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[Defy General] runeblade:
I got where you are at now. Download this SBF and flash it. http://www.multiupload.com/ZZ4TU8W7UQ

Its is the earlier leaked TMobile build. Once you have flashed this root your phone and install clockwork. Let me know when all of that is done. I should be done with dinner by then and can help the rest of the way. You will need the zip file I posted earlier as well as the 2.2 nandroid backup. Leave the Update.zip in the root of your sdcard, and put the nandroid backup in the apkrev folder on the sdcard. Once those are in place, boot into clockworkmod. Wipe system and cache. Then do a restore of the 2.2 Nandroid. Do not reboot yet. Now apply the update.zip. Do not reboot yet. Now do another system wipe. Now reboot the phone. You should be all set to go.
[Defy General] hah2110:
Dude it was actually fine. It loaded up and worked perfectly, I have FroYo and you are the man! Now I have a camera problem.
[Defy General] runeblade:
I would try a reset to fix it. Many have had camera issues and that seems to be the fix.
[Defy General] hah2110:
Nothing.... What were the camera issues others had? I just get black, no matter what.
[Defy General] ketonkss4:
Woooah hold up you got it to load up by flashing what?? You said it was the 2.2 boot sbf? the one I told you to flash earlier?
[Defy General] hah2110:
YES!!!!!!!!!!
[Defy General] runeblade:
You have to boot the right firmware. I realized that last night. You need to get that update.zip file to run and bring the proper firmware inline with the system image. I was screwing around last night playing with the different combos, and discovered that it wasn't mapping resources right. I lost use of my SD card.
[Defy General] ketonkss4:
Awesome! I think im gonna go ahead and take credit for this one guys lol

And no you dont have to pay me your happy exclamation marks are pay enough!

^^
[Defy General] Beach_Head:
LOL!

Nice one ketonkss4!
[Defy General] hah2110:
Now someone fix my camera
[Defy General] runeblade:
Did you see my post about firmwares......the 2.2SBF is slightly older than the new rom. I suspect mappings have changed...update and see if that fixes it.
[Defy General] ketonkss4:
Ahhh yes that sounds like a legit fix... So he should just go into stock recovery and do the update.zip? well beach-head's update.zip
[Defy General] runeblade:
Yup. See earlier post. LOL
[Defy General] hah2110:
That update.zip from Beach never worked for me and still doesn't.... I don't understand. I still get verification failed.
[Defy General] runeblade:
You have to do it from clockwork mod and not the moto way. You can turn off sig check in clockwork if it still has issues.
[Defy General] ketonkss4:
Well it might not be a good idea to use bleach's zip file since another user got stuck in a boot loop due to it.
[Defy General] runeblade:
It's not the file thats bad...it's operator error. I've used that file multiple times now with no issues.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gab1288:
Hi, i've been testing every ROM and Kernel that is available on dev's forum but i can't post anything to help them improve it. I Have more than 10 posts and i dont want to disturb them, only help making Android woking on the X1!
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draken Korin:
this obviously solved itself

CLOSED
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
I really hate the Samsung media scanner.

Hate isn't even a strong enough word. If you have ever noticed, it scans the READ ONLY system on every boot. Then it scans SD card. Scanning the system is where the phone gets most sluggish though.

Well, I tried my best to hack that feature out and still haven't been able to.

I did find a workaround though:

D/MediaScanner( 2798): prescan return

D/MediaScanner( 2798): Start Original /system/media/

D/MediaScanner( 2798): found .nomedia, skipping directory

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2056318/update-template/media_scanner_fast.zip

Its a dirty way of fixing it, but hey, it works.
[Fascinate Android Development] tjthebest:
So did you just add a .nomedia and that works. Sweet!
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
Yeah quite simple and to the point :)
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
The only thing you want to watch for is that you don't wipe.

If you wipe, you lose your ringtone index. Easily fixed by removing the file or reflashing a rom though.
[Fascinate Android Development] BlackHoleSlam:
so we just flash this in cwr
[Fascinate Android Development] onemotodroid:
after flashing this;

what the response on boot?

the media scan will be much faster or will it not scan?
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
It skips system and immediately moves to sd card.

