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[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Android does not use hostnames, everything uses localhost.

If you have a real requirement for a hostname you can use an alias in the /system/etc/hosts file after the localhost entry. Though most if not all android app are made to work with localhost.

If you are say running an ssh server you would just need your IP address to get to it externally. This will work with any service including something like air droid.
[Motorola Atrix 2] demonoid phenomenom:
one quick question, if i delete the hots file, would it be bad for my phone, any risk of getting any kind of brick? , i need to disable that file because it's blocking ad.fly pages on my browser, and preventing me to reach download pages i use from time to time

Sent from the gray stuff inside my skull
[Motorola Atrix 2] dk-v1:
Guess I could've put a little more detail in the OP.

I'm having issues connecting to a forum I use quite often, but only through my phone. The admin asked for the hostname of my device. Which brought me here.

Something about conflicting host names and another banned user.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
You can't delete that file. The next time you boot, you may end up in a bootloop. If you are having issues then you probably used some sort of ad block software, they usually have a way to put your hosts file back to stock in the app you used. I use ad away and it edits the hosts file to block ads, but I can put it back to stock from there as well.

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Well, then you are getting assigned an external hostname from your cell provider, they do that. I have the same issue with IRC when using my phones. IRC has a way for mobile users to connect over sts though. I would explain, to that site admin, that you connect from a mobile phone and that your hostname is being sent from your mobile provider. And that you can't control that. I can't tell you how to find the hostname they assign, easily, other than asking your cell provider, I had to get mine from ATT, and it was a pia since it is a dhcp hostname and changes with your cellular IP.
[Motorola Atrix 2] dk-v1:
Hmmm...ok, good food for thought.
[Motorola Atrix 2] 41rw4lk:
Can't they just use your mac address? It's not going to change (unless you spoof it), and it's an easy way to identify hosts.
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
Yes, you can.. but you probably wanna do it on your computer - root explorer will truncate it and cut off a lot..

Or you can clean it out entirely, and then use an ad blocking app to enable/disable. See here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=34498720&postcount=253

Sent from my paranoid phone's mind
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Be careful what you tell people, please, do a little research before answering someones question, if you don't really know for sure.

The hosts file has NOTHING to do with DNS lookups, it is a local hostname file, and is used instead of and before (if setup that way) DNS is used. DNS is handled by the resolv.conf file and tells the os who your DNS server is, there is also another file that tells the os the order in which you perform EVERY lookup (usually that is the nsswitch.conf file).

Here is a wikipedia description of what a hosts file actually does, it is a pretty accurate description:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)

As for the ad blocks, they are using full DNS names to resolve hosts back to the local loopback address which is the black hole of networking in an os (that is because it will send any request back to itself and put it in a null space, since there is no web-server running on the phone or localhost). The DNS search order on an android phone is hosts file, then DNS, that is why the ad block works as it does.

The ad blocking used in scv7 is from a plugin in the ROM kitchen, that does the same thing that ad away does. You can remove the line, but you would be best to remove all but the localhost line at the top. As alteredlikeness mentioned it is best to edit it through adb. Completely removing the file is a bad idea though.
[Motorola Atrix 2] sad_but_cool1:
Dns requests will look for remote hosts ip's from host/s file (1st phase). If remote distenation (normal case) is not in hosts file,then the DNS client (in this mobile) will try to resolve it via the distensions lookup table file (2nd phase)

So, by default, the internal loopback 127.0.0.1 is in hosts file,if you added xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx as *.yahoo.com in hosts, the client will connect to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx directly if you requested www.yahoo.com (without trying to look to distensions or to ask DNS servers)

You can trace ad blocking app action (replacing the hosts file with addresses of ads servers and redirect them to 127.0.0.1

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OP,

For your problem,try to use Google DNS servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Humm, I think I already said this in my last reply and even included a wiki link to explain this to those that may not understand this so well.

