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Xperia Ultimatum

Hello all
We all want android 2.2 for our Xperia phones. So I ask you to make an ultimatum to SE all the xperia users and SE customers, cause petitions never work. I want all of you to send letter to the ofiicial site of SE, to ask your friens from facebook and other social networks to do the same.I wrote a letter on the official site to SE http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/common/contactfollowing my letter, we will succeed.
Hello Dear SonyEricsson!
I'm using your devices since 2003 year. My last purchase was xperia x8, very nice phone ergonomic and with great technical characteristics and even magnificent price for which I can forgive all its defects. All except one. People all over the world are waiting android 2.2 froyo from their vendor, people that spend their money on xperia line products. There are many reasons why. First of all lack of internal phone memory for applications, second one is the flash player for browsing and watching video and playing games on their favorite sites and the third one is social to show and be proud with the products of company with which they have been all these years, the products which they bought and supported you. You have many competitors on world market such as Samsung, HTC, LG with better products and prices, don't spit on your customers, they support you and believe in your company. Take care of them They are your future or you'll have to start from the zero point. You make brilliant products so Come up with the times, Android will be the most popular operating system at least for 5 years give your customers satisfaction, give them android 2.2 for all xperia line, the products they have bought, or you lose their trust, your customers and your profit.
Sincerely yours, Kirill.

I don't trust in our success.
Do you remember all tryouts to get update to 6.5 WinMo for X1?

it ll be of no use..
SE doesn't care about their customers..

I think in that way If to make petitions it wont work, but if they get about million letters from all over the world this will work out, that's why I'm asking to help my and your friends from social networks to write a letter on the official site to SE http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/common/contactfollowing

We need to make pressure on the company, some of you might have friends in massmedia, we need to make resonance. I dont trust and dont believe is a weak position.

Let's begin.
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Good job guys will do that Obama changes!

well, SE probably will say this . .
updates will fix all your worries about flash-support, memory, multi-touch but sorry pals . . no froyo for you!

MikuSE610 said:
well, SE probably will say this . .
updates will fix all your worries about flash-support, memory, multi-touch but sorry pals . . no froyo for you!
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so true...

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I made it too....
Dear SE,
I have bought an Xperia X8 about three month ago. I'm almost a satisfied customer. I need Android 2.2 Froyo to my phone. Android developers give their op system for free, you should just serve your hardly collected customers with it. You know... time is always changing. Android will be the most popular operatin...g system at least for 5 years give your customers satisfaction, give them android 2.2 for all xperia line, the products they have bought, or you lose their trust, your customers and your profit.
I hope the best from U.
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http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/sonyericsson
Marco Todeschini Xperia X10, a phone born 1 year ago, cost 500 € and already abandoned! and I do not think there will be future updates on either 2.1, SE you really disappointed too many people ..too many
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Sony Ericsson Hi Marco. I'm sorry to hear you feel this way. We will still be releasing system updates for the X10 family of handset, it will just be the Android version which will not be updated further - Aimee.

groovepeppy, Sorry, what link did you use to write this message to SE?Link in the general post isn't working.

Hi Alexed,sorry for being late replying.
I wrote on SE's wall but i had to cut some sentences cause it has limited letters rule in a wall post.

I think there will not be official Froyo for X8,just wait for custom roms...

People, keep making pressure on them, they have to react...

can google remotely disable a device?

Any thoughts?

Go to www.google.com
Type: can google remotely disable a device?
Read.
Done.

Short answer: no
Long answer: no
Thoughts: if you're worry about that, use this as your daily drive. It is tamper-proof.
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I was told by a play store support person that in the event of a stolen device (stolen from shipping/receiving people), they will remotely wipe the device.
So from that I gathered that they can.

Yes they can remotely wipe a device, there is a permission for it and a Nexus S with leaked ICS had it done IIRC.

