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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] aussiebum:
No. Only affects US carrier-supplied phones from what I've read elsewhere.

If you bought the phone outright and it's loaded with non-carrier branded firmware you wouldn't be affected.

I haven't used a carrier-supplied phone (esp one that wasn't wiped with a custom rom) for years so I can't comment if such practices are also common by Operators in countries other than the US.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Unsinkable II:
That's disgraceful. :mad:

I hope the mainstream press makes a fuss about it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Adam_S:
I couldn't believe it when I read about this and watched the video this morning. First thing I did was check if it was on my Note. Thankfully not!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] xAnimal5:
Wow thats worse than apple
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ragin:
Currently 141 MILLION and a third phones on their Carrier IQ network??? OMG
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Prozac69:
Let them look. I've got nothing to hide!!

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bbdj69:
That is your first mistake.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] megapimp:
Well there is some evidence its on samsung devices as epic 4g as its HTC made. Now reports are it was included in 3.1.3 iOS but disabled only working in debug mode. Now I wonder if its just a debug mode thing since in order to capture we need debug. Also worried its called something else on the phones. What's tracker in our apps??? I'm not fresh loaded but maybe someone else can research now that this cat is out of the bag.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] LordManhattan:
Can someone here who is rooted and running the original Note firmware install the Logging Test app and check if CIQ is on the Note?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=17612559

edit: It looks like CIQ is not installed on the Note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Techvir:
Guys before u take up arms just think about all the apps that you install.

Most, if not all have access to your personal info.

I am sure every carrier will use the info to do study how the general popluation is doing ( not true always though ) but what about the the people who get all ur contacts and email info...

If u use internet , forget about all privacy... its not there anymore
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] LordManhattan:
Really? Have you even read what's going on, and watched TrevE's video? The thing here is that we can't opt-out, we didn't know that CIQ did this, the logs are not encrypted and it also logs your web history and passwords.

If you are OK with this i feel sorry for you. This is spying.

But again, it doesn't look like the Note has this.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dr.W:
We are right to be concerned. If you don't speak up about privacy concerns, even when they don't directly affect you, then we will come to a time when these types of apps and disregard for personal privacy are so prevalent that there will be nothing we can do.

First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] les_garten:
Homeland Security...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ph00ny:
how so? It was in iOS and Apple has a much better control over their firmware than any other manufacturers who bend over backwards to US carriers.

Also read what apple said carefully.

We stopped supporting CarrierIQ with iOS 5 in most of our products and will remove it completely in a future software update. With any diagnostic data sent to Apple, customers must actively opt-in to share this information, and if they do, the data is sent in an anonymous and encrypted form and does not include any personal information. We never recorded keystrokes, messages or any other personal information for diagnostic data and have no plans to ever do so.

what the hell does it mean by "most" and does this mean all iOS4 devices will have carrier IQ builtin?

I'm pretty disgusted by this Carrier IQ. Whether they do or do not review the information but they have no right to collect personal information without our consent
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Unsinkable II:
iPhone 4 still running Carrier IQ:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...-4-but-we-dont-read-your-e-mail-and-texts.ars
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] megapimp:
It really comes down to the carrier is where our privacy is dug into by the contract we sign. I do not agree about this and will only buy in contract phones or switch to ios in the future. Shame on the carriers!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Unsinkable II:
This seems a fairly balanced article (surprisingly from CNN):

http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/01/technology/carrier_iq/index.htm

---------- Post added at 03:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:37 PM ----------

A good reader comment from the Washington Post:

Do you perform online banking on your mobile device? If yes, then Carrier IQ has learned your Login ID and Password despite being securely protected via HTTPS.

Do you carry your mobile device everywhere you go? If yes, then Carrier IQ has learned where you family lives, where you work, where your daughter or son goes to school, where your relatives live during the holidays, and where you take your daughter or son to the park, etc..

Do you share your private and secret information through text messages across your spouse, your son or your daughter? If yes, then Carrier IQ has learned all about them and you thought no one else would ever know.

