yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qdochemistry:
hi crew,

I couldn't seem to find the answer or a logical breakdown on this topic and so I wanted hear from the folks here at xda. I'm relatively new and just learned about this website last year while I was searching for things to do with my HD2. I used to flash all kinds of stuffs on my phone and really enjoy it. However, I moved on to the Sensation, touchpad, kindle fire, and Dell 7.

except for the touchpad (cm7), I'm keeping everything else stock and unrooted. This year alone there were several incidents with security on android platform .. Skype, malicious apps on market and forums, and I believe there was also ISSues with custom roms for folks in China. I guess my question is .. How easy is it to include a malicious coding into a custom Rom? If a developer/chef can modify just about every aspect of this platform then I'm guessing it won't break much sweat for them to include these spying coding into a custom Rom?

don't get me wrong because I truly believe that 99.999% of developers on this forum is dedicated and passionate about giving us the ultimate user experience. But if you look at the math, it only takes 1 out of every 100,000 and that's enough to create fear in many of us. Is there a way for users (common users) like myself to determine if there is something else coded in a custom Rom? Would it help at all to protect our privacy with an AV?

of course, one answer to my question is to avoid custom Rom! But yet, with the recent news about carrier iq even with stock you are still being monitored. Since I'm not a developer and have very limited knowledge about this area, I just wanted ask the questions here to hear inputs, suggestions, and opinions from more experienced users (and perhaps developers if any). Thanks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theonew:
Very easy.

It depends. You could use an antivirus, but they mainly just scan your apps, media, and settings; so if the malicious 'thing' is directly built into the rom, it will not be detected. If it was an app (or in one), then there is a chance it would be detected.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qdochemistry:
Thanks .. that was indeed my thoughts but since I don't know much about coding or "cooking" and so figured I'd would ask. XDA is a great community but it is a scary thought having to think that our privacy with custom roms is entirely relying on the "honor code" of developers. I have not read about anything isolated incidents with infected ROMs, and much less would something like that happen here at XDA. I hope I am correct with the assumption that ROMs being released here are somehow being cross-checked by someone .. but I guess that would be a great amount of effort as too many ROMs are being released everyday on this site.

Again, there are many reputable developers in this community but just thought that I'd ask since it would only take one to ruin the effort of a million ... if anyone got thoughts or opinions feel free to comment.

Thanks for replying :-)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michael_hk:
I think that's a very valid concern. I am using a custom rom right now so this is also my concern.

Well, I don't think there is anyone / any party responsible for checking the released ROMs given that the amount of work required...So what I do is to avoid dealing anything sensitive with the phone (even I was using Stock ROM). All this kind of stuff I will do it with my desktop where I feel I have more control.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qdochemistry:
lol .. same here .. on devices with ported ROMs I am quite careful as to what I do with it .. and on stock devices i do keep the number of apps to the minimal. But it's just sad being that way .. or may be i'm just paranoid!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DeadlyDazza:
After AwaisKhan (http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=3984191) posted in the General section showing his Minecraft world, i thought i'd post up in this section also so we can get a list of people's worlds to share.

Quick how to to share & save your creations. (Kudo's to AwaisKhan)

Download:

1. Download & Extract to your desktop.

2. Mount your SD card.

3. Copy the folder (un-zip/rar'd) to \games\com.mojang\minecraftWorlds

4. Open Minecraft PE & start

Share:

1. Extract your world from \games\com.mojang\minecraftWorlds

2. zip/rar it

3. Upload to fileshare site such as Mediafire http://www.mediafire.com/ or Megaupload http://www.megaupload.com/

4. Share download link here.

Alternatively, just upload your world here, but not sure how many i can include into 1st post.

So far we have 2 worlds sharing.

