yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Phone 7 General] Windcape:
It was posted on a official blog, at the Danish version of www.computerworld.com by a Microsoft employee. (And reconfirmed out of context, by another MS developer, on another forum)

If you consider it going against anything official, I'd like to see the sources saying so.

And in regards to international trade, you likely know more than me, but I'm pretty sure I know the tax and VAT rules for buying software in my own country :p
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
Well, it was in numerous places, but many of them were videos and are difficult to find for your convenience, so I don't think I'll bother. They showed maps and said, "there are 17 countries where users can buy apps". Also, on MSDN there's a section about Marketplace where they said numerous times that it's a lot of legal/tax hassle to expand the service internationally. On some videos they talked about problems with this as well (and countries like Germany were mentioned, so it's not a West/East issue).

Sorry, but some things you're saying make me doubt. :) How can you (the buyer) be "personally responsible for tax and VAT issues" when you buy software? If you buy software from a different country and they don't charge VAT because you are a non-resident, what do you do, send a check to your revenue service for the extra 15% (or whatever it is in Denmark) on your own? Of course you don't. It's the obligation of the seller to collect VAT due and then pay the difference between VAT received and VAT paid to the state. What other taxes are you talking about in the case of buying software I have no clue. It's not like you're making money, you're spending it. Or do you have sales tax together with VAT? That would be an extremely weird scenario.

Also, think about it this way: if it weren't for legal and such issues, why would they ever restrict people from any countries? As you rightly mentioned, a VISA card is a VISA card, they don't have to do anything special to accept these from different countries - banks and VisaNet take care of that. It wouldn't require them to build lots of infrastructure (no more than they would have to build if they wanted more buyers from the US). Techically all they need to do is add a country to the dropdown (or make it a textbox). That's a revenue stream they deny themselves. There must be a reason for it.

None of these issues are unsurmountable, of course, but I'm sure their legal and tax folks approve everything they do everywhere, they avoid anything that may put them at risk, and simply from that perspective it's quite a time-consuming thing.

As far as I'm concerned, an international marketplace you're talking about would be the perfect thing. I don't need localized stuff anyway.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Windcape:
Actually in the US you're personal responsible to pay tax for products you bought online (such as games).

And we actually don't have sales tax here, and VAT usually don't apply to anything sold online, I believe it's considered a "service" rather than a "product".
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
In the US there's no VAT, they have sales tax. While from the consumer perspective they look pretty much the same (heck, it's just some %% surcharge), there's an ocean of differences between them. Sales tax is basically an individual tax - you pay it, and the seller simply passes it on to the state. VAT is a corporate tax. Yes they collect it from you but then the supplier to your seller collects that surcharge from your seller, and his supplier does and so on to the very point of origination of service/product. In this scheme, every link in the chain has to calculate the difference between VAT received and VAT paid and pay it to the state. And in places like the EU where borders are open, cross-border transactions are common and easy, but taxes are different, governments are really really watching out for everything that involves VAT because carousel frauds are common and cost them billions of euros each year. There's just no freaking way you can figure out how much you owe exactly to Denmark.

VAT is really the worst thing France gave this world. But that's a different story.

Also, VAT is only a small part of it. What about their corporate profit tax? Buy selling stuff to you in the US and knowing you are in Denmark, they would minimize their Danish taxes. That's what offshores were invented for - you set up an entity in Belize, pay some symbolic annual fee and sell from there, while actually having employees and operations in, say, Sweden. Cool, huh? Except governments hate this. Even without Belize, governments wouldn't like Microsoft to do business in Denmark and pay taxes in the US. It's one hell of a complicated story, tax lawyers are fat rich guys because it's really difficult stuff to figure out, and the risks of doing something wrong are huge.

That's exactly an example of how things can get really really complicated when you go international. It's not you (the buyer) who decides whether what you buy is a product or a service. It's the seller who does it. And to qualify as a service, they need to fit some criteria, it's not like they can just say, "we're selling services, get lost you greedy government". And that has to be done very carefully, which takes time and effort. And we're only touching the tip of the iceberg, and you have to do it for every country you work in.

But enough of this stuff, I think you get the idea, and it's totally off-topic.
[Windows Phone 7 General] kooled:
Sorry about that :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] RustyGrom:
Ok so it's more complex than that.

It all depends on where you buy it from. I live in Florida so if I buy from a retailer that has physical locations in Florida, then I have to pay sales tax which is 6%. Luckily there's not many online businesses in FL (just Tiger Direct) so I rarely do. But if I buy from Dell or Best Buy, for example, I do since they operate locations here. So what if Microsoft had a physical store here? To be honest I'm not sure how that would work if you're buying a digital good like that. I don't know if iPhone users, for example, have to pay a sales tax since Apple operates retail stores here. Maybe Apple just eats that cost? And there has been a push to add a national VAT here. It's probably a good ways off though, if it ever happens.
[Windows Phone 7 General] brummiesteven:
I'll answer this question for you.

