Develop Bugs

We screwed up!

It is a sad day for this community.
In a series of mishaps and mistakes, best characterized as the sysadmin equivalent of a perfect storm, we lost more than 3 weeks of our database.
It all started when we decided to move posts to a whole new system of forums. In that process we screwed up. But we had made a backup just before, so we decided to go back to that, dropping the screwed-up database. Then it turned out that the most recent backup we made was truncated bacause of a memory limit, so it was unuseable.
This dropped us back to an older backup, which in this case was Over three weeks old!!!
This means that we lost:
All forum postings since October 4th
All new member registrations since October 4th
Records of donations since October 4th (this is recoverable...)
All News items (recoverable too)
If you have any important postings still on disk, in browser cache, or anywhere else, we'd like you to repost them.
Re-working the forum structure will still hapen, sometime later today, and without any further dramatic losses.
I apologize for this event, and we'll work even harder to make sure something like this will never happen again.

index.php was renamed to index-f***.php ?
thus when i go to forum.xda-developers.com i see a directory structure ?

Unlucky for some

ahhh **** if lost all my previous post thing on the left hand side tooo

am i the only one who in the process lost all memory of what happend since oct 4 ?

That are really bad news.
I realized, that also the PM-Part have been gone. :-(
This was really a great bull****.
Also not nice to here, that you have so much work....
I think there are some more important things to do....
If I or anyone else could help you, just inform us....
Stefan

Rudegar said:
am i the only one who in the process lost all memory of what happend since oct 4 ?
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If that's true, than i still have a girlfriend.... ;-)
What a wonderful day....

LumpiStefan said:
If I or anyone else could help you, just inform us....
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That's sweet of you. Right now if all of us just keep posting good stuff and being positive then like any strong community, we'll use this setback to become stronger and better than ever before.
Hard work ahead, expect more (and this time positive) changes.

Maybe the forgot to swap the spectrums tape over

Peter Poelman said:
That's sweet of you. Right now if all of us just keep posting good stuff and being positive then like any strong community, we'll use this setback to become stronger and better than ever before.
Hard work ahead, expect more (and this time positive) changes.
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Time to start a new slate

By chance, ...
...yesterday night I launched a full synchronization of the home page, with a 3-level links deep detail, to check the forum during a flight this morning.
Would that help? :roll:

OH MY GOD !!!
More Power..... !!!

Sorry to hear that, I was really surprised when I was checking up the forum, all threads are old. I was looking for the screen rotation thread to install it in my xda.
Isn't there any way to recover the last 3 weeks data?
Let us know if we can do any thing, you have all our support.

You have all my support
It's sad... but we would go other this...
Let us know what we can do!
Chris

Good news
Some threads will be partially reappearing: itsme is working on a script that will use the Google-cache as our backup. Not all will be well, but stay tuned for news...

@ abc
Please restart SRS thread!!!

Arrrgh I've lost over 130 posts
Oh well, that's life I guess - chin up and all that!

Hi all ... i'm so sorry to hear this ... it's the live...
Anyway i just save a page "PDA2K Rom Update from clubimate_recovered" all msg rom first page ... i hope this will help a little 0.0001%
DenisJ

It's true ... :-( i was olso at 60 posts about ...
... now i'll repost a lot
DenisJ

Just noticed that if I attempt to access www.xda-developers.com I get your message about data being lost and to try again later, however if I use the link to the front page which I have saved in favorites, I am able to access the board. Will this stop people accessing the board from a results list in Google or similar??
If I click on the link in this text I get this......
Oh ****....
We're having problems, and we may have lost some data. Please check back later.. :shock:

502 Bad Gateway

During the last several days on occations, when I try to enter this site, I get the following error message:
502 Bad Gateway
nginx/0.7.63
It happens on occations for a period of time, every few hours,
and then everything gets back to normal.
Anyone else experience this ?

We are working on that.

Ok thanks
Thanks
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foobar423 said:
We are working on that.
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Mostly, it happens on clicking a link.