Yeah. Google, the carriers, and governments have certain remote access / wipe abilities. Some of these are consensual, like in the case of a stolen device. Others, not so much.
Not trying to sound all tin foil hat up in here.

ml2514 said:
Any thoughts?
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I was wondering the exact same thing....
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Anyone have anymore thoughts on this question???

It's been answered, what more do your want?
It's not just this device though, look up the brick permission.

I believe they can wipe and brick it..
Even if they couldn't, they can block the device from accessing Googles servers which would render it almost useless for anything other then a media player
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About a year ago Google removed some apps from the playstore that contained malware they also removed those apps from peoples phones at the same time. If you search for it there is a forum on here somewhere discussing it, I looked it up about a month ago when someone else posted the same question. Here's a link to a short artcile about killswitch from endgadget.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/google-implemented-an-android-kill-switch-those-rascals/

Rusty! said:
It's been answered, what more do your want?
It's not just this device though, look up the brick permission.
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I was wondering something more along the lines of HOW they are able to do this, which hasnt been answered.

Well google has better things to do than disabling your device !
Okay no offense a geek might end up here and write a long essay on how nothing is impossible and how google could inject malicious scripts or already has hidden piece of encrypted coding that could pose a danger - but trust new seriously all that is possible as of now if remote wipe on case of stolen the device btw if a few web blogs including a few threads in here(some of which provides digestible evidences) are to be believed then google can surely wipe remotely !

yes google can disable and remotely wipe your device
http://androidandme.com/2011/09/new...faces-online-developers-confirm-authenticity/

For wiping you phone, you can use something like Lookout. It allow you to wipe, track your phone much like findmyiphone from Apple. If only works if whoever got your phone keep it on or haven't wiped it himself.
Earlier this year, the major cellphone companies in the US have agreed on a deal with the US government to build a stolen cellphone database. Eventually, any cell phone company in the US will check against this database prior to provisioning a cellphone in their network. The centralized database is targeted sometime near the middle of 2013. That works in the US but that still not preventing stolen cellphones to be used outside the US.

I believe the google motto goes as "do no evil". Whatever else will be present in their policy. Theoritcally you need not be google to wipe a device. A person with the right knowledge could certainly use an exploit particularly via social engineering, the most common exploit of all. Personally I have monitored my traffic many many bytes. I don't see anything that would leave me to believe this. If there was and could be proved than that would be one hell of a court case. Google would be badly damaged from such a thing and is it worth all those dollars to be lost?
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Yes they can.
Yes they did.
Yes they will again.
No you wouldn't know how they do it because the relevant software is non-free spyware, therefore you can't know what it does behind your back at all.
And don't try to tell me that android is free and open software. It isn't.

Sry sounds like they did it on a development phone. Not a consumer model. The idea of big brother google wiping my phone for talking spat against their roman empire seems far fetched. Anyhow can be done by anyone. There is a huge market for exploits.
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http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=173390
They can do anything
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Its great but google cannot do whatever they want. If they were caught wiping a personal device. It would make national headlines. People would trust them less. They would be no better than the worlds richest malware. Ya also get the same level of wipe from an app like cerberus. Defining the lines is tough. I am getting at the fact if there is an open port on your device. Proper knowledge could be used to wipe the system without the aid of google or an app. If it is possible. It can be done.
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Free 100gb of Google Drive Storage on your Oneplus One or ANY other device

