yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hardware Hacking General] TwiztedDotNet:
Aside from the (sometimes) lacking ability to shut down via remote, I have had no real issues with my Boxee Boxes (I have two).

I'm running the most current (non-beta) firmware, and use them to stream netflix as well as various media on my NAS. Although I'd love for this to be fully opened up, I see no real issues with the current performance. Don't get me wrong - I am all for unlocking and going fully custom, but these devices are working for me just fine.

I started off with XBMC (almost a decade ago) when I soldered my Xecuter 2.3b lite chip into my original xbox.

After that, I went a little crazy and equipped each room of my house with one (some chipped, some softmodded). But then HD took over, and the processors just couldn't hang... So I retired my clan of Microsoft hardware and picked up my first Boxee Box. It was fully functional right out of the box, and yes it has had its share of issues, but they seemed to always get worked out. I quickly started to prefer the Boxee layout to XBMC and still feel that way. Not to mention the RF/QWERTY remote (although back-lighting would have been nice). - Rii Mini works just fine for that.

Enough of the history rambling... I'd support this - especially since Boxee has turned its back from the Box, and moved on to a lesser device. I have no intention on picking up a BoxeeTV - the IR remote is the FIRST (of many) issues I have with it.
[Hardware Hacking General] jsievert:
Just a heads up, there is already some movement on this front with Boxee+.

forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=64648

boxeeplus.com
[Hardware Hacking General] masterbeta:
actually they are not violating the gpl

you can customize the "look" of boxee box - but cannot remake the firmware since it's signed....

if anyone is reading this - i believe the best method of approach is to access it's boot console (i believe it uses redboot) - method i have tried is direct ethernet connection and the boxee box is at 192.168.0.1 port 9000 - usually you access the console by hitting ctrl+c - i haven't tried ctrl+a though (i found ctrl+a within an iso file - for minicom) - the ctrl+alt+del seems to "freeze" or pause the boxee box.... and no i cannot check at the moment... lol

there is a 2-second window only for the redboot however, i can't find it ;)

good luck :)

oh, and curious as this is:

from buildinfo:

build by root@bamboo-agent-13-ota on Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:36:33 +0000

boxee 1.5.1.23735

ce_plumb dd2cb6584bd70454ebc4451d414f1ed77bb42b2f

and preflight.sh:

#!/bin/sh

# this is preflight.

# dump kernel

logger -t bxrec.preflight -s -p 0 "dd'ing kernel"

dd conv=sync if=/dev/spectra of=/tmp/kernel.img bs=256k skip=20 count=12

# hash it

logger -t bxrec.preflight -s -p 0 "hashing kernel"

kmdfive=$(md5sum /tmp/kernel.img | cut -f 1 -d " ")

logger -t bxrec.preflight -s -p 0 "kernel md5 hash is $kmdfive"

# if version 1 kernel, copy kernel.1 to kernel.img

# if version 2 kernel (hatung), copy kernel.2 to kernel.img

# else unknown kernel, use dumped version and note hash in mr. wong for support pickup

case $kmdfive in

"9f2ed11d55a3750019d019470212bf36") cp /tmp/upgrade_iso/kernel.1 /tmp/kernel.img;;

"a81c639b7c21d98fdde0b55d4e5356c1") logger -t bxrec.preflight -s -p 0 "doing nothing, this IS kernel.1";;

"d2ed7f9be38c0e0590a5680febd27502") cp /tmp/upgrade_iso/kernel.2 /tmp/kernel.img;;

"68777d9a8fede193ed434cf9a9cd3495") logger -t bxrec.preflight -s -p 0 "doing nothing, this IS kernel.2";;

*) echo $kmdfive >/data/.persistent/.mrwong/boxee.khash;;

esac

logger -t bxrec.preflight -s -p 0 "sync'ing"

sync;sync;sync

logger -t bxrec.preflight -s -p 0 "and we're outta here"

return

anyway... without accessing the box itself before it loads it's internal normal.img (ext2) and dlink_boxee_runtime.img (squashfs) - you are sol :)

the boxeeplus community is at least "hacking" - so does this mean boxee company is finally getting hacker interest? ;)
[Hardware Hacking General] Vision77:
My 2 pennies....

