yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] moreadon:
Hi guys,

I'm having some problems with Rom manager and was wondering if anyone could help. When it does a back up it just stalls on the linux.ex2 file

Any help would be appreciated.

Galaxy s is the phone if that helps
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tomasitoc:
Hello moreadon,

I am having the same problem. Did you get a fix on this issue.

I bought the rom manager 4 days ago. And I was only able to backup only once. Until now, it doesn't get past linux.ex2

I pull out the battery to reboot the vibrant.

I also notice that the free space of my SD card keeps getting small.
[Captivate General] kennethpenn:
Anyone have any thoughts on which is better? Which is the more "polished" build?
[Captivate General] muthaflaco:
I had JM2 on mine, but it blocked some apps in the market.
[Captivate General] cachookaman:
so far ive had better battery life with the new firmware. it also feels a lot snappier without any fixes applied. i never had any problems with gps so i cant comment on that area.
[Captivate General] alphadog00:
I would say neither - many say that JH2 helps with GPS, some say it doesn't. But it does do a bunch of extra logging, so it is obviously a development build.

JM5 is an i9000 build, so you have to swap kernels and Bluetooth fails with major static on both ends.

Both builds remove tethering and restrict the market even more.

I consider both builds stepping stones to a final release, but for me, moving to either one is a step backwards. If i had to pick one, I would pick JH2 because it fixes other things like media scanner, but I would rather wait for the next release.
[Captivate General] rob989_69:
Personally if I went with an I9000 build I'd go with JM2 NOT JM5, from reading through that monstrosity of a thread I thought maybe JM5 would fix the bluetooth issues, it didn't. And it seemed much less stable than any other ROM I tried. Again, just my experience.

JH2 seems really nice to me. I see absolutely NONE of the speed increase other's have reported, but battery seems much better as does GPS so far. I haven't had problems with apps in the market, I saw mention of some and they don't affect me so no biggy.
[Desire Themes and Apps] sudeki300:
I have launcher pro plus and the battstatt, tjam, audio manager widgets installed. I'm running leedroid 1.8b, when I select launcher pro and set my widgets and custom icons and place the phone into sleep or reboot most of the custom icons have gone and where the widgets were there is a box that says unable to load widgets. Can anyone help. Widgets installed to SD card using apps2sd, would this cause the issue or the Rom. Thanks............sudeki300

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Sent via the XDA apatalk App while crying trying to set up my theme. Boo boo
[Desire Themes and Apps] le3ky:
move all your widgets to internal memory, this will fix the issue.
[Desire Themes and Apps] tonyep:
Never install widgets onto your SD card.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dont know:
*LOL*

You can close every single 1.5 and 2.1 SENSE release here on xda, when you ban Feeyo for that point 6 and point 9.

Or has ANY dev the permission of htc using THEIR sense or office-suite?

Come on, close xda-android except the real aosps:

6. Do not post warez.

If a piece of software requires you to pay to use it, either pay or find your cracks and serials somewhere else. We do not accept warez nor do we permit any member to promote or describe ways in which Warez, cracks, serial codes or other means of avoiding payment, can be obtained.

9. Don't get us in trouble.

Don't post copyrighted materials or do other things that will obviously lead to legal trouble. If you wouldn't do it on your own homepage, you probably don't want to do it here either. This does not mean we agree with everything the software piracy lobby try to impose on us, it simply means you cannot break any laws here, since we'll end up dealing with legal hassle caused by you. Please use common sense: respect the forum, its users, and those that write great code.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Deleted member 2500726:
I can't believe someone would post a thread like this after what has happened... Facepalm...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Hacre:
Nice try except Sense isn't warez. Anyone using a phone made by HTC has a license to use Sense. The -only- dubious ROMs are ROMs for phones that contain sense when the phones never had sense released on them by HTC, such as the Nexus One. In which case you raise a good point and instead of attempting to incite -another- flame war in regards to Feeyo, you should report those rom posts to the moderators.

