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hi,
is there any way to bypass screen alignment after hard reset???
Whats the point? After a hard reset the sceen alignment information is lost, to by-pass it would leave you with a very unresponsive screen.
it is broken screen ,and could not align screen in 4 corners,it misses 1 corner and cross sign return back in the center
I also would like to know how to accomplish this on an XDAII.
To rephrase: How can we bypass the screen calibration after a hard reset? There MUST be some way! Perhaps a different ROM version?
Thanks!
Try to insert your XDA2 into cradle and restore any backup you have. After reboot you would no longer need to realign the screen.
I'v tested this on old RoverPC S1 and it worked.
I actually came up with another (better) solution...
After a hard reset, put your XDA or XDA II into the cradle & run activesync. You can either set up a connection, or go as guest.
Use the 'explore' button to browse to the \windows\startup folder on the XDA, and delete the Welcome shortcut. You can then remove the XDA from the cradle, softboot, and bingo, no welcome message, no calibration.
Hope this helps. I'm surprised no one has come up with that before.
I am having the same problem but when I try to remove the welcome.exe it is saying "cannont delete file welcome: access denied". I is probably because the process has already started... any suggestions?
maybe you want to try this... i've tried it, works like a charm...
Documentation:
http://www.codefactory.es/downloads/mobile_speak_pocket/Remote_ScreenAlignment_Manual.doc
non....
This worked perfectly on my touch diamond! Thanks everyone. (this is another reason why we should never post questions without a simple google search!)
Finally Got past the aligmernt screen
I removed the welcome file and was able to get in, many thanks for the great support.
Frank
bypass calibrations via Bluetooth
Well chaps seems like bypassing using the cradle and softwares has proven to work...is there a way to doo this using the bluetooth?
i have an old O2 XDA IIs and its touch screen is broken but the lcd works fine, but i have no dock or usb cable, kindda lost those moving around the globe..
but i can get it to pair up with the bluetooth on the welcome screen before it asks for the calibration...yes yes y don i jst buy a new digitizer!!...wot fun would that be!!
Soo, any genius out ther willing to help out?...BTW its running the original ROM
Thanx ahead!
Welcome to forums
have a look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3072857&postcount=10
Just create a (empty) file named "welcome.not" on your SD card and do a new Hard Reset (or soft reset, should also work)
Well,
For what it's worth,
I found out on my brother's Qtek S200 that was also in a loop, that it automatically passed the align screen after some 15 times.
Later I found this in the registry:
HKLM\Hardware\Devicemap\Touch\MaxCallError(=16)
So I assume you can tick the align screen 16 times before it continues?
nonentity said:
maybe you want to try this... i've tried it, works like a charm...
Documentation:
http://www.codefactory.es/downloads/mobile_speak_pocket/Remote_ScreenAlignment_Manual.doc
non....
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Hi nonentity! I was having a helluva hard time iguring out how to get out of screen alignment on my treo pro (was stuck foe a long time) then I saw your post you've posted several yrs ago.. I'll tell ya.. you're my savior this little sweet app (remotealignment-CodeFactory) worked just like you said.. LIKE a CHARM.. I really was ready to ditch my phone away..THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!
thanx a lot i was about to throw my ipaq to the garbage but you help me out thanx
It worked on my Treo Pro
Thanks so much¡¡¡
How to reinstall imate with a broken touch screen???
Dear folks,
I had been looking for solution to skip the screen alignment after a hard reset whcih is resolved now with help of a small but very useful application posted by some great gentelmen. But I am stuck with usual software installation after hard reset and I cannot go ahead as the button dont work and I cant press OK or anything else. I am using Imate Ultimate 8502. Can anyone help me in this? Thanks
bypass touch screen palm treo pro
panchobev said:
I removed the welcome file and was able to get in, many thanks for the great support.
Frank
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how did you managed to delete the welcome file having permission error?
i had the same problem after hard reset it prompts me to align the screen which i believe malfunctioned so touch screen is not functioning.
im using Palm Treo Pro.
please advice. thanks!
Over 20 alignments and still in the loop
nypra1314 said:
I found out on my brother's Qtek S200 that was also in a loop, that it automatically passed the align screen after some 15 times.
