yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Skellyyy:
Or you could just check out the NAND Development section as we're on XDA were all of them ROM's from that link are probably just copied from here. :p That's where all the ROM's are lol. :D

If you can't find it (wouldn't know why you wouldn't be able to but find the Q&A :p) here's the link. http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=928

Here's a list of most of the ROM's available for the HD2. :D

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=929324
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ccaseys:
Which one do you reccomend?

Which one do you reccomend, or do i just get vanilla gingerbread?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] akapaul26:
I would personally recommend you choose one compatible with your device, Leo 512.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=992430

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=904762

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=915159&page=323

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=905060

These are my favorites!
[Bada Software and Hacking General] shashank0161:
Hey guys i'm from India

and i have done lots of flashing to my Samsung wave S8500.

now i'm facing a problem...

My Problem is that the camera is not focusing properly in the Auto Focus Mode...

I guess this problem came up to me when i flashed to S8500XXJL2.

After that i have flashed my phone several times but the problem isn't resolved.

Now i have returned back to indian firmware so that i can use the official Indian firmware and see if my problem is solved or not, but i am unable to update firmware through KIES.

IT says"This version of device cannot be updated"

is there any solution

please reply me soon..:confused:
[Nook Color General] xdabr:
Hi folks. Yes, I'm another newb but not quite an idiot, and I would love your advice. We've got a new NC for a teenager who loves books but would also appreciate videos and some applications. It's just out of shrink wrap.

From my preliminary reading it sounds as if (a) only NookieFroyo provides Flash support including Flash video, and (b) B&N may be pushing Froyo shortly as stock ROM.

1. Is there any likelihood that B&N will or could in some way use this update (or any update) to prevent subsequent rooting or other hacks?

2. Are all the various mods reversible? Our concern is being able to, at worst case, revert to stock in order to have all original Nook functionality restored, including brick-and-mortar store compatibility (e.g., in-store borrowing) and especially warranty service.

3. Regarding the B&N store, the AutoNooter threads recommend registering with B&N before beginning any changes. Is this necessary, and/or absolutely required, and why? If you register and then root, will that allow you to purchase books, whereas you would not otherwise have been able to?

4. Is there a substantive difference (look, feel, or function) between the process of buying books on the original stock NC versus installing the Nook app for Android on a rooted or modded NC?

5. If one "merely" roots the device and doesn't install CM or NookieFroyo or other ROMs, can one still install apps at will? I'd be fine with sideloading if no Market app were functional.

6. My impression is that the stock NC supports very few applications but that with the upcoming upgrade B&N may be featuring a store. Is it accurate to say that in its stock form the NC is not (yet) much more than a book reader?

7. Regarding AutoNooter, it seems to have forked based on the 1.1 B&N update. Is it better to start at 1.0.1 with the original AutoNooter or to allow the 1.1 upgrade and use the GMPower fork?

8. Is an AutoNooter or other rooting procedure required before CM is applied? I assume so, but only ask because the CM procedure at Cyanogenmod.com (I can't post links yet) doesn't have a rooting step. Maybe it's the case that AutoNooter is for rooting the existing B&N image but that other ROMs can be independently booted from SD? (Told ya I'm a newb.)

9. What, if any, of the stock device's capabilities are lost (reversibly or irreversibly) by rooting and/or modding? (One I wonder about is in-store "free" reading at B&N locations.)

Obviously I'm all over the map, and I apologize. Just trying to figure out the best approach to make the kid happy (e-reading, Youtube, and web browsing would probably suffice) and not end up with a funked out device that can't be used or supported for its original purpose.

Thanks very much in advance.
[Nook Color General] devis:
I think all of your questions are easily answered by the FroYo SD card image. You can keep the Nook stock for reading books and warranty purposes and if you want the extras, stick the SD card in. Basically, if you haven't come across this one yet, the NC will boot off of the SD card first, then internal second. So if there's an SD card with a bootable image, you're up and running in froyo. If no SD card you're booting stock. It's a beautiful thing I tell you
[Nook Color General] xdabr:
So it really is that easy? It will just boot off the SD card out without any modification? Amazing.

That's the kind of thing I'd be worried about them changing or locking (vis a vis my question #1 above). My anxiety is whether to hack NOW to prevent future lockdown, or try to hack LATER after the authorized Froyo push.

