yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
They probably meant for a retailer not associated with your carrier. There are various cellphone vendors online, etc. that sell phones unlocked. Carriers don't sell unlocked phones typically. Its against their self interest. The only reason cell companies sell phones at all is to lure new customer and retain existing ones. They make little or no profit from selling phones.

If you buy a phone full retail price from your carrier, you can use it on your current plan. But its not really linked to a plan. Some carrier will let you walk into a store and buy a phone for full price without a contract or service with them even, I believe. Although some apparently won't. With a GSM phone, it doesn't really matter, you can swap your SIM in and out of whatever device (as long as its SIM locked to your carrier, or unlocked, and uses the same frequency bands). Its the SIM that is linked to your account, not the device.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
AT&T is the second largest cell carrier in the country, and that was true long before the iPhone. And they only barely trail Verizon in the number of customers. Why would VZN getting the iPhoney make AT&T obsolete? If anything, I personally feel that things are looking BETTER on AT&T for Android users. Now that iPhone exclusivity is gone, AT&T has the freedom to release some REAL Android devices (which they are now doing).

It seems that AT&T's network size has also been a hindrance in its move to 3G, and now 4G. T-Mob seems to be well ahead of AT&T in deploying 4G/HSPA+. Just based on comments on these forums, it seems that people are getting up to 7 Mbps on T-Mob in some areas, with number often being in the 4-5 Mbps range. Best I've seen on AT&T is just under 4 Mbps, with the typical case being more like 2-3 Mbps. And I haven't seen any comments by AT&T users on here and the AT&T forums about getting any faster than that (and often slower). Plus AT&T has only stated theoretical download speeds of "up to" 6 Mbps on HSPA+ (and thats probably optimistic), so we likely won't see any faster than that until they deploy LTE. But as you said, T-Mob coverage tends to not be the greatest in some areas.

I'd ask around with friends, co-workers, etc. in your local market to try to determine which carrier has the best coverage and data speeds in your area. Also compare plan prices and phone selection, and from there determine which carrier is best for you.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] ahager88:
Anybody got the color codes to match that snot green color in 2.3.x? Using Widgetsoid 2.x donate, and figure while I'm on Evervolv, might as well make everything uniform. :p

Sent from my HTC Speedy (Gonzalez)
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] JKILO:
RGB code or like html/hex

Sent from HTC Knight using Mikrom..because CM7 got overrated like CWM
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] ahager88:
Either. I've gotten very close but it never looks flush in comparison.

Sent from my HTC Speedy (Gonzalez)
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] danaff37:
I've seen a post where someone said they were using FFB1E400 and they said it was close
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] ahager88:
Thanks!

Sent from my HTC Speedy (Gonzalez)
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] danaff37:
How did it compare?
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] ahager88:
I would post a screenie but I nandroided to cm7 for gps purposes. Perfect match by my eyes, though.

Sent from my HTC Speedy (Gonzalez)
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] JKILO:
What about #99C224 html color

Sent from HTC Knight using Mikrom..because CM7 got overrated like CWM
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] ahager88:
Dunno or care at this point. Your signature makes sense now.

Haven't used widgetsoid on a sense rom yet, I've never liked the notification tray widget anyway. I expected toggles to work, not just pull up a widget. Maybe tasker fixes this?

Worth getting the donate version anyway, very handy and customizable, though I should've look at the alternate icons before I bought them!

Sent from my MikShift.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] jesusice:
My Widgetsoid toggles work and don't bring up the widget. There's an option you've gotta select to enable it. Some phones the toggles don't work so it gives the widget popup option.

^ Shift Faced
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] KenAdams82:
how do I set the color?

