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[Kindle Fire General] tkoreaper:
I don't see what's so wrong about it. He's doing a service for people and in no way harming the development of this device. It's no different from someone buying a car, fixing it up, and reselling it at a higher value.

This may be a valid issue if he's claiming the work to be his own which he is not.
[Kindle Fire General] AsakuraVN:
If some people are too lazy to spend 30min rooting the KF, just let them spend the extra 50$ on it

Theres nothing wrong with the seller, but I cant say the same for the buyer tho lol
[Kindle Fire General] dcaplinger76:
Nobody knows.... Maybe this guy has made a donation to the developers of the software he uses
[Kindle Fire General] jendol:
I live in Jakarta, Indonesia, and the price for new kindle fire is almost US$300 a piece, then if you want to have it rooted, install custom ROM and others, you would surely have to pay $30-$50 more. I do my own rooting and other stuff because I am comfortable with the technical stuff, other people who are not comfortable will surely be happy to pay for the service
[Kindle Fire General] efalis:
I work for a software company that sells and supports only GPL-ed software. Our licenses to our customers start in the low 5-figures of US$ - a year. There is nothing immoral about it, and the licenses we have from upstream developers permit this business activity provided we follow the terms of the license (including providing source code on demand to our customers).

So, in my view, the ethics of the situation are a matter of respecting the licenses under which the developers make their ROMS and other software available to us, and the sticking to the terms of those licenses regarding redistribution.

Unfortunately, it appears that most developers in this area don't state their intent for redistribution, or protect themselves and their software by stating that there's a specific license. On the other hand, one sees a fair amount of software from the Android Market that does have licenses such as the GPL. That's regardless of whether the software is "payfer" or "free beer".

Lacking that, I don't see why someone like the guy reselling the modified Kindle couldn't just drop a line to the developer in question. Even without a statement from the developer, he still retains copyright for his own work.

- Ed
[Kindle Fire General] kdkinc:
I choose not to buy this enhanced Kindle Fire.

Is this how this capitalism thing works ??
[Kindle Fire General] efalis:
It's the way it's supposed to work.
[Kindle Fire General] GBH2:
Hey, Nobody is trying to beat you up over this. It is not unreasonable that you had an instinctive adverse reaction to this activity - at first glance I can understand how it could "feel" wrong.

I look at it like this: If the developer releases the root files as freeware, and my neighbor came over and said "I am nervous about this, Will you root my Kindle Fire for me for $50?" I would do it and I don't think there is anything wrong with that. As long as the root method is freely available, and without any licensing restrictions, I don't see anything wrong with someone getting paid for the time and effort and risk involved in rooting someones device for them.

And if you still don't agree, it's cool, we are all permitted to have different views. :)
[Kindle Fire General] fiddlefaddle:
There is nothing wrong with selling his KF like that.... it is disgusting though.. ppl put a lot of work making ICS for kindle fire WITHOUT PAY!
[Kindle Fire General] asatnik11:
What about companies like Apple that take open sourse projects like BSD Linux and the Linux kernel and charge money for them? Is it immoral for them too?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c2t2l4n:
Can we port it ? Or a rom who looks like that!
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c2t2l4n:
We Can?pls
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nikkopt:
Sure.. We can :)

You can start :p

Sent from my bathroom using the toilet
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChongWiz:
It would be good if someone should port a Samsung rom, I like touchwiz UI and the amazing Samsung widgets, but maybe the S5660 have more similar hardware to the X8.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] yildizgsm:
hello guys,

after a long research i landed to this forum at last.

today morning i had a client who wanted to have new rom on his tp2 with russian language. but unfortunatly i flashed the tp2 with a wrong flasher! :mad: first time hapening something like this... i was pretty sleepy that i didnt even recognised that it was the wrong one... and now the client wants his phone back but the phone dosnt even turn on and not going in the boot menu... only when i plug the usb cable to the pc with the tp2, the pc recognises that there is a usb connected.. but only this.. im really stuck in a bad situation i would be very appreciative if someone can help me with this out :( the client will come tomorrow again, i hope there is some options to get the tp2 back alive:confused::confused::(
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] arrrghhh:
Try to flash back with stock, but depending on what you've flashed, it might very well be bricked.

