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I have been using MIUI for the past several weeks and was interested in it enough to start looking in helping with development when I get the chance. I was surprised to see that there is no source repository for MIUI. In fact, adding WiMax functionality has required the submission of the cyanogen code to the development team to include in a future update of the rom. The Android OS is released under the GPLv2, which clearly states that you must release the source and license of the original code and that if there are any modifications to that code then you must include the dates of the modifications.
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If there are some parts of the MIUI rom that has been made independent from the Android OS, then those parts who's source is not released under the GPL must be distributed separately, as per section 2 of the GPLv2.
I have looked all over and it I cannot find any of the source for this ROM. This is in clear violation of the license in witch Android is released.
I feel, personally, that if the MIUI developers are not releasing there source then there is now way for the rest of the community that uses it to know for certain that this software is not malice by nature. It would appear that there is a good number of individuals working on this project, judging by which the speed of improvements are being released. What motivation could a team of people be working under when none of them are interested documenting what they are doing to the public at large. This is, in my opinion, a very dangerous mix. Your phone contains the most sensitive data that you have. As such I would expect the developers of MIUI to include the rest of us in the development process not just for the outstanding improvement of having more people work on a project, but to allow the code of something that is at the center of our private information to be reviewed by the people using it. Is there anyone esle that is concerned about this?
good luck getting the miui team to do anything they don't want to do
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good luck and imho get over it
The MIUI team are from China... remember we as the end user decide what we want to run on our phones. We must take responsibility for our own actions... therefore I have made the choice to run MIUI on my phone.
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What I can't figure out is why they can blatantly flaunt the GPL but still pimp their **** on XDA.
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matt2053 said:
What I can't figure out is why they can blatantly flaunt the GPL but still pimp their **** on XDA.
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This is exactly right. If they are in violation of the gpl, then they should not be able to distribute. However, it is possible that they have proprietary code that does not conflict with the gpl.
I don't know which of these is true, though. It sure looks cool, but if they are shirking their responsibility to FOSS then then is a problem.
I am not in disagreement with them having their own proprietary code, but they do need to follow the agreement within the GPL. If you download cyanogen, you have to download gapps separately because gapps has closed source programs. The GPL requires that you leave the open source code open source and the proprietary distributed separately. There are no such repositories containing anything from this rom. I am not into conspiracies or anything, but rules are rules.
Prepare for the same pro SBC trolls to invade your thread.
Yes, it does raise some questions and thank you for bringing the topic up. I don't use that rom but until there is some clarification from the developers, xda or both I will steer clear. Hopefully that kind of response from users like myself will get some movement on the issue.
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I think you should sue em man.
What's XDA's official view on GPL violations?
Didn't Feeyo of the Cronos Project get banned from XDA and all his ROM's removed, for GPL violation?
By the way I think Android is on Apache licence, only the kernel is on GPL2, but MIUI team has released kernel sources in the past as far as I know. So I don't know for sure if there is actually a violation here.
Oh boy, here we go again. First SBC, now MIUI. Considering this site promotes rooting phones and voiding warranties, there sure is a ton of hypocricy around here. Go ahead, flame away.
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wow. what asses. your really going to start something?
Btw, it does apply to just the kernel. if not, pretty much every rom needs to be taken down. None of them have a link to source.
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Oh boy, here we go again. First SBC, now MIUI. Considering this site promotes rooting phones and violating warranties, there sure is a ton of hypocricy around here. Go ahead, flame away.
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How exactly does one "violate" a warranty?
"Voiding" a warranty and violating a license agreement are no where near the same thing.
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Duplicate post.
matt2053 said:
How exactly does one "violate" a warranty?
"Voiding" a warranty and violating a license agreement are no where near the same thing.
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Fixed it. Your life is better now?
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Fixed it. Your life is better now?
PS. My name is HondaCop and I approve this message.
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You didn't fix the fact that you're comparing apples to oranges and the entire logic of your post makes no sense.
My life still sukz
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My life still sukz
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There might be an app for that.
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There might be an app for that.
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Awesome I hope it doesn't use stolen source code.
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the kernel is the only part that needs to be. and our kernel for the evo is from one of the ones here on xda so....
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Oh boy, here we go again. First SBC, now MIUI. Considering this site promotes rooting phones and voiding warranties, there sure is a ton of hypocricy around here. Go ahead, flame away.
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Rooting phones and voiding warranties are totally legal. Stealing sources is not.
But I am still not sure if they did steal source.
Okay, so no one likes those annoying ads eh? WELL, I decided to rip apart angry birds and see whats inside.
R.1
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-Removed ADS!
-Changed Splash Screen
Will be adding more cool stuff as soon as I dissect the code more, If you would like to get in on this pM me
You can download the apk BELOW.
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Here's some screens.
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Thanks, just installed this and it works and looks great!
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Thanks, just installed this and it works and looks great!
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No problem, if you have any mod request for this post them
I don't think this would be looked upon without a frown from the mods upstairs...
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Eh
Not my cup of tea. That's how they get paid for giving you such a high quality app for free... ADS... you remove them, they don't get paid... apps like this are no longer free....
This is the same debate as rooting to tether. You tether... carriers get pissed... no more rooting...
You See?
I'll give you credit for being able to do this kind of stuff Very cool... but perhaps this is a mod you should have kept for yourself... you know?
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Not my cup of tea. That's how they get paid for giving you such a high quality app for free... ADS... you remove them, they don't get paid... apps like this are no longer free....
This is the same debate as rooting to tether. You tether... carriers get pissed... no more rooting...
You See?
I'll give you credit for being able to do this kind of stuff Very cool... but perhaps this is a mod you should have kept for yourself... you know?
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Everything is up for debate. This is a Modding and hacking community. So we do things like this. But from a non-xda member view I guess you're right. But http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+is+angry+birds+free+on+android+?
That should clear things up a bit.
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If you had fundamentally changed the game, I think that would be more acceptable in terms of modding but just ripping out the ads and changing the splash screen isn't what I would describe as modding.
Modding is like creating a new level, replacing the graphics, this is definitely more akin to piracy.
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If you had fundamentally changed the game, I think that would be more acceptable in terms of modding but just ripping out the ads and changing the splash screen isn't what I would describe as modding.
Modding is like creating a new level, replacing the graphics, this is definitely more akin to piracy.
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Here's the definition of modding.
modify [mdfa] vb -fies, -fying, -fied (mainly tr) 1. to change the structure, character, intent, etc., of
Enough said about that.
Do you just read the title and not read the post? I'm pretty sure I said I'll be adding more mods once I get a feel for their code. Oh, yeah this is defiantly piracy since I'm tweaking an app that is free and all. Please know what you're talking about before you post.
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Add me to the list that doesn't agree with this. No offense to you at all, just don't feel its right to take away their income from this app.
If people don't want the ads, they can pay $.99, or they could've just gotten the app while it was free on the amazon appstore.
I'm not sure why you're making this personal, and I don't think you really believe that I misunderstood your post or what modding is.
The problem is, this is exactly the kind of post you would expect to find from a warez forum. A crack to remove ads, and a custom splash screen, and that's it. Just because you call it a mod, doesn't make it so.
Modding is an art form and I highly respect it. You're just not there yet, and you're acting very immature about it. If you make a great game out of this, kudos to you. But in it's current form, what you posted is closer to piracy than modding. Which has nothing to do with something being free or not.
