yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Well there aren't that many root exploits and depending on the device you will be changing most if not all firmware and software directly after exploiting, but again just look at the code before you use it

As for keyloging etc from flashing a ROM, you would be surprised how many OEMs actually have somethings that many would consider malicious and or a brief of privacy.

As for a worry about flashing a custom ROM with bad code just stick to official builds or mod your own ROMs, no one is forcing you to flash anything in particular. But there are apps that are meant to look for malicious code. Feel free to use these to help protect you

I have flashed oh so many ROMs over the past 4 years or so and have never seen anything malicious, but I flash a lot of my own source built ROMs and mostly use ROMs on the higher end which tend to be from trusted sources such as recognized developers and people I work with. Also I'm not a paranoid person so I don't look into this sort of thing much, this means unfortunately I can't really give you much more than this

But best of luck to you and happy flashing!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante3hs:
My brother (being the idiot he is) decided to take it upon himself to root my htc one (unlocked Australian model). Now I have a custom recovery installed and so can't install the recently available 4.2.2 update. Is there either a way to install this update, or a way to flash back the original recovery so that I can install it?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pr0x2:
Both yes. You can download the original recovery.img and flash it via fastboot. but now that you can flash zips why not try a ROM from XDA devs. Most are very stock with some extra features.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante3hs:
What would you recommend that is similar to the 4.2.2 update (with the home key menu functionality)?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mobileguynz:
Try the Orio One ROM has apps removed and Aroma is orange themed looks great and it works well. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2226317&highlight=ota+app
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante3hs:
I'm quite interested in this one, but want to double check, with the installation is it really as simple as downloading the zip, then rebooting into recovery and installing the zip from there? No need for anything else like the cmd on pc or anything? Seems rather simple is all, just want to make sure I'm understanding it right. Will be the first time flashing a custom Rom is all.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0neblock:
Since you already have a custom recovery, then yes it is as easy as installing the zip. Its always safer to make a nandroid backup first however, so choose the backup option in your recovery, and save that file to your computer, then you can easily flash the custom ROM.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante3hs:
Well I have Rom manager installed which does the same thing I believe, so I'll be sure to make a backup beforehand.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teonagode:
Hey guys is it worth to upggrade to the GS4 from the HOX for 230€ ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GALAXYgamer:
I think so the galaxy s4 has a lot of great features and worth the money
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] negrobembon:
but for you the HTC one might be better unless you were somehow dissapointed by HTC or Sense
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dgcyears:
It's a good offer, it's pretty cheap (that's at least my opinion)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skeamznz:
I upgraded from the HOX don't regret it for a second. First thing I noticed was battery life far far better. S4 is faster got a better screen louder. I personally prefer TW to sense. You wont regret the upgrade.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wrixituz:
Hey.. I upgraded from hox to gs4 and i think it was a great upgrade.. I do not regret it one second.. But i was kind of bored of htc sense for some reason so might be why haha:) i guess if you like htc sense (which i also do.. A great ui but like i said.. Was bored of it..) if you have the chance to test htc sense 5.. Do it and then you decide :) touchwiz is not very special either but i wanted all those fancy smart functions hehe;)

And just so i dont forget.. What gs4 are you thinking of?

GT-I9505 OR GT-I9500? I have I9505 snapdragon version which i think have better support on custom roms :) atleast what i have heard.. Migth be diffrent now i dont know:)

/ Wrix
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giorat23:
Go with the HTC ONE, much better than the S4 at all aspects.. I had an S4 before and I switch to the ONE. Totally worth the change!!Trust me or see reviews, almost all the experts choose the One over the S4..
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wrixituz:
Might be true but i guess thats kind of individual, What you are searching for in a phone and what you want the phone to be:) specs vice they are pretty much the same:) and micro sd card and removable battery was great for me :) but like i said thats individual and only you know what your searching for in a phone:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teonagode:
Yeah im not disapointed with HTC i just hate this tegra sh**,i would go for One but they are over 500€ and i dont have that cind of money :thumbdown: and how about ROM development on the GS4, AOKP and CM because i hate sense and touchwiz altogetger ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] negrobembon:
doesnt the s4 cost around the same?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bafknight:
I was used both in showroom, in my opinion, S4 was great with the price :good:, HTC One came down with high price.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxLordxX:
As far as I saw the GT-I9505 (Snapdragon version) has good developer support! It even has official CM (http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Jfltexx_Info), I just won't be able to tell you about experience with it because after I flashed the 4.3 Leak I'm happy with it and didn't change :rolleyes:, I can tell you that it runs amazingly anyway \m/. I'll just tell you one thing before! I think you should only buy if you're in urge! Because soon is November and that (probably) means new Nexus! Also your device is from the last year, so it's still a nice thing. If you really want to get a new phone now, S4 is good enough :D!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Cheony81:
Most of us here join the site to learn and help each other out with different issues with our phones.Most of us are new to android and coming from apple just like me or just different android devices.We all know androids are all different and rooting methods also.We ask for help cause S3 can at times be difficult to root,so some people just would like some help,So please lets help eachother out.How bout go here to this link and can root the phone or go here...Im in the Same situation on trying to root my S3 T-Mobile version.We all were noobs at one point..
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Da Kine:
Learn how to; read, follow steps and use Google.

