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[Q] Mask your OS with Social Networking

So this is pretty random and I've done some searches and can't seem to find anything, probably because no one would care enough to do something like this besides me.
The problem: I'm a MS consultant and am tired of hearing **** from my WP7 friends and colleagues.
The ask: Is there a way to mask/disguise/FAKE the OS I have when working with social networking sites? Primarily Facebook for now, you know the "sent via Windows Phone" or "posted by HTC Sense", "Android", etc.
Anyone know how to change/hack/tweek that without changing phones/OS's entirely?

You could just post from their mobile sites and it will say posted from _____ mobile. You can also post from the main site from your phone and it's like posting from your computer.
I know this isn't really what you asked at all, but it will help with your issue.
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Caring about being made fun of by windows fanboys for using a linux based phone to me is like caring about being made fun of because you dont huff fumes from an aerosol can. Always annoys me that some group or person can be so blinded to see that there is more than one alternative that works for people and it doesnt always come from the same source
Some applications let you remove that signature or set what it says. However, the easiest solution would be not to use the application and use the browser in the site. If they dont let you set it, then you have to modify the apk or modify the build.conf file in /system (which may or may not mess things up for other applications that depend on that). It's most likely picking up the make/model from that.
If it bothers you that much, you probably need new friends and ignore the coworkers you have to see regardless. Your current ones suck and have drank the koolaid.
Your problem also reminded me of the following penny arcade comic (ignore the phones in question, just the general overtone of the comic is what is related):
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

I guess I should have clarified. I'd love nothing more than my posts to start saying Windows Phone and seeing their false appreciation and excitement only to see me still rocking my TB with CM once I actually see them.
Was just a question, thought maybe someone else might have had some hack to alter it somehow.

DNak206 said:
I guess I should have clarified. I'd love nothing more than my posts to start saying Windows Phone and seeing their false appreciation and excitement only to see me still rocking my TB with CM7 once I actually see them.
Was just a question, thought maybe someone else might have had some hack to alter it somehow.
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Ah okay, you just want to one up them in a slightly smartass way . Generally as mentioned, it's just a setting in apps you can change, at least for things like email clients, but you probably looked in whatever you are using already.

yareally said:
Ah okay, you just want to one up them in a slightly smartass way . Generally as mentioned, it's just a setting in apps you can change, at least for things like email clients, but you probably looked in whatever you are using already.
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Yeah, primarily it's the Android Facebook app for statuses and photo uploading. I wouldn't have the slightest idea on where to start in tweeking anything in it. Naturally I think the settings in the app wouldn't allow me to change that.

Looking for COMPLETE navigation app

Hello all,
I've been searching back and forth on the forums and i couldn't find a complete navigation app (in my vision at least).
I am a Samsung Galaxy S2 user and i am looking for an alternate solution to Google Maps with the following features:
MUST HAVE
- offline map and navigation
- no process running while app is closed - my major problem
- up to date maps (or close)
- Eastern Europe maps (i am from Romania)
- compatibility with Contacts' address
GOOD TO HAVE
- low battery consumption while using it
- nice, idiot friendly interface :silly:
- some customizing
- chance to try before buy
I don't mind if it connects to the internet from time to time to check on updates & stuff... just not to be forced to connect to the internet to run it.

Do yourself a favour mate and stop writing everything in bold as it just gets annoying.
For the app, have a look at NavFree. I haven't used it on Android as I love Google Maps and couldn't care less about it connecting to the Internet all the time, but I use NavFree on my work-iPhone4 and it is near enough faultless.

Dude... if the post was too long to read... well... i am sorry for you.
Stop posting just to get a bigger post number cause you won't get a prize...
The bold was put especially so u can read better what i need. I need a nav app with THOSE FEATURES

mamadraq said:
Dude... if the post was too long to read... well... i am sorry for you.
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WTF?
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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mamadraq said:
Stop posting just to get a bigger post number cause you won't get a prize...
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I posted to answer your question - have you looked at NavFree yet? I couldn't care less about my post count - I gained a lot from XDA when I first rooted my phone, so I now try to help others out on here. Some people (look in the mirror) have been here for over a year, have 10 posts to their name and have only ever asked questions, never attempted to help another user
mamadraq said:
The bold was put especially so u can read better what i need. I need a nav app with THOSE FEATURES
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Regardless, putting the whole post in bold doesn't make it easier to read at all. Bold is supposed to highlight important words or phrases - using it for the entire post makes it more difficult to read.

