yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
Here's some reality for you. I used to work at a Apple premium reseller which was the only Apple service centre in the area at the time they started recalling batteries. Never saw a battery which had exploded anywhere else but slashdot and other media news outlets. But everytime a house burns down, I'm sure it's just yet another laptop battery explosion (because they are SOOO common). Why not post some photos of exploded laptop batteries you have personally taken (I love photos of fire)? After all, you must have so many. Just like the prius, now that the acceleration flaw has been exposed, thousands of owners are coming out and saying "hey, it happened to us too". Never mind the fact that most investigations seem to be discovering they are mostly lies.

The best thing about counterfeit batteries you forgot to mention though, is that you are almost guaranteed to NEVER see a recall of counterfeit's, because they NEVER fail (or, it's because neither the faker nor Samsung will recall the fakes). This means that the counterfeits could be failing all over the place, but it doesn't matter. In fact, they might be burning down houses because of poor design, but thats ok, no recalls = no probs.

Never mind the fact theres only a few factories which make cells, after all:

1) There's only a few factories which make plane components too. But there are plenty of low quality counterfeits popping up which fail prematurely. Let's not forget about all the used plane parts being resold as new (despite being unsafe). But I'm sure those counterfeit battery creators would never use components which don't pass the most stringent of QA standards (even if they were cheaper).

2) And lets ignore the fact that a few sites testing properly-branded 3rd party batteries discovered their actual capacities were significantly lower than their OEM ones at times (oddly enough, I can't actually find them now). These are companies who have their reputation to lose. I wouldn't be surprised if counterfeit batteries are significantly lower at times. After all, counterfeiters never take steps to cut the cost *cough bs*. In fact, I'm sure counterfeiters would never dream of using cheaper cells with 3/4 of the capacity (or stock which was sitting in a warehouse for 2 years) either. Because they really care about the consumer.

But hey, go and tell people that counterfeits are on par with original accessories, I'm SURE it's true.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mickeko:
If you buy from an established vendor on ebay that have been around for a few years, you can be fairly certain they have a decent product. Ten thousand positive ebay ratings doesn't come easily, and they make damn sure to keep good service.

The cheap "true" fakes that contain as much lithium-ions as your left sock, and is likely to be explosive (and the retailer knows it), are mainly sold to tourists who buy them off a donkey-cart on the way to the hotel, leaving the seller completely untraceable.

Sent using my personal Dis-organizer GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
I bought a cable for my sony ericsson from a reseller on ebay and I gave them a positive review. However, 1 month later, the contact pins bent.. That reseller had 99% positive reviews too, and sold thousands, or tens of thousands. But the reality was, that cable didn't use thick enough pins... Everyone who bought a similar cable to me would have had to keep rebending the pins too. It was just a matter of time..

So my advice remains:

1) If you went the best product, get them directly from samsung to ensure they are real

2) If you want cheap, go 3rd party.

But, don't trust stuff which is possibly counterfeited, because in every other industry, it has been shown that counterfeits are almost always inferior quality. There is no reason to believe that the battery industry would be different
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mickeko:
I've had countless original cables break because of poor quality. (SE, Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, and whatelse.. Not limited to phoneaccessories). Generally I get better quality by buying third-party. Most cables supplied with whatever you buy are as cheap as the manufacturer believes they can get away with.

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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kassim3:
Okay so is this real or fake. it looks real to me and its from a uk seller
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
that one is obviously fake, it might simply be from a small non brand name factory
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Not really a fake as it does not pretend to be a Samsung battery just a battery that will fit a i9000 Galaxy S.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
well but that's the thing, according to battery and Ink / Laser toner manufactures (Samsung, HP, Toshiba, Lexmark, etc...)

anything that doesn't carry their name is "fake" and will void their warranty if you are not using a battery, ink, laser toner with their name on it ;)

IMO that is kinda stupid they just want to monopolize the market, which they failed misserably at, specially Lexmark they were suing all these other companies that were making "aftermarket" inks for their printers, same thing happened with Xerox, and Motorola had a similar thing with their cell phone batteries, after a while they all just gave up, and slapped big stickers or mini prints in their warranties basically stating the above in similar wordings.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mickeko:
In countries with sensible legislation they can't void warranty for stupid things like that. Unless the issue is directly linked to the "fake" battery they still have to honor warranty. As far as I know this is also valid for flashing firmware on the phone. If it's not a software problem I can give them a phone with WM7 on it and they still have to fix it.... (applies to sweden, according to a law-student I talked to.)

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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aero1:
I am going to respectfully completely disagree with that, given that I have done some work with "counterfeit" product (not batteries).

I think something missed here are there all kinds of counterfeits.

One of the most common, and problematic for buyers, is failed quality control units.

