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[Networking] tjhart85:
I'm on the contract free Even More plans, which means AT&T will not honor the price (no contract) when they take over. So, I'll just jump ship if/when it happens. No big deal, ride it out, maybe consider getting a contract, but I really don't want to be locked into 2 years if AT&T makes teh service suck more!

I'll do more research then. I mean, honestly, some carriers (cricket for example) aren't really options since their phones suck, but if they get better phones, I'll consider.

Most likely though, it'll be Sprint that I wind up going with. It sucks, cause I REALLY like having a SIM phone & don't like the idea of having to beg a company to switch your service to a new phone if you want to switch for some reason.

I've gone back and forth from my Vibrant to my G2x a few times for one reason or another and know that wouldn't even be an option on Sprint. Ugh. I hate AT&T for this.
[Networking] SmallWalrus:
What frequency bands will they be using after the take over?
[Networking] GnatGoSplat:
They will be using AT&T frequencies. Current T-Mobile 3G devices will become EDGE only. It'll be a few years before that happens, though.
[Networking] 2leaponover1:
I actually just switched from Tmobile to AT&T because I actually got a cheaper plan (mostly thanks to my employee discount). I was amazed at how cheap the atrix was being dual core and having more memory than the Sensation. The battery is huge and the big plus of Motorola is always the speaker which does not disappoint. Now that the bootloader has been cracked i'm happy.

I loved tmobile, the times they are a changin'. I had my first contact with customer service and it wasn't dismal, but not as good as tmobile by any means. Pretty much put you on hold to research (doing a search on their own internet site) without really memorizing answers and being able to help you immediately.
[Networking] Dr.8820:
I'm going to ride the T-Mo ship until it sinks....
[Networking] BonesRed:
Me as well, then I'll go to Sprint or whoever has the latest/greatest smartphone as my contract expires.
[Networking] sustainedhits:
Titanic

Me as well..... I am riding this one out.

TO extend a contract or renew with T-Mobile is simply silly.

I have been with them for over 8 years and I just about had it.

The only thing that kept me around was my ability to haggle prices down which is nearly impossible with big red....
[Networking] DavidinCT:
Not sure why everyone here is worried about this, ESPECALLY if your a T-mobile or AT&T customer.

T-moible customers, they cant change your plan or move you over to a AT& plan, if your in or not in a contract. BY LAW, they must notify you by mail 30 days before any major changes happen. The DOJ would NEVER let this go through with out these terms and it is a LAW for phone companies (yes, cell phone too)

When you get this letter, You will have 2 options,

1. You walk away, if you do not agree to the terms (that would break any current contracts or agreements, and you keep your phone),

2. You agree to the terms, then you continue along with the new terms with any rate or min charges (note the fine terms for schedules of fees for overages and other things)

It could only get better for TMO/AT customers, Your coverage for both with get larger once you combine TM and AT&T's coverage, you will get a larger coverage foot print than Verizon has. All those dropped corners(where you always drop a call) in your town, COULD go away for both carriers.

If anything, when it gets closer, lock into a 2 year with TMO, you'll get the best network with TMO prices, and a new phone.

Only bad thing I can see, is the larger companies are getting larger. Verizon has eaten up a few larger cell companies (not as big as TMO but, in total, maybe), so AT&T will too.

Sprint customers will hate it. WHen you are competeing with 2 Very large comanies with great coverage, sprint will have to really lower it's prices (to gain more customers) or sell out. And how TMO has seen, low prices don't always pay the bills and upgrades on the network.

As a Verizon customer, AT&T has always had spotty coverage in minor cities, where Vzw shines but, this might turn the table and give people who want better nationwide coverage more choices.

For many years now, When I looked to a cell phone provider, I had to think about coverage in my area, after this merger, I won't have to worry about that too much, it wil be best phone and best value.

Isn't that what having a cell phone is about ?
[Networking] AntonJart:
Well, AT&T Sucks beyond any possible level. I just signed a new 2 year contract with Tmo, and if and only if my bill and services would stay at the same price and quality as they are now - I will stay, otherwise I will be switching.

AT&T is notorious for screwing things up. When my DSL speed was jumping up and down, especially on certain days I had a dial up like speed - the tech guy told me that the squirrel munched on the cable. Only after a month of annoying them the normal rep came and switched something in the electrical board, saying that it was plugged incorrectly. And it took him 10 seconds to fix it.
[Networking] gamikzone:
maybe after this merger i will get 3g where i live :)
[Networking] Dattack:
I want to switch over to another carrier but AT & T and verizon cost over $100 unlimited everything up to 2gb data. Tmobile only cost me $69.99. Can't justify switching right now.
[Networking] luckylui:
Sprints better. Unlmtd data! No 2,3,4,5 gb cap like other carriers. And im only speding about on average w three lines 180.00

Two lines w cell n one line is laptop w sprint :)

NS4G°
[Networking] Kbybee9:
I have asked all from t mobile store to customer retention on the issue. I hope they keep their customer service personnel. I had at&t back on the beginning and thats how I ended up at tmobile. seems just have to wait it out.
[Networking] synaesthetic:
I'm a no-contract postpaid customer with T-Mobile. If... hah, that's wishful thinking! When my bill goes up, I'll switch to Sprint, unless I can still use the iPhone 2G trick by then...
[Networking] threeclaws:
I'm going to simple mobile, $60/mo for unlimited everything and that includes the taxes, riding on tmo coverage.

