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Xda forum issue

Ok I keep getting this weird blank white screen when I try to access xda forums on my win 7 PC, it says on the bottom left :Read ads.pubmatic.com.
This doesnt happen on my phone and I just formatted my PC with a clean install. So what is going on, I need xda on my computer NAO!!
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d12unk13astard said:
Ok I keep getting this weird blank white screen when I try to access xda forums on my win 7 PC, it says on the bottom left :Read ads.pubmatic.com.
This doesnt happen on my phone and I just formatted my PC with a clean install. So what is going on, I need xda on my computer NAO!!
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Try a different browser....when it loads it goes to a add and it must
Be screwed try chrome
Reformat again and get rid of windows .... Linux ftw
But seriously you can easily dual boot now and never use windows again I keep windows only because of my bluray player in my laptop...for some reason Linux doesn't like bluray
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d12unk13astard said:
Ok I keep getting this weird blank white screen when I try to access xda forums on my win 7 PC, it says on the bottom left :Read ads.pubmatic.com.
This doesnt happen on my phone and I just formatted my PC with a clean install. So what is going on, I need xda on my computer NAO!!
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Same thing here (in Firefox). I Google'd it and found that other people having the same problem on other sites too. I checked one of those sites and the same thing happened, page loads a little-bit and then get the blank page when ads.pubmatic.com is being accessed.
The funny thing is I blocked pubmatic.com and ads.pubmatic.com in my hosts file and it's still happening. It doesn't seem to happen in Chrome, though.

For me, I notice when I try to go back in internet explorer it takes like 15 clicks, so I actually use the mouse and click the tab on the top of the xda webpage. If I right click the back arrow for the browser it lists a bunch of ads, which explains why it takes so many clicks to get back. It is like this on every computer I have used xda on recently. Xda is the only site that I have this issue.

d12unk13astard said:
Ok I keep getting this weird blank white screen when I try to access xda forums on my win 7 PC, it says on the bottom left :Read ads.pubmatic.com.
This doesnt happen on my phone and I just formatted my PC with a clean install. So what is going on, I need xda on my computer NAO!!
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Having the same problem accessing this site from my laptop as well ..... arrrrrgh, its also affecting transformer forums. Anyone found a way to fix this problem yet

Blocking via hosts file doesn't appear to work, nor does blocking "ads.pubmatic.com" in Adblock Plus. After configuring the latter, the page still hangs, only this time on google-analytics.com, so now I'm not sure if it's pubmatic.com or something else.
I came across older (2008, 2009) results in Google reporting the same problem with pubmatic.com, so I really have no idea what's going on.

d12unk13astard said:
Ok I keep getting this weird blank white screen when I try to access xda forums on my win 7 PC, it says on the bottom left :Read ads.pubmatic.com.
This doesnt happen on my phone and I just formatted my PC with a clean install. So what is going on, I need xda on my computer NAO!!
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Ok .... I found the solution to this problem with the help of a member on another forum. What I had done wrong was I was not using the latest version of Firefox. Once I updated it both this forum and the other one now work brilliantly again on my laptop.
Hope this resolves your issue with logging into this great forum on your PC / Laptop

bimgirl said:
Ok .... I found the solution to this problem with the help of a member on another forum. What I had done wrong was I was not using the latest version of Firefox. Once I updated it both this forum and the other one now work brilliantly again on my laptop.
Hope this resolves your issue with logging into this great forum on your PC / Laptop
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Thanks for letting us know, that's good to know there's one way to fix it.
That's not an option for me, unfortunately. There are still add-ons that I can't use outside of FF 3.6x. I'd rather know what exactly is going on and fix it without updating to the FF-Version-of-the-Month.

.Arkham said:
Thanks for letting us know, that's good to know there's one way to fix it.
That's not an option for me, unfortunately. There are still add-ons that I can't use outside of FF 3.6x. I'd rather know what exactly is going on and fix it without updating to the FF-Version-of-the-Month.
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No problem, will continue to check back to see if you or someone else comes up with another option. I cleared caches, checked add-ons, firewalls rebooted routers and machines and had no luck. It works fine with Chrome as well.
Good luck