Boxee won't open source the box supposedly due to concerns from content providers. 1st off they are closed-sourcing a product which is based off of the hard work of the open sourced XBMC community. What really kind of sucks is that people who invested in the box are pretty much being left out in the cold. I invested in the box because I thought Boxee had the potential to be at the forefront of innovation for media boxes (which in some regards it was). Boxee needs to take a page from Google's playbook. Open source the box and benefit. Or, stagnate innovation and die....its your move Boxee. The set-top media box market will only continue to get more and more crowded. Why not have an army of innovators who will make your current and future products better.
[Hardware Hacking General] daytonka:
I absolutely agree with you. Desperate situation.
[Hardware Hacking General] demoncamber:
Coming from a fellow boxee user, it would be awesome to get this opened up. I'm tired of the audio drop outs. If it were hacked that issue could be eliminated and being able to really stretch boxee's legs to show the real power, would be awesome.
[Hardware Hacking General] DreamFX:
I never once have had audio drop outs. But have heard that a lot. Strange.
[Hardware Hacking General] demoncamber:
Use hdmi with lossless codes enabled and play back some dtsma or truehd content.

For me, it happens with .mkv's all the time.
[Hardware Hacking General] mortenaa:
You can already install a custom firmware to it, Boxee+

https://www.facebook.com/boxeeplus

http://boxeeplus.com

:)
[Hardware Hacking General] demoncamber:
Dude!!! Never heard of this!!! Thanks I'm going to check it out right now!!!

Sent from my MyTouch 4G
[Hardware Hacking General] burnes:
Thanks - checking this out now. Would still love to have an open system with a variety of choices. My Boxee box has basically been a dust collector since I got it. It sounded great and had fantastic potential, but like so many of these devices, support was not as it should have been and now its been dropped :crying:

EDIT: Ok, had a look at the Boxee+ Hacks. It's good for what it is however it's not really what I was looking for. It's not really a custom firmware, it's more of a boot-time patch that adds a bit of functionality.
[Hardware Hacking General] linusthaman:
Android

the main problem with the boxee and with boxee+ installed, it´s still slow, realy slow, if we could install Plex on it, the box could take care of the plkayback nothin else, and it would most probobly be faster?

Android or, plex straight into it would be lovley! the hardware is decent ant if i dont remember completly wrong there is stuff out there that uses the sama cpu running android, am i wrong?

xbmc is fine, but there is one problem with xbmc, watched content, if i start watching a movie in my livingroom i want to be able to continue in the kitchen and also know what i have seen and not seen.
[Hardware Hacking General] Magnusmarshall:
Unfortunately boxee going to remain just as it is.

Its approaching its end of life as it would have if it had gotten continued support.

Boxee plus adds much needs features but other some minor tweaks it does nothing to fix the the core issues in the firmware.

Would have been great if it was open but for once boxee was probably being honest (go figure) that they were forced to not breach thier contracts with the likes of netflicks.

The added money from sales of box's still out there don't hurt either.
[Hardware Hacking General] closer9:
You can do it with XBMC, you have to setup a MySQL server to host data between clients. It looks like a pain though. I do agree with you though, having a full Plex client on my Boxee Box would be awesome.
[Hardware Hacking General] x000x:
i dont know how useful any of this info will be but, boxee uses Intel Atom CE4110 processor. maybe one day, some version of android could be put on it?

i dont know much about it, but didnt intel release an intel atom x86 version of android? http://software.intel.com/en-us/art...ly-bean-installation-instructions-recommended

or, what about google tv? the boxee apparently uses many of the same system components as the logtiech review. logitech revue uses/used google tv. and seems as though there was an update for google tv for the revue recently http://forums.logitech.com/t5/Revue-and-Accessories/New-Revue-Update-Currently-Going-Out/td-p/906482

so maybe somehow, that could get showehorned into boxee. i know, a lot harder than i make it seem, but just putting the indo out there :P

here are the system specs from ifixit:

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Boxee+Box+Teardown/4109/2#s19326

