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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] noellenchris:
MDJ's threads were in violation of XDA's GPL rules, the threads were locked and PM's were sent to him in early January with no response. Even though he was online and ignored the PM's he did not respond.

I know many are angry, but think of it this way, if someone is making a kernel that will run on thousands of phones, and using others sources which were shared, 1, you need to share your work also, 2, people have a right to see the code they are using to ensure it's not malicious etc. Why else would anyone not share their work when the GPL says you can use others as long as you also share.

Long story short. Since he is not responding to any PM's even though he has been online means that he is ignoring the MODS or hiding something. To protect XDA rules and members, his threads have been removed from public. We cannot leave the thread up as their are many GPL violations left for him to fix. Sorry if you've been using his stuff and he has abandoned you.

noellenchris

XDA HD2 Forum MOD
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Dr4g0n:
hm i have the same question...

he does a very good work, and share his kernels....

i know the problems with the GPL and so.... but he spend a lot of time for this work and get only a asskick while he not share his code...

i think, we need a better solution... like a "limited open source", only a hand full users have the privileg too look in the source code and check for problems.... or so....

but only the close and bann from this forum without a reason for the other users is not a solution.... we need a statment or somethink like that!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] lilelf87:
a big LOL...this is what XDA does...they screw all our gd chefs 1 by 1...xda community is becoming too bureaucratical...rules and laws and BS...just let chefs share their work and us users enjoy and appretiate the work...u noe how some countries hate their government...yea...XDA mods are the government.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] noellenchris:
I've been a member for a long time, and only a MOD for a few. If you loaned me your car for a few weeks and I refused to give you a ride. I'm sure you'd be pretty mad. Well the code and hard work that made the Linux Kernel was shared for free on one condition. That if you use it/modify or whatever YOU MUST SHOW YOUR SOURCE, not where you found it. Otherwise if your recieving any donations for your work on the back of other dev's hard work, then it's illegal and wrong if too many ways.

However this is too easy to fix. TELL ME WHY MDJ DOESN'T REPLY OR FIX THIS FOR ALMOST A MONTH? He has been givin many chances.

He will not be really missed since his work was based off of many of the devs here on XDA who had and do share their source/work on the kernels.

MDJ is not banned. Look him up. He is free to post or appear out of thin air here. But he doesn't. If he wants to, and fix his work, then he has options and his threads may come back.

noellenchris
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Back Stabbath:
strange business over a few letters in a title....

calling or i guess insinuating his code is malicious is complete bull****. he was just fine up until a rule changed then he was all of a sudden pure evil.

plain to see there is alot more to the story here then is being said by both parties. which leads me to believe this all over some personal bull****. normally when one of the highest ranked users in a particular forum fails to change something to a new a rule a mod/admin will do it for them without issue. because thats what they are for. they dont play stupid cat and mouse games testing to see if the user will bend to their authroity and then delete their stuff when they dont. thats plain stupidity. all someone has to do is go to mdj's website by googling "ultimate droid" and then all of a sudden they have no reason to come back here. is that good for xda? to lose people over a simple tagging dispute that is completely stupid? do you remember how popular he was here? should we expect xda to take a personal vendetta against anyone who may be too busy to possibly answer pm's? are the mods cops or mods? are they here to help or here to just cull the herd so to speak?

personally i dont give a flying **** about the stupid drama between whatever children are involved. im not anyones friend here i just come here for android builds. they will most certainly pop up somewhere else if they dont here. i like this place but if it shut down tomorrow i wouldnt cry precisely becuase of **** like this...id just jump on one of the now many boards out there offering builds.

just being honest...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bates_1974:
Come on people how hard is it to release your code???

Like Noellenchris said, it's all based on free open source code, he's recieving money for it, so it's not very ethical is it?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] memnoch2099:
I dont know why you feel that what was done to MDEEJAY was unfair... He is one hell of a chef I grant him that but rules are rules and they were created and set in place to ensure the safety of all the members of XDA-dev...

All he needed to do was just reply to the MODs but he never did. Him being banned on this Forum is a very big loss but there are other chef's out there that are as good if not even better.

I am not undermining MDEEJAYs work as I am still loving his HD nand versions and i will still say that his 10.4 kernel is one of the best out there. I wish he would just reply to the MODs so he could come back. As I know that a lot of us are waiting for his future developments.

Say all you want to say about the MODs and how XDA is being run. But I believe that this was done not to screw someone in the arse but to protect all of us users...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pulser_g2:
Unfortunately that won't work.

The GPL licence is the licence the linux kernel is distributed under. That's not negotiable, as Linus Torvalds made that choice. As such, if someone wants to make changes to a kernel, they must respect the licence that the code is available under.

