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[Focus General] clfosk:
I just got this email too, as well as a text saying i'm in the top 5% of data users and they'll start throttling my speed for the rest of the month whenever I get to 5%. Yes I do tether, and I don't really want to stop. If there was an option to add just a tethering feature to my account I would consider it, but the only option is to downgrade from my unlimited data plan to a 4GB plan that would allow tethering. Pretty damn lame.

Does anyone know how they know you're tethering? I've used wired tethering since I got my Focus in January and never had an issue. I tried the wifi hotspot option for maybe half an hour, which was a couple weeks ago when that hack first became available. I know the iPhone users who were using wifi hotspot app were getting caught a couple months ago. I'm just trying to figure out if it makes any difference if I use it wired or hotspot? Is wired safer or can they just tell either way? It's also speculated they check browser user agent strings, which could be spoofed though. So is there any way to get around this and continue tethering?
[Focus General] mrnice225:
I am going through the same thing on my captivate with GB rom on it. The problem (based on the research i have been able to do) is that the phone uses a different APN to connect to Att's network when tethering. I am trying to find a hack or a mod that would use the same APN as the phone... but I am having no luck.
[Focus General] clfosk:
iPhone users that were using the MyWi app were getting the same message about tethering. The developers of MyWi said this on twitter:

"MyWi has always used the primary APN (the same as Safari/Mail/etc). All data is on one connection."

So it must be more than the APN.
[Focus General] Seed 2.0:
How much data are you using? I'm using around 3-4GB's a month and have not received an email yet.
[Focus General] raujaku:
just wait and u might since I barely use a gig and I got it :/
[Focus General] clfosk:
And I'm currently over 10gb for the current billing cycle which ends in a few days.
[Focus General] AnyMal:
AT&T can tell if you're tethering by analyzing packet data. Mobile devices and desktop/laptop computers can be easily distingueshed.
[Focus General] dendron:
I got the ssame message today and i used only 200mb from my unkimited data plan on my focus this month so far, and in avergae below 2gb monthly. Funny part, no where in their agreement they mention that they will sniff your data packets, which they seem to do lately. There is no other way for them to know what are you doing with your phone, the internet sharing uses exactly the same APN on these phones. I replied to the message with a pure "F..CK OFF" and guess what, you get right away a reply saying that I opted out of their marketing text messaging. All they do at this time, unless you use gigs of data they just send advertisment spam text to all smartphone users to get them on tethering plans, they don't have any real proof of anything at this time if you do or not tethering. You can call them and they will tell you the same thing. I just did that too.
[Focus General] raujaku:
I did the same thing, I kept demanding to see the evidence against me and she said it belongs to ATT lol. SO back to the original question. Has anyone found a way to make them not know we're tethering?
[Focus General] EnderPsp:
You should read this, and also understand that if they start doing packet analysis, they will find out you're tethering pretty easily.

You can test this easily by capturing all packets from a shared wireless adapter (for example with Connectify) yourselves.

Also, from what I read in AT&Ts Wireless Customer agreement, they can do whatever they want: "We may change any terms, conditions, rates, fees, expenses, or charges regarding your Services at any time". Also, the Acceptable Use Policy says: "However, AT&T may monitor content of any such materials as necessary to comply with applicable laws, regulations or other governmental or judicial requests; or to protect the AT&T network and its customers.".

Btw, I don't live in US and the above was pretty easy to find; it proves that people don't read their contracts. Calling them and asking for proof might work if they "guessed" now, but next time be sure they'll have something.
[Focus General] dendron:
I'm done with ATT, I received the text message saying that they detected tethering and they automatically switched my unlimited data plan to the new $50/5GB with tethering. I switched yesterday to straight talk, and my Samsung Focus works exactly as before, now for only $45/month, unlimited everything.
[Focus General] Fiberop:
Your Focus works with Straight Talk?
[Focus General] dendron:
yes, just add the apn: att.mvno, get the 45 dollars unlimited prepaid and you're good to go, it's time to show att the finger.

www.straighttalksim.com
[Focus General] Fiberop:
Thanks I appreciate the information. That might be an option when my contract is up this year.
[Focus General] latinohot:
how much data do you use a month

