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[Xoom General] velazcod:
Very nice. I don't like Murphy's comment. The Android team has it wrong in some stuff, yes, the user should have control, but there should be a way to do this with a very special permission of some sort. If Google wants Android to be the king, they must allow companies to make the most out of the OS and allow us to make them be Kiosk devices.

I dont like it when people become too closed minded.

Thanks a lot for the blog post. Will play with it.
[Xoom General] velazcod:
Do you mind if I share this method in Stack Overflow? Of course, I will post the link along with it.
[Xoom General] Facegarden:
Yeah that'd be great, though Stack Overflow is where I found it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkadelick:
Simple question. I messed up my phone and want to return to the original.

I am a Canadian BELL i9000m - JL2 is what I need.

I know more-or-less how to flash etc. my question is this:

I am on the super optimized kernal, and seeARMS 2.2 JL2 rom.

all I have to do is get the original stock firmware released by bell/samsung for i9000m (JL2) and put it into Odin (and then once in download mode) it should work ?

my question is what boxes do I tick

like how do I get my stock kernal back - I need to get the modem, kernla, rom, etc. back to stock - which boxes in odin do I check ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sean2476:
Disable any lag fixes you may have on the fone and download JL2 from samfirmware, unzip the file then pop it in the pda field in Odin, don't tick any boxes. Put your fone in to download mode - connect to pc then click start. This will flash JL2 on to your fone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkadelick:
thanks alot man. and this will remove the other kernal too i suppose ?

anything else I have to disable? I put a few other fixes on there I think.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sean2476:
The flash will restore the fone back to stock and remove all your previous data including kernal. Do a factory data reset after the flash ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkadelick:
Thanks man -

I assume from there i can try and do it again and hopefully I won't mess up ?

I wonder if you can help me out so I don't break my phone again. Here are the instructions:

To install this ROM:

1. Download and extract the file you downloaded above to the root of your internal SD card (both the "seearms" folder and the .ZIP ROM file).

If you would like to customize your install, continue doing step 2. If you would like a stock install with all the applications + SpeedMod kernel + JL2 modem + Generation X theme, skip to step 3 (however I'd recommend customizing your install. )

2a. Browse to the "seearms/kernel" folder on your SD card and delete whichever kernel you do not want to install.

2b. Do the same with the "seearms/modem" folder: delete whichever one you don't want to install (I'd recommend installing the JL2 modem unless you've specifically had problems with it).

2c. Do the same with the "seearms/applications" folder: delete whichever applications you do not use. You're allowed to delete all of them to create a slim install, or delete none to create a stock install.

2d. Browse to the "seearms/extra" folder on your SD card, and delete whichever extras you do not wish to install (You're able to choose the Generation X theme, blue Android Market, custom boot animations, etc). Most importantly, if you would like the ROM to wipe your data, leave "wipe" untouched. If you don't want it to format your data, delete "wipe".

2e. So, before going further, you should have the following folder structure on your SD card:

"seeARMS.UGJL2.v0.4.zip" - anywhere on your SD card, doesn't matter

"seearms/extra" - customized to your liking

"seearms/applications" - customized to your liking

And a single file in both of these folders, depending on the kernel and modem you wish to install:

"seearms/kernel"

"seearms/modem"

3. Boot into recovery, and select "Install zip from sdcard".

4. Select "Choose zip from sdcard", and scroll to the ROM.

5. Select OK, and wait for the file to flash.

6. Reboot. This reboot will take a while (upwards of 2-5 minutes), so be patient and don't shut off your phone!

Congratulations, you've successfully flashed!

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Basically I get stuck at option 2 to 3

I didn't opt for the "custom" install (2a-2e) so I just went with the normal install and skipped to step 3

some guy said that I needed to delete certain things from the folder to customize the install -- but I didn't see that in the instructions - I just basically downloaded the seeARMS rom.zip and put it in my SD card and installed it from CWM that way -- was this wrong ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sean2476:
Bin that ****e mate

1. Remove any lag fixes

2. Download the file

3. Unzip it

4. Open Odin

5. Put the unzipped file (now a .tar file) in the PDA box of Odin

6. Put fone in to download mode

7. connect to pc and odin will pick the fone up and the coms box will turn yellow

8. click start and let it do its thing.