3 posters here have now warned you about it. You might take that as a hint that you should consider thinking it through again. You've also been rude to two of them and thanked the other because you misread his post.
Anyways, I wish you luck in creating a really cool mod eventually -- I really do.
But I don't think it helps anyone for me to continue to reply here, we've said our warnings and the forum moderators will sort the rest.
Also, one last peice of advice, if you're going to put yourself on stage, you should learn to take a bit of criticism without lashing out with personal insults.
Add me to the list that disagrees. Stuff like this is what ruins things for others. Also a determining factor for us getting Netflix they are afraid of what can be changed.
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I'm not sure why you're making this personal, and I don't think you really believe that I misunderstood your post or what modding is.
The problem is, this is exactly the kind of post you would expect to find from a warez forum. A crack to remove ads, and a custom splash screen, and that's it. Just because you call it a mod, doesn't make it so.
Modding is an art form and I highly respect it. You're just not there yet, and you're acting very immature about it. If you make a great game out of this, kudos to you. But in it's current form, what you posted is closer to piracy than modding. Which has nothing to do with something being free or not.
3 posters here have now warned you about it. You might take that as a hint that you should consider thinking it through again. You've also been rude to two of them and thanked the other because you misread his post.
Anyways, I wish you luck in creating a really cool mod eventually -- I really do.
But I don't think it helps anyone for me to continue to reply here, we've said our warnings and the forum moderators will sort the rest.
Also, one last peice of advice, if you're going to put yourself on stage, you should learn to take a bit of criticism without lashing out with personal insults.
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+1
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holy crap if u dont like the app then dont post. go troll somewhere else ....
No one is lashing out. I'm simply trying to make you who oppose this realize that you sound ridiculous. And as for Netflix.... that has nothing to do with this. So please if you don't like this, then don't download and don't troll. Can I please have a mod remove their post? I guess they forgot what kind of site there were members of. It this offends you then I guess we should removed ad-free android off the market oh yeah and remove the flashable zips MANY highly respected members post for their roms to block ads. So please. Get off this thread.
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Yeah nobody said you guys had to use it.
Good work, look forward to more.
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Look man
This is my final post about this.... I'm not going to argue I just want to make you understand.
1) I have been a member of this forum since 2008.... so yes, I DO know what this site is, I do know what it's about, and my "view" on this is exactly from an xda-member point of view versus what you state
2) Kudos to you still... to be able to reverse engineer.... but the irony is that what you posted in your reply to me; googling "why is angry birds free" IRONICALLY pretty much states that it's because of the adds on just about any site that you visit from the results.
3) XDA has ALWAYS considered itself to be morally ABOVE warez... what you're posting is border line warez... PERIOD. Rovio has STATED that they've made more money off of ads then they would have ever posting as a paid app. This is why they released seasons, why they released rovio for android, etc... see the pattern? It's because they're making money. It's discouraging for a coder or company to make something for android... the paid apps DO NOT sell as well as for iOS, so they reserve to ads... when money from ads no longer appears, and paid apps don't sell as well... there's no more reason to develop for them for android... then we bit*h about how there aren't enough apps for android..... just try to understand what I'm saying without lashing back. OK?
4) Again, if you're going to post - don't lash out on people that disagree with you, take their criticism and roll with it. Either ignore it or thank them for it.
5) And to the others that say... oh jeez just move on and don't post if you don't like. This isn't exactly the same. Rovio is a company, with legal capabilities, and you don't know how far they're going to go to defend their intellectual property. But seeing as this is the BULK of their business... I'm guessing far. *I KNOW THAT THIS IS AN EXTREMELY OVERBLOWN SCENARIO* But I don't want the risk of having XDA get shut down because of a cease and desist... Also, regardless of how I fee about this, I'm trying to explain to the OP that he may face legal action against him as well if they wish. He's reverse engineering and modifying intellectual property... and I don't want that happening to any developer at all
Anyway, rant over... just take our heeds and warnings OP. I'm not trying to attack you.... in a way I'm trying to protect you AND XDA.
That is all.... but the more this happens *ads being blocked by modders*, the less development you will see for android by people who do not wish to develop just paid apps. If you're going to develop for *ONE* ecosystem.... iOS is the way you're going to go... their ecosystem has more money flow... that's just a fact... and if revenue from ads is nonexistent, well, you know what will happen. Just take a look at what's happening with root and bootloaders in our community. I guarantee you carriers wouldn't care if they weren't losing money!
My $0.02
get off of it dude,,,,,,any mod is a change, i , my self , love the game, but you are wrong about your thinking of the different way,s of changing things, no matter where it is,
the (key west pirate)
and the adds are from (fox)
if it was a paid app, then not to many people would buy it, and hacking is hacking, no matter what it is, i have hacked open just about all the apps, a lot more then just a 1.00 app, it is just a an app, try a lot harder things then that
i love it with no (adds)
the adds are a pain in the ass, cover part of the game in one version of it , not very nice
and programmer that wrote it is getting payed by a company to write the app
do your home work on the money trail, and you find out ,
the (key west pirate)
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This is my final post about this.... I'm not going to argue I just want to make you understand.
1) I have been a member of this forum since 2008.... so yes, I DO know what this site is, I do know what it's about, and my "view" on this is exactly from an xda-member point of view versus what you state
2) Kudos to you still... to be able to reverse engineer.... but the irony is that what you posted in your reply to me; googling "why is angry birds free" IRONICALLY pretty much states that it's because of the adds on just about any site that you visit from the results.
3) XDA has ALWAYS considered itself to be morally ABOVE warez... what you're posting is border line warez... PERIOD. Rovio has STATED that they've made more money off of ads then they would have ever posting as a paid app. This is why they released seasons, why they released rovio for android, etc... see the pattern? It's because they're making money. It's discouraging for a coder or company to make something for android... the paid apps DO NOT sell as well as for iOS, so they reserve to ads... when money from ads no longer appears, and paid apps don't sell as well... there's no more reason to develop for them for android... then we bit*h about how there aren't enough apps for android..... just try to understand what I'm saying without lashing back. OK?
4) Again, if you're going to post - don't lash out on people that disagree with you, take their criticism and roll with it. Either ignore it or thank them for it.
5) And to the others that say... oh jeez just move on and don't post if you don't like. This isn't exactly the same. Rovio is a company, with legal capabilities, and you don't know how far they're going to go to defend their intellectual property. But seeing as this is the BULK of their business... I'm guessing far. *I KNOW THAT THIS IS AN EXTREMELY OVERBLOWN SCENARIO* But I don't want the risk of having XDA get shut down because of a cease and desist... Also, regardless of how I fee about this, I'm trying to explain to the OP that he may face legal action against him as well if they wish. He's reverse engineering and modifying intellectual property... and I don't want that happening to any developer at all
Anyway, rant over... just take our heeds and warnings OP. I'm not trying to attack you.... in a way I'm trying to protect you AND XDA.
That is all.... but the more this happens *ads being blocked by modders*, the less development you will see for android by people who do not wish to develop just paid apps. If you're going to develop for *ONE* ecosystem.... iOS is the way you're going to go... their ecosystem has more money flow... that's just a fact... and if revenue from ads is nonexistent, well, you know what will happen. Just take a look at what's happening with root and bootloaders in our community. I guarantee you carriers wouldn't care if they weren't losing money!
