yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC EVO 3D] joeykrim:
The biggest variable is going to be how the web server is tracking the visits/surveys server side, in my opinion. If they track nothing, then there really isnt anyway for them to enforce their one survey per person policy.

Client side, wiping your device is essentially clearing all browser data off on the client. This will remove all *cookies* stored in the browser's data folder on the /data partition. Many web sites use cookies to track their visitors.

Server side, you can view every IP address accessing a web site and have an IP address tagged onto a survey when its taken for recording purposes. It is fairly simple to do and most web servers do create logs of all their visits and which pages visited along with the IP addresses the visits came from.

The server will only see a specific web browser, android browser/whatever browser being used and an IP address from the cell phone provided. Technically cell phone IPs are dynamic, meaning they change and hence make tracking each device more difficult, but many times cell phone provides will limit how often the IP address actually changes.

Yes, I'm in agreement, morally it would be wrong to fill out a survey more than once when told to only fill it out once.

In my opinion, if this is a small company, small survey and small restaurant, I'd be skeptical they'd spend the labor/time ($) to engage in any type of sophisticated monitoring.

Hopefully that helps provide a little bit more information on your question.
[HTC EVO 3D] squigey:
Is it a franchisee type restaurant like Ihop, Applebees, etc? If so it's probably using a company like Synovate to do the surveys. When I worked for a franchisee, that's who we used.

I'd have to guess they do some sort of analysis on the data...like if restuarant A generally gets 1000 submissions per month, then all of a sudden it goes up by 50% out of nowhere, it would throw a red flag. I don't think they would try to figure out individually who's doing it, just that restaurant A is trying to game the system....
[HTC EVO 3D] non4500:
ok, I'm in a similar bind. We are just getting threatened with write ups for poor job performance for not getting 1 survey in for each shift ( don't care that our surveys take almost 12 minutes,,,, 12!!!). So I need to find a way to do about 5 a week from same place without being tracked. It's just ridiculous what we have to go through to keep a job. Most people who compliment us, don't want to bother with survey, and complainers are the first to fill em out. Thanks.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JollyGrnReefer:
What does your Evo not do that you wish it could do?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lithid-cm:
Print money, legal money.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newter55:
Wrong forum? Droid doesn't do sprint.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cesarcerros31:
Give me ice cream sandwich NOW

sent from my HTC evolution running a freshly baked gingerbread with the 4gs in it
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a senile fungus:
Cook my eggs. And Bacon. Mmmmmmmm bacon

~ I'm a fungi
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] culua:
Clean my room.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scrubb:
Dispense RedBull, sour cream, and guacamole, and give me a hug
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crossrocker:
How about something realistic guys? Haha. My evo doesn't attract as much attention anymore. Which is actually a good thing

Deck's + SZ + SuperCharger script + ViperMod script.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alaman68:
it should have a bottle opener on the back, sorta like my flip flops
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
It be nice if it could get me laid...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cesarcerros31:
+1

sent from my HTC evolution running a freshly baked gingerbread with the 4gs in it
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
I was expecting something funny....though it doesn't have a super amoled + screen, like my future phone, the galaxy s II.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spider2346:
Agreed

Sent from my Tricked-out-Evo....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hercules rockefeller:
Really, not that much. I wouldn't mind a bigger screen - maybe up to 5" or so. And of course I'd like that screen to be super-bright but also have multiple days of battery life while being as slim as the new Samsung. But if we're sticking within the laws of thermodynamics I'd say a larger screen and a slide out qwerty keyboard, similar to that on the Touch Pro 2.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rrasco:
Slide out keyboards are just one more working part to break, IMO. Most of my guys at work that have Moto Droids don't even use the physical keyboard, even if they specifically requested one.

The one thing I want on my EVO is a touchpad or optical joystick. The soft key navigational arrows don't cut it for me.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mbaseball3:
10 inch EVO tablet. That's all I ask.

Sent from my EVO
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JDM Civic EG8:
Better screen and more ram that's about it haha. Kind of missing my old hd2..

