:
Ok..bummer
[Atrix 4G General] T39andcounting:
FM Radio in Orange UK Spec

Orange UK has the Atrix listed as having "FM radio RDS",

http://shop.orange.co.uk/mobile-phones/motorola-atrix;jsessionid=DZDVNQNfZ572n66rRcnTgJLKnz1Ncr12nRhyv52Z92qwyr9g9rHL!-1117014923

Its also listed in the paper catalogue as having this feature. Mine (purchased 13th May) doesn't have this enabled, from what I can see, but hopefully this means an update is due soon with this feature turned on.
[Atrix 4G General] Optimus-Prime:
My friend has a Defy, and it has CMP (Connected Music Player) its basically tunewiki but its the phones standard music player, in the main menus it has the option for FM Radio. Im guessing they are cooking up a version to work for the Atrix. I mean they should if the Defy has it why wont their Flagship device ATM. The Atrix is Motorola's Flagship device ATM right?
[Atrix 4G General] panflute:
There was a hacked version of CMP out there, but the FM tuner did not work. I believe either AT&T disabled the feature so you have to pay for their radio app, or CMP was not quite finished for the Atrix. Maybe it will be included in a future update?

In any event I am also willing to DONATE to any dev who can get it working.
[Atrix 4G General] morrislee:
Bell one is an webased apl for the radio and tv, does not use hardware fm :(
[Atrix 4G General] samcripp:
listening to FM radio is like masturbating to pics of old ladys.
[Atrix 4G General] JaronBang:
Lol'd^
[Atrix 4G General] Note_E:
Not really
[Atrix 4G General] rickleasa:
I don't think we will see it enabled as long as att is the exclusive carrier
[Atrix 4G General] CancerJesus:
Pretty sure the Atrix is on multiple carriers across the world.
[Atrix 4G General] Phalanx7621:
There you go judging something without trying it first, Sam.

lol.
[Atrix 4G General] pukemon:
Are you saying 'cant dog it til you tried it?' Lmao. Can you pass the granny panties?
[Atrix 4G General] Phalanx7621:
lolz. :: passes to the right :::
[Atrix 4G General] pukemon:
Good thing im on the left.

I voided my warranty.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] joeski27:
So I've tried what some have suggested which was HD Wallpapers from the market but it doesn't seem to work on the xoom. I'm hoping someone has a suggestion or two :D
[Xoom Themes and Apps] android_geoff:
Open the app in portrait and you'll be fine. I've been emailing the developer and he knows about the bug and he's releasing an update.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] joeski27:
Indeed, problem solved (obviously). Thanks!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Treken:
does anyone know how to edit launcher pro with apktool? I'm building a rom and want to change the app launchers that are pre-configured in the launcher.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Treken:
Bump
[HTC Inspire 4G] mj0528:
They certainly made this easy! I've been rooted for a week and just tried my 3rd ROM. The backup and restore is so nice coming from an iphone. I spent countless hours restoring firmware, jailbreaking and then installing apps after my phone would go into safe mode. That was so frustrating! Don't get me wrong I still think my old iphone 4 is an amazing device in it's on right. I'm come to the conclusion that iphones are like high school and androids are like college. Just a higher state of learing and consciousness :p
[HTC Inspire 4G] klquicksall:
I gotta to agree. The Iphone hacks aren't as good or friendly as the android.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Sportsguy15:
The only thing I hate, is creating the gold card. I'll be trying that tomorrow.

Looks tough.
[HTC Inspire 4G] mj0528:
just follow the video. the whole process is cake! open the readme in the hack kit and start and pause the you tube video as you go.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] icsterm:
I've tested VPN on both internet APN and wi-fi with multiple servers (I tried both Windows 2008 R2 and Windows XP x64 server). It seems no connection can be made, encryption on or off doesn't matter.

I'm using Android 2.2.1 with mikos kernel.

Is this a known bug with the P500?

I'm willing to sell it just because i'm at the end of my nerves.

My Windows 7 laptop connects with encryption on or off without any issue.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] icsterm:
No one bothered to answer. It seems like a bug in 2.2 version (or kernels based on 2.2). Froyo 2.2.1 fixed this problem.

Still, I'm looking for a kernel with touchscreen bug minimised but based on 2.2.1 kernel.

Is there any such?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] ccdreadcc:
no.

since u cant root 2.2.1 no way to flash the kernel..
[Optimus One, P500, V General] icsterm:
You are saying the ROM i'm currently using (Prime v2) is not using 2.2.1 kernel? It's saying 2.6.32.9 lg-electronics@new1 #2. Rooted already. I say it can be flashed if you have custom recovery already.

