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[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SR3TLAW:
When maps is running with gps on and I goto to switch to another app it seems to turn off the location icon and loose my signal while temporarily using handset or something, it is very frustrating. Is this a problem todo with multitasking or an Android thing?

Thanks guys
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] DocRambone:
Have a look here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=641223
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] velenoso84:
Hello Doc, and congratulations for the ROM:)

That is the guide I'm using the script I wrote is right?

Sorry but I do not understand English very well ....
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] DocRambone:
Use:

copy_dir PACKAGE:system SYSTEM:

to copy to system.

And

copy_dir PACKAGE:data DATA:

to copy to data
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] velenoso84:
Ok, now I feel

Thanks

Edit : Nothing, it hangs during installation. Perhaps it is better leave it alone ..

Thanks anyway
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genesterno1:
I used I897UCJI6-OCD-REV02-Low.exe and upgraded my Captivate to android 2.2. I thought I fried the card because i left it in during the upgrade. But i tried my sim card in another phone and it worked. Any suggestions on what to look into?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhiannon224:
Remove your SIM card and reflash.;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khoavuong:
I panicked a bit when I flashed to cognition because I got the same message. Turns out I inserted the sim card in the wrong direction. Totally looks like it should go in the opposite way.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeyMike01:
Settings > Factory Data Reset
[Desire HD General] thedownloader_87:
hi guys, i've recently got my htc desire hd and i dont no if any1 has been having this issue but when am playing music on my phone i see random of my picture appearing as the art. is there any way to fix this?? :confused:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ephumuris:
Currently using RCMixHD and tethering doesn't work for me. It used to work. This is on Windows 7 32bit. It works fine on Ubuntu but my main rig is windows.

Do I need some drivers or what im lost?

Eph.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
you will prob need some kind of usb modem driver installed, have you tried installing htc sync, maybe the default modem drivers will work :confused:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ephumuris:
I used to use usb tether though and it worked. I guess I could try installing newest htc sync.

Eph.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] !PANDA:
yep, thats what used to happen to me! had a format recently (win7 32 bit ultimate) and couldnt tether at all! just Install and should work fine :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro Software Upgrading] Qtek9000Jan:
Hi all,

I have a question:

I tried to use a mp3 for ringtone of my incoming textmessages.

Putting it in the Windows directory normally does the trick.

I will probably have to convert the mp3 to an other format.

Can anyone help me out?

Please don't tell me to use search.

Have just tried that for half an hour now.

Thanks in advance.

Qtek9000Jan

The Netherlands
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro Software Upgrading] orb3000:
Hey! you live in Gouda!!!

I visited that city a year ago and God the cheesse!!

Back on topic, try using them in wma format
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro Software Upgrading] ronnie5:
I think you need to convert the file to a .WAV file and drop it into the windows folder in file explorer then go back into sounds and notifications and select the ring tone for SMS.

There are plenty of programs that will convert this just google '.MP3 to .WAV converter'
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jagpoag:
I called and spoke to the arrogant person who ran this ad on Craigs List and found out they he truly thinks what he is doing is "alright". From what I see, using ROMS created here and posted by DEVs here at XDA to make cash is a little more than shady. When I called, I posed as a customer and tried not to laugh as the guy stuttered through the "how to" of installing Android. The funny thing is that he claims they are doing a FULL INSTALL of Android, "converting" the phone to Android from WM.................. They are charging people $99 for this "service". I told the guy that $99 sounded a little high a charge just to drop a folder on a SD card (yeah..i know theres a lil more to it but I'm sure that comment made him feel stupid after telling me the "how to" of it all..lol). I also told him that i was a member here at XDA and I wanted to know which ROMS he was using to make this money. He told me he was "Charging for the ROMs, just the service". My problem with that is this, HE didnt create the roms and NEVER claimed to. He DID however admit to being a member here.........................

http://panamacity.craigslist.org/mob/2043941262.html

What do you think?

like i said the guy said he is a member here...so if you're reading this please do share your inane little excuses for what you are doing. Just wondering, do you happen to send a check at the end of the month to each of the DEVs for use of their ROMS? Or is this something that is not frowned upon around this community UNLIKE others?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] malaeus:
get everyone you can to to flag this as prohibited and spam him with emails saying how wrong it is.