Sent From Inside My EG8
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SONIC589:
Faster internet speeds...I hate Sprint network now!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rockingout92:
^^ +1. I just got a thunderbolt for my work phone. My evo feels so slow now. But I will never part with it
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamieg71:
I'm with the printing money.

And if you guys can't use your evo to get laid.. try using the phone part of it to call some girls.. lol Would be nice to have an app like that beer comercial too... Never ending supply of Bud Light... Wich in turn you use to get laid..

don't forget to wipe..
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Jerry D:
I just downloaded and properly installed the zip version of adb/sdk (r13). I followed a great guide on addictivetips.com. :D

I am going to do some serious searching/reading on it's proper use because I have never used it before.. I have only command prompted "adb devices" so far to see what my serial number is. :)

There are a alot of tools and functions. It appears complex to me at this point. I learn alot about things by clicking and exploring, seeing what happens. However I don't want to mess my phone up.

What I would like to know is what can I SAFELY do to explore it's functions and my phone? Is it safe to just click on things and see what happens?

Also and MOST importantly are there any things I should NOT do? Can I screw up my laptop with using this? :eek:

If anyone could leave me some comments/suggestions or even some command prompts to checkout :D I would greatly appreciate it. I'll also be sure to hit the thanks button ;)
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Don't ever do this.

adb shell
mount -o remount,rw /system
rm -rf /system
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Jerry D:
Ya, I definitely wouldn't want to play with my system like that...

The reason I made this thread is because I have clicked on things a couple of times to see what happens and a small black "command prompt" screen pops up and then lines of text flash rapidly through it (so fast I can't even read it) and then it disappears.

It makes me nervous because I don't know what it is or what it is doing. Luckily I didn't have my phone attached to the computer at the time so I didn't have to worry about my phone. But I don't want to mess my laptop up either.

Like I said I am going to read read read all I can about adb it is just hard to fight the urge to explore it. I know there are very knowledgeable in our Community who can tell me what NOT to do.

Thank you all for taking the time to read this.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Alright, that last post was a joke post. I usually see that on Linux threads.

It'll actually be REALLY hard to mess up your computer with ADB. It's more likely that you'll mess up your phone and to do that you'll have to try pretty hard to do it.

You're trying to run adb as if it was a windows program and it's not, it's a command line app.

Press the windows key + r, then type in

cd C:\Users\yourusername\Desktop\ADB\
adb shell

Then you can give commands for the phone. A few of the harmless ones are

ls
cd
ps
top

Here's one of the best guides (it's the manual) for adb:

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Jerry D:
Thanks for your replies FB.

I found that manual last night while searching and copied all 11 pages. I'll be reading it on my three and a half hour daily commute. I'll be a pro in no time lol.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
A lot of things can be done quicker in the terminal than through the gui. Like copying files to and from the computer. I don't use ADB anymroe though, I just use SSHDroid and connect to my phone with putty on windows. You can do a lot of stuff like that. Even copy files over wifi.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thesniperz:
Basically I accidentally dropped my Nexus S and the SAMOLED inside cracked. It's not responding to touch anymore and i can only see half of the screen.

I went to the mall and had technician said they can repair/replace the SAMOLED. Now when I got it back, the display is now cloudy and whiter than normal. The wallpaper is all pixelated and blacks are shown as grey. The phone is fine but the resolution is just horrible. - Didn't pay a cent.

thanks guys.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Sleeper69:
Official app now works on Bionic. No hack version needed to make video work.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] AJMetal87:
Awesome. Thanks for the heads up!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cbal04:
I've been waiting for this. Now I'm just waiting for my friends to get a phone with a front facing camera.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] HaYNigloo:
Forever in limbo with the things we want for our Bionics. If it ain't apps, it's the phone, and if it ain't the phone, it's others who need to get an updated phone... It seems a lot of apps need to catch up with the dual-core world.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sj_martin:
Is there a way I can use ADB without setting debug mode on my phone? I am unable to startup the phone to switch to debug mode. When I start up the phone it goes to the google logo screen and stops there.

