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Here a question/idea... Slide 2.1/UI ---> MT3G?

So, I had a G1 prior to the MT3G. Back when we were all mad because 1.6 wasn't pushing yet, but could any day, we had threads goin waiting for a status from someone that they were getting the OTA. The first people that got it were over seas, UK I believe. Within hours, that version of 1.6 was pulled, posted, and we manually updated to it. If I remember correctly, there wasn't a need to root to run the TMo pushed 1.6. So, my question is, why couldn't someone pull 2.2 w/ UI, and then we install it, especially those of us with the perfect SPL. Is that possible, or is it prevented by hardware/firmware incompatiblities?
Any thoughts?
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Not quite sure i understand you, but a rom has to be made for each specific device. So with the g1 is t-mobile US didnt relelease 1.6 for g1 but t-mobile uk did then it didnt matter, same device it could just be flashed.
We have to wait for someone to release 2.1 rom for MT3G in any country before we get an official 2.1 rom, rather than aosp roms and ports

Jedipottsy said:
Not quite sure i understand you, but a rom has to be made for each specific device. So with the g1 is t-mobile US didnt relelease 1.6 for g1 but t-mobile uk did then it didnt matter, same device it could just be flashed.
We have to wait for someone to release 2.1 rom for MT3G in any country before we get an official 2.1 rom, rather than aosp roms and ports
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Gotcha. I wish I could root.
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knny1491 said:
Whats keeping you from rooting?
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I couldn't get the SDK to work, and that was after multiple tries and walk throughts. I did it without the SDK, nogo. It's a sandisk card as well... :/
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Is it failing driver downloads? I had to download htcsync everytime i setup sdk for the sdb drivers to install.
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knny1491 said:
Is it failing driver downloads? I had to download htcsync everytime i setup sdk for the sdb drivers to install.
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Even with HTCSync I couldn't get the drivers to work. I also tried on both a laptop and desktop. I got the numbers of the card using terminal on the phone, made the gold card, didn't work. Maybe that's because it's a sandisk, dunno...
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Not able to get android to work

Hi, so a guy from work asked if i would put android on his phone (hd2). He asked because I own a Samsung Vibrant and I was able to root and flash and have been doing so for a while. i have tried to get android working on his phone, but when i click on the haret file it says that the certificate was dumb or something similar to that and asked me to reinstall. Not sure what i am doing wrong. if someone would be so kind to help me threw putting an android os on his phone that would be outstanding. (sd android is what i was going for). lol. i dont even know if im wording this right.

For running Android from SD on an Offical WM ROM, that is normal. Just okay the warning messge and the Android will boot.
In order to get rid of the warning, you either have to flash with a custom WM ROM or better yet flash an Android ROM.

Alrighty. Thank you for the response.
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If you want Android on your HD2 you should just go for flashing to NAND rather then keeping windows (unless he still needs windows).

Is flashing to nand pretty easy to do? Yeah he doesn't care for windows so im sure he wont care. I mean I can do the research to figure it out too but advice is more than welcome.
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Is easy if you read the instructions and you know what to do

you guys helped me also...

Anything to look out for, for the first time anything that you wish someone would have said to you?
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Gibsonusa said:
Anything to look out for, for the first time anything that you wish someone would have said to you?
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You need to have hspl 2.08 and a radio that is 2.12 or higher.

X-play custom rom

Hi I'm new to the custom rom's and instead of searching through countless topics, mixing up instructions. I was wondering if I could get some directions.
Play is unrooted 2.3.3. I would like instructions on how to put a custom rom on the phone, and which custom rom would be recommended. Thanks in advance people.
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is your phone fastboot enabled? (does the notification light in the power button turn blue if you hold the search button and then connect the usb to computer?)

If you want a custom rom but dont want to search and read these forums, i give your phone a week before you brick it.

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If you want a custom rom but dont want to search and read these forums, i give your phone a week before you brick it.
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or we could help people within the comunity to understand what's out there, the risks involved and how to get around the problems that could arise? we all need things explaining to us once in a while.

Oh im sorry i see your point, it is always good to be helpful, i am trying to be helpful as well when i say you should search and read, i mean look at all the countless threads where people didnt want to read, theres like 3 help im bricked threads per page.

lol. i know what you mean. and i know it can be frustrating. it's just a shame that the play is so much more complicated than the x10 that i was previously on. it was all flashtool and update.zip stuff. practically unbrickable!! loved it. fastboot and adb complicate things, and i feel that some of the tutorials can be a little confusing to total noobs. so we need to be accomodating to their lack of knowledge (i hardly know anything, so i'm still quite noobish), but also, people need to accept their own actions and consequences. not sure what i'm getting at now, but things need to be simpler for people who want to start out

Actually the way of installation is exactly the same for any custom ROM in this phone.
1) unlock your bootloader, either for free if you bought a factory unlocked phone or for some cash sending Alejandrissimo a PM, which you have to use if your phone is branded and/or Sim locked. You only need to do this step once.
2) install a custom kernel. There are two: DoomLord's kernel and the Cyanogen Mod kernel. The latter allows you only to install CM7. Doom's allows you to install the others.
3) Enter in Clockwork Mod recovery and install the ROM you prefer as long as your kernel of choice supports it.
As to which ROM you should pick, I use CM7 because it's stable and fast. Visit those threads and see for yourself which is the one you like best.

my personal favorite (until cm7 became more usable, and also because i like dooms kernel) was zerojay's aptly named zerorom. it's a very clean and fast sony based rom full of optimizations and tweaks. i'm currently trying out the FXP028 release of cm7 to see if it's more to my liking than it was in previous releases.

