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Welcome to the improved XDA-developers forum

First of all: don't worry. Everything you are used to is still here. Your username still exists, all the messages are still here, and we're all still here.
There are a few changes though:
You can set a country flag, as well as which device(s) you have and a home GSM-provider. These will be displayed in icon form with your messages. It's completely uncomplicated and much more fun if everyone participates. So please use the 'Profile' button in the menu above to set these things for you. They help others help you by knowing what device you have and what provider you are using.
Topics now have an extra property, which defines whether they are relevant for the original XDA, for the XDA II or for both. A small icon shows with each message. You can set this property when you start a new topic.
The separate XDAII board is gone. All messages there have been moved to the forum where they are most appropriate (see below). The fact that the messages were originally posted in XDAII now shows with an icon.
We now allow attachments, both in forum postings and in Private Messages, sized up to 50MB (!).
The boards have new names, and are slightly re-organized:
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General
Current events, news, etc.
Using it
messages formerly in 'PocketPC' go here.
Not too technical, about use and peculiarities.
Unlocking it
formerly called 'Unlocking'
Networking it
formerly called 'GPRS/WAP settings'
Stocking up for it
formerly called 'Accessories'
Upgrading and modifying it
formerly 'ROM updates'
Hacking it
formerly 'Programmers corner' and 'Other techie stuff'
Anything but it
formerly called 'Off-topic'
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We currently use the plain-vanilla 'subSilver' phpBB style. Expect further changes to the way things look over the next few days. Please let me know by clicking 'PM' under this message if anything that used to work for you all of a sudden isn't working anymore.
Hope you like it...

New look
Sexy!

Wow ! well done ! :wink: certainly a lot of work ...thanks

Sure does and it looks good too! 8)
But found the following to be missing:
no USA T-Mobile listed under GSM Provider
no AT&T radio stacks listed under Radio Version.

Qman said:
no USA T-Mobile listed under GSM Provider
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Whoops. Fixed.
no AT&T radio stacks listed under Radio Version.
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We're still confused about all these Radio Stack Upgrade numbers. And if we are confused, imagine what that means for the poor folks out there. But I will include some more numbers tomorrow...

A couple of suggestions:
In the ROM Version setting of the profile, there should be a "kitchen" option for 4.00.16, since this is on at least one kitchen (perhaps "kitchen" ought to be a check box?)
I don't know that I would have chosen to have a merged 'update it' forum for XDAI and XDAII. Most readers are interested in info for one device and dont care about the other.

pdhenry said:
A couple of suggestions:
In the ROM Version setting of the profile, there should be a "kitchen" option for 4.00.16, since this is on at least one kitchen (perhaps "kitchen" ought to be a check box?)
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Done. I might make it a checkbox later on.
I don't know that I would have chosen to have a merged 'update it' forum for XDAI and XDAII. Most readers are interested in info for one device and dont care about the other.
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I was planning to create a one-click filter option for 'viewforum.php'.

Why damn, this blob-thing is ... growing.
As you may have seen the forum now has it's own hostname: forum.xda-developers.com. All existing links (/forum and /phpBB) will redirect to the correct thread or post on the new hostname (using a rewrite rule and sending HTTP 'Moved Permanently').
The uncompressed database for the forum is now 40 MB, the entire site is sending and receiving a few GigaBytes per day, to and from over 2500 unique IP-numbers each day.

Congradulation!
Hello
Well done and great work, keep it up.
thanks with best regards.
Othman

looks alrite but i miss the yellowy colour scheme now looks like every other forum on the web lol :roll:

how strange ...
the DB is only 40Mb ... this fits on 10% of my stamp size SD card ...
and yet, with just 2500 db-access (and how many posts? probably 100kb)
we get Giga bytes of traffic....
Just think how wasteful we're with current technology....
This goes double for a Pocket PC with two wireless communications,
100's of Mb of data, 400Mhz cpu ... and all that it does is displaying
who is calling your phone
Hmmm ....
[this is not a flame of the site or the PPC.... just a note on the status of the information/software age of the 21st century in general]

