Hey folks,
I've got an M3100 which is sitting with just under 20MB free when no programs are running. How can this be?
Okay, maybe GPRS Monitor is running in the background, but when I have about 3 of my required apps running at a time it can go down to about 5-7MB program memory free!!
The other side of the coin is that I'd like to cook my own rom. I'll look around for how to do this as it's well documented, but the question is am I able to hard reset this Orange phone and get it to pick up the ext rom on the SD card rather than the one sitting on it already?
(I want to avoid putting a different rom on it as this will muck my warranty up.)
Cheers,
Ferg.
If you can find it on the forum, I do know there is a way to unlock your extended rom...meaning if you unlocked it you could replace it with whatever you wanted. Then when you did a hard reset your own extended rom would be installed. BUT you have to be careful there are certain rules to follow when making your own extended rom. You have to rewrite one of the files in it. I can't remember what its called, but if you don't find it I'll stop being lazy and look. I think you also have to throw a reg change into the mix before anything installs to shut off the damn unsigned code warning.
Hey everyone,
I already had a topic on this matter but I will start afresh since i had exams and now im free to fix my damn phone.
Initially I had ICS and I wanted to upgrade to JB, I normally format everything after I go back to stock and root it, but this time I decided to format it BEFORE going back to original, and I did it not in the settings menu but in CMW!!! I dont know what I pressed there, but I think I also pressed partitioning, final result was bricked phone.
For hours I tried to restore it to at least be able to turn it on, but even now the firmware installation doesnt go as smoothly anymore, I think I messed up my partitions, I will need help with that.
THE MAIN PROBLEM NOW. Is that I got my IMEI deleted, and all other system codes too.
Before I did any of this I made a backup with nandroid, and it has saved my efs folder which apparently is supposed to carry the IMEI
However, when I restore the back up, the IMEI does not reappear!
I tried:
GSII Repair
HC-kTool
I tried restoring the backed up EFS folder with CMW but it did not do anything at all
Please give me other solutions I am desperate, I am forced to use Nokia N73 its a nightmare in all aspects =[
great I scanned (verified) my backup with nandroid for MD5 thing and it says PASS on everything but on efs.ext4.tar, it says FAIL
please help, how could I mess up even my back up =[[
I guess you didn't read up on the memory bug issue when using stock ICS and wiping with the stock kernel. You may be SOL, my friend.:crying:
Miami_Son said:
I guess you didn't read up on the memory bug issue when using stock ICS and wiping with the stock kernel. You may be SOL, my friend.:crying:
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I didnt use stock ICS, I used stock gingerbread, but before i had a chance to install the gingerbread i went into CMW and deleted everything, which was really dumb of me to do but its done now.. i backed it up it works fine now, just doesnt recognize sim cause the IMEI is not there
You've tried using Odin to go back to stock?
Yes, I would go to stock first, format, root, then install new software, but this time i ****ed up everything decided to mess with CMW
Weird thing though is that I made a backup of my EFS before I messed it all up, but now when I "verify MD5" it with nandroid it says "FAILED" on EFS and "PASS" on everything else, then I noticed when I restore my phone with backup in CMW it also says that it is verifying with MD5, what I think is I somehow messed up my backup too, or it didnt back up properly, or my EFS was messed up long before I backed it up but it still kept working somehow
I think I need to somehow fix my original backed up EFS manually and then try restoring it again.. any ideas? I got the IMEI converting software for galaxy S3 from a friend on forum but i havent tried anything because im not sure whether there simply dumping the code will work for GS2.
igorukusa said:
I didnt use stock ICS, I used stock gingerbread, but before i had a chance to install the gingerbread i went into CMW and deleted everything, which was really dumb of me to do but its done now.. i backed it up it works fine now, just doesnt recognize sim cause the IMEI is not there
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Well, I read this "Initially I had ICS and I wanted to upgrade to JB" and assumed you were on stock ICS.
no Im sorry for the misunderstanding, originally I had gingerbred, then rooted ics, i never had official ics, i think i might have messed up my partitions too, but there is no fix for that anywhere, only warnings
Someone (champ1919) has recomented i use this method
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=881162
It involved using Hex editor and editing few lines in the nv_data.bac
unfortunately that file needs no editing as everything in it seems to be correct,
so this is not whats causing me get null/null
I need more suggestions :/
If you had rooted ICS and did a wipe you could still have the memory bug issue. Have you read up on that to see if it could be your problem?