I'm writing the code, but nothing happen.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sablesurfer:
How do I turn on 4g in this ROM? (Sorry for all the 6.1 questions, but I am not finding these answers anywhere.)

version - CyanogenMod-6.1.2-Supersonic
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Muellersirch:
Unless you are running the Wimax Alpha, CM6 does not support wimax. You will need to go to CM7 (current version is RC2) or a sense based ROM
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
Yeah, and even on the alphas of 6, there was no Wimax toggle. But you're better off going to CM7 if you want CM with Wimax. Much better IMO. If you really Want it, I think I still have CM6 alpha 3 somewhere.
[EVO 4G General] Karadorde:
Mount points for selected devices:

Evo 3D

mmcblk0p21 /boot
mmcblk0p23 /system
mmcblk0p24 /data
mmcblk0p25 /cache

Evo Shift 4G

mmcblk0p22 /boot
mmcblk0p26 /system
mmcblk0p27 /data
mmcblk0p28 /cache

Nexus S

mtdblock4	/cache
platform/s3c-sdhci.0/by-name	/system
platform/s3c-sdhci.0/by-name	/userdata
[EVO 4G General] Karadorde:
reserved for more info at a later date
[EVO 4G General] dkelle4:
excellent tutorial. answered a lot of questions i had
[EVO 4G General] -shift-:
w00t w00t! thanks for this, dude!
[EVO 4G General] DrRyder:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=936175

A lot of information in there that I have bookmarked and used without problems.
[EVO 4G General] Karadorde:
Thanks. Will update. Just wanted to post something for the EVO users so we have our own thread to reference.

EDIT: Also, looks like he might be missing a few commands. Not a big deal. Any and all help is appreciated.
[EVO 4G General] DrRyder:
Oh yeah. Of course. I know some stuff is missing, but I also like the color coding of it and showing what the Amend syntax is compared to the Edify. So, I thought I would post it. It's been useful to me.
[EVO 4G General] dkdude36:
thank you so much for making this. now people will stop bothering me and tiffany about our fantastic zips not working in cwm 3.+
[EVO 4G General] nubecoder:
Some more resources for you all...

Here and here (source code is included if you would like to see the conversions being done).

=]
[EVO 4G General] Droidzone:
Is there any way to change the color of text output in ui_print? :)
[EVO 4G General] Karadorde:
I believe that is dependent on how your recovery is built.
[EVO 4G General] nubecoder:
If you rebuild the recovery it can be changed, but there are no options built in that will allow you to change the colors.

I'm of course referring to ClockworkMod recovery, since Amon_RA's github is outdated, I haven't really looked through his code.

=]
[EVO 4G General] MarylandCookie:
Anyone know the arguments/parameters to format boot to ext4?

The Desire S is Ext4 by default but i keep getting a status 1 error code when using Ext4, however Ext3 works fine.

Ive tried mounting and unmounting prior to format but no luck what so ever :(

You can find the partition information for the DS here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1057342
[EVO 4G General] XsMagical:
Thanks for the guide. This will help a lot in the future
[EVO 4G General] -shift-:
ooh i see you've updated for the evo 3d ;)
[EVO 4G General] drmacinyasha:
One trick I used in creating the superuser and gapps ZIPs:

run_program("/sbin/busybox", "mount", "/system");

It runs just fine on both eMMC and MTD devices, and the only prerequisites are that the recovery has busybox, and already knows the mount points (which any good recovery should). Been working on Amon_RA, ClockworkMod 2-4, and TWRP.
[EVO 4G General] splattx_x:
Great tutorial!

Just one question, the # symbol preceeding a line is used for comments, right?

Thanks!!
[EVO 4G General] nubecoder:
Yes, if the 1st char in the line is '#' that line is a comment.

=]
[EVO 4G General] splattx_x:
Awesome! Thanks. Now I have to figure out why I can't flash any zip in my phone with CWM.

This guide is very helpful. Any chance anyone knows where to get the update-binary? I know I can get it from a ROM but I'd like to learn so I can cook my own ROM from scratch.
[EVO 4G General] nubecoder:
I believe that it is built with aosp (android open source project) or CyanogenMod (I'm pretty sure both will create it).

Good places to snag one from would be:

A stock OTA update.zip for your device (assuming one is available, and that it is an edify based OTA).

Building aosp or CM from source.

My amend2edify script converter comes with one that seems to work well (I honestly can't remember where I snagged it from, sorry).

Or as you said, any edify based Rom.

=]
[EVO 4G General] togno:
ok, here's my question, i guess it's a already asked one, but i don't know how to search for it. I am building a rom, and what i want is to flash a new kernel, it's the same if during the installation of the rom itself or after. What i thought of is to run at the end of the updater script the commands found in the Updater script of the flashable zip. But i guess it's not going to work simply like that. right?

