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Root Luvin' FroShedYo v10

I flashed the new radio so I'll see how it does. I don't understand the md5 however I know it's important. I took a chance.:eek: I followed the steps and everything went fine.
 
If you really like this ROM and can spare some change, consider donating to Shed. He & his family are going through a rough time and I think he'd appreciate it. I've donated twice now. I think he's done great things with this ROM and he's a little down on his luck right now. Check out the XDA thread for FroShedYo v10 to read about it. Thanks :)
 
bobcat331 said:
I flashed the new radio so I'll see how it does. I don't understand the md5 however I know it's important. I took a chance.:eek: I followed the steps and everything went fine.
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do you have astro file manager? if not download it,cause its easy to use it to check those sums. :)

just open it,it will show the stuff on your SD card. when you see the file you want to check,long press it. menu will come up,then touch details. it will list the md5 sum... just make sure it matches what is listed on the post. if you dont see it right away,be patient... sometimes it takes the md5 sum a couple minutes to come up... prolly dependent on the file size.

kpg,i will definately donate to shed. :)
 
doogald said:
You can check MD5s with Astro if you have it, but let's give a shout out to Android File Verifier by our very own Scary Alien. It's built just to do things like verifying checksums.

AFV (Android File Verifier) - Android app on AppBrain
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Thanks but like I said I still have some learning to do. I actually do have Scary's app.:D I don't understand the md5 yet so like I told Scary awhile back I didn't really know what I was looking at. Seems it's time I start.:)
 
I'm so glad that he/they finally updated the Red Glass ROM that I feel like trying to find a few more bucks to send his way. I am just barely out of his shoes, so I know how he feels....
 
bobcat331 said:
Thanks but like I said I still have some learning to do. I actually do have Scary's app.:D I don't understand the md5 yet so like I told Scary awhile back I didn't really know what I was looking at. Seems it's time I start.:)
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MD5 is one (of several) different things called a cryptographic hash. Basically, a file is run through a particular algorithm (or, mathematical formula) and this formula will generate a particular 128 bit number, or hash. These are used in security purposes particularly because well-designed hashes (technically, MD5 is no longer considered well designed - SHA-2 is better) will yield random and unpredictable results - change a single character and the hash result will change completely, in a way that you can never predict. For example, the MD5 of the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is 9e107d9d372bb6826bd81d3542a419d6. Add a period to that sentence - "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." - gives an MD5 result of e4d909c290d0fb1ca068ffaddf22cbd0. Adding one character changes the MD5 result completely and randomly.

Also, hashes are not reversible - there is no calculation that can be done to take an MD5 number and calculate what the file that was used to create that MD5 looked like.

Why would you want to use that? Well, if I write a private note to you, but I'm afraid that it's possible that the note can be intercepted and changed along the way, I might send you the note, send the hash result separately, and ask you to check the MD5 of the note you received from me to verify that the note you received is the same as the note that I sent. If somebody intercepted the note and changed it for some odd reason, the MD5 result would be completely different. It's the same in this situation, and, in part, for a similar reason. Somebody could substitute a file with nefarious purposes (in other words, in this case it may have the radio upgrade as well as an Android app that uploads everything that you type to a web site, so that I can try to steal your username and passwords). However, what's more likely is that you could download this file and have the download interrupted and get only a partial image. If the MD5 that you calculate on your phone matches what the original post says, you can be sure and positive that the file you downloaded matches exactly the file that was on the server.

To be more technical, because the MD5 is a 128 bit number, and there are an infinite collection of things that can be calculated to created that 128 bit number, there are multiple original files that will have the same MD5 - though, as I said, you can never predict what an MD5 will be based on the source - so there is a 1 in 2^128 chance that the files with the same MD5 result are different. That's a 1 in 3.40282367
 
I have my company email, gmail and hotmail accounts on my phone. Sometimes my hotmail notifies me that I have email however I have already read it or deleted it. It says I have 25 unread messages but I've already been thru them. So I turned off notifications so it wouldn't keep chimeing. Anyone else having this issue?
 
doogald said:
MD5 is one (of several) different things called a cryptographic hash. Basically, a file is run through a particular algorithm (or, mathematical formula) and this formula will generate a particular 128 bit number, or hash. These are used in security purposes particularly because well-designed hashes (technically, MD5 is no longer considered well designed - SHA-2 is better) will yield random and unpredictable results - change a single character and the hash result will change completely, in a way that you can never predict. For example, the MD5 of the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is 9e107d9d372bb6826bd81d3542a419d6. Add a period to that sentence - "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." - gives an MD5 result of e4d909c290d0fb1ca068ffaddf22cbd0. Adding one character changes the MD5 result completely and randomly.

Also, hashes are not reversible - there is no calculation that can be done to take an MD5 number and calculate what the file that was used to create that MD5 looked like.

Why would you want to use that? Well, if I write a private note to you, but I'm afraid that it's possible that the note can be intercepted and changed along the way, I might send you the note, send the hash result separately, and ask you to check the MD5 of the note you received from me to verify that the note you received is the same as the note that I sent. If somebody intercepted the note and changed it for some odd reason, the MD5 result would be completely different. It's the same in this situation, and, in part, for a similar reason. Somebody could substitute a file with nefarious purposes (in other words, in this case it may have the radio upgrade as well as an Android app that uploads everything that you type to a web site, so that I can try to steal your username and passwords). However, what's more likely is that you could download this file and have the download interrupted and get only a partial image. If the MD5 that you calculate on your phone matches what the original post says, you can be sure and positive that the file you downloaded matches exactly the file that was on the server.

