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sorry guys just trying to be helpful to thoes seeking more information about the phone... someone on that site has there hands on the phone already! and is willing to answer any questions you guys might have!

who vincent?. who has it

I have one if anyone has any questions..

Memory leak
The person who has the G1 phone on androidcommunity says it has a bad memory leak and he has to reboot often. Have you seen the same thing?
He also said there was no file folder system and it was hard to find files. Is this true?
Thanks,
Tim

and they have more everything

2 different app stores for android?
there is the android market..and maybe im crazy , but isnt there another app store for android?
can sum1 provide info ?
thanx

yeah they do have alot of stuff there. but ill be coming here for my apps and OS upgrades/ roms

cookzitall said:
there is the android market..and maybe im crazy , but isnt there another app store for android?
can sum1 provide info ?
thanx
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lol no its the android market goto http://androidcommunity.com you will find everything android there have fun.

There's also http://www.trackdroid.com and http://android-freeware.org

I've noticed that using Android Market on different ROM versions, different apps show up in the Android Market.

i dont have all the apps on my market app, really sucks

Found new app site!
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i dont have all the apps on my market app, really sucks
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Guys i found a new site with apps...and it seemd very well designed and have some short of application that u install and then u download what u need.
Nice to see some other places ecxept google market
www.slideme.org

wizzo65 said:
Guys i found a new site with apps...and it seemd very well designed and have some short of application that u install and then u download what u need.
Nice to see some other places ecxept google market
www.slideme.org
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I'm going to wait to read reviews on some of these non-google sponsored android marketplaces as I think that's where the malware is going to show up. The user is always the biggest hole in any security plan.

http://www.android-freeware.org/ Do Not attempt
DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FREEWARE ON OTHER SITES. Thier is a reason that it is not in the android app store. I downloaded a program from http://www.android-freeware.org/ and it crashed my device and since T-Mobile will not support it yet, its useless at the moment.
Be patient wait for all the apps to load in the market.
Hope this saves someones device

Ok so I tried:
Took sim out and booted up in Safe mode. Was able to actually open the menu and go into settings. I went into applications and the error came up again.
So I had to master reset the device and it is now working back to normal

It's a bit blanket to say to not download any apps from a site just because a beta app crashed your device.. There are many apps there from many different developers, and while some may be quite unstable, some may also be fairly good..
It was my understanding that the Android Market would be similarly unregulated, so I honestly think you'd have the same chance of finding a app that has some issues there as you would at another site.
It would help to know which app you were trying to use that crashed, so we know which app to avoid.

chorca said:
It's a bit blanket to say to not download any apps from a site just because a beta app crashed your device.. There are many apps there from many different developers, and while some may be quite unstable, some may also be fairly good..
It was my understanding that the Android Market would be similarly unregulated, so I honestly think you'd have the same chance of finding a app that has some issues there as you would at another site.
It would help to know which app you were trying to use that crashed, so we know which app to avoid.
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Here is my take on this. Google has never said that the Android Market would be unregulated. They would be idiots to say that and even bigger idiots to actually follow through on that. They've made a huge investment in Android and intend for it to grow. To protect their investment I am positive that there is a team of android employees who's job it will be to regularly download and test new apps, especially from new/untested developers to make sure that 1. it's not malware 2. it doesn't crash the OS or cause any other problems. This is protecting their investment.
What I have heard as regards to the android market is that it will not be heavily regulated like the apple market. For example Apple refuses to let you sell apps that compete with one of their own products, or a product they have in development.
Thus my thought is this. The most amount of regulation that Android apps on google's Android Market will undergo will be minimal. Most legit developers will not have a problem setting up space on the market, and getting their apps out to users. So, given that, what are you likely to find elsewhere? Apps that don't even meet the basic requirements of the Android Market. Apps that are malware, or will crash the OS, or snake oil salesmen trying to make a quick buck, and thus can't/won't be allowed on the Android Market (or will be removed quickly) That equals problems in my book, and there is no way I'm going to download anything that's not at the Android Market, at least not for a very long time. If it's legit, it should be at the Android Market where I can trust it.

thanks for the tip, will trust your experience and leave apps that aren't in the market alone. Thank god you got yours working again!!!

GlobalM3 said:
DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FREEWARE ON OTHER SITES. Thier is a reason that it is not in the android app store. I downloaded a program from http://www.android-freeware.org/ and it crashed my device and since T-Mobile will not support it yet, its useless at the moment.
Be patient wait for all the apps to load in the market.
Hope this saves someones device
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Which app did this?
thanks,
jason

yeah, i was looking at that site and some of those apps look pretty cool, what app was it that crashed your phone?

AdFree Android?

Was AdFree android removed from the market??? I can't seem to find it...

Still there for me.