If everyone learned how to do those three things, there really wouldn't be any need for a Q&A section and there would probably be a lot less bricks happening or IMEIs being lost.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Aerowinder:
XDA rules: http://xdaforums.com/announcement.php?a=81

Rule #1 states: "Use one of our search functions before posting, whether you have a question or something new to share, it's very likely someone already asked that question or shared that news."

If you had followed rule #1, you would know you didn't need to post this, because posts just like yours already exist. Every once in a while, someone comes around accusing us all of being big meanie heads.

Now, if you are looking for info on rooting your phone, press the "Root Info" button on the toolbar of the main SGH-T999 forum. It has an embedded YouTube video that will explain everything. The information is readily available, you just have to look for it. If you have any specific questions or problems with this procedure, feel free to ask for help (if search didn't turn up an answer), and one of the hundreds of people that frequent these forums would be happy to help you. Well, perhaps less so now than they would have been, with being accused of being disrespectful, and all.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
And read the stickied threads. They are stickied becsuse they contain important information that everyone should read. Just going through the stickies will tell you about several rooting methods, and will give you plenty of info to get well on your way without assistance.

If you have an issue with the tone someone conveys while answering a question, consider this: There are a few of us who answer tons of questions and try to help all we can. There are many times we see the same questions asked over and over and over. This tells us that you didn't bother to try finding the answers yourself and want others to do the work for you. While we do enjoy helping others, we don't intend to do everything for everyone. We prefer to help you help youself. If our answers are short and to the point, its not that we sre being rude, its because not every question warrants an in depth response.

If we are trying to be rude, you will know it.

Give us a detailed, thoughtful, well researched question, and you will receive the same in return.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] TheLastSidekick:
Another problem that results in bricks are people being too eager before reading enough into what they are doing. You need to read until you are confident about the steps. Search the threads because someone more than likely had the same problem as you. We're not being rude, we're just trying to keep things clean, easy to navigate and lessen down the work on the mods who do a fantastic job by the way.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mt3g:
This phone out of the 5 I've owned is the easiest to root. I've rooted about 10 phones and only one other was easier. Like others stated its not hard to find the easy way of doing things on these forums, all stickied. That is my only reason for being blunt or direct and what some call mean, cause they're too lazy to read and do it them selves, after many others have done a lot to make things easy for users, so they don't make mistakes, or have to get flamed for asking ignorant things that are right in front of them.

People's laziness, and lack of respect have made me turn away from helping out here on xda for a while now, its just gotten to the point where its actually annoying me so I only check the forums once or twice a day now and laugh as I do it, and feel bad for the guys that are still repeating themselves over and over, continuously.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] imblessed68:
Awww man I really valued and appreciate all your help. Don't let the ignorant ones ruin it for us plzzzzz lol
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] dannytron:
I think people should also follow the must do steps before flashing anything: making a nandroid and EFA backup. That would certainly solve many problems.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] cnadra:
Hi All please help me with the following.

For my WAP configuration I have to fill in the http proxy slot and the wap slot. As for my PC connection it should replce the http slot with 10.2.2.1. So whenever I sync with my Pc I should delete my WAP HTTP proxy slot and insert 10.0.0.1 and whenever I use my WAP I should fill in with my Mobile provider proxy otherwise Internet Explorer will not work. Please any suggestion to add all of them and let the JAM choose wich one on each cocnnection. Your help is appreciated and thanks in advance
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bps88:
Hi, I was wondering if the AWS frequency for wind mobile in Canada was able to be activated on the galaxy s4 mini dual sim model ( i9192 I believe) ?

