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[Optimus One, P500, V General] gedster314:
I have a Virgin Optimus V. I'm trying to port it to Sprint. Esn is taken care of, don't ask, this topic not really allowed here. The phone is working on Sprint but I am having problems with the NV items for 3G. I have tried QXDM, QPST and CDMAWS (3.6 paid version). I can not get the Sprint entries to stick. If I reboot the Virgin entries reappear. I have read the NV items 465, 466, 1192, and 1194 from the donor phone and written them with CDMAWS and even tried hand entering them from QXDM memory viewer.

Does anyone know where I can get the Sprint rom? Maybe the Virgin Rom is repopulating the entries during reboot. Anyone have any in sight or links that may help.

Thanks.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] vicwire:
it jhas something to do with the 3.6 cdma. i wish white rabbit will update
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ramsyst:
I noticed many of you including myself, while trying to install cLK using RUU in order to run NAND get stuck at the Fast boot screen (forgot to update the kernel).

At that stage the SD card seems inaccessible and your phone won't respond to hard resetting. Well I found the solution to restore your phone back to normal!!

Suggest you grab ksubedi's HD2 tool and (assuming you already have HSPL installed)

1. Power off the phone (pull the battery if required)

2. Hold on the Vol Down key, press power

3. Connect to the computer, on the red-blue-green-white screen, wait for Serial to change to USB (if not install WMDC)

4. Run the HD2 toolkit, choose Task29 (this will wipe your phone out)

5. When the phone reboots, hold down the vol again to get back to the red-blue-green-white screen, ensure you see USB

6. Choose cLK Repartition, choose the right partition sizes (150 MB with 5 MB cache works for most non-sense ROMs), hit "Repartition"

7. When the phone reboots, press the Back button on the phone, wait till you get the Fast Boot processing commands screen (If you dont get this, you need to install the ADB drivers)

8. Choose cLK Install Recovery, hit "Install", press "Yes", follow instructions

Now download one of Energy Roms (which I prefer)

http://nrgz28.sylvester20007.com/Leo/Cookie/index.php

9. Extract the rom on your desktop

10. Open up your HD2 toolkit again

11. In the bottom of it, Click browse and select the NBH file on your desktop

12. Reboots, hold down the vol again to get back to the red-blue-green-white screen, ensure you see USB

13. Then Click install RUU on the HD2 toolkit to flash the new rom

Enjoy! and Thanks to ph03n!x
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ph03n!x:
Thank me why, am just about to post something to contribute here :)

If you have the Android SDK's ADB/ Fastboot, and are stuck in the cLK Fast Boot screen, you can issue "fastboot reboot" from the folder where you have extracted fastboot.exe to reboot the phone, of course with the phone connected. This saves you from opening the battery cover to reboot.

And if you are in the fast boot screen already, dont bother doing a Task 29 again. Just open ksubedi's HD2 toolkit and install cLK recovery.

Finally, after installing recovery, hold down the Home key when the phone reboots - this will take you to recovery. In recovery, choose mounts and storage > mount USB to get access to the phone's SD Card (when plugged in to the computer, of course!). Copy your favorite .zip ROM to the SD Card, and flash it through "Install zip from SD Card" > Choose Zip.

:)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madshad:
Rooted a Dinc back in November of last year using unrevoked, I've rooted a few other devices since then. I'm wondering if Unrevoked is still the way to go on the Dinc or if much has changed since then. Found a few posts but the info was dated enough to make me want to ask again, thanks.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcberg2010:
Yup they work, unrevoked.com
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uofatree:
I'm trying to go back to 2.2 from cm7 and I'm having some issues with odin. First off, I can't get gapps to install. I've tried all of the following:

gapps_update-2.3.5-gb-20110725-signed

gapps-gb-20110613-signed(1)

Also, wi-fi is not working with cm7.

Now for the odin issues...

I have tried flashing DL09, EB01, ED01 and ED05 with odin versions 1.3, 1.7, and 1.83. None have worked. I'm getting an error message when I connect with the USB. Is it possible that the cord is bad? Could it be that simple?

