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Changig (spoofing) mac adress?

Heya is there any way to change the mac adress of the phone?

Ireas said:
Heya is there any way to change the mac adress of the phone?
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Why?
10char.

dnlgee said:
Why?
10char.
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Why not?
+1 I'm also interested

why not indeed.
I'm also interested in changing my MAC.
I'm planing to hack into the NSA network from my desire, so I need to know.
But wait what?
The MAC address is replaced at the next router with it's own address?
Aw crap...
um, I think it might come in handy when I'm going to use my desire to hack into wireless networks, yep, you know, wardriving and such and hacking WPA networks on the fly.
now this could be fun
but I may need a couple of thousand more desire phones running parallel to accomplish that in my lifetime.
cu

I would to have it too. so that I could unban myself when my college network block my mac..

unknowmaster said:
I would to have it too. so that I could unban myself when my college network block my mac..
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same reason here~

I just don't get why people post the same question over and over again. Do a search next time. It's one of the rules!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=736789

T-Mobile UK Mobile Broadband Accelerator

For those of you who have been disappointed with the compression that T-Mobile applies to images downloaded across their mobile network, there is now a solution!
Go to accelerator. t-mobile. co. uk (sorry, can't post links yet) in your Desire's browser and choose from one of three options:
Highest speed = reduced image quality (recommended)
High speed = standard image quality
Lower speed = original image quality (not recommended)
Obviously, choosing original image quality means pages will load slower and use more data so it won't be for everyone, but at least it stops pictures from looking like a fuzzy mess .
According to this thread (support. t-mobile. co. uk/discussions/index?page=forums&topic=801038047a8ee12012a7f988ce0007fbe) at the T-Mobile support forums this may also work on other phones but you may have to spoof your user agent.

KazeXT; thank you, been waiting for a solution for this for a while now!

Oh my god!
many thanks!
to you and all your descendants!!!

thank you very much for this

edited off.

Looks like the site is down and my images are crap quality again. I hope they haven't shut it down for good!
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

I checked the site again just now and it still seems to be there. Remember, you need to access it from the browser of the phone you want the settings to affect (presumably using the data connection rather than wi-fi). That's how I understand it at least...

Yeah its back now. It was just down a few hours thanks.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

At last! YAY!!!
Thank you T-Mobile (for once) and KazeXT for finding this! Seems to be exactly what they should have provided long ago
I wonder how long the setting lasts though, is it permanent until you decide to change it again or does it reset at each reconnection/after some other period of time?

http://support.t-mobile.co.uk/help-and-support/index?page=support&cat=WEBNWALK_USB&tab=0&id=GP30
Downloads but won't run - "file type manifest not found"
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And there's no website at www.accelerator.t-mobile.co.uk (OP) so puzzled by this

al89nut said:
http://support.t-mobile.co.uk/help-and-support/index?page=support&cat=WEBNWALK_USB&tab=0&id=GP30
Downloads but won't run - "file type manifest not found"
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And there's no website at www.accelerator.t-mobile.co.uk (OP) so puzzled by this
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You need http://accelerator.t-mobile.co.uk instead (i.e. no www!) - I'd recommend just highlighting this and Fox2Phone-ing it to save some typing on the phone ;-)
PS - thanks to the OP (KazeXT) for posting this!

Been looking for the solution for a while. Thanks for helping me out !

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You need http://accelerator.t-mobile.co.uk instead (i.e. no www!) - I'd recommend just highlighting this and Fox2Phone-ing it to save some typing on the phone ;-)
PS - thanks to the OP (KazeXT) for posting this!
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I get "webpage not available" for that

al89nut said:
I get "webpage not available" for that
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Hmm, weird. And you accessed it with WiFi off and on the T-Mobile network, not whilst roaming onto Orange? I accessed it about an hour ago and it worked fine for me...

Right - wifi off. Nobody said that! But I realise how stupid I've been!