I am able to go into fastboot mode however. I have adb installed and all the drivers set.

I can see the phone in my device manager, but when I open up cmd prompt and type in adb devices it says it does not see anything.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rem3Dy:
ADB is only for when the phone is booted up. In your case you will need to work with fastboot
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derekwilkinson:
What are you trying to use ADB to do? You can run ADB in recovery, but if you are unable to startup the phone, I don't know anything you could do with ADB to fix it.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sj_martin:
Yes as stated all I can do is go into the fastboot screen. It sounds like that I cannot use adb in fastboot?

What options do I have to recover data in fastboot if i do not have adb?

Thanks.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sj_martin:
I wanted to use ADB to extract some files on the sandisk internal hd. I cannot boot up the phone anymore but it still turns on (but freezes at the google logo).

I also cannot go into recovery as when I try it also stalls at the google logo screen.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snandlal:
Yes. Adb will Not work in fastboot. Fastboot flash commands will work.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derekwilkinson:
Is your bootloader unlocked? If so, flash a new recovery image and do a nandroid backup

Sent from my Nexus S 4G
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Luxferro:
If recovery doesn't work u have 2 options from fastboot to try to get into recovery:

1) fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

2) fastboot boot recovery recovery.img

All u need is a cwr recovery image. And the files on ur PC to use fastboot.

1) flashes a new recovery

2) just boots up the new recovery without flashing it
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sj_martin:
my understanding is that i need the have the device visible in command prompt via adb to do any of this which is the issue i'm trying to solve. once i can get my computer to see the phone via adb i think i'm home free to extract all the data i need.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sj_martin:
Another interesting note (i don't know if this will help me at all) is that if I boot up into download mode (holding both vol buttons when plugging in the usb cord) it gets stuck at the "unlock bootloader?" screen but in windows under the device manager instead of showing it as an android device with adb it is now under the usb controllers as "samsung usb composite device".

If I could get this thing to mount to my computer that would be fantastic and I could just drag and drop files out of the phone.

Any ideas?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt2053:
If you flash clockwork recovery, you can boot into recovery and then use cwm to mount USB storage.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sj_martin:
If I flash clockwork I need to unlock the bootloader, if I unlock the bootloader I have to wipe all my data.

So by nature of getting clockwork on the phone is useless to me since i'll have no data to backup by that stage =/
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sj_martin:
I do have access to fastboot now and is recognized via command prompt; is there a way to extract data via fastboot?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenvan19:
No and its rather preferred you not start two threads about the same issue.

Sent from my Nexus S MV from the XDA Premium app.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mfmohamedbilal:
help me

can i use adb to change build.prop...

i hav changed build.prop and aftrr i reboot it ends with a boot loop.

i hav to change the build.prop .so does adb help me to do that .
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Yes you can, boot to recovery and use adb to overwrite existing and put the original build.prop back in place
[Defy General] n30x3l:
Can i update or apply the rom .zip of miui if my Defy is...

Android Version 2.2.2

Baseband Version : EPU93_U_00.59.01

BPflex Version: USAJRDNEMARAB1B8RTIT03A.OR

APflex version: GAS_EMEA_USAJRDNFRYORTIT_P015

Build Number: JOREM_U3_3.4.2_177-3
[Defy General] tdlr:
According to this guide: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1079150

You should flash the 2.2 Nordic rom first. There's a ton of guides on here how to flash sbf's.Then follow the guide from above.
[Defy General] ryan8r:
Yes you can. It is suggested to flash Nordic(no difference but a deblur froyo) but you can flash MIUI over any stock Froyo 2.2.
[LG Optimus Black] sonic997:
Finally, I can flash my ROM.