This is why you should always be careful as to pay attention to what you are flashing.

Did you apply the wrong hSPL, or the wrong ROM? Did you flash something meant for a CDMA device on a GSM device...? Please, explain exactly what you have done.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] yildizgsm:
Firstly thank you very much for your answer. I apply the wrong hSPL. HardSPLWrapper_Blackstone i used, the hSPL from blackstone >.< ..my device is htc touch pro 2 Sprint . It much be CDMA but with Gsm radio as far i know. actually the progress didnt start.. there were not a loading bar and no boot mode on phone screen (green-blue-red). suddenly phone turned off and red service light turned on.now when i connect it to pc,i hear usb connected sound and the pc reads the phone as ''qualcomm cdma tecnologies msm'' and requests driver for it.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] yildizgsm:
Does anyone have a clue if there is a solution or what i can do ? or even if there is no way to fix it, except with Jtag ? :S
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] arrrghhh:
You flashed a RHOD with hSPL for BLAC. That's pretty blatant mistake dude.

I'm not sure if there's a way back. Try flashing stock like I already suggested. Try relocking too, I don't know.

You might have to go into mtty, erase everything, flash the radio, then flash stock. Next time, be more careful.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] yildizgsm:
I would flash it back to stock but the problem is that i need to get activesync with the phone.. my pc dosnt connect to the phone with activesync because i cant open the phone :S do you think with mtty it could work mate ? im gonna search for that now.. thanks
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] arrrghhh:
Try flashing via SD?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ccengineer:
HardSpl doesn't show a progress bar when flashed. Can you manually put the phone in bootloader mode (Press volume down button and power it up)?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] mr.horndoctor:
If you can get it into bootloader what does it show on the screen? You may be able to flash the shipped rom after you are in bootloader if when you connect to your PC it says USB toward the bottom of the bootloader screen and then click on the exe for the shipped rom on your PC. Or maybe try flashing the re-locker as suggested earlier to see if you can install the correct SPL.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] yildizgsm:
i cant get bootloader mode(volum-,power up).im gonna try flash via sd if no succes then gonna try relocker ...i'll post result..
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cajunflavoredbob:
If you flashed the wrong HSPL then you have bricked the device. There is no recovery outside of a jtag box. I don't know of anyone who has made one of those fora Rhodium anyway. It sounds like you owe your client some money.

By the way, if you can't get into the bootloader, then you can't flash via SD.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] arrrghhh:
Indeed, and a great way to end the thread.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tzwientjuh:
Hi,

I just want to say I am not a noob at this! ;)

I've successfully rooted/flashed 2 HTC Sensation with the new android 4.0. With the help of my brother IannEefje, as he is very active here.

So here is my problem.

I wanted to do the same thing for my Galaxy S2.

I've succesfully rooted the phone with Odin with this file => "CF-Root-SGS2_XX_OXX_LPB-v5.2-CWM5-PROPER"

Then I wanted to flash it to android 4.0. I used their roms, one by one offcourse= > 'AndyX' , 'Ressurrection Remix' and iGio90'

All were succesfull in recovery mode. (install zip from sdcard)

All roms booted, wich is good! But here is my problem, the hardware buttons do work but my screen does not respond. If I press a hardware button, the screen comes up but I cannot type my pincode or unlock my screen. And this is with all roms (I tested 4 in total)

I wanted to go back to the stock rom, but I can not do this right now because Multiupload.com is down so I can not download the stock rom.

I've read that overclocking/undervolting may be the issue here but I never did that.

Any help would be great because I'm searching for 2hours. And yes I used the searh thingy :p

PS: I bought my phone this moring :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Fastest fu999ked phone i have ever heard of .

You have got to revert to stock and reset the rom counter to test if its hardware and requires service .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tzwientjuh:
haha, indeed the fastest :D

Where can I find stock roms?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075278

his download links do not work ...

