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not sure if any body thought of this what if chefs let users to sign their names addresses and finger print scan in the rom
1st will be thief deterent
2nd good hearted will return it if found
3rda phone will be a personal thing,chefs can leave their name somewhere for the smell and taste fo thier cooking

I'd think Chefs should also put a file in the \windows directory called release_notes with their ROM name and a forum link to their ROM thread.
Can't say how many times I've forgotten who's I've got flashed at any given time.

First, most chef's already put their name in the rom in one or more places, second , if you are using one of Alex's rom's used the kitchen & you can put whatever you want in it. Third, if somebody decent finds the device, your name & etc. is already in device owner info or can be looked up by your carrier with the serial or esn. Finally, if anyone else finds your device , it will take them all of 10 minutes to use Google & figure out how to flash a new rom. You could change the device ID to something nonexistent to make it harder to flash, but that's something better worked out by you & no Chef is gonna want to do that for every single person, not to metion that if he did, the thief would google & figure it out.
There is always ways around things, just ask AT&T, HTC & everybody at XDA

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First, most chef's already put their name in the rom in one or more places, second , if you are using one of Alex's rom's used the kitchen & you can put whatever you want in it. Third, if somebody decent finds the device, your name & etc. is already in device owner info or can be looked up by your carrier with the serial or esn. Finally, if anyone else finds your device , it will take them all of 10 minutes to use Google & figure out how to flash a new rom. You could change the device ID to something nonexistent to make it harder to flash, but that's something better worked out by you & no Chef is gonna want to do that for every single person, not to metion that if he did, the thief would google & figure it out.
There is always ways around things, just ask AT&T, HTC & everybody at XDA
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1st the whole idea is not about the phone getting lost rather than personlizing it ,to google or change that is why i said chefs should make it possible to ingrave it in the roms thiefs if they know all that they are nottheifs they won't find time to steal they will be cooking for us

actually, for anti-theft, I was thinking of a kit...
1) modified SPL; requires non-standard password and a signed NBH using your own custom certificate
2) OS is locked down with a trusted certificate of your own in the store so SSPL won't run at all... unless you sign it with your certificate
3) program that checks the SIMcard IMSI; if it changes then it sends an SMS to another number.
now... there are a few practical issues with 2) because it makes installing new apps a pain in the arse since they all need to be signed, so maybe a way of buggering up SSPL would be better.

ras said:
1st the whole idea is not about the phone getting lost rather than personlizing it ,to google or change that is why i said chefs should make it possible to ingrave it in the roms thiefs if they know all that they are nottheifs they won't find time to steal they will be cooking for us
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A Chef that makes ROMs used by thousands is not gonna want to customize or personalize each one for every user. That said, with a donation, there are many that might consider it for you. Of course, you can always use a base ROM & the Kitchen to do it yourself. I do this.
Also, you can use provisioning xml's to customize or personalize them on a basic level using UC. Read Sleuth's thread on UC (User Customization).
@ Olipro, I really like the idea's 1 & 3. I have played a bit with CID locking to an imagined CID & with false Model ID's but of course while you then can't flash a ROM that's not customized to match, you could bypass it with SSPL, making it pointless against anyone half competent.
Your solution 1 & 3 would almost have to go hand in hand, having the password & a way to keep SSPL from jumping the password measures. Something like this, in conjunction with WIMP & UC in ROM, would be a great tool for security. Very Interesting indeed.

Coders in room ?

Are there some coders with some time here ?
We can see that the mail apps on Android are not so good.
Is there one coder who can take a look to port "npop" a well known mail (pop) app on Windows Mobile ?
I have the sources available.
Thanks !

Unless the sources are in Java (which im sure windows mobile is programmed in some C derivative) then it'll be hard to just port it over. a vast majority of the code will have to be rewritten and it'd hardly be the same app. What are you looking for in a mail app specifically? Perhaps someone can write one with those features. Unfortunately I have very little experience in coding (I can do non-GUI stuff in Python, Ruby + C#) But I could have a go, some of it is probably very simple and i'm a master at editing already written code to make it better

Yes the main code is available in C and I know that the app have to be rewritten.
Maybe it can help to get some ideas to build a new app really similar.

What's so special in npop that the default G1 mail app lacks?
/Mats

That's what I was trying to get at... if, for example, it has IMAP support, or something the default mail app doesn't have, it'd be better to ask for a program to be written with that purpose in mind... but rewriting a program is a lot harder in many respects, not to mention depending on the liscence, you have to ask the auther for permission etc.