Looks
gazzaman2k said:
looks alrite but i miss the yellowy colour scheme now looks like every other forum on the web lol :roll:
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No worries: this is temporary. There will be some proper design-work done on the entire site.
This is a good opportunity to say "Thank you" to Mario Giambanco, whose ideas and kind offer to work on the site prompted me to do some cleanup first, which resulted in the changes you see. Between him, myself, and hopefully some other volunteers we can now start to do a major overhaul concerning the looks and stale content of the main site.
The new 'main site' is going to be database-generated (from the phpBB database), and will have at least 'News' and 'FAQ' pages, pointing to topics on the forum. This will mean the 'main site' will be much more of an up-to-date tribute to the collective work of all of you on the forum, instead of a somewhat stale collection of some cool stuff we did way back. Creating layout in the way we did it before is just too much work.

Welcome to our new face
It looks very nice :lol:
But maybe we need added section: download & upgrade hardware ???
:wink:

very nice

Simply An excellent job

I preferred the old one. bah humbug

Thank You!
Thanks! For all the hard work it is much appreciated :wink:
Keep burning the midnight oil, it can only get better! ( like the XDA II )
Kind Regards, StayLucky Jim.

Hacking it ?
I written quite a few custom applications for the XDA and your site has some interesting infomation that has helped me.
I have replied a couple of times too with some code snipits.
All was very professional.
Now the Programmers Corner is under Hacking it, so I must of now become a Hacker. An interesting term, that I will have to add to my CV and see if it effects my future software appointments.

At last! Your decision to migrate to 2.0.6 is very welcome
If you interested - I can suggest two mobile adaptations for phpbb:
- read only version optimized for using as Mobile Favorites/Avantgo channels
and
- fully functional version for using from mobile devices.
These versions were developed and tested for one of the mostly visited (264,100 messages currently) PDA-related site in Russia http://www.handy.ru/board Unfortunately, all of the site is on Russian, but you may look though the following links just to smell it:
Mobile Favorites/AvantGo version:
Setup channels (Controls translation: forum name; timeframe; pictures (all/smiles only/none); link conversion mode; signatures on/off)
Ready-to-synchronize channel link (two days plus vacations, smiles only, links converted to text, without signatures).
Online mobile version: (banners should be visible from desktop PC only)
Forum index
Forum page
Topic discussion
All security is the same as in desktop phpbb version. Almost all functionality is implemented except site administration, advanced moderation panel (topic joining/splitting/mass deletes) and profile changing/private messaging.
These forum versions not include support for skins or language resources (sorry, but I develop them as fast as I can). So translation to English and slight adaptation to your mods (if any) needed. But I'm ready for this job.
The only main forum changes needed are:
- adding 4 lines to template variables array initialization;
- modifying 4 template files to add links to mobile versions;

Re: Hacking it ?
vangelderp said:
Now the Programmers Corner is under Hacking it, so I must of now become a Hacker. An interesting term, that I will have to add to my CV and see if it effects my future software appointments.
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It seemed like a logical term to combine 'Programmers corner' and the little used 'Other techie stuff'. We think of the term 'hacker' as meaning a benign and very advanced programmer or techie, and not in any negative media-sensationalist terms. (Even though some of us do smile when we take the SIMlock off.)
Ofcourse if you think the rest of the world would see this differently, you're welcome to say 'Programmers corner' in future job applications.
I sincerely hope this linguistic issue will not keep you from continuing to benefit and contribute in the future.

Bug tracker website? Would that help? (I'm offering)