The issue is compounded by SPAM Auto-Bots doing flood posts to the forum ... effectively placing unwanted load on the gateway(s) - similar to a DoS attack.

hilaireg said:
The issue is compounded by SPAM Auto-Bots doing flood posts to the forum ... effectively placing unwanted load on the gateway(s) - similar to a DoS attack.
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Would it not be useful to put some kinda Captcha in place for posting on the forums? maybe a system where you have to enter one every few posts, that would ensure the post are automated

Most spam subjects are known from prior floods...these should be continuely filtered before they can create a thread!

Chaps,
You have my sympathy. Do hope you can find a solution to this soon as the user experience is pretty bad at the moment.
Speed of access to forums on XDA has been dreadfully slow over the last month, usually ending in the dreaded error 502 message which effectively means game over until the network traffic reduces.
I assume you have "blockers" e.g. not allowing multiple searches within n seconds of a previous request, and other denial of service prevention techniques in place?
All I can say is that, at the moment, using XDA is very frustrating to use, that is if one is lucky to get onto the site in the first place. Hope you get it sorted soon.
Good luck.
Thanks
WB

Yeah, it seems that there has been a downtime over the last hour (beginning from about GMT 03:15 PM) as well.
The site loading time has been very slow as well... but, don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, I'm just noticing .

Dunno what yall are using to combat the spambots but I have been using fail2ban and having it scan the user agent strings and ban them with a firewall level ban. Works pretty well as after the initial contact they get blocked and cause less load.

I am guess it is google. They are pretty evil, keep fighting the good fight XDA

I sufered...
Wow!
I think this is the most big time with XDA down!
More than 5 hrs went down on here.
You do not value something till you lost it!!
Come on guys!!
Lets give a donation to XDA.
Long live to dear XDA

Hopefully the 5 hrs down was to replace and add many more servers...

galaxys said:
Hopefully the 5 hrs down was to replace and add many more servers...
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AMEN to that!
MODs if possible please share the details of what went wrong, some of us here are security/network specialists, and can donate help.

i always get that problem,even i don't post/

Hmmm sounds like XDA's new site is 502.Bad.gateway.com

I have never run a site with more than 100 active users at the same time, let alone 6000+ users at once. The admins here have my respect for keeping this site running as well as they have. My guess is lots of people picked up new phones during this holiday & Black Friday week. Is the site seeing a surge in new visitors?
From the front page:
Currently Active Users: 6323 (2781 members and 3542 guests)

finally i got in!!!!!!
after 5hrs down!!

wow... this sucks! This 502 gate way error happens to me very often... i hope they're working on this issue asap!
rlee

Wow, that was some heavy down time...so much for new servers
And like mike said, the stars have been ripped off...what next

Updated Froyo 2.2

Closed Thread

Wait, what is this exactly?

Dude, where the hell have you been? There has always been a working froyo since day one. You are totally ignorant to figure that out just now..

Thanks for the kind words. I Know 2.2 has been here for awhile, but I have never been able to get it running properly till now.

A little harsh Hello? Also your breaking the ToS or whatever they call here with that tone... I would edit your post if I was you. Why your editing, why not reduce your silly signature size at the same time.

Serren said:
A little harsh Hello? Also your breaking the ToS or whatever they call here with that tone... I would edit your post if I was you. Why your editing, why not reduce your silly signature size at the same time.
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For sure but then you know what happens when you feed a troll.

Your comment doesn't even fit in the context of the first post, so what's your point? Your lack of caring in no way outweighs our lack of caring, so I guess we are at an impasse. Conclusion, these are the very same files you will find on the latest linux kernel zImages and modules website
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For sure but then you know what happens when you feed a troll.
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If you don't have anything better to say, don't say anything. Unless you want to turn this into a flaming war on here which I highly doubt it.
btw jz3 you just edited your first post so I guess you finally realized they are more builds out there and not just one.

thanks gona try it out

What is this exactly? Where did you get this system build from? It looks like stinebd's stock build, which i label as "reference" since its untouched.

jz3 said:
Don't believe the posts below, this is NOT Reefs build! See thumbnails below.
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Whose build is it then?