The reboot will take about 10 minutes after the flash.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ttf:
Add:

0) Charge your battery @ 100%.

0') restart your computer, dont start anything in background, open odin only, check and kill all Kies process.

0'') Make some coffee, chill a bit ;) and you good to go.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkadelick:
thanks guys - I understand fully how to get my phone back to stock 2.2 now.

But I still want to re-flash seeARMS rom again -- the question is how to do it without messing up my phone again. As stated, I posted the instructions above, I get stuck at step 2 - not sure how to go about it to be honest
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sean2476:
You need to root your fone then flash the custom rom via Clockwork recovery. The instructions above look ****e mate. With the custom rom you put the .zip file on the root of the internal sd card then reboot in recovery then toggle down to install zip file then choose zip file. You must have clockwork recoverymod working first which you can download from the market
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sean2476:
I think your best to ask for help in the actual topic/ thread where you downloaded the rom from in the first place.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karmacode:
I have a similar issue, as I stated on the thread I've opened a few minutes ago...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droilfade:
The best way to revive your I9000m is to first flash JPC (a three file ROM) with 512 PIT and repartition ticked. The phone will still be in a boot loop. Then flash the JL2 PDA without repartition or PIT. The best way to go back to stock! Has always worked for me. I9000m's are not the same as other I9000's and do not flash repartition and the PDA in the same flash! Good luck!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] utsmaster18:
I have an I9000m from bell, and i just used the JL2 from samfirmware with only the PDA file and it worked for me perfectly. I just had to do a factory reset after flashing and everything was back to what bell gave me.
[Droid Incredible General] ctinsley:
There has been a lot of posts under the CM7 nightly thread about people not being happy with the auto brightness settings on the Droid Incredible, I was one of these people till I decided to take sometime and figure out how it works and now I would like to share the setup I've came up with. I'm sure that not everyone will like my setup, but I do think it's much better than the current defaults so hopefully it'll make some people happy.

I started out with a list of goals I wanted achieve for my setup and I think I did pretty well.

1

. It needed to be easy on battery life

2. It has to work in all lighting conditions. It must be easily read in really dark rooms and in bright sun light.

3. I didn't want the screen brightness to "jump" it had to be subtle.

4. It has to be responsive to changing light conditions.​

I want to give credit to byrong because with out his testing that he published here, I'm not sure if I would achieved all of my goals especially when it came to battery life. Also to the entire CM team, you guys are great and its much appreciated that you guys give us such support for the latest android OS.

Below you'll find all my settings, please feel free to comment and let me know how it works for you. Please remember I've only tested these settings in CM7 and that I have an AMOLED Incredible so I'm not sure how these settings work for people with the SLCD Incredible.

Settings>CyanogenMod settings>Display>Automatic backlight

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[Standard Disclamier: I take no responsibility for any damage your device may incur due to rooting, flashing custom roms or anything else you may do to it.]
[Droid Incredible General] byrong:
Thanks for showing your entire setup. A lot of people have been sharing their levels without sharing their other settings.

I've been meaning to mess around more with the CM7 auto-brightness. The one day I tried it, I became very frustrated: it seemed that the sensor was only detecting a few ambient brightness levels and was especially sloppy in dark areas.

When I get some more time, I want to try out your settings and see how they work for me.

Hm, looks like I'll have to wait until tomorrow to hit the Thanks button; apparently I've already clicked it too many times today :eek:
[Droid Incredible General] ctinsley:
NP at all.

