yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skg22086:
I was wondering if anyone can recommend me a modem to use for my s2 on AT&T in SoCal... I've been trying them out one by one.. But it's getting annoying.. It seems majority of the time i get a disconnection

from my data connection after switching from 2G to 3G or wifi to ...

NDT Miui v12

Siyah Kernel

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peachpuff:
The disconnection is a minute saving feature from att, they don't want you using up all your minutes so they cut you off, brilliant i tell ya...

Which modems did you try, ki4 and kl1 seem to be the most popular.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skg22086:
I've tried KP4 to KI4.. Every single one I've has the has disconnection problem... i didn't have this issue when i was on KE4 ... Am i doing something wrong? I flash it through CMW...

Any help would be appreciated... Thanks
[Motorola Atrix 2] WalkSoftly:
does anyone else's pandora audio quality sound like garbage? I have set my pandora setting to high quality audio and it still sounds terrible. Slacker radio sounds fine, and so does pandora on my samsung captivate. Any suggestions?

Current Devices:

Motorola Atrix 2

Samsung Captivate

Acer Iconia A500
[Motorola Atrix 2] tylercarter:
Check in sound settings. You should have a few options there. I mean in the settings of your phone not pandora
[Motorola Atrix 2] WalkSoftly:
Thanks, I tried all that and no dice... Also, I uninstalled and reinstalled and nothing seems to work. I guess I'm stuck with slacker radio. Thanks again.
[Motorola Atrix 2] unsivil_audio:
Slacker radio is the same way. They are aware of the issue but are blaming it on android itself and the way it interprets the codecs they use for streaming. No idea if they plan to fix it or not.
[Motorola Atrix 2] amynjimmy:
I get iffy sound. I'm using really good headphones and thought about the beats and xplod mod but haven't rooted yet.. Even w/ good cell quality the sound qual is not the best. Gonna root this weekend and try the mod possibly and see what happens.
[Motorola Atrix 2] Gadgetz:
I think you'll like the Beats/xLoud mod
[Motorola Atrix 2] amynjimmy:
Didn't finish today.... Hopefully tomorrow.. Can't wait
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoclick:
Hi all,

I would like to access several hotmail and gmail accounts from my phone from a single app. I tried the standard mail app, which setup great. However major problems for me are

1) It doesn't allow you to specifiy how many emails to retrieve (only their age).

2) The emails are shown in such a horrible format, and you can't alter the format of your emails.

So I tried k9 mail which has tons of features but it doesn't work well with hotmail as I have to access via pop and hence all of my folders are missing. Also there's no "email read" sync.

So can anyone advise me of an app that has the features of k9 but the compatibility of the stock app?

Many Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s1m4an:
Give K-9 Mail a try, its free on market, and works like a charm.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoclick:
;) Surely there must be such an app??
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s1m4an:
How does the stock email app access Hotmail?

If you can't access Hotmail through imap then you won't find an app that can provide what you are searching for.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deadlyrhythm:
i too would like to know this :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoclick:
I believe it uses Microsoft Exchange and as I said, it works perfectly. However k9 has limited access through Exchange so does not work.

Surely must be an app with equivalent compatibility but extra features compared to stock app???
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s1m4an:
I don't use Hotmail myself so I can't help you there.

Search the market there are a couple of (paid) email apps, perhaps one will provide what you are looking for.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] conundrum768:
Link to the list of elements of a GNU License and the actions which would form a violation thereof: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html .

Address for reporting violations: license-violation@gnu.org
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] darkquota:
Here is more contact information (the support@book.com and service@barnesandnoble.com seem to correspond to online sales):

General Inquiries: For general questions or comments about Barnes & Noble, Inc.:

Barnes & Noble, Inc.

P.O. Box 111

Lyndhurst, NJ 07071

telephone: (800) 962-6177

e-mail: customerservice@bn.com

fax: (201) 559-6910

Also, I don't think they took down your post because they didn't want to comply. I think they took it down because you mentioned legal action.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] AdamOutler:
I reposted without anything having to do with 'litigation' http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com...-tablet-source-will-not-compile/idi-p/1263241
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] succulent:
Adam,

You can compile the NT source with android_4430BN_defconfig.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] AdamOutler:
Thanks, but it didn't work

Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.41 (Oct 21 2011 - 14:00:05)
Start not on PWRON, skipping power button check.
mmc read: Invalid size
Starting OS Bootloader from MMC/SD1 ...