Otherwise any solutions?
[EVO 4G General] sepherian:
Thank you for the amazing tutorial. I needed a simple page that told me the commands and this was the best one i found. Thanks again
[EVO 4G General] darko94:
I tried this code and got an error

mount() expects 4 args, got 3

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that there should also be filesystem argument, in my case "yaffs2".
[EVO 4G General] Dblfstr:
Yes, depending on the ROM, some update binary expect 3 arguments, some expect 4. You will need to specify format, or filesystem.

mount("MTD", "yaffs2", ...
[EVO 4G General] javedsipra:
Hello Sir,

Can you help me to convert my update script to updater script , i have converted with kitchen but it not work properly. please check attachments.

Stock update script and build prop

1- Android ( update script )

2- Build zip ( my build prop )

i want to install JB rom here is update script and build prop

1- Android JB zip

2- build JB zip
[EVO 4G General] :
Thanks was getting same problem now i fixed it

:victory:

:good: gave a thanks
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] thegregbradley:
For all the combination sneakerhead/android fans, I was browsing for shoes today and disovered this cyanogenmod themed Reebok Pump Omni Lite. Thought it would make a great wallpaper, heh. Enclosed are three versions, one without a logo, one with the Reebok logo, and one with the word Android in the Reebok font. Hope this will suit someone's taste besides my own, heh :) I used the Matted Blues official color code for the colors of the glow and text, code 73b6d6.

My screen:

Files attached. Hope there's not some wallpaper thread that I should have posted this to... eek.
[Defy Android Development] michka:
So first of all.

Hello my name is Michka.

I just 2 days ago bought a defy and it works just perfect. I installes froyo paysrom and overclocked my phone to 1300 mhz vsel 70. But there is a but. I installed clockworkmod recovery and when i launch it with the app it boots up perfect but when i boot it up with voldown + power... Droid... Vol up + vol down i get a blue android recovery with a text the bottom that some folders didnt load like "caller or something".

Can someone tell what i am doing wrong or how to fix this cause i want make my own roms like i did for my wildfire but i want to be 100% i have a chance for retrieving backups.
[Defy Android Development] michka:
Thx in advance
[Defy Android Development] psicodelico:
The clockworkmod used on motorola phones use a trap to boot up. Motorola's phone have a system that uses RSA encryption to avoid unlocking. That turn impossible you change recovery partions, bootloader and so on. So, you need to start your phone, open clockworkmod app and use it to boot up in recovery mode.

Sorry for my bad english.
[Defy Android Development] michka:
So if something goes wrong i am screwed?
[Defy Android Development] adi4motion:
can't a similar method be used to load-up custom OS and kernel? like booting from windows mobile into android?!
[Defy Android Development] kashavsehra:
If something does go wrong you can flash an sbf file, as that will be motorola signed, thus you can boot up into the software you have just flashed. Then you can root and install the recovery, provided that the sbf you flashed is rootable.
[Defy Android Development] michka:
That i know but isnt what i exactly meant:)

Still what i heart is that it isnt possible to downgrade from froyo to eclair
[Android Apps and Games] Archon810:
This week's app/game/tablet/wtf/lwp roundup list is up. Many of you asked to be informed when it goes up (on a weekly basis), so here we are. This week's post has more gorgeous looking apps than I've ever seen before, which is a great sign of the Android Market changing and maturing.

37 Best (And 3 WTF) New Android Apps, Games, And Live Wallpapers From Last Week (3/9/11 – 3/15/11)

Enjoy!
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] gobluewolverines4:
How do i get a different one than i have? I'm running Nero v5 and i want a new one because the one i have is pretty.. not heterosexual. I was wondering, because i couldn't find one, if somebody could point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] MadJoe:
Check one of the last pages of High Voltage theme thread, there's a link to a flashable zip dl there. Killer shut down ani with a sweet font to boot (your default font will be changed with this flash, but I think you can change it back in settings after)

Don't forget to thank TopShelf10 if you use it!

