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[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] mickfarr:
This is last weeks news! He has been offered a phone by microsoft last week. It was all over the internet, how did you guys miss this? :confused:

http://twitter.com/BrandonWatson/status/27508118367772672#
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] AndHD2:
Well, I dont Twitter but the news certainly seems very exciting. "Let dev creativity flourish", I think I just wet my pants lol.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Direkts:
Wow, thanks for news m8 :]
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Mr_PDA:
As i used to guess, wp7 started gently but growing strongly and now making its own reputation within great graphics design, fast and smooth performance. jailbreak is on the way to us :D
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Gustopher:
Yes, this is last week's news but celebrity hacker seems to be trying to hack something that's already been hacked - possibly twice already?

Just goes to prove that the WM/XDA community are way ahead of those iTat laggards in so many ways...
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] AndHD2:
It is certainly true that WP7 has been Jailbroken already. However there does seem to be a lot of people having problems with doing it with Chevron.exe so if Geohot or anyone else can bring an easier way to do it then I am all for that.

There is the problem of installing xap files only from the pc as well, what we need is the ability to do it via the device as well.

WP7 is new and there are still a lot of bugs which need ironing out. Once done then it has the potential to be the best operating system on a phone, I have no doubt about that.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Direkts:
I 100% agreed with your words. One bad thing in this OS i ... chevron :P
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] G-ThGraf:
He was not the first to jailbreak the iPhone, saurik did it!

But this guy is amazing!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] AndHD2:
Geohot is responsible for BlackRa1n and Limera1n. He made the Jailbreak which many said was impossible made possible. Blackra1n for new bootrom MC model of 3GS and Limera1n for IPhone 4 or IOS4+.

Saurik is responsible for Cydia, a program which makes the most out of Jailbroken handsets. Saurik has never Jailbroken, only provide the program to run sources off to get stuff for Jailbroken phones.

zibri el Fontu was the first to Jailbreak the Iphone back in Feb 2008 by using a program called Ziphone. This Wiki explains all so I stand corrected on Geohot being the first and post 1 has been corrected.

However, this post is not about who is first or a history lesson in Iphone Jailbreaking. This post is about the XDA community leaving their views about the news that Geohot is now concentrating his efforts on WP7
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] arkatis:
Good news mate! I don't think it would take time...imo windows are more easier to hack and tweak! LOL! I will expect this hack in about a month or so! :D

Also read this:

Indeed; Microsoft WANT someone to jailbreak their OS..But why??????

"Some are predicting that they will just give away a phone that he will end up hacking, then that will be the end...My thought on this is "If you want stop a thief, hire a thief." And having a hacker of Geo's magnitude on their side will help them find the security issues and holes in their system."

Microsoft = SMART ASS! :eek:

http://www.rantrave.com/Rave/Geohot-Offered-Windows-Phone-7-By-Microsoft---To-Hack.aspx
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] AndHD2:
Only time will tell why Microsoft has offered Geohot a WP7 handset. ModMyI indicated that there are quite a few Jailbreakers now working on WP7 so we can rest assured that good ties are on the way.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] pkchips:
Why do you think that's a good thing? :S

If MS is successful in becoming all buddy-buddy with the WP7 jailbreakers then they will all follow the example of the guys that made Chevron.

i.e. they will accept Microsoft's "kindness", possibly a big wad of cash too, and patch any vulnerabilities for Microsoft.

As far as I can see this "openness" towards jailbreakers is actually a bad thing for us - very intelligent on Microsoft's part, but bad for us.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] kidd78:
He also "jailbroke" the PS3 but is now known in the Ps3 community as EgoHot now, because he told ps3 owners that he had hacked it and not to update as he was about to release the jailbreak. This didnt happen and all he did was soak up the limelight for what he did.

At this present time Sony is currently trying to sue him and other hackers for releasing the keys for playing copied games but in actual fact it was GeoHot that did this on his own accord.

I rather prefer it stayed with the very talented people on this site instead of Mr Egohot coming in.

