yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G General] mintilmidnight:
yep i have friends that are like that that they think 199.99 is too much for a phone but i was slowly convincing them to get an HTC but i don't know anymore since there are more options out there and in case they get adventurous they could at least root another phone
[EVO 4G General] Stalte:
Exactly! We also hit a whole lot harder than the Motorola community ever did. Its also not like this is carrier spacific anymore. When Motorola locked the phones it was only on Verizon. HTC is locking phones to all carriers, Sprint was just the last to go. I don't think it was peoples love of the upcoming 3D it was just the last straw in my opinion. Sprint was the most free and open company and a lot of people were convinced that they wouldn't let it happen.

Sent from from the last HTC phone with freedom
[EVO 4G General] mintilmidnight:
i just dont see the point in HTC trying to lock their phones now all of a sudden, just makes no sense at all. They did try to be a bit hush hush about it though i wonder why.
[EVO 4G General] NewZJ:
HTC is founder of the Open Handset Alliance and as their website clearly states

Each member of the Open Handset Alliance is strongly committed to greater openness in

the mobile ecosystem. Increased openness will enable everyone in our industry to

innovate more rapidly and respond better to consumers' demands. Our first joint project

as a new Alliance is Android™. Android was built from the ground up with the

explicit goal to be the first open, complete, and free platform created specifically

for mobile devices.

Which translated means

We are borg, you will be assimilated, resistance is futile.

Even Apple shall cringe at our anti-consumer policies.
[EVO 4G General] Zabalba:
Hmm, with that attitude I wonder how your personal life is panning out..
[EVO 4G General] novanosis85:
It won't happen this year, but in a year or two HTC won't be as popular. The people will buy what's unlocked and they will recommend to others a phone that is not HTC.
[EVO 4G General] mintilmidnight:
Nova said it right, we are the ones that did bring the evo up because of word of both so if they want to go this route let them. And we should speak up why not? Why can't a few influence the big bad corporation? Not too long ago it wasn't that big
[EVO 4G General] starplaya93:
haha!

Really?

You do realize that there are more important things in life than cell-phones and technology right?

If i'd rather put up a fight trying to pay bills than fight a cell phone manufacturer over something they have every right in doing then I should go kill myself? How does having a locked boot loader affect us seriously in any way?

Are you really that pathetic man?

If you don't know how to pick and choose your fights wisely then you might as well go kill yourself simply because you are a moron and don't deserve to live.

Anyhow, it's people like you and 90% of the members who consider themselves a part of "the dev community" that make it completely useless to even help help in defending something.

P.S go do something constructive things in your life before you tell somebody to kill themselves on an internet forum and while you're at it do some soul searching because I really do feel sad for you...
[EVO 4G General] starplaya93:
quite well actually...

Common sense seems to take people very far in life. You guys should try using yours every now and then
[EVO 4G General] fixxxer2008:
of course they will... the phones are ready to ship, nothing is going to change at this point. if they reverse their policy it will be for future devices, not the 3d.
[EVO 4G General] mintilmidnight:
or they could release the keys? or do a OTA, its not hardware related its software so it shouldnt be a problem for them
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
First of all, good job on the name calling. :rolleyes:

Also, what's wrong, don't like where your type of attitude leads you?

I didn't tell you to "go kill yourself", so let's not put words in my mouth.

But I DID show where the type of attitude you have leads you.

As far as your non-sense about technology not being important...it is.

Why? Not so that we can play around with our phones but for something much more serious.

Computers have only been big for a little less than two decades and yet they are already a NECESSITY to life.

As time marches on computers will become more and more in-entwined with our personal lives.

Stand up for what's right friend because if you don't now, you may not have a chance later.

Education helps. They could easily remedy the situation with an OTA update.
[EVO 4G General] xfullmetal17:
The situation is quite easy to remedy. They just have to release an update to the bootloader/recovery that removes the encryption check.

