yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] Vacross:
Hello all!

I've gotten too lazy to maintain updating my rooted Pixel XL whenever there's a security patch.

I've re-locked the boot-loader and done a full stock flash from google's stock images, but now i get this warning when it boots up:

"Your device has loaded a different operating system. "

It then boots up fine, barring the fact OTA's still fail, the one thing I was trying to get working.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] DR3W5K1:
You skipped flashing the bootloader and radio without those ota will fail.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] Vacross:
Am i mistaken in thinking the "flashall.bat" from google does that as well?

Thanks

Edit.

Think i found it, your comment made me watch for the radio and boot-loader when i tried the flash-all batch script again, I believe i Locked the boot-loader before flashing it to stock again.

Unlocked, flashed, re-locked and it appears to be working now.

Thanks!
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] hugofarsilva:
Help me

Can you help me... I have same problem...
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] sujalsinha:
Can you pls explain on how to do that
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] DR3W5K1:
Follow the guide for flashing stock images via fastboot and you shouldn't have this problem.

Stop after step 4

https://xdaforums.com/pixel-xl/how-to/guide-pixel-xl-android-8-1oreo-unlock-t3715279
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] ulbricht_y:
I also had the same issue on Nexus 6p.. after I realised that I forgot to flash boot.img from stock firmware.. anyway it is resolved...
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] origami123:
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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] egzthunder1:
To all

Mods, I apologize if this is not the right place to put this thread, but I figured that it will have more exposure to the developers than if I were to put it in General.

I just learned from the Slither's cube thread that there is an ebay user trying to sell his work. However, if you look into his other stuff, he is also selling S2U2, PocketCM, PCM Keyboard, Grumps Iphone Interface, the Iphone Dialer, along with some other apps.

Here is the link to his auction(s)

http://cgi.ebay.com/Iphone-Theme-To...ryZ38331QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I urge you guys that if this is your work, to report this a--hole to Ebay. Who knows, maybe even slap a suit or two.

Mods, can we get this as a sticky (at least until this is resolved)?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] met3ora:
Absolutely disgusting.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] elgreek84:
I'm curious if people's programs are being licensed, that sucks. hope he gets removed from ebay, that's not right.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PoisnBGood:
Maybe people xda should set up a freeware license. Free to use, but illegal to sell. That way people will have legal rights to their work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MaxMotus:
Thats seriously out of order! What a complete £^&*%$!!!!

MM :mad: :mad:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
I can just confirm I never gave any authorization for that.

... but ebay isn't really helping me in this case apparently...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] met3ora:
tene, I hope this doesn't deter you from furthering development on any current or upcoming projects.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] egzthunder1:
Like I said in my first post. We can try to report this a--hole to ebay. He is obviously doing it w/o permission from any of you guys. Let's try to do something about it. Any ideas are welcome. I think that the same thread where I got this from, also had a link for violations of intellectual property for ebay. I will look it up and post it here when I find it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] elgreek84:
are the works here licensed under GNU GPL open source?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] newbie1221:
i swear if i find this guy ripping my rom build and posting it on ebay i'll personally make it my mission to find him and knock some sense into him! :mad: this just makes me sick, i dont even ask for donations for the stuff i've contributed and this F8@k goes around making money from us. the sad thing is people actually buy his stolen stuff. :mad:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] egzthunder1:
Keep in mind that a lot of people do not know about this site. In looking for the latest upgrades for something that is supposedly not upgradeable, all of the sudden you see it in ebay "cheap" and hassle free with easy to follow instructions, I would not think about it twice and purchase it.

I do agree with you, if I had an app stolen for profitable purposes by this guy, I would not rest until I up my foot so far up his as% that he would have to make a whole in my boot to be able to eat...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PhilD41:
I don't agree with what he is doing, but the fact is, he could argue he is only "selling" his original work and material. The applications are all freeware (true even if they were GPL). He states that, "This auction is for a CD with all tools and step by step instructions (with pictures)." Assuming he wrote the instructions and is compiling the CD, he may be sly, but not illegal. If he was making claims on the "tools" then that would be a different story.

