yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G1 General] dezvous:
I understand what you're saying but I don't think it's as clear cut as that anymore. In this day and age of the internet, where it has permeated so much of our everyday life, things have changed.

I think it's apparent the way people do business and what's expected of certain things has to change. The world is not the same. I like to see it as being different in a good way, and what we're seeing now is the clashing of old methods of thinking and new methods of actual practice.

I don't have the answers to how business should be conducted, but I do feel as though business in general will continue to change drastically in the near future. We're already seeing money being made in different ways than in the past. For instance, services rather than products seem to be in a higher demand than in previous years. With things like Netflix and the inter-connectivity between hundreds of different devices for the same service. I don't know, it just seems like things are changing, or desperately NEED to change and no one knows just quite what to do about it. Like how to properly monetize it and still have the end user feel happy with their money spent.

We live in a world where people take things for free and feel as though they are entitled to it. I'm not going to act like I'm any different, I catch myself with this mindset as well. I do however realize that I'm spending more money in different ways than I ever had. For instance going to see artists live in concert much more frequently and paying a pretty penny. That doesn't justify my actions, but it definitely illustrates that there's always a way to make money, and maybe even more money than you had before. This just might contradict previous methods of doing business, like pay what you think it's worth pricing.

Instead of these big companies trying to drop the hammer on everyone pirating their stuff why don't they find new and more creative ways to sell someone something? It's not like everyone in this world suddenly doesn't want to have to pay for things, we don't want everything for free, we just want them at a price we deem understandable, as any consumer should come away from a purchase really. Steam is a great example. It's embarrassing how much money I have dropped in the last couple of weeks. I probably bought 50 games in the past week and spent WAY too much money in doing so. It's proof that I will gladly open my wallet and mostly without much thought. Companies need to get smarter, not police more heavily. They can make more money than they've ever made with today's society. They just have to know how to market it. That's my belief anyways.

Consumers are usually more willing to part with more money if the choice factor is there strangely enough. It's all one big head game. I know I paid NIN and Radiohead way more than their CD would have cost in any store but I came away from that purchase feeling great.
[G1 General] mghtyred:
Wow. I received an interesting email today at an e-mail address I posted on twitter this week from stopnow@****face.com (obviously a remailer).

"We see what you're doing, and we don't like it. Don't disrupt what is a good thing for us, or you will pay the consequences. This is your ONLY WARNING. "

WTF?
[G1 General] mghtyred:
Now someone is setting up fake twitter accounts claiming to be Klick... I guess someone's got a troll team.
[G1 General] jubeh:
Wow, that sounds serious. But really, if I were you, I'd stop blocking their shemale furry porn. It's a good thing for them and they'll cry if they don't get it. :D

You know, for a while, a slight while, I thought that maybe some of these "devs" were somehow part of a bunch that collected money in several different ways to pay for organized crime. I know I've seen it happen a heck of a lot on MMOs. This might just be another easy way to get money, as I said before, some of these guys have an MO that makes it seem like they're either the same person, or they're associated.

Remember the previous guys of deceitful reputation that got banned? Suddenly another guy popped up and went from 0 posts to bunch of roms out in no time, and it's played that way since the days of jac and drizzy.

For all those saying that XDA forced king to have donation links. Seriously, STFU if you don't know what the mod was saying. King used to have, in big, red letters at the start of every OP he made, a message saying that he wanted help buying a phone and a direct link to his paypal. Nowhere in the rules is that covered, and it can be considered spam. The appropriate place for donation links is in tiny letters in the signature.

It's not there anymore because the mod went and changed the posts, so don't bother going, looking, and coming back and saying "It's not true, look at this"...
[G1 General] jubeh:
Those of us who've been here long enough know that Cyanogen Mod was originally a kang of JF's roms:eek:. Shhh, don't tell anybody...
[G1 General] Mr Bill Florida:
All this reading is making my eyes hurt.

I for one can tell you that it is not easy making a ROM. I had to set up Ubuntu with a Virtual Box which was a chore in it self. Compile a ROM from repo's that seem to be changed hourly for tweaks. And theme it how I like it is a very time consuming task. I have actually had to replace my keyboard from slaming my fist down on it for a error I did that set me back to step one.

I have a very good idea how much creating a ROM is for even a group of dev's. Hats off to you guys.

