yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] apristel:
Honda are you on a 2.2 ROM?

I'll post it up if you are. Don't pay for this, its on the forum already.......and by no batt mod i'm assuming you mean you just want the battery out of the taskbar?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] apristel:
Here you go.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=746061
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] HondaCop:
Hey guys, I have CM6 6.0.0 Final installed with NO themes... And yes, I want to get rid of the battery icon on the status bar.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] apristel:
Oh then just goto the cyanmod settings on the phone and disable the battery icon... its that simple.

I forget exactly which menu its in, but its there, I've done it.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] HondaCop:
I only see an option to remove the clock, not the battery. Unless it's in another menu.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] apristel:
Must be in another menu. I almost positive i've done it along with the clock.

I could be wrong but keep digging.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] 42turkeys:
Thank You Devs Week.

Recently, I've been seeing lots of moaning around ROMs, and I wanted to do something that means we can all give something back to us.

Devs work very hard around the clock for us, and sometimes it's easy to just moan and moan about bugs, feature requests, or asking for ETAs.

So, this week, join us to celebrate all the hard work that devs do for us and THANK YOUR DEV!

What Can I Do?

We want you to get in touch with your dev, by Twitter, email or PM, and tell them why you love their ROM so much.

These are email addresses that devs have sent us so far so that you can thank them:

None yet

Devs please email max(at)maxmarroni(dot)co(dot)uk if you have an email addy you want to add to this list. Make sure to include the device subforum so we know which post to add it to.

You can also tweet about the campaign to @thankyoudevs or #thankyoudevsweek

We need a logo!

If you're good with photoshop etc, we need a groovy logo and a graphic to go in people's signatures with something like 'I thanked My Dev!' in it. Email max(at)maxmarroni(dot)co(dot)uk if you're interested.

And Finally...

Thank you for supporting this campaign and I hope no devs get inundated with thousands of emails ;)

Happy Thanking your Dev!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] croques:
Sychophants-r-us

Cor! yeah! I'll have some of that!

I've created a site called sycophantsr.us where you can all add your dev-greets!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] croques:
Sycophants-R-us: English Chapter.

Dave and Sam's plans for us all to 'hug-a-hoody' kind of disappeared didn't they? I suppose old Cleggy put him off a bit.

But, no worries fellow sycophants! Thank-a-Dev-week really kicks off after work today. We, (well, we the English Chapter of SRU, that is), will all be meeting up in Guildford. The plan is to swoop on Chunky-Dev. He usually lurks as Sys-Admin on the Industrial Estate there.

After a few hug-a-chunks we'll feel bloody good about ourselves won't we? And it's all back to the Groveller's afterwards. Last one in buys the Chianti Classico!

See you there everyone!

P.S. Full details on the website http://www.sycophantsr.us - yesterdays non-linking error now corrected
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ibnabatoot:
lol im there croques
[Hero, G2 Touch General] croques:
Reminder Sycophants-R-us

Guildford cattle market 6.30 sharp. Yes it's tonight for the Hunky-Chunky-Dev Swoop Group meet. Be there or be square.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ibnabatoot:
i missed it.

good turn out?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] croques:
Swoop Group: English Chapter. Away Game This Weekend

OK fellow Sycophants-R-Us members. We have our final Swoop Group meet coming up this weekend. It's a long one distance one this time, so bring extra batteries; I'm sure they'll be a long wait at the airport.

We are off to Hagfors! Flight leaves Gatwick at 13:10 this afternoon! So tell your boss you've got period pains or whatever excuse you boys use, and get on over to Gatwick.

Norwegian Airlines flight LGW-UME. But don't be deceived by the airline's name. 'Cos we're off to SWEDEN to Hug-a-Deliciously-Desirable-Dev and to let him know what his recent appearance on XDA means for us all!

See you all at check in!!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] croques:
Sycophants-R-Us: Group Swoop to Sweden URGENT!!!!!

Where is everybody?

It's 12:15 and they're close to boarding the flight and I'm waiting in the departure lounge on my own! PM me to tell me where you are. Or better even, switch your blooming GPSes on so I can see your whereabouts in the SRU app.

_________________________________________________

Sent from my HTC phone
[Hero, G2 Touch General] croques:
SRU Swoop Group trip to Hagfors, Sweden

Well, thanks a bunch, guys. Call yourselves sycophants? Your not worthy the name!

And did you need to be so horrid? I'm only trying to get through 'Thank-a-Dev-Week' and have a laugh with a few mates along the way. It is our last Dev-of-the-Day outing so I thought you all might make a bit of effort. But what do do?

That was a really nasty video you made, Dave. I did manage to download it from YouTube and see it ok, thanks. It had a bit of a red caste to it with a few dropped frames - who's ROM were you using? And yes, as you say, that picture was the spitting image of me, but did you really need to use it? Showing a small photo without that big red highlighter circled around the wart on my upper-lip might have been acceptable. But that A2 size was a bit unkind.

