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[Vibrant General] turbosix:
samsungjohn is the face of samsung trying to make up for what everyone has been *****ing about for so long.

why are all of you ****ting on him?

i doubt it was one man that said "ok lol give them source kekeke" but he's the one that is trying to mend all the wounds with the SGS device owners that post on XDA. i can only assume the first attempt went wrong as the thread is deleted now.

i would imagine it looked smiliar to the SGS/Tmobile facebook fan pages where anytime anything is posted, it ends up with 5000 people saying "**** you samsung/tmobile where is my froyo" by a bunch of idiots that wouldnt know the difference between 2.2 and 1.6, other than the number is 0.6 higher.

a lot of you guys are being ****ing crybabies now, even though the devs now have what they need to get 2.2 100% stable.

not to mention the fact we have a voice now that could get GB on our phones faster than ever.

screenshot of his page:

read more here:

http://twitter.com/#!/SamsungJohn

be thankful that we are getting what everyone is asking for and be thankful we have bad ass devs like team whiskey and supercurio backing us up.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
^ dude, nobody is giving him a hard time (or "****ting on him"), just pointing out he hasnt DONE anything, yet... not saying he won't, but what has he done? Asked for suggestions and tweets that he is working on something.... okay....
[Vibrant General] swehes:
True and agree. Was just saying that he hasn't been officially here on Samsung's behalf for very long.
[Vibrant General] nomadrider123:
Not totaly true at all. The forums had a lot of promise but samsung didn't deliever on promises. :( I checked that forum before I bought mine. There was a dev that did amazing work so I bought one. When he gave up so did I.

He was known as BHMan aka eugene373 :D
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Did you guys notice on his twitter feed that he is a Social Media Analyst (aka, how many people are pissed at us counter) /Developer (what has he developed?)...

How can you work in social media and not know how to Direct Message?? Did you guys see the tweets with @Supercurio.... John had completely forgotten all of the really useful information @supercurio had sent him, and has shown nothing he has developed.... he didn't even know how to DM??? REALLY???

Sorry, but if you are on the @SamsungJohn train, you WILL be sadly let down. He is just trying to help with the rage we threw at Samsung. All they had to do was release Froyo/Source in a reasonable time and NONE of this would have been an issue.

It's funny to me that you guys expect something to come from this guy, who just appeared, and has done absolutely nothing to date.
[Vibrant General] turbosix:
the phone wasnt significantly better than the g1 and came out like a year after. based on that alone i would not have bought one..
[Vibrant General] turbosix:
fine, be negative, lol, whatever you want.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
^^ Right, but the point is, a lot of people did buy the phone..... and they got F'd by Samsung who did nothing to support that phone.

I'm not being negative when I say not to expect anything from this John guy. Source was released, that's all we needed. I'm all for having a Samsung person who is really going to help.... I just don't see this going anywhere right now. I would LOVE to be wrong. I also hope future updates/source are taken more seriously by Samsung. Too good of hardware to lose customers due to support.
[Vibrant General] oka1:
I agree but that said, In the public foray It good to be polite and cordial...... even though my "inner child wants vengeance" I can play nice.......

My Real problem is all the other phone makers and carrier do not treat you really any better........ In my business if I treated people the way Samsung treated us..... I'd be homeless.......... that is reality...... too bad they have different rules to play by and we just get to be the ping-pong ball
[Vibrant General] Tarzanman:
Isn't Samsung obligated to release the source code to their enhancements under the GPL?

I understand why they might be averse to doing that... but if they have a problem with it then they should switch to different OS for their devices.

I guess I have problems congratulating a company on doing what they are supposed to do.
[Vibrant General] oka1:
I agree 100% but in business you learn to thank people for what they were supposed to do like it was something special.......... unfortunately that is the way it is............sucks but true
[Nook Color General] weenerz:
Running into issues while trying to install phiremod. Went into the recovery menu, followed instructions completely, it installed fine, rebooted device and it looped me back to recovery menu (CWR wasn't burned to SD, it was installed to the Nook). A few posts recommended that I format boot too, and now instead of having the recovery menu loop, I am stuck with a unit that doesn't power on. Help!
[Nook Color General] swordsaint:
Same problem here. Followed the instructions to the letter, and now the Nook keeps booting to the ClockworkMod Recovery screen...even with the SD-card removed.