The whole point is having a custom made 2.2.1 kernel and that's it. I think Prime V2 uses stock 2.2.1, i just want to have the touchscreen bug fixed and VPN also.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] ccdreadcc:
Primev2 is not 2.2.1?

wat makes u think vpn issue is associated with kernel?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] all4country:
I've tested almost ROM for P500 but only Prime V2 can connect to my VPN. But it's still not very stable, sometimes I can't connect VPN
[Optimus One, P500, V General] siliq:
Frustrated....

Same problem here.

Using Optimus T with stock 2.2.2, also tried some 3-rd party ROMs ... None of them worked so far with PPTP VPN yet.

Can anyone tell me if there is a ROM with working PPTP VPN client?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tronmech:
Just solved a really annoying battery drain issue. Figured I'd post the results...

I noticed last week that my phone was going through the battery MUCH faster than normal. A check of Settings/About Phone/battery use told me that the "Mediaserver" was using over 35% of my battery, surpassing the phone standby -- which is saying a LOT given what my T-Mo reception is like.

Now, I'm still learning, so when the description says is does something with running apps, I assume that the issue is an app I recently installed, so I remove apps I recently installed or updated. Nope.

I saw another post about a laggy G2 that seemed to also have battery issues. It recommended using Watchdog Lite to see what was happening. So, off to the Android Market.

After installing Watchdog Lite, I saw that the CPU was 0% idle with 75-95% "nice." Well, no idle = battery suckage, so off to see what tasks are using CPU. The initial check didn't show anything -- until I enabled monitoring "Phone Processes." The alerts for the "mediaserver" "linux task" showed that this process was taking every cpu cycle it could. Off to Google.

Did a search on "android mediaserver loop" and found a couple of bugzillas that essentially said that a corrupt media file (pic, movie or sound) could send mediaserverover the edge. So, I started to move *every* picture off the sd card onto my computer's HD.

Knew I was on to something when mediaserver stopped going crazy once usb storage was turned on. So, I moved all the image and movie files off and turned off usb storage. The CPU spun back to100% busy, but slowed back down to about 9o% or more idle.

Now all I have to do is find the bad file or files, and I can add it to the bugzilla.

EDIT: It seems that this has also made the cooliris gallery wake up and start updating again. So anyone seeing that the gallery isn't updating may need to see if their mediaserver linux task is unusually busy. If so, offload as many media files as possible and see whap happens...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geniekid:
Very useful post. Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dustrho:
I saw this sucking down battery for me as well while playing around with CM7 nightlies, but never thought too much about it. Good find!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Neo-Nemesis:
I've noticed this issue with mediaserver too but never managed to find what's causing this.

Thanks for the tips :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lil-devil:
there might be a difference here but media server from G1 (htc dream) was the music stock music player. it might be different here but thats what it was in the G1
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] infamousjax:
actually the stock music player is /system/app/music.apk on all vanilla android phones.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Neo-Nemesis:
I believe that music player depend of mediaserver.

I have installed system panel and noticed a 30% cpu usage when I play some music with Cyanogen 7 RC2.

I will try with another Rom to compare the result.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsforsab7:
I found my cause for the problem

I got really frustrated with the Galaxy S2 because of this mediaserver issue...

From wat i have researched, I found that once the 'gallery' is opened and closed,

Phone keeps using the cpu 100%.

Phone's back becomes red hot.

The battery drains rapidly in 2-3 hours.

I plug it on to a charger it doesn't charge up

the mediaserver process comes up in the 'battery usage' with 60% usage

Now, I switch off the phone. Boot it up. Charge the phone to 100%. Its all perfect and no heating up too. After 7 hours of usage, no mediaserver process in 'battery usage'.

I went into the gallery once. Browsed some photos. And Closed it.

Now it all started again. I've tried this 3 times now.

