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like idk wats up..aim sucks and when i try 2 view youtube it says error and ive had this phone for like 3 hours now and i hav gotten zero done...plz help
Help with what?
for youtube you need a 3rd party program to stream the files
for aim, implus is what i use and its perfect.
yea for aim I use palringo and so far so good. works great over edge/gprs and perfect over wi-fi....
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Help with what?
for youtube you need a 3rd party program to stream the files
for aim, implus is what i use and its perfect.
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so which is the best 3rd party..if i downloaded handitv will that allow me 2 view youtube?
hmm i dont know what handitv is but ive had success with technology's blueray player which i probably on page 2 now.
anjmissy said:
like idk wats up..aim sucks and when i try 2 view youtube it says error and ive had this phone for like 3 hours now and i hav gotten zero done...plz help
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are you kidding me? 3 hours? how about you start reading this forum and using the "search" feature like the rest of us have to do. the phone isnt magic...the user does need to do a few things to make it do all these awesome things...go read a bit. you might learn something
Vtap is excellent for you tube video's!
yeah i use vtap for utube videos.. but its works better over wifi and it kinda drains ur battery a little
AbsoluteDesignz said:
yea for aim I use palringo and so far so good. works great over edge/gprs and perfect over wi-fi....
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Yes it works great for me I really like this palringo program better then OZ messenger
Oh wow can we please do something about the advertisements on this site! I understand they're needed for funding but can we please just change the ad format or use a respectable contextual ad system like Google ads.
The stupid banner ads just used 4 GB of my GSM wireless internet connection and therefore cost me $50. I was wondering why my usage had gone insane recently and now I've worked out why.
Banner ads such as the following constantly download at 2 Mbps. Yes I do mean constantly. They don't download a video and loop it, instead they constantly stream the video over and over again using ridiculous amounts of data.
This is just an example, all of these banner ads do the same thing and I'm not particularly happy about it!
Note to self: Use internet mainly in Wifi area only....
Wow, thats a hell a lot of data from Ads. Where do you live? your carrier doesnt offer unlimited internet?
I got an idea say if you donate a certain amount to xda (say $30) then you dont have the ads when you're logged in as you just a suggestion
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Wow, thats a hell a lot of data from Ads. Where do you live? your carrier doesnt offer unlimited internet?
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Australia, nobody offers unlimited data plans here. I'm actually totally okay with there not being unlimited plans because it means speeds are generally faster than if everybody was going nuts. However at the moment I don't have a phone line so I have to use a wireless modem and they're all ludicrously expensive.
Anyway the ads themselves really suck and shouldn't be using anywhere near that much data.
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Australia, nobody offers unlimited data plans here. I'm actually totally okay with there not being unlimited plans because it means speeds are generally faster than if everybody was going nuts. However at the moment I don't have a phone line so I have to use a wireless modem and they're all ludicrously expensive.
Anyway the ads themselves really suck and shouldn't be using anywhere near that much data.
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This ad is horrible. It uses so much bandwidth. I was playing an on line game and noticed that I was lagging. I remember reading this thread minutes earlier, and my XDA window was indeed on. The ad is basically draining all my bandwidth.
Use flashblock? Then you only see what you want thats coded in flash.
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Use flashblock? Then you only see what you want thats coded in flash.
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Yeah there are heaps of ways to block the ad, I've temporarily enabled Adblock. However XDA rely on ads for funding so I'm 100% okay with them being displayed. I'm just requesting that the ad provider change because the current one is terrible.
I don't normally mind ads at all...but I have to agree here...those video ads at the top are dreadfully annoying.
Every time you roll the mouse over them, they open up into a larger window and are very obtrusive...every time I go to reply to a post or click a link at the top, I accidentally roll over the add and it drops down, blocking the text entry area for replying...and it doest always go back up easily.
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I don't normally mind ads at all...but I have to agree here...those video ads at the top are dreadfully annoying.
Every time you roll the mouse over them, they open up into a larger window and are very obtrusive...every time I go to reply to a post or click a link at the top, I accidentally roll over the add and it drops down, blocking the text entry area for replying...and it doest always go back up easily.
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Hey guys. I am looking into this situation. Very sorry for not replying sooner. I'm 90% sure that ad IS coming through AdSense, and usually problems with AdSense ads get worked out quickly (becuase people all over the Internet complain). I will do my best to block this particular ad.
In the future it helps if you can note the domain the ad points to. Anytime anyone is having a problem with any ads (because of content or bandwidth or whatever), send me a PM with the domain and I will do my best to block it. Ads help support XDA but I really really don't want them annoying anyone!
Thanks.
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Hey guys. I am looking into this situation. Very sorry for not replying sooner. I'm 90% sure that ad IS coming through AdSense, and usually problems with AdSense ads get worked out quickly (becuase people all over the Internet complain). I will do my best to block this particular ad.
In the future it helps if you can note the domain the ad points to. Anytime anyone is having a problem with any ads (because of content or bandwidth or whatever), send me a PM with the domain and I will do my best to block it. Ads help support XDA but I really really don't want them annoying anyone!