Unfortunately locked to Rogers. Is there a free way of unlocking the bootloader and how?
Again I'm currently running 2.3.3 nonrooted. Had it rooted on 2. 3. 2. but ofcourse lost it with update.
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8ballhacker said:
Unfortunately locked to Rogers. Is there a free way of unlocking the bootloader and how?
Again I'm currently running 2.3.3 nonrooted. Had it rooted on 2. 3. 2. but ofcourse lost it with update.
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No there isnt.
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If you want root get wantonserver and flash na generic 2.3.2 root it with gingerbreak and then ota update to 2.3.3+

AndroHero said:
No there isnt.
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well, one free way could be if you could swap a branded phone to someone who doesnt care and has a generic model

solitarymonkey said:
well, one free way could be if you could swap a branded phone to someone who doesnt care and has a generic model
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True, but paying $20 dollars to get it unlocked sounds like less of a pain in the ass
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Bump, has anyone been able to get Cyanogen mod onto the Rogers r800a? This locked boot loader is really causing me grief. Have the phone rooted, cwr is installed as well as busy Box. Getting closer, but still no cigar.

mcorbeil said:
Bump, has anyone been able to get Cyanogen mod onto the Rogers r800a? This locked boot loader is really causing me grief. Have the phone rooted, cwr is installed as well as busy Box. Getting closer, but still no cigar.
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You can flash CM7, but i doubt it will boot with stock kernel.
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AndroHero said:
You can flash CM7, but i doubt it will boot with stock kernel.
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Just to confirm, without the proper Kernel I am more than likely to brick my play? Many Thanks!

mcorbeil said:
Just to confirm, without the proper Kernel I am more than likely to brick my play? Many Thanks!
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You won't brick it, if kernel is incompatible device with either not boot, or bootloop, flahing stock rom with flashtool will fix it though.
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install ICS on Note on MAC??

Hi im trying to install ics on my galaxy note im on a mac i have tried heimdall every time i point a firmware towards it fails something about xml data mismatch.. Has anyone flashed there note with ics on a mac if so how plz could some one guide me ?? Thanks in Advance......
UPDATE this is what heimdall spits out when i point a firmware--> Tar header contained an invalid file size.<--

ive used heimdall for mac also same result....dunno what to do ..i just wanna root so i can kill some samsung bloaware.....

MrSlippyFist said:
ive used heimdall for mac also same result....dunno what to do ..i just wanna root so i can kill some samsung bloaware.....
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i just went and wasted two bloody hours on bootcamp installed windows 7 half the bloody drivers where missing no network driver couldn't connect to the net i.just got pissed off i deleted it dam this is driving me mad i need ICS ASAP..
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How I Installed ICS on my Note
I had a lot of trouble getting ICS on my Note using my Mac. I gave up on Heimdall, and just ran Windows 7 in Bootcamp so I could flash directly rootable firmware to my Note using Odin. After that, I switched back to Mac OS X and used the whole zergRush exploit I found in the Galaxy Note wiki to root. Then I used Mobile Odin Pro to flash the ics repack, and finally cwm to flash the ics stunner beta. It took forever to get the whole thing set up, but it was worth it. if you have anymore questions just ask.
P.S. I still have no idea how to get Heimdall to work, sorry

this is bunch of bollocks....i dont have access to bootcamp cant run..it...also i saw that stunner rom that **** is really nice i like that one ...i may endup paying someone locally ...

this is what really irritates me with android the complexity of it all, if this was ios it would be a piece of piss and work on both sides, no disrespect to the devs on here but if the yanks where doing all the dev work for android it would be simpler ,but as its the europeans doing most of the dev work it seems like hard work again, no disrespect to the guys i appreciate their work whole heartedly

thebz1 said:
I had a lot of trouble getting ICS on my Note using my Mac. I gave up on Heimdall, and just ran Windows 7 in Bootcamp so I could flash directly rootable firmware to my Note using Odin. After that, I switched back to Mac OS X and used the whole zergRush exploit I found in the Galaxy Note wiki to root. Then I used Mobile Odin Pro to flash the ics repack, and finally cwm to flash the ics stunner beta. It took forever to get the whole thing set up, but it was worth it. if you have anymore questions just ask.
P.S. I still have no idea how to get Heimdall to work, sorry
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Dam dude thats a massive process ICS Stunner looks gorgeous i have given up today maybe tomorrow thanks for that

MrSlippyFist said:
this is bunch of bollocks....i dont have access to bootcamp cant run..it...also i saw that stunner rom that **** is really nice i like that one ...i may endup paying someone locally ...
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Did you look in Utilities Folder ???? Thats where bootcamp is located dude...

treble4 said:
this is what really irritates me with android the complexity of it all, if this was ios it would be a piece of piss and work on both sides, no disrespect to the devs on here but if the yanks where doing all the dev work for android it would be simpler ,but as its the europeans doing most of the dev work it seems like hard work again, no disrespect to the guys i appreciate their work whole heartedly
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So why don't the yanks contribute any ****? Too lazy to get off their asses or too dumb?
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For me the best solution was to use MOBILE ODIN ($4.99) from the Google Play store.