My $0.02
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mr. dreamer..... i think you should not be on this site if u feel that modding or changing things is a crime.. here we ripp appart apps from a device and make it available for all the other device .. we make custom roms here which in fact improves the overall performance of the device ..due to which we dont change the device for a long time , which in turn is not a good thing for the manufacturers...
so if u think what this guy has done .. u should stop using custom roms and also stop tweaking ur device ..cozz if you want to get more out of ur device.. you can buy a more better version of device rather than tweaking it..
this community is all about tweaking and getting more from the existing .. may it be apps or firmware..
people have also tweaked the google maps and navigation to make it free for everyone.. so you were nowhere to be seen there..
there is an app called add free.. which every rom devloper includes in his roms
and i m sure u might be using a lot of these roms.. so u should stop using this forum..
i totally support this guy cozz.. he has just tweaked a free app...
if this thread would be taken down then then the purpose of having such a great forum wouldnt be the same...
these are the poll results for u.
View Poll Results: Please mod more!
Yes, lets see what comes out of this. 7 100.00%
Na, its okay. 0
and if u are saying "in a way I'm trying to protect you AND XDA".. get a life dude.. if you want to do any favor for us .. just get your ass out of this forum that would be the biggest favor
I use Adfree, the ads are gone already. I wonder if these guys bash the creator of that app or even worse, use it themselves. Oh the irony...
But it all depends on who you are and what you have contributed to xda, because the impaler released the same thing for angry birds, I don't remember anyone criticizing him for it.
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This is my final post about this.... I'm not going to argue I just want to make you understand.
1) I have been a member of this forum since 2008.... so yes, I DO know what this site is, I do know what it's about, and my "view" on this is exactly from an xda-member point of view versus what you state
2) Kudos to you still... to be able to reverse engineer.... but the irony is that what you posted in your reply to me; googling "why is angry birds free" IRONICALLY pretty much states that it's because of the adds on just about any site that you visit from the results.
3) XDA has ALWAYS considered itself to be morally ABOVE warez... what you're posting is border line warez... PERIOD. Rovio has STATED that they've made more money off of ads then they would have ever posting as a paid app. This is why they released seasons, why they released rovio for android, etc... see the pattern? It's because they're making money. It's discouraging for a coder or company to make something for android... the paid apps DO NOT sell as well as for iOS, so they reserve to ads... when money from ads no longer appears, and paid apps don't sell as well... there's no more reason to develop for them for android... then we bit*h about how there aren't enough apps for android..... just try to understand what I'm saying without lashing back. OK?
4) Again, if you're going to post - don't lash out on people that disagree with you, take their criticism and roll with it. Either ignore it or thank them for it.
5) And to the others that say... oh jeez just move on and don't post if you don't like. This isn't exactly the same. Rovio is a company, with legal capabilities, and you don't know how far they're going to go to defend their intellectual property. But seeing as this is the BULK of their business... I'm guessing far. *I KNOW THAT THIS IS AN EXTREMELY OVERBLOWN SCENARIO* But I don't want the risk of having XDA get shut down because of a cease and desist... Also, regardless of how I fee about this, I'm trying to explain to the OP that he may face legal action against him as well if they wish. He's reverse engineering and modifying intellectual property... and I don't want that happening to any developer at all
Anyway, rant over... just take our heeds and warnings OP. I'm not trying to attack you.... in a way I'm trying to protect you AND XDA.
That is all.... but the more this happens *ads being blocked by modders*, the less development you will see for android by people who do not wish to develop just paid apps. If you're going to develop for *ONE* ecosystem.... iOS is the way you're going to go... their ecosystem has more money flow... that's just a fact... and if revenue from ads is nonexistent, well, you know what will happen. Just take a look at what's happening with root and bootloaders in our community. I guarantee you carriers wouldn't care if they weren't losing money!
My $0.02
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I stopped reading at 3).... Why?
Because this reason.
I'll just let you talk, you're ruining my thread and I am running out of patience.
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I use Adfree, the ads are gone already. I wonder if these guys bash the creator of that app or even worse, use it themselves. Oh the irony...
But it all depends on who you are and what you have contributed to xda, because the impaler released the same thing for angry birds, I don't remember anyone criticizing him for it.
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EXACTLY!!!!!
Very important:
Respect the rules of XDA.. post like you thought about it, not out of rage.
I do not want to promote/help this guy.
There is a fine line between this and simply informing people.
I think the latter is worth the risk.
OP was cleaned up since its getting so much attention now
5/17/11 synopsis:
The Android Community rallied. A lot was accomplished. But, we haven't succeeded.
Make Wednesday even better. Tweet, write articles and submit them to sites, post on facebook, just do something.
Site was/is down... but because he took it down for maintenance. Not his ISP shutting him down.
ARTICLES PUBLISHED FROM OUR EFFORTS (And growing....):
UncutAndroid published it first, they tell it how it is and let users speak their mind.
AndoidSPIN Much respect for them too!
Voice Of Android Found me a new site!
RESULTS?!?!
His site is currently down...
Our developers (some who have not been around in a long time) and some who used to feud are ALL working together
and of course the below work...
Thanks to the community and XDA user andyharney we have ("You are" is directed at akaskriller, obviously):
You are in breach of Apache Software License Version 2 & GNU General Public License Version 2.
You are in breach of your AdSense account by hosting copyrighted material, you have been reported
You have been reported to Gameloft for hosting their pirated/warez apps, they have notified their legal dept.
You have been reported to your web host for hosting & distributing pirated/warez apps.
You have been reported to Paypal for profiteering off pirated/warez apps.
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WAIT, WHAT'S GOING DOWN?
Recently in one of my guides, a user who apparently did not understand the intent of the thread, starting going off on me that my thread should be deleted... and started singing the praises of AkaSkriller. I thought this guy was a thing of the past. Nope, he has only gotten bigger.
Most people know this guy is a Fraud... he takes the work of our developers (roms, themes, free/paid apps and posts it on his site... behind a $5 donate wall ( $5/month for ACCESS to others work ).
Read some of the below posts where developers have already posted conversations with this guy.... it's sad panda time here.
Not enough, read the lashing he took trying to "apologize" *fake/lying*
Master (Axura ROM) stated that he spoke with AkaSkriller about removing his ROM and he was told he would simply edit the build.prop as to be a different ROM... as if by editing this, it was somehow no longer Master's work!! Since then, there are just more developers supporting this....
This outraged me. I truly respect ALL of our developers, and this is just ONE example of probably 100's where this guy and his site have taken advantage of those in our community who are NOT familiar.
Sooooo........
I propose we do ANOTHER #NeverAgain Twitter campaign where we send out tweets telling people to not use this guys site... we inform people the $5 "donate" for access to files is absurd... and we try and point people to sites like XDA!
A place where we are truly geared to helping our developers/community
(not to make money off noobs).
Here is his site. I only link to it so you can see just how absurd it is. DO NOT give this guy any of your money.
ACTION:
Send out a tweet about it...
Post on your Facebook about it....
Email or send a tweet to other Android sites and ask them to tweet about it....
Sample Tweet (copy and paste if you like):
Sites requiring a donation for access to others work is wrong. Read this: http://goo.gl/l7vSO
I realize some of you think this is crazy/pointless. But it bothers me to have an element like that in a community I really do love.
And yes, I have a "Donate to Me" button. Only because someone volunteered to give me a donation before I had a link.