So as many of you guys know if you don't live under a rock, Today HTC has a special offer going on for free 100gb of Google Drive storage if you sign in from a selected HTC phones..
So me being all that I am, I thought of something very quick.
Unethical or whatever you may call it, I went and made a visit to my nearest Tmobile store and I approached the closest HTC M8.
I promptly went into settings and did a factory reset and then proceeded to logging into my Google account. Right after that all you
have to do is open the Google drive app (it should already be pre-installed for you so no need to go download it) once you are there
you will be prompted a screen that shows the actual offer. Like I said it depends on which phone you are on and how much free storage you will
be given. Use the chart below to see what you will get.
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Tap Redeem and that's it. You may have to close out of Google drive again and reopen it for it to show up but it works perfectly. Best part is that it is free 100GB if you sign in from an HTC M8 for 2 years!
Also you can as very well use it on your other devices like me on my oneplus one Good luck to you guys and enjoy :good:
Important FAQ's for Offer
Which HTC Android devices are eligible for additional storage on Google Drive?
New HTC One (M8) (+100GB for two years)
HTC Desire 816, HTC Desire 610 (+100GB for two years)
HTC One max (+100GB for two years)
When upgrade to HTC Sense 5+ and Sense 6 becomes available on certain 2013 HTC models,
including HTC One, HTC Butterfly S, HTC One Mini and HTC Desire 601. (+25GB for two years)
How long is this Drive storage offer valid?
The offer must be redeemed before January 1, 2016. For most devices, you'll have your storage for 2 years, starting on the date you redeem the offer.
Can I apply the storage to another Google Account?
No. The free storage is not transferable and will only apply to the Google account you are using when you redeem the offer.
if I purchased a used/refurbished HTC device or unlocked the bootloader on my device, can I redeem the offer?
No. The offer is only available to original buyer of a device over its lifetime. Users who unlock the bootloader on their device are not eligible to receive this offer. so YOU MUST HAVE A LOCKED BOOTLOADER!!
Read more about the FAQ here: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/3333549?p=drive_offers_htc&rd=1
Official HTC Offer page: http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-one-m8/howto/465031.html

Haha nice trick

lopman said:
Haha nice trick
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Thanks man, Gotta enjoy free things when life throws them at you. :highfive:

SystemErrorOne said:
So me being all that I am, I thought of something very quick.
Unethical or whatever you may call it...
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You have a conscience and choose to ignore it. That's nothing to be proud of.
SystemErrorOne said:
Thanks man, Gotta enjoy free things when life throws them at you. :highfive:
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Is that a quote from the looters at Ferguson last month? I'm sure you wouldn't be giving yourself high fives if you were on HTC or Google's end of the deal.

CafeKampuchia said:
You have a conscience and choose to ignore it. That's nothing to be proud of.
Is that a quote from the looters at Ferguson last month? I'm sure you wouldn't be giving yourself high fives if you were on HTC or Google's end of the deal.
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There's nothing wrong with what I did. Others could say the same about users continously finding exploits to root and void warranties but you don't see anyone *****ing about that. I did this because it's simple and its not as if I stole any physical money, hardware, ect
Its your choice how you look at it.

SystemErrorOne said:
its not as if I stole any physical money, hardware, ect
Its your choice how you look at it.
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Wrong. You took something with a fixed monetary value without paying. The fact that it's non-physical is a non-argument.

While it is clever, I agree with CafeKampuchia, and it also probably violates these forum rules:
6. Do not post warez.
If a piece of software requires you to pay to use it, then pay for it. We do not accept warez and nor do we permit any member to request, promote or describe ways in which warez, cracks, serial codes or other means of avoiding payment, can be obtained. This is a site of developers, i.e. the sort of people who create such software. When you cheat a software developer, you cheat us as a community.
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9. Don't get us into trouble.
Don't post copyrighted materials or do other things which will obviously lead to legal trouble. If you wouldn't do it on your own homepage, you probably shouldn't do it here either. This does not mean that we agree with everything that the software piracy lobby try to impose on us. It simply means that you cannot break any laws here, since we'll end up dealing with the legal hassle caused by you. Please use common sense: respect the forum, its users and those that write great code.
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so after 2 years, does the account become deactivated or do you loose all the data thats on Google Drive?

