yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mikeacela:
Well "rooting" can be considered like jailbreaking but their are a few key differences (I have rooted and jailbroke before). Since Android offers many of the features iPhone doesent offer without jaybreak, rooting and Android allows the user to access many of the hidden features like setting the speed of the CPU. Rooting also allows custom roms to be installed on your phone. Roms are basically a moded version of the software your phone runs. A popular type of Rom called "Cyanogen" is available for a wide variety of Android devices. Rooting also allows free wireless tethering to your phone. What that means is that your phone emits WiFi and and of your WiFi powered devices such as an ipod or laptop can connect to it. Since rooting allows full user access to the processes of the Android phone, you warentee is also voided. But if you know what you want and how to keep your phone running then give it a shot. If you are new to the field rooting I would read more about it and how to fix it in recovery mode if you want to unroot your phone. I hope this helps.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TravUK:
Its a reference to the underlying linux system, and goes back to Unix. Root was the primary user or superuser, and so root level access was the key to full admin control.

Your phone by default presents you with a limited user access, generally for your own good, by protecting access to files and folders you shouldnt normally access. Rooting refers to achieving full unrestricted access to the phone, thus enabling you to go beyond the normal user and start mucking about under the hood.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Will.1:
Quick question, since i stumbled upon this thread:

- Have there been cases of attempts at rooting carrier locked phones that resulted in bricks? Or is it generally safe to root carrier locked devices (if any Frenchies see this, i'm talking about SFR, Orange... more specifically.)

Cheers
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] kpkimmel:
getting familiar with the splash and artistic process of this stuff, made a few splash screen, also included is the splash converter program so you can take the pic inside the zip and convert to splash image and flash, hope you like them so far, enjoy.

UPDATE 1: Added more splash screens
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] olmo47:
evosplash1.rgb565

OK not sure how you put this on the phone?

Do I have to 'root' the phone?

I read your instructions 5 times and I am :confused:

"

To flash an image:

1. open up image

2. verify image on the gui

3. click convert

4. start your phone up in Fastboot mode. you can do this by holding power and VOL+DOWN.

5. push files to phone: fastboot flash splash1 evosplash1.rgb565

6. reboot phone: fastboot reboot "

lost?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] kpkimmel:
Cd to the directory where u put the img....make sure your phone is in fastboot usb mode

Ex. Cd c:\users\yourname\desktop

Hit enter then type the fastboot command
[Desire Android Development] shav4life:
I'm not a developer so all credit goes to: udK - pmnei - liamstear - richardtrip - jeremy89632 - and every one else (Many thanks)

This Rom aims to be as close to stock HTC Roms as possible with slight modifications and enhancements.

No HTC apps, widgets or features have been removed.

I would recommend you have an ext3 partition before you install this rom.

Might take a while to boot after first install, do not touch it will load fine!

Features:

Froyo 2.2 with HTC Sense

Classic APP2SD+

WIFI N

720p Recording

MPEG4|H.263|H.264 encoding support

Custom Battery, Alarm and Signal icons.

New Boot Animation

Gallery 3D (Camera shortcut working + Picasa account link)

Chrome to Phone

All HTC Apps and Widgets

Spare Parts

Rom Manager

All Apps show in Market

Issues/Still to do:

Static HTC Wallpapers yet to be added

More custom icons to be added

Update and add more features as much as possible

How to install this Rom:

Download This Rom here:

Download with Custom Icons

Download with Stock Icons

Root your HTC Desire @ http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=696189

Install Fake Flash Recovery @ http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=698403

Nandroid Backup current Rom

Install Radio 32.41.00.32U_5.08.00.04 @ http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=687464

If coming from 2.1 then you need to factory Reset/Wipe and then install this rom. If coming from 2.2 wipe cache might be all you need.

Any issues please post them below.
[Desire Android Development] Ronaldo_9:
how much space is free after fresh install? does HTC_IME with google voice work? What FPS is 720p?
[Desire Android Development] maax990:
The uploader has removed this file from the server. :)

ok,work :)
[Desire Android Development] shav4life:
I only used it with app2sd+ so I'm not sure how much will be left without it to be honest. HTC_IME works I think, you might get fc if you try to calibrate it though. not sure about fps will get back to you on that.
[Desire Android Development] shav4life:
it should work now
[Desire Android Development] CelticLo:
I'd really appreciate a ZIP full of the HTC apps & widgets that work on Froyo so I can pick and choose which to include.