Do you use secured data storage apps on your mobile phone? If yes, then Carrier IQ has learned your social security numbers, all bank account numbers, all credit card numbers, secret security codes, and all your login IDs and Passwords you use for work and at home. They also know the server location or name and know how long they have left before your passwords expire.

Do you store all the contact numbers of your family members and relatives on your mobile device? If yes, then Carrier IQ has learned your spouses contact number for both mobile and work, your daughter's or your son's number, your grandfather's or grandmothers, your sisters and brothers, your office mates, your employer, and everyone else you've entered into your mobile device.

Now, can you imagine the kinds of illegal and unlawful activities this kind of power and information can do to harm you, your family, your children, your employer, your coworkers, your loved ones simply by using social engineering methods to connect the dots to find all of your weak spots and personal vulnerabilities?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] NOZdroid:
So when Apple says they stopped suppirtung in most iOS 5 products is that because its not installed on ipod nanos and touches...just the iphone 4 and 4s...right? See i think they were very sneaky with their wording... Its not like they said its installed on this this and this, is it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Bigmille:
The Verge have a great Story stream page on Carrier IQ for anyone interested in a general overview or dig deep on this topic.

personally I found it unacceptable to have a key logger rootkit installed on my smart phone. I use my phone to do online purchases, access my work emails and check my bank accounts.

I'd not buy a computer with rootkit installed, so should a smart phone perform similar functions be any different.

Carrier IQ so far have not answered even the basic questions of what information is being tracked, how the information is stored and if our personal information is being kept safe.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] schaggo:
You, sir, are wrong. While of course such extensive data gathering is disrespectful and should be forbidden, the license agreement coming with your device clearly states that by using the device you agree to expose yourself to data collection. You did in fact agree to be spyed on.

Sent from my GT-N7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Bigmille:
The license agreement between you and the carrier is governed under the US federal privacy law and electronic privacy act which this rootkit may very well violate depend on what is tracked and send.

The problems with Carrier IQ app are its opt-in by default and there is no way to opt out, and it has access to our personal data without our knowledge.

It is funny Carrier IQ’s website list over 40 million phones with their software on it, yet today every mobile company (RIM, Nokia, Verizon, O2, Orange and Vodafone) is falling over themselves to deny they ever had anything to do with Carrier IQ.

Even Apple made a comment about they don’t have Carrier iQ software on some of their devices.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ph00ny:
There is a difference between personal data and data relevant to maintain their performance of their network. No matter which license agreement is set in place, this is illegal.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dscline:
While the privacy issue in itself is troubling enough, the biggest concern I have is: how secure is the data they are tracking? I'm less concerned with what Carrier IQ, AT&T, Samsung, whoever will do with the data, as I am with someone who maliciously finds a vulnerability in the system to acquire it. Without prior knowledge of this system, users have been denied the ability to fully understand the risks of using their device. We expect encrypted to mean encrypted. I don't think anyone expected such data to be stored on their phone, waiting for a hacker to figure out how to get to it. Now that everyone knows about this, you can bet there are people out there trying to figure out how to take advantage of it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Prozac69:
You can download an app from the Marketplace called 'Voodoo Simple CarrierIQ' and it will run a check on your handset which confirms that it is NOT installed on the Note.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Prozac69:
Screenshot of app......

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Entropy512:
It's not Samsung-specific. It is not even manufacturer-specific.

It is CARRIER specific. It gets installed by a CARRIER (well, technically installed by the manufacturer but at the request of the carrier). There's a reason there is CARRIER in the name.

If you didn't receive your device from a CARRIER known for using CIQ, you're fine.

The list right now is:

Sprint USA (Almost guaranteed to have CIQ)

Rogers Canada (less likely than sprint, but the Infuse had it)

AT&T USA (Only the newest devices like the ****rocket and Vivid have CIQ, many Gingerbread updates for existing devices will add it.)

