yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xoom General] RadDudeTommy:
+1

And who said communism is bad?

The Chinese government is bad. I'm sure that was what he was jisting at. I don't recall him going into generalities with the whole government style.

Government sucks here in America, but that doesn't mean a Republic is bad.

Get your face out of your ass and don't come in here and try to bash someones opinon by assuming most of what your *****ing about.
[Xoom General] erzhik:
I can almost guarantee you that out of those 15 million iPad users, 10 million don't even know what flash is and why you need it. Just because Apple sold 15million iPads, doesn't mean that nobody cares about flash. Fact is, every single person who browses internet needs flash. I am sure Jobs himself has flash installed on his PC.

If iPad can't handle flash, doesn't mean flash is useless. Flash is everywhere, you can argue all you want, but until HTML5 becomes standard, Flash will dominate. And I don't think that HTML5 will become standard anytime soon or ever.

Out of those 15million people, how many people downloaded Skyfire that basically allows you to view sites with flash? Their servers crashed in the first 24 hours, that just shows that people need flash.
[Xoom General] danum:
For me it's a deal breaker, that's why I'm looking here.
[Xoom General] HorsexD:
I Watch A lot of Videos online So Flash is Very Useful. In Android theirs Settings to turn off flash or set it to on Demand so you can play only the things you want to play Which is very convinient. Also even with flash and the "Browser slow down" isnt web surfings still about the Same as Iphone/ipad if not faster? I for one Cant live without flash. Browsing gets boring fast, I like watching videos too. ;)
[Xoom General] I Am Marino:
You'd think Apple, being so consumer friendly, ahem, would have flash, but no, only reason it's not there is because Jobs is so against it.

Sent from my Incredible with the XDA Premium App.
[Xoom General] frenzy757:
I actually don't care much for flash. I have both the Xoom and iPad 2 and when I am using the iPad2 I dont miss flash. Its a great to have the option though, and i think that is what most people here are arguing.

However, I think overall HTML5 is better than flash and flash needs to go away.
[Xoom General] richardjr:
Not to turn this into a political thread, which it isn't, but since you brought it up:

The Chinese people didn't choose to be Communist, the Chinese Communists chose to be Communist, there was no vote, they took over via military overthrow. The people themselves have never been given an individual vote to see if they would in fact "choose" Communism over a Republic, paraliment, or straight Democracy; in fact when the citizens revolted back in the 80's the Communists put it down and imprisoned, killed, and tortured those whom rebelled.

In fact the only country where you might say they have "chosen" communism is Venezula, and even there he has taken away freedom of speech and imprisoned those whom would speak against the government, do you have freedom of choice if you do not have freedom of speech, again see China.

As for being brainwashed by the American media, the media here is free to say what they want, in fact you as an individual are free to say what you want on any street corner, try to speak about Christianity in any Islamic country, try to speak about freedom in any communist country and see what freedom really is and what brainwashing really is.
[Xoom General] ChongoDroid:
LoL @ those flash naysayers... how about Facebook chat on facebooks main page? Is that not flash? Or how about half the vids on the internet... ustream in browser is a million times better then the app.
[Xoom General] dch921:
Flash is great but it only use it on my phone and xoom when I really need to. I set it to ondemand in the browser settings. I find it useful but most of the time not needed. I know it is used everywhere on the web and is a lot more useful on a desktop, but in a mobile environment its just nice to have just not needed.
[Xoom General] smaskell:
I'm pretty sure I said the exact opposite of that. I'm not trying to be anti-american or anything either. Canada's watch 95% as much american media as americans do, for the most part. Generally, I've found it to be very anti-communist.

Anyway, what I said may have been a bit unfair but I still don't think it's fair to say that everyone who lived in communist china was only there because they were forced to. I'm sure that there were at least a few people who actually wanted to be there.

I don't have the right to walk around naked in public but that doesn't mean that I want to. People in china couldn't leave, but that doesn't mean that they wanted to either.