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If you had rooted ICS and did a wipe you could still have the memory bug issue. Have you read up on that to see if it could be your problem?
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No I haven't :/ theres so much to read its inhumane.. I think i messed up my partitions for good, what actually frustrates me about android is that It does this retarded partitions that makes no sense, it leaves 2GB for the system, the rest it calls "sdcard" when you install something it actually installs on that 2GB partition, WHYYYYYYYY???? then there is an option of transfering the program to "sdcard" which is probably the remaining phone memory, whether i am right or wrong, the system memory gets clogged up so badly for no reason that the phone starts glitching like crazy, i have never had that problem with iPhone, if this continues I will switch back to iPhone 5S when it comes out, im too tired of this crap
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No I haven't :/ theres so much to read its inhumane.. I think i messed up my partitions for good, what actually frustrates me about android is that It does this retarded partitions that makes no sense, it leaves 2GB for the system, the rest it calls "sdcard" when you install something it actually installs on that 2GB partition, WHYYYYYYYY???? then there is an option of transfering the program to "sdcard" which is probably the remaining phone memory, whether i am right or wrong, the system memory gets clogged up so badly for no reason that the phone starts glitching like crazy, i have never had that problem with iPhone, if this continues I will switch back to iPhone 5S when it comes out, im too tired of this crap
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Android isn't for everyone. It requires a lot more time and dedication to learn if u really want to customize things to your liking. Once you've been doing it a while and have read up on most things though it becomes a lot easier. I do agree the initial learning curve is steeper than with iPhone, but I guess that's the whole idea behind android. Being able to do things your way how you like them. Good luck, happy flashing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1596842
Dug it up from the international I9100 forum. Some people are able to repair theirs. Of course apply I777 stock Roms and not any they provide in there.
Odin to rooted stock ics 4.0.3 then start from step 3. Assuming you have your network signal intact. Worth a shot. Let me know how it goes.
igorukusa said:
No I haven't :/ theres so much to read its inhumane.. I think i messed up my partitions for good, what actually frustrates me about android is that It does this retarded partitions that makes no sense, it leaves 2GB for the system, the rest it calls "sdcard" when you install something it actually installs on that 2GB partition, WHYYYYYYYY???? then there is an option of transfering the program to "sdcard" which is probably the remaining phone memory, whether i am right or wrong, the system memory gets clogged up so badly for no reason that the phone starts glitching like crazy, i have never had that problem with iPhone, if this continues I will switch back to iPhone 5S when it comes out, im too tired of this crap
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I think it is a security thing. You don't need to execute movies, music, or books which should take up the majority of space. So they move those to a place you can't execute things on. And the programs must be put in the executable space which is much smaller. The logic is fine, but it isn't very adaptable (harder to change partition sizes than to just flag a file as read-only, which means it is harder to put a virus in there and execute it too). Unfortunately security features often makes things harder or more likely to fail.
iPhone vs Android is like Mac vs Linux. The first generally just works if you are happy with the Apple way, and costs a lot more for the hardware. The second lets you customize more, and can be harder to use. But you can work around issues with enough effort.
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I think it is a security thing. You don't need to execute movies, music, or books which should take up the majority of space. So they move those to a place you can't execute things on. And the programs must be put in the executable space which is much smaller. The logic is fine, but it isn't very adaptable (harder to change partition sizes than to just flag a file as read-only, which means it is harder to put a virus in there and execute it too). Unfortunately security features often makes things harder or more likely to fail.
iPhone vs Android is like Mac vs Linux. The first generally just works if you are happy with the Apple way, and costs a lot more for the hardware. The second lets you customize more, and can be harder to use. But you can work around issues with enough effort.
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its ridiculously retarded, its affecting your experience, chance of getting hacked is 1:100 if you live in a city, and constantly sit on public wifi hotspot, and even then there are tooks that have nothing to do with your operating system to hack you, im telling you this is bullcrap im so tired of it that its up my throat
j510 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1596842
Dug it up from the international I9100 forum. Some people are able to repair theirs. Of course apply I777 stock Roms and not any they provide in there.
Odin to rooted stock ics 4.0.3 then start from step 3. Assuming you have your network signal intact. Worth a shot. Let me know how it goes.