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ostthug2k:
I was asking myself the same question.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ahhmyface:
I too would like an answer. Without AWS I'll be forced to pay twice as much!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ironman_sav:
Same here! Please can anyone answer this question and if it is possible where we can find the file.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] AvelonTs:
I need a suggestion ... a smooth browser for multi tab browsing which is not very heavy so i can get better battery life also because i browse a lot ... also despite i like chrome a lot i had some crashes when browsing the forums here but also seem too memory hungry and battery also ... any suggestions would be appreciated :)
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] crzykiller:
Dolphin Browser Beta. That shiz flies. Way faster than chrome yet more battery friendly. Boat browser is also pretty good
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] coolnessQ:
Opera browser it can save some kb/mb when browsing

Verstuurd van mijn GT-I9505 met Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] MafiaDroid:
I use now the NextBrowser for me is the best browser i ever use :) try
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] sinple:
Use tapatalk when u wan browse forum?
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] @xDeepS:
vote for dolphin (not beta)
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] Crauze:
I'm currently using Firefox with no problems at all when opening multiple tabs and battery life seems good
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] rQvsnaps:
Dolphin.

I like opera mobile more, but in terms of response and fluidity nothing comes close to dolphin :(

Stock aosp is also nice, but the quick controls seem dodgy to me and doesn't always work, which is a deal breaker when running full screen.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] zige:
Why to save some kb/mb if have unlimited 4G? Dont get it..
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] ahmed534:
not all people have unlimited 4G
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] coolnessQ:
Oo i didnt know that i said it to you?

I responsed to the first port ;)

Verstuurd van mijn GT-I9505 met Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] AV1985:
Having tried dozens of browsers, a Vote for Boat (see what I did there?) from me.

With Xscope a worthy second.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] robogo1982:
Opera all the way, works brilliantly.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] failax:
Dolphin is the best for me, bookmarks slide bar is unbeatable.
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] zige:
Oh really? In finland every operator have unlimited 3G/4G (dataplan).. I didnt know that this isnt normal on other countries..

But i responsed to your post ;) It's isnt denied, or is it?

I really dont like Chrome at all, it sucks. But then, why the hell Samsung has leaved out chrome bookmark sync from native browser? I dont get it. I need good browser, which sync automatically my desktop Chrome bookmarks, but there isn't any browser... Is it possible port browser example from Note2?
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] AvelonTs:
In greece data plans tend to be rather expensive ... and i think that the same applies to numerous other countries ... i believe u should count yourself lucky in that matter ;)

I used chrome on my gt i9500 although i'm from greece i opted for that because i thought it may have more potential since it's a new technology and snapdragon 600 reached pretty much it's limits ... didn't count overheating in that equation unfortunately but you never know what the mighty xda developers may come up with and i also like touchwiz so i'm not that disappointed ... anyways chrome seems that gets unreasonably bloated at times ... like around 650mb of ram with just xda forums tab ... except the fact that i tried most if not all of your suggestions and thank u for the contribution to the topic i reached to the conclusion that chrome uses the most memory than anyone else but is also one of the most fluid ... also dolphin and dolphin beta use a bit less memory and are just as fluid with beta version a bit faster than the non beta and just as fast as chrome ... boat is ok would say a bit inferior to those mentioned above ... ucbrowser and maxthon doesn't seem to be as good at least in my device ... i used opera a lot in the past but i didn't try it because not full screen mode and that adress bar which doesn't dissappear started to getting on my nerves :p and firefox left to try

i opened the exact same pages to all of those browsers i tried and also seem pretty much all of them have some kind of problem with xda forums ... seem to get stuck at some point

Conclusion ... so far dolphin beta and chrome seem to the best ...
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] rorda:
Boat - many options and good/clear UI ...
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] almghoool:
Try Boa t Browser

Very great one
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] negrobembon:
i have a few issues with chrome but bookmark synching with google bookmarks is hard to come by so no other choices for me
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] TheBrutalLicker:
Stock all the way!
[Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] E_Cartman:
AOSP browser! fast and clean....
[General Questions and Answers] wreckitwilly:
New guy here!

Just picked up a Nexus 4 and I am unsure if I should go with T-Mobile or AT&T? I am coming from Verizon and I'm not sure which would be the ideal carrier for this device and future devices. I am kinda' leaning towards T-Mobile because of the rate plans and the no contract deal.

Thanks!

Bill
[Android Software Development] cowmixtoo:
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[Android Software Development] kornyone:
Derp

Derp is a pretty slick interface for scripting not only device installation, but resources needed for modifications on Android devices (namely the Android SDK). A developer can create a custom script to automate the installation, decreasing one off bad installs, and ensuring the process is completed as intended.

People new to Android customization or developers could find this of use. I am excited to see where it goes.
[Android Software Development] fattire:
Thanks.. BTW for those asking about the Windows port (in IRC)...

I simply don't have windows, but it was written to be as platform generic as possible. Anyone with a tiny amount of programming skills (again, I have zero myself) should be able to add Windows compatibility pretty quickly... I think it's a matter of just fixing that setup.py file to work with py2exe. See here for more info.
[Android Software Development] strvmarv:
Windows dev here, I may be able to help. Also, any interest in a Mono version? Looking for an excuse...
[Android Software Development] strvmarv:
Grats BTW, great idea...

