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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Miami_Son:
Make sure you know what works and what doesn't and if that's important to you. I know HD video doesn't and that might be a minor/non issue to those who say CM7 is great and works flawlessly for them. You have to apply your own criteria because someone elses may be far different from yours.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roof King:
Seems you have made it a personal crusade out of warning people of the inherent dangers of CM7. Anytime someone asks any questions there you are. I don't think I've heard anyone including myself say that the rom is flawless but I could make a long list of bugs from every rom that has ever been released for the Captivate. Hell, I remember when DG put out Cog based on the 10/10 leak and he was pushing updates almost every night to fix things.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] venomio:
Known Bugs

Front Facing-Camera (Obviously, as our Cappys don't have Front-Facing Cameras)

Polling problem on RIL (works after lock and unlock)

2G/3G toggle (works if no data connection is active)

Compass (works not at 100%)

USB sharing of external SD-Card

commands: reboot recovery, reboot download (maybe not possible to implement)

FM-Radio

TV-Out

If you're fine with the above, I actually think it's really stable for a Beta. It's up to you :) The process is a bit hard to do than a normal ROM though.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Miami_Son:
I could point you to a dozen posts where users of CM7 either downplayed the issues or claimed it was running flawlessly on their Cappy. I can also point you to as many posts of people who screwed up the install or had other issues with it. Both get pretty tiresome.

This thread is no different than asking which ROM is best and should be closed just like those are. It really is a personal preference. At the least, it should have been asked in the CM7 sticky, that's what they're here for.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crystalhand:
It seems he is on a crusader against a lot of things. The eternal pessimist
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
Lets be fair, there have been tons of threads because someone bricked their phone flashing cognition, serendipity, etc. I have helped some that have soft bricked their phone just trying to root.

There have been hundreds of threads because of odin soft bricks.

I am on two weeks with it on my phone. the issues that exist, if you read, are all avoidable. I am not "claiming" anything other than it is more than stable enough for daily use, but it is a work in progress.

Is it worth it, yes, as long as you can read and comprehend. Treat your phone like the valuable hardware it is, and don't flash if you are unsure

Ps. Have you submitted your mod application

CM7
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] etewald:
I'm running Juiced 1.2. I love it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Miami_Son:
That's a major caveat in here, seeing how common sense is at a premium these days.:D

I'm already a mod or admin at several other sites, including a cell phone site. They all have pretty much the same rules and expectations and about the same number of users that disregard both. Mr. Clown and Zelendel do a fine job, but the users also have a responsibility to help out when possible. There are a number of stickies in this subforum specifically for certain ROMs. They were created to help reduce the clutter and keep the forum focused. This thread should have gone there along with a number of others. If people would just take a moment to think before starting a thread, this place would run a lot smoother, especially for those who view it from their devices. Just sayin'.:cool:
[Legend General] jabbado:
Hey guys.

I've been attempting this all morning and so far I've had no luck. I have a VodafoneAU Legend which I updated to the official 2.2 yesterday. But now I want to try root.

I've been trying to follow the HBOOT 1.01 guide but there's a few problems. First, I cannot connect to the phone with adb unless it's in htc sync mode. No other mode will work. So when it's time to copy testimage.zip to the card I have to change from sync mode to disk mode, whereby adb loses it's connection. What do I do about this? Is it a driver problem (in Win7 here) or something else?

Thanks,

Dave.
[Legend General] jabbado:
Ok, the first problem were drivers.

Now I can't finish the second guide. When I try using clockwork to install the firmware.zip, the phone just boots to the red triangle. What do I have to do?

Dave.
[Legend General] jabbado:
So I pressed the up button/power combo at the red triangle and get the Android system recovery. Selecting "apply update.zip" says it can't verify. What do I do? Is this guide for my phone or do I need to follow something else?
[Legend General] jabbado:
I don't understand this guys. Anyone help? I'm thinking since this is a step to root the phone, I'm not actually rooted yet so I can't use the clockworkmod? Then what is the guide for? The guides at unlockr don't mention what firmware/hboot they work for so I'm not keen to try them yet.
[Legend General] whitetigerdk:
Read the guide on fake flash. You need the recovery file named "update.zip" in the root of your sd to proceed..
[Legend General] jabbado:
But isn't that what Rom Manager does? Download the update.zip then run it? Man this is getting even harder to understand.

