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[EVO 4G General] mustangboy88:
Let's cut the rhetoric already. And lets say what it really was and how we got here. I live near Phoenix and unless I want to drive to the east valley or Prescott I pretty much won't be seeing 4G in this area anytime soon. I have come to that reality. But when I bought the phone I was told the $10 in easy terms was for Wimax service. And at that point, living in a population of 4.1m it didn't seem we would be forgotten. Fast forward a year and paying for a service that I have yet to turn on, it is still a 4G fee. And that is simply because my data is the same 3G that my wife's Samsung Moment and daughters BB Style gets. And we activated my daughters BB Jan. 30, right before Sprints Data got upgraded from regular 89 octane to Premium 93 Octane. But for some reason I am not seeing anything Premium about it. So you see, I don't have a new line, therefore I pay a 4G fee, which at the time was "Premium Data.", and everyone else in my family is paying a less than premium data fee. Which is alright, just lets me know my 3G is that much better than theirs.

This is/was Sprint's way of handling a bunch of disgruntled customers and keeping their investors happy. I mean, why would you remove a surcharge? Instead charge everyone a flat rate. Increase profit margin and keep investors happy. It was a class action law-suit just waiting to happen. Charging millions of people for a service that couldnt be rendered.

And if you want to hear it from the mouth of a Sprint employee from when the Evo was released and why the charge was introduced here it is.

This is from John Taylor's blog from May 12th last year. John Taylor is basically the spokesman for Sprint that talks to the press about Public Policy.

" There have been a TON of questions about this monthly Premium Data charge. I hope this will clear things up.

If you buy the Sprint 4G EVO, you have to pay this $10 charge each month. This is specific to the device. It's not related to whether you are using 3G or 4G. It is required if you have the phone.

Because the phone has a faster processor, a huge 4.3 inch screen and an 8 megapixel camcorder/camera, we expect you will be using a lot more data than you would with our other devices. These features will give you capabilities that have previously never been available on a wireless device and we think they provide a premium experience. (Remember, this is the world's first 3G/4G Android phone.)"

http://tech.johntaylor.co/more-detail-on-the-sprint-evo-4g-10month-prem

So you can say what it is now. But it doesn't give a customer that purchases a Samsung Transform 4G abilities and that data is not any more premium for a 3G device anymore the day before or after February 1st when the Premium Data charge for all phones went into effect.

So in closing. We pay for 3G for my wife's and daughters phone. And I pay the Premium Data so that I can have the ability to turn on 4G if I am in a 4G area. Because when I bought my phone under this contract it was device specific.

Thank you for informing me how uninformed I am.

Typed on my CyanoSavaged SuperEvo.
[Desire General] djstanley:
Hi guys, new here, great community. I did search for this, but could not find what I was after..

I have a new HTC Desire S. S-ON unfortunately. I am traveling Asia in 3 weeks and don't want to be using my UK T-mobile SIM whilst abroad. What I do want, is to buy a SIM card over there and use it. So I have to unlock this phone somehow.

Called T-Mobile, they said they will happily do it for 15 pounds, but it takes 28 days for the code to come back from HTC, this is too long for me as I leave in just 21 days.

I read about sieempi's unlock tool which looks amazing, but seems to be suited just for the Desire, not the Desire S. Has anyone had any luck using the tool with the Desire S?

Also, online it appears you can pay for an unlock code, about 30 pounds or so, you send them your IMEI number and network and they generate you an unlock code. Firstly, does this method reliably work? And secondly, if 3rd party websites have access to a method, does anyone else for free?

Warmest regards all, hope for some good responses!

DJS.
[Desire General] davebugyi:
You can try to post this in the Desire S sub-forum, to get more responses.

BTW, no idea about your problem.
[Desire General] Meaple:
Try posting in Desire S forum. Anyway I have used a website in getting an unlock code and it worked for me no problem. Cost me £20 ish.

Swyped...
[Desire General] djstanley:
Hmm...maybe a codes the way then?
[Desire General] ste1164:
There might be a website that does it for free but it will take longer about a day or two. I know there is for blackberry not sure about htc. But yea most websites are fine :)
[Desire General] Meaple:
No idea about free but you will get a code and not have to send off your phone. I couldn't find a free site for the Desire.

Swyped...
[LG Optimus 2x] Tr0gledyte:
Lately my vibration has gotten weaker, too weak to even feel in my pocket. Sometimes it cycles between strong and weak while vibrating, like the vibration motor is starting to malfunction. Is it time for the VIP service, or is it possible this could be software-related?
[LG Optimus 2x] xxdoggyxx:
You running stock rom? Sometimes, its s/w problem...
[LG Optimus 2x] Tr0gledyte:
Stock ROM, yes.
[LG Optimus 2x] Tr0gledyte:
Of course, the day after I call the VIP service the phone starts to vibrate properly again. It still weakens sometimes but seems to work 95% of the time. I think I'll hold on to it for now, don't want the VIP service to give me a phone that reboots and crap..
[LG Optimus 2x] Tr0gledyte:
Okay.. awkward. The vibrate function nearly died out again. But, I noticed something weird.. if I hold the phone in front of a lamp and make it vibrate, the vibration gets stronger and stronger until it's back to normal. Then when I turn off the lamp the vibration weakens again (slowly).