Yes, as you claim it is 'a bloody big wart'. Don't you think I don't know that? But I'm waiting - just like Nanny McPhee - for the thing to disappear on its own. If it worked for her; I'm sure it'll work for me.

But what really hurt was the chorus you sang at the end. I can see you were all tanked up but that's no excuse really.

What was it? That last bit? "What do we wanno go to Hagfors with a warty old HAG FOR?" Of course you just had to shout that last bit didn't you? Then you all fell on the floor laughing!

You can be so cruel, David.

Got to stop now; the stewardess has told me three times to switch my phone off. They've closed the doors. More news later - if the batteries last!

_________________________________________________

Sent from my HTC phone
[Hero, G2 Touch General] 42turkeys:
lol, I see my nice idea we worked on in #villainrom completely failed lol. :D

ROFL

This needs to be in the top 10 awesome threads of 2010
[Hero, G2 Touch General] croques:
Sycophants-R-Us: Banned!

Dear Croques,

Thank you for your letter re- 42turkeys requesting an update to his XDA-screen-name.

As we have made you aware earlier, the Senior Moderation Team, have not regarded your gratuitous use of sexual imagery to denigrate our male XDA users' self-esteem, in any favourable light.

You were also warned not to promote your own sexual proclivities or desires.

You were also asked to desist from promoting an external organization; namely Sycophants-R-Us.

You tell us that 'Thank-a-Dev-Week' has been - to use your words - 'a Turkey'. In that it had largely failed to attract any following what-so-ever. Neither from Developers or XDA users. Whilst that may be true, we have come to the view that your scornful imagery, seemingly at first reading sycophantic, actually is not. The ironic sub-plot is the absolute antithesis of your writing. Your real message is apparent to anyone with a Reading Age over 12. (We accept that excludes Sun readers). Hence we find your writing devalues everyone using the XDA Forums.

Your request to rename 42turkeys as 43turkeys whilst, semanitically mildly amusing, is denied.

Further, the name-calling and vicious flaming of XDA members is, as you have been warned, against XDA Forum rules.

We have regretfully decided to close your account on XDA with immediate effect. We warn you that any action on your part to rejoin with an alias screen-name will be carefully monitored and any such 'sister' accounts will be closed without notification.

Best wishes

The Senior Moderation Team.

XDA Forum.

___________________________________________

I'm gutted... bye everyone.

___________________________________________

Sent from my HTC phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
have you guys seen that message before?

it's just something i noticed every now and then when i go into an area of the building that have no cell reception and back to the window, it will not try automatically pick up the GSM signal after it disconnects itself from the GSM network

it used to work automatically in JG9, but after upgrading to JH2 i need to manually choose a network again for it to work the phone & data after disconnection.

When we go to Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Network Operators

there is not really any option for it to tick a check box for it to automatically select a network, you have to manually hit the option "Select Automatically" (not really automatic if you ask me :p )
[Desire Themes and Apps] mikeandjaimie:
Hey all, I was wondering if it would be possible to port something like the new AuraxTSense transparent theme to LeeDrOid.. I've tried just straight ripping out some of the files, but my attempts all ended in having to reflash my phone LOL.

Is it even possible?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mercutio5:
I am currently running SkyRaider3 RC3 with a radio 1.00.03.04.06 which has been modified to permit AP tether. How do I flash the newest 2.15.x radio? Just throw the .zip on the SD root and flash it in Clockwork? I am also S-OFF.

Thank you.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcberg2010:
Go Here

Download the file in the first post. Place on root of sdcard, meaning /sdcard/. Reboot phone into hboot. It will automatically detect the update and ask if you would like to apply it. Select Yes and let the update commence.

This will take a very long time. Probably 10 min or so. DO NOT PULL YOUR BATTERY OR DO ANYTHING TO DISRUPT THE UPDATE. I suggest putting your phone down, and leaving it there till it's done.

Also, there is no such thing as a stupid question, your just trying to learn, although a search would have probably helped you out ;)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mercutio5:
Thank you for replying :]

Loaded that file onto the root of my SD card, restart into hboot, and while it detects the file, it says something about there being something wrong with the image. I can't read it very well - some messages scroll quickly, then disappear, leaving just the hboot menu. Tried redownloading twice and no difference. Strange.

I assume that I'm not supposed to extract anything from PB31IMG.zip?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcberg2010:
Your sdcard has to be formatted FAT32. Back ur sdcard up to ur PC and reformat the whole card fat32. Then put all files back on and try again.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mercutio5:
Ah, thank you.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcberg2010:
Let me know how it goes.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SleeperRam:
How is this exactly done?? I'll be searching in the meantime.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcberg2010:
I believe that if ur using windows u right click on it while its mounted and select format. If ur on Ubuntu use gparted. As for Mac I couldn't tell u
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mercutio5:
Here is a Mac thread discussing FAT32: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?ac=375750

FAT32 is a format which works with both Macs and PCs - should be very easy is the consensus.