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What good is that going to do using google dns servers? He is getting a hostname from his cell provider that is conflicting with one that a site that he frequents, has blocked. changing his DNS servers will do nothing to help that. And to the person who asked about the whole deleting the hosts file, this also does no good. Technically this would be a great solution for someone having issues resolving things, but no one in this thread is.
[Motorola Atrix 2] sad_but_cool1:
You didn't said that, seems you do not understand the case well,the hosts file is the first step in DNS resolving chain,and you said that nothing to do with it.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Again you are the one who does not understand. the hosts file has NOTHING to do with DNS!!!!

A hosts file is a local resolution and happens BEFORE dns is ever called. I do this for a living!!!

take a look at the wiki I posted, and I quote from my above statement:

Might pay to actually read posts completely before posting information, especially when they are not 100% correct!
[Motorola Atrix 2] sad_but_cool1:
As you like WIKIman!! :D
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
It just helps to explain information in simple most of the time correct terms to people, that may not fully understand. It listed it out, very closely to how I explained it. I have been in the UNIX/Linux computer world for 20 years. I have been doing networking and designing systems for a very long time.

UNIX and linux servers and hosts files existed before DNS existed, so DNS is a whole separate thing from the hosts file resolution.

If you do not like wiki, then here is another link that explains it as I have also said it:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/hosts-files-explained/

If that was meant as a slap, I just have to laugh! But again, I see it too many times that people think they know, but they are only 80% correct most of the time, if you do not know and can not show your work, don't post it. Sounds like you have something to prove here, so go ahead and school me!
[Motorola Atrix 2] dk-v1:
Well this thread got a little lively...

I'll ask about the MAC address. Otherwise, I'll just deal with it when I'm on the go. At least for now...the "ban" is lifted on the 14th, so we'll see what happens then.
[Motorola Atrix 2] 41rw4lk:
I said the same thing you did "if the address isn't defined in the host file, your browser, app, whatever is doing the lookup will try your connection's DNS server next"
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
No, you said the hosts file was a go to file for DNS lookups.... again the hosts file has nothing to do with DNS... I know this is semantics, but what you said is technically not completely correct with that statement.

DNS is another process entirely from hosts file hostname resolution, and the hosts file is NOT a go to file for DNS resolution.
[Motorola Atrix 2] sad_but_cool1:
The hosts file acts like static DNS mapping table,if the required destination IP is not included in it/or in DNS cache, then the DNS resolving request is started using the lookup tables,then outside via DNS servers (defind in lookup tables is resolved file or similar).

So,if the domain is mapped in hosts file to a specific IP,then no need to start the DNS resolving procedure.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
It is NOT a static DNS table. Again the hosts file has nothing to do with DNS. What it is, is table with static IP addresses mapped to a hostname, you can however put hostnames that may be also in DNS, but then that begs the question of why even use a DNS resolver.

But you need to stop saying that the hosts file is a DNS resolution table, as it technically is not that.

There is a relationship between the hosts table and DNS, but they are not the same and the hosts file is a separate resolution from DNS entirely.
[Motorola Atrix 2] sad_but_cool1:
Why we use DNS resolver? To convert/translate hosts names or domains to ip's that we can connect to.

If we already resolves a certain domain to IP and puts it in hosts file,then no need to use DNS resolving cause we have the IP.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Then you must know the ip of every host on the internet that you might visit, that is what DNS does.

They both similar ways of doing the same sort of thing, but DNS is more widely used now over a hosts file, since every host would have to update their hosts entry when a change is made.

Besides sites like amazon and Google use several hosts/ips that can resolve to their DNS domain name, so the issue there is that with a hosts file that has several IPS with the same name can not be used correctly in a hosts file, and things like load balancers can make life difficult if you try to manage a hosts file instead of using DNS.
[Motorola Atrix 2] sad_but_cool1:
I just need to resolve domains I need just if I have some trouble with my ISP provider dns's,or not to resolve then if need to block.

