yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
Nand restore will restore everything that was on your phone when you made the backup. Definitely a good idea to flash the zip when installing a new ROM. I also do it to restore though.

When you restore, unless you are backing up the cache, which isn't necessary, you need to minimally wipe the cache/dalvik before you restore. Also, if your SD Card is partitioned, you would need to wipe SD EXT. I pretty much flash Calk's format all anytime I restore or flash a new ROM.

I almost never have one back up. I have a few ROMs I like so, I set them up the way I want and restore between them when I get bored, which is like 100 times a day it feels like.

I do usually only keep the latest backup of any one ROM though. At any given time I probably have at least 5.

Edit: I re-read your post and I think I misunderstood one part the first time. Sometimes, when I got back to a previous ROM, I do just reflash it and start over, but I am anal about fresh starts. Usually I do just nand restore, especially if I know the setup was running well. I don't typically restore a lot between ROMs b/c I feel like it just adds to something that can go wrong. A lot of times I redownload apps instead of restoring, especially if they are purchased, since they are just stored in my apps in the market anyway. And I never restore app data. Usually end up only restoring about 30 apps w/out data, but most people do backup/restore a lot of info with no problems.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
You should have just restore from a previous backup. When you restore, it bring ti back to EXACTLY how it was, texts, number of calls, ect. Actually you don't need to wipe when doing a restore. Well you can manually wipe all of them, or flash the format all, so I'm saying yes.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
Also, I suggest against wiping data before creating a nandroid backup, lol. That would defeat the purpose, as your info and apps will be gone! Just wipe cache and davlik before a backup, or nothing at all, just so there's no confusion.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
Yeah, I didn't mean to wipe anything before backing up. But if your going to restore a different ROM and there's no cache included in the nand back up you're going to restore, then best to wipe it before you restore.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
If the ROM has a2sd built in, yeah, if not, nothing. I always wipe it just so I'm in the habit of doing it for when it's there. Also depending on how a2sd is set up, dalvik can be on there.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jiv3turk3y89:
Ok so i just orderd my TB, there was a upgrade availiable on my account but it was for my sisters #, is this gonna be a problem when i try to activate it? I bought it online from the VZW store. I just wanna know if i can activate it on my # without having any hassle at all. Thanks in Advance!

- Austin
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ProTekk:
No it should not be a problem if you go into the VZW store and explain the situation to them. Did you transfer the upgrade on her phone to your line? If so then you can do it from home but if you are using her upgrade from HER line, you need to visit VZW face to face.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jiv3turk3y89:
Ok thanks, i have a VZW store right up town from me so ill check in 2moro. And no i didn't transfer the upgrade we just went and bought the phone. Im 16 so i did a bunch of research and this was the one thing i was unsure about. Also i've read that the SIM cards are very stubborn if they're not activated to the # they are assigned??? But yea thanks for the help man.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Breakthecycle2:
Make sure they connect the sim card to the right number for the upgrade. I opened a new line this morning and called Verizon to switch devices and they couldn't figure out why it wasn't switching, when they finally figured it out, I had to go into a VZW store again and it took them over an hour because it's so new.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jiv3turk3y89:
Ok, so thats what im going to have to do then. Thanks a bunch guys, could i call the verizon Customer Service and have them do it over the phone? or does it have to be a new sim card programmed specifically for my number and they aren't programmable from a remote location? Sorry for so many questions after my original statement i just wanna find out what i can do. Thanks Again guys!
[Dell Streak 7] graffixnyc:
Hey guys,

I'll be home in a little while and I'm going to start to read up on porting over CM 7. Hopefully I can get somewhere with it... we shall see ;-) jaywan is also working on the hc port
[Dell Streak 7] djnutz:
I'm beyond glad that you're playing around with this device seeing as there's not much activity on here and I really want some better software haha.