Later I found this in the registry:
HKLM\Hardware\Devicemap\Touch\MaxCallError(=16)
So I assume you can tick the align screen 16 times before it continues?
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I tried aligning for 20+ times on my i-mate PDA2k, and I'm still in the aligning loop. The CodeFactory tool worked, and thanks to nonentity for uploading it, because CodeFactory.es is now defunct.
BTW, can you please upload the .doc? Not sure it says anything super important, but it might be interesting.
Hey all,
Some real funny stuff goin' on here. I did the upgrade thing and after
really figuring out what I needed to do, it worked. Here are the problems
I've had afterwards...
1. Browsing the net is slower. Much slower.
2. Can't connect to my email, t mobile did some hokey forwarding through
their servers, and I do receive, but only when "it" wants to, in other words
when I click on send/receive I get an error message that says it can't
connect with my current settings. Nor can I send when I want to, I get the
same error message. So, if you send me an email it could take anywhere from
a minute to hours before I see it. Anything with an attachment is
"truncated" and the attachment goes to my sd card. Two funny things here. 1.
I open the email and it says the message is truncated, "tap edit and select
mark for download", but there isn't a "mark for download", just the
opposite, "do not download" ha-ha. 2. How do I get the attachments? If I go
to the sd card and tap on one I get a message that says "there is no
application associated with this, open the application first and then open
this file" Duh? He-he.
3. I have the dreaded Toshiba "white font" problem now. Tap on start and all
the listings are in a white font. har de har har.
4. The unit keeps turning itself on even when not in the cradle. How do I
stop it?
While not a problem, just an oddity, but when I get an sms, there is a
dialog box that comes up and gives me 4 options, none of which allow me to
open it! roflmao
Just so you know, I've had this for 5 months and before the upgrade
everything worked flawlessly! I was so impressed, and happy with my PPCPE.
It begs the question...why the heck did I do the upgrade??? Now I'm not
laughing anymore
:O)
W
For #3 try this ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=6783&highlight=
Thanks for the tip. Now, how do I access the registry on a PPC?
:O)
W
Thanks for the tip. Now, how do I access the registry on a PPC?
:O)
W
use any freeware s/w ... PHM Registry Editor is the best
http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=31
Thanks. Stupid me, I thought I could just navigate to it like in windows. :?
bump
Did you ever fix your attachment issue? I am also having issue with mail attachments and am looking for a solution still
Yes, I just re-loaded the new rom upgrade and everything worked fine after that. Must be me
Wesley I suggest you go back to your previous rom if you are having so many problems. It looks like your xda is almost unusable with that upgrade. I have tried wm2003 and had many problems so I reverted to 2002 with lots of programs burned to rom instead of taking up ram space and I am very happy with the result from Lumpis kitchen.
Well, It's a moot point now. I've sold it. :O)
Now, if I could only sell that dumb 7100T balckberry I bought...LOL
Hi everyone,
I keep getting this message "Tap here to launch TouchFLO" come up when i return from screen lock . Whats wrong, i effectively have to load touchflo all the time.
I did reboot my phone to the manufacture settings, but sill the message is coming up everytime I close an app.
The phone is NEW without any applications,(got it 2 days ago)
Did anybody had the same error?
Thanks
No error in my opinion!
lev30ro said:
Hi everyone,
I keep getting this message "Tap here to launch TouchFLO" come up when i return from screen lock . Whats wrong, i effectively have to load touchflo all the time.
I did reboot my phone to the manufacture settings, but sill the message is coming up everytime I close an app.
The phone is NEW without any applications,(got it 2 days ago)
Did anybody had the same error?
Thanks
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I believe this isn't an error, just the way things go with touchflo starting...
OK,
So anytime I close an application and return to Home screen Touchflo must restar?
I think that this is wrong, and touchflo sould start only when I restart my phone.
If every Htc touch 2 is the same than it's allright, I am going to live with it but I don't think so.
Anyway,
thks for the quick responde.
Missunderstanding!
lev30ro said:
OK,
So anytime I close an application and return to Home screen Touchflo must restar?
