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Seriously, every time I want to check something out it's down!

behrouz said:
Seriously, every time I want to check something out it's down!
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Guessing from the little information you have provided....
You are posting just after the site came back online. The servers perform a backup every morning around that time IIRC.
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Just An Idea : Read Please.....

Sorry To Everybody Who Answered Below, But Due To Problems With Hard Drive, I Lost All Roms And Cabs On My Computer. So If A Admin Or Mod Reading This Post, Please Delete It
that would be awesome. when I first came to the forum, I had a real hard time sorting through all the releases.
But the only problem is, you must be updating that thread frequently as there is a new release every few days.
Also it would be even more awesome if you could add a release date next to each link so that people know what is new and what is old and what is being updated.
yeah i would do that, if everyone agrees, will start it next tuesday onwards....
Nice Idea One stop Shop .. Please go ahead and post it.
Go for it, and maybe someone will STICKY it!!
thats the idea, hopefully it will be stickied, gotta get bank holiday weekend outta the way, also might see a couple new roms in next few days....
Fantabulous.
I have the same thing but with all games and apps for the Hermes, too bad I cant post them
g35driver said:
I have the same thing but with all games and apps for the Hermes, too bad I cant post them
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Hehe, yeah well for the unscrupulous among this crowd that's what that OTHER site is for.
Good plan Batman, sticky should be defo applied!!!
but i think there would have to be a way of stopping people posting any questions about the ROM or software otherwise the thread will turn into a messy ROM&CAB bank/Support thread!
Also if you can only post 5 attachments on each post, so unless you are going to upload CABs to Rapidshare (or whatever the you use) and then provide weblinks.
Also i would consider not using Rapidshare because once you download a ROM from it you get banned from download for 30-120 mins depending on the network traffic at the time, i think you should consider using SENDSPACE, MEGAUPLOAD, THERE IS LOADS MORE UNLIMITED ONES HERE
Last point, think the thread should only have your Posts on it, cantact a MOD with the idea and ask them if it is possable
bennec83
Blowfish64 said:
Hehe, yeah well for the unscrupulous among this crowd that's what that OTHER site is for.
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the OTHER site????
g35driver said:
the OTHER site????
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Yeah What other site>?
www <dot> other <dot> com
^^lol no
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For the Newbs who read it
Being one who looks at this site everyday for different products I can use it would be perfect.
Just make sure you set it up for newbs also. who don't understand things in short
ex. Cybertron Voice Commander Hybrid 2.0:CVC_Hybrid_2.0
Name:Link. just an idea for setting it up.
dahui9 said:
Being one who looks at this site everyday for different products I can use it would be perfect.
Just make sure you set it up for newbs also. who don't understand things in short
ex. Cybertron Voice Commander Hybrid 2.0:CVC_Hybrid_2.0
Name:Link. just an idea for setting it up.
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Nice idea, i didnt think of that
hang.tuah said:
www <dot> other <dot> com
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Whats this and how does it relate to this:
Blowfish64 said:
Hehe, yeah well for the unscrupulous among this crowd that's what that OTHER site is for.
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Brand new