I'm completely frustrated here. I have no market, gmail, or anything else, and can't revert to an earlier build. I'm hoping someone here has the experience and/or know how to help me out.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedoman:
Instructions are under stickies in the development section for proper Odin from cm7or miui

There have been reports that only stock cords work for connection to PCs in some cases. Try the instruction under stickies before you give up on your cord.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uofatree:
I did follow those instructions. The problem is that odin isn't flashing properly...thanks tho
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hyphnx:
Have you tried to reinstall the drivers directly from the Samsung website and use the stock MD5 for Verizon?
[General Topics] z33dev33l:
Wow, with malware so bad that sometimes they're sending "premium" text messages at 40 dollars a pop those low end android devices aren't looking so low end. With apps from ringtone downloaders to battery managers to guitar hero rip-offs getting malware android is really hitting the dirt. Even if sales-wise they're doing great android is taking some major blows to the legal department and now even publicity-wise with their childish approach to the patents. This malware is just another part of the tower of android crumbling. i guess that's what happens when you build a multi-million dollar building on a foundation of jell-o. I for one am interested in seeing how google recovers from all of this mess.
[General Topics] xHausx:
So far all of the Android malware I've heard of has used the rageagainstthecage exploit, which only works on older froyo ROMs. Just make sure you buy an up to date Android phone from a manufacturer that keeps their phones updated and you'll be fine.

On the Evo 4G, for example, HTC waited until there was a patch for Gingerbreak before they pushed the GB OTA. That was months ago and the new firmware still has not been rooted.
[General Topics] vetvito:
Smh...

16% of PC users are unaffected by viruses/malware.
[General Topics] z33dev33l:
I wouldn't buy another android device regardless of manufacturer or updates. There's still malware on android utilizing other exploits, looking into the OS itself they could pretty much get away with it completely legally without issues and with no market authorization... Its scary.

Vetvito, the great thing is that my PC, like most, comes with virus protection. Does not have direct access to my bill, and anyone with an education exceeding the third grade can prevent at least the vast majority of viruses. My wife got a vibrant for awhile and downloaded an angry birds guide and the next month we had 80 dollars in charges from fox mobile group. Its insane how bad google manages... Well... The whole mobile sect.
[General Topics] xHausx:
Well, technically everyone with an education exceeding the third grade can read what permissions an android app is asking for and can figure out that app XYZ has no business messing with your account list, contacts or text messages. Everyone is entitled to an opinion though, Android isn't perfect but it's silly saying one OS is more resistant to malware than another. The only thing that really matters is how many people use it, the more users the more people looking for vulnerabilities.
[General Topics] vetvito:
^ well put. Hence the 16% of PC users are unaffected.
[General Topics] z33dev33l:
what's more ridiculous is that tired argument. Android is open to malware because there's no app certification in the marketplace, there's no real failsafes built into the OS until after the fact, and because, well, as everyone is so proud of, its open source. Wp7 and ios are locked and thoroughly so to avoid such complications. That's the benefits you get from building your own OS rather than borrowing code that's readily available and largely outdated. IOS for awhile had a larger userbase than android. I never heard any peep about malware there... android is just a poorly built and even lesser optimized OS.
[General Topics] xHausx:
This will be my last reply since it's pointless to really continuing this conversation, but I will fill you in on a little fact that you seem to have missed. When it's possible to open up a web page and have your device jailbroken/rooted whatever, that is a very serious security hole. That means anyone can do the same thing without your permission.

I have never seen a method to root an android phone using the above method yet it's fairly common with iOS. I even remember hearing about a way to take complete control over an iPhone 4 by doing nothing more than sending it a text message, if that's not a serious security hole than I don't know what is. So if you are actually interested in using a secure OS and not just here to troll and bash android, you may want to do a little more homework on just how secure each platform is.

Take the Pwn2Own competition for example, "During the first day of the competition Safari and Internet Explorer were defeated by researchers. Safari was version 5.0.3 installed on a fully-patched Mac OS X 10.6.6.[23] French security firm VUPEN was first to attack the browser, and five seconds after the browser visited its specially-crafted malicious web page, it had both launched the platform calculator application (a standard harmless payload to demonstrate that arbitrary code has been executed) and written a file to the hard disk (to demonstrate that the sandbox had been bypassed).