(also mentioned on an earlier page)

Nordic Semiconductor NRF24LU1P (same as logitech revue)

Mini PCI-E wireless card: Broadcom BCM4319XKUBG

some other hardware info http://www.boxeeboxwiki.org/hardware

here is a link stating it has similar hardware as logitech review http://gtvhacker.com/index.php/Boxee and mentions some stuff about rooting.
[Nexus 4 General] phositadc:
Google dropped the ball on this one. First, no gps button. Second, the buttons that do exist only take you to a menu (ie, the wifi menu) from where you can actually turn things on or off. Also, apparently no ability to customize whats in the quick settings.

With all the great implementations of quick settings available in both custom roms and widgets, google had a lot of great ideas from which it could have modeled its own quick settings, but somehow it managed to put out this worthless piece of garbage. I think most people will have to keep using widgetsoid or notification toggle and google's quick setting will almost never be used. What a disgrace.
[Nexus 4 General] BennyJr:
Add it to the other thread. ib4tl
[Nexus 4 General] phositadc:
Another thread on how bad quick settings sucks? Link? If so my bad.
[Nexus 4 General] FISKER_Q:
The kind of people who want to badly customize it, is also the kind of people who do not need settings to do it.

I'm fine with it, if anything it'll probably only take the CM team a few minutes to change the functionality of it.
[Nexus 4 General] Pragmata:
I agree. If anything, it gives a new platform/base for CM or other developers to build upon and a pretty spiffy one at that. I think it's a great first release for a feature. Just because you can see the future of it in current roms or inherently tell where it's going doesn't mean it shouldn't be a welcomed improvement. Could they have made it better? Of course, but that's not a reason to overreact and call it a "disgrace".
[Nexus 4 General] RoadHazard:
Yeah, I don't know what they're thinking. The buttons should obviously be toggles for quickly turning things on and off, not shortcuts to various settings menus. That's what the regular settings button in the notification shade is for. I was really excited when I first heard about this feature, since I expected Google to do the logical thing and put a bunch of useful toggles in there, but what they've ended up doing seems pretty pointless to me.
[Nexus 4 General] phositadc:
A great first release? I think it's a horrid first release. It takes as many clicks to turn wifi on or off in this implementation as it does under the current ics or jelly bean 4.1 without the so-called quick settings. Moreover, this is hardly a new feature. It has been around in roms and widgets literally for years. People want one-touch access to the most commonly used settings, and this so-called quick settings fails to provide that. And who the heck made the decision not to put gps in there?

Even as a first release, Google should have surveyed what is currently out there and tried to make its implementation at least as useful. I think it utterly failed. If you don't, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
[Nexus 4 General] phositadc:
Thank you... I am not sure how anyone could disagree. Yeah, the two fingers to swipe down is cool, and maybe people think it looks nifty, but functionality is nearly nonexistent. And isn't functionality what android users demand first and foremost? If I want a beautiful but useless user interface, I'll look to apple.
[Nexus 4 General] NienorGT:
Do like me, ignore them and hope CM will keep what they are doing best...
[Nexus 4 General] Kookas:
I liked the idea of swiping twice to bring a second notification shade down. But yeah, them just linking to settings pages sucks a little. The ideal setting is to tap to toggle or hold to dive in and change settings in detail.
[Nexus 4 General] raze599:
Ever since I found about about most settings just directing you to the appropriate settings menu, I was also disappointed.

The only proper toggle I think there is brightness, it brings up a little popup in the middle of the screen with a slider.
[Nexus 4 General] Andraxo:
google's probably going to update it soon
[Nexus 4 General] crachel:
Keep your opinions in here

Google ******* fails again...