Making your phone completely responsive, and halving the scan time.
[Fascinate Android Development] Hypnosis4U2NV:
Nice little hack as most of the media is located on the SD card anyway..

Flashed from my Fascinate running SFC v2.9 V00D00 on TapaTalk..
[Fascinate Android Development] Computergeek737:
I've noticed some theme's will place themed apps in the system/app folder. Will this mod keep those files from being seen after install?
[Fascinate Android Development] GizmoDroid:
Or if, like me, you hate the stupid thing running automatically at all:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=753294

You can use the apk to turn it on or off.

Or you could set up a bash script to do it. It would be very easy to make an enable/disable icon using this and a shortcut creator.

su

pm disable com.android.providers.media/com.android.providers.media.MediaScannerReceiver

pm enable com.android.providers.media/com.android.providers.media.MediaScannerReceiver
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2056318/update-template/media_scan_scripts.zip

fast_media --disables media scanning of system

default_media --enables media scanning of system.
[Fascinate Android Development] mgrimmenator:
anyway this can be added as a toggle on/off feature to sc 2.10 when you get around to it? that would be awesome.
[Fascinate Android Development] 4GivenByChrist:
Getting a 404 error on this link. BTW was this a CWM zip file?

Sent from my Super Clean 2.9 Froyo - Voodoo - Fascinate!
[Fascinate Android Development] KenKeno:
It appears the link was cut in the middle. So it'll need reposted. it is probably a zip containing flashable zips
[Fascinate Android Development] cfost88:
If you go to this link and install the 'MediaScannerTogglerROOT1.8.apk', it works perfectly.

Running SuperClean 2.9 voodoo
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
Link is fixed. The difference between this is media scanner never has to be re-enabled, or disabled, unless switching roms, or wiping data.

The problem with turning it off, is eventually, it will get turned back on, or you have to do it each time you change media on sd card.

IMO, I like this way better.
[Fascinate Android Development] bleeeeeeek:
thanks for this!
[Fascinate Android Development] Daswolven:
I think I just peed myself a little in happiness. :D
[Fascinate Android Development] obsidianchao:
So... I'm confused. It won't scan the phone now? Is any media even on the phone?

Samsung Fascinate, Verizon

EB01 Superclean 2.4

Kenesis' TransMyst GBKB (EPIIIIIC)

Mob87's Honeycomb Theme

Stock Kernel
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
Gotta read my man, gotta read.
[Galaxy Tab General] GRiM-UK:
Im considering getting a Tab next month when im due for a upgrade. I've been using the HD2 forum for about a year (under different account, got temp banned lol).

I noticed a massive difference in the 2 sections and that's organization. HD2 has its n00bs posting random crap in random sections (which are moved after report) but for the most part its kept really organized. Now I've come to this section and no offence but this place is a real mess which im a bit gutted about as I really want a Tab but its going to be hard calling this place my new home with the current state.

For example the dev section is just a mess, Random crap posted everywhere that has nothing to do with development and should belong in the general section or Q&A if this section had one. I know there isnt much dev going on for the tab but the dev section should ideally be kept solely for posting dev work/tutorials etc.

Is there any mods assigned to this forum and is there any plans to tidy it up a bit?

PS. Sorry if ive come across as a bit of an arse, that wasn't my intention, I just wanted to say that this place really needs organising a bit.
[Galaxy Tab General] Bandage:
I disagree...usually the junk gets moved to an adequate place pretty quickly. As I'm looking at page 1 of the Dev section, there are 3 posts that seem to be misplaced...hardly chaos. All the rest are directly related to Development.
[Galaxy Tab General] GRiM-UK:
Guess im just too used to the HD2 section.

Cant wait to get my Tab :D
[Galaxy Tab General] Pat123:
Can't say I disagree! This sub-forum needs a bit of cleanup job!
[XPERIA X8 General] Defenistrator:
I installed Metamorph on my X8 running hackdroid 0.12 and whenever i try to install themes or select things from themes with it they never show up.