SimonTS said:
have you looked at NavFree yet?
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I've checked the app but wasn't good (for me at least)... had only 10 maps that could be downloaded, my country wasn't there.
I found Route 66 Maps & Navigation. Till now it looks ok but i am still testing it. I am happy i can use the contacts' address directly.

[GUIDE]How To Search Only Android Play Store Titles And Cut Out The Noise

I do so much searching in the Play Store on a daily basis that every little trick that helps surface relevant results faster and filter out things I don't want is worth its weight in gold. Sometimes, you're searching for XYZ, which you know should be in the title, but instead get a ton of results back with XYZ in the description. This is especially frustrating when a new app or game gets released, and Google hasn't figured out it's popular yet. In that case, it's more than likely that searching for the name of the app will show it somewhere near the last results page.
As it turns out, the Play Store supports the intitle: query operator, which is part of my regular Google-fu search arsenal. I don't think it used to work before, so I haven't tried it for a while, until today. It now works beautifully.
If you have multiple search terms and you know the right order, you should surround them with quotes, like so:
intitle:"foo bar"
If you know a few keywords but not necessarily the order, just include several intitle operators or use the allintitle operator, like so:
intitle:foo intitle:bar
or
allintitle:foo bar
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Let's have a look.
intitle:"hulu":
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
And now without intitle. hulu:
Most of the time, the regular search without intitle will bring the results you're looking for at the top, so I don't expect everyone to suddenly start searching using intitle left and right. However, remember this tip when the time is right. I promise you, it'll come.. :good:
Credits to @Archon810 for his post from Android Police.:good:
Sorry for not mentioning the credits earlier, i was just sharing info here. Meant no offence.

Is there a way to exclude a particular word, i.e. the word "GO" while you search for "themes"

rederik75 said:
Is there a way to exclude a particular word, i.e. the word "GO" while you search for "themes"
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+1, that would help a lot... Maybe also to exclude "Dolphin"

rederik75 said:
Is there a way to exclude a particular word, i.e. the word "GO" while you search for "themes"
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agirardello said:
+1, that would help a lot... Maybe also to exclude "Dolphin"
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Not pretty much sure how to exclude a word from the search..
But u can try n be more specific.. use the exact word.. like the theme and for which app.. like allintitle:"handcent theme"..
may be this would help filtering out useless search result..:good:

rederik75 said:
Is there a way to exclude a particular word, i.e. the word "GO" while you search for "themes"
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Minus word works just like it does on Google search. For example if I type in "launcher" I get Go Launcher and addon programs/themes along with some other launchers. If I type in "launcher -go" I get apex launcher, etc, nothing with go launcher in sight.

also as it is in google if you put ~ you will get synonyms (~alert will return you alert, alarms, etc)

So you decided to just rip off my post (http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...roid-play-store-titles-and-cut-out-the-noise/), OP? How nice of you.

Forum not displaying properly

The title pretty much sums it up.
I like to get caught up with a few specific rom-threads when I get a few minutes at work, but last night (at work), my GS3 wouldn't load the pages properly using the phones browser. No worries at the time, I figured I'll just catch up on my pc when I get home. So now I'm home on my pc, but I still get the same jumbled up pages. I am so not happy.
I use Firefox on the pc, but tried Chrome browser, and even IE-10. Cleared cookies and cache but get the same thing on all of em. Obviously I am not the only one this is happening to, so any info is appreciated.
I'm just hoping it's all back to normal when I get up tomorrow.
But tonight, I might actually have a problem getting to sleep without my daily dose of xda lol.
Edit- twitter said something about the hosting company doing something to the network.

a suggestion.
google play has a application for these forums, if you download that, that will help fix the display problems
hope that helps

darkdaz said:
a suggestion.
google play has a application for these forums, if you download that, that will help fix the display problems
hope that helps
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Appreciate it and I already have a themed xda app, I just really prefer the phones browser. I might only spend 10-15 minutes browsing xda at work, so the phone not displaying it properly isn't that big a deal. But it's 8am here and still not displaying correctly on my win7 pc (or the phone browser), so I'm open to suggestions or ideas or anyone who could tell me whats up with xda. Probably spend more time on xda then almost all my other sites combined,so I'm pretty bummed right now.