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hey my friend thank you for the link, i did what he said in the tutorial, but unfortunately its just the EFS repair, in my case i completely ****ed up my efs, i dont think its even recognized by the system anymore, i need to manually punch in the IMEI, theres a tutorial for SGS3, but none for SGS2 which is another thing thats frustrating, every phone has its own solution to a problem, maybe the solution would work but i cant put my phone in the DIAG mode I WDONT KNOW HOW TO DO THAT AND THERE IS NO TUTORIAL FOR THIS MODEL OF THE PHONE
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Unfortunately I can't help you... I'm in a similar boat. Trying to find out how to rebuild/restore the EFS and NV info on a phone I got to switch over to my plan.
I've had all kinds of OS on it so far and nothing works. Need to put in the IMEI, the APN, etc... can't...
Like you... I find all of the I9100 stuff... but not much for the i777
Good luck and please post if you find a fix.
DM
For You Slow People who never do any research!!!
I just wanted to make it clear to fellow U.S. users. It is not illegal to swap a imei from one phone to another phone that are both in your legal possession in the United States. The last few years Congress has proposed legislation to prohibit this activity, but it always dies in committee. It was recentyly proposed again on April 25th of this year and sent to committee where it will most likely be tabled there again. See this link for the newly proposed legislation:
govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr1730/text[/url]
The Cloning laws in the United States only apply to cloning sim cards or esn numbers. Because cloning sim cards and/or esn's can lead to subscriber fraud. Which means you can actually steal someone's service without paying for it while the true owner of the sim or esn is stuck with paying for your usage. With IMEI numbers that is not possible due to the fact that is controlled by the sim card in gsm devices, not the IMEI. And as a matter of law and fact, you can clone your own sim or esn from a device in your legal possession because in that situation there is no intent to commit fraud which the cloning laws aim to prevent.
I challenge any of you "slow" people to find a law in the U.S. that prohibits swapping IMEI numbers. And, after you come back empty handed, ask yourself this question. Why does congress year after year try to propose laws to prohibit IMEI swapping if it is already illegal???
hey i am new to android and got myself a acer liquid e2 as was told it was a good phone for the price etc, i do find this phone very surprising and i am totally happy with it apart from 1 problem i come across about 20 times a day, "storage space" i have plenty of space on my sd card it is the phone that is the problem, and every day i need to keep clearing my data and cache as it shuts all my emails etc down when the space has run out which is annoying when it is servral times a day, i have apps on my phone which i dont use and dont need but cant delete these, ive been reasearching this now for a few weeks and everything that i have came across says root and delete, its not that simple is it? i would say that i can be quite good at this sort of stuff as ive made quite alot of my stuff to operate the way i want it, but every time i see anything about rooting it always say your phone can be bricked and i cant afford it to be bricked, i need it beleive it or not, anyway this site seems to have alot of very brainy and smart people on it, hence why i joined :good: can anyone help me with this problem, easy and safest way, will be most appreciated, i was just about to go down the kingo app way but decided to do more reasearch on it before hand and that has put me off it as people are saying there is stuff about spy cams and malware etc iplease help thanks. oh i ment to say i manage to turn my developer options on by total mistake and playing around with my phone so i have that on , if that helpsnetwork 3 in uk cheers guys.:cyclops: p.s. i have jelly bean 4.2.2
bazzaboy1 said:
hey i am new to android and got myself a acer liquid e2 as was told it was a good phone for the price etc, i do find this phone very surprising and i am totally happy with it apart from 1 problem i come across about 20 times a day, "storage space" i have plenty of space on my sd card it is the phone that is the problem, and every day i need to keep clearing my data and cache as it shuts all my emails etc down when the space has run out which is annoying when it is servral times a day, i have apps on my phone which i dont use and dont need but cant delete these, ive been reasearching this now for a few weeks and everything that i have came across says root and delete, its not that simple is it? i would say that i can be quite good at this sort of stuff as ive made quite alot of my stuff to operate the way i want it, but every time i see anything about rooting it always say your phone can be bricked and i cant afford it to be bricked, i need it beleive it or not, anyway this site seems to have alot of very brainy and smart people on it, hence why i joined :good: can anyone help me with this problem, easy and safest way, will be most appreciated, i was just about to go down the kingo app way but decided to do more reasearch on it before hand and that has put me off it as people are saying there is stuff about spy cams and malware etc iplease help thanks. oh i ment to say i manage to turn my developer options on by total mistake and playing around with my phone so i have that on , if that helpsnetwork 3 in uk cheers guys.:cyclops:
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Unfortunately removing the preloaded apps won't help your storage issues at all. Those apps are located in a different part of the system (/system/app) than the apps and data (/data/app + /data/data) that you add. You can (if rooted) move apps to the /system/app partition, but they don't always work or update correctly from there as it requires special permissions to run from there. But there really isn't much to do besides rooting it and doing some modifications to your set up. They don't call em budget phones for nothing.