Okay sorry such a seemingly simple question has to be asked when there's hundred of threads all about this phone. I've had it for a year and a half now, and I've loved it without any mods (cause I didnt know there were any for free), but now its slooooowwww.
Gets frozen on any MMS, keys stop responding often, free mem is constantly below 1mb, cant delete SMS because as soon as I restart the phone, they're back.
SO, essentially, I see there's a TON of awesome stuff to upgrade too. I really cant believe Ive been so oblivious heh. Where do I start. I want one of these ROMs. One where I can backup all texts, then delete a year and a half worth. One where the interface is obviously different. One where all my shh doesn't constantly freeze If there's a "Start fresh" thread on here, I missed it. I'm hoping I can either be told, or directed to where I can get a step by step on upgrading the phone. Unlocking (if necessary), installing, etc.. I have WM6, nothing upgraded at all. I want all the junk off this phone. If I can get a start on what to do, I'm sure I can go from there with configuring.
I dont want to buy a new PDA since Im having a baby, so any help at this point is going to be awesome. Thanks!
plzzzzzzzzzzzz, if theres a thread im missing that can start my getting 6.1 and how, id love to find it and read for myself
you have some reading and searching to do regarding the backing up of texts and all that stuff...it can be done and the answers are somewhere on this forum. you just need to use search to find it.
as far as starting over...you sound new to this so until you read all the stickies at the top of this forum...id go with option 2
FIRST THINGS FIRST. SINCE APPARENTLY YOU MISSED EVERY POST (ALL THE ONES LABELED STICKY) ON THE FIRST PAGE. READ THIS BEFORE GOING FURTHER SO YOU DONT HURT YOUR PHONE OR YOURSELF.
option 1. - Upgrade the rom to one of the 6.1 versions. you can find them with detailed instructions in the stickies. these roms are flat out better than the windows mobile 5 or 6 that you are most likely running. but please read about them and their installation before attempting the upgrade. also read ALL of the stickies to avoid us ganging up on you and and beating you like a hobo for asking "Why am I getting Error: 270".
option 2. - just hit the clear storage button (start > accesories > clear storage) and it will wipe out anything you have saved or installed to the phone and it will be just like when you took it out of the box. this will get rid of your memory issue.
as far as low memory....do you have a ton of stuff installed? did you save every text over the last year and a half?
edit: i cant belive im doing this...but here are some places to start.
Kavanas 6.1 ROM
Rickwyatts version of Kavanas 6.1 ROM
Here is for when you want to come on here and post "ERROR 270! HELP!!!"
Then when you get past that you will come on here and go "MY KEYBOARD IS ALL MESSED UP". for that you are gonna wanna click here --> Keyboard Fix
Once you get passed there... you will definitely come back to say "hey guys! great rom! but i cant send a text, mms or get to the net! zomg my life suck!!!!" click here when that happens and read what it says in green.
i cant belive i just took away all your fun in searching...you musta caught me on a good night...
without beartard here im getting weak!
by the way..all those links i posted ARE THE FIRST THINGS AT THE TOP OF THIS FORUM. READ ALL THE POSTS THAT SAY "STICKY" NEXT TO THEM
bawks said:
plzzzzzzzzzzzz, if theres a thread im missing that can start my getting 6.1 and how, id love to find it and read for myself
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how could you possibly miss every post on the first page of this forum?
between the time of your first post and second post you could have found all those stickies and had the phone upgraded....did you really try hard to find the answers? c'mon you can tell me...im not gonna get mad..i already gave the answers to ya.
btw...im not trying to belittle you..think of it as a hazing. a lot of people have put work into making that Excalibur Wiki and the mods have done a great job of making the most common issues STICKIES. when people come on after joining a day ago and have 2 post to their name after owning the phone for a year and a half....then ask many things, all of which have been answered many many dozens of times... it just annoys me. mods spend time to make the stickies of the important things...and people like you dont even bother looking. you spent 2 hours waiting for someone to guide you...when you could have read everything in that time...anyways..im not bashing...just sayin in the future, do some reading or use the search button that i linked above before making a new post like this and looking (to the normal lurkers) silly. anyways. goodluck
Simply a beautiful step-by-step "manual" if you will.
Thanks Gixxum.
Mikey1022 said:
Simply a beautiful step-by-step "manual" if you will.
Thanks Gixxum.
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Exactly what I was thinking, as I was reading this thread I was thinking to myself that this should be a "sticky" itself for all the newbies...
I second you on the sticky. It can also be posted on the wiki, I mean I went there to learn how to upgrade my phone, more people should.
Mikey1022 said:
Simply a beautiful step-by-step "manual" if you will.
Thanks Gixxum.
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i gave in...i see everyone else being all helpful and responsible...so i had to edit my original "ZOMG YOU ARE THE STUPIDEST PERSON [email protected]#" to what you have read above.
i think i lost part of my soul.
wish this was available when I first started modding... but it did feel good reading and figuring things out on my own
marmar82 said:
wish this was available when I first started modding... but it did feel good reading and figuring things out on my own
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guess i wasnt in a good mood when you started modding them...sorry bout that.
haw haw. I deserved that. gave me a good laugh though. Thanks for the help
bawks said:
haw haw. I deserved that. gave me a good laugh though. Thanks for the help
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as usual...if you have any questions, concerns or just want to talk about whats on your mind....pm mikey or call him at home during dinner...
gixxum said:
as far as low memory....do you have a ton of stuff installed? did you save every text over the last year and a half?
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Just to answer, yeah I got about 80k texts on here. Rad, eh
rad is an understatement....you are the coolest mother f'er ive ever run across.

