Credit to: ScottGood
Original post:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4076155&postcount=4625
Reboot your phone to recovery console (home+power)
Enter recovery console alt+x
mount /data
cd data
cd misc
delete/move/rename the file akmd_set.txt (I deleted)
Reboot and wait (reboot takes longer this time)
The file will be recreated and life is good
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Fix the Multi-touch Browser issue
JesusFreke offers us some tips to fix multi-touch browser issue. Basically, if your browser's multi-touch is not working, goto Terminal Emulator and type in these commands:
su
mount -o rw,remount /system
rm /system/app/Browser.odex
reboot
su
mount -o rw,remount /system
rm /system/app/Browser.odex
reboot
Baksmali and Smali
Follow JesusFreke's post at his website http://jf.andblogs.net/
His baksmali (dex disassembler) and smali (dex assembler) is out!
His baksmali (dex disassembler) and smali (dex assembler) is out!
Monday, July 13, 2009
Upgrade your G1 android phone
Note: This post is always work in progress as I will update the latest and greatest details to make upgrades smoother! (:
The general problem with people who reads forum to get information on how to upgrade their G1 android phone is that either 1) Instructions are not complete, or 2) they don't follow the instructions step-by-step. Furthermore, they don't read up enough on how to recover their phone if the upgrade fails and suffer a major PANIC.
Fortunately for me, I have done my upgrades successfully insofar. Here is a compilation of the upgrade instructions for my personal filing purpose.
Good preparation is the key to success. Do all of these steps:
1. Prepare a microSD card reader.
2. Prepare a spare microSD card plus your primary microSD card. Your space microSD card can the stock 1GB card that comes with the phone.
3. For optimal results, have a class6 microSD card as your primary microSD card (the one that you are using on a daily basis).
4. If you have not already done so, partition your primary microSD card to:
The general problem with people who reads forum to get information on how to upgrade their G1 android phone is that either 1) Instructions are not complete, or 2) they don't follow the instructions step-by-step. Furthermore, they don't read up enough on how to recover their phone if the upgrade fails and suffer a major PANIC.
Fortunately for me, I have done my upgrades successfully insofar. Here is a compilation of the upgrade instructions for my personal filing purpose.
Note: Your phone must be ROOTed to try the upgrades.
Step 1: Prepare your InstallationGood preparation is the key to success. Do all of these steps:
1. Prepare a microSD card reader.
2. Prepare a spare microSD card plus your primary microSD card. Your space microSD card can the stock 1GB card that comes with the phone.
3. For optimal results, have a class6 microSD card as your primary microSD card (the one that you are using on a daily basis).
4. If you have not already done so, partition your primary microSD card to:
- First partition: FAT32 -
- Second partition: EXT2/EXT3 - about 500 to 750MB
- Linux SWAP/SWAP2: 32-96MB
- Radio (latest 2.22.19.26I - download from http://code.google.com/p/sapphire-port-dream/)
- Recovery Image file (recommend Cyanogen's 1.3.1 recovery image - download from http://n0rp.chemlab.org/android/cm-recovery-1.3.1-signed.zip)
- Haykuro SPL (require for flashing HERO ROMs, cupcake versions (e.g. Cyanogen's ROM) do not need this SPL) - (latest 1.33.2005 - download from http://code.google.com/p/sapphire-port-dream/)
- The ROM which you want to upgrade to (see and download from here - http://www.simonwalkerphotos.com/android/default.asp)
7. Check your G1 phone's motherboard version.
- Power-off your phone.
- Press and hold CAMERA button and POWER/CALL-OFF button at the same time.
- The bootloader SPL should load, and the first line of SPL should tell you that the android motherboard is PVT version. If it reads "DVT..", DO NOT flash Haykuro SPL!!! If you do, your phone will 100% be BRICKED.
8. BACKUP your files.
a. Download nandroid (read the pre-requisites and instructions here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459830 and download the file here http://dx.infernix.net/nandroid-2.0.zip). Use nandroid to backup your android phone's system fully (data.img, system.img and boot.img).
Alternatively, if you are already using JF 1.3 or Cyanogen's 1.3.1 recovery image, nandroid backup is available by doing a ALT-B at the recovery bootloader.
b. Download Backup for Root Users.apk from the Market. Use it to backup your installed apks, non-system data, market database, apn settings, browser bookmarks.
c. Update your ext2/ext3 partition manually to your desktop computer. Use these adb commands with usb connection:
- Backup:
adb remount
adb pull /system/sd/* path/to/backup/directory
- Restore:
adb remount
adb push pat/to/backup/directory/* /system/sd/
9. (Optional) Download the adb SDK and Fastboot Windows Binaries to your computer. If the upgrade fails, using this tool will be your fallback plan.
a. Fastboot Windows Binaries http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3083753&postcount=1
b. adb SDK - search around http://code.google.com/
Step 2 - Upgrading your Phone
WARNING: Follow this step-by-step. If you can't follow instructions, DO NOT waste your hard earned money and bricked your phone.
2.0 Battery Power
ENSURE your phone has ample battery power or is plug-in to AC power. Upgrade installation that is halted because of lack of power will corrupt the system!
