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[EVO Shift 4G General] strapped365:
Yes i "think" HTC is violating the GPL because they still havent supplied the source code for the kernel, every time i tired to paste that stuff on HTC Facebook page one day and it got deleted
[EVO Shift 4G General] FrankAmato:
I think someone should email gpl@busybox.net and explain the situation so we can actually report the violation, and scare them into releasing it.
[EVO Shift 4G General] notsointeresting:
I went ahead and emailed them.

I doubt it would do anything but hell why not? right? :D
[EVO Shift 4G General] strapped365:
Hopefully it helps us HTC has no right holding source from us

Sent from a Supreme Shift.
[EVO Shift 4G General] halrulez:
I smell a class action lawsuit! Let me know if people are interested in this. I did one against my old job.

My free EVO Shift thanks to bestbuy
[EVO Shift 4G General] notsointeresting:
So this was the reply i got from the email i sent

"The main issue is that you've written to the BusyBox GPL violation

report address. I don't believe that HTC EVO Shift 4G has BusyBox in

it. If it does, please give me the details. If it doesn't, then there

is very little I can do for you. You'll need to find a Linux copyright

holder and convince that person to do enforcement of the GPL"
[EVO Shift 4G General] southernstyle:
Oops guess my Google-ing came up with the wrong gpl violation

Sent from your Mom's Jitterbug
[EVO Shift 4G General] linuxman008:
How to check...

If people want to know when htc kernels are released (or at least when the page is updated) and don't want to mess with rss can try this:

http://www.changedetection.com/

Just give it an email and this link:

http://htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads

then we can get an email when htc changes the page and we don't need to check ourselves everyday.
[EVO Shift 4G General] Ron Overdrive:
I'll probably get flamed for suggesting this, but our phone is similar to the Desire Z. Enough that Sparcksco was able to port a kernel meant for the Desire Z to ASOP roms on the Shift. Granted its not the best kernel, for me it performs the worst out of all the ASOP kernels, but its still a better performer then the stock Sense kernel. Any chance a dev has thought about doing the same for Sense till HTC gets off their lazy @$$ and releases the source?
[EVO Shift 4G General] Jhernandez09:
I been bugging HTC for the last day via their Facebook(s) , Twitter, Email, and site. I finally got a response saying

"We hear you Jose. We've definitely passed this along to the team. Stay tuned to htcdev.com for the latest."

and

"We don't have any new information for you as of right now Jose, but we are working hard to get this to you as soon as possible. You can take a look at this link for bootloader news and updates."

Too bad I got two contradicting replies
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
Standard BS reply, unfortunately.
[EVO Shift 4G General] Jhernandez09:
Figured that, but they did add one more phone to the Boot unlocker site since the other day.
[EVO Shift 4G General] drob311:
The bootloader unlock tool is a joke. It doesnt give you s-off (the ability to flash custom kernels and roms), and it also lets htc know that you have used said tool and eliminates your warranty.

The evo shift was one of htc's first emmc partitioned phones. This means that the revolutionary way to unlock bootloaders has the potential to be tweaked for our phone. Only question is, is someone attempting to get this done?

Be patient, i know its tough but, i had to wait to get perm root when i got my shift back in feb.
[EVO Shift 4G General] crump84:
I haven't really done a lot of research on what the unlocking tool actually does.. I just assumed by unlocking it meant s-off. If "unlocking" leaves security on, then what exactly does it do?

Sent from Gingerbread Speedy 4G
[EVO Shift 4G General] drob311:
It does leave you s-off but its not the s-off we all are accustomed to. From what i have read, it gives you s-off but no eng hboot to flash which means you would have s-off with stock recovery. Its almost like a glorified root but without the ability to do the cool stuff we do with root. Basically htc made the tool to set your phone s-off and thats it.
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
Kind of like having a wheelbarrel with no wheel. Yes it's a wheelbarrel, but it doesn't accomplish much :( .

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TEAM MiK

Mik ROMs Since 3/13/11
[EVO Shift 4G General] :
Perfect analogy,prboy!