I've received MAYBE $30... imagine how much I could make on a site like that (near 600 thanks and I am NOT a developer)!
lets play the "I see $5 this many times" game... Maybe just a "thanks button" would work? Nagh, lets make a whole section.
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We could also warn new users/subscribers of his YouTube account by posting comments on his profile page/videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/akaskriller
Edit: I found his real name (David Barkley) and his Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/akamilkweed?sk=wall) if anyone wants to go an evil route, use social engineering, etc to screw with him outside of the internet as revenge.
Good stuff. I may need to edit the title. I don't want to HURT him, more just want to prevent people new to Android/unfamiliar to think what he is doing is acceptable.
Posting on social media its a great tool, inc twitter/facebook/youtube, etc
I have asked popular android blogs to write about it today, here is hoping they care about the community as much as I do.
I'm on board, for no other reason than he charges for people to be able to get to his DL section to get his kanged and stolen roms. That, asking for payment, as per the Apache Open Source Licensing agreement that binds all Android OS builds, is absolutely illegal.
Edit - posted to my facebook, I was emailing with an admin on AndroidSpin yesterday, going to email him now and see if he will get this posted on AndroidSpin
Edit - AndroidSpin admin emailed
Here is some of what he has said to me via email in the past.
"you have put my life and my family life in danger" (How exactly would I have done that..?)
"my post have been change and now ill just really right all the roms u post and make them mine"
..and when I asked him to take the pirated apps off of his site he replied.
"sir thos are all app that are in 4share.com so go bug them ok
your mean"
"dude calm down hater"
I m on board I looked around on his website........... he is just copying other people stuff...........
These type of guys .....they are like weeds in my yard. Always popping up.
Remember all the hurt and problems He will now have are a result of his actions not ours.
Master™ said:
Here is some of what he has said to me via email in the past.
"you have put my life and my family life in danger" (How exactly would I have done that..?)
"my post have been change and now ill just really right all the roms u post and make them mine"
..and when I asked him to take the pirated apps off of his site he replied.
"sir thos are all app that are in 4share.com so go bug them ok
your mean"
"dude calm down hater"
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Whoa, there's a voice I haven't heard in a while. How ya been?
Master™ said:
Here is some of what he has said to me via email in the past.
"you have put my life and my family life in danger" (How exactly would I have done that..?)
"my post have been change and now ill just really right all the roms u post and make them mine"
..and when I asked him to take the pirated apps off of his site he replied.
"sir thos are all app that are in 4share.com so go bug them ok
your mean"
"dude calm down hater"
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He could use some lessons in grammar and syntax as well..........
Youtube account
I posted this message on his Youtube subscription page:
"All this guy does is STEAL other developer's work and put it behind a paywall. Don't believe me? Go to XDA forums and find all these ROMs and support for FREE!!!"
It may get deleted, but if everyone on here does the same, it will warn all the noobs that something is up.
I've reached my Thanks limit.. but truly grateful. I feel with enough social media effort we can really help.
For those not familar, my first #NeverAgain campaign was against Samsung.... shortly after, I received calls from them, they were following me on twitter and VERY soon after Froyo was given to us via kies.
my point? To my surprise, it really did work in my opinion (and others).
oka1 said:
He could use some lessons in grammar and syntax as well..........
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He does that on purpose. I've also had email conversations with him in the past when the first round of threads started about him. He pretends to not speak very good English. But just have a listen to his video, he seems to speak pretty good English in fact.
He will pretend to be a nice guy. Months ago during our email conversation, I talked him into making an apology thread here, which he did. I told him no one is trying to hurt him, Devs just want their credit.
This is the best thing we can do, just warn any new commers to not go and get robbed $5 a month for his stolen ROMS.
eminembdg said:
He does that on purpose. I've also had email conversations with him in the past when the first round of threads started about him. He pretends to not speak very good English. But just have a listen to his video, he seems to speak pretty good English in fact.
He will pretend to be a nice guy. Months ago during our email conversation, I talked him into making an apology thread here, which he did. I told him no one is trying to hurt him, Devs just want their credit.
This is the best thing we can do, just warn any new commers to not go and get robbed $5 a month for his stolen ROMS.
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Exactly... our community is exponentially growing... people will continue to fall for this trap.
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I've reached my Thanks limit.. but truly grateful. I feel with enough social media effort we can really help.
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I hope so, this guy, who blatantly ignores the Licensing laws, seriously gets me out of my ZenDroid, and makes me /rage. I think if we can make this a big enough issue, something may be done by people more powerful than us, like Google who actually releases the software under the Apache Licensing terms. I know thats thinking on a grand scale, but its obvious this guy won't listen to us.
s15274n said:
I've reached my Thanks limit.. but truly grateful. I feel with enough social media effort we can really help.
For those not familar, my first #NeverAgain campaign was against Samsung.... shortly after, I received calls from them, they were following me on twitter and VERY soon after Froyo was given to us via kies.
my point? To my surprise, it really did work in my opinion (and others).
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Yes it does and thank you for the catch and noticing this bad behavior so we all could help arresting it.
.....
I just submitted this to UncutAndroid:
I love Android. I love the Community.
Since my G1 days I have slowly evolved from total noob, to someone who helps answer questions daily on XDA, writing instructional guides, and now testing the waters in app development and theming. The reason I have progressed is the kindness of the community. Every themer/developer I have ever contacted has been so incredibly gracious with their time and sharing their talent. I truly respect these people – and you should too.
I say this so bluntly only because it’s that passion that fuels the article.
There are also many bad elements to the Android Community. The most notable in my opinion are the 3rd party paid app sites AND sites like www.akaskriller.com. I want to focus on the latter, but feel the need to point out those 3rd party app sites give you “free” paid apps, but they also give you App Permissions not requested by the original app – they are malicious.
Please do not be a self-inflicted victim over $0.99. You are on this site, you are smarter than that.
Back to my real intent here. For those not familiar, akaskriller is a site that has a nice front – and that is what it is, a front. They appear to be very genuine and caring, they act like they are helping developers, and they act like they want to help the Android noob.
Nothing could be further from the truth. They want money – money for others work.
Sites that offer others work (ROMs & Themes) behind a $5 donate wall (yes, you pay to get access) are wrong people. Not just wrong for those new to Android – those who genuinely need help and do not know better. But more importantly, it is wrong for the developers who work so hard to improve our phones, at no cost to us.
I am no expert on Apache/Licensing but I would have to assume paying/donating $5 for free software is wrong on a larger scale than I know how to address.
Those familiar with the Samsung Vibrant may recall a movement I suggested. It was called “#NeverAgain Samsung.” I proposed a social media blitz where we told Samsung on Twitter, blogs, Facebook and YouTube that we would not continue to buy their products if they would treat the Android Community the way they did – withholding updates and source.
Shortly after the movement started (and it grew FAST), I received calls from Samsung and they were following me on twitter Froyo and source was given to us via Kies. Perhaps due to our combined community efforts.
I am suggesting we have another outcry - an outcry that our community will not tolerate this. Let the community know this is wrong. I will not be formal and say “do this,” but do something.
Tweet about it, post on Facebook… heck, just tell a developer you appreciate them.
Since mentioning the idea of one developer has told me when he requested his ROM be removed from the site, he was told that they would simply change the build.prop so it was a “new ROM.” Taking away the work this developer did and making it their own.
This is wrong. Do something.
I am s15274n on XDA and you can find me on Twitter @CallipH. If you are noob and you want help, ask me and I will tell you if I can help, for free.
