yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stardeep:
Food 4 Thought

1) the phones are more like computers than phones

and I don't see bill gates (or HP for that matter) knocking on my door and taking my computer away when I 86 windows and put linux on it,

2) the android platform is open-source

3) within limits (correct me if I am wrong) most CDMA phones can be used with most CDMA carriers, Ditto with GSM (other than frequency differences)..

4) when your contract is up that is your property, that's why you have to stay with company x for 2 years

IMHO It seems that company's have teams of ppl that figure out how to "compete in the market-place" but still have the list of got-ya's to make sure they are making the absolute most amount of money they can and make it as hard a possible to be switch or keep a phone at the expense of the consumer until they are forced by law or public opinion to change their ways

Last point ... if you had a cool phone that did what you wanted would you keep it or get a new phone every 2 years if you think about the waste it generates.. everyone with cell phone service chucking the phone every two years for ? 10 years for me ..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meganlc0:
wtf

This thread is such endless BS. It's a simple concept. If a manufacturer has the right to brick your phone instead of allowing it to be rooted and your service provider has the right to void warranties because of rooting. Then clearly there is no "right" to root implyed for any users.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _MetalHead_:
If it's such BS then why bump a FIVE MONTH OLD THREAD for that? This is old news.
[HD2 General] Proz00:
why osKitchen Zero cant open cooked ROM ?

i wanna add same packages :)
[HD2 General] rselva_kr:
Most of the cooks don't include dsm files when cooking their ROMs, which contains the information of packages.
[HD2 General] Proz00:
thx for the reply

they dont include it to save space ?

or it for save from recooking their ROMS ?
[HD2 General] rselva_kr:
Not for saving space as it is very negligible in size:D

Can't say it as wrong from their point of view anyways:)
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
i asked this question to a seasoned chef some time ago, and the answer was that many cooks/kitchens create protected roms that cant be imported. No way around it, unless your preferred chef lets you have a copy of the kitchen.
[HD2 General] Proz00:
is there way to make my Cooked ROM recookable ?with it ?

oh so how i make unprotected ROM
[HD2 General] Digistras:
Hi all,

I tried to import the a ROM into OsKitchen but while extracting, I got the following error as shown in the image below:

What is this error about and how do I overcome it?

Thanks in advance.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] sondakika:
Hello all,

Since 1 month I am looking for an unlock method for my X10 mini, are there any projects going on for this ?

Or do you have recommendations for unlock sites, it is very very vague to me those kind of sites.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] fyford:
Hi Buddy, I have the same problem. anybody out there know of a cheap way to unlock this mini beast? Will rooting do that?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] paul c:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=804916

also google for davinci team, they have a good rep too.

Rooting is not connected to network unlocking.

Wrong forum, I think.
[Click General] Cero92:
Hi, there's any app i can use to transfer files via bluetooth on Android 1.6 without rooting it?
[Click General] francians:
nope.. rooted or not rooted, you need another ROM (fyodor)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Bin4ry:
Like the user kabaldan posted.

This version works too on Mini Pro !

http://android.doshaska.net/x10miniroot

Thanks for that !

Regards

Bin4ry
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] svprm:
Man,Great I got it.

Thanks.

Very Nice.

Xperia Mini pro U20i.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] skyleth:
works for all firmwares?is there any danger of bricking the phone?

thanks
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Goonish:
If I can get more info on rooting this phone, I think I'll get one for my partner.

Froyo 2.2 anyone? ;)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] royalbloodvi:
so what possibilities are open now that we can root our mini?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] skyleth:
can we do it again if we update the phone?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] david_vargas_85:
Noob asking-- is there any chance of a simpler, single click root?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] spatuluk:
No such thing, but it should get a bit easier when a software update becomes available, and then we can probably use the method that Bin4ry created for the X10 mini.

I used the method above, and it worked like a charm. :) I've now deleted Roadsync, hyves, and all the demo games that Sony decided to add. :D Now.. how do I alter that power control widget...
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] LiveDeviL:
Still waiting for a way to use apps2sd on rooted x10 mini pro. Anyone?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Bin4ry:
No real problem to us app2sd.