To be more technical, because the MD5 is a 128 bit number, and there are an infinite collection of things that can be calculated to created that 128 bit number, there are multiple original files that will have the same MD5 - though, as I said, you can never predict what an MD5 will be based on the source - so there is a 1 in 2^128 chance that the files with the same MD5 result are different. That's a 1 in 3.40282367
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I rooted my phone yesterday and installed three different roms, this is the one I like the best. That said, I did notice features of some that I find missing.

Like having the phone remain on while charging, this would be nice feature, especially when I put this in a dock at work.

Second, another rom had a mail widget that didn't require (or default load gmail). I was able to put gmail and two other accounts into it and it gave a little number next to the icon of the number unread emails. This rom auto loaded my gmail data to the gmail widget.

Really those are the only two things I can say I don't like.

Is it possible to uninstall the gmail app?

Thanks.
 
afaivre said:
I rooted my phone yesterday and installed three different roms, this is the one I like the best. That said, I did notice features of some that I find missing.

Like having the phone remain on while charging, this would be nice feature, especially when I put this in a dock at work.

Second, another rom had a mail widget that didn't require (or default load gmail). I was able to put gmail and two other accounts into it and it gave a little number next to the icon of the number unread emails. This rom auto loaded my gmail data to the gmail widget.

Really those are the only two things I can say I don't like.

Is it possible to uninstall the gmail app?

Thanks.
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I just flashed this ROM tonight. For having the phone remain awake while charging, perhaps try: Menu > Settings > Applications > Development > Stay Awake.

This worked for a several ROMs I've used.
 
Like everyone else here, I love this rom! But am I the only one who canter stand the keyboard? I've had no luck flashing htc_ime mod or anything else that is more tolerant to my fat fingers. Any takers?
 
bobcat331 said:
I have my company email, gmail and hotmail accounts on my phone. Sometimes my hotmail notifies me that I have email however I have already read it or deleted it. It says I have 25 unread messages but I've already been thru them. So I turned off notifications so it wouldn't keep chimeing. Anyone else having this issue?
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Any Ideas:confused:
 
xx_bishop_xx said:
I just flashed this ROM tonight. For having the phone remain awake while charging, perhaps try: Menu > Settings > Applications > Development > Stay Awake.
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That was it.

Any ideas on a good email app? This one doesn't allow you to go to next or previous message, have to go back to the list and select the next message.

Thank for your help.
 
delvec03 said:
But am I the only one who canter stand the keyboard?
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No, you are not.

If you don't mind spending a little money, the Swiftkey keyboard is very nice. It has a text prediction engine like no other - in fact, I can often compose a 16 word text message in fewer than 30 keypresses.
 
Bobcat,it seems I had the same,or a similar prollem wen i first flashed vanilla. I found that the settings were not staying changed,so after changing them I used the "back" softkey instead of "home" to get back to the main screen and they finally stayed as I set them.

If all your settings are how you initially set them and you're still getting alerts then I have no idea :( maybe something to do with having 3 accounts synced is confusing it?

I don't like email alerts,so I have alerts off. Also,in attempts to save battery, I have mine set to only get new mail wen I open it. Checking it every 15 minutes seemed to be sucking my battery down fast.
 
I'm not a Hotmail kind of guy, so no help from me (but didn't want Bobcat to think he's being ignored :) ). I have 3 email accounts set up, two Bellsouth accounts (which is powered by Yahoo, so looks and feels like Yahoo mail) and the Gmail account. Because I sit in front of 3 (yep, 3) different computers all day every day I use those as my primary method of email, the Bellsouth accounts set up on my phone are just there for backup in the event I'm away from a computer for a long period of time (vacation, for instance). In that case I can use my phone to check mail - should I get the urge (the urge normally doesn't strike). Therefore, like Scotty, my phone is set to only fetch mail manually - which of course eliminates any notification problems.
 
I use just gmail myself. I have gmail downloading mail from several accounts, so it gives me all of my mail in a single place, pushed as it's received. I think I had a Hotmail (or is that HoTMaiL?) account once but that was just back when Microsoft was doing all of that passport stuff. I do remember that the password for the account still, though.
 
mhotovec said:
I'm not a Hotmail kind of guy, so no help from me (but didn't want Bobcat to think he's being ignored :) ). I have 3 email accounts set up, two Bellsouth accounts (which is powered by Yahoo, so looks and feels like Yahoo mail) and the Gmail account. Because I sit in front of 3 (yep, 3) different computers all day every day I use those as my primary method of email, the Bellsouth accounts set up on my phone are just there for backup in the event I'm away from a computer for a long period of time (vacation, for instance). In that case I can use my phone to check mail - should I get the urge (the urge normally doesn't strike). Therefore, like Scotty, my phone is set to only fetch mail manually - which of course eliminates any notification problems.
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It's all good. I just turned off notifications so it don't bug me anymore. Now I have to remember to look to see if I have any.:)
 
I seem to be having some trouble with Apps2sd using this ROM. I hadn't really noticed until I started installing some applications. This is the first 2.2 ROM I've used, my card I currently formatted for the 2.1 ROMs. I can move them over to the card, but I noticed the widgets are not available. I imagine the issue would be re-partitioning the card. Any thoughts?
 
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