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s15274n said:
I just submitted this to UncutAndroid:
I love Android. I love the Community.
Since my G1 days I have slowly evolved from total noob, to someone who helps answer questions daily on XDA, writing instructional guides, and now testing the waters in app development and theming. The reason I have progressed is the kindness of the community. Every themer/developer I have ever contacted has been so incredibly gracious with their time and sharing their talent. I truly respect these people – and you should too.
I say this so bluntly only because it’s that passion that fuels the article.
There are also many bad elements to the Android Community. The most notable in my opinion are the 3rd party paid app sites AND sites like www.akaskriller.com. I want to focus on the latter, but feel the need to point out those 3rd party app sites give you “free” paid apps, but they also give you App Permissions not requested by the original app – they are malicious.
Please do not be a self-inflicted victim over $0.99. You are on this site, you are smarter than that.
Back to my real intent here. For those not familiar, akaskriller is a site that has a nice front – and that is what it is, a front. They appear to be very genuine and caring, they act like they are helping developers, and they act like they want to help the Android noob.
Nothing could be further from the truth. They want money – money for others work.
Sites that offer others work (ROMs & Themes) behind a $5 donate wall (yes, you pay to get access) are wrong people. Not just wrong for those new to Android – those who genuinely need help and do not know better. But more importantly, it is wrong for the developers who work so hard to improve our phones, at no cost to us.
I am no expert on Apache/Licensing but I would have to assume paying/donating $5 for free software is wrong on a larger scale than I know how to address.
Those familiar with the Samsung Vibrant may recall a movement I suggested. It was called “#NeverAgain Samsung.” I proposed a social media blitz where we told Samsung on Twitter, blogs, Facebook and YouTube that we would not continue to buy their products if they would treat the Android Community the way they did – withholding updates and source.
Shortly after the movement started (and it grew FAST), I received calls from Samsung and they were following me on twitter Froyo and source was given to us via Kies. Perhaps due to our combined community efforts.
I am suggesting we have another outcry - an outcry that our community will not tolerate this. Let the community know this is wrong. I will not be formal and say “do this,” but do something.
Tweet about it, post on Facebook… heck, just tell a developer you appreciate them.
Since mentioning the idea of one developer has told me when he requested his ROM be removed from the site, he was told that they would simply change the build.prop so it was a “new ROM.” Taking away the work this developer did and making it their own.
This is wrong. Do something.
I am s15274n on XDA and you can find me on Twitter @CallipH. If you are noob and you want help, ask me and I will tell you if I can help, for free.
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Very well said. I would urge you to submit that as an article to AndroidSpin as well. I haven't had the time to type up anything as eloquent as the way you put it.
I put a post about this on the edt site. Helping out in anyway I can. I would blow him up with social network sites, but I don't belong to any.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA Premium App
Br1cK'd said:
Very well said. I would urge you to submit that as an article to AndroidSpin as well. I haven't had the time to type up anything as eloquent as the way you put it.
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Ahh, I hit them up on twitter but I just submitted the article to them as well. Good call, they are very good to the Vibrant forums.
^ Thanks for posting on EDT man!!
Thank you all for informing us of this situation. It really makes me mad to see someone take what someone else has worked so hard on, and try and make it there "own". I really appreciate all the hard work our dev's do, and donate and pay for apps.
Have posted on Twitter.
thanks again for the information!
I didn't realize AkaSkriller was such a great themer!
I downloaded the app "Servicely" and it can disable services and apps to prolong your battery and what not, well i opened it up to take a look and i was going through each apps running services.. Not all mind you as there are a ton but i was scrolling down through OnePlus 6T dashboard app and one of the services was ".mms.SmsHijackerService" .
This of course grabbed my attention. Does anybody know what this is and is a lot more Innocent then what it looks like? I also read something earlier tonight about One plus does steal info behind users backs...not sure if it was a BS article or if out had some truth to it ( sure everything has truth to it) . So after reading that then seeing this i was like WTF. Are my texts being hijacked and sent to them. There was a few other ones with names that at least if they are what i think they are, they hid the name better. I have a screen shot here not sure if i
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That's interesting -.- I have no words hopefully oneplus ain't hijacking our text messages.
I think they need to hijack sms and mms just to display it in the Dashboard. At least I hope so.
Nevermind, I am using a custom ROM.
Ryan Mixed said:
That's interesting -.- I have no words hopefully oneplus ain't hijacking our text messages.
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I have found nothing online about it. Very strange, i figured if anybody knew it would be someone on here. I am going to keep digging into it.
@Funk Wizard
My good man, got any inside on this?
fogame said:
@Funk Wizard
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You won't hear from him till there's an stable OOS update.
indian84 said:
You won't hear from him till there's an stable OOS update.
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Lol true. He might respond though. He answers my messages.
Hope for the best, expect the worst.
Has anybody else seen this or have it on their device?
Jrod333 said:
Has anybody else seen this or have it on their device?
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I have the same on OOS 9.012
gogoffm said:
I have the same on OOS 9.012
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I am on 9.0.11 , so it doesn't go away in an update ha ha not that i thought it would. Seems shady but also why on earth would they name it something that seems shady....... I am going to try to install this sms reader module i read about, it logs all data & sms that leave your phone. Find out if any leave that A) i didn't write & B) go somewhere i didn't send...hopefully the app can tell me that..... if it turns out not , Do you or anybody know of an app that can do that ? I think that would solve all my paranoia that every app i have is sending out my information.
Jrod333 said:
I am on 9.0.11 , so it doesn't go away in an update ha ha not that i thought it would. Seems shady but also why on earth would they name it something that seems shady....... I am going to try to install this sms reader module i read about, it logs all data & sms that leave your phone. Find out if any leave that A) i didn't write & B) go somewhere i didn't send...hopefully the app can tell me that..... if it turns out not , Do you or anybody know of an app that can do that ? I think that would solve all my paranoia that every app i have is sending out my information.
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Agree, the name is really strange we should wait the reply from the OP guy....
I put an aluminum foil cover on my phone, and it went away...
the paranoia here is impressive...
MarcoLK said:
I think they need to hijack sms and mms just to display it in the Dashboard. At least I hope so.
Nevermind, I am using a custom ROM.
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Does the Dashboard display sms? Maybe I don't understand what the Dashboard is?
wase4711 said:
I put an aluminum foil cover on my phone, and it went away...
the paranoia here is impressive...
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Hmmm... don't want to start drama as I'm sure you didn't intend to, but I'm one of those "paranoid" or conscious as I prefer.
I'm huge on keeping up with geopolitics and some of us should really research the history of China, and I don't mean reading modern, watered-down history literature. China's CCP is the biggest and most vast "Big Brother" in the world except for intelligence in the US/Europe. Not only that, but they are VERY open about the intrusion of privacy amongst it's own people along with the current controversy on China's LONG history of Intellectual Property theft. Read anything re: China's (state owned and funded) Huawei these days (also, notice Huawei's focus on high quality cameras.. eyes everywhere), I will never own anything they produce and I'm sad to say I may be skeptical of this phone now, sadly. And here's a fun-fact.... I'm a Chinese-American, no joke lol
This is very concerning and I think these questions should continue to be asked higher up. I will definitely research this and watch this thread closely.
Please post any finding on it's nature and update us on if we can remove/block the apk. I will do some testing after work.