And I have no idea wats wrong with the gallery.:mad:
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tronmech:
Do what I did and either move all the media files off the sd card or drop ". nomedia" files in strategic locations. (Don't forget to look all over the card because they could be in unexpected places.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr. Turbofan:
could this mediaserver also be caused by lots of Pandora listening?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodolsen:
It seems to be related to streaming audio also. I'm trying to figure out why since moving to GB my battery is being drained by media server when I never had this issue on Froyo. It only seems to take up the majority of the battery time when I'm listeing to Pandora over Bluetooth during the day.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N_ine:
Very interesting and usefull find, indeed.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stopservice:
Solving the problem lies in the options build.prop

must be changed:

---

media.stagefright.enable-player = true

---

to:

---

media.stagefright.enable-player = false

---

If this option is not in the file, it is necessary to add.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodolsen:
Don't think that is the cause. Mine is already set to false and still have the problem.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skunk Ape1:
Is there a process we can freeze to stop this.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tronmech:
You really *don't* want to kill this process as it is the cataloger for *both* the music player and the picture gallery. Your best bet is to do something like I did to work around the issue.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diji1:
I started having the same issue (on Galaxy Note) today. Glad I found this thread in any case.

Once thing I noticed is PowerAmp plays sound files from games if you don't give it a media folder to stick to. I can only assume that it's using the media server to find these based on what someone in this thread said.

So it would seem that the .nomedia file method is definitely the best (to stop game sound files being found).

[Edit:] Oddly the behaviour stopped now. Mediaserver is no longer raping my battery. What do you think of the idea of putting .nomedia in every folder and then removing it from only folders you need (images, video and audio folders)?

You can easily do this by running:

for i in *; do cp file $i; done

from cli in Android (I think). "file" = <path to .nomedia>
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tronmech:
No inherent reason you can't do that...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zamiurratul:
mediaserver was not a notable issue for me untill 2 days before i installed "sprit fm".... then boom ...... mediaserver just gone mad and taking upto 65% of my battery..... now uninstalling "spirit fm" and will see what happens.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JDubbed:
Mediaserver and Arel WARS

Hey all! Glad I found this thread. Got a Samsung Galaxy SII Skyrocket I727 from AT&T. From what I researched mediaserver is part of a standard for DLNA. I am a newb on xda so I cannot post links however search on youtube "Android DLNA MediaServer" and you can get a downlow as to what it is meant for.

Anyways mediaserver gets to be 400+ and sometimes even 500+mb according to Watchdog when playing a GAMEVIL game called Arel WARS. This is the first time I have ever had a problem with mediaserver and ONLY happens when I play Arel WARS. I reboot my phone and see mediaserver at 2.7mb. I start Arel WARS and BAM 100+mb already. After playing for about 20 minutes my phone becomes laggy and the game freezes up. I check Watchdog and it shows 400+mb being used by mediaserver. I then kill Arel WARS and mediaserver is still sucking 400+mb. I try several types of app killers but none can even see the process in order to kill it. I try an app called "reboot" that is supposed to simulate a reboot by killing apps and processes but mediaserver is still sucking the life out of my phone. Bottom line the only way I can kill mediaserver is by rebooting the phone and then its back to 2.7mb and it stays that way ONLY until I start playing Arel WARS. I can launch gallery all day long and media player and mediaserver is good.

Just giving my two cents. I emailed Watchdog dev to see if he can help me out since Watchdog seems to be the only app that can actually see mediaserver and also emailed GAMEVIL to see if they might have a memory leak problem somewhere. I will update when I get word from either.

UPDATE:

I recorded my phones screen to show you mediaserver and it sucking the life out of my phone. There is no way to kill it to my knowledge and the more I play Arel Wars the more it consumes precious ram. Copy this link into your browser to download the video. Its about 10 minutes long and about 18mb.

dl.dropbox.com/u/6778642/Android/Mediaserver_ArelWars.mp4.

You should be able to play it in your browser.

BTW I am still waiting on either GAMEVIL or the dev of Watchdog to hit me up with an email so I'll update if and when I get word.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rubin85:
HI there,

could someone give/tell me how to change theme in custom rom 2.1 ? is it possible without changing a custom ROM ?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vito Andolini Corleone:
Yes. You can install the honey comb theme by go3asy which is made for eclair. install it via x recovery

Cheers!

AdY
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vito Andolini Corleone:
You can find the theme in the theme section. Else you can use the search tool

Cheers!

AdY
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rubin85:
but i don't want to change rom, i prefers to stay with 2.1 original firmware updated with seus
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rubin85:
anyone ? :>
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vito Andolini Corleone:
Then there are ñø themes that will cater your needs.

Cheers!

AdY
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rkanwar:
The only way to do it is if you root, install xrecovery then find a theme. Im using .435 firmware with arc theme just fine
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluezz:
Alright, I give up.