If you don't want to abide by them, you would need to go and write your own OS from scratch, which did not make use of any GPL code.

Since kernels are based on GPL code, and the GPL has been legally challenged and found to be valid, it is a requirement when posting GPL licenced code on XDA to follow the GPL licence. There is a simplified list of requirements available on XDA that summarise how this affects users here.

Compliance is not optional and is non-negotiable. If you will not provide your sources, you do not have permission to use the kernel (read the GPL for info), and as such anything released like this is "warez". XDA does not tolerate warez to be posted, and will remove it, following due process.

@lilelf87, there are rules here. If you do not like them, feel free to go to a site without rules. Rules benefit us all. I could recompile a kernel with a nasty rootkit in it, that would log everything you did, or watch keystrokes, or brick your device. If sources are not available, then how can you be sure that what is provided is safe? This is why the GPL exists. If you don't like it, then I'm afraid it's too bad, as Android uses the Linux kernel, which is GPL licensed.

EDIT: Thread moved to General/Q&A, and @memnoch2099, you are spot on there :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dusko_m:
a BIG LOOOL to you and all the people that share similar viewpoint on GPL. to consider striving for GPL compliance as a bureaucracy measure is idiotic.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ForceField:
OK, I don't understand:

Does this means that if we release a new Kernel or ROM ,we will be forced to share the code? even if the modifications are small?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pulser_g2:
First, this only applies to kernels. If you are only making a tiny tweak to a ROM, you likely shouldn't be releasing it as an entire ROM, and instead sharing it with the dev of the original ROM to include in future (with credit), or to offer as optional to users.

If it's kernel changes, then no matter how small, you should share them. There is no need to upload the entire sources though. Here's how I did it for two tiny changes:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=848494

See the bottom of the post.

shows the stock sources used, and the modified CPU table and the touchscreen tweak were linked.

That's all it takes, and gives credit to the OP of the kernel, but also shares the changes without people having to download large amounts of sources again just to get changes.

That is all it takes :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Ghostrider:
Thats the point of GPL.

Thats why Linux has most of no Viruses:)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tinfe:
hope 2 C U again, MDJ
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] xXZaufiXx:
dont understand why he doesnt write back ?! just upload his sources to git and that's it ....

i'm waiting for him, he wrote the most and especially the best roms and kernels ;)

still using his cm7 v2.6 rom, this rom is even better than the recently published ones.

didn't had problems with his one, every thing works from the beginning on - and the most important thing for me, mdj made many roms, so everyone could choose which is the best one.

pls mdj, just write back and continue your work :) :) :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] huyqle:
hope to see you again mdj:(
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] xXZaufiXx:
why did you closed all of his threads ? he uploaded the sources to git untill 3.01.2011 !!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] the_scotsman:
Pulser has made it incredibly clear and easy for you all to understand...

(oh and for the record, MDJ hasn't been banned, that's nonsense...he's free to make new threads any time he likes...he just has to comply with GPL requirements)

We cannot change his threads because his git repository is outdated and does not reflect the current version of his kernels. He has been online numerous times since I sent him various PMs, but has not responded...we are not here to hold anyone's hand.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] romskii:
i see no MDJ builds anymore on this Board!! That's really sad
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tizocalamilla:
why cant we all just hold hands and sing kumba-ya

i feel like both sides are being childesh

this could roll on forever into an infinant obys...

strait to the point though Rules Are Rules its not like they are asking to cut off an arm and a leg just comply like everyone else is

SCREW IT I SAY MARSHALL LAW SHULD BE PUT INTO EFFECT!...

lol i kid, i kid! :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] williamsean:
Damnid, now I have to change all my passwords again :(:mad:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DarkStone1337:
For the record, I had told Mdeejay to share his sources MANY times (in private and in #htc-linux-chat).

Simply put, he said he would do it "later" which we know never really happened.

This is not an agenda by the mods, this is the mods protecting XDA from legal action.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Daegron:
Rules are rules, like some of you already said.

I like Mdeejay's build but most people build for fun and post them here.

So if there would come legal actions, and I don't say that would be because of Mdeejay or something, many people would stop building I think.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mattfmartin:
Who cares. Anybody who just disappears like that and doesn't say anything. B.S. Take DarkStone for instance, at least he had the common courtesy when he went back to school, that he was taking a break for a while and let everybody know.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] trzyfx:
m-deejay m-deejay is offline

Account currently disabled

:confused:

http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=2754407
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dung8604:
so does this mean that there is potentially something malicious in MDJ's kernel like Pulsar said? Is there a way to back check and ensure that there is nothing there that shouldn't be?

