yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Topics] abc27:
I've created a new high performance hosting site for WinMo and Android custom roms. It is still however in beta but I expect that it will be finalised before the end of June :)

The servers (Yes I mean that in plural :p) that are being used are located in Dublin, Ireland (My hometown) so as to ensure brilliant speeds for both the US and EU. This service is of course free ;) however there are certain rules that must be followed to preserve the integrity of the site. For example, I will not be allowing full scale discussion like here on XDA to make it easier for people to navigate ROMs.

In any case, when you host a ROM on my infrastructure you get both regular HTTP download and bittorrent download as a backup so your ROMs will always be available. No more rapidshare! Devs get unlimited space for their ROMs and those with more than five distinct ROMs get their own subforum to release their ROMs on. Again, I would like to stress that the primary aim of this site will not be ROM development as is XDA or MoDaCo but it's aim is to be sooner or later the comprehensive database for custom ROMs on both Android and Windows Mobile.

In any case, the site's URL is http://www.smartroms.com I hope you do find it useful, if you encounter any bugs or the like please send me a pm and I will look into it :)
[General Topics] rolfd:
Nice idea. Good luck with it. I'm registering just now!
[General Topics] abc27:
Can you let me know if the registration page redirects you correctly? I noticed a few times that it kept hanging on redirecting during testing but it disappeared after I made a few seemingly irrelevant code changes.

Anyways, give me feedback! :D
[General Topics] rolfd:
It redirected me fine. The only tiny thing I'd say is that once you register and you are redirected to the login page, instead of your username being pre-filled, it puts your email address in.

Some less 'savvy' people might stumble on that and wonder why they can't log in.

As I say it's no biggy but you know what some users are like :D
[General Topics] abc27:
:confused:

That's odd, must have a look at that, thanks for letting me know :)
[General Topics] rolfd:
No bother. It might be a PHPbb thing. I used to run a PHPbb board many moons ago. They have changed a bit since then. lol
[General Topics] FrozenLord:
I really like the idea.

Thank you for providing a fast platform :)
[General Topics] derliebewolf:
Nece one, will check out soon. Thanks!
[General Topics] trock62:
Sounds great, Roms with *****ing:D
[General Topics] stylez:
Moved as not ROM Dev.

B.t.w already a hosting solution http://www.xdaroms.com/

Appreciate the offer and contribution.
[General Topics] abc27:
Yup! A central place for finding ROMs should be brilliant.
[General Topics] Draken Korin:
Mod. edit: not dev related, moved to general
[General Topics] d0ugie:
here's your feedback:

mobilitydigest.com/who-else-hates-rapidshare-chefs-take-note/

good work man
[General Topics] leonnib4:
Re: ROM chefs who need extra hosting

that could be very good!

thx man

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[General Topics] abc27:
I've replied to your blog post d0ugie just if you want to verify that it's me that made that post :)

Thanks for the warm response guys!
[General Topics] pedaah:
Awesome :)
[General Topics] thazlett:
well i thinks that's great ;)
[General Topics] Infraded:
Server is too busy

:(
[General Topics] leonnib4:
that's really bad... for a hosting site
[General Topics] abc27:
I've been working all night migrating the server to vBulletin instead of the phpbb system it is now. That's why it's slowing down from time to time. I thought it would be safer to work through the night as less people would be accessing the site but I suppose I thought wrong :)

In any case the site is hosted across multiple servers for performance and redundancy reasons so when the site is finalised there should never be any speed issues.
[General Topics] Saggy:
It's really good....Thnks!!! :D
[General Topics] jamesb1239:
I assume that you are hosting this from home over a residential ADSL or Cable connection as when I try to load the site I'm getting "unable to connect to smartroms.dyndns.org" so I guess that means that you are on a dynamic IP and your dyndns updater isnt working.

