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[Android Apps and Games] Misato-chan:
Solution

Hey guys,

I've been following this thread closely because like many of you, I purchased a Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660M (Bell Canada prepaid edition). What would I do without RFD?!

Tonight, I decided to spend a few minutes to find a solution to the permission issue:

Failed to start proxy.sh ([: permission denied 1307972722.812063 redsocks.c:699 redsocks_init_instance(…)bind Address already in use)

I was successful! The autoproxy app worked beautifully on my LG P500 but not on my Samsung Gio. I discovered why.

Cause: killall symbolic link is missing from Bell Gio and this seems needed for autoproxy to actually successfully kill the running task (toolbox kill PID doesn't work, bug?)

Solution: Create the symbolic link. This can be achieved using various methods... below is one method.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK

This operation is in my opinion very safe but ymmv. No system files modified. No system path modified. No auto proxy files modified. A symbolic link is simply created.

Warning: My phone unexpectedly rebooted after step 5 and gave me a good scare. I suspect it is because I didn't initially perform step 4-5 before remounting /system/xbin as R/O.

1: Enable USB debug mode (if using adb shell)

2: Mount /system/xbin as R/W (I used root explorer to do so)

3: Use terminal or adb shell

4: run the following commands:

4-1: su

4-2: cd /system/xbin

4-3: ls (make sure busybox application is there)

4-4: ln -s ./busybox killall ./killall (create symbolic link so that the killall command exists)

4-5: cd / (*NEW*)

5: mount /system/xbin as R/O

6: Restart phone

Don't forget to hit the "Thanks" button if it works :D

PS: Thank you Moronig for the GREAT APP! Impatiently waiting for the next version :D
[Android Apps and Games] ParoxysmX:
Does this work with Forefront? I can enter all the proxy settings ok, but the server requires manual authentication with my company username and password. Sorry if this has been discussed, but is this possible?

Edit: the options are there for it, it seems. Next question is how do I go about getting an iptables binary with nat support?
[Android Apps and Games] cfelicio:
awesome, that worked for me, and I had no issues with #5, although I used terminal emulator instead of ADB!

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] altamash:
I have samsung galaxy s2 rooted with lightening rom.

My company uses a proxy and those settings only work for the stock browser.

I tried many different proxy programs before trying this last and it does not work.

apparently i cannot ping to any ip outside of my company's domain.

also in wifi settings > advanced, i cannot use the hostname, rather i must enter the ip address of the proxy to make it work. It has DNS lookup issues

Please look into this matter.
[Android Apps and Games] CSeb95:
Hi,

I also need a proxy but of a different kind.

I've got an android wifi only tablet with Android 3.2 and a Nexus one with 2.3.4.

I use tethering between my tab and my phone to share the phone's 3G connection.

But my provider seems to be blocking my tab based on the useragent. (If I changed the brother useragent with about:debug or editing the preferences, it works, but not for all apps) So I'd like a transparent proxy on my tab that can change on the fly the useragent for all the applications.

I don't need to chain to another proxy, why not, but to alter the useragent on the fly.

On Windows based PCs I used Proxomitron for this.

Do you think you can add this to autoproxy ? May this be usefull for someone else ?

Maybe is there another way to do this ?

Thanks,

Seb
[Android Apps and Games] Moronig:
Misato-chan, thanks for investigating this, I will investigate the problem with the kill PID command.
[Android Apps and Games] Moronig:
CSeb95, you can try using an external SOCKS proxy, or perhaps an SSH tunnel. That way your provider shouldn`t be able to block the packets, they would be encrypted. If you try that, let us know if it worked. What you described would be possible, but all the webpages that have phone specific pages would serve those instead of tabled optimized ones.
[Android Apps and Games] CSeb95:
Thanks, yes I tried Orbot (from Tor project) that works fine. But I'd rather have a stand alone solution, use a transparent proxy that change the useragent and that's all, no proxy chaining, no forwarding ...

If the useragent can be choosen , I could use an iPad one or Galaxy Tab, those work, not the one for the A500. It's certainly somewhere in a config file but not in the browser preferences.xml, as Facebook for example won't work on my tab but on a galaxy, ...