- Former GE Engineer and Chinese Businessman Charged with Economic Espionage and Theft of GE’s Trade Secrets - An indictment unsealed today charges Xiaoqing Zheng, 56, of Niskayuna, New York, and Zhaoxi Zhang, 47, of Liaoning Province, China, with economic espionage and conspiring to steal General Electric’s (GE’s) trade secrets surrounding turbine technologies, knowing
- The future of the smartphone camera is here, it’s not Apple and it’s disturbing - "Mashable’s Stan Schroeder snapped this picture that, while grainy, gives a sense of the potential spy-power of the phone’s camera."
- Chinese Infiltration in US Reaches ‘Extreme’ Levels - "There are a minimum of 50,000 Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spies at U.S. companies, government agencies, and U.S. military."
- China Infiltration Into U.S. Education System - "Chinese government has infiltrated nearly every sector of the U.S. education system via a package of programs and monetary schemes that seek to indoctrinate American children and bring the Communist government’s propaganda into the classroom, according to a new report by a Senate investigatory body."
- Why Chinese Steel is Unsafe For Your Next Steel Building Project - Weak steel flooded into the market by the Chinese creates weak infrastructure and military components in rival countries... along with destroying the steel market itself.
Edit: After some initial research, OnePlus is a little more distant than Huawei when it comes to state relations.. but keep in mind that China announced last year a new law that "requires cloud services offered to Chinese citizens be operated by Chinese companies and that the data be stored in China". Why do you think that is....? NEVER EVER EVER trust ANYONE/ANYTHING that says they're from/with the government and that they are there to help you. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
This is a tech/dev forum, so I'll stop here to stay on that topic. But please... understand that there's always a threat to your freedom, it's up to the masses to protect it from the >1% of those working tirelessly to take it.
WWG1WGA!!!
that's fine, and being "conscious" is always appropriate in dealing with all things internet..
however, it always makes me chuckle how so many folks are super paranoid of their privacy being invaded, yet they spend half their lives on faceschnook, tweeter, Snapchat, "the gram" and on and on, plus, as I am sure you already know that once you have an email account, an internet plan, a cell phone, a credit card, a car payment, what ever, you can pretty much kiss any semblance of personal privacy goodbye..
wase4711 said:
I put an aluminum foil cover on my phone, and it went away...
the paranoia here is impressive...
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Every time I do that it really messes my Wi-Fi signal up...
If you use Chinese aluminum foil, it some how works...
wase4711 said:
that's fine, and being "conscious" is always appropriate in dealing with all things internet..
however, it always makes me chuckle how so many folks are super paranoid of their privacy being invaded, yet they spend half their lives on faceschnook, tweeter, Snapchat, "the gram" and on and on, plus, as I am sure you already know that once you have an email account, an internet plan, a cell phone, a credit card, a car payment, what ever, you can pretty much kiss any semblance of personal privacy goodbye..
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You are giving alot assumptions (? ) about me when you don't even know me. I don't have half those things you listed and if I did or if anybody did that automatically takes their right to privacy away? I will always be concerned with that and as I do agree you can't stop it all as everything you have is tied to you in some digital public way, it does not mean we should just give up... That's your choice not mine. But let's get back to the original topic... As this is what this site is for. If you want to argue the topics hipocricy and all that good stuff (because I gladly will) we can do that else where.
I never made ONE SINGLE assumption about you, so no pity party for you..
and, you said I "gave up"..where EXACTLY did I say that?
you cant make stuff up to fit your narrative dude, so dont try..
even XDA hides tracking cookies on your devices, so deal with it..
and, please show me where it says we have a "right" to privacy...
..Cory.. said:
Hmmm... don't want to start drama as I'm sure you didn't intend to, but I'm one of those "paranoid" or conscious as I prefer.
I'm huge on keeping up with geopolitics and some of us should really research the history of China, and I don't mean reading modern, watered-down history literature. China's CCP is the biggest and most vast "Big Brother" in the world except for intelligence in the US/Europe. Not only that, but they are VERY open about the intrusion of privacy amongst it's own people along with the current controversy on China's LONG history of Intellectual Property theft. Read anything re: China's (state owned and funded) Huawei these days (also, notice Huawei's focus on high quality cameras.. eyes everywhere), I will never own anything they produce and I'm sad to say I may be skeptical of this phone now, sadly. And here's a fun-fact.... I'm a Chinese-American, no joke lol
This is very concerning and I think these questions should continue to be asked higher up. I will definitely research this and watch this thread closely.
Please post any finding on it's nature and update us on if we can remove/block the apk. I will do some testing after work.
- Chinese Infiltration in US Reaches ‘Extreme’ Levels - "There are a minimum of 50,000 Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spies at U.S. companies, government agencies, and U.S. military."
- China Infiltration Into U.S. Education System - "Chinese government has infiltrated nearly every sector of the U.S. education system via a package of programs and monetary schemes that seek to indoctrinate American children and bring the Communist government’s propaganda into the classroom, according to a new report by a Senate investigatory body."
- Why Chinese Steel is Unsafe For Your Next Steel Building Project - Weak steel flooded into the market by the Chinese creates weak infrastructure and military components in rival countries... along with destroying the steel market itself.
Edit: After some initial research, OnePlus is a little more distant than Huawei when it comes to state relations.. but keep in mind that China announced last year a new law that "requires cloud services offered to Chinese citizens be operated by Chinese companies and that the data be stored in China". Why do you think that is....? NEVER EVER EVER trust ANYONE/ANYTHING that says they're from/with the government and that they are there to help you. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
This is a tech/dev forum, so I'll stop here to stay on that topic. But please... understand that there's always a threat to your freedom, it's up to the masses to protect it from the >1% of those working tirelessly to take it.
WWG1WGA!!!
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I will keep researching as it has peaked my curiosity. By the way I agree with you. As I can't take it as far as not owning anything made in China as I find that impossible I do limit it where ever I can. And Mr. Tinfoil hat isn't entirely wrong in stating if you have email. Etc then your privacy has been invaded, if everybody read and understood the fine print in every app alone they download, I bet they would think twice. Google freaking owns us and everything we create... You give it to them the min you agree and download this or that... It's sad really.
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Team Win Recovery Project 3.x, or twrp3 for short, is a custom recovery built with ease of use and customization in mind. Its a fully touch driven user interface no more volume rocker or power buttons to mash. The GUI is also fully XML driven and completely theme-able. You can change just about every aspect of the look and feel.
Code:
* Your warranty is now void.
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or your getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.
Supported Models:
Galaxy Note 20 N9810, N981N, N981U, N981U1 and N981W.
US/Canada bootloader unlock thread:
here
Download & Guide:
1. Unlock your bootloader.
2. Download Note 20: c1q.
3. Reboot to download mode and flash vbmeta_disabled.tar in AP slot and reboot. Device will reboot to stock recovery mode prompting you to wipe data so wipe data and reboot to download mode again.
4. Put the TWRP tar for your device with Odin in the AP slot and click start.
5. Reboot to recovery via recovery key combo.
6. Disable encryption:
- Go to Advanced > Terminal, type: multidisabler.If vendor complain about free space left on device, will attempt to resize vendor. and it ask to - Run multidisabler again!.- Type: multidisabler again. will see - Finished. when done.7. Go back to Wipe > Format Data > type yes.