2.1 - Upgrade your RADIO
1. Rename the Radio file to update.zip and copy it to the root directory of your backup microSD card.
2. Poweroff your phone.
3. Press and hold HOME and POWER/CALL-OFF button until you see your recovery bootloader.
4. Do a ALT-S. Once the RADIO update is done, do a ALT-R to reboot the phone.
5. Wait 5-10 minutes for the phone to reboot successful. Go to Settings > About phone > Baseband version. It should read "62.505.20.17H_2.22.19.26I".
6. If the phone DOES NOT reboot successful and is struck at your bootloader screen (e.g. T-mobile G1 splash screen or the android splash screen), goto the RECOVERY section of this document.
2.2 - Upgrade your RECOVERY IMAGE
1. If you have already upgrade to Cyanogen's 1.3.1 recovery image, you can skip this section.
2. If not, rename the recovery image (cm-recovery-1.3.1-signed.zip) file to update.zip and copy it to the root directory of your backup microSD card.
3. Poweroff your phone.
4. Press and hold HOME and POWER/CALL-OFF button until you see your recovery bootloader.
5. Do a ALT-S. Once the recovery bootloader update is done, do a ALT-R to reboot the phone.
6. If the phone DOES NOT reboot successful and is struck at your bootloader screen (e.g. T-mobile G1 splash screen or the android splash screen), goto the RECOVERY section of this document.
2.3 - Upgrade your SPL
1. Once again, only upgrade your SPL if your phone's motherboard is PVT version and your RADIO is 2.22.19.26I or later. If you have already upgrade your SPL, you can skip this section.
2. Rename the SPL image file to update.zip and copy it to the root directory of your backup microSD card.
3. Poweroff your phone.
4. Press and hold HOME and POWER/CALL-OFF button until you see your recovery bootloader.
5. If you are using your existing microSD card filled with data from a previous ROM installation, do a ALT-W to wipe your microSD card now.
6. Do a ALT-S.
7. Once the SPL update is done, do a ALT-R to reboot the phone.
8. If the phone DOES NOT reboot successful and is struck at your bootloader screen (e.g. T-mobile G1 splash screen or the android splash screen), goto the RECOVERY section of this document.
2.4 - Upgrade your ROM
1. DO NOT upgrade to a HERO 1.5 ROM without a working Haykuro SPL installed. Haykuro SPL is required to have extra space in bootloader to accommodate the HERO ROM.
2. Rename the ROM image file to update.zip and copy it to the root directory of your backup microSD card.
3. Poweroff your phone.
4. Press and hold HOME and POWER/CALL-OFF button until you see your recovery bootloader.
5. If you are using your existing microSD card filled with data from a previous ROM installation, do a ALT-W to wipe your microSD card now.
6. Do a ALT-S.
7. Once the ROM update is done, do a ALT-R to reboot the phone.
8. If the phone DOES NOT reboot successful and is struck at your bootloader screen (e.g. T-mobile G1 splash screen or the android splash screen), goto the RECOVERY section of this document.
RECOVERY section
If you are reading this section, it means either you did not follow instructions written above, or that you are one in a million. Anyway, no point to cry over spilt milk. Let's hope you have not bricked your phone.
Using gparted to create partitions on SD Card
Credit to: toeshot
Original post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4120608#post4120608
This is a guide to use gparted to re-size and add a new partition without having to reformat your entire SDcard.
gparted is installed by default in most Linux distributions now and this will work with all flavors of Linux, you may have just a couple of different quirks from the different distro's.
DISCLAIMER: I take no responsibility for lost or corrupted data that you may result from this procedure. I take no responsibility for corrupted and unusable SD card's that may result from this procedure.
What you will need:SD CardLinux/Linux LiveCD/DVD/SD Card Reader
INSTRUCTIONS
Ubuntu 8.10 Linux
Plug your SD card in, it should mount your partitions on the card.If you get an error saying you do not have permissions to mount this partition that is ok. It is the FAT32 partiton that didn't mount.
Open up a Terminal Shell (you can find this in Applications in Ubuntu or in System Tools in Fedora)
type mount in the terminal
$ mount
At the end of the list you will see a mount point something like this
/dev/sdb2 on /media/disk type ext3 (rw, noexec, nousid, nodev)
Take note of /dev/sdb2 the sdx is your SD Card. the x is the letter that is next in the device chain. sdx does not stand for SD Card, sdx is how linux Identifies SCSI, SCSI Emulated and SATA devices. USB devices are mounted as SCSI Emulated so if you had a SATA drive that would be sda and if you added a thumb drive that would be sdb. The number that follows that sequence is the partition number.
OK Lets move on.
In the terminal type
$ sudo gparted
This will open up the gparted software. In the upper right of the gparted window there is a drop down box, click on that and select your drive.We will do this step by step applying each action as we go it is possible to do them all at once but i like the step by step approach.
With your sd card selected from the drop down box right click on the FAT32 Partition (the green partition) and select resize from the list.