Haven't tried out 3D Gallery yet.
[Desire Android Development] shav4life:
I will move them to data on my next update so that you can remove which ever ones you don't like. I will also provide the apps as in zip format for those who don't want to change roms but want the apps.
[Desire Android Development] joshptyltd:
any bugs that anyone's come across. I haven't rooted my phone yet, because I wanted a froyo+sense+htc apps rom, so depending on peoples feedback, i might switch to this. I especially want teeter.
[Desire Android Development] shav4life:
I have been testing it for the past few days, it works fine on my phone. so no known bugs yet, wait for others to try it out and give you feedback.
[Desire Android Development] joshptyltd:
does teeter work?
[Desire Android Development] shav4life:
which teether? wifi or usb?
[Desire Android Development] joshptyltd:
no. the labyrinth game teeter that came stock on 2.1
[Desire Android Development] shav4life:
yes and by the way wifi and usb tether also work :)
[Desire Android Development] Ronaldo_9:
this rom seems to have good space and few bug fix might give it try.

just out of interest are you able to modify the Sense launcher to have [Phone][App draw][Contact/people] instead of app, phone and add widget?

cheers
[Desire Android Development] shav4life:
is this mod available elsewhere?
[Desire Android Development] Ronaldo_9:
i dont think so, i was just wondering because thats what bugs me about sense UI.
[Desire Android Development] shav4life:
thats a really good idea, I will put that in my to do list but as I said earlier I'm not a dev so i'm not sure how far I will be able to go with it.

you might want to make a seperate thread for it, Someone here might be able to do it quicker.
[Desire Android Development] tori007:
i installed teeter when i used modaco online kitchen and it works fine
[Desire Android Development] joshptyltd:
what the fps on the video camera. with the new quick rooting method made by unrevoked, im thinking of rooting :)
[Desire Android Development] shav4life:
Now have option of custom icons or stock icons.
[General Topics] TakoLuffer:
Who has actually heard of this and who would actually do this :] . Ive been waiting to get android on my ipod as a dual boot theres not much reason to do so but tell me what are your thoughts on this? Its already been done for the iphone.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thelegendofpiter:
hi everybody! i have a problem with the blu&me system of my alfa mito (that has the same type of blu &me of the fiat bravo):

i can't read the messages from the car (and also obviously i can't hear the sms alert sound) it seems that nobody message arrives

(instead i can call and answer calls)

can you help me?
[Android Apps and Games] ex87:
There were AndroShark, tool for capturing traffic on Android. But there were no newer releases and it seems that original developer dropped project. I liked this tool and used it a lot. But it was set to expire... So there was no simple capture tools available... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=675206 is home of AndroShark.

So I made Shark for Root, alternative for AndroShark. Some people asked for possibility to see packets on phone, and for that purpose SharkReader has created (first, "quick and dirty" release).

Shark for Root

With tcpdump http://swapper.n3o.lv/lv.n3o.shark_1.0.2.apk

Native http://swapper.n3o.lv/lv.n3o.sharknative_1.0.2.apk

SharkReader - unstable...

(note - run Shark Updater to get traffic analysator)

http://swapper.n3o.lv/lv.n3o.sharkreader_0.1.6.apk

Older versions http://swapper.n3o.lv/
[Android Apps and Games] Kulaa:
EPIC

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] Infin8cyn:
If you press stop, it doesn't truly stop. tcpdump seems like it is still going in the background. The file will continue getting larger and larger even though it has been told to stop capturing.

Running CyanogenMod 6 RC1.
[Android Apps and Games] mike4824:
Thank you.

Far as I can tell it's working good, Thanks for the reader, helps a lot, I can see this program becoming a portable wireshark app for android, keep up the great work and thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] R3nrut:
Awesome start!! Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] duffy1807:
does this program work with rooted x10? i clcik on start and all i see is "not found".. my parameters are empty is this also correct ?

thanks
[Android Apps and Games] SiL3nTKiLL:
cool app! thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] ex87:
Default parameters are -vv -s 0

Can You send me more information about Your error?
[Android Apps and Games] acips:
Could someone tell about using different parameters or point me to some website where i could study these?(now i got the defaults)

And when i open Shark reader i see many "RAW Packet" but i cant get any information from them, just "Packet #number".

