yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] MP99:
Ah, excellent. I'd had to revert back to Tapatalk due to getting a crash every second or third thread (many of those reports ill have been mine), and many blank pages on thread list.

I'll give it another go.

BTW, can I confirm whether you can see thread content from the crash reports?

cheers, Martin
[Android Apps and Games] bastecklein:
I can not see thread content in the crash reports. Here I have attached an example of exactly what the crash reports look like:
[Android Apps and Games] Wrapp:
I still get empty pages quite often.

also my new posts often don't appear on the forum, duo I have to do it twice

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Forum Fiend v1.3.
[Android Apps and Games] N3RO815:
Hi. Your app is really nice. Better than tapatalk at the moment. But the performance is really laggy when browsing the forums.

Sent from my XT1039 using Forum Fiend
[Android Apps and Games] Wrapp:
my Version always says: update available, but I'm already on the latest Google play store version

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Forum Fiend v1.3.
[Android Apps and Games] lurchorama:
Inbox issue present on Xenforo + large inbox here :(
[Android Apps and Games] bastecklein:
Moving to Open Source

Just a heads up to everyone here who is interested in Forum Fiend. There are some changes coming soon to the project that you should be aware of, including transitioning the app to an open source model. See my blog for info on this:

http://blog.forumfiend.net/2015/02/forum-fiend-to-go-open-source.html
[Android Apps and Games] bastecklein:
Forum Fiend is officially dead.

Just got my cease and desist letter from Tapatalk, Inc. I'll probably comply vs trying to fight it. Its been a good run though .

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Forum Fiend v1.3.4.
[Android Apps and Games] PhilDX:
and now I'm even more motivated than ever to not use tapatalk.

you make a really nice app, sorry to hear the news.
[Android Apps and Games] chronicfathead:
Big money v's the little guy. Thanks for trying to provide an alternative.
[Android Apps and Games] ST Dog:
On what grounds?

Can you post the letter on your blog or forum?
[Android Apps and Games] bastecklein:
Yes, I will post the full letter on bastecklein.com in the coming days, once I get the time to do a write-up.
[Android Apps and Games] bastecklein:
Until then though, the official reason they stated is that the app violates Paragraph 1.2(f) of the Tapatalk API Terms of Service: https://tapatalk.com/api_license.php
[Android Apps and Games] ST Dog:
Given they way they appear to be interpreting that, none of the custom forum apps are compliant, including the new XDA One app in development.

They are claiming that only the Tapatalk app can be used to access forums using the Tapatalk API?

But then I also see section 2.2 says if a forum uses the API it has to display a "powered by" logo, yet I don't see that on most forums either.
[Android Apps and Games] bastecklein:
yeah, obviously it is selective enforcement. god forbid they have any sort of competition.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Forum Fiend v1.3.4.
[Android Apps and Games] bastecklein:
As promised, I have posted the letter they have sent me on my blog:

http://www.bastecklein.com/2015/03/cease-and-desist.html
[Android Apps and Games] kingvortex:
I like how they say they have limited resources.

They received $5800000 of venture capital funding last year and relocated their operation (including the founder Winter Wong) from China to the USA. They also charge $80/month to thousands of forum owners for their BYO app solution. How they can compare that to a lone developer is beyond me. They have their rights regarding their software, but to play that card when they have the backing they have is ridiculous.

Edit - The changes to the ToS happened around the time they received the investment. They also pulled a paid ad-free version of Tapatalk at the same time (that had been available less than a year). No doubt both were terms of the investment being made in order to protect profit margins.

Which open source license was the Tapatalk API released under when you first started work on Forum Fiend? Depending which one they used, then surely they cannot suddenly decide to restrict access to it with arbitrary changes to their terms of service. Some real underhanded stuff from Tapatalk Inc here.
[Android Apps and Games] turion64mt:
sorry to ear this man... thanks for your work
[Android Apps and Games] :
This is sad news. I'd like to thank you for all your efforts - this was really becoming a good alternative to TT but alas fighting with giants isn't fun :( Thanks again [MENTION=2161516]bastecklein[/MENTION]
[Android Apps and Games] ST Dog:
Yikes. That's a big wad of cash.

