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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nukedukem:
I would prefer that this question remain unanswered. I'm not calling the OP a criminal, but this is exactly what I would do if I just stole a phone that was locked.

I don't want the ability to defeat the security of my phone to be easily accessible.

If someone is stupid enough to forget thier gmail password, the answer to their security question, and allow their kids to set a lock should not be using a smart phone. Just reset her phone and she can start over.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pirish1:
Sounds like complete bull**** to me............I'm just sayin'
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxomus:
I agree, calling bull**** on this as well & I'm pretty sure consulting xda isn't part of sprints trouble shooting protocal...heh, even if this forum is way more helpful then sprint...

Sent from my phone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phobium:
Just wanted to interject here, and say we get at least 1 or 2 customers a week who this happens to. They'll get their phone in a store where the rep sets their Gmail up for them, or they're rushed through the process in store, and forget the info.

Our internal support system doesn't get into EVERY SINGLE THING that can happen, or will give "official" solutions to things. I have OFTEN referred to third party sites to fix issues, so I don't doubt this guy for a second.

edit: This is all from within a retail store, as a rep or in-store technician, I'm not sure if phone tech support would refer to a site such as this, but in the store we exhaust every resource we can.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aliaselchore:
Found a flaw in my evos security. Maybe is just mine or froyo. My patern security lock opens with any patern I input right after a boot or battery pull. This happens with every custom froyo rom I try. I tried fresh, cyanogen, omj, and damagecontrol. Sometimes it dosnt do it but if I do a fast random swipe of any pattern it opens. I'm in the process of making a video.......help fear for my security!

Found flaw. Titanium backup. The app is great and all and I love it. The problem is that titanium backs up my patern and I guess thers a certain flaw or conflicts when the backup and the original security interact. I fix this by making a new pattern or re entering the patern. But is alot less troubling by just not backing up HTC screen lock

sent from my EVO
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alanmw86:
when i worked at sprint alot of my stupid arse coworkers would setup gmail for people that didn't have it and not tell the customer...dont ask.... also after working in retail for 5 years lemme tell you something

People are fraggin stupid, not some of them, but like 90%, so when you look at your intelligent friends, look at them with some more respect, cause most people are completely retarded haha.

Anyhow, I can also tell you as an X sprint employee...and probably one of the most empathetic employee's and my store I would never care this much to ask on a forum, so I call BS as well.

Besides come on sprint rep, you should know damn well there aint no way around it, not unless your a super hacker.

lock code, gmail and the security questions, you mean the one like, whats your dogs name? LIES!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpwhre:
i work with a guy that has a hero and was drunk playing with phone and set a lock pattern. he doesn't know his gmail password either and had to go to sprint store and have it reset. lost contacts.

I say that you buy a google phone, you should be a google customer with an account. to be so stupid you forget your password is just lame. to buy a device for cool factor and not know how to use it is stupid. there should be a smart test required before someone is allowed to purchase a smartphone.

OP, make your customers download lookout from market. it saves contacts, and make them use an email they already use on daily basis and have the password the same as the password for their sprint account. then if they forget password, it is same as their account with same email provided with account.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phobium:
I know, and everyone in my store knows there's no way around it... we don't post to forums asking, but we do read forums for info... but I've used forums to solve several issues on phones that probably goes against policies, like using JL Commander on Blackberries, installing .cab files on WinMo phones to fix small registry issues, etc. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to make the customer happy... but no, I nor anyone I've worked with have POSTED, just read.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unCoRrUpTeD:
if you are rooted there is a way around the pattern unlock screen. Hell it might work if you're not rooted.

adb -d shell
# sqlite3 data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
sqlite> update system set value=0 where name='lock_pattern_autolock';
sqlite> .exit
# exit

reboot and tada

At least this works on the hero. It removes the pattern lockscreen
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dglowe343:
If there was a way to agree more, I would. I work in retail/wholesale and people amaze me every day at how stupid they are. I work at a tire store that shares a building with a collision shop. I can't tell you how many people have walked in and asked for an estimate on collision repair. I mean seriously, we've got frickin tires EVERYWHERE!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpwhre:
So one nite i was drunk, got out of truck (not driving) and went to bed. Next AM at hotel i couldn't find phone. Because i am smart enough to remember my gmail password (been using it for years) first thing i did was go online and change my password. Phone could no longer sync and gave me a minor sense of security. Found phone in a co-workers hotel room later that nite. I then changed my password back.

For those that wouldn't do the same when they lost or had their phone stollen, you just presented a way for the person that has it access to their device.

Simple..... you forgot your lock pattern or pin (like you need a phone like this then) if you also forgot your email and password, then start over and lesson learned. But to provide this kind of info for a theif or not so honest person access to a phone that doesn't belong to them is just wrong.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sombdy:
Just guessing...since you are working with /data, you would not need root. Or at least not nand unlocked. I don't believe data is a protected directory.

