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This Sickens Me - Selling Android Builds on eBay

ttp://cgi.ebay.com/HTC-HD2-Android-2-2-Evo-Operating-System-/330486566191?pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item4cf288cd2f
This is a disgrace. Anyone who exploits the hard work and unwaged development of Android/Linux on the Hd2 should know that you are only doing the community harm by discouraging devs to continue progress. You basically stole their knowledge and are hawking it off as yours. Disguisting.

This isn't the first time this had happened. Its hapoened like 5 other times thati know of. Yeah your right its messed up.

I wish there was a way to reply to his auction and scream "FRAUD!".. or give the seller negative feedback over and over again.

Damn... why didnt I think of doing that and making money... lol
Just kidding... Yeah the guy selling instructions is an asshole for sure
THUMBS DOWN!

have a look at craigslist.

maff1989 said:
I wish there was a way to reply to his auction and scream "FRAUD!".. or give the seller negative feedback over and over again.
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I just filed a report against the item as being copyright infringement.

What an idiot, he got that picture from XDA too. I think its from mattc?

i've filed a report as well. What a low life scumbag. Wish we knew his handle on XDA so he can be banned for life.

he should send to death sentence!

ive reported it as well.
i think the best way to fix this is for everyone to file a simple report of violation of android GPL. and intellectual property.
if ebay gets enough reports of similar auctions, it will go on their banned list. unless you can prove you programmed it.

Damn why didn't I charge my friends for spending 3 hours on installing android onto their phones.
Report submitted.

Yah. I think everybody should report this..I just reported too!!!
This kind of person should be banned from xda forever!!!

Sometimes you learn more form the seller when you're in contact with him.
maybe his mailaddress is a part of his account on XDA so you'll be able to track him down.
Stay in contact as long as you can, that way you will gather more information.
This is indeed a dis-craze to all hard working developers, accept when the seller is one of the developers hare at XDA...
to all developers, don't stop because of some stupid ass, your work is really appreciated!

k8826324 said:
Yah. I think everybody should report this..I just reported too!!!
This kind of person should be banned from xda forever!!!
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TheTeek said:
Sometimes you learn more form the seller when you're in contact with him.
maybe his mailaddress is a part of his account on XDA so you'll be able to track him down.
Stay in contact as long as you can, that way you will gather more information.
This is indeed a dis-craze to all hard working developers, accept when the seller is one of the developers hare at XDA...
to all developers, don't stop because of some stupid ass, your work is really appreciated!
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I don't know if it's a coincedence, but there's a user here at XDA that has the EXACT same name as the e-Bay seller.
Link to his profile is: mv1luv
I think it's time to get the mods onto this
Grtz,
Degake
p.s. The hometown of the XDA member (Bakersfield) is also the same at the e-Bay item location.... so I guess we got him

degake said:
I don't know if it's a coincedence, but there's a user here at XDA that has the EXACT same name as the e-Bay seller.
Link to his profile is: mv1luv
I think it's time to get the mods onto this
Grtz,
Degake
p.s. The hometown of the XDA member (Bakersfield) is also the same at the e-Bay item location.... so I guess we got him
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Time for the Mod's to get involved and sort this matter out, reported it to e-bay but they aren't really going to do anything which is sad, but the mods here can!

Unbelievable! Just out of curiosity I did a search for "HTC HD2 Android" on eBay and there are several other no-conscience sellers peddling instructions on how to install Android. Outrageous! One seller "alpleco" out of Long Island has sold over 600+ of these instructions at almost $2 each.
There's just no shame!

Android 2.3 installation guide on ebay india.

First of all sorry to post it on wrong place. But i thougt this is place where it will get high lighted soon. Today i have seen, some one is selling installation guide for androied 2.3 for HD2 on e-bay. http://cgi.ebay.in/ANDROID-2-3-GINGERBREAD-HTC-HD2-T-mobile-/220740561800?pt=IN_Mobile_Phones&hash=item336529ab88#ht_790wt_1139 Some action should be taken from XDA people.
Dear Moderator,
Please delete this post once purpose will resolved.

sweetbinodray said:
First of all sorry to post it on wrong place. But i thougt this is place where it will get high lighted soon. Today i have seen, some one is selling installation guide for androied 2.3 for HD2 on e-bay. http://cgi.ebay.in/ANDROID-2-3-GINGERBREAD-HTC-HD2-T-mobile-/220740561800?pt=IN_Mobile_Phones&hash=item336529ab88#ht_790wt_1139 Some action should be taken from XDA people.
Dear Moderator,
Please delete this post once purpose will resolved.
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yes this is in a wrong site
removed please

a) Wrong forum go away!
b) Who cares?

