yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Topics] 13lack13ox:
LOL REALLY!? Considering I paid for my property, I will do as I please to it. What a joke!

Whats weird is you have to sign a contract, so if I unlock. I still have to pay until the contract is up. I am just not understanding this decision. How are carriers gonna keep more ppl/make more money by doing this. Switching providers? Guess what they own you until your CONTRACT IS UP! I used to work for an att dealer and they actually make more money off prepaids. Granted you pay outright for a phone, but rates are so much more. What the heck is perma locking phones gonna do. If I want to switch/stop service Ill just get a new phone or totally use google voice :) (which is what I do)

so SCREW YOU CARRIERS! signed!
[General Topics] Pat.:
Ok so why couldn't the providers who are bothered put in the contract that you agree not to unlock it & if you do & the phones ID is spotted in use with another sim they reserve the right to block it.

Then people who don't like that idea could just buy a phone elsewhere or sim free. Or on contract where no unlocking stipulation exists.

Why is there a law.. what are the social benefits of a law & who is it protecting & from what.
[General Topics] egzthunder1:
The name of the law itself should be able to answer most of your questions... Digital Millennium Copyright Act

For all practical purposes, it is meant to stop piracy (unauthorized distribution of intellectual property). CTIA made a compelling enough case that they forced the exemption on this to fly out the window. They just made a weird extrapolation of facts that likely confused the daylights out of the librarian... Almost like the Chewbacca defense.

Sent from my... well.... it's complicated
[General Topics] votinh:
If this rule goes by easily, next big thing would be enforcing to sign 4-year contract.

This is bad.
[General Topics] Pat.:
It doesnt answer it really does it. In Europe digital copyright laws are designed to protect against piracy & have recently been relaxed a little for private use.

Unless maybe the new laws are just to stop profiteering from distribution of the codes. But some countries see it as more important for us to have the full use of our handsets. I have demanded (successfully) early unlock when data service went down & I think consumers should actively demant an unlocked handset at point of purchase.
[General Topics] egzthunder1:
It doesn't answer the why this is being done but it does answer your question of who this law is meant to protect. Now, this withdrawn exemption, which is the subject of the thread is not the law... It is but a piece of it.

Sent from my... well.... it's complicated
[General Topics] qw3rty3:
How can we get this posted on the front page? Seems like most xda readers would care about this. The petitions at 50,000 in 8 days, but its going to slow down when this is out of the news.

When you click top petitions on that site, this one has the most without reaching its goal. Even the petitions with less signatures reached their goals because wh.gov keeps raising the limit of signatures required to get a response. The original threshold was 5,000, then they raised it to 25,000. Then one week before this petition was posted they raised the threshold to 100,000.
[General Topics] egzthunder1:
I already wrote an article about 3 day's ago and it has been up on the portal since then... It needs to be spread through word of mouth and other channels to make people aware as well.

The latest rise in required signatures was because some moron made one that got to 35k signatures where he asked for the government to build a Death Star.... Fml

This is why we can't have nice things....

Sent from my... well.... it's complicated
[General Topics] Product F(RED):
This petition is really moving along. 52,000+ signatures with no sign of slowing down. I just hope we don't get a generic response on why "this new law won't affect most people." It needs more coverage from major news outlets. I'm talking television. The response will be different if more average Joes are watching this closely.
[General Topics] lord_nathan9:
I signed this. Unlocking should always be legal.
[General Topics] DanRyan85:
53,000 Signatures!

We now have 53,000 signatures on the petition found at https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cell-phones-legal/1g9KhZG7.

Spread the word by telling all those you know. Let's finish strong!
[General Topics] DanRyan85:
Losing speed 56,000 signatures

Everyone please don't forget about this issue. Super Bowl is over now, and this petition still needs over 40,000 signatures. We can do this here on Xda if we want to! Please spread the word.
[General Topics] Viper Matrix Wireless:
Why isn't this on the news page? Maybe you'll get more signatures that way.
[General Topics] egzthunder1:
It is...