Obviously the hacker community has made the NC a very hot item, but if the history of every other repurposed device (video games, DVRs, etc.) is any precedent B&N may not see it as valuable to encourage or allow it to continue.

Edit: But I'm also seeing reports that you do need to root the device in order to boot off the SD?

Thank you for the feedback, woot1524 and devis.
[Nook Color General] luciferii:
Running any version of android off of an sd card is EXTREMELY slow. You can reverse any hack root or mod made to the nook.. as long as the mod isnt physical ie. You scratch your name into the back of the nook :P no teenager will want to wait for the time it will take to run it off the sd card.. theyll just get frustrated and give up.

Nookie Froyo 0.6.8 (zoom2)/Tapatalk Pro
[Nook Color General] deadbot1:
Your answer for number 1 and 8 apply to each other. Since the Nook is hardwired to boot from uSD, there will almost surely be rooted ROMS for it. Hope that helps clarify this point.
[Nook Color General] deadbot1:
Oh yea, and as far as what to do for a teen...

I would go with Nookie Froyo 0.6.8 eMMC. Download and have the image to return to stock ready to go, just in case. And then be patient for when CM7 is finally cooked.

Be prepared to do most of the tinkering with NF to get it right BEFORE you give it to your teen. Once you get everything working(market, youtube, etc), then it should be ready for him/her. I have been using NF for a bit now, and once I got everything working it is great. read the forums here for a bit and you will get an idea of just how good these babies can be.

be prepared for the usual ....it's not the Xoom, an ipad, etc arguments and complaints...it's a teen you are dealing with(basing from my experiences only, with my daughter...aren't they great?).
[Nook Color General] devis:
Not for me. I find it quite fast and very usable. No issues whatsoever with it being slow.

One thing to do is to install LCD Density and change the screen density to 200 or 220 for added smoothness. It doesnt change the resolution, just the size of items on the screen to bigger and everything flows together very nicely.

The SD card 0.6.8 is my daily driver lately, I use it for work and personal email, news, reading, games, Slingbox watching... it's great. not sure what is this slowness you're talking about.
[Nook Color General] devis:
No need to root to run it off of SD. Just pop it in and go.
[Nook Color General] lafester:
i would just root it and leave it stock.

if the teen wants to learn how to flash let 'em have at it. you can't brick a nook :)
[Nook Color General] luigi90210:
well im a teenager and i can tell you that if said teen wants full video support said teen should stick on stock nook OS but rooted but if said teen wants something that runs well but with an amazing UI i recommend HC

as a teen i dont really need flash to much but it is nice to have but pretty much i used flash for youtube on the web but now that youtube streams in HTML5 on their mobile site i feel like i didnt need it as much
[Nook Color General] EugeneKay:
Beat them with it.
[Nook Color General] bugggie1:
Btw, not all sd cards are alike. The ones who are complaining about Froyo running slowly off the sd card are probably not using a fast enough sd card. I suggest getting the Transcend 8 gb class 6 microSDHC card. I'm getting 13 MB/s write and 15 MB/s read speeds which is above class 10 specs.
[Nook Color General] xdabr:
I'm still in slight shock that you can dual boot without making ANY changes at all to the device, without so much as a BIOS tweak.

So it sounds as if you could even grab the display model or a friend's device, boot it off your SD to use Android for a while, and then just hand it back COMPLETELY unchanged, with all original functionality and data intact. That's just too easy!

The gist I'm getting is that even if B&N root locks the internal storage's OS in future updates, it's unlikely the SD card boot option will go away?

Thanks to everyone for all the feedback. (I ran out of Thanks credit.)
[XPERIA X8 General] velnens123:
How to put Data2SD on X8?
[XPERIA X8 General] johan12330:
I don't think that you can, since that feature is in Android 2.2 and X8 only has 2.1
[XPERIA X8 General] velnens123:
No, what i meant is how i can install Data2SD that x10 has? Or there is something about putting data folder on data.img, wich i found on app2sd(moves dalvik) some people write that it is faster than data.img.