Yes and No. The button is always going to say Share, there's never going to be an Edit button for example (unless Gallery.apk was edited). However the things that "Share" includes can be added to. Take the screenshot, Handcent Bump and Photobucket have all been added and wouldn't be included in a stock install (by added, i mean these applications have been installed and the applications integrate into gallery).

Like I said, the button will always say Share but it's not necessarily restricted to apps that share the photo. It's easier to understand if you don't think as Share as "Share to Friends" but share as "Share to applications". That menu could easily contain Picsay or Photoshop which are both editing applications. You'd select for example Photoshop, edit the picture and save. This would bring you back to the Gallery app with the edited picture which you could then press Share > Twitter for example to share it.

I hope that made sense.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Windcape:
It wouldn't bring you back to the Gallery application, without the photo editor explicit asking for it, just for the record. And usually the "next app" don't know it was opened from the previous.

It's a very "PC like" way of doing things. It don't feel like a smooth uniform experience.
[Windows Phone 7 General] brummiesteven:
It would this way as it would throw you right into the editing process as opposed to the beginning of the app so when editing is finished, it would take you back to the gallery app.

This may only be true in 2.0+ though.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Windcape:
What the "Share" button do is sending a file-path argument of the selected images as process-args to the application it wish to share the image with.

The only way it could possible return you to the previous application, and perform a refresh, would be a explicit call, or the application runs in the background, and automatically does a refresh when it gains focus.

But again, it's not a very streamlined experience. It's to much focused on applications, and to little focused on the task at hand, and the information related to the task at hand.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clambert11:
I hate to say it but I actually prefer the candy coating user experience of Sense to that of Stock Android. While playing with CM5 there were many things I liked and many I didn't. As a result I went back to Sense. Perhaps it just because it's what I have grown to know over the last couple days.

Anyway, the one thing in CM I really did like was the Photo Gallery, which included Picasa. Anyone know what I can do to get that Photo Gallery into Sense?

I think I might play with some other Sense ROMs today. Maybe someone has already done the work for me. :)

Thanks in advance for any help.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
i may be able to make a zip for you. wow im busy tonight. i have to make a theme for the droid/milestone, a theme and two zips for sense roms.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clambert11:
I don't mind doing it myself. I just need a push in the right direction. I'm technically inclined but 3 days new to Android. What exactly am I looking for? Is the stock Photo Gallery a widget or app of sorts?

If you are willing to send me something later, that's cool too. I'm just trying to suck in as much info as possible. I don't want to cook or anything but I'd like to be able to have better control of what I can do to my existing ROM.

Thanks!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
it is an app. if you want a zip i can make one. if not, the app is located in the system/app folder of cm5. all you have to do is put the app in the tools folder of the sdk and adb push gallery.apk /system/app in rcovery.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clambert11:
Ok, cool. My plan is to play with adb today and install wireless tethering and update the kernel to support true AP Mode. I'll see what I can do with this too.

Thanks for the help. I'll let you know how I make out.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
update- the app is called gallery3d.apk
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clambert11:
Cool. Thanks!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clambert11:
So I installed the app and it seems to be working just fine. Thanks.

I'd like a widget or something for it so it's open on a home screen without needing to open the app. Additionally, is there any modding of the app file that I can do fix or remove the camera button. It doesn't seem to work in Sense.

Thanks again for all your help.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
not that i know of.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StirCwazy:
Is this what you're looking for?

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=675128
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clambert11:
Yeah, I just extracted it from CM after I got the name. I thought it was also a widget but it's not. Thanks for the other post though.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BossMafia2:
There is the possibility it could also be a widget. I may be mistaken, but I think unless you actually installed the gallery, in order to use the widget you'd have to delete some file. Again, I may be mistaken, I haven't tried this.

EDIT: I'm just thinking this because I remember in order to properly remove the Facebook/Twitter/etc widgets from stock, one had to remove some sort of database to force a widget database refresh, because it only does that on a legit (un)install
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clambert11:
I would love to know if this is possible and how to do it. Anyone?
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 ROM Development] mk40497:
hi room

how r u every one in the froum

guy i need u r help i need windows 6 orginal microsoft for my o2 xda

plz help urgent

regards

mohsin khan
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 ROM Development] bikertibi:
HTC never provide win mobile 6 for xda neo or other prophet names...
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 ROM Development] mk40497:
hello

hi how r u

thanx for reply but i need help

any other reiable windows

regarding my mobile so plz send me

regard

mohsin khan
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 ROM Development] babak00000:
Dear mohsin khan	,

Use these if you want stable WM6.1 ROMs:

- My Little Green or this one (21057) from our great chef, Bikirtibi (you can find his WM6.5 branches in his signature too)

- 21056 Stock... from Xsite

WM6.5 ROMs are also stable enough.