I'm personally surprised and pleased XDA have started to take a harder stance on adherence to licenses. You have to look at it from their perspective too, XDA is a popular site and they don't need various license owners breathing down their necks from a legal standpoint, with XDA being a large distribution node for software.

Feeyo could have easily avoided all this. I actually thought the staff had closed the issue with a slapped wrist. All he had to do, was uphold agreements he made in regards to licensing when he chose to use software under the GPL. He didn't and thus only has himself to blame. I understand you being somewhat blinded by your fanboy spectacles, but try and see it in a bigger picture. If ever developer took Feeyo's attitude to redistributing GPL source code back into the community, we'd all still be sat on some crappy HTC ROM with an ancient and buggy kernel. Cyanogenmod project certainly wouldn't exist and projects like Feeyo's would never have gotten off the ground in the first place.

He was happy to take the benefits of the GPL. He should have been happy to give back as a result of taking those benefits. He wasn't, he didn't now he's banned.

He has been a walking GPL violation since day one. Not -once- has he offered or posted sources to GPL code that he uses. Not -once- has he even bothered to mention the GPL license to any of his users, which he is also required to do, so that they're aware that they're protected by the GPL. Look at the page/wiki for his Linux distribution. Not a single mention of the GPL and not a single link to the source code despite practically every package being protected under the GPL.

If you cannot understand why it is imperative for the GPL to be adhered to in order for it to work and for EVERYONE to benefit from it, if your vision stops at "me have awesome ROM on phone" and goes no further, well then you shouldn't really be posting on the subject in the first place.

Feeyo was so abusive of the community aspect to Android development, he even used a shadow account to ask questions of other developers, before releasing his "wonderful and all his own work" as Feeyo and not once did he credit anyone who helped him out.

Regardless of his development talent, he was still a bad seed and ultimately bad for the community.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=716916
[Hero, G2 Touch General] 12aon:
Hi, don't know thank you for posting in the wrong section.

If we get complaints from HTC about those, you better believe that we will. I guess you must have missed the meaning of General Public License there, you must have spotted the word public in there, which means we have to take complaints serious. We did, this will ultimately create a healthier development environment, but I guess you'd rather have a new build then one thats fair. Feeyo is welcome to post his ROMs once more 30 days from now, if he would share the sources as required by GPL.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] pulser_g2:
XDA operates a non-invasive policy with regard to such matters. To quote from HTC

This was in response to ShippedROMs being asked to stop hosting RUUs of unreleased ROMs.

It is XDA policy to act swiftly in response to any take-down or C&D request directed to the site from a company such as HTC. As HTC make good money out of selling their phones, they are not bothered about a few people making ROMs for each other to use, as it drives up sales of phones.

Moved out of development as irrelevant. No more random threads like this please guys, this is a warning as I'm not going to spend the day moving posts about.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Deleted member 2500726:
Damn! Don't even know what to believe now... I wish I had been following this from the start...

Maybe someone can send a PM to me with a short resume even I can understand? xD
[Hero, G2 Touch General] pulser_g2:
I don't think any PM is needed here. Read the info posted by stericson, as that is a full explanation of what's happened.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Deleted member 2500726:
It's just that that post is very hard for me to understand I get really confused reading it...:rolleyes:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Bryanarby:
Guys, why even bother?

A decision made is a decision made.. and only the involved people should take steps to work it out.

Peace,

Bryanarby
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Hacre:
Then don't worry about it. Feeyo did a bad thing and continued to do a bad thing. Bad thing thoroughly investigated and now rectified, Feeyo given vacation for his trouble.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Deleted member 2500726:
I'm not saying I'm agreeing with you but I guess I'm going to start using both your ROMs :) Your both great developers :D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dont know:
Sorry for choosing dev and not general

hmm - Froyd119 does have an office-view integrated...

passionqickoffice.apk was never delivered with htc hero.

OK, EVERYONE at xda does cook ROMS out of others...

But it's ridiculous to ban feeyo out from these two points.

GPL - OK (discussion when someone has to publish the code - immediatly, or after 2 weeks) , but not quote THIS points when banning a dev, cause ALL devs has to be banned - which is death to xda
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Hacre:
I don't know what Hero you're using but I had Quick Office on my phone when it came from Orange.