Ahh - the OP mentioned it in passing in post #7, that was what tipped me off! In retrospect I can see the logic, as if you accessed it from outwith their network they wouldn't have your account details and therefore wouldn't be able to log your settings! Glad it's working now for you

GPS Settings File Content - UK / Europe Only

Hi guys
I am having some GPS issues and signal issues with my new Nexus on Vodafone UK. I haven't been on the network before so the signal could just indeed be very poor everywhere I go but he GPS is awful and would not lock / find sats for ages.
Anyway after digging around I see Voda had probs with the S2 and GPS and a fix was found. Many user reported that there aGPS settings were set to:
NTP_SERVER=north-america.pool.ntp.org
XTRA_SERVER_1=http://xtra1.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
XTRA_SERVER_2=http://xtra2.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
XTRA_SERVER_3=http://xtra3.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
SUPL_HOST=supl.google.com
SUPL_PORT=7276
This file is in /system/etc/gps.conf file
Voda apparently fixed the problem but did not say how and I was wondering if anyone in the UK or europe with a working fast fixing GPS signal can confirm that their gps.conf file reads like this or has europe.pool.ntp.org as the first line. Mine currently reads as above and works but is flakey and no where near as good as on the desire i had.
Thanks in Advance

85 views no answers :-(
Just to clarify this info is easy to see just using astro file manager free. Just press the up directory button then go to system then etc and you should sew a file called GPS.
Any help would be great.
Thanks
James
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App

Seeing as this is a item that everyone can help with I got to say a great big thanks to the community here! Great stuff!
Thanks!

I have the same settings as you in the GPS file but haven't noticed any problems.
And be patient, it might take people a while to reply!

jamesmcuk said:
Seeing as this is a item that everyone can help with I got to say a great big thanks to the community here! Great stuff!
Thanks!
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144 posts and zero thanks so far. Hmm.

chandlerweb said:
144 posts and zero thanks so far. Hmm.
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It seems that many people are not as obsessed or focused on pressing a thanks button or getting a thanks as you are.
You even beg for them in your signature!! What for? Seems kind of sad to me.
I am not a Phone expert but help where I can as can be seen in the threads below. However I am impressed that you have taken this opportunity to go off topic and point out that I have received no "Thanks". I understand this would be a life changing issue for you and that you would probably require many months of therapy, but for me it really is no big deal.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=748774
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=751681
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=753741
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430193
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=753780
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=753542
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=753524
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=748805
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=749897
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=749670
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=749410

I'd hardly call it begging. And i only wrote 8 words so not much effort really, but thanks for noticing
I just came here cos I saw the first post and was going to help until I saw your third post. I think if you want help with something, you shouldn't slag off the community in a sarcastic way. Maybe that's how you get by in real life but I don't roll that way!
PS, I'm impressed by the time you spent in directing me to links I have no intention of reading. BTW, youre the first member to make it on my ignore list! Congrats!

jamesmcuk said:
Hi guys
I am having some GPS issues and signal issues with my new Nexus on Vodafone UK. I haven't been on the network before so the signal could just indeed be very poor everywhere I go but he GPS is awful and would not lock / find sats for ages.
Anyway after digging around I see Voda had probs with the S2 and GPS and a fix was found. Many user reported that there aGPS settings were set to:
NTP_SERVER=north-america.pool.ntp.org
XTRA_SERVER_1=http://xtra1.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
XTRA_SERVER_2=http://xtra2.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
XTRA_SERVER_3=http://xtra3.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
SUPL_HOST=supl.google.com
SUPL_PORT=7276
This file is in /system/etc/gps.conf file
Voda apparently fixed the problem but did not say how and I was wondering if anyone in the UK or europe with a working fast fixing GPS signal can confirm that their gps.conf file reads like this or has europe.pool.ntp.org as the first line. Mine currently reads as above and works but is flakey and no where near as good as on the desire i had.
Thanks in Advance
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Mines configured like the above 4.0.2 Google build, sim free on 3 network uk .
I noticed very long lock times until I downloaded and used a GPS tool to clear my GPS data and then re-downloads this every hour . Basically the cache has the last stored location giving and if your moving about and use the GPS a lot when you load back up maps or something you should in effect be not too far away from your last cached fix and so helps in a new fix time. Well that's how I understand it any ways . I 'm sure someone else may no more indepth .
Any ways my lock times seem to be quicker now than before .