Hmmm Reset rom counter ... never came across that one. I'm gonna look it up!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tzwientjuh:
I used CWM to restore my backup. And still no screen response.

I think the roms are ok, maybe wrong kernel? I can't be a hardware fault, if it is ... naah it is not ;)

Still searching, anyone that had this before, feel free to post.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tzwientjuh:
still no solution found, everything is back to stock. Counter is set to zero ...

Is this really a hardware fault?

I have this phone for 10 hours and it is already broken! I just wanted Ice Cream Sandwich :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tzwientjuh:
After reading hundreds of post ... really, I've been looking on at least 10 forums, 100 posts, a dozen videos ...

This is what I found out: Due to voltage problems via usb/charger, the screen can become unusable. There is no fix for this. Well, some people solved it by using another cable or outlet.

My problem: no touch screen even without a usb/charger connected.

Bringing my phone back to the store tomorrow. I'll ask why this has happened. If i know something more, I will let y'all know.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] emprize:
Guys im looking for an app that can play mkv file, which one do u prefer? With hardware acceleration
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] randomgent:
Mxvideoplayer can play mkv 1080p video with H/W , though it only works with 8-bit video, not 10-bit profile.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] emprize:
how can i check my video is 8 or 10 bit?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] randomgent:
You can check it by going to the video properties on your preferred video player on your pc,im pretty sure most mkv files are 8 bit.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] wjharing:
is the 8bit restriction a limitation of the hardware, or of the (mxvideo)player?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] randomgent:
Im not really sure about that but whenever i tried to play 10 bit mkv video on mxvideoplayer with hardware decoding, it gave me a black screen.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] spiralz:
Dice

You might want to try Dice player as well, i had loads of mkv rips that would not play audio on other players but dice has never failed me on mkv's
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] randomgent:
I tried dice player it doesnt work. so far mxvideoplayer, dice player and moboplayer doesnt work for 10 bit mkv with H/W.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] reiconol:
I'm not sure if there are any players that can play 10bit files at the moment. For general mkv's I've been using Dice Player as it has been able to play all my files on my Asus transformer which other players weren't able to. But since the exynos processor is far superior to the tegra2 I would think any player that has hardware accelerated playback will suffice.

Most recently I've been using BS player as well for playing mkv's stored on my NAS streamed over wifi. This is the only player that seems to be able to play 720p video smoothly over wifi.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Eugene8310:
Stock Samsung player can't play MKV like Galaxy S and Galaxy SII?!? It's the best HW player for my SII...
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] lemoon:
I use MoboPlayer, it can play almost video formats well.

But I also got aneesoft video converter to help me do some conversions when need, and it let me to play HD, and AVCHD videos that shot by HD camcorder smoothly.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] uncle_buckman:
Aneesoft? Never heard of that. I'm looking for a .mov converter as the tablet converter had trouble with my .mov files.

Is that the best converter out there?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] lemoon:
Well, aneesoft video converter can convert the .MOV video well for my tablet, it has a special output selection for tablet, so you just need to choose your tablet model as output.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] teiglin:
I'll echo the mx player recommendation; I like its rendering options and subtitle support among other things. Lack of hi10p support is a hardware limitation. Video with 10-bit color profiles is just too new and (at least afaik) isn't supported by any current hardware. And of course mobile cpus lack the compute muscle to decode decent-quality x.264 smoothly. So as others have said, transcoding on your computer is your best bet. If you don't know anything about video encoding, try http://hi10ptranscoder.wordpress.com/. It's a simple program for this exact problem.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] jawil:
For me Dice-player had stuttering every 10 secs on some .mkv-files. The stock player doesn't stutter, but it also doesn't support movies with DTS-sound.

MX Player seems to work the best and it also has an option for SW-decoding the sound if a file has DTS-sound. (Have to change it from the default HW-decoding to hear sound.)
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] BAD_BOY_KIEV:
No need to worry about 8 or 10 bit - there are NO rips with 10bit of any movies, 720p, 1080p - all are OK...EXCEPT some crazy anime, seen them - I really don't get this 10 bit hype - just some ultra-grainy stuff...
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] dreamxp:
Stock video player can play MKV smoothly , why bother to use another player ?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] nectons2000:
Stock player doesnt play audio if the mkv contains DTS track.