Sent from my Rooted Thrive
[EVO Shift 4G General] drob311:
Exactly! They released that tool full well knowing, that without other tools or mods, the unlock tool wouldnt do a whole lot, other than give them records of whos warranties are void. I wonder if htc is communicating with sprint on who uses the tool?
[EVO Shift 4G General] :
Probably,don't understand I picked up a newThrive tablet other day and it came from Toshiba wth the bootloader unlocked! How hard is that HTC?

Sent from my Rooted Thrive
[EVO Shift 4G General] HTCotta:
Excuse my possible noobishness on this question but why do we need their unlock tool? It seems we're getting along just fine without it. Until people started talking about this tool, I assumed our bootloader was unlocked already haha. I rooted my friend's Droid X and THAT bootloader was most definitely locked. Had to use bootstrap and all that. Can someone clarify what is "locked" about our bootloader?
[EVO Shift 4G General] drob311:
If you rooted with froyo and flashed the eng hboot using fastboot than your bootloader isnt locked. This pertains to takers of ota updates and new/replacement phone owners running 2.3.3.

The shift is an emmc partitioned phone like the evo3d, sensation, etc. along with the "fabulous" ecryption included... Its alot more complicated than that... I personally dont know all the details. I wish i knew more myself...
[EVO Shift 4G General] Ron Overdrive:
You can still perm-root your device, install a custom recovery like ClockworkMod, install custom kernels & themes, etc. However I do not know if you can install custom roms or not. I remember reading the S-ON doesn't permit you to mount all the nand partitions in Read/Write mode while the phone is active, but I do not know if that effects the Recovery or not.
[EVO Shift 4G General] drob311:
The partitions are write protected. And from what i have heard/read this includes the kernel partition... Its all speculation though because i dont know of one person with a 3d that used the htc tool. Everyone i know has used revolutionary... It doesnt really matter though because its very unlikely htc is going to make the tool available for the shift...
[EVO Shift 4G General] Jhernandez09:
HTC Boot loader unlock tool user

I stumbled across this looking in the HTC Forums. A user used the Bootloader Unlock tool and he still couldnt do anything normal root allows you to do.

"I am a developer and I recently used the HTC Unlock to unlock one of my Evo 3d's (the other was done the unofficial way)

I was very upset when I discovered you guys only partially unlocked the bootloader. I like to fully customize my phone (from the splash screen to the rom, to the boot animation) and I first discovered we cant flash splash screens, we cant flash kernels or boot images. Only one custom recovery successfully flashes when all of them use to work using the revolutionary method. I'm sorry to say but this is a half assed job! If I'm voiding my warranty to unlock my phone I should be able to flash WHATEVER I desire on it. Hell if I want to try to flash a GSM radio on a NON GSM phone I should be able to.. hell I voided my warranty. Not to mention you guys have plugged up every possible way for us to downgrade the bootloaders so we could run revolutionary and get a truly unlocked phone. I'm glad I did revolutionary on my main phone. But this sucks. No 2.3.3 based roms will work because the kernels dont flash right, we cant downgrade hboot because of a stupid version check you put in. We cant flash radios (some people prefer older versions of raidios) , we cant flash splash screens, we cant flash kernels, then what can we really flash? just recovery and system? Like I said.. it's my phone I should be able to do whatever I please with it, especially if I void my warranty!!!!!

Oh and forget about running a AOSP rom like cm7 when it comes because the stock kernel is sense and CM7 is not and since it wont allow us to flash kernels then no more cm 7 because HTC wont allow us to change the kernel!

MAJOR FAIL HTC! GIVE US TRUE FULLY UNLOCKED BOOTLOADERS NOT THIS HALF UNLOCKED CRAP"
[EVO Shift 4G General] drob311:
Thanks for that very informative post. Pretty sad that htc "duped" all those people into believing that they were actually listening to customers...

Might as well stop posting on their facebook... It honestly didnt do **** for any of the other devices...
[EVO Shift 4G General] :
I agree, I will seriously look at Motoroogle phones when my contract is up.
[EVO Shift 4G General] 2fast4u88:
You guys aren't new to anything the rest of us are. Htc seems to like to release one kernel source when they feel like it. Any after that you might as well go to a new phone by the time you get it.

