yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] derausgewanderte:
it doesn't let you personalize because Win8 isn't really activated, even though the messages tell you it is. The system files have been tempered with. Read more on MDL about this. It has been shown many times that it fakes activation.

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/th...if-any/page466?p=630762&viewfull=1#post630762

if you do a sfc /scannow and reboot you will see that your system is not activated. If you feel comfortable with it you can keep the files, however you need to realize that you are in fact not activated.

(to find out whether personalization works or not, got to the metro screen, move mouse bottom right corner to open settings in the charm bar, at the bottom you see Change PC settings, try to personalize Lock screen, start screen, account picture - if you are activated you have no problems here, if you are not it's likely greyed out)

best solution to get activated at the moment is to wait for a KMS server or wait until Oct26 to purchase it. You can try to register a PC you may purchase or already purchased here and hope that you only have to pay $15 when it comes out (for a PC you haven't actually purchased). It may or may not work. Many believe that MS won't be able to check that many registered PCs to see if these have actually been recently purchased. We will see.

good luck
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] atrix4g18:
Windows, not the program confirmed it was permanently activated. This is not kms... this is all done locally.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] atrix4g18:
484 thanks? And you are that ignorant? Please grow up. This requires build 9200. Not the consumer version and it works flawlessly.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] drraptor:
9200 build, is it a final version ?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] atrix4g18:
Interesting. I am not losing any functionality however so can you explain more? I don't see that personalization menu but I can personalize themes and stuff exactly like windows 8. Games work, net framework is functioning so I don't see what I'm missing out on...
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] atrix4g18:
UPDATE: Personalization does NOT work in METRO. Everything works flawlessly and I tend to stay in desktop mode so I didn't realize this. DESKTOP MODE CAN BE PERSONALIZED. This still gives you enables everything I wanted so I don't see the problem. My metro background doesn't matter to me. I can also just install a win7 start menu, but again I have no issues and this works flawlessly.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] derausgewanderte:
the more important point is that you are not activated. System files have been replaced and sooner than later with a Windows Update these files will be fixed. Just letting you know and that you are aware of it. The system "fakes" activation - period. It spoofs some strings and flips some "switches" to make things appear that you are activated when in fact you are not.

You can do everything else without Win8 activation as well and use the system forever. You have the watermark and a reminder to activate. You can remove the watermark and activation reminder with the remover somebody made . However, that patch will not report that you are activated, it will only remove watermark and bypass activation message. Your OP reports on a nasty (not only my opinion) patch that replaces some system files that actually fake activation. You should at least change the statement that it will permanently activate Windows8, this is not true and has been proven to be fake (see MDL posts).

I personally don't like patches that replace system files that I am not aware of and that claim to give you activation when in fact it replaces text within dll's that fool you. If you want to be informed on how to activate Win8 I suggest reading the MDL forum about Win8 activation.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] derausgewanderte:
as much as I don't like his attitude, he is correct that it is malware.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Ndaoud360:
It is not ACTIVATED! I downloaded to try and downloaded Microsoft something. I forget what its called but it checks for stuff on your computer that is not activated and Windows 8 was on there and said Windows 8 is not genuine. SO there you go.

I did manage to activate it permanently though by getting a serial number off a youtube vid and activate via UK Microsoft number and worked WITH personalize working!!!!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] the_scotsman:
THIS IS ILLEGAL. DO NOT POST CRACKS FOR ACTIVATING WINDOWS.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaxFTW:
Hello, guys! I am the Jelly Sandwich developer and I have one question for you. I want to get fast answer, because I want to release new version of ROM today. I modificated 4.0 to make 4.1 by adding tweaks to init.d, adding new status bar, etc. Flashing was succesful and ROM booted, but I can't use home button, there's no lockscreen and nothing but "turn off" in power menu. Please, help me! If I get help faster I'll be able to release new Jelly Sandwich even today! I'm gonna try to fix it by myself, but I also want to know if other people know what's wrong with that.

HELP! :)

I'm gonna click "thanks" button :3
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaxFTW:
I've fixed that, never mind. :)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _TB_TB_:
How?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jader13254:
You need Setupwizard.apk to enable Lockscreen and Homebutton, as it is not working while your setting up your phone :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] amehdi43:
Exactly like the Title says, I bought a GNexus off of craigslist, and my Wifi and Vibration doesn't work? I have tested everything else, everything works but those 2. I contacted Google, Samsung and soon I will contact Samsung UK.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] JimiGEE:
I have tried numerous searches, both here and google itself....and can't find an answer. I seem to find other people with a similar issue as I am having, but no resolution. I have 2 types of Clock/Weather widgets I have tried to use...both display the time correctly, but no weather. It will show my location, but again...no weather. When you click on where the weather would be, it will tell that there is no forecast details available. When I go into the settings of the widget app I am trying to use, and try to manually put in my location, It will say it can not find my location...no matter if i input the zip code, or city name. But again...the corrct location shows up on the widget itself when the GPS option is selected in location settings. The two widgets I have tried to use is, FANCY WIDGET - and LP SENSE CLOCK WIDGET (Both of which are HTC style clock/weather widgets, just the LP SENSE is the updated 4.0 version)

If anyone has insight on this, It would be appreciated. All I can seem to figure out the issue is, is that something on the phone is preventing weather to be displayed, as the problem happens on 2 different types of widgets.