Edit: And this is left out of the HBOOT 1.01 guide because.....????? When I work this out I'll write a PROPPER guide, lol.
[Legend General] jabbado:
Just checked and update.zip

is

on the card.

So which part of the guide am I getting wrong?
[Legend General] jabbado:
Decided to reinstall phone with the official froyo release and am now ready to try this again. Is there

anyone

that will walk me through the process? I will write a complete guide if the "gotchas" are still there.
[Legend General] QkSi1ver:
i feel for you ... hope you get it fixed... thats one of the reason i havent dared messing with the phone because i've seen a few post like yours where something didnt go quite as described... for whatever reason... and im sure the answer is out there but just not within the guide instructions... i guess there is no way to gather all gotchas because there are so many environment variables...

good luck

and please share your technique
[Legend General] jabbado:
Just saw gobczak's thread in the developer forum having similar troubles with Vodafone UK phone, getting the red triangle at reboot. I'll keep an eye on his thread and see how he goes with it.
[Legend General] dezzadk:
Did you run the stage1 and stage2 bats while in recovery?
[Legend General] jabbado:
No because the guide didn't say to.

The thing is it seems I'm only stuck on the part where the firmware.zip file has to be flashed. The guide says to use clockworkmod for this. But when I try installing the clockworkmod recovery it gives some file verification error. Isn't there ways to do this via the pc, either through those batch files, adb etc? Or will that fake-flash update.zip file work?
[Legend General] black beard:
As I just posted on the other forum, I think you need to skip that step in guide 2 and go straight onto guide 3 after you have flashed the LEGEIMG.zip, rebooted, and then removed LEGEIMG.zip from the SD card.
[Legend General] jabbado:
Guys I've got to the point of downgrading to 1.31. But when I run the first batch file it just hangs at the "Writing zip" part, with the htc logo on the screen. Is there any way to fix this?
[Legend General] jabbado:
Can someone please explain this part of the guide:

Ok, so I don't get an error. I get nothing. The phone just boots to the fastboot screen. If I press the power button it goes to the hboot screen and I can see the messages of loading LEGEIMG.zip. But the guide doesn't say to press anything.

So should I or shouldn't I press the power button? Also, if I try making the goldcard again, at which point in the guide do I start from again? The entire process or just copying LEGEIMG.zip to card then rebooting phone? I mean, will all the other things like flashing misc1-2.img still be there?
[Legend General] jabbado:
Guys I finally got this working.

The first problem was with the goldcards. For whatever reason formatting them with the win7 format tool just wouldn't work. I had to use the command-line format tool, setting the block size etc manually.

The second problem was the unnecessary steps in the guide. A few people helped me out with this (namely blackbart at the Aus Whirlpool forum), but basically in the second step you can stop after flashing the LEGEIMG.zip. The updating froyo part isn't needed - for my phone anyway.

Then when running the batch files in the third part, for whatever reason the first batch would keep hanging at 'writing zip...' and I needed to remove the battery to unfreeze the phone. flannigan, also from the Aus Whirlpool forums suggested to just go on to the second batch file. This worked!

So my Legend is now finally a true Legend :)

Anyway, thanks for the help everyone - couldn't have done this by myself.