???

EDIT: Just now when I was holding down the lower volume button to make it vibrate, it wouldn't stop vibrating even when I let go of the button. It kept vibrating harder and harder and I almost thought it was gonna blow out, but I managed to make it stop by pressing the capacitive buttons (the other buttons did not respond). Wtf.
[Xoom General] shikage:
I am looking for a good note taking app for use on a Motorola Xoom tablet. I would like to use it for taking notes in my classes.

Features I am hoping for:

- Preferably no handwriting recognition or can be disabled. Often my notes include symbols in equations that makes recognition hard.

- Offline notes, because I don't want to require internet access to view or take notes.

- Would be nice to be able to outputs notes to a PDF file to view on my PC
[Xoom General] nobylspoon:
Evernote is the best I have seen on Android. Still no comparison to MS OneNote but great none-the-less. There should be an HC optimized version being released soon.
[Xoom General] p-slim:
I use springpad. But I'm not sure if it has all that, check it out. It's optimized for honeycomb also
[Xoom General] shikage:
My biggest problem with evernote is I would effectively be paying a fee to NOT use their servers. This seems entirely backwards to me. I have to pay $45/year to be a premium user so I can save my notes on my own device instead of on their server? Now, I don't have a problem with paying a one time fee for an app that has the features I want but an ongoing fee to keep my notes offline is just stupid. Unless I am misreading their information which seems to state you have to have an Evernote Premium account for offline note storage.
[Xoom General] Boris Sidis:
I use MaplePaint and a stylus for mathematics & physics.
[Xoom General] shikage:
I'll have to take a look at MaplePaint. I'm still not very happy with the idea of having to pay a subscription fee to Evernote just to be able to store my notes on my own device.. and Springpad doesn't look like quite what I'm looking for, or as if it has the ability to handle handwritten notes.
[Xoom General] 3devious:
I like to use NoteEverything with Writepad (a keyboard plugin that uses handwriting recognition.) Writepad takes some tweaking and getting used to.
[Xoom General] eaglecomm:
I was recently looking through the market for a note taking app.. but I wanted specific drawing capabilities. Maple Paint is great so far. Simple, but effective. Thanks for the suggestion!
[Xoom General] sstrauss:
Are you able to use MaplePaint and WritePad at the same time. I have not been able to get it to work. MaplePaint's text entry works with the standard android keyboard, but not with WritePad for some reason.

A text and drawing note taking app would be ideal.
[Xoom General] cymersa:
After trying many apps FreeNote is the best I found. All you need is good stylus.
[Nook Color General] myers022:
Who in anyone’s opinion makes the best Honeycomb port for the Nook Color?

I know CM7 is out there and I use it for my phone, I think it’s awesome on my phone and will probably be great on the Nook as well.

Are their any other good ports for 2.3 or especially 3.0?
[Nook Color General] ace7196:
Right now, we have:

an official CM7 rom.

and HC rom from madcat & deeper blue.

I am endlessly happy that we have such awesome devs working on so few roms. I got sick of the G1 threads blowing up with roms that tended to break more things than they fixed.

Just look for the most recently updated threads in the dev section.

HC is based of sdk, btw.
[Nook Color General] myers022:
Do you prefer one to the other? I was looking to install Honeycomb any advice one which one is most preferable?
[Nook Color General] animatechnica:
IMO since BC is not officially released, you will always be dealing with a not fully ready version. The dev's are doing great work with it but it is not a daily driver unlike cm7
[Nook Color General] I Am Marino:
I would stick with CM7.
[Nook Color General] ace7196:
CM7 all the way. HC is amazing for what they have to work with, but for daily driver, cm7 is awesome. Wait for the next nightly, and all will be well :)
[Nook Color General] myers022:
Why, what's happening in the next nightly, something new?
[Nook Color General] I Am Marino:
Yes do tell.
[Nook Color General] ace7196:
Yeah. Seems the more recent nightlies are having trouble with wifi. Should be fixed.

Also, so everyone is on the same page, the bootloader will be flashed as well, so that should help a lot of people out.

Also audio and video hiccups will be fixed.

It's all here. Bookmark and read along!

http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=encore
[Nook Color General] artcwolf:
I liked DB's HC version, and the version before the recent release of madcat's where the SD card stopped working personally, I couldn't get used to the softkeys from the other versions.
[Nook Color General] candre23:
I'd like to echo the responses above that suggest sticking with CM7 as a daily driver for now. HC is coming along nicely, and I do install the latest on an SD card every now and then to check out the progress, but it's really not "done" enough to use every day. CM7 is. The occasional nightly hiccup aside, it's definitely feature-complete enough for daily use.
[Nook Color General] nolook:
so its cm_encore_full-86.zip that has all these issues fixed? thanks
[Nook Color General] hockeyfamily737:
Theoretically, yes......However it is still a "nightly" build and hasn't been labeled as stable....Some things could be fixed and other stuff could have broken in the process (don't know that's the case, just saying it's a possibilty.)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Hog Milanese:
What options are there? Something similar to glass Widgets in style that serves as a simple checklist.
[HTC EVO 3D] dw3bb10:
Guess ill just be waiting for the Galaxy S II.

http://androidpolice.com/2011/05/24...r-recovery-and-kernel-images-all-locked-down/
[HTC EVO 3D] jgalan14:
Shouldn't this be on evo 3D forums insted? Lol

For everyone else here is the link

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...r-recovery-and-kernel-images-all-locked-down/
[HTC EVO 3D] jgalan14:
Lol
[HTC EVO 3D] jayharper08:
Well, looks like I will be sticking with the O.G. Evo. This is very disappointing.