I think that this is wrong, and touchflo sould start only when I restart my phone.
If every Htc touch 2 is the same than it's allright, I am going to live with it but I don't think so.
Anyway,
thks for the quick responde.
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Sorry, I missunderstood you, it is abnormal for touchflo to restart everytime you return to homescreen.
Consequently I believe it's time for hard-reset, if not solved it can be some corrupted (original) ROMconfused or hardware problem?!
I did a hard-reset but I've got the same message everytime.
I am going to call the service center tomorow.
Thk's again,
lev30ro said:
I am going to call the service center tomorow.
Thk's again,
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Sadly, it's your only choice for the moment...
Good luck!
lev30ro said:
I did a hard-reset but I've got the same message everytime.
I am going to call the service center tomorow.
Thk's again,
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this happens when the phone runs low on memory. happened a lot when I installed touchFlo on someone's old Polaris. check if you don't have something running in the background
good luck
How can I check if something is running in background?
sorry for asking , probably it's easy , I've tried at task manager but nothimg,
i did now a hard reset,
Let's see,
thanks a lot,
lev30ro said:
How can I check if something is running in background?
sorry for asking , probably it's easy , I've tried at task manager but nothimg,
i did now a hard reset,
Let's see,
thanks a lot,
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Try mmtaskmanager2.2(if necessary) ...
or it happens mostly when you install a new theme with some files missing or not supported by Manila 2d v2 or you have replaced/deleted some theme files in/from windows folder.
Thanks and Regards
RK
rakesh_4utoo said:
or it happens mostly when you install a new theme with some files missing or not supported by Manila 2d v2 or you have replaced/deleted some theme files in/from windows folder.
Thanks and Regards
RK
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Hi,
Yesterday I did a Hard reset and then I was opening each software one by one to see wich one will bring that message back again.
Finally found it !!!
It is the Quick GPS software , once I acces this software the massage is back for ever.
Now I am not downloading anything on Quick GPS and after the second hard reset done the phon is PERFECT.
rakesh_4utoo can you please help me with a Remote Desktop that's work on WM 6.5 rom 1.28.70.2.(66092)?
Anything I found on google is not working or it's freez.
Thank's in advance,
Hi Friends,
I have a nokia lumia phone.
I dont know what happened but all of a sudden when i have observed i was able to see context menu icons after sliding right to homescreen,the apps where arranged alphabetically with the Alphabet box on top of each app.this creates a very long menu to scroll.
Please help.I dont want to reset my phone again.is there any setting i fiddled with?
I think MS will have to pop up an info box when this happens.
Don't worry it's normal, it is by design. It is to make it easy to jump through a lot of applications. I find it very useful, you probably will too when you get used to it.
Thank you...i thought i have done something wrong and nokia support asked me to reset my device for it...Youve saved me
Yes this is the list of all of your apps
When you have 30 or more apps, Letters appear, you can click on them to jump from one to another, when you are used to, it's pretty nice
The same thing happened to me today. I counted 45 apps installed. It seems to be the magic number.
X3n0n said:
Yes this is the list of all of your apps
When you have 30 or more apps, Letters appear, you can click on them to jump from one to another, when you are used to, it's pretty nice
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I think the limit is 45 apps? I also find the letters useful. Makes finding the app you want much easier/quicker when you are used to it.
Okay,
So, I finally upgraded from my old POS HTC TP2 and got a Samsung Siii, which so far is beyond description. However, being that I'm primarily a Windows Developer, and VERY used to the way windows operates, I am finding it rather difficult to adjust to system level configurations with the Android OS.
Like, in windows there's a Registry, which on the phone or on the computer if you know what you are doing you can configure manually and effect massive changes to the system. But I can't seem to find anything like that for the Android OS, which make some sense, but there are some things I'd like to change:
Screen real-estate.
So I go from this TP2 which had like a 2 inch screen, and 480x600 or something, to this SIII with a 4.6 inch screen and damn near double the resolution. but on my Tp2 I could see like 10-12 emails/texts listed, and with Cookie's Home Screen, I could have up to 25 apps on one screen.