Ok. Short story of what I want to do and why.
I am a developer and I feel that I don't contribute enough to this fantastic site and its users. After the recent unpleasantness I went away and thought about what it is that I could do to try and fix this. My idea is a site or section of the wiki built specifically to track bugs and issues in new roms (I was specifically thinking WMXL but there is no reason this can't be used for all of them).
I am currently working on my own XML based site with PHP5 driving and if people think it will be useful I'd write and host this service before I continued with my own site (hopefully before WMXL 0.30 is released).
I want to try and restrict the way people enter and search the information relating to problems with new roms and try to cut out the background noise. I was thinking about having fields such as ROM version (drop down list), radio version (text box), boot loader (drop down list), main program affected (text box), extent of interference (drop down list), description of problem (text area), how to reproduce error (mandatory text area!).
This will hopefully encourage more people to think about what might be causing the problem rather than just posting what they cant do and expecting someone else to work everything out. Forcing a description of how to recreate the problem will hopefully find most users not needing to post after they work it out, and if the recreation steps dont work then the post will be closed. Hopefully people will think enough that I will be able to moderate this forum (type thing) myself and maybe someone in another timezone (closer to the UK) can take care of it while im asleep.
No one can stop n00bs posting silly questions but hopefully we can reduce the amount this annoys everyone else.
Sorry it took so long to describe my idea.
Maz
UPDATE: STARTED!
I got started as soon as I'd got a couple of replies but I still need you all.
For the chef's and other brilliant people:
1. What info do you need with each ticket to try solve them?
2. Do you want to be the only one to close tickets? Or should the submitter be able to?
3. What info do you want to store for the roms to filter to the smallest pool of specific tickets?
For the users:
1. How do you want to be able to search this?
I DON'T ASK FOR DONATIONS! ALL I ASK IS THAT PEOPLE SEARCH BEFORE SUBMITTING!
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http://maz.net.au/

Bugzilla? yes please

This is a very good idea. In fact, I think that we need too a place to store the temporary fixes generated after each ROM publishing. It will be a good place for this too.

Good Idea.
It Would Help A Lot, Sounds Like Finding Answers Would Be Easier And Should Cut Down On The Hostile Atmosphere.
Cheers

Yes, very good idea.
This become easyest forum for everyone.

If it would be of any use, i can host this on one of our UK servers so we get very good speeds? I know 'iammaz' has said he can host it but he is in Australia so for the UK guys it might be a tad slow.
If not then no worries, but just trying to do my bit!

jaso2005 said:
If it would be of any use, i can host this on one of our UK servers so we get very good speeds? I know 'iammaz' has said he can host it but he is in Australia so for the UK guys it might be a tad slow.
If not then no worries, but just trying to do my bit!
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Cheers and I'm sure everyone appreciates the offer. My site is hosted in the US. At the moment this is being built as a module to my current CMS. Whether or not this adds too much overhead I won't know until I try. The problem will be if I use too much cpu time im sure it's against the ToS with my hosting company and they will shut me down.
I hope that I will have it built as a stand alone object by then and anyone else can take this and run this on php5 hosting or in fact I could run it as web services from my personal server at home.
Progress goes well. Just working on possible searching and indexing algorithms to make searching fast and useful.
Maz
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I can't believe I forget to type this.
http://maz.net.au/

Great idea

It's 2am. I'm piking for the night. I'm expecting a phone call at 7am tomorrow so will be back into it then for 5 or 6 hours. Hopefully will be almost done by the end of that.
I need to work out how you want to have logins work. I don't think i can make it authenticate against this forum (i havent tried integrating with vBulletin before). Do I allow open registration? do I try make it force you to register the same name but PM'ing the password to that username here? do i manually add people as they ask and restrict the group?
let me know in the next 6 hours or so.
Maz
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Badly styled CMS can be seen here. (new version looks so much better )
http://maz.net.au/

Open registration, but obviously grant privileges to those of us who classify as developers.

Olipro said:
Open registration, but obviously grant privileges to those of us who classify as developers.
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And super-user privileges for the chef's for bug tickets that apply to their cooked roms.
Maz
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hard at work again at http://maz.net.au/

Downloads and Stuff

I know, I know, I know. I'm not paying, so I shouldn't complain.
However, I think we can agree that rapidshare is the opposite of efficient for ROM distribution.
Since I'm no coder myself, just an end user (with an engineering degree in telecoms), for me to set up a good solution myself doesn't exactly strike home eighter.
However, we have some VERY capable coders here. And we have a lot of end users with some bandwidth to share. Is there a chance we can set up an rss-based downloader (using bittorrent to distribute roms), and then simply tell regular downloaders to get the torrent file? (And thus save this site bandwidth and storage, and end users gray hairs over downloads that are SLOOOOOW). Setting up a Diamond "rom-farm" spread over the internet would solve a lot of problems. I know _I_ can prolly share half of my 8mbit (on average), and I think there are others out there who can share aswell, giving this group a good potential (and if we can get other groups to cooperate we can prolly increase bandwidth and spread over the internet).
Bittorrent is ideally suited to this work, especially if we have a few "always on" seeding-servers.
//Svein