And the domain IP don not changes a lot,even you change the host of your website,if the host IP changes,then the ns (name server) maps and connects the translated domain IP to the new host IP.

If I knows most of domains ip's,then the browsing will be faster cause there is no delay resolving hosts names.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
There should never be any delay in resolving domain names, if there is then I would not use your providers DNS and sign up for one of the more inexpensive DNS services or use some of the free ones. Mine takes 2-3 ms, any longer and your provider has DNS server issues.

What you can do is setup your DNS client to cache instead of using the hosts file. If you enable DNS caching it will store the sites you visit In your computers cache instead of checking the DNS server every time, you set how long to cache for.

That way if say Amazon's round robin changes, your client will still pick it up with out a delay. However if you do this with a hosts file, you might only be hitting 1 out of the possible 50 servers in that "cloud" that might serve you faster since the load might be lower, and the round robin will know that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Damented:
Does anyone know when the at&t version will be getting the update that will allow split screen?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] NightHawkUndead:
How many times can the same question be asked?

No one knows when it will come. Probably several months from now honestly.

If you want it flash an international rom. They are faster and have this feature.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] drakeymcmb:
Lol at " How many times can the same question be asked?"
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Damented:
I'll try to get a thread going just for you asking that very same question
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] KEVK:
CleanRom 3.0.1

Flash the latest CleanROM and voila! Multiview!!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Damented:
Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] k.babymamma:
Does clean rom have the free 2 year dropbox thingie? I know Jedi does.

Sent from my wet dream phone (GN2)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Android The Greek:
Mostly anything with 4.1.2 is based on the international rom, ergo dropbox with 50gb after loging into the app.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] universe555:
I am having call quality issues after updating my radio to the BLK version... am I correct that this is the component, and not the ROM, responsible for call quality?

CleanROM lite v4 is my ROM... updated the RPM as well.

If it is the radio... is there a better choice?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pkd600:
You can use any of the radios that were released for the Verizon model Galaxy S3. Just use whichever one works best for you.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pappy97:
Love the work here, just wondering if anyone is working on a JB rom for Thunderbolt as I haven't seen anything. If not why not if you don't mind me asking? Is it because there just isn't enough people interested in this phone anymore?

Thanks!!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RunNgun42:
This will probably never happen. JB is a 5th gen android OS and is designed exclusively for modern hardware, such as multi-core processors, discrete graphics hardware, etc. It's like trying to put Windows 8 on your TB, it just aint gonna happen. The amount of hacking and downgrading required to do it would make it no better than ICS, so you might as well run an ICS rom.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xs11e:
There are several developers working on JB for the T'Bolt with varying degrees of success, so far no "daily driver" has surfaced.

Keep watching the Android Development section and use Google to look around elsewhere.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tm24fan8:
Except for the part where I'm running JB on my OG Incredible which is even older than the Bolt.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryryrocco:
Same here.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dark Jedi:
Reason why you can run it on your dinc is because it doesn't have 4g plus it doesn't have the crappy ril that we have that keeps us from having a fully working Ics/jb rom to begin with.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shadow Death:
There was mention of it on the infected forums.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonbarsinistr:
It may make it difficult, but the main thing holding back jb development will most likely be lack of development. With the ability to modify the system and kernel, jb should very well be doable.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dark Jedi:
Its not doable because the bolt has a unique ril and if we don't get an official release from HTC. It will be plagued with problems just like liquids ics rooms with data drops and so on. No other phone uses a ril like the bolt does. This phone puts up so many obstacles until its not funny. Plus liquids ril was a fluke to make it work like they did.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swolfe2:
There is barely a daily driver version of ICS out for the TBolt. I sincerely there will be a JB version that doesn't suffer from data drops and other calamities.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] disconnecktie:
NuSense works fine as a daily driver for me. No issues of data drops
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xs11e:
There are multiple daily drivers with ICS.