Given Screen Dynamics, I should very simply be able to see 20 emails/texts on screen, and 60 apps, but like people who move from a 1280x1024 desktop to a 2048x1280, their resolution goes up, but they also increase the size of the icons and fonts so effectively their desktop real-estate hasn't changed. Working visual Studio (and most other editors not used for WYSIWYG documents like Word) my font size is like 7-8pt type on 1680x1050 resolution. I am not visually impaired here, so I can read small print on a big screen, yet I even with the smallest font setting the default applications and text are MASSIVE. I can see like 8 text conversations and 7 emails. When you browse to a website the size is tiny, and I can zoom to an appropriate level, which currently provides 10 times the amout of information than the default home and app screens provide. Instead of "Small,Medium,Large" etc, is there any low level configuration where I can define the icon/font DPI to say that true 7pt type is perfectly acceptable for me? Are there any Apps that do this?
Texts & Emails.
Not to say that I'm much of a nay-sayer, but do we have to have stupid little bubbles for my chat screen? I mean, simply list them out in text. It's called texting, not "comic book bubbling". the bubbles get in the way and I'd simply like to make them a simple line by line. Sure the emote icons can be drawn in, and with other graphics to indicate attachments and such, but can I turn off "bubble texting" and just so me a direct list. This (with the font changes) would allow me to follow two weeks worth of text history with any one contact instead of having to remember my bubbles are on the right theirs on the left. (of course a good starting point would be to be able to reverse that). Can any of this be done easily?
As for Email, well It was an "add on" to my old TP2, but I would like a simple one-click way to "Mark all as read". I do not use GMail nor ever will. I own two domain names and my emails come through there. So the GMail client is out. The default client, as aforementioned, only shows like 7 emails in either a categorized today,yesterday,etc view, or a conversation threaded view. I just want a list: Line 1: Sender and Date, Line 2: Subject. And a simple button to click at the top that says: Mark All Read. I shouldn't have to check each email and then mark read, and with the categories if any emails are already read, the option defaults to mark unread so I have to check, mark unread, check, and mark read to get them all. I have like 6 different email accounts, with multiple aliases, and I'm on many newsletters and other such things, so I get quite a few emails daily, but I don't always need to read them. So far i've looked around and haven't found much in the way of email applications that will do what I want, which Mozilla Thunderbird (and my old TP2) do quite readily.
Mostly, I'm looking for ways to truly manipulate this device to the max, so that I can truly treat it like a portable computer. I used my old tp2 (while it was functioning) is a primary universal communications device, and I know I will do the same with the SIII, but to make my experience more enjoyable I need some starting points to determine if I can easily configure this thing to work my way. (Nah, i'm not a control freak, )
Thanks
Jaeden "Sifo Dyas" al'Raec Ruiner
There is a way to make everything smaller. There is a build.prop file. If you open it You should be able to find line like lcddensity (just look for lcd or density). Default is 240 but if You make it smaller everything will be smaller. Also You can have more icons on Your laincher when You're using better launcher. I'm using adw launcher ex and it has this option. Also the sms bubble thing. Take a look for "go sms pro" on android market. It has plenty of options
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Thanks for the pointers. So i need a different launcher, and the sms/email apps to solve my other problems. Great.
As for the "build.prop" file. Is that something that I will have to use the sdk and like rebuild the OS (basically, "root" the phone)?
Thanks
J"SD"a'RR
JaedenRuiner said:
Thanks for the pointers. So i need a different launcher, and the sms/email apps to solve my other problems. Great.
As for the "build.prop" file. Is that something that I will have to use the sdk and like rebuild the OS (basically, "root" the phone)?
Thanks
J"SD"a'RR
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Yeah root is required. If You have that You can just open it as normal *.txt file. Root Explorer is best for doing it
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JaedenRuiner said:
Thanks for the pointers. So i need a different launcher, and the sms/email apps to solve my other problems. Great.
As for the "build.prop" file. Is that something that I will have to use the sdk and like rebuild the OS (basically, "root" the phone)?