Also, I can't believe I actually replied to a "WHERE ARE U MDJJJJZZZ D:" thread.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] kankam:
What the hell has taken you this long then:p? Nobody is your friend either so just piss off and leave this site in peace. Do you even know how Android became possible on HD2 and those who worked on that project? Your post is simply insulting to XDA at best. It is clear to see you have no concern for what happens to this site but you are happy to get stuff from it. How immature and selfish.

I think the mods have taken the right steps with regards to the issue. XDA is about sharing and it is surprising that MDeejay uses other people's work but does not want to share his. I dont think Android development on Hd2 will cease if he doesnt come back but I hope he sorts it out and comes back. If he doesnt, XDA has existed for ages as a collaboration between chefs and will continue to thrive. The only way it will be taken down, as you are hoping, is if we allow rules to be broken willy nilly. Spare us your insults and childish idol worship and go elsewhere if you feel that is too much.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] sacculina:
how can we folow mdj works, especially gingerbread,

I really want to upgrade to mdj gingerbread but I cannot even get this rom :((
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] sagarjawaress:
MDJ..WE WANT YOU BACK>>

WE NEED YOU>>

GPL....WTF WTF WTF:mad:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] powerdedo:
I will not say anything new, but still, I downloaded his rom first, and after he went missing, I loaded rafdroid, and it really suck from the very first moment.

mdj had no issues at all! i use my HD2 at work every day, im telecom engineer...

what i want to say: guys do you really think that if he has not shown his code that violates the rules or any laws? who actually cares??? his build is shared among us and its free, means NO violations... maybe someone else work is used here, or something stolen, whatever who cares????? if it works perfect, and even better than 80% of all builds here at xda.... if you not sure if there is any malicious code inside, its your problem. go check your phone, with provider, for any strange activities...

in general the change in the functionality of the phone, change code, change the factory settings, hacks, homemade firmware - not legally, you are breaking the warranty, and many other laws ....

so tell all the stories about the GPL to your grandmother ...

MDJ - thanks for your time.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ajm2387:
This guy doesn't seem to understand how this works........

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] COREopa:
desire hd

looks like mdeejay begun to develop for the desire hd:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=12774451#post12774451
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] FerretAD:
So is 'crawlingcity' the same person ?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=958953
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] lolmensch:
afaik no. m-deejay is russian (I thought so) and i know that crawling is portuguese from irc.

strange..
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mdeejay:
wtf? i always post link to my GIT in my kernel threads...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] the_scotsman:
All you had to do was to respond to one of my many PMs back in January, instead of ignoring them, and it could have been sorted.

Closing this thread now as it no longer serves any purpose.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Switchbitch:
I recently flashed the Cyanogen 6.1 rom. Now my clock is wrong. It no longer gets the time and date from the network, despite this option being selected. It randomly goes off by as much as an hour and twenty minutes. Can anyone suggest what's wrong?
[Networking] the-nj:
hey,

im thinking about buying a t-mobile version of the G2 in the us.

but i thiunk its on the 1700 MHz. or is it also on the 2100MHz ?

because in germany i am on the eplus network and i dont know exactly on what band it is!

anyone having experience with that?

am i able to use the t-mobile g2 on the germany eplus 3G network?

thanks for your help
[Networking] souljaboy:
u should find some info about ur network's bands... if u cant , call them ... im with vodafone europ with tmous hd2 and its working fine with the 2100mhz 3g
[Networking] wvumaniac79:
Coming from the US, T-mobile has 1700/2100 mhz bands. I believe that means they use both
[Networking] the-nj:
okay thanks,

i figured out that eplus has 2100 MHz and the phone im thinking about buying should have 1700 / 2100 MHz. so i guess itll work

thanks again!
[Networking] Mastacheata:
Here's more footage on that:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=803035

The phone will definitely work in all GSM bands (Quadband) and the UMTS/3g Band 1700 MHz and 2100 MHz according to various internet sources.
[Nook Color General] spiffytech:
I'm running the latest Nookie Froyo (0.6.7) from eMMC and cannot get Pandora or YouTube to work. Pandora looks like it's working, but never makes a sound. YouTube says "There was a problem while playing".

According to the Froyo page Pandora and YouTube should work fine since 0.6.6. Did I miss an install step?

Here's the logcat for launching YouTube: http://pastebin.com/zXX1i4bU

And here's the logcat for launching Pandora: http://pastebin.com/qHzEe2QW
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] n_god:
Finally I activated my phone but now I have different problem. It downloaded all my contats to phone. how can I remove them without delete them?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] TyRaNiDeX:
Hi, I think we can't do this or people who can, help us!! We had to wait for the future update.

Maybe with custom rom?