To think about it this way - an unlocked unbranded device is not going to easily know how to "phone home" to its carrier. As a result, you only will see CIQ on carrier-branded devices.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Prozac69:
Interesting stuff @ :- http://m.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-...er-iq-gives-the-game-away-40094567/?s_cid=452
[Droid 2 Global General] cranky_dan:
I fixed my Droid! So I am about to put my almost-new D2G on eBay. It's rooted with Hexen rom (based on Android 2.2), CWM Recovery, and branded VZW.

Can I sell it rooted? How do I clear my personal data? Will a factory reset take it back to stock?

Thanks for the help, and sorry for the silly questions. I tried searching prior to posting, but partway thru my research, search quit working. :(

Dan
[Droid 2 Global General] Gasai Yuno:
You can sell it rooted, with water damage and a cracked screen, without battery and with keyboard's keys ripped out.

Factory reset removes your personal data from the internal memory.

If you're selling it with the SD card, remember to format it.

Factory reset does not in any way restore your phone back to stock ROM. You'll need to use an SBF image.
[Droid 2 Global General] cranky_dan:
Sorry, that was a silly question. I bought my G-tab soft-bricked on ebay.

A factory reset *will* clear my stuff without taking it back to stock? Perfect! I would not sell it without formatting the sd, but thanks.

Thank you

Dan
[Droid 2 Global General] Gasai Yuno:
Just make sure you do it via the recovery.

See http://droid.koumakan.jp/wiki/Android_Recovery — you'll need “wipe data/factory reset”.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] jerrytan93:
This thread is dedicated to my xDroid ROM development series which are including:

1. SenseDroid

2. ARCDroid

3. TwizDroid

4. HoneyDroid

5. MiDroid

6. IceDroid

In this thread, you will find some basic information and introduction to my xDroid series Android builds

* CREDITS & THANKS TO

- Needo: Who gave me lots of helps and suggestions

- Neopeek: For developing CWM Recovery for our device

- ygge/ Duckly: For developing Turbo and Monster kernel for our device

- XDAndroid: Without them, we will never have Android running on our old Winmo device

- Midnight/ Helicopter88: For developing Midnight's kernel and CWM which supporting EXT3 format system

- CyanogenMod: For developing a great Cyanogenmod 7.1 ROM

- SP3DEV: For developing NAND Kernel for our device

- Zargloub: For developing NAND Kernel for our device

- Dsixda: for his great kitchen

* SPECIAL THANKS TO

- ALL OF YOU WHO WAS USING MY BUILD

- ALL the developers and testers that I forgotten to mention

- kerfooly: For posting the latest X1 Android updates on FB

- mymailx: Inspiring me for making ARCDroid ROM

- Casualt: Inspiring me for making TwizDroid ROM and always providing me details reports on each ROM

- Russell.Eclair: For providing me REAL Xperia ARC stuffs and making a beautiful banner on my ARCDroid development

* WHAT CAN YOU DO IF YOU APPRECIATE MY WORK:

- CLICK the THANKS Button

- RATE MY BUILD IN THE THREAD

- BUY ME A COFFEE
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] jerrytan93:
Please do not report bug and problem here, report or ask your question in the specified ROM thread. :)
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] jerrytan93:
Thread updated with a NEW build.. :D
[Epic 4G General] HanMan5000:
Hi everyone,

Some of you may already know me (the new guy to rooting :P). For those who don't, I'm completely new to rooting and roms (just started a day ago).

I've tried two different roms so far other than stock (Urban and ERA, currently on ERA). and one of the biggest things to come to my eyes is the keyboard lag fix..

This fix is so significant it's crazy. I mean I used to hate the Epic keyboard because of this. I never knew that I could simply root and have a rom that would have fixed this issue until now.

I'm really curious why Samsung didn't bother to apply this fix? Did it sacrifice anything? Was it simply to make the keys more sensitive?