I myself am concedering straight talk, but i need to know if tethering will boot me off straigt talk, thanks
[Focus General] gilgatex:
I only tethered with my Android Tablet and I got the notice. I don't think that's what they're doing.
[HTC EVO 3D] YoMaMa7467:
So I have q very annoying issue. I went ahead after learing how to make flashable zips made myself a red theme incuding changing colors in the theme .m10 changing colors and icons in systemUI, and framework-res.apk for Clean ROM DE. Now the issue I am having is that I have not modified the xmls in the system and framework apk yet I am having mismatches in certain areas. For instance the normal thin line that outlines a text box is blown up and horribly ugly as I will show with a screencap. As you can see its fairly ugly. Yet before the color change it was a beatiful thin line. I did all the color changes using PhotoShop ensuring to save them in the same format. There is another where a selected tab does not fully turn the appropriate color as i will also post. These pngs were just color changed and not swapped so i know the file names are correct. And I have checked with the originals I started with and EVERYTHING IS THE SAME. So I'm wondering of someone has any insight to this and can help or even point me to someone who would be willing to help I would be greatly appreciated. I'm losing hair over this.
[HTC EVO 3D] triscuit1983:
The issue your seeing is .9 pngs. If you don't edit them properly, you get that. I know how to replicate but not how to fix. There are a few tutorials out there about editing .9 pngs but I've never really gone at it.
[HTC EVO 3D] Bamba1260:
Should be an easy fix. You just need to shrink the 9patch on the bottom and top. Make sure the red is not going to be stretched, that will fix it. If you need more help you can email me.

Mlabarbara@gmail.com
[HTC EVO 3D] YoMaMa7467:
So I did the above recommended and this is what I get now. I used the .9.png editor in the android SDK and this is what i get now.....

I've got black lines around my pngs that don't stretch like they're supposed to......what else can I do?

I decided to flash the originals that don't have any of those dot things according to the draw9patch thing in the sdk and this is what I get......
[HTC EVO 3D] Bamba1260:
Those black lines are because the .9 was not recompiled like it was supposed to be. Those are the patches, but when you compile the .9 image, they disappear.

The reason you are not seeing the lines when you look at the originals, is because they were not decompiled lol. I would assume you are just extracting the apk, not decompiling with apktool?

For what it's worth, the patch in the red image looks like it will work, once compiled properly.
[HTC EVO 3D] YoMaMa7467:
* EPIC FACEPALM!!!!!!!!" I was just slapping it together instead of recompiling. That makes sense. Do you have any tips for using apk tool?
[HTC EVO 3D] Bamba1260:
Lol no worried man, happens to the best of us. apktool is awesome! Tips... not really, have you used it before? It is really straightforward, just make sure you have a framework-res.apk installed and com.htc.resources.apk as well. Shouldn't have any problems after that :)

Need any more help just let me know :)
[HTC EVO 3D] Bamba1260:
This one is a bit tricky at first, but I know what they problem is.

First and foremost, you need to change the buffer size of your terminal. When you scroll to the top of the error, you should be able to see when you initiated the command to apktool to build the apk. But, as you can see in what you posted, the top is not there. This happens because the terminal is not set to store more then a certain amount of lines. So google "change terminal buffer size in MyOS"

MyOS being which ever operating system you use.

Change the height amount to 5000, that's what I use, just to make sure I can always see the first error.

Once you have enlarged the buffer size, try to build with apktool again.

After you get the error again, scroll all the way up till you see 'C:\Users\DK\folderwithapk> apktool b apkname outname'

The first line after the initiation is where to start troubleshooting.

My money is on a .9.png not being correct.

If you still can't figure out how to get the .9 correct, post the <entire> error here. The error you posted is not complete, but once you change the buffer size you will be able to get the complete error. Again, the complete error should include the line where you gave apktool the command to build.

If you struggle with changing the buffer size, or do not quite understand what that means, I encourage you to Gchat me @ mlabarbara@gmail.com.
[HTC EVO 3D] YoMaMa7467:
OK i changed buffer and this is the decompile with the attempted compile. i see now that one failed to decompile how do i go about fixing it?

as for the cmd i cant post something that long so heres this http://tinypaste.com/f54fc0 the password is cmd

EDIT: OMG I finally got it to decompile and recompile correctly with my modifications THANK YOU SO MUCH I <3 XDA i had to do some frankenstein cut and pasting and splicing and whatnot for it to decompile correctly and from there it was cake. Couldn't have done it without you!
[HTC EVO 3D] Bamba1260:
Awesome bro! I am glad you had a good experience, and even more so that you figured it out. Good job!
[HTC EVO 3D] vari9:
Some devs at dexetra.com had developed this app called iris (siri spelled reverse) during a hackathon...in just eight hours.....here is the app....its in early beta so....don't expect much from it.....