And I tipped pocket now on this as well and they jumped on it :)
[General Topics] DJ aliasz3d:
I thought it is only illegal without carrier permissions?

sent from my i9305 running perseus

---------- Post added at 08:22 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:21 AM ----------

That's what the bill said

sent from my i9305 running perseus
[General Topics] KemikalElite:
Signed this and shared to Facebook.
[General Topics] orzorzw:
:good: Totally agree!! Unlocking should not be seen as a crime!!
[General Topics] md1008:
Unlocked At&t note i717 using a paid service. Although apparently illegal I was able to unlock with ease.
[General Topics] insua.:
I do not live in United States but join me to your cause : Good:
[General Topics] ElephantThong8:
Thank goodness I live in Ireland then I'll still sign the petition nevertheless!

FREEDOM
[General Topics] g4illou:
Good initiative but I doubt it will change something. Please someone release an open device .
[General Topics] Product F(RED):
Nope, even if you were to unlock it today, it wouldn't be considered illegal because the phone was originally purchased before January 24th, 2013. That's one exemption.
[General Topics] qw3rty3:
One week left and we still need 30,000 signatures. At this rate we're not gonna make it. It will be sad to get 3/4 of the way to the goal then fail.
[General Topics] gcretro:
Bump. Folks sign this and pass it around so others do.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cell-phones-legal/1g9KhZG7
[General Topics] jctennis:
Did my part. I hope they listen, but I'm not holding my breath.
[General Topics] bbrad:
Did my part got my whole family to sign
[General Topics] ElephantThong8:
Only over a quarter of signatures needed to reach the goal be a shame to fall short of the mark now.

On valentines night I had planned to spend it with my special girl, but unfortunately she took sick and I had to take her to the vets the next day :(
[General Topics] gator365:
Signed it and forwarded it to a few friends. I hope something actually comes from this, but I'm not expecting much.
[General Topics] Product F(RED):
Holy crap guys! We did it! 101,000 signatures!
[General Topics] TingTingin:
Success thanks to FRED ::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

PHONE SLOW CLICK ME?

_____________________________________

"If your doing the right thing then to hell with everyone else -Deadly"​
[General Topics] Product F(RED):
Thanks but it wasn't me :p
[General Topics] KemikalElite:
XDA news said it was thanks to twitter and the anonymous people.

I guess you can always count on twitter to give anything attention #uselesshashtag
[General Topics] Product F(RED):
Yup. Also even though we didn't get an official White House response (and I'm not holding my breath), the FCC chairman said he'd take a look into it: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/01/fcc-chairman-on-unlocking-policy/
[General Topics] Smurfette69:
You have my vote :)

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Xparent Green Tapatalk 2
[General Topics] neverhave2worry:
if is it illegal why companies share the how to unlock your phone threads in their webpages?
[General Topics] Wave3.3:
who could ever come and check to see if your phone is unlocked?

bought the phone, then it's mine, I'm doing what I want
[General Topics] worf_1977:
It's illegal there, back in the U.S A., but here in Europe it is not that way...

How lucky we are, aren't we? LOL
[General Topics] Product F(RED):
It's not illegal to unlock your phone in the US. It's illegal (now) to unlock any phone purchased after January 24th, 2013 without carrier permission. Anything bought before that is exempt, and you're also exempt if your carrier refuses to give you the code in a timely manner.

But yes, it is BS.
[General Topics] HappyBirthday:
You'd think time could have been better spent on other bill items and laws. What a great country.
[General Topics] Product F(RED):
Holy crap, they responded and they agree with us!

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/its-time-legalize-cell-phone-unlocking

OP, add this to the OP!
[General Topics] votinh:
Yeah, saw that.

It's a good news, at least our voices heard.
[General Topics] egzthunder1:
Yup... gonna get something up in the Portal sometime later today.
[General Topics] Product F(RED):
Interesting that the PDF linked in the article mentions opposition to Secure Boot in Windows 8 among other things, citing that it only exists to prevent you from installing an alternate OS on your computer.
[General Questions and Answers] zimhack:
I thought I MUST unlock bootloader in order to root, flash custom recovery or ROMS.