people disgust me..... what they will do to make a little money..... stealing other peoples work and marketing it as their own. lying cheating little worthless ******** ******* **********
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jagpoag:
Everyone should give the guy a call and let him know how they feel about it. I asked the idiot whos roms he is using and he wouldnt say anything. He actually gave the phone over to some arrogant little prick who said, "you have a great day sir". The idiot didnt even try to defend himself or "explain" why they are charging $99 to put Android on HD2s.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] spyin.inu:
done :)

no more issues!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] robkoehler:
This scam has been around for a while unfortunately
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] fig_jam_uk:
Unfortunately these ass-clowns will just pop up somewhere else, but well done guys, I cant stand people who make money in this way, $99 vs a little research, I know what I would rather do.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] secano:
Look at this guy!

http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/mob/2043679363.html

and look what this one claims! LOL

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/mob/2044497140.html
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tantrum829:
Yeah I've seen this ads also but never $99 that's just crazy.

These guys post these ads waiting for people who don't know about sites like XDA. I got a lot of people around my way who have an HD2 and want Android or custom wm rom and I just text them the forum link and tell them to READ and LEARN. If you start doing it for them they call you drowning you with questions and problems because we all know no Android build is perfect (yet) and you can't sell something that's going to turn a one time sale into series of complaints from customers you charged for something you never created yourself.

Shame on these guys and they should be banned from XDA.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hitekredneck:
I ran across one like that in my local area CL a few weeks back. I simply took his original subject line and added [FAKE] at both ends, then posted pretty much the full instructions on setting up Android on HD2 in my reply. Copied and pasted the whole deal and saved it to a txt file so I would have it if ever I happen to see it on there again.

These folks are the lowest of the low. Making money from other folks hard work, and screwing their so called customers as well. Pure slime!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Sleef:
What these guys were doing is obviously wrong. I wonder where the line is, exactly?

I mean, time is valuable and if you're taking the time to mod someone's phone for them, compensation isn't unreasonable.

Personally, the few times I've "redone" someone's phone, I've done it out of the goodness of my heart in the interest of paying it forward.

For an HD2, though? It doesn't get much easier than dropping some files onto an SD card, ya know? Doing my friend's MyTouch 3G was a pain simply because of the different models out there. Doing recon on a phone I don't own was enough of a pain to think about taking money but the notion of using someone else's work to profit was enough to make me think otherwise.

Thoughts?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jagpoag:
Update:

the idiot actually called my phone wanting to know what my problem was! It seems that he was a little paranoid about the first phone call I made to him. I let him know that his CL ad was posted here on xda and people would be flagging his ads. He asked if I had posted his number, I told him "no but of course its in your ad so whatever".

This idiot actually said that what he is doing is no different than charging someone to fix a car. Saying, "mechanics use knowledge, parts and tools that they did not create". WTF? I tried for 20 min to help him understand that people are kind enough to make these roms and that he is wrong for using them for profit. At the end of the conversation I was right where I started, he just didn't get it. I've said it before and ill say it again, the world wasn't ready for the technology we have now and is you want proof, just walk into a room and ask how many techs are willing to help you with something........every idiot with an internet connection is the next Dave Wozniack (sorry if I spelled Woz's name wrong)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] richteralan:
people here usually lost their reasoning when seeing such topics. So don't bother having a constructive discussion on the time/energy spent on modding people's phones.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ultramag69:
I wonder what HTC would think about people charging for this as it is a little naughty.

The devs don't charge, hell HTC probably get good ideas from them, so they're tolerated but if they had a list of people charging for this they might not look so kindly on them. Included is the unhappy customers who might have problems.

Karma's a ***** and I can see the day they WILL get ***** slapped back into the time before mobile phones...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tantrum829:
His comaparison to mechanics fixing your car is stupid. Mechanics charge and fix cars with other peoples products but they pay for those products. What is he giving the developers who make the roms and builds? Taking your time to do something might be worth some compensation and that really depends if it requires a skill you have trained or studied for but something as simple as flashing and copying over a folder is not worth the crazy fees their charging especially for something that is made by developers for a community of smartphone users who can voluntarily donate. The guides are there for everyone to do this on their own. You dont need special training or a college degree to get android on an HD2. All the hard work has been done already by the developers. The rest is simple.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jagpoag:
This guy is one of those that talks down to people and tries to convince everyone around him that anything he does is of some alien skill that other humans just cant seem to grasp. I'm sure a lot of you know the type, the "gurus" as I've heard them called...lol. These people are all the same, google is the only "knowledge" they have on any subject at the end of the day.