Sent from an ELITE Evo!
[EVO 4G General] mlin:
No way! You lost all credibility immediately after this statement. :p

I think the response to HTC is great and I signed the petition but it really isn't all that serious and there are so many more important things in life than this.
[EVO 4G General] starplaya93:
man I really hate to get into this... But you sir are a blatant hypocrite.

First off, "With this defeatist attitude you might as well just kill yourself now".

Second off, where exactly did I say technology is not important?

Thirdly, my statement over technology didn't come out the way I intended but even so, it is still correct. The fact that we rely so heavily on technology is ridiculous... You probably won't agree because i'm sure for you using your head can be hard at times.

Also, even if technology is important blah blah blah, that's fine and all, but please explain to me how HTC locking it's boot loader on a phone with their hardware and software is in anyway going to slow down the progress of technology? Seriously?

Hypothetically speaking, if HTC does manage to create a magical unlock-able boot-loader for the evo 3d and we are never ever able to bypass it how does that in any form handicap the usability of the product? Will we not still be able to make phone calls, use the 3d capabilities, take pictures, browser the web, download apps and do everything the device was intended to be used for?

Lastly I agree with you that it can be fixed over an OTA and I pray to god that it is, but what does that have to do with anything we're talking about here?

Anyhow, i'm done here. Let's just agree to disagree, i'm fine with that. But don't belittle me and tell me to kill myself just because I have a different perspective on things than you. I'm on your side and I want HTC to change their polices just as badly as anybody but i'm not going to let whatever route they take stop me from living my life. I have family, friends, school and work that I need to be worrying about right now, not a god damn cell-phone and its hackability.
[EVO 4G General] starplaya93:
I'd rather have a bag of dog **** than credibility on this forum...
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
Don't sweat it. You only gain credibility here if you high five the idiots.
[EVO 4G General] u921333:
Then why exactly are u on this forum?
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
Do you need to take a reading class or something man?

Your defeatist attitude leads to what I said.

Let me rehash.

WITH YOUR ATTITUDE you might as well kill yourself because you'll die eventually ...correct?

I didnt tell anyone to kill themselves....I'm sorry that your attitude towards things leads to that sort of logic though.

As far as you "praying to God" that HTC will unlock the bootloader...you can waste your time all day long while the rest of us will at least make an honest attempt to stand up for ourselves.
[EVO 4G General] mlin:
You realize I was joking, right?
[EVO 4G General] tejasrichard:
All of the posturing and hostilities aside, I do find it funny that so many are worked up over this, but if I grabbed 10 random xda members, chances are good that 0/10 would know who Monsanto is, or why their corpses should be desecrated and then used as an alternative fuel source.

That said, I still believe this is a fight worth having.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
You can barely get people to take ten seconds to sign a petition or send an email in defense of something like this.

What do you think the chances are of them actually reading about that injustice?
[EVO 4G General] starplaya93:
Is defeatist the biggest word in your vocabulary? It must be.

Here, let me show you how common sense works...

"WITH YOUR ATTITUDE you might as well kill yourself because you'll die eventually"

You're saying that due to my attitude I don't have a reason for living, therefore people like me, with similar attitudes should just die... Are you not saying that since I possess this attitude (whatever attitude you believe me to have) I should just kill myself?

What's the difference between saying "hey you go kill yourself" and "hey you go kill yourself because your attitude sucks".

But I will take complete blame for this argument and will be the bigger man and just stop. Usually i'd keep going but "As far as you "praying to God" that HTC will unlock the bootloader...you can waste your time all day long while the rest of us will at least make an honest attempt to stand up for ourselves." clearly shows that you are the exact definition of a troll and make remarks, subliminal and blatant just to get into arguments with people online for ****s sake. I have a feeling you haven't done a decent thing at all in your life, but hey that's just a hunch.

I'll let you and your ignorance be now.

Good riddance pal.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
You really don't get it do you? Jesus tap dancing Christ man.

The idea that you "shouldn't fight a fight that is a losing battle" which essentially is exactly what you said a few pages back COINCIDES with the idea that you should just kill yourself now because you will die eventually.