U-Boot 1.1.4-acclaim1.4_1.4.0.1029^{} (Nov 11 2011 - 12:34:20)

Load address: 0x80e80000
DRAM: 1024 MB
Using default environment

In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
hw_status 0x2b vbus_status 0x84
Detection done: USB2PHYCORE 0x00a06260
MAX17042+UBOOT: battery type=LG
MAX17042+UBOOT: gas gauge detected (0x0002)
MAX17042_STATUS (00h) is 0x0002
MAX17042+UBOOT: BATTERY Detected!
MAX17042+UBOOT:POR detected!
No valid max17042 init data found, assume no battery history
MAX17042_Version (21h) is 0x0092
MAX17042_DesignCap (18h) is 0x07d0
MAX17042_OCV (fbh) is 0xfeab
MAX17042_FSTAT (fdh) is 0x3950
MAX17042_SOCvf (ffh) is 0xd692
uboot verify: 1d CONFIG is 2210 ; should be 2210 & 0xFDFB
uboot verify: 2a RELAXCFG is 083b ; should be 083b
uboot verify: 29 FILTERCFG is 87a4 ; should be 87a4
uboot verify: 28 LEARNCFG is 2406 ; should be 2406 & 0xFF0F
uboot verify: 18 DesignCap is 07d0 ; should be 205c
max17042_write_custom_para: use hardcoded values
ICHGTerm = 0x0140
use hardcoded Capacity 0x205c
VFSOC = 0xcb7a
fullcap0=0x2067 VFSOC=0xcb7a remcap=0x41ee
MAX17042_STATUS (00h) is 0x0002
STATUS = 0x0002 -- clearing POR
MAX17042_STATUS (00h) is 0x0000
Max17042 init is done
SOC 203%, booting.
Board revision PVT
Booting from sd
Autobooting in 0 seconds, press <SPACE> to stop...
mmc read: Invalid size

2682712 bytes read
booti: bad boot image magic
OMAP44XX SDP #
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] LiuAnshan:
Laureled and commented.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jsox79:
also sent email to license-violation@gnu.org

everyone should the more response the better...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
DOne commented and "laureled" your new post Adam
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] c0ldburn3r:
Did my duty on their website. I will follow up with emails directly to them.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] hurrpancakes:
You spelled losing incorrectly, unless you actually meant loosing. :P
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] FESDude:
You might also want to consider posting to The Consumerist

I know this forum is more tech-based than what The Consumerist usually runs, but they get a lot of play and it seems some companies pay attention to bad publicity when it shows up there. You might want to also post your letter and their response to it there.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] chrmhoffmann:
# cat cmdline

androidboot.console=ttyO0 console=ttyO0,115200n8 mem=448M@0x80000000 mem=512M@0xA0000000 init=/init rootwait vram=32M,82000000 omapfb.vram=0:5M@82000000
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] AdamOutler:
The sources are incomplete.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] RegLinUsr:
My support has been added to the Adam's B&N forum posting.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jm77:
You might also start a petition on change.org. Someone recently did this for the Motorola bootloader issue.

http://www.change.org/petitions/motorola-mobility-inc-unlock-all-smartphone-bootloaders-2#

Keep fighting the good fight!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] DarkDvr:
Tipped engadget about this, this is an outrage.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dodgepot:
Posted my support at the B&N forum.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] succulent:
Is this any help?

http://www.multiupload.com/wl37yskml0

I am still a noob, but I was playing around with compiling the source.