You are absolutely right the sensor itself only picking up a few levels; 160,225,640,1280,& 2600 to be exact, from what I can tell. Thats why having filtering on is so important.
[Droid Incredible General] TheBr0ken:
brightness levels have been a pretty frustrating subject for me, keeping the brightness to max is what I usually have to do, but its an obvious battery killer. Giving this a shot. thanks for the info!
[Droid Incredible General] ctinsley:
Any update guys?? I want to gauge how well it is working for other people. For me its perfect I have not had to tweak it one bit yet.
[Droid Incredible General] byrong:
I went back to manual levels.

The filtering definitely helps, but unfortunately only delays the inevitable. They are just averaging the current raw readings against previous raw readings. This creates in-between values as you shift from one ambient lighting condition to another, but since the raw sensor only reads a fixed number of levels, even the filtered value will eventually shift back to one of the fixed raw levels.

userjf and slayher have been experimenting with ways to add more raw light levels via a custom kernel. Seems that the max number of readable levels is 10. Hopefully that will become a more commonplace mod that will make the auto-brightness more usable.
[Droid Incredible General] neur0tk:
I was wondering how you got all those different levels to display? mine only displays about 5 is that because I am running a SLCD dinc versus an AMOLED dinc
[Droid Incredible General] GatorsUF:
Click the "set number of levels" button at the bottom, then input the number of levels you would like...
[Droid Incredible General] yolo2die:
I will try these levels out, looks like they may work great, I will report back n let you know...
[Droid Incredible General] scook9:
I am giving these a try as well. The automatic brightness has been generally dissapointing on my Dinc with CM7 thus far
[Droid Incredible General] ctinsley:
These settings are an improvement but they are not as good as they used to be on CM7 RC1 & the early nightlies. In the final version of CM7 they increased the brightness scale, see this thread for more details, you can see it now scales to 10240 instead of 2600 which makes my settings not as effective, it stay brighter longer than they did before but at its still an improvement of the defaults since the levels don't jump and down often. I recently upgraded to a Tbolt, so I don't have my Inc handy, once I do I'll see if I can dig up my modified settings for the final version of CM7 and post them here.
[Droid Incredible General] scook9:
I am running CM7.0.0 if it helps

Nothing in .0.1 or .0.2.1 or .0.3 was compelling enough for me to go through reconfiguring everything.
[Droid Incredible General] ballbusta:
I have been using these settings for a couple of weeks now and I am very satisifed withe the results . It helps saving the battery by dimming the screen in doors or low light situations and brightens the screen in high light situations making it easier to see the screen in sunlight
[Droid Incredible General] mamarley:
Works well for me. Much better than the stock levels.
[Droid Incredible General] yolo2die:
I agree, these settings are much much better than what's in the latest nightly! Great work!
[Droid Incredible General] mikesincredible:
The best settings I've found to date! Works as needed. Thanks for your time and effort figuring these settings!

sent by 1 of the many droids
[Droid Incredible General] ucluglee:
Ok, I'm going to assume for a moment (yes, I know what happens when you assume) that I have something not set right. I have my settings exactly like the ones in the updated screenshot, yet my back light stays at a very low setting and never changes. I have the auto back light box checked in my settings, but I'm still not getting any brightness changes from one lightning environment change to another. I'm running CM7 RC3, no nightlies (which may be the problem). Not sure which screen I have but I will research how to tell.
[Droid Incredible General] kenneu:
Here are my settings on CM7. They seem to work for me pretty well except in bright daylight... This setup keeps my battery for quite a long time, even if I use it a bunch.
[Droid Incredible General] tiny4579:
Make sure Automatic Brightness is checked in Settings->Display->Brightness or Automatic Brightness will not work at all.

PS: This came in handy tonight when I did a clean install of CM7.
[Droid Incredible General] pk2018:
Click the "set number of levels" button at the bottom, then input the number of levels you would like...

okey i'll try it help for my battery

thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] gunjahman:
Hello wise xda guys.