Any ideas why?
[Networking] johnston9234:
hey, i used to have a way around the school router blocks but i cant seem to remember what it was for the life of me. What it consisted was of an .exe that installed some software that allowed me to browse freely. I vaguely remember that the software consisted of a icon on the taskbar that was kinda an earth with fire around it....maybe?

if you have any other good router/server bypasses then please let me know. .exe file executions are blocked everywhere except in the technology building at school. Preferably i would like to have something only requiring a flash drive or it can be done within IE or Chrome.
[Networking] ExMM:
Do u mean that you are able to surf the internet but some website, like Facebook for example , are blocked?
[Networking] johnston9234:
yes exactly, often they have keywords that they block as well, (such as game, kill, black ops, etc). maybe a proxy would work? we used to have a couple good ones but they would eventually block it.
[Networking] ExMM:
yes, a free proxy can be a solution in most cases, here try some in this list first:

http://www.publicproxyservers.com/proxy/list1.html ;)
[Networking] pulser_g2:
To do this would require some form of exe to use a proxy via a specially setup browser, or admin rights to set the system proxy.

You will find that your IT admins will block the proxies you use (I have to block proxies at my work network when we detect them).

If implemented properly (any good professional IT admin should be able to do it right), you will struggle to tunnel out using most systems.

You can't ssh forward if they block non-standard ports, or filter protocols. You can't use SOCKS proxies if they do the same. You can't use web proxies if they use smart URL filtering.

You can try web proxies, but it's an uphill battle. If you find a proxy that works, don't tell your friends, as that usage across multiple accounts flags the URL in some security systems (my users alert me to the latest proxy sites unwittingly :p)

Finally, you do realise you are probably breaking the acceptable use agreement? Isn't it better to do facebook etc out of school hours? Or use your phone? If you get good at evading, it is easy to remove internet access altogether from an account in most systems. Good luck in tunnelling out when you have zero internet access as your account is null routed :p

Summary? Try proxies, don't hold your breath, and do you really need to use facebook etc in school? Oh, and for goodness sake, don't run exes on school PCs... If they've not set them up right, you could infect the machines. They prevent EXE execution on most machines for good reason...
[Networking] ExMM:
This is a REALLY good explanation Pulser, I always liked the way you answer to the people on XDA! (specially on the Hero thread ;) )

By the way, why an .exe file would infect a machine? Do you mean any kind of .exe? Even from a well known company, who create safe and populars software?

I used to run, without tell anyone, firefox portable in my office to bypass firewall restrictions, is that dangerous as well?
[Networking] Wisefire:
Considering you are at school, you will lack a lot of needed rights to edit certain things. I would know, I had to get around blocks on both Windows and Mac computers my freshman year.

I would advise you use the software, Your Freedom, it's free, but requires an account, you will also need to use a browser such as Firefox, and edit the settings to use the correct IP and Port as a proxy.

It also works on both Mac's and PC's. There is another software that I had used, strictly for windows PC's, but I can't recall the name of it.

Edit: I also ran the software from my flash drive..
[Networking] johnston9234:
i have special access to .exe and Command prompt just because of the position i am in as a student (several Technical courses). I can execute files on my computer and i have Chrome Installed. Does that help?
[Networking] ExMM:
What I did was to download firefox portable, you can google it (and if you want you can copy it to an USB drive).

If you go to firefox networking setting, you can try to change the options in advanced with "no proxy" or as wisefire said just write an IP proxy address with the correct port, you should be able to visit any website.

At least this was working flawlessy for me..
[Networking] pulser_g2:
Only a malicious exe would cause trouble...

But on a shared school network, who knows what the user before you used...

That's why I use disk freezing software on systems I run, and a forced reboot between logins, to give you a clean environment.

But while employees run portable firefox, what if they were to use it on another pc, and it had a virus, which infected the exe?

TBH, flash drives shouldn't be used in work environments, that were used outwith that environment... But that's not realistic in a school.
[Networking] pulser_g2:
Come on... Surely you ain't gonna abuse that privilege? You got it because you were trusted, not to work round the restrictions that are in your acceptable use policy...