Try this link. http://www.appbrain.com/app/adfree-android/com.bigtincan.android.adfree
On a side note i tried to update my database today it took long enough that my screen turned off and tried to turn it back on and just got a black screen, had to pull battery :-\

Cy_n_ic said:
Try this link. http://www.appbrain.com/app/adfree-android/com.bigtincan.android.adfree
On a side note i tried to update my database today it took long enough that my screen turned off and tried to turn it back on and just got a black screen, had to pull battery :-\
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thanks! I couldnt find it anywhere
"Failed to replace your hosts file. Error message:" and no error message. Never had this happen with my older phone. Could it be MIUI?

nope runs fine on miui im running it

CheesyNutz said:
nope runs fine on miui im running it
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MIUI is sooooo dope...
im glad i finally flashed it

Why would you run an app like this? All you're doing is taking away money from developers who make apps that you use. They worked hard on the code, why should you get it for free?

Its all about data man, not getting anything for free. Some apps dont have the option to pay for a key to do so. Plus who actually clicks on the adds anyways, thats the only way to benefit from having them there. Im all about supporting the work of great devs, but i dont like my phone to connect to the web when its totaly unnessescary. Plus its not just for apps, works in the web browser too helping pages with garbage load faster

postwick said:
Why would you run an app like this? All you're doing is taking away money from developers who make apps that you use. They worked hard on the code, why should you get it for free?
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I mostly use it for web browsing so it doesn't load ads. I don't use many ad-supported apps. Angry Birds is one of the only ones, and it doesn't have a paid version. If I like an app I will buy or donate.
Anyway, I'm new to the Evo (not to Android), and read that the Evo can't have files written to /system unless in bootloader. Is this true??

Root explorer can mount system as read/write if thats what your referring to

derekwilkinson said:
I mostly use it for web browsing so it doesn't load ads. I don't use many ad-supported apps. Angry Birds is one of the only ones, and it doesn't have a paid version. If I like an app I will buy or donate.
Anyway, I'm new to the Evo (not to Android), and read that the Evo can't have files written to /system unless in bootloader. Is this true??
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It has NAND protection that must be turned off first, after that the phone is wide open.

xHausx said:
It has NAND protection that must be turned off first, after that the phone is wide open.
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yeah I just realized that, duh. saw s-on. sorry.

postwick said:
Why would you run an app like this? All you're doing is taking away money from developers who make apps that you use. They worked hard on the code, why should you get it for free?
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Because I don't want ads on my phone. Everywhere I go, everywhere I look there are ads. I pay for cable TV yet I have to watch commercials. There are ads ALL over the internet. My inbox is littered with spam from advertisers selling garbage products that I have no interest in. The last place I want to see ads is on my cell phone. It's not about taking money away from the devs. I have spent over $300 on games and apps from the market, I have no problem at all tossing the devs money for their hard earned work if they give us that option. If they don't, that's not my problem. Besides, it's not like I've ever clicked on a single ad so keeping them on my phone isn't going to give them any more money than if I block them.

derekwilkinson said:
thanks! I couldnt find it anywhere
"Failed to replace your hosts file. Error message:" and no error message. Never had this happen with my older phone. Could it be MIUI?
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derekwilkinson said:
Was AdFree android removed from the market??? I can't seem to find it...
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Here is the hosts file AdFree uses. I haven't updated database in a couple months, but it works great for me. I would rather not run an app to block sites therefore I just use the hosts file. Simply extract hosts.zip as it IS NOT FLASHABLE, remove old hosts file in /system/etc and push new hosts file to same place. No app needed!

Apollo420 said:
Here is the hosts file AdFree uses. I haven't updated database in a couple months, but it works great for me. I would rather not run an app to block sites therefore I just use the hosts file. Simply extract hosts.zip as it IS NOT FLASHABLE, remove old hosts file in /system/etc and push new hosts file to same place. No app needed!
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I had no idea. Thanks! If I wanted to update the db on my own, is their an easy way to do it?

PM me I can send the apk of adfree, I pay for apps too, and pay almost 200/month for service. I also agree I should not have to see ads all over my phone. Id pay for a ad free copy of angry birds, the ads all over the game ruin the game play and get in the way.

_MetalHead_ said:
I had no idea. Thanks! If I wanted to update the db on my own, is their an easy way to do it?
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You could open file up in notepad and manually add to it, just need to find a good source for a database.