Reefermattness said:
What is this? The exact same thing as in my thread? lol.... wow ive seen it all now.
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Hmm, just got back into town and see the bashing continues. Reef, did you actually download and examine my file to come to this conclusion? I will take the high road here since I did appreciate Reef's dedication to this project. Thanks Serren & lordstrife for my back. This is my last post on these forums walking away disgusted.

no no no no no... i dont wanna see this. lets remember our common goals.
did anyone try this yet? i couldnt get it running just yet but i keep getting errors after the keyboard selection when i press run android.
havnt had too much time to tweak, but hey... cant we all jus get along? unity friends

hello00 said:
If you don't have anything better to say, don't say anything. Unless you want to turn this into a flaming war on here which I highly doubt it.
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Take your own advice!

I've been running Xdandroid for 3 months. I don't remember when I updated to 2.2..I believe it was July. All of my IPhone Geekers are asking me how to Jailbreak there devices(I haven't got a clue and don't plan on it). It is great work here and I am excited, looking forward to continuos great work. Positive injection..
Sent from my MSM
HTC Tilt 2

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I've been running Xdandroid for 3 months. I don't remember when I updated to 2.2..I believe it was July. All of my IPhone Geekers are asking me how to Jailbreak there devices(I haven't got a clue and don't plan on it). It is great work here and I am excited, looking forward to continuos great work. Positive injection..
Sent from my MSM
HTC Tilt 2
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Tell your
Iphone friends to goto jailbreak me.com on their iPhones and follow the directions.

jz3 said:
This is my last post on these forums walking away disgusted.
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Good. We are all disgusted when people steal things and try to claim them as their own.
Maybe if you said where it came from, how you put it together, or highlighted HOW it's different from other builds that are already posted, we would be MUCH more receptive... But from your first post, it just looks like you stole it and tried to pass it off as something you built. That is just shameful, and will NOT be tolerated on this forum.

I didnt see any claim of ownership, unless the post was edited.
A history of the files and such of course would be helpful. And credit given to those who actually created the files is a no-brainer.
But still, I know XDA is the "big leagues", but cant we be a bit nicer? For all we know, this guy could be the next big thing. Just saying...

he edited his first post saying that he has a working froyo he never said it was his but it looked like it since he hasn't given any credit to whomever that build belongs to

in the OP he said it was not reef's build. He's not taking credit, but he's not giving it either, which is probably what bothered most of the people in this thread.
Only the guilty run like cowards IMO.

Roast him !!!

#samsung-epic-touch: now under new management

Okay guys, after the ridiculous debacle today, those of us who frequent the IRC channels decided that it was time for a change.
For most of the day, that change was moving to a new channel. However, after some talking a few of us actually got cnz(RoadRAGEN) to listen to reason. He's turned over control of the room to an unbiased bot and gave a number of us operator passwords. To top it off, he's agreed to stay off the op list unless absolutely necessary (he won't be raging out anymore, he has his own private channel for that now). The rest of us can sign into the bot and get ops so we can keep peace and order if needed. Otherwise, the only people who get automatic ops are the bots and no one else.
Okay, first the one and only new rule. No more posting logs on xda. the moderators are probably sick of it by now and it accomplishes nothing besides starting fights. if you do post logs and we catch you, you'll get banned until you take it down. To make it worse, we don't stop cnz from doing it himself. It's counterproductive and stupid.
Lastly, cnz(RoadRAGEN) said he will dial it down inside the channel and around here. He had a talk with the moderators today and we had a talk with him in the channel. XDA didn't ban him and neither will we. It was talked about for a minute...but he banned me first...it was a fiasco. BUT, it's fixed now.
Now before you get all apprehensive, remember that despite cnz being a complete douchebag who often forgets what "crossed the line" means, he's still one of our most talented developers and has contributed a lot to this young community. Every rom up in here either directly uses his original updater script, uses a heavily modded version or pieces of it. Yes, sometimes he's incredibly insensitive and no one in their right minds would defend his personality or his actions (especially today), but he understands what happened here today and knows that doing it again is stupid.
It's all about the Android so you can come out from under your beds, the boogieman isn't also the doorman anymore.
If you're still angry about the incident, it's understandable. But remember, like xda, irc is a community and in no way do the actions today represent the community as a whole. It was as a community that we discussed the problem and it was a community that we dealt with it. So don't think this decision was made lightly.
If you don't agree, please keep the flaming to yourself. We don't need another out of control thread about IRC around here.