This is a very good idea.
I'm on a 100MBit, so that won't be a problem.
I also have a spare dual opteron server lying around.
I've seen that tom (who has a Latvian hosting) also has some good bandwidth.

adwinp said:
This is a very good idea.
I'm on a 100MBit, so that won't be a problem.
I also have a spare dualopteron server lying around.
I've seen that tom (who has a Latvian hosting) also has some good bandwidth.
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unlimited

What we basically need:
1. Someone with a *nix box on a low-latency (bandwidth isn't an issue, latency is) link, willing to run "our" tracker, and set up the needed accounts for uploads, and set up the tracker to rss-feed the seeder servers.
2. Several people willing to run seeder servers. These need bandwidth. The seeder servers should run in rss-fed full automatic mode.
From what I've seen (between the lines) in the posts on this forum, getting people willing to give bandwidth shouldn't be a problem. What we need is a decent tracker software (I'm open to any suggestions), and some template for setting up the seeder servers.
Am I missing anything? Who volunteers to make the tracker? (I can volunteer to run it, and to make sure latency is ... acceptable on the link. I'm a pedantic millisecond-centric ex netadmin. Ex because of health.)
//Svein

this is a great idea. If i can help in any way I will.

The dual opteron box I was talking about is running gentoo linux.
I will have to reconfig it though.
I can take care of most of the setup during the week-end (if I stay home don't go on the potential trip I planned).
Let's take care of all the suggestions via this thread / pm.

What a great idea

sskogen said:
What we basically need:
Am I missing anything? Who volunteers to make the tracker? (I can volunteer to run it, and to make sure latency is ... acceptable on the link. I'm a pedantic millisecond-centric ex netadmin. Ex because of health.)
//Svein
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I was a net admin for 4 years so I know how you feel.
^.^
Try testing adwinp.org and see if the latency suits your needs (it should; we are on a 10GBit backbone).
^.^

Well this seems promising! While this whole thing gets in place, as a sort of alpha tryout, how about using public trackers such as thepiratebay for example? And have a wiki page with up to date torrent links.

wow great idea =)
only suggestion here is maybe change the title of this thread xD

I uploaded torrents for the radios and Elite ROMs.
Links are available on the Diamond Radio wiki: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Diamond_ExtractedRadioRoms
and the Diamond Elite ROMs wiki: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Diamond_Elite_ROMs
It should work.. normally... and be faster than rapidshare once we get seeders.
Time to flash Elite 3.0 now
If you already have the files, don't download them again! Just copy them to the torrent download directory, like that your torrent will be 100% complete and you will be able to seed and help others download faster.

Have added the 5 torrents to my local box.
//Svein

Torrent sharing is great. I'll help!