Bloody AH..!!!
He's already sold 2 such quoted packages..!!!
Pathetic..!!!

htcfreak said:
Bloody AH..!!!
He's already sold 2 such quoted packages..!!!
Pathetic..!!!
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Even more pathetic are the people who bought it, If they had took 2 seconds to search google for "HD2 Android" they would have an abundance of instructions for free.

Yeah You right
TheATHEiST said:
a) Wrong forum go away!
b) Who cares?
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Yeah You right. This is not the place. But i have mentioned why i bought this thing here. Second! perhaps you don't care. But some people of XDA working hard to do this stuff for free. And someone selling their hard work for own interest. So may be they people have some serious care about this. I am sorry if i have offended you.

sweetbinodray said:
Yeah You right. This is not the place. But i have mentioned why i bought this thing here. Second! perhaps you don't care. But some people of XDA working hard to do this stuff for free. And someone selling their hard work for own interest. So may be they people have some serious care about this. I am sorry if i have offended you.
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i agree that is really wrong!!! these instructions were given to all of us for free. and now its being sold off! i hope ebay bans the guy that is trying to make money off of piracy! i would report to ebay but its not my work being copied and sold.
xda should take action!

I reported it to eBay and also posted a question saying "This information is availabel for free at xda-developers.com", which will appear at the bottom of the page.

Sentinel196 said:
I reported it to eBay and also posted a question saying "This information is availabel for free at xda-developers.com", which will appear at the bottom of the page.
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Questions only appear at bottom of page if the ebay seller chooses to put them there, not just when anybody asks a question.

Oh...... Fail. lol

I don't believe xda needs to care about..
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People buying this on eBay are most probably not too tech savvy and this can have a positive aspect as well :
-redundant questions will be directed to the seller and not (again) in anew thread here
But if somebody feels bothered by this, the best way would be to pm the buyer with the link to the free rom, this will most probably lead to a bad seller rating on eBay..
I personally don't mind, if I can sell something for $ although it is available for free, I am a lucky person then (or the buyer not too bright)
Maybe I should sell some air in a jar,- have some around here..
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Desire HD stuck on HTC screen

Hi to all.
I just got a HTC desire HD from a client ant it's stuck on HTC screen.
Unfortunately I an kind of new in the android world so I would like some help please.
Thank you.

Nycu said:
I just got a HTC desire HD from a client
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Is the client paying you to fix the handset?

Ehm, return to htc? Problem solved, close this tread.
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using XDA App

Wrong section.
If your being paid then maybe offer money for help outside of xda, making money off the help people give for free is immoral.
However, it sounds like a bootloop. Has the client been flashing/rooting?
Search the forum for bootloop.
Sent from my Motorola 8500

andyharney said:
Is the client paying you to fix the handset?
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That matters, why?
@OP: Take battery out, then put in and turn on while holding volume down and let us know if you get a white screen with writing on it.
Look for S-ON or S-OFF. If it says S-OFF then you can fix this really easily.
Edit: As everyone is say "ZOMG CLOSES THIS THREADS OMG I AM TEH AWESOME!!!111ONE!!!!1111ELEVENTY". If some mod comes and closes it, because you dared to ask for help. Then feel free to PM me.

PartTimeLegend said:
That matters, why?
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It matters because I'm not willing to spend my time and help someone who is being paid to help someone else.
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Edit: As everyone is say "ZOMG CLOSES THIS THREADS OMG I AM TEH AWESOME!!!111ONE!!!!1111ELEVENTY". If some mod comes and closes it, because you dared to ask for help. Then feel free to PM me.
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Where in this thread do you see that? Who said there awesome, and what does "1111ELEVENTY" have to do with anything.

If you're not willing to help people. Then don't spam up threads in which you're not willing to help in.
If the guy is getting paid, then good for him. He didn't come here and say "Client is asking me to fix this for money". You came here enquiring about money.
If you're so desperate for cash, go do something productive with your life.