Thanks.
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Thanks very much for your response...it's great to see pro-active admin looking into something like this...I'm sure not every forum admin team would consider blocking certain ads to suit their users...awesome work
P.S. The ad in question does indeed come from AdSense.
please do support xda by clicking on the ads once in a while.
but as a solution, use firefox with adblock plus. for chrome lovers it might be hard to switch to firefox. but let me say this: there aren't a single ad block plugin in chrome or any other explorer that can block ads like adblock can in firefox.
MalayaleeRemo said:
please do support xda by clicking on the ads once in a while.
but as a solution, use firefox with adblock plus. for chrome lovers it might be hard to switch to firefox. but let me say this: there aren't a single ad block plugin in chrome or any other explorer that can block ads like adblock can in firefox.
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Thats fraud bro, only click an ad that interests you, dont just click away to make money
KidTech said:
Wow, thats a hell a lot of data from Ads. Where do you live? your carrier doesnt offer unlimited internet?
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Australia, nobody offers unlimited data plans here.
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And neither does New Zealand. :O(
In fact it might be shorter to list countries that do have unlimited data plans, versus those that don't.
(another systematic fraud which is costing unsuspecting users $1000s every year)
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I don't normally mind ads at all...but I have to agree here...those video ads at the top are dreadfully annoying.
Every time you roll the mouse over them, they open up into a larger window and are very obtrusive...every time I go to reply to a post or click a link at the top, I accidentally roll over the add and it drops down, blocking the text entry area for replying...and it doest always go back up easily.
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Same problem. It's so freaking annoying when you're trying to read a thread and it blocks the first post X_X
And also, I didn't notice that, but it's concerning as a fellow australian with slow and limited internet (i don't have excess usage charges, but it is throttled after about 40gb).
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Hey guys. I am looking into this situation. Very sorry for not replying sooner. I'm 90% sure that ad IS coming through AdSense, and usually problems with AdSense ads get worked out quickly (becuase people all over the Internet complain). I will do my best to block this particular ad.
In the future it helps if you can note the domain the ad points to. Anytime anyone is having a problem with any ads (because of content or bandwidth or whatever), send me a PM with the domain and I will do my best to block it. Ads help support XDA but I really really don't want them annoying anyone!
Thanks.
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Thanks for looking into the problem. There's a few ads that do it actually, but they seem to all be the same format, mouse-over for a drop-down video player. The mouse-over thing is always annoying, however it's just the data usage that was particularly frustrating.
Again thanks for looking into it!
Until a solution is found, don't forget about XDA's Official Tapatalk app (although I believe this only applies to Android users; I'm not sure about your phone/phone data plan) - http://www.xda-developers.com/announcements/xda-app-for-android-updated-to-v1-2/
Also whoever has the account with the ad revenue service, you might want to log in and see if you can disable flash ads completely (or at least flash video ads). I know when I used Google for ads years ago, they had a crazy number of ways to limit what kind of ads were served (including topic, format, etc). Of course flash ads weren't very big back then so it may be different now. Good luck to all!
P.S. - I am on a limited budget (going back to college in 10 days to work on my PhD) but can spare 15€/20$ USD. I want to donate to XDA but also to unrevoked, as both have allowed me to explore my phone in a way a could have never done before. So either...
All goes to XDA!
All goes to unrevoked!
A 50/50 split?
I know it's off-topic but I didn't feel my indecisiveness deserved it's own thread =p. Also is XDA running a little slow for anyone else today or it just my ISP (Verizon FiOS) having issues?
when on wm, i was told only vpns established on vpss based on windows server can be connected, so i hope i can connect my vpn on android. i've tried on milestone& HD 2 and succeeded. however, it still failed on android for Raphael till now. is it due to the kernel Raphael use?
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The VPN doesn't work on the XDAndroid on my Touch Pro, too. I don't know why. I wanna cross the GFW on Android!
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The VPN doesn't work on the XDAndroid on my Touch Pro, too. I don't know why. I wanna cross the GFW on Android!
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must be limited by the kernel
but seems they(the developers) don't care it so much
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must be limited by the kernel
but seems they(the developers) don't care it so much
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bcz they can surf the Internet very freely, not like China mainland, there are many limitation in China.
Yea no body really uses a VPN except for work... and then it's not on the phone... sorry dudes.
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Yea no body really uses a VPN except for work... and then it's not on the phone... sorry dudes.
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but VPN is available on Android for HD2, as you may know, in china, twitter,facebook,youtube and many other sites are blocked,can you imagine an internet without them? so we have to use VPN to login these sites...
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but VPN is available on Android for HD2, as you may know, in china, twitter,facebook,youtube and many other sites are blocked,can you imagine an internet without them? so we have to use VPN to login these sites...
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Move to a country that doesn't persecute the people for wanting to access information?
The HD2 is not only a more feature-complete port (they have camera, bt, etc working) but the phone is MUCH more powerful. Not really a fair comparison.
If you want a VPN that badly, figure out how the HD2 guys got it working and port it to our lowly MSM devices. I'm sure other Chinese nationals will appreciate your efforts!