AwaisKhan - 'Awaiskhan's World!' - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NPTH13S0

DeadlyDazza - 'Bong Eaton' - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IM4DQPZC or http://www.mediafire.com/?qx6cksg10m72m4d

Will update thread adding any added links to 1st post.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] AwaisKhan:
i have 2 more worlds, just add links from my thread? :D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ifox8807:
worlds..

can we try to make this a "world" library with pic an download links to worlds,.. then this could be a sticky för minecraft pocket edition :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlcookie:
Just ordered a fairly basic model from Zinglife ,India and was hoping that someone out here could help me root the device , 'm ready to explore the development side to this task if necessary just need a good hands on how to port Cyanogenmod to it (long shot ) but any how , before i get there (fingers crossed) i need to root it

10 inch

Specs are :

10.1 inch TFT (1024*600)

TouchScreen with 3D Accelerator

Front Camera for Video Chat

Supports all 3G Data Dongles

Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n)

RJ45 Port for Broadband

1.0 GHz Processor (ARM11)

512MB RAM, 4GB Memory

Supports upto 32GB MicroSD

USB 2.0 for Pen-Drive Support

HDMI Port for LCD Connectivity

Mini-USB Port for Data Transfer

Double Stereo Speakers

3.5mm Audio Port

2400 mAH Li-ion Battery

Android 2.2 Operating System

Supports Adobe Flash 10.1

Looking for any starting kick off help in cracking this model

Download of the Android system now attached someone please suggest a way to modify
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlcookie:
My mistake, dint read this rule ..thank you for posting this in correct forum
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlcookie:
Any one , please help!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlcookie:
Rooted but titanium says not able to gain root access , system really slow
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlcookie:
No adb drivers , unable to root someone pls help
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] icemanhi:
Hello,

Firstly sorry for my english, i'm new here that i cant put images from standard method that i must put it in attachments sorry for trouble. That's my problem on every every CM mod when i load "cm-7.1-oc-kernel-2.6.35.7-perf-CL562111.zip"i have problem with touch screen.

(screenshot1 from attachments)

The above screen shows the twirling finger rings. It is very irritating when you look through post office or browse the Internet

But when i put cm-7.1-kernel-2.6.35.7-perf-CL562111.zip everthing is ok. (screenshot2 from attachments)

This is cm-7.1-kernel-2.6.35.7-perf-CL562111.zip: nothing problem with touchscreen

(screenshot3 from attachments))

But when i use OC kernel : i have very big problem witch touchscreen

this problem This problem regards each one CM, CM 7.1 CM 7.2 JAF, Griff, KANG, Icecream Sunday2, BehradGH, GingercruztV2.3. EVERY ONE.

I tried to upload KPB, KS9, KS2, KPY, everything WIPE. Always end the same.

Thank You

Please Help
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CallMeVentus:
Then don't use the overclock kernel .
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] icemanhi:
Thanks for the very constructive and wise answer. I think that my 5 year old child that could advise me the same thing
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CallMeVentus:
Well , you chose to use the kernel , it's your fault
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] sdotmouse:
I know it's not the most helpful response, but there really isn't a good solution. If you choose to overclock the phone there is a price to pay. Your price unfortunately, is touch screen issues. Others have stability issues and others cannot o/c at all. Personally I think the only reason to use an o/c kernel on the Ace is for the scheduler choices.

Sent from a ZTE Crescent with an app.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Prawesome:
Look man,OC is not a thing to play with,in your case it was touchscreen issues,others have other problems.Dont use oc in my opinion
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ReaperXL2:
Hey @icemanhi...:)

Firstly, your english is fine... I can understand you & I'm sure others can too...

Now, lots of people saying "Don't do it" but nobody offers help... Come on guys, give @icemanhi a break...:p @Prawesome is correct though to a degree... OC'ing is not for everyone but with a little care & patience, you can achieve some significant performance gains...

@icemanhi... There are a couple of things that you can try that may correct this touch screen issue that you have got. It is possible that when you flash @ketut's OC kernel, it corrupts your screen variables or changes them to un-usable values. If you search the SGA development forum you will find several scripts that enhance & tweak your touch screen (response, sensitivity etc)... some of them are flashable via CWM (clockwork Mod manager), some of them you must manually place the script in the correct location within your phone...

I suggest you try one of the flashable versions unless you are savvy to file placement & permission setting...

Flashing the screen Mod will re-callibrate your screen to the new improved variable settings, hopefully correcting any corruption that was left from flashing @ketuts kernel...

Please remember though, that I am not providing a cure, I am just suggesting a method that in theory should do the trick. I can not say I have tried this as I have experienced no problems at all using Ice cream sunday2 by @jusada... On the other hand, I have used the touchscreen tweaks (I am using them now) & they work wonderfully... I barely have to brush my screen & I get a response...hehe

Check below my signature for my Rom & setup...