Sorry? Have I offended you?
Spamming up threads? That must be what I'm doing with my time these days then.
As for doing something productive, you know virtually nothing about me, nor how much money I earn. If I was desperate for cash I'd probably have a "Donate to me" button next to my username and spam up threads.

I apologize if me asking for you assistance made other people argue but I am just a employee in service that repair mobile phones and other electronics. Witch means that I am not paid directly by the client. My kind of work might make me discover other solutions to other problems I would not have any problems sharing them to other people without caring why they need it.
I am sure that everybody in this forum works somewhere and many of you in the mobile business so many of you are being payed to do this.

andyharney said:
Sorry? Have I offended you?
Spamming up threads? That must be what I'm doing with my time these days then.
As for doing something productive, you know virtually nothing about me, nor how much money I earn. If I was desperate for cash I'd probably have a "Donate to me" button next to my username and spam up threads.
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You sir are pure win.

I don't know what's the point of the whole argument.
A guy posted a question asking for help on how to fix a client's phone. Who knows how many members of the xda are community are working on repair shops, who of course ask for money in return of their services?
If you're not willing to help then do yourself a favor and quit bashing the guy. Don't act as you're the only all-knowing guy who could fix his problem.

Nycu said:
I apologize if me asking for you assistance made other people argue but I am just a employee ........ I am sure that everybody in this forum works somewhere and many of you in the mobile business so many of you are being payed to do this.
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There is no need to apologise as you have done nothing wrong, aside from posting in the wrong section which wasn't a crime last time I checked.
I was never my intention to turn this thread into an argument, nor do I think I did. I never bashed the guy. If you read through 99%+ of my posts I do try to help people. Not act like an obnoxious child.
We (the community) would need more information to help you. Do you know how to access the bootloader? Did the client tell you what had happened prior to this problem. Has he/she rooted / modified the handset.
HERE is a similar thread from the info we have so far. The problem was solved. Try following this thread to see if that solves your problem too.

leeston2379 said:
Wrong section.
If your being paid then maybe offer money for help outside of xda, making money off the help people give for free is immoral.
However, it sounds like a bootloop. Has the client been flashing/rooting?
Search the forum for bootloop.
Sent from my Motorola 8500
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It turned out that the owner of the phone had been playing (flashing/rooting) with the phone.
So yes it was a bootloop and I fixed it.
Thank you for your help.

why are people donating?

does anyone else realize that a certain developer is just taking money from people and not producing any results?
and then he appears as this super mysterious person that says a few words on his so called "progress" and then more people donate but still nothing is happening.
he had an overclock thread that people donated to see completed but that didn't happen....
i understand that developing takes time, but seriously, every other developer explains a little better about what exactly they have accomplished and don't leave things to interpretation of the users.

TheLlamaGod said:
does anyone else realize that a certain developer is just taking money from people and not producing any results?
and then he appears as this super mysterious person that says a few words on his so called "progress" and then more people donate but still nothing is happening.
he had an overclock thread that people donated to see completed but that didn't happen....
i understand that developing takes time, but seriously, every other developer explains a little better about what exactly they have accomplished and don't leave things to interpretation of the users.
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listen if you are going to make accusations you need to say names, otherwise how are the admins gonna follow up. say either say someones name, or this is totally pointless!

samcripp said:
listen if you are going to make accusations you need to say names, otherwise how are the admins gonna follow up. say either say someones name, or this is totally pointless!
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Agreed.
Names, and give the people you are accusing a chance to defend themselves or STFU and GTFO!

The developer im referring to is kholk and if you don't realize that then you haven't really been paying attention to this forum.
Also, there is no chance he is going to defend himself because he is way to "busy"

LOL, Kholk never made anyone donate. Thats why its a donation. If you did before getting results thats your own fault. I only donate when there is a result, not when there is a theory like ive seen a lot of others do. Its not your place to tell people to donate or not or accuse anyone of not producing, they never said they could produce results anyways. Just that they are trying.

