yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate General] mrflips:
AT&T just replaced my old Captivate (1007) with a refurb of the same build. I had maybe two or three instances of the phantom powering offs in the span of a month, but the GPS was absolutely horrid. Oddly enough, the refurb 1007 has a flawless GPS and no power off issues thus far. Aside from the refurb sticker under the battery, it was in mint condition so I hope your experience is as good as mine.

Seriously though, the GPS locks to 5 meters within 10 seconds and holds the lock while driving on stock JH7 way better than my old phone on Axura/Cog/Serendipity/whatever-else-rom-with-fixes, which leads me to wonder what the hell they started doing to the hardware before reissuing these phones.
[Captivate General] mrflips:
Also, I added my two cents, but I can't help but chuckle when I read all of the comments on their FB page.

Thank god for this forum, the community, and all of the developers; otherwise I would've dropped this phone from day 1.
[Captivate General] bradleyG:
it seems they are reading the wall posts because they did respond to a woman with a refrigerator problem.
[Captivate General] jpinks:
Someone claimed they got there wall shut down or blocked from taking new posts for a while yesterday on another forum. I just know I wont be trying Samsung again.
[Captivate General] jpinks:
Oh BTW #NeverAgain Samsuck
[Captivate General] vaiol123:
I commented on a few things myself. There is strength in numbers.
[Captivate General] gbrown2036:
Check out this law firm's page regarding a class action suit for galaxy s phones:

http://www.lieffcabraser.com/cases.php?CaseID=335&gclid=CMDK_oDNkqQCFd9n5Qod5W-7LA
[Captivate General] sublimaze:
the only ppl that actually benefit from class action suits are the damn attorneys
[Captivate General] alphadog00:
True, but it may get Samsung to take notice and do something.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Not true. They may be the ones to benefit financially, but these laswuits force manufacturers to deal with their product's shortcomings. I couldn't care less if the lawyers make money off the suit if it results in Samsung getting off their ass and fixing the problems with this phone sooner rather than later.
[Captivate General] liquid blue:
I've been pestering them since last year. I made an account just for that reason. Originally it was to question them about 2.2 but then it just escalated to just posting article links, re tweet complaints and just harassing them for answers.
[Captivate General] morfy50:
Agreed. While I don't own a Samsung it will send a powerful message to all the device manufacturers. I hope Galaxy S owners win and at the very least Samsung is forced to update every single device.

After being so successful with the Galaxy line it sickens me the way Samsung is spitting in the face of their customers.
[Captivate General] zelendel:
Ok guys XDA does not condone Spamming anyones page, email, or anything else.
[Captivate General] zelendel:
Ok Guys I have decided to reopen this thread to prevent Anymore popping up. Here are the rules.

1.There will be no talking about mass emailing or spamming Samsungs site, pages or email.

If this simple rule is broken you will earn a ban for breaking Rule 9. No second chances
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Yeah, and maybe they will put these phones through a little more R&D instead of rushing them out the door into the sales channel.
[Captivate General] boborone:
You know all this going on with samsung really does make me not want another product of theirs. I really wanted the nx-100 camera.

Are they going to produce more lenses for that platform like they said they would, are they going to build on it? Nice camera, but questionable future.
[Captivate General] Razzman:
Ok so i was reading some of the post on the FB page and this one made me laugh lol! ... :D

" Fix my GPS and make me some Gingerbread B******!!!!"
[Captivate General] Xstop:
Yea, was looking at that camera for my gf for chrismas. But ended up buying her the Sony NEX-5. Excellent camera with DSLR picture quality.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eax05:
I have a question how do I install apps to SD card?

Why should I do it and what apps?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KoolKidsKlub:
Are you rooted? I'm pretty sure that you can only move apps to the SD card if your rooted. And it's called Apps2Ext or something like that, you can only use it if your rooted(from what I know atleast.)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Utorrent76:
Easy.