I had fun with the guy over the phone to say the very least. He could not answer any of my questions at all, just wanted to keep insulting me and making inane excuses. As far as the mechanic comment, he also tried to compare what he is doing to the work performed by a barber shop:confused: Typical idiot with the money to open a store but not enough knowledge to actually do anything worth a crap for customers. I fix computers for people who have taken their PCs to guys like this all the time. They all have a lot of stock in the store, pretty lights and talk "over your head" to try and smoke screen the fact that they really dont know anything past formatting your hard drive and installing windows all over again to fix ANYTHING....its pathetic.

Anyways, I will continue to contact anyone I see posting things like this on CL when I see them just as I have been doing for years with people posting "I can jailbreak your IDevice for $" ads. I cant stop them all but if everyone would call them out when they see it being done, maybe they would wake up. Like I told the guy on the phone, I'm sure there are teenagers here at XDA that have a bright future and create ROMs for the community. It's bad enough that someone like him would use another persons work for profit but stealing from kids also?

I noticed I started this thread in the wrong section, I'm sorry about that. Thanks to whomever moved it for me.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Sleef:
Heh. You're probably right.

I guess, ideally, if you're working on a phone that actually takes some time and effort to spiff up, you could say "Give me five bucks and put five bucks into (your dev here)'s paypal account."

Those are arbitrary figures but you get the idea. I'm sure scumbags will still profit without giving credit or a share of the loot but there's also the notion that some people will do it honestly.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Monrad:
I see your point guys but I cannot agree with you at all.

I'll say it with just a few words: capitalism, time and money. Those words should explain the whole situation.

What is more, I don't think it's just copying files to an SD Card. It takes a lot of time to test everything and to fix specific problems with the roms themselves. To know exactly what's the difference between a TMobile HD2, or Telstra HD2, etc.

I respect people's work here. I also try to donate to any person that makes my HD2 happy :p But I don't think you can criticise that guy's work. Personally, I've been more than one month spending my time on Android and I know for sure most people won't be able to do it the way I do. You're also working on borrowed hardware designed to run windows mobile and finally but most important you are working on other people's software (Android Kernel, Hi Mr. Google and thanks for that BTW) that made all of this possible.

Guys, think it this way. What's better? To have someone with experience taking all responsability working on your phone? Or to have a nice, expensive and useless brick (TMobile HD2 and .50 radios anybody?).

Ok, let the flame on me begin :(
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] i n f a m o u s:
This unfortunately isn't the first time I've these douchebags taking credit from our hardworking devs. Ill do my part and flag down their postings.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ddgarcia05:
http://mcallen.en.craigslist.org/mob/2043216730.html

http://mcallen.en.craigslist.org/mob/2042750762.html
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] MattOG:
Oh my god.... Ok, I pretty much agree with what you said Jag, although it was slightly more long winded than I would have put it. However, I had to point one thing out (I'm grammatically anal). If you're ever going to criticise someone's spelling or grammar, you need to make sure your sentence makes sense!!

Anyhow, back to the forum reading. Nice rant by the way.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ddgarcia05:
It can be a pain in the butt to work on other peoples phones. They always wanna be picky about stuff, even when you work on it for free. I don't think he should charge $99 for the service, $25 sounds resonable when you take into consideration your time and a crash course you got to show the person in getting things up and running. And thats assuming you're going to save the contacts, text, and what not. I personally have only worked on two or three peoples phone. I don't charge them. I've made several idiot proof videos for the HD2. When you start charging for roms and android builds then it gets into the grey area.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] nrfitchett4:
here's more:

http://sanantonio.craigslist.org/mob/2039640359.html

http://austin.craigslist.org/mob/2044408875.html

http://austin.craigslist.org/mob/2044047408.html

http://austin.craigslist.org/mob/2043025458.html

http://austin.craigslist.org/mob/2036574641.html
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dung8604:
Actually, this post makes complete and total sense to me. If the person who is doing the service is willing to be reasonable for the amount of time and effort he is putting in, then I think that's fair. That being said, I would never ever ever charge some one for this service. Even if it was a random stranger that heard from a friend that heard from another friend that I knew how to do it, I wouldn't charge them.

However, I'm going to play devil's advocate here... What if the person charging for this service actually made his own ROM? Would it be okay then? I completely understand your anger at him essentially stealing from Darkstone and not giving any credit at all, but what if the entire project was 100% his work? How much would be a reasonable price to charge?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] spikerosoft:
Is there not sumthing in the gnu license or whatever its called about not selling the code?

