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This was one of the dumbest posts in the thread, I'm sure. Carry on. 
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LastInLine posted:You can delete APKs you don't need and any ringtone you want without any harm at all, go hog wild. You could also take them out of the zip but it's easier if you're going to be flashing CM7 a lot (like nightlies) to just make a removal script that you can flash that deletes them. (I have one if you need it.) Basically anything that I never use, which really isn't helpful to you I'm sure. Things like Browser (I replace it with dolphin anyway), dsp manager, and a handful of other apps whose names are escaping me right now.
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Oct 8, 2011 15:39
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nickhimself posted:Basically anything that I never use, which really isn't helpful to you I'm sure. Things like Browser (I replace it with dolphin anyway), dsp manager, and a handful of other apps whose names are escaping me right now. You probably don't want to remove the stock Browser, since even third-party browsers use its download manager. and you won't be able to download files from Dolphin without the stock browser APK. I tried it once and downloading only led to FCs until it was restored. A lot of other apps (dsp, email, ADW if you have another launcher installed, ROM Manager, etc) can be removed safely, but make sure you keep a backup of the browser if you try that. This may have changed since then, but it was definitely early Gingerbread where I tried this.
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Oct 8, 2011 16:05
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Penguissimo posted:You probably don't want to remove the stock Browser, since even third-party browsers use its download manager. and you won't be able to download files from Dolphin without the stock browser APK. I tried it once and downloading only led to FCs until it was restored. A lot of other apps (dsp, email, ADW if you have another launcher installed, ROM Manager, etc) can be removed safely, but make sure you keep a backup of the browser if you try that. Works fine for me without the stock browser, running 2.3.4.
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Oct 8, 2011 16:28
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SplitSoul posted:Works fine for me without the stock browser, running 2.3.4. Yeah, I have no problems without the stock browser. I use TiBu to remove the stuff I don't want right now. If something breaks my system then I always have a backup to restore from. Realizing I don't NEED some "essential" apps really helps as well. Like uninstalling Facebook and just using the mobile website. I hate how the Facebook app basically demands access to everything and if you try to restrict it it FC's. gently caress Facebook. I realized that I really only liked it because of the contact picture syncing but then remembered that having pictures with contacts isn't at all important because I know what all of my friends look like.
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Oct 8, 2011 17:27
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nickhimself posted:Basically anything that I never use, which really isn't helpful to you I'm sure. Things like Browser (I replace it with dolphin anyway), dsp manager, and a handful of other apps whose names are escaping me right now.
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Oct 8, 2011 17:46
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SplitSoul posted:Works fine for me without the stock browser, running 2.3.4. Sweet, that's good to know.
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Oct 8, 2011 17:57
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LastInLine posted:I had to type up instructions for that removal script in a different thread so here it is. Just edit the script to remove what you'd like (it's pretty self-evident what to do) and re-sign it using the linked app. No more needing to edit things over and over. This is awesome, thanks!
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Oct 8, 2011 19:49
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Vaporware posted:I just noticed my video recorder sound seems to be broken, is that a known N1 nightly issue? This turned out to be a hardware issue.
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Oct 8, 2011 20:06
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Just to follow up, I installed CM7 on my SGSII, and it was running perfectly, but I found out there's a bug where the mic doesn't work. For a couple days I only took calls while I was using my headset, so it didn't matter, but yesterday I had a bunch of client calls that I took on the phone mic itself, and no one could hear me. Looking at XDA it appears to be a bug, so I rolled back to the regular Samsung ROM with Touchwiz. Honestly, it's not bad at all. I installed GoLauncher, and there's really nothing I'm missing from CM7 (which I used GoLauncher on anyways). The only features I missed where the new ring lockscreen (which is easily fixed with Widget Locker) and lockscreen gestures (which you can sort of duplicate with GoLauncher dock gestures. The dialer and contact lists from Samsung are fantastic, and the OS in general is super slick and snappy. Once CM7 goes to CM9 with ICS I may consider changing back, but for now I'm very happy with Touchwiz.
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Oct 9, 2011 04:18
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ExcessBLarg! posted:It's a Nexus S. The "root method" is to politely ask the phone to unlock itself "pretty please!" which it will then gladly do. Always has, always will. I'm interested in this. What do you mean 'you ask it unlock itself to root it'? I recently got a Nexus S and have been looking around on how to get access to the superser in a terminal emulator.
