yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
I hope you are only using Titanium Backup to backup your data and NOT your system files because if you switch roms and then restore everything, you're asking for trouble. It would be very beneficial if you go into recovery, wipe cache & dalvik and then create a nandroid backup. The default selections *should* suffice. By doing so, if you change roms, themes or a mod of some sort and decide you don't like it, you can always revert back to the way it was before the change by restoring your nandroid. Use TB to keep a backup of your 3rd party apps. If you switch roms, you can use TB to restore your 3rd party apps and their associated data. By the way, unless you have a gazillion apps to backup, TB should not be taking 3+ hours to do what it needs.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alanmw86:
oh yeah, not backing up any system files, just all my apps.

still taking forever, completely stumped off my arse.

and yes, im aware of nandroid, but I'm needing Titanium to backup all of my 3rd part apps to make switching roms a heck of alot less hassle

I've never had Ti B take so friggin long, it is going, but amg, slow as an old lady.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
I hear ya. I have no idea why it's taking so long, but I can assure you that is not normal. Anyway, sorry for treating you like a noob. ;)

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alanmw86:
CM7 in and of itself has been problematic for me.

random sluggishness in some apps, menu's, radio/wifi/gps turning on/off at random

Have already tried reflashing everything but maybe its just time to give up, going to check out a nightlie and see if theres some improvement but thats about it.

BWidgets clock keeps gimping out on me too.

guessing same reason Ti B is gimping out.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
You just gave yourself very good advice, my friend...lol...;)

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alanmw86:
yeah, more grasping at straws, I know 20 diff ways to fix this problem, but none with the perfect outcome.

guess ill just have to wait umpteen hours for backup and pray its not corrupted.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alanmw86:
since i posted till now it got to 51% and then it crashed >< gahaha losing it. lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alanmw86:
for future reference problem solved

Corrupted market links.

2 cures not sure if they work separate but I did both so id have no problem

1. goto applications, find market, stop application, clear cache

2. go into Ti Back preferences and uncheck market link backups
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dyscalculic:
Sorry for bringing the thread back from the dead, but i struggle with the same issue on N5 stock MM rooted. So much so that i defaulted to scheduling nightly backups and never did any in person.

I'll try this method out too.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] sunsetbay:
http://blog.mylookout.com/2011/05/s...ew-malware-from-the-developers-of-droiddream/

is the list of apps that were just discovered over the last few days by Google.

In reading other articles, I see Google will remove them and I wouldn't have a problem, but I'm sure a few of the games I got from Amazon.

Does anyone know how Amazon handles this removable...do I manually look for and delete the games? Guess, I'm assuming Amazon's would hold the possibly of malware, also.

I haven't been through this before, so wanted to ask.

I, also, saw an app Google uses - Android Market Security Tool, I wonder if that's helpful for me for anything from Amazon that I might have downloaded?

Thanks
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] tonyz3:
so be honest what one of the Hot Girls programs listed did you download. :eek:
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] sunsetbay:
tonyz3, LOL - that's funny.

Well, I did another 30 min. research on web about how Amazon may handle any apps with malware and couldn't find a thing.

So I sent Amazon an e-mail, hopefully I got the right department(s). Telling them I do have some games on that list from them, wanting to know if there's any action I should take or will they?

Apparently Google is on top of it (although they slipped through), but I don't know that Amazon is at this point.

I'll let you know if I hear back from them.

Edit: I should add I'm not having any problem with my TF or apps..just trying to stay ahead of the game.(s) My TF will be 3 weeks old tomorrow, love it and my dock gets here tomorrow-yea!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] stuntdouble:
I don't see a denial there so maybe it's all of them he has installed. ;) Anyways thanks for the heads up. Glad I dont have any of those apps. For future use you may wish to consider installing the AVG free android app called 'Anti-Virus Free'. You can get it HERE.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] sunsetbay:
Big Thanks, stuntdouble! For the info and the link.

I'm off to get it now...sounds good.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] sunsetbay:
I just received a response from Amazon, when I questioned the safety of their apps for malware....and they even went the extra mile when I sent a link from mylookout.com listing the apps, they doubled check and they don't carry any of them.

Ok, guess I panicked & I don't have any apps from Amazon on that list(s). But, now I know-lol

Here's their reply:

"All of our games downloads go through a review process which includes virus and

spyware scanning. This is done with software from multiple vendors, and our

games are considered virus-free. I also looked into the article you reference

and was not able to find any of the Apps listed on our website.

Our goal is for Amazon Appstore customers to have a good experience with every

app they buy from the Appstore. As a result, we test all apps and updates prior

to making them available in our store to verify that each app works as outlined

in the product description, does not impair the functionality of the mobile

device, and does not put your data at risk once installed.