Im sure if he programmed it all from scratch, written his own kernel etc and had htc's permission then it would be acceptable, but theres more chance of me winning the euro millions :P

like i said in my previous post, its a nice day, im away for a walk :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ax0r:
http://miami.craigslist.org/pbc/mob/2044832440.html

$60 in miami to drop a android rom... WOW!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] anap40:
These guys are charging for a service - installing Android onto your HD2. Most people don't even know it is possible, and the majority of people probably would have trouble getting it set up even if you linked them to this forum.

They are providing the service of letting them know it is possible to install android, and then installing a ROM/Android build combo that they have searched for and tested that is acceptably stable.

I agree that $99 is a bit steep, but if it is too much then no one will pay them.

You guys make it sound like they are stealing from the devs. These guys are providing an installation service of free software that is provided for free by the devs. If they were concerned about people making money off their work then they wouldn't post it for free on this forum.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] raysacr:
I completely agree. For anyone who thinks that loading Android is as simple as formatting your sdcard and cut/pasting a folder onto it is retarded. When I first got my HD2, it took me 3 hours to figure everything out and I'm pretty tech savvy. My main concern is not bricking my phone, as with everyone. But not everyone can comprehend the tutorials on here nor have the time to read, post, and wait for replies. If I were to send my sister, who's a doctor, a link to this forum, she wouldn't even know where to start nor have the time and motivation to learn to do it herself.

This is the same reason there are services like Geek Squad and Fire Dog, it's for people who rather pay someone else to fix their techs then Googling the solution themselves. And obviously, everyone on here, including myself, think the people that work for those services are morons. But I can't be everyone's personal IT.

I've personally helped two friends install Android on their HD2 and helped them understand the basics and to troubleshoot it themselves in the future, and each time it took me 3 hours. Even though, I would never post my services on CL or ebay, but if my regular job pays me $22/hr, wouldn't it be fair that I charge strangers $66 for that service???

I think the people of CL are at least providing actual personal services, instead of the fleabayers who just send out links and instructions c/p from this forum. The guy is not selling the ROMs, it's not like he said well, if you give $$$ I'll send you a link of where to download the ROM. What he decides to charge for his service is his business. And you should mind your own.

Why are you guys even patrolling CL and actually taking time out of your day to call and pretend to be a customer just to bust the guy's nuts? YOU'RE NOT THE DEVELOPER! If the developers actually care, they would start charging for their releases. Get a life.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Sleef:
Here's an interesting thought:

The devs are taking Google's work, modding it, and accepting donations for the work they put it.

There's someone on Cragislist who's taking the dev's work, modding it, and accepting donations for the work they put in.

It's one way of looking at it.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hitekredneck:
Okay guys, let's make this simple. Ya have a cook in a kitchen, let's say it is a soup kitchen. He's back there sweating his balls off making soup for these folks that don't have anything to eat so he isn't getting paid to make the soup. Then we have a server out there ladling out this soup to the folks that don't have anything to eat, would it be fair for these servers to charge the folks for serving them the soup? The answer is simple, NO!

It is all about community, that's what XDA has been about since it's inception. Freely sharing the wonderful tools and apps that are created here in the community, for the community. And it is simply unethical for you, and you know who you are, to charge anyone for setting Android up on their device. That is not the community way and certainly not what community service is all about. These devs create this great stuff for all of us because of their love and respect for the community, and others that resell it for profit are not in the community's best interest at all. Can it be any more simple than that?

Oh yeah, there's always the worthless ass wipes that would take the soup that they were supposed to serve to the folks that don't have anything to eat, and instead, take it out onto the street and sell it for enough money to get their next bottle or fix of some sort.

And before you start flaming me for comparing software to soup, just remember, this was simply an analogy. It's all about the principle of selling free stuff that other folks worked hard to cook/create. It's just not proper. There's one word that describes those kind of people. L.E.E.C.H.

In my opinion, it would be great if XDA could find out who they all are and ban every last one of them.

HTR
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ceo4eva:
LMAO I actually went to one of them and i showed him my phone with android already installed in it, he's trying to use one of Mdeejays builds on as he had screenshots saved to his computer so he didnt have to reference the site
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pandam00nium:
That's called a tip... Typically 20% of the bill. People normally pay that because of the service the server provided.

Much like how these guys who root the phones, the main portion of their time to service one's phone, then add the rom files onto a sd card to load up android.