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I have a rooted thunderbolt -- thank you revolutionary -- but I have not taken the next step yet, because there's a few things I want to clarify. I'm plan to do a clean wipe, so filter my questions through that lens, if you will.
I'm on stock froyo build 1.70.605. See, I rooted before gingerbread, and now I'm stuck here in the past. The OTA got me a few times, so I've become a lot better with clockwork recovery and nandroid backups. Oddly enough, the OTA is no longer being pushed on me.
1) Preserve contacts
You can do this through google, evidently. But is this something you have to do proactively? Or does it happen automatically behind the scenes? What do I do to get 'em back after the new rom is in place?
2) Preserve SMS messages
Now, I've downloaded handcent because of the froyo error where SMS messages go to unintended targets. Accidentally told my boss I was going to get raped in a van...was a joke for another buddy of mine.
I wanna keep my text messages. What do I do for that?
3) Apps and Data
I know this is what TiBu's for. My questions here are where does TiBu back up my data to? Does TiBu magically reappear after I install the ROM and then merrily offer to restore everything I had backed up?
Oh, and I've read conflicting things about using TiBu on system apps. I'm inclinded to take the side of "no, not ever."
4) Getting the right Radio
Ok, I know there is no clear answer to this. I'd just assume the latest gingerbread radio, unless the ROM specifies something different (most dont). My question here is that in some places people talk about CDMA and LTE radios differently, and other times they make it sound like theres just one comprehensive radio for both.
5) Flash!
Here's what I've gathered...use the clockwork recovery mod. Wipe the dalvik (davlik?) cache until it starts to chafe because you dont want to be flashin' dirty. This is where you'll do the ROM, radio, and if I'm going for bonus points, a kernel.
What's the order for this? ROM -> Radio -> Kernel? People also mention yanking the battery as a hard restart between these steps. Advisable?
6) Clocks - Over and Under and Through the Woods
Do you use the android market app set cpu for this? Or does it depend on what ROM and Kernel you're using?
I have heard that overclocking will help add to the wear and tear of your phone. I dont mind the temporary instability and figuring out what's the highest you can go. Just don't want to damage this thing. Oh, and what the duce is a governer? I get that it's supposed to be some kinda speed cap, but what imposes it? The ROM? The Kernel? Jesus?
More realistically, I want to underclock it when it's idle in order to conserve juice. I figure it's more useful than overclocking.
7) Battery Calibration
I read from what seemed like a well informed how-to guide that battery calibration is bunk. I could see that. Everybody has their own pseudo scientific way to repetitiously plug and unplug the battery until it achieves charge-nirvana. Is it more than superstition?
8) Launchers and Randomness
What's a launcher? Is it worth using? Why?
If I plug my SD card into another android device, will the data be recognized? Can I backup my SD card's contents to a windows PC?
Duely blundered from my thunderdolt
Great questions, i can answer a few. Governer- i believe regulates the frequencies or cpu runs. Certain govs give better batt life, i use smartassv2 with screen off profile set thru setcpu, another of your questions, which i use to overclock. Launcher- the thingy with the functions at the bottom of the screen. Sense launcher is "rosie", aosp or "stock" launcher is more along the lines of golauncher, launcher pro, adw launcher. Those give you the stock look and are cystomizable. I prefer sense based roms, thats why i bought htc phones for my last 5. Currently running the latest "eternity #238 build". Very nice, great battery for sense 3.5 with beats audio. Ill let others take over now, hope this helps some.
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1) Preserve contacts
Are your contacts saved to phone, or as Google contacts? If to phone, you must save them to Google. Once saved to the cloud, they return after each/every ROM Flash after Google sign-in.
2) Preserve SMS messages
SMS Backup+ backs them up and saves them to your Gmail account - free in the market. There are other means to accomplish this - I find this one to my liking. I do not restore them to the device.
3) Apps and Data
These are saved to a Titanium folder on your SD card.
Restored individually or in batch mode, by the user.
Some ROMs inclue the app, some don't.
Do not restore system apps or data between different ROMs.
4) Getting the right Radio
This is 100% ymmv, for either kind - MR2 LTE may be the best for you combined with the the MR4 version of the other one.
Why? They largely depend on geography - a radio combo that may work for me in the South may not work at all or nearly as well for Donny in KS, or you, wherever you are - these are trial-and-error.
5) Flash!
Yes, Clockwork. Wipe data/factory reset - this wipes the cache partition, simultaneous with the dalvik. Then go to advanced, and format system. Device is thoroughly wiped. (opinions vary on this)
Wipe batt stats as needed. ROMs and kernels are flashed in Clockwork - aka CWM. Radios are flashed in HBOOT.
DO NOT pull the battery when flashing a radio. (opinions vary on this)
When flashing a ROM, and/or making a backup, make sure you have say 40% battery life left before you flash.
If a new ROM flash bootloops, battery pull is ok.
6) Clocks - Over and Under and Through the Woods
SetCPU is available as a free d/l for XDA users - buy it in the market to support the dev.
The ROM may have a performance tweak area - in that case, I don't use SetCPU, but the one built in.
7) Battery Calibration
Ymmv - user experience - based on what/how you use your phone, what/how many apps you sync and the frequency.
If I plug my SD card into another android device, will the data be recognized?
Certain of the data will be recognized. Depends on device inserted into, and the ROM. Example - if I take my Thunderbolt's SD card & put it in my buddy's Moto DroidX, it will depend what it sees.
Can I backup my SD card's contents to a windows PC?
Sure can. Plug in, mount as usb, drag & drop.
1) Preserve contacts
Google should do this by itself, but if you are in a sense rom you can hit menu and import/export and back up and restore contacts. There are also apps for this
2) Preserve SMS messages
I know sense has a backup function(find it in the menus), but if you are going to a nonsense rom then use one of the 1000 apps in the market for this
3) Apps and Data
tibu backs up data, and some roms include it, and on the rest you can dl it from the market, the data will still be there
4) Getting the right Radio
If i remember right older radios were seperate and now they are combined, but I have never personally messed with mine, the stock one works perfectly for me.
5) Flash!
backup, wipe dalvik, wipe cache, wipe data, flash **** in any order, but just flash the rom first because they usually come with a good kernel, you can flash radio and kernel later if needed
6) Clocks - Over and Under and Through the Woods
I use setcpu from the market, but there are other free alternatives, adn some roms have built in functions for it
a governer is what controls how the clock speed changes, for example performance keeps it at the max 24/7 and smartass has it at the min when the screen it off
7) Battery Calibration
only wipe it if you batterylife is really ****ed up, but it is just a psudo effect
8) Launchers and Randomness
it replaces your, well, the whole visual part of android, it is pointless on a sense rom, and most aosp roms have one of the most popular ones pre installed
9)If I plug my SD card into another android device, will the data be recognized?
it should be
10)Can I backup my SD card's contents to a windows PC?
ofcourse, but I have never heard of anyone doing it
Duely blundered from my thunderdolt
Ive managed to destroy the usb port on my S2 i was having the same problems ive read about on other posts (therm triangle, charging when not plugged in) so i tried to bend the pin downwards and have broke the gold contacts. I need to back up my phone to a blank micro sd befor ei claim on my insurance.
How do i do this?
Best Regards
Warren
You don't say whether you're rooted and/or have CWM recovery installed, nor what kind of backup you want.
hi thanks for your reply,
the phone is rooted and i had flashed the phone for the tegra fix when i first got it, im not sure if the programe is installed. I need my contacts, pics of the missus.. off im not bothered about video or music. Is the a way of keeping your apps?
Regards
Warren
warrent2 said:
hi thanks for your reply,
the phone is rooted and i had flashed the phone for the tegra fix when i first got it, im not sure if the programe is installed. I need my contacts, pics of the missus.. off im not bothered about video or music. Is the a way of keeping your apps?
Regards
Warren
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You can copy files (pics, video, music) via wifi, (or Kies Air if you use it), if you're synced to your Google account, (check under Settings > Accounts and sync > your Google account; make sure "Sync Contacts" is checked) then your contacts should be backed up on your account already.
If under Settings > Privacy, the "Back up my data" option is checked, then your account will ALSO remember what apps are installed, and will re-install them on a new phone (if you get one), but you will lose your app data.
u can use titanium bck and backup all apps+data ,then bckup folder is stord on phone so copy or cut tht and paste on external sd,,then frm sd to pc
Use es file explorer or air Droid to move all your stuffs to PC. If you don't have wifi, move the data to your external SD and transfer it to PC via card reader
#*posted on the move *#
Replacing the usb board in an S2 is REALLY easy!
You can buy the part on ebay (am I allowed to name other sites on here? Apologies if not) for very cheap.
It is a seperate board with a connector cable - you dont need to replace the entire system/main board... it requires care obviously, but is VERY straight forward - I would be happy to assist you through it - I have done this quite a few times for my own phone and my friends too.
Just make sure you read the engineers manual for the S2 to see how to open it up, and you cant go far wrong
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Replacing the usb board in an S2 is REALLY easy!
You can buy the part on ebay (am I allowed to name other sites on here? Apologies if not) for very cheap.
It is a seperate board with a connector cable - you dont need to replace the entire system/main board... it requires care obviously, but is VERY straight forward - I would be happy to assist you through it - I have done this quite a few times for my own phone and my friends too.
Just make sure you read the engineers manual for the S2 to see how to open it up, and you cant go far wrong
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Hi shadow2981
My USB Port is damaged yesterday..Can you point me the site websites where i can buy it...also...can you point me where i can download the engineers manual??
Thanks a lot
His post was about a year ago for starters...lol.
Plenty of you tube videos about that sort of thing.Engineers manual.....lol
Theres a few threads with links for the usb port and videos.
I have put links up for service manual, disassembly video, and ebay seller of usb port/board in the past.
Replaced my USB port 3weeks ago...follow instructions from you tube... Be patient and it's really easy... Took Mr about 50mins taking my time... The part cost me £6.99 from eBay... I'm replacing one for a friend next week... when I get back from holiday... It's that easy....
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Hi Everyone!
I've lurked in the xda-forum awhile. I had a HTC Touch HD ("Blackstone" I think it was) about 4 years ago, rommed it with forum help but still wound up not liking the device so I got rid of it shortly thereafter and went back to simple candybar phone. Got an international/unlocked Galaxy S3 about three weeks ago and it is my first smartphone since then and my first Android phone! Very happy so far but I have several questions so far for some minor irks.
1. Memory management - I am using the GO task manager and my memory usage is regularly between 70%-90%. It's also annoying that the device has 1gb of RAM but it shows up as 779m. Is this high usage normal? I'm guessing it is due to a lot of stock boatware which leads me to my next point.
2. Startup app management - I have tried several apps that promise to manage startup applications but nothing seems to work very well. The best one I've seen so far is Startup Cleaner 2.0 but still things like Google Talk, TripIt and some games still start even though I select them to be disabled on startup. Is there a better utility or is this a weird thing with Android or ICS?
3. Bloatware - Is there a way to uninstall the stock bloatware I don't use like Google Talk, Google+ or ChatON?
4. SD card - I purchased a Sandisk 64gb Micro Ultra SDXC memory card and slapped it in. It shows up when I connect the phone to my PC and I have been transferring files and storing camera pics with it successfully. However, the one thing I can't seem to do is move any apps to it. It seems any program that is supposed to move apps to the SD card doesn't recognize it. For example, in "App 2 SD" it states: "The Device does not have a real primary external storage, or the primary external storage is emulated. Moving app to SD function may not be supported by this device."
5. ROMs - I did some poking around and it sounds like the Omega might be best for an Android n00b. Does this strip out a lot of the bloatware? Any significant pros/cons of using this over the stock ROM?
6. Gorilla Glass 2.0 - Is this the stuff they invented in Star Trek IV because it is crazy durable!
7. Security applications - I am using Lookout free version. Is anything else recommended more (Avast) or should I supplement Lookout with something else?
I appreciate any and all help and my deepest thanks in advance. Sorry if my questions are of the n00b variety but I'm new to Android smartphones!
- LaptopFTW
LaptopFTW said:
Hi Everyone!
I've lurked in the xda-forum awhile. I had a HTC Touch HD ("Blackstone" I think it was) about 4 years ago, rommed it with forum help but still wound up not liking the device so I got rid of it shortly thereafter and went back to simple candybar phone. Got an international/unlocked Galaxy S3 about three weeks ago and it is my first smartphone since then and my first Android phone! Very happy so far but I have several questions so far for some minor irks.
1. Memory management - I am using the GO task manager and my memory usage is regularly between 70%-90%. It's also annoying that the device has 1gb of RAM but it shows up as 779m. Is this high usage normal? I'm guessing it is due to a lot of stock boatware which leads me to my next point.
Never use task manager, let RAM work for you
2. Startup app management - I have tried several apps that promise to manage startup applications but nothing seems to work very well. The best one I've seen so far is Startup Cleaner 2.0 but still things like Google Talk, TripIt and some games still start even though I select them to be disabled on startup. Is there a better utility or is this a weird thing with Android or ICS?
Freeze with Titanium Backup
3. Bloatware - Is there a way to uninstall the stock bloatware I don't use like Google Talk, Google+ or ChatON?
For easy way, use custom ROM, best CheckROMv2
4. SD card - I purchased a Sandisk 64gb Micro Ultra SDXC memory card and slapped it in. It shows up when I connect the phone to my PC and I have been transferring files and storing camera pics with it successfully. However, the one thing I can't seem to do is move any apps to it. It seems any program that is supposed to move apps to the SD card doesn't recognize it. For example, in "App 2 SD" it states: "The Device does not have a real primary external storage, or the primary external storage is emulated. Moving app to SD function may not be supported by this device."
Can't move any apps to external anymore,as far I know, you can Bind it data only
5. ROMs - I did some poking around and it sounds like the Omega might be best for an Android n00b. Does this strip out a lot of the bloatware? Any significant pros/cons of using this over the stock ROM?
Best striped ROM is CheckROMv2, any stock apps you need can download from kitchen.
6. Gorilla Glass 2.0 - Is this the stuff they invented in Star Trek IV because it is crazy durable!
Yes durable enough, my screen still naked, not have any hair line yet
7. Security applications - I am using Lookout free version. Is anything else recommended more (Avast) or should I supplement Lookout with something else?
Use Samsung drive, no need anti virus
I appreciate any and all help and my deepest thanks in advance. Sorry if my questions are of the n00b variety but I'm new to Android smartphones!
- LaptopFTW
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My answer below your question ^o^
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Think the last guy covered most things but a couple of thing to add.
You don't need titanium backup or even root to remove apps as Ice Cream Sandwich allows you to disable unwanted apps right from the application management menu. The only system apps you aren't allowed to disable are ones which will break your phone, so you can safely freeze unwanted crapware without worrying about breaking anything.
I'm not entirely sure it's a good idea to start with custom roms straight away, maybe you should spend a week or two on stock and playing with what I mentioned above to learn a bit about Android before you dive into the world of root.
Also never listen to anyone when they say this, that or the other Rom is best. There are many great developers on xda and what suits him or me may not suit you.
At any rate my experience with past androids is that performance and battery life aren't all that different between the roms, it's usually only small tweaks here and there which are visible to the user. For example some will remove certain apps or the boot sound. The exceptions would be roms built from source like Cyanogenmod, Aokp and Miui. These feel very different to the Galaxy S stock Rom, although Cyanogenmod and Aokp feel quite similar to each other.
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Yup, you're right, but I think I answer as best I could. Yeah many good ROM out there, CheckROMv2 is only my suggestions.
About stock Galaxy S3, yeah good enough for casual users. Some user didn't like bloatware, many can't be deleted and need permission to do that. Peace.. ^_^
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Yup, you're right, but I think I answer as best I could. Yeah many good ROM out there, CheckROMv2 is only my suggestions.
About stock Galaxy S3, yeah good enough for casual users. Some user didn't like bloatware, many can't be deleted and need permission to do that. Peace.. ^_^
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That's right you can't delete them but a new feature of ice cream sandwich is that you can freeze them. It's basically the same thing titanium backup does but it works on stock unrooted devices.
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If you ignore the various themed components of custom roms then after my tests their is no real diffrence between any of the custom roms as they basically all have the same inside . Advantage over stock almost nil .
Of course custom roms and custom kernels are at a very early stage of development for the SGS3 so far .
jje
Thanks, everyone for the advice and replies. I'm loving the phone so far but am always looking for ways to tweak and customize.
Hello all.
After recently obtaining root (see thread asus padfone x mini rooting device) I thought we could all begin to catalog what we have changed. Any app that required root and has proven useful and effective for you, please share it here and I will begin to aggregate all of the useful tools here in this top post.
Some stuff you might want to try after rooting
(Copied from my other thread)
A couple things I did with my phone after root.
1. Froze all bloatware. I might remove it later but I felt safer just freezing it with Titanium Backup in case I find out later it screwed something up.
2. Installed a CPU tweaker like 3C ToolBox. If I choose any governor besides interactive, the phone crashes, freezes and just won't play nice. But I have it set to on boot interactive, 1.33GHz - 1.6GHz and no problem. Phone is much faster now. Also for screen off I have ondemand 800MHZ - 933MHz with 1 CPU online, 2nd free and 3rd offline. Ondemand seems to work fine in screen off maybe because I am not accessing apps on the fly. Before root this phone would suck away the battery life and I would only be able to get 6 hours out of it. I assume it was because all the CPU's were online running high and lows and draining the battery as well as the bloatware just lingering in the background sucking up precious resources. I was right. Once I forced the screen off settings my battery now last 3-4x longer. I can have a full charge in the morning and it still be at about 50% - 60% late at night with the occasional checking emails, checking on a game or two and surfing the web. Awesome!
3. On a more important note, I HATED the AT&T boot up sound. Dun dun dun dun snap. Awful! At night it wakes my wife up when I am in bed needing to reboot my phone. I had to smother it with a pillow to muffle the sound. There was no way to change or quiet it. It was a forced noise on a forced volume. However, I used X-Plore, gave it root and navigated to /system/media/audio and renamed powerup.wav to powerup.wav.bak. No more annoying AT&T sound at bootup! Whoohoo! It is quiet as can be. Love it.
4. I also hated the low battery noise. So I went to /system/media/audio/ui and renamed lowbattery.ogg to lowbattery.ogg.bak and now no more annoying low battery notifications. Only the popup window notifies me. Yay! Progress!
5. Installed SD Fix! Finally! My 3rd party apps can now write to my external micro SD card. This allows for installing apps to SD, moving their data and just overall more usage of the micro sd card that was stupidly blocked when KitKat 4.2.2 was released. I don't care if it has more security risks. Unless they plan on making 64GB+ a standard for all phones for built-in memory, I need my micro sd card to work as intended.
This phone is 100% better because of root. Happy rooting!
How in the world do you move apps to the sd card? I did the SD fix but there is no option to move apps to sd.
Moving apps to SD
pjohnson87 said:
How in the world do you move apps to the sd card? I did the SD fix but there is no option to move apps to sd.
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I should of been more clear on moving apps to sd. Sorry about that. The operating system doesn't support apps to sd currently at least to my knowledge. Asus will have to come out with an update to their own OS or maybe someone here can do it. However, using the sd fix brings down one more obstacle to getting apps to sd working. Or, just wait for a custom rom.
NEED ROOT!
How was root obtained?!
JDubbed said:
(Copied from my other thread)
A couple things I did with my phone after root.
1. Froze all bloatware. I might remove it later but I felt safer just freezing it with Titanium Backup in case I find out later it screwed something up.
2. Installed a CPU tweaker like 3C ToolBox. If I choose any governor besides interactive, the phone crashes, freezes and just won't play nice. But I have it set to on boot interactive, 1.33GHz - 1.6GHz and no problem. Phone is much faster now. Also for screen off I have ondemand 800MHZ - 933MHz with 1 CPU online, 2nd free and 3rd offline. Ondemand seems to work fine in screen off maybe because I am not accessing apps on the fly. Before root this phone would suck away the battery life and I would only be able to get 6 hours out of it. I assume it was because all the CPU's were online running high and lows and draining the battery as well as the bloatware just lingering in the background sucking up precious resources. I was right. Once I forced the screen off settings my battery now last 3-4x longer. I can have a full charge in the morning and it still be at about 50% - 60% late at night with the occasional checking emails, checking on a game or two and surfing the web. Awesome!
3. On a more important note, I HATED the AT&T boot up sound. Dun dun dun dun snap. Awful! At night it wakes my wife up when I am in bed needing to reboot my phone. I had to smother it with a pillow to muffle the sound. There was no way to change or quiet it. It was a forced noise on a forced volume. However, I used X-Plore, gave it root and navigated to /system/media/audio and renamed powerup.wav to powerup.wav.bak. No more annoying AT&T sound at bootup! Whoohoo! It is quiet as can be. Love it.
4. I also hated the low battery noise. So I went to /system/media/audio/ui and renamed lowbattery.ogg to lowbattery.ogg.bak and now no more annoying low battery notifications. Only the popup window notifies me. Yay! Progress!
5. Installed SD Fix! Finally! My 3rd party apps can now write to my external micro SD card. This allows for installing apps to SD, moving their data and just overall more usage of the micro sd card that was stupidly blocked when KitKat 4.2.2 was released. I don't care if it has more security risks. Unless they plan on making 64GB+ a standard for all phones for built-in memory, I need my micro sd card to work as intended.
This phone is 100% better because of root. Happy rooting!
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The phone is dual core so why set three cpu's
the phone is set from factory with interactive 1.6GHz max but it's low is like 200 I checked it out with pimp my rom but didn't change or keep any tweets as my battery life is fine
SDK fix is important you can't even delete files off SDK without it I believe bloat is what causes battery drain trilla the rooting thread top post works
My mod list
Ok, so I wanted to post a reply to this to list what I have done after root access was obtained.
1. I installed Titainum and removed most of the bloatware from AT&T, along with some of the random stuff I don't need.
2. I installed permissions denied to remove permissions from apps and games that don't need access to things like my contacts or network access.
3. Installed busy box and terminal emulator so I have some basic linux commands and can configure my iptables firewall. (on a side note I am still looking at how to install the "netfilter" kernel module to allow droidwall firewall and network logging)
4. Still working on enabling WiFi tether. ( I use Straight Talk, not AT&T )
5. Installed ES File Explorer and gave it root permissions.
6. This doesn't really require root but I added Owncloud for my cloud storage on my own server, Subsonic for music streaming on my own server, carddav for syncing contacts from my own server and configured my email from my own email server. I like to keep all of my information on my server rather then Google's servers, and I am so far completely disconnected from Google other then using their servers to get my apps I use.
Once I get #4 and #5 finished and all my apps I use installed I will be stripping everything "Google" related out of the device including all of google play's services, Gmail and any background services not needed. Since Google wants to use their services for tracking user data I don't feel the need to keep them...
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Since Google wants to use their services for tracking user data I don't feel the need to keep them...
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doesnt matter if you use google,microsoft/bing, or any other service, all of them track you no matter what you try to do. i just avoid putting anything detrimental to me on my phones. no credit card data, no ss numbers, etc. all else is basically public knowledge anyway
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doesnt matter if you use google,microsoft/bing, or any other service, all of them track you no matter what you try to do. i just avoid putting anything detrimental to me on my phones. no credit card data, no ss numbers, etc. all else is basically public knowledge anyway
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Yes, all of the above invade our privacy which is why all of my email, cloud storage, and music is hosted on my own server at my house and secured with SSL encryption. I don't use microsoft, google or apple for my personal information, but I keep a gmail account for a junk mail account (not connected to my phone) and exchange for work. Also my phone is encrypted as well as my text messaging database (text secure). Now I know this does not fix all vulnerabilities but it sure does reduce them and make me feel better that my information is for the better part under my control. As far as credit card data, if I were to even consider putting that on my phone or even my SS number it would all be stored under an encrypted database.
I also do not use public hotspots since that would just open a whole other world of vulnerabilities.
JDubbed said:
I should of been more clear on moving apps to sd. Sorry about that. The operating system doesn't support apps to sd currently at least to my knowledge. Asus will have to come out with an update to their own OS or maybe someone here can do it. However, using the sd fix brings down one more obstacle to getting apps to sd working. Or, just wait for a custom rom.
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After I rooted my Mini X, I just re-partitioned my 64gb external micro sd into 3 parts. 50 gb as ntfs for regular storage, 10 gb as ext4 for link2sd app to create a link for moving apps to the sd. and the rest which was a little over 3 gb or so as swap space to help with the 1gb low ram using memory swap for root. I keep all of my important apps on the 8 gb internal phone storage... or 4gb and the rest of them go to the 10 gb reserved within the partition i created on the sd. as far as "memory swap for root" goes. It took some time to figure out how to use the swap partition, because the location /dev/block/mmcblk1p3 didn't exist. but after I rebooted everything worked as it should have. Now my mini x which is running net 10 can outrun the zenfone 5 on the antutu benchmark. There is a little glitch when you reboot, which is probably the sd mounting but after that everything runs much faster. Considering how crappy it ran from being stock. I almost took it back.
Still waiting for cwm and cyanogenmod to meet this phone. I hope this trick helped you I won't be around much online to make a step by step how to on this. Considering i am currently a laser technician and working 12 hour shifts at the moment. But to format the micro i used "full wipe" and to create partitions i used "AParted" by sylkat tools
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3. Installed busy box and terminal emulator so I have some basic linux commands and can configure my iptables firewall. (on a side note I am still looking at how to install the "netfilter" kernel module to allow droidwall firewall and network logging)
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I bought a Zenfone 5 and after rooting, I just discovered that the kernel does not support netfilter, so Droidwall cannot work !! :crying:
why Asus doesnt have this ? wish I had known earlier.
rht_sg said:
I bought a Zenfone 5 and after rooting, I just discovered that the kernel does not support netfilter, so Droidwall cannot work !! :crying:
why Asus doesnt have this ? wish I had known earlier.
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Yeah, I actually returned my Asus Padfone because I couldn't use netfilter. I needed it for network logging and Droidwall, so it was kinda a deal breaker... I ended up getting a Sony Xperia T2 unlocked and rooting it, so far everything I needed is working better then I would hoped with the Sony.
I wish you luck with your Zenfone.
Custom ROM ?
Hey all,
I'm new to the padfone x mini seeing that my note 2 finally said I give up.. But what has to happen to get a ROM oor this thing.. It seems to me that the padfone x mini has a decent amount of potential here!.. I am no developer and have never done so but I know my way around d a PC and I know my way around linux a bit. I would just like to know where to start for developing a ROM for this phone and my first actually... Any help or guidance in the proper direction is much appreciated.
Factory rom backup?
Did anyone do a backup? We're really going to need one.
I installed Root Booster which made my phone actually stable. It hasn't crashed since I installed it and paid for the high stability mode.
Removed a lot of the Google and AT&T apps. The GOOGLE app itself and the Play Music, Play Videos, Play Books, etc. were removed with the store intact and related services left alone.
Performance jumped up once I removed the "Google" app named essentially just that, "Google".
But most importantly, it is stable. Like when I installed Lollipop on the Padfone X regular, this one makes the tablet worth it and proves that AT&T destroyed yet another device with its idiocy. But I'm running this on T-Mobile since the device itself was unlocked when I got mine for $99.
Also, I reinstalled the Google Music, Video apps since you can but I wanted to remove the default version that comes preinstalled with the ROM. BUT make sure to use System app remover (ROOT) by Jumobile. If you uninstall too much, this lets you restore it right back. Just don't purge the recycle bin.
After doing multiple searches, it seems there have been a few discussions about phone-chromebook USB connectivity but no real solutions. I recently got a chromebook and now that it is my primary, and only, computing device I am interested in exploring it's full capabilities. I will describe the specifics of my situation but I am hoping this thread will provide a useful resource to discuss all chromebook to phone USB connectivity issues.
Background:
I recently (within past 4 days) replaced both my phone and laptop. My previous setup was an HP laptop with windows 7 and the Sprint SGS4 (rooted with Sacs23 rom on JB 4.3). I am now using the Toshiba Chromebook 2 (stock) and Verizon SGS6 (stock lollipop and unrooted).
Needless to say I am experiencing some serious adjustment / withdrawl issues. I have used a chrome browser for years but there is still a learning curve to a chromebook coming from windows.
Before getting rid of my SGS4 I made backups (TB pro to external SD and dropbox, as well as with Helium backup).
My primary goal is to restore my previous apps and settings. (the Samsung Smart transfer in the store was a bust).
Problems:
Here are the issues I have run into (using the USB quick charging cable that came with the SGS6):
-Phone is not recognized / seen at all using the USB3 port.
-Phone is visible in files app using the USB2 port, but I get constant pop-ups “whoa there, be careful.” The chomebook appears to be constantly disconnecting from the phone.
-Neither the Helium app on my phone or in the Helium Chrome app recognize that the devices are connected.
- I installed the clockworkmod ABDchrome extension/app but it does not recognize that the phone is connected.
-The files app can see the files on the phone. It appears to be able to copy from the phone but not write to it (options for creating new folder are greyed out)
It seems some of my difficulties may be related to my specific phone setup (Lollipop on Verizon). I have seen prior suggestions to use the “three dots” on the storage screen to select USB transfer mode (I don’t have the three dots on Verizon touch wiz). Another possible solution was to select the USB transfer mode (PTP/MTP) on the popup notification when the devices are connected (Unfortunately, again, I don’t seem to get any popup notifications on my particular setup).
Again, my ultimate goal is to restore my phone apps / settings from my old phone, but I am interested to see if this is possible using the native(ish) capabilities of the chromebook (it may not be possible). I would be interested in any thoughts / suggestions for accomplishing this using the following:
Stock chromebook (i.e. Not installing Linux)
USB connection (i.e. not using Airdroid)
Stock lollipop
SGS6 (unrooted)
If there is no workable solution then would it be possible with a rooted phone? (it appears a root solution for the verizon SGS6 recently became an option)
I appreciate any input!
It's the laptop.
The issue isn't with the GS6, rather it's the Chromebook. It's not just the Toshiba Chomebook, it's just that ChromeOS wasn't built to do phone sync and read/write through USB. This is with every Chromebook in existence. Linux should take care of that for you though. Good day.
Update:
- I went ahead and rooted my phone. I can't live without root
- I learned that the SGS6 does not support USB 3 which explains why it wasn't recognized.
- Noob Lollipop alert. I learned that there was a notification item in the pull down shade to select the USB transfer mode. (I was expecting a pop up alert and never looked in the notifications shade).
Chrome beta channel has an enhancement that will allow photos to be transferred via the PTP and MTP protocols. Go to chrome://flags and find the flag Enable MTP support and enable it, and reboot the computer. Unfortunately, this still didn't work for me. I was still unable to write to the phone (i.e. I could only read and the phone contents but could not make a folder, write to the phone, or transfer files.)
Finally I tried just copying the SD card files to dropbox via chromebook. However, the size of the transfer is several gigabytes and it repeatedly fails part way through. I cannot seem to find a chrome app which provides folder comparison so I have no way of knowing which files transferred. If I restart the transfer there are no options to skip files that already exist. Instead it just starts over again and creates duplicates of the files already transferred.
Still looking for solutions:
- a way for the chromebook to write via USB to an external device (SGS6) possibly by getting chrome MTP support
- A folder comparison webapp that allows the ability to unselect files which are identical. Ideally the webapp would also be able to search the external device to identify duplicate files as well.
The simplest way I can think of to do what you want would be to use an external sd card. As far as I know, you should be able to transfer anything on to that, and from there to the cb. Other than that, you need to disable both your hardware and software verification security settings on it, which is not for the faint of heart at all.
Chrome OS and file transfering.
sdpluth said:
After doing multiple searches, it seems there have been a few discussions about phone-chromebook USB connectivity but no real solutions. I recently got a chromebook and now that it is my primary, and only, computing device I am interested in exploring it's full capabilities. I will describe the specifics of my situation but I am hoping this thread will provide a useful resource to discuss all chromebook to phone USB connectivity issues.
Background:
I recently (within past 4 days) replaced both my phone and laptop. My previous setup was an HP laptop with windows 7 and the Sprint SGS4 (rooted with Sacs23 rom on JB 4.3). I am now using the Toshiba Chromebook 2 (stock) and Verizon SGS6 (stock lollipop and unrooted).
Needless to say I am experiencing some serious adjustment / withdrawl issues. I have used a chrome browser for years but there is still a learning curve to a chromebook coming from windows.
Before getting rid of my SGS4 I made backups (TB pro to external SD and dropbox, as well as with Helium backup).
My primary goal is to restore my previous apps and settings. (the Samsung Smart transfer in the store was a bust).
Problems:
Here are the issues I have run into (using the USB quick charging cable that came with the SGS6):
-Phone is not recognized / seen at all using the USB3 port.
-Phone is visible in files app using the USB2 port, but I get constant pop-ups “whoa there, be careful.” The chomebook appears to be constantly disconnecting from the phone.
-Neither the Helium app on my phone or in the Helium Chrome app recognize that the devices are connected.
- I installed the clockworkmod ABDchrome extension/app but it does not recognize that the phone is connected.
-The files app can see the files on the phone. It appears to be able to copy from the phone but not write to it (options for creating new folder are greyed out)
It seems some of my difficulties may be related to my specific phone setup (Lollipop on Verizon). I have seen prior suggestions to use the “three dots” on the storage screen to select USB transfer mode (I don’t have the three dots on Verizon touch wiz). Another possible solution was to select the USB transfer mode (PTP/MTP) on the popup notification when the devices are connected (Unfortunately, again, I don’t seem to get any popup notifications on my particular setup).
Again, my ultimate goal is to restore my phone apps / settings from my old phone, but I am interested to see if this is possible using the native(ish) capabilities of the chromebook (it may not be possible). I would be interested in any thoughts / suggestions for accomplishing this using the following:
Stock chromebook (i.e. Not installing Linux)
USB connection (i.e. not using Airdroid)
Stock lollipop
SGS6 (unrooted)
If there is no workable solution then would it be possible with a rooted phone? (it appears a root solution for the verizon SGS6 recently became an option)
I appreciate any input!
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As it stands with the latest ChromeOS update you can transfer files from your phone to the chromebook. ChromeOS however is unable to write files to the phone. You can do as another poster suggested and use an sd card. (if your phone supports an sdcard)
Chrome has come a long way and maybe sometime in the near future it'll have support to write files to phones.
Error4Code3 said:
As it stands with the latest ChromeOS update you can transfer files from your phone to the chromebook. ChromeOS however is unable to write files to the phone. You can do as another poster suggested and use an sd card. (if your phone supports an sdcard)
Chrome has come a long way and maybe sometime in the near future it'll have support to write files to phones.
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Right. As I stated in my original post, I can see the files on my phone but I cannot write to the phone. My goal was to get my Titanium Backup files from my old phone to my new phone. The new phone (SGS6) does not have SD card slot so the easy solution is off the table. I eventually found a work around and used the app AirDroid to do a Wi-Fi transfer from the Chromebook SD card to my new phone.
In general, I have settled in to using my chomebook. It is fine for day to day tasks, but it has limitations which can be frustrating - like not being able to write to an external device. On the surface, this seems like an simple and unnecessary oversight. The chromebook could really use a more robust (copy, find duplicates, compare files) file management service/app which would seamlessly work with the sdcard, usb connected devices, and multiple cloud storage locations.
sdpluth said:
Right. As I stated in my original post, I can see the files on my phone but I cannot write to the phone. My goal was to get my Titanium Backup files from my old phone to my new phone. The new phone (SGS6) does not have SD card slot so the easy solution is off the table. I eventually found a work around and used the app AirDroid to do a Wi-Fi transfer from the Chromebook SD card to my new phone.
In general, I have settled in to using my chomebook. It is fine for day to day tasks, but it has limitations which can be frustrating - like not being able to write to an external device. On the surface, this seems like an simple and unnecessary oversight. The chromebook could really use a more robust (copy, find duplicates, compare files) file management service/app which would seamlessly work with the sdcard, usb connected devices, and multiple cloud storage locations.
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I will have to check out Airdrop. Is that an android app or is it on chrome also? That something I'm interested in. How exactly do you use it on Chrome?
It is an Android app which sets up a direct Wi-Fi link to the chromebook. There are probably others that do the same including file management apps (es file explorer )