It shouldn't really matter what NTP server you use. After all, it's only used to synchronise the internal clock, in order to get a fast4er initial fix. Sure, it might make sense to use an NTP server provided by your operator, but I really don't think it's that big a deal.
(NTP is a time synchronisation protocol, used e.g. to synchronise PCs over internet. It's got decent precision (~10ms), but it's not as good as GPS or IEEE1588.)
(I'm on a stock 4.0.1 machine provided by Sunrise/Switzerland, and I've got the same settings as you, and no problems with the GPS.)

Just for info... top level ntp sources (stratum 0) use high grade GPS equipment and their precision is way better than any other widely available system. However, your precision can depend on the latency between you and the ntp source and the stratum level of your source (higher stratum = less precision due to being further separated from the original source 0)
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

Sorry, just to clarify further... using a providers ntp server is likely to be worse than using something like pool.ntp.org unless, in the unlikely event, they are a stratum 0 ntp source. I would however pick ntp source in the same country, not USA if you're in the uk, due to latency. Accurate ntp is important in a fast GPS fix as GPS is actually a very sophisticated clock, where timing deltas are used to determine location. Gps is commonly thought of as a location device that tells you where you are but its actually a series of clocks that share information to derive coordinates.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

BTW my GPS conf file is the same as the op's, incl north America ntp source.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

Thanks for the replies:
I have now installed faster fix and set my ntp to the Uk and appear to be getting fast locks now but I have also upgraded to 4.0.3 so I am unsure which did it. Seeing as you guys all have a similar setting to my original post I probably had a corrupt file or it was a bad rom version. Who knows. Thanks for the confirmation of the file though its very much appreciated.

@chandlerweb
Thanks for the "Thanks" lol at least I have one now!

DevDB uploader broken?

Is the DevDB uploader broken right now? I've been trying to upload a new build of my ROM for a few hours and every time it fails at the verification step. Not sure where to post this kind of thing but this seems like the most appropriate place; if not, feel free to move my post. Thanks!
Edit: took a look at the javascript console and it seems like the torrent creation script is throwing a 500 error, if that helps at all.

iofthestorm said:
Is the DevDB uploader broken right now?
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Edit: took a look at the javascript console and it seems like the torrent creation script is throwing a 500 error, if that helps at all.
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Hi iofthestorm
Found the same behaviour on my thread (not DevDB).
I've noticed that 500 is raised over attachments (images too) only when using desktop browsers. Control panel shows my attachment but it's not accessible. Tested with: Crhome, FireFox and IE ... logged and as anonymous ... same 500.
But, browsing the same thread with xda-app shows up perfectly.
Weird!
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iofthestorm said:
Is the DevDB uploader broken right now? I've been trying to upload a new build of my ROM for a few hours and every time it fails at the verification step. Not sure where to post this kind of thing but this seems like the most appropriate place; if not, feel free to move my post. Thanks!
Edit: took a look at the javascript console and it seems like the torrent creation script is throwing a 500 error, if that helps at all.
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Thanks for the feedback guys. Had an issue on the devdb file server the other day and it looks like when things came back up the MySQL server didn't start properly which prevented new uploads. This is now fixed and I've tested it, so let me know if you still see any issues with it.
Kdio said:
Hi iofthestorm
Found the same behaviour on my thread (not DevDB).
I've noticed that 500 is raised over attachments (images too) only when using desktop browsers. Control panel shows my attachment but it's not accessible. Tested with: Crhome, FireFox and IE ... logged and as anonymous ... same 500.
But, browsing the same thread with xda-app shows up perfectly.
Weird!
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This is a separate issue - it seems like the thumbnail wasn't created properly, but if you click on the file the actual attachment was created properly. I'm going to do some testing to see what is causing that problem.

Testing attachments... should be good to go now.
Edit: Yup - everything good. Let me know if you have any other issues with attachments.

bitpushr said:
Testing attachments... should be good to go now.
Edit: Yup - everything good. Let me know if you have any other issues with attachments.
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Thanks!

bitpushr said:
Thanks for the feedback guys. Had an issue on the devdb file server the other day and it looks like when things came back up the MySQL server didn't start properly which prevented new uploads. This is now fixed and I've tested it, so let me know if you still see any issues with it.
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Hello,
It seems I am getting the same error now.
CARBON-LP-5.1.1-UNOFFICIAL-20150911-1602-Z00A.zip
Upload Error: 500
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From DevDB http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=11126#downloads.
Thanks.