To be asking the ROM chefs to put their trust into a service that is hosted on a residential server is asking quite a lot as uptime/backups cannot be guaranteed.
[General Topics] saurabh88:
ok lets see.but how about for other regon?

speed will be improve??

or tell us that r u giving resume support???
[General Topics] JCLB:
Maybe it's just for temporary testing purpose, anyway the current IP seems to be part of Vodafone network.
[General Topics] blindguyinanorgy:
i havnt done anything to host, but rapidshare make me want to say words not allowed here.

even as a user i have much thanks.

hopefully this will also eliminate all of those "please post mirror" post that flood good discussion.
[General Topics] blindguyinanorgy:
your link is dead:eek:
[General Topics] jamesb1239:
I suppose it is possible, but it doesn't look good that its down after talking about the speed and reliability. I do however hope that it does work as one place for all would be brilliant!
[General Topics] zaphodB0:
Not a bad idea but this ain't hosted in Dublin. Hosting is in USA and I have 24 hops to 64.202.189.170 (can't post URL) which is a bit much. Bearing in mind I'm 60Km from Dublin.

If done right, this could be a nice one-stop-shop for ROMs
[General Topics] abc27:
It is hosted in Dublin, I would know as I installed the servers myself in the datacenter :D

That traceroute is directing you to America because that is where my nameservers are located.

The reason for the outage yesterday was that as you may know I am migrating the site to vBulletin. During the move there was a serious software problem on one of the servers meaning that I had to take the entire site offline. After fixing the issues with main server I brought the site back up with a backup I had made a few hours previous.

ROMs however are never going to suffer any issues as they are hosted on other servers dedicated solely to ROM serving.

In any case, if all goes well the move to vBulletin *should* be complete before the end of today.
[General Topics] codeXcalibur:
The site is a little bit slow..
[General Topics] abc27:
Sorry about the outage yesterday...

The reason for the outage yesterday was that as you may know I am migrating the site to vBulletin. During the move there was a serious software problem on one of the servers meaning that I had to take the entire site offline. After fixing the issues with main server I brought the site back up with a backup I had made a few hours previous.

ROMs however are never going to suffer any issues as they are hosted on other servers dedicated solely to ROM serving.

In any case, if all goes well the move to vBulletin *should* be complete before the end of today.
[General Topics] abc27:
Resume support and the like is already allowed as it is. As for other regions I am not yet certain on what shall be done. My plan is to first cover the EU, then the US and then Asia/Australia. But I cannot commit the money required for that until the site starts gaining popularity.

But rest assured that it's in the grand scheme of things.

:)

You may have noticed an outage yesterday...

The reason for the outage yesterday was that as you may know I am migrating the site to vBulletin. During the move there was a serious software problem on one of the servers meaning that I had to take the entire site offline. After fixing the issues with main server I brought the site back up with a backup I had made a few hours previous.

ROMs however are never going to suffer any issues as they are hosted on other servers dedicated solely to ROM serving.

In any case, if all goes well the move to vBulletin *should* be complete before the end of today.
[General Topics] abc27:
Bump...

I've finished the migration on to vBulletin :)
[General Topics] abc27:
I'm doing a lot of work on it at the moment so please excuse the sluggishness.

In any case, I've finished the migration on to vBulletin :)

ROMs are hosted on many other servers located in another different datacenter with far more bandwidth than the main site.
[General Topics] NurfedApoco:
Site wont load one bit :( 404'n out.
[General Topics] abc27:
That's strange, what time did that occur?
[General Topics] abc27:
I am not daft to even consider hosting from a residential line ;)

The setup of my servers require that I use DynDNS' DNS resolution services. Just to put things into perspective, the setup involves a server for dynamic webpages and database control, a server for static serving, a server for Android ROMs and a server for WinMo ROMs. That is how it works.

I perform daily backups as well to prevent any data loss from occuring. There is both a local and an off site backup.

I had been using a development server at home during the first few hours for testing but as I explained above that is not the case for live use of the site.

Hope this answers all your questions.
[General Topics] JCLB:
I read guinness :D

Thanks for details, I also love the idea of using torrent in addition with direct-dwnload.

I have some suggestion:

-always provide SHA1 or at least MD5 hash with ROMs.

-enable the dev/uploader to specify FTP mirrors on your site with login/pass so that when we up a ROM on your site, it automatically upload it on another FTP and bring back link on your site.