MX Video player for me is the best. Without chainging the H/W decoding i just selecting the DTS audio track and plays it perfect.

I have done tests with heavy mkc samples with 20-40MBPS with DTS sound and it plays it so smooth. Smoother than my expensive O2 HMR-2000!

My oldest Galaxy S2 plays them perfect too but with same samples i have some frame drops some times even if i have it at 1.6GHz.

It seems tab 7.7 doesnt have excactly the same cpu/gpu. At papers it is the same. But not in real life. Maybe the memory or the controler or the chipset or the architecture? I dont know.

It plays PERFECT any mkv with DTS and it is an great media player. The only problem is to read NTFS HDD's. Because the fullHD / full length good quality movies is always bigger than 4GB's that the file system of TAB can read.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] dreamxp:
Ntfssd can read NTFS sdcard, Drive Mount can read OTG NTFS or EXT storage devices. These two app are free in Market.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] EarlZ:
I would have to chime in and say MX-Video player is the best especially on how it handles video stretching, the stock player cant really cover the entire screen and both dice and mvideo player zooms the image to fit the screen, only MX video player stretches it properly to cover the entire screen, pretty nice if your using a honeybar
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] kakahuynh:
Why would you guy want to play MKV video file with HW decoding mode?

There's a mkv file that I tried with stock player and MX video player (HW mode) but it only give the video without sound.

I try again MX video player (S/W mode) and it works fine...
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] uncle_buckman:
It's not on the free version though...
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] GadgetMe:
I use the stock player and it works perfect for me with all format i have used. So far it's most avi, mkv, and mpg

Maybe you can tell a little more specifik about the mkv file that fails? The "mkv" is just a container so it can be compressed in many diffrent ways :-)

Regards GadgetMe, GT-P6800
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] uncle_buckman:
I have some old mpg fil.es it doesnt play either. Pretty annoying
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] baduus:
I solved the DTS problem with Popcorn MKV AudioConverter.

I basically had it convert the DTS track to AC3 and add it to the MKV as a separate audio track.

As long as the AC3 track is set as the default in the MKV, then the stock video player will play it just fine... And the DTS track remains intact for when you play the file on something that can handle DTS.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] teiglin:
Two things. First, mkv isn't a video type; it's a container format, and has absolutely nothing to do with the type of video it contains. Regardless of that video type, however, decoding video through hardware takes massively less power than letting the CPU do it (i.e. software decoding in MX). For comparison's sake, I can play something like 10-12 hours of hardware-decoded video on a charge. Playing about 22 minutes of software video--one TV episode at 720p with 10-bit x.264--burned through over 10% of my battery. Obviously these figures aren't precise and will vary by video type and content (since screen power is also quite relevant, videos with lots of black simply consume less power, <3 OLED). As a ballpark figure, I tend to assume that decoding the same video through software will take 3-4x more power. If you want to test it yourself, the built-in battery stats will actually provide a mildly competent comparison: compare mediaserver battery consumption (hardware) to your player's battery consumption (software).

Second, if the video is encoded at a reasonably high bitrate, software mode will not play smoothly. You can use HW video decoding and still use software audio in MX by clicking on the little music notes next to the hardware/software decoding switcher, which works fine for playing DTS audio. You can even make this the default if you want (preferences->decoder->s/w audio), so you don't have to choose it every time you play a new file.

Or you can just do what the above poster suggested and transcode the DTS to ac3 or mp3 or any other sound format that our hardware supports.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Ciddy:
I'm using DICE player on my Galaxy S2 and it plays multi-audio tracks with several DTS audio tracks smoothly in HW.

As for the file size try formating the card in exFAT. exFat can go beyond the 4 GB file limit and can natively be read by many devices (both my Galaxy S2 and Transformer Prime, that is...).