I use the default mail app to connect to my second gmail account via IMAP and it works just fine. There's a forked version of the default app called k9 that improves on the default app a lot. Google "g1 k9 mail"

I second the recommendation for K9, which lives at http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/ and is open source.
Perhaps give that a try and come back with suggestions for anything you don't like about it?

leon_citron is yet using k-9 and he is not happy with it...

Yes, clearly....
Try to read a file included in a mail for exemple, works sometimes, sometimes not...
Other exemple, you can delete mail from the phone, but not from server.
With npop, you can add filters, delete mails from phone or server, or both and many many more things

[Req] Check book register

can someone if they feel inclined or bored produce a WM6 app for me? dont care how it runs if it uses java or whatever, but if you do java can you insure it runs in midlet well.
basically i want a simple register for my check book. used one once but does not run well on the midlet java has a glitch in it. anyways here is what id like it to do if your tempted to do it. if it works well id even pay a few dollars for it
balance shown at top with month
input + or - amounts
set catagories as well as add new ones
add notes if needed
show date
able to go back and forth each month to see payments
then if you want to add these functions in, maybe a way to look at a break down by catagories to see where most the money is going. and a way to MMS the results to a email account, maybe in a html or other format so i can see date, amount, catagory, notes (this last part is just bonus)
the one thing the last one had a issue with was it never carried the amount to the next month i had to add it in manually.
i hope someone is inclinded to write one i miss my old one so much....

various free finance apps on this site, eg
http://freewareppc.com/financial/shpfinance.shtml
Just a case of trying them all and seeing which works best for you
I doubt anyone will write one, as there are already pro apps that do most of what you want - ie export data etc
Enjoy

i have looked all over for them and most do not run properly on the Dash, and the pro ones have way to much bloat in them i want them simple the export function i use rarely so is not needed. so thought i would ask is all.

thanks for the link i tried all of them listed on the site, and 0 of them worked on my dash, my dash is running 6.1 with net 3.5 and every last one gave me a error when i tried to run the programs after instal..
i do thank you for the attempted assistance tho.

Have you tried an Excel Check Register? There are a lot of free Check Register Excel templates available.

not familiar with excel or spreedsheets can ya point me to a place that has them ? thanks for the help

[REQUEST] Remote foobar

I would donate money to someone who made a remote app to foobar2000 for android.
Maybe there already is but I've searched a lot and cant find it =(
There is this http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=38114 control.dll wich handles some commands and the connection over tcp/ip.
But the rest I can't do on my own

I also would like a foobar remote. I've done the android tutorials on the sdk website but I'm by no means an experienced developer.
I thought I would base it around the android-vlc-remote interface.
Perhaps a google code project is a good idea?

I have written a remote controller for foobar2000 a while ago. It's not very beautiful, but at least it works. It's not a plugin for foobar though, it's a server program written in Java. It still just has the basic controls, but I'm about to make it good and release it after my exams (in a couple of weeks or so).

Try out foo_httpcontrol. Then there are a few templates that look good on the Android (I use the ones by KEVO).
I can't post a link, but here is the URL, but Google and there is a thread on Hydrogen Audio dot org

tberman333 said:
Try out foo_httpcontrol. Then there are a few templates that look good on the Android (I use the ones by KEVO).
I can't post a link, but here is the URL, but Google and there is a thread on Hydrogen Audio dot org
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i am using that too , but do u have resolution problem, becoz it is designed for G1

beware, shameless self-plug follows:
i've written an app to control foobar2k over wifi. uses the foo_httpcontrol plugin to send commands/get data.
the website is: foodroid.net84.net (has the QR-Code). or simply search for "foodroid" in the market.
please note, if you already have foo-httpcontrol installed: you also need to have the "ajquery" template installed.
if you don't have it installed: i made a setup to install foo-httpcontrol including "ajquery".
it's currently in beta, but pretty useable IMHO.
cheers, bugramovic

bugramovic said:
beware, shameless self-plug follows:
i've written an app to control foobar2k over wifi. uses the foo_httpcontrol plugin to send commands/get data.
the website is: foodroid.net84.net (has the QR-Code). or simply search for "foodroid" in the market.
please note, if you already have foo-httpcontrol installed: you also need to have the "ajquery" template installed.
if you don't have it installed: i made a setup to install foo-httpcontrol including "ajquery".
it's currently in beta, but pretty useable IMHO.
cheers, bugramovic
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Big thx!!! Need cover

Check this out, you might like it.
foobar2000controller.blogspot.com

[Q] DeviceID not unique (Maybe a TNT-Lite problem?)