_MetalHead_ said:
Because I don't want ads on my phone. Everywhere I go, everywhere I look there are ads. I pay for cable TV yet I have to watch commercials. There are ads ALL over the internet. My inbox is littered with spam from advertisers selling garbage products that I have no interest in. The last place I want to see ads is on my cell phone. It's not about taking money away from the devs. I have spent over $300 on games and apps from the market, I have no problem at all tossing the devs money for their hard earned work if they give us that option. If they don't, that's not my problem. Besides, it's not like I've ever clicked on a single ad so keeping them on my phone isn't going to give them any more money than if I block them.
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I couldn't have said this better..
+1

phatmanxxl said:
PM me I can send the apk of adfree, I pay for apps too, and pay almost 200/month for service. I also agree I should not have to see ads all over my phone. Id pay for a ad free copy of angry birds, the ads all over the game ruin the game play and get in the way.
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I can't play Angry birds with all those ads, drives me nuts. The hosts file I posted earlier takes care of those annoying ads!

_MetalHead_ said:
Besides, it's not like I've ever clicked on a single ad so keeping them on my phone isn't going to give them any more money than if I block them.
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This is wrong. They get paid for views. if your phone never retrieves the ad, they don't get paid for the view.
Not making a statement for or against ads, but at least be accurate.

blocking ads

I'm a little frustrated.
It took me four hours to root my MT4G last night, and I'm still not entirely certain that it's rooted, though I do have Glacier 1.2 rom, which should by all accounts mean that yes it is indeed rooted.
I purchased both Ad-Terminator and Ad Blocker from SmartDog.
Neither worked as advertised. And aside from not being able to get refunds, I'm very frustrated, because I rooted the phone in part to get rid of the constant ads. I would much rather donate to the developers than get constant ads.
I haven't found anything in the MT4G forum about how to block ads, which means that I wasted $4.
I've found the hosts-file-for-android_2 zip and hosts.zip elsewhere on this forum, but it doesn't seem that the instructions are at all designed for people who aren't hack-root-vets.
I was one of the first G1 owners and I had my phone rooted within days of owning it, and had multiple Cyanogen mods loaded from time to time. This phone is entirely different, and to be honest I didn't really do much of the rooting myself--I always had tons of help from my buddy who thinks this stuff is easy.
He's got the Nexus S, and I've got the MT4G, so we don't have the same phone anymore, so everything is going to be different.
A little help with getting rid of ads, step by step if possible, would be very nice.
Danke Danke

Try adfree, its free on the market, works flawlessly

kitchencop said:
Try adfree, its free on the market, works flawlessly
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Ditto - I have use it on Stock Glacier and now CM 6.1 Beta

I agree that AdFree is excellent. There's no need to purchase ad blocker apps. It's basically a hosts file manager very similar to apps for Windows like HostsMan.

I ditto that also... must easier to use too. I use to use droidwall awhile back too. But adfree is best to me. Straight to the point.
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Adfree is the way to go my friend! I haven't had any problems with it and it is free.

I only have Adfree and it supplies the host file you need. However my host file is continually overwritten by something. I have been unable to figure out what. So if you are having Ads after all those programs maybe you have a similar problem. I finally installed GScript Lite and created a script to write the good hosts file over the bad one. It's a tad annoying and I'll probably go to the Iced Glacier ROM eventually, but for now it works.

Please post questions in Q&A section.

Ads everywhere!

Hello!
since a week I am getting ads in every apps and games:
-Angry birds season
-Christmas wallpapers
-Apn Droid
Is it normal or my N1 got a trojan?

It's normal more and more apps are becoming heavily in tangled with adds. Developers have the choice but once they give the all clear Google takes over and pumps them out. Small price to pay compared to paying for the apps. If you're still worried hook your phone up to your PC and do a full scan the main anti virus will let you scan.

There has been some confirmation that Angry Birds makes $1,000,000/month from those ads, hence why they didn't sell the game. So, going forward you can expect every college kid "dev" with Eclipse and some c/p open source code to slap ads in their app

crachel said:
There has been some confirmation that Angry Birds makes $1,000,000/month from those ads, hence why they didn't sell the game. So, going forward you can expect every college kid "dev" with Eclipse and some c/p open source code to slap ads in their app
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I assume thats ads in all of their platforms, not just Android?

khaytsus said:
I assume thats ads in all of their platforms, not just Android?
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Nope, AndroidCommunity is reporting that its just the Android ads (here). Their iPhone app is paid, and I don't think they support WP7 yet, and the other couple platforms aren't really significant

If you're rooted a custom hosts file will rid you of most of them. I get no ads at all in angry birds. For some reason weatherbug is the app that seems to sneak the most in on me. Get them there about half the time I open it up. Gonna have to find time to search for a more up to date hosts file to fix that.

What's really annoying is that if I don't have internet connection when I want to play Angry Birds season it will not open new levels

vegetaleb said:
What's really annoying is that if I don't have internet connection when I want to play Angry Birds season it will not open new levels
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I think the level is downloaded when you unlock it....