Sent from my rough sketch of a Vibrant on a brick I like to pretend is running Trigger 2.7.2 on OverStock 1.5...
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] rel500:
look for soniques google boot... simple, all it says is google but in blue yellow n red colors (not sure if theres more), shut down is the same.. sweet n simple
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] gobluewolverines4:
Well what if I just want the shut down animation. I have a sweet honeybee/comb bootup, so I want a shut down.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] nomadrider123:
There is the one that looks like a tv shutting off.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] gobluewolverines4:
I have seen the TV off, which brings me to another question, is there a way to do that for when you lock your phone? I know my.brother has it for his nexus one
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] rel500:
Only on gingerbread roms.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] gobluewolverines4:
Is Nero 5 not Gingerbread? I can take a screen shot, and I'm pretty sure it is.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] gobluewolverines4:
This is what I'm running.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] gobluewolverines4:
Sorry for the triple post, but I'm also running a honeycomb theme on adw launcher.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] rel500:
Go to settings >about phone > firmware. It'll tell u if your 2.1 .2 or .3 ....:-) 2.3 is gingerbread
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] gobluewolverines4:
Wow.. 2.2. I need a good 2.3 rom

Sent from my sexy vibrant running the ancient nero v5
[Streak 5 Accessories] vwauditech:
Has anyone comes across a good case with kickstand? I need to get a good case but I don't like bulk or sticky, rubery feeling cases. If you have any recommendations I welcome it.
[Streak 5 Accessories] RussianSolja:
Look into body glove
[Streak 5 Accessories] Emission:
Body glove doesn't seem to have anything for the Streak.
[Nook Color General] ChandlerC:
I've been trying for the past few hours to figure out how to add an OC kernal to my rooted nook color, can anyone tell me how to do this..?

Thank you,

Chandler
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] ozzmanj1:
Wanted to let everyone know that Telus has announced that the Milestone will be getting Gingerbread 2.3 in the Spring. Here is the article from Phandroid:

http://phandroid.com/2011/03/15/des...g-on-telus-more-androids-slated-for-upgrades/

Although I no longer have a Milestone, mine died recently and have upgraded to a Droid 2 Global, I wanted to inform ya'll about the news. Hopefully this pans out and makes the Milestone which I loved (except for the locked bootloader) even better.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] keunhuvac:
This spring is going to be over!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] gpw11:
Seems the phandroid article is misleading. Mobilesyrup (the source) never actually claims Telus is announcing a Gingerbread update for the Milestone. Instead, they just update saying that Froyo will be out "very soon".
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] ozzmanj1:
Thats too bad. Bummer. Hopeful that article was true. Doubt Moto will release Gingerbread for Milestone. But to be honest, I loved Cyanogenmod 6 for my Milestone. It was awesome.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zeppelinrox:
So, umm... where did you see Milestone and Gingerbread in the same sentence?

You must be training to be a modern age journalist.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] gpw11:
It's from the article title: "Desire, Desire HD & Milestone to Get Gingerbread in Spring on Telus"
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zeppelinrox:
Oh, that's beautiful.

The title contradicts the article.. yep.. that's modern day journalism for ya
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] gs111:
Moto did officially announce that the Milestone will NOT get Gingerbread...

I'm not allowed to link to outside forums, so you can check here:

supportforums.motorola.com/message/341797#341797
[Epic 4G General] jojo08:
So here's my story, sorry needed to vent some...

After the EB13 update I was unable to do the prl and/or the profile updates. So I take it to a Sprint store during lunch and the lady tells me that most likely they will reset the software and that I can leave me phone there (busy store).

After work I go back to the store and she says they were unable to fix it but can swap the phone. I asked if the phone was refurbished since I can try having Samsung fix it but she tells me "no its brand new".

Later I come home and find out that the phone is actually refurbished. Go back to the store next day and basically assistant manager says they always swap with refurbished devices...the lady that told me it was new said something along the lines of she thought the phone was new because they pull the first available phone which is not true. They also said they can't give me my original phone back because its already been mailed off. So thought I would try calling customer service but they said they are unable to do anything and that this is basically between me and that store.

Also called Samsung and she said they have customers with this issue and there techs are able to fix it as it isn't a hardware issue. So consider Samsung if Sprint is unable to fix the problem and you don't want a refurbished unit.