However, when i use root explorer and ezboot, they hang and without promt to root access. I cannot go back to recovery mod

What's going on? Thanks
[Xoom Android Development] terrapin69:
So...I have been scouring the forums and cant figure out how to update my rooted wifi XOOM that's currently running 3.0 to 3.2. Everything I read mentions "copy to SD card" but my XOOM on 3.0 has yet to have this functionality. Can someone PLEASE tell me how to update this thing?

By the way, I am on the bigrushdog kernel...
[Xoom Android Development] stlsaint:
What rom are you running?
[Xoom Android Development] kokjsch:
This is not Q&A forum.

You have to move this thread to Q&A.
[Xoom Android Development] willverduzco:
Not Q&A and the answer is already in many places here. Thread closed.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] tobiascrystal:
It is people like you that are going to make our phone as if it came with android when we bought it! I know you are not the one doing the coding but with all your support, your don't give up attitude, and your connections you get the job done. Thank you for all your determination.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] Screemi:
hopefully the next thread for collaboration work that will become one of it's kind in hd2 android history. thx for your dedication and all the testing that you do! thanks to all the devs making our hd2 improving everyday.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] ph03n!x:
I have posted a request in HeirOS' kernel thread, meanwhile can those who use earlier versions (1.7.2 or so) confirm if they have working LED Notifications when you use a working auto-brightness configuration please?

If so, I think we can trawl the source code posted on the first post of HeirOS kernel thread...
[HD2 Android NAND Development] Nixda99:
Had never problems with auto brightness and my last kernel with a non working LED notification is older than around a half year. But I tried only MDJ, Tytungs and Raf's kernel. Green and orange LED are working perfect with these.

What problems do you have with auto brightness? Not working or the false brightness for the actual light?

Only outdoor at sunshine the auto brightness sometimes didn't choose the maximum brightness, than I set manual to max.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] ph03n!x:
The auto-brightness / LED notifications are from /system/lib/hw/lights.htcleo.so (or lights.qsd8k.so).

In our case if your ROM's chef chose to have a working LED Notification configuration, auto-brightness will not work - the display will have a fixed brightness irrespective of the surroundings, and will not dim before fading out.

If you choose working Auto Brightness, the screen will maintain ambient lighting, but when have a missed call or SMS or email or chat, the LED stays on and does not flash.

That said, what kernel are you using? And can you check your logcat right from system boot (using QtADB?) and let us know if you see any errors?
[HD2 Android NAND Development] eseregin:
Yeah...

Typhoon included Led blinking, i always replace it with lights.qsd8k.so with auto-brightness, i dont care about Led blinking too much, more interesting good working auto-brightness
[HD2 Android NAND Development] karapialis:
Install led me know from the market and you will have both working fine.That is what i do in dorimanx rom which has auto brightness enabled by default.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] tytung:
If I remember it correctly, the working LED Notification (i.e. No fading out feature) of lights.htcleo.so in my GB ROM is from Gpc.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] karapialis:
Moreover I think that the developer of LedMeKnow app, which is free by the way, may point out to the developers what to change in order to have both auto brightness and led blinking working out of the box for hd2s
[HD2 Android NAND Development] jan-willem3:
leds and auto brightness work perfectley if you use the lights file from iamgpc. So I dont see the problem. Secondly this problem is hard to catch I can remember that Letama and gauner1986 tried to solve this problem but at the end they gave up.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] ph03n!x:
Yes, manual brightness works in GPC's lights.htcleo.so, but auto-brightness does not.

I found the HeirOS has fixed this (though not documented) in 1.7.5 (not tested earlier versions)...
[HD2 Android NAND Development] ph03n!x:
Here is a well-known solution for auto-brightness + flashing LED:

Like I said earlier, while fixing it natively is a good-to-have solution, and not a deal breaker for almost all of us. But still having it fixed surely feels good, doesn't it?!! :)
[HD2 Android NAND Development] ph03n!x:
Updated the first post :)
[HD2 Android NAND Development] Mafioso:
LED Me Know eats up battery while flashing notification. When its flashing LED, the battery drain is more than 100mAh. Though I haven't used the application in a long time, but I remember previously it used to do that...I wonder if its changed now..
[HD2 Android NAND Development] scariola:
I actually prefer a static LED with working auto brightness.