Just curious about everyone elses thoughts.
[Epic 4G General] thomasskull666:
Honestly I think it was a matter of mkasick finding a better way to deal with key press events. He did some serious reasearch, and being a kernel dev I can see he really put some effort into it. I think mkasick just understood the hardware better than the guy who originally wrote the code :-)
[Epic 4G General] AmericanJedi001:
I think you just hit the nail on the head! It's amazing what an enthusiast programmer can and will do that someone just earning a paycheck will overlook, intentional or not.
[Epic 4G General] sleebus.jones:
I agree with you there, but it makes you wonder exactly how the hell something so BAD and so CENTRAL to the device can make it out the damn door! Not only that, but it doesn't get fixed for multiple releases! *boggle*

I tell ya, I generally avoid rooting, just because that's my preference, but if the next update doesn't fix the skips, I'm gonna have to do it.
[Epic 4G General] HanMan5000:
Yeah, I bought this phone and not the Evo one of the main reasons being the keyboard. I was more than dissapointed with the crappy keyboard problems. If I knew there's a fix if you root, I would have done this months ago lol.

Mkasiak, huge thanks.
[Epic 4G General] avlon:
Thanks the the Devs here, the current fixes added to the Gingerbread build really make the Epic shine.

It's fast, stable, has great battery life, a useful keyboard, and gtalk working.

It really makes me happy that I decided to choose this phone over the EVO back when both these phones were top of the line.
[Epic 4G General] rando991:
Awww, just go ahead and root and fix it! and while you are at it, fix your GPS too! I waited a long time to root while on Froyo, but I finally did, but went unrooted to get the OTA to GB (don't really know why) and couldn't stand being unrooted. I wanted control back that only root could give me. Even my wife asked me to root her phone to keep certain apps from killing her battery.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jasondmoore1:
Ok. Sorry for the newb question but can I flash a custom ROM and keep wimax. The 4G in my area is great but 3G is terribly slow. I've read some but I am struggling to find a straight answer. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
[Motorola Photon 4G] radrian92:
You sure you have read? Please go back and read some more. Just giving you a heads up ;) (Bootloader is lock. Unlocking borks 4g. You have to unlock to flash any rom with CWM. Joker has a rom you can flash with bootstrap)
[Motorola Photon 4G] KTT16:
Joker is working on something special...he is LEGEN-wait for it...and I hope you're not lactose intolerant because the second half of that word is DAIRY!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Heavy Metal:
Were is the CWM rom at for download?

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[Motorola Photon 4G] KTT16:
Check the Android development threads..look for unlocked cwm recovery
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Loglud:
UPDATE:

So it seems as though i have solved that problem, and now i just away the kernel modules. Thanks for all your help guys.

adb shell /data/local/kexec /data/local/uImage
MSTART= 12668952828585181184 MEND=18014435486466048 MEMTYPE=0 NR_SEGMENTS=0 ULONG_MAX= 4294967295
MSTART= 12668952829122052096 MEND=18014435822010368 MEMTYPE=0 NR_SEGMENTS=0 ULONG_MAX= 4294967295
MSTART= 12668952829390487552 MEND=18014436090445824 MEMTYPE=0 NR_SEGMENTS=0 ULONG_MAX= 4294967295

start= AFD1297980000000 mem_min= 0 hole_min=0 end=4000089C000000 mem_max =FFFFFFFF hole_max=FFFFFFFF
Cannot open /proc/atags: No such file or directory (Doesnt really matter from what ive read)
kexec_load failed: Function not implemented (The module)
entry = 0x80008000 flags = 280000
nr_segments = 2
segment[0].buf = 0x2e4e8
segment[0].bufsz = 10
segment[0].mem = 0x80001000
segment[0].memsz = 1000
segment[1].buf = 0x403ff048
segment[1].bufsz = 2c4214
segment[1].mem = 0x80008000
segment[1].memsz = 2c5000

So hears the deal myself and gameman73 have been working our a**es off trying to get this KEXEC to compile and work. The problem is the current memory will not allow for certain calls to the iomem.

