Hello everyone, i found this link to a petition from a signature of a senior member somewhere in the galaxy s II forum, but after clicking the link, I found out that it was a petition for samsung to completely make android more open to the public and so that developers could have a less hard time in porting new roms, customizing their devices, etc. Just click the link to learn more. Thanks http://www.change.org/petitions/samsung-mobile-help-third-party-development-achieve-full-potential-of-purchased-devices#
EDIT: Here are the exact reasons posted in that petition site, none of the words used will be coming from me, all of the words inside the quotation marks will be the property of the linked site I have given above.
"Samsung Mobile releases many mobile devices worldwide, yet has an unfortunate reputation for being somewhat slow to update devices to the latest firmware version. This leaves users open to security vulnerabilities, which is detrimental to the experience of paying users.
We, the undersigned, petition Samsung Mobile to release as much as is possible to third party developers (in particular, driver libraries and source headers) in order to allow users to obtain full functionality of the device they have paid for, and further the principles of free open source software (FOSS)."
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Hi there,
I just started a new website at http://www.androidheroes.com, which will focus on Android Apps and the overall Android ecosystem.
I've decided on a feature, that each friday, I would like to do feature on a single app, to help gain some publicity for the developer, at no charge.
As a software developer myself, I know how important publicity is, and I want to allow developers to use my site as a tool for just that.
I don't know if this is against forum rules, but I quickly checked, and couldn't really see anything.
There's a few criteria to be met:
App must be complete and released on the Market.
Submission must include a 638(w)x300(h) image to be featured on the front page.
A QR code and link to the application must be provided.
No more than 500 words about the application, including summary, functionality etc.
No more than 200 words about the developer, including profile, homepage etc.
I am aware that Android Heroes is a new site, but with features like this we hope to grow our user base rapidly.
Please send all submissions to MOD EDIT: REMOVED EMAIL, I will chose the best submission and feature it tomorrow (Friday 25th).
Thanks,
Chris
Hey all,
I've been an XDA member for a little while now and love the work that comes out of here. This year I'm working with Mozilla and the Open Video Alliance to put on the 3rd annual Open Video Conference.
In addition to a lot of great open web and open source projects this year we are offering a Jailbreak Station. It will be a place where attendees can bring their iOS device, have it jailbroken and learn the benefits and risks of having a jailbroken device.
We're looking for volunteers who are hack savy and experienced to volunteer to operate this jailbreaking station.
Benefits of Volunteering:
1. Free OVC T-Shirt
2. Free food!
3. Complimentary registration
4. A chance to network (lots of great industry folks at this event)
5. Be a part of the team and help spread the word on open source, hacking and being a more informed consumer
Supporters of this year include New York Law School, Zencoder, Mozilla and we're pleased to announce that Google has recently joined as a supporter. Many, many more commercial and non-commercial companies/orgs will be represented here too.
We need you! If you're interested please PM me Mod edit: removed email
This does not belong here. Try i-phone developers.
I am a student doing an Interdisciplinary project as part of the Scottish Baccalaureate.
The aim of my project is to determine whether mobile application development is a sustainable business.
I will be needing some figures in terms amount of applications sold and the amount of monthly profit, if possible (average).
There will also be a section in my report which includes a detailed comparison between the trends of people buying applications, whether they are more likely to buy or just download the free app, and also the possibility of them buying a PRO version of the app.
All information provided might be used in my report, none will be given to any third parties.
My final report on my project has the possibility of being published in a research journal depending on the quality of it.
Any developer interested in taking part in this, and helping me please send me a message.
Please include your developer name (Android market, or Apple)
The name of your app/s you wish to include in this research
Your name on XDA
Also just send me a message or post here if you have any questions about my project.
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I was looking in the wayback machine archives. I saw the original mission statement of XDA and it's so comericialized now. Here is the original mission statement from 2005.