http://lts.cr/2xF
[HTC EVO 3D] freeza:
Screenshots, initial impressions? can be bound to long press of search key?
[HTC EVO 3D] DDiaz007:
This! I downloaded the file, but I have yet to install it.
[HTC EVO 3D] TaintedByte:
There is an article on this here. Downloading and installing in a second. I think it's hilarious that Apple made this their top marketing point for the 4S and in 8 hours, something incredibly similar gets developed (not to mention other apps that work pretty much the same, like Vlingo and such).
[HTC EVO 3D] freeza:
Looks to be pretty neat. :)
[HTC EVO 3D] TaintedByte:
Using it right now, it's not like Siri, but I'm sure it will get there, pretty similar to Vlingo, although this one seems to be quicker, at least for me.

Anyway, it's already on the Android Market. Linkage.
[HTC EVO 3D] freeza:
Was just about to post the market link too. :P
[HTC EVO 3D] churro7:
Can you activate it like vlingo? ie saying hey iris or something?
[HTC EVO 3D] freeza:
I installed it and uninstalled it roughly five minutes later. It is definitely an alpha (as noted in its title) and in its current state, it's nothing more than a concept app. It has potential though!
[HTC EVO 3D] NewZJ:
I use Eva.

Works well
[HTC EVO 3D] ckoadiyn:
Link?
[HTC EVO 3D] mwalt2:
http://www.google.com/search?q=eva+android
[HTC EVO 3D] fsalazar504:
Eva is actually pretty responsive with a lot of command options. Like setting reminders, calendar dates, texts, etc. Still getting to know the program a bit better but so far its pretty good.
[HTC EVO 3D] Ruki_Uki:
Pretty cool I think. It gave me a couple laughs. I wish it didnt speak the question or statement you asked, and really wish the voice wasn't so annoying and more smoother. But its still early, can't wait for more updates. I'm enjoying it.

Sent from my double barrel Shooter. BANG!
[HTC EVO 3D] xuser:
One thing I don't care much is for the UI on Iris or Eva. I think Devs might consider more of a ICS UI. That's why I'm currently using Vlingo, clean and slick, with no cheesy avatar, or play-school looking UI.
[HTC EVO 3D] mrpanic7:
i couldnt agree more. this app is actually awesome and cant wait for more updates, but i would like the UI to be on par with the rest of the Android UI. you know, look cooler :D
[HTC EVO 3D] Xenophanesvii:
Gunna check it out, im confident android will get something equivalent, if not better than siri
[HTC EVO 3D] andygates:
What time is it?

Eastern Standard Time.

Wat? It's UK BST, here, and that wasn't what I asked!

What is the time?

18 October 2011 xx:xx:xx

Same wrongness, and that wasn't a date request!

Set a reminder in ten minutes.

In 45 minutes? Why in 45 minutes?

...and it gets worse. Silly Eliza bot.

The speech recognition is good, but that's a library import. The utility is nil.
[HTC EVO 3D] Steinhund:
Still sounds very funny, but I will look forward to future versions. And its a fact, the devs here on XDA are so damn good.
[HTC EVO 3D] MrYuiM:
I've used it once or twice and although laggy and sometimes times out but it's interesting and I look forwards to further progress :]
[HTC EVO 3D] freeza:
Definitely agree. It needs to be professional looking, like.....Siri maybe? Or just something that doesn't look like a child's play thing. Even though I'd probably use voice command the same amount of time as I do now, which is close to never, if it's supposed to be competing with Siri, it needs to look better.
[HTC EVO 3D] nxtech3:
force closes on Epic 4G Touch
[HTC EVO 3D] amith007:
This is a cool app.. but way to go in order to match with Siri.. but still a good begining :)
[HTC EVO 3D] Ruki_Uki:
Is Vlingo in the market? Or is ny phone being gay right now

Sent from my double barrel Shooter. BANG!
[HTC EVO 3D] schizovivek:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.vlingo.client&feature=search_result

Still in the market
[HTC EVO 3D] tsrzealot:
I don't like the standard TTS voice either. You might wanna try Svox Classic TTS. Their voices are far better than the standard ones. You can try the voices for a limited amount of time, after which eacht individual voice has to be bought (if I remember correctly). But I gues paying roughly 3 bucks für a voice that you really like is alright if you use a lot of text to speech.