We need to find a way to have this line of code compile and be true on our devices. If someone could sift through the code alittle that be well appreciated:

kexec/kexec.c 230:	while ((j < info->nr_segments) && (([B](unsigned long)info->segment[j].mem) <= mend[/B]))

Apparently it thinks info->segment[j].mem is a const * void

Here's the source http://horms.net/projects/kexec/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-2.0.2.tar.bz2
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] twodollaz:
When I work on something, I often find that having a complete understanding of the problem makes the solution clear. Perhaps this will help you understand the problem better:

SEE ATTACHED FILE, FIRST LINK*

Related. Looks like you aren't the first person to have a problem with the way memory is called in kexec. You might be able to work something out from this discussion, however old it may be.

SEE ATTACHED FILE, SECOND LINK*

This is something else about disabling kexec from executing. A workaround is discussed, but I am by no means a developer and I can't make any sense of it. Just giving you what I find.

I don't mean to spam, and I don't want to be the typical noob getting in the way, but I do want to help. Research, it seems, is about all I can do until my unit arrives (hopefully tomorrow).

*edit: since this is my first post, please excuse the attached file. It is only because with less than 8 posts I cannot put the links in the body of my message.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ylixir:
twodollaz: research is awesome. digging that crap up is a giant pita.

loglud: did you guys get kexec-mod compiling and loading? i haven't had time to look at it much, but all the sources i've found require a huge amount of work to compile, let alone load and run. do y'all have more information on that? i'd look at why the line you mentioned isn't working but i have no frame of reference if i can't reproduce it myself :-/
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Loglud:
Actually you really don't need the module to reproduce the error that I am talking about. But gameman73 does have a fully compiled module loading into insmod. And it is showing as installed. You can ask him.

As for you links twodollaz there actually very useful, however not for our problem. The problem that they are incurring is that of the memory not being malloced, or assigned to the process. Our problem is that according to the program there is no memory existing, (the page is there but the lines are not). I think i might have found a solution last night while sleeping ironically, however i am in work and cant test till I get home.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] zambien:
You've gotta love it when your subconscious does the work for you.

If you guys need more help with this I would be glad to join in. I have literally no experience with kernels, hardware, etc though so I will need some hand holding to get kexec loaded and testing. Once I have the build/run setup I might be able to help. I am a programmer by trade, mostly java based, but can write c/c++ when pressed. Alot of what I do on a day to day basis is pull apart other people's code and fix it, optimize it, etc - mostly in a JVM but I have done this some for system cores.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Loglud:
zambien you are my new best friend. If you could take a look at what are valid memory locations in the locate_holes function that would be amazing. So far when i do an

fprintf(stderr, "mem= %li...",(unsigned long)info->segment[j].mem))

i always get nothing. I think this might be because j needs to start at 1 but idk. if you could find a way to iterate through

info->segment[j].mem

and find where it is valid, we might be on our way.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] twodollaz:
Forgive me if I'm way off, but how does this sound? I don't know if this device is EFI compliant, but if it is - and apparently some ARMv7 devices are - then it could allow kexec to reference a more complete memory map provided by EFI. The patch behind the link is for x86, but perhaps there are some ideas it might provide.

Just trying to help.

See attached for link..
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Loglud:
Hmm thats very interesing... Ill try this when i get home. Im looking though it more and im starting to think that this could be our problem. Im going to pull one of the patched files down tonight and try seeing what happens.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] gamefreakgcb:
Hello, Just received the A100 today and was happy to note that it had Arabic typing/viewing support, but that was dashed the moment I saw the font used to render them. It is absolutely horrible. Is there any way to add/swap the arabic font support package/file/dll? Sorry if this is a noob question but googling didn't help and the Search feature here in unavailable. Thanks!
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] m2b999:
Hang in there mate... I'm looking into it too! I think there is a solution for it because I have found one for Droid and Xoom... Maybe a little modification and it might work!
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] m2b999:
I managed to change the honeycomb original Arabic font (which is by the way somewhat okay) to Almohanad font (it's the same as my real name!!!!!) :)

I'm attaching some images for comparison...

Unzip the attached zip file to /system/fonts

Make sure to back up your original font (DroidSansArabic.ttf) though for future reversing...

Good luck mate!
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] aboodyksa:
thank you soooooooooooo much :)

can you please add more fonts as well?