8. Reboot to recovery.
9. Flash magisk apk in twrp.
10. Reboot to system, Enjoy.
Note:
To disable encryption manually:
You need to replace fileencryption=ice with encryptable=ice only in userdata line (maybe rest lines) in vendor/etc/fstab.qcom
To avoid stock recovery restoration manually:
Rename system/recovery-from-boot.p to recovery-from-boot.p.bak
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Support:
Live support is available via #twrp on Freenode with your IRC client or just click this link.
Telegram group
Bugs:
- Encryption not fully working.
Thanks:
TWRP team
ianmacd for multidisabler
jesec for unlock guide
Sources:
TWRP tree
Kernel tree
Device tree
Changelog:
02.06.2022 - Update to Android 12 kernel source
- Fix mount issues
- Update to TWRP 3.6.2
29.11.2021 - Update to TWRP 3.6.0
- Add Symlinked dynamic partitions to fstab
- Updated to latest kernel source
- Update multidisabler
- fstab clean up
- Fix haptic feedback
03.03.2021 - Update to latest TWRP source
- Add terminal multidisabler script
- fstab cleanup.
31.12.2020 - Update TWRP to 3.5.0
- Q and R builds.
15.11.2020 - Add TWRP fastbootd support
- Clean up fstab
- Move kernel to gz format.
16.10.2020 - Initial Release.
As always thank you for all the support you give throughout the Samsung community
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jrkruse said:
As always thank you for all the support you give throughout the Samsung community
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Thanks to you for your support as well
Is it work on att n981u?
Bcs it does not has a oem unlock button under developer settings
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hasim.kilic said:
Is it work on att n981u?
Bcs it does not has a oem unlock button under developer settings
6.step from Where should I do it is it from twrp?
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PM me for more info about unlock.
Might I suggest offering the bootloader unlock to the community instead of selling it?
asrah said:
Might I suggest offering the bootloader unlock to the community instead of selling it?
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Im not selling it! Im sharing it. And its not free from provider so if you want to donate to offer it for free to community its your choice.
asrah said:
Might I suggest offering the bootloader unlock to the community instead of selling it?
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And why not ask Samsung too just give you the phone as well
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asrah said:
Might I suggest offering the bootloader unlock to the community instead of selling it?
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Did it ever occur too you that it may cost money too do these
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afaneh92 said:
Im not selling it! Im sharing it. And its not free from provider so if you want to donate to offer it for free to community its your choice.
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Why not at least just directly refer users to the source? For context, I appreciate the fact that it is being offered to the community. Thank you, and the others behind the effort, for that. Just trying to see if there might be a better way than asking people for $125 or whatever the latest asking price is, for what amounts to getting info from the parent company, or modifying samsungs software.
Issues apparent at the moment:
1) The identity of the group (not individual names, just who the group is, past efforts and in what communities, reputation of the group demonstrated by evidence) is not known to the community. Im in the telegram group, I know what yall do.
2) Users are being asked for money via what is stated to be a middleman. Are the people running the Telegram group the ones doing the bootloader unlocks? Transparency is key here. Users are giving items of tangible value (currency) to what appears to be a "man in the shadows." Whats the entire chain of events from payment to completion? I know the unlock process it outlined. I mean including the sources, the methods, how it goes from them, to you, to us.
3) Who ends up getting the money? Is it shared? All to them? All to you? Id much prefer the group behind the actual unlock source be the ones who get the money. Its up to them how they split it after.
$125 is nothing, as I bought a Note 20. I didnt buy the Ultra because the extra features just arent necessary to me. So, not that you would Afaneh, but to anyone who sees/responds to this, dont play the "youre too broke" game. I could probably buy the unlock for most if not all of the XDA Note 20/Ultra forum userbase.
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And why not ask Samsung too just give you the phone as well. Did it ever occur too you that it may cost money too do these
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Asking someone to come off the idea of charging users for a bootloader unlock that is clearly available, and must have come from 1) modifications to copyrighted software or 2) the parent company, is not the same as asking the parent company to give me the phone for free. You have no idea what you are talking about. Only potential costs are "labor" which is nebulous at best because for labor costs you have to be doing an actual job.
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Why not at least just directly refer users to the source? For context, I appreciate the fact that it is being offered to the community. Thank you, and the others behind the effort, for that. Just trying to see if there might be a better way than asking people for $125 or whatever the latest asking price is, for what amounts to getting info from the parent company, or modifying samsungs software.
Issues apparent at the moment:
1) The identity of the group (not individual names, just who the group is, past efforts and in what communities, reputation of the group demonstrated by evidence) is not known to the community. Im in the telegram group, I know what yall do.
2) Users are being asked for money via what is stated to be a middleman. Are the people running the Telegram group the ones doing the bootloader unlocks? Transparency is key here. Users are giving items of tangible value (currency) to what appears to be a "man in the shadows." Whats the entire chain of events from payment to completion? I know the unlock process it outlined. I mean including the sources, the methods, how it goes from them, to you, to us.
3) Who ends up getting the money? Is it shared? All to them? All to you? Id much prefer the group behind the actual unlock source be the ones who get the money. Its up to them how they split it after.
$125 is nothing, as I bought a Note 20. I didnt buy the Ultra because the extra features just arent necessary to me. So, not that you would Afaneh, but to anyone who sees/responds to this, dont play the "youre too broke" game. I could probably buy the unlock for most if not all of the XDA Note 20/Ultra forum userbase.
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Let me say If you got 20-30% of that price, is that can cover your work, time or even after unlock support? like helping them rooting, having a good kernel base and TWRP, ROMs, etc.
If that mean "selling" for you, Its mean "offering unlock" for us.
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Why not at least just directly refer users to the source?
Asking someone to come off the idea of charging users for a bootloader unlock that is clearly available, and must have come from 1) modifications to copyrighted software or 2) the parent company, is not the same as asking the parent company to give me the phone for free. You have no idea what you are talking about. Only potential costs are "labor" which is nebulous at best because for labor costs you have to be doing an actual job.
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Maybe the source is Samsung and its a service they charge for and this service from Samsung is only available in certain markets. Maybe the person doing this risk getting fired if caught doing phones outside of said markets
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afaneh92 said:
Let me say If you got 20-30% of that price, is that can cover your work, time or even after unlock support? like helping them rooting, having a good kernel base and TWRP, ROMs, etc.
If that mean "selling" for you, Its mean "offering unlock" for us.
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If youre putting it towards efforts for other development, to assist in giving the device a presence in the root community, then certainly, I hope you get what you need out of it.
All im trying to do here, is figure out how this all boils down at its roots. I dont think youre doing anything improper, I just dont see enough information on this "source" to know what exactly is going on with them specifically.
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Maybe the source is Samsung and its a service they charge for and this service from Samsung is only available in certain markets. Maybe the person doing this risk getting fired if caught doing phones outside of said markets
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There we go. I wasnt sure but had suspected something like this might be the case. As, there have been a number of private parties who have gotten their hands on such things in the past. I understand youre not specifically claiming this (least thats my perception from your wording) but it is a more than plausible explanation. However, the need for transparency here doesnt change. This whole process goes from XDA, to Telegram, to Teamspeak. With who knows who and what in between those steps and behind the scenes in general. I understand I can choose to just not buy the unlock if I am that concerned. That doesnt mean that other peoples personal info from the transactions, for example, is "safe."
Ive been doing cybersecurity for years. Last thing Id want to see is someone who means well (Afaneh) ending up involved in an accidental scandal. Not that one is present, but how is the community supposed to know with all the privacy?