Dave
[Legend General] EpicSauce:
Great news, I think we need a new guide focused on rooting for HBOOT 1.01 / Stock Froyo to clear up the inconsistencies in the existing one. It's a minefield for a noob (or a rite of passage!), a revised guide will certainly save a lot of time and frustration for those taking this road in the future.
[Legend General] jabbado:
I'll write one if ya's want. I wanted to include little tidbits like downloading the apps required (visionary, rom manager etc) from the market then backing them up to the card with Astro so if it goes all wrong and you have to start again, you can just install them all from the card :) Also on using adb to push the files (roms, img's etc) when the guides say "copy this blah blah". Much quicker than changing to disk mode and back. Sound good?
[Legend General] EpicSauce:
Sounds good! Happy to help and add my 20c worth along the way. The existing guide has got the meaty bits, a new guide would cull the stuff not relevant, help fill in the gaps and alert to the pitfalls we've fallen into. :)
[Legend General] QkSi1ver:
I agree... i've done my reading since june of last year but then didnt check for another 4 months... and so many how to's pop up with various ways of doing it depeding on the situation... a lot of those howtos were consolidated howtos which sometimes make intermediate steps unenecessary (may be in some cases causes more head aches since it didnt take into considerations on newer version of hboots...etc)... an updated how to will be much appreciated...

And you're right the most important pre requirement is to have a safety net ... so starting with how to create a back up in case you screw it up is a must!

but im glad it worked out for you!
[Legend General] saggyhaggis:
Im waiting here with baited breath. I am stuck on Vodafone 2.2, hboot 1.0. Tried countless how-to's, but no joy as yet.
[Legend General] jabbado:
Did you try this one? It should work, if you read the gotchas I posted about above.
[Legend General] saggyhaggis:
I've seen it but got confused at the adb push commands and the paths to the originating Files I was meant to be pushing.

I will try it again tomorrow, during my lunch break. My wife is getting sick of me staring at a screen for hours and getting nowhere. I have a pc I can use at work, whereas I was using a virtual machine on my mac at home which probably slightly over complicates matters.
[Legend General] saggyhaggis:
Success Finally!!! Legend Rooted!!

I have finally managed to root my Legend, I almost gave up though halfway through as my DOS skills are a little rusty.

I am now running Cyanogenmod 6.1 which appears to run faster and does not suffer the slow-downs and automatic reboots. I love the extra customization options.

What ROM if any have you installed or recommend?

Have you tried the nightly builds of CM 7 yet?
[Legend General] branch8:
Running the latest CM7 nightly (#19) here and it's great, found no problems except for having to reflash the radio image after flashing CM7 to get my GPS to work.
[Legend General] jabbado:
@saggyhaggis, would you mind explaining which guide you followed to root? Was it the HBOOT 1.01 guide, and if so were you able to get every step to work or did you have similar problems to me?

I flashed nightly #19 the other day and lost gps totally (no icon at all). All I did was flashed back to Blay0's sense rom, got it to lock onto satellites, then restored CM7. After that I updated to the nightly #21 and am having no issues so far. The gps is working excellent.

My opinion is CM7 blows CM6 out of the water.
[Legend General] saggyhaggis:
@jabbado, i followed the guide here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=894465

I did it all using VMWare Fusion and a Windows XP virtual disk on my iMac which I thought would cause issues which it did not.

On the first attempt it failed which I think was due to me not formatting my card properly while creating a goldcard. I then formatted it using my mac's disk utility and on my second attempt it ran pretty much without a hitch (a bit of basic DOS knowledge can go a long way).

The only issues I encountered was modifying the dos commands with the paths of the files I had extracted, remembering that I can only use adb when I am in the \platform-tools directory and remembering to run visionary+ to temp root before trying to gain super user access.

I am now very happily running CM7 build 23 with no issues whatsoever. I have tried CM 6.1 and was impressed, but your are definitely correct about CM7, its has way more customization options. I am so glad that I didn't give up on the rooting its miles better than bog standard vodafone froyo rom.
[Legend General] jabbado:
So apart from that, you were able to run all the commands in that guide without problems? It didn't freeze when running the first batch file in the third part?

Be aware that build 23 is the same file as build 22 for some reason (I checked the md5sum on the downloaded zip to make sure).
[Legend General] saggyhaggis:
No it didn't freeze. I was expecting it to but it was fine. My heart was in my mouth when I was running the second bat file.

Do you know if theres a changelog for the nightly builds?
[Legend General] jabbado:
I don't think there's an official changelog, but you can see what changes have been made from this page or twitter. I don't have a clue on how to know which of those changes are in which build though.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Sallala:
I found some registry entries in my new HTC TP2 phone where can I set Pocket Internet Explorer default color scheme:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Settings

Now I wrote a small app, that can change this values, provide me an easy way to change IE color to night mode. (black background, white text, orange links)

Note 1.

