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XDA Appreciation Thread

Figured I'd start this thread to give thanks to all the people who bring us new toys and software to play with. The ROM chefs, moderators, and problem solvers.
Also a big thanks to Kyphur for releasing his WMXL as promised. I was about to take my Hermes back until this sucker found its way on here yesterday, so Kyphur, you are.. THE MAN

Word up...

yup yup, kudos to the gurus.

Big up to all devs

normally i'm just fine lurking here (tinkering a little here and there with my tytn) - but i wanted to at least poke my head in to say thank you very much for the new rom. it works great and i have no complaints that i can't deal with on my own....

I'm a reg on howardforums and I must say that this board has definatley help me with my new voyage into the pocket pc world. I have G4 cingular 8125

Here Here! XDA Live is the best thing on the TyTN since 1.35!!! Long Live the Cook!

Cheers to the people doing all the experimental work. It takes a lot of cojones to do something that might turn an expensive piece of equipment into a brick.
I hope everyone keeps up the good work!
Maz
http://maz.net.au/

This thread needs more love. Thanks for everything XDA gurus!

Yep, big up for all the cookers

My Love to XDAdev and everyone here. The Pman for creating this forum first of all. To the Unlock creators and the ROM cookers. It seems that we forget the UNLOCK GURUs when we talk about giving kudos for cooked ROMs. Without them, we would not be able to cook ROMS.
Oh BTW HTC for creating such loveable devices

*my first post*
Huge thanks to all involved in development and support of this amazing piece of software. Im very new to PDAs and VERY new to upgrading, flashing etc. You guys must look at these devices with a completely different viewpoint than me - the results of which speak for themselves!
Some of the tinkering on the PDA is kinda scary... in a good way.
But WM6 makes this pda like a whole new machine
Now... if only i could convince IT admin to update work PC's to Activesync4.5!!! lol.

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I think everyone should try to show a public appreciation of the efforts that go on here and the other Meister sites, SPV-Developers, Buzzdev and many others.
Our operators and all powerful Overlord need to see that we are just a bunch of over-enthusiastic hobbyists who love to make the most of the hardware they've spent good money on. Pushing stuff off this site just pushes it into fringe territory, or God forbid, Howard Forums
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Appreciated... I've done things to my phone that I thought I couldn't. You guys have given me the power to maximize my phone's capabilities... For that I Thank You!!!

First post here as well.
I'll soon get a TyTN and the excellent member content here has helped from purchase to identifying upgrade options and ideal software.
Cheers XDA.

The least we can do is to express our support and appreciation to this great forum; without which we would be hostages to Micros**t bugy S**tware.
I am sure if Micros**t provided the source code to the Gurus of this forum it would have been fixed long time back..
Go forth xda-developers...

*tips hat* thank you kindly

We have a great smart and creative group of people here. Appreciate all of the work you have done thus far.

million thanks to XDA.

Thanks to Xda and all the members who work every day to give us the perfect ppc ... lets keep on cooking!!!!!!!!!!
XDA rules .....

I'm going to get flak for this: rant about the current state of TBolt and XDA

I've written a blog post about my thoughts about Thunderbolt development and XDA forums. It's somewhat inflammatory, but I offer a few suggestions on how things can be better.
Full disclosure: I'm a sysadmin and an OSS developer. I haven't contributed to Android development but I do contribute in several OSS projects.

I personally like Xda and the community it has. The devs put in alot of hard work for free to the rest of us.

I do too - however, it can be made better for aspiring developers. My perception is that if you want to contribute code to these ROM projects, it's nearly impossible to get started, ignoring everything that anyone would have to learn about the Linux kernel and Android SDK.