Keep it up man!
[Dell Streak 7] Hellzya:
oh ya.
[Dell Streak 7] RootaToota:
Yes thank you all. The Streak 7 is a Sexy Beetch. Lol.
[Dell Streak 7] cootertwo:
+1 Thanks:D
[Dell Streak 7] nledevil:
Kudos to graffix

Graffix has been working his butt off on porting CyanogenMod to the Streak 7. I give him a crap load of credit. I also credit DJ_Steve, it wouldn't be possible without his help. I know they are getting close, so stay tuned. If you want to help test or just see whats going on, join us at #dellstreak7 on freenode.
[Dell Streak 7] graffixnyc:
We are getting closer, How close I have no clue yet :)

Here is the status:

Got it built but it wont boot, been working with DJ_Steve. We narrowed it down to something in the boot image not causing it to boot. So he is going to take a look at the boot image the build created and also look at his and see if he can modify it to work. if you guys want to try. here is what you'll need to do. You'll need linux of course. below are the files.

boot_cm.img is the original boot image that CM makes

boot_v02.img is dj steve's boot image

mytools is what you need to unpack and repack boot images (this is what has to be done to modify the images config files)

system.img is the system.img that the cm7 build gave me and the zip file is what the build gave me as well but I didnt modify this zip at all. So it contains the system and boot image from whatever the biuld gave me

CM 7 boot image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21064708/cm7/boot_cm.img

DJ_Steves Boot image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21064708/cm7/boot_v02.img

unpack/repack scripts: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21064708/cm7/mytools.zip

unmodified zip from build: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21064708/cm7/cyanogen_harmony-ota-eng.patrick.zip

System.img from the CM 7 build: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21064708/cm7/system.img

So if you feel like taking a shot at it there ya go :)
[Dell Streak 7] Hellzya:
This guy is ****in top notch

Sent from Re-Engineered dInc
[Dell Streak 7] jiwengang:
Thanks for the download. I will give it a shot today after work.
[Dell Streak 7] graffixnyc:
Here is a status update:

Dj steve and I have been working on porting over cm. We still can't boot but we are getting closer.. how do we know? Well.. at first it was getting stuck at the boot screen (dell logo) we could adb nut no adb shell.. today we at first got dell logo and adb shell working, had to convert the ext2 system partition to ext3 because cm 7 doesn't support ext2. Now we are able to get last the dell logo but get stuck at the boot screen. We stopped there and will continue. You have no idea what we are going through trying to port this over.
[Dell Streak 7] thatruth132:
sounds like maybe some kernal tweaking
[Dell Streak 7] vetvito:
^ Don't know if it still matters, but the Build.prop is off. Product ID, and Board Type.
[Dell Streak 7] vetvito:
Ive made some changes in the kernel and updater script, but it wont let me flash the zip. I keep getting Status 0. Any help would be aprreciated.

We should start a repo.

edit

OK fixed the Status 0 error, now I'm stuck at Status 7 Write_raw_image, "boot". Will continue playing with it.

edit

Fixed that, now Error Status 6, will continue tomorrow. Problems with the updater script.
[Dell Streak 7] thatruth132:
Glad to see someone.making some head way with something
[Dell Streak 7] Hellzya:
Cm is not too far away.

Sent from a signal
[Dell Streak 7] graffixnyc:
We got that far. When DJ Steve was helping me. There were a lot of tweaks that had to be done. But you sound like you're exactly where I was a month ago. Are you using the harmony build? It wont work with our current boot image without some serious modifiying. The furthest we got it to go was the boot animation screen but it would just stick there. we tried unpacking the boot.img that the build made and extracting the kernel and using a hybird of the two.. that didnt work. For the boot error you got we just removed the line in the updater script. We noticed that even though we left that line out /system was still getting written. So what we did was let the zip install the system and then manually tried flashing the boot image. No go.. DJ steve I'm sure will get it working the same day as he starts.. So just hang out guys by next week he is starting on it :)
[Dell Streak 7] vetvito:
^ yeah, I figured it wont write the boot.image and just give problems without the line " write_boot_raw_image ".

I'm using the harmony build. I'm thinking about trying AOSP first, and see if that boots. I can build 2.2 all day without problems.

I'm sure one of us can get it working, especially with combined efforts. I'll be back in the lab tonight.

.........edit.....

Got it to flash correctly. Now it gets stuck at an all black screen with Android written in Yellow.
[Dell Streak 7] vetvito:
Can you post the latest system.img you guys had?
[Dell Streak 7] illdill:
Any further progress on this? Thanks guys. I would pitch in but I don't have linux and can't download it due to my crappy internet. Has anyone tried messing with the build for the Galaxy Tab? That might already be closer to the build we would need...? Or I may be way off on that because it is probably an entirely different chipset. Anyway, thanks again for working on this.
[Dell Streak 7] Hellzya:
Look forward too Sunday.

sent from ???
[Dell Streak 7] thatruth132:
Are you telling us that or asking :D
[Dell Streak 7] Hellzya:
Haha use your imagination

sent from ???
[Dell Streak 7] thatruth132:
Ok thanks just checking
[Dell Streak 7] daveid:
Can't be talking about CyanogenMod. The #1 rule of CyanogenMod is NO ETA'S!