I hope this helps, Thanks so much for your interest in the Amazon Appstore.

Did I solve your problem?"

Very nice reply! And I now have AVG and Lookout app on my tablet.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] ad1980:
I'm curious, did either of those anti-virus apps identify those apps as being malware prior to them being pulled? It doesn't look like it.

"The Lookout Security Team identified the malware thanks to a tip from a developer who notified us that modified versions of his app and another developer’s app were being distributed in the Android Market."

I have nothing against Lookout or any other Android anti-virus, but have the anti-virus apps ever actually found anything? It's not a rhetorical question. I don't use them and truly don't know.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] sunsetbay:
ad1980,

Well, in the end I feel a bit foolish...remember I said I panicked.(s)

Two of the games I thought I had were by a different developer and Tetris that I deleted a couple of weeks ago from my tablet isn't showing up in Google's or Amazon's library any longer. So I'm sure who that developer was.

Sorry, I should have dug further before I started this thread on the developers/games.

In the end, I learned a bit more about malware on a tablet and how Amazon and Google handles it. Right now I have AVG and Lookout Mobile Security that doesn't seem to be slowing me down in any way. Looks like I'll keep both and let them scan

as I download, etc.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] ad1980:
Hey I'm glad you posted! I'm curious if anyone has seen some benefit from using these Anti-Virus apps. It sounds great in theory, but does it actually do anything? It appears to me that there's little benefit. From what I can tell it goes something like this:

Malware appears in the Market

Someone informs Lookout/ElGoog/AVG etc...

All companies block/remove the offending apps at about the same time

I guess if you use those shady appstores you could benefit if these specific Malware apps still exist in those places.

I'm still interested to hear if anyone has seen/heard of these apps having a positive effect.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] sunsetbay:
Ad1980 and all, I see this a.m. more malware has been discovered in the Google Market and this article may answer your question on how well anti-virus works - not(s).

http://www.informationweek.com/news/230600068

What I come away with is one person, Xuxian Jiang, discovered them and then reported them to Google and various anti-virus companies. Doesn't sound too proactive does it?

I almost think my Lookout got an update this week, maybe it was this...after the apps have been out for 2 months. But, Lookout did discover the last batch, this one they didn't. Hmmm, I know still in the beginning stages.

One of these Angry Birds add-ons I almost bought, but the reviews were so bad I didn't...guess now I know why it didn't work.(s) Real close that last week I almost did buy it for 2nd or 3rd time, since I'm not doing so well with beating Angry Birds(s).
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] seshmaru:
Just a note to OP: the article you linked states the malware is run by reading phone state, if you hadn't noticed the TF101 is a tablet and not a phone and thus the malware wouldn't ever run.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] sunsetbay:
Ofseshmaru, Oh, you are so right - sorry. And Thank you for correcting me that it's about phones.

Of course, I know TF101 is a tablet and I did miss in reading the article that it's about phones only.

Guess I just saw the malware connection to Google market place again and how it relates to viruses and malware being discovered...still interesting.

In the end looks like that one app add-on I wanted, I wouldn't have been able to get anyway.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] ad1980:
@Sunsetbay

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about. It looks like all Lookout would do here is prevent you from downloading a known-malware-laden app. But, if the app is already known to have malware, then Google takes it down and there's no point in having Lookouts protection.

I would love to have a virus protection app that works, but from what I've seen Lookout and the others are all completely retroactive. Anyone have any different experience?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] bimmer69:
So does this mean there's no use whatsoever in installing anti-malware?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] KitsuneKnight:
If you're only installing apps from Google's market, then you'd likely receive zerobenefit from using any of the anti-malware utilities- as they won't really be offering anything that Google isn't already (the removal of known malware). Even for sideloaded/from other markets, I have to question how effective things like Lookout would really be. It's extremely easy to get root on pretty much any device out there, and once an app has root it's pretty much game over for everyone else on the system.

Anti-malware will always be pretty much the worst line of defense out there (phone, tablet, or desktop- doesn't matter which). They're reactionary in nature, and add a rather large amount of overhead to many common operations on a system.

Unfortunately, until the manufacturers and Google start taking security updates seriously, our phones' security amounts to about as much as a piece of swiss cheese at stopping a typhoon.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zodiac100:
Hi I just got an x10 for a relative because it was a really cheap deal. It has 3 branded android 1.6 software still on it. Can anyone tell me where to get the generic uk software and what to use to flash it onto the phone. I was going to use Omnius to flash it but they don't have generic uk on there, just generic global and some other generic international.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indesisiv:
Can you not just use SEUS or PC Companion to update this to the latest 2.1 software?

