yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ECrispy:
Have you tried applying the tweaks from here - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1470921

It might make your phone smoother and faster.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stinky634:
.... Double Post....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheAmazingGoop:
CM7 with SavagedZen kernel has always been rock-solid for me with fantastic battery life. Add the supercharger script too and it flies. Seems so much faster than any sense based rom and looks great with the ICS theme for ADW
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DCRocks:
I was getting ready to make a thread to ask this very question when I saw this one.

It seems that the MikG v3.0 is the way to go. Thanks for the tips.

I am used to Samsung phones, so I am a bit rusty on the EVO, so had a few questions..

Should I return to full stock, get the OTA, then apply this ROM?

Any concerns I should watch out for if I do go back to stock and accept the latest OTA, or do you guys recommend another path to get to the MikG ROM?

I got a pretty good handle on modding, was just looking for a basic highlevel overview of things to watch out for, that I may not have run into on my Samsung devices.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Captain_Throwback:
There's no reason to do anything related to the OTA prior to flashing MikG. If you already have a custom recovery (RA-supersonic - if it's CWM, that's the first thing you should change), just nandroid, do a full wipe (everything except SD Card), and then flash the ROM. If you need to backup apps, use my backup pro or Titanium Backup on the current ROM.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scienceisgod:
Go Deck

If you don't mind ditching a Sense interface for AOSP then I would suggest Deck's Gingerbread ROM http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1078558.

Just about tops for the two reasons you seem to be looking at... Stability and battery life.

His new ICS ROM has amazing battery life (over 2 days, single charge) but it's not at a daily-driver stage yet.

Good luck!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DCRocks:
Thanks, but Sense needs to stay, she is an iPhone type, if it dont look the same, its to much to handle, no matter what other benefits comes from it.

ROFL!!! :D

EDIT: Thanks for the tips, I updated to the newest RA, installed Mik, and restored data, worked like a champ!!!

Appreciate the help!!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Arktronic:
The LG MFG app has a section for editing certain security policies. I can post the info from there, if it'd be of any help. By the way, it specifically says "Edit security policy through registry" so it might not be the same policies that you're talking about, I don't know.

EDIT: Actually, looks like those policies are a subset of the ones listed here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb416355.aspx
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
@Arktronic: Interesting. Those policies (in the registry) are a legacy holdover from WinMo, and at least some of them have been superceded by the new policy system, but the fact that LG gave them specific mention in their app suggests that they still have some relevance.

However, you're correct that those aren't the policies I was speaking of elsewhere in the thread. It may be a good idea to explore them both in parallel, though. Which ones does the LG app list?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Marvin_S:
We already did some testing with those policy settings, but the ones granting more access were not available and the others could not get the app itself into an "unsafe" mode. But then again, I'm far from a professional when it comes down to these things, I just crossreferenced them all against the MSDN DB and looked for the ones that would make fileops possible, no luck.

I'm not sure if they added policies to the LG MFG app in the meanwhile (unlikely) but it might be worth it to investigate how the MFG app modifies those select policies.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Arktronic:
The latest ROM's MFG app has the following policy IDs: 4104, 4105, 4108, 4109, 4110, 4111, 4113, 4119, 4120, 4121, 4124, 4131, 4132, 4141, 4142, 4143, and 4149.

The last one isn't in the MSDN doc; it calls itself "FIPS Self Test Policy" or SECPOLICY_FIPS_SELF_TESTS.

There are potentially useful things like SECPOLICY_OTAPROVISIONING (4111), which has the value of 3732 - no idea which flag(s) that represents - but if there's a way to send provisioning messages to WP7, that might open up quite a few possibilities.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
I believe there's at least a chance for OTA provisioning. Sending custom SMS appears to be possible (click around from the link):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee498239.aspx

That said, it's almsot certainly either secured or disabled by default.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Hmm... does anybody want to take a shot at getting a decent decompile of lvmod.dll? I don't have the tools, though I probably should. Reading the disassembly is slow and painful.