;)
[Dell Streak 7] vetvito:
A big middle finger goes to Nvidia!

The Harmony line is dead.
[Dell Streak 7] Hellzya:
Saw that today.

sent from ???
[Dell Streak 7] daveid:
I guess that seals the deal for me, I will be returning my Streak 7 within my 30 day window... Hope something else comes along that can stand up to this thing while still fitting inside a pocket...

I guess I shall wait until the Acer Iconia A100 is out, since that will run Honeycomb out-of-the-box, while remaining at 7 inches... My Streak will go back to sit on the T-Mobile shelves and collect dust this weekend. I will miss having it, maybe I should get a Galaxy Tab to have another 30 day trial period....
[Dell Streak 7] nrfitchett4:
I guess all current tablets with tegra 2 have this harmony version? What does that mean for the g2x???

I will probably keep it (if I get a properly working one), since I only paid 150 for it, and it has at&t 3g bands.
[Dell Streak 7] daveid:
Umm.. what about this post? Maybe this is all a big misunderstanding?

From what I gather from his update they will continue to support the drivers needed, however the actual building of the OS (obviously) is dependent on the hardware manufacturers (Dell in our case). This quote especially...
[Dell Streak 7] vetvito:
Everything Dell Streak and back has Harmony. Mainly cheap tablets. Most of them have had terrible sales, so I don't blame them.

I only paid 200 for mine.
[Dell Streak 7] daveid:
http://tegradeveloper.nvidia.com/tegra/forum/honeycomb-harmony?page=3#comment-7326

Seems people made poor assumptions. I'm still planning on returning this thing and holding out for the Acer A100.
[Dell Streak 7] Xi2wiked:
Im currently trying to get a cm rom going myself. But i'm afraid I need some help as this is the first build i've attemped. I synced the cm gingerbread repo, and read that we are to build for harmony, but I dont see harmony listed when I lunch, or brunch....

Am I missing something here? Was I supposed to sync the master, or just the gingerbread branch? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zhuzf:
I found problems with the phone recording function of ROM Simply Honey 2.5.

While replaying the AMR record files, nothing but noise.

Does anyone have the same issue?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Moped_Ryder:
I think its a known bug for older Vibrant phones. How old is yours?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madguitarist63:
I have the same issue and I got my Vibrant in September of last year. I believe Moped is right that older ones have an issue with recording phone calls

T-Mo Vibrant with Simply Honey 2.5
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zhuzf:
Really？

But it is a new phone. The cal date(found in service mode) is Jan 23, 2011.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zhuzf:
Help, pls!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpeckover:
I had the same issue with the avatar version of the phone so i switched to trigger rom.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ioft:
WTF? So... I plugged in my phone to charge - went about doing whatever (cleaning, etc.) and came back about an hour later to head out. Get to my girlfriends house - playing around with the phone taking pictures of her son/etc and then put it on the counter... come back to it and it's off? Try to turn it on... nope. Remove the battery and inspect - all looks fine. Plug it into her Blackberry charger and the charge led doesn't light up. Hooray for being rooted... so how do I get this repaired? Or do I just take the loss and get a different phone?
[HTC Inspire 4G] andy442:
Sounds like a warratnee claim to me!
[HTC Inspire 4G] ioft:
I don't think I'll be able to claim it. S-Off + Root + CM7 + Overclock :(
[HTC Inspire 4G] d.cortez:
leave the battery out for about 10 minutes and - if you have the HTC wall adapter - charge it. it could be a bad/depleted battery. it might take a few minutes for the charging light to come on, if it does, then it should charge. hope it works for you!
[HTC Inspire 4G] booty hater:
Wouldnt they have to power on the phone to find that out?
[HTC Inspire 4G] MarkPharaoh:
What you're implying is incredibly unethical.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ioft:
If the battery bites the dust, will the inspire still show the charge led when plugged in? Or if the battery is removed will it run off USB power?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qingqing202:
Hello everyone,

I used G2 in China and My G2 have signal loss problem while call. Calls often break down and the signal strength bar shows no signal at all ( with a X on it). But this situation just last a few seconds. Then the signal strength bar shows very good signal strength, and I can make calls again. This problem ONLY happens while call.