The second and last browser to fall for the day was a 32-bit Internet Explorer 8 installed on 64-bit Windows 7 Service Pack 1.[23] Security researcher Stephen Fewer of Harmony Security was successful in exploiting IE. Just as with Safari, this was demonstrated by running Windows' calculator program and writing a file to the hard disk."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn2Own

Google's Chrome browser was the only one that was not compromised.
[General Topics] Terghan:
An excellent explanation of just how vulnerable iOS and the iphone are. Just to throw in my own 2 cents, I have used Android for the last 3 years now. I have rarely if ever utilized a security program, and have NEVER had any of my phones compromised.

I'm not by any means saying it doesn't happen, I simply think that if your careful, and paying attention to what your doing, then you shouldn't have any problems.
[General Topics] SUCCESSOR:
I predict 3 out of 10 iPhone users will be sodomized with a Zhu Zhu Pet next year.
[General Topics] Terghan:
Fantastic. Perfect phrasing.
[General Topics] xaccers:
You can judge an OS's success by the amount of malware targeting it.

Windows being the most popular OS, has the most malware.

Interestingly the most compromised OS on the internet used in botnet attacks is Linux, simply because of the numbers of computers running it.

So any successful product will be targetted, even Macs have viruses despite what apple fanboi's would have you believe.

So for IOS and Android to be targeted it reflects the market share of those products, their success, and as has been already noted, most vulnerabilities are specific to earlier versions of Android.

Any OS that is so unpopular it's market share has plummeted to 5.8% and continues to fall isn't likely to be worth targeting, so WP7 is pretty safe simply due to lack of interest in it from both consumers and malware writers.

It's a bit like people who run Win98 still for security reasons, despite it being easy to compromise, because so few people still use it, it is no longer being actively targeted.
[General Topics] Gusar321:
It's been predicted... By whom exactly? I don't see any links in your posts.

Predicted by antivirus/antimalware companies wanting to scare you into buying their products? Products which may, but totally may not actually protect you (remember most of these are reactive software, they can't protect you from something they don't know about)?
[General Topics] Tone_:
and the reason for that is the developer of the chrome exploit was led to believe it was not valid, it turns out that it was but the developer of the exploit had already given it to google for $$$

Hence the patch frenzy just before Pwn2OWn.
[General Topics] Tone_:
To be fair OS X does not have any.
[General Topics] Daeva:
If you're really paranoid about malware on android, you can download virus protection from the Market, like Lookout or Anti-virus from AVG.

Don't know how effective they are, but at least you won't be effected by any known malware out there.

But not really needed I think, check permission the app asks for and if they make sense, you should be pretty safe.

Also I think Google is on the ball when it comes to this.
[General Topics] xaccers:
That'll be your little secret then ;)
[General Topics] hungry81:
Wrong.

http://www.macforensicslab.com/Prod...in_page=document_general_info&products_id=174

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2029303/virus-mac-invulnerable

Thank you. come again.

Also, Op, baby, Stop projecting your Wp7 buyers remorse onto everyone else. Yes we get it you are unhappy with your sucky boring spoonfed o/s. move on from the denial stage it and learn your lesson for your next phone, cause no one really cares. Easily aviodable and fixable Malware on Android is still better than stuipifyingly boring wp7. You can console yourself that maybe Wp8 or whatever wil be better, or maybe you can change to an iphone and lecture us on how your device is "better" than our various devices cause it has a shiny fruity logo and you can jailbreak it but until then yourphonesucks.

XOXOXO
[General Topics] Phateless:
I'm gonna go ahead and tempt karma here...

Malware only hits people who download stupid and questionable ****. I know this is harsh, but people bring it on themselves.

As for older versions of Android, everyone should be on cm7 anyway, unless they like their phone to be slow. :P
[General Topics] HoneyCombs:
I'm surprised they say only 3 out of 10, I would have said 50% with the total lack of control and approvals required to get apps on the marketplace. Apple certainly do a better job of controlling what is allowed live than any Android store.
[General Topics] Phateless:
Very interesting!!
[General Topics] mattykinsx:
Steve Jobs, with help from the media, has certainly done a good job of skewing the truth hasn't he?
[General Topics] xaccers:
Is there seriously no price regulation in the US?

