yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
reencryption can be achieved with this app also but doesnt help us...

please stop talking here if its not related to development...
[Acer Iconia A500] SiL3nTKiLL:
downloading now!
[Acer Iconia A500] kimycai:
how can we know the decrypter key and what it is when acer changes it? how?
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
its easy... after decryption if you still cant open the zip they changed the key ^^
[Acer Iconia A500] kimycai:
but how can we know what is the new key?
[Acer Iconia A500] lostsoul3471:
Same way someone figured out it's xor12 the first time. Either being brilliant in staring at hex dumps of the file, or finding out from an internal source. Xor12 isn't really an encryption scheme as much as it's a means to prevent the easy access to the files inside. It was most likely used because it wouldn't slow the update process to a crawl if they used something more secure like RSA.

Just my $0.02
[Acer Iconia A500] sp3dev:
Oh my. You know that ZIPs start with 'PK'.. and Acer is using one byte as xor mask. So just xor the first byte of file with 'P' and you get the key
[Acer Iconia A500] kimycai:
hi，do U know how to sign an update.zip for A500，as i signed the zip file using testkey.x509.pem and testkey.pk8 ，but the recovery cant fount it and flash it，Why？Acer changed the key？but how can we sign it correctly？
[Acer Iconia A500] sp3dev:
Don't confuse this simple zip encryption with xor'ing and real signatures for update.zip. Acer are using their own private keys to sign the updates. So we're out of luck here
[Acer Iconia A500] kimycai:
yes i do know the difference，so we cant sign the update.zip until Acer unleash the private key？
[Acer Iconia A500] sp3dev:
It's not like they ever will. For sure it's used not only in Iconia, so releasing it would be stupid. Our only hope is an unlocked bootloader to be able to flash custom kernel and recovery
[Acer Iconia A500] kimycai:
and i cant understand what u said clearly,can u explain more clearly for my poor english. i can see that the encrypted file starts with "BY........bŽ.,.È.ãB...f.......S_AA<h{bg™#.’2.Q-l'ÃË.ª««¨k...òúè%^v‘i"`B,66"âˆ´[Á8›ñ˜Ò.Œ|ºJÊýUv\ïy7×¢s}JÊ.bÂÌ´+..gc.k..BY........ýf.,............"

and the decrypted file starts with "PK........pœm>.Ú.ñP...t.......AMSS.zipu‹1.€ .C?~5ÑÙ.¸¹¹ºy...àèú7Ldƒ{0rP>$$0ðš¦IÓ*‰ãŠÀ<žn¨XØïGdNýk%Å°aoXØmpÐÞ¦9.‚uq.y..PK........ïtm>............"

so,how can we do to get the key "$12", and what is "xor12"?
[Acer Iconia A500] sp3dev:
In hex (using ASCII code) "BY" is 42 59 and "PK" is 50 4b.

42 ^ 50 = 59 ^ 4b = 0x12 (base 16) = 18 (base 10), so the image is XORed with the number 18. Xor is a mathematical operation. It is a binary operation - i.e., it takes two bits and returns 1 when they are not equal and zero otherwise. In our case it is applied to each bit of the byte.
[Acer Iconia A500] kimycai:
3Q so much for your answer and your clearly explaination，and i know whats going on，again i have a question：“12” is the key or “$12” is the key?because the APP display that “Decryption key $12(text)”.what does the “$” stand for?
[Acer Iconia A500] sp3dev:
No idea. Some people like to put $ everywhere and it is quite common to see such a sign around variables in programming. For sure, it means just number 12, not the string "$12"
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
$12 is short in hex for binary "00010010" witch we actually need...
[Acer Iconia A500] daveba:
For anyone not using windows, i wrote this in JAVA a while ago and posted it on post #169. You can use it on mac/windows/linux/etc. Also a C version a few posts above that.
[Acer Iconia A500] Gammelgustav:
i can´t extract any firmware after decrypting...not with winzip and not with 7z ....says "this is not a valid archive"

edit: solved...wanted to decrypt a dcryted archive LOL
[Acer Iconia A500] Fluffbutt:
Mm. Kasperksy still says it's a trojan..