Options include swapping the internal and external mount points so it reads your external as your main internal storage, creating a partition on your external and using a script to link your /data/app and/or /data/data folders to that partition so it reads as one big space (however big you make that partition), or using an app like Folder Mount to create a link between big folders on the internal to the external (mostly helpful for big game data). All of these require a bit of knowledge, but nothing that some time and reading can't help you with. It is not exactly rocket science. Knowing what update you are on though is important, both so you pick the right rooting method (there are multiple options if not on 4.2.2 yet) as well as, if, worst case happens, you know what version of the software you need to reload. You can find this info under Settings / About Phone. Make note of not just the android version, but the build or system version as well as there can be mini updates to software that changes things but not the actual android version.
As far as Kingo, I've never read anything other than hearsay about any potential malicious activity on their part. The reason you see most people freaking out about it is because when it first was introduced, it was known to send IMEI info back to their servers in China. Kingo never tried to hide the fact, explained their position about why they were doing it (diagnostics), and promptly changed how that was done. Now, by nature of what it is doing (root = gaining admin access to the operating system), it needs to download closed sourced scripts and files to gain this access . They don't want to disclose their sources for 2 reasons: 1) if the manufacturers of the phones that don't want it rooted see how it is done, then it's much easier to patch that on the next update and 2) so other people don't steal their work. Makes sense to me, but some people are concerned about closed sources (even though many apps already installed or that you download are closed source as well). I've used it on quite a few devices and have never had problems. You can uninstall the companion app it installs (it does this for some devices to help gain access through a backdoor) and update the SuperSU app and binary it installs via the Play Store, so don't really see it as an issue.
bazzaboy1 said:
hey i am new to android and got myself a acer liquid e2 as was told it was a good phone for the price etc, i do find this phone very surprising and i am totally happy with it apart from 1 problem i come across about 20 times a day, "storage space" i have plenty of space on my sd card it is the phone that is the problem, and every day i need to keep clearing my data and cache as it shuts all my emails etc down when the space has run out which is annoying when it is servral times a day, i have apps on my phone which i dont use and dont need but cant delete these, ive been reasearching this now for a few weeks and everything that i have came across says root and delete, its not that simple is it? i would say that i can be quite good at this sort of stuff as ive made quite alot of my stuff to operate the way i want it, but every time i see anything about rooting it always say your phone can be bricked and i cant afford it to be bricked, i need it beleive it or not, anyway this site seems to have alot of very brainy and smart people on it, hence why i joined :good: can anyone help me with this problem, easy and safest way, will be most appreciated, i was just about to go down the kingo app way but decided to do more reasearch on it before hand and that has put me off it as people are saying there is stuff about spy cams and malware etc iplease help thanks. oh i ment to say i manage to turn my developer options on by total mistake and playing around with my phone so i have that on , if that helpsnetwork 3 in uk cheers guys.:cyclops: p.s. i have jelly bean 4.2.2
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es0tericcha0s said:
Unfortunately removing the preloaded apps won't help your storage issues at all. Those apps are located in a different part of the system (/system/app) than the apps and data (/data/app + /data/data) that you add. You can (if rooted) move apps to the /system/app partition, but they don't always work or update correctly from there as it requires special permissions to run from there. But there really isn't much to do besides rooting it and doing some modifications to your set up. They don't call em budget phones for nothing.
Options include swapping the internal and external mount points so it reads your external as your main internal storage, creating a partition on your external and using a script to link your /data/app and/or /data/data folders to that partition so it reads as one big space (however big you make that partition), or using an app like Folder Mount to create a link between big folders on the internal to the external (mostly helpful for big game data). All of these require a bit of knowledge, but nothing that some time and reading can't help you with. It is not exactly rocket science. Knowing what update you are on though is important, both so you pick the right rooting method (there are multiple options if not on 4.2.2 yet) as well as, if, worst case happens, you know what version of the software you need to reload. You can find this info under Settings / About Phone. Make note of not just the android version, but the build or system version as well as there can be mini updates to software that changes things but not the actual android version.