I haven't yet flashed the 2.15 radio - have been doing some bandwidth speed tests on my 1.x radio, and speeds seem very solid... not sure if I should bother with the flash after all...
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ACD168:
This is very easy is you have S-OFF. just download the PB31IMG.zip file place on root of SD CARD and boot into HBOOT then follow the steps.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcberg2010:
He did, this received an error due to sdcard not being fat32
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ACD168:
Oh I see. cool. hope he got it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mercutio5:
Ended up flashing the radio today. Formatted to FAT32 and everything was smooth as could be. Thank you for the help.

:]
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smokehhh:
hi everyone,if i may ask how is hboot done and also how to turn s-off
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] BP1001:
Hello All,

i love now the touch wiz UI on contacts work. You swipe to left for sms and right to make a call. Is there a app which can do that on stock froyo ? I would be good if someone could extract that functionality from samsugn galaxy and put an app out there///
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] marcod1419:
Hello- I have been very upset lately that Rogers refuses to push any updates at all for the HTC Magic. I was sick of having a market place filled with old apps. Plus 1.5 is very laggy.

Anyways, so I decided to root. I used the guide for getting around the 911 "fix" and I was able to load a rom of a copy of the rogers rom with super user permissions. But that's as far as I got.

Now, I flashed the RA Recovery V.1.7.0H via Rom Manager. When I boot into recovery all goes well, I see the recovery screen and everything. But a few seconds later my phone reboots and kicks me out of recovery. This also happened with the clockwork recovery.

I have an HTC Magic 32A. Any help at all would be appreciated as it's not fair that Rogers is allowed to ruin my experience with the Android OS.
[Droid Eris Android Development] bftb0:
[SIZE=-2][ I realize this post doesn't belong here - shout me down after you've read the post :) ][/SIZE]

[gratuitous-begging]

Hi folks,

If you are publishing ROMs or other installable .ZIPs please please please (yes, I'm begging now) publish MD5 checksums (or at least an exact byte count) of the files you upload for public consumption in the posts in which they are announced. Both would be even better.

The problem isn't one of authenticity of download files (although it is useful to have that); it's that a tremendous amount of "help me" board traffic gets generated (both here and at AF) by folks complaining that they have a problem installing a ROM, when the real trouble they are having is corrupted files. I would be willing to bet that more than 90% of this traffic is caused by people attempting to flash truncated or otherwise corrupted files.

Yes, I know - if they would just pay attention to the fact that "E:" means ERROR in Amon_RA output, we would all be better off. That's hoping for a lot from newbs, though.

But honestly, if you don't publish a byte count or a checksum, those folks can't really check their downloads, even when they do know better. ( Some of the download sites report the download size, but usually only to 3 or 4 significant figures, and with no clear indication of whether MB means 10^6 or 1024^2. )

Many of the devs don't spend much time in the XDA Q&A or General sub-forums, and possibly never on AF, so they don't see this going on; that is to be expected and OK, too, because they are busy building ROMs and other goodies.

But, you can help the folks that are helping other folks get rooted in order to enjoy your work product if we can encourage a culture where people routinely check their downloads - using their phone! - to make sure that your good stuff has arrived safely on their SD cards.

With the help of jcase and Eclips3, user "scary alien" from AF put together a free app for computing MD5 or SHA1 checksums on the phone. There are lots of other ways to skin that cat, too; but the place to start encouraging a culture of having people check their downloads is with the devs - at their announcement posts.

Thanks for your time and consideration.

[/gratuitous-begging]

bftb0
[Droid Eris Android Development] Jp50:
good idea. would help those who have corrupted downloads.
[Droid Eris Android Development] scary alien:
bftb0,

Wonderful thread / post. Thank you very much--this is much appreciated.

By the way, I am working on trying to make the MD5 sum app a little more user-friendly by making the file selectable instead of having to type in the filename (I'm still learning about Android app development...:)...thanks again to jcase and eclips3 for getting me started). I'll try to re-post here when (if?) I ever get this enhancement made.

We all very much appreciate all of the hard work and fruits of labor that you developers produce. Thank you!
[Droid Eris Android Development] bftb0:
You might consider putting the byte count in the result display along with the checksum; if you get those two mods put together, you should make an XDA-wide announcement as something this generic is useful to all XDA (Android) users. Take it one step further - and add a "ROM verify (only)" function, and everyone at XDA will know your (screen) name.

Jp50 -

Check out this tangentially related thread. I wonder if your problem the other day with Nonsensikal was due to a similar problem - corruption of the ROM not on the SD, but in system flash (NAND).