.pcap files are fine when i open them with Wireshark.

At the bottom i see this: -NULL , what else i can use here and how it effects?

Interesting app, keep up the good work!:)
[Android Apps and Games] Gimpeh:
A changelog would be nice.
[Android Apps and Games] mcampbellsmith:
I also can not run Shark on my X10. I get the error 'reloc_library [1215]: cannot locate _aeabi_fdiv CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE
[Android Apps and Games] ex87:
Hello!

For Shark for Root parameters look at some examples/manuals about tcpdump. F.e. http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~marios/ethereal-tcpdump.pdf

Shark reader marks packets as RAW if it does not recognize it (currently it means it's not tcp/udp packet).

For filters you can use any tag and any tag with - sign. Tags are those in first column. Traffic is tagged by content (signature) and port. Signatures and ports you may update with Shark Updater (included in Shark Reader), but I have too little time to manage all those resources. I'll make this system public for tags submission/port submission, so interested users will be able to add necessary tags.

So, if you want to see only non zero bytes packets with http content, you may use this setting:

[ ] all [o] none | http -NULL |

Filters are processed in order. So http shows all http packets and -NULL hides those with nulls. First option works as global filter (show all or show none).

Warning! Not all traffic is tagged, so if you miss something, it could mean some tags are incorrectly assigned or skipped.

Hope it helps.

Which OS version your X10a have? I saw that there are some problems with reloc_library in Android 1.5.
[Android Apps and Games] mcampbellsmith:
It's Android 1.6 only on the X10
[Android Apps and Games] luismanson:
i made an spanish thread on my android site, lets see how it works on milestone :)

thanks!!!!
[Android Apps and Games] racemepls:
Can some please explain in lamon terms what this does? :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] exx0:
hy there =) can you make a capture filter to msn conversations ? it would be nice =)
[Android Apps and Games] slow4g63:
I use an app similar called 3G Watchdog (it's free).

Let's you know how much data you've used with a widget too!
[Android Apps and Games] shdwknt:
LOL this is nothing like that my friend.. nothing at all
[Android Apps and Games] Pao23:
Apparently you know, and still haven't helped those of us who have no idea what this app is for! :p
[Android Apps and Games] slow4g63:
Is this like wireshark for the pc??
[Android Apps and Games] snark_be:
It works fine for me on my rooted HTC Desire. Thanks a lot. I'm looking forward to new features.

Why does it say "killall: not found" when I stop the capture? Is it bad?
[Android Apps and Games] jcase:
I suggest if your using kill all to try this from androshark

{"su", "-c", "kill $(ps | grep tcpdump | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f2)"});
[Android Apps and Games] Beezkneez:
How do I install this? I don't have an apk file in the zip

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] remy2501:
whats the chances of this thing growing into a full tool to access secured networks? would be really nice to have the freedom of jumping wifi signals after a little sniffing and cracking..

keep up the good work guys.. can't wait to try out whats got started so far..
[Android Apps and Games] ex87:
It is not tool for cracking secured networks and I think it will never be. It's more like debugging (somtimes reverse engineering) tool.

For "cracking" you will need drivers that support monitor mode, tool that can place wifi to that mode (airmom-ng) and then you possibly could use shark for dumping packets, but there is better tools for that purpose..
[Android Apps and Games] o4kareg:
version 0.9.9 from Market causes such a bug.

When logging launched, and "Open file" button is pressed, an UNDELETABLE error message appears, it remains on the screen even after exiting Shark. Screenshot attached.
[Android Apps and Games] mrmrmrmr:
I just tried the0.9.9 version on my Dell Streak. It gives a link error and no packets are captured.

However, if I run tcpdump from a terminal app, I can successfully sniff traffic.

Probably use of tcpdump commandis not suitable for Dell Streak.

How can we solve this ?
[Android Apps and Games] Whiler:
It works on r8

It perfectly works on rooted HTC Desire/modaco r8/Froyo!
[Android Apps and Games] mrmrmrmr:
any idea ?
[Android Apps and Games] mrmrmrmr:
I'd appreciate if anyone could help me debug this problem...
[Android Apps and Games] bjg222:
This app is great and really useful for debugging my app, however, I have a problem when trying to stop the capture. When I hit the stop button, the phone freezes, then my ROM restarts! The pcap file is perfectly normal and usable, and nothing seems to be wrong upon restart, but it's a bit of a nuisance.