Nice trick BTW...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unCoRrUpTeD:
The thing is that this information can be found by anyone or you could do a master reset and would still be able to use the phone. I just put this up there because people were saying there was no way to get around this stuff and there are. In no way do I condone using this info for illegal or dishonest use.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nukedukem:
I see where you're coming from about the information being available, but the more you post it the easier it is to find. And the easier it is to find, the less reason I have to put a lock on my phone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unCoRrUpTeD:
If you use Wavesecure or some similiar program you can prevent others from using the phone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenyonj:
if the guy stole the phone, why would he care about getting the original info back on... first thing I am going to do with my stolen phone is wipe it anyways... so I don't think that's the case here.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodelyfe:
who's to say he even knew about wiping the phone?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vsemoney:
HTC One forgot lock code

Help please

I have HTC One (S-OFF, android 4.3) with lock code

hard reset does not help, reflash android does not help

how I can bypass lock code ?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Magnum_Enforcer:
Try posting in the forum in the link below:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2180425

Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
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[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] ultravox:
I'm curious hehe but also with a lack of knowledge.

I've only played with my amd cpu governor in linux ( voltage and multiplier) but i will take a look at this.

I've already looked at the governor info on SGS, but didn't when deeper on this subject.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] tristecire:
Maybe a way to further reduce lag without setting performance governor ?

What Mike Chan (author) writes about the spcificities of his governor :

Advantages:

+ significantly more responsive to ramp cpu up when required (UI interaction)

+ more consistent ramping, existing governors do their cpu load sampling in a workqueue context, the 'interactive' governor does this in a timer context, which gives more consistent cpu load sampling.

+ higher priority for cpu frequency increase, rt_workqueue is used for scaling up, giving the remaining tasks the cpu performance benefit, unlike existing governors which schedule rampup work to occur after your performance starved tasks have completed.

Everyone who owns a Galaxy i9000 talks about lag. This should be a way to reduce it further.

I'm looking now for some tutorials about compiling for arm on an intel386 cpu. lot to read :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] raspdeep:
i'll see if i test this, will update tmr
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] tristecire:
Junior Members are Junior Members...

Thanks so much Rasdeep to have a look on this :)

I tried what it seems to me the simplest way ( I'm a real nOOb) :

copy the pre-compiled cpufreq_interactive.ko in /lib/modules/

then i did :

busybox grep nr_running /proc/kallsyms

and get :

c037f720 T nr_running

(different from the last one, cause i'm testing another kernel from Rasdeep, the 1.2 ghz undervolted now )

then did :

# insmod /lib/modules/cpufreq_interactive.ko nr_running_addr=0xc037f720

and get :

insmod: can't insert '/lib/modules/cpufreq_interactive.ko': invalid module format

Ok. Galaxy is Hummingbird CPU, and Milestone is Texas Instruments OMAP 2430. Not the same kind of CPU, i believe.

So. Maybe i need to compile. Eh, to learn to compile.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] maxisma:
It fails because it is not compiled against the Samsung kernel.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] tristecire:
Hi

I think so, but compiling a kernel module is for me a brand new thing, a bit harder than flashing firmwares or testing new custom kernel releases made by another guys.

Don't know if i need the full sources, if the compilation is made on the desktop intel or in the sgs galaxy. Anyway i've got the full source, now.

http://opensource.samsung.com/

and search i9000

Found here :

http://forum.samdroid.net/f49/samsung-i9000-linux-kernel-eclair-source-1149/

given by LeshaK

Russian guys on this forum seems to know how to cook kernels, modules, initramfs and full roms. Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] supercurio:
Hello tristecire !

Thank you for the info.

I'm building a kernel with this new governor.

Hopefully i'll publish it with sources after some extensive tests.

Edit : instantaneous crashs : (even with appropriate nr_running_addr)
[Captivate General] mrbloog:
On Quadrant it sticks at 61 fps and jumps back down and on Quake 3 it will hit 63fps and then jitter between 54 to 56fps like its trying to go higher. So, is the Captivate FPS locked? As I know we have a more powerful GPU then the iPhone 4 and Droid X. :confused:
[Captivate General] Kaik541:
I'm pretty sure it isn't, just most things are designed nowadays to be run at about 60 FPS. TV is shot at 24 FPS and when shows are shot at 60 FPS, many people comment it looks fake (even though it's closer to how things look in real life, we're just conditioned to 24 FPS).

There's a whole debate/discussion in the HDTV world about refresh rates versus FPS and how each thing affects the other and yada yada. I don't truly follow or understand it because I don't notice much of a different.