Unroot

I need to take my phone back.....but I have already rooted it and unlocked it. How do I go about unrooting and locking it? Thanks in advance.
schartzr said:
I need to take my phone back.....but I have already rooted it and unlocked it. How do I go about unrooting and locking it? Thanks in advance.
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This should be in the q & a forum. Already posted there. Please search before posting. Close this thread.
Sent from the beast from the east HTC Evo with XDA App
I can't really say it any better then the guy above me just did. I hope for your sake you start gettin a lil more enthusiatic for the duration of your stay here at XDA otherwise I can't really see you advancing much further... Best of luck.
Try this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=721843
i am sorry guys I looked and looked I didnt see anything. I will look again.
Calm down If you spent as much time helping rather then criticizing you might have a much fuller life
what does that even mean
If you would have actually searched instead of just saying you did, you would see there is multiple threads on the same page as this thread you posted covering the information you seek, I'm just trying to save you from getting flamed from people a lot worse then me here but do what you want...
Go to the htc evo question and answer section and one of the thread titles is how to unroot to stock. There it will help you find the information your looking for. Just be careful where you post. Most won't be as nice as others just because we have rules that we follow. Good luck
Sent from the beast from the east HTC Evo with XDA App
^^^ If we had more of this, there would be less users being total jerks following the bad examples of the posts above this one.
Brutal-Force said:
^^^ If we had more of this, there would be less users being total jerks following the bad examples of the posts above this one.
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I agree..... +1
zzz... being in the many forums I have been, people saying to search without even giving an answer are not adding to the forum at all.
Anyway, I unrooted before I did the OTA update... basically, you have to download the latest OTA RUU file.
The RUU file is an executible.
You run the RUU file while your phone is plugged in.
And it should restore everything to factory settings with the OTA update.
Here's a list of RUU's.
http://www.shipped-roms.com/shipped/Supersonic/
Obviously, choose the last one, as it is the latest.
Im definetly not one to flame usually, you guys can stop crying now. Im just stating the obvious... if its something hard to find, i will always post a link... you can check my other posts but this is blatantly obvious so its well deserved. A little constructive criticism is how everybody learns, its most likely how you guys even learned.
patelkedar91 said:
zzz... being in the many forums I have been, people saying to search without even giving an answer are not adding to the forum at all.
Anyway, I unrooted before I did the OTA update... basically, you have to download the latest OTA RUU file.
The RUU file is an executible.
You run the RUU file while your phone is plugged in.
And it should restore everything to factory settings with the OTA update.
Here's a list of RUU's.
http://www.shipped-roms.com/shipped/Supersonic/
Obviously, choose the last one, as it is the latest.
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I have a helpful tip also. Send it to me and I will unroot it...for a fee
Check the guide in my sig...
firemedic1343 said:
I have a helpful tip also. Send it to me and I will unroot it...for a fee
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For a fee?
lol, that's new!
I'll do ya one better, a REMOTE unrooting service. install LogMeIn on your computer and paypal me $50 and i'll unroot in under 10 minutes
edit: while i'm at it i'll show you how to use google and xda search too! all for one low price!
I did not know there were so many mods on this site. Weird.