I have tried a reboot, reinstall, wipe cache, etc
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tysj:
A lot of weather widgets that was using iGoogle's weather API is experiencing this because they shut down Google that API. Either wait for dev to update the app to use a different weather provider or switch weather services.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] JimiGEE:
By switching weather services, do you mean by finding a new widget...or is there a way to change the widgets weather service? I have been trying to figure out a way by editing something within the widget by accessing the files with root explorer, but cant find anything.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Slavestate:
You need a new widget. Something like AccuWeather, Weather Channel, Weather bug, etc. You need one that DOESNT use Googles weather service. I've never seen one that let's you change it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tysj:
Beautiful Widgets had an option to use either Google or Accuweather as a source, then again it's a paid app. I'm sure it's not the only one out there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] maxsalsa:
to me the same thing is going on for about a couple of weeks, and I do not know how to fix it.

Inviato dal mio HTC HD2 con Tapatalk 2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] krack73:
It appears Google has quietly killed its weather API

Reported story from http://thenextweb.com

Last month, Google announced plans to shutter iGoogle, among a bunch of other services. Many developers and users were (and still are) outraged, but at least they have some time to breathe: iGoogle isn’t going away until November 1, 2013. That means there are still 15 months left to adjust and export your data. Yet some changes are already starting to take effect: the company’s private Weather API, for example, appears to be dead in the water.

The Next Web has reached out to Google for comment. While there has been no official announcement or communication indicating that the API has been closed, it is noteworthy that iGoogle — the product that the API serviced — is now using Wundergrond.com instead, as you can see in these two examples: 94102 and Mountain View. This would suggest the search giant has knowingly made the switch.

It would appear that this error is happening because Google has quietly phased out its Weather API. A quick check over at Status Dashboard shows that the response time has dropped to -1 today.

In spite of no official word from Google, Web developers, many of whom have been experiencing issues, seem convinced that the API has been quietly closed down by the search giant. A Hacker News submission points to an error message that Google throws up when you try to query the Weather API with the 94102 area code in San Francisco while another developer over on Stack Overflow points to the same error when you search for a specific city, such as Mountain View:

We’re sorry…

… but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.

See Google Help for more information.

The error page features the old Google logo and a 2009 copyright stamp. Twitter users also don’t seem pleased:

Google a coupé son API Google Weather, SUPER…

— LegZ (@LegZ) August 27, 2012

Things I did not plan on doing this week: Rewriting weather app because Google shut down their weather API!

— Bradley Batt (@bradbatt) August 27, 2012

So Google pulled the plug on their undocumented Weather API? Expect support tickets.

— Joël Cox (@joelcox) August 27, 2012

Web developer Jordan Stephens isn’t even bothering to look for alternatives. In fact, CurrentlyIn has been completely shut down as a result of the Google Weather API outage, according to an error message from the service:

currentlydown : (

Google has shut down its undocumented weather API (which was used by this site).

currentlyin.net will be down for the forseeable future.

As this is a private API, Google is arguably entitled to pull support without warning but that won’t stop developers being disappointed by the move and lack of communication. Since its main purpose was to serve iGoogle, it is perhaps unsurprising that Google has axed it.

I was using Beautiful Widgets. The update as of the 03/09/2012

version 4.12 - 3rd of september 2012

- Remove Google Weather API
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] MrMarkEdward:
Yes Beauriful widgets is your best bet.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Ichijoe:
Well that explains a fair few things like why W&TW wasn't updating like it should've. While it's currently like 30°c outside today, it (W&TW), was only reporting a current temperature of 15°c, markably cooler then. Having taken the advice to uninstall and, then re-installing the App, has now left me with a dead App that can no longer pull in any Weather data here or from the States. beit by proper Place Name, or by Zipcode.

And I really loved W&TW too...