I wouldn't be surprised if they capped it at 60 FPS, but you honestly couldn't NOTICE anything beyond that. 60 FPS would be the "target" for most of these benchmarks because that gives it the truest motion for the baseline render. So it may not be the Captivate's hardware that's locked, but the software it's running.
[Captivate General] ageros:
Does the game have vsync options? If the display is running at around 60fps then its possible the game or OS is designed to run max at the same to prevent graphical tearing.
[Captivate General] Croak:
Yes, it's locked at 56FPS. Limitation of the S-AMOLED refresh rate. It could probably go higher if it were LCD, but then it wouldn't look so nice.

56FPS is a lot, especially on a 4" screen. :)
[Captivate General] RogerPodacter:
Android or target UI is 60 fps stated by Google for all UI elements and scrolling etc. So I don't think Samsung is limiting fps, its just the OS doing its thing.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] mrmrmrmr:
I wonder if there are IM applications working on Streak.

I am mostly interested in Live Messenger and Google Talk.

Are there any native applications for these networks ?

If not, what are the suggested apps for both IM networks.

I'd prefer to use apps which are officially supported by either the IM network or Dell.

Thanks.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] fards:
there's tons that work, doubt any are supports or endorsed though.

Personally I settled on nimbus as it does all the networks I use..
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] mrmrmrmr:
well, thanks. But isn't there even any google talk client ?

As Android is google's OS, I'd think we should have Gtalk natively.

And I dislike all-in-one IM clients.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] fards:
yes there is gtalk..

it should be built in..

have a look through the marketplace to find what you need.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] londoneye:
FRING

Use Fring, this provides both MSN and Gtalk and many more. It also offers free video talks for Fring users.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] mrmrmrmr:
thanks forthe fring suggestion.

but does it route all IMs through their own server ?

if yes, I don't want that.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] zero.fx:
I personally use meebo as I haven't had much trouble with it at all. It supports multi client too such as msn, yahoo and aim. I have also used fring it was great as I can video call using skype but now since skype removed there service from fring I haven't used it.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] mrmrmrmr:
but really, for fring and meebo, can you say that they directly send IM to the original network and not route them over their own proxy ?
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Fazziebear:
Google talk is installed as default
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obsidianblackhawk:
So here my question / issue / frustration.

I currently run Skyraider 2.5.2 (both flavors).

I flip flop back and forth between vanilla and sense, however i find myself as of late falling in love with vanilla, however i have one MAJOR issue with ALL vanilla roms at this point. Every Vanilla ROM has the sense stuff removed (good), but this also includes the HTC music app ( not to be confused at all with the Android music app), the problem with removing the HTC music app is that, unless some one can point me in a different direction, the HTC app appears to be the only music app capable of reading music off of the phones internal storage (to clarify i can navigate to songs individually i.e. using Astro and play them that way, but come on who the hell wants to have to manually select each song, doesn't that defeat the purpose of having a music player in the first place). Now before this goes in all kids of directions please let me be clear on a few items:

1) At the moment i cant afford a larger SD card than the 2gb that the phone comes with so moving my music to the SD card is not an option (See item #2)

2) I have more than 2gb of music that i have on my phone.

I would like to know:

A) Is there a music player out there that doesn't have it's head up it's ass, and can actually read the internal storage as well (this should be a goddamn given for Christ sake. (P.S. I have tried every major music player in the market.... NONE of them (at least the ones that i have found) will read the phones internal storage.

B) Can the HTC music app be used on a vanilla ROM? If so then could the ROM authors making vanilla roms PLEASE stop removing it given that is seems to be the only app out there that actually logically works, or can i just pull the HTC .apk from a sense ROM and push it to a vanilla ROM.

Thank you all for your time.

/end rant
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mb02:
You do realize that the incredible is pretty much the first and only phone to even have an internal storage right? cus that being the case, no devs creating 3rd party music apps will even give it a thought or make it priority. even our own devs putting out vanilla roms cant quite figure out how to get apps to read the storage properly most of the time. youre making it sound like this internal storage has been around since the invention of android...

to answer your questions, htc music app cant be used outside a full sense rom and to my knowledge there are no 3rd party apps that read internal storage yet.

if it makes you that upset, you should just shell out the 20 bucks for a 16GB micro...
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrynalyne:
First and only Android phone maybe to have large internal storage. Def. not first phone overall though.

I have been sifting through the source for the stock music app, but I have not yet found a way to add internal storage support.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmoney:
considering the Droid X and Droid 2 have internal storage, hopefully some devs will wake up.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obsidianblackhawk:
Okay so ultimately i am spoiled then :) I was not under the understanding that this type of functionality was that large of an issue seemed kind of common sense to me.

Well then i guess i'll just have to find an suitable alternative then.

P.S. where are you finding a 16gb sd for $20.00 i can't find anything even close to that price in my area.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kmaxima:
Fyi, mixzing has the option to play music from either internal or sd card just not both simultaneously as the htc one does. One note though, if you use last.fm scrobbling this doesn't work off internal storage for some reason.