I've found a few new things:

It's possible for two records to differ *only* on the third field, and even then the binary was more alike than not. Look at indexes 12 and 13 in the dump - they're really similar. They are built from the following policy rules (no promises on order):

<Rule PriorityCategoryId="PRIORITY_HIGH" ResourceIri="/REGISTRY/(*)" SpeakerAccountId="S-1-5-112-0-0-1" Description="TCB can do anything to all registry keys">
<Authorize>
<Match AccountId="S-1-5-112-0-0X02" AuthorizationIds="KEY_ALL_ACCESS, KEY_READ, KEY_WRITE, KEY_EXECUTE, GENERIC_READ, GENERIC_WRITE, GENERIC_EXECUTE, GENERIC_ALL, DELETE, READ_CONTROL, WRITE_DAC, WRITE_OWNER, SYNCHRONIZE, STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED, SPECIFIC_RIGHTS_ALL, ALL_ACCESS" />
</Authorize>
</Rule>

<Rule PriorityCategoryId="PRIORITY_LOW" ResourceIri="/REGISTRY/(*)" SpeakerAccountId="S-1-5-112-0-0-1" Description="Catch all rule to allow Normal and above apps to read/write to all unnamed keys">
<Authorize>
<Match AccountId="S-1-5-112-0-0X23" AuthorizationIds="KEY_ALL_ACCESS, KEY_READ, KEY_WRITE, KEY_EXECUTE" />
</Authorize>
</Rule>

I would have thought that either the different permissions being granted, or the different accounts they were granted to, would result in a different fourth field... but no such luck. Time to look into this further.

The accountdb.vol file has two databases in it, GroupMemberships (1105 records on my phone) and Accounts (291 records). The latter is actually much bigger in terms of data size, though - 70KB vs 31KB for GroupMemberships. The records in GM must be very small, probably just pair mappings.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Briefcase:
Hey GoodDayToDie,

Awesome job on sharing all this low level findings from underneat the hood of my favourite mobile OS. While i'm not capable of researching this myself due to lack of knowledge I love to read about how you (and other well known WP7 hackers as well of course!!) tackle the security and are willing to share this with the community to combine power. I think threads such as these are really necessary to get to the finish. Keep up the good work, i've got a strong feeling we will get there eventually :-).

THANKS
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Paul_Hammons:
Looks to me like this is the policy database.

Here is an example set of policies that enable/disable tethering on the Arrive.

Is shows the values needed to create/add a policy to the policy database. HTClv.dll shoudl be able do set/modify these values using "LVModProvisionSecurityForApplication"

You may already know this, but figured I would share.

Also, HTC has regedit.exe and HTC uses it to provision/make registry changes.

I will attach the regedit4 file HTC uses to configure the radios.

This also defines where the key UserProcGroup defines the TCB chamber a driver runs under. see... "UserProcGroup"=dword:5	; TCB chamber

Seems with using the registry editor, we could elevate any driver to the Kernel chamber.

See attached....
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Thanks for the info Paul!

I've heard of the "LVModProvisionSecurityForApplication" API before, yes, and it might be possible to use it here (*really* depends on how it works; if it just reads the app's manifest file like the normal XAP installer does, that's not very useful). LVModAuthenticateFile, LVModRouting, and LVModAuthorize may be extremely useful, though. It also might be helpful to try reverse-engineering how it interacts with the policy database.

The weird thing is, I don't have any htclv.dll or htcpl.dll on my phone, at least not in the \Windows folder. Perhaps they were removed in an older firmware update? It certainly sounds like they would provide the APIs I need - only for HTC phones, true, but they would provide.

The policy.xml file is the standard format read by PolicyLoader.exe, but that doesn't really help unless I can convince PolicyLoader to modify the ploicy database on a running phone.

Elevating an (already installed) driver to TCB might be useful (although I'm not certain that LVMod route-to-chamber rules wouldn't interfere) but all the useful HTC drivers are already in TCB, and installing any more drivers... well, I haven't been able to make that work yet, even old versions of official drivers with the necessary changes to the DllName in the registry.

It's really too bad you can't join in on hacking this stuff though, you've got the right ideas. Do you by any chance have a NoDo restore point you could downgrade to in order to try out some stuff on the old firmware?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Dumped the account database

Turns out the account info is quite straightforward. There are four fields per record.