I was with att for years, I wont go back.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] denonlake:
Google cal not showing all events. If I go into calendar from desktop and make a change to event it will them show up on thunderbolt. My fascinate is showing everything fine. Any suggestions?

Or anyone else having this problem
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] javawolfpack:
Does the ThunderBolt by chance require you to manage delegations? Like is it secondary calendars that aren't showing up? I know on my HTC Incredible that all of my other calendars on Google cal are automatically selected, but possibly they disabled that for the ThunderBolt? Should be able to go into the calendar on the phone and hit menu to get to calendar settings and see if that's the trouble?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] denonlake:
Thanks for the info but I have made sure that all calendars were checked. I guess I am the only one seeing this problem so it must be on my end somewhere.
[Thunderbolt General] -Gilgamesh-:
Tried doing a factory reset, says completed, but phone boots and everything's there. Tried flashing a previous nand backup, gave error "Error formatting /data" when I try to go under advanced and manually format /data it gives the same error. Anyone else getting this? Known issue? Any possible fixes?
[Thunderbolt General] inline6power:
i believe its a cwm issue. they are trying to get them all sorted out
[Thunderbolt General] MadFoodScientist:
Awesome
[Thunderbolt General] -Gilgamesh-:
Ah, ok, thanks. I had that feeling, but just wanted to make sure.
[Thunderbolt General] psufan5:
yeah this is great... my contact pictures got all messed up by Sense and now I cant factory reset to put my google account back in... nor can i wipe the phone.
[Thunderbolt General] sclhou:
Formatting Data Issue

I get the same. I also believe it is a CWM issue. If it helps any you can do an advanced restore and restore everything but data.
[Thunderbolt General] 52brandon:
I wish they would fix the SD card partitioning
[Touch CDMA General] ss0mohit:
i replaced the digitizer. the touchscreen doesn't work. no response is felt after it.

i used this guide:

http://mikechannon.net/PDF Manuals/OSeven's Disassembly Guide to the HTC Touch - Elf .pdf

and when it came to the step of replacing the vibration part, i kind of clipped it, but when it came to putting it back, it wouldn't work.

-touchscreen doesn't work

-vibration not working.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Bspence415:
I lost my file
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Mr. Clown:
Sorry my friend. Soliciting this, breaches XDA rules since it's a copyright material.

On that note, thread closed
[Vibrant General] tphone:
My vibrant is running stock 2.2 Froyo. Lately, it dies silently and so frequently in sleep that I can't rely on it for every day usage. I've missed many important calls. So I am trying prepare my phone to flash another ROM. First, I got the phone rooted no problem at all.

Then the first problem I have is with the ROM manager. I purchased the Premium Version 3.0.1.3 and flashed the latest ClockworkMod Recovery 2.5.1.2. Upon rebooting into Recovery, there is, however, no Nandroid backup, just the normal menu shows up with

Samsung Recovery Utils -for BML-

.reboot now

.reinstall packages

.delete all user data

.delete cache data

.format internal sd card

I remove update.zip on the phone and on the sd card and retried and retried without success. Why don't I have Nandroid backup showing up to save the phone before flashing new ROM?

The second problem is with the Titanium Backup. I downloaded the free version and it works fine and could get root privilege without problem. Then I purchased the donated version and followed the instruction to uninstall the app and reinstall it to get the upgrade through the license file. The license file is read correctly and the upgrade version acknowledges that. However, Titanium Backup paid version now fails to get root privilege. I verify that other apps can get root without problem. I've searched all over yesterday and it seems that few people have the same problem getting root with the upgraded version, but no one has offered a solution.

So here I am paying but not able to backup the phone to start flashing anything. Could someone enlighten me about what I did wrong here?

Thank you.
[Vibrant General] offdutyninja808:
For recovery, just select reinstall packages. Sometimes you have to do it twice.

For titanium backup, click the problems button to get the latest busybox.

You should be good after that.
[Vibrant General] Romanbb:
What offdutyninja808 said, also check your Superuser app, click Titanium and tell it to forget it if it's there.