EDIT: In fact, from the official HTC 1.5 RUU:

ninpo@titan ~/downloads/apps/phone/roms/official/RUU/app $ ls | grep -i quickoffice
Quickoffice_HTC_1.0.1.apk

This would be Quickoffice, themed to match HTC Sense. In Android 1.5. This file was never deleted in the subsequent OTAs:

ninpo@titan ~/downloads/apps/phone/roms/official $ find . -iname *office*
./evo/system/app/Quickoffice.apk
./RUU/system/app/Quickoffice_HTC_1.0.1.apk
./RUU/app/Quickoffice_HTC_1.0.1.apk
./postpatch/system/app/Quickoffice.apk

QuickOffice is a licensed Google application. HTC have a google app license. Therefore people using HTC phones have a Google app license to use Google apps on their phones. QED.

Google's Cease and Desist against Cyanogenmod fell down on these very grounds.

You're becoming more ridiculous by the post.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Bryanarby:
It IS interesting how we only get to see the "bad" side of Feeyo.

It's just.. I know Feeyo's side aswell, so it looks really weird to have (all) people saying he didn't release it.

I'm not familiar with the GPL so correct me if I am wrong.

I would say that the coder has the freedom to atleast clean his code pre-releasing?

Don't get me wrong.. the code should be released and was in a way.

Declining that the code was released..

The essential parts are there?

btw, Warez?

6. Do not post warez.

If a piece of software requires you to pay to use it,-> nope

either pay or find your cracks-> nope

and serials somewhere else.-> nope

We do not accept warez nor do we permit any member to promote or describe ways in which Warez, -> nope

cracks, -> nope

serial codes -> nope

or other means of avoiding payment, -> nope

can be obtained.

So, unless this rule is bigger then that.. I do not agree with the Warez branding.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Hacre:
Incorrect. If you provide me with software licensed by the GPL I am entitled to the EXACT SOURCE CODE USED to compile that piece of software. It's why the GPL has made so many in roads in the security community because the code can be vetted upon request. Once the code is "cleaned up" then it isn't the same code as used to provide the binary release and therefore, a breach in GPL.

No it wasn't and no they aren't. Every "source code" release Feeyo ever provided either didn't work or wasn't the source code that was asked for. You don't do partial releases of source code, or "here's most of it, work the rest out for yourself". That only works if you provide a complete diff patch of the original source to the source used which in essence will provide the original source code used. Feeyo didn't do this either.

Yes warez. In the broader sense, Warez is the distribution/use of software for which you do not have a valid license. In most cases, yes, this is because it's paid software being distributed for free, however it boils down to the same legal issue, no valid license.

So warez applies to Feeyo's kernels. He does not have a valid license to distribute them because he does not have a valid GPL license, because he refuses to provide:

A copy of the GPL with his releases or an easily accessible copy of the GPL at distribution point. There's a reason I keep a link to my kernel source in my signature, you're only a click away from your copy of the GPL as well as a click away from your copy of the source code, including easy to read, detailed, changelogs.

AND

A written offer to provide the source code upon request

OR an archive of the source code used to build the binary release at the point of distribution

OR an archive of the source provided upon request.

Failure to match this criteria breaches GPL and once you have breached GPL you no longer have a license to distribute the GPL software in question.

No license + distribution = illegal distribution = Warez.

Well then I hope I've cleared that up for you.

Furthermore, looking at the Cronos Linux distribution, which Feeyo advertises in his forum signature, that's an even bigger GPL breach than his ROMs are. It's a walking, talking, urination all over the GPL. Not a single mention of the GPL on the site or in the wiki, not a single link to the source code anywhere that I can find.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Bryanarby:
Ok, I agree, Feeyo should abide by the GPL..

Although the aggressive level of demanding was rediculously high, leading to the defensive stance against releasing.

It is/was still not finished and the issues that it brought could not be fixed, as such the rollback.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Hacre:
My initial request was very polite. The aggressiveness came when he refused.