;)
[Networking] pulser_g2:
That would work unless they filter out proxy traffic (you can often detect SOCKS proxies and other ones that are working using this method, or even block common ports like 8080)
[Networking] buttes:
Back in high school we used Ultrasurf and GPass. I liked GPass because it was really easy to hide from the taskbar and notification area.
[Networking] codybear:
haha, All of my schools have used disk freezing software. I thought about putting it on my parent's computer so I don't have to work on it anymore. :D

Eventhough I generally don't work on it anymore and just have them call someone to work on it for them. hahah.

Back in my days in high school we just got the many different IT and Librarian passwords/usernames and some teacher's passwords aswell. Then we'd log in to them and download Kazaa (yeah, it was that long ago lol), and downloaded like a gig or two of old NES, SNES, SEGA, Etc roms and started passing them around to everyone. haha.

It got so bad that the school threatened expulsion for everyone that had the games on their user accounts because it was overloading their network and storage space. :D

For a while they were just searching for the rom's extensions and you could just go and change them to a .txt and then change them back when you wanted to play them, but then they finally realized that the gig of space the roms took up were about 4 times the size of the data we were allowed to have and they could just sort the usernames by the usage of storage space. :D

The teacher's ones were fun to have though... it allowed you change some grades here and there...especially with my method of madness which I will not describe here. lol
[Networking] ExMM:
So, I am really interested about this topic, is there anyway to bypass a restriction if they filter out the proxy traffic?
[Networking] pulser_g2:
Hmmm... It's possible. If they use deep packet filtering it may be hard. But anything is possible...

I won't go into details, of getting round things, as it is my job to stop people getting round them, and I know a load of tricks, but look at the protocols in use in surfing - you need LDAP/AD to log into windows domain. Then you use DNS to resolve an IP (perhaps via a corporate web proxy). Then HTTP/HTTPS to access the page.

Now think what tools the domain admins might use to administer their network - RDP? SSH? Web services on high ports?

I think I've gone into enough detail for now... I can tunnel out almost any network these days, but I don't think it is sensible, wise, nor ethical to divulge this sort of thing.
[Networking] ExMM:
True I am agree with you Pulser, thus I am really into this sort of things recently.

I am eager to learn..

Could you please recommend me a book or something (not too advanced) that would help me to understand better LDAP/AD, DNS and everything about security and networking?

I obviously wanna learn just for myself and I definitely don't want to spread or divulge in anyway bad behaviors..
[Networking] DarkRyoushii:
if not previously mentioned, you're looking for "Tor" which comes in both installable packages or portable exe files that can be run off flash drives and includes a custom made 'Mozilla Firefox' which comes preloaded with Tor and does not save any browsing information on your client machine, thus this program is completely anon when ran from a flash drive.

www.torproject.org and you're looking for the Stable Portable Browser Bundle :)

Please thanks me (click thanks) if this helped ;)
[Networking] kylon:
really there is a simple way

use kon-boot and bypass admin password and change the settings:p
[Networking] DarkRyoushii:
not if he is on a school network, he would have to physically run kon-boot on the server itself which defeats the purpose because the server would already be logged in as an admin of some kind.

-correct me if I'm misunderstanding or have missed a key post somewhere-
[Networking] johnston9234:
ULTRASURF!!!! YES! thats the one that worked for me last year! :) thank you so much. thanks to you
[Networking] Tachi91:
cool

My High School they use proxies to block sites... bypass that students just use firefox... I sign in as student and stop it from loading the settings for it an simply turn off the proxy hahaha

But for my VoTec school they use their own DNS and the student LAN only works with proxies for a day since the next day they already blocked it
[Networking] Laramie1997:
Someone has played this game before!

Unless your school has had issues in the past, a VPN might work for awhile. Especially if you can use port 80 traffic to get you there. Honestly though, facebook and other sites like that can wait until you get home.

That said, I have my own little proxy server here at home and anytime I need to gain access to other sites that I don't feel the corporation needs to see logged/know about, I will tunnel to my server and route my traffic to that. As far as they know, I'm just logged into it to have some streaming audio access. :)

Ever thought about leaving a host machine up at home and remote accessing it for your non school related needs? A service like logmein might work well for you if they allow access to that sort of thing.