We'll get you sorted out!
[Vibrant General] yuriy1337:
I have the same set-up and I have the same issue. I've selecting reinstall packages several times. Did not work. I tried different, methods: using Rom Manager and AIO Vibrant Toolbox. Didn't work. At first it said said it wasn't signed, and I four a fix for that. Now It loads and says replacing stock recovery with Clockwork... but boots back into the stock one. Is there anything else I can do?
[Vibrant General] oka1:
+1 Both Off duty and birgertime are correct. Most of the new roms will delete all things for you unless they say to do something particular (like some of the EDT roms) you should be ok, we are here to help if you run into further problems
[Vibrant General] eminembdg:
If hitting "reinstall packages" don't take you to the clockwork recovery, also you can just reinstall the recovery thru rom manager.

Then once you reboot and if it don't take you to clockwork recovery, then hit reinstall packages again. Ya should get to it the second time.

I had this issue a lot when first rooted the phone and installed clockwork recovery.

Sometimes it will even boot halfway into stock recovery then quickly reboot itself into clockwork.

Also, just make sure that there is only ONE update.zip in there. So delete the update.zip using "my files" then open Rom Manager and choose install clockwork recovery. That way you are sure there is only one update.zip there then try the previous mentioned methods
[Vibrant General] tphone:
Thanks for your advice. I still have problem with selecting "reinstall packages" in the Recovery menu. If I select that, it says:

-- Install from sdcard...

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

Verifying update package...

E:failed to verify whole-file signature

E:signature verification failed

Installation aborted.

This repeats if I keep selecting "reinstall packages" again. My SD card is still the original 2GB card that comes with the phone. It still has plenty of space.

Thanks again for helping
[Vibrant General] tphone:
FWIW, I upgraded BusyBox and could solve the Titanium Backup problem. However, still can not do a nandroid backup as mentioned above, even with the donated version. So I abandoned my plan to flash another ROM and stay with the rooted stock.

However, what a difference it makes when I replace the 2GB SD card that came with the Vibrant with a 16GB SD card class 10. The unit comes up faster, the UI is no longer sluggish as before. I hope that this was the issue that caused my Vibrant to die in sleep. I need to phone for daily use and don't have a lot of time to muck around with it. Maybe next year when I have another phone to use as main phone, then I can take some risk to flash without nandroid backup. For now I hope that it no longer dies in sleep. Thanks for all your help.
[Vibrant General] tphone:
Just a quick note to end this thread.

Since I have plenty of disk space on the internal memory, I removed the SD which I don't need and the phone seems to become reasonably fast responsive with rooted stock 2.2. It's now quite usable for me so I have no more need to flash it with another ROM. People who complain about slowness of their stock 2.2 ROM should try to remove the SD card first.

Thanks again for all your help.
[Touch HD General] ADB100:
I have a custom WM 6.5 ROM based on 23152 (based on the final stock OEM & the majority of the HD2 packages) and it works OK but the performance with IE (or Opera 9.7) is just really poor. For large pages the almost freezing behaviour is unbearable - Opera is better than IE but not much.

My partner has a Desire HD and the difference is phenomenal - both are using WiFi and when loading the same page on either there is probably a 30-second delay with the Blackstone (& Opera) when building the page (looking at www.lonelyplanet.com/uk).

I have played around with various performance settings (File System Cache size, Glyph cache, TCP maximum connections etc) but there is never any improvement.

I have seen some ROMs and they appear much faster?

Any pointers
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gruzilkin:
Hello, at the moment my phone is in a bit weird state and I would really appreciate any help :)

this is what I have, it's a SHS bought in Europe

Model number: GT-I9000

Formware version: 2.2

Baseband version: I9000XXJPP

Kernel version: 2.6.32.9 curio@carton #Voodoo_stable_5.5

Build number: FROYO.XWJPF

I installed latest voodoo recently and it worked fine, quadrant was giving me about 1500 points so I'm sure it working and the phone was really fast

everything was fine until decided to root it to apply wifi timeout fix... since I have 3 button recovery mode I didn't think I was risking anything (MY MISTAKE!)

unfortunately, after 4 hours of reviving my phone I don't remember what program from market I used to root... anyway, I ended up having SuperUser app with ninja icon... and I lost all my other apps... now I know I should have converted the filesystem back before doing anything, but it was too late

at this point female voice was already saying "data partition /*something*/ system not available"

I decided to reset the phone from the recovery menu and it was giving me errors, it couldn't mount partition or do something with them, and it also wouldn't boot anymore

I started searching for solutions and found THIS, everything looked exactly as I had so I decided to follow those instructions, I think they can be summed up to this:

I did what this said and my phone could boot and wipe data from recovery menu could also work

but it kept saying about "system not available"

I thought the problem could still be in the superuser ninja app, so I started looking how to remove it, and found THIS, which also worked and I got rid of it

but I still have female void saying "system not available" on boot

and for some reason, the phone can't connect by wifi to my router anymore, it gets stuck on obraining IP address, it could after all this, but after some restarts and resets it can't connect anymore

he's the voodoo logs that I have now:

Quadrant gives me 1000 points now, so there's probably some different filesystem configuration at the moment... maybe it's because I followed the instructions and created ext2 partitions?

anyway, even though my phone has 3-button recovery and still boots it is still screwed at the moment, so I'm looking for a way to get back to stock firmware and then voodoo again

but should I somehow convert back to RFS first?

