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[Temp] Fix for missing apps on froyo

in your build.prop replace the current text with this: you can get things like tv.com back
Code:
ro.build.description=passion-user 2.2.1 FRG83 60505 release-keys
ro.build.fingerprint=google/passion/passion/mahimahi:2.2.1/FRG83/60505:user/release-keys
i would upload one for people to flash but as some many people are on diff roms/kernels it would just cause more issues then its worth best way to go about fixing it is pulling the file from your phone (or the zip from teh rom your on). swapping out the text and pushing it back to /system
all credit goes to Decad3nce for the fix

Didn't s work for me...
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App

you may have to reboot

Worked for me! Thanks.
Sent from Froyo!

Thanks worked great!!

shabbypenguin said:
in your build.prop replace the current text with this:
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Wouldn't you like to be more specific? Your current instructions technically mean to replace the entire file with just those three lines...
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App

Please note that users of Quantum Rom already have this fix applied, since 1.3
(Used the epic 2.1 key in 1.3, 1.4+ use the nexus one key)
Thanks shabby xD
Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk

Here's what I did from my PC with adb. (I have adb in my PATH so adjust the commands for wherever you might have adb.exe)
adb pull /system/build.prop
Then I edited the 2 lines on my PC with notepad++ and saved. Then I put it on my sdcard, remounted /system readwrite and copied it over to /system/build.prop and then rebooted.
adb push build.prop /sdcard/build.prop
adb shell
su (if your ROM didn't already drop you in to root, and check your phone for the superuser popup)
mount -t rfs -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system
cat /sdcard/build.prop > /system/build.prop
reboot
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didnt work for me. I been trying to get the PayPal 2.2 to show up on the market but its a no go.
Im using Froyo also.
anyway we could just get the paypal.apk??

This didn't work for me either. Trying to get Pocket Blu installed, but it isn't working. TV.com isn't showing either. FWIW I have the new Market app if that means anything.
Any ideas?

Milkman00 said:
This didn't work for me either. Trying to get Pocket Blu installed, but it isn't working. TV.com isn't showing either. FWIW I have the new Market app if that means anything.
Any ideas?
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Did you reboot your phone?

yes, and after rebooting a rechecked my build.prop file to make sure it took, and it was correct

Nevermind, I got it to work...
The end of the second line was missing the s. Put the s in, and it works perfect.

Can I get some clarification on this? I am using Mammon 1.0.3.1 and cannot get my sprint football ap to work.
Would this be an example of what this would fix?

Could the MSID number in my phone being different from my phone number be the reason it doesn't think this is a SPrint phone?

Thanks for posting a fix but it also didn't seem to work for me. I have been trying to load a program called Laser Appraiser from maket with no avail. Can anyone find it in their market?

worldlyinquirer said:
Thanks for posting a fix but it also didn't seem to work for me. I have been trying to load a program called Laser Appraiser from maket with no avail. Can anyone find it in their market?
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Laser Appraiser shows up for me.

Milkman00 said:
Laser Appraiser shows up for me.
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Thanks, Hmm I think I'll just wait for the latest froyo release and see if that helps

I tried downloading it and saving it to my SD card, but it's a protected app. I use AppMonster, which backs up all the apps for when I do flashing, but it doesn't do protected ones. Sorry man, I tried.

sorry i havent replied, most of the roms out there SHOULD have this baked in... i know acs and quantum do and the cm rom should but ill ask noob just to be sure.

[Q] boot.img

can someone with root post up a boot.img?
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk?p?? of=/sdcard/boot.img iirc

If you read the other posts you will see that the boot partition is not exposed to the kernel. There is no way of dumping it like that. We can dump a whole region of the emmc though which contains boot but we have no way yet of knowing the boundaries...
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

Them ASUS guys sure are sneaky! My friend is getting one. Looks like some of my knowledge from the XOOM won't help here.

Scourge1024 said:
Them ASUS guys sure are sneaky! My friend is getting one. Looks like some of my knowledge from the XOOM won't help here.
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this wont work?
cat /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/boot > /sdcard/boot.img

graffixnyc said:
this wont work?
cat /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/boot > /sdcard/boot.img
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partitions are hidden, and generated by a "tegrapart" information, which then translates into a MBR block only showing what they want you to see..
a complete tree woult be 12-15 partitions , but like on many other tablets lilke ElocityA7 and newer ones, you got only the system needed ones..
rest can only be written to from bootloader, or exposed if you change the boot.img tegrapart and configure it correctly, if fully supported.