Is it that we were supposed to do something else to the Nook before attempting the install?

By the way, I used Clockwork Recovery v3.0.0.5 from the SD-card while installing.
[Nook Color General] bdcrim:
May try wiping cache and dalvik cache if you haven't tried that already.
[Nook Color General] swordsaint:
OK, n00b question: what's a 'dalvik' cache?
[Nook Color General] bdcrim:
[NQUOTE=swordsaint;11459824]OK, n00b question: what's a 'dalvik' cache?[/QUOTE]

When you are in recovery, you have the option to wipe cache on the first screen. On the advanced screen you have the option to wipe dalvik cache. I am not totally sure, but I believe it is cache that is directly related to your apps. The other is more general in nature. Wipe both.
[Nook Color General] kingkurry:
Also WTF. USB storage wont mount in Phiremod. What kind of **** is that?
[Nook Color General] swordsaint:
OK, guys...I finally fixed it.

1st, I used the CWR Removal tool from

this thread

, and then went through

the installation steps carefully again, but after the install was completed,

I removed the SD-card, THEN rebooted.

Problem solved. (Didn't need to mess with the caches though)

Happily playing Angry Birds just now just for the heck of it. :)

Is there any way to access the Nook's internal storage to put music,

movie files, etc?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kioshi:
Had to ask here since i cant post in development thread...

I have flashed build 21 and now 33. Does cm7 nor have option to save photos taken to sdcard like how froyo has the option? I take pics quite frequently and would love that feature to be on cm7 nightlies...

Its a pain to plug your phone to a pc then move pictures ro the sd card folder storage....

Anyone made a request to add this feature to the nightly builds?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] illuminarok:
My CM7 has been saving photos to the SD card by default since a few builds ago.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kioshi:
Was there an option you went into to have it to do this?

My email attachments get sent to sd card but not my pics taken from sd card.

If i dont find out here i may ask in the nightlies thread....since i did a google search and found nothing for the incredible.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kioshi:
Edit. Stuck another sd card in and it saves it to it. Camera wasnt recognizing the current one.

Thanks.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cylor:
Ok so half or over half of most my days are spent in a subzero freezer unloading freight ect.. My question is this, am I doing any harm to my EVO by keeping it in my pocket while im in the freezer the phone does get rather cold while im in there im just wondering how much if any damage im inflicting on my EVO and should i try to find another place to keep it while im working?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fadimo305:
no i believe you do not your body heat should provide some heat to protect it ..just remember if it gets under 32f your phone might get permanent freeze damage thats if you leave it in there. lol just keep it in your pocket
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cruise350:
I would only worry about moisture intrusion. It may not affect the phone but it may cause your water damage tape to react thus voiding your warranty for water damage.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fixxxer2008:
i wouldn't bring it in the freezer with you. keep it locked up somewhere.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheMagicalSock:
As long as your phone is kept in your undermost layer of clothes. I can't see any reason why it would be damaged by the cold. I would imagine your body heat would keep it around forty or fifty degrees, which is perfectly safe.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fgr:
I don't think the cold itself will hurt it, I would just be carefull of condensation that could form when it warms up.

Like was said earlier, it will probably be ok if you keep it in your pocket.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omegasun18:
Most electronics dont mind the cold (those that use some kind of bulb are the eception normally). As others have said the problem is more likely the condensation or moisture that could occur from the rapid cooling or heating.

if it is under layers of clothing it should be fine but it is probably best not to take it in the freezer.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nabbed:
You should be just fine while in the cold. Lower temperatures, even freezing temperatures, will not impede the Evo operation; they may in fact prolong the battery life.

