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[Thunderbolt General] nerdydesi:
For what its worth, I currently work at VZW and here is what our intranet says regarding moving a 4G LTE sim from a phone to a modem and vice versa.

4G SIM Change from USB to Smartphone

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Customers with existing USBs who take the SIM out of the USB and place it into a 4G Smartphone will be able to place voice calls and will be charged the $0.25 per minute rate.

A change will be going into place by 03/22/2011 that will place a voice block on all new USB consumer and enterprise customers and all embedded base enterprise customers.

In addition, a change will be going in place on 04/17/2011 which will allow us to go back and put the block on the existing customer base.

Once the block is in place, users will not be able to place voice calls when they swap the SIMs unless they switch to an applicable voice/data plan.

4G SIM Change from Smartphone to USB

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Customers who purchase a SIM with a 4G Smartphone and have voice and data, will be able to remove the SIM and place it in a 4G USB.

Data usage on the USB would continue to be billed according the data plan on the Smartphone (including unlimited).

Customers would continue to pay for voice as per the terms of their agreement.
[Thunderbolt General] mattgattis:
Nice, thanks for the info. I will definitely pick up a mifi then. Have you any idea which one is better? The verizon branded LTE mifi or the Samsung LTE Mobile Hotspot? I'm guessing the Samsung but just wanted to make sure there are no surprises with it.
[Thunderbolt General] mattgattis:
I highly doubt this... do you have any knowledge of the matter or are you speculating?
[Thunderbolt General] mattgattis:
I can't tell if you're serious or not...
[Thunderbolt General] kesseler:
PEOPLE... I've worked for a huge Verizon retailer for five years. On my personal plan I have a Thunderbolt and I took my sim out and put it in a Samsung LTE Mifi. I got billed for $1,562 in MB overage and not only did it not automatically change my calling plan to a broadband data plan, but it kept my $29.99 unlimited days feature on there and still billed me $1.99/mb. $1,562 in data charges. This is your warning, don't try it. They won't credit it for me either.
[Thunderbolt General] zer071:
Am I missing something here? why piss money away on a mifi when you can root your phone and use wifi tether?
[Thunderbolt General] mattgattis:
Nice try, Verizon guy.

Edit: On the off chance that this is real and you're not just seeking attention, seriously do not pay that bill. A phone company cannot sign you up for a plan (contract) of their choosing and bill you outrageous sums. The only contract you signed was for unlimited data. Unless they have your signature on a document saying that you agreed to pay $1.99/mb for something, then you do not have to pay it. If they are accusing you of something illegal, which would be ridiculous, then only a court can make a judgement against you.
[Thunderbolt General] mattgattis:
Well, it's less expensive than a phone, and consumes less battery power for starters. Not advising anyone to do this... I have my reasons, just want to know if it will work.
[Thunderbolt General] stayin100:
Ill try tomorrow at work
[Thunderbolt General] nerdydesi:
Hey, so are you a fellow VZW employee? :)
[Thunderbolt General] kesseler:
I'm not a "Verizon guy," I work for a retailer, not corporate Verizon. I was just offering a warning of what happened on the 10th when I received my bill. And they won't credit me because I contract with them as an indirect agent and as I activated it on my own acct I should have "known better." Do what you want, I was just trying to offer some advice to the OP.
[Thunderbolt General] Mdpearo:
I have a Thunderbolt and a Pantech USB modem. I took the SIM from my phone, put it in the USB stick, and it worked no problems....

I did this a couple months ago just cause I was wondering if it worked. I didn't leave my phone's Sim in the USB for a long time, just surfed the internet that evening long enough to see that it worked in case I wanted to use the unlimited data in the USB stick to download a movie or something and not use my 5G limit of the broadband plan.

I did not see any additional charges on my bill, but like I said, I only had it in there for one evening.
[EVO 4G General] chaoszepp:
if you text to 1311 with the message upgrade, you can check when your upgrade time is.

