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HTC should make FaceBook App

I deactivated my Facebook account because I didn't have time to use it and the microsoft facebook on my phone wasn't the best (why leave information up on a site that you don't have time to check/change?).
If HTC develops a Facebook app or a tab for the HD2 in the awesome way they do things, I probably will start facebook again.

I agree. I'm not hating or anything, but facebook has a much broader use than Twitter and it would be nice to be able to communicate people who actually matters to you rather than following some celeb or industry giant (be it Paris Hilton or Peter Chou).

theomni said:
I deactivated my Facebook account because I didn't have time to use it and the microsoft facebook on my phone wasn't the best (why leave information up on a site that you don't have time to check/change?).
If HTC develops a Facebook app or a tab for the HD2 in the awesome way they do things, I probably will start facebook again.
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if you check the topaz and rhodium threads you'll find htc have a facebook app just not like the twitter tab. its integrated into your contacts if you have a search you'll find out more. also if you go to x.faceboom.com you can access it via opera and it looks like the iphone version

I dont have either phone (TD2 or Pro2)... TF3D allows you just to check status of that particular contact... am I right so far??? also it will not allow you to comment etc.. on that status.
But what most of us will like is some something similar to the twitter tab, a complete status update of all your friends (most recent) and allows you to comment etc.. without the need to open an app or a browser... wishfull thinking maybe

HTC shouldn't be doing anything now except getting the WM6.5 rom for the Diamond 2 released.

yep. like i said though. best bet so far is the mobile site atm. the x.facebook.com is better than the m.facebook version.
ps it seems microsoft have updated the facebook app on marketplace. I check the version numbers of both and the new one is 1.1 but they both look the same to me

PretoriaPhil said:
HTC shouldn't be doing anything now except getting the WM6.5 rom for the Diamond 2 released.
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good point lol

agent.m said:
the x.facebook.com is better than the m.facebook version.
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I just tried it in mini opera 4.2, and it's not recognizing the address. Is the domain still live?

obededom said:
I just tried it in mini opera 4.2, and it's not recognizing the address. Is the domain still live?
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I just was on it but I was using Opera Mobile.. give that a go

Consider fring. It has a facebook add-in (although I don't use it so can't recommend). I do like fring for voip and integrating social networking functions in one place, though. Try it, you might like it.

[GUIDE] How to use the Amazon Appstore outside the US

It's pretty simple, you just need a US billing address (which can be faked ... not really recommended if you don't want to get in trouble). Details: http://android.stackexchange.com/q/7254/1465

how do you configure tor or orbot to give you a us ip? i seem to get only ones from europe..

just_another said:
how do you configure tor or orbot to give you a us ip? i seem to get only ones from europe..
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EDIT: Turns out, this is irrelevant.
You should get one eventually, but you could also try going into the app's settings, checking Use Bridges, and enter the IP of a US bridge. I don't know of any US bridges myself but this mat be useful: https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges#FindingMore

And yet no one is giving a complete guide how to do it... Ok, we need Orbot, and that you go to Tor page when you don't get a slightest idea how to use it on your Android phone...

miodrag.cutura said:
And yet no one is giving a complete guide how to do it... Ok, we need Orbot, and that you go to Tor page when you don't get a slightest idea how to use it on your Android phone...
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What are you talking about? There's no Tor page.

Telanis said:
What are you talking about? There's no Tor page.
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Well, I meant Torproject.org page...
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA Premium App

miodrag.cutura said:
Well, I meant Torproject.org page...
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EDIT: Turns out, this is irrelevant.
Oh, in the guide the link to Tor is purely informational, you don't even need to look at it. The Tor link I posted above is a complex way to possibly have a higher chance of being routed into the US ... that's really only for people who are ready to do the research into it. The guide on StackExchange should be enough.

If Tor is essentially a proxy - would your phone need to have iptables in order for this method to work?

Hi guys i managed to change my Amazon address to a NY one and i downloaded the appstore. But when i try to download something it says that i have to set my one click mobile payment or something like that and i have to put in a an American phone number ... is there a way to bypass that? I just want to download free apps

crashnarcis said:
Hi guys i managed to change my Amazon address to a NY one and i downloaded the appstore. But when i try to download something it says that i have to set my one click mobile payment or something like that and i have to put in a an American phone number ... is there a way to bypass that? I just want to download free apps
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Put in a fake number.