The problem is going to be taking a cold Evo outside, and having moisture condense on the phone. I would get a plastic bag, and put the evo inside just before walking out of the freezer.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] overclockxp:
I know the Evo is one cool phone but no reason to freeze it. Do you use it while in the freezer? What are you doing in the freezer?

I would recommend keeping it somewhere else if at all possible.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NewZJ:
left mine on a box while lumping a reefer, -15°f for an hour, no ill effects, but if you do something like that make sure you warm it back up slowly and don't breathe near it, condensation will make you cry
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkadelick:
I don't want to hear what "might" work

I want to know what WILL work - as in 100%

Are there are Bell Canadian i9000m users with Froyo (2.2) who rooted their phones ? (I am not into flashing etc. I just want to root so I can back up my apps with Titanium Pro THEN be able to flash)

Please for the love of god help me
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark204:
Try (one click root ),i think you can find it on android market :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eric_pwb:
I know you said you are not into flashing, but last time I had tried I had trouble using utilities to root my phone on froyo. (SaskTel I9000m)

I found it by far the easiest to flash the speedmod kernel via odia to get root. You can flash the kernel and no other part of the phone if that is what you want, and still gain root, and IMHO the best add-on feature there is, backlight notification!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkadelick:
So let me get this straight, I would still keep everything, all my apps, my current build (2.2) and everything else -- but I would gain a new "kernel" and root ?

do you have any links or instructions ?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hypercore:
I might be buying a Desire Z but I don't want to have the same screen problems that the Desire/Nexus One have. Does the Desire have a new/different screen?

Also, would you guys recommend me switching from an iPhone 4 to the Desire Z?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mylenthes:
Depends what you like, I have no screen problems so far.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChronoReverse:
It's different. There's no AMOLED version but the touchscreen handles four simultaneous points without any problems.
[Atrix 4G General] alphamancer:
So.. what is stopping us from brute forcing the encryption keys on the Atrix? Forgive me if this is ignorant.. but I know of things like f@h that utilize a network to work on solving complex things.. The biggest gripe that I have, and I know that a lot of people have, with the Atrix is that it's going to come with the encrypted bootloader (the docks are silly, just get a netbook and tether it after rooting ;), but thats irrelavent).

I'm sure people would contribute their computers to a cause like this, and with a brute force method between even hundreds of computers looking for an encryption key probably wouldn't take.. that long?

If each phone has a unique encryption key then I guess that this is a useless approach, but I thought I'd throw the idea out.

Joe
[Atrix 4G General] TheEscapist:
There's a project working to crack the keys on the milestone, but it can take a rediculous amount of computing power.
[Atrix 4G General] krkeegan:
And by ridiculous he means years worth of time.

However, don't get depressed, there is a good chance that the Atrix has only a locked and not encrypted bootloader. I wrote a more detailed discussion in this post if you are interested in reading more.
[Atrix 4G General] NonovUrbizniz:
I'm no genius but couldn't XDA develop some sort of distributed computing program and get that done FAST.

I'd leave every computer I had running... GPU's+CPU's that's like 10-20ghz 24hrs a day from just me.

Dumb Idea??
[Atrix 4G General] alphamancer:
That was along the idea that I had (folding at home is a program that distributes the load across a large network of computers). So a "ridiculous amount of time" could be decrypted in just a few days if we got even 100 people to participate. The problem in this case is making an application that would be capable of distributing this load.

However, I guess the most important thing is going to be seeing if the bootloader is encrypted or not..
[Atrix 4G General] miztic:
You guys aren't getting how much time it will really take, they use a 1024bit key, that's enough possibilities to have computers cranking for BILLIONS of YEARS.

I just put 2^1024 into a calculator, divided by 100,000,000,000 for a theoretical 100Tflop supercomputer (pretty easy to do with something like BOINC), and assuming the best case scenario that it will actually test 100 billion keys a second.