joel.maxuel said:
Hello,
It seems I am getting the same error now.
From DevDB http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=11126#downloads.
Thanks.
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I also can't upload anything to http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=7379#downloads
At least since yesterday I get the error
Nightowl-cm12.1-20150912-n7000.zip
Upload Error: 500
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or
Nightowl-cm12.1-20150913-n7000.zip
Server (IO) Error
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bauner said:
I also can't upload anything to http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=7379#downloads
At least since yesterday I get the error
or
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Should be OK now.

bitpushr said:
Should be OK now.
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Thx! It is working again

bitpushr said:
Should be OK now.
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Was working for a while. This time I am getting an error to the effect of "error processing on this server - not authorized".
http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=11126#downloads
I have no account issues I am aware of (I can still post).
Thanks in advance!

joel.maxuel said:
Was working for a while. This time I am getting an error to the effect of "error processing on this server - not authorized".
http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=11126#downloads
I have no account issues I am aware of (I can still post).
Thanks in advance!
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I redid the downloads server a week or so ago, there are some new security measures in place and that is probably what caused the not-authorized error for you. I just downloaded one of your old files and re-uploaded it without issue. Can you let me know what browser you are using, or if there are any extensions that might be blocking in?

bitpushr said:
I redid the downloads server a week or so ago, there are some new security measures in place and that is probably what caused the not-authorized error for you. I just downloaded one of your old files and re-uploaded it without issue. Can you let me know what browser you are using, or if there are any extensions that might be blocking in?
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Thanks, the plugins are probably doing it. I use unbranded FireFox (IceWeasel) with the NoScript plugin (although xda has been allowed for a long time - I may need to whitelist something else, or use Chromium/Chrome).
UPDATE: it appears that Chrome is handling uploading fine (Chromium was a bust due to the lack of Shockwave Flash support, as the Upload button was dead). Is there a predictable server for the authorization I could whitelist back in IceWeasel - that way I don't have to switch browsers? (Seems that the authorizing server loads at the last moment, preventing me from determining it's name.)

XDA Wiki access problem

Hey guys... I hope some Admin will have the chance to look at this:
Every time I try to access the XDA wiki, I'm seeing an empty page... which is a crying shame from my point of view... This happens both when viewing from work as well as viewing from home... even when viewing it on my mobile this happens! I'm connecting to the world from The Netherlands... which has possibly the best IX connectivity in the world... but the wiki is unreachable
Who else has this issue? What can I do to fix my access?

[NUT] said:
Hey guys... I hope some Admin will have the chance to look at this:
Every time I try to access the XDA wiki, I'm seeing an empty page... which is a crying shame from my point of view... This happens both when viewing from work as well as viewing from home... even when viewing it on my mobile this happens! I'm connecting to the world from The Netherlands... which has possibly the best IX connectivity in the world... but the wiki is unreachable
Who else has this issue? What can I do to fix my access?
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I'm not have any issues with it, but I'll test out some things and get back to you.

[NUT] said:
Hey guys... I hope some Admin will have the chance to look at this:
Every time I try to access the XDA wiki, I'm seeing an empty page... which is a crying shame from my point of view... This happens both when viewing from work as well as viewing from home... even when viewing it on my mobile this happens! I'm connecting to the world from The Netherlands... which has possibly the best IX connectivity in the world... but the wiki is unreachable
Who else has this issue? What can I do to fix my access?
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Can you try now? The issue is that the [ and ] in your username are restricted characters in MediaWiki but not vBulletin. I've written a patch that should fix this by setting you a username based on your user ID, so please check to make sure this does work for you.

bitpushr said:
Can you try now? The issue is that the [ and ] in your username are restricted characters in MediaWiki but not vBulletin. I've written a patch that should fix this by setting you a username based on your user ID, so please check to make sure this does work for you.
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It looks a bit funny (My user ID + space and xda as username), but I can actually see the wiki now! :victory:
Good patch! :laugh:

[NUT] said:
It looks a bit funny (My user ID + space and xda as username), but I can actually see the wiki now! :victory:
Good patch! :laugh:
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Yeah since [ and ] are restricted characters it kind of messes up the integration. I was just going to convert them to _ but in case someone registers that name on XDA (like _NUT_) we just use the userid in that case. So it is a bit confusing but should at least get you access!