XDA Maintenance and Forums Restored from Backups

As many of you may have heard, we underwent routine maintenance on our Database Server last night (9/25). Upon rebooting the Database Server, it refused to boot and all indications are that the RAID 10 (what is RAID? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID) array failed.
We have restored the Forums from a 24 hour old backup. We know this is not ideal, but at this point, the chances of recovering the failed array are slim.
We sincerely apologize for this.
Technical Info:
This maintenance was intended to boost the redundancy of our database setup and "lightening struck".
The maintenance was to update the OS and make a configuration change to allow us to introduce a slave DB server which would replicate all data on the primary DB server. We are currently running off this intended "slave server" as a master.
ouch how does Raid 10 fail!? hope all is well!
At least your back!
Hoorah for back ups!
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
hurray for raid!!!
Now up but strange...
svetius said:
We have restored the Forums from a 24 hour old backup.
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is there any chance to restore newer entries too?
snq- said:
is there any chance to restore newer entries too?
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Most likely not, except for Google's cache that stores some of the sites stuff
Could I please request that this information is posted across all the forums ? It certainly confused me as to where my recent posts etc had gone.
God damn!!!
I had some brilliant posts about statistics on overclocking HD2 and now those posts all gone
Thanks svetius, I was about to post an annoucement on hero and desire, but you beat me...
Sorry to hear about this. Time to action the RPs again, cap'ntrek
Now this isn't the greatest way to start a day
I did notice the downtime messages, which you guys kept refreshing with status updates, and noticed the forums return. It's a shame you guys had to use a 24 hrs old backup but hey things are up and running again.
I wouldn't know what to do without my favourite forum.
Besides the set back on posts i want to say GREAT JOB guys for getting things up again, and a very big THANK YOU for keeping us posted during the process.
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Thanks svetius, I was about to post an annoucement on hero and desire, but you beat me...
Sorry to hear about this. Time to action the RPs again, cap'ntrek
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Yes boss
Captainkrtek said:
Yes boss
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Hehe. To the mod-mobile This means bans and warnings will need issued again...
pulser_g2 said:
Hehe. To the mod-mobile This means bans and warnings will need issued again...
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Oh great haha its 2 am where iam
So things I posted yesterday day are gone
I now understand what's going on. Thought I had lost my mind for a minute.
Not sure how we raise awareness of this issue across the site as there are a lot of confused people out there. I am beginning to get pms on it.
WB
wacky.banana said:
I now understand what's going on. Thought I had lost my mind for a minute.
Not sure how we raise awareness of this issue across the site as there are a lot of confused people out there. I am beginning to get pms on it.
WB
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Hi mate, there's a global announcement above every forum, but perhaps mike or svetius could add a new notice in place of the announcement, as it might be easier to see (since there are no notices in normal circumstances)
wacky.banana said:
I now understand what's going on. Thought I had lost my mind for a minute.
Not sure how we raise awareness of this issue across the site as there are a lot of confused people out there. I am beginning to get pms on it.
WB
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Sorry My friend fore the PM I send you!? But I was lost.
I thought that fore some reason 25/September/2010 was band? It was like a dream to see lot of thing we thought to have solved/see/replay/posted and now there isn't anymore!?
But NP we will have patience/understanding fore this issue.
For the size XDA is its pretty sad that you're not replicating your DB.
Glad the forum is back.