I tried CM6, CM7, virtuous ROM and Desire Z Hongkong official ROM, but the problem remains the same. I tried every RADIO I can find, but the problem remains the same. I tried to match the RIL files to the Radio with approach from below thread, but still, the problem remains the same. BTW, some G2/Desire Z users in China meet the same problem, so I don't think this is a SIM card issue.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=988557

HBoot information for your reference as below:

VISION VPT SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-0.82.000

MICROP-0425

RADIO-26.03.02.26_M

eMMC-boot

Sep 2 2010, 17:59:38

This problem bothers me so much and I do hope somebody can help. Thanks in million!
[Flipout and Charm General] chaos_xie:
I am really new to android devices.

I got a Rogers moto flipout MB511 (Canada) from my friend recently. The standby time is terribly short. Discharged within 10 hours just standby in an area with good signal strength (-69db, 2G only).

I have disabled background sync, wifi, 3G, used setcpu to use 125/125mhz when screen off, removed facebook account. (I do have gmail account setup) The standby could be even shorter if I don't do things mentioned above.

Tried different roms, like 0.18.4 (This is en.CN rom), U3_01.14.2 (This is a rom without Motoblur, is really fast!), no noticeable improvement. With Powertutor, I haven't found any suspect app consuming too much battery power.

I was expecting at least 2-3 days with phone standby in 2G.

Does anyone have the same issue with me. i am wondering if this is hardware related issue or software issue. I suspect this phone might have current leaking issue. Is there any software can accurately report current?

Any suggestions?
[Flipout and Charm General] cobra33130:
That also arrives at me that do I have to make?
[Flipout and Charm General] kxw9c:
the same trouble to me :confused:
[Flipout and Charm General] breakingspell:
I'm guessing it's just a standard effect of how the phone draws power. The guy i bought mine from on eBay included an extra battery with it, for that reason.
[Flipout and Charm General] chaos_xie:
But this is definitely abnormal.

Using *#*#4636#*#*, I found the there is some problem with Android system, which holds partial wake lock most of the time. So the phone is not in sleeping state for most of the time.

I don't have data to prove this. I know some of the guys' flipout can last 2-3 days, and they all have data plan (not just something like unlimited browsing, with only 80 port available.). For some of the reasons, I feel this is caused by Moto blur. A lot of blur stuff is put into android system. They might try to communicate with the blur server, which requires SSL and 80 port available. Because my phone doesn't have data plan, communication will fail. During retry, the blur keeps partial wake lock and prevent phone from sleeping.

I got this issue with all firmwares that runs on my phone, including the deblur version. I think even the deblur version has a lot of blur stuff and try to pass back some user data back to moto server based on IMEI.
[Flipout and Charm General] Airfares:
Try buying a new oem stock battery?
[Flipout and Charm General] chaos_xie:
I am pretty sure it is not the fault of the battery. I have 2 stock batteries, standby time is proportional to their capacity.

The issue is obviously the partial lock.
[Flipout and Charm General] ohadbenita:
Same here

Battery goes pretty fast even when not using the phone, even worse when using it.
[Flipout and Charm General] FAleo:
Yeah I'm also experiencing same problems! I'm using the deblur version.

Battery drains like hell! I'm also on 2G, no wifi, no gps, no data sync!

I've checked my battery usage and this is what I got:

Voice calls: 32%

Cell standby: 22%

Phone idle: 18%

Android OS: 16%

Android System: 4%

ZDbox: 3%

Display: 2%

Cell standby, Phone idle and Android OS seem to be quite high. Anyone know why?

Thanks
[Flipout and Charm General] reptakos:
Hi,

Same sh*t here...

I have better results if I am running the JuiceDefender (extreme profile: data on demand) and SetCPU (profile: on screen off: 125/125) . Note that on the SetCPU the profile options (on the top of the profiles) MUST be checked in order to be active... Unfortunatelly I am stuck to 3G only (feckin three-mobile-UK does not allow to fallback to 2G)

Also, I am running the "Quick Settings" in order to cut off quickly the GPS/data/wifi.