This settings can't force IE to night mode. Only works on "color settings free" simple websites. I use http://www.skweezer.com to filter and speedup the webpages that I usually read, see screenshot.

Note 2.

I don't see this registry values in older IE's. Application cheks that the keys are exists. In this case probably things will work. If the keys doesn't exists I think this app is not for your ROM. However you can use custom stylesheets, but this is another story.

Note 3.

Don't forget to restart IE after you change color settings!

Note 4.

Yes, I have many ideas: Switch based on light sensor, time etc. Automatically restart IE... I can do it later.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Senax:
This is way better than doing it manually <g>

Great application! Working smoothly on my HTC Diamond 2 WM 6.1

Thank you for sharing it here!

Currently I'm using this (save as a ~) text file (shortcut *.LNK) so I have an standard Icon for your (currently) Iconless application ;

60#"\Windows\PIENightMode.exe"?\Windows\sktools_icons.dll,-177

Download sk-tools their old icon set here; http://s-k-tools.com/sktools/sktools_icons.zip

By the way, before applying your application for the first time I used PHM RegEdit to export my previous settings;

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Settings]
"Text Color"="0,0,0"
"Background Color"="255,255,255"
"Anchor Color Visited"="128,0,128"
"Anchor Color"="0,0,255"

Screenshot;

I look forward in seeing you develop this neat :cool: application!

Thanks again
[Windows Mobile Software Development] bobzero:
wish there was similar for Opera 10
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Sallala:
Senax:

I didn't know Sktools iconset. Now I saved on my device to later use, great idea thank you!

Yes I don't like iconless applications too, so in the next release I will draw a nice icon. ;-)

And I will correct the "DAY mode" registry entries about "Anchor Color Visited" value. 255,0,255 was a mistake by me.

Bobzero:

Earlier I studied Opera's config, (about:config) and as I remember Opera can use user stylesheets.

If it's true, I can do it! User stylesheet is a better way to do night mode, because it will work on the original webpages not just Skweezer.net filtered pages. It's ture for IE too. I will try to make it!

Thank you for your responses!

Hope I can make next version on next week.
[Android Apps and Games] xzillerationer:
Is there a music control widget that works by simulating headset controls? That seems like it would work for more players, and, it would work for 2 out of three of my music players(PowerAMP, Rhapsody, and Pandora(Pandora might)). It seems like that would be the best option. I briefly looked, but, due to the time of night, and the fact that I have to get up semi early tomorrow, I was unable to complete my search and find one.
[Android Apps and Games] Deleted member 2182971:
Not quite sure if this is what you're after, but it does work with a few different programs and players. http://www.appbrain.com/app/media-keys/net.cwfk.ig88.mediakeys
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Syrianto:
I managed to get CyanogenMod 7 RC2 up and running. I noticed that I had a lot of junk on my SD card so I thought that I could back it up and then wipe it because most/all of the useful stuff was on the internal memory of the DHD. But, for some reason, my phone is telling me that my SD card is damaged.

I don't think that there is anything wrong with the SD card because I just did a copy/paste thing to back it up. Also, I've put in another SD card and it also says that it's damaged. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G1sanju:
Run fix_permissions and reboot
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Syrianto:
Thanks for the reply, but I don't think I can do that. I can't put that on my SD card because there if I try to connect it with the computer, I can't mount the SD card or turn on the usb sharing thing. I'll be able to reformat the SD card soon because I'm borrowing a friend's micro sd card to sd card converter.

I tried Fix Permissions by going into recovery and advanced options, but that didn't work =/

Also, I remember now that I uninstalled "Goldcard Helper" because it said it was downloaded to my SD card so I thought that I could uninstall it and be able to clean up my SD card completely. Maybe that had some effect on this?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Syrianto:
Got my friend's converter so now I can plug the micro SD directly into my computer. Oddly enough, it said I had to format it before I could use it which is essentially what my phone was telling me to do too.