[how-to] internet sharing on ATT branded phones

Howdy folks!
I've been feverishly scouring the web and this site for ways around the internet sharing limitation that att puts on its phones. Sadly the xaps and provxmls didn't work well for me but I struck gold on google and I would like to share it with you! in xda post below, skip to registry editing unless you cant see internet sharing as option
long story short as shown here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1233612&highlight=openmarketenabled Thanks sensboston for diggin it up.
do the following registry edits:
Now launch WP7 Root Tools and go to Local Machine -> Comm -> InternetSharing -> Settings and manualy add new value (+val button):
(this is description)>>Value Name: Name, Value Type: String, Value Data: Value ... hit save
Value Name: EntitlementURI, Value Type: String, Value Data: ./Vendor/MSFT/Registry/HKLM/Comm/InternetSharing/Settings/OpenMarketEnabled ... hit save
Value Name: OpenMarketEnabled, Value Type: dword, Value Data: 1 ... hit save
need more info? keep reading. sorry for crap presentation.
The Sasha Kotlyar has a post on his website that shows you the registry settings required (you can use only the first two, or go all the way to fully debrand). http://arktronic.com/weblog/2012-04-14/my-phone-my-rules
Prerequisites:
1. In order to successfully add the registry values you will need to start with mango version 7720 or 7740 and interop-unlock with windowbreak or
visit http://windowsphonehacker.com/windowbreak/ on your non-nokia mobile phone or visit windowsphonehacker.com/articles/the_windowbreak_project-12-23-11 for more info
1a. If you cannot use window break please find another method to interop-unlock. like heathcliff74 xap
2. Install Root tools: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1569832
3. Visit http://arktronic.com/weblog/2012-04-14/my-phone-my-rules
3a. Use Root tools to add the first internet sharing related value in your registry you will have to use "add value" button since it's not there originally!
3b. Use same to EDIT the "entitlement" value
Please make sure you spell everything in your registry correctly!
tested on samsung focus flash. Speedtest.net on pc showed pathetic 500kbps Down and 1mbps Up on "4g".
Good Luck and please show Mr. Kotlyar your gratitude for so clearly and simply showing the settings that need to be changed!
Also thank our window-break and root tools suppliers, jaxbot and Heathcliff74!!

Before reposting some very old hacks with outdated instructions (Shevron unlock isn't available more than year!) and referring to some unknown guys (who is "wonderful Sasha"?), try to search forum first: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1334248&highlight=internet+sharing
All these noobs "wonderful internet finds" have a xda roots.

sensboston said:
Before reposting some very old hacks with outdated instructions (Shevron unlock isn't available more than year!) and referring to some unknown guys (who is "wonderful Sasha"?), try to search forum first: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1334248&highlight=internet+sharing
All these noobs "wonderful internet finds" have a xda roots.
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maybe you should revisit the portion of my post specifying how the various provxml and xap packages provided on this site haven't worked for me. I haven't seen those exact registry settings written out explicitly on xda, just long winded instructions for some ultimately useless xap deployment.
I visited the thread you mentioned (as well as others) many times and tried it without success. In perusing the thread I see no mention of the two settings that need be changed in the registry. I do see users reporting issues with their radios and some wondering whether it's undoable. These registry settings look very undoable to me but not that xap deployment.
another search for " internet sharing registry settings" comes up empty .
Simply editing the registry as shown was fairly easy and straightforward and it worked.
I merely hope someone else having a similarly fruitless search will find this useful.

Have you seen this (an year old!) thread? If you unable to find/apply, it doesn't mean the xda instructions are useless
P.S. Your post it's just an another proof: XDA needs more structured, clean and visible FAQ/wiki system.

Will these Registry values work with a HTC Titan 2, or is this just for Samsung devices. Please advise. I dont want to brick my phone. Thanks!!

sensboston, i didn't find that thread. it should be stickied. its much more concise and well organized than what i put up. thanks!
my advice to others, as someone who's only worked on one device to investigate this issue, is that if your device gives you the option to do internet sharing but att denies you this right with a message asking you to call them, then your condition may be cured simply with the registry settings. the fella in sensboston's link has an optima and the registry bit is the same. if your problem is more severe in that there's no internet sharing option, perrhaps you may check out that thread more carefully to see what's applicable to your device.
the regediting parts are the same and this makes me feel safe that it will work across devices. just remember, you edit entitlement value but add the openmarket dword
as a final word, i do love xda and all the work people do to support and develop here. didnt mean to link to / exalt an outsider instead of xda. google did point me in the direction of that site and not the xda post likely because i searched " focus flash internet sharing". sometimes it's hard to know what is device specific and what isn't.

I use a Focus Flash on AT&T
This is the post I followed for use Internet sharing option (Samsung Phones) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1334248

well damn now my phones bricked!

What you mean your phone is bricked. What the phone, And what you did before?

[Idea] New app idea for creative developers [cloning] !!!