I have used many ROM's from several dev's and I can say thank you for the sweat and tears in creating your ROM's.

God bless you.
[G1 General] jubeh:
So, when can we expect your next release?
[G1 General] macsbac:
Now teamdouchebags are not happy enough getting KingKlick removed from XDA but they have furthered their campaign to seemingly remove KingKlick from the Android developer community completely.

We know they have an idea "whodunnit" and they are certainly retweeting this at every opportunity.

Another direct message from teamdouchebags clearly telling people to unfollow king. Yet again regurgitated by multiple teamdouche bag members.

It seams teamdouche do not even allow KingKlick to use twitter or set up his own web site. I am now beginning to think thee douchebags are Apple employees hired by Steve Jobs to destroy the Android community.

Maybe now the mods can review their decision taking into account the vile campaign these anti open source cowboys have been pushing against another developer. Though I doubt they have the integrity to do so.
[G1 General] Mr Bill Florida:
I wouldnt want to release it, there is aloy more than some scripts to compile a ROM. I am leaving it you the dev's that have the patience to build them correctly. The ASOP source is not even close to what is needed to complete a ROM. I will stick to using what is proven to work, ROM's from the handful of dev's currently building for the many handsets and what seems to be a growing trend, many everyday that seem to be released.

I might not use every ROM out there but you have my respect for the dedication you put into your work.

Great job everyone.
[G1 General] lbcoder:
I'm not arguing with any of your points, in fact, I agree.

The question though, is about HOW you accomplish this.

FRAUD is still FRAUD, any way you look at it, so if you want to do stuff for free, you still need to avoid committing fraud in the process.
[G1 General] lbcoder:
Why would you need to do that? All you got to do is install the build dependencies, repo sync the source, and make it. No virtualbox nonsense required -- in fact, that's the stupid way to do things. Why virtualize your build system?
[G1 General] goldenarmZ:
I do that as well.. I spend a lot of time switching back and forth between windows for Photoshop/Illustrator and linux for coding. Its a bit slower but its much more convenient than rebooting or switching to a different machine.. especially with drag and drop support between the operating systems.

It could be argued that I should virtualise windows on a linux host, but a lack of resources while building just means I wait a bit longer, while a lack of resources using the already bloated creative suite means I tear my hair out and smash my keyboard in rage. I'm also not willing to use the creative suite apps under wine.. the small bugs get really annoying really quickly.

So yea.. virtual build environments have their place.
[G1 General] lbcoder:
Adobe... AAAAAHHH!!!! STAY BACK STAY BACK STAY BACK!!!!
[G1 General] goldenarmZ:
Yeah I know.. It hate myself for it, but for a designer there's nothing close to the CS. :p

edit: Excepting Flash of course.. I don't want to be mistaken for the kind of person that uses Flash. Ever.
[G1 General] dezvous:
You're right, I guess it's because this kind of outrage on an internet forum has always just seemed strange and futile in a way. I guess I just wished the internet dealt with things a little more civil.

All too often I've seen people get permanently banned by mods on a power trip while the community would rather not see that person go. I'm not commenting on King here, I know far too little about him and this whole situation to have an informed opinion on the matter.

I guess it's to be expected, that's what happens when you give people power in all walks of life.

I'm full of questions and no answers..
[G1 General] mghtyred:
Honestly, I would be surprised if "Team Douche" was behind the twitter harassment of Klick, just as I'm sure that the person(s) who sent me the threat e-mail were likely nothing more than internet trolls trying to stir the pot.

Still, this shouldn't detract from the fact that the greed of other dev's is what got Klick removed from these forums, and will likely get other small dev's pushed out too.

Again, I URGE the management of XDA to BAN ALL DONATION REQUESTS, PERIOD.
[G1 General] rsfaze:
i think this thread has gotten way off topic.

macsbac if you want to defend King go create your own thread on why he is the greatest man alive, your obsession that is carrying over into every thread is getting old. Can't you build a shrine in your closet to show your dedication to king?

now back on topic...

money is the root of all evil, and if you don't think so you are only fooling yourself. Adding money/donations to the mix will push people to lie,steal and cheat to get it, hence the winzip modding done by King. I'm sure others have done it but he is the one that is being made an example of. No one should cry over this but take from this that if you want to use someone else's work , it's only right to cite them.
[G1 General] mghtyred:
You go off on someone defending Klick because it's off topic, the you proceed to bash Klick.