I don't care about my data, there's nothing important in it

I found this post, would it be safe to use any of those firmwares with the phone in this state? will Odin's re-partition feature dump everything that I have now and recreate normal filesystem?

and which stock firmware should I use? there's no I9000XXJPP version in that list, would it be safe to use any other European 2.2.1 version?

I appreciate any help
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azzledazzle:
well what you need to do is download a firmware with all 3 files and PIT.

Go into odin and put the correct files in the correct section, then put your pit file in, and check the repartition box.

flash that thru odin and you should be ok, this will remove the ext 4 filesystem and replace back to stock rfs.

if you are having trouble finding a firmware with all 3 files. try darkys resurrection (odin version) with 512 pit.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gruzilkin:
Thanks, I'll try to install I9000XXJPY in the evening and see how it goes
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gruzilkin:
I downloaded I9000XXJPY firmware from this thread and it's only 1 file inside - JPY_JPY_JPY.tar

inside it has:

cache.rfs

factoryfs.rfs

param.lfs

zImage

modem.bin

instructions say that I shouldn't check re-partition with 1 file installation, but as I understand, I need to re-partition my phone

will this 1 file firmware installation even work in my situation?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gruzilkin:
I think I found what I need: this post describes how to install 1 file firmware with repartitioning and rooting
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gruzilkin:
following those instructions solved my problems

the only problem was with voodoo... I was surprised to see that even after installing new firmware my phone still remembered password for my wifi... so I had to reset it

and voodoo wouldn't work, because there was a disable-lagfix file on the internal sd card (which also wasn't erased), so I had to remove that

Thanks for the advice
[HD2 General] jookdakang23:
i have an hd2 with a dead battery and when i go to power on the phone while connected to the wall charger it just vibates once. this is a sign of a dead battery and magldr 1.2 incapability to charge while off right?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jookdakang23:
i have an hd2 with a dead battery and when i go to power on the phone while connected to the wall charger it just vibates once. this is a sign of a dead battery and magldr 1.2 incapability to charge while off right?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
yep, either borrow another battery to flash your phone back to winmo so it ch=an charge, , or, , charge in another winmo hd2, or, get an old usb cable, cut off the usb head, find the red and black wires, bare them, hold red to + and black to -, plug into wall charger for a m inute or two, battery should have enough charge to boot enough to start charging.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] 3pcssuits:
Use clk allows charging in off state plus in my opinion better touch screen response.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jookdakang23:
another quick question. is it correct that the only way to power on the phone is by the power button or the reset + volume down combo with magldr 1.2. because my keypad broke and im waiting in the mail for another 1, and wanted to know alternate ways to power the device on besides the power button
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
If its latest magldr it detects the insertion of power and turns on. Charge your battery a little, and when you plug charger in it should fire up.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
Heh you make it sound so easy. Flashed clk no problem,,,, could I get the android sdk aspect of the instal to work ? No, thats four hours I'll never see again, hehe.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Skellyyy:
Wait, wait, wait!? Sam couldn't get cLK to run properly? :eek: ;) :P
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jookdakang23:
no what im asking is if my phone led dont light up while connected through the charger, and the phone only vibrates once and never powers on. does this mean the battery is dead. i read several places where magldr 1.2 doesnt charge while its off.

FYI-before i changed my keypad i sucessfully flashed an android rom and the correct radio and hard spl. so i know its not bricked.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
none of the magldrs charge when off, but the latest one 1.13 (where you get 1.2 from? 1.12 perhaps?) detects when it should start charging when off, and turns on.

I had to do that usb lead thing i talked about last week, let the phone die, couldnt charge it. worked no problem.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jookdakang23:
did you get the symptons of a single vibrate and no power when you tried to turn it on? *crosses fingers*
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
as in my PM, not that i remember, BUT, the phone does give a little shake when it turns on normally, so i can imagine an almost flat battery might vibrate then go straight off a few times before the battery is truly flat, and you shouldnt keep trying, save teh dregs of power, and try top it up as noted with an old usb cable. doesnt have to be micro usb, any old normal usb cable will do, black and red wires to - and + for 30 seconds in the wall charger, thats what i did.