Showing posts with label Android. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Android. Show all posts
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Thursday, December 22, 2011
3G / WCDMA Network Only in Android
I've been desperately wanted to have my phone to just stay in 3G only network as the GPRS(1.x)/EDGE network in my hometown is pretty slow. Even the signal is weak but it is way faster than the 1.x / EDGE network.
To my suprise there is no such setting in my stock Nexus S (4.0.3). Thanks to the comunity after few googling around i found there is this hidden setting that allow your phone to select to use WCDMA network only as currently it is been set as WCDMA (preferred)
Dial *#*#4636#*#* and It will bring you to Testing Screen, for ICS you can click on Phone Setting and change the network to WCDMA only to fix your phone to use only 3G network.
To my suprise there is no such setting in my stock Nexus S (4.0.3). Thanks to the comunity after few googling around i found there is this hidden setting that allow your phone to select to use WCDMA network only as currently it is been set as WCDMA (preferred)
Dial *#*#4636#*#* and It will bring you to Testing Screen, for ICS you can click on Phone Setting and change the network to WCDMA only to fix your phone to use only 3G network.
Not able to make Screen Shot with the full text ( *#*#4636#*#* ) as it will auto go to the Testing Screen when you hit the last input.
The setting available to for the network selection.
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Android 4.0 - Ice Cream Sandwich for Nexus S
Saw this update from Android Google+ , it really make my day ! I've check on my i9023 to see is there any update available sadly there are none. Well it doesn't matter as long as I know there is ICS update roll out for the Nexus S,
Google Nexus S have updated their help page with user guide for Android 4.0 and a guide on for user upgrading from Android 2.3
UPDATE :-
There is a guide in androidcentral.com on how to manual download the OTA from Google
Update 4.0.3 ( http://android.clients.google.com/packages/ota/google_crespo/VQ8PQk_V.zip)
I've personally tested it on Nexus S i9023, it work like a charm :)
1) Just download the zip file and rename it to update.zip
2) Copy the file to your Nexus S USB storage
3) Power Off the phone. Power On back the phone while holding the Volume UP
4) You'll see the Bootloader screen, use the volume key to navigate around, choose Recovery and press the power button to confirm
5) Once you see the Triangle press the volume up; you'll be prompt with a recovery menu
6) Select the option Update from SD card, select the update.zip and press the power button to begin !
7) Once done you can reboot the system and you'll see the new ICS boot animation !
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Un-Root / Back to Stock the Easy Way ** With GoldCard**
Just tested yesterday. The easiest way to unroot the HTC Magic back to stock is by just extracting the rom.zip file from the RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Asia_WWE_2.53.707.2_SEA_test_signed_NoDriver.exe.
Just run the RUU update and navigate to your %temp% folder and you should see there is 2 folder in {#numeric}, browse the folder and look for rom.zip
Copy it out and rename it to SAPPIMG.zip and put into your goldcard and update it to your Magic and it should now revert to the Pre Sense Android 1.5 with Engineering SPL
Once the phone booted up you can just plugin back to your pc and let the windows install the driver (HTC Sync driver , not Android SDK Usb driver) and you can just run the official RUU update and it should be back to stock room :)
** just make sure you are on an engineering SPL **
Just run the RUU update and navigate to your %temp% folder and you should see there is 2 folder in {#numeric}, browse the folder and look for rom.zip
Copy it out and rename it to SAPPIMG.zip and put into your goldcard and update it to your Magic and it should now revert to the Pre Sense Android 1.5 with Engineering SPL
Once the phone booted up you can just plugin back to your pc and let the windows install the driver (HTC Sync driver , not Android SDK Usb driver) and you can just run the official RUU update and it should be back to stock room :)
** just make sure you are on an engineering SPL **
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
unroot a htc magic 32a (HTC MAGIC SEA)
*** Found a new easier way to un-root please refer the next post ! ***
It's been a good few year since my last post. I'm not a kind of person who used to blogging and stuff but well since it's a project started off 3 years back and I think should have at least some content in it.
Back to the topic. I've been googling for ways to un-root my phone just to test out the reboot issue on my phone are cause of the custom firmware or the hardware, unfortunately the guide out there are mostly for 32b unit. Just make sure you have the Android SDK tools in your pc as we will be using adb & fastboot tool.
I'm using a SEA HTC Magic (32a) , By default the SPL are on 1.76.0007 S-ON.
I've tried using both engineering SPL 1.76.2007 and 1.33.2010, previously i've tried to just trying my luck to direct install the HTC Magic_RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Asia_WWE_3.03.728.4 hoping that it will revert my phone to the stock rom, spl & radio. But all it gave me are just a RUU error cause the HTC software version are lower than the one that I've in my phone.