I'm most likely going to try talking to that store manager and see what they could do for me, suggestions welcome...
[Epic 4G General] jarnail24:
If it looks new feels new. Does it really matter? If you can't tell its not new I would say don't worry about it? Now to be a little more helpful they should give you a new one if she admit she said It was new one but she was wrong.

Sent from my second head?
[Epic 4G General] jojo08:
My only concern with the refurbished unit is that it's more prone to having problems later down the line and I will have to pay restocking fees to have the phone fixed/replaced or that it will die on me sooner than a new one would.

Perhaps paranoia though i think thats why most people don't want refurbished units and why they are also cheaper...
[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
Refurbished units are more likely to be bug and defect free than a new phone for the simple reason that they've been double and triple checked before shipping back to Stores for replacing defective phones.
[Epic 4G General] MedicStuder:
That's the reason why the store manager at the store (coporate) near me gave me a new one out of the box and gave me the box with everything in it also.

His exact words to me where, "I hate refurb phones. They seem to break so much more and easier."
[Epic 4G General] f0xblade:
I know this doesn't help, but I'm posting this information where ever I can to try to save some folks some trouble.

I had a similar issue and the 1st Sprint tech I talked to, told me I'd have to do total reset back to DI18. I decided to wait until later, and then did the 'reset' myself when the time was good. The reset didn't fix the PRL/Profile update problem.

I called Sprint a second time, and the tech reset the switch for my phone which fixed the error. So Samsung appears to be providing correct information (more or less) in this case. The error appears to be in Sprint's switch software.

For what it's worth, I don't blame you for not wanting a refurb'd phone when yours wasn't broken.
[Epic 4G General] rufflez2010:
Been on my refurb since 3 weeks after launch. Works great.
[Epic 4G General] bjhill2112:
Funny thing is, I'm guessing that 90% of referbs are phones like the one you brought in. Nothing really wrong with them... they get completely wiped and checked out then back to another customer.
[Epic 4G General] jojo08:
It's possible nothing goes wrong with the phone but the re-sell value automatically takes a hit so when it comes time for me to upgrade I won't be able to get as much out of it
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilmill:
i wanted to know if i use 2 diff sdcards can i have 2 diff roms on my phone?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doogald:
The SD card has really nothing to do with what ROM is running the phone, except for any apps2sd you may have installed. You could have a different set of Nandroids on each card and restore when you want to use that card.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Just to clarify although I'm sure doogald knows this - you can have nandroids from several different ROMs (only limited by space) located on the same SD card.

If the nandroids are created with Clockwork Mod Recovery (preferably as installed by ROM Manager - which makes CMR load from the more common Amon RA Recovery instead of replacing it), then the nandroids will backup and restore the 2.2+ Apps2SD as well. Another reason negating the temptation to use different SD cards.

In addition, you can name and rename nandroids made with Clockwork Mod from within the ROM Manager app when the phone is loaded. Personally, I take out all the dashes in the date/time filename convention, and then add the initials and version number of the ROM that the nandroid is from, such as:

yyyymmddhhmm-GSB21
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] docgab:
Hi all,

Anyone have a good suggestion for an arm band carrying case for my G2? I found threads for other phones, but not sure what phones are a comparable size to the G2. All help is appreciated!
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] billrd:
Seems like I can't post links because of my post count.

But I bought a Tune Belt and it works great for the G2. Search Amazon for "Tune Belt AB83".
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] docgab:
Will check it out. I appreciate the input.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] 777cbr:
One other thought is to use something like the motorola S9 bluetooth headset. I run and bike with mine, and then I can put my phone in any old pocket or pack that is protected. It is one of the best solutions that I have found except that there are a few bugs with how the G2 handles stereo bluetooth headsets.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] jasonweaver:
I have been using this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003ZYHSNK/ref=aw_cr_d_sporting-goods?qid=1300337075&sr=8-2

I have a case on the phone and it still fits. Screen reponsiveness through the plastic sucks, but I couldn't find anything better.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] docgab:
So I went with the generic armband from Arkon. http://www.arkon.com/sports_armband/tmobile_g2_armband.html It fits very snugly, and you have to punch a hole for the headphones, but other than that it seems to work well. The screen responsiveness sucks like others, but I think that has to do with the type of screen we have than the armband itself.

Here are a couple of lousy pics I took so you all could see: