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[MOD] Volume Wake for Bulletproof 1.4 Rom

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Nov 072011

One of my favorite roms on the Sensation 4G is Bulletproof 1.4, based on Sense 3.0. It has the right mix of tweaks and mods to make it smooth and quick in the heavily populated world of S4G roms. However, one thing that was missing from the rom is the ability to wake the phone via the volume buttons. The version based on Sense 3.5 has it, but not on this Sense 3.0 version. So like any rom junkie, I ended up messing around with the android.policy.jar file and manage to smali/baksmali edit the file needed to make this happen.

For your enjoyment, download the zip below (log in first) and flash it via your recovery. Cache wipe isn’t necessary but it won’t hurt.

There is no guarantee that this will work with any other rom. It’s also highly suggested that you back up your /system/framework/android.policy.jar file or just run a nandroid on your existing rom. This was done entirely on a stock BP 1.4 environment and has been tested on this rom specifically.

Volume Wake for Bulletproof 1.4 Rom (284.9 KiB, 3 hits)
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PS: If you have another rom you’d like this mod done on, I can run the edit for you. Just let me know what rom and what Sense version etc.

4EXT Recovery Themes

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Oct 252011

There is a new recovery available from madmaxx82 called 4Ext that incorporates many features and options that every crackflasher needs. Did you ever want to queue up .zip files for flashing with backup, cache wiping, and numerous other options? This recovery and it’s associated control app has it all.

My normal routine is usually wipe cache, wipe dalvick, flash rom, flash kernel (if available), fix permissions, and then reboot. You can imagine how many volume and power button presses it takes to accomplish all that. With the 4Ext Recovery app, I can queue all this up with a few taps and let it do it’s thing. There’s even md5 checking involved if you need to verify, super handy.

Since purchasing the app and using the recovery (free), I started diving into making themes for it. After a few hours of tinkering, I managed to make a couple for testing.

The images below are my Super Paper Mario and Honeycomb Blue theme. After downloading (click the screenshot), you can install it via the control app. Or you can boot into recovery and flash the .zip.

[FIX] HTC Sensation 4G screen of death

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Aug 252011

A lot of custom rom users on the Sensation 4G have noticed screen of death occurrences and reboots/lockups. A developer on XDA has dug deep and found that the HTC RUU (Rom Upgrade Utility) and OTA (Over The Air) updates differ in that a rpm image located on the RUU is not present on the OTA release. By not flashing this rpm image to the correct partition, the odd problems people have been facing with custom roms have been creeping up. From initial reports, it seems this is working for the people who have flashed the rpm.img file correctly.

I’ve actually never had the screen of death issue, but I prefer to have the correct rpm flashed anyway.

The link to the XDA thread contains a bootloader zip that reflashes your recovery and bootloader as well as the rpm.img in question. I prefer to flash the rpm file via fastboot USB since I don’t need to update or fuss with my recovery and whatnot. I also find it safer to do it via fastboot instead of a bootloader flash file.

If you already have the Android SDK installed and working, the fastboot tool is located in the tools directory. If you don’t have the SDK installed, download the zip below which contains the drivers you will need as well as the adb and fastboot executables for Windows. There is no need to install the entire SDK if all you want to use are the adb and fastboot tools.

** Flashing anything is your responsibility. What works for others may not work for you. Although this has worked fine for me, I am not responsible for what you may possibly do to your device.

Download the ADB/Fastboot zip located in this post. You will need to be a registered user to download any files from DH.
Open a command prompt to where you unzip’d the adb/fastboot file you just downloaded.
Install the HTC drivers if you do not have that already.
Disable fastboot under Settings->Power and then power down.
Hold down volume – and then hit the power button.
You are now in the bootloader (white) screen. Select fastboot from the options and hit the power button.
Connect your USB cable from your phone to your computer.
The fastboot banner should change to fastboot usb. If you don’t see this, stop and check your driver install.
Download the rpm.img zip attached to this post and place it in the same directory as where you unzip’d the adb/fastboot zip. The md5sum for this file when unzip’d is 59a52ec272c0dbdaf262f1f32e543b4c. If your md5 does not match, DO NOT FLASH. Please redownload and try again.
Issue the command “fastboot devices” and make sure your device shows up.
If it does, issue the command “fastboot flash rpm rpm.img“. This should take all of 5 seconds to flash over to your handset.
Once it flashes and you get the OK, unplug the USB cable and reboot the device via the menu and your power button.
Enjoy and be free of the screen of death.

Android ADB and Fastboot tools (13.2 MiB, 39 hits)
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Sensation 4G rpm.img file (57.5 KiB, 10 hits)
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T-Mobile Sensation 4G S-Off and Perma-root

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Jul 312011

Over the weekend, the T-Mobile HTC Sensation 4G was “cracked” and to everyone’s delight s-off (security off) was achieved. This basically allows for custom kernals and roms to be installed via, you guessed it, a custom recovery.

Here’s how to do it.

Power off your phone and then press volume down and the power button. A white screen (bootloader) will appear. Please note down the h-boot version your Sensation is running. Also note that you have s-on listed at the top of this white screen.
Reboot and let the OS load completely.
Download the Revolutionary application from revolutionary.io. You will be prompted to enter some information including a serial key and the information from your bootloader screen in the earlier step. Keep this page open!
Read the short description of what Revolutionary is on their wiki.
Download and install the correct HTC drivers from their wiki.
Extract and run the Revolutionary.exe file as administrator (assuming you are on Windows 7).
Plug your phone into your computer. The Revolutionary application should now detect your phone and will provide you with a unique serial key. Copy this serial key down by right clicking, selecting mark, then right clicking again.
Go back to the Revolutionary.io website and enter in your serial key. You will be provided with a unqiue beta key. Copy this beta key and enter/paste it into the Revolutionary application.
Your phone will be temp rooted and it will reboot into another white screen, which will be the fastboot screen.
Let the application perform some tasks and it will reboot the white screen at least once. On the second load, you should see Revolutionary on the first line and s-off will be shown on the second line.
The application will now ask if you wish to flash a custom clockworkmod recovery. By all means select yes. If you do not get this option, do not worry and just follow the steps in the next section.
Now if you were prompted for recovery flashing, let it finish and then load the root zip found on the Revolutionary wiki. This will perma-root your device if you are on the stock rom.
The last step is to find a rom to try. At the moment, InsertCoin and Virtuous Sensation seem to have the most development. These roms work on T-Mobile US Sensation 4Gs, so wifi calling is included. The kernals have been OC’d as well, nice touch.

Flashing Clockworkmod recovery manually

In case the Revolutionary application did not prompt you for recovery flash, here’s how to do it manually. You must have adb installed and working.

Hold down volume – and power and boot into your bootlooader. Select fastboot and then plug your USB cable in. The screen should say fastboot USB now.

Download this CWM 4.0.1.4 recovery image for the Sensation (Pyramid).
Open up a command prompt to your tools directory of adb.
Issue the command: fastboot flash recovery cwm-4.0.1.4-pyramid-fixed.img
It should show two lines saying sending and successfully flashed.
Power down and then hold volume – and power. Selection recovery from the menu and you should be greeted with a blue CWM menu.

*Update* – Clockworkmod recovery 4.0.1.5 is now available via Rom Manager. Download the app from the market and hit the recovery flash option and you are good to go!

T-Mobile G2x Official Gingerbread is out!

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Jul 212011

The official LG Gingerbread update is finally out for the LG/T-Mobile G2x! You will need to grab the LG Mobile Software updater. Please note that this will break any root access you already have.

So in typical DroidHype fashion, here is a link to grab a ClockworkMod flashable pre-rooted zip of the new 2.3.3 update.

Good job LG and T-Mobile for finally pushing this out!

Via [XDA]

*Update* – this appears to be LG’s release and not an official T-Mobile release. Once T-Mobile finalizes their testing, this will get signed and the over-the-air (OTA) will be sent out. Either way, this is good in LG’s eyes which means it should be good for most!

*Update* – LG’s release is indeed the same as the T-Mobile release. Flash away folks!

Flash Xionia Recovery on the LG Optimus V

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Jun 162011

The LG Optimus V on the Virgin Mobile network is by far one of the best values in Android smartphone computing. Not only is the Optimus V an excellent entry/intermediate device, it’s also on one of the nation’s cheapest smartphone plans starting at $25/month.

Like it’s siblings, the Optimus V is very welcoming to custom roms and kernels. To get started, you’ll need to load a custom recovery so you can flash your desired rom and/or kernel.

The Xionia recovery ported over to the Optimus V is probably the most accepted and supported recovery at the moment. Just about every rom can be flashed using this recovery. To get started on your Optimus V, follow these steps:

Note: You must be rooted first. If you aren’t, look up the Gingerbreak app. The following steps assume you have adb working correctly and you have the correct drivers loaded on your computer.

Download the recovery zip:

Xionia Custom Recovery for LG Optimus V (3.9 MiB, 76 hits)
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There should be two files in the .zip file, flash_image and xionia_cwma_12518.4_virgin.img. Extract the contents to the root of your /sdcard.
Open up a command prompt, we’ll be using adb to flash the recovery.
Connect a micro usb cable from your Optimus V to your computer. Find the Superuser app in your app tray and open it. On your command prompt, Type “adb shell” and then type “su”. Immediately check your Superuser app, it should prompt you to allow access. Select remember and allow the access.
Type “mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /system /system“
Type “cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image“
Type “chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image“
Type “mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /system /system“
Type “flash_image recovery /sdcard/xionia_cwma_12518.4_virgin.img“
You can now issue the command “reboot recovery“, but I prefer to power down and manually enter recovery on the first try.
Power down the device. Then press and hold volume down + home + power. You can let go once the LG boot image comes up.

If you see the blue lettered Xionia recovery, then you have installed your recovery correctly. First order of business is to make a nandroid backup under the backup and restore menu. Use the up/down buttons to navigate and the camera button to select. The back button will bring you back to the previous screen if you get lost.

Now go download a rom or kernel and try it out!

Failed rom and kernel flashing on the G2x

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Jun 122011

So from some insane crackflashing I did recently on my first G2x unit, I found out it suffered from some similar problems that my Droid Incredible experienced. On certain roms or kernels, it would just lock up the G2x on the initial boot screen. Not only that, it also heated up the CPU immensely in a short span of time.

Here’s what I attempted to flash that worked:

Eaglesblood 1.0.4 Froyo and GB Rom
Dark&Sinister 1.1 Froyo Rom
Ultimate Rom Froyo Rom
CM7 Nightlies Rom
Trinity 15 ext3 and ext4 kernels for EB/DS Froyo

Missing from that list is Faux123′s AOSP and CM7 based rom and kernel. As much as I would have loved to use it, I just couldn’t. Now before someone points, laughs and cries user error, I’ve been doing this for quite a while. I know how this works and what needs to get done to make it work. I’ve done the wipes, I’ve done the nandroid restores back to ext3, I’ve done everything. The end result is always a locked up LG boot screen and a blazing hot backside.

So how did I fix it?

Simple, grabbed a new G2x unit and test it. Within 10 minutes, I had Faux’s AOSP rom and Cm7 based kernel loaded and booted. So did my G2x have the same kind of bad memory blocks causing problems? Who knows at this point, but what I do know is I’m now using one of the smoothest rom and kernel combinations for the G2x.

Clockworkmod Recovery for the T-mobile G2x

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Apr 222011

Following yesterdays post about rooting the T-mobile G2x, here comes Clockworkmod (CWM) recovery. @ChrisSoyars just posted a version of CWM on XDA. His steps are done on Linux, but since a majority of us are Windows users here’s how you’ll do it. There are external links here because a lot of this will probably change.

Download the CWM Recovery version 3.1.0.1 with ext4 support. You can choose internal sdcard or external. The following steps are for external sdcard recovery.
Grab the nvflash utility and drivers over at MoDaCo.
Place the CWM recovery file from Step 1 into the same directory where you extracted nvflash to in step 2.
Remove the battery and then hold down both volume buttons and connect your USB cable to your computer.
Your computer will prompt you for drivers — navigate to the drivers you downloaded in step 2 and install them.
Once the drivers are installed, unplug the USB cable from your phone only.
Now once again, hold down both volume buttons but this time keep holding them down while plugging in your USB cable.
Open a command prompt (Start->Run->cmd) and navigate to the directory you extracted nvflash to and copy/paste the following: nvflash.exe –bct E1108_Hynix_512MB_H8TBR00U0MLR-0DM_300MHz_final_emmc_x8.bct –bl fastboot.bin –download 5 p999-ext4-ums-external-recovery.img
Your screen will show SW Upgrade and your command prompt will cycle through a bunch of nvflash operations. Once the flash is done, it will tell you so. Give it a few minutes after that and then unplug the USB cable.
Hold volume down and power when booting up to gain access to the CWM recovery. You can let go once you get past the LG boot screen. If you let go prematurely, it will drop you into the SW Upgrade screen. Use the volume buttons to navigate and the power button to select your options.

Tip: If you issue a nvflash command, you will need to unplug your USB cable and replug it every time or else the next nvflash command will not take. I’m not sure why this happens, but repeating a nvflash command back to back doesn’t seem to work.

[Update 04/28/2011] – Update the steps with better instructions and with the latest release of CWM recovery.

Note: The difference between doing the above and flashing CWM recovery via Rom Manager is that the above steps will allow you to use the volume down and power combination when booting up. If you do this via Rom Manager at this point, you won’t be able to access the recovery in that manner. This is important because if you end up boot looping and can’t boot up correctly, having volume down and power to access recovery will be your life saver.

[Update 05/25/2011] – Krylon360 has released a customized version of CWM that supports ext4 as well as ext3. Go grab it and then load the Trinity kernel for some added performance.

Gingerbread leaked for DroidX and Droid2

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Mar 272011

The wait is over, Gingerbread is available for all the Droid X and Droid 2 users out there. My Droid World just released (early) the official updates for these two handsets. Have at ‘em folks, download links at MDW.

Cyanogenmod 7 Nightly adds battery percentage

Droid, G2, Gtablet, Incredible, News, Nexus One, Roms, Root, Tmobile, Viewsonic No Responses »

Mar 022011

The latest Cyanogenmod (CM) 7 Nightlies have added a few notable updates to the latest builds. One of the more requested ones (at least for me) is the battery percentage in the status bar. This was available in CM6, but CM7 had some previous problems in getting this done, but that has been overcome with the latest builds.

The new battery percentage is slightly different in that the percentage isn’t inside the battery icon. The new style has the numbering to the left of a small battery bar.

To update to CM7, grab it from the CM site or if you are a premium Rom Manager user you can download it directly from the app.

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