RFS to EXT4

I understand that most one click lagfix apps wont work right away for the DROID Charge, so I would like to start learning how to convert from rfs to ext4 safely and maybe make an app for the phone. Any devs that can give me some advice or instructions would be nice! Thanks guys

jism31 said:
I understand that most one click lagfix apps wont work right away for the DROID Charge, so I would like to start learning how to convert from rfs to ext4 safely and maybe make an app for the phone. Any devs that can give me some advice or instructions would be nice! Thanks guys
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I believe it will take a voodoo kernel. Is how it works on the fascinate.

I hope some of the Fascinate Devs roll over to this device so we can get some of their past work on it.

RaptorMD said:
I hope some of the Fascinate Devs roll over to this device so we can get some of their past work on it.
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If you guys can get me a Charge, I'd be more than willing to take my work from the Fascinate and get it going on the Charge Also, I'm sure Voodoo lagfix can be made to work, and Voodoo Sound will also work. not sure about color though due to the different display that is being used. Applying the color fix may actually make it look worse, though supercurio would probably be the person to ask about that one.

I'm sure once it hits many will gather round the devs to support them in their cause, I know I will.

RaptorMD said:
I'm sure once it hits many will gather round the devs to support them in their cause, I know I will.
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If someone can get me the kernel, I can get you guys CWM and a cleaned up ROM. Not sure how functional CWM will be, but we can work out the bugs then after people can test it.

If you can tell me how to get you the kernel I can get it for you. I work for Verizon and I am trying to slowly learn the developer process. Let me know

jism31 said:
If you can tell me how to get you the kernel I can get it for you. I work for Verizon and I am trying to slowly learn the developer process. Let me know
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Well, you'd need a rooted device, and after that, you should be able to use dd to get it, but I'm not completely sure where it resides yet. The partitions aren't the same as the Fascinate and Continuum, and I'm guessing it's due to the LTE radio. You could just dump 3 partitions to see which are the correct ones I guess. Via adb, here is the sequence of commands you'd use:
Code:
adb shell
su
dd if=/dev/block/bml7 of=/sdcard/bml7 bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/bml8 of=/sdcard/bml8 bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/bml9 of=/sdcard/bml9 bs=4096
exit
exit
adb pull /sdcard/bml7
adb pull /sdcard/bml8
adb pull /sdcard/bml9
Then just tar/zip/7z/whatever the files and put them on a file sharing site and send me the link to them. Just a note that while this shouldn't cause any issues as far as breaking your phone, there is always that possibility, so just be aware of that fact as I'm not responsible if it breaks.

I know there is a user over at android central who is rooted already on his lucky Charge. You should cross-post there and if other are not yet comfortable with rooting, which I do understand.

Voodoo lagfix is a piece of cake, did that a few months ago Lost all the files I had though
Somebody dump their zImage (bml7), and it can be easily hacked in. Will take some rewriting of the lagfix code to merge with mainline cuz the partitions are much different (system/data/cache, all of em are different than other sgs devices), but whipping up a usable kernel is stupid easy, recovery should not be difficult either.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App

Something I'd like to see is Voodoo's color fix on the super amoled plus screen. They are always just a bit off with colors.

imnuts said:
Well, you'd need a rooted device, and after that, you should be able to use dd to get it, but I'm not completely sure where it resides yet. The partitions aren't the same as the Fascinate and Continuum, and I'm guessing it's due to the LTE radio. You could just dump 3 partitions to see which are the correct ones I guess. Via adb, here is the sequence of commands you'd use:
Code:
adb shell
su
dd if=/dev/block/bml7 of=/sdcard/bml7 bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/bml8 of=/sdcard/bml8 bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/bml9 of=/sdcard/bml9 bs=4096
exit
exit
adb pull /sdcard/bml7
adb pull /sdcard/bml8
adb pull /sdcard/bml9
Then just tar/zip/7z/whatever the files and put them on a file sharing site and send me the link to them. Just a note that while this shouldn't cause any issues as far as breaking your phone, there is always that possibility, so just be aware of that fact as I'm not responsible if it breaks.
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I just tried this and I am getting permission denied. I would really like to help but I don't have much knowledge on adb.