I've come across several usages of Linux only Python functions so far and I don't see drop-in alternatives for Windows, so I've just commented out that particular section (line 1183). I managed to get the tool download working. Suggestion, maybe sticking with MD5 hashes would be simpler as the script receives updates to match Android SDK download updates. I can understand why you would want to use SHA512, but google offers MD5 on the site next the downloads for simple copy/paste replacement. There's the potential for lots of hard-coded configuration and for those configurations to be platform specific, such as the download folders for tool updates. I'll see if I can finish up the first bit of win compat this afternoon, but my Android device is at work and is a Dell Streak at that, so my test options are a bit limited.

http://docs.python.org/2/library/platform.html

1183 - os.geteuid()

1196 - os.uname()

fork:

https://github.com/strvmarv/derp

screen:
[Android Software Development] fattire:
Windows... already?!!

Holy crap! I don't think it's been 12 hours and there's an early windows port.. amazing job!

The unix-only stuff was from a last second addition I did when I realized that dero would try to run on ARM-based linux machines. The easy fix is to simply indent everything past:

if platform.system() == "Linux"

so that the if not os.geteuid() == 0: and testarch = os.uname() stuff is conditional on it running Linux. (Unless there's a windows ARM version, in which case it also won't work).

In both cases it would work except for the fact that Google doesn't provide libraries for ARM. Interestingly though, debian does. So if we REALLY wanted, we could just apt-get install the tools for ARM Linux users. But that would (1) require a debian-based version of Linux, and (2) we wouldn't know that adb/fastboot/etc are the very latest from Google. But it might be a good version .002 feature, with a preference to turn it on or something.

Again, amazing work. Keep it up!
[Android Software Development] strvmarv:
Good deal, glad I could help. If you ever want to give a Mono/GTK# port a try just give me a shout. I could do the majority of the leg work code in C# very quickly, lightweight app, which is excellent these days.

I just pushed up my initial changes for the setup.py. I haven't figured it out yet, there are some imports, specifically in derp.py line 23 (platform) that aren't getting consolidated into the build with py2exe. It's most definitely how I've setup the options in the setup.py, hopefully someone is more familiar with py2exe than I and can provide some insight.
[Android Software Development] fattire:
Okay, let me take a second and fix the bug I described above... then-- damn, I wish I could try the setup.py myself. So you're saying that the platform stuff doesn't get imported into the build for some reason?

Standby for the fix.. just gotta test it and stuff.

Update: Pushed. Also added /build, /dist, and one other mac build-related directory to .gitignore to make things a little easier to see...
[Android Software Development] fattire:
Question, would doing something like this on line 52 do anything:

options = {'py2exe': {'bundle_files': 1, 'optimize': 2, 'compressed': 1,}},

I think you can also do something like:

includeList=["a list", "of modules", "to include"]

first, and then replace the line above with something like...

options = {'py2exe': {'bundle_files': 1, 'compressed': 1, 'optimize': 2, 'includes': includeList}},

see more info here and let me know if the above gets those modules in there! I see some option called "unbuffered".. dunno if that needs to be set to true.

bundle_files to 1 means that it hopefully will end up being a self-contained .exe

Let me know! Thanks!
[Android Software Development] fattire:
Forgot to answer this. You're totally right that MD5 is the one Google provides, and at first I used MD5 for everything-- then sluo reprimanded me, told me how MD5 can't be taken seriously any more, that it's really really easy for anyone to create a MD5 spoofed file these days... So I figured, since this runs as root, it's better to be very extra super-cautious and make absolutely sure the right file is downloaded :)

Of course, in a user-provided script, you can use md5s or whatever the author wants, but for the Android tools themselves I figured it was better practice to use SHA512 to be more forward/future looking and make sluo (a *real* programmer) happy :)
[Android Software Development] fattire:
More work done by hashcode on a windows port

Okay strvmarv and other windows folk--

Hashcode helped me out by testing on his machine that has Windows.. we did a little debugging, and the result are these two commits:

Pull Request #1

He was able to run derp successfully and do adb/fastboot commands from the Console interface.

But because he's using win64, he couldn't build (apparently only win32 supports building .exe files) all the way.

So, if you have a win32 system-- after applying these, does python setup.py py2exe build an .exe?

Questions:

* on win32 does it build into an .exe?

* If so, does the .exe run properly as the administrator-- right-click and select "Run as Administrator" I am told

* if so, does it install the android tools and ask you to agree to the License?

* if so, does it download/detect your devices?

* if so, can you run scripts (does it work?)

Note: You may also need to manually install Java, since the android sdk updater uses java.

I'm wondering too if the installer installs any drivers, and/or if any were needed.

Thanks!