It was finished enough to include in a ROM release. You don't seem to understand how the GPL and open source development works. Once he released that "2.6.32" kernel to the wild, he was obligated to provide the source code he used to build it. Not when he felt like it, not after he'd changed it again, but as it was when that kernel was built.

Myself and others are working on a 2.6.34 port for the Hero. The source code we are working on doesn't work properly as yet, however the source code is STILL PUBLICLY AVAILABLE so that other developers can contribute to it and improve upon it and who knows, even help us get it finished faster.

I wasn't going to do this, however given that Feeyo has outright lied again here to his OWN COMMUNITY, I'm going to.

Feeyo didn't port 2.6.32 to the Hero. Feeyo changed the version string in the Makefile. Do I have proof of this? Not a jot but I'd bet my house on it. There's some incredibly talented devs working on the 2.6.3x port for the Hero and there's more than one of them. Feeyo got it working in under a week or so he claims. He refused to release the source and pulled the distribution because he was rumbled and he knows it.

Either you're in on it with him, or he's got you completely fooled as well. Or you and he are the same person. After all the deceit from the Cronos group, stemming from way back when he claimed to have goldfish sources for the hero and ended up posting a git snapshot that had nothing at all to do with the Hero up until recently, who the hell knows what's going on.

But I draw the line at GPL breach and lying to a community which Feeyo has done on numerous occasions. Thankfully, XDA seem to agree with me, which at the end of the day, is the opinion that counts.

His actions were contemptuous and the attempted defense/excusing of his actions by the likes of you and your ilk are equally contemptuous.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dont know:
It's an interpretation of a "law" - OK (we all use the passion.apk)

but accuse feeyo of warez because not IMMIDIATLY public the code is also an interpration of a "law"

http://www.cronosproject.org/kernelSources.tar.bz2

perhaps

But for me the whole war is so ridiculous that my posts are peanuts
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Bryanarby:
Well, as you started there aswell.. let's keep it at one place or it would get too chaotic to follow for anyone. As Feeyo can atleast speak on the other forum, I will halt following this topic.

I only hear bits and pieces of both sides, that's why I changed standing point after gathering more info.

I, myself(not Feeyo;)), have no access to any sources.

Really, really, really not imposing on anyone:

Is this how issues should be solved? Handing one side free speech and silencing the other side?

God, how I hated that about my ex (good thing she doesn't know my internet identity/doesn't look for it.)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nafe:
I get the impression that a lot of people are really looking at the GPL the wrong way, not really able to shake off a capitalist mindset from it. The fact of the matter is, if someone develops something and releases it under GPL it means it's free to distribute and edit all you like ON THE CONDITION THAT THE GPL REMAINS. You *CANNOT* take some code, edit it and then claim "welllllll, it's really my code so I'll release it when I'm good and ready". No, that's not the GPL - go and write something from scratch if you want to do that.

The ethos behind the GPL is to promote development, holding sources back until you're happy with them is fine, but then you can't release the ROM. That's far too much like wanting some limelight for yourself before you allow others to carry on. Again - Feeyo did not own the code that he was withholding, he did not author it from scratch and as such he was OBLIGED to make the source available the nanosecond he made a compiled ROM available. I think it's absolutely fair and just that he gets banned for this breach as it's such a fundamental "f**k you" to the GPL, hopefully he'll see what he was doing wrong and remedy it. After all, the more developers working on an open source project the better.

As far as I'm concerned, there are no *sides* on this. I'm not a huge follower of XDA, so I'm not involved in all the politics but I have a reasonable understanding of the GPL after living with a total Linux nerd/open source zealot at Uni. The facts are that Feeyo did not make the proper sources available as soon as he released a compiled ROM - that's not how the GPL works. It seems he persistently resisted and as such, was banned. Totally fair enough.
[Android Themes] Raadius:
Pretty damn slick theme, is this possible? lol if not just give me the weather/clock widget (minus the Google search bar).
[Android Themes] guitargler:
Looks slick as hell, but to get it, you'd probably need a completely new system. I.e., you can't do that with Sense UI. Maybe some clever coder could modify Rosie.apk to make it look sorta like that one, but the weather/clock and events would both have to be built ground up, most likely. That'd be better anyway, they wouldn't depend on the sense framework :D