The only two things not wrong about the name of this site are the dash and the dot. This site is about certain PDA-phones, made by a secretive firm called HTC in Taiwan. Their makers named them 'Wallaby', 'Himalaya' and 'Blue Angel', but almost nobody knows them by those names. The mobile provider O2 sells them under the brand-name 'XDA', and that's what we had in our hands first. They're also known as Qtek, MDA, SX-56 and many, many other names.
Then there's the 'developers' part: we noticed a profound lack of developer information for these devices. Since we develop software for it, we need information, and nobody seemed eager or ready to give us what we needed. So we 'reverse-engineered' the devices, found a lot of information, and shared it with the world.
But as our site grew we realised that lots of ordinary users were also suffering from a lack of support. They started using the xda-developers forum to communicate and before long the forum was as much a user forum as it was a developer forum.
And then finally there's the 'com' part of our name: we're not very commercial: no banner-ads, no pop-ups and we're not selling anything. The entire site is supported by private donations from the community that uses it. You are encouraged to make a donation if the site is useful to you.
So in short: never mind this site's name. No matter who you are or what brand-name is printed on your phone: if it looks like one of these, this site is for you.
Then there is this on the current rules... B) The site is a relatively small, personal website without commercial advertising / links (i.e. not a competitor forum-based site with purposes and aims similar to those of XDA-Developers......... Yet as we can clearly see is fully comericialized and I'm wondering if this is effecting the original mission statement of......
And then finally there's the 'com' part of our name: we're not very commercial: no banner-ads, no pop-ups and we're not selling anything. The entire site is supported by private donations from the community that uses it. You are encouraged to make a donation if the site is useful to you
I found one on Ebay, I never knew what XDA meant.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Xda-i-O2-windows-mobile/164165466814?hash=item2639063abe:g:-XEAAOSw-LJbccbX
That phone is a classic...
It has been more than a year since our device was released, but until now we have not obtained the Kernel Source, so the development of custom systems and custom Kernel is hampered But this is not the real problem, Xioami is breaking the GPL, basically by not releasing the Kernel Source this is a breach of the open source contract that one has to obey when developing devices Who use Android, this post is a protest against Xioami, please protest let's get our rights, Do what's possible, but without spam, we are human and not robots
I'm afraid we can't do nothing about the GPL violation (legally) since Xiaomi is a company based in china
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I'm afraid we can't do nothing about it (legally) since Xiaomi is a company based in china
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the closest thing to it in legality is GNU or Google doing something about it.
If they want to do business in regions that have the gpl, they have to comply to it.
I'm afraid that they only thing that can be done is a class-action lawsuit.
If anyone here knows anything about one being prepared, let me know, I wouldn't mind supporting, maybe even joining.
we are currently planning something bigger, following a study in University of Edinburgh and Trinity College Dublin, One of the devices studied was the Xiaomi, which was discovered that the system's default apps were spying on information and sending it My plan along with some colleagues is to make a post paying a telegram group with more than 150k+ members, and that my theory that also exists A spyware written in the Kernel, being the reason they don't release the Kernel source
In this case, we are organizing ourselves In this group https://t.me/speskernel
Only in that model precisely? Has that been detected in any other products by Xiaomi? Other brands?
That's a very serious accusation.
Besides spes (RN11) there's also FOG(RN10C) and Veux, all of them didn't have the Kernel Source released for no apparent reason, well it's just my theory apart from the Kernel but within the accusations Previous I don't think it's impossible
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we are currently planning something bigger, following a study in University of Edinburgh and Trinity College Dublin, One of the devices studied was the Xiaomi, which was discovered that the system's default apps were spying on information and sending it My plan along with some colleagues is to make a post paying a telegram group with more than 150k+ members, and that my theory that also exists A spyware written in the Kernel, being the reason they don't release the Kernel source
In this case, we are organizing ourselves In this group https://t.me/speskernel
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I cannot enter this Telegram link (Telegram says the user @speskernel does not exist)
Hi all, We just starting petition at here
Please join us.