Glad I wasn't the only one having this issue, also thanks bimgirl for finding a work around even though I too hate newer versions of Firefox past 3.6.1.6 I will try chrome out.
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d12unk13astard said:
Glad I wasn't the only one having this issue, also thanks bimgirl for finding a work around even though I too hate newer versions of Firefox past 3.6.1.6 I will try chrome out.
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No, it's definitely not you. I've come across several posts today from various other sites from people who have been experiencing this issue over the past 3-4 days.
I'm not sure if it's a coincidence, but many of them are running vBulletin. The issue seems to be restricted to Firefox.
Even after blocking a bunch of pubmatic.com sites in my hosts file, the issue is still happening, only the blank page hangs on www.google-analytics.com. I didn't want to go as far as blocking that, but I did anyway in my Hosts file with no success.
I came across this plug-in that I'm going to try out. This is an official Google addon that allows you to opt-out of google-analytics.com tracking.
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (BETA)
To provide website visitors more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics, we have developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to indicate that information about the website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics.
If you want to opt-out, download and install the add-on for your current web browser. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is available for Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera.
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EDIT: No dice. I installed the addon and now the hanging blank page stops loading. It still jumps to the blank page.
One other comment I read suggested that the sites themselves should verify that they've put the Google Analytics code at the very bottom of their page templates where it belongs. But I would assume that the GA code was put in place a long time ago, and doubt that would be the issue here.
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Success!
I added "www.google-analytics.com" to my hosts file, in addition to "google-analytics.com" and everything is fine now.
One thing I didn't try was to only use the Google opt-out addon, without adding any "google-analytics" entries to my hosts file.
If someone who prefers not to alter their hosts file wants to try it the addon-only way, please let us know if it works for you.
Thanks, folks!

d12unk13astard said:
Glad I wasn't the only one having this issue, also thanks bimgirl for finding a work around even though I too hate newer versions of Firefox past 3.6.1.6 I will try chrome out.
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When they had the hackers conference in Vegas the one that held out the longest was chrome but in the end they all got hacked ...chrome has been alot better than Firefox lately..... But it's a pain to install on Linux
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So far chrome is working fine for my xda fix. Everything else I use FF.
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Google Music De-authorizing limited to 4?

I was reading earlier that Google is limiting de-authorizing devices to 4 per year. This will be a big problem for me since my s2 is registered as new device everytime I flash a new rom.
What to do...
Source:
http://www.androidcentral.com/google-music-limits-device-de-authorizations-4-year

They could have atleast warned us. I hae 3 old devices on there now that I cant deauthorize!

Well I'm fu**ed... I have nine on my account with no deauthorizations left..
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We will have to start using the browser version on our phones to get around authorization, Or edit our build prop on every rom so it identifies as the same device to google.

When I read about this on AC this morning I tried to deauthorize some devices and got the over the limit message; however when logging into Music a few hours later I was able to do it to a bunch of devices. Guessing Google got too many complaints about this today and changed policy.
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Just go into settings and delete the devices.. That's what i did... Works fine
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It's reverted, can de-auth again, do it now now now.

im0rtalz said:
It's reverted, can de-auth again, do it now now now.
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Done and done!!!

subsonic...no song limit, more privacy (as I own the computer that acts as the server), direct transcoding from FLAC, dont have to upload anything but instead transfer over my lan at 40Mb/s. Optionally streams over SSL for even more privacy. Been running for 120 days uptime now without a hitch or hiccup on an atom cpu.
I gave up on online-cloud crap a long time ago.

Censura_Umbra said:
We will have to start using the browser version on our phones to get around authorization, Or edit our build prop on every rom so it identifies as the same device to google.
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How do I edit the build prop?
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just came across this: http://www.theunwired.net/?item=lim...ion-to-four-devices-per-year-only-update&6239
looks like they modified the policy due to the backlash of complaints.

[Q] If my phone is rooted will I get tmobile hotspot service for free???