I've had a high-bitrate 13 GB mkv (x264/DTS) running smoothly on both the S2 and Prime. If the S2 can handle it, the Tab 7.7 MUST.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] reiconol:
Another thumbs up for DicePlayer. It can play all my mkv files I have which include 720p and 1080p with DTS audio. The other amazing feature is it is able to access a samba share, and I can wirelessly stream my 1080p mkv files without stutter.

It can't play all files. I have some 1080p MP4 it struggles with, while MXPlayer has no problems. So depending on the encoded file I switch between different players, but DicePlayer is always my preferred choice.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Masterface7:
Man, Dice player has worked very poorly on my 7.7 tab after version 1.9.0. Meaning the video playback is stuttery and not fluid at all. Thankfully I have an old version that i use and it works perfectly but i wish i knew what happened to the new versions.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Manipur:
I use both dice player and vplayer. Both of them handles mkv files pretty well in h/w mode. Only problem is that I can't format my SD card in exFat format. It just fails to recognize the card.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] juami:
If you have troubles on MP4 with diceplayer.

press long key on file list -> select player -> stock player

It may help you. ( if MP4 file contains H.264/AAC )
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xybadog:
Q1). How can I confirm if my sd-ext partition is ext2,3 or 4?

Q2). Also, I'm confused at how my phone remembers certain settings even after formatting. I recently re-formatted my sd-card, re-partitioned it, and formatted my phone memory using 4Ext Recovery. I also installed a totally new ROM ensuring I unchecked "use Google to back up my phone settings". My dilemma is my wallpaper still appears (my own custom wallpaper). How can this possibly be if I've reformatted, wiped installed a fresh ROM, how can my "old" wallpaper appear?
[Android Themes] CurtisAndroid5:
Finally managed to create my first Widgetlocker theme; what do you guys think?

I'll be making a few quick changes later (changing the opacity of the slider background and the actual size and opacity of the triangle slider.)

Copy the ZIP file *DO NOT UNZIP* to the following location on your SD Card- data, com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker, themes.

The clock used in the screenshot is called BobClock- there's a link for it on an XDA thread- I'll try and find it.

Oh and the wallpaper is attached too in case anyone likes it.

Feedback would be nice- what would you guys like me to change?
[Android Themes] iamrajeev:
iLike , but using MIUI locker :)
[Android Themes] CurtisAndroid5:
Thank you:3
[Android Themes] raol.xh:
love it.thank u
[HTC Inspire 4G] Chad_Petree:
I wanna get the seidio surface but i'm afraid when i'm installing it will the screen protector, since you have to slide the phone throught the phone, you can't jut "pop it in". The only thing that ccome to mind is install the screen protectorafter installing the case, but i dont if it will fit with the case on.

Also i cant decide which screen protector to get :( zagg, skinomi or sgp , which one would you reccomend
[HTC Inspire 4G] 1ChesterD:
Been using the best buy branded version of the surface since the inspire was released. And have been using a screen protector since June. As long as you get one that fits properly, there's no need to worry. My case has been off a number of times, like to keep the rom updated, and protector is in great condition. As to which protector, I think that's a personal preference.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ZeroRilix:
If you want an antiglare one, go with the ones from Smartphone Experts from the Android Central Store at shopandroid.com. 2 custom cut screen protectors for $12.95 plus shipping. Very good buy and they last a long time. I work in a tire shop and it is very hard to scratch the protector and now I have them on my Vivid.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -greenboy-:
No matter what ROM and what kernel I use I always get 4-7 MB.

Should I call Tmobile and ask them?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] pieman13:
Have you tried using beastmod?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] SpydaPig:
Maybe youre just in an area where the signal is not that strong?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] capcanuck:
Look in the development section of this phone, you'll see a thread about the v6supercharger, kak, and 3gturbocharger. Run the 3g script, try multiple settings and find out which works best. You should also flash the latest radio if you haven't already done so. Hope this helps.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jRi0T68:
I've done all of the above, and get worse than that. I'm lucky to get 2 Mbs down. I thought it was a problem, so I went to a TMO store, compared mine to a SGS2 and an Amaze there, mine was a little faster than the store models. TMO service in Inland Empire, SoCal sucks.