Thanks again,

Seb
[Android Apps and Games] DebianUser:
I have the same prob from time to time. When I manually disconnect (by clicking on the connection and clicking disconnect) the top right still says connected. If I tap it, it does nothing... I have one proxy setup so there isn't like another one running.

If someone op can fix this prob it's be awesome. Rebooting the phone every time this happens is a major pain in the ass...

Edit: This is mainly a prob when I come home and it switches to wifi and turns on data and the proxy turns off but doesn't. It still says connected. So once I go out again and switches back to data it says address already in use. The only way I can fix this is like I said above is to reboot the phone, but that's not really a fix...

Edit 2: Even if I manually disconnect (like turn off the phone and turn it on so it's running properly and hit the giant connected button at the top) it disconnects the proxy but the connected button doesn't change to disconnected and if I try to reconnect it gives me that error (address already in use).

Edit 3:

Phone: Bell Galaxy Gio

Version: Android 2.3.4 (stock firmware and rooted)

Edit 4: I just saw the suggestion above. I might try that but I really don't want to mess with that...

That fixed it but I did something a bit different (since I'm on linux). I mounted system as R/W (DONT FORGET TO REMOUNT AS READ ONLY AFTER YOU'RE DONE) and used droidSSH and created the file by using the command posted above (ln -s ./busybox killall ./killall)
[Android Apps and Games] VerizonKoolaid:
nah nah nah nah way hey

Can this be used to block content? As an overkill adblocking application? :) Finer grained control than outright app blocking of DroidWall?
[Android Apps and Games] isamaranga:
I have exactly the same issue. Was this ever resolved?
[Android Apps and Games] derdev:
AutoProxy used to work perfectly for me.

Now, after some updates (busybox?) I get the same error:

Failed to start proxy.sh ([: permission denied 1307972722.812063 redsocks.c:699 redsocks_init_instance(…)bind Address already in use)

and the disconnect button does not work.

In my case the symbolic link to killall exists, so it is not that.

Also, the log files are not created in /data/data/net.moronigranja.tproxy/files.

The only log file I see is /data/data/net.moronigranja.tproxy/cache/tproxy.log.
[Android Apps and Games] kaianuar:
Not sure if it's because of the same reason but my log files don't exist either but there are log files in cache. Still can't get autoproxy to work :(
[Android Apps and Games] desires_new:
Hi,

Awesome app

Version : 0.25

HTC Desire S (S-Off rooted cutom ROM android 2.3.5)

works well in everything only Gtalk and Maps are not working

Gtalk : Cant sign in

Maps : Shows me in USA while I am in India :)
[Android Apps and Games] bringonblink:
Hi moronig, proxy is working well here (nexus s) however the only problem is most of the time auto proxy wont start up when i connect to my network, even though it is associated in the preferences.

Any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] althebyani:
I have a galaxy S2. I tried autoproxy and it works perfect.

my problem is that it works for an hour and it doesn't for days. it says that it's connected but nothing is working.

I don't know what's wrong. but sometimes it works perfectly.

I hope that u help me.

Regards,
[Android Apps and Games] sal.man91:
Not working.

I followed the entire forum from transproxy till here and still not working. Just skype works with autoproxy and nothing else. Need help !

I have samsung galaxy sl . I rooted it and had a gingerbread 2.3.4 flashed.

Oh and yes, I am a beginner so kindly use layman terms.
[Android Apps and Games] Fixup:
Thanks for the great work!
[Dell Streak 7] alenzini:
Hi,

I have Dell Stage 1.6 from my Streak 5. Can this be loaded on a WiFi only Streak 7? The one obvious issue is the 5 has a phone icon in the dock and the 7 has email. Will this change when run on the 7 or are there another set of apk's for the new version on the 7?

I guess I need to rephrase my question. Is there a version of the new Dell Stage that will run on the Streak 7 and display the email icon in the dock instead of the phone? If yes, could you please point me in the right direction?

Yes, I'm one of those weird people that actually like the launcher and would like to get the new Home widget on my 7.

Both Streaks are running 2.2.2.