Bad ENGLISH!:mad::confused::(
[XPERIA X8 General] cruizz:
better if you read this :) http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=880387
[Android Software Development] agentfazexx:
Just curious, iPhone has some "unofficial" Android ports, are there any for iPad? I read up on OpeniBoot, http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/OpeniBoot but there's no real "download this, do this" step by step for it. I've seen screenshots...Was just curious if anyone has heard anything of this.

This forum needs a new section perhaps...lol
[Android Software Development] vbetts:
There are installation instructions. The easy way, and the manual way. It is technically possible, but there's really been no work at it.
[Android Software Development] agentfazexx:
Not that great of instructions....

Anyone else hear of anything? This seems like something that could take off.
[Android Software Development] :DookyFace::
I've been following the Openiboot development passively, as I myself own a 1st-gen iPod Touch.

Last I heard, the iPad got a rudimentary port of openiboot (this open-source bootloader which can boot unsigned OSes like Linux or *Android*). I remember that a developer by the moniker "Hexxeh" was the first to get openiboot to run on the iPad, and a quick Google search brought me to:

A video of Hexxeh running it on his iPad youtube.com/watch?v=UIixUYaLufo

and a forum post detailing the compilation and installation of openiboot for iPad ifans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=321963

Keep in mind, once openiboot itself is running, developers still have to create open-source drivers that will read from the iPad's internal NAND storage to load the OS, and an Android kernel and drivers that will run properly (or improperly, as long as they run at all ;D) on the iPad

Hope this helps!
[Android Software Development] agentfazexx:
Yeah I saw that video, and I read up on his blog every now and again. But I was curious if any actual work had been done on it. I bet if we had a section on here for iPad...things would happen. :rolleyes:
[Android Software Development] :DookyFace::
I agree. I'm pretty sure the only work left to be done is development on the Android side of the project. I wonder how one would go about asking the xda mods for an "Android Development on iDevices" section.
[Android Software Development] agentfazexx:
I'll post a thread, and see what happens. :D Keep an eye for my post in the "About xda-developers.com" forum.
[Galaxy Tab General] lockheedload:
Everyone is lowering the price of the Tab, except for ATT. Why does ATT think they can still charge so much for the Tab?
[Galaxy Tab General] waltah!:
They don't have a subsidy on the Tab since there is no contract. It's currently $550 and the Verizon/Sprint models are $499 I believe. The AT&T Tab was initially $50 more and it has held the same after the discount. The data plan is a better deal than the others so it would make up for it in the long run. 2gb is $25 and you can get a small 200mb plan for $15.
[Galaxy Tab General] quattr0:
AT&T tab does come w $50 credit for MediaHub rental, better storage capacity (comparing w some providers, not all) and the only one right now, if it matters to you, that will allow u to have 3G & phone call features at the same time.
[Galaxy Tab General] rangercaptain:
Right, I think it's a better value because you can do those two things easily. I resented t-mo, and I'm growing to like at&t.
[Galaxy Tab General] Earthbrain:
Hmmm, maybe I should just buy a brand new one from AT&T and forget about buying a used T-mobile version.
[Galaxy Tab General] lockheedload:
let's see....verizon has the tab for $200. a plan for 20 a month. that's 480 over 24 months plus the original 200...comes to 680. That's not bad. Compared to att's 549, plus you get 3g service.
[Galaxy Tab General] woneill1701:
Agreed!!!
[Galaxy Tab General] sbrownla:
T-Mobile will NOT sell it at 499, or AT ALL, unless you get a plan. I was so pissed that I wrote a four-page letter. Not that T-Mobile will read it, but ... I am generally cool with them. They are all over the place, and their CSRs have no CLUE what they are doing.

You should just be aware because it caused me a lot of annoyance, and it would be sad to see it happen to someone else. T-Mobile's pricing is also just weird. Why would you offer a no-commitment price, but with a catch??? And it's not even on those little pricing cards in the store.

Oh, and if you can get 2 gigs for a no-committment data plan with AT&T, definitely go with them. T-Mobile has nothing comparable, at all. 100 megs for a week for 10 bucks sounds great, but it's completely useless. Then they want 30 bucks for 300 megs over a month.

They missed the ball on that one.