Dragonsclawaresharp tutorial for testpoint method

Any help guys with this..
After I "Browse my computer for driver software" I cant find "USBFlash_driver"
I have downloaded the file... I can open it..... but do I have to shift it somewhere after I download it?
Stumped again!! Goldfish material....round and round and round
You could have just asked on the thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1730874
A right thats it posted on that site... how do i delete this post?
Plenty of people on here quick enough to tell us what we are doing wrong... pity it wasnt the same with some of the answers that we are
REALLY NEEDING.
Anyway is there something that us new folks on here can read to help us get it right, rather than getting replys of this nature all the time....
moff1 said:
Plenty of people on here quick enough to tell us what we are doing wrong... pity it wasnt the same with some of the answers that we are
REALLY NEEDING.
Anyway is there something that us new folks on here can read to help us get it right, rather than getting replys of this nature all the time....
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Watch...
Read - Why you get short/one word answers! (The Long Answer)
Been through all that stuff already...
As I have said before... why go to all the bother of posting the same stuff again and again?
I have spent the last 3 weeks looking around from site to site picking up bits here and there then eventually back to where I have started... albeit a little bit wiser...
I'm obviously missing something here...
Replying with this is as bad as spam.!... I have seen it on umpteen posts, over and over again, like a broken record.
If I had spent more time on the zx spectrum and the bbc which we had in 5th year before i left school I would not need to come on to this site..ha ha. but as we were not as lucky as you lot help is something that is greatly appreciated!
Rather than gloating how good I was, I would be coming on here to help rather than to belittle... otherwise what is the point of being a senior member with all this knowledge.
But this is something that comes with age... As we get older we realise....
Some day you will look back at yourself and think to yourself.
You will remember this post or some other that someone will surely post when frustrated with replys like this.
Read why you get short answers, because your lengthy reply clearly shows you haven't, and give the video another watch too, then you might understand why your thread about an existing thread is highly annoying.
Sent from my CM9'd Arc
Once again more annoying spam..
What is your point?, going, I quote ROUND AND ROUND every other post with this spam...
Every one I look on there is somebody like me trying to get on this exciting boat ride.... and there is you with your video again and again
It is no wonder why most of them give up!
Once again I write a long answer.... as you have obviously got a chip on your shoulders
Has someone upset you and you need to take it out on your computer at us newbees
you need to get a life
"Thanks for all your help"
another quote that you seem to get a lot..... not
moff1 said:
Once again more annoying spam..
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It's called a reply to your post actually.
moff1 said:
What is your point?, going, I quote ROUND AND ROUND every other post with this spam...
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One day you might learn, but clearly not yet.
moff1 said:
Every one I look on there is somebody like me trying to get on this exciting boat ride.... and there is you with your video again and again
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900+ Thanks says otherwise.
moff1 said:
It is no wonder why most of them give up!
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Quite a few take the hint and grasp the point of XDA, then you get People like yourself who don't, and if you can't follow a simple tutorial that even has pictures, then you might as well give up.
moff1 said:
you need to get a life
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Do People still actually use that phrase, I guess so eh.
moff1 said:
"Thanks for all your help"
another quote that you seem to get a lot..... not
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As you can clearly see I've had quite a few.
Now you see how short a life you have had, when you have to use other peoples words...
And as for grasping things...The point...
Follow a simple thing and get so far and thats it..
Point.. We are here to learn, not just to have a phone... better than everyone else!!!
I, believe it or not am trying to learn but that is why we ask questions, albeit, stupid ones to you lot in the know!
Even the best of us will have to eventually ask a stupid question... It comes to us all... you will remember this!
You are so much in the know, then answer the question that I started with...
As most of the people that get through this initial test seem to be more helpful..
Maybe one day I will be able to help someone new as there will always be
And be a bit more constructive.
Try putting the same energy in to re reading the guide as you do with these argumentative posts and you might get somewhere.
Sent from my CM9'd Arc
Looking at these posts I can see and have learnt quite a lot actually...
It dosent take a lot to work out that if one neewbe gives you 10 thanks, as I have, for thinking and being polite that somebody actually replied,
do a bit of multiplication and you soon realise... 900 thanks doesnt actually say a lot....
especially if what you are sending people work done by somebody else....
I, after 3 weeks could go from page to page looking for newbees and feed them this stuff... the same stuff over and over again.
Since all you are doing is this, can, as I see, you never seem to answer any questions directly.
Which to me implys that you are no better than us newbees really.... unless you can prove otherwise... but I very much doubt.
moff1 said:
Since all you are doing is this, can, as I see, you never seem to answer any questions directly.
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I've been directly helping People since I owned an X10, but as you're new you won't know that, you also don't have access to my PM's, so don't see the lengths I've gone to in them to help.
moff1 said:
Which to me implys that you are no better than us newbees really.... unless you can prove otherwise... but I very much doubt.
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Some People can't be helped, and you're a prime example of that. I see why People could get confused with a text guide, but when it's got images too and People still can't grasp it, well.
Ha ha, once again..
I rest my case.
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Ha ha, once again..
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Perhaps you don't understand what the "quote" feature is for on forums. Anyway, let us know when you figure out your issue.
I'm sure I will...one day.

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