Federal prosecutors have uncovered a scam that used tens of thousands of cloned cellphones to defraud Sprint out of $15m in lost long distance revenue.

The fraud came to light in a criminal complaint that accused nine Sprint employees of illegally accessing customer accounts more than 16,000 times between January and June of this year. Among the information they took were the MSID, or mobile station ID, and the ESN, or electronic serial number, that are used to uniquely identify each handset on the Sprint network. By plugging the credentials into new cellphones, people were able to make phone calls that were charged to the accounts of the defrauded customers.

See the full article at The Register.

An update to the SMF forum crashed the entire thing. I am attempting to get in contact with the webhost to get a backup restored (the backup file i have locally is corrupted).

Update: We should have access to a backup from 4am around noon today. So hopefully we will be back up shortly after noon.

Final Update: All better :)

The crack team at SDX has rooted the Samsung Epic in time for it’s debut.  This will allow the installation of rooted applications, opening it up for more and better applications.

There are currently 2 methods, one that will work on any system and you must follow a series of steps.  The second is basically a script that runs the command in one step, although this will only work on Windows.

There is also a Tether app that will work on the Epic as well, that is posted at the Google Code site, and works according to users.

Thanks to joeykrim for the root, and to noobnl for the easy to use Windows script. Thanks also to users who provided system dumps that helped make this possible.

And now, the links:

• joeykrim’s Root Method
• noobnl’s Window Script
• wireless Tether App (beta)
• Discussion of Rooted apps that work

Goal:

Create an updated clean stock ROM with a completely stock system to be customized however the user wants.

This ROM incorporates the latest Software version 3.26.651.6 with some developer applications.

Technical Details:

Other ROMs add or remove applications from the stock system. This ROM gives you the original stock system as a complete template allowing the user full control over customization.
Other ROMs require manual deletion of the dalvik cache. This ROM deletes the dalvik cache automatically.

• Instructions & download link in the official thread.
• Discuss in our forum.

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MeatKernel is the fastest non-JIT kernel for the Samsung Moment. Incorporating the ARM 11 lib optimization within the kernel, MeatKernel users are averaging around 4.8 MFLOPS measured with Linpack.
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Here is a custom ROM for the Samsung Moment currently at version 2.0 that is based on Radioactive Froyo 1.8.7 from noobnl but with meatkernel 2.0.7 rc1 added to it.

I installed this ROM after flashing to Stock w/recovery 3.0.8. Have been using it for a few days now with no rebooting issues so far and only one occurrence of Airplane Mode. The Linpack score has been a consistent 8-9 MFLOPS. I am adding my apps one at a time to test if performance drops due to any of my apps.

The gps fix works well when indoors, but is a big “No No” for Google Navigation. I have switched back to the default as I frequently use my Moment as a GPS navigation device.

Battery life is a solid 8-9 hrs with multiple activities.

I think this one’s a keeper and so have backed it up in recovery mode. Thanks for the good work.

samaruf, SDX Forum

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DC13 & Shepscrook have released Titanium-X 1.2.3, the smallest ROM currently available for the Samsung Moment.  Two versions for you to choose from – with JIT (9+ MFLOPS) or without (5+ MFLOPS).

Day three of use and it just gets better and better. I am averaging about 9.2 MFLOPS with my highest being 10.3. This is all while running LWP, Moxier (Which I am the happiest about), and a few other background apps. Battery life has been good, with me making it about 15 hours before it was asking to be plugged in.

All in all, I give this rom an A+!!

darkphoenix, Haxsung User

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An anonymous source of SDX-Developers just got confirmation through official email from Samsung and Sprint Corporate that advocate devices to be rolled out starting 8/9/2010. They were originally intended to be rolled out 8/6/2010, but was changed due to a “minor delay” they did not disclose.  The August 20th release date was officially confirmed as well!

Discuss in our forum.

Radioactive FroYo is a custom ROM by Noobnl that’s a rooted Moment-Acclaim Hybrid, with MeatKernel 2.0, FroYo Dalvik VM JIT, Google Javascript V8 engine, LouZiffer’s m900 WiFi-Tether pre-installed and much more.

Never have I had a phone be so much fun to have and test different options on!  Thanks Noobl and all you other developers out there for keeping this going and improving.

podar, SDX Forum

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Android today made changes in its licensing and verification of applications, using a web-based service that can “query Android Market at run time to obtain their licensing status for the current user, then allow or disallow further use as appropriate.”

Thanks to syntheticNRG for the original post.

[source: Android Developers]

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PRESS RELEASE:

Sprint is the first wireless carrier to bring Android 2.2 to customers using the award-winning HTC EVO™ 4G beginning Tuesday, Aug. 3

Android 2.2 offers HTC EVO 4G feature enhancements including Bluetooth® voice dialing, built-in Flash, the ability to store apps to the memory card and much, much more

The award-winning HTC EVO 4G just got that much better. We are excited to announce that beginning the week of Aug. 1; Sprint will begin rolling out the Android 2.2 upgrade to its HTC EVO 4G customers.

Sprint will be the first wireless carrier to bring1 the latest version of Android to its customers. The Android 2.2 software release provides a significant number of feature enhancements, including:

• Voice Dialing Over Bluetooth.
• Application Storage on External Memory, giving users more storage room for all their apps.
• Camera 4-way rotation allows the camera icons to rotate with the camera.
• Improved Browser Performance including a faster JavaScript engine and Flash 10x Support improving the user’s ability to view videos and available content associated with web pages.

“Sprint is thrilled with our customers’ response to HTC EVO 4G and the innovative and exciting experience it offers,” said Fared Adib, vice president – Product Development for Sprint. “It is exciting for us to lead the industry in bringing the Android 2.2 update to these customers and improve on the amazing experience they receive with America’s first 4G capable phone.”

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