The point of this thread is that money seems to be leading to a lot of corruption, dishonesty, and underhandedness in this community. Further, I believe it is encouraging bigger dev's to push out smaller upstarts for fear of loss of market share.
[G1 General] rsfaze:
Sorry if while trying to stay on topic I throw in an example to help prove my point...

carry on.
[G1 General] mghtyred:
I was just admiring your glass house is all. ;) Throw away.
[G1 General] Blackman778g:
IDK, if there are errors bare with me.. its late.

I am speachless.

This discovery is so shocking to everyone, even making some write threating TWITTER messages.. :eek::rolleyes:

Macsbac is in love with King... they're butt budies. Mac I understand if I think your thinking what I'm thinking that maybe they should have given him one more chance.. but to me the situation though does not surprise me, because where are the finished ROM's thus equaling to a never finished project which has no real reason to flash if it still has bugs.

Also, I don't know why this keeps surprising everyone, a while back a small number of people accused him of taking cyanogen's or wesgarner's kernels and renaming them "King's Kernel #2 #3 #4 #8 etc. and other member's work. I guess it's just time to choose sides like... dare I say the word.. "TWILIGHT"...

Further more why bash cyanogen's crew, they brought us a completely working Eclair and soon to be Froyo. He has history on his side and never leaves a project unfinished.

I rest my case. :cool:
[G1 General] macsbac:
So why would anyone defend KingKlick and his winzip modding? One reason only his Mt3g roms run better on my device than anyone else's. Maybe you could explain that to me how that's done using winzip? They since so called all ROM developers are really ROM hackers or modders why is KingKlick any different from any other developer. All of who do or have done their fair share of klanging and then explain why he's being treated differently.

It was a member of teamdouche @jeagoss who was originally tweeted on the android developers list and others telling everyone to unfollow kingklick. It was further retweeted repeatedly by other members of "teamdouchebags". I would not underestimate the length those guys will goto.

As for xda banning donations I doubt this would make any difference. You just have to redirect your post to another site where you ask for donations. Or you can do it on twitter etc. XDA moderators have lost all credibility since they cannot even abide by their own rules.

As for being butt buddies or being in love do you know these could be considered personal insults and there for a breach of xda rules! Maybe a ban is in order! Though I am not homophobic and while I have never seen KingKlick I am sure hes a fine figure of man.
[G1 General] lbcoder:
I'm afraid that you are completely mistaken.

MONEY is just a proxy for GREED, which is a naturally evolved characteristic of our species related to natural selection -- you hoard all your stuff -- food, women, shelter, and you survive and propagate. Those who don't just freeze to death. Greed, and in extension MONEY, is GOOD.

However, we are unfortunately under the oppression of various socialist regimes, which place limits on capitalism and unbalance the field of competition. This leads to the dangers associated with fraud. Without the oppression, capitalism could take proper hold, and fraud, extortion, and various other "crimes" become irrelevant since there is a level playing field and everyone is able to participate in those "crimes" equally, at which point they cease to be crimes at all.

So in conclusion, greed is good, socialism is bad.

(please people, don't take this THAT seriously, see it for what it actually is. If your feathers get ruffled by it, then you're reading it wrong....)
[G1 General] vixsandlee:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=629754
[G1 General] mghtyred:
well this died out quickly.... never a response from XDA staff either.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sonic_01:
Hi All,

the weather widget keeps crashing on my phone, when i browse to the page with it the up/down arrows don't show how many pages I have i.e 1/4.

if I press the app the full program comes up working no problem, then if I back out of it the widget works normally - however if I boot the phone up and I haven't started the full app, i just want to use the widget - if I try and scroll up or down to view different cities I get:

The application HTC Sense

(process com.htc.launcher) has

stopped unexpectedly. Please

try again.

Then sense crashes and I have to wait for it to load again...

im using the TW 2.1 rom on an Orange branded HTC. This problem only started happening in the last couple of days, I upgraded to the UK unbranded rom and a new radio before I discovered this issue, as soon as I realised I used nandroid to go back, did a full recovery mode wipe plus wipe before doing so, but I still have the same problem!