Stop reading what you want to read and read what's there.

Have a wonderful day.

Edit: you can stop with the idea that youre trying to take the high road here when all you've done is name calling and trying to attack me personally.
[EVO 4G General] blackroseMD1:
Should change the thread title...

From HTC's Facebook. Might be to late for the E3D...but they did listen. :D
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
No reason they can't OTA the Evo 3D.
[EVO 4G General] dbolot1:
Nice job everyone! They actually listen to their customers, unlike some ...
[EVO 4G General] mintilmidnight:
yep we made them listen with our feedback! :D
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whatsisnametake2:
Hi all,

Is there any way to get AAC encoding working in Froyo? So it can be used for video recording?

Gary.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tkolev:
AAC stands for 'Advanced Audio Codec' and it is used to encode the audio stream in Froyo too. The bad news is that the codec settings in 2.2 where pushed too low and that's the reason the sound in video clips to be such low quality. I don't think that there is a way of changing the settings.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whatsisnametake2:
According to the media_profiles.xml file in system/bin, video recording actually uses amrnb codec for audio, which is a terribly low quality sound. From what I have been able to find out so far, AAC isn't actually enabled in Froyo at all. I tried editing the media_profiles file to enable AAC for video but it doesn't seem to make any difference...
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tkolev:
This is what MediaInfo says about a video I shot while Gingerbread wasn't released yet.

I don't know what it says in the xml files - the fact is that the files are encoded with aac but the settings are so low that the result is just terrible.

EDIT:

These are the settings from a video shot with Gingerbread:

As you can see both the bitrate and the sample rate are higher which results in better quality, but the codec is virtaly the same.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whatsisnametake2:
You're right

Thanks for that tkolev - very interesting. I guess I should have checked that myself first. You're quite right, it is indeed very low quality AAC.

So question is, how to change the AAC encoding settings in Froyo. Doesn't seem to be in that media profiles file, because AAC encoding isn't even mentioned in there...
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tkolev:
I don't think you can do that. Upgrade to GB is the only way I know of to get better sound in videos.

EDIT: Actually the stupidity of limiting the sample rate to 8 khz led me to believe that HTC used a microphone with a very low frequency response because that's the only logical reason they might have in using such low settings. Fortunately this is not the case.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whatsisnametake2:
LGCamera

Just as an update to this. I found the solution to the sound quality problem in video in froyo roms. A camera app called LGCamera. You can set everything the way you want it, including bitrate for the video, and file format (eg MP4 rather than 3gp), and also crucially AAC sample rate and bitrate for audio. Very nice. Video quality seems to be at least as good as stock app, possibly slightly better. This is at 8mb bitrate, haven't tried the higher bitrates yet....
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yeahman45:
does aac work on lgcamera on froyo?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aval1392:
Currently have xperia x10(hence the forum =), but my case is bothering me greatly. I have a stupid silicon one i bought online, it offers great protection, but makes the phone unattractive and comes off wayyyy to easily. Anybody have any suggestions on a new one? I'm thinking of the otterbox or the incipio one. I'm looking for an attractive case that has somewhat decent protection. Any suggestions?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdadevelopers1222:
I have a smoke clear case made of TPU that I got on eBay for just a few dollars (U.S.D.). It's not bulky like the hard plastic or rubberized plastic cases are and it's not sticky like the silicone cases can be. The case itself is bendable and 'rubbery,' but smooth. I think it offers great protection for the price. I've been using it since last year with no problems.

I got mine from an eBay seller named 'dcmugen88.' There are other cases for the X10 that are made of TPU, but the smoke clear one he sells has no designs on it and I like that.

He's selling one now for $3.49 (U.S.D.) and free shipping:

http://cgi.ebay.com/BLACK-Soft-TPU-...622195?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item3a5aed92b3​

Oh...my girlfriend has an HTC EVO 4G with a TPU case too. She recently dropped the phone into water accidentally, and the TPU case kept almost all the water out of the protected areas. Her phone still works perfectly.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crazy23:
I did not like the silicone case, I wonder anyone took his leather case?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ceejays:
I am looking to get the otterbox commuter case but they want $50+ for shipping also... which is too much IMO.... if anybody knows of any sites please let me know....