Thanks

Closed
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] BookinZ06:
Quick question- - someone is selling me a T-Mobile s3. Can it be unlocked to work on art?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] AttachedSilver:
Please do research next time. your answer is here gotta know how to use the search function. & to answer your question, yes you can but you won't LTE on AT&T
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Dr.Mcq:
Yes it is possible. But keep in mind that you will only get HSPA & no LTE
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
Please read forum rules before posting

Questions go in Q&A

Thread Moved

Thanks

FNM
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] likwaiw:
I found it on google:

http://www.batterybay.net/Battery-for-Samsung-GT-N7100-p/samsung-cs-smn710hl.htm

Looks good but cost USD 27. But not sure how this one working. I am now using the portable charger for my note II LTE (using the charger previously on my S3). I wanted to know who has the experience of using this battery from this website, how is this battery and the battery cover feel??? Does it look stupid???
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] ethics101:
Why not just carry a spare battery. This makes the phone huge.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] likwaiw:
Always open the housing cover to change battery is too trouble. Also, no battery charger that can charge the battery alone, need to get the empty battery into my phone and charge it is annoying!!!:D:D:D:D
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] RambJoe:
http://www.handtec.co.uk/product.ph...r-stand-with-battery---white--eb-h1j9vmegstd-
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] diego1985:
This is a extended battery, last longer than any phone ive ever owned.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] likwaiw:
This charger dock is great. I will buy one!!!! :p:p:p
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] mike2518:
Same here, the stock battery is awesome.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] iceman19631:
Yeah boi...I'm looking to get me an extended battery as well. Have always used them and let me tell you, it is sweet having 2-3 days of use without having to worry about a charger. This phone is big already so having an extended battery isn't going to change that issue too much. Besides, it'll help with not snapping phone in half like someone did for their S3...OUCH!!!
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] initial_k:
FYI, the dock is just a dock. It does not charge the phone when it's dock.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] likwaiw:
I got my extended battery today. Really great~~~

This friday, I do not need to worry about the charger of my phone when in pub. :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

I got 70% of energy when leaving the office. Sweet!!
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] plaztikcandy:
What kind of screen time have you been able to get with a full charge from this battery?
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] likwaiw:
I didn't counted it. But my Note II is always on during office hour. Many calling in. Also will used to check email and play game or video when I am having meeting outside (Play it during the traveling of course, :fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:), I think it is about at least 5.5 hours for my office hour and only consume 30-35% power which is really good.

Evening time, my phone is mainly using for text msg and gaming (but gaming at evening is not usual) and a little calls. Until bed time, the battery still got 40-45%. That make me feel safe for able to not stay attached with the wall plug. :cyclops::cyclops:
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Myrder:
I have been reading multiple threads/posts about the Beastmode v4 kernel. Yet, I am still a little bit confused. I had planned on trying to flash v3 this morning and then I saw v4 got released, so I decided to read up on it. I have it downloaded and waiting along with the cam fix just in case cam doesn't work.

Just curious on what I needed to do? I've read about a lot of bootloops happening because of over clock and under clock issues. I'd really like to try and flash this first time with out getting hung or stuck in a bootloop. I've read the entire http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1959395&page=4 thread. However, v4 doesn't have a boot.img file in the .zip.

What do?

Also wanted to look at changing my radio to the 2.41 version on the ViperXL thread. If anyone has any links so I can read up on this, please post.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Deleted member 3452239:
Just flash it in recovery
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Myrder:
So mount to sd card and flash through TWRP, sweet.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Deleted member 3452239:
if by mount you mean copy to sd card and then install like a normal ROM, then yes
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Myrder:
Yes, lol. Getting ahead of myself. I tried copying and flashing, now I'm at a 10% hang...

EDIT: Never mind, went past the 10% straight to "finished"
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] GenuineMP5:
Did you have to do anything with boot.img? Or just flash the kernel. Did you need the cam fix?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Myrder:
I do need the cam fix, planned on flashing when I got Beastmode v4 installed.

As for the boot.img, the kernel .zip doesn't have one. With this kernel, it makes it in the Aroma installer.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] GenuineMP5:
Sweet. Was hoping this was something that could be done 'on the fly'. I didn't want to have to worry about fastboot flashing anything today. lol
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Myrder:
Yeah, in one of the folders it has a file "abootimg". Which is where the Aroma installer makes the boot.img.