Would be interesting to see the history of the license. I wonder what it was based on. Many licenses can be changed/revoked but several cannot. You may not be able to use new features implemented under the new license, but the old terms would still apply.

So I guess the XDA apps are under the BYO license?

---------- Post added at 07:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:39 PM ----------

I see this from July 2013 (since you were looking in the summer of '13) and it was basically unchanged throughout 2013.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130702043036/http://tapatalk.com/api/api.php

I don't see any mention there of an underlying OSS license it was modeled after. Nothing in there about changing the terms either.

Don't see where they can revoke the previous license that you developed under, as you did nothing for them to revoke it over.
[Android Apps and Games] dabl8:
All is not lost as code for v1.3.3 exists on https://github.com/abartmatozu/forum-fiend-osp. Despite the description, it is not an official repo and there isn't any "Forum Fiend" code on [MENTION=2161516]bastecklein[/MENTION]'s github. The theme activity needs to be added to the AndroidManifest.xml otherwise it will crash when changing the theme. There's no issue tracker there, so I suppose we just have to wait until somebody else forks it under a free software licence. I understand there are forks on Google Play already. Of course, eventually there will need to be free implementation to the Tapatalk API: that's discussed elsewhere: http://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/forum-fiend-source-project-maybe-t2940632. In the mean time, it works great.

P.S I just donated to [MENTION=2161516]bastecklein[/MENTION] on the basis of this app but for future donations to be possible the source code would better be published to [MENTION=2161516]bastecklein[/MENTION]'s own account at Github. I doubt if f-droid.org will include a donation URL when they publish it and there aren't any obvious URLs in the existing source code itself.

P.P.S Tapatalk terms are now at https://tapatalk.com/api.php.
[Android Apps and Games] defim:
I'm wondering why this was not on xda portal page yet...
[Android Apps and Games] timofonic:
Are there hope to see an Open Source forum reader someday? Even better if multiplatform....
[Android Apps and Games] autonomous1:
Thank you for open sourcing Forum Fiend, which was used as a working reference model to develop Forum Friends - a multi-platform forum discussion app. It was necessary to completely rewrite Forum Friends from the ground up to support Android, IOS and desktop browsers.

Regarding legal issues with the use of the Tapatalk api, decades of case law support the fact that an api is not copyrightable. In addition there are a number of open source implementations of the Tapatalk api available on git for different forum systems.

In developing Forum Friends I have accumulated a good amount of experience in working with the Tapatalk api as well as Forum Fiend. I have encountered many of the issues brought up in this thread, for instance, it was mentioned that it takes a long time to load xda-developer.com into Forum Fiend, or it appears that the app hangs. This is due in part to the Tapatalk api sending the entire list of forums on xda-developer.com to the app encoded as xml-rpc values, a situation that generates several megabytes of data to download and process. Forum Fiend then goes through several stages in processing this data where each stage stores a copy resulting in excessive memory consumption as well as requiring a lot of processing time. The Tapatalk app is not much better at dealing with this scenario as it also downloads and processes the entire list of forums.

Another issue is maintaining persistent login sessions. Most CDNs do not handle preserving session cookies very well and a logged in session only lasts for a few api requests at best. But it is a rather cumbersome problem to deal with in Forum Fiend with the way asynchronous requests are handled.

Issues like this have been fully dealt with in Forum Friends which has been completely rewritten in javascript as an Apache Cordova app. Javascript can handle processing large datasets surprisingly well and there are some excellent frameworks available for handling asynchronous requests (promise apis). Another huge advantage of Cordova/JS is the fact that you can support multiple platforms with the same codebase with minimal platform-specific code.

A separate thread has been created for Forum Friends. Forum Friends is available now on Google Play, search for "Forum Friends".