TheLlamaGod said:
The developer im referring to is kholk and if you don't realize that then you haven't really been paying attention to this forum.
Also, there is no chance he is going to defend himself because he is way to "busy"
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1. We're not fu*king mind readers, so no, I didn't realize that! There are a lot of devs here.
2. If you have a complaint, PM a moderator instead of starting a ****ty thread which will just incite flaming, (which I believe is all you want).
3. What the fu*k has it got to do with you if other people are donating?> Is it coming out of your bank account?
4. STFU!
5. GTFO!
Can a mod please close this before it gets out of hand.

He wasnt too busy to confirm the new GB build for unlocked devices is stable, just in the past 24 hours. He also offered to give anybody their donations back when he didnt have to do that. You ask the man to do the imposible and then complain he hasnt met your time frame? At least hes not holding it over your head telling you he can have an unlocked bootloader and you cant. This community is for sharing. Kholk has shared code and time, you have shared what? Maybe $20? And so you expect to be updated daily? Weekly? Not how it works. DG did take peeps money and run, kholk is here still.

lol
you guys get mad easy.
i was just pointing something out.
"I can only officially say that there's a way. And I confirm the fact that I'm not sleeping "
This statement alone probably got him dozens more donations and for what?

by the way, kholk is also suffering from a broken pc. this was already discuss in a different thread on the dev section. no one ask you to donate. this people do it for free, to learn, to help. if you donated and feel is not worth it, theres a way to cancel your donation on paypal. im a dev myself, and i can tell you first hand that the work this guys are doing is difficult. breaking the security on a bootloader that a group of engineers created is difficult, and doing it by himself is even more difficult. this threads only serve as a way out for most devs. of course the atrix is getting no love, theres people that instead of helping, rather poop talk!

Nobody is forced to donate. Some of us donate during the process and others after the outcome or not at all.
Personally I gave up hope on anyone unlocking or bypassing the boot loader except moto. Kexec and 2nd initial and 2.3 previews are spaced evenly enough to keep us entertained tho.

Like everyone else said...
It's not like people are donating your money so why are you mad?
If you're not deving yourself, stop hating. Otherwise dev yourself.

im not mad. nothing i said was showing me as mad!
lol
i never donated because i never saw a reason to.

Great another thread bashing one of the few developers who is still interested in the atrix at all!! Most devs ditched this phone a long time ago! Kholk doesn't deserve this!
So if a mod could delete this pointless thread before kholk actually sees it! It would be greatly appreciated by most on here I'm sure!

It seems the OP had a bad night with his transformer and GF... go back with ur barbecue
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Man this whole thread sucks
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Exodus, is that you?
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App

Moderator was notified.
Please, don't feel the troll.

This won't lead to nothing, thread closed.

Where To...

I don't keep my phones long. I'm just looking for suggestions on where to post a "For Sale" ad that'll attract the type of people that'd be interested in a device like this? (ie xda users and other forum users) Is there a forum out there that still has a classifieds section? Kinda sucks that xda's is gone. I'd post it locally, but I believe that the lack of knowledge among the normal phone using population would be a wash. Most people who ask what kind of phone it is say "who makes it, Samsung"? after I tell them oneplus one.
Thanks
Sorry if I hurt anybodies feelers for posting this.

Ill Named said:
I don't keep my phones long. I'm just looking for suggestions on where to post a "For Sale" ad that'll attract the type of people that'd be interested in a device like this? (ie xda users and other forum users) Is there a forum out there that still has a classifieds section? Kinda sucks that xda's is gone. I'd post it locally, but I believe that the lack of knowledge among the normal phone using population would be a wash. Most people who ask what kind of phone it is say "who makes it, Samsung"? after I tell them oneplus one.
Anyway, if anyone is interested also (I know it's probably against the rules) it's gotta bunch of accessories too....
Thanks
Sorry if I hurt anybodies feelers for posting this.
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Swappa

I know it's not a forum, but you could post it on http://www.swappa.com. A decent amount of phones they sell on there are unlocked and running custom ROMs, and I think site is affiliated with XDA somehow, so that would probably be a decent place to post it.

Thanks. Never heard of swappa.

Ill Named said:
Thanks. Never heard of swappa.
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I've sold two rooted phones on swappa. Great site.
Sent from my A0001 using XDA Free mobile app

Thread closed. There used to be an xda marketplace where people could buy and sell devices but it was closed because there were a lot of problems...scams and just people complaining, haggling, etc. So now the go to place for people from xda looking to sell or buy a used device is swappa.