BTW, be sure that the Settings -> Data Manager -> Data Delivery -> Blur Applications is set to "Sync over Wi-Fi Only"

My results so far are :

mobile left the overnight charger arounf 7:30, then after 12hrs (19:00) the battery is around 60% .. all this time just some sms (no calls at all) plus around 10min email check..

cheers
[Flipout and Charm General] silent_bob52637:
three uk are a 3g only network they have no 2g system

all of their handsets have been 3g from the start because of video calling
[Flipout and Charm General] EduardoRT:
I´ve got 24h+ Standby time, Deblur + Juice defender + Never make/recive calls with this ****.
[Flipout and Charm General] tikumo99:
i had the same problem. only 6/7 hours tops with juice defender on!

i switched of 3g and now it does 20 percent a day!

must be a firmware issue.

i got deblurred rom, euro.
[Flipout and Charm General] iCe87:
with rom deblur,setcpu with screenoff freq 125-250 (screenon 125-550mhz),juicedefender free (set screenoff no data,app update freq 30min),10 sms received,15 mins of call,internet navigation about 10min,my flipout is now at 50% of battery (the phone is on by 9.00AM)...

but with this setting and with a more intensive use (20-30 mins of call,10-15 sms,30-40 mins of internet) my flipout goes at 0% in about 12h
[Flipout and Charm General] reptakos:
Hi,

Its almost 2 months after my last reply here..

My flipout now can stay 48h on standby, and on normal usage (around 50 sms send/receive and 30min of 3g data..) can be stay alive for 1.5 days ..

The applications that I find very usefull are:

SetCPU (I set the phone to be 125Mhz min/max when the Screen is OFF)

DataSwitch ( to kill any data connection)

Autorun manager (to avoid running some apps like Skype)

I also re-calibrated the battery a couple of times (I left it to be completely drained then recharged to 100% and used a util called Battery calibration)

Not bad anyway...

cheers
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] __arock__:
Anyone know if there is any way to get the stock android keyboard on this thing? I can type a lot better on that than I can on the htc keyboard.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] ddarvish:
you will need to find the .apk somewhere. you can prob find it in any cyanogenmod build. but i think the sense keyboard is way better than froyo and about the same as the gingerbread keyboard
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] zer071:
I tried loading the gingerbread keyboard i can't get it to show up though even when its checked wth is going on? all i get is the htc keyboard very annoying anyone know how to get another keyboard to work?
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] CPCookieMan:
Long press an input box and choose input method to change keyboards.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] zer071:
Thanks! never worked that way on my droid so i was a lil confused
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] ddarvish:
do you mind posting the apk?
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] itsmikeramsay:
I believe you'll need root for it to work properly. Its a system .apk file which means it'll have to be in the system part of the phone. Especially if you pull it from a ROM like CM.

For those who may not know root gives you that access...Jamezelle will be releasing that tomorrow anyways. ...well today lol
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] bikeandestroyx:
You do not need root to use the gingerbread keyboard, just search 'gingerbread keyboard' in market theres a free and a paid version. Ive only tried the free one and it works great!
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] palomosan:
Go into the settings and check your settings for the Keyboard, this keyboard is much better than the stock one.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] trombone dixie:
There were a couple of versions of the Gingerbread keyboard floating around. One of which had bugs. I'd greatly appreciate someone posting the .apk for the working one.
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] trombone dixie:
Just tried both renamed Gingerbread keyboard on my TB and got FCs. Bummertown!
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] jeffnucci:
I have one that works for me. Also, the Gingerbread skin for Better Keyboard is excellent. I'll dropbox the apk and edit this post with the link.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2037686/gingerbreadkeyboard.apk Works on my rooted TBolt
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] Spaniard85:
Just thought I'd add in that I tried the multitouch keyboard from be Droid X/2 with no success.

Sent by a Thunderbolt...
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] orcsbane13:
Yeah, It's kinda strange. I pulled LatinIME.apk for cm 6.1( just because I prefer that keyboard) and had no but fc's. Didn't matter if I installed it or dropped it in /system
[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] ScoobarSTI:
I dont know if it's been said but I got the free Gingerbread Keyboard from the market and it's much nicer then the HTC one