I think it's great that a couple of these apps are surfacing now that siri is out and I'm very much looking forward to what this app might become in the future. Go Iris, you show them, girl ;)
[HTC EVO 3D] Bierce22:
man i found this histaricle after playing with it it has major potential i could see this being better than siri within the next couple of months.
[HTC EVO 3D] knightnz:
Try SpeakToIt - Has customisable avatars, seems to work well.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.speaktoit.assistant

For better speech synthethis, download Inova and one of the beta voices (UK or US english) or Loquendo (Susan - not free).

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ivona.tts

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ivona.tts.voicebeta.eng.gbr.amy
[HTC EVO 3D] Anto24:
haha i was bored and asked ''her'' some stupid questions and she asked me: Will you marry me? xDDD

img692.imageshack.us/img692/6691/sc20111019224643j.png

(look like i still cant post links xD)
[HTC EVO 3D] tomh1979:
Fun to play with, but need a bit of work .
[HTC EVO 3D] One1Two2:
This is igneous. Love the mocking of any apple product. Hope someone adds some more responses.
[HTC EVO 3D] Ruki_Uki:
Yep my phone was being gay Lol. Thanks!

Sent from my double barrel Shooter. BANG!
[HTC EVO 3D] FOXRacing83:
Looks to be interesting!!! Anytime an Apple snob tries to rub a new app or feature in my face I laugh and show them 10 more on my rooted EVO. Yup I love my rooted Android better then any Apple blah blah blah, oh and add custom roms and infinite development possibilities and what do you have?? A loyal Android supporter. No disrespect to Steve Jobs... RIP The market wouldn't be the same without his influences.
[HTC EVO 3D] exec228:
it's very strange that EVA is hearing badly, while less advanced SpeakToIt hears me quite good.

both using the same google voice recognition.

probably eva way too scrupulous and tries to imagine too much unnecessary about me.
[HTC EVO 3D] tsrzealot:
Same here, tried Eva first because it looked flashier, but now I stick with Speaktoit as it does what I want (mostly anyway). What's really nice is stuff like "Play Delight and Anger" and boom, didn't have to search for it, my daily dosage of In Flames is right there :) Other than that, I don't even use these apps all too much, because I think people find it strange when you walk around and talk to your phone (even more so when I'm speaking english to my phone because Speaktoit won't understand German, if I'm not misinformed).

I would like to see the features of this app combined with the capabilities of speaktoit. That might come close to Siri, with a little more development.

The one thing that needs to be improved on all these apps then are the graphics. I know, it's not as important as the functionality itself, but that's why so many people buy apple products: The design is quite nice. The metallic ring, the glow around it when Siri is working... all that makes people think that apple products are soooo cool. It's time we show them that android apps can be just as cool and even better!
[HTC EVO 3D] goldkear:
I'm not really that impressed with siri, and even less so of android's current offerings, that said I would like something I can shove into the smug faces of my iPhanboy friends. One of the more interesting features of siri is her sense of humor. for example "siri, talk dirty to me" "Humus. Compost. Silt. Pumice. Gravel."
[HTC EVO 3D] eman3316@optonline.net:
Anyone get speak to it to navigate to somewhere? It always tells me it cant find where I am looking for.
[HTC EVO 3D] lwnda3rd:
My thoughts exactly...
[HTC EVO 3D] pinwheelherman:
This app is a joke, right? Or is it just too early in development to do anything useful? I tried asking simple questions like "How many days until Christmas?" and all I got was cheeky responses. I'm sure this is where a lot of Siri's appeal lies, but it would be nice to get some proper answers as well.

I'll keep following the progress - it would be nice to show a fully working voice assistance app to some of my iPhone-loving friends!
[HTC EVO 3D] djimpulsion:
This App shows the personality aspect of siri, its far from being done but the concept is spot on and has loads of potential. What you played with was written in 8 hours and it's far from ready for normal use

Sent from my LG-P999 using YOUR MOM
[HTC EVO 3D] TaintedByte:
Well it's in alpha... So that pretty much answers that.
[HTC EVO 3D] prozact:
Lol this is what i get
[HTC EVO 3D] GeezyAF:
This is great. For 8 hours of work, it has the base of Siri down.

I can't wait for more updates!
[HTC EVO 3D] J3STUR:
Pretty cool for an alpha bulit in 8 hours. Did anyone ask what it thinks of apple or siri?
[HTC EVO 3D] Haelous:
This needs some serious work, as it's missing the answer to a very important question.