But sometimes, I see some writings about how to root without unlocking the bootloader.

I'm really confused. How is it possible to root without unlocking bootloader?? I thought I must unlock it in order to root devices!
[General Questions and Answers] Lifehacker7:
Not essentially! Consider an example of atrix2 which I own, locked bootloader, still we have so many ROMs built up. They are all running on stock kernel itself. Reason why u unlock bootloader is to be able to flash custom kernels.

And root works without unlocking too;)

(unless the root method literally unlocks the bootloader or needs it to be)

Sent from my muffin LIFE! Under maintenance.!
[General Questions and Answers] zimhack:
Thx for reply!!

Thx for reply!:) I'm kinda understand now LOL

I'm only 16 so still, I dun know much about Andorid, and I'm starting to learn it. haha

Sorry for my bad English, I'm S.Korean and we dun use English....:crying:
[General Questions and Answers] Lifehacker7:
Nvmd:)

Sent from my muffin LIFE! Under maintenance.!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xRaul:
Hi were cand find a tutorial to help me to make a simple File Manager for android .. or who can help me.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricf17:
Hi guys. First post. I’ve searched for hours and gotten nowhere. Time for me to step it up…

Original info

Model: GT-I9300

Android: 4.0.4

Baseband: I9300XXLE8

Kernel: 3.0.15-554452-user se.infra@SEP-74#1 SMP PREEMPT Sun May 13 06:36:17 KST 2012

Build no: IMM76D.I9300XXALE8

AP/PDA: I9300XXALE8

CP/PHONE: I9300XXLE8

CSC: I9300OPSALE4

Carrier: Optus (Australia)

I successfully rooted my device with CMv10.1 and flashed 4.2.1 onto it. Everything was going well until my device began continuously crashing (apps closing, etc). I found that the problem may have been that I only wiped the data (‘wipe/factory settings’), and not the cache and Dalvik cache.

I decided to go back to stock ROM, re-root, wipe everything necessary and re-flash.

I DID create a Nandroid backup before flashing, but I put it onto the internal SD card (as I didn’t have an external one). I then tried to copy it to my computer but I wasn’t able to. So I don’t have a backup.

Using Odin v3.07, the original USB cable and a direct USB port, I attempted to flash a stock ROM onto my device.

Put the device into download mode, connected (Odin said ‘Added’), checked ‘auto reboot’ and ‘f. reset time’, opened the stock ROM into the ‘PDA’ section and pressed start. It got stuck at ‘hidden.img’ for two hours.

I disconnected the device and tried to turn it on. It now displays: “Firmware upgrade encountered and issue…”.

I then realised I may have been using the incorrect stock ROM (an Australian one, but not the Optus branded one as it should have been).

I found a stock ROM that matched all my information (above) to the letter. I proceeded as I did above, but this time it got to a point where Odin status displays “RADIO” for five seconds, then “FAIL!”. See notes below. At least the other (incorrect) stock ROM looked as though it was actually doing something...

<ID:0/005> Added!!

<ID:0/005> Odin v.3 engine (ID:5)..

<ID:0/005> File analysis..

<ID:0/005> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/005> Initialzation..

<ID:0/005> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/005> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/005> modem.bin

<ID:0/005> NAND Write Start!!*

<ID:0/005> FAIL!

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

I’m stuck. I’ve read about PIT files and that I may have caused a problem along the way, but I’m not sure.

Last thing to note: I can’t add the .md5 files into the PDA section of Odin. I always have to change it to .tar. It comes up with this:

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> MD5 hash value is invalid

<OSM> I9300XXALE8_I9300OPSALE4_I9300XXLE8_HOME.tar.md5 is invalid.

<OSM> End…

I would appreciate any feedback at all on this guys. I’m very excited to use this device but I’m worried I’ve done some damage…

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Reads as probable corrupt firmware download .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saywhatt:
I suggest you download the rom again from sammobile.com :)

Cheers!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spamtrash:
1. Your ROM is corrupted, if Odin says such.