[Q] I'm just wonder if I root my phone will I get the service for free. I have asked around to a lot of friends and they'll tell me different stories. some i will, some say I won't. Or they say I will but if I get caught they will take me off the service for good... So can somebody share some information with me on this subject or is you know if they even track it??? I'd really appreciate it thank you.
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T-Mobile can trace it back to you
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don728871 said:
T-Mobile can trace it back to you
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Is there anyway to hide it?
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VPN your phone or I heard u can do I thought chrome haven't looked in to it I'll get back to u tomorrow I got school
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don728871 said:
VPN your phone or I heard u can do I thought chrome haven't looked in to it I'll get back to u tomorrow I got school
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Ok thank you
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don728871 said:
VPN your phone or I heard u can do I thought chrome haven't looked in to it I'll get back to u tomorrow I got school
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Okay I looked around a little bit, and found some article saying if I was running a stock t Mobile ROM they can track it but if I'm running a stock rooted rOM they probably wouldn't be able to track it. But I'm still not sure.
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hey if you are not rooted then they can track you. But if you are rooted then you can use titanium backup to freeze tethering manager or tethering provisions ithink it is called in ics. Most custom roms have that disabled so you dont have to worry about it. But it also seems that since they came out with the new unlimited 4g that they figured out a way to do it even if you have that tethering manager frozen not sure how but they figured it out. Given some time someone here will figure out how to get around that too. they kick us in the balls we kick them back. Right now if the method above does not work because it seems to work for some people then they catch on or whatever also if you dont have unlimited 4g then it might work with no problem but if it doesnt the only way I have found around it is to use google chrome on your pc then go to the chrome store and get an app called user agent spoofer I think it is called and it allows you to change your user agent so you can use chrome but it will think you are using IE or firfox or iphone or android. So what you do is set it to android then you trick them into thinking that you are using your phones browser but you are really using it o nyour pc. Now unfortunatly this has some drawbacks like if you try to use netflix it will not let you or pandora it wants you to download the app but of corse you cant because it is a pc. so anything with flash really wont work. But if you are in a jam and need the web then it will work.

mojorisin7178 said:
hey if you are not rooted then they can track you. But if you are rooted then you can use titanium backup to freeze tethering manager or tethering provisions ithink it is called in ics. Most custom roms have that disabled so you dont have to worry about it. But it also seems that since they came out with the new unlimited 4g that they figured out a way to do it even if you have that tethering manager frozen not sure how but they figured it out. Given some time someone here will figure out how to get around that too. they kick us in the balls we kick them back. Right now if the method above does not work because it seems to work for some people then they catch on or whatever also if you dont have unlimited 4g then it might work with no problem but if it doesnt the only way I have found around it is to use google chrome on your pc then go to the chrome store and get an app called user agent spoofer I think it is called and it allows you to change your user agent so you can use chrome but it will think you are using IE or firfox or iphone or android. So what you do is set it to android then you trick them into thinking that you are using your phones browser but you are really using it o nyour pc. Now unfortunatly this has some drawbacks like if you try to use netflix it will not let you or pandora it wants you to download the app but of corse you cant because it is a pc. so anything with flash really wont work. But if you are in a jam and need the web then it will work.
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What if I'm running cm10 jelly bean?
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My friend told me cm10 has something built in to trick the carrier in thinking I'm just using data
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Tapatalk not working

I have installed Tapatalk on my new Nexus 4, but whet it starts it says "Directory is currently unavailable, please check again later". It's been like this for two days. When I try to login, it just waits forever. I search the internet and the only explanation I found was that this error message can appear on some 3G networks. However, I'm using my home WiFi and on my tablet (Transformer Prime) Tapatalk connects to its directory with no problems.
Any ideas?

Try reinstalling it.
sent via xda premium with Nexus 7 or Nexus 4!

You may have some kind of FireWall like "DroidWall" or "Avast!" that is blocking the network access for this app.

Works fine for me.
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Got it working now. Turns out it was Adblock Plus that was blocking Tapatalk. Seems to be a bit too aggressive.
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Felisek said:
Got it working now. Turns out it was Adblock Plus that was blocking Tapatalk. Seems to be a bit too aggressive.
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If you have rooted the phone I recommend you "AdAway" instead of "AdBlock Plus":
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adaway
It's free and 100 times more reliable. You can use it even to block any malware site, not only ads, if you add to the list a site like:
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts
This app just changes the hosts file by one file with all trusted ads directions (depends of the downloaded hosts files you selected) pointing to 127.0.0.1 (loopback) so no way to connect to these directions again

VivaErBetis said:
If you have rooted the phone I recommend you "AdAway" instead of "AdBlock Plus":
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adaway
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Yes, I know. I use Adaway on my rooted tablet. However, I haven't rooted the N4, and I thought I'd give Adblock a try. It does work, but apart from blocking Tapatalk, it also messed up Google Play and occasionally other apps.
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MightText SMS for tablets

Is anyone else using this free app. If not, WHY. Absolutely love it! Get your phone SMS to your tablet AND PC!!!! You can also respond via tablet and PC.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mightytext.tablet
Pretty simple to set up. Not sure how or if this will piss me off in the long run, but I'll let you know.
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I use it from my tablet, phone and computer and so far it's working out great! Haven't noticed any delay or anything, but so far it's exactly what I was looking for.
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Cloud SMS user here.
Similar to Mighty Text, but higher rated and has a $.99 price tag.
Extremely responsive Dev who is always improving/tweaking it.
This type of app is a must-have for me as well.