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Oct 9, 2011 06:06
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Santa is strapped posted:I'm interested in this. What do you mean 'you ask it unlock itself to root it'? I recently got a Nexus S and have been looking around on how to get access to the superser in a terminal emulator. You need to unlock the boot loader. The trouble is its a pain in the arse to get the PC software to talk to the phone (at least on the international i9023), and the unlock process wipes the device.
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Oct 9, 2011 06:10
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So, everything on my Vibrant just updated-- apps, even Superuser, Flash (didn't know I had it)... Settings screen says my phone is at 2.2, any ideas what happened?
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Oct 9, 2011 06:17
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dissss posted:You need to unlock the boot loader. The trouble is its a pain in the arse to get the PC software to talk to the phone (at least on the international i9023), and the unlock process wipes the device. Sweet, I'll look into it.
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Oct 9, 2011 06:18
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aude omnia posted:So, everything on my Vibrant just updated-- apps, even Superuser, Flash (didn't know I had it)... Settings screen says my phone is at 2.2, any ideas what happened? Do you mean in the Market? Or via an OTA? What version of Android were you running before? It's a little unclear what you're saying.
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Oct 9, 2011 06:18
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They updated in the market. It's not like I never connect my phone to wifi. Like, this Gmail update, has this been around? It's rooted and has been on Froyo.
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Oct 9, 2011 06:37
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Just to follow up, I installed CM7 on my SGSII, and it was running perfectly, but I found out there's a bug where the mic doesn't work. For a couple days I only took calls while I was using my headset, so it didn't matter, but yesterday I had a bunch of client calls that I took on the phone mic itself, and no one could hear me. Looking at XDA it appears to be a bug, so I rolled back to the regular Samsung ROM with Touchwiz. Honestly, it's not bad at all. I installed GoLauncher, and there's really nothing I'm missing from CM7 (which I used GoLauncher on anyways). The only features I missed where the new ring lockscreen (which is easily fixed with Widget Locker) and lockscreen gestures (which you can sort of duplicate with GoLauncher dock gestures. The dialer and contact lists from Samsung are fantastic, and the OS in general is super slick and snappy. Once CM7 goes to CM9 with ICS I may consider changing back, but for now I'm very happy with Touchwiz. I very much agree. I haven't even felt the need to flash a custom TW rom. Just a rooted stock kernal and that's it.
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Oct 9, 2011 08:11
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dissss posted:You need to unlock the boot loader. The trouble is its a pain in the arse to get the PC software to talk to the phone (at least on the international i9023), and the unlock process wipes the device. It's easy once you read this: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=16777 Took me a few hours to figure out.
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Oct 9, 2011 10:06
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Santa is strapped posted:What do you mean 'you ask it unlock itself to root it'? A few notes: Running "fastboot oem unlock" wipes all data on the phone. Sorry, that's the breaks. If you were rooted you could backup all that data first, but since there's no other exploit that works on recently-upgraded Nexus S that I'm aware, you lose in the chicken and egg battle here. I believe you have to use ClockworkMod (or another test-keys) recovery to install Superuser, but you shouldn't have to flash it if you'd rather keep stock recovery. Instead of the "fastboot flash ..." command you should be able to do: code:Also, custom kernels are cool. I think "Lucid" is the one everyone likes for the Nexus S, if for nothing more than blinking notifications. If you do end up installing a custom kernel, definitely do make a ClockworkMod backup of the stock system first and save it.
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Oct 9, 2011 17:14
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Santa is strapped posted:I'm interested in this. What do you mean 'you ask it unlock itself to root it'? I recently got a Nexus S and have been looking around on how to get access to the superser in a terminal emulator. I don't know what that guy is talking about but unlocking and rooting the Nexus S is really really easy. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1250583
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Oct 9, 2011 18:33
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IRQ posted:I don't know what that guy is talking about but unlocking and rooting the Nexus S is really really easy. If you'd read the post right above yours, you'd know exactly what "that guy" is talking about, especially since his original point was also that rooting and unlocking the NS is really easy.