First, I'll acknowledge the fact that all T'bolts are different but on mine I have used the original BAMF leak, NuSense and a few others as daily drivers. I've had problems with battery life on all of them but I have problems with battery life on ALL T'bolt ROMs, ICS just makes it a little bit worse.

None have data drops or other calamities on my phone, if yours does it may very well be your phone, not the ROM.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dark Jedi:
The data drops comment is more for the liquid/twisted ICS asop builds that had to have a ril hacked together just to get data to work. Twisted has worked on this ril and has made the data drops less frequent than the earlier builds. Reason why you don't have data drops from the leak and nusense is because the ril was done by HTC to work. So no the data drops isn't because of peoples phones but hacked together software that is still being tested abf modified. I run twisted build and get drops and if I run nu sense I don't get drops.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tburns:
My battery on twisteds lasts much better than any other I've ran ICS wise. I haven't tried nusense yet.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] travis82:
This is for TX ONLY LT29i UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER ONLY

Here is firmware 70A3197 with Gregs kernel together so you don't need to flash the rom and than flash the kernel.

*Instructions: Unlock bootloader, copy .zip to sdcard, flash, reboot

This rom includes:

Deodexed

Rooted and CWM ready

buildprop tweaks

240 Dpi

Issues:

Dialer doesn't fit it needs to be resized and I do not know how to do this/ So for now please download a dialer from the market until myself or another member can make a proper 240 dpi Sony stock dialer.

DOWNLOAD BELOW

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6pe-bp68gMkcUlpa0dkSmdmZGc
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] paullu:
thank you

let me unlocked my bootloader frist then come back flash this
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] skylovely2005:
Thanks a lot!

Hope it will be more function ROM~~

Anybody tried it?
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] darkslasher47:
Hi, may I know what is the advantage of having 240dpi? Can somebody explain it? Thanks.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] gregbradley:
Thanks. Will link to the all in one thread

Sent from my LT30p xda premium app.

How do I customise the signature on xda premium app?
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] ikarus_0209:
thanks a lot. We hope you will continue to grow. I'm happy to have the cook rom for tx
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] travis82:
I can make a very slim base if users want? If you have idea's feel free to ask.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] darkslasher47:
Ok thanks for the response :)
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Rycon33:
It will give you more viewing area like in webpages but it also makes the text small. And also, maybe some apps may not work properly. I personally prefer the default 320 dpi.

Tapatalked from my TX
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Fuzalert2k:
What's 240 DPI? Dots per inch..? how can a rom add that?
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] travis82:
Think of it like changing your screen resolution. higher res more icons fit on the screen. lower res bigger icons less desktop space.

Understand now? Good. :cool:
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] ikarus_0209:
Here is what I need. Thank you :D
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] markfirefly1:
i have jus bought a s3, the boy whoed me it all working before he sold me it and he sed he had to delete everything off it, all i know it had jellybaby on it, well anyways phone will turn on but will only get to the samsung overall symbol witch shows its trying to come on, i dont know what he does! iv just installed clock works on it trying to fix it could some 1 give me step by step infomation on how to get it back to normal settings please? or back on to jelly bean please?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Android_Monsters:
Can you get into recovery or download mode?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] markfirefly1:
i was able to get in to downloading but i have in stalled clock works now
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Goldbatt:
Read the forums and find out how to Odin, you can use it to reinstall the stock Rom in download.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Crisisx1:
Download the full jb firmware from Samsung updates website.

Download Odin to your computer.

Go into download mode on your phone, plug it into the computer, open Odin, click the pda choose the tar file you just downloaded from the Samsung updates website. Then click start.

That should Odin your phone back to 400% stock with installed fresh jb drivers.

