yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G General] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
I know removing it affects certain apps and doesn't affect others you may or may not bump into an issue depending on what you're running I found out about it when I was stripping a rom and saw the service running and it piqued my curiosity this was on synergy when I discovered ciq and began the battle with removing it and HTCloggers that was a fun experience I soft bricked my phone about 100x trying to get rid of that crap, this was before treve had released any info on it so I was going at it blindly

Edit: I forgot to add the service SmithMicroDM is a download manager for firmware updates I believe it controls OTAs prls and profile updates as well as a few other apps

We are legion, for we are many.
[EVO 4G General] jamieg71:
If it controls OTAs I'm definitely leaving it out. Lol

It could be that I removed any apps it was joined to. I was down to 115MB zipped last time I cooked. I will say this, 4.67 makes for one hellaciously fast stripped down rom. Couple edits to init.rc in the boot.img, and it feels like an aosp rom.
[EVO 4G General] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
You will know when it causes an error it will say something like process com.smithmirco.xxx force closed the xxx being replaced with a specific process such as DM or service and then the app will crash I had issues with things locking up and requiring a battery pull HTCLoggers.apk was the worst as soon as I tried to freeze or delete it in tibu the damn thing would FC every 1/10th of a second making it impossible to restore with out flashing a backup or reflashing the rom over itself to replace the logger I finally found it embedded in several system files like frameworks-res.apk and systemui.apk which required removal from the code itself I never could get it removed without some sort of error before TrevE released his removal info, I was about ready to pull my hair out after about 60 hrs of deleting code and having to restore backup after backup when I couldn't boot or it would boot and immediately go ape**** force closing or locking up I ended up giving up and switching to a rom without ciq the first few I tried had serious wakelock issues from improper removal then the classic came out and it was ciq and wakelock free. I was able to tell how invasive ciq and htcloggers was when I found it I dumped a few logs and found IQ hits popping up attached to almost everything data or input related it was in SMS, keyboard, call history, dialer etc pretty scary especially since I had no idea what exactly it was logging or what it was doing with those logs, TrevE was lightyears ahead of me in tracking down that info, however I would personally classify ciq and loggers as malware/spyware glad sprint listened and got rid of it unlike big red who just flat out lied and said they didn't use it, which they didn't they used the same idea different name and figured no one would notice *rolls eyes*

We are legion, for we are many.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] uffapple:
Domain Name System / Server is the one which takes care of translating the human readable domain names into machine understandable IP addresses. If you are not able to access a particular set of websites either from your laptop /phone, DNS server could be a reason for it. To fix the problem, one has to change the network configurations to use some of the popular DNS servers like Open DNS or Google’s public DNS. On Android phones, changing the DNS server is easy if you are using the static IP. You can do it from Settings > Wireless & network settings > Wi-Fi settings > Advanced (from menu) > check the ‘Use static IP’ option. After that, you will be able to change the DNS servers. However, when you are using dynamic IP (which will be the case most likely), the process is not straight forward. DNS server details will be taken from the DHCP server which assigns the IP.

Here are the steps to be followed to change the (WIFI Connection) DNS servers:

- Android system chooses the DNS servers using the script located at “/system/etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/20-dns.conf”

- By default, /system partition is mounted as read-only. Need to re-mount the same in re-write mode.

- Take a backup of the script. Download the modified version of the script from here (http://varun-scratchpad.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/static/20-dns.conf). The modified script has two additional lines which will override the DNS server changes. The modified script uses the Google’s public DNS.

- Changes will be applied after restarting the connection /device.

3G Connection:

- Download the wrapper script from here (http://varun-scratchpad.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/static/change-dns.sh) This wraps all the commands needed for changing the DNS server in a shell script.

- Download and install an interpreter for executing your shell script from your phone (e.s. scripter from Rom Toolbox)

- Launch the script. Grant the Super permission when asked.

- You just have to run this script whenever you are connecting to your mobile network.

Done. You settings are proper by visiting http://welcome.opendns.com. Remember, the settings will be applicable only for the current session.

By: http://blog.varunkumar.me/2010/09/how-to-change-dns-server-on-android.html?m=1
[Galaxy S I9000 General] neurobashing:
Or use Set DNS from Market
[Galaxy S I9000 General] uffapple:
lol.. I cover my head with ashes!!!

I didn't know about these apps... I apologize!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hasbyduryea:
your work isn't useless.. it tell me how it work.. thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Biya:
Help

Help, after i did this i can't connect to Wi-Fi anymore. I copied the old 20-dns file and nothing u_u. Pls help
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MaxChinni:
Override DNS for KitKat

Thank you for sharing, but I have to say that the "setprop" method does not work on KitKat (I'm talking about mobile connections).