With OEM you pay for branding, marketing, increased profit -- and very often better quality control

Indeed you can be sure there are batteries, which have failed testing up to rated mah hours, or worse yet, by reason of problem cells -- or problem casing -- maybe more likely to fail including taking device with it. Very often these failed QC products are consigned for destruction, or in the case of batteries, recycle, but are diverted to the gray market.

There are also cases where a Contract manufacturers will simply make additional units along the same specs and sell them.

So there are both (from the consumer perspective) benign and dangerous counterfeits.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
Aero +1.. It's been mentioned several times before.. Not sure why it is even debatable honestly..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dadyal:
My Battry is same as Right side one

but date of birth is 2010.08.20 and its Made in korea / Finshed in china
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Definitely second picture left one, cause mine looks the same.

But how you can know that the ebay ones are as goos as the original ones?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Auzy:
Exactly, in fact with counterfeit batteries, the capacity is also possibly less than it should be. If this discussion was about counterfeit condoms, I'm sure that there wouldn't be a single person who thought purchasing them was safe..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n1kon:
Im so confused maybe coz im tired or maybe coz your all nuts talking about such a lame post. If u buy a battery from an un autherised seller then ofcause its going to be fake. There are so many scammers around that want cash and dont care if your house burns down. I however am about to fall asleep reading this threa z z z z z z z z z
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XLR8BG:
k, some say left is real, other say right is real... Doesn't anyone think that they could be both fake... or both real, but for different countries/regions? I'm starting to think that the op is tricking us xD.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZeTortue:
Good idea to show that we should be careful when we buy on ebay... espcially batteries!

I think both are fake.

For those reasons :

- Left one : For the French translation, the ' character is missing ("d utilisation" should be "d'utilisation" for example.

- Right one : The "CE" logo doesn't match with the official logo. It looks too larger. (check here : http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/images/ce_mark_big.gif)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinceyeung:
i got a few galaxy s with different batteries

some with square-like code, some not

some made in korea/finished in china

some made in china/finished in korea

some made in china

but i think they r all genuine battery, just different manufacturing factory
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinceyeung:
but back to the topic, i think the left one on 1st pict and the right one in 2nd pict is genuine...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrx_sti_22b:
On the first photo. The left one is real. I have 2 pc of this battery. 1 original that came with the phone the 2nd pc bought in shop with original packaging, Local Samsung agent sticker & a holographic sticker as well.

In the 2nd photo, i'm not that sure which is real & which is fake. The left seems to have better built quality but the 'vu' is in small letters instead of capital lettering. Look long at the fonts of the wording also don't seems genuine. The one on the right looks more genuine, despite not having the 'G7' wording, but having the barcode print instead. The size & fonts of the smaller wordings looks more genuine.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrx_sti_22b:
Does a 'Made in korea' battery seems more genuine than others?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrx_sti_22b:
I have a 'Made in China' battery but doesn't state 'Finished in Korea'. Real or fake?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mickeko:
No. Nothing makes the battery seem "more genuine". It's a stick ker, it can easily be made to look exactly like any other sticker. The only reason there are differences is because the people who creates "fake" batteries don't really care about details. It just needs to look good enough to pass a very brief inspection. Sort of like how samsung seem to treat their software. :)

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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrx_sti_22b:
'Made in Japan' + 'Finished in China' definately sounds fake. Coz Samsung is a Korean brand... very unlikely to be 'Made In Japan'. Either Korea or China but won't be in Japan i think. Isn't it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pietplezier:
Bottom right is genuine. i get these with my galaxy s..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrx_sti_22b:
I also do think bottom right is genuine too. Though mine is not that came with the phone. Is the crucial part the capital letters of 'VU', instead of small letters 'vu', definately fake?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrx_sti_22b:
How abt their packaging? Most of the 'Made in China' ones dun have Samsung packaging. I really cannot be sure are they real or fakes.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stopi666:
Top left, bottom right after checking my genuine battery.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrx_sti_22b:
I'm getting a 'Made In Korea' in original packaging soon... stay tune for the photos & the packaging.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrx_sti_22b:
Anyone bought this from Ebay before?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200532787453&_rdc=1

Is it any good?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ramkvp:
Hi guys, I want to know whether the pic of the battery I have attached is original. Also, I am having some doubts regarding the back of the phone? Is this how galaxy s looks? I haven't seen any i9000 phones with this type of sticker anywhere. Please help me out.

Note: I checked the imei in International numbering plans and it comes out alright. But I am skeptical about this and would like your help. Thank you.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] McErer:
I'm pretty sure that the one on the right is genuine and the one on the right is fake.

Why?

The left one has the CE-sign (Conformité Européenne) on it, the left one has a CE-sign (china export). It's that easy ;-)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ririalmeria:
Hi mates! here i go with my first stupid thread for those who know about all this!

I´ve been now 3 days and 3 nites searching, reading, and investigating all the web. and the more I read, the more I get confused.:confused: so 3 simple question and I won´t bother any more: 1, do we MUST root our htc desire to unlock it by software?