At any rate, don't expect a long term solution to the problem. Your IT/Network admin is smarter than you and will outsmart you. :cool:

Besides, if you're at a large school, I'd be willing to bet that their filtration process is almost autonomous by now which means it learns and blocks as needed. They tend to work well as long as you have certain sites allowed through the block and allow people to request access to certain sites.

I can't wait until the idea of packet morphing catches on. That service allows your network admin to set throttles on traffic. Say if your school has a 250gig connection to the cloud... Your admin could set your user account so that all access outside of the school is at 250gig except for fb which could be throttled back to 1k or something insane like that. They aren't blocking you from the site, but they are making it painful to use. It's a neat little tool to say the least.

Anyways, enjoy trying to outsmart your admin. :D
[Networking] error_401:
what about nc?

Some workarounds come to my mind using that one...
[Networking] pulser_g2:
Ummm... There's no book better than experience tbh.

I would suggest reading up the Wikipedia articles on these things, then looking at the references on the page. Then google the bits you don't understand.

But... the best way to start to learn is to work with the stuff. If you are a student, you can get access to Windows Server legally via DreamSpark, and play about with it in virtual machines :) Make a domain in a virtual machine. Join another virtual machine to it etc...

Learn how it works, get to know the concepts... That's all I can really suggest as it's such wide ranging topics.
[Networking] pulser_g2:
On a well set-up network, you will find such tools cannot be booted on the systems, given the CD drive cannot be booted from, and all non-standard boot systems are disabled.

Bios access will be disabled, and passworded, and the case will be locked.
[Networking] pulser_g2:
Server shouldn't be logged on at all - everything runs as LOCALSERVICE. You COULD use some hack CD on it, but you need physical access to said server. And servers have locked CD drives etc...

Add to that issues with BIOS, and perhaps tamper protection... :p

You don't wanna start touching the server
[Networking] pulser_g2:
Replies inline. 10char

:)
[Networking] QUYCAN07T3:
thanx ... testing now :

I will report back
[Networking] mOSs...:
poroxys dont usually work anymore. if your in a school, the blocker is most likely server based. look at it like this,

school comp1--\

\

school comp2---->----access point\

/ \ other school in county

school comp3--/ \ \

schools router--->the countys server<-blocker

school comp4--\ / /

\ / other school in county

school comp5---->----access point/

/

school comp6--/

in other words, you would have to get to the school districts servers and open some ports on thier machines so you could sneak in and pass some http in thought it. so unless you can get a vnc/ssh password up in there, its a lot bigger deal than you think if you just want to get on facebook.

HOWEVER, most schools servers do NOT block https traffic because its how the schools computers talk to thier local email clients. SOOOO

http WILL NOT WORK

https WILL WORK but you will have to change the http to https after you click on a link, or change a page.
[Networking] ExMM:
Wikipedia? So basically what I am doing now.. :D

Thanks for the tips! ;)
[Networking] BodenM:
That's how we access Gmail at school, 'cause the DET uses Google Apps for student email, we just type https://mail.google.com and we have access, also has the benefit of SSL security.
[Networking] johnston9234:
https://www.youtube.com

works for me. along with every other website :)

i assume this is because we use https to access gmail which is essential for the students. thanks tons from this thread which i love about xda. When you are surrounded by smart people you in turn get smarter :) thanks guys.

oh btw, what are the chances of https://www.youtube.com getting blocked if at the same time https://www.gmail.com is unblocked? is it possible to block certain https sites while at the same time enabling other https sites?
[Networking] pulser_g2:
Anything is possible with client PC based software.

TBH you can easily block https://youtube.com by simply firewalling off the IP address.

Good luck getting through that without a proxy, and bear in mind it's easy to block proxies via active page filtering.

Modern systems read the page content while users request it, looking for keywords.

This is where the old issue of pages mentioning "scunthorpe" getting blocked came from based on old fashioned filtering software...

Modern stuff is a lot better now, and I can block sites fairly easily, https or http etc... Deep page monitoring isn't possible via https, obviously, but it's easy to see what IP address the connection is going to :)