Any ideas why my hd2 freezes after some time, when I use gps with osmand or maverick (or a couple of other software I tried before and unistall). It freezes completely, and I have to remove the battery. While it is working (before freezing) everything works fine.

[Another symptom (maybe irelevant) is the very slow gps fix (the first time), which deosn't really bothers me (I'm a patient person). I'm just writing it here because maybe there is a relation]

I use: Froyo 2.2.1, mod: Cleandroid 2.55, MAGLDR 1.13.

Otherwise the telephone is more or less stable

thnx
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] projection:
Same issue it seems...

Going to re-flash WinMo and test there.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] lukesan:
I'm having the exact same issue lately and it is not funny/safe at all.

I first had it happening in google navigation all the time and now in iGO and Waze.

Can this be from Rafpigna's undervoltaged kernel or be a hardware issue?

Unfortunately the device freezes completely and doesn't give any error.

Does a log exist somewhere?

Any help is more than appreciated!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] gunjahman:
Yeap, still the same problem and I can't figure out why.

I've tried more than 10 different apps, but allways the same. After some time the phone freezes. I remove the battery, start the app and after a while, the same.

I tried working with battery only or with car charger only, still the same.

I removed and brought back all my apps with titanium backup, still the same.

I have a suspicion that when it stacks and after rebooting, if I leave it in peace (I mean don't do anything with the phone, just keep it without running any app), for some time (10-20 minutes), then it starts and keeps the gps app more time, than the time of the initial freezing. Maybe this is a symptom that could ring a bell to an experienced guy...

Anybody, any ideas?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] lukesan:
I think mine is related to heat.

Left it in my pouch and placed iGO in demo on a long roadtrip. After 15 minutes the phone was warm and the screen was frozen so I had to get the batt out again.

More than frustrating since I have a 700km trip to do on Thursday.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] gunjahman:
Not sure about the heat

I had the same suspicion, that the

heat

was causing the

freezing

(:) funny language ah?).

So I tested it while keeping it cool (I protect it from the sun and remove the car charger), but still the same happened. After some time it froze again. (the phone was cold)

I have a suspicion that a possible reason is the rendering of the maps. I've noticed that I have the problem, mainly when driving a car, where the maps images should change more often. I kept it in my pocket and made a few hours trekking, with no problems. Though in my pocket I had the app running in the background and I only open it a few times, just to add some points on the map.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] gunjahman:
Another sister thread

There is also this thread, by Crash-nl, with the same subject (more or less) so we can combine powers.

Check it out

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=12391898
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Esaj2:
I'm also having GPS freezing issues, but probably way worse than you guys. I just got my phone from service center, but the issue still exists. I just quote my comments from an another topic:

I've now got back my HD2 from the service center. The GPS is now working, but not in Android. When I was using WinMo 6.5 with WWE 3.14 and 2.15.50.14, the GPS worked great. Fast lock, TomTom worked well and Google Maps worked fine. Then I decided to get Android again and after I installed everything, I discovered, that I had the same exact issue like prior the repair. The GPS starts looking the signal, if it doesn't find it, nothing bad happens, but when it does find the signal, it causes the phone to freeze. Instantly after the signal is found, it causes instant freeze. Screen stays on, nothing happens. What can cause this? I haven't yet tampered with the gps.conf settings, but I don't even think that it could fix the issue. I'm really going crazy with this.

Yeah, I'm thinking also its a driver issue. My current Android build is RAFDROID 4.0.2. And since this issue seems to be exatly the same, like before the repair, the GPS probably doesn't work in the earlier versions of RAFDROID. However something has changed in my phone, because the GPS has worked with nand Android builds in the past and even with RAFDROID 3.0. Now however, it doesn't matter which build I use, the issue always exists. Could it be caused because of the GPS module? I mean, does the WinMo 6.5 QuickGPS app save the AGPS data directly to the GPS module? So could there be some kind of corruption in the GPS module? I was having some sudden reboots, while using Google Maps and TomTom in the WinMo, but I was able to fix them, by hard resetting the device.