In the resize dialog box type in 288 in the box following Free Space Following (mib). When figuring out the swap size remeber that it is 1.5 times the ram and since the G1 has 192 ram it is 192 * 1.5 = 288
Click resize
Now click the apply button
After the resize has completed right click on the unallocated space (the gray space) and select new
In the Create New Partition in the filesystem dropdown box select linux-swap then click add then click apply
You now have 3 partitions on your SD Card without losing any data.
POSSIBLE ERRORS and FIXES
The new linux-swap partition didn't format
This occasionally happens, what gparted does is actually create the partition and then format it. Chances are that the partition was created but an error happened in formatting. Just rerun gparted and select the partition and reformat it.
FAT32 Partition won't resize
If there is a set of keys in front of the fat32 partition that means this partition is mounted and it needs to be unmounted to resize it. Right click on the keys and select unmount, then resize
Windows
You need to use Partition Magic and it works the same way. Sorry for the lack of instructions but I do not have Partition Magic anymore so I can not go into detail
Original post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4120608#post4120608
This is a guide to use gparted to re-size and add a new partition without having to reformat your entire SDcard.
gparted is installed by default in most Linux distributions now and this will work with all flavors of Linux, you may have just a couple of different quirks from the different distro's.
DISCLAIMER: I take no responsibility for lost or corrupted data that you may result from this procedure. I take no responsibility for corrupted and unusable SD card's that may result from this procedure.
What you will need:SD CardLinux/Linux LiveCD/DVD/SD Card Reader
INSTRUCTIONS
Ubuntu 8.10 Linux
Plug your SD card in, it should mount your partitions on the card.If you get an error saying you do not have permissions to mount this partition that is ok. It is the FAT32 partiton that didn't mount.
Open up a Terminal Shell (you can find this in Applications in Ubuntu or in System Tools in Fedora)
type mount in the terminal
$ mount
At the end of the list you will see a mount point something like this
/dev/sdb2 on /media/disk type ext3 (rw, noexec, nousid, nodev)
Take note of /dev/sdb2 the sdx is your SD Card. the x is the letter that is next in the device chain. sdx does not stand for SD Card, sdx is how linux Identifies SCSI, SCSI Emulated and SATA devices. USB devices are mounted as SCSI Emulated so if you had a SATA drive that would be sda and if you added a thumb drive that would be sdb. The number that follows that sequence is the partition number.
OK Lets move on.
In the terminal type
$ sudo gparted
This will open up the gparted software. In the upper right of the gparted window there is a drop down box, click on that and select your drive.We will do this step by step applying each action as we go it is possible to do them all at once but i like the step by step approach.
With your sd card selected from the drop down box right click on the FAT32 Partition (the green partition) and select resize from the list.
In the resize dialog box type in 288 in the box following Free Space Following (mib). When figuring out the swap size remeber that it is 1.5 times the ram and since the G1 has 192 ram it is 192 * 1.5 = 288
Click resize
Now click the apply button
After the resize has completed right click on the unallocated space (the gray space) and select new
In the Create New Partition in the filesystem dropdown box select linux-swap then click add then click apply
You now have 3 partitions on your SD Card without losing any data.
POSSIBLE ERRORS and FIXES
The new linux-swap partition didn't format
This occasionally happens, what gparted does is actually create the partition and then format it. Chances are that the partition was created but an error happened in formatting. Just rerun gparted and select the partition and reformat it.
FAT32 Partition won't resize
If there is a set of keys in front of the fat32 partition that means this partition is mounted and it needs to be unmounted to resize it. Right click on the keys and select unmount, then resize
Windows
You need to use Partition Magic and it works the same way. Sorry for the lack of instructions but I do not have Partition Magic anymore so I can not go into detail
HTC Hero ROM - remove locked screen
Credit to: DoCunnin2
Original post:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534479&page=187
Post #1864:
LockSCreen HAS Been Removed the htclockscreen.apkits in the system/sd/apps_s of the ext3 or ext2
FROM THE TERMINAL EMULATOR
$ su
# rm -r /system/sd/app_s/HtcLockScreen.apk
# rm -r /system/sd/app_s/HtcLockScreen.odex
must enter caps as is
THIS IS GREATTTT!!!!! it returns the SCREen to default Shows TMOBILEtimebattery percentagescreen lockedsame as in cupcake etc
Update - information from johnnylicious:
Original htc locked screen image: /system/etc/lockscreen/port/htc_wallpaper_01_lockscreen.jpg
Update - information from goldenarmZ:
htc lockscreen cached image - located at /data/misc/lockscreen
Original post:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534479&page=187
Post #1864:
LockSCreen HAS Been Removed the htclockscreen.apkits in the system/sd/apps_s of the ext3 or ext2
FROM THE TERMINAL EMULATOR
$ su
# rm -r /system/sd/app_s/HtcLockScreen.apk
# rm -r /system/sd/app_s/HtcLockScreen.odex
must enter caps as is
THIS IS GREATTTT!!!!! it returns the SCREen to default Shows TMOBILEtimebattery percentagescreen lockedsame as in cupcake etc
Update - information from johnnylicious:
Original htc locked screen image: /system/etc/lockscreen/port/htc_wallpaper_01_lockscreen.jpg
Update - information from goldenarmZ:
htc lockscreen cached image - located at /data/misc/lockscreen
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