<walks away from it..>
[Acer Iconia A500] bonzer2u:
worked like a champ......I'm not worthy.....
[Acer Iconia A500] usman3206:
It works perfectly but today my AVG declared it to contain trojan and wants to kill it.
[Acer Iconia A500] bpivk:
Interesting. My Kaspersky IS isn't reporting a damn thing. :D
[Acer Iconia A500] splatoid:
My Avast killed it before I could even open it.

But this is above my head anyway so I'm just reading and learning what I can.
[Acer Iconia A500] aregon:
works fine... and my nod doesn't say anything...
[Acer Iconia A500] Hymizzle:
AVG reported 2 Trojan virus detected when I installed this. Is there a reliable download somewhere?
[Acer Iconia A500] sanaell:
download a good antivirus...

I have this file since a while and never had any problem.

ParanoidMode?

but check my signature, I put somefiles inside... see if the decrypter is trojaned or not
[Acer Iconia A500] jm77:
via http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner

http://www.securelist.com/en/descriptions/24350908/Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Banload.bkvz
[Acer Iconia A500] jm77:
Worked like a charm!
[Acer Iconia A500] reejmond:
U can exclude the file in the virusscanner :-)
[Acer Iconia A500] toygixxer69:
AVG killed mine as well. Had download from a different link, but that one was corrupted as well. Any other links?
[Acer Iconia A500] reejmond:
Downloadlink above is working perfectly here...
[Acer Iconia A500] gbyrne2011:
Hi all, this is one of the first times i've posted on this forum. I've downloaded the extracter program, but can't seem to extract the program from the rar file. When I drag it onto the desktop nothing appears, when I select the file in winrar and try to extract and then get the folder to extact only with no exe in the folder, I've also tried to extract in 7z and still nothing, anyone got any suggestions?

Windows 7 64bit
[Acer Iconia A500] sanaell:
check my signature and get it from it
[Acer Iconia A500] gbyrne2011:
Downloading all the stuff from your other post. Cheers mate :)
[Acer Iconia A500] nocomp:
hi,

how come when i run the decrypt i get a message saying that windows cannot access the specified device?

any idea?

thx for helping!
[Acer Iconia A500] v11lemans:
Deleted sorry wrong thread
[Acer Iconia A500] monkeychef:
He is definitely dev of the year. If you don't know what it's for then look up what a decrypter is. Don't rage at a good guy.
[Acer Iconia A500] dongimin2:
for noobs:

he and hopefully two or more developers will use this tool to decrypt the eventual ICS update to develop custom ROM's out of it
[Acer Iconia A500] hatefuel19:
Noob getting his feet wet here. In the next few days I'm going to attempt to compile a kernel. Could I use this to get the os that my kernel will run under?
[Acer Iconia A500] antoniolcrd:
Error

Hi guys,

what if decrypter prompts "out of memory" ?

Rgds,

;)
[Acer Iconia A500] seadoodude:
Thanks,

Need it to help someone get his acer a500 going & 4.4.4 on it...

:)
[Desire General] DesUKire:
Is anyone else having massive problems with the Orange Network in UK? My Desires signal is weak a majority of the time, if any signal at all and mobile network poor. Is it just me or is there a tweak for my phone to make the signal stronger? After chatting to a mate who has a Samsung Galaxy S, he has the same problem with Orange so i'm wondering if it is the network?
[Desire General] bexwhitt:
not sure probably depends on your area. One thing as Orange and t-mobile have merged in the UK you can use the t-mobile network as well as orange without additional charge.

http://help.orange.co.uk/orangeuk/support/personal/Signal-sharing
[Desire General] aindow:
It's the network being rubbish as they're trying to merge T-Mobile and Orange. Mine is coming and going all the time and has been like that for a while. Will end up leaving them when my contract finishes as they used to have the best signal where I live.
[Desire General] JokerNJ:
Something similar happened for me at home at the start of the year. Previously I had decent EDGE coverage.

Then signal came and went, all data came and went and now I have passable GPRS only. Good thing I also have decent wifi.

Long story short - its probably a signal 'upgrade' to do with the T mobile merger. One of the features of the merger is rationalisation of cells - or switching them off to you and me.
[Desire General] Meaple:
Most likely it is Orange. Earlier this year I ring them up about 5 times complaining about the same issue. Tbh it never got dealt with but it ironed itself out. I'm not happy with Orange anyway so when my contract ends I will be changing.