Any help would be much appreciated.
[Desire Themes and Apps] cTrox:
Just something I want to share with you:

HTC Desire Device Icon

Place the files from the Zip into the root of your SD Card.
[Desire Themes and Apps] dragonithe:
it doesn't work on my desire ...
[Desire Themes and Apps] cTrox:
Are you on Windows? You have to reconnect your Desire and enable Mass Storage to see it.
[Desire Themes and Apps] paulosman:
Works great, very nice one dude!
[Desire Themes and Apps] dragonithe:
My fault, i had put the files in the folder on my sd card.

now i tried it whit the files w/o the folder and it works!

It's really nice!
[Desire Themes and Apps] Dj!pOner:
Other icon avaible here: http://www.customxp.net/PngFactory/index.php?search=DESIRE&let=&autorid=&cat=&suite= ;)
[Desire Themes and Apps] roniez:
if u modify the autorun.inf on the icon part to say icon=whateverfolder\HTC Desire.ico

e.x ICON=resource\HTC Desire.ico

Then you can have the icon in whateverfolder you want, and it will still be read when mounting the device (if your like me and dont like more than neccessary in the root directory of the SD card. :)
[Desire Themes and Apps] enuazeal:
here http://iirojappinen.deviantart.com/art/HTC-Desire-icon-163467079
[Desire Themes and Apps] Sulphy:
mmm.... seems that when i copy the autorun.inf and ico file to my sd on the desire.... it deletes the inf file!!!
[Desire Themes and Apps] Kameo:
Thanks for that tiny but nice icon mate :D
[Desire Themes and Apps] zw4mp:
Same here.. if i disable and enable mass storage the .inf file is gone
[Desire Themes and Apps] enuazeal:
maybe anti virus software delete it
[Desire Themes and Apps] zw4mp:
Don't have such a thing :P
[Desire Themes and Apps] Jason1978:
Its the same for me, even if I make the file read only....
[Desire Themes and Apps] Sulphy:
Yeah, it has nothing to do with antivirus s/w ...... my antivirus s/w didnt quarantine anything, or flag the autorun.inf file.... i even disabled the av... and tried again... same issue...!Oh well...
[Desire Themes and Apps] Mr.Goro:
Simple but very good idea! Working well on my desire! Just used the alternative icon with the display on and looke awesome! Thanks!
[Desire Themes and Apps] Mindscrewy:
Thanks ! looks great now and with a personalized name :p
[Desire Themes and Apps] EroThraX:
Tried this a while back, autorun.inf just gets deleted from the SD card when I enable Disk Drive mode.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Mr. HD:
Absolutely great taste, A+
[Desire Themes and Apps] Mr. HD:
Same here, since I upgraded to Froyo using the HTC update with sense it kicks off the *.inf from the SD-Card, saaaaaad.

PS: I have no antivirus or else active by the time I tested it.
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] shubbie:
Hi

I've picked up a second hand Artemis. Unlocked it from T mobile and run USPL. When flashing the Andrew82 WM6.1 ROM, it has rebooted, but now sits at the white TMobile start screen displaying:

IPL 1.13.0001

SPL 1.13.0000

GSM 02.49.90

OS 3.15.0.0

It won't see activsync so I can't reflash the rom.

It will load to bootloader but I don't know what to do next to recover it.

A hard reset only returns to the T mobile start screen.

I have copies of mtty, terratty available, and have downloaded the T Mobile rom ART_TMOUK_11311001_024990_WWE_Ship_R3.exe.

How do I get the rom onto the phone?

Help would be appreciated.

Thanks
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] raving_nanza:
...

Cmd>password BsaD5SeoA

Cmd>runruu 1

this should flash..

flash original rom, uspl did ot work!

spl = 1.11.cmon

or

spl = 1.11.0000

click uspl on my sig to download spl 1.11.cmon.. this flashes no matter the rom size..

pm me if you get stuck..
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] shubbie:
Thanks for the prompt reply.

I've set the phone to bootloader, started Mtty (with activesync set to no usb), and opened the mtty process.

Entering password BsaD5SeoA

I get

Pass.