I got the MLO, uImage, and x-load to compiled. Not sure if it's correct though.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] AdamOutler:
Can you get it to run by placing the three files on a bootable sdcard with names MLO, u-boot.bin and flashing_boot.img? No. They don't help. Its still not proper sources.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] batp:
HEADS ON PIKES

the rivers will run red
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] fattire:
It still all needs to be signed...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] D.mon:
Adam, you can use peeep.us webservice to store B&N forum thread snapshot. It can store full webpage, with its address and snapshot time.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Disquoveri:
I posted this thread to r/technology on Reddit. Maybe some bad publicity will make them respect the sanctity of open source software.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] lavero.burgos:
Sorry for offtopic but wanted to say congrats Adam you're the winner of a Samsung Galaxy SII and Asus Transformer as expected sweeeeet !!! :D

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/xdas-favorite-phone-and-tablet-of-2011-contest-results/
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] darkquota:
B&N changed the status of the posted issue to "operates as intended."
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] mannix16:
Has anyone actually bothered to check if this is actually a violation or not? I'm not defending B&N here, and while the "does it compile?" test is a great way to be sure that you ARE in compliance, *not* compiling doesn't necessarily mean you're in violation.

The OP quoted the faq, and for a quick 99% thing, this works. However actually compiling could require specific command line options, specific tool chain, ect. B&N is not legally obligated to release their toolchain, option flags or instructions on how to compile. They only have to release the source itself.

I don't wanna tell everyone to put their torches away or anything and I haven't invested much time on this, but I am wondering, has anyone verified that there are actual files missing?

EDIT: FWIW, I bet they are "technically" in compliance, but have done the absolute minimum to not be held legally liable. They obviously are actively trying to kneecap the developers and rooted users with the 1.4.1 release, and I wouldn't expect that they would move an inch to help us here.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] AdamOutler:
Yes. They are violatiing the GPL.

Early this morning they changed the status from "new" to "Operates as Intended".

They moved the issue from "Issues" to "support"

And they reset the laurel count so it looks better for them ....

Here is the new link: http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com...let-source-will-not-compile/m-p/1266281#M1389

It seriously looks like they don't take the GPL seriously.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] mannix16:
AdamOutler - You're 100% right. I hadn't looked into the details there and it seems like there have been some misconceptions about this in the past. Hold their feet to the fire!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jeffcc:
Contacted Barnes & Nobles. Lets see what they say.

Though, it seems that they are avoiding the situation thus far since it's a very simple matter to compare your released code to your commits.

They are stalling.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] c0ldburn3r:
Was this released under gpl2 or 3? There's a post on the bn forum that details gpl2 does not have to release the keys for secure boot.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] thelivingdead188:
Adam, i thanked and posted a reply on the site. Things like this are one of my pet peeves, and everyone needs to remember that there's power in numbers.. i hope something good comes from this.. :)

i will also be contacting via the other methods that were posted :)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] roustabout:
Assuming for the sake of argument that GPL 2 requires that the compiled software boot the hardware, I think the party with standing to go after B&N here is Google -- they're the folks immediately upstream of B&N in the licensing chain for Android, not to mention they have tons of dough and very good lawyers already on speed dial.

Now would be a really good time for folks who know Google legal types to see if Google agrees and is willing to take action.

Given Google's behavior around the Honeycomb source release, which involved considerable foot-dragging, I'm not too optimistic that we'll see them chase a Gingerbread fork.

Has Motorola released locked-down Android devices? That might give further insight into how Google perceives this. I know they were 8 kinds of pissy when Motorola thought about using someone else's location service for their Android devices.

There was a ton of internal correspondence that turned up in a lawsuit around that might include some valuable information, like the name of Google's law firm, for one, and any comments about bootloaders that might also have come up.

Here are some links to the location services dispute, and the Oracle suit as well - if nothing else, Google's legal team ought to be named:

http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-lawsuit-motorola-samsung/

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/internal-emails-reveal-googles-desperation-over-skyhooks-andro/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/0...esentation_describes_closed_android_policies/
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] mjg59:
Brief background - my name is Matthew Garrett. I'm a Linux kernel developer working for Red Hat. I bought an original Nook back in 2009 and was responsible for getting Barnes and Noble to release the full kernel source code. When the Nook Color was released I did the same. I've been active in enforcement of the GPL and have a keen interest in helping (or making) companies comply with their obigaitons.

Having said that.