How To Monetize Your App Using In-App Surveys

Mobile monetization is one of the key issues app developers face in today’s mobile world. As apps’ visibility become more and more hard, developers are looking for new effective ways to monetize their apps through different monetization strategies.
One of the most widely used strategies is monetization through ads and as Steve Jobs said once, “Mobile Ads suck”. Unfortunately this is widely accepted by big brands as true. Different ad platforms are suggesting several units such as banner ads, interstitials, video ads, offer walls and others. Developers are usually confused on what ad units to use or from which ad platform, but what they really care at the end of the day is to make money out of their app without loosing their users by compromising user experience.
As seen in a survey of 5,000 mobile users by Pollfish, people are generally annoyed by the current different ad formats that overwhelm an apps’ user interface, sometimes placed in a way to force users to click on them. Most of current ad units engage user with the ad taking him away from the app rather than keeping him engaged with the content of the app.
The market would be served well by a new interactive monetization format that can revolutionise the way mobile developers make money out of apps at the moment and introduce something more appealing for both developers and app users.
Introducing monetization with surveys
Monetization with surveys is one of the new innovations in the mobile app monetization landscape.
How does it work?
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At Pollfish we provide a DIY survey tool on our website that anyone can quickly sign up for, select an audience, create survey questions, pay and then start receiving results from the network in real time. The platform distributes these surveys to thousands of mobile apps that have integrated surveys as a monetization solution. App publishers are paid for each survey completed in their apps.
How does it look?
When a survey is available, the user is prompted by an in-app indicator to see if they would like to take part to a survey – and are rewarded for doing so by being entered into a drawing for a prize. Gifts are provided by the platform and are usually gift cards. Users can choose not to participate, or close the survey at anytime. In either case, everything will disappear from their screen, and they return to their in-app experience.
If a user decides to take a survey, they start by answering a series of questions that are presented in a mobile-optimized way. There are several types of questions including Single Answer, Multiple Answer, Rating Questions, Open-Ended, and Ranking – type. You can even insert images for participants to respond to. Once the survey is completed, users can optionally enter their email address to get informed if they win. Winning users are notified of the outcome on the day of the drawing.
Key value propositions
There are several value propositions for using surveys for monetizing mobile apps:
For users:
It’s a new interactive format, different than ads.
Users are highly engaged in-app, as they get to share their opinion and participate in interesting surveys. It’s not like boring ads made for the masses, where clicking takes you to another website or to download another app. Some surveys are more fun and engaging, particularly when the user can see their responses as compared to others – this increases the completion rate, and likewise, the app publisher’s revenue.​
Users participate in drawings and can win gifts
Users who participate in surveys have the opportunity to win gifts in drawings – simply by​ sharing their opinion.​
For publishers:
Users stay within the app
Users never leave the app. Once a survey is completed, users continue with the current flow of the app interface. This is perhaps, the biggest differentiator with classic advertising, where users who click on an ad are taken to a website or get redirected to download another app – with no guarantee they come back. This way publishers loose customers.​
Surveys pay up to 20x more than classic advertising networks
Publishers are paid per completed survey. It’s a CPA model where the action is a survey completion. Payouts for surveys are quite high and at Pollfish for example, surveys pay up to 20x more than classic advertising networks.​
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There are 2 types of surveys
Basic surveys pay minimum $0.30 per completed survey and this price can go up to $2 per completed survey (it’s a shared revenue model)
Playful surveys are usually small image question surveys that pay a fluctuating price depending on survey length. Average payouts on these surveys are $0.08 per completed.
Publishers have to change nothing in the UI of their app
With surveys, everything is rendered as an overlay so publishers don’t have to change anything in the UI of the app. With most advertising solutions, a space in the UI of the apps needs to be allocated by publishers in order to render the ad units (for example with banner ads). However with surveys, since everything is displayed as an overlay, no changes are needed. Integration therefore becomes simple and takes less than 2 minutes since it requires only one line of code to activate surveys.​
When a survey is completed UI stays clear of ads/surveys
Users are eligible for one survey per day in order to ensure quality of the results and user experience. Therefore, once a survey is completed everything disappears from the UI of the app and user can continue with the flow of the app free of any ads or surveys. Moreover, when no survey is available nothing is shown within the app, as surveys were never integrated in the app before.​
You can read full article here

I saw the Unity sdk, does this pass the Apple and Google review process ?