Swyped...
[Desire General] lanciadelta:
Make sure your phone is set to auto network select...not manual ..
[Desire General] DesUKire:
Cheers guys. I think i'll be leaving Orange at the end of the contract. I notice that since the t-mobile merger my signal has got much worse.
[Desire General] andy1120:
Definitely a problem for me too, i am using a stock Desire bought sim free and get a really poor signal but my mate has an Orange branded Desire with an older firmware and gets a much better signal so may be a problem with newer rom updates.
[Desire General] lanciadelta:
I found out something very interesting today.I'm on tmobile and when my phone picks up the orange signal it only a 2g signal.They don't tell you that when you sign up.I'm not sure but it might be the same set up visa versa and that would explain the signal problems.For now I have selected tmobile only and things have been better and I noticed a difference straight away.Tmobile has a message on the Customer Service line saying that sometime in the near future we will be able to use orange 3g as well,though i'm not sure if that means orange customers can use tmobile 3g,although I should think it would..
[Desire General] craftycarper1:
Same for Orange, they said we will be able to pick up T-mobile 3G signal sometime in the future.........until then, when the Orange signal is ****, not very good, i get standard T-mob signal, sorry Orange, but i'm also off at the end of my current contract, the signal is garbage.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tolis626:
Hey guys.

Am still being torn between the Sensation and the Galaxy S 2 and,although I'm inclining towards the GS2,I still have some issues.Two of them are the biggest:

Plastic body(can live with that) and the absence of Sense(made a rime there! :D ).

As for the second one,what do you guys think?I saw two days ago that Sense 2.1 has been ported almost fully to the Nexus S,so why wouldn't the GS2 be able to run,say,Sense 3? :cool:

Seriously though,imagine this beast and Sense 3.Magic!If it is possible,I'm most probably sold! :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] intruda119:
Buy a sensation
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TML1504:
same for me, i'm now a few weeks without sense, and neither launcher pro nor any of the other launchers are comfortable or "smooth" in the same way sense was...

i'm sure it would be possible to port sense to sgs2, but i think this would be a lot of hard work. without some dedicated devs there is absolutely no chance.

in the meanwhile i'm enjoying the sgs2 very much, the hardware is way ahead of anything HTC could offer at the moment - the overall user experience is almost superb... :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] intruda119:
what do you guys miss because im not understanding. It doesnt offer the same functionality with sense on past Winmo devices. Im not trying to be rude but help me understand what you guys are missing. Is it the eyecandy or flipclock?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mostyle:
I'm curious..

Don't misinterpret the tone of what I'm about to ask.. I assure you it is merely an inquiry..

If people love the sense UI why wouldn't they just exclusively by HTC devices?

Again, don't get me wrong.. I've used Sense (HTC Touch Pro) and Touch Wiz (Captivate, Vibrant, and soon SGS II) and I too miss the integrated prettiness of SenseUI but SenseUI isn't gonna happen on a non-HC device.. I'd venture to say ever.. (If I'm in error here please correct me) Sure I know we cannot predict tomorrow but I've read way too many threads where people have tried and as with most cases with attempted ports there's just too much custom code related to Sense to port to a non-Sense environment.

I'd LOVE to see native SenseUI on a Galaxy class device.. Sadly I doubt we ever will.. :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tolis626:
Intruda119 we are kinda having a civilized thing here,not intended for flaming.Do you,like any normal human being,have an opinion?If yes,say it.Else,don't criticise others.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tolis626:
Well,I want real power this time,that's why I'm turning to the Sam side! :p

Seriously though,I'd buy HTC again but all my smartphones have been HTC,so I kinda want a break.

What do I like in Sense?Mmm...Never had to answer that one before!Well,for me it's like they took all the good characteristics of other launchers and put them together in a nice,feature-packed(and resource-heavy however)interface.