2. If your phone is "dead" try one of these, following the instructions provided in the post.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricf17:
Solved!

Amazing! Must have just been a poor stock ROM. Grabbed a new one from SamMobile, followed the same processes as before, and this time it worked!

Thanks heaps for the extremely helpful replies guys. I've been re-energised to get right back into this whole thing!

Cheers again. You're all legends.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demian93:
Hi, I have a galaxy s2 in what i believe is hard brick mode. A little backstory, i was watching some stuff online when i noticed the battery bellow 35%. So i pluged it to the usb charger. I left it there for like 20 minutes. When i came back, i unlocked the phone only to see tons of "error" messages and the force close window. Apperently it had to force close /system?... I was puzzled so i just pulled the battery off and on and tried turning it in. Stuck at the welcome screen. I tried ro acces recovery mode. The android icon was "dead" and some error messeges appeared in red, unable to mount /system, invalid argument. I turned it off, but the welcoming screen poped up without me touching anything. I left it for a few minutes. Then i pulled the battery off for a few minutes too. When i tried to turn it on again, the phone was dead. Nothing works, i tried:

Pressing the power button for a minute

Download mode

Recovery mode

Leaving the battery out for hours

Leaving it charging for hours

Nothing. Im stunned, mainly because i never rooted it or touched anything. Im desesperated at this point, any help will be great. I abused google and made tons of search, but everything related to my problem has to do with flashing and rooting failures. Which i never did with my phone.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
If you've never messed with it, and assuming it hasn't expired time-wise, send it in for warranty service. If you don't have warranty, try another battery just in case, then try a jig. Then start looking for JTAG repairers (assuming it can be JTAG'd), and if it can't, take it to local mobile repair shops & have them take a look at it. If they can't/won't fix it, then send it to Samsung/authorised repairer.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demian93:
I think i voided the guarranty by updating the phone to ICS a few months back... Im trying the battery swap now.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theunderling:
That wouldnt void the warranty.

{go back to your iphone since you are an android noob}
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qrono:
It depends on how he upgraded to ics, if he did from an official update then is ok, but if he flashed a leaked or a custom rom based on ics then no more warranty if he can't flash the original samsung rom
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demian93:
Already tried changing batteries, didnt work...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
You know what to do next then.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demian93:
I still dont understand the cause of the brick, my phone is dead and it wont even charge. This is bogling my mind. And yeah im an adroid noob, this my first smartphone.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] catfishbilly:
i am on cwm 6.0.1.2 by siyah kernel and on Resurrection remix 3.1.3, i want to change the recovery to something else that can maybe mount ext sd card. any one can point me in the right direction?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aliishere:
have u tried Kernel Dorimanx or philz(touch recovery)??
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] catfishbilly:
i tried dorimanx kernel can u point me towards the philz recovery?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] catfishbilly:
a little bit of help guys?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cosmic Blue:
30 second search in development forums and you would have found it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1877270
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] catfishbilly:
found it, so should i flash it through cwm or odin?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theunderling:
Here you go.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] catfishbilly:
thanks man, but the thing right now is that i dont have stock recovery, i have cwm from siyah which i want to change, you have any ideas on how i should do it?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theunderling:
It doesnt matter.What he means is that it can also be flashed via stock recovery.

You can also use a kernel cleaning script before flashing it if you wanted to.

If CWM cant mount your ext card, then use Odin.

.tar for odin

.zip for cwm
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N-E-X-T:
where can i download ginger dx v29 ?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gogeta:
Why v029:confused:

V30 is much better
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaqfan99:
And just in case I may have suddenly forgotten how to time the two buttons, I tried downloading Play store apps (they dont need root, which i don't have anyway) and they indicate that my screenshotting service isn't active.

I've never tried to turn it off, but I guess there is a chance that installing some other app might have messed it up? the only other thing i could think of is that i might have killed a crucial process when i first saw how you could force stop apps and processses.