0) String - the SID ("S-1-5-112-0-0X10-0X00000024").

1) Int32 - 0 for accounts, 1 for groups.

2) Int32 - always 0 on my phone.

3) String - account or group name ("TCB" or "ID_CAP_FILEVIEWER:Capability for hybrid file view app such as PDF reader etc." or "Settings3.exe Chamber" or "9BFACECD-C655-4E5B-B024-1E6C2A7456AC").

Not sure why the third field is there if it's always 0, but OK. The first and last were obvious, and the second was easy to infer. The last record has no fields, and the three immediately before it are without a fourth field; not sure why. All three are groups, and their SIDs are:

S-1-5-112-700-4160

S-1-5-112-700-5132A485-ADEE-5842-9490-856FFFFF2D6D

S-1-5-112-700-A22CF327-25C3-DB2A-A8DF-7BE586F11FBD

This database contained no binary blobs, so the dump file is plain ASCII text (the strings were originally Unicode but converted to ASCII gracefully). In the interest of making it easier to analyze, I ran a quick pass over the dump with sed and produced a CSV, which is attached.

Then, there's the GroupMemberships database. I think this one is probably less important for our concerns, but I wanted to take a look anyhow. It's the simplest so far, though that's not necessarily good. Each record has two fields, and both are just 32-bit ints.

0) Ranges from 0x30000006 to 0x3F0004A6, though the the third through fifth hex digits are always 0. Includes duplicates.

1) Ranges from 0x31000008 to 0x3100007A, then from 0x32000380 to 0x3200038C. Includes duplicates.

The mappings appear to be many-to-many (each account in multiple groups, each group holding multiple accounts) as expected. I'm guessing the first column is accounts and groups, and the second is the groups that the account or group belongs to. Given that some values appear in both columns (through in different records), I'm guessing nesting of groups is allowed.

I dumped and CSV-d this database, and it is attached as well. Ideas as to what's up with it are welcome too.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] fedmadcl:
What about this new android version? Are we able to install it? Is it compatible with our phone? Or at least it worth it to install it ?
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] THE-E:
Compatible for sure, but as far as I know just a couple of bugfixes. So wouldn't be something you would "see".

The major changes would be if we would get it with CM7 or CM9.

greets

THE-E
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] fedmadcl:
Sure! But with that we will be having the ICS or?
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] fender90:
CM7: Highly customized Gingerbread (2.3.7)

CM9: Highly customized Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.0)

[I'm guessin CM8 is Honeycomb, but I don't know anything about tablets so I could be completely wrong]
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] fedmadcl:
Do you recommend install the CM7? Or better wait the ICS....??? IF we get it...
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] THE-E:
There is no CM7 out, is there? I mean a stable usable version.

So whatever comes first and is stable, go for it ;-)

greets

THE-E
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] fender90:
There is no CM avaiable for our phone... yet. They will both come though.

KezraPlanes is working on CM7, while arco68 already has a bootable CM9.

It's just a matter of time :)
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] fedmadcl:
And what about samsung??? Do they will release ICS on our SGW? I heard some news that only on the S2, tablets and some other one... But not on ours... I'm impressed on how underated is this phone, even though it can be compared with a Galaxy S or even others which qualify for an ICS...
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] fender90:
I don't think it will ever be updated officially.

Samsung has a... "weird"... marketing policy that says our money is worth less than the money other people spend to buy top class phones.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] irishpancake:
Agreed.....but who cares what Samsung does......

There will be CM7......and ICS......in good time.......and no thanks to Samsung.......

It will be the Community which does it!!!

And it will be better without Samsung TW stuff, etc

robbing huge resources to no great effect.....

Just like my last phone, ZTE Blade..

Orange never released even Froyo 2.2......

But the community produced numerous fantastic GB ROM's, and there is also Cyanogen officially supported......

all this and more will come.....it is just a matter of time.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] jahlee:
Yeahh bro..!!this is one my favorite topics about Sammy's ****..who care about an official update..

u will get an ICS update soon...but maybe when Google hve release a update 8.0..:p

Don't ask with our device's father...Sammy's just abandoned his son from early birth...