:(
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] TheATHEiST:
The keys are not for "playing copied games" they are for signing homebrew code so you dont need to JB device, Obviously this can also be used to create backup managers etc that will boot copies but thats teh same as saying that knife manufactures create them for killing.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] rob17:
imo the more the merrier :)
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] jase33:
Why is this gossip in the dev section??? It should be moved to general.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] w0LfNiNja:
not to put more fuel on the fire, but i do keep up on twitter and got this tweet recently:

Failoverfl0w Fail0verflow

Sweet looks like the lawsuit is pretty much over. PS3 jailbreaking is now legal!!!

guess we will see how this happened, if it happened. heh
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] TheATHEiST:
He cant be god because... I AM!!

Dude, you obviously "keep up" with bullsh*t on your feeds then.

http://twitter.com/Failoverfl0w

The above is not Failoverfl0w's page, Didnt the amount of followers give it away??

The following is the REAL page..

http://twitter.com/fail0verflow
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] brianb2:
R u crazy..geohot.nstarted the whole jailbreak community period....stop disrespecting him ...ppl here r hopeing to get some real incredable jailbreaks from him .....
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] rlydiard:
Forgive me for my ignorance here, as I am not very familiar with geohot's accomplishments, and I am not so used to using the term "jailbreak" for Microsoft's mobile software, as it seems to be a term borrowed from Apple products.

But, if we are talking in terms more traditionally used with Windows Mobile, do not most of Cotulla's and the Dark Forces Team's accomplishments in making it possible to upgrade from Windows Mobile 2003 to Windows Mobile 5.x, and finally to 6.x precede most jailbreaking that went on in the iPhone community?

Certainly additional talent is always welcome, but I remain deeply respectful towards what Cotulla and the Dark Forces Team have accomplished in the past, and look forward with appreciation for what they will undoubtedly contribute in the future.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] mickfarr:
I agree with everything you've said. Cotulla and the DFT have achieved far more than just "Jailbreaking" WP7.

Long live Cotulla and the DFT :D
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] rlydiard:
And, I totally agree 100 percent with all you have written. I know little of all the technical aspects of porting the WP7 ROM to the HD2, but I suspect the skills required to do that certainly rival or are greater than skills required for jailbreaking.

And, yes, long live Cotulla, the Dark Forces Team, and all the others who have contributed to the projects on Windows Mobile and now Windows Phone 7.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] AndHD2:
Let us look at this logically.

All respect goes to Cotulla and the Dark Force Team for what they have done. They have done wonderful work and deserve the highest praise possible.

When I started this thread, I was curious to see what the XDA community thought about Geohot now seeming concentrating on WP7.

What I didnt expect is comparisons between Geohot and Cotulla and DFT.

Cotulla and the DFT have made the impossible possible. They are not Jailbreakers. There were never any need to Jailbreak previous Windows Mobile systems. WP7 does need Jailbreaking. Lets not take anything away from Cotulla and the DFT because they specialise in what they do. Geohot specializes in what he does and that is Jailbreaking. I hope Cotulla and the DFT can work together with Geohot to bring the most out of our handset.

Jailbreaking is not illegal........hence what people do with a device after it has been Jailbroken is not the fault of the Jailbreaker.

WP7 has bought us an operating system which needs to be Jailbroken, so why not welcome Geohot to do what he can with WP7 and along with Cotulla and the DFT bring us the best device of 2011 in our HD2.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] nokn956120:
I couldnt agree more.

The more people working on this then the better and full praise go to Cotulla and DFT.

Geohot is well known for jailbreaking so let the good times roll

WP7 has the potential to be the best operating system yet.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] huzecong:
Well, I don't know exactly how it started. I was just sending SMS's when the phone suddenly froze and annoyed I did a soft reset. I always do this as this is a WM phone so I have no better solutions. But when it booted HTC Sense failed to load and the SMS, Contacts and a few icons disappeared from the Start Menu. And when I navigated to \Windows\Start Menu I found some folders with pretty strange names and the can't be deleted or renamed.