Screen shot of sub-forum "Android Applications":

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[Android Apps and Games] Draygon:
Really sad, I loved FF.

To Forum Friends:

I tried it, seems damn bugged to me and the UI is not comparable to FF.

Adding forums is damn hard, the user has to enter links for the API and banner. Don't know where to get them.
[Android Apps and Games] autonomous1:
Draygon,

A few comments:

The free version of Forum Friends is for read-only access to forums, so yes there are fewer features in the free version compared to Forum Fiend. There is an in-app purchase option to unlock all the features.

You only need to enter the domain name of the forum when adding forums, as in: linuxforums.org . But thanks for this suggestion, the other data items you mentioned have been removed from the form.

I don't know what you mean about the app being bugged, can you be more specific?

Compared with Forum Fiend, the analytics coming in now for Forum Friends show a much higher number of screens per session and longer session duration. I think the issue in Forum Fiend where a significant delay existed in accessing top level forum categories was a show stopper in many cases.
[Android Apps and Games] Fatualux:
Hi... I can't find it on the playstore. Samsung SM-N9005 HLTE
[Android Apps and Games] meyerweb:
As posted above:
[Android Apps and Games] Fatualux:
Thank you for your efforts to make it better. Good luck
[Android Apps and Games] Nory01:
Hello,

It's interesting apps!

Is there an update for this app?
[Android Apps and Games] timofonic:
Any possibility of having a viable Tapatalk alternative? I see the project isn't Open Source, but we'll...

Forum Fiend - Apps on Google Play

Stay connected to your forums with Forum Fiend, a forum reader app.

play.google.com

GitHub - abartmatozu/forum-fiend-osp: Official repo for the Forum Fiend Open Source Project (Forum Fiend OSP)

Official repo for the Forum Fiend Open Source Project (Forum Fiend OSP) - abartmatozu/forum-fiend-osp

github.com
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] b3ltazar:
I need help getting a usb dac working with my note 8. Usb audio player works but its not a good option for me since it will be a in car install. Anyone with any expirence in this please chime in. Im willing to do whatever it takes. My note 2 had native support so does the note 3. I think it has to do with services.jar. I am not sure exacly what files need to be added but I used basmali on my n7 to input a few lines to the services jar file and it worked great. Thanks for any help. I have a syba dac works fine with android.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] gooberdude:
I am not sure what you are doing or meaning.

This is a Note 8.0... so if you are side loading an app from a Note 2, things may not work.

I play mp3 files just fine from SD or OTG USB, and don't need an app for playback.

As for pulling mp3 files from tablet... I use Xposed with download to SD for xposed.

I copied all the important folders from the system over to SD and redirected the system paths in the Xposed module to point to the corresponding folders on SD.

Maybe having SD and system folders simultaneously available is causing issues with your cars media player.

Ford Sync works fine and one of my apps has a fix for Sync, but many diff issues with Honda on 9th gen Accords and using media android or not.

GT-N5110 & GT-N5120 - 64GB 633x on board, Status Official on SafeRooted OEM ROMs with Wanam Xposed and RootCloak. The only way to fly 8+ hours!

This badboy don't play with Play & Triangle away!
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] b3ltazar:
A dac isnt a app its a piece of hardware that when connected gives you alot cleaner output for a extenal amplifier. It connects to the usb host then routs the audio signal to the dac the dac amplifies it and send a better signal to your headphones or amplifier. Its very common with car audio guys like myself and will work nativly with many phones and tablets. It seems the note 8 is missing some drivers or libs ect... for this to work. I need a dev to help out. Thanks for the reply.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] gooberdude:
I am familiar with DAC and processing, just most have app issues not hardware connectivity issues.

The Note 8.0 DAC is very capable of outputting and converting digital, you just need to enable surround and use an HML adapter to HDMI... then you have your pure digital out for processing. Most portable processors are HDMI now whether they are for cars or theatre use. If going from HDMI to multi channel, if your DAC does not have HDMI in, you can get an HDMI converter for connecting TOSLink, Coax, or Balanced audio output.