Thanks in advance,

Andy
[Droid X General] Jmoney47:
This is completely irrelevant to everything but why are we one of the only forums that doesn't have a Q & A sub-forum?
[Droid X General] OneStepAhead:
I think that falls under general.
[Droid X General] mrkite38:
There are specific requirements for a Q & A subforum, I'll look them up.

But, philosophically, I've never seen the point: if users don't search in general, why would they search in Q & A?
[Droid X General] c0uRtJe$t3r:
Agreed, its pretty ridiculous when people post a question that has been answered in posts even on the same page they posted on. Users need to do little more research before they jump in blind and just ask for help. We may be a forum to help others, but come on, if u can't take the time to read and learn u shouldn't be screwing around with a six hundred dollar phone....
[Droid X General] Jmoney47:
Having been here a long time I completely agree with you guys about people searching. I just found it odd that there were certain devices with Q&A but we didn't have one
[Droid X General] Nate2:
I have found a generic Google search to be far more effective than the XDA app search.
[Droid X General] Jmoney47:
I can't say I have EVER found something using search on xda. If I am searching for something I will always use google
[Droid X General] skennelly:
I agree. Google will bring up all the forum posts. I spend most of my time on dxf and I find the search functions to be unuseful unless you have an exact phrase match.
[Defy General] CSharpHeaven:
According to this BBC article published today (17 May 2011) all android version with the exception of 2.3.4 version can expose personal data during the identification (Edit: Authentication) process with google services. A bad news ineed.

The good news, though, is that if this problem is publicised enough then it will force companies like Motorola to provide up-to-date version of android for their handsets. Of course not all old handsets can be upgraded but we all know Defy is very capable phone in terms of Android 2.3.4.

I'm still waiting for Froyo 2.2 upgrade, in the UK, and so furious with Motorola over this. Anyways, that matter is for another post.
[Defy General] Curr946:
yeah, tell me about it. I bought the phone from tmobile on date of launch... was told q1, then q2, now end of year... ahhh LOL
[Defy General] pkryger:
This doesn't mean anything. If the flaw is really critical, then I guess Google just release a patch for the module that's responsible for authentication - they won't force all carriers to update the whole system. Instead only some small fix may be pushed to affected devices.
[Defy General] CSharpHeaven:
Google announced today they will fix the problem on server-side.

Don't get it really, if plain text was sent out to google servers how the problem could be fixed on server-side? Also if no fix is necessary on the client side then why Android 2.3.4 was modified to encrypt data before sending it to the google?

Maybe this is me not understanding what the problem was. I found it difficult to imagine google would lie about the fix solution.
[Defy General] CSharpHeaven:
If Motorola is not going to give us 2.3.4 then they will have to release 2.2.3 to us if the solution turned out ineffective on the server-side.
[Defy General] CSharpHeaven:
I really like (previously loved it) my Defy but can't understand why I have purchased a product about six months ago that I couldn't use many features that I wanted from day one. Many apps (email in particular) work properly from 2.2 and above.

I will only buy another phone from Motorola if it had the latest Android installed on it. I don't believe they are shipping Atrix with 2.2. Motorola will have the same attitude towards Atrix upgrade too.
[Defy General] scrannel:
Yeah? Well, email that didn't work on 2.1 still doesn't work on 2.2. For me anyway. Browser was way better in 2.1. Screen seems a bit smoother -- marginally. But you can move

some

apps to SD card.
[Defy General] zakoo2:
you all should use cm7. it still has some bugs, but nothing serious, and its waay better and faster than motorolas softwares. plus its 2.3.4

Sent from my superfast CM7 Defy.
[Defy General] CSharpHeaven:
Are you using the official 2.2 rom from Motorola?
[Defy General] CSharpHeaven:
If Defy officialy remains on Android 2.2 then I will be looking for alternative roms without caring about the warranty.
[Android Apps and Games] swistakk:
Cool, free game working good even on older devices.

You can find it in market too...