"What is the airspeed velocity of an African swallow?"
[HTC EVO 3D] AnonymousPeanut:
HAHAHA Good one!
[HTC EVO 3D] slartyxxx:
Nice so far... but it supports English only atm?! Sad. More languages please! Else its useless...
[HTC EVO 3D] kangi26:
Carrying a coconut?
[HTC EVO 3D] emtownsend:
Fun stuff

Works well on my AT&T Galaxy S II (SGH-I777).

I can see some real potential. Keep up the good work!
[HTC EVO 3D] luckyzac:
This has a lot of potential! I like!
[HTC EVO 3D] Stalte:
I just convinced my blackberry owning friend that my phone possessed enough awareness and artificial intelligence that iris was just a medium of communication between us and our phones.
[HTC EVO 3D] dratsablive:
I tried out Iris, but uninstalled after a few minutes. Installed Eva and the Victoria voice pack. Been enjoying getting used to it. I had fun asking Eva who Lara Croft was and her replying in a British Accent "She didn't know who she was" :)
[HTC EVO 3D] sabret00the:
It doesn't do too well with British English.
[HTC EVO 3D] Stalte:
I so had to post this one
[HTC EVO 3D] GeezyAF:
That's hilarious, lol.
[HTC EVO 3D] petermg:
This is EXACTLY what I'm using and it ROCKS!! Got the SpeakToIt assistant, made her look like my wife does, and using the Amy UK voice from Ivona. It's hilarious, tell her she's retarded and she gets offended! LOL! Apologize and she responds! Ask her funny questions like if she's married, etc.. Very fun. The fam and I have fun trying to make conversation with her!
[HTC EVO 3D] hailmary:
yeah..speaktoit is cooler than vlingo.my wife is jealous of the lady assistant..LOL
[HTC EVO 3D] demo27vol1:
It seems that iris has become self aware.
[HTC EVO 3D] Swyzzlestickz:
Off topic

Whats this EVA? and I laughed so hard at your Lotr sig thing. That couldve made that movie so much shorter
[HTC EVO 3D] Flussen:
Strange that noone mentioned Cleverbot yet :P

The app supports speech-to-text and text-to-speech too ;)
[HTC EVO 3D] dratsablive:
Actually I just tried this question out on Iris and it replied with "Is it carrying coconuts".
[HTC EVO 3D] Haelous:
Haha, they must have added more responses to the server, or it randomly picks bad ones. I just tried it and got "African or European swallow?" Tried it again and got "Don't know." Then a third time and got the same as the first time.
[HTC EVO 3D] doaneramma:
I think this would be awesome if they got SassiBob to do the voice for iRis! I bet there would be some great quoted replies! That's my $0.02

Definately needs a little work. I asked if it liked corn nuts, its reply: "Communism? The one where everyone owns everything? Or is it they know nothing....? I don't know"

Are you a communist? "No"

Do you belive in god? "Do you?"

Do you belive in dog? And it sent me a picture/link to Dongola Airport in the Sudan! Then asked "Do you believe?" WTF!
[HTC EVO 3D] newarkhiphop:
Very impressed works well but you have to be careful with your wording though

i said "send text message" and got no relevant response

but

"send message" worked perfectly

like others have said needs work am keep it though just for apple fanboys:)
[HTC EVO 3D] G3M!N!:
It most certainly depends on the device. I installed it on my GSII and it works really well. I then installed it on my Transformer and it works really terribly. I couldn't even get it from the Market when I did a search for it on my Transformer. I had to download it from the direct link outside of the Market and enable Unknown Sources to install it...which I thought was kinda odd.
[HTC EVO 3D] Aiakio:
Not really working... I have no idea why.. Any ideas?

It tells me, that i should go buy an iPhone 5... :eek:
[HTC EVO 3D] mistaleo:
It's not bad at all ....
[HTC EVO 3D] cesarcerros31:
Hate the fact that music pops up they need to take that off

sent from my HTC evolution running a freshly baked gingerbread with the 4gs in it
[HTC EVO 3D] A random package:
Having fun with iris and my gf :)
[HTC EVO 3D] xHausx:
wow this thing works a ton better after the update, now they just need to hook it up to wolfram alpha to help it with math

edit: lol, I tried to shush it and it though I said S***. It responded with a link to Sprint