Crichton333 said:
I saw the Unity sdk, does this pass the Apple and Google review process ?
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Hello @Crichton333 Pollfish is fully compliant both with Google Play and AppStore policies. It is live in more than 8k Android and iOS apps out there and is working smoothly without any issues on these stores for more than 3,5 years! if you have more questions or concerns feel free to drop me an email at [email protected], I will be happy to help!

Honor 5x $1 bonanza is a SCAM

This is a scam. They are not giving any $1 Honor 5x. I already had my address in my profile and the item in my cart. I clicked on "proceed to checkout", after less than 1 second that the button appeared, yet it got stuck on order summary, how could they have clicked the shipping option, payment method, click the "I have read the term and conditions" and then click the pay button, be redirected to 3rd party website and have paid for item, in less than second of what it took me to access the payment website where it hung? It happened 2 times already.
Even if you already have item In your cart and shipping address stored in your profile, you still have to go through this process. You cannot automate these steps, they have to be done manually.
- click on proceed to checkout
- click on shipping option
- click the dot on "payment method"
- select the square on the right that says "I accept the terms and conditions"
- click the "pay" button
- be redirected to their party website
- enter your payment information and pay
I had the $1 item already in my cart. I have been refreshing like crazy. I clicked on "proceed to checkout", my timing my flawless and as soon as I got to the checkout page, it was gone, out of stock in less than second. It is IMPOSSIBLE, let me repeat, impossible, that they could have gone through those 7 steps in less time than what it took me to simply click on "proceed to checkout". This is a scam to bring huge traffic to their site, where they will make more revenue from visits, and also people will buy their legit deals, 30% off and the bundle. Also, how convenient that the winner happens to be a guy who constantly posts pictures of different phones, wallpapers, selling, comparing and reviewing phones, and he is part of the google+ honor usa community.
//plus.google.com/+GaryBell/posts/3bYAFd9NCQR
How convenient that right after I say on the honor blog that there is no proof that anyone could have won, and this could be a scam, suddenly that link/winner pops up.
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Sour grapes much?
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A scam? Really??
So because you didn't magically win, when going up against who knows how many other people, the offer must be a scam? One would have to have an understanding of how the hosted services on the internet works to be able to ascertain whether or not this is a "Scam" or not. And I can assure you that the results you encountered were the same as many others. Ever been through a Woot-Off when a BoC get's posted? Same idea....

CMed67 said:
So because you didn't magically win, when going up against who knows how many other people, the offer must be a scam? One would have to have an understanding of how the hosted services on the internet works to be able to ascertain whether or not this is a "Scam" or not. And I can assure you that the results you encountered were the same as many others. Ever been through a Woot-Off when a BoC get's posted? Same idea....
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How would you know is not just a plot to get more traffic to their store?
This is a big business we are talking about, do you think they give a crap about you? All they care about is money. Do you really think they are gonna give away free phones? lmao How convenient that after I ask on the honor blog that there is no way for us to know if is legit or not, and that they could easily create fake profiles/buy reviewers, suddenly, right after a guy pops up on the honor google plus page claiming to have won the phone lol
Whatever, i already have the phone, but i feel bad for those people who cannot afford one, had their hopes up, wasted their whole day on this, only for some other guy who obviously is well off and changes phones every month, supposedly won another new phone

Fowleri said:
How would you know is not just a plot to get more traffic to their store?
This is a big business we are talking about, do you think they give a crap about you? All they care about is money. Do you really think they are gonna give away free phones? lmao How convenient that after I ask on the honor blog that there is no way for us to know if is legit or not, and that they could easily create fake profiles/buy reviewers, suddenly, right after a guy pops up on the honor google plus page claiming to have won the phone lol
Whatever, i already have the phone, but i feel bad for those people who cannot afford one, had their hopes up, wasted their whole day on this, only for some other guy who obviously is well off and changes phones every month, supposedly won another new phone
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And the butthurt continues.
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