You should format your SD card with a unix filesystem (f.e.: ext3)

then open a shell to your phone (adb shell).

After that copy over you apps dir from phone to SD and create a Symlink between them ...

Regards

Bin4ry
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] LiveDeviL:
Whoaaaa... Glad to know that. Actually i already resized my fat32 partition and format the the later partition into ext3. After that I run apps2sd and it says that my sd card is not partitioned correctly. I clicked apply, it says done, then I clicked reboot. But nothing happens. :D

I'm going to try the adb shell method. Could you give me more details please? I will also try to search myself. Can't wait to get it working on my x10 mini pro. Again, thank you Bin4ry! :)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Bin4ry:
Oki, fist you have to split your SD like in this tut:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=500387

I haven't tryed app2sd yet. But you can find the original manual app2sd tutorial here in forums easily.. Because i'm on phone now i can't search anymore for you than this above link :D

Regards

Bin4ry
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] LiveDeviL:
sorry for the late reply...

this is what i did after many hours of reading many apps2sd tutorials and did some trial and errors afterward (repaired my phone twice with pc companion) :D

1. i created an ext2 partition (500MB) in my SD card with gparted.

2. mounted the ext2 partition with

#mount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system/sd

3. i can see the ext2 partition is shown by running this

#busybox df -h

4. i created the /system/sd and /system/sd/app directory, copied all the installed apps from /data/app to /system/sd/app, then delete the /data/app directory by running this

#mkdir /system/sd
#mkdir /system/sd/app
#cd /data/app
#cp * /system/sd/app
#cd /data/app
#rm *
#cd /data
#rmdir app

5. created symlinks to link /system/sd/app to /data/app with this

#ln -s /system/sd/app /data/app

6. check the symlinks with this

#cd /data/app
#pwd --> it says /system/sd/app (everything's good)

up to this point, am i doing everything right? :confused:

i cannot see any installed app which i already moved to my ext2 partition in my SD right now.

i think the problem is whenever i rebooted my phone, the ext2 partition is not mounted by the system.

all the tutorials i learned from says that #mount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system/sd must be added in the bottom line of the install-recovery.sh file, which can't be found in x10 mini pro.

how to force system to automatically mount my ext2 partition when the system boot?:confused:

anyone succeed moving the applications to SD card in x10 mini / x10 mini pro?

please advice... :)

thanks in advance

br,

LD
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] alg0r1thm:
whati is + and - of rooting the device? i'm still not confident to root my xperia :(
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Rylo:
+unbrand

+delete apps

-

hmm cant think of one atm
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] alg0r1thm:
will it eliminates my warranty?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Bin4ry:
Sorry i was away a little.

If you mount it manually you see the apps right ? If not: Be sure you are mounting the right mmcblk

To mount it automatic : I THINK (not sure now) you can create a init.sh in /system/etc and write down the mount command there ;) [I'm not sure about but give it a try ;) ]

Regards

Bin4ry
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] LiveDeviL:
hmm... after i put that init.sh in /system/etc and restart my phone, it's just stucked at sony ericsson's logo and won't boot. :D

but anyway, thanks for your kind reply Bin4ry! ;)

i wonder does anyone out there get apps2sd to work on their x10 mini / x10 mini pro?:rolleyes:
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] bingobadgo:
+1 for this, I want to get this working but am stuck at the automount problem.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] matejdro:
Just after I boot, android is fast and responsive. But over time android slows down and keyboard have delay.

What to do to prevent or at least reduce this "effect"? I have some Automatic Task Killer and free RAM is constantly above 100MB which means that task killer is doing something. Should I install better one or do something else?

Sent from my X1 via Android app. Sorry for typos.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] fraztto:
Do you have GPS active? it doesnt work and android trying to find satellites may be slowing down your device. I dont have this issue and i dont use automatic task killer so free ram is always lesser than yours
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] matejdro:
Nope, all is off except wifi and phone.