Crickey they've got you lot over a barrel!

Over here there are maximums for premium rate services.

Doesn't stop the old spam emails going round claiming someone will knock on your door and ask to call the AA, but will actually call their premium number charging you £42 a minute though.
[General Topics] mattykinsx:
Also, as another forum member pointed out, nice source for your statistics. :rolleyes:
[General Topics] lukenova:
+1. Don't be stupid, don't get malware. Just how it is. Android is a lot more open than ios and wp7. Meaning lots more room for exploits, yes. That's why smart people need to educate the ..."less than smart"... about downloading **** that seems questionable.
[General Topics] mattykinsx:
A

high

percentage (I don't know the number and, unlike the OP, I refuse to just make one up) of malware in Android is located in one country.

China.
[General Topics] Tone_:
I am not an apple fan but I will say what you posted is not a virus.. worms\exploits maybe but no piece of coded malware that propagates from OS X to OS X.

I would love you to prove me wrong.. but you cannot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus
[General Topics] Tone_:
There was one guy who registered at the competition with an exploit for chrome and he did not turn up and the exploit was patched just before competition using info from said person.

So nobody tried to attack chrome.
[General Topics] xaccers:
Trojans, worms, malware, basically anything that infects a computer come under the term virus.
[General Topics] Rejinderi:
its always wise to check permissions before installing an app.. and check reviews. but sad to say many people dont actually know how to think or rather they dont want to.

Just a side note, xaccers your signature picture creeps me up :(
[General Topics] mattykinsx:
Hey on that topic:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1206344
[General Topics] Tone_:
That is not true all those thing fall under the term malware, a virus by it's very definition means code that can propagate and mutate.
[General Topics] lukenova:
Why do some people have to be so damn anal? So someone used the wrong "official" term. Omg is it really hurting anyone? I think not.
[General Topics] xaccers:
The next line, which you've not quoted funnily enough states:

Malware is a relatively recent term, within the industry virus covers anything which can infect a computer.

There are plenty of Trojans on OSX.

I've been in the industry for nearly 30 years mate. It considers Trojans, worms, etc all to be viruses. Go back to the playground, it's much safer for you.
[General Topics] lukenova:
Burn.
[General Topics] Tone_:
Yes it is relatively recent because people have become lazy in their definitions of things, look up why the term virus was coined.

both in parts.

Shelf stacking does not count but wish you all the best with your promotion to trolley pusher.

I can get a quotes from all the security vendors if you wish, and to recap OS X has no virus in the wild infecting other OS X installs.
[General Topics] lukenova:
Do you enjoy arguing just to have something to do? Viruses/malware/your mom. What does it matter what it's called? It is bad and if you aren't stupid on the internet you wont get them no matter what OS or phone you are running.
[General Topics] Phateless:
Holy ****, good catch!
[General Topics] Tone_:
Virus were infecting computers before the internet was available...

The internet was 20 years old yesterday btw :)
[General Topics] xaccers:
Oh you do make me laugh. The article you quoted even shows that you're wrong and that virus is used to cover malware, worms and Trojans. You tried to hide that by selectively quoting, and you've been found out. So even your own research backs up my statement and disproves yours.

Trolley pushing and shelf stacking appears to be the only subject you're able to speak from experience then is it?

And I'm sure if I could be bother to I'd be able to find quotes from the same companies stating that malware, Trojans and worms are all viruses.

Norton's definition covers most malware for instance. It infects web servers, and replicates to target computers, where it is able to execute itself.

So again, thanks for backing up what I've been saying.

Oh my god! For the umpteenth time! The world wide web is not the internet!
[General Topics] mattykinsx:
Scary, isn't it?

I don't think the future is "malware" or "viruses" or whatever name we want to give them.

I think it's knowingly and willingly giving away information simply because you don't read.

A show of hands to those that read your entire carrier contract?
[General Topics] Tone_:
Please find me a virus for OS X that has infected another OS X install, If you do I will admit I am wrong and offer an apology.

