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JUST picked up my Vibrant....

I'm very torn. I have been using a myTouch for the past year and loved it. The guys in the G1 forum have been awesome and my phone was modded about as extreme as possible.
But now I have this beauty. Its so pretty and runs so smooth out of the box. Do I root right away or enjoy the bloatware for a bit?
Anything I should check out right away?

do whatever you want to. can't go wrong either way. (rooting is extremely easy)

There is an awesome sticky at the top of this forum. I suggest you start there

All~G1 said:
There is an awesome sticky at the top of this forum. I suggest you start there
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dang it....go to a forum enough and you skim right over the stickies.
Thanks!
PS: I'm no stranger to rooting. I played with the bloated stuff for a solid half hour. I'm over it now.
Time to root!

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PS: I'm no stranger to rooting.
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You know the rules and so do I.
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rudeguy said:
dang it....go to a forum enough and you skim right over the stickies.
Thanks!
Ps: I'm no stranger to rooting. I played with the bloated stuff for a solid half hour. I'm over it now.
Time to root!
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root root! :d

Just picked mine up today. Had a mytouch 3G rooted the day I got it. Did the same with my new beast! Played with it stock for a few hours and then rooted!
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I too just picked up a Vibrant today. Coming from a Sprint HTC Hero. Haven't rooted yet. Will be in the next couple of days. Loving the phone so far.

good to see folks switching over

And I think I already borked it. Did I do something bad if when installing clockwork, I chose to partition?
After the boot logo, I just get a black screen. I even tried Odin and that didn't work???

You're not supposed to partition with clockwork. When u do that ur partitioning, ur partitioning internal and not SD card. There's a thread about it for a brick. Find it.
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zephiK said:
You're not supposed to partition with clockwork. When u do that ur partitioning, ur partitioning internal and not SD card. There's a thread about it for a brick. Find it.
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Thanks! I foung the thread. I'll give it a whirl when I get home.

[Q] How to disable Hands Free Activation?

Hands free activation is timing out and not working. I programmed my # and msid manually, so there's no need for this **** to keep popping up and running in the background.. is there something specific I need to do to kill this?
Well, ****, it worked when I turned on Wi-Fi!

let the activation go through it should ask you to reboot or just stop
you can always root and remove it...idk what apk it uses
what about flashing your phone with stock?

I am having this problem too. Sorry if this is thread resurrection.
It would seem that unlike the Hero, it is not omadm.apk (not present).

Ressurection of old threads is the third leading cause of male rabbit impotency.
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my epic touch is on boost mobile and mine keeps doing the same **** just random it goes into hands free and its KILLING ME SMALLS! some PLEASE ADVISE thanks

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Ressurection of old threads is the third leading cause of male rabbit impotency.
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People on XDA make absolutely no god damn sense. If a user ressurects an old thread you give him **** for it. If he posts a new thread you give him **** for posting a thread that already exists. Aka people on XDA seem to find ways to act like dicks no matter what people do.
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People on XDA make absolutely no god damn sense. If a user ressurects an old thread you give him **** for it. If he posts a new thread you give him **** for posting a thread that already exists. Aka people on XDA seem to find ways to act like dicks no matter what people do.
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Yep! :\ mlm
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This has been answered time and time again, nonetheless someone else is going to ask in the future, I just hope they google this and end up reading the solution on this thread.
To "disable" hands-free activation (handy for those on alternate carriers) UNINSTALL systemupdates.apk
Yes, you need to be rooted. Yes you need a root uninstall app to remove it. Yes, you can use a rooted file manager and manually remove it.
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Shinydude100 said:
This has been answered time and time again, nonetheless someone else is going to ask in the future, I just hope they google this and end up reading the solution on this thread.
To "disable" hands-free activation (handy for those on alternate carriers) UNINSTALL systemupdates.apk
Yes, you need to be rooted. Yes you need a root uninstall app to remove it. Yes, you can use a rooted file manager and manually remove it.
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thanks for the lead but ive been trying all day to get to the systemupdates.apk i have the ES FILE EXPLORER but i cant find it ??? PLEASE ADVISE and thanks