@Class said:
For me the best solution was to use MOBILE ODIN ($4.99) from the Google Play store.
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Are you rooted ???
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Zamboney said:
So why don't the yanks contribute any ****? Too lazy to get off their asses or too dumb?
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I think the USA devs must be more ios users... that's why we haven't got many devs from the states..
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N1NJATH3ORY said:
Are you rooted ???
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Mobile Odin Pro requires root, so you need root first, that was the hardest part of my process.

That's the problem. We just wanna root on a mac... That's all... Help. Xda. Gods
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hi,
The better option to root, upgrade, etc... your phone using apple macintosh is using: bootcamp or virtual machine... I used vmware fusion and windows 7 pro! Can instal in virtual machine Linux too.
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N1NJATH3ORY said:
I think the USA devs must be more ios users... that's why we haven't got many devs from the states..
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exactly this we need our own musclenerd posixninja and such like

Can you believe this garbage i managed to get a windows 7 laptop then i headed over to rootgalaxynote.com to root my galaxy note... i downloaded his one click root program connected the phone hit the root application the root program has messed up my phone i cant make calls and i cant connect to mobile data networks ?? Has any one else had this problem if so what do i need to do to get my note back to making calls ?? Also it didnt root my phone this really sucks people

N1NJATH3ORY said:
Can you believe this garbage i managed to get a windows 7 laptop then i headed over to rootgalaxynote.com to root my galaxy note... i downloaded his one click root program connected the phone hit the root application the root program has messed up my phone i cant make calls and i cant connect to mobile data networks ?? Has any one else had this problem if so what do i need to do to get my note back to making calls ?? Also it didnt root my phone this really sucks people
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You have to reflash using Odin
Don't forget to wipe cache and make a factory reset
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treble4 said:
exactly this we need our own musclenerd posixninja and such like
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Yeah true but you do no the brits they dont like working for free??? Money talks LOL

gominolo2002 said:
hi,
The better option to root, upgrade, etc... your phone using apple macintosh is using: bootcamp or virtual machine... I used vmware fusion and windows 7 pro! Can instal in virtual machine Linux too.
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im just installing vmware Fusion 4 ill let you know how i get on thanks

Custom Recovery!?

Hey all,
Just got the Continuum, and I see Dutta didn't make a CWM recovery for it...
So I know I can Google it, and I kind of did, but is anyone willing to help me out?
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Read through the rest of the forum there is one for pretty much every build of this phone.
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No need to google, just Do not use rom manager...
And....
What build is ur continnie on?

That's exactly what I was using Lol... Well I used z4 and then SuperOneClick, the latter tells me I'm rooted, I did it like three times, because I read you have to do it twice... I have SuperUser so, I'm thinking I'm rooted, I gave this a break though, otherwise I'd have downloaded like Barnacle and tried to use that.
It's on what Samsung gave it, 2.1 Eclair, and it's slow as hell. Right now, it powers off following boot, not sure why, but I looked into Odin-ing, lots of dead links, and Windows 7 in Parallels doesn't detect it in Downloading.... Mode, so I think I need a legit PC.... I won't be revisiting this for at least a few days, no rush, but thanks for thee replies!
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jimmyco2008 said:
That's exactly what I was using Lol... Well I used z4 and then SuperOneClick, the latter tells me I'm rooted, I did it like three times, because I read you have to do it twice... I have SuperUser so, I'm thinking I'm rooted, I gave this a break though, otherwise I'd have downloaded like Barnacle and tried to use that.
It's on what Samsung gave it, 2.1 Eclair, and it's slow as hell. Right now, it powers off following boot, not sure why, but I looked into Odin-ing, lots of dead links, and Windows 7 in Parallels doesn't detect it in Downloading.... Mode, so I think I need a legit PC.... I won't be revisiting this for at least a few days, no rush, but thanks for thee replies!
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I suggest reading the forum. There are some different themes, mods and tweaked roms for each build level. Some are complete other not so much so reading is essential so you don't brick your phone.
Here is a good place to start. the Odin file here downloads and is what I use. Some of the links are broken if they are ask and someone should be able to fix the link or get you the file directly. (I have folders dedicated to the two builds I have worked from either ec09 or eg04).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1316769
and another in case you ever decide to take the leap to eg04, the program here is essential for changing softkeys.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1250684

I have the tar file if you want me to send you it, then just go into download mode and flash it and you will have cwm.
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