One of the significant differences between GPLv2 and GPLv3 is that GPLv3 makes explicit the requirement that signing keys be shipped. It has been argued that the GPLv2 implicitly requires the same, in the form of the requirement for the scripts required for installation. I'm sympathetic to that claim, and I will not personally distribute any code that requires a private signing key. But I'm not a lawyer and I'm certainly not a judge. Many people who are active in GPL enforcement will agree that vendors should provide the signing keys - but I don't think you'll find any who will actually make that the basis of a case.

B&N are not the only company to require signed kernel images. Many Android devices have locked bootloaders. I think this is a despicable anti-consumer design choice, but nobody's taking action against it. B&N have provided you with the kernel source code. They've done better than many by also providing you with the configuration file. They have a strong argument that by doing so they've complied with the requirements of GPLv2, and while you (and I) may disagree, that's almost certainly going to be as much as they'll be required to do. Consensus at the moment is that they don't need to do any more.

If it went to court then you may end up finding a judge who would rule that they're in violation, but I wouldn't put money on it. I think it's far too extreme to claim that they're actively violating.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Moogle:
Came from HN link

I just saw this thread because it was posted to the Hacker News blog. The first thing you should do is contact the Software Freedom Law Center. This is their area of expertise and exact what they do, sue companies that violate the GPL. More importantly however they can evaluate if this is really a violation of the GPL or something else. They'll also be able to contact B&N's legal division, the ones that will actually be able to accomplish something within B&N if they

are

in violation. Again this is the most efficient use of this forums outrage and indignation. Good Luck.

(tried to add links to SFLC wp page and their website but I'm under the post limit. It's easy enough to google)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] c0ldburn3r:
Adam I believe it is time for us to reach out to our XDA friends that have influence and also contact SFLC.

From what I can see, B&N and their forum admins are not giving us the time of day and we are getting nowhere.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] AdamOutler:
I'd like to point out that roustabout works for barnes and nobel and mjg59 who posted after him seems pretty damn fishy. I don't think ANY Linux kernel developer would dispute the fact that the intent of the GPL was designed to squash practices of piece of crap companies like Barnes and Nobel.

If barnes and nobel wanted lockdown, they should have chosen Unix or WP7 as their base platform.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] projectgus:
Hi Adam,

I'm not experienced with OMAP, but I know a bit about u-boot & ARM Linux in general. Maybe I can help.

First off, I 100% agree that B&N were wrong to treat your support requests like this - hopefully they will come to realise that as well.

That said, I also noticed that both posts you've made to them are quite vague and impossible to verify. Looking at what you've posted here, it seems the kernel does compile but the u-boot you already have won't boot your image. It's failing well before it hands off to the kernel.

In the nook source from B&N you can find the u-boot error message "booti: bad boot image magic" (common/cmd_bootm.c) and the default u-boot runcmd (board/omap4430sdp/mmc.c, yes?)

Judging from the log you posted:

First "fatload mmc 0:1 0x81000000 flashing_boot.img" prints "mmc read: Invalid size".

Then "booti 0x81000000" doesn't see an android "boot.img" magic number, and drops you to a prompt.

So the problem, at this point, would seem to either be either "fatload mmc" failing, or that flashing_boot.img doesn't have a valid Android boot image header.

Things I would check:

Are you sure flashing_boot.img is a valid Android boot.img from mkbootimg? (I'm guessing it is, but can't hurt to be sure - hexdump -C flashing_boot.img | head -n 1 if there is any doubt.)

Where did you get the u-boot.bin on the SD from? The build date in the log predates the source drop, can you build your own from the provided nook source?

Can you successfully boot any other flashing_boot.img from SD using this u-boot?

Can you run other u-boot FAT commands by hand and have them succeed? How about 'fatinfo mmc 0:1' or 'fatls mmc 0:1' ?

Sorry if these are obvious questions, but narrowing it down will be beneficial. Even if this turns out to be B&N's fault, it pays if you can make specific complaints rather than general ones.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] mjg59:
google mjg59 nook site:livejournal.com or look for mjg59@srcf.ucam.org and mjg@redhat.com in the kernel git log.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] AdamOutler:
^^ I've noticed that you've been off the radar for a few years... Picked up a side job somewhere?