Telanis said:
#1, Android uses iptables. #2, no it doesn't require iptables.
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My kernel does not have iptables. (SE X10 Mini Pro)
While I can run orbot and connect - it doesn't tunnel any data through the connection. My IP address in any app is still the same as it was before connection to the tor network. (Including the browser check in the orbot app)
I suspect therefore that in order to tunnel apps through the tor network, your kernel does in fact need iptables.

teapea said:
My kernel does not have iptables. (SE X10 Mini Pro)
While I can run orbot and connect - it doesn't tunnel any data through the connection. My IP address in any app is still the same as it was before connection to the tor network. (Including the browser check in the orbot app)
I suspect therefore that in order to tunnel apps through the tor network, your kernel does in fact need iptables.
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Hmm, OK, apparently I fail. Is there a netfilter-enabled kernel for the Mini?

Telanis said:
Hmm, OK, apparently I fail. Is there a netfilter-enabled kernel for the Mini?
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Nope - fraid not.
I will have to wait patiently for AB Rio until it hits the normal market or Amazon decide on launching in the UK. (Or find it elsewhere)

teapea said:
Nope - fraid not.
I will have to wait patiently for AB Rio until it hits the normal market or Amazon decide on launching in the UK. (Or find it elsewhere)
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Well you could try something else, like running Tor on your PC and connecting your phone to a network created by the PC. See http://android.stackexchange.com/q/549/1465

Would advice against putting in fake info. Amazon just gave me a call, and they were kinda pissed at me for using fake info. Luckily i managed to play on my young age to get out of it.

I don't understand, Amazon appstore seems to work fine for me, all it does it ask me to put in a payment method, which I'm yet to get from my dad

jon094 said:
Would advice against putting in fake info. Amazon just gave me a call, and they were kinda pissed at me for using fake info. Luckily i managed to play on my young age to get out of it.
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If you put a fake phone number, they can't call you. Don't attach fake info to your "real" account if you have one, if this concerns you. And they probably only call if your billing info is fake and they can't process your payment, so you could stick to free apps with no problem. (I don't see why they would call otherwise, there's no way they're going through every account and verifying the info manually).
kamranh3 said:
I don't understand, Amazon appstore seems to work fine for me, all it does it ask me to put in a payment method, which I'm yet to get from my dad
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It doesn't care about whether you have a payment method, or if you do where your billing address is, until you try to buy/download an app.

Yeah, stupidly enough I attached fake info to my real account. I did only download free apps though, to avoid them taking contact.

I am from Singapore and there's no need to use Tor or proxies to use the Amazon Appstore. Downloads are verified as long as there's a valid US credit card number attached to your 1-click configuration.
It makes sense because it verifies you as a US citizen. The claim that " this new market cannot be used outside of the US" is false. You're saying US citizens travelling outside of US who wants to access has to use Tor?
Amazon restricts usage only in US through identification using credit card information (and house address).

jon094 said:
Yeah, stupidly enough I attached fake info to my real account. I did only download free apps though, to avoid them taking contact.
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xcalibre1987 said:
I am from Singapore and there's no need to use Tor or proxies to use the Amazon Appstore. Downloads are verified as long as there's a valid US credit card number attached to your 1-click configuration.
It makes sense because it verifies you as a US citizen. The claim that " this new market cannot be used outside of the US" is false. You're saying US citizens travelling outside of US who wants to access has to use Tor?
Amazon restricts usage only in US through identification using credit card information (and house address).
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jon094, do you have a US credit card?

Cannot input Postcodes into contacts

I have just tried to enter a postcode into a contacts address but the only field is zipcode and it has the field locked to numbers, you cannot even paste a postcode into the field, is this a region issue I cannot find an option to change this but any setting I have in the phone are English (UK)

Not spotted this but you're correct
For now until this is fixed, hopefully, if contacts are entered in outlook and synced then the postcode will transfer ok.