Do that all the time a home on my Yamaha.

You also have the ability to use Viper4Android HIFI it has advanced CPU processing to clean up MP3 format files for the best analog listening experience since it does the clean up natively, MHL HDMI output will also be cleaned up as well. Highly recommended as it has an Audiophile processing power without all the gizmos and colorization of other types of clean up apps or processors.

Here is the google play store link, though I get the one from the developers site... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vipercn.viper4android233.xhifi
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] b3ltazar:
Im very familiar with v4a but i have a arc audio ps8 for processing so i want my signal as original as possible . V4a is a awsome app i use it but not for my needs for this install.Hdmi out is not a aption for me i need optical. An example of a dac i want to use is fiio e17, nuforce udac. I see a few hdmi to optical converters but the are pricey. Thanks for the reply its appreciated.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] gooberdude:
Well Toslink has its issues and would be my last option in getting pure data. Though I do not see $40 to $75 being pricey for a converter. If anything I would replace the PS8 for a Lexicon processor, Though a DC-1 being over 10 years old would be too pricey for you as well, so going to a Meridian would be pointless.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] b3ltazar:
I spent wayyy to much money as it is.I got a 30$ behringer dac uca202 with optical and it works great with the note8 and the ps8. Optical is by far the best signal i had so far,clean powerful. I couldnt be happier. It has a burrbrown dac built in for the analog outputs but after comparing them optical has more output.as fas as the processors you recommended i need a 8 channel and it has to be small. The ps8 is perfect for my needs it has a 31 band eq for each channnel independent crossovers for each channel, time alignment, a mixer and phase control for blending channels 8 volt out the list goes on. I tried helix dsp and a few others but the output on the ps8 is killer...thanks for the recomendations.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] gooberdude:
8 channels ... Both types have 9.1 channels for Theater experience and are THX - EX certified. In fact they are tops in professional equipment.

Rule of thumb car audio is second rate over professional studio equipment. The only time I use fiber optics is through our backbone links. Car and Home Toslink connex are filled with judder. Professionals use hard wired connex, HDMI, Coax, Scart, or balanced analog line cables.

I just find this thread funny to hear you have spent a lot of money on equipment and tablet, and want to use toslink and above all use USB, which IMO cannot pass the bandwidth for true 7.1 sound without judder. Plus you are doing multiple downstream conversions when HDMI allows pure digital to connect, so using a MHL HDMI adapter allows untouched data to be available to your processor. I would not spend top dollar and not have HDMI digital in capabilities or attempt at limiting myself with Toslink. It is not that I am telling you your doing it wrong, as it seems that you expect the processor connection that you chose to be clean, when it is not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOSLINK

http://www.allaboutadapters.com/hddodtsdihdo.html

Enough said about this, you wanted to know how to connect your tablet and make the processor work. I gave all that I can to make it work for you. Its up to you to figure out how you are going to utilize it.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] b3ltazar:
I understand what ur saying but i am not looking for 7.1 just a clean signal for the ps8 its just that thae tablets dont have enough signalvoltage out maybe .5 volt at max . I have to make my install ps8 based because i have one already and i sell them at my shop and want to make a tablet installs a option for customers. Im not saying its the best solution but its what i needed ..Eveything you said is correct and when i am ready to step it up ill come to u for some suggestions.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] nurall:
No luck myself

I haven't been able to get my dac to work with my s8+.

Really miss the sound quality.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bingbinghaha:
Does anyone experience this issue?

I am with Stock Kitkat Rom rooted!!!:confused:
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] revoltech:
Hello fellow M8 users, I would get a error message "unfortunately android system has stopped" every time I flash a custom kernel either on faux or elementalx. This is usually rom related but I am on rooted stock sense, s-off. I have a good backup copy of the rom before any changes but I would really like to get the benefits of a custom kernel without this message.