My only problem is it's not installing... i get a 10% hang for a few min and then it goes straight to finished... :(
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] GenuineMP5:
Mine seemed to work fine. It hung at 10% for what seemed like forever, then finally finished. Booted into Viper and checked the clockspeed in the tweaks app. I was able to move the max speed up to what I had selected in Aroma (1.8). Sweep2wake works too.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Myrder:
Maybe I need to factory reset then install viper again then the kernel?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] jrlatta:
i wiped the caches and flashed the kernel, it took a while to install but when it did it was working. is anyone else seeing their screen flip backwards every now and then? my whole status bar was like a mirror image and on the other side of the phone
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Myrder:
Sounds like your kernel is conflicting with your ROM? That's what it sound like to me at least.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Crappyvate:
Can we refrain from starting multiple threads about essentially the same thing http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1971667

this is not craigslist...
[Galaxy S III Accessories] nico39:
Hello,

I've use the good mod created by mattiadj (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1772234) and it's mean work!

I've so actually some games into my Extsdcard (that my phone see as internalcard), but this games have sometimes some lags.

I think it's because the games are installed into the extsdcard. I've right?

In this case, it's maybe because my Extsdcard is a "simple" card, not a samsung card?

If i change my Extcard, this lags will be again present? If no, what Extsdcard (32go) can you advice me?

thanks, and sorry for my english.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] dave2metz:
Huh?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] nico39:
I need to explain?:)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Speedin07si:
So your afraid your games are lagging because you have a "cheap, subpar" micro sd card?

Possibly but doubtful...

If your games require a internet connection , could be a slow connection.

Btw horribly explained.

Sent from Pluto.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] shangrila500:
The way I understand it is that apps that's are on the external card are slower, no matter, what than ones on the internal card. So even though you have a sub par SD card moving to a higher quality probably wouldn't give you a noticeable difference, depending on the size and demands of the game.

If you did decide to get a better quality SD card then I would go with one of the sandisk cards as opposed to a Samsung SD card. Everyone has their own preference for SD card manufacturers but I've always stuck with sandisk and haven't had a problem.

Sent by one of my many Anthromorphic Personifications
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sakisosf:
I have a rooted optimus l3 but I have a problem.When I had CM9 I download the data files of MC3 directly from the apk (by hacking the vold.fstab) but now the hack of vold.fstab isn't working (because im using 2.3.6 stock rom) and I don't know how to use directory bind.Can you help me
[Motorola Droid RAZR] futbolesvida:
Currently running CM10 unofficial spyder, build date October 2. I have the xt912, and im getting roughly 20% battery drain in an hour with screen on and set to auto brightness using 4g since installing this ROM. Searched through xda forums for hours before registering but couldnt find a definite answer. Saw in a few places that google now may have something to do with it but turning off googles location services didnt make a difference. Processor underclocked to 300mhz min and 1000mhz max. Can anyone suggest a more efficient ROM, or have any idea why my battery would be draining so quickly? I used to get right around 11 to 12 percent drain with an hour of screen on time before flashing this ROM.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] NoLimit64:
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[Motorola Droid RAZR] arnesottolo:
Sure is not battery percentage adjustment related? If you flashed CM10 using SafeStrap3 could be this.
[HTC One S] AYTIM:
Hi everyone,

I am trying to revert my phone to stock rom.

I dont know which RUU to flash and I have tried the Asian version. It didnt work and pop out error says I had the wrong version of RUU.

I am now stuck in the HBOOT. It seems the only solution is to find the correct version of RUU.

I have the following information on my phone:

HBOOT-2.09.0001

RADIO-16.05.20.16_M2

Hoping someone could give me some advice such that I could at least use my phone.

Billion thanks...:confused::confused::confused:
[HTC One S] mistermanko:
use command: fastboot getvar cid --> u will get the CID of your phone which will tell u which RUU u actually need.
[HTC One S] beni8978:
You need ruu_villec2 2.15

Sent from my HTC One S using TrickDroid 4.0.0
[Hardware Hacking General] drraptor:
Please list Mobile phone for which most of the sources are available.
[Hardware Hacking General] drraptor:
Resvered.
[Hardware Hacking General] drraptor:
Google nexus Series ?

Found an old list of Tablets http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/android_tablets/