So this means my +q will be taken off?

tenaciousj said:
So this means my +q will be taken off?
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Yes, but it might take a minute, we're still kinda learning how to operate under the "bot is god" paradigm.
**edit**
nevermind we already lifted all the bans and stuff. all's well. clean slate.

I would love to learn how to dev and step up but have been avoiding irc due to this situation.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium

I dont know what the back story is here and quite frankly I dont care.
What happens on an IRC channel outside of XDA does not belong here.
If theres drama off site, keep it off site.
Simple no?

Thank you mods. U know why.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium

conantroutman said:
I dont know what the back story is here and quite frankly I dont care.
What happens on an IRC channel outside of XDA does not belong here.
If theres drama off site, keep it off site.
Simple no?
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Nope.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk

Bigjim1488 said:
Nope.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk
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Perhaps I should point out that my question was rhetorical.
It's as simple as this.
IRC is not XDA...
DO NOT bring IRC related drama to XDA...
It really doesn't get much simpler than that does it?
(again, rhetorical question)

It's very simple...that's why there's no drama in this thread

AbsolutZeroGI said:
It's very simple...that's why there's no drama in this thread
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Not since I deleted the 15 posts of crap there isn't....
I'm out before this headache gets any worse....

conantroutman said:
Not since I deleted the 15 posts of crap there isn't....
I'm out before this headache gets any worse....
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I seem to have missed all that, so I guess I'm the ignorant party at the moment. I really don't think the changes made or this thread should be held responsible for the unwieldy comments of others, though. I've been nothing but civil in all this
But I don't blame you, though. I can't imagine people are going quietly into that good night and I'm sure I've been getting my fair share of the flames as well for trying to mediate all this nonsense.

I wasn't pointing the blame in any particular direction.
Just making sure everyone is on the same page.

conantroutman said:
I wasn't pointing the blame in any particular direction.
Just making sure everyone is on the same page.
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Of course not, I didn't mean to insinuate that lol.
When I went to bed last night everyone was on the same page, but I got a bunch of PMs saying I was "flamed by some noob" and the thread/posts are gone (I guess that was your doing lol, thank you). I was just saying the angry words of a few don't represent the opinions of the rest of us.
People have their opinions. That's not illegal yet, so I'm not offended. However, if my name is eventually going to be Mudd, then I'll probably end up ceasing my attempts to help out and go back to my little corner to make roms again

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Of course not, I didn't mean to insinuate that lol.
When I went to bed last night everyone was on the same page, but I got a bunch of PMs saying I was "flamed by some noob" and the thread/posts are gone (I guess that was your doing lol, thank you). I was just saying the angry words of a few don't represent the opinions of the rest of us.
People have their opinions. That's not illegal yet, so I'm not offended. However, if my name is eventually going to be Mudd, then I'll probably end up ceasing my attempts to help out and go back to my little corner to make roms again
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Seems like we're back on track here
Dont hesitate to give me a shout if anything crops up though.

conantroutman said:
Seems like we're back on track here
Dont hesitate to give me a shout if anything crops up though.
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Will do, although based on empirical evidence, you'll probably hear about it long before I will lol.

Thanks absolutezero. I haven't been on irc in a while. Honestly just forgot about it. What are the best times to go on?
Sent From My Evo Killer!!!

musclehead84 said:
Thanks absolutezero. I haven't been on irc in a while. Honestly just forgot about it. What are the best times to go on?
Sent From My Evo Killer!!!
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lol whenever, the only real dead times are between 5am and 9am

I think it's funny that I posted "Uh oh..." and it got deleted.
Drama is as drama does.

AbsolutZeroGI said:
lol whenever, the only real dead times are between 5am and 9am
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Thanks. That's what I was wondering when the dead times are.
Sent From My Evo Killer!!!