No choice but to use my gold card to apply the update.zip (please refer to the unlockr on this). Install the recovery via fastboot and apply back the custom rom.
I've discover that if you are using a google usb driver provided with the SDK the HTC update will not work. If you have it install i recommend you to uninstall it at Device Manager (windows). Once you have uninstall the driver, give your PC a reboot before install the new driver from HTC. Install the HTC Sync application before you plugin your phone and make sure USB debugging feature are turn on in the setting menu.
In order to get your phone version lower than the HTC Official firmware for SEA, you have to get this RUU install RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Asia_WWE_2.53.707.2_SEA_test_signed_NoDriver
just google it and you can find the source to download it. As this firmware are test version & came with engineering SPL it will allow to install even the software version in the phone are higher.
I've tried to install the RUU while the phone in ADB mode, it doesn't work since I'm running Sanpei .4 Legend rom and in the system my phone are label as HTC Legend , I believe that could be the reason. I then boot into Fastboot mode (return + pwr), You'll notice that your windows will detect a new device, let the window finish install the driver.
Do a fastboot devices to make sure that window detect your phone. Start apply the RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Asia_WWE_2.53.707.2_SEA_test_signed_NoDriver and it will install. Once complete your phone will take a very long time to boot. You'll notice it will go back to the pre-Sense Android.
Enable the usb debugging feature and plug-in again to your PC and do a adb devices and make sure it detected your phone. Start applying the official HTC rom (if it doesn't allow ,boot your phone to fastboot). It will show that your current phone version are 2.53 while the update you're performing are 3.03 and start your update.
Once the update complete and it will back to stock rom :D
The SPL will revert back to 1.76.0007 S-ON and Radio 6.35 and running Android 1.5 with Sense UI.
** I will not be held liable if your phone brick. Follow my guide at your own risk ! **
It's been a good few year since my last post. I'm not a kind of person who used to blogging and stuff but well since it's a project started off 3 years back and I think should have at least some content in it.
Back to the topic. I've been googling for ways to un-root my phone just to test out the reboot issue on my phone are cause of the custom firmware or the hardware, unfortunately the guide out there are mostly for 32b unit. Just make sure you have the Android SDK tools in your pc as we will be using adb & fastboot tool.
I'm using a SEA HTC Magic (32a) , By default the SPL are on 1.76.0007 S-ON.
I've tried using both engineering SPL 1.76.2007 and 1.33.2010, previously i've tried to just trying my luck to direct install the HTC Magic_RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Asia_WWE_3.03.728.4 hoping that it will revert my phone to the stock rom, spl & radio. But all it gave me are just a RUU error cause the HTC software version are lower than the one that I've in my phone.
No choice but to use my gold card to apply the update.zip (please refer to the unlockr on this). Install the recovery via fastboot and apply back the custom rom.
I've discover that if you are using a google usb driver provided with the SDK the HTC update will not work. If you have it install i recommend you to uninstall it at Device Manager (windows). Once you have uninstall the driver, give your PC a reboot before install the new driver from HTC. Install the HTC Sync application before you plugin your phone and make sure USB debugging feature are turn on in the setting menu.
In order to get your phone version lower than the HTC Official firmware for SEA, you have to get this RUU install RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Asia_WWE_2.53.707.2_SEA_test_signed_NoDriver
just google it and you can find the source to download it. As this firmware are test version & came with engineering SPL it will allow to install even the software version in the phone are higher.
I've tried to install the RUU while the phone in ADB mode, it doesn't work since I'm running Sanpei .4 Legend rom and in the system my phone are label as HTC Legend , I believe that could be the reason. I then boot into Fastboot mode (return + pwr), You'll notice that your windows will detect a new device, let the window finish install the driver.
Do a fastboot devices to make sure that window detect your phone. Start apply the RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Asia_WWE_2.53.707.2_SEA_test_signed_NoDriver and it will install. Once complete your phone will take a very long time to boot. You'll notice it will go back to the pre-Sense Android.
Enable the usb debugging feature and plug-in again to your PC and do a adb devices and make sure it detected your phone. Start applying the official HTC rom (if it doesn't allow ,boot your phone to fastboot). It will show that your current phone version are 2.53 while the update you're performing are 3.03 and start your update.
Once the update complete and it will back to stock rom :D
The SPL will revert back to 1.76.0007 S-ON and Radio 6.35 and running Android 1.5 with Sense UI.
** I will not be held liable if your phone brick. Follow my guide at your own risk ! **
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