@richardjr

I realize that they did not vote on communism but obviously there were people who were behind it. I'm no history expert so I could be wrong, but I don't think one man just walked in and decided to change everything. Who do you think the people in the chinese communist party were? A bunch of old soviets and cubans? I'm pretty sure they were chinese.
[Xoom General] xmellyx:
If you want to go way off topic, china was under dynasty rule for hundreds of years. There was a Monarch (the emperor) and the ruling class of wealthy politicians and land owners. The main shift towards outright communism occurred during word war 2 when the Japanese invaded and Mao Zhe Dong (leader of the Chinese communist party) staged a coup of Chiang Kai-she (and the nationalist party) with the help of the Soviet Union.

So yes they are Chinese but the proletariat never had much choice to stay or leave as they never had rights as you and I know them and were more often sent to die for other men's ambitions than they were to go on a vacation.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattb3:
I know this has probably been asked a million times. But a had a bad nandroid restore happen, bombed while restoring /system. I could still get to recovery, but I I couldn't do anything with the system partition (reflash, nandroid restore, etc). So I thought I should probably odin back to stock (well actually heimdall since I'm on linux).

So I downloaded a KA7 tar file with a factoryfs.rfs file and tried to flash with:

heimdall flash --factoryfs ./factoryfs.rfs

This was the output:

Claiming interface... Failed. Attempting to detach driver...

Claiming interface again... Success

Setting up interface... Success

Beginning session...

Handshaking with Loke... Success

Uploading factory filesytem

0%

Failed to send file part packet!

Factory filesytem upload failed!

Re-attaching kernel driver...

No no matter what tricks I try when turning on the phone all I see is an icon picture of a phone connecting to a PC. So at this point I am basically stuck. Thanks in advanced
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sdobron:
I think it depends on the sbl.bin you're using. I know the newer one allows you to odin/heimdall from the phone!pc screen, I believe the KA6 OTA contained it...you could try to heimdall this file, but also risk a brick. Did you try eugene's froyo that does not brick .tar?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattb3:
how about this for unexpected,

I noticed that one of the heimdall options besides "flash" is "close-pc-screen" and that got be back to recovery.

So is there a "best" odin file to flash from here?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oka1:
If you can get into download (and you can) mode, then you can:

1. Download Eugenes 'Froyo that does not brick' file.

2. Extract the files.

3. Open Odin, plug in your phone, then put it into download mode.

4. load the PIT file in appropriate area.

5. load the .tar file in the PDA area.

6. DO NOT check 're-partition'.

7. Click start, let it finish. Your phone will load and reboot into stock recovery. It will error out again. DONT panic! This is what's supposed to happen.

8. Now, pull your battery.

9. Load the JFD rom for the vibrant'.

10. Extract the files.

11. Once again, open Odin, plug in your phone, put into download mode.

12. Load the PIT file into the appropriate area and the .tar in the PDA area.

13. THIS TIME you want to check the 're-partition' box.

14. Now click start, let it finish, and this time your phone will load up just fine!

15. Then, root the phone and you can flash your new Rom.

doing this method will get everything back to normal and the phone will work just like it did right out of the box

OR............. You ca just flash JFD (click repartition box), and bypass the froyo that does not brick, But this is riskier...........

Check the Noob posting by S15274N i has all the ways in there.

Hope you solve fast
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattb3:
Thanks for the advice. Once I cleared that of screen I was able to get into download from recovery via "adb reboot download" then flashed the factoryfs.rfs from there. That worked and I nandroid restored after that. Whew!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dark_Raven:
I just got an idea of running some old games on my TD2, but some of them require reading from CD.. That's ofcourse possible only through SD card as internal memory isn't big enough. But I couldn't find any disc emulator for windows mobile so I got 3 questions:

Is it possible and is there something, that could do the job?

If even it would exist, is 8GB class 4 SD card fast enough to support even slow 4x CD rom reading speed?

What performance hit could emulation cause? Eat whole CPU? Most of the games are for 486(arround 100MHz) and can be run in DOSbox, but that's the next layer of emulation so it may not be even worth of an effort
[Droid X General] POQbum:
I know I know, there are probably lots of threads on this but I'm having a difficult time finding them.

