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@bambi – When you image the system please upload the systembu.img to mediafire and give me a download link for it. Thanks again.
@bambi
Before using your phone do the following.
You need to have downloaded the Android SDK with the tools directory. In the tools directory is ADB (Android Debugging Bridge) which you need to communicate with your phone from your PC. If you go look at the i858 thread on XDA-Developers I have outlined how to get the I858 communicating with ADB.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=751382
If you only want ADB and not the entire Android SDK installed here are the three files needed for ADB access to the phone.
http://www.mediafire.com/?87exrmxhxctylcx
Then you need to download the Android imaging tool. Put this file in the same tools directory as adb is.
http://www.mediafire.com/?1qit5x3w765fmg1
The connect your phone to ADB and execute the following commands. I will preface command with a “#” prompt and my comments will be in parenthesis “(comments)”.
# adb devices
(shows that PDN is connected and communicating with ADB. PDN’s is is strange but as long as you have something online it is prob the PDN).
# adb remount
(Remounts the file system on the phone as writeable).
# adb push mkfs.yaffs2.arm /cache/mkfs.yaffs2
(Puts imaging binary on phone.)
# adb shell “./cache/mkfs.yaffs2 /system /data/misc/system.img”
(It will say building and take at least a few minutes).
# adb pull /data/misc/system.img systembu.img
(This pulls the system image from your phone to the directory you are running adb in.
This will take quite a while as the file is large. Please be patient.)
# adb shell “rm /data/misc/system.img”
(This will remove temp system image you created from phone).
# adb shell “rm /cache/mkfs.yaffs2”
(This removes the imaging tool from the phone)
# adb reboot
(Phone will reboot. I like doing after a remount as it returns phone to state before we
issued the remount command).
Then the file “systembu.img” will be the complete image of the system on the i858. If you just got r1367 I would be very appreciative if you could send me a copy of it. It is a large file (prob over 112 megs) so you would need to upload to a file sharing service such as Mediafirel.com (the one I use most of the time).
When I get the system image I will unpack it and make sure it looks good. I will then make a new flash update that will update people’s phone to r1367. Since I have not tried this build I would flash it myself first. I can always go back to r1129 now that I made my own flash for it.
If you are not comfortable doing this let me know when you get your phone updated. I can meet you somewhere with my netbook and do it for you. Will only take about 15 minutes or so. Can meet at a Starbucks or Tom N Toms or some place like that.
It is properly rooted. That is the only difference. Before third could only up to at I-Mobile service center.
Okay, here is the link. After flashing the phone should be at r1129. Not an official release from I-Mobile. I made using Android imaging tools from my phone which was updated at I-Mobile service center.
]i858_eclair_final_r1129_im-rooted.zip
Mediafire download: http://www.mediafire.com/?ubxjy2n1iqgkuvb
Here are the Eken tools.
http://www.mediafire.com/?b577xrwqeh1ofx0
@Sabao – Googles works on my r1129 no problem.
@Sabao – Thanks for the info. So it fixes the barcode scanner problem. Maybe I will go to MBK next week. Other than that my phone with r1129 is working good and for scanning I have been using Goggles.
What are the main improvements? Is it worth my time to go there?
Why don’t they just give Dojo a download file so we can just update ourself from SD card?
The one you showed in the photo. I want to remove that from my notification bar. No task manager is part of the Android OS as Google says to NEVER use a task manager.
Anybody? I really want to get rid of this.
All versions of Android until 2.2 have a problem where if they are using 3G and see a stronger EDGE signal they try to switch to EDGE. Then registration is denied and they switch back to the weaker 3G signal. If the phone does this a lot it gets stuck and loses signal completely. What I did was to download a program called “Network” from the Android Market and locked my i858 into “WCDMA only” mode. Then it no longer seeks and EDGE signal and very rarely loses its 3G signal.
I am using an A-Data Brand 16gb card in my i858 with no problems.
@anajak – Market Enabler Download
http://rapidshare.com/files/358296169/MarketEnabler_v3.0.8.apk