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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Itchiee:
Um.... This was the plan from the start. Why did you think Google went through the trouble of providing an OS with all this integration in the first place. Does anyone know how they generate their revenue? I don't care since I don't have anything to hide, and this is what I need to pay to have all these things available for me to use. I can see how some might be upset that the man is in their business, but thats the price you pay to pimp the little green robot.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] squshy 7:
Sure you can, don't have a Gmail account. Side load all your apps.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] oscarthegrouch:
Don't you have any desire to keep your business your business? You don't have any desire to want to come and go as you please, wherever you may want to go, without big brother knowing where you are? I just had a thought. You know those ankle bracelets that have a GPS in them that some people on probation wear? You don't need bracelets today, people like to carry smartphones...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] oscarthegrouch:
I forgot the name of it but there used to be an app that could read your phone and show you the last few places you went to on the map even with the GPS off. That was awhile ago when somebody discovered that iPhones, and Android, were tracking your moves.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Gary13579:
Google has always done this. They are taking what they've already done, collecting info bout you, and sharing it with their other platforms. This isn't a problem, at all. Now instead of just Google Search knowing you looked up midget porn, YouTube will know it as well. That isn't a problem at all. It's not a breach of privacy. Both websites are owned and operated by Google. If you had a problem with Google collecting your info prior to this, well, you shouldn't have been using Google.

Bunch of kids with no concept of how Google works freakin out over **** that doesn't matter. Just another typical day...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingdazy:
exactly this.

just a bunch of FUD spreading.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] darthstewie:
Exactly this. It isn't Big Brother watching you, it's Google unifying what they already do among their multiple platforms, allowing them to simplify their privacy policy across all of them instead of having like 47 different privacy policies. Learn what is being done before complaining.

Google even has a link up right now under the search bar that explains it all and allows you to read the new privacy policy as will be as of March 1st. Go educate yourselves.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] quick99si:
This looks like a response to Facebook's dramatic increase in the world of granular control over the specific target for serving up relevant advertisements. A company that sells widgets but with a relatively small advertising budget will want to maximize their expense by advertising only to a highly specific demographic (whether geographical, political, or otherwise). This has been something that, in my outsider opinion, Facebook did more effectively in terms of bang per buck for their customer. Google unifying all these services positions them to offer a higher level of control and effectiveness to the companies and entities that pay them the big bucks.

At the cost of privacy.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jcpadron:
I thought about this when everybody was up in arms about CIQ. Google has been collecting all sorts of information from its users for years now. I'm not a hater or a lover of what google is doing. I am what you would call "comfortably indifferent" to all this. I enjoy googles products and will continue use them as long as they satisfy my needs. I see no way of escaping the data mining that corporations are engaging in anyways. Might as well enjoy they products that come of it. Just my opinion.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] locoboi187:
Doesn't affect my battery then idc lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Live2Follow:
Anyone who believes this is bad is a moron. Unified privacy statement that dies nothing but clarify that google is sharing with google. Did anyone read the new privacy? No.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] squshy 7:
To be perfectly honest, i was surprised that Google didn't use data between services until now... only makes sense that they would. I had always assumed that they were already doing that.

And on a different note, i find the backlash astonishing. When Gmail came out, it was nothing but love for Google because ads in the email interface were finally going to be relevant (since it used Google search data) and not mass-produced annoying banner ads. People WANTED more relevant ads. And they still do, but the media has spun this into a breach of privacy.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Gary13579:
Erm, not really. People freaked out at gmail. Many people refused to use it. The idea that a computer scanned their email for content scared the **** out of over paranoid idiots. What made most people overlook the downside of gmail is that they offered 1gb of storage, something that was unheard of. At the time Hotmail was still offering only 50mb of storage.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] staryoshi:
They are consolidating information and not sharing it with others... As long as the information is kept secure, it's a non-issue IMO.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mazook98:
Google had better track my every movement right now: I count on them to do exactly that.

Google should know where my Android MOBILE phone is at every second, preferably to the nearest square foot.

A GPS locked device is a happy device (For those little things like making phone calls/getting driving directions/weather updates/telling time/quick downloads/etc.)

["hip", "hip"]
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] turbomeister:
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Google already is an "evil" corporation. How many people here know about the senior executive staff, to include Larry Page, signing off on the illegal Canadian pharmacy deal? I bet you not many. In this case there was enough evidence to convict everyone but nope! Just write a check and everything is good...

Parsing your emails and never (ever) deleting them despite what consumers see on their app of choice and selling all your information to any customer with deep enough pockets is reason enough for me.

Remember what Google is....its an INFORMATION based company. Everything you do using Google products and services is geared to increasing their information base on you so that prospective customers will buy. With their track record, its all about $$$ and not ethics, morals or what have you.