--------------------------------

Salut, je pense que nous ne pouvons pas faire ça, ou alors les personnes qui peuvent, aidez nous!! On doit attendre la future mise à jour.

Peut être avec une rom Custom ?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] HD2kty.:
Yep, its not possible yet :(

Just on a second live account.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] ceo4eva:
Yeah one of the design flaws of WP7 that really had me shaking my head..

It got so bad that i just deleted all my Windows Live Contacts.. It was one of those moments where i felt I'd rather enjoy my phone over sending emails to people.​
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Demon_man:
I just deleted most of mine, and the rest i could link to a contact, but i dont use msn so quite lucky really
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] davonhui:
when i was flashing rom(noob),i think i format all the rom(include the factory one)in my desire and now why I turn on my desire, it only goes into the HB booter and nothing else.

i tried to recovery it and reset it to the factory rom,but it seems no use.

What can i do for my phone now?

thanks...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] RonShallPerish:
It seems that you are going to have to load a new rom. Check out the link from cyanogenmod's website. wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=HTC_Desire_%28GSM%29:_Full_Update_Guide (I was gonna make a link but this forum doesn't allow new members to post links)

Its a great guide to flash new roms to your phone. CyanogenMod is a good one but flashing is the same procedure for any rom. Hopefully this helps you out.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] martyr2k6:
I just flashed super clean 2.2 this morning and now for some reason the fix that adrynalyn made for long pressing the search soft key is not working, I love this theme, but wanted to retain all the features of the latest update... Any chance a fix is under way?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] vshand:
Confirmed the issue here. I believe the author of the theme has awared the issue. Waiting for the fix since it is my favorite one.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] martyr2k6:
Nice, thanks
[Wildfire General] desaipurvesh:
Apps not able to update if installed on SD card.error 108

I then need to move them on phone to update them.

Please help. Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tojjer:
Hi Guys,

Been sent over here as you're the "bees knees" at fixing problems.

I have a Galaxy S which I rooted with Z4root and had the OCL lagfix also.

Was on 2.2 but updated via KIES to 2.2.1 yesterday ( sorry can't remember the last letters).

Phone now sits in boot loop, so tried reflashing stock firmware via Odin3. Phone WILL go into download mode, and WILL accept .PIT files and .TAR files. Odin says successful, but when phone boots, the Galaxy S screen comes up, then recovery screen with the following message

E:Can't mount/dev/block/st110 (invalid argument)

E;copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount DBDATA:

your storage not prepared yet,please use UI menu for format and reboot actions,

copy default media content failed.

Trouble is the phone won't boot so can't get to UI menu to format

Is this bricked big time or is it repairable? I presume the default media is the whole workings of the phone?

I have only limited knowledge of these things, and shouldn't have played with it in the first place.

Just need to know if I ought to claim for a new one on my house insurance?

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] electrotune1200:
Do you have your stock jpy firmware already downloaded?

Follow the directions in the block 2 section.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=818556
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JJEgan:
presume you did not unroot or disable lagfix .

two different file systems is why it broke .

You need 3 button download mode + stock Firmware + odin

Flash stock firmware .

Or take the phone to Samsung and hope repaired under warranty .

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=723596

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=810686

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=939752

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 General] [Ramad]:
This one is easy to fix so don't panic.

Download this ROM and extract (Odin 1.7 and 512.pit are included), then do as follows:

-Start Odin and load 512.pit, don't connect the phone yet.

-Make sure "Re-Partition" is checked, don't change anything else.

-Load PDA.tar.md5 as PDA, MODEM.tar.md5 as PHONE and CSC.tar.md5 as CSC.

-Put your Phone on download mode and connect it, start flashing.

When flashing is done, the phone will enter recovery mode, if it get stuck at the same error, simply do a wipe/factory reset and reboot the phone, the phone shall boot normally then.

Link: http://www.multiupload.com/PZNPALHVDW

Good luck.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tojjer:
Tried all that, loads it but phone won't boot up properly cos it can't write media to internal partition E
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tojjer:
Thanks for this. Got that file, using Odin and it gets as far as saying "Do not turn off Target" and it has been on that for approx 15 mins now. Is that too long?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] [Ramad]:
Yes, that is too long. Unplug the cable and take out the battery for 2 min. then put on download mode

before

you connect the phone and flash again.

When you unplug it now an error will appear, don't worry about it, just take out the battery for 2 min. and you shall be able to enter download mode again.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tojjer:
You are one clever fella, don't know how to thank you enough.

It worked by doing that, and now it's back to stock I presume?

Is it safe for me to root again to use things like setcpu and lagfix?

Again, I can't thank you enough. My wife was in her element nagging me that I'd just cost us a lot of money !!

Tojj