I got mine for 6/1/11 and it says save 75 w/2 yr contract

The line after that one says 4/1/11 and it says save 150 w/2yr 75 w/1yr

but I'm not really sure what that means
[EVO 4G General] CheesyNutz:
with sprint's new changes it means what it says
[EVO 4G General] CheesyNutz:
sorry i should have said after 4-1-11 if your account is not "gold status"

you have to wait 2 years to get the 150 instead of 1 year
[EVO 4G General] BigUps:
Thanks for this. I was going to check this today and had forgotten. Much easier to text and find out.
[EVO 4G General] chaoszepp:
so what does this mean? (sorry if I am not understanding/not following sprint's new deal policies)

how much will I have to pay to get an upgrade in 6/1/11 and how much will I have to pay to get an upgrade 4/1/11 (which obviously already passed) and when will I get a free upgrade?
[EVO 4G General] CheesyNutz:
check your sprint account if your gold you 150 after a year

if your silver you get 150 after 2 years
[EVO 4G General] novanosis85:
On 6/1/11 you only get $75 off retail

On 4/1/11 you get $150 off retail plus rebates... I believe unless Sprint canned the rebates.
[EVO 4G General] SouthPhilly:
I just sent and received this text and images get the same message as you do but.....

My "4/1/11" is "4/1/12"

OP i think you need to reread that text. Or even send it again.

Cause from what your posting it looks like a mistake, either on your part(as in miss reading it) or in the info from Sprint triggered by your text.

Sent From My Miui Havin, Gingerbread Throwing eVo4g
[EVO 4G General] thegregbradley:
Where does one find out whether they are silver or gold?
[EVO 4G General] tgruendler:
You can go to Sprints website and log into your account, it will tell you on the first page or you can just call Sprint and ask.
[EVO 4G General] chaoszepp:
yeah I just tried it again and it changed to 4/1/12

My brother has the hero and its funny how his update is in September and yet he's a long time sprint customer
[EVO 4G General] sitlet:
The upgrade date will be either 1 or 2 years from the date of the last purchased phone. And unless he has been a customer for 10 years or more, its likely he is a Silver.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wintermute000:
Anyone seen their light sensor get 'stuck' or just badly calibrated?

Mine reports super low values unless you hold it right up to a light bulb, then it says 'dim room' or something similar lol.

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This all started happening after I tested out killswitch application (which uses the light sensor) which I think killed it. I've uninstalled and rebooted but now my light sensor is stuck in above state.

Anyone know how to recalibrate?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wintermute000:
Bump and even more confusingly, I'm now on overcome 2.0 rc1 and even full restock and flash to new rom didn't fix it. What the...
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkPal:
Its a known Issue to samsung light sensor auto brightness is screwed. They fixed it with Galaxy S2 upgrade. I wish someone would port it for our tabs :)
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wintermute000:
oh snap it was working OK before that app broke it, no joking.

And the broken-ness carried across a full restock and upgrade from Overcome 1.45 to Overcome 2.0 (froyo --> gingerbread). So something is very weird, I hope you're right and that its a SW problem not hardware.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronnyvb:
Also lightsensor problem with brand new Tab 7.7

I also have a problem and nSamsung doesn't even answer to my cries for help (Samsung Belgium redirected me to Samsung the Neteherlands and they do not reply at all).

I downloaded different luxmeter apps and general sensor apps they give as measurement result 12, 120 or 1200 lux (seems they output the range or lower or upper limit of the range the sensor is on, not the actual value). The sensor datasheet says it has a resolution of 1 lux.

Any solution would be much appreciated, I intende to use the sensor as a luxmeter and write an app for it taht needs the luxvalue ! But as it is now, the tablet is completey useless for this because the OS/driver software not working properly
[T-Mobile LG G2x] royale192:
Ok. I was responding to a thread about my phone and no reboot's. I notice that some else posted they charge there phone with it off. When i first got my phone I charged it with it off the very first time. Has anyone else done this and not had problems or done this and it still bad battery life? I have had mine unplugged since about 5:30 am and at 7:08 at 38 percent in the staus menu.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jlevy73:
My battery life is quite good and did not charge it out the box.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] nate420:
ive done the full dead to full charge (plus one hour of charge time)

i get 14 hours of use usually and thats heavy use

people need to realize this is a DUAL core phone its gonna eat battery (especially with stock drivers/software)

dont like it go back to your razor......

( there are MANY MANY MANY HELPFUL TIPS ON HOW TO PROPERLY CONDITION A BATTERY PEOPLE SHOULD USE GOOGLE!!!)