Well,guess I'll try a detox... ;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Little Dragon:
who cares about Sense? you want Sense UI? get a HTC. i won't be using Sense or TW4 anyways. you want Sense on SGS2? wait for half a year for devs to port a buggy, crashy copy.

people talking about ROMs and crap...wait, noobs....wait
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kailkti:
I would like sense, but after reading engadget's review of how it is not as snappy as the galaxy s 2, I wouldn't want to hinder the galaxy s 2 and it's goodness.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] intruda119:
I guess im the only one to use 1-2 homescreen pages.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daivik:
Just remember, software can be changed and upgraded. Hardware can't. :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vimto25:
I only use 1.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beefheart:
CM and MIUI are infinitely more important to me than Sense. If I wanted HTC's restrictive UI on my GS2 I would have bought a HTC instead.

Anyway, I doubt you will see a proper port of Sense and all it's required libraries any time soon. They have only just managed to get a usable version on the Galaxy and that phone is over a year old.

Sent from my £2.99 Casio digital watch.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] godutch:
I can't imagine it being laggy, it already runs pretty smooth on the desire anyway the whole sense experience makes things for users much smoother.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] godutch:
the sense ports are now all based on aprechners's work which he began somewhere in april.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daivik:
I'm not sure so much that it is lag. But if i have the same setup on launcherpro and sense and the same animation, the launcherpro just looks SOO MUCH smoother. THink it's something to do with the fps?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seeM_ZA:
I'm curious as well. WHAT is it about Sense that everyone wants? I come from a WM background so for us it's that WM is ****ty and Sense provides a pretty and functional (or as functional as we can get) interface to the user. Android, however, is BRILLIANT and has plenty of apps and launchers and what not that it doesn't need you to have ANOTHER interface controlling everything. Isn't it a blessing not to have sense??

I'd really like to hear your guys opinions. :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daivik:
I think so, seeing as I got bored of it. and switched to launcherpro after a few months, however this was on my first ever android phone and I didn't even know that there was such a thing as a UI overlay for android! If I'd known you could get replacement launchers from the market I would have done it much earlier!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] godutch:
Well apart from having the best keyboard, email, message, gallery, contact, dialer, and widgets

like friendstream it's also the tight integration of everything with everything and it's beautiful too.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daivik:
I agree with the dialer and Widgets. But it hasn't got the best of everything else. Not to mention thr fact that there are better Widgets on the market. I've been using a custimizable, scrolling Calender for a long time now on launcherpro.

And don't know about sense 3 but the gallery on my desire really isn't amazing. Its pretty average and takes a llong time to load images.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chronicles404:
Sense 3 is junk according to engadget, read their recent review, it's all style and no substance, albeit laggy as well.

Stick to the SGSII, touchwiz 4 is pretty good considering, and if this phone is anything like it's predecessor, expect plenty of custom roms including sense ports.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beefheart:
There are three important words missing in that post -- 'In my opinion'.

Sent from my Casio digital watch.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] intruda119:
+1 aand I really think its just for eyecandy.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ironheart:
Hmm...

I currently switched from HTC HD2 (with Android and a

fully functional

Sense-Port!) to the fabulous SGS2. I have been thinking for a while getting the new HTC Sensation but with the specs compared hardware-side I had to choose the SGS2. I think the

SGS2 will become what the HD2 has been till now

: a powerful device technicallly on the cutting edge and one of the best of the best customers can buy today.

As far as HTC (the company) is concerned - and I was used to HTC devices for 4-5 years now - I'm VERY dissapointed and not only because of their "thinking" about locking down the bootloader... (in my opinion the bootloader-thing isn't over yet - I'm sure that the lock-down goes far far deeper than only a bootldr-signature... hardware-sided NAND-locks etc.)... but also because of their software-upgrade policy, their customer support,...

BUT

the SENSE-UI is the one thing I really miss. The look, the user-experience, the widgets,... the UI is simple, straight and intuitive. I'm aware that there are alternatives (CM, MIUI), but they don't offer the one complete package I would like to see/have on my phone

without the need

to install third-party addons (either looking colourfully crappy or lacking the needed functionality).

SENSE (either 2/2.1/3) could be a great and successful product, if HTC would decide to release it as a "standalone" product. The UI is great, but (since the release of the HD2) their phones are not.

So I'm looking forward to a more or less functional Sense-port to our SGS2. I'm sure it's only a question of time.