Both of those progs are available from the SE website.

I would go with that for a quick official fix :)

Failing this look for Flash Tool in this forum and follow the guide.

Flashtool is available from here along with the generic firmware for the x10i
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zodiac100:
Thanks for your reply. I have upgraded it to 2.1 using seus but as i said in my first post. its branded to 3 and i want to have unbranded generic software so that i can upgrade to 2.3 when that arrives
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indesisiv:
Just click on the link that I put into my first post to flashtool ... on that page you can download global generic firmware and flashtool to flash it with.

THere is also an excellent tutorial on how to use flashtool by rendeiro2005 here
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capeguyma:
Maybe, this has already been posted for the TF. If you have the dock, simultaneously pressing the ctrl and previous screen (top left row) will instantly exit you from the browser.

Pretty handy. Doesn't seem to work for other apps though.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] binarybulge:
So will scrolling at the wrong time, lol... Maybe you found a way to crash it with a button combination.

I wish they'd fix the browser. Every time it exits without a force close I'm reminded why Apple is so far in the lead.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rio911:
Ok, I will take the bait :D ... Apple is so far in the lead of what???????

They are not even 3rd in the Smartphone market share any more....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone

rio

PS, sorry to the OP for hijacking the thread, just it is one of those days, that statements like that...let's just say I can't let them pass without comment
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seshmaru:
I guess he never owned an iPad like I do. Honeycomb is miles ahead.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MattBooth:
I'm getting a new phone from Orange via my insurance. Previously I had to debrand, then flash a stock HTC ROM. After that I had to buy an unlock in order to use the Orange SIM.

Will I need to do this again or will I be able to simply root it and put the ROM I'm currently using straight on?

What would you do first when getting a new Android phone?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vashishtuday:
ud have to root again mate , though it has become pretty easy now

just read the noob guide
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MattBooth:
So I won't need to buy an unlock again?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vashishtuday:
Hmm maybe you don,t have to pay for the unlock

There are some methods to unlock on XDA , e.g : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=677497

just search a lil bit :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vashishtuday:
Here's one for Orange

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=943726

just make sure you,ve read it all before you do anything
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MattBooth:
Thanks a lot! I'll be giving that a go shortly!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MattBooth:
The link worked a dream, thanks! It ran about 20 errors before it passed. Tried a number of SIM's and they all work ok!

Here's what I did:

Brand new phone, started charging the new battery in my old "lost" phone. Put my old battery into the new phone.

Ran the tinycore.iso and unlocked the phone.

Created a Goldcard, just in case.

Rooted using Unrevoked 3.22

Installed RCMix S + Radio

Just waiting for my Orange SIM to become active!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcjaym:
ive searched loads of threads for this answer but evrything is all over the place and a bit confusing so im just looking for a simple solution, can i get the uk update at all, i updated to the us leak and would like to have the uk update now since its available but dont know how to get it, i am unrooted

thanks in advance
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Viper2488:
I think you might have to wait until its released on the uk asus page to manually flash it, I could be wrong though!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcjaym:
ah thats cool then mate, i will wait until i can grab it, thanks for your help ;)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grinnerD:
or you can

- get the uk V8.2.3.13 rom from asus support

- extract the zip, rename the extracted zip file to EP101_SDUPDATE.ZIP to root of external sd card

- then power off

- vol down+power on

- vol up to start flashing the uk V8.2.3.13 rom

now you back in blighty the notification should be available to update to 3.1 honeycomb. that's how i did it.

This maybe the only option avaialbe, because I think that official method as described on asus support will only allow update with same geography. (empahsis on 'I think')

good luck!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcjaym:
Nice one mate will give that a try
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcjaym:
tried that but its just coming up the android man holding an exlamation mark :(
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grinnerD:
sorry, I not at home now, so don't have the names of the files from asus support site to compare for you.

I think I remember the official extracted file was had a '.zip.zip' ending. make sure to it's just .zip - use a file manager on the tablet

This is the same procedure as I used to get onto the leaked us rom onto my uk tab. Expecting we are now dowgrading to official UK 3.0 from asus support

the original and possibly clearer instruction are here: http://forum.androidcentral.com/asus-eeepad-transformer/88744-transformer-3-1-update-here.html
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcjaym:
Its the same way I got the leaked one on too but can't seem to get it to work on for this
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grinnerD:
checkout this thread,

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1102209

where others had luck downgrading. Also Specifically post #16, the guy mentions possibly there are zips within zips... which may help you.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcjaym:
thanks mate, tried all that but its still giving me the same android guy with exclamation mark, will just have to keep the us opne for the time being i think :(
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcjaym:
just checking, is the ww version uk or is there a uk version, i cant see a uk one so i got the ww, migth be me been a complete idiot lol
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcjaym:
got it working, i was being stupid and renaming it to EP101_SDUPDATE.ZIP instead of just renaming the zipto EP101_SDUPDATE.

thanks for all your help, this forum rocks !
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grinnerD:
Lolz, glad u got sorted!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcjaym:
lol i wish i never, now i keep getting a force close error
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] idlefrog:
I did the same thing - downgraded as described above from the leaked US 3.1 rom to the 3.01 WW rom from the Asus website. After that I did a factory reset to get it clean. No force closes aftdr that.