-provide a java upload and download applet manager with HASH support and why not torrent.

All of this to lessen your server charge and avoid data corruption.
[General Topics] abc27:
Project abandoned.

:(
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] bnakid:
Anyone know how to get rid of the "Add a new Push page" buttons on the Internet tab? There are four of them and I don't use them at all. They're just junking up the screen. Am I missing an obvious setting?:)

I have the HTC Touch Pro2 (Verizon), WM 6.5, Rhod500.

This forum has been fantastic! Thanks for all the info.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] DancherBoi:
I can add that any ROM with Sense 2.5 has a very different Internet tab that replaces the "Add a new Push page" buttons with configurable favorites. (Sense 2.5 is waaaaay better than the 2.1 that comes with the Verizon TP2 in many ways, not just the Inet tab.)

Does anyone know how to remove them without having to Flash a non-stock ROM? I would prefer to do it that way.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] brent372:
I can remove all the graphics, but not the text.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] bnakid:
Preconfigured Junk!

Why do they (HTC) feel they need to preconfigure all this junk? Grrr... I wish there was a little more UI flexibility/settings without flashing and tweaking! I don't mind tweaking (not into flashing), but I'm still amazed that they locked down so much functionality (e.g. notifications repeat sound, etc) and preconfigured other useless stuff! - sorry for the rant!

:confused:
[HD2 Accessories] vikramdhani:
I am look to buy this battery and looking for options/online stores that are selling them right now and shipping to USA

Can anyone suggest me stores that might be selling them ?
[HD2 Accessories] Kalavere:
Voila, http://www.clove.co.uk/viewProduct.aspx?product=6C9DA87E-F55C-4BE1-ACD7-3AC07A7E6635 I think that's the official outlet for them.
[HD2 Accessories] rvnteck:
try expansys-usa.com/d.aspx?i=195058
[HD2 Accessories] vikramdhani:
expansys will not have it in stock till 2nd july. Does anyone know if clove uses paypal as a payment method ?
[HD2 Accessories] vikramdhani:
So i have ordered the Battery and will post my impressions of the battery once i will get it
[Nexus One General] deenn:
Recently i've been noticing a certain color fade on my nexus one. it struck me especially when using handcent, and it's also very clearly coming forward in 3 banana.

Basically i notice that on the side of the screen the black is much deeper dark/black (& 'higher standard'), in comparison to the center. the color depth (again, only speaking for the black standard) is much less towards the center.

It's not really blurring the letters, more fading them into the background color, diminishing the contrast.

Does anyone else have a comparable problem or noticed any kind of similar screen behaviour?
[Nexus One General] ztm.000:
i dont notice anything
[Nexus One General] chowlala:
You need to get your eyes checked out... I'm serious. Could be astigmatism.
[Nexus One General] RogerPodacter:
I'm looking but don't see anything on mine.

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[Nexus One General] deenn:
@chowlala: **** i think you're right.

the diagnosing powers of the nexus one! what a phone.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] acrh2:
Anyone know if such widgets exist?

Thanks.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Landmine:
So my girl friend and I, moved from AT&T and our iPhones to Spring and our Evo's. My girl friend made the swap because I hated AT&T's coverage at our house, and we are moving in 3 months. But I know she isn't happy with her phone because she can NOT play all of her little iPhone games with all of her girl friends.

Should we move back and she can be happy or should I keep my awesome phone and tell her too bad?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] engagedtosmile:
Tell her too bad and get her an iPod Touch.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmty:
Couldn't she just play the games over WiFi on the inactive iPhone?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Landmine:
Good question. I suppose I'll have her try.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danknee:
Get her an Ipad or an Ipod touch and show her how to tether it to her Sprint phone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrono:
why bother with this 'we' business, get two different phones...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ap3604:
This man speaks the truth!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverStone641:
Lol, I see some long, lonely nights on the couch in your future!! ;)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gman8966:
Stick with the Evo and buy a refurbished iPod touch so she can play all the games and still have ipod. -From my g/f.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] KrInEn:
I have a mogul that was working fine until yesterday. Every time I go to make a call it acts like it is dialing then will just end the call after about 20 seconds. You don't hear anything and it does not connect. Not even for *228. Things that I have tried include;

-Flashing a new rom

-Flashing a new Radio Rom

-Master Reset

-Flashing a new PRL

-Flashing to a different carrier

After hours I am completely stumped. I would normally think that the radio is dead, but it finds and shows signal just fine.....