There is an app in the market called "App 2 sd",this app automatically selects the apps that you can move from the phone over to your sd card. As for why you would want to do this well, for one thing and mainly by doing so you free up valuable space on the phone it self.Do your self a favor & pick up @least a 16gb sd card it makes life a whole lot easier. Hope this helps.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KoolKidsKlub:
I was going to say that but isn't that just for rooted phones? Or is Apps2Ext only for rooted phones?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tazz9690:
Your G2 has Froyo, which allows apps to sd without being rooted. If the app developer allows it, you can move the apps you choose to the fat32 partition of your sd card.

All you have to do is go to settings>>>applications>>>manage applications>>>click on the app of your choosing, then you will get the option to "Move to SD card"

Once you click on that, it will automatically be moved to the SD card. To confirm, in the manage applications page, you will see "On SD card" on the top right corner. Click on it, and you will see which apps have been moved.

Apps to SD is used basically just to save space. On older phones, like the G1, you could only install about 30 apps before the phone memory started to get full. They made apps2ext to fix this low memory problem once you had a rooted phone. Froyo fixes the need to even root the phone to get apps on the sd card.

Honestly, the G2 has plenty of space for me that I do not need apps to sd. I really only see the need for anyone to utilize this on the vision phones if you plan on having hundreds of apps installed.

Hope this helped.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eax05:
it is helps a lot thank you. I thought the reason to tho apps to memory card list to make phone run faster
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tazz9690:
It actually runs slower to have the apps on the sd card. That was the one downfall of apps2ext on the G1, especially when you ran sense roms because a lot of things were run on the ext parition and were dependent on running from the sd card for it to work.

It is better to run them all on the phone memory, if at all possible, IMHO.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackknightavalon:
This is a BS version of A2SD. /.android-secure won't let you back your apps up the way /system/sd/app and /system/sd/app-private will, and the apps on the FAT32 partition won't start up on boot.

I hope the real A2SD is incorporated on Gingerbread builds.
[Wildfire General] chrisund123:
Hi, I've had a wildfire for about 6 months, and I've got a question about the top download speed I get on HSDPA. The quickest I've ever had is 800kbps, speeds of about 500kbps are typical - this seems a bit slow to me? I borrowed my GF's ZTE Blade and did the same test on hers, and got a decent improvement - about 1.2Mbps. Still not awesome, but significantly quicker than anything I've ever gotten! Both phones on O2 UK PAYG.

Any thoughts greatly appreciated.
[Wildfire General] D3VICE:
Why would you want to get over 800kb/sec anyway?
[Wildfire General] chrisund123:
Because I'd like to think my phone was reaching it's full potential?
[Wildfire General] D3VICE:
Wildfire can't compete to the hardware of the ZTE Blade.

I guess the difference in network cards is the reason.
[Wildfire General] chrisund123:
i know the wildfire cant stand up to the blade with hardware, but should the gulf between the data speeds really be that vast? Just put her blade next to my wildfire, and did the speed test - I got 320kbps, hers got well over 3Mbps. 10 times better? So everyone with a wildfire can only get a few hundred kbps?
[Wildfire General] Skye Menjou:
Same network?
[Wildfire General] chrisund123:
Yep, both on o2 UK. I might try swapping sim cards later when the missus ain't looking lol. Both phones seem to have identical signal strength, -80dbm and 15asu.
[Wildfire General] brilldoctor:
Will try against tab
[Wildfire General] brilldoctor:
Wifi: the tab and thw wildfire scored the same (7.5mb for tab and 7.1 for wildfire. Will now try 3g)
[Wildfire General] brilldoctor:
3g on wildfire 962 down
[Wildfire General] brilldoctor:
Amd 1.5mb down on the tab on 3g (same sim though the tab has hsupa)
[Android Software Development] tiphergane:
Hi,

Just a little help for me please, I try to launch some adb command with SU

In my little head, I have think translate your code with the SU call before

adb shell uname -r

become

adb shell su uname -r

With the first command, all is good I have my answer, with the su first I have

Permission Denied

I have a DESIRE (bravo) rooted and S-OFF, what did I do wrong ?
[Android Software Development] mizch:
The Linux su expects a user name as parameter, not a command. As far as I can see, the Android su simply ignores this parameter. If you want su to execute a command, use the -c option, like in

su -c uname -r

This causes su to execute "uname -r" as root, after that it returns immediately, so you're back at the user level you've been before. This might not be what you expect, but that's how it works.