First time I started having this issue was, when I updated from RAFDROID 3.0 to 3.1. After that, the GPS has always caused instant freezing, when using GPS in the Android. Even downgrading back to 3.0, didn't solve the issue. Now I'm having this issue with all Android builds.

It's possible that my GPS module or "chip" could be somehow broken physically, but it's no point sending the device back for repair, because they send it back and say, "there's nothig wrong with the GPS". I'm really hoping it's not a hardware issue, because if it is, there's really nothing that can be done. I have still about a year left from the warranty and changing the module myself, will void the warranty. I just cannot understand why does the GPS still work in WinMo, but not in Android? Because if the module was somehow broken, should the GPS be defective also in WinMo?

I have tried flight mode, Wifi and 3G off etc. and the GPS DOES WORK. So the chip is not dead.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] lukesan:
Just did some more testing on mine to try to find the issue.

I have always had a freez when I used google navigation with the sat image from the start in Android. But last week it happened in iGO and Waze which scared me a bit.

As a matter of test I installed WinMo again last night. Fantastic OS btw! and installed iGO.

Everything was up and running at 2am and I decided to let it do a demotrip of about a 1000km. The demo also sets the GPS receiver active.

I placed the HD2 it next to the fan of my laptop which is always on to generate some extra heat.

This morning at 10am the demo was still running perfectly.

Just reinstalled Android on it again. After 3km's in iGO 'gps signal lost' . I cannot get it back in any way. The GPS symbol is stuck in the bar above even if you disable GPS in the settings. So reboot is the only way.

This is getting very frustrating for me since my phone needs to work as GPS and may not fail.

Also a funny one is that it doesn't seem to matter on mine if the gps.conf file is on there or not ;-) lock time when the hd2 works is approx 1min
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Esaj2:
I'm having this same exact issue! However I just discovered that the local service center did not change the GPS module or antenna. So this might be the reason why my GPS doesn't work. The service center was fooled that the GPS works, because they didn't test the GPS thoroughly. YOU HAVE TO ENABLE FLIGHT MODE OR TAKE THE SIM CARD AWAY TO TEST THE GPS!. If you don't do this, you are being fooled believing, that your GPS is working, but it's not.

You guys should test your GPS, by going back to WinMo 6.5 and leave your sim card away from the phone. If your GPS can find the signal even without the sim card, congrats, your GPS is working. If you want to be double sure, enable flight mode and try again. If your GPS cannot find signal, your GPS module and/or antenna is broken and needs to be replaced.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] lukesan:
Well my module is working.

Easy way to test it and no need to take out your sim or so.

Just use the cab file attached to this post. If you will start it the first time it will scan the ports so you can end up with a small error in regards to BT but it not a real error.

The tool will continue to com port 4 where the gps mod is active on.

Go stand outside and voila, mine starts to show bars like it should be.

I'm taking a different approach now.

Ckeared everything and also took a fully fresh formated sd-card .... (as I type now not working)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Esaj2:
Thanks! You just saved my time a lot! I downloaded and installed that app and I was able to get a succesfull GPS connection and now I can even get GPS lock, when flight mode enabled or sim card removed. This was impossible before installing this app.

However it seems that we are both suffering from the same issue. GPS does not work for me in Android. It has worked in the past, but nowadays, it doesn't matter, which Android build I use, it either freezes the phone and only way to fix this, is by removing the battery or it doesn't find the signal at all. Sometimes the GPS stays on, even if I turn it off. The blinking GPS icon goes away only by restarting the device.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Break333:
Did anyone try this method? Looking at other threads I see people saying that only a warranty repair will fix the issue.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dpoohov:
freezes

Hi. I had the same problem, i try everything formating sd, different builds and kernels. I disable "use wireless networks" and GPS work with no freeze.

Do you have a freezes on games?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] gman79:
did any one found the answer ?

is it a hardware problem ?

or a software ?