Like I said, I don't agree, but I am not sure it is illegal, or against ebay policy.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] uiskibum:
I sent a note to the PocketCM folks. I figure it can't hurt to get as many people being hurt by this guy in on it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mcfly56:
I suggest we email the buyers. In fact I've done the top three in his feedback. They can complain to paypal or ebay themselves
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Westie277:
Im affriad Phill is right if we were to do somthing about it he could back fire on us.... we dont know if in the instrutions it say thanks to the guys from xda-developers.... i dont agree cuz there still the fact that he is charging for freeware that are people from xda ppcgeeks and ect are working there arses of for fun of being admired for there amazing power by us (the public)

im just simply saying.... lets think before we raise hell on him:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] elgreek84:
Makes a good point, he may jsut be selling "his instructions and his cd-r and packaging", but that's not cool. I guess, like someone mentioned earlier, just point out that it's here for free. and by the way I donate whenever I can, at least 5 bucks and i'm no richy rich!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
You can raise hell on him.

My applications are available for free, but distribution isn't allowed, it's clearly stated about everywhere. Freeware doesn't mean "do whatever you want with it".

The prob here, is that I can just waste time complaining to ebay, which take time and probably won't lead to anything.

I should probably just stop waste time sharing my stuff completely, it would certainly avoid this kind of issue (and that means you'll never see PocketCM Calendar:p).

ps: for the people that didn't make the link, "pocketcm folks" is basically ... me.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] volcomnator999:
and people have actually bought software from him.....ridicoulous
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] raidzx:
someone should sue. I'm not rally one for lawsuits but cmon!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bigray327:
You could start another auction with a similar title, and in the description, tell people about this site and that all other auctions are rip-offs. That way people searching for such things would likely see it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Gustopher:
Time to Move On?

In an ideal world, this would be a very good time to close this thread and move on. If we do so now, we can all walk away feeling we have won at least a minor victory against an individual that I think we all agree is an immoral tosser.

If we keep going at it we'll start in fighting and risk undoing a lot of the good that was done.

It's been a fascinating thread to follow with some well thought out cut and thrust, but there comes a time...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] egzthunder1:
@ ronfin44

Like I told you earlier, relax! Truth of the matter is that if this was in fact a breach of M$ User Agreement, they would have shut us down years ago (just as they have done with many other websites/forums). What we are doing is not piracy simply because we are not doing any kind of distribution of trade secrets/intellectual property or anything like that. Also, we are not modifying WM core at all. Besides, many roms are actually available to developers through MSDN, including the latest releases.

klmsu19 has a very good point. This thread was never started trying to defend our position against any kind of judgement (neither from you nor from anyone). This was started to raise awareness in the community that the work of so many of our fellow xda members was being sold without the author's consent. I wanted to call the attention of tene, Slither, A_C, and the rest in the fact that they were being taken advantage of. Just to tell them that someone else was profiting from their work. I took the matter into my own hands, and while it took some time and a lot of help from everyone here, I got 3 eBay sellers to stop selling our "homebrewed" software. So, at this point I would like to suggest that you stop saying that we are hypocrites for trying to help our fellow members. If I am a hypocrite, then so be it...

@mods,

Can we put a lid in this thread? It's beginning to turn into a flamewar and that was not the intention of the author (aka, me :) ). Besides, I am getting tired of being called a hypocrite.

Thanks in advance!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ronfin44:
What's amazing is you can read, but somehow fail at comprehension. I think I was very clear when I said, multiple times now, that I wasn't defending this **** selling software, but defending the guys that decide to buy a Kaiser, unlock it and load a custom ROM to it, then sell it on eBay. I think I made that pretty clear, so do you wanna tell me whos post you read? I said it a few times that I didn't approve of him, or anyone, selling free software. I was trying to enlighten some of these idiots in here about the difference between what Jay and I do as opposed to what that **** did. I'm like Jay, and its those actions I was defending. Go back through this thread and read some of the moronic statements in here. Adding serials to ROMS. C'mon. That's ridiculous. Oh, and to the gentleman above me, you are correct about Microsoft visiting here, but just cause they haven't acted on their right to shut this site down, don't say its justifiable now. Yeah, porting apps from one device to another is totally legal. *sigh* :rolleyes: Keep making excuses for violating a copyright. They're honestly amusing, and I'm not being sarcastic. I'm laughing at some of the reasons people have given as to why its ok to do some of the things we do here. btw, I seem to have lost my Windows XP. Since we all have the same OS in here can ya packup a WinXP_CAB and attach it for me? k? Thankz. Yeah, gotta love when someone needs an app from the same device and people attach it for them. Nothing wrong with that. Sharing apps is legal right? If we use the mentality that they purchased the "same" device as we did then why not give them what they already bought right? Yeah, well I bought XP so can ya give me a copy? ugh. We can turn a blind eye to all that license mumbojumbo. Thats there just for ****s-n-giggles apparently. :cool:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] egzthunder1:
@ronfin44