I am not running any overclock or undervolt. I think this is because I am running the ATT version of this phone but there are users who are running custom kernels with no issue. The only other thing I can think of is that I edited platform.xml to modify the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission so I can write to the ext sd card.

Anyone got any ideas for what I can do to get rid this message on startup?
[LG Optimus G Pro] twill1987:
My LG E980 is bricked. I can access download mode and that is it! I am unable to boot into recovery,

and the hard reset screen simply sits there forever. My computer only recognizes my device as an "unknown usb device."

I'm unsure what can be done about this, but I feel like this is better than the infamous QHSUB icon displayed when the device cannot be recovered.

Does anyone have a remedy for this problem?? I have GOT to fix this phone and can't afford to Jtag the device, but I'm losing hope that this is possible, PLEASE help. :crying:
[LG Optimus G Pro] riki126:
Have you installed the LG drivers for your pc and tried the unbrick method?
[LG Optimus G Pro] WeActOnImpulse:
Yeah dude there's an unbrick method. If this doesn't work just sell the phone on Ebay. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2302660
[LG Optimus G Pro] shabbypenguin:
There is never a time when this device cant be recovered. even the qhusb is a fairly simple fix. ill go ahead and make a sdcard boot image tonight. do you have a 32gb sdcard? (or larger) and an sdcard reader, if you have those two things i can make an unbrick.img that you flash toi the sdcard and put in the non-booting phone and it will get you to download mode/recovery mode. ill have to check out what partitions are where as i dont wish to include my efs along with it all :).
[LG Optimus G Pro] stulzerl:
Happened to me.

1. With the phone on download mode and plugged in the computer; uninstall the unknown device on your computer using device manager. The computer should try to get the drivers for your phone.

2. If it doesn't. Repeat step one and install the drivers first.

That worked for me hopefully I'll work for you.:)
[LG Optimus G Pro] twill1987:
Yes

Yes I tried that. The drivers won't install. I even used another windows 8 computer my roommate has and switched out

the usb cables, still came back "unknown device"
[LG Optimus G Pro] twill1987:
I do have a 16gb sd card, but I can pick up at 32 gb sd at my local best buy. I have an Asus laptop running windows 8 and it has an SD card reader. I am a little confused (semi-noob) as to how this will work because my phone will boot up, and the led changes colors on the home button for about 4 seconds and then the light stops flashing. The phone is stuck on the LG boot screen, and there is no way out of it but to pull the battery or to reset with power button. Of course no recovery as previously mentioned. I really just want to get back to stock, but I can't manage to get both the windows 8 computers I've tried to detect the phone in download mode. Ever since I switched to the Candykat rom 4.4 the computer wasn't able to recognize the phone, even when the phone was fully functional inside the rom.

I have tried it on my dads windows 7 laptop as well with no dice. Instaled LG drivers, uninstalled LG Drivers, uninstalled device from the Device Manager. I've done everything I could think of. I previously was in a Philz touch recovery, but every rom I tried to flash wouldn't work. I tried to flash another recovery from inside it and then the device bricked like it is now. What a head ache. If you think this method would work, I am more than willing to try it, just unfamiliar with what I need to do on my end.
[LG Optimus G Pro] twill1987:
Okay

I will give your method a shot, but I have done this a lot already. The only thing I can think of is I usually unplug the phone from the computer right after deleting the drivers and uninstalling in device manager. Maybe I should just leave the phone plugged in and see if the computer automatically downloads the drivers, but I don't think it will because I've tried to update the drivers before. It gives me an error code "10" and says the device has malfunction or stopped working :( This phone has been undetectable via USB since flashing the candykat 4.4 rom. Every computer I've tried (3) and every USB cable (3 again) has displayed it as an "unknown device"
[LG Optimus G Pro] luisoman2000:
I've had similar issues when i had my optimus g. I had to use a pc with xp to flasht he phone, dunno why though. You could give that a shot.