I for One am gonna miss the Cloud Animations.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] WonderWabbit:
Fancy Widget & HTC HD2 - answer

I have an HTC HD2 too

and have had the same problem with Fancy Widget not displaying the Week's forecast:

This was resolved by going in to

Opening up the setting of Fany Widgets

Open Location & Settings

change to AccuWeather

change Geocoder to "Weather Provider"

and i only Tick "Geolocation" = dont tick "Use GPS" to save on battery life

This should also help with your Weather location remaining up to date ;)
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poohbeah:
LG Optimus T (p509)

Android version 2.2 (stock)

I have decided to delve into putting a custom rom onto my LG Optimus T phone. The only reason why I wish to install a new rom is so that I can play with the newer android os versions (ICS or Jellybean).

I understand that these roms are primarily developed for the LG Optimus p500, but can I apply them to the T-mobile branded LG Optimus T? If so, is it stable enough to:

1) make and receive phone calls

2) take pictures/movies

3) text

4) wifi internet

So which rom should I use?

Also can someone be kind enough to direct me to the place where it teaches me how to root, backup, and install the new rom onto my Optimus T phone?

TIA
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluespoon4:
Ice cream sandwich and jelly bean have problems taking video, so I would recommend cyanogenmod7, it's certainly stable enough for what you asked and if you don't like it, it's easy enough to go back to the stock rom, just make sure to flash the old baseband fix since you have the old baseband, by the way, please read the forum first, you aren't supposed to make threads like this.
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -DarkKnight-:
I have a p509 so trust me

1. ICS and jelly bean can both make calls

2. ICS can take pics and movies jelly bean can't do neither

3. They can all text

4. They all have WiFi working

To install

1. Download z4root to root device

2. Switch basebands with lgdmp

3. Install custom recovery

4. Make nan droid backup

5. Flash jellybean/ICS

6. Flash Google apps

7. Reboot

Sent from the My Little Pony Official App
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poohbeah:
Thanks so much! I'm going to try this out later today.

Sorry about breaking forum rules, I was reading through most of the topics but I was confused so I wanted clarification.
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poohbeah:
Wondering if someone can help me get z4root running.

I downloaded the program and its on my computer desktop. I enabled usb debugging. When I copy the program onto my sd card's root directory, I cannot find the z4 program.

Can someone help me out?

Nevermind I downloaded a file manager program called "ESFile" and I was able to find the file in the phone.

--------------------

Okay, now I have a new problem, after enabling debug mode, I start the z4mod, and select the permanent root. Once it starts rooting, it seems to stay busy forever. It never reboots. What should I do?
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rr0yy:
Why dont you try Gingerbreak.apk. Search and instal on phone.

It will root your phone easily!!
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -DarkKnight-:
Gingerbreak is much more reliable

But if you want to temporary root then you should use z4root

Try super one click

Sent from the My Little Pony Official App
[HTC Sensation] lord5619:
Hi all again, another noobish question :)

i am facing some Wi-Fi issues (wifi dont turn on..i tried new roms, kernels, stock ones either, wiping etc...), so i decided go back to stock and i mean STOCK with S-ON, unroot, stock radio, stock hboot etc. > also because of warranty, coz new motherboard cost almost like whole new phone, and thats not acceptable for me :) but i want restore all the goodies, when phone returns from service!!! (ViperS 1.2.0 is so fraggin awesome!)

So my question is: Can somebody post some tutorial or help me with this? my laptop i so slow right now, word i write appears about 15 seconds later, so i can´t search :D :(

Thans in advance!!

Lord5619
[HTC Sensation] Obnoxious87:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1672425
[HTC Sensation] chrisund123:
Do a nandroid backup of your current ROM.

Change CID to the one you're meant to have. You'll need to boot into fastboot mode and run the command "fastboot oem writecid xxx" where xxx is your correct cid.

Run the correct RUU for your phone to install the stock ROM. You'll need to run it from a windows PC with the HTC drivers installed but without HTC sync. If it won't work, put the phone into bootloader mode and try it again.

Once the RUU has successfully flashed, boot into fastboot mode and issue the command "fastboot oem writesecureflag 3" to return to S-on. Make sure that step is done last else you'll end up with a brick.

I recently did the above for a friend's phone to return for warranty repair. It was successful :D
[HTC Sensation] lord5619:
So i flashed complete RUU ICS, get S-ON...and the wi-fi still doesn't work, I tried it for maybe half an hour...So i leaved it on the table and went play with my little son for an hour or so. Than a returned to my damn phone and wi-fi actually works!!! Quite strange, but great :)

Thx for help guys!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] GoThere@50:
Yes, I am a noob. New to Android but not PCs. I have searched all morning for an answer to this question and I am not eligible to post in "developers" yet so I am at your mercy.

Phone in question is box stock SCH-i535 @ 32gb. Will be using 64gb SD card class 6. I want to run BEANS ver 10 TW rom.