My apologies. I just went back to your first post and read it more carefully. You were in fact talking about him selling the phone with th sw. The problem is that I didn't quite get the lawnmower metaphore. however, if you check which auctions were reported, we only reported the ones in which he was selling sw. i believe one or two people mentioned something about the phones, but frankly i don't see anything wrong with that. So, for what is worth, I apologize for not reading your first post correctly. However, I still believe that some of your comments are out of place. But, please let's just drop this already. mods, close this, please.. thanks :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ronfin44:
I agree with you. This thread needs to be retired, but atleast it produced some good insights into this topic with a large cross-section of members levying their two cents. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dschoenike:
That dude is a f'ing cocka-roach! Selling somebody else's work for personal gain is pretty low.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Westie277:
ok sorry i got a bit carried away......

i really hope u dont stop developing add-on's for pocketCM tene as i use most (nearly all) your programs.....

hope we can get around this somehow :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dwertz:
Someone can always purchase through Paypal and call up paypal and say you want your money back because this person is selling the software illegally and once you purchase something you can leave that person feedback saying that you found out this person is selling illegal software and everyone else that reads their feeback will see that. I would create a new account though because the guy will probably leave bad feebback to whomever does this
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] egzthunder1:
That is not a bad idea. A few negative feedback items on him would hurt him pretty bad. Imagine if a few hundreds of us here (and ppcgeeks, modaco, etc) would all leave negative feedback... that should be fun to watch.

By the way, I agree with tene (not in the stopping development part - never stop that buddy!!), but in the fact that we "should raise hell!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bridic:
I just sent him an email asking why he is selling a free software. I am wonderinf if he responds.

He is making a nice amount for not doing anything.

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...sspagename=VIP:feedback:2:us&iid=120229724026
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TorxT3D:
whats hilarious is the people who buy this garbage... a little time on google and xda and you want need to buy that cd..

this guy has sold ALOT. this needs to be brought to serious attention
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] egzthunder1:
One thing I just realized is that he is distributing efrost's FTouchFlo as well. Maybe he can be taken down by this since efrost has officially commercialized his software. Maybe he can raise a little more hell.

Also, someone else mentioned that this guy is distributing the 0.051 version of Slither's cube, which is built with a limited license of Xflib (I might have mispelled it). I am not certain, but isn't it illegal to distribute it like this?

Edit: it is Edgelib not Xflib, sorry :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bridic:
I sent an email to ebay, not like anything will happen, but at least they were notified.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jadephyre:
the minute this guy starts to distribute a ROM, he's surely screwed as the ROMs contain copyrighted Material that belongs to Microsoft (and a few others).

Mentioning XDA-Developers though probably isn't the best thing to do since that would put all the ROM-Cookers here in Danger as we are using software on Devices that was not written for these.

A prime example would be the Himalaya with WM6 (such as mine).

I just hope that through efrost the other developers can win something out of this too.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Musicman247:
You were saying?

http://cgi.ebay.com/WM6-1-TouchFlo-...photoQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ryncppr:
This is what I sent him....

Dear 4goodeal,

How could you imagine that you would not be found!!! This software is readily available through a major development website for free. You should feel ashamed of yourself trying to sell someone else's work that has taken hours if not days to develop.

It is published on the website about your fraud you are committing and is being forwarded to ebay as you read this... The worst part is that you are not even paying the individuals for their hard work, but instead are trying to make an easy dollar!!

Please remove this and all other auctions you decided to offer or legal actions will be sought. Especially anything related to FTFlow as it is now a commercial program.

Aa you all well know FTFlow is no longer freeware!! The developer has started selling this program legitimately and hopefully he will take the proper action needed against this individual.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jadephyre:
:eek:

okay, should we highlight Microsoft about this ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] itje:
go click the report this item on all he's stolen "goods" if we all do so, e-bay will notice

this happened with a rom I made for Herald as well..

sux
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Musicman247:
Where is the "Report This Item" Button?

Edit: Nevermind. Found it at the bottom of the page.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] duprade:
As I had mentioned to ITJE once before in the Herald forum when we first found out this guy was selling Roms ...

Cooks/Programmers should code somewhere into their software, whether it be splashscreens or somewhere in their software

"FREE @ www.xda-developers.com"

or something along those lines ... that way it becomes known that people are getting ripped off.