I remember reading somewhere (blog) Samsung had released the SDK for the Charge a couple weeks before the original scheduled launch. I may have downloaded it. If not, I can ask my Samsung contact if he can score it for me.
Sent from my Droid Charge using XDA Premium

Go to opensource.samsung.com, go to mobile->mobile phone, and scroll to SCH-I510 and download the source code. That should be everything you need, right?
I would love to post the link directly to the zip file, but I'm not allowed to, having fewer that 8 posts.

moondrius said:
I just tried this and I am getting permission denied. I would really like to help but I don't have much knowledge on adb.
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After you type in SU, the prompt should go from a '$' to a '#' if it doesn't, then you won't be able to use dd

Yeah thats the problem.

moondrius said:
Yeah thats the problem.
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When the phone is plugged in and you go to use adb shell, have it up at the home screen. Then type in su and press enter with the home screen still up. Superuser may have captured the event and prevented it from going to root in adb shell until you allow it. If it did, you should see a prompt show up on the screen about allow/deny for root access just after pressing enter for root access. Allow it, and then you should be able to continue.

Thanks a lot, I was able to pull that from the Charge.
http://www.mediafire.com/?kg66bb6cms9m62m

Ok, well I guess its time to put out a call to arms. I am not as familiar with imnuts work on the Fascinate, I had it for about 3 days and returned it. I am more than willing to donate to the Droid Charge cause.
What types of customizations can you bring over to the Charge (assuming it actually goes on sale this year) from the Fascinate? How far away are you from reaching your goal of being able to purchase a Charge, I know retail is up there (that's how I am getting it as well)?

RaptorMD said:
Ok, well I guess its time to put out a call to arms. I am not as familiar with imnuts work on the Fascinate, I had it for about 3 days and returned it. I am more than willing to donate to the Droid Charge cause.
What types of customizations can you bring over to the Charge (assuming it actually goes on sale this year) from the Fascinate? How far away are you from reaching your goal of being able to purchase a Charge, I know retail is up there (that's how I am getting it as well)?
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imnuts is a pretty prolific dev. I can remember him from the eclair days.
Come onto irc and you can talk to him directly.

ROMS?

Has a ROM been made for the device yet?

As soon as one is made I will be one happy user as this tab has soooo much potential to be great
BEST DAMN PHONE BECAUSE WE HAVE THE BEST DAMN DEVELOPERS!

Yeah i know i need one now lol

bkundert21 said:
Yeah i know i need one now lol
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Why? What would you like a replacement firmware to do? Remove bloat? Do that with titanium backup (or anything else that can 'freeze' pre-installed crud.) Change the launcher? You can already do that (but it seems most of the replacement launchers are designed more for phones.)
What do you want different that you can't already change?

garyd9 said:
Why? What would you like a replacement firmware to do? Remove bloat? Do that with titanium backup (or anything else that can 'freeze' pre-installed crud.) Change the launcher? You can already do that (but it seems most of the replacement launchers are designed more for phones.)
What do you want different that you can't already change?
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I gotta say I agree with Gary. Now that we have root and CWM (thanks to Gary) there's not much more I feel compelled to change I can already with root. Perhaps a custom kernel we can OC but this danged this flies now. Perhaps someone can come up with something that'll amaze us all (and that would be very cool!) and I'll be all over it. Right now with ICS looming it might be a better allocation of dev resources to just lay back and wait/see what that brings?
Now custom themes.....THAT would right now peek my interest. Learned a few things from hatman41 on the TF. This might be an excuse to dig back in.
Just an opinion.

skeeterpro said:
I gotta say I agree with Gary. Now that we have root and CWM (thanks to Gary) there's not much more I feel compelled to change I can already with root. Perhaps a custom kernel we can OC but this danged this flies now. Perhaps someone can come up with something that'll amaze us all (and that would be very cool!) and I'll be all over it. Right now with ICS looming it might be a better allocation of dev resources to just lay back and wait/see what that brings?
Now custom themes.....THAT would right now peek my interest. Learned a few things from hatman41 on the TF. This might be an excuse to dig back in.
Just an opinion.
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I'd like to see a r/w external sd card. Having it be read-only is forcing me to change my process of working. But I do agree with the others, with root and cwm the tab is very very good.