I now am back on 3.01 WW build but when I check for a system update I am told there is not one available. Do Asus stagger the updates? I have seen other posts saying they can't see an update.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grinnerD:
facotry wipe worked for me, but i had nothing important to backup, (I also did a factory wipe after 3.1 just in case!)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] idlefrog:
Did you get notified of the 3.1 update instantly after downgrading?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grinnerD:
no. I downgraded on monday, in anticipation of getting the update on tues/weds. I only acutally upgraded this morning when i clocked the 'tracker' thread that some uk peeps were getting theirs via manual check.

are you really back to 3.0?... check interweb settings is alright?... remove any roms on int/ext sd cards?.... did the manual check?... not sure what else to try really....
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcjaym:
I justice twenty back to the us one will just leave it at that for now
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wingzero124:
I got a replacement TF today as the screen on the last one refused to turn on after leaving it off for a while. Completely dead even though the alarm kept going off at 5am(annoying).

Anywho I got the replacement and I have had no notifications about an update. I have just manually updated it to the .13 one and still nothing OTA.

I'm in the UK too. Hope they upload it to their severs soon so I can just do it by sd card again.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] idlefrog:
Well it says it is on 3.01 and back to the WW .13 build. Tried removing SDCARD but no difference. May be their servers are busy.

Will do it manually when the Asus support website is updated if it hasn't happened by then.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] idlefrog:
Sorted now

The update downloaded over night and I installed it this morning. Everything seems ok and gmail widget is there and works.

I don't think I will bother about leaks in the future.
[Acer Iconia A500] lankydan84:
Hi Guys,

I ordered one of these and it arrived this morning, A500 fits in snug as a bug in a rug!

Quality is really impressive, and all the cut out slots for ports are in the right place.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Navitech-Ex...K9WE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1306931117&sr=8-3

£14.99 So I think is the cheapest fitted case around? Thought I would share for all!

Dan
[Acer Iconia A500] ph423r:
Could you post a couple of pics? I was thinking of getting this, but the two photos they have of it on amazon don't seem to be of the same case. Also it looks like they flipped the second one cause the back camemra is on the wrong side.

Edit:

Actualy after comparing the front shot is of the PDair BX2 and the back shot is of the PDair BX1 that has been flipped and had the PDair logo Photoshopped out.
[Acer Iconia A500] secularhuman:
are the 16mb and 32mb tabs the same

external dimensions?
[Acer Iconia A500] Achristocat:
16gb and 32gb are identical in size -

height - 260mm (10.24 inches)

width - 177mm (6.97 inches)

thickness - 13.3 mm (.53 inches)

Hope it helps!
[Acer Iconia A500] davmyc:
Does this case provide access to the SD card slot without removing the Tab from the case. I have the Acer case, which is a very snug fit making swapping sdhc cards a lot more of a pain than I like to suffer (which is none at all really

Dave
[Acer Iconia A500] Achristocat:
Hi there...

I have this case as well.

No. You'd have to remove the unit from the case to access the micro sd card.

the other thing that is not great about the case (which I'm going to modify) is that the leather around the bezel actually covers the edge of the screen, not just the border...it's a little smaller than I'd like. Why?

If you use the stock Android Browser, there is a great feature - Quick Controls - that allow you to slide your finger from off the screen onto the screen and bring up browser coltrols exactly where you need them. SUPER trick and very easy...

..and this case does not allow you to use this feature...

So, yeah. Modifications coming. When done I will post pics...Hopefully by the time I buy the perfect follow up case, they have thought of these things...
[Acer Iconia A500] secularhuman:
got mine today, shipping only took 1 week

Nicely built. Split keyboard still easy to use. Looks very smart.

It does allow the tablet to

slide down a little so the rfcamera gets covered up, bot a little surgery will fix that. If you use it upsidedown,

it doesnt slide down enuf to over the camera or the keys at thr screen bottom.

Secular
[Acer Iconia A500] Petros_tigra:
so...which one of the two different photo is????