Basically I just need some guidance in how to go about

1) Rooting the phone

2) installing whatever is needed to flash a ROM

3) how to flash a ROM

Let me know, I have a droid incredible and I'm very familiar with that process- but since the X has a locked bootloader it seems it's different here.
[Droid X General] jgraham4598:
Look for z4root, droidx bootstrap and do lots of reading.
[Droid X General] POQbum:
Already did, here's where I'm dumbly stuck.

I download z4root off of here since it was removed from the market. I have the settings enabled where I should be able to install apk's that are not form the market, however when I try to run the download it'll tell me "can not find program to run this file".

Pretty annoying and frustrating, any suggestions?

FYI it is definitely .apk I didn't rename the extension to anything else.
[Droid X General] jgraham4598:
Did you download it directly to your phone? You need to download it to your computer and then move the file to the sdcard. Don't know why but it worked for me. I was having the same problem.
[Droid X General] POQbum:
Ah ok, yes I did download it to the phone. Weird because my incredible didn't have to do that.

I guess different phones have different ways.

My sister with the droid x is out and about, so I hope to work on it when she gets back and hopefully get a good ROM going on it.
[Droid X General] owenbeals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEg59w0mIms&feature=youtube_gdata_player

The file here at this link will work no parsing error when downloaded to phone, there are some other vids on the channel that may be of use
[Droid X General] POQbum:
Thanks, finally got it all working (yesterday) but wanted to post to thank you guys for the input and also to say how amazed I am at how much smoother and quicker the phone is without the bloat.

Didn't realize it was tied down so much.
[Droid X General] jazaddict:
Ah crap.....based on that endorsement I'm DEFINITELY gonna have to root now!

;)
[Droid X General] POQbum:
I rooted my sisters Droid X, my dad has the same exact droid X phone unrooted.

Comparing the 2 is completely different in how quick they are.

My dad's phone is a headache of lagginess and disappointment in speed.

Quite the opposite on the rooted phone.

I used the Liberity 1.5 ROM and also downloaded Launcher Pro from the market (just suggestions ;) ) I never liked ADW launcher.
[G Tablet General] jstersd:
I love my GTab but work is buying me a Xoom so I can learn java and produce apps for the biz. I'm wanting $325. It includes all original stuff and the carbon-back sticker, 16gb micro-sd card and TNT Lite 5.0 (i'll do a data wipe prior to ship). I'll give free shipping to anywhere in the U.S.
[G Tablet General] savage0:
tigerdirect now is 349 after 20 bocks coupon~...

so....
[G Tablet General] jstersd:
I can go as low as $300 but that won't include shipping. And the Tiger Direct doesn't include the 16g card.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] brandonpavo:
Its called ooVoo

I was able to get this program on vegan 7. Currently doing IMs and VOIP.the video chat is blocked out on the program and in the programs settings. I think with the growing number of gtab users we can figure this out. I am using this right now talking to wife on her PC.I will continue on solution but I'm just a rookie compared to some I downloaded via a link on xda. I will find it again and post

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=874476. Download
[About XDA developers] gianpa:
Unluckly my phone was stolen about a week ago. Ignorant thieves didn't change my google account so when I go to android market I can see they're using it and that they changed the sim (I can see which operator they have).

I also blocked the imei but it doesn't seem to have worked because I can see they are still using it. My question is: is there any way to know the phone number of the sim? I could try to track them if it could be possible or it's just the operator? I sooo want my phone back! (even if now I've got a galaxy sl).
[About XDA developers] pulser_g2:
Did you install Wavesecure or lookout? If so, they let you track the phone etc...

If you use 2-factor gmail login, you can disable the one-time password that your google account uses.

But without Wavesecure or equivalent, you can't really track the number, unless your network can (and most won't do it, citing "data protection" even when you own the phone).