I tried to do a recovery as I did a backup using SPB Backup. But on the first two attempts it stuck on a certain file so I canceled the recovery and restarted it after a reboot. On the third attempt it succeeded but after a reboot HTC Sense still failed to load. So I did a hard reset using the "clear storage" process in the settings panel. Though I've done this before and succeeded, this time it failed. My phone stuck at the HTC welcome screen and after a while the picture shifted and became somehow blurred and faded away. Moments later it appeared again but the welcome screen appeared at a different location and faded again. And it continues like this until I do a soft reset but it still refuses to boot and sticks at the welcome screen.

Has any of you experienced anything like this? Please, please help me, thanks in advance!!!

The attachments are pictures of the HTC welcome screen.

The first is how it should look like (I'm using a Chinese version, this is how it should look like)

The second, third, fourth are how it shifts and fades
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cbrewington75:
Does anyone know how to change your icons to the ones like MIUI ? Lowriders themes had them but it doesnt work with MYN 5. Im currently usingin riptide,like the folders look but want MIUI icons
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KommyDroid:
You could replace each .apk icon yourself.

Just find the .png for the icon in each ROM and replace them.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blakjak220:
Havent done this myself but you could prolly use Desktop Visualizer and make your own icons... I've made a bunch of them and it's really not that hard, esp once you get one made... I use GIMP
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smartinson:
Where are those Icons located on my phone?
[Droid X General] DanCran:
I'm running Liberty Rom and I wanted to know if there was any way to make the font smaller?

If I go into Settings > Liberty Settings > Spare Parts there's a "Change Font Size" setting, but when I select a smaller size it doesn't stick. As soon as I back out to my homescreen the font is back to normal.

I also know that changing my LCD Density makes the font smaller, but it also messes with some of my apps so I don't like doing that.

Any other ideas?
[Droid X General] DanCran:
Nobody...?
[Droid X General] jonwgee:
You could try flashing a different font that's smaller?

261 Flashable Font Packs - Change your system fonts the easy way!
[Droid X General] KLLSWITCH:
this is what i use and it works really nice

http://www.appbrain.com/app/font-size-(for-root-users)/org.pbxes.fontsize
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] cusaro:
Hello,

is there an app that allow me to stream the sound output form android to my pc or feed a icecast server?

galaxy 3, 2.1

greetings

cusaro
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] GibMcFragger:
I use Twonky Media Mobile. It will stream music to any DLNA compatible device. I am using it to stream the music from my Vibrant to my LG Blu-ray player (which outputs to my receiver) as we speak. It's a free app and it works well.

Just do a search for Twonky in the Android Market. :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Syn Ack:
Something else you can do is use "Remote for iTunes". You can play your music on your iTunes from your phone. I literally just DJ'ed a party 2 days ago the entire night using this. I had my laptop hidden away and it worked awesomely.
[G2 and Desire Z General] jontornblom:
Using Virtuous 0.9.0 on my DZ, one day I noticed that my battery life was crummy, apparently out of nowhere, since it had been good lately and I'd actually not been using the phone all day.

Checked the Battery Usage. It was like 65% display, so after wtf-ING for a sec, I realized that since virtuous for dz/g2 had trackpad wake, I was probably turning the screen on somehow in my pocket all day.

Anyway, long story short here are two simple scripts to disable trackpad wake and re-enable it in case you want it back. This should save you a slight amount of finger strain. :p

Just run the script in gscript and the reboot. You can hot reboot if you wanna save time.

Note that it is RE-enable trackpad wake, not ENABLE trackpad wake. It will only work if you disabled the trackpad wake with my disable script.

Cheers!