P.S.: The spirit of Android is "open source" and the "

possibility to customize everything you want

" - so why would someone go and argue against one another possible choice? If you don't like it - don't use it! Simple, isn't it?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beefheart:
I personally think MIUI is much better than Sense, both visually and functionally.

Sent from my Casio digital watch.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mur76:
have u ported it to your casio yet :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shambik:
i'd like to see that too, as i'm in the same dilemma, sgs2 or sensation? though i think i'm locked on the sgs2.

would love to see even some features of sense... i know we can get the eyecandy stuff such as the weather animation, and flip clock, but (and i am asking) i love the fact that u can "merge" your contacts with facebook, see their photo, status and birthday, any way to do that on a non-sense ui ??

and the new lock screen would be great to have in my opinion.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daivik:
you can merge contacts on touchwiz 4. :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andy2.2:
I must be one of the only people in the world who hates sense.

Personally I much prefer the less-resource heavy Touchwiz 4.0 :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chronicles404:
Fear not youre not alone, I personally find sense ugly as hell and much prefer touchwiz.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Likewise for a lot of use .

If i wanted sense i would buy a phone with sense if that makes sense to you it makes more sense than winging about a phone that does not have sense i think thats pretty senseless as is the SGS2 in that respect thankfully is sense free .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daivik:
how long, really, did that take you to think of/write?? :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tolis626:
Well,I love how this thread is going! :D

Fact is,I don't NEED Sense,but I certainly like it more than others.I have also used Launcher Pro,GO Launcher EX(Best free one IMO),ADW Launcher(Don't like it at all),Regina Launcher,some WP7 UIs and others including stock Android launcher,but no one offers quite the package that Sense does.Maybe if I spent more time with them they would,but as of yet iI haven't managed it.

To those who hate it...Well,that's taste!I can't force you to like Sense as you can't force me to hate it!Just don't bash/flame,will ya? ;)

Also,a port would be nice.You know,having many choices is never bad,is it?And that's what Android is all about as said before.The possibility would be nice.

And yes,Sense is resource heavy.Those resources though are more than abundant on the SGS2,aren't they? ;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Yes if we did not have multiple posts asking for the same time after time .

One thread on sense is enough .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tready:
Wot iv found with htc phones is every one who has one carnt wait to flash it with cm7 as this gets rid of sence lol and those who own none sense phones carnt wait for devs to build sense themed roms strange but true lol
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tolis626:
I haven't seen any other thread about Sense in the GS2 forums... :confused:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Little Dragon:
Im not bashing you cuz you like Sense, I am cuz porting Sense is a complete waste of time and effort. Nobody wants it and compared to LPP, ADW, CM, MIUI, etc.. there's some REAL choices for you
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blomkungen:
Why on earth would you want it?

It's useless and resource heavy

My mother has a desire and my father has a legend

Hate both of their UI's
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tolis626:
Ok guys,we can all stop it here.Most of you don't even like Sense.So we can call it a day and get on with our lives.

Searching guided me to other forums,so I posted here,just in case someone brings this up again.

Now,if someone is like-me enough to port Sense I'll be grateful.If not I'm gonna live normally too.

So mods close the thread,delete it or let it be,it will be forgotten anyway.

Not holding anything against anyone but this won't lead us anywhere.

Regards,

Apostolis
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeandujardin01:
WOW what's the point of coming here to say "i don't like Sense, X is better..."

i'd like very much to see sense getting ported to that device too.

if everybody reacted like that, today we wouldn't have Android & WP7 running on the HD2

Stop acting like trolls & spoil the guy's thread.

If you don't like something just skip it !
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tolis626:
Speak my man!What's happening here is ridiculous!And I don't mean anything personal to the guys here,I mean in general.What is this fanatism for?Are manufacturer overlays religion or something too important that people have to fight over?Becoming almost racists to people who just like something different running on their phone than you do is plainly ridiculous.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
http://xdaforums.com/search.php?searchid=73717091

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] godutch:
in the meantime....chiledog of the galaxysense team said he might take a look at porting the sense port for the sgs1/nexus s to the sgs2

many thing still don't work but he feels he is getting close to getting them to work.