This is the part where you offer $x to whoever can make this/parts of this a reality. Haha
[Android Themes] Kagoshema:
you could do the bottom bar with a different launcher like launcher pro (i could probably make it) and the top bar with metamorph

but the widgets i have no idea
[Android Themes] Original Android <3ers!:
It's easy to modify the Rosie.apk for the launcher. Same with the Notification bar. Widgets will be EASY! This should be fun and come out looking great.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] praboda777:
Anybody having Windows 6.5 for HTC TyTn II please..

Im very new here and hope seniors will help me.. Thank you and kind regards

Praboda :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Mr. Clown:
Hi, Welcome to the forums. You need to go to the kaiser rom development section. http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=378 there are many 6.5 roms there read and try them first to determine which can suit your needs.

I will strongly recommend to read the sticky (first thread of the page) before posting or flashing your kaiser.

Good Luck,
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] praboda777:
Hello

Wow.. Mr. Clown You are a **star**... Appreciate very much your you gr8 help..

You are awesome... :)

Best regards,

Praboda777@yahoo.com
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Mr. Clown:
Thanks for your words :p. I'm glad that I helped.

Cheers,
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rpgsx3r:
My HTC Desire is unbranded (bought from mobiles.co.uk) although I got an 18 month o2 contract. However, there is no branding on the phone and I believe it is unlocked.

Presumably I should have received the OTA Froyo update, right? I've had nothing. I could understand this if it was an o2 branded desire, but it isn't.

Any advice/explanation?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rpgsx3r:
I manually installed.

http://www.geekword.net/manually-install-froyo-htc-desire/

Took around 15 mins, no problems.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Neo Cortex:
For the past 48 hours I have been having problems downloading anything from the UK market? Everything stops at 'Starting download'. It had been working fine until then and I uninstalled the few apps I had recently installed to see if that was the problem but no joy.

When I turned my phone on this morning it downloaded all the updates I had been trying to get yesterday so I assumed it was working. When I then tried to download some more updates the problem was there again. Any ideas why this is happening?

I am running Cronos 2.1.3
[Hero, G2 Touch General] clobber:
I had the same problem yesterday. Rebooting the phone did nothing. However, I saw a post that said switching on airplane mode and then disabling it might work. Fortunately, it did. Hope it does for you.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] mobydeek:
o thought it was jsut me. Although the problem fixed itself after a reboot, and is fine now.

Running VillainROM 10.3.

I thought it had somethign to do with my phones low storage.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] m_memmory:
Android Marketplace

Is anyone still having problems downloading today?

I've just got back Hero back after HTC fixed the screen so I'm looking to reinstall all my apps - however nothing will download at all. I've tried WiFi, 3G, rebooting the phone, switching airplane mode on/off, logging in & out of googletalk & also hard resetting.

Still all I get is "starting download" and nothing else.

I can't see of anything else to try.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Neo Cortex:
Thanks. Seems to have worked. I found that I had to leave airplane mode on for a while before turning off. If I turn it off and then straight back on doesn't seem to work
[Hero, G2 Touch General] m_memmory:
This is now getting stranger and stranger.

I left the phone overnight and awoke to find that about half a dozen apps that I'd previously downloaded (they show in my download list but not currently installed as the phones been wiped) had actually downloaded and installed without any problems at all.

The other half dozen or so apps haven't downloaded yet. And the ones that I actually told it to download also haven't.

I've left the phone for another 6-7 hours this morning while I was out .... and still nothing has downloaded. I've got 2 things that say "starting download" and that's it.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] clobber:
Yeah - I'm back to having the problem again. I'll try turning airplane mode on for a while. This is really strange. I wonder if we have not installed the same application (or an update) that caused this. I think most recently I installed the latest Evernote. Did you happen to do that as well?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Neo Cortex:
I don't have Evernote. I also uninstalled apps I had recently downloaded.