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Oct 9, 2011 18:47
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This week's MIUI update for the EVO 3D is incredibly stable and smooth. Last week's fixed most of my problems, and this week's fixed the last one - no need to change the DPI to 270 to get properly aligned widgets and lockscreens. No 3D support for viewing yet (can capture in 3D), and no 4G, but this ROM is so goddamned smooth I can't imaging going back to CM or Sense. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1271824 If you're not on MIUI and want to try, nandroid, wipe everything and flash this one. It's easily my favorite ROM.
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Oct 9, 2011 19:44
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SLOSifl posted:This week's MIUI update for the EVO 3D is incredibly stable and smooth. Last week's fixed most of my problems, and this week's fixed the last one - no need to change the DPI to 270 to get properly aligned widgets and lockscreens. And for those of us without 4G coverage 3D is the only thing lacking. The only question I have is if it's possible to get Sprint Visual Voicemail back on MIUI? It's kind of essential for me.
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Oct 9, 2011 19:54
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Stunt Rock posted:And for those of us without 4G coverage 3D is the only thing lacking. The only question I have is if it's possible to get Sprint Visual Voicemail back on MIUI? It's kind of essential for me. * If you don't have a reason to skip Google Voice integration on Sprint, it's very useful in a lot of situations. Calls, voicemail and texting from tablets and the computer and group filtering, customizable call screening, etc. And it works out of the box on any Android device so there is no worry about finding a carrier specific app for custom ROMs. edit: Depending on which devices are turned on in my house, I get up to 4 notifications of a text/call/voicemail, and because of that I don't even keep my phone nearby when I'm at home. It's great. SLOSifl fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Oct 9, 2011 |
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Oct 9, 2011 19:59
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SLOSifl posted:This week's MIUI update for the EVO 3D is incredibly stable and smooth. Last week's fixed most of my problems, and this week's fixed the last one - no need to change the DPI to 270 to get properly aligned widgets and lockscreens. I keep seeing "nandroid backup" tossed about on various forums, and by this time I think I have a fairly good idea as to what it is, but I haven't seen a good explanation as to how to do it. I did find a post that pretty much asked the same question, but for a Motorola phone. Is it really as simple as booting into fastboot or CWM and choosing "backup..."?
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Oct 9, 2011 20:01
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Penguissimo posted:If you'd read the post right above yours, you'd know exactly what "that guy" is talking about, especially since his original point was also that rooting and unlocking the NS is really easy. Yeah, I don't see the need for the hostility there. What I posted is far easier anyway.
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Oct 9, 2011 20:06
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Yeah, you boot into Clockwork/TWRP/any custom recovery and use the backup option. I do not know if nandroid backups are tied to the recovery that they were created with, but I think they are. If you're rooted already, you can use ROM Manager to flash Clockwork Recovery. It's not the most elegant, but it works. Where supported, I like TWRP if only for the better organization of the menus. If you're upgrading or flashing a ROM, make a backup. If something goes wrong and you can't fix it, you can just restore the backup and *everything* will be exactly as you left it.
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hooah posted:I keep seeing "nandroid backup" tossed about on various forums, and by this time I think I have a fairly good idea as to what it is, but I haven't seen a good explanation as to how to do it. I did find a post that pretty much asked the same question, but for a Motorola phone. Is it really as simple as booting into fastboot or CWM and choosing "backup..."? As SLOSifl pointed out, yes it's that simple. It's literally an image of your phone (excluding things like the recovery, bootloader and radio). Take note that these things range from 500 megs to almost 3 gigs depending on the phone. Make sure there is ample room on your SD card.
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Oct 9, 2011 20:25
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I'm hoping this is the right place to ask. I've been using an MIUI Telus HTC Desire HD for a while now and have had no problems at all. However, yesterday when trying to root my girlfriend's Telus HTC Desire HD, a few things happened. I used a combination of these three guides http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-root-telus-htc-desire-hd/ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905003 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954997 I was able to downgrade it successfully, go into boot loader and load the PD98IMG.zip file. However, the phone had to reboot and it took over 20 minutes. So after that, I went ahead and gained permanent root and S-OFF, and flashed MIUI 1.10.8. The problem is, EVERY single reboot takes almost 20 minutes. The process is as follows Indicator light comes on White screen Phone starts vibrating continuously White screen with HTC logo White screen with HTC "Quietly Brilliant" logo Phone stops vibrating MIUI load screen Home Screen I'm pretty sure this isn't normal as my phone does not have this problem. Could it be a hardware issue? My next step is to revert it back to original Sense. Does anyone have any tips for this process, or have any idea if I did anything incorrectly? At this point I'm insanely cautious as the 20 minute loads constantly make me paranoid about the phone not turning on again.