Any ideas?
[HD2 General] PunK_BoY:
Hello. I have bought a HTC HD2 in Spain locked to Vodafone.

I have already installed HSPL2 and installed the portuguese offical ROM (insted of the default spanish).

However, the phone wont accepted my portuguese SIM card. What do i have to do to unlock it?

Tks
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
i answered your other duplicate post in the HSPL thread.
[HD2 General] PunK_BoY:
Ok. tks and sorry... didnt see there :S

And do you know any good site to buy one?
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
heh,. dont be sorry.

No, i dont, i havent unlocked mine. I'm with O2 who have a free unlock service, BUT their 28 day service has taken 4 months so far, still no unlock code, hehe. Good job i dont need it unlocked!

There are a fair number of threads on here about sites like htcunlock.com (or whatever its called) with lots of feedback.

Put 'unlock hs2' into google, , loads of results.
[HD2 General] Mister B:
I unlocked a T-Mobile USA & European HD2 here

Got codes back in under 48hrs & even contacted me to correct IMEI as I done a typo, oops ... codes worked fine & are so simple to use.

Worth noting you will need to be on WM OS to unlock the HD2, fortunately all our work HD2s are on WM OS .
[HD2 General] nemo4:
you can contact your service provider
[HD2 General] ElectroBeijing:
Actually you don't need to be! :D

I had my Tmo HD2 on Android when I put my FarEasTone SIM in. It just asked me to enter the unlock code and I did, it worked just fine.
[HD2 General] Mister B:
Out of interest SD or Nand ?
[HD2 General] ElectroBeijing:
It was a NAND ROM.
[General Questions and Answers] applejacks:
Hey guys, I've been a member here for a while and appreciate all of the great resources I've been able to find here. Anyways, I'm hoping somebody could help me out with this problem that's eating up my battery life! I have a Samsung Code, runs on WM 6.1, and I've downloaded some apps to my phone. A few days ago I installed .Net CF 3.5 and I think that might be when my phone started having this problem where the display never shuts off. I checked all of my settings under Power Management, and all timeouts are set to the very minimum(Backlight: 5, Display on AC: 30, Display on battery: 10, keypad: 1)...

Can anybody tell me how to fix this problem?

Thanks

edit: Resolved this myself haha.

//xdaforums.com/archive/index.php/t-320306.html

Useful info incase this happens to anyone else. I guess this was caused by installing TCPMP player, which set a new display value.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] setzer715:
Well, I just noticed earlier today that I have a bunch of dust forming in the bottom left had side of the screen. Looks like between digitizer and LCD. Already called in an RMA. Pics to follow (once wife is home with camera).