The cdma desire is going on like 8 months I think waiting on froyo kernel source. With a few months on the merge. I believe it to be more the carrier doing it than anything myself though. If you guys want to get something to together with the groups of people. I can pull the desire and merge users in. Along with a few others from other devices.
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
No, it's HTC, and we've spammed their wall multiple times already.
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
They won't release the Kernel till they're good and ready. They haven't listened to a damm thing we've posted.
[EVO Shift 4G General] tokuzumi:
I wish HTC would hurry the hell up, and release the damn source code already. I posted on their facebook wall yesterday. I'm going to post on their wall every day, until they do. Maybe we should all do it again, and hound them until they do.
[EVO Shift 4G General] 2fast4u88:
I will agree on the htc part also. I believe it is a joint effort for not releasing it though. Htc and all the carriers can look right here and see what everyone is doing to the phones. Being able to put the phone back to s-on and stock for warranty purposes. I believe to be one issue.

Mainly when they have to replace bricks and parts due to hardware failure. Basically they loose money on both ends. I think they believe setting on the kernel source to reduce it. I will say htc seems to answer and not like being on the front page of xda or the other big sites. As I said though not sure how much good it would do but I can bring the merge and desire users in.

That way we may make enough noise lol. I also had another thought which being a owner of the device we should rightfully have the kernel source. Due to the fact of what htc agreed to using the kernel. How about everyone demand a refund for the device in question? I know some feel like that any way.
[EVO Shift 4G General] HTCotta:
I don't think that makes very much sense. EVO has their source and there's FAR more development for that phone.
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
have no idea what HTC's agenda is, all I know is it really chaps my "A" . It's almost as if they're doing it just because they can.

TEAM MiK

Mik Roms Since 3/13/11
[EVO Shift 4G General] madplaya1:
Gotta go blow their Facebook page again for the kernel.
[EVO Shift 4G General] MrTrip:
Eh, we are never getting the kernel source. For real..

But actually, doesn't it say somewhere they HAVE to release it within a certain time period?
[EVO Shift 4G General] thronnos:
Yes, GPL

Teleported from my Shifty Speedy using Tapatalk
[EVO Shift 4G General] Ron Overdrive:
The GPL doesn't specify a time period, but the wording implies the source should be made available at the same time as the release of the binary.
[EVO Shift 4G General] MrTrip:
Well, its been long enough, I remember somebody in the Hero forums sending a lengthy email to HTC about this and quoting parts of the GPL and the next day they had the Kernel source. (IIRC, I'm not 100% sure how he worded it or if it was the Hero forum).

Sooo...who is up for sending HTC a ton of legal verbiage?
[EVO Shift 4G General] southernstyle:
I posted a while ago with a GPL link, I think it ended up being the wrong site but I initially was thinking the same thing. Either report the violation or threaten them with it.. or both, I'm in
[EVO Shift 4G General] Ron Overdrive:
A week ago I emailed the FSF regarding HTC and the source code. Normally I got fast responses from them in the past to GPL inquires and I haven't heard back from them yet so they might be looking into it. But just in case if enough of us contact the FSF some action might occur.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html
[EVO Shift 4G General] Saxman171:
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but didn't htc send replies to a bunch of people claiming that they had 90-120 days after the release of an update to provide the kernel source? I could have sworn I read that a few places... Assuming that is true, doesn't that mean they only have 2 days left to release it (by there own reasoning)? Or 5 days max if they want to claim the day the OTA push started...
[EVO Shift 4G General] stormchaser404:
I just posed this to their facebook:

We'll see what, if any, reply we get. Everyone should put something similar on there.
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
You'll get a reply saying go to htcdev.com

---------- Post added at 01:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:39 PM ----------

Funny thing is Evo and Evo 3D kernel source is out.

HTC EVO 3D – MR – 2.6.35 kernel source code 90.1 MB Download

HTC EVO 4G – GB MR – 2.6.35 kernel source code 88.7 MB Download
[EVO Shift 4G General] tokuzumi:
Yep. Got a couple of those "replys" myself. And I respond with the same thing, about the Evo 3D and 4G. I've given up on HTC...my next phone will most likely be in the Galaxy line, and might not necessarily be on Sprint, either.
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
I'm going to be sticking with Sprint. They are the only company to offer free calls to any mobile phone, unlimited data, and unlimited nights at 7PM included in their $69.99 ($79.99) plan.
[EVO Shift 4G General] stormchaser404:
The only Shift code is 2.6.32 kernel source code, which, if I am not mistaken, is Froyo. Correct?

