Solution:
At the host name “dnndev.me” to the bindings of IIS 7

I’ve been including you in some of the discussions I have with your support team and to tell you that I’m disappointed is an understatement. Not only they lie that there’s no problem, they don’t even bother reading through what I write and suggest things that I’ve already pointed out that I’ve tried.

I’ve been a customer for almost 9 years (since the day 1and1 started a trial in US and I was only a college student). Whenever there’s a discussion on which hosting company to recommend, I usually jump in and refer 1and1 as the host. There are some argument against 1&1 especially their support, I’ve always point out that for the past x years I’ve never even have to talk to support.

Over the past week, your admin team decided to remove a feature which has been essential to my hosting package. This feature have been working for a few years and it suddenly stopped working over the long weekend. I won’t bore you with the details, but I will be able to provide if you need to. However, my experience with your support team may be important:

1. I first noticed an issue on 5/28 and created a ticket that day
2. Went back and forth a few email and finally I was asked to call in based on an email on 5/29 at 3:19pm (PDT)
3. I didn’t have the time to call until last night, or actually midnight today 5/31 at 0:38
4. During that 31 minutes call they assured me the rep mentioned that I have followed the instruction as mentioned in the FAQ and this is indeed a problem and she will escalate it
5. At 3:13am today, I received an email that basically say “nothing is wrong… it may seem wrong, but it’s not”. This email is the one that upset me the most. It’s either a lie or a completely incompetent tech, because I can prove it otherwise easily. If I’m a regular joe, I might be thinking “oh, okay.. most probably my fault…” However I proved it otherwise on my subsequent email
6. I sent the email today (5/31) at 10:26 (PDT), which I include you in the email. It’s a really long email which also describes what I’ve done to troubleshoot and why it’s still a problem.
7. At 1:10pm (PDT) I received an email from your support team suggesting the thing that I’ve tried and do, which both doesn’t work and doesn’t apply to me. I replied at 2:05pm and he gave me a totally bogus answer at 2:26pm.
8. When I pointed out that his answer doesn’t make sense at 2:45pm, another tech support replied and confirmed that the answer won’t work on my case and asked me to do something which I already did and I also mentioned it on earlier emails which is part of the quoted section of the email. This specific tech responded at 4:14pm and didn’t even bother reading the thread or understanding the problem. He practically just said “yep, that don’t work, try this” where THIS is the FAQ that I’ve mentioned in the beginning (since 5/28)
9. I finally had enough and called in your support phone line again and this time it lasted 56 minutes. Once again it ended with “we can’t do anything, we have to escalate this”.

Your tech is moving in circles and doesn’t get the problem solved at all. Please check the following two links. In 2010, 1and1 is considered one of the 5 best hosting company by popular opinion. In 2012, not anymore. If you googled, it will show how many people actually have problem with your support.

2010 article: http://lifehacker.com/5545568/five-best-personal-web-hosts
2012 article: http://lifehacker.com/5911651/five-best-web-hosting-companies

• Enable colorized file listing (ls) – add “alias ls=’ls -G’” to ~/.bash_profile
• Enable colorized vim
  1. Run “sudo vi /usr/share/vim/vimrc”
  2. Add the following lines to the top:
     syntax on
filetype plugin on
set ruler


Hash Checking
Add the following lines to your “~/.bash_profiles”:
alias md5='md5 -r'
alias md5sum='md5 -r'
alias sha1sum='openssl sha1'


1. Login to your gmail (old account)
2. Goto Settings -> Import/Export
3. Export OPML file and save it
4. Goto Settings -> Folder/Tags
5. Check the box for “Your Starred Items”
6. Above that, click on “Change Sharing” and choose “Public”
7. Click “View public page” (preferrably on a new tab) and click on the “Atom Feed” icon
8. Copy the URL to the clipboard
9. Logout of your old account and login to your NEW account (works with account switching too)
10. Goto Settings -> Import/Export
11. Import the OPML file you downloaded earlier
12. Go back to Google Reader main page
13. Click on “Add a Subscriptions”
14. Paste the URL from the public page atom feed
15. You will now have a new feed for all your old starred items. Star each of them now.
16. After you star each of them, you may remove the atom feed and also delete the other feeds from your old account.

I was about to give up when I stumbled upon iRecovery. First try, it doesn’t work. It complains about not finding the phone. So, I tried to use redsn0w to restart the phone and see that glimmer of white screen and see if iRecovery would be able to hook itself to the boot session during that moment. So, I fired up redsn0w and repeatedly run the command “iRecover -s” in the command prompt. I basically pressed up and entery over and over during the process.

The first try didn’t work and I have to redo it again. The second was the charm and it JB properly.

Latest iRecovery Version Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?nmn25bnjzy3
LibUSB Win32 Download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/ywhxqzdoimg/iHackintosh%20iRecovery%20Package%20for%20Windows%20&%20Mac.rar

1. Use notepad.exe (if you’re unable to launch, use another computer or any file that write a text file) and write the following:
   Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command]
@="\"%1\" %*"
2. Save the file as fix.reg and run it.
3. Reboot your computer

After scouring websites advising about changing the normal.dot file and still having the problem, I found another site that recommends deleting printer from the “Devices and Printers”. Before I tried that, I change the default printer to “PDFCreator” and it solves the problem. I didn’t have the time to troubleshoot it, but it maybe SNMP or network related, but documents actually prints just fine. So I’ll leave it at this for now.

Today I received notification of a new nightly available. Since ROM Manager works best with ClockworkMod recovery, I flashed it and do a full backup. When I moved to the new nightly built #34, I found that Tasker crashes all the time. So, I restored to my backup from this morning. Alas, the restore procedure always got stuck at the “Dalvik-Cache”.

I tried to do wipe cache and dalvik-cache and restart. The CM7 loaded, but all my App2SD installed apps are missing. After probing here and there, I finally decided to switch back to Amon Ra recovery, adb into the system and perform the nandroid restore manually.

Everytime nandroid try to restore the sd-ext partition, it always shows that the tar unable to create directory because the partition is mounted as read only. After forcing an rw mount and the problem persists, I finally was about to give up. Then I was thinking if it’s possibly due to the ext4 filesystem. Finally I reformat the partition using ext2, upgraded to ext3 and perform the manual restore (using tar) and it works.

Finally I got my system back to the Friday midnight backup. I flashed my new kernel and got everything back working.

So, if you find yourself unable to restore ext partition when using App2SD and ext4, try to revert back to ext3.