/rant
[T-Mobile LG G2x] royale192:
Hey sorry for the confusion but it was not a helpful tip. I was just stating my specific way i charged my device, but your right it is a dual core phone. I hear the thunderbolt has pretty bad battery life LOL
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Profondo_Rosso:
Unfortunately, as far as I know dual core is supposed to mean better battery management.

So there's that.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] baldwinguy77:
Yup, I know that most would say companies only advertise that as a ploy to sell more devices, but theoretically it really should be true.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Profondo_Rosso:
Which leads me to believe, as others have stated, that it is most definitely in the software.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] baldwinguy77:
I agree, especially after reading Chris Soyars' post about the battery driver. Not only does that mean our reading of the battery is directly affected, but it also leads us to believe that other drivers on the G2X could be poorly coded as well.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] efrem989:
The battery life is ridiculous

Honestly I"m coming from a Sony Erisson w810i dumb phone due to lost of my Samsung Eternity 6 months ago. And I have to admit that it was worth waiting for this phone back when they announced at CTIA. I was so close to jumping onto the mt4g, but this unbelievable phone totally held me back. After waiting and suffering for 4 months from my dumb phone I finally got my hand not only on my first android phone, but also a dual core phone. Man this phone is blazing fast without any lag, going from apps to apps. Once I got it out of the box, I noticed the battery life was around 30%. After playing with it for about 30 minutes, it completely die out. I charged it while I was doing the factory reset. After the reset, I turned off my phone and left it charged 8 hrs while it's off with the battery charging screen. Waking up at 9:00am, it was 100% completely fully charged. Left the house to school and at 12:30p.m, it was down to 5%. It's been only 3 hours and 30 minutes! Before the battery started to drain I had wifi, syn emil, bluetooth and even brightness on low. Also, I had GSM/WCDMA on Auto, so that wasn't the cause either. My second attempt charging cycle to full battery, well see how it goes. If the battery doesn't last me over 6 hrs, I'm definitely going to return it for another new one. I'm having a bad impression on my first smartphone and I will do anything I can to get it the way it should be. It just unacceptable and ridiculous. Oh by the way, my phone is not yet rooted or done anything with it beside downloaded few apps and games. ^__^
[T-Mobile LG G2x] ayvecs:
i had this issue last night when I plugged in my phone it showed charging and 38%. woke up this morning 8 hours later and it still showed charging and 38%, I'm thinking what the f, this never happened with my nexus one. so I plugged the phone into another outlet and used a different charger and left it for an hour and it still showed the same thing. It wasn't until I restarted the phone that it showed 100%, but I find that odd. don't have the slightest clue why this happened.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mikett26:
I took my friend to a T-Mobile corporate store to show him the G2x I bought. I bought mine through TMO Loyalty so I had to wait for it to ship.

Anyhow, there was an LG rep there trying to showcase the G2x and G-Slate and I asked him how the battery life is for the G2x. He told me 6 days on standby and about 5-6 hours of continuous talk time.

I'll check to see if he's still there and take a PTO if I need to, to be there with him and call my office and let them put me on hold and see if the phone has enough juice to make it for 5 continuous hours.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Smallsmx3:
Unfortunately tmo decided to add some apps that run by themselves....after I deleted them I havnt had any apps open without me opening them.....I get about 20 hours wth a lot of use. This is the best battery life I have gotten on any android phone
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Lightning Blue:
I don't see how to get 20 hours out of that battery! Are you on edge? any live wallpapers? Account syncing?
[Wildfire General] DeletedUser99284:
Bump......
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
I personally don't think the difference is big enough to be noticed. Maybe you have a minor OTA after 1.16.771.2.

Anyway, cannot help you as I have no idea where you will find the RUU you are looking for.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheAggression:
Does this phone run as smooth as an iphone??? I'm asking because I kno that androids os has a reputation for running clunky compared to the iphone. I personally own and love my Samsung Vibrant phone. It's currently rooted and I flashed Teamwhiskeys rom on it. It now runs the way it shouldve when I got got it :-)! However, there are moments of slowdown and slight force closes. The specs on my phone i thought would relieve people of the slowdown we tend to encounter with android phones.... apparently not.