Google map vehicles driving around the world "inadvertently" collecting terabytes of personal data from open networks? A "mistake," really? Some Google programmer said "oops, how did 500,000 lines of code get into the mapping vehicles when all they are supposed to do is establish network locations?

Yeahhhh, riiight.

Even though Apple are the nazis of the tech world, at least they operate with some kind of ethics code. And intrinsically they are not information based, which is the key element. All i have to say is, Hello iPhone 5!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Gary13579:
^ paranoid idiot. Not even gonna rebuttal most of that garbage, but 500,000 lines of code? Dude, don't even pretend that you're a programmer, it does not take 500,000 lines of code to log network information, and it is compltely possible that it was done on accident. You seem to spew off on a bunch of conspiracist bull**** without understanding a thing of how it works on a lower level. Keep that FUD to yourself.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] turbomeister:
You can't rebut the truth. Dont take my word for it. Look it up yourself. Then you can decide. Sure you can rebut my guess about how many lines of code was put in, but that doesn't negate what they've done. Would you like to find mistakes in my grammar as well and disregard the message itself?

FYI: the STATED purpose of scanning open networks was simply for network location. Downloading and parsing terabytes of data was not. WTF would a information company want with terabytes of personal data? I would hope a brainiac like you can figure that one out without me spoon feeding it to you.

Its not paranoia. Its simply business as usual for a company that doesn't care about privacy issues or ethics for that matter. It's no secret they do these things. It's only good PR that keeps people from seeing Google for what they are. Who's the idiot for thinking otherwise? Keep looking at the world through Google goggles and have a nice day!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kehlan:
Thank god you typed all that out so I didn't have to.

People take shots at Google because they want it to be like everyone else: evil. And they're just not.

So get used to it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Gary13579:
PR doesn't work when you have friends within the company. There are certainly privacy concerns at Google but none so blatant or as ****ing stupid as the **** you just spewed. Mind backing anything you say up with any sort of evidence, or am I supposed to trust the word of tinfoilhatguy? Try not to take things out of context or cite googleisouttokillusjewsdidnineelevendownwithnewworldorder.com.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] turbomeister:
Unfortunately, I am not one of those internet geeks that love to prove people wrong on the internet which you seem to be. All I'm doing is presenting an alternate version of what is spoon fed to you by the wonderful Google marketing team.

You can look up everything yourself...or don't. Honestly, I really don't care that much about you to go through all the work (I'm not exactly forum savvy, either). Lets just say that I'm glad there are privacy advocate groups out there that are fighting to keep corporations like Google in check.

Just look up the Canadian pharmacy deal and you and everyone else will get a good idea as to the type of company that we are supporting. This story you will find on quite a few reputable sources.

Will this open a can of worms? I hope so. I'm a firm believer in teaching others to fish rather than feeding them myself.

Sent from my Unlimited Sprint phone
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Gary13579:
tl;dr Google sells advertisements for Canadian pharmacies in the US. What's the big deal? SELLING ADS IS WHAT GOOGLE DOES. I don't see the conspiracy there, care to point it out to me? Perhaps Google is selling our information to the Canadian pharmas? Maybe the drugs are laced with acid and Google pushed the ads on us knowing this? Or, ohh! maybe Google *is* the Canadian pharmas, and is selling their own illegal ads for acid-laced drugs on us! THAT'S GENIUS, THAT HAS TO BE IT.

****ing take off your tinfoil hat already, it's making you look rather dim.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Live2Follow:
You're a dingbat. Google wasnt violating privacy with the Canadian pharmacies. They violated trade laws that don't allow drugs not inspected by the FDA to be sold in the states.

Second, the privacy policy is nothing new. People beg companies to have one policy for all products until we get one. This only outlines that they share with themselves across products. Did you even really review it?

You have an opt out. Bing. Oh wait they share with Facebook. You have another choice of phone too. Apple collects you're data too.

Maybe question the article and Fox news. Rupert Murdoch surely doesn't twist stories or have it out for not just Google, but the entire internet. Hell they haven't even done anything immoral.... Like steal information from a dead girls cellphone.

You're a gullible fool. And so is anyone who trusts any corporation. They are ask out for the mighty dollar and not you. Google or otherwise.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Gary13579:
Live2Follow, they didn't even violate that law, there's no precedence of selling advertisements for non-FDA inspected drugs being illegal (is there?), they took a statute out of context to try to stop Americans from getting cheap healthcare, gotta protect those US pharmas with their 5000% profit margins. If Google actually provided, or transported, or handled at all the drugs I could see them violating trade law, but as it stands it's bull****.