Sent from my Droid Incredible
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrynalyne:
http://adrynalyne.stfuthxbye.net/Music-signed.apk

You can try this. I pulled it from the Droid 2 dump. Deodexed and signed.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pacifik:
Mort player works for me.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stromness:
Search it up on Amazon

I've found that Amazon has some of the best prices for memory cards.
[Vibrant General] Torob:
On iphone you can hold and drag the magnifying glass and its pretty easy

On phones with trackball the same idea...

What do we do for the vibrant? Just tap? I have hard time putting cursor exactly where i want it and its such a waste of time and its irritating

Help / Tips appreciated
[Vibrant General] vinnydakid:
Which keyboard are you using?
[Vibrant General] jackhuny:
I have the same problem put the cursor to where I want it to be is PITA.
[Vibrant General] rembonjaski:
I'm curious too. I know you can get the d-pad with the Swype keyboard, but I primarily use the Samsung keyboard.
[Vibrant General] ConceptVBS:
Tap the "?123" Button to bring up the D-Pad.
[Vibrant General] vuvsion:
If you're using Swype, glide from info => SYM buttons to get D pad.
[Vibrant General] vinnydakid:
On Samsung keyboard hold down the "?123" button.
[Vibrant General] funkyfungus:
How about on the Android keyboard?
[Vibrant General] implosive_disgorgence:
sadly the only thing i miss from the iphone is the magnifying glass long press thing you get while trying to put the cursor inbetween two letters
[Vibrant General] julez456:
No D-pad option with the Android keyboard..just Swype and Samsung keyboards :(
[Vibrant General] julez456:
Long press ?123 not Tap
[P3600 General] NikGrey:
All of a sudden my screen has stopped working in terms of being able to use the touch screen, the buttons do work though.

Also I noticed the clock has reset it's self so something has happened in the night.. hmmm.

So, I have removed the battery for a while which didnt help.

I am wondering what to try next, for some reason finding out how to do a hard reset is not easy - could somebody let me know how to do this please?

Come on you clever chaps, help me out - I am sure this has happened to a few of you in the past.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LukeSP:
The root of my problem is the Facebook Contact itself. Today, after I install Phonebook 2.0 and try to link contacts, I find something strange. I have one contact that has 'null' last name. The, I log in to Facebook website and find that contact has a normal last name. So, I think that there are something wrong to this contact. I decide to delete it and try to sync again. Then, My Facebook contacts are completely synced to my phone.

You should try this on your phone maybe it can help.

Sorry for my English.
[Droid X General] xebryus:
I was installing the 928Droid Black theme on my DX last night, and while the framework.apk file was loading through Metamorph, my phone froze...I let it sit for a couple minutes before I did the painful move and removed the battery, just as I feared, my phone is not booting up whatsoever anymore. It just stays on the silver Motorola M screen and does nothing else.

The part that really is starting to bother me is that my CPU won't do ANYTHING when I plug it in through USB. It doesn't even act like it exists. So at this point I have no way of even accessing the files in the phone to maybe try to drop a uncorrupted framework.apk in its correct home.

I've tried everything from different cables, going through device manager, DLing Moto drivers. I've even tried running system recovery and also going to the "Bootloader 29.01" screen. Nothings making this thing run.

Is my phone bricked?:(:(
[Droid X General] krayzee:
Good news. Your phone can be restored using an sbf file. google droidx sbf. Im on my phone so don't have the links. You you will also need rsd lite with the patch file. There are posts if not here then maybe over at alldroid. Good luck

Go to webchat.freenode.net and join #adc. They will help u out
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Sharpenologist:
I'm using the 'leaked' official AT&T ROM ... and unless I add an attachment, I can't seem to get the option of putting a subject line in a text message.

Maybe I'm hallucinating ... but I'm sure I could do this with the original ROM.

Help?

Thanks,

-dmm
[G1 Apps and Games] houseonfire:
I'm trying to find a way to overclock on CM6 past the 576 that it lets me go up to. Before, I was able to overclock to 652 (give or take).

I tried to search but didn't find anything really.
[G1 Apps and Games] ide2003:
J'am to. I want to asskick my Froyo
[G1 Apps and Games] f4bio:
wrong forum?!

anyway: iam searching too...

i tried the oc kernels from here. but they dont boot :(

any ideas?
[HTC Aria General] jakontil:
dear all,

would like to know about the HTC Aria's screen depth color, from a gsmarena site, it says that it only sports a 256K color, or usually known as 18bit color, is that so true?

i thought any HH previously released by HTC is already sporting a 16M color or 24bit

anyone could shed me some lights?

thanks in advanced
[HTC Aria General] FZ1Darren:
i've read 256k colors as well.