Not a trojan where the user has been prompted and wilfully installed the code.
[General Topics] Tone_:
You are correct but lets not go off course with DOD\ARPANET
[General Topics] mattykinsx:
Does every conversation on these forums have to come down to Apple vs. whatever?

Seriously.

You're right, Apple's software is less likely to be subject to viruses and such.

There are several reasons for it.

It's also a true statement that "modifying" an Apple OS is "OMGZ I CHANGED DA WALLPAYPA"
[General Topics] Prodigy:
Still, it is amazing what you can do to your phone with superuser access, and nevertheless what the hacker can achieve with superuser access.
[General Topics] mattykinsx:
And it's amazing what I can do with an Administrative network password.

What's your point? That's part of why phones don't come "rooted"
[General Topics] Phateless:
I did not check permissions on fb but you better believe I will from now on!
[General Topics] mrrick:
Why the hell is this guy still allowed to post new topics?
[General Topics] z33dev33l:
https://www.mylookout.com/mobile-threat-report

Oh, and one of the biggest hits for malware was a battery management tool that was given plenty of good enough reviews before people saw their bills. Malware doesn't only effect the stupid and the shady, at least not on android. Its a real threat.

As far as my "buyers remorse" goes, if i regretted choosing the best mobile OS I likely would not have bought every US released wp7 device that accepts a sim card.
[General Topics] mattykinsx:
From YOUR article:

Nice try on the deception of "3/10 android users will get malware in this next year"

So that 30% figure that you tried to tag Android in is actually including

all

mobile platforms [IOS, RIM, WebOS, Android, WM7, etc]?

That's cool.

And since Apple is the number 1 manufacturer they hold the most responsibility eh? ;)

Also:

Oh, so most iPhone users are just as likely if not moreso to get infected with malware?

Thank you for the link and proving our point and also showing you're a deceptive liar just trying to stir **** up
[General Topics] xaccers:
The charts in that article demonstrate how quickly and effectively Google responded, so well done them.

Would it be the article you got the 3 in 10 from? If so, I suggest you read it again as it makes no assertion. If not, then please cite your source for the 3 in 10 android users getting malware in the next year.

The infected apps were presented as originals, the originals were still available and perfectly safe to download. Checking the permissions would have given a clear idea that they were dodgy.
[General Topics] mrrick:
Hah. I was literally posting the same thing. Not one single sentence said 3/10 droids. Says 3/10 people.

And also, getting your info from a site trying to sell a subscription for their security service is not reliable.
[General Topics] orb3000:
.

Ok guys/gals please stay on topic and let´s show we can have a friendly discussion that not ends in a flame war
[General Topics] mrrick:
It won't happen with this particular poster continuing to make these lame threads. Just sayin.
[General Topics] z33dev33l:
My actual source

http://wmpoweruser.com/hundreds-of-...fected-by-malware-30-to-be-exposed-this-year/

/inb4peoplepointoutthatitsawp7centeredsite

As far as the posts regarding googles response time, the fact that such blatant holes were left in the is to begin with is bad enough. Anyone saying "oh, your market share is too low to worry" clearly wasn't there for androids first year where next to no one bought it and robodefense was the best game we had.
[General Topics] xaccers:
Wow, the original article by Lookout states $10 but wmpoweruser turns this into $40, and Lookout state "3 in 10 people are likely to encounter an unsafe link this year" while wmpoweruser turns that into "three out of ten Android owners are likely to encounter a web-based threat on their device each year"

Fantatic rewrite by wmpoweruser, engadget would be proud by the misinformation!
[General Topics] mrrick:
Thats still from the same "research by lookout mobile security"

Try again?

Meh.
[General Topics] mattykinsx:
Thank you for showing us where to never go for unbiased news.

Scary when people take cold hard facts and even manage to finagle them to read however they want.

I respect what you're saying but the user came into this forum to try to start a flame war.

Fact:

-He didn't present a source to something that would obviously cause trouble

-Then the source he presented clearly showed that he was warping the truth

-Then he claims a difference source that is also warping the truth