Sent from my X10i TripNMiUI-IRIS
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KingCifer:
krusell orbit flex

i use krusell leather case for the x10 and i would recommend it greatly ... the clip system is just great ...especially if you use your x10 as navigation device in your car or for sports on your arm/bike ...

it offers great protection too for normalday use ..

http://www.krusellcases.com/uk/p_krusell_zoom.aspx?i=197423

http://www.krusell.se/de/products/multidapt
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dazbaz996:
Hi

I purchased a Capdase Alumor Metal Case from mobilefun.co.uk, its a really good fit and feels sturdy, I am very happy with it.

I got one of the silicone cases of of amazon and it is muck, terrible fit.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x10lucifier:
there arent good cases for x10 out there....
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skydirt:
I have used many cases. I am still searching for "thee" case.

So far I have used the silicon, and gel/cases and they are bleh.

I did try a leather case, the Melkco Jacka type case.

http://www.melkco.com/scripts/main/viewitem-SESE10LCJT1BKIT-SE10.html

I really like this case, BUT, and this is a bit BUT, it's poor design.l The phone fits/snaps into place perfectly, however, its a "from the bottom" flip case. The cover, when you flip it over, at the bottom presses the home button. This turns your phone screen on. At this point the cover is now pressing on the home button the entire time the cover is closed. The screen does time out in 5 seconds, however, while in your pocket, it constantly bumps and activate the screen with he slightest touch. Draining battery.

I am about to order this case. So far I have been told it's probably the best case there is for an x10. It's an Incipio case. http://www.myincipio.com/Sony-Erics...on-Xperia-X10-EDGE-Hard-Shell-Slider-Case.asp

What I really want is a Seidio case. Too bad they don't make them for the x10. I have one for my atrix and it;s the best case I have ever had.

http://www.seidioonline.com/product-p/csk3mtatr-bl.htm
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jazzmega:
Hi all, I'm having many problems to install a customized ROM on my HTC Desire.

"First, I could not do root with the latest version of unrevoked and I had to install an older version of unrevoked

"I got root my HTC but when I login to recovery mode it displays some errors:

"E: can not find misc"

"E:Can´t mount CACHE:recovery/command"

"E:Can´t find MISC:"

"E:Can´t mount CACHE:recovery/log"

"E:Can´t find MISC:"

..

.. etc.

And I can not do anything or install a custom room or to backup or anything.

I read on this forum that can resolve this by S-OFF but I read that you have your Desire root to do S-OFF.

Do you think I can do brick if I try to do S-OFF with this error in recovery mode ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.7?

BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.93.0001

MICROP-051d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNW0101

RADIO-5.11.05.14

I hope that you can help me. THANKS!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boneros:
I had the same problem and it has to do with your device being a newly manufactured device therefore having slightly different components. So what I did to solve it was to use an older version of unrevoked (v3.21) and apply a "custom recovery" in unrevoked (go to file-custom recovery), instead of using the CWM recovery use Amon-Ra (so dowload the Amon-Ra image file).

Also, before applying a custom ROM, in recovery mode go to options and disable verification.

Now you should be sweet.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] axbilly:
boneros is right. PVT 4 with erase size <40000 will give you that error. Re-root your phone with amon-ra.

But before you re-root be sure to uninstall Zysploit apk in your phone.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jazzmega:
I have searching unrevoked 3.21 for 1 hour and I can´t find anywhere to download this.

Can you give me the links of unrevoked 3.21 and Amon Ra?

Thanks you very much
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davebugyi:
AmonRA: http://www.android-hilfe.de/attachments/root-hacking-modding-fuer-htc-desire/20480d1292014176-amonra-recovery-ra-desire-v2-0-0-14-11-2010-recovery-ra-desire-v2.0.1.zip

Unrevoked 3.21: http://megaupload.com/?d=GZV4TPU8
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aria75:
How do I change the default contact picture?