We do have a stepfather who care much about us..its XDA..!!so,stay tuned..!

sent from another space
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] andynroid:
Exactly now we have :

1. GingerBread 2.3.6

2. ASAP...IceCream 4.0.1

3. GingerBread 2.3.7 on CM7..WIP

If anyone can develop on Froyo then the development is complete...they are still people out there crazy over Froyo :)
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] fedmadcl:
And guess what!! There is the new version of Chrome Browser (BETA) for Android.... Not a chance for SGW... Only applicable with ICS... grrrhh!!!
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] ingar195:
CM9

hey all

@acro68 is courently working on CM9
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] banelicious:
You just have to let it go with Samsung and their crappy marketing policies.

The shelf-life for our phone was decided to be very short.

Imagine: a mid-range phone with the latest iteration of Android. The sales of top-end phones will decrease dramatically.

That's why HTC, which is far more lungimirant about that, presented at the MWC the One V, same RAM but less clock on the processor, and guess what, with ICS.

God I hate you Samsung.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Barkt:
I'm a little new to the whole android scene, so please bare with me

I recently rooted my HTC inspire and installed LCs IceColdSandwich. I'm currently on 1.4. Lately I've been having a lot of music app crashes. It started around the same time that I manually changed the default Music.apk. After that I would crashes on almost all of my media players (I have several because I'm still picking which one will be my daily player). I didn't notice these crashes until I changed this apk, so last night I factory reset my phone and reinstalled 1.4

Unfortunately the problem is still there. I'm bringing this up on the forum because I'm still not familiar enough to know exactly how to trouble shoot it. Do you think it is a problem with the ROM (I hope not, because I fell in love with ICS), or just the apps? I've seen this crash on Zimly (which is my favorite), Cloudskipper and Cubed. The only app that hasnt crashed yet is my trial of Poweramp.

Thanks

-Barkt
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerrya:
To all the experts out there. I have a serious question (for me it is) for you.

Is there a program that allows me to wirelessly sync with HTC Sync? I know there is ADB programs out there, but they sync files. I want to sync my outlook contacts and calendar only, not transfer files.

I am using a rooted BAMF SoaB 1.04 Custom ROM with GoLauncher.

Anyone got anything?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daveoid:
Google calendar sync will allow yoou to sync your Outlook contacts and calendar with your Google account and Android device. Note: there are issues with the sync process, In my opinion this is not fully compatible with 64 bit win7XP or vista.

Good luck, easy to dl and set up
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exileee:
Has anyone tried any kind of Turbosim-like things to unlock your Lumia 710/800 phone?

I understand that Turbosim is a standard sim sized "card", but I found via google a lot of other choices which are microsim compatible. All of them are for unlocking Iphones, but anyone tried one with a Lumia phone?

I've got a Lumia 710 and cannot use it so I'm really interested in any suggestions.

Thank you in advance
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quailallstar:
Bump because I would also like to know.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Descention:
I wandered on over to opensource.samsung.com and found "SGH-I777-ATT_Opensource.zip" and am in the process of downloading it (slow download). I haven't seen it mentioned here at all and did a search for it but came up with zero results. Any ideas on what this is?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Red5:
Perhaps the 2.3.6 KK6 update?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Pirateghost:
its kernel source for the shipped rom, either kh7 or kk6....i think its the same kernel either way
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] axis01:
Heard it was Jellybean. :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
KH7 - KK6 kernel seems to be built off of the same source even though it shouldn't be (that's why BTHID is broken in KK6).

As in - this is ancient news, we've had that since 2 weeks or so before launch.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Smacdallas:
hahahah

No your mistaken their skipping j and go straight to Android kit kat;)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] @@@_@@@:
i have htc t-mobile g1 my set ver . 1.5 android ... how to update and which ver. is latest
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frankdrey:
Well you can go all the way to ICS unofficially :D

The latest official is 1.6 (http://androidandme.com/2009/10/beg...the-official-t-mobile-android-1-6-on-your-g1/)

I really recommend you root and install one of the following ROMs (choose, look em up or try each one!):

cyanogen mod 5 (2.1)

froyobylaszlo (2.2)

ezGingerbread (2.3)

Cyanogen Mod 7 (2.3)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] @@@_@@@:
give me error in update...