I've been trying several sources. We have two separate in the first post.

no, only Barnes and Nobel signed images

Yes we can run all commands, however it takes hardware modification to the device.

I'll have to get back to you on the last one.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] projectgus:
You're barking up the wrong tree here. mjg59 is a well known member of the Linux community (I'm going to see him talk about EFI Firmware & Linux at LCA2012 next week!) Making insinuations like that is not cool.

This counts, it means the u-boot can read fine from FAT on your SD card.

Try downloading projectgus.com /misc/nook/flashing_boot.img (can't post a proper link because I'm a noob, apparently.)

That's from the kernel zImage that succulent posted (easier than building my own.) Packaged with the abootimg tool which is available on Debian/Ubuntu (a fancier version of mkbootimg from the Android tree), using the boot parameters from the nook tablet 1.4.1 update.

The initrd is all zeroes, so it definitely won't boot all the way. But at least you might get a different/later/useful error message on the serial console.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] dustind:
It's Barnes and Noble...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] fattire:
This whole discussion is moot.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] roustabout:
Not everyone who disagrees with Adam works for BN. I certainly don't.

I am, however, a careful reader, which is how I came to the conclusion that while the spirit of the GPL is against locked bootloaders, the letter of GPL v2 does not forbid them.

It's disappointing that Adam doesn't understand that even though I disagree with him, I was trying to suggest a an avenue for pursuing a licensing dispute that would be guaranteed to get BN's attention if successful.

And if it went to court, the dispute might provide a clear test case.

The reason I thought it might be worth getting honest to Jeebus lawyers involved is that this has broad implications for installing operating systems on newer general computing platforms.

I actually would love to see a decision strengthening GPL 2 but however a decision goes clarity alone would be very valuable. Seemingly unimportant edge cases are where important legal decisions often happen and from what I've read, there may not be settled law on this yet.

Getting as far as that would of course mean that - assuming the decision broke in favor of modders - this particular iteration would be less interesting as unlocking the bootloader would be years in the future.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] AdamOutler:
Wait.. roustabout, you're a Barnes and Noble fanboy? I didn't know Barnes and Noble had fanboys. I have seen you on the Barnes and Noble forums alot providing technical support and buddy-buddy with flyingtoaster so I assumed you and him both worked for Barnes and Noble. LOL.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] roustabout:
Actually, Adam, if you were a more careful reader you'd have realized long ago that I'm potentially a paying customer of yours. I'd like to be -- you are apparently a talented guy on the projects you decide to take on. Not much of a reader a listener, though.

The modchip that would let the NT run ICS isn't anything of interest to me. Software that would let Honeycomb or ICS devices expose at least their SD cards, if not their internal storage, as real mass storage when connected to a computer is something I'd pay for, and I wouldn't be the only one who'd pay for it. As it stands, the MTP interface is broken in a lot of ways and makes newer Android devices as a class much worse at some of the things they were once quite good at.

If someone were ready to port Gingerbread to either the Samsung 7 plus or the Asus transformer, that would be a project I'd pony up for, too, since I think that would be another way to avoid dealing with MTP. (I actually don't think fixing mass storage in Honeycomb or ICS is something we're likely to see.)

If someone was to get gpt fdisk working in Android, I'd be interested in that, too - really, any way to alter the partition table; I don't know if this is the right tool for that or not.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] AdamOutler:
Well... I've got a custom kernel based on Barnes and Nobel source booting Ubuntu Minimal from SDCard using UART, which is a precursor to my Modchip and others are researching methods as well So, I suppose that meets all criteria of the GPL...

Broken down into non-legal terminology from GPL-Violations.org

I'm satisfied. Others are working on different methods.

I will now lock this topic to avoid flaming.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] cfoesch:
The SFLC are a great organization, but they can only help and represent the people who have standing against the violator, and cannot represent AdamOutler or any of us in this matter. They must represent the copyright holder, and if you are not the copyright holder, then contacting them will do nothing but waste their time, unfortunately.

(Though I'm discouraging people from contacting them about Nook issues, they are awesome, and I recommend them if your copyrights are being violated. They're great people, and were a real help back when a previous project needed help.)