+ SD Controller init

- SD Controller init

+StorageInit

SDInit+++

SDCmd1 Command response time-out. MMC_STAT = 80

SDCmd1 Command response time-out. MMC_STAT = 80

SDCmd1 Command response time-out. MMC_STAT = 80

SDCmd55 Command response time-out. MMC_STAT = 80

SDCmd55 Command response time-out. MMC_STAT = 80

SDCmd55 Command response time-out. MMC_STAT = 80

CMD55 failed

+ SD Controller init

- SD Controller init

+StorageInit

SDInit+++

SDCmd1 Command response time-out. MMC_STAT = 80

SDCmd1 Command response time-out. MMC_STAT = 80

SDCmd1 Command response time-out. MMC_STAT = 80

SDCmd55 Command response time-out. MMC_STAT = 80

SDCmd55 Command response time-out. MMC_STAT = 80

SDCmd55 Command response time-out. MMC_STAT = 80

CMD55 failed

g_cKeyCardSecurityLevel = 0

HTCEType (0x1)(Operation mode flag): cOpModeFlag=(0x0).

Type (0x2)(Back color flag): cBackColorShowFlag=(0x1).

Type (0x5)(Background color value): g_wBColor=(0xC618) (0xC0C0C0).

HTCST

When I enter runruu 1

I get

Invalid command : runruu 1

Any Ideas ?

Thanks
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] raving_nanza:
...

Cmd>runruu 1
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] shubbie:
Sorry, no joy.

but at Cmd>runrru1

mtty returned, invalid command.

The phone is now a grey screen with a loading bar showing, but stuck at 0%.

PM me if will make things quicker, from my end XDA is running very slow at the moment. (probelbly decause I'm in darkest Lincolnshire !)
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] shubbie:
Sorry, no joy.

but at Cmd>runrru1

mtty returned, invalid command.

The phone is now a grey screen with a loading bar showing, but stuck at 0%.

PM me if will make things quicker, from my end XDA is running very slow at the moment. (probebly because I'm in darkest Lincolnshire !)
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] raving_nanza:
...

try

Cmd>runnruu0

Cmd>ResetDevice
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] raving_nanza:
...

run the ruu
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] shubbie:
Thanks

runruu0 reported as invalid command as well.

DeviceReset rebooted the phone, and it now boots to the bootloader screen, and nothing else.

when you say "run ruu" do you mean the rom update utility? As this doesn't work as it says the phone is not connected.
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] shubbie:
All fixed !

Great thanks to :D raving_nanza :D - he really helped me out with great advice.

Finally solved by flashed the t mobile original rom via the RUU with activesync set to no usb. Flashing from SD card not successful, but back up and running now.

Now I can get back to the reall target, flashing to WM 6.1 !!
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] raving_nanza:
...

glad to help dude..

when you do uspl make sure you spl is

1.11.cmon

if it aint that then you might

brick

again..

click uspl 1.11.cmon on my signature to download

i suggest the rom too :)

good luck :)
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] raving_nanza:
...

im gona do a dump of all my stuff (cabs, roms etc) for artemis on 4shared.. ill send you the link when its done dude..
[Touch HD General] Ventcrawler:
Hiya, just brought a HTC Touch HD on ebay and i want to restore back to factory Rom but....

1) I never done anything like this before and my brain is about to blow

2) i don't know where to begin

so any help would be great. i tried looking around but just don't know where to begin

thanks in advance
[Touch HD General] Smobbo:
start at the dummies guide and the Blackstone Wiki.

if you still have issues try to explain exactly what isn't working.

@mods: move to general?
[Touch HD General] Ventcrawler:
ok i looked around and where are these dummie guides?
[EVO 4G General] Zexell:
It seems that any wallpaper with a gradient or any shading or glowing is displayed like in 8-bit style. What I mean by that is this.

Its really making alot of wallpapers look hideous and would like to know what I can do to make it look the way it should. Thanks in advance.
[EVO 4G General] Zexell:
Seems like a little help and a little research does wonders these days.

Just so this can be used as a reference, i'm gonna go a little in dept here.

These methods work in getting rid of the banding lines but what I figured out was to keep the quality, you need to do alot of tweaking and messing around. What I found out was adding a gaussian blur on a new layer thats slightly transparent and adding a little noise on a overlay layer thats slightly transparent is the trick.

This took me 2 mins to do. (Its 6:22am on fourth of July, I'll put up better examples later)

Before

After

What got me thinking was some of my camera pictures and other pictures in the gallery look stunning but anything I transfer via pc had horrible banding. Didnt make any sense at all. I'm no expert but adding a little blur and noise almost tricks the evo's screen.