Will dual core processors fix this???????
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryude:
There are tons of videos, but I can tell you that the phone never freezes or lags or anything like that. It's extremely fast.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheAggression:
That's music to my ears. I'm hoping dual core and eventually quadcore processors end all of the "iphone runs better and is more stable than android" debates.... sounds good so far.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hanged_man:
IPhone is not faster but menus and navigating around seems smoother due to the fact that its gpu accelerated and not due to hardware specs. However I think android will get gpu acceleration on the next release (ice cream!!)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wendellc:
Exactly, iPhone is gpu accelerated.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ph00ny:
another misinformed consumer
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lakitu:
Bound to be a game changer when finally implemented. I can't wait for this.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] minu94:
Does anyone know where can I get the stock messaging widget(not app) from? I installed OptimusXrom on my P500 and I don't have it anymore. I using other apps like Handcent or GoSMS but I still like the standard one better...but I don't have the widget anymore.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] NainO:
Use Go Sms(Medium) widget instead. It's same as stock messaging widget.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] minu94:
I said that I don't like GOSms...
[Optimus One, P500, V General] divyanshu308:
Hey I got it from system apps folder one thing it has some odex file too of don't know wrists what it's about.I'll pm you laterin the evening it's morning here right now.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Zach Alt:
If someone wants to help me find this, I can use some of my Houston media connections (Houston Chronicle and a few local magazines) to get in touch with the head of PR for the US. I'm just having trouble finding the number!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] psinno:
Someone posted them to a different thread but thought better of it and removed them. Maybe they will see this thread and pm them to you.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Zach Alt:
Why would they think better of it. If it was truly the number for PR, everyone here should be calling it, but, I have the right connections.
[Atrix 4G General] wpghtc:
I have been reading through the posts and I am starting to go blind.

I have a Bell Atrix, and currently I cannot save APN's.

Do I just need to Root to fix this? If so, what is the best way to root?

Any links provided would be great!
[Atrix 4G General] janggu:
Is your provider Bell or are you trying to use your Atrix on other network?
[Atrix 4G General] AbsoluteZero:
I use APN Backup & restore from the market. It worked on my Bell Atrix but I'm not sure if it was rooted first. Rooting isn't that hard if you need to do it.

Hope this helps.
[Atrix 4G General] jlmwtfvs:
If by your name your trying to use an unlocked Bell Atrix on mts, I couldn't get it to work, returned the phone.
[Atrix 4G General] wpghtc:
Yes, my provider is MTS Mobility. The phone is from Bell.

The phone is rooted. I have tried APN back up and APN manager.

The funny thing is that i have put in the apn info a hundred times, and last night it saved once. I tried to edit, and it disappeared again.
[Atrix 4G General] y2whisper:
is there a page with your apn settings you can direct me to? I will try to load it on my device and if it sticks I will send you the APN backup file so that you can restore it to your device.
[Fascinate Android Development] Domush:
While converting a boot animation installer to Edify, I found out you can include both the Amend and the Edify install scripts in the CWM zip file and they both play nice with each other. So, in effect, you can make CWM* installers, instead of releasing two different zip files. This is especially nice when you are uploading a ROM which is 400MB+.

Thought I would share, as I've seen plenty of poeple releasing separate zip files for no benefit.

I've devised a standard, if all agree, for these universal installers, to put a _uni at the end, so people know the CWM version does not matter. eg: helix_animation_uni.zip

To each their own on the naming, but I thought a universal naming scheme would be helpful to all.

Cheers, and sorry if this is old news. I still see tons of releases with two zip files, so at least some people haven't figured this out yet.