It is a beeeeyoootiful device ... I mean gorgeous looking. It also has a ton of potential, but you may be better off waiting until Samsung gets their software together.
[Galaxy Tab General] quattr0:
It doesn't sound like you're existing AT&T customer. If you're, just swap your sim card to the tab. No extra plan is needed. Again, the most important thing is whether or not you will use it as phone. If you don't, I wouldn't get the AT&T tab.
[Galaxy Tab General] quattr0:
Sounded like you need to go to a different store. I first bought mine through Tmob outright, no plan for $599+tax. Then I returned it as there wasn't easy way to get 3G&voice together, plus the fact that I already am AT&T cust.
[Galaxy Tab General] madsquabbles:
you can get the tmo version for $499 plus a $50 rebate.
[Galaxy Tab General] waltah!:
According to their site the $50 rebate requires a 2yr agreement.
[Galaxy Tab General] madsquabbles:
unless you're going to some 3rd party site, tmobile is $449 after rebate no contract. $249 after rebate - w/contract.

Prepaid - no contract

with contract
[Galaxy Tab General] waltah!:
Good deal, thanks for clearing that up for me. I'm actually looking into a GTab as well and that's not a bad deal if you do prepaid since they'll give you a free $50 refill card as well.
[Galaxy Tab General] madsquabbles:
yeah, kinda makes you wonder why they've even considered making a wifi only version that costs just about as much as the wwan version. at bb you can get the version tab for $429 right now.
[Galaxy Tab General] Zenoran:
I've been looking into getting one of these now that the prices seem somewhat reasonable... still debating on this or an iPad... There's even a refurb tmobile version you can get for $199 but only with the 2yr contract. No way in heck I'll ever be paying for a data plan on a tablet though. I'm still trying to read through all these posts to determine if I can use my SIM from my phone in this tablet on occasions I"m away from wifi.

Either way, the $449 is a decent deal but the $399 wifi version (new) is my vote if the SIM swap is undoable.
[EVO 4G General] jeffmcleod70:
Each time I try to flash it aborts the installation? Does anyone know why this would be?
[EVO 4G General] metalfan78:
What recovery are you using, if its amon ra then you probably nee to toggle 'signed .zip verification' to disabled
[EVO 4G General] jeffmcleod70:
Im using clockworkmod..
[EVO 4G General] metalfan78:
Hmmm, could be a bad download, I dont use clockwork so I really have no answer for you
[EVO 4G General] DCoop:
Find the ClockwordMod thread in the Developers section. He explains there why some ROMs won't work. It has to do with the way they are written. You could also try AmonRa's and see if it works.
[EVO 4G General] teh roxxorz:
Either its a bad file, you're on CWM 3.0+ and the file isn't edify compatible, or a good file but isn't signed, which fails the signature test, so toggle off signature verification and try it again.
[Xoom General] zambezy:
I tryed searching but I cant find out if the bootloader is included in the xoom sbf...
[Xoom General] robrowald:
yes it is. The SBF file is a complete image.
[Xoom General] cellzealot:
No it isn't. The bootloader itself is not included in SBF files.

It can be included in OTA update.zip files but that is only when they are changing or upgrading the bootloader for some reason.
[Xoom General] Droid-Xer:
So the SBF out is a system only SBF??
[Xoom General] mazz0310:
The SBF recovers the System, Recovery, basically brings it back to stock. The SBF does not contain the bootloader, the bootloader is required in order to run the SBF.

The bootloader cannot be removed or changed.
[Xoom General] robrowald:
Yeah I read it as boot partition for some reason, My bad.
[Xoom General] cellzealot:
All firm are has a boot image that contains the kernel and RAMdisk. That is not the same as the bootloader. The bootloader is the lowest level where you can communicate with the device from a PC.

After that you can only attach wires directly to the board for JTAG.
[Desire HD General] niks_5in:
should i use task killer or not. some say it slows down the mobile or eats more battery.. pls help
[Desire HD General] johan12330:
Just don't use it. There's an app called watchdog which works better, according to me.
[Desire HD General] niks_5in:
Are this apps necessary to free memory or its just a gimmick
[Desire HD General] AWBob:
No, Android will manage all of your memory for you. You do NOT need a task killer. :)
[Desire HD General] paulus_01:
AWBob is right.

Task killer is not needed and actually can give the opposite effect from what you want it to do.....