Stay Breezy n Be Lucky...;)

Peace...:)
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Zax_Was_Here:
Hello there, I finally started using my data agressively and I'm curious what my plan actually means. I was able to get grandfathered into an "unlimited " plan, but I've heard things about 5 gb caps and whatnot. So I figured a forum full of flashaholics and hardcore data users would be able to tell me more. Is there a cap with an unlimited plan? And if so, what happens when I go over it? I appreciate any answers

Sent from my cyancredible 2
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] HypostaticOnion:
I think when they say 5gb cap, that means they start slowing down your data speeds not stop your data or charge you more. If they did that'd be violation of contract I would think.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Zax_Was_Here:
Alright, that's what I thought, but I'm at 3.5gb with 12 more days on my billing cycle, I'd hate to get charged overage fees

Sent from my Cyancredible 2
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
You're safe. We have ppl that use 12gb. I average 3-4 when I'm not near WiFi
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XinLoiBby:
Stuck at "Obtaining IP Address..."

Any solutions?

Been looking around the forum for a heck of a long time already, just didn't want to put my problems down on the board right away.

Some facts about my Captivate.

Model Number: Samsung-SGH-I896

Firmware Version: 2.2

Baseband Version: I896UXJL1

Kernel Version: 2.6.32.9

Build Number: FROYO.UXJL1

I believe I did a root with SuperOneClick v1.7, haven't had a chance to see if it worked or not because I had no internet access to download any programs.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4-2ndtwin:
Did u try rebooting ur router ? I know it's an obvious question and no offense meant by it, sometimes we do overlook the obvious, so... had to ask :)

And secondly, u could always flash a different modem on ur phone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XinLoiBby:
Flashing a different modem? Any ideas? I'm new to all this rooting business and I would prefer not to ruin my phone in anyway..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nick0703:
I had the same problem. I had to reflash Froyo to fix the problem.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XinLoiBby:
Mind giving me the steps to do that ?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KMan94:
Do this it works.

I've had to do it to both of my phones. You will need to be rooted.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=907772
[Motorola Droid RAZR] coolfreebies:
Hello,

I have just brought the Motorola Razr UK version and was importing my text messages from SMS Backup & Restore and was looking at the settings to the messages and saw that there is a Message Limit for conversations... How can i remove this limit as i don't want to loose/limit them my conversations...

Any suggestions...

Kind Regards
[Motorola Droid RAZR] MrFrankfromCM:
From Home screen>click Menu soft key>click Message Limit and change the number, then click Set.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] aimache:
Hi,

Short answer: do not use stock messenging app. The limit is applied each time you launch it.

Using an alternative app, the (ridiculous) limit does not apply.

(Not sure your question has its place in the dev section)

Sent using xda premium
[Motorola Droid RAZR] coolfreebies:
Can you recommend a App i could use to replace the stock App...

Thank you
[Motorola Droid RAZR] MrFrankfromCM:
Go SMS is pretty darn good.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] coolfreebies:
Is there away i could backup and the delete the stock messaging app... As i am going to be using GO SMS permanently...

Phone NOT Rooted...

Thank you
[General Questions and Answers] michaellong7944:
I just bought the evo 3D. Love it. Want to know where I can get more free games. Let me know
[General Questions and Answers] LordManhattan:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1217024
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] b00sted:
|☆|Gingercomb GalaxyTask 9.x Theme|★|Updated 12.05.11|★|v6.6.1|☆|

Make sure you are already on Task's rom and have it booted into it once first. Don't flash Task's rom and then flash the theme without booting in between both flashes.