With a little search you can find many more ROMs.:)
[Desire Themes and Apps] dofyx:
I would like make white theme for froyo/sense rom but I can't change clock color in status bar.

- colorChange.jar v3.1 no work ( no found line 46 ..... )

- manually i extract StatusBarIcon.smali but no found " const/high16 v6, -0x100 invoke-virtual {v4, v7}, Landroid/widget/TextView;->setTextColor(I)V "

Please help

thanks
[Desire Themes and Apps] JOSEunit10:
Same problem.

No .line 46...

I used the search and i cant find solution to this.

My phone is a huawei, but is the same problem, i want change the clock to white.

EDIT: Problem solved:)

Just add the color code over this line:

const v6, -0x1

invoke-virtual {v4, v6}, Landro / widget / TextView; -> SetTextColor (I) V

Before was like this:

move-result-object v6

invoke-virtual {v4, v6}, Landroid/widget/TextView;->setTextColor(I)V

"colorchanger.jar" helps me to find that line, because the error said me something like this:

"No color or old color: move-result-object v6" (LOL! i cant remember).

So I figured that was the line where the color goes.

Sorry for my bad English
[Desire Themes and Apps] stephanb1:
It's in line 60 on the Huawei Ideos X5.

Changed it to white successfully yesterday.
[Desire Themes and Apps] neonoafs:
Same here =(
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yvyv:
I did not wanted to hijack Konush thread..

Questions

1-After successfully flashing Recovery, are we ready for vibrant custom roms when they become available ?

2-Would any of the Europeans roms (Galaxy's) work in our Vibrants ?

3- There are TWO option in this recovery for the "ZIP" files.

Do we " apply sdcard:update.zip ? or install zip from sdcard ?

Thank you all..
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] defconoi:
#1

yes

#2

possibly

#3

you can do either

This may not be the right forum to ask those questions, beware you may get flamed by someone else, a mod will probably move this to general, so in the future you may want to post questions in general
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
#3. The only difference is that "apply sdcard:update.zip" the package that you're trying to flash HAS to be named update.zip or it won't flash.

install zip from sdcard: the .zip can be named anything and it will be in a list and you select what .zip you want to flash.

Same functionality but it just doesn't have to be named update.zip to flash and agreed with what defconoi said.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yvyv:
My apologies to MOds by posting in the Dev section, did not mean it just realize it, Last question Does it matter in which card I put the flashing file in ?

we have two external ?

Thank you both.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
My assumption is that it'd be on the internal (/sdcard) because your ACTUAL sdcard is on (/sdcard/sd/) but that's just my guess.

I'm not too sure though, we'll see what happens when a custom ROM is actually released. I'm sure that someone will ask the same question.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kopykatkiller:
It will be on internal because the recovery cannot access the external sd card.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bestwebs:
Hi,

If we do not install clockwork recovery, can't we flash any rom as long as it is named update.zip.

Or to we need clockwork recovery to flash a different rom?

Thanks

:)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
YOU need clockwork recovery to flash another ROM. At this time, I don't believe there are any 100% confirmed working ROMs for the Vibrant at the time, you could try some European ones but you'll most likely encounter some problems somewhere along the line.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nick_karstedt:
Modaco's rom allegedly works pretty well (A few nagging things, but works)
[XPERIA X10 General] kelvin103:
Hey GUYS please HELP ME

I have followed the Guide to root the xperia x10 in this forrum. So here is what happened. After completing step 3, it all went fine but then the thread says I have to install the Market fix for X10i users. After done that, my phone restart and it won't let me to go inside. It has a weird picture.

Anyway, can you guys please tell me to unroot or whatever to gain the access to the phone again? I tried the phone repair from PC suit to flash the x10 but it doesn't work anymore.

PLEASE HELP ME ... I swear i won't root again
[XPERIA X10 General] fjnger:
use this..

mentioned in an other thread...

Forum: XPERIA X10 Android Development

Thread: Decrypted x10 roms - latest r2ba024 rom - with sin reconstructor

Entry: #2 from top (jerpelea 18th May 2010, 04:35 PM)

[sorry, but im not yallowed to post links..?!]

"

Flash Tool (can unbrick X10i with provided files)

for software update of X10a unbrick just overwrite .sin files with desired ones from post above

(+ link to tool +)

read HowTo.txt from flash tool

"

1.) download that

2.) get the DeviceID.txt file right

3.) Bjurn

=> gives you an older version, but it's working!
[XPERIA X10 General] kelvin103:
Hi, Thanks for your reply. I will appreciate but where is the downloading? Do you think its gonna work with my xperia? I can't even go inside the phone. Just the SONY ERICSON screen and its stuck there !:(
[XPERIA X10 General] ClintonH:
You didn't read his reply??