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Oct 9, 2011 21:08
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Are there any recommended MIUI themes that don't have lovely contrast on the notification pulldown or alerts? Every theme I try seems to look great until I get an alert or have to toggle something and can't read the text. Something elegant and fully skinned would be great. The theme browser is so lovely so anecdotal reviews seem the way to go.
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Oct 10, 2011 00:05
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Finally... stable CM7 for SGS2. http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=galaxys2&type=stable
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Oct 10, 2011 09:17
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Web Jew.0 posted:Finally... stable CM7 for SGS2.
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Oct 10, 2011 09:58
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Sorry for not reading past the OP and other than the past few pages, but I just got my first smartphone (HTC Inspire 4G) and was wondering if the methods in the OP are still the best to root the phone, or is there another way that I should use?
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Oct 10, 2011 10:40
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I flashed the latest stable CM7 on my Evo 4G a few days ago. Everything's working great, except I can't get a GPS lock. I saw a method posted online a few months ago that involved reflashing Sense, resetting the GPS, and flashing back to CM7. Does that sound right, or is there a newer/better/easier fix out there?
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Oct 10, 2011 13:47
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Web Jew.0 posted:Finally... stable CM7 for SGS2. Welp, good thing I didn't do much work on customizing my Touchwiz build. Time to flash CM7 again.
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Oct 10, 2011 14:36
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Just changed from 7.1 RC1 to the stable on my inspire, I may be mistaken but in a little test call I did (held phone in front of fan and listened on other phone) it sounds like noise cancellation is working. Is this true? It's not mentioned in the changelog. Also, Am I supposed to be clearing battery stats when updating a rom? I read on some other forum something about like "clear them anytime you do anything with cwm" but if I'm updating an existing rom do I need to? Version changed from 2.3.4 to 2.3.7, would that matter? I've never flashed anything except cm 7.0.3 stable then 7.1 rc1 then this one today and I've never restored anything from a nandroid. I cleared when I did 7.0.3 then again with rc1 but haven't today.
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Oct 10, 2011 15:38
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Wagonburner posted:Just changed from 7.1 RC1 to the stable on my inspire, I may be mistaken but in a little test call I did (held phone in front of fan and listened on other phone) it sounds like noise cancellation is working. Is this true? It's not mentioned in the changelog. Usually you only need to wipe data if you flash a different ROM. For battery stats, I doubt you'd have to really mess with that unless you were getting inaccurate data. If you are concerned about it, you can always just wipe the battery stats in the Recovery. Think it is under Advanced in Clockwork.
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Oct 10, 2011 16:04
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SLOSifl posted:This week's MIUI update for the EVO 3D is incredibly stable and smooth. Last week's fixed most of my problems, and this week's fixed the last one - no need to change the DPI to 270 to get properly aligned widgets and lockscreens. I just flashed to MIUI last week (or maybe 2 weeks ago?) and I'm really liking it. I'm on the regular Evo 4G though. I'm still, obviously, going to grab the update.
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eightysixed posted:I just flashed to MIUI last week (or maybe 2 weeks ago?) and I'm really liking it. I'm on the regular Evo 4G though. I'm still, obviously, going to grab the update. Did you have to do anything special? I flashed MIUI last night after doing a nandroid backup, and it hung at the boot up logo for MIUI. And then to top it all off, when I try to restore my nandroid backup, it tells me there are UID mismatches and everything FC's. Even after multiple data/cache/dalvik wipes. My phone has been unusable for about 24hours now 
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Did you wipe the cache and data partitions when flashing MIUI for the first time? Clear them and flash again just to be sure. You mentioned you cleared them while dealing with your nandroid issue (no idea there), but did you try MIUI again since?
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