I'll wipe it then see if it works
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Syrianto:
Perfect! I think it is working completely now! One last question of what I should do now that it's working. Can I plug it in, restore a few pictures I had, and just let Android take over from there? It's completely blank on the SD card so will Android know what to do with it?
[EVO 4G General] pimp100500:
is there any hack or mod thats not an app that would allow you to make the music louder for both the headphones and speaker,,,i kno apps like louder music hack make it louder or poweramp but its not really what im looking for. Any help would b great
[EVO 4G General] _MetalHead_:
Turn it up to 11.
[EVO 4G General] Tower1972:
Use PowerAmp as your player and set the EQ to Phone Speaker
[EVO 4G General] SnoopDawg:
Nice Spinal Tap reference!

I would try to hold it closer to your ear. You may not see a difference at first.
[EVO 4G General] momentary2:
Pump up the volume
[EVO 4G General] pimp100500:
Ive tried all tht but I hate the poweramp app it freezes on my every hour
[Xoom General] elcap373:
My Zoom has started making a loud clicking noise intermittently. Not related to touching the screen. Just a loud click now and then. Almost like a static discharge. Not related to volume settings. Anyone else have this? Any ideas?
[Xoom General] nubsors:
Did you install the unofficial flash apk?
[Xoom General] elcap373:
yes. But the clicking started before that.
[Xoom General] elcap373:
BTW the unofficial Flash update isn't working for me...
[Xoom General] goodfellaslxa:
It starts clicking right before it grabs you!
[Xoom General] ahmadddd:
I had that and used to restart my Xoom to get rid of it, then disappeared after sometime and don't know how

P
[Xoom General] checkbox111:
Looks like another fanboy post? A cockroach got inside during installation, you'll have to return your xoom and buy an ipad 2 ?????
[Xoom General] elcap373:
The only way you'll take my Xoom is to pry it from my cold dead hands. But I'm just wondering how best to kill the cockroach!
[Xoom General] IncredibleMidgett:
Mine just started doing this today. I really dont want to have to exchange it for a new one at best buy, thats such a hassle!
[Xoom General] :
i think it's because you are running overclocked. Minw started this after I clocked it to 1.5ghz, set it to 1.2 and no longer does this.
[Xoom General] silentshab:
My Epic 4G just recently started doing this intermittently over the past week or two. I'm guessing that it is related to some app that I installed, but I haven't been able to track it down yet.
[Xoom General] Kalavere:
Mine was doing the same a day or two back sounded like the speakers were clicking for no reason at all, i'm running stock with no hacks or anything of the kind.
[Xoom General] Red Phone:
Happens to me everytime I run FPSE, doesn't go away until I restart Xoom.
[Xoom General] thehavock18:
I had this same issue. 2 things I have tracked it down to. Rockplayer pausing a movie. And trillian. I had to uninstall trillian as itwas driving me crazy.
[Xoom General] ggoldfingerd:
Mine is not rooted and it does it at times. I have to restart the device. I wonder how many other people have this problem.
[Xoom General] bogatyr:
I had this happen only one time. I was using Remote Desktop from Xtralogic one night and it started making a weird clicking or electrical discharge noise. It sounded like it was coming from the speaker.

I finished my work that night on our server and turned off the Xoom. Never had it happen since.

My Xoom is rooted and overclocked to 1.4Ghz. Most of its use is Remote Desktop, ConnectBot, QuickSSHd and Kindle.
[Xoom General] greenro89:
Same here FPSE is my problem until I force close it in app mgmt
[Xoom General] alias_neo:
Yeh mine was doing it today, couldn't figure out what was going on. Prob just a software glitch or something causing the speakers to pop.
[Xoom General] KerryG:
often happens to me after running some media players like upnpplayer
[Xoom General] Scourge1024:
Did you force close or clear data from some media app running in the background? One or the background items tracks built in ringtones and wiping data will make it forget the factory ringtones. Maybe it's clicking because it's no longer playing a proper audio file?

You'll have to make it rebuild itself somehow if that's the case. Mine fixed itself after a reboot or two.