That seems to work but very annoying.

descb600f said:
That seems to work but very annoying.
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I agree with you as I generally enter details into phone and then sync to outlook when home........... now it's back to pen and paper when I'm out!!!!!!

same problem
i cant type in a post code apparently this is a common fault when i rang htc he found the fault to however he used the word "feature" and then said we may fix it if it is important... i said i type in 2 addresses a day i need to be able to type a post code as i have 2000 names and addresses in my phone

Not being able to enter a postcode is an annoying bug for a UK phone. You'd have thought that would have been picked up in testing. Guess I'll have to enter postcodes via GMail in a browser for now.

cooljhill said:
i cant type in a post code apparently this is a common fault when i rang htc he found the fault to however he used the word "feature" and then said we may fix it if it is important... i said i type in 2 addresses a day i need to be able to type a post code as i have 2000 names and addresses in my phone
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Is this a joke??? "may fix it if it is important"?? I use my phone to enter contacts all the time and these then sync OTA to Outlook. It is an essential feature for me. If this doesn't work there is no way I'm getting this phone.
I think that in this situation complaining directly to Vodafone is the best solution and also opening a thread on their forums. People in other countries can do the same with Vodafaone/their local carrier. The carriers will then take it up with HTC and I expect that it will be fixed.

sjgore said:
Not being able to enter a postcode is an annoying bug for a UK phone. You'd have thought that would have been picked up in testing. Guess I'll have to enter postcodes via GMail in a browser for now.
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Not got the phone yet (b'day at the end of June so have to wait a bit ... ) but tested this on my Desire HD and the People app on this allows you to add a UK post code (though it calls it a zip code - doh! ). I'm on 2.3.3 and fail to see why you can't do it from a software point of view. Have they never heard of code re-use?
Still, 99.99% of my contacts are sync'ed from Outlook so no problems. Can you not add the post code as a note and edit it back in Outlook later to "work around" the issue for now? It does peeve me when 'localised' apps aren't really localised at all, just, for the UK anyway, a variation of the US version. Null points!
Dave

dvhttn said:
Can you not add the post code as a note and edit it back in Outlook later to "work around" the issue for now? It does peeve me when 'localised' apps aren't really localised at all, just, for the UK anyway, a variation of the US version. Null points!
Dave
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Now I'm wondering what would happen if you tried to use OCR software to read a business card into the phone.

DuoM said:
Now I'm wondering what would happen if you tried to use OCR software to read a business card into the phone.
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The field is locked I tried copy and paste but only the numbers appeared the letters were omitted.

This is not safe to do is it ???

Hello xdadevelopers,
I've been having a heck of a time accessing the market to get U.S. apps that I'm otherwise entitled to owning. Being outside the country doesn't allow me to download these.
I then came across:
http://www.abtevrythng.com/2010/10/how-to-download-android-apps-which-are.html
As you can read from the instructions, it states that you must hand over your Google username and password.
Humm.... Isn't that exactly what one should not do????

I have not used AppBrain myself, but it is a huge and very popular portal.
I doubt it will misuse your google credentials and i probably would have heard of something like that happening.
But i can understand your worries and it is good to ask before just entering ones passwords and account into random sites.
Lets wait for another answer, maybe from someone using appbrain, as i don't plan on signing up there .

try VPN,pls.

I don't use appbrain myself, but I know people who do. Very good app, from what I've heard.

GhostElves said:
try VPN,pls.
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What? Spam?

[GUIDE] How to bypass T-Mobile's tether block using Firefox

Hello everyone, so I recently finally got blocked from tethering by T-Mobile after a long time of sucking it out of them by being rooted and on a custom ROM like all of us here.
The way they know you are tethering on their network is by the User Agent that is sent to them by your desktop/laptop computer browser. When they see that a regular browser is accessing their network, that's when you get the infamous T-Mobile Hotspot Screen we all hate.
I've recently discovered a Firefox Add-On called User Agent Switcher found here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/?src=search
Download it and install it to Firefox. Then download this (right click, "Save as") http://techpatterns.com/downloads/firefox/useragentswitcher.xml
Go to Tools>User Agent>Edit User Agents (a window pops up) click on "Import.." and add the .xml file you just downloaded.
Then pick a User Agent that resembles the Sensation webkit and BAM! Free tethering for all of us.
I'm using it right now
NOTE: If you use a Googlebot User Agent, you will be able to tether and always load up full webpages instead of mobile versions. - Thanks to The Archangel and chadwick3nser for discovering this!