2, is there any software to read/ or unlock a htc desire?

And ther is no no3! sorry!:D
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mercutio5:
Downloaded the USB Drivers via SDK Setup, point Windows to the directory, and Windows reports that ADB drivers are not detected. Has anyone else experienced this?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aesir Rising:
Install HTC Sync, where during part of that installation, a compatible driver gets installed. I'm on 7x64, and had the same problem.

I don't recall however if I had to install the HTC Sync version that is stored on the phone's storage (HTCSync2.0.25.exe), or download an updated version (HTC_Sync_2.0.33.exe) from HTC's support site (or do both, updating *.25 version with the *.33 version). I do recall getting confused.
[Droid X General] shagdaddy:
Ok, so i'm considering switching carriers and giving up my samsung captive for a droid x... whatcha think? Pros? Cons? How do you like it, in comparison to other phones? How customisable is the droid x? Any input would be greatly appreciated lol, I like my captivate, but the droid x seems pretty superior.
[Droid X General] cbaty08:
I came from a HTC Touch (xv6900) that I had 2.2 running on a while ago... I must say the X is overall a perfect 10.

Why? Heres why:

The android operating system is basically the same on every phone... and if it is too buggy or full of bloat, there are DEVs our there making it possible for us noobs to keep up with how the Android system should be running(I am referring to Motorola's Blur BS that lags this phone down so much it is unbelievable).

So, knowing that the OS of the phone is pretty much just as good as it was meant to be for ya(and yes, the X is getting themes to make yours YOU), that only leaves the Hardware differences really....

So, all in all, if you think you are going to like the X, you will probably love it. If you are weary because it doesn't have a physical keyboard, then go get a Droid 2.

It is the best phone that Verizon currently offers BTW. Some can say the Droid 2 is better because it has a keyboard, well.... So does the X, it is just one on the screen. And, I have better components inside of this phone that make it.. well, BETTER.
[Droid X General] inzandity:
I just did this exact switch about a month ago now. Haven't looped back one. The only thing I will say that I miss from the captivate is the AMOLED screen. Other than that, the DX wins hands down in speed and performance.

While the kernal is locked down, this hasn't stopped the first few custom roms from showing up. Also, I think there is a lot more devs and peers in the DX community which will make developing faster and support better IMO.

Do it!
[Droid X General] shagdaddy:
Haha wow, you guys pretty much put to rest any doubts i had about the X, ill start making the necessary arrangements...i guess ill start seein ya around the X forums lol, thanks :)
[Droid X General] 12yan:
and if all else fails... verizon will have the fascinate in a week, which IMO looks a whole lot better than the captivate and has flash! =)
[Droid X General] cbaty08:
I would advise anyone who is thinking about the Samsung to go check it out in stores when possible.... I hear it feels cheap.

The X does not :p
[Droid X General] gerelee:
i have the vibrant and the droid x and will say that the vibrant doesn't quite have the solid feel of the Dx, though for me it fits my hand better than the Dx. the vibrant is a bit plasticky feeling and it has developed a minor squeak, not as bad as my old G1 though.

yes, the super amoled is a really nice screen but it's not all that 'super' on a sunny day....it's not quite as easy to read as the Dx when it's really bright outside.

they are both really nice phones and as is often the case, it comes down to choice of carrier.....which won't be a problem once they release the fascinate!
[Droid X General] shagdaddy:
I hadn't really heard much about the fascinate except that its a slider, and I'd rather have a bar phone, which is why I was leaning toward droid x...didnt you say the kernel was locked on the droid x though? whats up with that? And I can still use wireless tether on X right?
[Droid X General] inzandity:
Yes the kernal is locked, but this is just showing down custom roms (which we are starting to see...like flyx). I use wireless tether with no problems though! Can't wait to welcome another happy dx user!
[Droid X General] gerelee:
the fascinate isn't a slider, sprint's version is.
[Droid X General] shagdaddy:
Oh ok...one more question, even though im already halfway through switching lol, i heard that the samsung galaxy s series is faster than the droid x...is it super noticable? Or is that false lol...this is mostly aimed at anyone who had a samsung captivate or other phone in the galaxy series
[Droid X General] evilkal:
Is the performance super noticable? No. Are the graphical capabilities? Yes.
[Droid X General] gerelee:
the only place i've noticed a difference is in 'benchmarks'.....in real world use, they both perform equally well, or poorly, depending on what you've got on your home screen.....if you start loading up widgets, live wallpaper, etc....they both become laggy. those damned widgets, however useful, can really bog the phone down.

i've put the same games on both phones and really seen no difference, other than the vibrant screen looking more colorful.......maybe someone else had a different experience.
[General Questions and Answers] gilamran:
hi,

I'm thinking about buying WaveSecure...