Thanks
J"SD"a'RR
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root would be required, but in most cases, you don't have to start from scratch to gain root, only if you flash a new or custom rom, so, no rebuilding the OS in most cases. the build.prop tweaks and custom launchers are a great start, but you might want to research the custom recovery for your device, so that you can make a nandroid backup, and restore in the event that you change something that causes issues that you can't fix..it's a good precaiution at any rate if you plan on doing a lot of poking around.,
jakuburban said:
Yeah root is required. If You have that You can just open it as normal *.txt file. Root Explorer is best for doing it
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yea, great. this is effing priceless. So I root the phone. I get a build.prop editor, I change the lcd density so I can get more info on screen and what happens. TouchWiz has stopped working.
Home doesn't work, nothing works. the phone is as useless as a paperclip as a paperweight. even better, the kies install still works only a 3rd the time (at best) so plugging it in via usb i can't even access the device. There appears to be no key combo command to tell the thing to use its internal flash recovery to restore factory defaults, and I can't access the build.prop file from my computer in order to change the file back to its original settings.
very helpful, i must say, winmo6.5 may have sucked, but it worked. this android crap really is NOT user friendly.
As a programmer I believe in "ultimate user customization". and yet I either have to suffer under google bird brained ideas of how things will work, or have a different phone. the very fact that I cannot just RESET TO FACTORY DEFAULT. albiet that woudl suck too, but so far it's all about this ODIN crap. why isn't the factory ROM on the phone itself? all i did was root it and edit one file. if that breaks android so easily, it really needs to be taken back to the drawing board.
[EDIT]
And now I've found the way to get to the factory restore...but it doesn't effing restore. cause I'm still getting the same error after the restore. at least my POS HTC tP2 when i RESTORED it, it flashed EVERYTHING back to factory defaults, including the system files I changed. I now have a brand new SIII that is worthless.
Jaeden "Sifo Dyas" al'Raec Ruiner.
Have a bit of patience with yourself mate. I too came from WM (Touch Diamond, Touch HD and then a HD2) and I'm a Windows developer by profession, so Android was completely alien to me. The Linux crowd are sorted but we've got a steep learning curve ahead of us
All you've told us about your current problem is that "nothing works". Can you tell us what actually happens when you turn the phone on? Is it booting okay and getting to where you'd expect to see a home screen?
JaedenRuiner said:
yea, great. this is effing priceless. So I root the phone. I get a build.prop editor, I change the lcd density so I can get more info on screen and what happens. TouchWiz has stopped working.
Home doesn't work, nothing works. the phone is as useless as a paperclip as a paperweight. even better, the kies install still works only a 3rd the time (at best) so plugging it in via usb i can't even access the device. There appears to be no key combo command to tell the thing to use its internal flash recovery to restore factory defaults, and I can't access the build.prop file from my computer in order to change the file back to its original settings.
very helpful, i must say, winmo6.5 may have sucked, but it worked. this android crap really is NOT user friendly.
As a programmer I believe in "ultimate user customization". and yet I either have to suffer under google bird brained ideas of how things will work, or have a different phone. the very fact that I cannot just RESET TO FACTORY DEFAULT. albiet that woudl suck too, but so far it's all about this ODIN crap. why isn't the factory ROM on the phone itself? all i did was root it and edit one file. if that breaks android so easily, it really needs to be taken back to the drawing board.
[EDIT]
And now I've found the way to get to the factory restore...but it doesn't effing restore. cause I'm still getting the same error after the restore. at least my POS HTC tP2 when i RESTORED it, it flashed EVERYTHING back to factory defaults, including the system files I changed. I now have a brand new SIII that is worthless.
Jaeden "Sifo Dyas" al'Raec Ruiner.
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How much did You change the value? Some of the apps(very few) don't support even a small change, and if You changed it like about 30+ then launchers may have problems.(in this case it has). You can copy files from & to phone using adb commands, even when You can't do anything. You can install e.g. ADW Launcher (program in my description does that) that should work and would bring Your phone back to life. There is also other way to repair it, but I hope You made a backup (this is "must to do" thing if You change sth. in ROM, especially when somebody is a noob and doesn't know a way how to repair it) , or just a backup of build.prop (50% chances that it will work).