Installing update sfcard...

finding update package...

opening update packing...

Verfiying update packing ...

E:No signature (302 file )

E: verfication faild

Installation abord.

Press Home+Back to reboot....

update via this file.... ]http:code.google.com/p/android-roms/downloads/detail?name=signed-kila-DRC83-from-CRC1.c41b93c1.zip&can=2&q=

my firmware : 1.5

Baseband ver. : 62.33.20.08H_1.22.12.29

Kernal ver. : 2.6.27-00392-g8312baf Dan@Lab709 )

Build number : dream_devphone-userdebug 1.5 CRB21147201 test-keys
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
well you have a developers phone so it is already unlocked and rooted. depending on which rom you are trying to flash you may need to change up your radio\spl. but the problem looks like you are trying to flash a zip file through recovery that isnt signed. cant do this. try another link or another rom all together
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ninosmaxima:
By going into a local Tmobile and asking for a galaxy s 2 update ;-)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frankdrey:
It should be signed since its an ota update

1. He doesn't have a galaxy s 2

2. I don't think tmobile cares about the g1 anymore

3. If you are trying to say that your samsuck is better than our g1.......get out....

(:P)

Anyways, I think the devphone might need a different ota update, but really why don't you want a custom rom? Its even easier for you since you are rooted...
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] @@@_@@@:
thanks 4 reply..... give me link or any rom

i m new in android & htc ....
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
what do you have for a recovery? (when you hold power + home what happens) if you dont have amon_ra get that first, then new radio\spl and work your way to the 2708+

after this is done try lets say froyobylazslo (because it works and is a quick n easy flash) sounds like a lot to someone new to android i know but we all had to do this at one point we were all noobs! so do a bit of research in the threads first and if you cant figure all this out on your own then ask again and we would be happy to help (you will be much more satisfied if you do a bit of research and figure it out on your own) good luck, start with recovery, then new radio\spl and we can work from here
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] iAreBeRtii:
Hey all I've been browsing the forum for a couple of days and decided to join so I can speak with you all :D ok so I've been pretty scared with all this android modding and rooting etc. because its more difficult than anything I have done before u.u I have already semi-bricked a Galaxy Mini recovered it, then hard bricked it by flashing the wrong recovery :o but anyways I got a SGA like three weeks ago and I am one of those guys who like to mod/flash everything and I don't like the idea of my Ace being Stock xD (I have a flashed xbox 360, modded wii, and jailbroken ps3 and have done jailbroken/unlocked iphones) :o anyway I wanted help on how to get started on all of this, my phone is currently:

Stock Rom Carrier: Claro

Froyo 2.2.1

And I want to install any of these:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1458227

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1341426

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1461948

Can anyone guide me to accomplish this? :D

And perhaps I can learn from the one who helps me :)

PS: I have been reading on this forum for a whole week xD
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] -RDR-:
P.S.: b4 I post this let me tell u that i have been reading xda forums for a whole year b4 joining :-) :-P

Now lets get back to work :-)

So u r on FROYO huh ????to root on FROYO you can use SUPERONE CLICK ..they have a tutorial too ..next up why dont u upgrade to gingerbread ????then ull be able to flash CM7:-):-)..just google "2.3.4 for Samsung galaxy ace androidadvices.com.. they have a good tutorial too ....then google" root Samsung galaxy ace 2.3.4" to root on gingerbread (after u have upgraded offcourse)...hit the thanks button if I helped ..

Sent from my SGA rocking CM7.2 by vo-1 + all-in-one script
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] iAreBeRtii:
Wow! a whole year! :eek: well I couldn't resist and joined xD this forum seems to have an awesome community :D

Anyway I kinda knew about the superone click but umm if I root with that then I can go right ahead and install CWM and Custom Roms? :confused:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] -SGA-:
Install CWM4 or 5 for Galaxy Ace, you shouldn't need Root for this. You can find them on this Forum if you look. This will replace your stock recovery. Once this is done you place your ROM on the SD card, reboot into recovery and hit install from Zip then choose your new ROM. Simple as that.

If you need any more help let me know ;)