Its very obvious without staring at my phone whether I have a new text, missed call, or otherwise. I tend to miss the blinking since its 8 seconds apart.

(know it can be configured to 3 seconds, but still)
[HD2 Android NAND Development] jan-willem3:
Auto brightness works fine here.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] $t0Rm:
In HeirOS 1.8 kernel i have led working and i do notice that when its really dark the screen will get bright and when its super sunny it gets darker so i believe auto brightness + led works fine in his new test kernel btw i am on sense gb rom.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] karapialis:
Vice versa
[HD2 Android NAND Development] trex3300:
Auto brightness with flashing LED notification works perfectly in Tytung's rom and kernel.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] Screemi:
autobacklight is working as far as i remember. what's not working are custom autobacklight stages.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] kikisp:
^ i agree with you...auto backlight works very good what doesnt work is custom levels of it..
[HD2 Android NAND Development] ph03n!x:
A quick test for those who say they have auto brightness works WITH flashing LED - when you have your screen on, when you do not touch it, does it dim for a few seconds before timing out to black? The only instance I have seen this happening is in HeirOS 1.7.5 - I had the lights.htcleo.so which was configured to give auto-brightness (the stock that is in the CM7 nightlies ROM) - and my display was brighter in day light, not so bright but bright enough in dark room, and before timing out, it dims for a few seconds.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] trex3300:
YES,

After I saw your post, I unlock my phone and woke up the screen, after about 56 - 57 seconds, the screen dimmed for like 2 - 3 seconds then went dark (back to sleep). Auto brighness and LED notification also work like a charm.

I am on tytung v3.0 with tytung_r11_kernel

Try it for yourself.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] ph03n!x:
And in a dark room while using the phone, if you point a bright light (like a flash light) on the top of the phone, near the ear piece, does the screen brightness visibly increase?

Swyped from my HTC HD2 running CM7 (Gingerbread 2.3.5)
[HD2 Android NAND Development] trex3300:
Wow, it works. I just went into the a room, turn off all the lights, and pointed an LED Flashlight at my phone as you suggested, then I noticed that the brightness increased, then I also noticed something else, once I moved the flashlight away, the brightness decreased. That caught me unaware so I tried it multiple times with the same result.

EDIT:

I should not have been surprised, I guess that is what happens when you are outside with sunlight, the screen brightness increases with auto brightness and dereases when you get back inside the building. The link to both rom and kernel are in my signature, you can get a personal confirmation in less that 30 minutes.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] pyrorob:
huh. so it looks like this is getting close to being resolved faster then the audio issue was.. maybe everyone could start working on the facedown-speaker phone on issue next?
[HD2 Android NAND Development] $t0Rm:
I can confirm it works fine for me unless you want a video of me testing it since i am using HeirOS 1.8 and my led and auto black light works like i said before in a few posts back.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] ph03n!x:
Ok, after this I copied lights.htcleo.so and lights.qsd8k.so from Tytung's NexusHD2 3.1a to the /system/lib/hw/ folder on the phone, set RW-R--R-- permissions in Root Explorer and restarted.

Sure enough, flashing LEDs work, and on a dark room if I point a flash light on the sensor the screen brightens, and goes back to how it was if I switch off the flash light. Only thing is that the screen does not DIM for ~10 seconds or so before timing out to off.

I am attaching the files here, please test it on your ROMs where you have either flashing LED or auto brightness (only one of the two) and post results.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] ayyu3m:
I always wanted for this prob to be fixed. Heck! i will give it a try. And ph03n!x i think you might be interested to know the LED notifications and Auto Brightness was working well in CMYLXGO's rom. Its in my signature. I dont remember the kernel he used. Cos i have been using another rom for ages now...
[HD2 Android NAND Development] pirlano:
next bug is about camcorder? :D