Making factory reset won't help. Samsung Kies was always a crappy thing and never worked. Try odin to reflash ROM (if You didn't make a backup). And one important thing. Is it a custom ROM, do You have flashable package somewhere on the pc or phone? If so don't use ODIN yet. And send me this ROM. (is this *.zip file, not *.img?) There is a chance to restore build.prop.
PS. I understand You have usb debugging enabled?
Archer said:
Have a bit of patience with yourself mate. I too came from WM (Touch Diamond, Touch HD and then a HD2) and I'm a Windows developer by profession, so Android was completely alien to me. The Linux crowd are sorted but we've got a steep learning curve ahead of us
All you've told us about your current problem is that "nothing works". Can you tell us what actually happens when you turn the phone on? Is it booting okay and getting to where you'd expect to see a home screen?
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After i changed the lcd_density, it rebooted and came to my lock screen. everything was smaller as I hoped, so i began punching in my PIN. then a small dialog popped up saying TouchWiz UI had stopped. I hit okay, and figured the lcd density I had chosen must be incompatible. So I pressed OK, figuring I would jump back in and change it back. I typed in the PIN and hit OK. My home screen background game up, but the bottom App row (5 icons) wasn't there. another dialog about the TouchWiz UI popped up. I pressed OK. Then a dialog saying System UI had failed. after 4 or 5 dialogs I could no longer press the OK button, like it either wouldn't recognize my touch or was "disabled" or something. so I tried to reboot the phone (holding the power button in to get to the reboot menu). It rebooted with the exact same behavior. Knowing that the phone was rooted I let it reboot, and tried plugging it back into my PC.
Now, even before I did all the advanced changes, when plugged into the computer, the SPH-L710 node in explorer only comes up a quarter of the time, so now, i plugged in and unplugged until the node appeared to allow me to explore the phone, figuring it is "rooted" now so I should be able to get to the build.prop file some how and change it. No such luck.
I played with the button presses hoping to find some soft-key combination that would "restore factory defaults". Took some intuitive leaps, and remembered power+VolDn+home lead me to download mode. and that when rebooting the guide had told me to use power+volup+home to get to "recovery". so I tried that, which lead me to the "Stock Recovery Mode" screen. (rather different than the ClockworkMod Recovery I used to root the device).
At this point I selected the third option, "wipe data/restore factory settings". (yes, I had backed up the device before i performed all this so I'm not "worried" just annoyed). the phone when through the process and claimed the restore was complete so in the menu I selected to reboot and it popped back up asking all the same initial questions it had when it was first turned on. thinking "yea" i'd solved the issue, it booted in asking for my name and yadda, yadda, yadda, when suddenly the SAME TouchWiz UI error pops up. again. skipping over the initial configuration stuff, it got to the psuedo lock screen, saying slide to unlock, and i see 4 icons at the bottom (not 5) and again the TouchWiz UI and System UI errors pop up repeatedly. I can't select any of the icons at the bottom, and I am now without a phone untill I can simply alter 3 characters in a text file, which I can't get to.
I get the learning curve and all, but if this build.prop file is so critical, factory reset should reset it too. it apparently does not, and so until i can somehow alter that file to set the lcd density back to 320 i'm screwed.
J"SD"a'RR
jakuburban said:
You can copy files from & to phone using adb commands, even when You can't do anything.
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well first step is finding ADB. I downloaded the SDK but couldn't find adb anywhere in the sdk tree. once I do find it, using it will be amusing to say the least.
jakuburban said:
There is also other way to repair it, but I hope You made a backup
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Of course i backed up the phone with my data. But unless I get it to boot in the standard home screen with the applications I can't restore the data.
jakuburban said:
or just a backup of build.prop (50% chances that it will work).
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what purpose would this serve. the build.prop editor I used made a backup, but again untill i can get into the phone I can't restore this backup.
jakuburban said:
Making factory reset won't help.
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which in mymind (as a developer) this is a bad design. any 'breaking' change should be repairable by a factory reset.
jakuburban said:
Samsung Kies was always a crappy thing and never worked.
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needed it for the usb drivers, that's all.
jakuburban said:
Try odin to reflash ROM (if You didn't make a backup).
And one important thing. Is it a custom ROM, do You have flashable package somewhere on the pc or phone?