I'm using an HTC Hero (GSM, N American version), running Android 2.1 (VillainROM 12.0, rooted), and version 0.9.9 of Shark for Root from the Market
[Android Apps and Games] mrmrmrmr:
I am still waiting for the author to reply about my problem...

Should I have a little hope ?
[Android Apps and Games] d3sm0nd:
Just wanted to say thanks... keep adding more functions! :)

I just tested it with combination of WirelessTether... I was able to sniff all the traffic of the clients connected. :D

BTW, any useful parameters that we could add to tcpdump?
[Android Apps and Games] mrmrmrmr:
I getthis error:

reloc_ library cannot locate '__aeabi_fdiv'

"CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE"
[Android Apps and Games] mcampbellsmith:
I got this error also (see my comment on page 2 or 3 of this thread).

The fault seems to be with Android 1.6. Is that what you have? I just installed tcpdump and run that from adb... works for me.
[Android Apps and Games] mrmrmrmr:
I also have 1.6

but when I run tcpdump from command line it works.

So the problem can be easily solved on Shark for root.

We just need the developer...
[Android Apps and Games] mrmrmrmr:
still waiting for help...
[Android Apps and Games] ex87:
Can You provide working tcpdump executable? I will add option for downloading alternative tcpdump executable.
[Android Apps and Games] mrmrmrmr:
my tcpdump file is under /system/xbin/tcpdump

maybe ypu should just use the available tcpdump if it is there.

anyway, I attached my tcpdump in this post.
[Android Apps and Games] mrmrmrmr:
do you have any news ?
[Android Apps and Games] mrmrmrmr:
any update ?

I am so impatient to use this ...
[Android Apps and Games] ex87:
I'm planning to release separate version for those who have built-in tcpdump. I hope it will take less than 2 days. When it's done I'll post it here.
[Android Apps and Games] mrmrmrmr:
any news ?
[Android Apps and Games] ex87:
Shark Native

Have updated first post with "native" Shark for Root ( will use /system/xbin/tcpdump )
[Android Apps and Games] mrmrmrmr:
thanks.

it is working :)
[Android Apps and Games] sky-chicken:
Is there a plan to add wireless driver so we can see handshake and beacons?

Right now you are only see the higher layer packets :-(
[Android Apps and Games] ex87:
Wireless drivers are not implemented at application level. You will need to flash custom kernel to get those drivers (if they are available)...
[Android Apps and Games] onaips:
Hi, this is not working on galaxy S, because it dont have some binarys you use like grep, killall, etc... Can you add an option to use busybox instead?
[Android Apps and Games] ex87:
Please check version 1.0.2
[Android Apps and Games] jellyfr:
How odd... I get the "can't launch, do you have root? do you have 2MB?" Well it's root that's for sure... How can I check for the free (tiny) 2MB? Or is it possibly that I only partialy rooted it?
[Android Apps and Games] rad_thundercat:
Sorry, I don't know how else to subscribe to this thread :shrug:
[Android Apps and Games] sjs46:
Is there a quick and easy way to change the interface that you are capturing traffic from? From what I can tell the app currently sniffs on rmnet0 (3G) and I'd like to hop over to the eth0 (wifi) interface and capture traffic directly from there. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] ex87:
You may try to add option -i interface_name where interface_name is Your selected interface.

-i
Listen on interface. If unspecified, tcpdump searches the system interface list for the lowest numbered, configured up interface (excluding loopback). Ties are broken by choosing the earliest match.
On Linux systems with 2.2 or later kernels, an interface argument of ``any'' can be used to capture packets from all interfaces. Note that captures on the ``any'' device will not be done in promiscuous mode.
If the -D flag is supported, an interface number as printed by that flag can be used as the interface argument.
[Android Apps and Games] morning_wood:
ok... here is the skinny...

simply copy tcpdump from /data/data/lv.n3o.shark/files to /system/bin

then from your terminal emulator simply do "tcpdump -h" for help syntax

actually you can use the shark UI as well and just google for "tcpdump options"

btw: tether for wireless contains "iwconfig", use the basic process above as well

enjoy kiddies!
[Android Apps and Games] walts:
Promiscuous Mode?