Hey guys just fyi, I'm not associated with the channel anymore. After nearly a dozen PMs in IRC and almost another dozen on here about how I'm a hate monger and a jerk off, I've decided that it's not worth it and I've had enough.
To all of you who PMed me with negative things, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
To those of you who appreciated the efforts, sorry I couldn't do more.
Being ostracized because I refuse to bend to Mob Rule just feels wrong to me, but that's what is happening. Apparently I was being offensive by treating everyone with equal respect without discrimination and not being an anti-cnz hate monger like everyone else.
It sucks, I liked that irc channel, but there's capable people running it still. I won't be going back. I'm tired of being nearly constantly flamed for trying to be fair and helpful.
*sigh* I feel better now. Peace guys.

[Q] User General Information - Referrals

Hi there XDA!
I know this might seem like a noob question - but its been on my mind....and I've searched google and the forums + wiki....to no avail - that said I'm not the best at searching, so excuse me in advance for not finding it, if it has already been mentioned.
What is "referrals" in the "statistics" menu, under general information?
General Information
Last Activity: Today 10:55 AM
Current Activity: Viewing Thread Information about Triangle Away & GT-I9300 Flash Counter
Join Date: 7th December 2010
Referrals: 14
I got 14 ?

Referrals are when someone mentions you when registering. Basically saying that you referred them to the site. Moved to About XDA.

Ah! Cool thanks for that, and thanks for the pm
I wasn't sure where to post, but seeing as it was a question i thought qna !

TotallydubbedHD said:
Ah! Cool thanks for that, and thanks for the pm
I wasn't sure where to post, but seeing as it was a question i thought qna !
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Archer has the most I have seen with 27 although I am closing in on him now that I check again. MikeChannon has 24, I am in rarified territory.

mf2112 said:
Archer has the most I have seen with 27 although I am closing in on him now that I check again. MikeChannon has 24, I am in rarified territory.
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haha epic - I went to 15 now, watch out! !

I think Cotulla may be the king with 88.

The highest from a "valid" user (the highest referral is "google", for people typing in the site that sent them here) is in fact cyanogen

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The highest from a "valid" user (the highest referral is "google", for people typing in the site that sent them here) is in fact cyanogen
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cyanogen: 275 :awe:

haha wow!

soo wht do a person get when he refers someone to xda comunity?? jst wana know

GaganPla said:
soo wht do a person get when he refers someone to xda comunity?? jst wana know
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When I pass cyanogen in a couple of months I will let you know. :fingers-crossed::victory:
Update: finally did it, took a couple months longer than I thought

mikef said:
When I pass cyanogen in a couple of months I will let you know. :fingers-crossed::victory:
Update: finally did it, took a couple months longer than I thought
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bro u have 375... awesome....

haha wow old thread of mine!
I'm only at 18 now
Been quite inactive due to better Samsung Stock ROMS being released!

TeeJay3800 said:
Referrals are when someone mentions you when registering. Basically saying that you referred them to the site. Moved to About XDA.
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and how do you refer them @symbol or just type in their name?
Edit: lol never mind i saw it

crazyandroider said:
and how do you refer them @symbol or just type in their name?
Edit: lol never mind i saw it
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woah reliving an old thread from the grave there buddy!

BAM! Resurrected once more! However fleeting it may (will) be with 2017 around the corner life has just bloomed into too many introspective conversations with myself. Getting older sucks haha...but I had no idea this was a thing until I was I had one of those bad boys on my stats chart *flexes muscles* :victory::highfive: I feel like due to the nature of that number being very...specific I should know who referred me but I haven't the slightest buaha I still don't have a computer to help with my claims of an aspiring dev...rent shouldn't be a thing IMHO haha​

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BAM! Resurrected once more! However fleeting it may (will) be with 2017 around the corner life has just bloomed into too many introspective conversations with myself. Getting older sucks haha...but I had no idea this was a thing until I was I had one of those bad boys on my stats chart *flexes muscles* :victory::highfive: I feel like due to the nature of that number being very...specific I should know who referred me but I haven't the slightest buaha I still don't have a computer to help with my claims of an aspiring dev...rent shouldn't be a thing IMHO haha​
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