But I'm almost positive that each one of the developers here, or even some smart kid can uninstall it or change the rom without much problem...

Or am I wrong...

How hard is it to remove WaveSecure? thinking as a thief...

p.s.

Does it turn your GPS on, to send the phone location even if it was off?

Thanks

Gil
[General Questions and Answers] RoboPhred:
It should be fairly easy to remove WaveSecure if the phone has root access, so its a little safer when you have a phone that requires a wipe to get root, and has no on-the-fly exploits to root with.

For uninstall protection, it comes as two separate market apps, and each one will lock down the phone if the other is uninstalled. This won't work if you have ADB enabled, as the thief can use "adb uninstall" to remove both apps even under a lockdown.

If I recall correctly, Google removed the ability for applications to enable or disable the GPS in an earlier version, so WaveSecure will not be able to enable the GPS if it is disabled.

It does give you the option of using it as a "device admin" in Froyo, for things like password reset and remote wipe.

I have an account from WaveSecure back when they were given out freely, so I can test specifics if you have more questions.
[General Questions and Answers] gilamran:
So? why should I?

Thanks for the detailed reply..

From your answer I looks like it doesn't worth it...

It requires a good thief, and your WaveSecure doesn't matter...

First thing that a thief will do is remove the battery, and second thing is to wipe it.

some idiots will turn it on to see it if and how it looks like

what do you say?

pay the $20? for a maybe maybe?
[EVO 4G Android Development] njfoses:
Or you can save a whole lot of time and effort and use this app. http://www.xda-developers.com/android/lcd-density-changer-application-v3-0-released/
[EVO 4G Android Development] luckylui:
I think that is pretty sweet bro!! Great finding :)
[EVO 4G Android Development] leeh41:
Been using this for a few days now. It works great. They should have released the Evo with the higher resolution from the start.
[EVO 4G Android Development] rawdikrik:
Looks great in my opinion. I lowered just slightly to 220 and i used RootExplorer to just change the Build.prop file.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Tilde88:
Shouldn't this be in general? This is like dpi in windows lol... not resolution
[EVO 4G Android Development] utnick:
yeah, root explorer is fantastic. it even creates a backup for you after you edit the file.
[EVO 4G Android Development] freeza:
The interesting part about this is, I made a thread about the density change back when the EVO first launched and nobody cared lol
[EVO 4G Android Development] bdoople:
Just changed to 200 with the aforementioned app, the only problem I have is the main status bar and most of the popup menus and stuff look like crap. Hoping we can find some higher resolution (or whatever) pieces to use. Might be because I'm using Manup's theme.
[EVO 4G Android Development] ms79723:
i noticed that too....so i just went to like 215. 200 was looking good though
[EVO 4G Android Development] scottspa74:
ro.sf.LCD_Density=240

Is that the proper value to change in root explorer?

Right below it, there is another value of 160, that's why I ask. I'm on an Evo

Poor resolution has always bugged me. On such a big screen, that number of pixels really isn't enough. This will be a great mod, just don't wanna mess it up.

Thanks.
[EVO 4G Android Development] tomh1979:
see there's an easier way to do everything, by that i mean there is an app for that, lol.
[EVO 4G Android Development] TheMike1:
The line below it (With the value of 160) has a # in front of it as that is the default value if none specified. Change the 240 to 200 or 220 or 210 or 190 etc depending on your preferences. Again, appelflap has an awesome application to easily do this for you and it provides a boot monitor as well that will check to make sure you can see the screen, and if you can't it will revert back to default setting in case you mess something up. It costs approximately $1 and is well worth it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] jadoe05:
On my evo I am using the app and I set mine to 180. Everything looks fine so far. I don't recommend using it with the sense launcher at this level though.
[EVO 4G Android Development] scottspa74:
Appreciate all the feedback. When it comes to system tweaks like this, I've always preferred to do them manually. Makes it easier to keep track of changes, and, if you know what's goin on 'behind the scenes'. Even with winmo, I always would opt for tweaking via registry editor, rather than some blind, hands-off tweak app.

Thanks all, though.

Edit: ok, foot in mouth. So I opened root explorer, found build.prop, opened it clicked the mount R/O toggle, but can't seem to edit it no matter what. NVM, found editor

Also, I checked out the app on the market, looked at comments and saw lots of people say that density broke certain apps, and can't get back to normal, broken phones, blah blah blah

Anyone speak to this?
[EVO 4G Android Development] stumck:
Exposes lame apps

Worked great on rooted EVO running CM6.2.

Need to increase the power of my bifocals now!

Also exposes lame apps that display set screen resolutions, such as WeatherChannel. Poopnoodles!
[EVO 4G Android Development] scriptx:
Very cool find, not one I will be keeping though. The taskbar icons get a bit blurry, and the widget/icon spacing looks ugly.