Enjoy!
[General Topics] aloy99:
My question is, if I can afford it, should I get this as a side development phone besides a future to-be-owned-by-me dual core phone? Well, the bootloader should be unlockable and dev support for this phone aplenty. I currently use a Xperia X10 mini and don't mind the tiny room estate all that much.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zisi911:
hello guyes, i was searching all over the internet to find an app for my htc desire to enable video-calling. i found many apps but they are all skype similar, they need internet connection. is there any app or mod that can enable simple video calling through 3g network (not data plan)? i have greek carrier with free minutes of calling and video-calling. thnx in advance
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Icysoul:
You do know that the Desire does not have the front-facing camera for video calling, right?

Would video calling work without the front camera needed for it? Do you intend to use the 5MP camera on the Desire for a video call and keep switching the phone to see your partner?!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zisi911:
yes i am aware it has only one 5mp cam, i can solve this issue simply with a mirror. i used to have sony erricsson k800 and used videocalling a lot thats. i am very pleased with my htc desire but im a bit dissapointed from this asspect with android phones not supporting video call. but i suppose someone can develop an app or mod to enable videocall
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tiznom:
Two options

Qik and Tango both claim to do video calls on 3G. I haven't tried either but if you do post a reply with whatever works...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zisi911:
i tried tango, it requires data plan if on 3g which means internet connection, i will try qik and post a reply
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zisi911:
qik is the same thing
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] creeve4:
What billing rules settings are you using for 3G Watchdog Pro?

I can't seem to get it to match very well with what T-mobile has for my data usage (I'm using #932# to get the usage from T-mo).
[Galaxy S II General] Mickey288:
Dear all,

I have the Galaxy S2 since friday and my battery is lasting about 4 hours with normal usage. Without usage about 8 hours, tested during the night. I had also high Android OS percentage, I tried hardreseting, that lowered the percentage but with no markable results for battery live. I attached some photos. The second discharge was during the night doing nothing. From 90% to 10% in about 8 hours.

I now did a hardreset again, and tested the discharge in original condition (only battery app installed, no WIFI, no sync, just google account for market). I lost about 2% in 1 hour (phone idle) what is think is normal and gave me an estimation of 2d5h.

Now I created my exchange account with syncing contacts, mails and calender with backgrounddata and automatic sync on (everything on default) and now I need about 9% in 1 hour (phone idle) and I have an estimation of 10h06.

Would I use the phone in a normal way I assume I would have 4 hours battery live again.

Do you think that this (exchange) could be a reason for the high battery consumption?

regards

Michael
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
the first image shows "WiFi Sharing", right? Why, if you said you did not do anything besides Google and Exchange?

Did you read all these threads about WiFi sharing killing batt life, and also certain routers?

I am using Exchange, get about 15 hours with light to moderate usage. Not perfect, but better than yours.
[Galaxy S II General] Mickey288:
Hi,

thank you for your reply and sorry for being not exact. The images show the status of the phone before the last hard reset, so after the hard reset I did nothing beside of Google and Exchange.

regards

Michael
[Galaxy S II General] mi3x:
OMG, that is a SUPERB drain! And I thought I had battery issues. Bro, I think you need your device replaced, else do a factory reset, don't install anything and start monitoring. There is definitely something wrong with your phone.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
I wonder what keeps your phone Aufwachen with Bildschirm Ein :)

What are those icons in top left corner? If you are keeping some weather app pull weather data every 5 minutes, and some battery program ping your battery every minute, that would also drain.

I agree, I think you should try a reset, set up the phone while still on 3G , only then connect to WiFi, configure Exchange, and then test with nothing else installed or running.

My battery life was not perfect, but I think it is improving. Over the past week I had to charge at least twice a day, now it is getting to about once a day.
[Galaxy S II General] Unchained:
Remove calender sync from exchange server. Had same issues on sgs and gingerbread. Give it a try...
[HTC Inspire 4G] Pope Viper:
I have no idea what the hell I did, but when I go into clock work, and make a selection, it just gives me the hat with circle, I can hit menu to go back, but any selection I make is not functional.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Pope Viper:
OK, disregard, I yanked the battery, and that seemed to fix it.

Would love to know what I did though.
[HTC Inspire 4G] papanut:
sounds like you re booted the phone
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wetrabbit444:
Can I do advanced nandroid n just restore battery stats
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sitlet:
I dont think you can backup or restore battery stats.