Then I divided by 3600 (seconds in an hour), divided again by 24 (hours in a day), divided again by 365 (days in a year)

and ended up with:

156,176,644,814,042,999,149,422,203,351,770,599,516,445,391,302,508,511,493,218,518,829,302,867,438,735,781,097,061,916,038,037,447,110,777,605,658,652,684,262,264,122,384,866,885,440,334,201,600,119,084,711,517,142,307,834,199,910,062,604,876,532,708,949,388,959,330,629,821,630,916,124,690,444,964,365,909,692,174,466,876,583,089,353,285,751,864,871,369,654,465,126,125,462,803,375 years

In short, we need a way to get around the encryption another way, like what happened with the PS3, an error in the implementation, or a leaked key from someone inside motorola.
[Atrix 4G General] alphamancer:
well ****.
[Atrix 4G General] miztic:
Or motorola actually pull a smart one and start some kinda dev program that will let you have the keys after signing some kinda agreement.

They would get massive PR/loyalty points from me if they did something like that, I'd not only be recommending all their stuff to everyone I know, I would never buy anything else as long as they make nice hardware.

Imagine what we could do with these phones without having to waste time getting around the stupid 'locks'.
[Atrix 4G General] TinyRK:
Are you talking about this eFuse thing? The encrypted bootloader?

That's part of the OMAP-SoC as used in the DroidX.

AFAIK the Tegra does not have this "feature", so the bootloader might be locked, but not encrypted.
[Atrix 4G General] ram8704:
Yeah I heard the same thing. I really we get some confirmation in the next few days.
[Atrix 4G General] sdlopez83:
have you checked the developer category? the atrix was dumped today
[Atrix 4G General] GatorRuss:
So you're saying there's a chance.
[Atrix 4G General] seanfinn:
Lol...reminds me of the one in a million chance from dumb and dumber
[Atrix 4G General] GatorRuss:
That's what I was going for.

:D
[Atrix 4G General] sdlopez83:
Its Rooted at least!!! http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=960336

Boot loader still locked :( but...Design Gear was able to extract the kernel and ramdisk from the boot.img	__________________
[Atrix 4G General] NonovUrbizniz:
So where does this stand? can we dowload an app to run on our PC's to help contribute some computing power?
[Atrix 4G General] ro-mann:
Any news if the bootloader is actually encrypted?
[Vibrant General] Kurama15:
I'm trying to connect my phone to my PC but I also get this USB Debugging Connected, I mount it but as i go to my computer nothing don't show up so I can continue the next step to get froyo 2.2 some one help me what should I do?
[Vibrant General] lbridges:
What worked for me (others report different) was to first connect to the PC with USB Debugging ON. The PC installed some device drivers. Unplug and turn USB debugging OFF, Ask on Connection ON, then reconnect. Then the three options, Kies, .... showed up and worked.

Hope that helped.
[Vibrant General] Kurama15:
I'm gonna try
[Vibrant General] Kurama15:
It's not installing nothing
[Vibrant General] Kurama15:
Dude ****ing thank you man you are the best I am gonna remember this for now on incase thank you
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Drumheros:
When I put update.zip (for root) on the SD card and run it, the phone rejects it with a message saying E:\ Signature Verification Failed. I have been able to root the phone with z4root, but now the same thing is occurring with clockworkmod recovery. Is there a permanent way to disable/fix this?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azzledazzle:
flash cf-root or a kernel such as speedmod / voodoo. that will give you recovery 2e and everything will be fine
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cam3ron1:
Is there any way trouble do this without it not allowing u to view your media files. Is there a way to trick the system to make it believe its running anyhow?? Anyone?? Development?? Thanks.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kcarpenter:
Only way to do disable it would jack stuff up. But you could put the .nomedia file in the root of the SDcard. But again that would mess a lot of stuff up.