---------- Post added at 05:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:59 PM ----------

At this rate, i'll be buying two iPhones around Christmas. This is ridiculous. haha!
[EVO Shift 4G General] tokuzumi:
Sprint is a fairly good deal. But the only reason I save money with Sprint, over the others, is because of the family plan. We have 3 lines (brother is under my plan), which is where our savings comes in. Between the 3 of us, we barely use 400 minutes a month. But if he goes to a seperate plan, our savings goes out the window. Pricing out AT&T and T-Mobile would come out to almost the same price with 2 people on a family share plan as with 2 people on a family share plan on Sprint.

Since the wife and I are starting to travel abroad more often, we are thinking of going with a GSM carrier. If I go with t-mobile pre-paid, I can get unlimited web (4G)/text/calls for $70/mo. Without 4G, it's $50/mo. AT&T (which I really don't want to use), I can get the same prepaid plan for $50/mo. They have no prepaid plans with LTE at this time.
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
You definitely don't want to use AT&T. And by going to T-Mobile, you probably will end up using AT&T.
[EVO Shift 4G General] Saxman171:
I also got a response saying to check htcdev.com.... hate these generic responses.
[EVO Shift 4G General] madplaya1:
They released kernel but still none for us -_-
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
Well funny you should say that :p . You can now get the IPhone from Sprint. With the only truely Unlimited Plan :D . Funny thing is I was told that by a Verizon rep :D . As if I hadn't already seen the commercials :p .
[EVO Shift 4G General] stormchaser404:
They ignored my first post, so I just posted this:

HTC: You sent replies to a bunch of people, including myself, claiming that you have 90-120 days after the release of an update to provide the source kernel. That time period is now over for the Evo Shift. So...where is our source code? Take note that you can now get the iPhone from Sprint, so you have a lot more competition. Isn't it better to be a company that keeps it's word? Remember your Marketing 101 class: its 10x more to get a new customer than to keep an old one.
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
I have sent them more than 20 different Emails myself. Always get the standard canned response.
[EVO Shift 4G General] madplaya1:
I've been bugging them on twitter and facebook@
[EVO Shift 4G General] sparksco:
They don't need to modify or change anything unless they "opps" and accidently deleted the original kernel source or something stupid. Which I highly doubt they lost the source. Either way they are required to post the kernel source as others have stated when the device is released, or at least within a reasonable amount of time. It's not that hard to package up the source and upload it in about 5 minutes I'm sure with their internet connection and servers. I mean seriously. Two new devices, the HTC Evo 3D and the HTC Sensation both have kernel sources up imediately after the devices were released. I think they have something to hide, just not sure what...
[EVO Shift 4G General] CRIME INC.:
SOURCE CODE IS OUT BABY YEAH!!!!
[EVO Shift 4G General] madplaya1:
Hell yeah can't wait for the kernel :)
[EVO Shift 4G General] stormchaser404:
Does this mean we might get 1-touch rooting back? Thoughts?
[EVO Shift 4G General] linuxman008:
The shift never had 1-touch root, even on froyo. Period. But it might mean root on gingerbread without flashing the rooted gingerbread rom.

What it does mean is that we can make sense roms overclockable like aosp roms. 2 ghz. processor speed, hear we come.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gching:
Hi,

I am currently in taiwan, and I was just wondering if I bought a gs2 here, and unlocked it, would I be able to use Rogers with it? Im scared that after I buy it, that some functions won't work. Im a total nub at this so I tried to search things up, but nothing came up. Please help .

gching
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mikroft:
Really depends on the 3G bands it supports as different countries will have different versions of the SGS2. If it supports 3G 850mhz you're good to go.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gching:
its in chinese (which i can barely ready ;)) but it says something like HSPA 21 Mbps, does that represent the 3g or 4g
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidnoobhelpme:
My phone is from the UK and i'm on fido from Canada. Everything works perfectly fine. I believe Rogers owns Fido too, so I would guess yes. Everything should work just fine.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gching:
my friend tells me because im buying it from taiwan, that it is automatically unlocked so i dont need to unlock myself, is that true?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aezv:
I am using it right now with Rogers. No problem at all.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icybluesmurf:
after rooting my evo the other day....every rom i flashed didnt have ne 3g..... just was stuck on 1x.. my stock rom still had 3g after root.... can someone help me
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erik077:
Hope you made a backup. If you did, restore back and then flash some other rom.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icybluesmurf:
ive flashed like 3 roms.... all the same problem...ive made a back up...i unrooted then rooted again.. same thing....i flashed a rooted version of the 2.3 ota rom deodexed.... when i flashed that one the 3g works....i dont get it...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krisf29:
Is your prl up to date
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icybluesmurf:
yes it is...on each rom i downloaded i updated profile and prl
[HTC EVO 3D] ramiss:
Hi,