Trackpad Wake Scripts for Virtuous 0.9.0 DZ/G2

Instructions for the inexperienced:

0. Install gScript Lite from the Market.

1. Download the file above.

2. Use Androzip or whatever to extract the files to /sdcard/gscript

3. Open gScript. Menu>Add Script>Load File>(choose script)>Save.

4. Click on the appropriate script, click close when it's done.

5. Reboot or Hot Reboot.
[G2 and Desire Z General] blast0id:
I think all sense roms exhibit the very high "display" usage in batt stats... I think this is more of an htc issue than a "track-pad-wake" issue... but it is nice to be able to disable/re-enable with a couple clicks and a hot-reboot for when I know it's going to be in my pocket most the day...

for anyone with SUFBS, you don't need gScript, you can run it directly from the file manager... ;)
[G2 and Desire Z General] jontornblom:
Oh for sure. LCD screens are a huge battery killer, even without Sense.

I rather meant that it shouldn't have had the display draining battery if I didn't turn on the display the whole time. I basically unplugged the phone and put it I'm my pocket, so the display was intentionally on for less than a minute out of the four hours or whatever it was on. Therefore it must have been turning on in my pocket all day.

Also, if I leave my phone unplugged all night, it only loses like 4%, instead of like 30% in 4 hrs in my pocket. so I knew something was waking the screen.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Scythe01:
Old thread I know but does this work with the more recent versions of Virtuous Unity? Someone says they tried it with 1.26.0 and got no joy so either they've not done it right or it no longer works.
[G2 and Desire Z General] evilcuber:
does this work on higher versions of virtuous unity?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Scythe01:
On Sunday I applied a patch I found in the Virtuous Unity thread and it definitely works - running 1.26 atm so I'm not sure about 1.27! :/
[G2 and Desire Z General] ionut.micu:
Thanks for the script.

I can confirm that it works on the Virtuous Sense 2.0.0.

You don't even need to install gscript, you can just run the command in adb shell.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ccaparli:
also confirming that works on virtuous sense 2.0.0 with unity v8 kernel perfectly
[G2 and Desire Z General] bombadier:
Or you could do the file rename on your phone from terminal/file manager curcial-oj.kl - curcial-oj.bk

reboot job done
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vic_E:
After permroot with VISIONary r14 I am getting an I/O Error on /etc/hosts and /system/etc/hosts. This is sad as my purpose in permrooting is to have a custom hosts file.

This is the sequence of events as I recall it:

1) Performed a temproot using VISIONary r14

2) ADB pushed my hosts file to /data/data/hosts

3) Set up my hosts file as the one to be consulted (as root)

mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 /system
rm /etc/hosts
ln -s /data/data/hosts /system/etc/hosts
mount -o remount,ro /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 /system

4) Installed AdFree (granted rights, hosts file downloaded to /data/data/hosts; did not check symlink creation)

5) Removed AdFree and pushed my own hosts file again (as I need some entries for local network)

6) Performed a permroot

At this point I noticed some ads had appeared on a web page I normally have ad-free. So I thought that to be odd. I also did find /etc/hosts again. Not to worry, I will just do step 3 above again now that permroot is done (successfully). At least, that's what I thought. Remounting the filesystem is not a problem. The filesystem is indeed mounted as writable when I check cat /proc/mounts. But then I get the error:

# rm /etc/hosts
rm /etc/hosts
[B]rm failed for /etc/hosts, I/O error[/B]

This is the same for /system/etc/hosts.

The result is that my custom hosts file is not used :(

All commands are run through ADB shell, not a terminal emulator on the phone.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

e2fsck_recvy is not an option on a device mounted as /system. I suppose I could run it from some recovery mode...no knowledge about that.

HTC Desire HD

Android 2.2

Software version 1.32.405.6

PS: this thread is not to discuss the philosophical position one may have on blocking advertising and the like.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
you cant do this with temp root..... without s-off the nand protection will stop you writing to /system even when logged in as su
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vic_E:
This error occurs with permroot, not temproot.

But if I understand you correcty my only option is to go for a custom ROM. This may be a little too much hassle just to turn off the ads.

Update: performed S-OFF as described here: [TOOL][VIDEO] One click Radio S-OFF, SimUnlock (Easy Root & S-OFF Guide). Unfortunately still get /system/etc/hosts: I/O error.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] delta_foxtrot2:
I've been thinking about making this more explicit, the symlink box isn't just to create a symlink, it's also to use the symlink, regardless if you made a symlink manually or not.