Here is the question: Is 'LinktoSD' compatible with or even needed in BEANS 10? If it would be useful in this ROM (to move as many applications as possible to External SD) should the required 2nd partition on the SD card for 'LinktoSD' be formatted as ext2 / ext4 or FAT32? I will probably size it at 2gb.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm just not sure about the best approach with BEANS 10, or if 'LinktoSD' functions are replicated in that ROM. (?) Or if BEANS 10 would have problems with the ext4 partition?

Thanks to this site and all the developers & contributers for making all this great information available to a noob like me! :good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] GoThere@50:
** To avoid confusion, I understand that a box stock phone can't run BEANS 10. It WILL be rooted and un-locked. :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] android94301:
See this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1849860

It doesn't seem to work on Beans 10, nor did it work on CleanRom 2.0. In fact, I'm not sure what ROM's it works on.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] GoThere@50:
snippits of info..

Thanks android 94301, according to the OP he thinks it should work on any custom TW ROM. In theory, that would include Beans.

I hope someone who has tried 'LinktoSD' on a Beans ROM will chime in. I'm still waiting on my SD card to arrive in the mail so I haven't started yet.

I suppose I could play it safe and install both SD partitions as FAT32 for 'LinktoSD', load Beans10 to see what provisions it contains for moving apps to SD, and if I feel I still need 'LinktoSD' the SD card will be ready. Then I could try installing 'LinktoSD' over Beans10 to see if they play well together. If I understand it correctly, 'LinktoSD' redirects to the SD partition on boot. Beans10 will have to allow it. (?)

Someone with more experience than I have may be able to comment on the compatibility of the two. I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking about this. :rolleyes: The feature set on 'LinktoSD' looks good to me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] android94301:
yeah the the OP is wrong. In fact, I'm not sure it works on any ROM, at least haven't seen evidence of that on this forum.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] GoThere@50:
Still looking..

That could be true on the developer's thread you quoted above. Zedomax describes that process as a 'hack' based off another program. What he's doing sounds similar but I don't believe he is basing his effort off of the 'LinktoSD' program itself. In that effort several people did report problems. 007willieruiz reported that CM10 needed a custom script, droidstyle reported that the kernel would need int.d support to work. Sshams95 actually did run that hack on the Beans ROM and ended up with duplicate file entries. That's all a bit too far out there for me.

What I was asking about was far more basic. Just running the 'LinktoSD' program itself, on the Beans ROM. The goal being to move 'active programs' (where memory speed is not an issue) from internal memory to the SD card, freeing up as much internal memory as possible for other things like (in my case) off road navigation programs and topo maps that will be resident on the device. 'LinktoSD' is showing downloads in the millions so it shouldn't be much of a stretch to think it's been loaded on a custom ROM somewhere. I should probably reserve judgment untilll I have the Beans ROM loaded, as it's memory management capabilities may be enough.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] GoThere@50:
Input from Galaxy S3 / Beans user?

Well, after more web searches it appears LinktoSD has been and is being used on custom ROMS as expected.

(Since I haven't done 10 post I couldn't submit the link.)

The biggest problem for that user group seems to be broken links to the second SD partition after flashing another custom ROM. I still have not been able to find an example of it being used on a Galaxy S3 running Beans ROM. Anyone? :confused:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] romiowong123:
I have this problem too:cyclops:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] GoThere@50:
Found the dude himself..

Well, I finally found some answers from the man himself (the developer of the program). See the following thread if your wondering about this program as I was. Curious note, the developer said he didn't think the Galaxy Si9000 needed the program as it has ample memory available. Still, a very impressive program. :good:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=919326
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ULEWZ:
Great info. I am still trying to find the magic program that will move apps to the Real SD card. I wonder if making one of the App2sD programs a system application would help things?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] GoThere@50:
Got through the ROM.

As I configure a device I keep running notes. I'll share these as they may help other's who are completly new to Android. They are cryptic but should still be of value.

I'll format the SD card to work with Link2SD > Used Mini Tool Partition Wizard, 2 Primary Partitions.

1st / 57.5gb / FAT32 2nd / 2gb / EXT2

Rooted with: "GS3DebugFSRoot R2" / Unlocked boot loader with EZ-Unlock / Copied internal file structures to External SD Card. / Loaded EZ-Recovery as per guide.

Note: The following caused problems - Must load the apps to be run at the root of internal storage. / Launch Superuser app before running EZ-Unlock, etc. Superuser may not run properly as those apps are launched if you don't run it first. / EZ-Recovery navigates via swipe screen. / Boot into recovery navigates via volume & home buttons. / The stock ROM links in the guide are bad, see P-19. / You only need to load a ROM via desktop ODIN, not a kernel, P-22. / "Wipe Data - Factory Reset" is necessary to prevent bugs & errors on status bar.

Finally got Beans 11 up & running, but I may not keep it. I'll load Link2SD when I've found a ROM I'll stick with. Still deciding that issue.