Your permission error: Try a single su command, without any arguments or options. If it also returns a permission error, you're not rooted. It should ask you at the mobile's display for permission if you're rooted and you are doing that for the first time.
[Android Software Development] tiphergane:
Thx U dude, U R the one ;)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mpetruzz:
I apologize in advance if this is the most noob question ever, but I'm coming from a DX and the mod options are slim.

I've been reading that many people set cpu and underclock to get better battery life. I've been trying to figure out how to do that and haven't been successful.

Can someone point me in the right direction?? Anything I can do to squeeze out more battery life would be great.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MagnaCore:
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all...erflock-disabler-save-battery-underclock.html

Could try something like this
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ptsmith24:
Looks like a good link.

I'd also recommend looking at the help that comes with set cpu. Iirc, it was pretty helpful when I was using it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mpetruzz:
Is there a true battery savings for the hassle of setting all that up??
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ptsmith24:
The savings seem to diminish as the number of profiles grow. If you keep it simple (say with just a screen off profile), then you'll probably realize some savings.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Replay20:
Hi! Just discovered the app "Visionary" it will temp root my desire! But can I use Metamorph to apply themes etc? and is it safe to use?

Thanks!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
No, standard root on the desire, dosent give you write access to system while the device is booted, only in recovery. To use metamorph you must root using unrevoked and then s-off :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Replay20:
oke thanks!
[HD2 General] lolhawk:
Hi all ,

I wanted to install the WP7 ROM on my HD2 by flashing it.

But i already had SPL-1.42.HSPL

The WP7 rom needs HSPL 3.

Went to download the hspl3 updater , ran it but for some reason it crashes.

So i need to update to SPL-2.08.HSPL

Can't you update from 1.42.HSPL to an higher HSPL version ?
[HD2 General] nicedude_abad:
I am very sure you can do that upgrade. However, could you be specific about what critical error are you getting when HSPL crashes?
[HD2 General] linofaria:
Just upadate your radio to 2.15, and voilá :D
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bash_array:
Google this:

super one click 1.5.5

Connect your streak to your Pc (assuming you installed drivers already)

Click the root button

Voila!!!!
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lufc:
Nice find and thanks for the post but we kinda found that out last month when froyo was out

but thanks anyway:)
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bash_array:
For newbies, there aren't many topics on here that cover root for streak froyo... just trying to help a noob find what they need easier.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lufc:
I understand where you are comming from we were all new at one stage

I would be hopeing the newbie would do a search first :)
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bash_array:
Well.... now when they do a search XDA dev website will pop up first in google making it that much easier for them. I am all about helping out someone who desires to mod their phone.

On another note, I am so glad gentlemen like you are here supporting all of us. I am confident that I can ask any reasonable question on here and someone will answer it. I do feel bad for the jackasses that do no research and ask a question on here though... lol, you guys won't let that stuff go. I don't blame you, I wouldn't want a bunch of noobs clogging up a serious forum with crap.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmiller777:
So I'm using Nero V4.1 and was all excited as GPS locks seemed to finally work right. Couple days later I started using WiFi and leaving it on and suddenly my GPS wouldn't lock again. Just turned off WiFi and Presto GPS locks again. I was getting so ready to dump this phone with all the GPS fixes that never worked. I'm just leaving WiFi off for now as really need GPS with Navigation. Maybe the devs can find the conflict with WiFi, for now just leaving it off. Thanks SomBionix for getting us a working GPS.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NWolf:
I have the same problem... from my investigations, it's appears to be a hardware problem, not a software issue. I haven't investigated it in depth, but I think there's some interference going on. With the crappy hardware design that is the I9000 when it comes to antenna's and wireless signals, it doesn't really surprise me that both of them can't function properly at the same time.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikeye9:
I never have Wifi on and GPS never works on Nero V4.1, but Axura has always worked for me.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theonlyblackju:
Same here running nero v4.1. Oddly enough, as long as you turn wifi off initially and start your gps app then turn wifi back on, it functions just fine.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gigamaster89:
I get the same result regardless of wifi on v3.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willsnews:
Where would you go that you need wifi and gps? Do you have wifi in your car? Do you need gps in your house? :confused: also im on nero v4 and dont have these problems

:super

:confused:
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msong06:
How do I flash this gps rom?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmosvirii:
hardware issue...