otamctech said:
I'd like to see a r/w external sd card. Having it be read-only is forcing me to change my process of working. But I do agree with the others, with root and cwm the tab is very very good.
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Really? I can change r/o to r/w and back again with Root Explorer in extStorages

skeeterpro said:
Really? I can change r/o to r/w and back again with Root Explorer in extStorages
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yes i can do that also, but even when it is in r/w, i cant say, save an excel file to the card using quickoffice or any other app for that matter. It will only let me save to the built in storage

otamctech said:
yes i can do that also, but even when it is in r/w, i cant say, save an excel file to the card using quickoffice or any other app for that matter. It will only let me save to the built in storage
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Interesting. I was just able to copy/paste from root to a folder on the exStorages and copy a file from the internal to the exStorages (an apk and an ePub)
Just re-read your post. From an app to exStorages. Hmmm...will try that.
Don't have quickoffice but polaris has very few options. Almost too few.

otamctech said:
I'd like to see a r/w external sd card.
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I'd like to see that as well, but it'd probably be a kernel change, not what people here call a ROM change. Let's see, here's how it's currently mounted:
Code:
/dev/block/vold/179:17 /mnt/sdcard/extStorages/SdCard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1023,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
It's already mounted as read-write. The thing that's preventing normal user write access is the uid/gid combo with the fmask/dmask (not sure why samsung didn't just use a umask instead of both of the other masks.) Essentially, what that is doing is say that all the files and directories (including the root of the mount) are readable by anyone, but only writable to the "system" user, or a user in the "media_rw" group. I'm going to take a wild guess that the "camera" application, the "my files" application, and other samsung apps are in that "media_rw" group. (not sure how to check that...)
Interesting... I'm trying to remount it manually (mount -o remount,...) and while it's not giving any error, it's not working either.
I'm not sure how these "vold" mounts work, what options are valid for them, etc. It's an interesting issue, though...

All I want is a deodexed rom. Might have to break out android for dummies and learn how to.
Once we get that then let the theming begin.
Sent from my Insanity powered SGS2

Not to difficult i may give it a try soon.

deodex'ing honeycomb stuff isn't as easy as gingerbread and prior...

garyd9 said:
deodex'ing honeycomb stuff isn't as easy as gingerbread and prior...
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I know, thats why I havent learned it yet lol.
However I am slowly figuring out theming while the rom is odexed. Got a few things going now

This device is powerful and awesome. Id love to be able to change themes and icons. The bloat ware doesn't get into the way and slow performance down. This devise will do me good for about 1 year to 1 1/2 years than ill upgrade to a new more powerful device.

this may help..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1373131
I will likely wait for a clockwork recovery to start ripping stuff apart.
this is my first sammy product, wife has a cappy that I flash. nota huge fan of touchwiz but its easy on the eyes compared to my past 2 devices, dell streak 7 & 5.

Moving this to a proper forum.

chrisrotolo said:
I will likely wait for a clockwork recovery to start ripping stuff apart.
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Which model do you have? GT-P6210 (wifi only), GT-P6200 (international 3G) or SGH-T869 (USA/TMobile 3G)?
There's no CWMR for the p6200 (yet), but I've already done them for the other two.

P6200 3G from malaysia. no rush, patiently waiting. Im more than willing to help with any info needed. Thank so much.

chrisrotolo said:
P6200 3G from malaysia. no rush, patiently waiting. Im more than willing to help with any info needed. Thank so much.
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Are you fluent with a shell prompt? If so, in order to attempt a CWM recovery (based on what I've already done for the p6210 and t869), please run the following two commands as root via adb shell... (and copy the resulting information)
mount
cat /proc/partitions
.. that will give me a hint as to which partition is probably your recovery partition. Send me that info IN A PM. I'll respond via PM with some more commands (based on the info you send me, I'll need you to dump a partition or two and get the images to me.)
Once I have the proper information and images, I can PROBABLY make a successful CWM recovery image (but please understand that I'll have to recompile a kernel BLIND with no possible way to test myself.)
Take care
Gary
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I should also mention that I'm going to be VERY busy over the next 3 days, so even if I get the images and all works okay, the earliest I'd be able to have a recovery would be Thursday or so.