Now that we are rooted, is there any way to run a mail widget on a sense rom?

If you are not aware, our sense mail app is locked down and no other app can pull data from it.

There is a mail connector available for rooted devices, but it doesn't work with sense!

Anyone have any ideas?

Thx
[Samsung Infuse 4G] oilers2010:
I wasn't really happy with the data speeds of the Nexus S so I exchanged it for the Infused 4G. So far I really liking the screen and how light it is.

Looking forward to some tips and some app suggestions (especially launchers) and also looking for a infused 4g pic I can use for my signature.
[HTC Sensation] okay22s:
it says we can get 3300 but i only get about 2100 what else do i need to do
[HTC Sensation] baker2795:
Which version are you running? 1.1 or 1.2?

Because if your running 1.1 this comes with the Unity V5 kernel and you should be able to reach this easier.

If your running 1.2 this comes with the stock kernel and you'll need to download Unity V5 to help get those scores.

You can download the Unity V5 kernel from http://www.multiupload.com/EP1YPXAICW
[HTC Sensation] TheBiles:
Spoilers: Quadrant scores are worthless and easily manipulated.

--

Sent from my HTC Pyramid.
[HTC Sensation] idavid_:
Agreed. A lot of people have been criticizing it, but people still use it.

Swyped from my HTC Sensation
[HTC Sensation] twomix9900:
Yup. Just to give context, my Samsung Fascinate (Galaxy S) got something abysmal like ~900 on the app, but the phone sure as hell wasn't a slouch.
[HTC Sensation] newter55:
Flipside of that was with the right kernel, galaxy s phones could score up to 3100 but they were horrible for any use other than obtaining high scores.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Larkspeed:
Can anyone recommend me a FREE app that will automatically enable bluetooth when wifi disconnects and disable it when wifi reconnects.

Both me and my wife have bluetooth enabled phones, mine is a htc desire and hers is an X10 Mini

Our bluetooth kit in the car does not support multipoint so only one phone can connect at a time.

If either of us is by ourselves this is fine but when we are both in the car together its a crap shoot on which phone will connect.

manually checking bluetooth every time we get in the car is a pain in the butt and given the fact that I always drive when we are together I want to install an app to turn on her BT when her WIFI disconnects.

This solves the problem because if we are together my phone has already connected long before her BT ever gets enabled.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robert_shipley:
Have you tried "Setting Profiles". I can't remember what the free version does but certainly the paid for version (which isn't very much) enables you to do a whole lot of setting rules which would enable you to do exactly what you are wanting.

Give it a try. I've got some complex rules which detect cell locations and then trigger the enabling of WiFi when I get close to home and then when the WiFi is on another rule sets some other bits when I connect to my home WiFi.

Triggers can be, GPS location, Cell location, WiFi networks connected/disconnected, time of day, bluetooth connection etc. Very useful app. Good for power saving as well. (I've got a HTC Desire S but it should work on your phones as well).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MuGGzyx:
I am just looking for a way to essentially disable everything but the android OS itself and the camera.

I am camping way out of reception range and need as much juice out of my battery as I can get. So I don't need any Phone, Contact, Messaging, Data, Synch, or anything like that, really just a Camera, and maybe the ability to turn on the GPS if it will even work.

I tried keeping it turned off but turning it on when I needed it took a long time and seemed to use up more juice than just leaving it on and in sleep mode.

I know I could go into Titanium and "Freeze" everything but I think that would take forever to do and undo.

Any ideas or suggestions?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sweetnsour:
turn on airplane mode (which disables all wireless features including network, so no incoming/outgoing calls, no messages, etc)

auto sync/background data can be turned off in settings>accounts&sync settings