Its likely cause of RF interference as mentioned in the hardware fix found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=878970

Samsung really dropped the ball with this phone.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Krzysiek_CK:
Software. Your A-GPS is trying to connect to the provider's server. With Wi-Fi on the server does not know if the phone is using provider's service. Change the server name to supl.google.com in LbsTestMode and the GPS will work for you with Wi-Fi on.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grantisimo:
I had no problems with gps in Nero 3, but it is taking at least twice as long to lock on Nero 4. I just flashed the new modem. Let's see if that fixes it.

Sent from my Samsung Vibrant
[Desire General] jullejul:
hey. i used sandpaper on my desire so it turned sliver.

but today i doped it with the changer in and the place where you insert the cable is edit up. my question is if i still have my warranty after i used sandpaper?

thanks in advance!
[Desire General] maschenazi:
Unbelievable! never heard anything like this before. you can probably say goodbye to the warranty.I hope you at least happy with the way it looks.
[Desire General] magnumPIppo:
your device is not in warranty...

what where you thinking while using sandpaper? :eek:
[Desire General] jullejul:
:S i don't know :( i was using sandpaper on the pink metal so it turned silver :S
[Desire General] m4dm4n123:
Even if you didn't use the sandpaper, dropping the cellphone on the floor is not covered by warranty. Sandpapering it is just a bonus. :)

I don't want to be mean or anything, but if it's any consolation,you gave me a good laugh today. :)

EDIT : And yes, pictures or it DIDN'T happen. :)
[Desire General] jullejul:
:S i flashed a new splash1 and after that i doped it :S and the splash edit up so the phone gone in boot loop :S and now i can't fix it because my mobiles input place is edit destroyed :S
[Desire General] peytral:
That sounds pretty awesome, could you take pics of it?
[Desire General] friedkimchi:
I think you can, just don't mention that you dropped your phone.

Side note, could you show us a pic of your sandpapered desire? :)
[Desire General] @StevenChap:
Please please take a picture so we can see the first silver finish desire
[Desire General] Ideedeequeuedee:
They sell silver ones here in the Netherlands, so its not the first :p

+1 on the pics!
[Desire General] jullejul:
pic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixGH0w1hVNY

picture :S
[Desire General] genford:
Send us a picture
[Desire General] jullejul:
i did? look one post up. ^^^^^^^^

im not 100% done with my work to get my phone silver, a bit left :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixGH0w1hVNY filmed a video xd
[Desire General] x5starguerillaa:
Dude. How did you get the flashing LED on boot up, on the top left of the phone?

HTC Desire. Cyanogen 6.1.1 S-OFF. Bravo N1 Table.
[Desire General] mercianary:
I was thinking the same thing, mines on the right, they must have moved it on newer phones.

Edit: unless its the camera picking up infra red or something from the proximity sensor???
[Desire General] TrTech:
yes.........
[Desire General] jullejul:
i went to the store i bought it. he said that the problem was my foult so he wont repair it. and he said that the void is broken. don't know why but. so i went home and open my desire, and i took out all the part and the i found out that the place where is broken is the cpu. so i need to buy a new ****ing motherboard thats cost 500$ http://www.htcrepairparts.com/motherboard-for-htc-desire-g7-p-3231.html

so i don't think im going to fix my desire :(
[Desire General] VK7HSE:
As you can still access recovery, do you still have a copy of the rom that you flashes on the SDcard? If so, perform a wipe and reflash the rom...

However, if you're still using the stock rom then you have a problem!

You have learned a valuable lesson in why doing a backup before tweaks is important...

I hope you can get it sorted. ;)
[Desire General] jullejul:
i can't ruu flash it, and it have boot loop. and i did do a backup but i can't enter recovery, watch the film i posted
[Desire General] mercianary:
Is your sdcard damaged? Check it in your PC.

If the card is fine maybe the sim and sdcard chip popped out of the motherboard, take a look inside the phone and pop it back in. It is possible for it to come loose when dropped.