Most annoying thing is that keyboard gets delay. So when you press key there is about 1 second delay between key press and letters show up on the screen. It don't sounds much but when you type something in you have too wait then few seconds for letters to appear on the screen.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] fraztto:
have you tried not using the task killer app?
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] matejdro:
I have deleted all my widgets and shortcuts (my homescreens are now empty) and it's working great. It seems that one of the widgets was causing problems.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] AssasinQ:
Can you tell me how many of the free memory you have?

I have the same thing, after some time Android has only 80-90 of free memory.

After booting, it has 120-130 of free memory.

Maybe i have to do with my wallpaper and widgets too O.o?
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] matejdro:
I had always around 100MB, but keep in mind that my task cleaner was automatically cleaning unused apps. But never 130MB :eek:
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] AssasinQ:
so i have the same :/

i have to check this out. if cleaning shortcuts and widgets will do something i will post it here.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] matejdro:
It seems that task killers do more harm than good. I'm using android without task killers and it looks like to be at least as fast as before if not faster. Android System info shows 59MB of memory, but i don't care much because android closes apps automatically when memory is low.

So to smooth up android: have as clean homescreen as possible and don't use task killers.
[Android Software Development] MudassirZaidi:
Is there any APi provided by Android to record phone call ?

How can i record phone call ?

Any suggestion will be a great help ?
[Android Software Development] flyboyovyick:
Sorry you have posted in the wrong section, try and post here:

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=524

Thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pi_mento:
Hi All,

I'm looking for a Dev that can flash this HTC EVO 4G keyboard mod to a (Sense) Build?

Like the EVO 4G, the HD2 doesn't have a optical trackpad of trackball. This would be great if some could

Thanks in advance!

Mod

[MOD] Evo HTC_IME (with arrows)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] spimonkey34:
I have tried that keyboard and it appears it only works in Eclair, not Froyo. I have not found an EVO style KB for Froyo.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] elgrego4:
Doesnt the evo get froyo today?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pi_mento:
Not yet.....

Sprint HTC EVO 4G to Get Android 2.2 Froyo on 8/3

Sprint is the first wireless carrier to bring Android 2.2 to customers using the HTC EVO™ 4G beginning Tues, Aug. 3 - http://bit.ly/9E8Mye about 14 hours ago via CoTweet
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pi_mento:
I'm running Eclair (+Sense) as well, can you give a heads up how a n00b like me can get it up and runnig without having to get a master's degree?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] PeterBiekens:
Hi folks, am suspicious of this imei-check firm as this is what happened when I tried to buy an unlock file from them:

I selected pay, and was offered to use Paypal or ordinary credit/debit cards, so I used my debit card.

I then found I wasn't being billed the £9.99 touted price, but without warning they had added "sales tax", bumping the figure to £11.74

I went ahead and paid, the transaction went through, then their web page and subsequent email wanted a scan of a bill or my driving license "to prove I am who I say I am".

I refused to give any such information as they already have my billing address which is the same address my bank uses and which they check, also the wanting a scan of my drivers license gives them scope for identity theft, so I read that request as phishing. Also, knowing my customer account number for utilities like water or electricity also gives scope for invasion of privacy and identity theft.

I wrote to say this, refusing their request for further information.

I also stated that I've had this phone for some years so there is not likely to be any problem with the imei.

This firm has stated that they don't give refunds, citing that they pay money to somewhere for the unlock keys.

So now lets see whether they honour the transaction and either send me a valid unlock keyfile or refturn my money in full....

And in the meantime I am anxious, worrying about their invasion of privacy and strange way of doing business..

Peter
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] PeterBiekens:
getting very alarmed !

Hello,

"Fone-Xs" ?!?!?! Where did you seen this ? also before the purchase was a RED notice warning you regarding the ID verification which asked you NOT to purchase unless you willing to send copy from an ID for verification.