NYT:

Apparently if I take out an ad in the local paper selling an unregistered gun, the Justice Department needs to raid the Star Tribune as they helped me commit a crime. It's obvious bull****, if you as me.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] CrispyCritter:
Umm.. With Google's data mining practices they way they were before, they basically already *were* tracking our every move.. Now they'll just be doing it a bit more. As long as you're not some kind of international rogue spy, or a terrorist, I don't think Google's data mining practices are really that scary.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] drksilenc:
crispy they arnt doing anything more NO new data is being collected its all the same data now just spread across all google services.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] polish_pat:
Bought this battery from a reseller around here and I wanted to know whether i just gave up nfc for an increase in battery life? Also please explain why does nfc require a special battery? Why can't it just be a microchip emitting signal integrated in the phone?

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/270899338893?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Frogacuda:
I would assume so, but if you did, that seems like a pretty good trade. NFC is a dumb gimmick anyway, and I don't really trust the tech with my credit card/banking info given that mere proximity is enough to read it. I would never use NFC.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] AstroDigital:
Very short sighted it is as much as gimmick as Interac is.

I can not remember the last time I used cash, and why bother when all I need in my bank card and PIN.

Me I live in the 21th Century and I rather take advantage of it than wear my tin foil hat..... worry about everybody out to rip me off.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Frogacuda:
Who said anything about cash? My cards work fine.

But people can put an NFC reader in a bag and bump into your pocket on the subway. It's really not a particularly secure bit of tech, and it's also not a significantly more convenient thing than swiping a credit card.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] polish_pat:
Who cares what you think or dont think about NFC, please stick to the subject. Why do we need a special battery for NFC? Is it because the chip is in the battery?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Frogacuda:
Yes, basically it's a small, flat chip embedded under the sticker label on the skyrocket's battery. I think it works kind of like those security tags they put on books and DVDs.

Someone more knowledgeable than I might be able to tell you if it'd be possible to move that to the new battery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] yahooserious:
Soon as NFC catches fire..IF it does.. Then you will be able to purchase mirochip stickies that you can cement on anything you can imagine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] gdmuscle:
From what I have read on many online searches the battery does not have the NFC circuitry. The battery only houses the NFC short distance antenna, which accounts for the 4th contact on the battery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] christophocles:
Surely the Chinese battery manufacturers will catch on and we will see cheapo batteries with NFC antennae soon enough. But I agree with others here, NFC sounds like a gimmick and a security risk to me at this point. How strong is the crypto on this technology? It better be pretty damned secure or I will deliberately purchase one of these NON-NFC batteries for my next phone, lol.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] eagercrow:
That information is incorrect. Read around people here on the forums have NFC working. **Edit, I misunderstood you. Yes the battery houses the antenna, and the phone has the other parts of the circuity, but without the antenna NFC is useless.

And for those of you who think its a gimmick take a look at what one user here is doing with it:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] kr3w1337:
The reason why it isn't in the phone is because NFC has an operating range of 4 cm, your phone is already almost 1 cm thick, some people put those horrible otterbox cases on which another 1 cm thick, throw in interference and having that antenna inside the phone rather than the edge of the phone makes it almost useless. This is why the antenna is on the battery, will they move it to inside phone? Probably, but they would have to increase the throughput of the signal which would increase range but that would decrease security.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] crazed_z06:
That wouldnt really work. Google Wallet has a PIN, so even if someone had some kind of NFC device in their bag, they wouldnt be able to extract money because you'd have to manually enter your PIN before the transfer would go through.

On top of that, you need to be really close for NFC to work. Like the phone has to be basically touching the reader. IIRC, for mobile phones, 4 centimeters is the distance the phone can be from the reader. On top of that, the phone has to be unlocked for NFC to work. So unless you walk around with your phone screen awake at all times, it's a total non-issue.

A normal wallet full of cash and cards is much more insecure that Google Wallet and NFC.

NFC is great though. I use it at 7/11, rite-aid, cvs, and mcdonalds all the time.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tnoy:
Virtually all modern credit and debit cards issued by the major banks have some kind of contactless chip embedded in them.

AMEX has ExpressPay, Master Card has PayPass, Discover has Zip, Visa has PayWave. Different banks have it under their own branding, too. Chase, for example, puts them all under their "Blink" term.

The chip itself is like 5mm x 5mm, thinner than the credit card itself, and only really produces a slight variation in the surface of the credit card. You'll only really see it if you're explicitly looking for it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ian1:
I just ordered mine. I never like to buy from china but for 17 dollars even if i got scammed i thought it was worth the chance. Have you noticed an increase in battery life?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] polish_pat:
i got an extra 1.5-2 hours
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ian1:
ok kool im glad too here
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jamolah:
That looks like a good battery that will fit under the current cover. I too want an extended battery like this but I don't want to lose NFC...

I just ordered 5 NFC tags. I'm going to place 1 on my nightstand, 1 in the car and 1 at work. Each one will be programmed to to different things. For example the nightstand tag will turn off wifi, put phone on silent. The car tag will turn up all the sounds, increase brightness to full, turn on bluetooth and GPS and launch the music player. The one at work will turn off all sounds, turn brightness down to minimum and turn off bluetooth and GPS.