I've written a blog post about my thoughts about Thunderbolt development and XDA forums. It's somewhat inflammatory, but I offer a few suggestions on how things can be better.
Full disclosure: I'm a sysadmin and an OSS developer. I haven't contributed to Android development but I do contribute in several OSS projects.[/QUOTE]
No flames from me. While I like xda, all your points are valid and if anything you ignored some of the worst parts...e.g. Flaming, lack of respect, and other things that I see more often than I'd like when they aren't really warrented.
That said, ive seen much worse on other foss mailing lists, but at least in those cases its about code, not people.
Sent from my ADR6400L using XDA App

So you want ROM threads to have a few posts only by the developer and have developers respond to emails to help users? Some developers enjoy helping others hence why they distribute their work for free and spend the time to make posts. The other questions are answered by other members who know how to resolve issues to a point. The fact you use that as a reason this site "sucks" is simply ridiculous. But that's just my opinion just like you gave your opinion.
I do agree with the CM7 issue to an extent. It shouldn't be on one man who has a job and a big family. Others should be helping and the code for everything should be available for others in the community to help get it finished and ready for final release. But with that said he is doing quite a lot and for one man he has done quite well IMO.

Seriously?
You try to start an intentional flame war with a hot topic that's been beaten like a dead horse and then write a blog post (presumably on your own blog because I'm not giving you traffic by clicking on it) so you can get free traffic by link baiting and most likely free ad revenue from it. Pathetic.

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This thread in no way contributes anything useful, other than driving traffic to your blog.
If you have any suggestions for xda, post in THIS thread.

[APP-PROJECT][4.4.X] HIVE APPS (Notebooks, Books, Drawings)

Hello, I don't really know if it's all right to post this kind of thread here but I haven't been able to find any other forum that seems like the proper place for my thread. I'd like to say sorry in advance if I have indeed posted in the wrong section.
Anyhow, me and a friend are working on a set of apps and a slightly modified android rom as our IT project this year. We are hoping to win a prize in the local competition which will be held here in Bosnia on 23rd of next month and then hopefully make our way to some international competitions.
I'd like to quickly go over our project.
HIVE OS is an "operating system" based on android for usage in school tablets. It contains some pre-installed applications such as: Notebooks, Books, Drawings... It synchronizes users' documents with the cloud allowing users to access their files from their personal phones, tablets, computers, etc...
As the competition draws closer we have started with writing academic papers such as the research paper. Some stats are required in a research paper. Some testing and data analysis. Thus, as a member of this forum I thought that I could get some interested people's opinions, let them test the apps and collect their feedback...
If you are interested in testing Notebooks, Books and Drawings apps and helping us with our data collection you can download attached apps and once you are done with your testing you can submit your feedback by filling the form over at feedback website.
Some points to keep in mind:
1 .We are 2 high school 3rd year guys. Our experience with android programming is pretty fresh. My friend only launched ADT for the first time as he began this project, whereas, I, even though I had launched it before hadn't been able to produce anything useful.
2. As these apps are intended for tablets, we didn't really put any special effort in trying to make them fit every screen (smaller screens). They should be fine on devices with screen similar to the one of the nexus 4 and higher...
3. Books app requires at least a single book to be present under /HIVE/Books in your sdcard. Otherwise, it will look empty. This is because these apps are supposed to receive their material by means of synchronization. I'll be attaching a zip file (Introduction to Trigonometry.zip) to extract there but if you end up having problems and can't make the app show a book, please skip books app in the feedback form. Thank you for your understanding.
Another note is that we hope you'll go easy on us. As I already mentioned, we are pretty new into android development. The data collected from the forms are going to be used in the academic side of things. Those who know will probably understand... It won't hurt if you give a 4 where you actually think it deserves a 3. We don't want to have graphs which will make it look like our apps suck.
Of course, this doesn't mean that you should go with all 5s. Fill the forms the way you think, but we'd be happy if you didn't give a lot of 1s and 2s...
Thank you for your understanding on this as well.
Screenshots:
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Thank you all who give feedback and opinions once again!