Been using it for about a month now myself. No issues, works great.
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i like it, but i never get notifications on my tablet,, it only seems to sync when i open up the app. developers weren't able to resolve the problem.

Using this and its great ....its a must have.
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alan77ss said:
i like it, but i never get notifications on my tablet,, it only seems to sync when i open up the app. developers weren't able to resolve the problem.
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Same here. Devs were responsive for a few emails, and then they just sort of dropped off. Please let me know if you get this figured out. Are out using Handcent or Go SMS on you phone?

That happened to me as well. I unlinked my tablet in the settings and added it back again and it fixed it.
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tducote said:
Same here. Devs were responsive for a few emails, and then they just sort of dropped off. Please let me know if you get this figured out. Are out using Handcent or Go SMS on you phone?
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Devs were the same with me, responsive at first, then gave up. No extra sms apps installed so that's not the problem. Also tried resetting everything, but no joy.

jimbobvfr400 said:
That happened to me as well. I unlinked my tablet in the settings and added it back again and it fixed it.
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Devs were the same with me, responsive at first, then gave up. No extra sms apps installed so that's not the problem. Also tried resetting everything, but no joy.
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Yeah, I tried unlinking and relinking. Didn't work. I decided to just pay the $5 per year and go back to DeskSMS. It has been super reliable across any and every build on my phone, and its companion, TabletSMS, has worked with both my Nexus 7 and my TouchPad. Worth the money to me.

App store issues?
I just picked up a Nexus 7 the other day and went to download Mightytext from the app store and it is saying my device is not compatible? I feel like something is very wrong here. Any suggestions?
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I just picked up a Nexus 7 the other day and went to download Mightytext from the app store and it is saying my device is not compatible? I feel like something is very wrong here. Any suggestions?
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Derp... wrong app. Finally figured it out

I use it but I'm a little concerned about privacy... Its obvious the actual texts and phone numbers are going through mighty texts servers to get from AT&Ts system to my nexus 7 which is only connected via WiFi, or is that incorrect? I text a lot of highly sensitive info due to my line of work. I hope I'm worried for nothing because its a great app and one more reason to put my phone down while I'm on my tablet.
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roppolo said:
I use it but I'm a little concerned about privacy... Its obvious the actual texts and phone numbers are going through mighty texts servers to get from AT&Ts system to my nexus 7 which is only connected via WiFi, or is that incorrect? I text a lot of highly sensitive info due to my line of work. I hope I'm worried for nothing because its a great app and one more reason to put my phone down while I'm on my tablet.
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I think it's going through googles servers since you login with your Google credentials, but I guess that could be just for authentication. If you need more privacy tablet talk syncs via Bluetooth but I think you have to pair it a lot.
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am in UK, I use TU Go from O2 I can text and phone from nexus 7. Not tried it with bluetooth headset yet
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sendbeer said:
I think it's going through googles servers since you login with your Google credentials, but I guess that could be just for authentication. If you need more privacy tablet talk syncs via Bluetooth but I think you have to pair it a lot.
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Yeah I had tablet talk for awhile, I just hate having to connect it every time. I'd love for someone to give us some clarification on my privacy question. Lemme see if I can search for the answer. I'll post it here if I find it. :good:

Love this app
I love this app so much I made an inverted version. Screenshots attached.
I will upload to test if anyone is interested. Then I will start a post for it once I know it's working for more people then myself. I only themed hdpi so Nexus 7 only for now.
Let me know please!!!!!

iMessage.... What a complete and total copy..... Granted, you can easily say the same for this app and Whatsapp. Idk, I think this is easier and much better than whatsapp (used both). I messages claims to use phone number only.....so does MightyText....
What do you guys think?
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ok I made a new thread for the themed version here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2205779
Enjoy!
DJ