It is not showing up properly for me either:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

It's not showing up right for me either. Hopefully they'll sort it out soon.

cambunch said:
It is not showing up properly for me either:
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yup same.

Oh I thought it was just me...

Really, no one knows why all of a sudden xda isn't displaying properly? This is really annoying so maybe a mod will check in and let us know what is going on. As it is right now, the forum is really hard to follow and is basically unreadable.
Someone please help with this

Here's the solution for anyone still needing it. Thanks to clankfu for answering my post in the Sprint GS3 MOAR thread.
clankfu said:
I had the same problem. Go to the very bottom, left corner of the page and choose "XDA 2013 Beta - 1024" from the dropdown.
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Edit - Tried to edit the title from my op to show [Solved] but didn't see that option.

i was thinking last night, and i changed to the themes, and one didnt show correctly, but soon as i changed to another one, like xda clasic or something like that it was alright.
the ones that are having trouble, hope it works...
to anyone who reads this topic, if you have any other ideas or suggestions excluding theme changing, please here in this topic....
admin or mods: please rename topic and add solved on it

techhelpfox appearing in many searches

this doesnt exactly have to do with mobile devices , but im sick of techhelpspot results appearing in most of my google searches that would otherwyse send XDA results, the only thing that site does is steal the info here in the forums, and then giving you a link to xda (and other tech sites)
i cant see a way to block it , so i wanted to make sure its not something in my pc hijacked or anything else.
example using google.com (us) example search: galaxy s3 clock aokp
here is an example image with results:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
another one: atrix hd swype apk
any idea why is this happening or if its only me?
i hate to go there just to click on a link that will bring me here, i think that site is new, xda results used to come on top before.
*MODS if not correct forum section please move or delete. thank you

Happens to me too.. hate it. It's just spam search engine designed to steal ad revenue :/

TechHelpFox said:
We manually curate thousands of questions, answers, how-to tutorials, manuals, and more. We put all the relevant content in one convenient place in order to give you all of the resources you need to solve any technology problem you encounter. No more wading through dozens of sites to get the answers you need!
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It's basically a search engine but designed for finding similar questions. Kind of useful, but also a bit annoying.

When you do a Google search, just include
site:forum.xda-developers.com
At the start and it will only search within the XDA forums.

SimonTS said:
When you do a Google search, just include
site:forum.xda-developers.com
At the start and it will only search within the XDA forums.
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"just" sounds like an understatement lol thats a lot to type specially from a phone,
maybe there is a way to do the opposite? like site not like: techblahblah ?
thank you .

This has become a major annoyance for me too. Please report it at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform?hl=en everyone.

You can type "-techhelpfox" but that website is really breaking my balls.

YellowNote said:
You can type "-techhelpfox" but that website is really breaking my balls.
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yeah, its really annoying, i hope google sends them to the bottom of the results

Reported
KurianOfBorg said:
This has become a major annoyance for me too. Please report it at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform?hl=en everyone.
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XDA wasn't even on the first page, yet all the information on techstupid was from XDA...
After submission, Google suggested this add-on https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-webspam-report-by/efinmbicabejjhjafeidhfbojhnfiepj , which I have to say I will use relentlessly, and I recommend you do the same. It allows you to navigate to the webspam site, then click a button and have the form auto-filled for you.
Maybe even better though, is this add-on, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist-by-goo/nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef which allows you to click "Block xxxxx.com" from the search results. I think I'll report a few hundred techstupid pages and then click the blocker.
Hope this helps someone else!

Reported to Google! Hate this site so much, waste my time on every search. Hope this stupid techhelpfox.com site to die soon.