Attached is a zip file with example amend and edify scripts, for anyone who is new to either. The example is for a boot animation with boot, shutdown graphics and sound effect.
[Fascinate Android Development] nitsuj17:
Interesting find :-)

Im just sticking with edify personally going forward as it works with both cwr 2.5 and 3.0+
[Fascinate Android Development] Domush:
Haha, well color me pointless. I had no idea Edify worked with 2.5.x as well as 3.x. Ignore this thread :/
[Android Themes] jbell31:
Okay I have and htc eco 4g. I just got it in december. I rooted it yesterday and I tried to install some themes. but, everytime I try it either says Installation aborted or in the middle of the installation it stop and reboots. can anyone help?
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djp952:
As part of my self-teaching experience with kernels and roms here, I'm currently experimenting with upgrades to the 2.6.32.9 base kernel code. Taking it slow so far, my first attempt at jumping from 2.6.32.9 all the way to 2.6.32.37 (at the time) didn't go well :)

Anyhow, my question is ... is this something that the devs commonly do, or is it more typical to just leave well enough alone and back-port interesting things (like EXT4/scheduler enhancements) from later kernels?

I already learned the hard way that unless you really want to start replacing things, you have to leave the kernel version number at "2.6.32.9", so it's unclear to me how often base code updates are actually performed.

If I do make it all the way to 2.6.32.39 successfully and it still boots, I can share if there is interest. I'm pretty sure bluetooth will need work, if it works at all. Call it a hunch based on how many modifications I see that Samsung made :rolleyes: coupled with the chances of me properly merging that code multiple times.

Thanks in advance ... just working to try and be smarter with the hopes of participating more actively on my next device!
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imnuts:
Good luck. I tried patching, and it successfully builds, and it will even start to boot, but it gets bootloops. From the looks of things, the latest stable .32 kernel is .32.28. Here is my patched tree if you want to play around with it: https://github.com/imnuts/linux-2.6-fascinate/tree/patched
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djp952:
Thank you for the link sir! I've been moving forward slowly, first just .9->.10 then .10->.15, I'm in the middle of .15-.25 , but I think I'll just bump it to .28 next and compare where I am with where you were.

It's nice to have a reference, and much appreciated. I'll let you know if I make it past .28. It's tedious work, and I'm afraid not work that will bear much if any fruit other than knowing how :cool:
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imnuts:
Yeah, at this point, I think it's just easier to pull in specific patches from upstream rather than patching the whole kernel tree. If you have any success with it though, I'm sure that others around here would be interested.
[Nook Color General] TT01:
So I have my nookcolor set up just the way I like it with CM7 7.0.2 and D's OC kernal.

It occurred to me that one of my favorite pastimes before I flashed CM7 was to play the original Crosswords that shipped with the nook. Short of reflashing back to stock, and risking an unintended (and unwanted) 'upgrade', and pulling the apk from that image, I no longer have the crosswords apk that shipped with the nookcolor.

Does anyone have that apk or a link to the file so I could put it on my nook? I've tried the other crosswords from the market, the B&N was the favorite.

Thanks

EDIT:

That's a big never mind. Found them in the right sub forum. duh.

1 can of egg remover, please.
[Nook Color General] carbfrze:
looking for the same thing

hello, i'm looking for the same thing. I even tried to pull the original apk off of my nook color prior to rooting it and installing CM7 on it. But everytime I try to run the crossword apk it gives me an error. I'll let you know if I can figure this out.
[Nook Color General] patruns:
How did you install the .apk?
[Nook Color General] ponyboy82:
Do you have a link to it? I'm kind of interested now. I searched in the Apps sub-forum but it didn't return anything.
[Nook Color General] jgaf:
I found the an old apk here : http://code.google.com/p/nookdevs/downloads/detail?name=nookCrossWord.apk&can=2&q=

Tried installing it on my NC 200 something nightly , but when It crashes when I try running it
[Nook Color General] patruns:
How are you "installing" it?

You all know many of the original apps were customized for the stock Nook ROM....
[Nook Color General] SCWells72:
I run it fine under CM7. I just grabbed the .apk from the stock ROM and installed it under CM7 a long time ago. Ever since then it just comes back from my Titanium Backup restore when I switch/upgrade ROMs. I don't feel comfortable posting the .apk here for legal reasons, but I did want to chime in that it works fine under CM7 and MIUI.
[Nook Color General] mising:
Shortyz crosswords is a great market alternative. It automatically downloads several national crosswords every day.
[Nook Color General] 2kst:
Using 7-zip, you can extract the crossword apk from one of the the original roms, and like the prev poster said, it installs and runs perfectly on cm7.
[Nook Color General] jgaf:
I downloaded the app, put it in my dropbox and downloaded it to the NC, then installed it.