Also you used PAYPAL as payment method (even if you used a credit card).. you sent the credit card details to PAYPAL not to US!!! we don't have any credit card details here!!!!paypal deals with this.

Regards,

IMEI-CHECK Team

----- Original Message -----

>

>This request is refused because you have asked for a scan of my drivers license - which itself endangers me as it gives scope for identity theft. I read it as phishing.Your website says this:

>PAYMENT CONDITIONS: Due to increasing credit card and cheque payment fraud,

>Fone-Xs will ONLY accept these payments from the registered owner of the

> credit card or cheque payment account. We will always verify these

>payments against the registered address of the credit card and confirm

>all cheques are legal with the relevant bank before sending out any

>items. Fone-Xs apologise for any inconvenience or delay, but feel that

>this is the only way to conquer fraud!Since I have paid by debit card, not by Paypal, and have given my address, which you state you will check check and which is the same address as my bank uses, you already have confirmation details and there is no need for me to send anything more..I have had this phone since 2007, and have had no problems with it until it bricked after attempting to flash it, so the imei will be valid too.I suggest that you treat me as the bona fide owner and customer that I actually am and send me the unlock key without further prevarication. Yours FaithfullyPeter> To: (I deleted my email address here)

>> Subject: IMEI-CHECK:Identity verification (I deleted my email address here) 35638400755263

>> From: M3000__unlock@imei-check.co.uk

>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:47:39 +0100

>>

>> In past we had a lot of fraud with hijacked paypal accounts and are forced to verify customers now.

>>

>> Please send a scan/photo of SOMETHING official that shows that you are:

>>

>> (I deleted my name and address here for privacy) The address is:confirmed

>> (e.g. scan/photo of driving licence/phone bill/gas bill/what ever, you can use your camera enabled phone to take the picture)

>>

>> Note that the verification process is a manual process and can take up to 8h! We are a UK company so the usual working hours are 9-17 GMT time zone!

>>

>>

>
[Windows Mobile Themes] comingloud:
Hope somebody like it. PSD inside to add your own app-icons.

DOWNLOAD
[Windows Mobile Themes] xILukasIx:
It's funny how suddenly a few icon sets with the same idea came up after I released my icon set :-P

They look nice, btw!

One thing: If you put many text layers in the PSD, you should use File -> Scripts -> Export layers to files.

Then you create a droplet to merge the text layers with the background.

Saves hours!

Regards,

Lukas
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YellowGTO:
Has anyone pulled the phone apart and read the serial number off the chip. We are trying to compair it to the US phone. If you have the info thanks :-) Ours is a Broadcomm BCM4751 (Captivate)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bugmenever:
Can I ask how you know the Captivate has a BCM4751 chip? Did you disassemble and see it? It appears that the Galaxy S generic being sold everywhere else outside the US has the BCM2075 chip that integrates BT and FM radios; at least that's what's being reported by others here.

If it were true that the Captivate/Fascinate/Vibrant in the US are using the BCM4751 chip, then it would truly mean these phones have no FM capability at all and there is no prospect of rooting the phone to disable a software level crippling.

This pisses me off. I was willing to forgo the front facing camera of the US versions, but the fact that they (apparently) went so far as to have samsung supply a different GPS chip to eliminate the FM radio so you are FORCED to use some ****e, data intensive service like AT&T radio instead is just outrageous. With the GPS/compass/antenna problems seemingly going ignored by samsung, maybe I won't get this phone at all.

http://www.broadcom.com/products/GPS/GPS-Silicon-Solutions/BCM2075
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YellowGTO:
Well the Galaxy S might have the BCM20751 but untill someone tears down the phone and checks with their eyes. The US Captivate was torn down and it is a 4751. But the 4751 doesn't have BT on it. So it could be all the phones have a 4751 with a seprate BT and FM. The 4751 is supposed to be a better GPS unit then the BCM20751 though.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bugmenever:
ah, I see it on the Captivate general forum now. The only teardown of the generic Galaxy S that I have seen anywhere is the original one done in Korea a month ago. The pictures from that disassembly are too low-res for me to make out chip IDs. I tried going through their video of the teardown frame by frame too, but again, I can't see the numbers clearly and I saw nothing that resembled a broadcom chip. The Captivate board layout is much different than the Galaxy S, I can't really even see where the broadcom chip should be on it either.....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sjdean:
You're gonna love this. On my Galaxy S, According to jupiter.xml:

I changed the RfType to GL_RF_2075_BRCM and it just didn't work.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YellowGTO:
Well thats good. We've accomplished something. But Broadcomm says this is the best GPS they have ever made some hopfully samsung messed up the code and we get a super good GPS.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sjdean:
TBH - I think we may actually be waiting on the driver from Broadcom. Something about Broadcoms reputation as an open source provider is in question.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YellowGTO:
Yeah it could deff. be broardcoms side. They better fix it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kilack:
Is the 4751 used in any other phones just want to see the performance of the gps on this chipset in other devices..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heygrl:
The mere fact that we have Broadcom chip for GPS and not some off brand that I've never heard before like InCrystal really, really points to a serious issue with the drivers/firmware for the GPS. The phone should be operating in MS-Based mode out of the box anyway and I don't know why it isn't. That's not the only problem it has but standalone mode is not what it should be operating in. Nearly all phones GPS' are truly the pits without network assistance.

Lots of phones use Broadcom for GPS, right off of the top of my head, the iPhone is one of them!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kilack:
Well I really hope it can operate in stand alone mode reasonably well, it should be able to, I dont see why a phone couldn't. agps is mainly just for helping get locks faster at startup and possibly in areas where gps signals are weak but agps is not going to help you out of the city much etc etc.

However yeah I really hope it is a driver issue and if so broadcom and samsung need to get together or its going to drag both their names down.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heygrl:
Well like I said there appears to be some other issues besides the fact that they ship in standalone mode which is awful for any phone.. aGPS is the first choice for most phones (Galaxy S is an exception I suppose!) before falling back to standalone mode which does take 2-3 minutes for a fix. Standalone GPS will always take a few minutes to get a lock, a phone certainly isn't going to perform better than a Garmin and I have yet to see one of those in standalone mode lock faster than a phone with aGPS. aGPS is for an initial fix regardless of other circumstances and it's why phones get such snappy fixes.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sjdean:
Ok, but I posted elsewhere that there's a whole stack of a lot happening behind the scenes, which Im not even Samsung know what's going on.

First, even in Standalone mode, you see data being streamed in the initial few seconds, so there must be something in there.

But Ok, we have:

Operation Mode under LBSTestMode - MS Based, MS Assisted, Network Provider or standalone

GPS Plus - Uses the OneXtra servers

Skyhook - Another form of AGPS

SUPL Settings

And irrespective of what you set the SUPL settings to:

Jupiter.xml - Points to both www.spirent-lcs.com as an acSuplServer then points to bcmls2.glpals.com as the LbsServer.

Then under Location and Security, we have the ability to Use Wireless Networks (using WiFi and Cellular Networks). Even if this is switched off, the phone still wants to enable Wireless and see what's out there.

So that's what, 6, perhaps 7 or even 8 seemingly different settings, different methods, of A-GPS.

No wonder the phone is getting confused.

Cya

Simon
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kilack:
Interesting, so standalone isn't really standalone at all :)

I wonder if any of the problems are actually being caused by agps especially as a lot of the "fixes" by users were basically changes to the agps.

Curious....., if you google skyhook and you see how samsung and I think even apple used skyhook etc and all the big fanfare etc over it but it seems to be disabled in this phone.

and some of the fixes were to use the google location server right?

(weren't google roasted around the world for wardriving and recording wifi sites and also the data? hehe), now i know why they did it.. for location services I guess... a bit off topic but just now seeing why there were even interested in wifi sites etc.

So.. this broadcom chip... its supposed to be good? can we eliminate the hardware as being a bad gps chipset?