Once mobile payments come to my area I will use it NFC for that as well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] trajik78:
i guess when you get the new battery and NFC is grayed out in the settings menu you will have your definitive answer. i'd like to know fo sho.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] marvin02:
I just got this battery and nfc is not greyed out in the settings. But I have no way to test it otherwise.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] cschmitt:
Stock UCLD2 has NFC test that can be accessed via *#6328378#

Custom rom's might have removed NfcTest.apk as bloat, so it might not work on all.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] greekunit690:
I have the same battery. I can confirm nfc is working
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jamolah:
if you have a mastercard/visa with the paypass you can test NFC out. Make sure NFC is checked in settings, Unlock your phone and place the credit card on the back cover, if it doesn't trigger the TAGS app, move around the Credit card, I found NFC is really feanykey.
[Kindle Fire General] zonbal33:
I was reading this article http://bit.ly/o1fK41 and this user was able to play games on his phone with his PS3 controller.

Anyway to play games on the KF with a PS3 controller?
[Kindle Fire General] Takenover83:
Not until the Blue-tooth drivers get activated on our Kindle Fire. The hardware is there. Just need's activated.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blockbusteri:
I updated my X8 on android version 2.3.5, mod version is MiniCM7-2.0.7, after this ufdate my mobile network(data traffic) dont work. If anyone can help me with this problem is eliminated
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dsaklein:
Which kernel did you install?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dsaklein:
Lol, upload your screenshot....
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mohamedshajid:
Dude i also encountered the same Problem but i did it manually. dude make sure ask you're manual install IP Address from you're ISP provider and make sure Reboot You're phone , i hope so it would work :D
[Android Apps and Games] kd.fadi:
Hello!

in last 2 days i hade a new problem appeared from nothing, until it everything was ok and fine with google talk, 2 days ago a friend called me and asked if i have the gtalk problem like him, so we can login with gtalk but cant use it, all users is offline including our account user.

i dont installed any update or any weard apps firewall or somthing else,it just happened without any change,the problem in both connctions wifi&3G

we have Nexus S i9023 stock ics 4.0.3

and mine is AOSP+ 4.0.3

does any one have the same probleme or have any idea what happening?

sorry for grammar mistakes
[Android Apps and Games] Zokormazo:
Have you try deleting application cache/data? Something might help to wipe it
[Android Apps and Games] kd.fadi:
yes i do i :( nothing changed
[Android Apps and Games] Zokormazo:
i just tryed on my phone and gtalk works :S
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vishal911:
i want asnwer 4 ths 2 questions

1- why on some android mobiles we get out of space error when we try to flash image files

2-and why some android mobiles r unable to go into cwm or stock recovery mode even after succesfuly flashing cwm or any other custom recovery. i tried to go in recovery mode my cell stucks at zte logo
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deepash:
r u going thru hardware button combination ???
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] khpatel4991:
Ram is 1 GB still showing only 726Mb total...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jianC:
It is because GPU, Camera, Radio, and other physical system devices use part of the 1GB ram..
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] khpatel4991:
Not able to play asphalt 6..any remedies ?
[HTC Desire S] HobaMe:
I bought HTC Desire S EUR version, and managed to install ARA MEA version:

MEA ROM RUU_Saga_HTC_ARA_1.36.415.6_Radio_20.28d.30.0805U_3805.04.02.01_M_release_187871_signed

via Goldcard and it worked fine.

Recently I installed the MIUI ROM, so I rooted my phone with revolutionary and Clockwork recovery. but the MIUI have no arabic character support.

I want to install this shipped ROM:

RUU_Saga_S_HTC_ARA_2.14.415.3_Radio_20.4801.30.0822U_3822.10.08.04_M_release_226003_signed

but the phone won't boot after installation is complete !! HTC logo only :confused:

-Revolutionary-
SAGA PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-6.98.1002
RADIO-3805.04.02.01_M
eMMC-boot
Mar 10 2011, 14:58:38

Please help me what to do to install it as I still can install the first RUU but not the second one.

Thanks for help. I really appreciate it.
[HTC Desire S] foX2delta:
@HobaMe

Step 1) Flash ENG HBOOT 0.98.200

Step 2) Run RUU 2.14.415.3

To flash the ENG HBoot you can use one of these methods;

1) Fastboot

-Place the .img file (extracted from PG88IMG.zip) in folder you have setup for adb/fastboot

-Boot phone into fastboot

-Run command "fastboot flash hboot engHBOOToverARX.img" in CMD

2) Updater file (PG88IMG.zip)

-Place file (PG88IMG.zip) on your SD card root, and boot into HBoot, and follow onscreen instructions