Stupid laws like this mean technical precautions are best. WaveSecure and other such apps can even GPS locate the phone
[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
Sucks man, I feel for ya... Wishing you the best in your search for these idiots. Give them a firm beating.
[About XDA developers] pulser_g2:
While I couldn't condone that, having a GPS position of your device does have many uses, including directing the relevant law enforcement personnel to them, or indeed anyone else who happened to be in possession of the GPL location ;)

I strongly recommend everyone uses some form of tracking app on their phone. There's free and open source ones available...
[About XDA developers] CocoaGoddess:
Well, if they're still using the phone and it's still connected to your Google account, then you can go to the marketplace from your computer, install Lookout on it, and attempt to track it down, lock it, or wipe it. It's worth a shot.

After that, change your google password. It really sucks though that the Market doesn't have an easy way for you to remove a device from your account though. I had my EVO stolen last week, and I looked for hours trying to figure out a way to separate it from my account with no success.
[About XDA developers] debulus:
oh oh?

sorry dude very bad for you. change your password from gmail and save the contacts ;)
[About XDA developers] pulser_g2:
Ooh smart :) I forgot about that. Lookout won't do that unfortunately, as you need to set up an account of sorts...

/me wishes you could VNC into your droid phone via google's cloud to phone system, thus negating the issue of NAT.

I wonder... there MUST be an app that allows you to install an app to the phone, that somehow conveys location to you, without entering info on the device...

If not, perhaps we need to work out a way? The issue is how to tell it who to email... Or...

/me sees an idea emerging...

How about an app allowing you to locate phone AFTER it was stolen, without needing to set anything up?
[About XDA developers] gianpa:
There is!

It's called Plan B (I can't post the link because I'm too noob on this forum, just search the market)

but the market won't let me install it on any phone, I don't know why :(
[About XDA developers] fleurdelisxliv:
my phone wasent stolen but i always thought if it was that they could just use my card info that is stored and buy any apps they wanted :eek: my mom uses my captivate now and for the love of god i cant fig out how to take my info out and replace it with hers when i go to add account it still want let hers add :( any suggestions :confused:
[About XDA developers] jumpjack:
Where can I read on the market which operator is being used on my stolen phone?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thewebsiteisdown:
Hello,

I have an hd2 US 1024 rom version with the newest imei 35777.... I had a later version of Typhoon mod installed on my phone and installed the newest version and now my google account keeps connecting and disconnecting.

I'm not a complete noob, but I don't want to brick this phone so I'd rather ask and be safe.

What do I have to wipe out via recovery to get this issue to stop and should I reinstall the latest Radio again?

Thanks to who ever answers me without picking on me. :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jsmccabe78:
per hyperdroid's instructions:

1- Boot into MAGLDR (Power On and HOLD the Power Button till MAGLDR options are shown)

2- Boot into AD SD or AD Recovery to enter CWM Recovery Mode

If coming from another ROM, do a Nandroid Backup (just to be sure)

3- Wipe data

4- Wipe cache

5- Wipe Dalvik Cache

6- Go to mounts and storage and mount sdcard

7- Copy the ZIP you downloaded to your sdcard and unmount

8- Select install zip from sdcard

9- Find the .zip and install

10- Reboot and remove Phone from USB

(i put the rom on the sd card before all that and skip steps 6 and 7)

also, to be hardcore (i did this once when things were freaking out...) flash toWM and wipe your sd card.

but steps 3-5 are most important.

cheers.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thewebsiteisdown:
I used the thank you button. :up:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thewebsiteisdown:
Actually I spoke to soon. That didn't work. I had to follow these instructions.

Clean Install:

1. Task 29

2. Flash Radio(2.15 Recommended)

3. MAGLDR 1.13

4. ClockworkMod Recovery v1.3 135M System/44M Cache/Recovery v3.0.1.4

5. Install TyphooN CyanogenMod 7 .zip with CWM

6. (Optional) Install any optional CWM .zip files

I still appreciate the help though none the less.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jsmccabe78:
my apologies, i misread - didn't see you wanted to reflash the radio. once you task 29, you definitely are starting from the beginning!

glad it is working.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thewebsiteisdown:
No problem, it just kept having issues with google where it was signing in and out for some reason until they " Google " finally blocked it to stop it from bouncing. Then it would throw an error talking about having issues signing in to my Google account.

I actually had to low level format my sd card as well. I went to copy over the newest typhoon rom file to it after doing a quick format on the sd card, and it would stop the file transfer about 3/4s of the way through every time even after redownloading it etc. etc..