Is it me or does the DeviceID of a Viewsonic G always come back as the same thing on every device?
I'm running TNT Lite. Running certain market apps immediately lets me take over an existing account owned by someone else, and other apps tell me my deviceID is already registered and give me the username / email address of the person who registered it.
First, it's a bad idea for an app to identify the user solely on the DeviceID. Second, it's a bad idea (and probably against the Android specifications) for all devices to report the same DeviceID, I would assume.
I've also written an app that tracks mileage for tax purposes. I developed a web based license solution that allows a user to either purchase the "pro" version through the Google Market, or I can also "gift" it to people, identified by their gmail account.
When I gift it to someone, it allows them to register up to three devices associated with their gmail account and it sends me an encrypted one-way hash of the DeviceID. I've seen a couple of the same DeviceID's associated with users that my own gTab reports.
This also means if anyone tries to set up an app that does any sort of encryption key based on the deviceID that it would be easy to break.
So, long story short, is this a problem with the core Viewsonic build, or is this an effect of TNT Lite? Or are all DeviceID's the same unless you have a cell radio?

VEGAn 5.1.1 has the same problem... found that out the other night while trying to get Line2 going.
If memory serves correctly there's a hack involving the Android Emulator that I'm adding to my list of todos.

Well I found a post here by Chief Beefalo describing how to do it, but his post is wrong when it comes to the viewsonic.
It's stored in the database at:
/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
In the "secure" table is a row with device_id. Just update that from sqlite should do the trick. It's a 16 digit hexadecimal number.
Of course then you still need to generate a random number that doesn't still conflict with anyone else...
Now the security expert in me starts to think about how bad it would be to write an app that would roll through a ton of deviceid's and log into Pocket Empires (which only locks it down by the deviceid, no password) and trash people's accounts.

I believe you found the android_id ... check out this write up:
http://augendev.wikispaces.com/Market+Fix
start at step 18

And I can confirm this works. You can use a tool such as Android ID Changer (on the market) to update your id. Once that is done you're now free of all the other custom rom holders.
Line2 is now working great for me!
Here's another link to the same (basic) instructions with a better download link if you have problems with the one above:
http://www.smartqmid.com/wiki/index.php?title=Getting_Android_Market_to_work_with_2.1_v1

Can't I just modify the Android ID with a random 16 hex digit number? It might be a duplicate with 1 device out there, but that would be better than to be a duplicate with every ROM of the same kind?

The emulator solution takes all of maybe 15 minutes. You could also look into stealing 15 of the 32 bytes consumed by a guid. I'd like to find the code that supposedly regenerates the android id and host it on a web page. Curious to learn what its variability is.
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This is also what we used to do over on the Pandigital Novel Slatedroid forum. It was called the "ugly" Market hack. Maybe it should have been called the "secure" Market hack.
When I originally got my GTablet, I couldn't figure out how to port the ugly hack over, and eventually we found the other Market hack that we currently use. Also, interesting enough, I added the xbin folder into TNT Lite originally to get sqlite because of early attempts to get that hack working.

OK. So I tried the emulator path and the problem I have is that I ended up with a 18 digit Android ID instead of the 16. The Android ID application will not let me change the ID to an 18 digit number, only a 16 digit one. Any ideas?

I dropped the first two digits ... go figure
Btw I'm finding the same Id on every rom ... it is not limited to any one distribution. The only app this has visibily effected for me is line2. Seems fewer and fewer apps rely on this value... atleast on its own. Problem for us is some bring in the imei code and all the gtab is going to do is return zeroes there.
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Synman said:
I dropped the first two digits ... go figure
Btw I'm finding the same Id on every rom ... it is not limited to any one distribution. The only app this has visibily effected for me is line2. Seems fewer and fewer apps rely on this value... atleast on its own. Problem for us is some bring in the imei code and all the gtab is going to do is return zeroes there.
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So you just dropped the first two digits and it worked? Let me try that!
Thank you!

BTW, I am running Vegan 5.1.1 So this is not a TNTLite only problem. I am guessing that any ROM will have this problem.

Agreed. I've seen the same id on vegan 5.1 and chalkilin.
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A suggestion:
any coder, or anyone who can modify the "SettingsProvider.apk" can change the creation to something else.
On FolioMod and Elocity i changed it to be based on the "ro.firstboot" value, so any new installs will always be different, and yes it might conflict in any firstboot values match by the second or a minute in other parts of the world but chances are small.
its normally generating it from the ro.serialno value..