You can also do the same with chrome.
Been doing it for since the day they released it.

The Archangel said:
You can also do the same with chrome.
Been doing it for since the day they released it.
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Hell yeah, go Chrome! I've never used it so I wouldn't know

FiddleGoose said:
Hell yeah, go Chrome! I've never used it so I wouldn't know
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I actually take it one step further an either completely hide my IP on the computer or switch it so they can't try to block it.

Nice!
Is that how att detects also?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda premium

They detect by sniffing packets an the extra Mac address

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They detect by sniffing packets an the extra Mac address
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Damn, AT&T is on point. Bastards.
I hate T-Mobile for pulling that move as well.

FiddleGoose said:
Damn, AT&T is on point. Bastards.
I hate T-Mobile for pulling that move as well.
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just about every major cell company does the exact same thing to detect it. Maybe different variants but still the same.

I am doing this right now as well, but all the desktop pages are in mobile. I have found the desktop button on the bottom of the youtube site but cant find it on most sites. any workaround for this?

chadwick3nser said:
I am doing this right now as well, but all the desktop pages are in mobile. I have found the desktop button on the bottom of the youtube site but cant find it on most sites. any workaround for this?
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Use a Google spider UA. Everything will be as normal

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Use a Google spider UA. Everything will be as normal
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do i create a custom UA and edit the string to a spider or how would be the best way? or what would be the best one to use?about going about this? sorry, have no experience with user agents
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nevermind, i used googlebot 2.1 new version and its working great, thanks for this!!!

Glad you got it working.
Hey op. Heres a suggestion, put in the your first post. Use a Google bot user agent. Using that will load all the web mail pages normally.

The Archangel said:
Glad you got it working.
Hey op. Heres a suggestion, put in the your first post. Use a Google bot user agent. Using that will load all the web mail pages normally.
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You got it!

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I actually take it one step further an either completely hide my IP on the computer or switch it so they can't try to block it.
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What are you using to block the IP address? I was thinking just changing the IP to not be the standard DHCP that the phone would give you still shows it coming from another MAC address on the same connection and would be obvious to the write sniffing rules?
I realize this isn't a requirement I've been using the UA for a while from canary but I easily see them stopping this workaround w/ better sniffing rules.

SurfCityCom said:
What are you using to block the IP address? I was thinking just changing the IP to not be the standard DHCP that the phone would give you still shows it coming from another MAC address on the same connection and would be obvious to the write sniffing rules?
I realize this isn't a requirement I've been using the UA for a while from canary but I easily see them stopping this workaround w/ better sniffing rules.
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i use platnium hide ip. it switches to another ip when im on windows an sometimes ill use smac to change that also. havent found any programs for linux yet (havent really looked)

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Use a Google spider UA. Everything will be as normal
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This is a very bad advice as pretending to be a googlebot may get you either blocked or banned from many websites (especially if they use ZBBlock) as this behavior is rated as a spammer/bot activity.

tobitege said:
This is a very bad advice as pretending to be a googlebot may get you either blocked or banned from many websites (especially if they use ZBBlock) as this behavior is rated as a spammer/bot activity.
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I've been doing it for a while, never got a ban on my end

Okay I've been tethering fine for a while on FF, but T-Mobile finally blocked me yesterday... I figured out that it was the second I started to watch a YouTube video. Guessing they're able to see activity on my cell account at the same time as my login is accessing YouTube and put 2&2 together...? (That may be obvious to some...)
Anyway... I may try the user agent spoofing but this is really aggravating since I'm traveling right now and the internets in my hotel are $10/day.
Sent from my Galaxy S 4G

Anyone figure out how to use netflix while spoofing in Firefox? I've been settling for Amazon Prime instant video, but I'd love to have Netflix back. With the UA spoof, Netflix won't play movies. At least I haven't figured out how.

This method no longer works for me