Here is the pic.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] setzer715:
Bump, for everyone to see the pic.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] WilliamStern:
I've heard of dust getting under the screen, but damn that's pretty bad. Have you tried calling TMO, and have them exchange it for a new phone? I just can't see why they wouldn't do it. Plus, you're still under the 14 day exchange period, no questions asked.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] setzer715:
Yeah, sorry, to be more specific, for employees (me) you have to RMA the phone, then once received and verified, they will send you another. Yes, its a BS process, so as a customer, you don't have it too bad! Haha, anyways, process is in motion.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] NJAZ:
I thought I was the only one! While, not as bad as yours I have debris collecting in the same spot! I am sending both phones I got back. I am going to use this post to demonstrate that this is potentially a flaw in the design. What a bummer, I love this phone but I can't afford for there to be a gap for dust to enter under the screen. So glad I saw this post.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] NJAZ:
There are multiple light leaks around the plastic housing surrounding the touch screen. Inspect the seam surrounding the top portion of the phone carefully while the display has a white web page up. My wife's MT3G Slide has four big gaps that can bee seen on the seam of the plastic housing surrounding the screen. Mine has 3 of theses gaps one of which has already allowed dust in under my screen. I cannot believe that these flaws were not found upon inspection after the units were assembled. I am so disappointed; I was really enjoying the phone. Thank goodness I am still in my buyers remorse. If this would have happened in a warranty situation I would be stuck in a loop of refurbished devices with the same issue all while being stuck in a new 2 year contract. Dodging a bullet on this one.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] boldfacelies:
I tried saying this in a post and people just made fun of me for being "anal retentive." I'm glad someone else is bringing this up. It is a huge flaw in design.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] NJAZ:
You were dead on with this. I thought you were referring to the hard buttons below the screen. Speaking of those buttons; that is also a design flaw as it appears dust can get under the screen there as well. As one pushes down those buttons it exposes the edge of the touch screen. I should have taken your words more seriously instead I was dumbstruck by what is an otherwise great phone.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] NJAZ:
Just checked my screen in the sun ... dust everywhere under the screen. Bye bye beautiful Espresso; you are fatally flawed.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] N1M1TZ:
Ahh, I found a pin sized hole under the slide behind G button. Also if you open the slide, and use your phone that it turns on the light you will notice light inside the micro usb connector. I am not sure if this means that dust can pass through it also.

Will post pic of said pinhole later when it gets a little dark here. Will try blowing in some baby powder into that hole to see if it does get into the screen.

EDIT: Pics of pinhole behind G button at the back of the slide.

Photo of phone with LCD on. Noticed the pinhole with some light showing thru and the micro usb connector showing some light.

Photo of the phone with display off.

EDIT: I might bring to T-Mo store for replacement but not giving up on this phone. Goodluck with the Samsung S.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] ArticosX:
Just posted in the MT3GS defective thread: this might be a larger defect than just the Slides. There's a bunch of Evo people talking about the same issue with their phones on the htc forums and the androidforums: glass is separating due to potentially faulty adhesive.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] NJAZ:
Who's getting a Galaxy S? I'm not.

I don't think the light leaks are as big an issue as I thought, so long as the adhesive seal between the digitizer and LCD is intact there shouldn't be any way for dust to get into the screen.

Hey, what kind is and where did you get that case? Looks cool!
[myTouch 3G Slide General] setzer715:
That pin hole is on the opposite side of where my dust issue is. Strange.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] setzer715:
Thats the one offered by tmobile, black back, chrome front bezel. Has a removable belt clip, so that is why you see a little circle in the middle.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Ultramegakungfu:
I had this happen to the first slide I picked up but luckily I noticed it fairly quick and took it back the very next day. Now the replacement I have is having the same issue, granted it's 1 spec of dust under the screen but I know it will get worse with time and I'm debating on whether or not I will just return it and go back to my G1.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Fordude:
Mine has it now too! Just noticed it in the sun on the way into work - Mine is going to get swapped out today too...

This is a major drag!!!

:(
[myTouch 3G Slide General] r0adki111:
My nexus has this same issue so do many others. Some people are having a hard time getting HTC to replace because of unlocked bootloaders. On the n1 the bottom left corner of the screen feels like it is not glued down all the way and dust goes under. Some are using a hair dryer to warm up the corner and pushing down on the screen to help it glue down all the way. HTC fixed mine and then when I got it back the screen was even more loose and I have more dust now than before. I'm going to wait longer before I send it back again. Hopefully this mts doesn't start doing the same thing.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Ultramegakungfu:
I started a thread about this over in the tmo forums. It appears that it has gotten the attention of a moderator over there. If you would like to add your story to it please feel free as well as post a picture or two of the dust your screen has trapped.

Apparently I can't post links because my account hasn't been verified. The thread isn't too hard to find over there, promise.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] MrOtsKrad:
holy crap stop hiding your phone in the litter box!
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Fordude:
If you turn the back light off and shine a flashlight at the screen at an angle you see this very well!

Here is mine:

I don't work in a dusty environment either, probably from my pocket. Plastic pocket protectors anyone??