[ DOWNLOAD ]

v6.6.1

*Updated to support current rom

*started to use diff ver system for the roms

v1.0

*Initial Release

Thanks To:

task650 - For his awesome rom's

Bazar617 - For all his support and teaching me on what to do on XML

alterbridge86 - Giving me a hand on some XML help

Hooolm - Giving me a XML base to compare to and mod from :)

Vertumus - for letting me poke at his XML tweaks and his reboot images

PookiePrancer - For testing all the random I throw their way and still donating to me :P

The Donators - Huge Thanks to the few of you that have donated as if it was not for you I would of stopped this madness weeks ago
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Jay Rock:
You sir are a beast
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] b00sted:
Rawr lol ^_^
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] iOSh8er:
Very nice! Lets see how long it takes your troll to 1 star this thread...
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] elghouchd:
yay its live gonna try it out tonight!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] b00sted:
updated to devhost link
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] PookiePrancer:
You have the jpg of the lockscreen image? I wanna see what that looks like on the homescreen.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Tivo7:
Wow this theme is old school haha
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] olmrjustin:
download link not working for me. anyone else?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] gear.h34d.2012:
This looks AMAZING. What's the lockscreen look like?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] infestedd:
Hi, i had an vibrant and i just screw it up again, broke the screen for the third time. so im not fixing it anymore. i tough to buy an atrix, and found an defective one for a cheap price, with the following defect. i have a LOT of experience flashing phones, so, can i fix this?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] littleemp:
Possibly. check out the automatic bootloader script or search the forums for that particular error and the fix.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CaelanT:
Hard bricked! Not recoverable!
[Milestone XT720 General] Biker1bob:
Hey all, buying an XT720 today.

Looking to get it up from 2.1

What is the most stable update at the moment?

I have done CM 6.1 on a HTC Dream, was pretty happy with it.. would like to get up to 2.3 on this..

Suggestions? I am using Wind Mobile in Canada for this phone if it makes a difference.

James
[Milestone XT720 General] mchlbenner:
Hi

Their are choices cm6 is very stable

I would try flfalcon cm7.

Their are J.Y.Daddy cm7 these were made for the motorio to use these you would need to apply bootfix.

J.Y.Daddy even ported miui ics 4.01.

You need check out the development page.
[Milestone XT720 General] Woody:
I also have a list of most of the ROMs and their +/-'s. Ill find the link and post it. I'm mobile now so can't find it that way.
[Milestone XT720 General] S7icky:
Im on wind also and i truthfully find bravo the best.... everything is really stable and HD cam and whatnot works
[Milestone XT720 General] Woody:
Here is a somewhat dated list but a list nonetheless and here is the thread it came from.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1298208
[Milestone XT720 General] Biker1bob:
Where is this Bravo??

Also I have rooted..

but I have not found a good guide on Openrecovery. (EDIT) got this done, went through ADB shell.

I unzip the the openrecovery to the sd card.. gives me openrecovery.zip a directory and an images directory.

SO then to flash a new rom I just put the .zip file in the updates directory.. and bingo bongo?

Going to try Cyanogenmod 7.1 first.. not sure where to find the brovo? bravo? mentioned.

James
[Milestone XT720 General] Woody:
Custom Recovery is here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1242259

Bravo is here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1332410

All ROMs and Mods are in the Dev thread.
[Milestone XT720 General] AllGamer:
I vote for CM6 RC3 / RC4

it's by far the most stable & fast which allows you to run most resources intensive games
[Milestone XT720 General] Biker1bob:
I might give this a try next.. I have bravo tweeked out.. and I like it for the most part.. but there are somethings that dont seem to work as well as my G1.

I will just save my current phone in nand and then I can just reload it all back in - correct??

James
[Milestone XT720 General] Woody:
Yes

10chars
[Milestone XT720 General] kavehqm:
this one fjfalcon's CM7 , http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1350453
[Milestone XT720 General] racer321:
Nandroid and battery

I just bought an XT720 (Rooted and unlocked)

Is there any way to change the battery level increments from 10% to something more exact like 5% and how do we create a Nandroid back up?

I also want to install bravo2.2 do I need to do a factory reset before installing this rom?

I am running stock rom 2.1
[Milestone XT720 General] Biker1bob:
Well if its Rooted, then you should have Open Recovery on it.

When you boot the phone hold VOL up and it will boot in OR...

or when you power off.. it should give you the option to reboot into RECOVERY.

There are lots of threads on here about OR .. but if you follow the menus you should be fine.. on an XT720 you push the camera button (big one) to accept a selection in the OR menu.

You can back up - which will save EVERYTHING.. a Nandroid backup is the best thing to store away somewhere should you mess up your phone.