One more tidbit, I suppose I should come clean about, it seems about time.

bftb0 == erisuser1 (on AF)

That should explain my motivation for begging this way. Just a historical accident that it worked out that way - i tried not to let the two become cross-forum sockpuppets, but sometimes that was inevitable ;)

bftb0/eu1
[Droid Eris Android Development] oceanminded:
Sheer elegance... I should have known it was you eu1!

Great post.
[Droid Eris Android Development] scary alien:
eu1/bftb0, lol! I am floored! But not too shocked...how do you find the time? :eek:

The byte-count (shown as "File Size:") is already present...I actually created this app in no small part of your exhortations for checking MD5s over at AF :) -- I knew better than to not include something so vital per your tutelage.

Also, for those that don't know, you can also check your MD5 checksums via Astro File Manager (long-press a filename and select Details). There is also a free app in the Market, ManD5 that will also compute MD5 sums (it did not work (at least for me) when I first wrote my little app, but it does now). And, of course, in some ROMs, the busybox/md5sum program is often available.

However, mine will also calculate SHA1 checksums (which do take much longer to calculate and are more compute-intensive).

Cheers everyone!
[Droid Eris Android Development] loosid:
This should get stickied or something. We should also get in the habit of asking devs for MD5s if they don't provide them initially. I think you're right; a massive amount of traffic (and headaches!) could be spared if we would do this.
[Droid Eris Android Development] listyb01:
I will provide md5's for future releases I have no problem with posting them but I think the expectation that this will somehow reduce the number of newbie questions/issues is unrealistic. The fact of the matter is that people just don't take the time to read/understand what it is that they are doing. I appreciate the effort here but I just don't see it making a difference. You love my rants don't you? lol

We'll see :)

Sent from my nonsensikal froyo
[Droid Eris Android Development] Conap:
yeah i agree here....even though grdlock site where i upload my roms automatically displays the md5sum i just doubt that people who won't even use the search function will bother to check the md5
[Droid Eris Android Development] bftb0:
That's probably correct, but you will be reducing the effort of the folks that are trying to help the newbs out, and know better.

Right now what they have to do - in addition to instructing the newb where to get an app that will report file size or md5sum for a ROM file is to: download the ROM themselves, run it through "jarsigner --verify" to see if their own download is OK (signing check), and then compute the MD5 and report that back to the newb. It would be a lot easier to just say:

"Use Astro to compare the MD5 signature of the file on your SD card to what the dev published".

In addition, it helps a little bit with the authenticity problem, too - if someone finds a file on a mirror someplace, they can go back and check the dev's post to gain some confidence what they found is actually "the real deal". Right now that's an impossibility with some dev ROMs.

cheers,

bftb0
[Droid Eris Android Development] listyb01:
I see the value here.

Man I need to get out more, didn't really realize that this was such a hot topic ;) Now back to building v5.3 with md5 :)

Sent from my nonsensikal froyo
[Droid Eris Android Development] bftb0:
\m/

It's probably just a hot topic to me. You wouldn't believe how hard it is sometime to extract diagnostic information from a newb

:|
[Droid Eris Android Development] joshw0000:
...but you're good at it.

As a semi-noob - perhaps the noobs would get more benefit if there were some instructions on what to do with the md5 on the rom page. The developer could use the instructions of his choice and the noob would follow them blindly as long as they're detailed enough. It could be a little tack on at the end of the disclaimer (or wherever they wana put it).
[Droid Eris Android Development] scary alien:
You mean something like recognizing when a ROM (.zip) name is entered or selected and calculating its MD5 sum and file size against a known, published value?

This would be pretty straightforward (I think...). I could initially just keep an internal table of the ROM names/size/MD5 sums and later, try to acquire this info dynamically from some public source...

Am I in the ballpark here?

Thanks!

edit: would the "jarsigner --verify" method be available to me in my app? (or is that what you had in mind all along?)
[Droid Eris Android Development] bftb0:
Exactly that functionality (but obviously not any Sun/Oracle code). What I don't know off the top of my head is whether or not the Google API provides sufficient functionality to implement it without resorting to a native method. That would make it more portable to other devices (if it is possible).

The native code for doing all the un-.zipping, and signing checks is in the AOSP sources (and elsewhere, e.g. CyanogenMod, Clockwork) available through github etc. From there it is only a "simple matter of programming" :D

bftb0
[Droid Eris Android Development] scary alien:
Okay, I think I'm fairly close...would you consider the verifying the SHA1 digests from the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file against each file in the .jar/.zip as "verification"?

I'm a little shaky on the certificates and such, but I think I can do the validation of each file listed in the MANIFEST.MF file. There is the matter of the CERT.SF file whose checksums I can't (yet :)) match-up with anything...

Thoughts?