I wrote an app called "Override DNS for KitKat" to solve this issue. It's on the Play Store.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DualJoe:
There's a much more reliable and easier method. Just use this as AFWall custom script or use manually in init.d (replace '$IPTABLES' with 'iptables' and just use the last 2 lines).

$IPTABLES -t nat -D OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination 208.67.222.222:53 || true
$IPTABLES -t nat -D OUTPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination 208.67.222.222:53 || true

$IPTABLES -t nat -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination 208.67.222.222:53
$IPTABLES -t nat -I OUTPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination 208.67.222.222:53
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ezio84:
The "iptables" commands also works good on my Nexus 4 and Slimkat, thank you!
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] foobar66:
Hi, I hope one of the devs can help me with this.

I have compiled my own kernel for the WIFI Flyer from the HTC sources.

Compilation is ok and I have a zImage.

Then I launch the kernel with:

> fastboot boot arch/arm/boot/zImage

The kernel starts and a few seconds later I can get to the adb shell.

But ... the rest of android does not start ...

Is there anything I am missing? Previously I have done in the same way on an HTC Desire phone and always had full android starting this way.

Thanks for any help.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElectricMenace:
Hey all,

I've been using the ICS passion ROMs and they are great except a snag i hit every time i update.

All of my apps that i moved to SD card disappear. Secure and adsecure in mnt folder get wiped out and that is where the device stores the apps when you hit Move to SD. I thought they would move to .Androidsecure on the sdcard folder but they don't. Any clarification is greatly appreciated
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElectricMenace:
Please help?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
Mine did that too I had them backed up on titanium backup luckily so its good for me
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElectricMenace:
Actually I did 2 things:

1. I backed up in Titanium but I only have a free version so its annoying as hell waiting for 97 apps to install and hit Install on each one.

2. I copied my assecure and secure folders to my external - this is what I used for the last 2 times. I copied those back and all apps were fine. I lost my app data though which Titanium does back up thank God.

So, I've noticed this not only with the ROM updates but also with the Kernel update.

I wonder if its the Recovery doing it???
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElectricMenace:
Can someone confirm you're not having this issue so I can start diving deeper into the root cause:

1. Go to your installed apps.

2. Click on a few apps and hit move to SD

3. Flash ROM

4. The shortcut on the home scree is there and app shows in the installed apps but it has no icon and when trying to execute informs me App not installed.

5. Have to reinstall or restore.

Observations:

/sdcard/.adroid_secure - is empty

/mnt/secure and /mnt/asec - has all "SD card" apps but get wiped out during flash. (no clean options selected not even Dalvik).
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Woody:
Do me a favor. In terminal type

Su [enter]

Busybox df -h [enter]

And post what it says. Need one from fresh flash with nothing moved over, move some apps to SD and then when they aren't installed anymore but still showing in manage apps that they are on SD. So 3 in total.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElectricMenace:
Forgot to mention, more and more users are calling this issue out.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Woody:
Ok that is fine. Since the above is from v11 and all your apps are are already on App2sd

(.androidsecure), show me what it says once you update to v12.

In theory, they should not be on your app2sd anymore. This is what I want to see with the same code I gave you above. I have a theory and possibly a fix but need to see the output first.

ps: I have see the other thread/questions and am working on it. Pretty sure the symbolic links are being broken but just need to figures out where. Believe it or not the where is more important than the why.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElectricMenace:
Its odd that you say they are in .androidsecure. If I look in that folder right now with all those apps on SD its empty.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElectricMenace:
Is it possible that mnt/secure and mnt/sec are not pointing to the SD
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Woody:
That is where I am leaning. Think the link is getting broken somehow.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElectricMenace:
any updates on this?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Woody:
No updates yet.

Still need to see more info once you update to a new version. Don't need to to a full wipe, just need to show the before (which you already posted) and the after where they are no longer there.

Referring to the post above. Are you looking at this folder on your phone through a file explorer or on a PC?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElectricMenace:
Actually both and you are right pc shows apps and es file explorer doesn't. I'm going to update to 12 tonight
[HTC Excalibur] ahmed fahmy:
hello everyone i'am using kavana remade by rickwyatt , and it's fast and stable and best rom i had ever seen , but when someone is calling me i have to silence the ringtone from the jogger so i want to silence the ringtone from the left softkey like wm 6.5 3VOLUTION SERIES , can any one help ???
[HTC Excalibur] ahmed fahmy:
heeeeeeeeeeeeeey , no one know what i can do :D :D ???
[HTC Excalibur] ahmed fahmy:
no one knows how to help me ?? :) :)
[HTC Excalibur] reinbeau:
Sadly there doesn't seem to be a lot of traffic here, I hope someone with experience will see your post and help you. I just wanted to answer you so you would know this.

Sent from a state of Serendipity
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mmjk3:
Hello i am new here. I tied to search a bit somehow search is not working...