Awesome..
Sent from my GT-I9500 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

Uploaded fixed Drawings apk

Freedom phone

Anybody heard of this new phone to be released in August? Just asking because I would like more details on it. Such as hardware details, OS details etc. And the possibility that the bootloader is unlocked and maybe someone is already working on root method?
Freedom Phone
Freedom Phone
freedomphone.com
Thank you

AFAIK the phones offered by Freedom Phones are Pixel 4 and Pixel 4XL running GrapheneOS.
More info here

jwoegerbauer said:
AFAIK the phones offered by Freedom Phones are Pixel 4 and Pixel 4XL running GrapheneOS.
More info here
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Thank you for the information but I think we may be talking about 2 different organizations. The link you provided is .net and the one I posted is .com. Not only that but the freedom phone from your post has graphene OS while the one from my link uses freedom OS.
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I saw that on the NTD channel on YouTube (it's a conservative news channel that YT would never recommend)
https://www.youtube.com/c/ntdtv/videos
They were saying that the Freedom Phone is a plan by a guy who become a millionaire by his age of 18, because he invested in Bitcoin. So, a prejudice warning right there.
Next, they said that his main concern was that it is hard to source the hardware (really?), because the big names in cell phone business do dominate the industry, while none of them interested in privacy. (True).
So, he had figured out how to get the hardware and his new freedom phone is flying off the shelves, because it is a revolutionary new concept where the phone has his own store and doesn't allow the network location scanning and so on, so basically it is a de-googled phone.

TRexombo said:
Anybody heard of this new phone to be released in August? Just asking because I would like more details on it. Such as hardware details, OS details etc. And the possibility that the bootloader is unlocked and maybe someone is already working on root method?
Freedom Phone
Freedom Phone
freedomphone.com
Thank you
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Conservatives are touting this phone to be patriotic, etc... but there are articles claiming its a cheap chinese knockoff with huge security issues, likely built in to the phone at the request of the NSA for snooping purposes.

Server dedicated to unlocking & rooting -- Advice

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So I've been contemplating and iterating on the idea of dedicating some computing power on a server for remote unlocking/rooting ect. In the past I've had great success doing so with a Pii and having physical access. But I've wanted to try to build something remote and really gauge the viability. If your a native Linux user then you know the pile of driver issues that come with attempting to run Windows VM's to do specific work on specific phones. And its with that I'd like to ask if any you beautiful people have some suggestions beyond the obvious to make this a viable option. Running a dedicated VM on the server specifically for this would be easy but again comes with all extremely annoying driver & serial port hurdles. Are there any docker images out there that could prove to be useful?
Right now the obvious solution to those issues is that when a friend or client needs something done they offer ssh access to their computer with the device connected so all of it can be completely circumvented. So that kind of simple functionality I'll certainly have covered. Looking into & getting answers for people won't be a problem remotely with a server setup properly but when it comes to things like unbricking or rooting Samsung devices anything short of physical access is basically a big big biggg time sink, with no gaurentee of any kind of solution in the end.
So what kind of advice/applications/different methods can you think up that might help bring the usefulness of this little experiment higher?
Also plz keep in mind this IS NOT being designed to offer For-Hire services, I'm just experimenting with the idea I'm finishing up a server build next week and have plenty of things I'll be using it for but I love to hack and just see where we can take different ideas, and this is one I've had great success with using single boards like a Raspberry Pii & one of my favs (just gotta mention it) is my cheap old little Apollo Lake Chromebook running Gallium Linux on it setup for the same plus Apple app suites. Two devices which cost me together less than 200$, actually all the peripherals probably cost quite a bit more than the devices. (well this was also when Pii's were still 35$ and THANK GOD i bought 5, but just FYI if you haven't heard that drought is ending very soon) So much fun and so damn useful!
Some brainstorming fruit :
unlocking/rooting devices remotely :
Server <----- Client Computer+---USB---+Device : Greatest Possible Chance
Full Rooting
Un-bricking
Installations
De-bloating
Tweaking
Server <--ADB server | Application (termux ssh ect.) |--> Device : Almost everything remains on the table IF device previously rooted
Diagnosing Issues
Tweaking
Almost all work on a previously prepared device
Rooting
Unbricking
Had to put in a pic of the Pii & Chromebook I use to do whatever random phone/tablet work my friends and peoples call me for. They're both old and beat up but astonishingly both function great still. Its Pii 3b+ and an Asus C423N - Apollo Lake (Celeron I believe).