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not custom rom or anything. I've had the phone for a week and was finally getting tired of not having certain things the way I wanted them. so I'd figured I'd dig around. I found many tutorials on the rooting of this phone and since they were all very similar I went with this one:
How to Root SPHL710
that part wen off just fine. seemed there was nothing for me to worry about. there was no ROM or crazy changes, just wanted to give myself root access. I then wanted to change LCD density, so I tried it and here I am.
jakuburban said:
PS. I understand You have usb debugging enabled?
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it wasn't essential for what I was doing at the time. ODIN worked for the root process. *shrug* can't change it now, so I hope it isn't necessary.
J"SD"a''
JaedenRuiner said:
well first step is finding ADB. I downloaded the SDK but couldn't find adb anywhere in the sdk tree. once I do find it, using it will be amusing to say the least.
Of course i backed up the phone with my data. But unless I get it to boot in the standard home screen with the applications I can't restore the data.
what purpose would this serve. the build.prop editor I used made a backup, but again untill i can get into the phone I can't restore this backup.
which in mymind (as a developer) this is a bad design. any 'breaking' change should be repairable by a factory reset.
needed it for the usb drivers, that's all.
not custom rom or anything. I've had the phone for a week and was finally getting tired of not having certain things the way I wanted them. so I'd figured I'd dig around. I found many tutorials on the rooting of this phone and since they were all very similar I went with this one:
How to Root SPHL710
that part wen off just fine. seemed there was nothing for me to worry about. there was no ROM or crazy changes, just wanted to give myself root access. I then wanted to change LCD density, so I tried it and here I am.
it wasn't essential for what I was doing at the time. ODIN worked for the root process. *shrug* can't change it now, so I hope it isn't necessary.
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So I see that You made a backup with some app (Titanium Backup?), not CWM or (whatever You have) recovery. That's crappy. (My bad, I could have told You about that)
Enabling usb debugging now is impossible so I think, all that's left to reflash with Odin. All the hope was in adb controlling, which REQUIRES usb debugging.
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jakuburban said:
So I see that You made a backup with some app (Titanium Backup?), not CWM or (whatever You have) recovery. That's crappy. (My bad, I could have told You about that)
Enabling usb debugging now is impossible so I think, all that's left to reflash with Odin. All the hope was in adb controlling, which REQUIRES usb debugging.
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yea, I pretty much made that call yesterday, as all the ADB struff I tried didn't work. (but it was worth while for the learning process). I flashed with stock rom, and now i'm up and running. (guess I won't be messing with that setting again. ) as it is, i'm trying different launchers which has some of the features I want, and then I'll keep looking for different email/sms apps that shrink the info. (seriously on this size/res of screen, only seeing 8 emails is pathetic).
basically now trying the Apex Launcher, and then I'll do the ADW launcher. which ever is more to my liking i'll go pro. then handcent or gosms, k9 or others, or perhaps i'll even start writing my own clients that include font setting micro, .
thanks though, at least my first attempt to alter the phone is no different than my first attempt to write a program.
Cheers,
Jaeden "Sifo Dyas" al'Reac Ruiner
JaedenRuiner said:
yea, I pretty much made that call yesterday, as all the ADB struff I tried didn't work. (but it was worth while for the learning process). I flashed with stock rom, and now i'm up and running. (guess I won't be messing with that setting again. ) as it is, i'm trying different launchers which has some of the features I want, and then I'll keep looking for different email/sms apps that shrink the info. (seriously on this size/res of screen, only seeing 8 emails is pathetic).
basically now trying the Apex Launcher, and then I'll do the ADW launcher. which ever is more to my liking i'll go pro. then handcent or gosms, k9 or others, or perhaps i'll even start writing my own clients that include font setting micro, .
thanks though, at least my first attempt to alter the phone is no different than my first attempt to write a program.
Cheers,
Jaeden "Sifo Dyas" al'Reac Ruiner
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I'm glad to hear that Before messing with the system ALWAYS make a CWM backup, not some app backup (like titanuim backup).
PS. I use ADW Launcher EX. It's the best for me. Tried other but this one is the best.