Such as unknown calls and for people that do not have a picture set.

My old Aria used to have a picture of an Android robot. I miss the robot. It is much better than the Atrix's gray outline of a person.

Thanks!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WiredPirate:
In gallery do menu>more>set as

You can also set pics by facebook twitter or myspace in settings>accounts
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aerospyke:
I have a kies contacts backup from when i was using 2.2.1 ROM, but now i have a 2.3.4 custom ROM that doesn't have an MTP so cannot connect to kies to restore the contacts (was going to sync with gmail but hadn't done it yet).

Anyone know how i can get it working again, or just reimport my contacts from the SPB file I have on my PC?
[HD2 General] alamrym:
Dears,

I downloaded wonderful and professional dictionaries from the net:

The Dictionaries are as follows:

1. Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation.

2. Oxford A-Z of English Usage.

3. Collins English Dictionary 30th Anniversary Edition 10th Edition 2009.

4. Collins Thesaurus of the English Language 3rd Edition.

5. McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

6. Dorland's Medical Dictionary.

7. Cambridge Academic Content Audio Dictionary 1st Edition.

8. Cambridge Audio Dictionary of American English 2nd Edition.

9. Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary 3rd Edition.

10. Cambridge Audio Advanced Learner's Dictionary 3rd Edition.

However, the problem is that all the above-listed Dictionaries are for 7 days trial only. And need Key to unlock it.

Does anyone know how to open these dictionaries for good.

PS I have HTC HD2 using Android Gingerbread.

Thanks in advance.
[HD2 General] Richy99:
yes purchase a key
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
Offering/requesting wares is against xda terms of use, and is considered a banable offence.
[HD2 General] cavemaneca:
Well, then to ask, is there any high quality professional dictionary that is free to use without limit?
[HD2 General] alamrym:
Richy99: Your post is useless you shouldn't reply.

samsamuel: Thank you for explaining. Really, I didn't know it's not allowed.

cavemaneca: you think out of the box. I really like your suggestion. There is a free advanced dictionary "Advanced English Dictionary & Thesaurus".

:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o
[HD2 General] magixian:
dear, i have not had time to install on my Android phone since i still make use of the bundled package in my Symbian phone but try this workaround, it worked for lots of friends for all medical dictionaries except one, maybe works for other dictionaries too.... set date to 2099 or so, install and download database.... run the applications and accept trial, close apps after running them all once and accepting the trial prompt and 7days will be there let for trial period, set time back to 2011 and run apps, they will have 7 days left till 2099
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] wwillf01:
I could not find a case but I took it.over to all the book cases in best buy and it fits really well and holds!
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Shigster:
Did you mean nook color?
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] wwillf01:
Yep sorry
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] hisuperman:
try this BLACK LEATHER CASE FOR HTC FLYER , FREE GIFT

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150625058688
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] jah:
No pen loop?
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] redpoint73:
How about changing the thread title from "book" to "Nook", so it makes sense?
[General Topics] alchemist316:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150305151453084&comments
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jett2314:
I would like to start flashing some new ROMS. Why I'm not sure, because my random reboots are almost never. You have to flash new radio for the gingerbread roms. So when I restore a nandroid back up of my current ROM which uses the latest OTA will I have to reflash radio also?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mbh87:
Radio HAS to be flashed in hboot, recovery does not control it. So yes you would have to flash the 2.2 radio in hboot when restoring a 2.2 ROM. Its common sense, if you cant flash the radio in recovery why would you think a restore would revert it?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dak_181:
Lot of hostility there man... i knew that radios are flashed in hboot but i didnt know that recovery didnt back that part up. he was asking a legitimate question theres no need to be so upset.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jett2314:
Due to my lack of common sense I was not sure if restoring effects radio. I haven't had to flash radio as of yet. But now that you mention it, when I updated to my latest ROM it was thru hboot using the RUU. Thanks for the answer.