sdwyz74 said:
thanks for the lead but ive been trying all day to get to the systemupdates.apk i have the ES FILE EXPLORER but i cant find it ??? PLEASE ADVISE and thanks
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Find root uninstaller in the android market, look under the system apps, it'll be in red. It'll look like a green circular icon with a white check in the middle.
Also, I believe it's in system/app
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Shinydude100 said:
This has been answered time and time again, nonetheless someone else is going to ask in the future, I just hope they google this and end up reading the solution on this thread.
To "disable" hands-free activation (handy for those on alternate carriers) UNINSTALL systemupdates.apk
Yes, you need to be rooted. Yes you need a root uninstall app to remove it. Yes, you can use a rooted file manager and manually remove it.
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BIG THANKS TO YOU MAN but i must say this is a nightmare it turned out on my my Epic Touch S2 that it was a different APK DeviceManagement.apk thanks and this worked for me on my Sprint Galaxy S E4T

sdwyz74 said:
BIG THANKS TO YOU MAN but i must say this is a nightmare it turned out on my my Epic Touch S2 that it was a different APK DeviceManagement.apk thanks and this worked for me on my Sprint Galaxy S E4T
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No prob, and yeah, I had another thread stating that newer builds had it renamed. Even the original epic has the apk renamed from leaked FB15 and onwards to devicemanagement.apk as you said.
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Have a bricked vibrant?

Email me I will walk you threw it every step of the way day or night
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Thegreat520 said:
Email me I will walk you threw it every step of the way day or night
[email protected]
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This is nice. I'm sure it's appreciated.

presence06 said:
This is nice. I'm sure it's appreciated.
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I hope so ive fixed atleast 15 different bricks lol people send me their phones from all over the world if I cant fix it over some emails
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Maybe you can add all the different ways that people are successfully recovering their Vibrant through.

My only question is about the drivers it takes to run odin as I'm buying a laptop next week and I think it would be a good idea to set it up
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willsnews said:
My only question is about the drivers it takes to run odin as I'm buying a laptop next week and I think it would be a good idea to set it up
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You just need to make sure you have your Samsung USB Drivers and as far as I know that should be enough. Might need busybox and ADB as well but not sure about that. Check out the Odin tutorials on this forum.

yeah the usb drivers is that in odin or a separate download I'm on my phone now and the search in the mobile app is not accurate a lot
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willsnews said:
yeah the usb drivers is that in odin or a separate download I'm on my phone now and the search in the mobile app is not accurate a lot
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Its a seperate download odin just comes with odin and maybe the pit file depenending on where u get odin from
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willsnews said:
yeah the usb drivers is that in odin or a separate download I'm on my phone now and the search in the mobile app is not accurate a lot
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Go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771111 and look for Odin and USB and it will take you to the things you need. And if you want the Pit file look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=810130&highlight=Pit+Odin

Just trying to keep this thread alive
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Well I bricked my vibrant after trying to do a Nand restore....I was coming from obsidian V3 and going back to Macnut R10....Everything seemed to go great until my vibrant got stuck at a screen that says vibrant for a second then switches right to the Galaxy S GTI9000 screen and then I get nothing afterward....I don't have the 3 button download mode so I can't do an odin restore(and yes I have searched youtube, these forums and several others for answers before asking for help today)....I was thinking about buying that modded micro-usb adaptor to force download mode...Or should I just throw in towel and beg tmo to send me another one? I would love to fix the problem myself but, I really don't see any other way... And now I have to painfully use my JB'd iphone 3G with Edge....Any suggestions folks? Oh and I'm not a rookie...been flashing roms since the G1 (well technically since the tytn) Not a pro....but not a rookie

Vision77 said:
Well I bricked my vibrant after trying to do a Nand restore....I was coming from obsidian V3 and going back to Macnut R10....Everything seemed to go great until my vibrant got stuck at a screen that says vibrant for a second then switches right to the Galaxy S GTI9000 screen and then I get nothing afterward....I don't have the 3 button download mode so I can't do an odin restore(and yes I have searched youtube, these forums and several others for answers before asking for help today)....I was thinking about buying that modded micro-usb adaptor to force download mode...Or should I just throw in towel and beg tmo to send me another one? I would love to fix the problem myself but, I really don't see any other way... And now I have to painfully use my JB'd iphone 3G with Edge....Any suggestions folks? Oh and I'm not a rookie...been flashing roms since the G1 (well technically since the tytn) Not a pro....but not a rookie
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Email me [email protected]
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It's official!

I finally rooted my incredible, now which ROM should I use?? And why? But how come it takes up so Much space? Cause it seem to took alot
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Android_Believer said:
I finally rooted my incredible, now which ROM should I use?? And why? But how come it takes up so Much space? Cause it seem to took alot
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Dude seriously unroot it.

please read up before you flash anything or do anything else. we don't want another "help i'm bricked!!wtf android suxx!!" thread

I'm taking bets now on how long until he posts in "android development" with the title "I bricked my phone".
I will also take bets on whether or not said phone is actually bricked.
Bricked sounds like a funny word to me...