EVERYONE FEEL FREE TO SEND HIM A NOTE

http://contact.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAP...equested=4goodeal&redirect=0&iid=120228091934
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Musicman247:
I like how all of his auctions now say FTouchFlo Clone.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] egzthunder1:
Maybe someone should try to reach efrost
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] duprade:
Just found this

http://myworld.ebay.pl/4goodeal

so apparently he's polish...

As well as every single item he's currently selling

http://stores.ebay.com/4GOODEAL_W0QQ_trksidZp1638.m118.l1247
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] GiZZy:
This was also happening as someone was selling Itje's ROMS on eBay as well.

People that do this kind of thing make me sick.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jadephyre:
i don't give a damn where this frickin' Moron is located, just as long as Ebay bans him.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] itje:
they are nothing but plain thiefs

im pretty sure he is making good money out of this

and I would not be surprised if some if not all the other things he sell is stolen also

what a lowlife
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] GiZZy:
I just saw the Report Item Link :) such a useful feature

I hope it gets noticed
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Musicman247:
Just sent him a pm and emailed sales@ftouchsl.com
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Musicman247:
If anyone is having a hard time finding the right place to go, here is the "Report Unauthorized Copies of Media" page

http://contact.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAP...uthorized+Copies&instruction=&expirationDate=
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dwertz:
Someone should look at his feedback and contact the people that bought stuff from him and tell them it is freeware and they should call paypal to get their money back. I am sure this guy has already got the money spent. It will put his account in negative.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Musicman247:
I have sent messages to the first 5 people on the feedback list:

oondaka, hurricanes1gators27pf7, muscoday, joshuapr92, paxon25

Ebay limits the number of emails you can send, so if someone would like to pick up where I left off....

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...FeedbackAsSeller&sspagename=VIP:feedback:3:us

This is what I sent to each of them:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mattarse:
Okay, not sure if it will help but I've signed up for an ebay account for the sole purpose of reporting this guy....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] egzthunder1:
I just took the complain process a step further. He has 36 auctions with either iPhone or FTouchFlo software. I reported on every single one of them :D

Take that a*%wipe!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mattdehat:
Hall Of Shame

Please add all peoples stealing developers hard work and selling on Ebay.any opinions would be appreciated.keep good work up and dont forget to support this site and all developers for making it happen for all of us.thanks for your hard work..time..patience.ect
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] egzthunder1:
These are the ones that I got to send the mesage to:

paxon25, richardort1, dbolottie, pshogren, kevinv9572

If someone else can pick up from here, it will be greatly appreciated. Together we can bring this scumbag down!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dwertz:
Haha darn it. I just did those ones too.

Edit: For anyone else that can help make sure that the item is the software. There is some other stuff that he is selling and would be a waste of the 5 messages you can send.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] itje:
great work guys
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marm0lade:
There are people stealing content from this site and selling it on Ebay? How exactly does that work? Do they send you a ROM image on a thumb drive? Can someone provide a link of where this is happening....?

Also, I must inquire - why do you capitalize the first letter of every word?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zcink:
Yeah That Does Seem Odd.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] themetalmaster:
I think he means that people are buying at&t tilts and unlocking them and reflashing them using tools found on this site. Ones that I have found in particular have duttys 6.1 on them. It is a pretty ****ty think to do I admit. They also include illegal versions of tomtom on them.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Slither2006:
Edgelib has been contacted.

Hi Guys,

As you would know from reading my Terms & Conditions in SCLPC++ 3D 0-051 readme file commerically selling my software is prohibitted. I have lodged a NOIC on 4GoodDeal and have alerted the Edgelib company of his illegal activites. Thanks for your help everyone!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dzebrys:
that way every thieft from ebay can be polish.

it's just country-localized engine with sellers

information from global ebay data base.

on the left below photo in Lokalizacja there is

info from which country he is from.

example:

from usa http://myworld.ebay.pl/4goodeal

from poland http://myworld.ebay.pl/dzebrys

i've reported these items as stolen

br

piotr
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] myv6mustang:
I also saw one selling a theme with buttons on the front while i was looking for accessories

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=310027865818&Category=115054
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PhilD41:
When through his store and copied all the item numbers. They are listed below. I used them to paste into the "Unauthorized Copies of Media" form found here.

Feel free to do the same!

120227575828, 120228986272, 120229710317, 120229717442, 120229720361, 120229722730, 120229731679, 120229734361, 120228091934, 120228094634, 120228096013, 120228101681, 120229370872, 120229376087, 120228398826, 120230378585, 120229702524, 120229706198, 120229710653, 120229711214, 120230384434, 120230387514, 120229678037, 120229709180, 120229709805