From there you can root your phone, back up and flash away.
[HTC Wildfire S] skippycentraal:
SCvRom v4.0​

** AROMA BASE **​

** Sense 3.5 **​

** Beats Audio **​

Kernel: Non-oc, Dust 9.0 or Cake HTC-Lycan​

Theme: Stock- or Flying theme​

Rosie: Default, 5x4 Apps or Transparant Rosie​

Keyboard: Stock, Gingerbread or Swiftkey 4 (like swype)​

Choose Widget Center position: Sense 2.1 or Sense 3.5​

Internal memory to SD tweak: None, Link2SD and working Data2SD-EXT Most Stable and fast​

Installation

1.Wipe data (factory reset)

2.Wipe system

3.Flash zip.

Download: Download

To use Data2SD-EXT besure you have a first partition fat32 format and a second partition EXT3/4 format.

Tip: The best aroma settings are already set by me but you are free to change the settings ;)

Internal memory to SD is set to none, you can choose how to use it.

For the best performance use kernel HTC-Lycan

Reserved....
[HTC Wildfire S] goxymaster:
What is this?
[HTC Wildfire S] skippycentraal:
i'm setting up a new rom that are more focus for dutch people.
[HTC Wildfire S] Kishoke:
ok then... internet pass through like stuffs support ??

you specified about ext 3/4 ... what about ext2 ??? will it support or not ???

can this rom be used for daily usage... ??

Update....

attempt 1: Installed the rom...

waiting on htc screen for more than 10 minutes.... nothing happening...(pulled the battery out) im using ext3 partition and selected data2sd on aroma...

attempt 2 : installed the rom...

waiting on htc screen for more than 25 min.. pulled the battery out... this time i selected none on int 2ext tweak... and installed int2ext+...

attemp 3 : going to make a ext4 partition... done making ext4... installed rom... selected data2sd on aroma... after htc screen it reboots into recovery automatically...

selected HTC-Lycan kernal on the all above attempts...

attempt 4 : will update soon....

haha.. success this time... but selected no OC kernal and no Second partition tweak...
[HTC Wildfire S] Kishoke:
hmm... narrow fonts... looks little crappy... sense home screen please wait loading, loading and loading... i lost my patience and restarted.... going to flash other... sorry... :(
[HTC Wildfire S] skippycentraal:
Hi,

thank you for trying my rom, please can je tell me what kind of settings you used.

So i can simulate your problem so i can see what is going wrong.

Because i am using it without any problem.
[HTC Wildfire S] Kishoke:
used home launcher... not roise... sense 3.5 look.. selected stock kernal... selected none on sd tweak...
[HTC Wildfire S] skippycentraal:
Can you try one more time please i have a make a 4.1 version

Download
[HTC Wildfire S] Kishoke:
Im interested in your rom too... but im having a big problem with my phone... when i try to flash my phone with a rom and int2ext or data2sd like tweaks it hangs in htc screen...but without them it booting normally... and i restored my backup with int2ext installed already it works.... dnt knw what the hell happend/...
[HTC Wildfire S] Warren87:
I'm about to try. Thank you!
[HTC Wildfire S] Dr. Globbyglob:
nice...
[HTC Wildfire S] mesavage:
Failed after installation only HTC screen and no bootup, pre-wiped all caches, HTC-Lycan kernel, no partiition tweak, basically all the recommended settings and then I unticked some apps I never use and selected some I would.
[HTC Wildfire S] skippycentraal:
soon i will bring out a youtube installation guide, but i don't know why this won't instal on other wfs.

i have flash this a couple of times but no trouble.

So i wil look into it.

Thank you for trying.
[HTC Wildfire S] fireworker:
Please Upload Screen Shots
[HTC Wildfire S] tieskejansen:
What did you exactly wipe? Maybe I see the problem! :D
[HTC Wildfire S] franatic08:
Will INT2EXT+ work with this rom?

If the rom supports init.d scripts, I guess it should work.
[HTC Wildfire S] Wizard_Polska:
Can u upload some screenshots plz?
[HTC Wildfire S] Akshit Shah:
English language supported???

You should press thanks:D
[HTC Wildfire S] blackout1:
dead link?

The link for downloading this rom is down. is there a way you can place it again?;)