Some people can not work for free.
For example with angry birds.
Its the best game i played in a long long long time.
Not just headshootin and headshootin again.
Its simple, has nice looks, attracts the ladies ("hey that looks funny, what is it...can i touch it?"...does this sound wrong?) and so on.
It gave me hours of pleasure...maybe more than the ladies
Yeah whatever, what i want to say:
I don't care about the ads. I don't even recognize them anymore.
And for the angry birds case, they just "earn" it!

In Angry Birds, the ads get in the way of gameplay sometimes. I wish Rovio would offer us a paid version like the iPhone users have.

AdFree.....

root and adfree. lulz, no ads for me any where

davados said:
It's normal more and more apps are becoming heavily in tangled with adds. Developers have the choice but once they give the all clear Google takes over and pumps them out. Small price to pay compared to paying for the apps. If you're still worried hook your phone up to your PC and do a full scan the main anti virus will let you scan.
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This is Google's strategy (hint: how they make almost all their rev.), don't expect Apple like strategy unless apps devs prefer it... fortunately you can disable ads, if you prefer, thanks to configurability of Linux...
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GldRush98 said:
root and adfree. lulz, no ads for me any where
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+1 Been rooted and using adfree pretty much since I got my phone in july . I couldn't image playing angry birds with ads .

we really need a modded/adfree version of angry birds seasons. levels wont load if it fails to retrieve an ad....

britoso said:
we really need a modded/adfree version of angry birds seasons. levels wont load if it fails to retrieve an ad....
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Not for me. I've been keeping up with the christmas birds all december, rooted using adfree, no ads to spoil my christmas .

I feel bad about blocking ads. I rarely, if ever click on them. But i feel its part of the deal, i get a free OS and free or low cost software, in exchange for having to see an ad or two around the place. I feel as if i am not holding up my end of the deal.

If I use the software, I buy the paid version. If there's no paid version, then I click the adds. Gotta show the devs some love...
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liam.lah said:
I feel bad about blocking ads. I rarely, if ever click on them.
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AFAIK devs get paid for clicks, not ad-views. Preventing an app from working without a data connection is pushing it IMO.

I don't mind the ads and I feel its for the betterment of the platform and whole system to attract developers to android.

App Millionaires

Just having a look in the market there and seeing some paid apps that have been downloaded thousands upon thousands of times, the person and/or persons who designed an app(s) that costs money and has been downloaded say 500,000+ times must be a multi millionaire at this stage, in fact the apps market whether it be Android or that other lot is a goldmine for many people if their app is successful,if an app costs say €5 what are the overheads,is there a small fee to be paid to Android for listing the app or how does it work?
I remember last year on XDA a beta was released for Power Amp, i downloaded it and thought "this is a brilliant app, the best music player the best ive used" people urged the guy who designed it to put it on the market,he did and now it has sold bucketloads,so this guy has obviously made a packet from releasing a beta on XDA to a global audience in the market,nice one,im just gutted i never thought of this a few years ago,no recession on with these guys who have made mega money from apps alone.

Google gets 30% of the sale price for Market purchases.

Croak said:
Google gets 30% of the sale price for Market purchases.
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they get that much that's absolute madness i thought it would be like 5%, still and all there are bound to be many multi millionaires, ive often wondered about free apps/games that are popular take for example that angry birds game which is immensely popular but is free, am i to assume these guys don't make any money or do they somehow?

jonny68 said:
they get that much that's absolute madness i thought it would be like 5%, still and all there are bound to be many multi millionaires, ive often wondered about free apps/games that are popular take for example that angry birds game which is immensely popular but is free, am i to assume these guys don't make any money or do they somehow?
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They have paid version of Angry Birds too

jonny68 said:
they get that much that's absolute madness i thought it would be like 5%, still and all there are bound to be many multi millionaires, ive often wondered about free apps/games that are popular take for example that angry birds game which is immensely popular but is free, am i to assume these guys don't make any money or do they somehow?
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People that put out "free apps" make money with the ads that run in their apps. Atleast I think thats how it works... LOL...

jonny68 said:
ive often wondered about free apps/games that are popular take for example that angry birds game which is immensely popular but is free, am i to assume these guys don't make any money or do they somehow?
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Ads, Ads and Ads. These 'free' apps are loaded with advertising and the maker of said apps gets paid a small amount of money everytime an ad is displayed while the user runs the app. So instead of being paid just once they get a constant revenuestream. Albeit it only works if your customer are actually using the app which doesn't seem to be a problem for the Angry Bird guys ^^. (They are also getting money by selling their games on iOS btw.)

I never take any notice of the ads anyway, in fact i have the ad blocker app on my GS2 but it doesn't always work but i never even look at the ads.
F**k me first you had the .com millionaire now you have the "apps" millionaires, why did i mis out on both of these

yiannisthegreek said:
People that put out "free apps" make money with the ads that run in their apps. Atleast I think thats how it works... LOL...
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And if it's AdMob (most likely) adverts, Google keeps the lion's share of per-click revenue.