Root and downgrade for Android 2.3.4 {Script included - ShiftySonofA script dl added)

Well, I'm writing this thread because I happily have a root method that doesn't require HTC unlock and you can downgrade to 2.2. Let's get into the information about it:
Required:
ADB
PG06IMG.zip {Downgraded version}
misc.img * {md5sum = c88dd947eb3b36eec90503a3525ae0de}
tacoroot *
*included in zip file
Instructions:
Alright, for this you will need to run the following commands:
Code:
adb push tacoroot.sh /data/local/tmp/taco
adb shell chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/taco
adb shell sh /data/local/tmp/taco --setup
[COLOR="Red"]YOU NEED TO Hit Vol up + Vol Down + Power all at once after it goes into recovery![/COLOR]
After it reboots type:
Code:
adb shell sh /data/local/tmp/taco --root
and then you use
Code:
adb shell dd if=/sdcard/misc.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17
Pull your battery after you check the md5sum of the img by using adb shell md5sum /dev/block/mmcblk0p17
and then reboot into hboot to downgrade
Download here
Script Download, features, changelog is in this post
credits:
Misc.img file: OTAKing (Ohai buddeh)
tacoroot: jcase

Well looks like someone has been at work.

I never doubted you buddy! Good work! Thanks!
Sent from my PG06100

Nice work as always.
Sent from my HTC Evo Shift using Tapatalk

You never cease to amaze young Padawan!!
Just imagine If they could of waited a little longer! Lmao!

Indirect for the win!!!

Script information:
This one is called ShiftySonOfA
It is basically Fre3atlast rewritten for this with about 3/4ths of it changed. Enjoy.
Download link:
here
Features:
Code:
MD5 Check
Easy to use
Includes all information needed
Offers download for EXE or Zip for RUU back to froyo.
Version Changelog:
Code:
1.0: Initial Release

Anyone think we can get this stickied? It's pretty important. :|

You got it...
Sent from my PG06100

Indirect said:
Anyone think we can get this stickied? It's pretty important. :|
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Done.
EDIT: I've created a single sticky which links to all other stickies. We had about 6 so it needed to be tidied up.

Thanks once again Indirect
TEAM MiK
MikROMs Since 3/13/11

Glad to help out where I started developing.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda premium

Indirect said:
Glad to help out where I started developing.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda premium
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I'm just glad your still helping out
TEAM MiK
MikROMs Since 3/13/11

He told me he is too scared to ask anyone for a donation for a shift, he will work on roms if he can get his hands on one, any takers?

gigermunit said:
He told me he is too scared to ask anyone for a donation for a shift, he will work on roms if he can get his hands on one, any takers?
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Because I knew everyone would say no.

If I had an extra one, you'd be welcome to it. Your work kicks ass.
Sent from my Supremely Shifted Speedy.

I honestly have a extra shift but have been trying to sell it times are tough at the moment, thing is less then 6 months old and doesn't even get used back in the box mint...
Just don't think I'm comin off as a ****, if I could donate bro I define would just can't afford to...
Sent from my PG06100 using Tapatalk

Indirect said:
Because I knew everyone would say no.
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Im considering reporting my current shift lost and sending it to you.
but after I get money to pay for a replacement lol

guys, look on the bright side: If I have a donated shift, I can also try to develop a root for the rom instead of having to downgrade. I already have some ideas but I need to test on latest version. :|

Indirect said:
... I happily have a root method that doesn't require HTC unlock and you can downgrade to 2.2.
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Thanks for this! I was able to use the temp root to "adb pull" the entirety of the (kernel visible) flash, as well as the /boot, /system, WiMax, and /data partitions (after remounting r/o). Because of that, after I'd downgraded (which seems really unnecessary JUST to get to a flashable HBoot, but that's another topic), I was able to flash back the new radios and touchscreen firmware (as seen in another thread), then flash the CWM recovery, which let me reflash /system and /data from my previously-unlocked Shift (and Nandroid that for future use, as well). After modifying the stock 2.3.4 /boot to set ro.secure to "0" then flashing that with fastboot, then pushing Superuser.apk and the "su" binary, I was exactly back to where I was before (which was VERY important to me, I didn't want to have to start over from a clean wipe), except now I have root- so I was able to use TiBu to move stuff that was ordinarily marked "Phone Only" to the SD-Card, freeing up some space (which along with how slow this phone is and how little memory it's got are my major gripes with the Shift).
(TL;DR: I now have root and didn't lose anything I had before I started).
It's nice to have the TiBu and Nandroids, too- despite the glowing reviews I read here, I seriously dislike this handset, but I hear there's ROMs out there that make this thing usable. So, now I get to try 'em, and always go back if they're no better after all.