Good suggestions, I'll consider later
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it is a real pity that we have so many limitations to surf the internet…what the so call freedom of talking just a joke
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yes you should use us vpn
i don't need any commercial vpn services cuz i have vps and set up a vpn worked on all the devices but my raphael...
what i need is, maybe kernel update,would you offer such kind of commercial solutions?
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tartzcr said:
it is a real pity that we have so many limitations to surf the internet…what the so call freedom of talking just a joke
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don't worry so much, as is confirmed, china will launch the white-list system at this end of the year, only the sites they need us to visit will be available. everyone should be registered in the government if they want internet access. at that time, we cannot even visit xda. so the general vpn won't work anymore
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Downloading from Androidfilehost is stupidly slow. I know there's a premium subscription but 30kbps is just ridiculous. It's not on my end, I've checked.
23 hours ETA....
If anyone could provide a alternative place to download Viperonem8 4.6.1 rom that'll be great. I did some searching myself to no avail.
thanks
Hello,
I have moved your thread to the Q&A section, as it is a better place for it. I believe team venom do not allow alternate download links.
Sometimes when I download a file from AFH, I find is slow, I re-download the file, but select a mirror that is closer to my area. This can vastly improve download speeds.
I download from AFH all the time and I get good speeds as a free user. The secret is, as mentioned by Stephen, finding a server nearby and also using Internet Download Manager. IDM is the best thing ever created for directly downloading files, to be honest.
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I download from AFH all the time and I get good speeds as a free user. The secret is, as mentioned by Stephen, finding a server nearby and also using Internet Download Manager. IDM is the best thing ever created for directly downloading files, to be honest.
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I have a slow internet connection (12mbps) and I get 1.5-1.6 MB/s everyday using IDM.
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I have a slow internet connection (12mbps) and I get 1.5-1.6 MB/s everyday using IDM.
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I am sorry but is that good or bad? Hahaha! IF you think your internet slow, I'd like to tell you that mine is 4MB and I get 350 - 400 kbps transfer rate!! And I pay around 55 USD per month for it.
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Downloading from Androidfilehost is stupidly slow. I know there's a premium subscription but 30kbps is just ridiculous. It's not on my end, I've checked.
23 hours ETA....
If anyone could provide a alternative place to download Viperonem8 4.6.1 rom that'll be great. I did some searching myself to no avail.
thanks
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Here i've uploaded to my Dropbox... https:// Should be ready in several minutes (15 min.)
The md5 is: 8f7e947216a47e2219781b171e1d9b61 (chek the md5 before installing...)
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Read the second post again and then your own post ! Check with the team before they slap you on the fingers !
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Read the second post again and then your own post ! Check with the team before they slap you on the fingers !
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Sorry... deletet my post...
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I am sorry but is that good or bad? Hahaha! IF you think your internet slow, I'd like to tell you that mine is 4MB and I get 350 - 400 kbps transfer rate!! And I pay around 55 USD per month for it.
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Now I'm feeling sorry for you really : (.... I pay 3$ for 5MB... And yeah android file host is ****in slow So I aways lookin for second links...
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I tried the IDM suggestion...it actually worked surprisingly. from 30kbps to 400kbps+. Very surprised, I haven't bothered to use a download manager since I had a dial-up connection but now I think i'll keep it installed
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Sorry for the trouble! I didn't know there were such rules. Thanks for your help anyway
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I am sorry but is that good or bad? Hahaha! IF you think your internet slow, I'd like to tell you that mine is 4MB and I get 350 - 400 kbps transfer rate!! And I pay around 55 USD per month for it.
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600kbps~ max for me here . Aussie net is the greatest....
huura said:
I tried the IDM suggestion...it actually worked surprisingly. from 30kbps to 400kbps+. Very surprised, I haven't bothered to use a download manager since I had a dial-up connection but now I think i'll keep it installed
Sorry for the trouble! I didn't know there were such rules. Thanks for your help anyway
600kbps~ max for me here . Aussie net is the greatest....
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Hey that's still not too bad! And yeah, IDM is the best. Glad it's working out for you.
Hello, i am using this site for a long time .. the last 5 months i think i have noticed when i try to open the page needs a lot of time to load all of its content .. Might it is DNS problem , i have tried to change the DNS to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 or 8.8.8.8 8.4.4.8 but nothing changed .. My pc is a powerfull machine, i have been this problem only with XDA .. Every other site its loading perfect. Bellow i post a ping command to xda-dev site .. Keep in mind i live in Greece , my speed is aprox at 9 mpbs and 1 upload.
If you're using a VPN could affect performance and cleaning site data, using different browser..
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If you're using a VPN could affect performance and cleaning site data, using different browser..
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no i am not using VPN
Maybe you should get an ad-free subscription with XDA [emoji13]
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Maybe you should get an ad-free subscription with XDA [emoji13]
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Where are the ads I don't see any of them
Have you tried resolving the packets through protocols like DNS over HTTP or DNS over TLS? That can sometimes increase the speed