Forum: XPERIA X10 Android Development

Thread: Decrypted x10 roms - latest r2ba024 rom - with sin reconstructor

Here's the direct link post #3 is where your wanting to go.

Direct link
[XPERIA X10 General] ClintonH:
Oh here this is the guide you'll want to fallow in rooting your phone easy as it gets with pics and everything.;)

Easy root
[XPERIA X10 General] kelvin103:
I tried them.... It requires my device ID. How can I do that when I can't go inside my phone!? So what I did was I copied the Device ID.txt when I last rooted to the X10Flash_Unbrick folder. The problem is not solved. Please check the image.
[XPERIA X10 General] ClintonH:
You don't get your device ID from the phone you get it from your PC. Make sure you use the same USB plug everytime you connect your phone to your PC. I would download the auto device ID finder and install it as per instructions and run from step 1 again.

Also are you on a 32 bit OS or 64 bit OS, if your on a 64 bit you might be having issues with Java which requires you to install java pacs.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AXIS of Reality:
I just installed the JM2 firmware, and was surprised to see a new Samsung widget task manager (which is actually really good! =O).

However, once I opened the task manager and went to the 'Summary' tab, the RAM information lists it out of 326mb. For example, at the moment it's showing 258mb out of 326mb used...

Is there some separate ram locked away? As I thought the Galaxy S had 512mb...

So anyone know what the deal is with the 326mb listed instead of 512mb? :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Intratech:
Need Froyo to address 512mb.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pika007:
Next time, please use the search button. It's startin to be a pain to write this over and over again (and not just me.)

The device was taken apart to bits countless times, it does contain 512MB RAM.

Why can't you see it all? the software doesn't show it. YET. Remember that the original JF3 firmware only showd 256.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AXIS of Reality:
Ah, apologies. :o

So does that mean currently the Galaxy S isn't actually using all its RAM due to the firmware not allowing it? Kind of strange, didn't know there was anything preventing the use of it at all since the Desire and Nexus One were happy enough with 512mb on Eclair.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sjdean:
Two queries though in relation to Pikas post -

I believe that this issue was uncovered over on GSM Arena. I think Samsung at the time assured everybody that the odd RAM results was just a firmware bug that would be resolved on release products.

So we have a release product where there are still problems with the memory and GPS.

Secondly, I thought it was the kernel that limits the memory to 256 through a Himem flag? Why is then that people are now seeing 326 and not 256? Is it a half way fix? Has the kernel changed?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supercurio:
Your question is not dumb at all.

No phone depends on Froyo to use more than 256mb of RAM.

Even if our phone have 512MB of Ram, we probably won't have so much available.

Many phone always have some ram used by the radio hardware.

I don't know if Samsung will be able to reduce radio (GSM, 3G etc) memory usage.

326MB is maybe the maximum we will get.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pika007:
I bet we'll see 386-400~ after froyo.

The system is more memory efficient.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darcjrt:
If it says 512 it should display 512.

The problem is that when you open the task manager it displays 258/386. I thought it was using the remaining RAM for VIDEO. If its not, then we should see a 512 no matter how much the OS consume. It can even be 500/512 but it should say 512.

I hope Samsung fixes this soon as they sold me a phone with no working LEDs and less RAM??!! :p
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mickeko:
My sgs has working LEDs. The screen and the menu/back buttons. If yours are not working, the phone is broken. ;)

Sent with my Personal Dis-organizer GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MacaronyMax:
What's wrong with 326mb ram my hero at most shows around 110 :p:o:D and I'm on froyo not to forget
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AXIS of Reality:
That's not the prob. In Samsung's task manager it's showing the entire phone has a MAXIMUM of 326mb RAM, and obviously much less free.

On Advanced Task Killer I usually have between 70-140mb free, not that much different from my old Hero.

As has been pointed out this may be due to the Galaxy S's use of 2 different types of RAM, with 128mb OneRAM. I can only assume this is dedicated to video.

This would then make sense for the 326mb RAM listed in most applications, with the extra 60mb or so locked away for Android (326mb + 128mb + Android reserved = 512mb).

Still kind of weird how Samsung has made the phone...I was trying my friend's new desire and it listed in Advanced Task Killer as usually having about 240mb free while mine had 100mb free.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhoenixFx:
I posted originally at [Q] Amount of RAM? under Galaxy S I9000 Q&A , but I guess its relevant to this post as well.

There is new information to indicate that perhaps Galaxy S doesn't have 512MB of RAM after all. Click on the above link .