Android is capable to manage memory (in addition, DHD has a lot of memory :D)
[Desire HD General] noirelion:
I am no technogeekexpert

but Advanced Task Killer works just fine for me. Just leaving everything running slowed my Evo down enough to make it a satisfying. and feasible option.
[Desire HD General] sanjayng:
Don't use it. It is not needed. Check the detailed info here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=769735
[Desire HD General] niks_5in:
Then how will we able to free RAM .
[Desire HD General] nell0:
Maybe this article helps you :)
[Desire HD General] ghostofcain:
You don't need free RAM, this isn't windows it doesn't perform better with free RAM, if you kill tasks to free RAM, android will probably re-open them again. Task killers will break your system, young children will laugh and point at you for using them, and support for any problems will consist of remove your task killer then come back and talk. Don't do it kids you know it makes sense
[Desire HD General] niks_5in:
Oh man chill
[Desire HD General] paul c:
rofl, nice bit of scouse wit :p
[Desire HD General] gregaste:
HI,

As I don't want that children laughing at me and throwing some little rocks on me let me ask THE silly (or not ?) question :

is autokiller* as bad as the other "taskiller" ?

I've read that this app was "not like the others" but hey... devs who want to stick their apps in my phone are a bit like mens trying to stick something else .. somewhere else :

"I'm really not like the others baby..."

so... where is the truth ?

(as usual : I'm a French writing a pain-full English to read, sorry)

*too young here to post link, look for autokiller-memory-optimizer on appbrain
[Desire HD General] descenpet:
autokiller doesn't actually kill anything.. it allows you to change the default values set in android's internal memory management. it's more like an interface for android's internal memory manager.
[Desire HD General] Rudios:
I've replaced ATK with auto killer and I think that it is a positive change. My device feels faster en it looks like it runs smoother.

I think this is a great thread which helps me beter understand the memory handling within Android. For now auto killer looks like a charm to me, and has more benefit than ATK.
[Desire HD General] niks_5in:
MANY RECOMMEND TO GET RID OF VIDEOLAG USE TASK MANAGER
[Desire HD General] sanjayng:
I am using rockplayer lite withour any video lag. Have played movies which are more than 1.4 GB withour any problems.

I am on LeeDroid 2.3.4 BETA 4 R2.
[Desire HD General] Sailor_Mars:
I used all the time ATK, but after reading this thread I have uninstalled it.

I give android a chance to manage the memory itself.

Thanks for this post.
[Desire HD General] dr.m0x:
Who is many and is he a half wit? Better to use watchdog to kill apps using too much cpu in the background in this instance. A task killer will not help.

--- I am geek. Hear me squeek. ---
[Desire HD General] niks_5in:
I am talking about lag during video recording
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zirra:
Out of curiosity I'm browsing on ifixit's site for the Nexus S tear down and in one of the steps I was wondering what part the round thing hanging on the top left corner is, since it's not mentioned:

Image: http://i.imgur.com/r18zg.jpg

Source: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus-S-Teardown/4365/1 (go to page 2)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gasparzim:
A cooler, perhaps...?

I am not sure, the top image in post 9 shows its other side, but the proxy here is messing up the page, so I can´t click the picture to enlarge it =/
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
that seems like the vibrator that goes inside to shake it
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tristan_2468:
Looks like the speaker(s).
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tristan_2468:
Ah on second look it's the vibration motor.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
the speaker is a rectangular looking thing with lines
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zirra:
It seems to be the vibration motor. I don't see the motor anywhere else.
[Nook Color General] joepringle:
Newbie alert - I just installed latest CM7 nightly (running great) but since I can't help myself I'm trying to install dalingrin's latest OC kernel.

When I reboot into recovery, wipe cache, and wipe dalvik cache CWM freezes and I can't install from zip and reboot. I have read that if you wait thirty seconds after wiping dalvik it won't happen, but I've tried 5 times and it freezes each time. This behavior didn't happen in Froyo for me.

I understand there is some need to update the CWM kernel for flashing stuff in CM7 but I've made it this far without ADB and would like to continue if possible. Can I add the correct OC kernel zip to my bootable SD and reflash CM7, gapps, and the OC kernel zip all in one swoop?

Alternatively, if I wipe cache, and dalvik cache and then reboot into recovery again can I safely install the OC kernel from zip then?

Other suggestions?

Thanks!

Joe