I've wasted one full day and all I do is keep going in circles. I have an unlocked bootloader but I am not able to flash custom recovery to it. When I do:

fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-passion-v2.2.1.img

it is successful but am having the problem mentioned here:

"Make sure that init.rc isn't calling any install-recovery.sh script, otherwise you'll boot back to stock recovery (exclamation mark with a little Android)."

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10467058&postcount=1638

So, no custom rom because I cant turn off verification in order to flash custom rom zip file. Now the problem is that I can't even fix this problem because I don't have root so I can't delete the following files:

/system/etc/install-recovery.sh

/system/recovery-from-boot.p

When I try adb shell it keeps saying "permission denied"

It gets better - I've managed to mess things up royally even further. I tried flashing FRG83 system image using "flashboot update update.zip". It was successful but now my phone is going in boot loop!!

Can someone please help me before I lose hope in humanity? :(
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danger-rat:
Recovery is only restored when you boot into system, so the idea is that you flash recovery, and go straight into it via the on phone menu, and then install what you need to...

You can either flash a pre-rooted GB, flash the su.zip and then you'll have su access to delete the files when in system or adb, or flash this zip which will remove the two files...

http://db.tt/cp7De8G
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluezz:
I totally did not know this. Thanks a lot buddy :)
[Xoom General] chernggoh:
... on the bus and we spent the rest of ride back conversating loudly about our awesome tablets, while being surrounded by iPad users. Shortest bus ride home ever...
[Xoom General] xlGmanlx:
nice, its the best tablet no one seems to be talking about. I think people were waiting for the ipad and to be honest that underwelmed but folks are still going to flock to it
[Xoom General] ZBoater:
Some guy asked me "is that an iPad?" I said "no, its a Xoom." You should've seen the look of befuddlement on his face....
[Xoom General] chernggoh:
Its sad that people don't know about the Xoom. Even worse when the same people ask, "why didn't you get an iPad?"
[Xoom General] codeman05:
True, but I like "enlightening" them ;) Sometimes I think they even understand :D
[Xoom General] Bukem75:
Trust me. They don't.
[Xoom General] colbyb25:
Just give it time. Motorola screwed up with opening with the most expensive model when they should have gone with the wifi only version out of the gate. Regardless it will only be a matter of a few short months when Android tablets will be everywhere...and then...the developers will come running.

IOS is a joke but it works and it is simple. Apple will not change that which means the software innovation will be left up to Google. As soon as Apple makes their system even slightly more confusing...all bets are off. Icons are for smart phones in 2008...it is 2011 and soon people will want more and they will want choice...
[Xoom General] ixemun:
Mostly don't, some even asked me what's so good about android, I had to ask them the same thing about iOS and they can't even explain that to me xD
[Xoom General] arrtoodeetoo:
I was having dinner with some friends tonight and whipped out my XOOM to show off the NES emulator (the pattern on the table cloths looked like Tetris, so it was only inevitable.)

The waiter came over and was like "Wha...How did you get Zelda on the iPad??" and I was like "It was really easy, actually! I downloaded it from the Android market, because it's a Motorola XOOM. You can't do that with an iPad unless you jailbreak it."

He was in awe. lol

:cool:
[Xoom General] keitht:
Agreed. Who wants multiple screens with a bunch of icons when you can actually make your screens look like a web site with various widgets with useful information that matters to you.
[Xoom General] js042507:
I feel it too. Everyone seems consumed by the *cough* ipad, that they don't realize tablets even exist for android. The xoom kills 'em all! Android is sooooo much better than the other *cough again* competitors. Once an "apple" lover sees the xoom in action they'll sure change to the better side! :-)

Sent from the most 'Epic' phone in the world! ...Using XDA Premium app :-)
[Xoom General] gogol:
I would reply "Err what's iPad btw?" And let them explain :) then we can have fun asking the shortcomings :)
[Xoom General] JC3:
A girl at my school saw me playing fruit ninja on my XOOM and said "how did you get the iPad 2 already?" *facepalm*
[Xoom General] martonikaj:
Should've said "how did you become a dumbass?"

might be a bit overboard, but it'd get the point across.
[Xoom General] Lady756:
These people aren't dumb nor is it their fault that they're not aware of the Xoom. You should be more annoyed at Motorola's marketing. I have seen one commercial and quite honestly....it sucked.

I think Android will always have this problem...Apple is one company and Android devices are made by a number of different manufacturers. Makes it hard to market Android as a whole. I guess things will get easier once the market is flooded with Android tablets.

Best thing to do is point out the positives of Android vs IOS without being a d-bag.