As far as Kingo, I've never read anything other than hearsay about any potential malicious activity on their part. The reason you see most people freaking out about it is because when it first was introduced, it was known to send IMEI info back to their servers in China. Kingo never tried to hide the fact, explained their position about why they were doing it (diagnostics), and promptly changed how that was done. Now, by nature of what it is doing (root = gaining admin access to the operating system), it needs to download closed sourced scripts and files to gain this access . They don't want to disclose their sources for 2 reasons: 1) if the manufacturers of the phones that don't want it rooted see how it is done, then it's much easier to patch that on the next update and 2) so other people don't steal their work. Makes sense to me, but some people are concerned about closed sources (even though many apps already installed or that you download are closed source as well). I've used it on quite a few devices and have never had problems. You can uninstall the companion app it installs (it does this for some devices to help gain access through a backdoor) and update the SuperSU app and binary it installs via the Play Store, so don't really see it as an issue.
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Wow thanks very much, a was not exspecting that reply and so quickly, so thanks , well as i said i am new to the android, and the whole rooting thing makes me nervous as i havent done it before, and i dont want to break my phone, i do know there is always a risk in anything really, but would like to know if possible the best for my phone, i am on jelly bean 4.2.2 and kernel 3.4.5 and is it the build number you need or the custom build version? also i dont know if this is important but i actually dont have wifi and use the usb tethering for my pc to get online, is it still possible to do it this way? cheers
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Wow thanks very much, a was not exspecting that reply and so quickly, so thanks , well as i said i am new to the android, and the whole rooting thing makes me nervous as i havent done it before, and i dont want to break my phone, i do know there is always a risk in anything really, but would like to know if possible the best for my phone, i am on jelly bean 4.2.2 and kernel 3.4.5 and is it the build number you need or the custom build version? also i dont know if this is important but i actually dont have wifi and use the usb tethering for my pc to get online, is it still possible to do it this way? cheers
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2518094
That's a guide with everything you should need to fix the phone if anything were to happen or to just return it to it's original state if wanted / needed. Read through the thread a bit and see where other members were having trouble and the solutions to those. If you get comfortable with that and how it works, then modding your phone becomes much less scary. And once you are rooted, tethering is even better because you can typically hide your activity much more. I don't know if it is a big deal with carriers around where you live, but here, most people have to pay for tethering or make sure to have special plans that typically cost more than ones that don't include it.
es0tericcha0s said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2518094
That's a guide with everything you should need to fix the phone if anything were to happen or to just return it to it's original state if wanted / needed. Read through the thread a bit and see where other members were having trouble and the solutions to those. If you get comfortable with that and how it works, then modding your phone becomes much less scary. And once you are rooted, tethering is even better because you can typically hide your activity much more. I don't know if it is a big deal with carriers around where you live, but here, most people have to pay for tethering or make sure to have special plans that typically cost more than ones that don't include it.
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Thanks very much!! a will go have a look at the thread just now, really appreciate your help and time, thanks
Hey!
I booted up my HD2 after a couple years (a bought it new for nostalgia 5-6 years ago) and realized Opera can't really load pages anymore. Tried ZetaKey Lite and ran out of memory instantly.
What's the situation with the RAM? Never really understood it and can't find a clear answer. The phone is not the US version, yet it says 576mb in the hardware info (shouldn't that be the 488mb?). But in the memory info or "About" tab in settings it says 208mb program memory (and ~160mb of it is used when nothing is running) and i left with around 46mb.
That seems correct.
What? Noo this should be a whole lot more. Like 4x the free space.
Something like this below. There is almost 200mb free* on stock rom BEFORE flashing to unleash the full 576 capability.
Shouldn't mine read 448 in the hardware info and have a bit less (like in the video) to run software, and some of that is taken by Sense, etc. but still a LOT remains free.
Ok, after a generous amount of search i found out that my 3.14 ROM is not going with the 2.08 SPL on it.
I haven't touched it, i guess the seller probably wanted to sell it with up to date software but messed it up. (I know these old stuff sold "new" only look new, but god knows their actual source.)