I've tried rebooting. no luck.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaqfan99:
why can't I solve this? no one really can help???

this is my first android phone and i really expected there to be more help with this kind of thing
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] estallings15:
Android pro tip.

If your having a software issue that you really can't seem to fix, perform a factory reset. If that doesn't fix it, you've got bigger problems.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaqfan99:
thanks

i have a noob question

how does factory reset work?

will it erase my photos and apps?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] troubleshot:
If you have your google account synced and all your contacts on your google account, the reset will put it to defaults and as soon as you sign in will re download your apps and contacts. At least that's what I have had happen. Make a back up externally just in case
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Izobonnki:
PRESS and HOLD the volume down and the power for a few seconds and it should take a screenshot (maybe your not holding it down long enough). factory reset deletes everything off your phone's internal memory.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshnichols189:
Factory resets from recovery don't do that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cam1pbell:
What happened to the headphone icon when you plug in your headphones. The newest update 4.1.1 the icon is gone. I thought it was just me so I went all the way back to the original firmware and let the updates, update. Still no icon. If this has been addressed sorry I missed it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] magneticzero:
Settings>Accessory and goto the bottom and turn it back on...alongnwith the annoying quick launch apps in your notification pulldown bar
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cam1pbell:
Wow!! Don't I feel like an idiot. I looked everywhere in settings. I guess I need to slow down. This made me laugh. Thanks:eek:
[HTC Pico (Explorer)] pleto:
hello all sorry if I open this tread but I'm downloading files from every part but do not fit. Use this rom http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2043433 I want to know if I can change the theme in some style without having to install other apps go launcher. I would like to find a theme in the system settings. I started this tread because the thread of the rom nobody answers me. thanks
[HTC Pico (Explorer)] Parth_14:
What's the point of starting this in dev section??? :confused:

Useless!! Should be closed :thumbdown:
[HTC Pico (Explorer)] vishuhtc:
u have to post this in Question & answer Section Not Development Thread

change to there

U can install Xperia Theme from Themes & Apps
[HTC Pico (Explorer)] pleto:
sorry I made a mistake I had to post in general. as I move it? can you delete?
[HTC Pico (Explorer)] vishuhtc:
i think Moderators will Take care of That
[HTC Pico (Explorer)] Parth_14:
How do u report a thread....can anyone tell? From xda app?
[HTC Pico (Explorer)] pleto:
I pointed out
[HTC Pico (Explorer)] goateegauti:
Which ROM are you currently using???? If its cyanogenmod based then goto google play and search for "CM7/9/10 themes mdpi". You'll get a pretty good list but most of them are paid. Apply them and change them in themes. Most of the themes are designed for xhdpi/hdpi devices. You need to resize the apk file to suit mdpi screen.
[HTC Pico (Explorer)] pleto:
xperia jb build 3 view link
[HTC Pico (Explorer)] goateegauti:
When you install uncompatible themes u can go through the steps in the given link

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2000530
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Larry Fortune:
Anyone have the original Samsung Touchwiz theme for my Note 2 that I can install?

Running Beans V7...

Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] tgyberg:
Maybe just try a rom that doesnt have the aosp theme?! :eek::laugh:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] droidstyle:
Lol or just flash back to stock since beans rom is just a themed, modded, debloated variant of stock VRALJB.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Morkai Almandragon:
Actually there are a few things I prefer about JellyBeans that are not stock and I am in the same boat, I would like to have the stock theme as well
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kookahdoo:
Uhh....port the stock theme to his ROM?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] nclh:
Hi, going to root and flash my u with cyanogenmod.. Which version do i need to fix? Cm9?

Will i lose my applocations/...?

Thanks
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doctor_droid:
Cm9.1

U also need to unlock bootloader to flash cm9.1 unless u are talking about firedroid
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] nclh:
And do i lose my files etc..?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doctor_droid:
U lose ur files present in phone memory

All ur files in internal memory are preserved