How can I get this to capture packets addressed to other computers on the network?

It's capturing eth0 OK - I have the cellular data turned off - and although I have set

ifconfig eth0 promisc

all I ever see are packets addressed to my Droid.

Walt
[Android Apps and Games] zurpher:
Is it possible to modify Shark for Root and Sharkreader so that it works similar to TaintDroid without requiring integration into a Kernel? I would appreciate such features but do not have the programing skills. :-/
[Android Apps and Games] nefas83:
exactly what would interest me.

I would like to record the packets that go to my laptop.

greetings nefas
[Android Apps and Games] sai.suri1983:
Can't open tcpdump from shark for root.

I am using Shark for root and Shark reader in my rooted GT I5503. When i try to open tcpdump from shark for root, it says "shark error: opened empty file". I can't move dump files to /system/bin/. Any other way to do so.
[Android Apps and Games] jjjimix:
Have you thought in making this an open source project? I'm really interested in developing this app. I would like to add support for multimedia protocols and geolocalization integration with GPS.

Contact me if you are interested.
[Android Apps and Games] Pragya015:
Keep wireshark running in the background

How can I keep the app running even when I have closed the window??

Is there a way of keeping the application running for like good half an hour in the background so that I can do other things with my phone at the same time??
[Android Apps and Games] ex87:
It's not possible yet by using only this app, but planning to be on next release (running app as an service).

Meanwhile you may try some memory optimization applications which can set killing priorities for applications.
[Android Apps and Games] kneel:
Anyone willing to throw the .apk's up somewhere else? The domain hosting them has been down and still seems unavailable
[Android Apps and Games] snark_be:
You can get it here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1375713/lv.n3o.shark-1.apk
[Android Apps and Games] JC_Yang:
problems regard run in emulator

Hi, ex87.

I've tried run shark for root(native) in an emulator(with android version 2.2) from SDK(which is said to be already in root), but it report "Shark error: Problems in launching sequence.. Do You have Root? Do you have 2 MB free on data partition?"

I've tried "adb root" and it does tell me "adbd is already running as root".

Any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] spookamiester:
Hey all,

I've been testing this on my DHD and trying to test the security of my Wifi network.

I am new to this so bear with me but I've started my session, used defaults, used my laptop to browse around and enter some stuff on Facebook etc without https.

I've opened shark reader and found some packets containing data but O open them and none of it makes sense to me.

I've had a look around and been over video tutorials for wireshark which were simple enough to understand but how would I go about deciphering any of this?

More specifically, how would I test if my password has been captured without https?

Any help would be much appreciated
[Android Apps and Games] snark_be:
Shark Reader captures the traffic that goes in or out from your smartphone, not from your laptop even if they are connected to the same router.

Actually, only if you use a hub (a dumb type of router), you can see all the traffic from all devices connected to it. Nowadays, routers only send to each device the data (in/out) relevant to the device itself, not the traffic from the other devices.

So what you captured is probably sync data from various apps running on your phone, maybe network/wifi negociation packets, but you will not capture the Facebook data from your laptop.
[Android Apps and Games] robplatt:
You can easily capture the data from a switch using arp injection. Thats what FaceNiff, Firesheep, and zxarps does.
[Android Apps and Games] Madbaires:
ouch, reboot my phone when push Stop (Capture)

DHD

LeeDrOiD HD V3.1.3 GB

Kernel LeeDrOiD V3.1.4@1267MHz

Radio: 12.54.60.25_26.09.04.11_M2 + RIL
[Android Apps and Games] kobygold:
Hi guys,

I've downloaded Shark, recorded a log and openned that log on my PC in Wireshark.

How can I know which app initiated each of the messages in the log?

I'm trying to spot an app that is using my 3G network and drains my battery.

I'm new to all of this, so any help would be appreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] ssssssss:
There's no way to tell which app is sending data with tcpdump's... dumps. I guess you could analyze the traffic by destination IP or try to see what's going in/out often to guess at which app is the culprit, but that'd be kind of tedious. If all you want to do is see what's using your bandwidth, there are a number of apps that monitor traffic usage and provide statistics per app.

The first free one I found is called "TrafficInfo," by curvefish. I haven't tried it, so that's not an endorsement or anything. Also I can't post a link because I don't have enough posts, sorry.