I wanted to ask you if you would recommend me to root. Please say also why. You cam recommend me some themes too.

Thanks, Mmjk3
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SpaceCaker:
For the themes i made you dont need root :p

But rooting is for prpfesional stuff like hacking games

Editing system files etc
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mardon:
Root is needed for removing Ads in Apps. So i recommend root.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Platty99:
I have and i don't see any dis advantages to it so you may as well as it makes your phone a lot faster and you can use different app that require root access. Hope this helps!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] newarkoz:
I use root for OC with setcpu! To backup my apps when i format my phone i use Titanium Backup so root is almost a must have! I recommend it to eveyone who wants to take the most of your phone.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] codeknight11:
And its less risky to root samsung devices cuz they can be brought back to factory condition by flashing stock firmware via ODIN.

Rooting isnt as risky as flashing (infact it isnt risky at all until you flash some wrong stuff).

Root your ace and Enjoy :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mmjk3:
Only one problem: I'm 14^^ so i might get into bog trouble...
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] xdaboy122:
I m 15 but i flashed cm7rom after two days of buying my phone.look dude if u wont take a minor risk like this u will never suceed in life.

Always be risky,drink visky and root phone .cheers there is no risk in rooting :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] codeknight11:
I am 15. I have already flashed my phone with around 13 ROM's. Even bricked it sometimes. But, somehow managed to get it back to life. Chill, rooting is safe until you flash something. And do *NOT* overclock after rooting :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] codeknight11:
Lol 15? You too?

Gosh, there are soo many teenagers on ace's forums :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Prawesome:
I am 14..Teenagers run xda :p lol

Sent from my SamsungGalaxyAce with my hands,take it or leave it
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mmjk3:
I don't understand now. I thought if i root my phone then i MUST flash a new system. Then u saw a video who rooted his ace got superuser and kept the normal android...
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] clarkleal:
my suggestion for this is to root, your phone can have more of the good stuff if you are rooted plus you can tweak your phone if you wanted to, just don't panic like the others when they brick their phone or any of those common questions here :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SpaceCaker:
Me too 14

Lol 14 year old devs

:p
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] clarkleal:
when you root your phone, you can either still have the stock rom or you can flash a new rom like cm7 :) it doesn't necessarily mean when you root your phone you'll have to flash a new rom or kernel it depends on you, but people do flash a new rom/ kernel for a purpose, maybe to have their phone perform faster..:)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] xdaboy122:
Our device name is wrong .our device name should be galaxy child or galaxy teen not galaxy ace :p lol
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SpaceCaker:
Lol

Galaxy teen ace

Cyanoteenmod 7 :p
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SuperAce609:
Rooting just installs an app called Superuser. The phone stays the same. But with that simple Superuser app, you can give your phone a complete makeover.

I highly recommend you root, but if you don't want to mess with it or don't know what you're doing, then don't. Or if you're going to, make sure to follow a guide step by step.

WHATEVER YOU DO STAY AWAY FROM ROM MANAGER. It will COMPLETELY break your phone to the point of no return.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] dragonnn:
Partly yes, but rooting install too the /system/xbin/su binary, he is required to have working root. That means Rooting installs an app called Superuser and /system/xbin/su.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mmjk3:
Ah yes? Not i don't get anything... So i shouldn't flash for example to 2.3.7. If i root but don't flash can i change the boot animation?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] dragonnn:
Partly yes, to change the boot animation you need flash the cf-root kernel too (or one mod from the APPS & Themes section with allows to change the boot animation). Stock kernel doesn't have this function.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] dianpadi:
rooting is way to get root/super user access. If you are the windows user, root is same as administrator.

some cool application need root access, e.g titanium back up, root explorer.

You can also make partition in the SD card, for expanding the internal memory. Application is installed in SD card, but it detected installed in internal memory. The Application for handling the partition need root access too.

For the one who willing to "do something" with this device, I recommend to root. But for someone who only using this phone, rooting is not needed. :p

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if you flash the new firmware, the root access will gone also. You will need to re-root again.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CNghost:
Rooting is a winwin condition. You benefit so much from it. So why not?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] codeknight11:
You can change the bootanimation very easily without changing kernels. Jusy try a bootanimation from themes and apps section. Follow the guide properly. Your bootanimation will change :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] bhaviksatra87:
Always a YES! Android with root (y)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mmjk3:
So when id install root and superuser what should i do next?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] codeknight11:
Nothing. You can now install apps that need root access and upon starting they will ask for root access, just allow them to access root when a superuser menu pops up while starting them.

Make sure you have an antivirus installed before rooting. I recommend NetQin.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mmjk3:
Can you give me some examples for app neediing root. And whet are they doing.

See I've got an antovirus
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mmjk3:
Please give me some examples for apps needing root. And wet are thy exactly doing ?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Droidination:
After rooting ur device u can do many things like over locking to make ur phone even more faster...