Either way, you really didnt have to ask this question. Just boot into recovery, select advanced restore, and see if there is an option to restore battery stats.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
I don't think there is a way to restore battery stats, and you'd be better off just re-wiping to calibrate it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wetrabbit444:
Lol thanks for the replies I'm having terrible battery life with cyanogen 7.0.3.1 on my two extended batteries. When with stock rom and/or myn warm 2.2 I would get 2 days moderate/heavy use on cyanogen I only get like 8-10 hours....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Yea, you need to calibrate them. Charge it to 100%, wipe battery stats, then let it completely die, then charge back to 100%, use normally, and it should be bettery. I can get 1day and 7hrs on stock battery on CM7 nightly 76.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madjpm:
Hi ! I would like to save my power button and I like the trackball wake solution for that. But with the 2.3.4 version of android I can't use that function anymore.

Is there a way to use trackball wake with the 2.3.4 version ?

Thx.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GnatGoSplat:
x2, I want this too. Trackball wake should have been a standard Android feature, though I guess it's not implemented because not many have a trackball.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
only on the cyanogen 2.3.4 version does trackball wake work. not th egoogle OTA version. i suggest flashing the cyan version anyway.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] lisajacobs:
Found this article about a safety issue with 99% of the android phones concerning personal info.

Oke seems i cant post links yet :S. Google : Android handsets 'leak' personal data

and the top result is the BBC news article.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] gogol:
Here are the links:

http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/mi/staff/koenings/catching-authtokens.html

And this is from BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13422308
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dalpezzo:
Does anyone have or know where I can get the stock ROM for Softbank 001HT (Desire HD)?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wolf_vx:
I backed up my Softbank stock rom before flashing. It should be on my mircoSD car somewhere. Where do you want it uploaded?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dalpezzo:
Yes please, I'll give it a shot.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wolf_vx:
I sent you PM with the link to download.

As I described, it is probably already rooted as I installed Rom manager after rooting it :(
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fifo_thekid:
Can you please send me the link too :)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmcmil1:
Me Too

I tried restoring an earlier backup to find that my MD5 hash failed. I'd really appreciate it if you sent me the link too.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] octa_amide:
Sorry to bother.

Very sorry to ask.

Can I have the link too?

I will share the file too, once I have it.

Thank you so much.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grant Barker:
I don't have the stock rom but you might consider these:

HTC Asia ROM

Custom rom - UFE Nutz v1.13
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andy:
Or you could use this Softbank PD98IMG.zip

Just drop onto your SDcard and boot into bootloader.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiwiandy:
DHD Rom Softbank

Anyone have a link for this, i need to download... Softbank only please.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pradiproy:
can you drop me the softbank stock rom pls. I need to maek the MMS.apk work on my custom rom.

cheers
[Atrix 4G General] H1dden:
My atrix seems to be receiving every message I am sent multiple times, usually about 4 times. This is really beginning to annoy me.

I run Handcent and yes I have turned notifications off for the default text app.

This problem has only started over the last couple of days and I cannot work out why as I did not change anything to cause this.

Any ideas on how to fix this would be apreciated.
[Atrix 4G General] wirednix:
You can try this for a temporary fix: https://market.android.com/details?id=org.baole.antibomber

It's very YMMV.
[Atrix 4G General] H1dden:
I guess that might work but would prefer a permanent fix if anyone has a solution
[Atrix 4G General] MrCooper2012:
Probably not exactly what you want to hear, but I think the best thing to do would be to set your Handcent SMS back to its default settings then use the walkthrough on the Handcent site.

When I started using it I had a similar issue, but their information is laid out very well and was able to help me fix my problem.

-Doogs™
[Atrix 4G General] alphadg21:
did you make sure to freeze the stock text messaging app via titanium backup? That eliminated the issue for me.
[HTC EVO 3D] BronTron:
This forum is filled with what seems like educated guesses and half confident answers. I've heard just locked, and signed/encrypted to just signed. The question all of us basically want to know is whats the status of the bootloader compared to that of the Sensation, which from my understanding is locked/signed and therefore near impossible to crack. I dont think encryption was ever the fear.

Hope somebody can clear this up for me and all of XDA.