Hi there, I am a new member in this forum !!!
I got a new app idea, but unfortunately, I don't know anything about programming. I tried to start learning by watching some creative videos of @AdamOutler :fingers-crossed::good: , but apps programming is really confusing and difficult :silly: :silly:
So let's go back to our subject !!! . There are android apps which can show us the WiFi APs' mac addresses, like: "Fing", "WiFi analyzer", etc. , and there are android apps that can change your WiFi mac address, like: "Mac Address Ghost" , "WiFi mac address changer" , "Mac Spoofer", etc. ...>>> And the Idea is to program an application that clone the connected AP's mac address and change your WiFi mac address accordingly. This thing will be useful in avoiding mac filtering and if you change your local IP too no body can kill your connection with internet as far as I know. It will also be useful in hacking Mikrotik hotspots :highfive: . Later, I think this application can be used in different tasks and it will be widely famous. I think there are lots of creative programmers here who can build such app easily I guess.
I got this idea 2 weeks ago and I thought that programming APKs with eclipse is just like programming EXE using Visual Basic , silly, isn't it ???!!! , I thought that I could copy the code from programs above and just paste it easily to make the app I talked about above, but eclipse is much more difficult than Visual Basic.
I would like to conclude this post hoping that it stimulate you to work on this project, and I hope to hear about it soon on the best apps developers' website XDA

there already are a lot of apps doing that
unorthodox* said:
Hi there, I am a new member in this forum !!!
I got a new app idea, but unfortunately, I don't know anything about programming. I tried to start learning by watching some creative videos of @AdamOutler :fingers-crossed::good: , but apps programming is really confusing and difficult :silly: :silly:
So let's go back to our subject !!! . There are android apps which can show us the WiFi APs' mac addresses, like: "Fing", "WiFi analyzer", etc. , and there are android apps that can change your WiFi mac address, like: "Mac Address Ghost" , "WiFi mac address changer" , "Mac Spoofer", etc. ...>>> And the Idea is to program an application that clone the connected AP's mac address and change your WiFi mac address accordingly. This thing will be useful in avoiding mac filtering and if you change your local IP too no body can kill your connection with internet as far as I know. It will also be useful in hacking Mikrotik hotspots :highfive: . Later, I think this application can be used in different tasks and it will be widely famous. I think there are lots of creative programmers here who can build such app easily I guess.
I got this idea 2 weeks ago and I thought that programming APKs with eclipse is just like programming EXE using Visual Basic , silly, isn't it ???!!! , I thought that I could copy the code from programs above and just paste it easily to make the app I talked about above, but eclipse is much more difficult than Visual Basic.
I would like to conclude this post hoping that it stimulate you to work on this project, and I hope to hear about it soon on the best apps developers' website XDA
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What's the main purpose in doing that? do you wanna create an "evil twin" of an accesspoint?

unorthodox* said:
Hi there, I am a new member in this forum !!!
I got a new app idea, but unfortunately, I don't know anything about programming. I tried to start learning by watching some creative videos of @AdamOutler :fingers-crossed::good: , but apps programming is really confusing and difficult :silly: :silly:
So let's go back to our subject !!! . There are android apps which can show us the WiFi APs' mac addresses, like: "Fing", "WiFi analyzer", etc. , and there are android apps that can change your WiFi mac address, like: "Mac Address Ghost" , "WiFi mac address changer" , "Mac Spoofer", etc. ...>>> And the Idea is to program an application that clone the connected AP's mac address and change your WiFi mac address accordingly. This thing will be useful in avoiding mac filtering and if you change your local IP too no body can kill your connection with internet as far as I know. It will also be useful in hacking Mikrotik hotspots :highfive: . Later, I think this application can be used in different tasks and it will be widely famous. I think there are lots of creative programmers here who can build such app easily I guess.
I got this idea 2 weeks ago and I thought that programming APKs with eclipse is just like programming EXE using Visual Basic , silly, isn't it ???!!! , I thought that I could copy the code from programs above and just paste it easily to make the app I talked about above, but eclipse is much more difficult than Visual Basic.
I would like to conclude this post hoping that it stimulate you to work on this project, and I hope to hear about it soon on the best apps developers' website XDA
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Interesting idea. Maybe I will have a try. And yes android is very difficult. If I create maybe a simple game in Java it takes 20 minutes but in android it takes about an hour. I must say I am not the best programmer I think I'll handle this app. I will post results in maybe few weeks.