U can also play tegrazone games on ur device..

U can flash rooms and do many other stuff
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] comegalletas:
Many, many useful applications do require your phone to be rooted.

Although many of these are to get more functionality out of your phone.

At the end it all depends, are you gonna use your Ace just as a phone with some casual use of other apps (games, etc)... if yes, then don´t root.

Otherwise rooting is the best thing to do to obtain more functionality for the phone you paid for.

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Some really useful apps are:

Titanium Backup - Allow you to made and restore backups of your apps + data.

Clockworkmod Recovery - Used to install patches, custom roms, apps and to create full backups of your phone (and many other uses)

Apps2sd - To reside apps in the SD card thus giving you more space.

Pdroid - To manage your privacy by blocking the information that apps access.

Cerberus - To locate your phone in case of theft

Lookup - The same as cerberus but with antivirus and backup (somewhat less featured in the free version)

And so many many others that I don´t remember; but these are my top picks.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Mmjk3:
Ok again thank to all you!

Now here's my next question:

Which method did you use for rooting? With zip and then sd card ore superoneclick or how? Just tell m please.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SpaceCaker:
I used zip
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] dragonnn:
superoneclick is for 2.2.X roms, zip method is for 2.3.X.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] comegalletas:
Agreed, superoneclick is for 2.2.x roms, zip method goes for 2.3.x

It depends on your versiion.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SoarStarlight:
I recommended root too.ROOT can remove many useless system apps and install more apps you need and someuseful app like link2sd shoud be running with Root,Although Samsung say it will not support your phone if your root,I ask many shop and they said it is not a problem,they will also support it

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[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SoarStarlight:
you must use zip,SOC can not root 2.3.x(i tried it:( )

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[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ace_viknesh:
Same here... Cheers!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] DrizztDWX:
For me root is cery important. Need to edit system files ; )
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] xdaboy122:
ok listen man what so fuzz about rooting just download that zip go in recovery by holding power+home then choose apply update from sdcard choose that zip file after it completed just reboot your phone.look rooting is not dangerous there is just 0.5% chance that u brick your phone.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowburst92:
Right this desire is starting to become a problem child to say the least -_-, installed gingerburst 1.0.0.3 pre rooted and S-OFF and suddenly it wont mount my sd card itll mount my 8gb one but not my 16gb one and i need the 16gb one. tried reformatting it in recovery and mounting it via tht but i dno if i did it wrong or something. need the sd card partitioned for data2sd so partition sizes and names and info wud be good, thx
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowburst92:
in recorvery it also says under mounts and storage tht "mount /sdcard" so it doesnt mount it auto. i tried mounting it then rebooting but wont mount again. i found under advanced in recovery it has partition sd card i formated it n now ive partitioned it using this method biggest vales ext 4096mb so 4gb and w.e the highest one for the other one was. basicly i want this sd card to be partitioned for data2sd to work good desire has very low internal memory and gingerburst is the best sense rom i found
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowburst92:
fixed: i re partitioned it in recovery under advanced after formatting it within recovery in mounts and storage then clicked mount within mounts of storage on the sd card then rebooted. need details for partitioning it now
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowburst92:
on my sd card it has a linux swap file a fat32partition n an ext2 partition what partition has data2sd got to be? ext 4 3 2 1?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andwise:
for sdcard u normally have vfat(fat32) filesystem, when using it as data also (data2sd) you should add any ext partition I would recommend ext4 however some roms might not support that (should be very old roms) so you can make it with ext3.

you can use Gparted or MiniTool Partition Wizard to repartition the sdcard. you can check what filesystem is your data partition using 'mount'.

note that you should have some vfat partition left if you want to use it as a normal sdcard.
[HTC Sensation] taffypride:
Anyone here use a remote desktop to try and control their HTC Sensation and run any ICS firmware?

I'm using Remote Web Desktop and when attempting to remotely control my phone I just get a garbled screen. Have also tried various other VNC options and all result in the same....apart from the Android Screencast.

I am running Virtuous Inquisition 2.1.0 with the latest 3.24.x firmware, and Windows 7 Home Premium x64
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] NxsLS:
been looking around on here. im stuck now

Ok iv unlocked and have root and can load into Clockwork 5.5.0.2

But when in Clockwork i get

E:can't mount /sdcard/

When i reboot the nexus now all i get is the Google Logo with the unlock Padlock.

Once it did load back into OS and then rebooted it self now stuck on Google logo and Unlock padlock... i Didnt copy over my ROM too the SDCard....

How do i get back into the OS
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] El Daddy:
Flash the factory Google images via fastboot. Search the forum. There a quite a few threads with step by step instructions.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jhericurls:
Try pressing the volume down button and power button until you reach recovery. When you a red triangle, press Vol+/Vol-/Power at the same time, you will now see a menu, select factory data reset.