Actually I've already tried about 4 different ROMs and know how to do it properly so yall can take that and shove it up yalls asses! I didn't join this forum to get hated on, and I sure as Hell don't enjoy it. So, speculate before hate. Thanks!
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Yeah I don't know why people have to be that way. Everybody is a newbie at some time. Try Cyanogen nightlies number 2 its gingerbread and definitely my favorite as of right now.
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Did you figure out why it takes up so much space? Downloading Roms take space and so do back ups. Just remember to clear out your clockwordmod download folder every once in awhile.
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Whats taking up so much space??

g00s3y said:
I'm taking bets now on how long until he posts in "android development" with the title "I bricked my phone".
I will also take bets on whether or not said phone is actually bricked.
Bricked sounds like a funny word to me...
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Brick killed a guy...

MyPhoneIsBlue said:
Brick killed a guy...
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...might wanna lay low for awhile...
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Use cm7.
What's "so much space"?
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First things to do with new zoom.

Hello guys and gals. I'm excited to get my zoom in the mail tomorrow from verizon. So I'm reading up on these forums to understand where everyone is at. I'm asking if any one would would he willing to give a quick check list of first things I should do when I get it. Then I can do some research based on your feed back and get it all set up. Thanks.
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Download flash player from the market , then set your browser to on demand in the settings. Get feedly for your google reader or pulse, but I prefer feedly as it's much snapier. Download plume for tablet and friend caster for tablets.

Torrentula81 said:
Hello guys and gals. I'm excited to get my zoom in the mail tomorrow from verizon. So I'm reading up on these forums to understand where everyone is at. I'm asking if any one would would he willing to give a quick check list of first things I should do when I get it. Then I can do some research based on your feed back and get it all set up. Thanks.
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First, try and get the name right... ;|

jondwillis said:
First, try and get the name right... ;|
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Lol, now that's a bit ugly. Zoom zoom xoom

get portfolio case =P and i get google+ asap

download dolphin for pad. Better than stock browser.

LOL, typo. I really asked thinking I would be rooting it right away like I did with my Droid X. I probly will though. Just can't leave thing alone. So really I'm just looking at different methods that are out there. One click would be nice.
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Torrentula81 said:
LOL, typo. I really asked thinking I would be rooting it right away like I did with my Droid X. I probly will though. Just can't leave thing alone. So really I'm just looking at different methods that are out there. One click would be nice.
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One click is to much steps(irony right?)....
Do the catch recovery before reboot method which is really simple and easy. You get root and recovery at the same time.

Kippui said:
One click is to much steps(irony right?)....
Do the catch recovery before reboot method which is really simple and easy. You get root and recovery at the same time.
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Would you happen to have a link to follow steps? Very helpful thanks.
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Torrentula81 said:
Would you happen to have a link to follow steps? Very helpful thanks.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1078019
I used this method, quick and easy.

First thing, right out of the box, root that puppy and install the latest Tiamat ROM.

Kippui said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1078019
I used this method, quick and easy.
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WiFi only version. Using verizon zoom. I gather that means its The 3g version people are talking about. I'm browsing the developers section still.
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Sistema1927 said:
First thing, right out of the box, root that puppy and install the latest Tiamat ROM.
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Play with your xoom for a while then this. I would install the tiamat rom but I don't want to wipe my xoom.

I've decided to skip roms and tiamat or whatever. Looking at threads some are WiFi version only. Then some are different firmware version. I just want stock Verizon with whatever current version its at instructions. It's just to big of a mess for me to spend time digging through literally hundreds of posts researching on what should be closed threads restarted with fresh instructions. Not 4 month old threads. I'll just root adb, use setcpu, and wait for 3.2 uupdate. Then ill join in since ill know where other people are starting from.
It really is a mess. With my Droid x it was simple. A few ways to gain root and all the Roms nicely laid out ripe for the picking. Instruction clearly labled if you have firmware xxx do this, xxy do this. No wonder people are afraid to root. I am, now.
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Ok I can't quit that easy. Looked at xoomforums. I think my whole problem was forum layout. Viewing this forum on their premium app jumbled everything together. Seeing everything laid out rom, kernels, ect, much easier. I'll go with launchpad 1.3 then try tiamat. At least I don't feel lost. As long I'm not browsing through their app.
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There you go. That's what a productive person does, finds ways and doesn't sit and cry.