I have found it makes it quicker if you put .nomedia in all the folders that you don't want it to scan. I only have 4 folder I allow it to scan. :D
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] popper668:
? can you explain? .nomedia, how would i do this? :confused:
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inimitableac:
Yea what is this no media file you speak of
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zanderman112:
Its basically an empty text file. Anything on your sdcard that starts with a "." doesnt get scanned. So a .nomedia file placed in a folder keeps that folder and all sub folders from being scanned. Or you could name the folders with a "." in them. Ex: .images .wallpapers .videos

Sent from my never been rooted, always stock eclair Epic.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] schnowdapowda:
You'll need to be rooted.. but there is an app called rescan media root. You can disable scanning in there so that it won't run when you first boot.. but if you need your media.. I.e. pictures, music, etc. (which I never do because I use mortplayer which builds its own library) you can turn it on let it scan and then turn it back off and everything will work fine.

cd's or tapes?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] socos25:
I'm sure you have your reasons for wanting to do this, but how often are you rebooting your phone that makes this an issue?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] schnowdapowda:
Don't know about him... but everytime I changed something on my sd it would scan. Got kind of annoying.

cd's or tapes?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Insomaniac10:
If anyone out there is like me, they are ANAL about their phones appearance. I enjoy themeing, and i get positive feedback on my themes (here's my latest one, for example). However, I must admit, my knowledge is limited. I do a lot of kanging and collaborating, and I dont know how to edit .9pngs, which hinders my ability. Also the fact that I dont know how to create an image from scratch. Not to mention, Im not a big ROM flasher so I cant release themes for a lot of ROMs.

I would like to get a "theme team" going for the vibrant, and add some more flavor to the forum. im mainly looking for someone/people who is/are good with .9pngs and flashes a lot of ROMs. Please let me know. Thanks.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MWBehr:
I'm always willing to help anyone who has questions, but my time is limited on physical contributions. Also, I recently hijacked birgertime's (sorry man :D) thread here With some basic information on .9s.

I've considered opening up a separate theming Q&A thread, but I thought it might get locked since there's already one in the main android forums. Between you and me though, questions don't get answered there.
[Android Apps and Games] dcorrea:
I am not sure if this is posted in the right spot, so I apologize in advance. I just wanted to let everyone know that the maker of the original gamegripper is currently developing a bluetooth gamegripper that will work on most phones. The creator is looking for pledges to raise capital for mass production, so I wanted to make sure everyone knows about this!

Here's the link to the article about it on androidcentral if anyone is interested in supporting this product.

http://www.androidcentral.com/game-gripper-working-bluetooth-model-hopefully-coming-soon
[Android Apps and Games] bongd:
Thanks, already pledged.

Bumped for more pledges. I want this in production!!
[Android Apps and Games] dcorrea:
bump for more pledges!
[Android Apps and Games] dcorrea:
Here's the link to the pledge page..

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bossgizmo/new-bluetooth-game-gripper-a-game-pad-for-your-pho
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicopilami:
Hi guys ! I wonder if there is a Circle battery for cyanogen 7 ?

Is there anywhere a could download a zip file of it for dhd ?

Thanks nico
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] richb500:
Please don't hate me for starting another GPS thread, but I'm dying to understand something. Every GPS problem thread has someone speak up and report that the GPS problems are fixed in most of the xda ROMs. So my questions to the ROM developers are...

At a high level, what did you do to solve the GPS issues? Did you rewrite or replace a buggy driver? Did you add code to make the driver smarter in dealing with flawed hardware? Do you feel the hardware is at fault? Did you just tweak some internal settings? Is it just because Froyo fixes it? Is it because fixing the lag solved the GPS issues?

Some people still insist that it's a hardware issue and no ROMs really fix the GPS. Some ROMs just make it tolerable. Do you agree with them? I don't think Samsung will ever admit it's a hardware problem because it would result in a multi dollar recall.

Thanks in advance.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] di11igaf:
There's a few software fixes that make it tolerable, but its not gonna as perfect as some other android phones or other phones in general. Its flat out a hardware problem. If it was software it would have been fixed by now

All of the fixes more or less use similiar methods to try and make it better, and sometimes it will probably seem almost perfect, sometimes it will flat out suck
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lyrad12:
good question.still wondering coz im still using the stock rom for 4months, >.<