Are you using a2sd? Might cause bootloop if sdcard cannot be mounted.
[Desire General] Lothaen:
they might not even notice its been sandpapered
[Desire General] kalfou:
*facepalm*
[Desire General] Gundam00qan:
You deserve a medal.

Sandpapering a damn phone. I wonder what happens if someone attempts to sandpaper N8... ;) You have to honours to do it. LOL
[Desire General] Nitin985:
Send it to some other repair shop they will properly do it like one of those unlocking ones
[General Topics] Phateless:
EDIT - 6:38pm - This is the article I read, complete with video. I ended up restoring my nandroid and applying an update so I feel safer now.

http://theunlockr.com/2011/01/12/an...us-websites-can-grab-anything-on-your-sdcard/

ORIGINAL POST:

Should I restore the nandroid I made last night before this incident happened? Or is that not necessary...?

I downloaded an mp3 and ended up compromising both my gmail and yahoo. Woke up this morning to a sign-in error. Yikes!

That ****er changed my passwords for both accounts! Already got it handled. I reclaimed both accounts, changed passwords, deleted the downloaded file, cleared browser data, wiped cache and dalvik, rebooted, etc.

I'm also running a scan on my computer but I'm fairly certain it was the file that I downloaded from my phone, relating to an article I read recently stating that through simple downloads and redirects an internet user can have COMPLETE access to any file on the phone if they know the filename. :eek:

What else should I do to protect myself? I'm really rattled now. I rely on Google for everything, including Checkout! :eek:

NEVER AGAIN am I downloading anything that I can't verify.

EDIT - 9:19am - MalWareBytes on the computer came up clean.
[General Topics] Phateless:
It was a bazinga.mp3 (ringtone for my gf) file from 4shared. Clicked links from filestube and 4shared. Here are the google results.

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&...&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&fp=fd0f73886609171d
[General Topics] Omnichron:
whoa..:eek:
[General Topics] GuestK00102:
Never heard of an MP3 virus on Android...that sounds odd...sure it was that file? I don't think you can put a virus in an MP3 file, you must have downloaded something else.
[General Topics] Omnichron:
New technology such as MP3s may soon be used as vectors for viruses

“We've recently been looking at how things embedded into MP3 files might become a problem,” Vincent Gullotto, vice president of AVERT -- the developer of McAffee anti-virus systems -- told ZDNet Australia. “There will soon be MP3s that will play the video clip at the same time as the music, and if you can embed movie files to MP3s you can embed Java and other languages that may contain malicious programming.”

The big trend recently has been viruses that use mass mailing as a vector, which really took off after the Melissa virus, according to Gullotto. Many companies have now installed protection such as blocking executable files, which reduces the effect of viruses using this vector.

Many virus writers are now looking at gateway jumpers -- getting inside a network and working their way out from there, according to Gullotto. This will result in a change in the speed with which virus infections grow.

“We won't see these huge outbreaks, you'll see these slow, steady crawlers, much like the macro viruses we used to have,” Gullotto said. “Writers are now looking at multiple vectors to get their program into the computer.”

Other new software platforms singled out as likely targets for attack were .NET, problems with XP, and Linux. “We've seen some Linux viruses,” said Gullotto. “Some people are saying there is a goal to have Linux on 50 percent of machines in a few years, and if that happens the number of viruses for Linux would go up.”

Gullotto is critical of the security used by corporations, especially those using Wireless LAN. “Wireless LANs don't have very good security. Security exists, but not many people use it,” he said.

“From a corporate standpoint, you need a security policy that includes an antivirus policy, a firewall policy, and so on. It needs to be a living type of policy. With threats changing and technology changing, what works today may not work tomorrow. Your workplace needs to be adaptable, but people need to adhere to policies to protect the workplace environment.

http://www.zdnet.com/news/security-expert-warns-of-mp3-danger/121463
[General Topics] pulser_g2:
This was on your computer?

Sounds like a cookie stealing web based attack tbh. Was probably the site you visited, rather than the file...

Moral of the story : stick to reputable, legal sites that don't resort to hosting malware to make money