I'd suggest ticking this, at least then adfree should work, although it's weird that you can't even cat the /system/etc/hosts file.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buffbluff:
I have a question I can't figure out. When I record a video and then go to gallery it shows the video there but the initial thumbnail is from an old video. I tried deleting all thumbnails and reloading but then any video I take after that it does the same thing. I've even rendered the video to my pc to see if the thumbnail may be different. Any help would b great. Thank you.

Btw I'm running CM6.1 WITH BLACK MOD

EDIT... PROBLEM SOLVED
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Lozone:
I noticed in Gingerbread the icons for the status bar are different sizes than n Froyo.

The widths are diferent foe almost all icons in Gingerbread.

I would like to change these to my own liking. In Froyo I made them all 38x38.

Do I have to stick with the original icon sizes in Gingerbread or can I make them 38x38?
[Quantum General] MattEBnCT:
Good design, GREAT processors, fast.....and CRIPPLED at the OS level. Sad.

OK. YOU now know where I stand.

My question is: "For those of us who are more capable than the typical iUser, is it possible to load WM6.5 on the LG Quantum or ANY WM7 phone?" ...seems like a logical solution to me... OR is Microsoft going to release "WP7 Pro" and "WP7 Ultimate" for the low price of $250.00 (w/ a $50 mail-in rebate).

I am currently rocking a Tilt2 with the Energy ROM and loving it too. HOWEVER, I can see that WM6.5 would benefit from a faster proc so,....I`m admittedly jealous.

I have been watching the posts hoping that someone, feeling as I do but far more capable, would get fed-up and find a way to get M6.5 onto one of these new devices. When the Tilt 1 & 2 came out it took (roughly) two weeks before ROMs were being released for us to test. Is there something about the new devices which makes the same thing harder?

I`ve played with the new WP7 phones and I`m NOT impressed with the dumbed-down homescreen.

I waited to buy both of my Tilts until I found a ROM I liked.
[Quantum General] sure haven't:
I gotta say that you might be alone in this. They're just two completely different OS's. wp7 is built for phones, and built for people who want a no fuss, no muss experience, much like the iPhone. 6.5 is built for the enthusiast who wants all the options. However 6.5 is built like a desktop OS, so it performs and looks like crap. Instead of going through all that trouble, why not just get an HD2?

I have an Omnia 2 with stock 6.5, and I can't wait to switch to wp7. I'm just sick of the upkeep. I don't want to have to check the task manager and watch my RAM consumption. I don't want to go through installs where I have to navigate a file browser. I want something that... "just works". The iphone looks very boring to me, and Android isn't what I want, wp7 for some reason is like the only thing going right now that suits that need.
[Quantum General] spl180db:
I agree. i am holding off on an upgrade as i am also using a tilt 2 with cell pro 13.5 Rom with sense 2.1, even overclocked to 710 Mhz just isnt enough. I havent heard any thing i like about wp7 other than hardware and as far as an HD2. Some of us can't stand to not have a hardware keyboard. or mabey thats just me as my last 5 devices have had one.
[Quantum General] nobodyneo:
WP7

This operating system, is too friendly, at first I felt as encapsulated by the Zune and other applications, but processing and speed of the phone is the reward for the lack of knowing where the files or apps are. Although it is agile, quick, surprisingly, compared with 6.5, it lacks that extra "thing" we always had for know more than normal on these devices.
[Quantum General] ZigZagMan0:
I just transfered to AT&T. And I am not impressed with this WM7 crap. So yea, I might be interested in downgrading to WM6.5 until microsoft gets their head on straight. This was the only phone avalible with a keyboard and good specs. No HD2 avalible for me I'm afraid. Any reason this wouldn't be feasable?
[Quantum General] sure haven't:
I really gotta ask, what on earth makes you say "WM7 crap"?? It's miles above any other OS on the market today. MS really did take the next step in smartphone OS's.

Sure it's got bugs, but it's v1.0, and those are just things that need to be patched. The overall idea and layout of wp7 is genius.