YES you will have to loose everything when switching from 2.1 to (anything else)

If you are just updating to a newer build of something you put on.. then no.

You do the RESET and clear caches etc.. in OR.

Do a search its all on here .. usually the first page of whatever rom you want to TRY.

Have fun.

James
[Milestone XT720 General] racer321:
Thanks for the reply, time to install some rom's
[Milestone XT720 General] acrobat69:
Hilarious...after wading thru a few hundred pages of replies on this phone and the various roms, I completely missed your thread here James which is about as close to what I'm trying to accomplish as imaginable..

I posted some of my saga over here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1399242

Do you mind me asking James/BikerBob...how did you make out? Anything I should know (if you have a sec read my long winded post lol!)

Did you have 3G/Wifi switching issues with stock, or maybe you didn't bother testing that / noticed it..before rooting I mean..

thnks!

(don't know if mods merge threads in this forum but mine is probably a candidate! sorry!)
[Milestone XT720 General] brianlili:
No, kernal(maybe driver) can't support 5% or 1% percentage battery level.
[Milestone XT720 General] Biker1bob:
OK, so I decided that changing the SD card to a class 10 might help app usage ..

I copied the old sd card to the new one.. and if I try and get into OR .. I get the exclimation mark in triangle instead of the OR logo.

What do I need to do to get back into OR? do I need to RE-Root?

James
[Milestone XT720 General] 3rdstring:
If you don't have it already, grab Mioze's modded OR for the xt720 & follow the instructions. If that's all you did was to switch sdcards there should be no need to redo everything.
[Milestone XT720 General] Biker1bob:
Sorry, never mind the OR issue, my bad.

I have played with this too much.. lol.. get things mixed up..

I had the OpenRecovery.zip from one version mixed with the directory of the other..

Jezz
[Milestone XT720 General] 3rdstring:
OR runs from the files on the sdcard (the openrecovery folder & openrecovery.zip) if something is corrupted (or missing) you wont be able to boot into OR.
[Milestone XT720 General] Biker1bob:
Brian, any idea why the input method resets every reboot?? is there any way around this.. it happens on a crash, and in other circumstances as well.

Its such a pain to have to set it sooo often.

Also I have issues with the screen lock.. if I have nothing set.. I simply slide to the right the green unlock.. if I want the pattern.. I have to do the pattern and then ALSO do the slide to the right.. it should be one or the other?? Idea?

James
[Milestone XT720 General] brianlili:
Which input method are you using? maybe it dosn't suit for the rom, you can try another one.

Unlock part, It is true not comfortable for users, but stock rom acts that way:)Need some research to learn cm's setting, it tweaks this part a lot.
[Milestone XT720 General] Woody:
Maybe your input is using more ram than you think. I bought swiftx keyboard when it was 10¢ in the market, installed it and later on looked at my ram and it was a monster. By far the biggest ram eater I had a 23mb. I uninstalled it, for a dime, no worries. Swype is rather large too. I've use Better Keyboard for some time now and it comes in at 8mb and it has skins too. Just went back to that.
[Milestone XT720 General] Biker1bob:
OMG - I did a Cyangenmod on my HTC DREAM.. works like a charm.. never an issue.

I have YET - to have one ROM on this phone.. just work???

I am now running CYGNMOD 6.3 RC3 on my phone - Sorry Brian the input thing was killing me, and the crashing processes all the time I thought were too much.

NOW on 6.3 - I get times in which the screen goes black.. maybe from a sensor?? this time it was during a call - and it never returns.. locked up.. cant get the screen back.. does not seem to be responsive to touch.. .. FRICKN crazy. I have to pull the battery and reboot.

This topic started because I wanted something that performed better, but I was willing to sacrifice some for stability.. SO far I have not found one ROM I could in truth call stable.

James
[Milestone XT720 General] Mioze7Ae:
The sdcard that comes with the phone is absolute crap. It is responsible for the black screen freezes 99.9% of the time. You're new to the phone but that even happens on stock 2.1. Replace the card or learn to live with it. In the mean time you need to take the card out and put it directly into a PC to run checkdisk. The errors will just keep accumulating
[Milestone XT720 General] Biker1bob:
Except that the card is brand new and a class 10 16gig..

but I will checkdisk it .. thanks Mioze7Ae