I did the low level format. That took about an hour or more. Moved the ROM file right over without a hitch after that. It must have had chunks of files showing still from to many quick formats on the sd card.

Then I started completely over again from step one and now my battery seems to be lasting allot longer and the issue with Google signing in has stopped.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jsmccabe78:
same here; better performance with a clean slate.

ghosts in the hardware or some such thing. enjoy!
[Xoom Accessories] gigglebox:
Ive been plagued by the thought that the damn dock should...by all accounts have a USB out. Now I suppose that it may have came down to a decision point of "Which is the more likely scenario... audio out or USB to a computer out", but I find myself squarely in the "dont care about audio" side of that debate.

The idea would be to crack this little sucker open, see whats inside and (hopefully) take the micro-usb connection that it has out the back of the dock with a new tip.

Now that Ive opened it up, I believe I can get there. I'll tinker around with it in the next few days to verify things like theres no "control" (or similar) signal running through the USB connections from a power perspective and whatnot. If I can do it, it will be my intent to make it look as stock as I can and I'll be sure to post any walkthroughs, pics, etc that somebody else might want.

To open it up, you have to remove the rubber pad from the bottom. Its got a lot of adhesive on it and (at least in my case) looks like something that I can successfully stick back on.

Under that, you'll find what appears to be depressions in the plastic bottom. Take a utility knife (or similar) and cut around the edges of the depressions. They are part of a plastic film that I saw absolutely no reason to be afraid of removing.

Once the holes are exposed, you'll need a T4 bit to remove the screws. Then you can just open it up.

Thats the extent of my exploration so far...

Heres a pic:
[Xoom Accessories] funnycreature:
While you are at it...

Would you mind checking which of the connectors for charging is (+) and which is (-)? If I am really trying to build that alternative charger connector then I'll need to know. Thanks man!
[Xoom Accessories] gigglebox:
The power is run to the right pin, if you were just starring at the device from the front.
[Xoom Accessories] funnycreature:
This will come in handy when the time is right! :thumb up:
[Xoom Accessories] Just-in-time:
as far as i can tell all you would need to do is make sure there is enuff room and put a male to female cable inside. No need to mess with the board inside.
[Xoom Accessories] jcb_home:
I think you've got a great idea. Any Progress yet.
[Xoom Accessories] Toll Booth Willie:
Thanks for posting this picture. I'm going to do a straightforward mod by simply drilling a hole out the backside of the dock, running the wire through the hole and soldering the leads together. This method keeps me from having to dremel an exact fit USB-A connection and providing an internal support for the port.
[Xoom Accessories] Kcarpenter:
Oooooh yeah, mine will be ghetto rigged tonight. I'll order a female mini USB socket from digikey or somewhere to make it a little better in the future - but for tonight its getting hacked together. :D

Thanks for the pic, it was just enough encouragement to take it apart.
[Xoom Accessories] PengLord:
I'm tempted to buy the cradle, is there any way you can take a picture of the front and back of the PCB, I'm curious if there are existing pads for the USB cable.

I'm also curious about the possibility of adding a micro HDMI connection to the standard dock to make a "Swiss Army" dock, those pictures would help be get a better idea if I should buy this dock or the HDMI dock.
[Xoom Accessories] vzontini:
I don't understand why Moto didn't make a dock with power, HDMI, USB, and headphone. Then you can keep everything hooked to the dock and add/remove the device as desired. This is how most PC docks work. Is there a technical issue that would preclude all ports being brought out from the bottom connections (understanding the devices headphone jack is on the top)??

A design issue I see as far as wear and tear is the lack of docking "keys" built into the bottom of the device to aid in port alignment. It seems like getting the right alignment will be hit and miss and could put undo stress on the ports.
[Xoom Accessories] UnMonk:
You were using a nail clipper to open it?

If I spend the cash for a moto brand dock, I am going to add a fullsize USB/HDMI and power to it. There is no excuse for not including these.
[Xoom Accessories] BlackDino:
Do it and post the instructions, I want :-)