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If youre putting it towards efforts for other development, to assist in giving the device a presence in the root community, then certainly, I hope you get what you need out of it.
All im trying to do here, is figure out how this all boils down at its roots. I dont think youre doing anything improper, I just dont see enough information on this "source" to know what exactly is going on with them specifically.
There we go. I wasnt sure but had suspected something like this might be the case. As, there have been a number of private parties who have gotten their hands on such things in the past. I understand youre not specifically claiming this (least thats my perception from your wording) but it is a more than plausible explanation. However, the need for transparency here doesnt change. This whole process goes from XDA, to Telegram, to Teamspeak. With who knows who and what in between those steps and behind the scenes in general. I understand I can choose to just not buy the unlock if I am that concerned. That doesnt mean that other peoples personal info from the transactions, for example, is "safe."
Ive been doing cybersecurity for years. Last thing Id want to see is someone who means well (Afaneh) ending up involved in an accidental scandal. Not that one is present, but how is the community supposed to know with all the privacy?
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There is no scandal. Platforms have changed too try and make process easier. Hundreds of people have done it with not one issue. If it scares you don’t do it
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asrah said:
Why not at least just directly refer users to the source? For context, I appreciate the fact that it is being offered to the community. Thank you, and the others behind the effort, for that. Just trying to see if there might be a better way than asking people for $125 or whatever the latest asking price is, for what amounts to getting info from the parent company, or modifying samsungs software.
Issues apparent at the moment:
1) The identity of the group (not individual names, just who the group is, past efforts and in what communities, reputation of the group demonstrated by evidence) is not known to the community. Im in the telegram group, I know what yall do.
2) Users are being asked for money via what is stated to be a middleman. Are the people running the Telegram group the ones doing the bootloader unlocks? Transparency is key here. Users are giving items of tangible value (currency) to what appears to be a "man in the shadows." Whats the entire chain of events from payment to completion? I know the unlock process it outlined. I mean including the sources, the methods, how it goes from them, to you, to us.
3) Who ends up getting the money? Is it shared? All to them? All to you? Id much prefer the group behind the actual unlock source be the ones who get the money. Its up to them how they split it after.
$125 is nothing, as I bought a Note 20. I didnt buy the Ultra because the extra features just arent necessary to me. So, not that you would Afaneh, but to anyone who sees/responds to this, dont play the "youre too broke" game. I could probably buy the unlock for most if not all of the XDA Note 20/Ultra forum userbase.
Post has been edited a few times to more clearly communicate the issues at hand, and to correct typos.
Asking someone to come off the idea of charging users for a bootloader unlock that is clearly available, and must have come from 1) modifications to copyrighted software or 2) the parent company, is not the same as asking the parent company to give me the phone for free. You have no idea what you are talking about. Only potential costs are "labor" which is nebulous at best because for labor costs you have to be doing an actual job.
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1. What? All the people in the group that help to provide unlock option are well known devs to the community including myself whom is the only one who even provided root options for s8 s8+ (twice) n8, s9 s9+ n9 over last few years. Been on XDA a decade now. This of course is just me, others have years of contributions as well. so not sure what you mean by being unknown to the community.
2. A middle man, reseller, call it what you will. Fact is I have spent years developing relationships with various "sources" whom I trust and whom trust me. If source is not willing to deal in US market and me being a friend who is trustworthy makes a deal with said source that he only deals with me to allow me to offer said service in the usa market based on fact that people go through me then I am more than willing to do so since if I wasnt a "middleman" then it wouldnt even be an option for anyone. Also, if you ever do find a way into the group I am very transparent as to the process from start to finish. Just because source doesnt want to deal in usa market unless it goes through me doesnt make any difference. Fact is people are dealing with ME, not the source and I definitely am not hidingvin the shadows as you would think. lol.
3. Who gets the money? obviously its a paid service so of course money goes to the person actually doing the unlock. There are some fees of course to process payments and conversion and taxes etc. but essentially all the money goes to source to unlock device. There is basically an agreed price from source then w.e they want to allow for us to have is what we get but i guarantee you its not lucrative by any means for us doing the unlocks, i cant quit my day job or anything lol. but that being said, source obviously doesnt want me working on their behalf for free as well as it wouldnt make sense for me to do so considering all the requests and having to spend hours daily to help facilitate the process is very demanding time wise.
to add, xda doesnt allow paid services to be discussed so any issues u have u can send via pm or join grpup if u can find a link or pm me on said chat application.
The service is available, i provide as much details as i can (that i have myself really) and ultimately its no get rich quick scheme nor do i try to pursuade anyone to do anything so its ultimately up to the user if they want to go through with it. In fact for someone with questions/concerns such as yourself I actually say do not unlock your device. I know I wouldnt if I had concerns and dont suggest anyone else does especially if I cant answer all your questions.
That being said, is exactly why xda doesnt allow these types of services on xda lol.
elliwigy said:
1. What? All the people in the group that help to provide unlock option are well known devs to the community including myself whom is the only one who even provided root options for s8 s8+ (twice) n8, s9 s9+ n9 over last few years. Been on XDA a decade now. This of course is just me, others have years of contributions as well. so not sure what you mean by being unknown to the community.
The service is available, i provide as much details as i can (that i have myself really) and ultimately its no get rich quick scheme nor do i try to pursuade anyone to do anything so its ultimately up to the user if they want to go through with it. In fact for someone with questions/concerns such as yourself I actually say do not unlock your device. I know I wouldnt if I had concerns and dont suggest anyone else does especially if I cant answer all your questions.
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Well, the main way it was expressed is "its from a source." Didnt tell me much, but it looks like the dots are connected now.
The potential concern was information privacy and what may or may not be done with said info. Im aware of the XDA rule about paid services. On one hand, it is obviously understandable why the disconnect between the forum and outside group exists. On the other, it creates a layer of "unknown ground." However, you have come out publicly and spoken. As well, your profile matches the name of one of the members who run the group. As far as Im concerned, thats about as good of verification of positive standing with the community that can be gotten in the circumstances. I wasnt trying to say yall werent legit, just trying to put the pieces together for the people who might not be sure. Hopefully you get more requests this way. As, I would like such a high-end phone to have a root/ROM presence. I still have my original Note 4, and have enjoyed the custom utility I get from this community.
jrkruse said:
There is no scandal. Platforms have changed too try and make process easier. Hundreds of people have done it with not one issue. If it scares you don’t do it
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I didnt say there was. The information was regarding potential issues that can arise from an issue that has a multi-layered disconnect from the original platform. However, the information as it stands, has been made public. So, issue resolved as far as Im concerned. Im not scared of it, I was just curious because of the seeming disconnect between the forum presence and the outside chat group. The information is now easily referenced by any community member, so there's no other concern to be noted.
New build up!
15.11.2020 - Add TWRP fastbootd support, Clean up fstab, Move kernel to gz format.
afaneh92 said:
Supported Models:
Galaxy Note 20 N9810, N981N, N981U, N981U1 and N981W.
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I read this several times, so please forgive me if I missed it somehow. No support for N986U1?
Flame Red said:
I read this several times, so please forgive me if I missed it somehow. No support for N986U1?
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here you can find twrp but you need to unlock bootloader first, PM me for more details.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...ent/recovery-twrp-3-4-0-1-snapdragon-t4159989
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