Sent from "The EVO" using XDA Premium VIA your moms house.
[HTC EVO 3D] SteveGrandRapids:
There, the gauntlet has been thrown down . . .
[HTC EVO 3D] plmiller0905:
I was thinking about getting the Evo 3D. But after reading this, I'm gonna just stay with my Nexus S 4G.
[HTC EVO 3D] mrphy42:
Lame. May as well get an iPhone. Wont be getting an EVO the next time around I guess.
[HTC EVO 3D] Ruki_Uki:
Just lost respect for HTC. Smh
[HTC EVO 3D] eman3316@optonline.net:
While this is bad news for us, how many people are actually going to be able to sit back and not run to the store to purchase this phone the day it is released.

If enough people had the will power to stay away maybe it would send a message to HTC, but I don't think we have that kind of will power. To add to that, I believe the EVO and now the EVO 3d sell extrememly well to people who have no idea what rooting even means and just enjoy the phone for what it is.

I still think we are in the minority when it comes to these things.....So the sales numbers will let HTC know if this has any effect on it but I say the EVO 3d still sells strong.
[HTC EVO 3D] GrimReaper24:
Won't be for long lol someone will get in and do all sorts of good.
[HTC EVO 3D] m4rk0358:
Likewise

10char
[HTC EVO 3D] ckoadiyn:
I agree but we can make a impact none the less still blows though ill wait for the next Google phone
[HTC EVO 3D] mlin:
Meh, I've noticed recently that stock seems to perform better than most/all custom ROMs anyway. Perhaps this way I'll spend less time messing around with my phone... As long as I can get partial root to remove bloatware I'll be fine and I'm confident this wont be an issue.

On another note, I think this statement is BS: "It seems HTC has finally caved to what are likely the security demands of wireless carriers with its newest phones, and is locking down its handsets Moto-style..."

It has yet to be confirmed that bootloaders are being locked at the request of carriers. The argument against tethering is invalid because full root is not required to run root access wireless tethering apps. I think this is solely the decision of manufacturers- why they are making this decision, I don't know...
[HTC EVO 3D] Genjinaro:
Umm, after news like that, I expct it to be a little uhh echo-y in those forums .:rolleyes: Unless someone wants to flex their signed bootloader cracking skills in there. :p
[HTC EVO 3D] mlin:
I am still getting this device day one. If I decide I can't live without full root then I'll return it and wait for something else. Can't lose with Sprint's 30 day satisfaction guarantee.
[HTC EVO 3D] mrphy42:
I agree 100%, but this doesn't change the fact that htc is telling an entire committed of supportive (and vocal) customers to go stick it unnecessarily. While they don't care if they lose my business, I am disappointed in them and will likely end up going with another manufacturer.
[HTC EVO 3D] m4rk0358:
So ultimately what does this mean to the layman? Will it just take longer for full root to become available?
[HTC EVO 3D] Award Tour:
If its anything like the droids - you'll eventual have root if theres a exploit but full custom kernels are thrown out the window, so are full custom roms. All you'll have is minor superficial modifications to the official ROM. That means that you'll only taste a new version of Android if HTC/Sprint officially releases it for the 3D. That also means no CM, no MIUI, no ported ROMs.
[HTC EVO 3D] m4rk0358:
Well that just made my decision easier. Hello Galaxy S II.
[HTC EVO 3D] mkeena0305:
Preordered and disappointed. SgsII
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ggclanlord:
Well i searched around XDA a bit and found many threads related to this bt all for WM and not android.

Multi-tasking is getting a bit tough. Apps get auto-closed after sometime.

Samsung Galaxy SL i9003

Stock firmware and everything stock, nothing chngd much. Only apps installed from the Market.

Say m surfing the opera, and even if a small app like messaging is open and aftr some roaming around when i return of opera, it has closed.

PS - Above is jus an example so dnt claim Opera is a power-hogger so it wil b to open up ram for other apps and all......

So any way of disabling the auto-closure of apps?

Love XDA
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ggclanlord:
@ mod who moved it...

Its related to i9003 nt i9000.

Anyways tnx for moving. Wil get more views here....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ggclanlord:
Any dev der? Help!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paleozord:
Personally, I cannot believe that this doesn't get complained about a lot more vocally and a lot more often, especially as it is common across ALL Android devices running 2.2 or beyond, not just the Galaxy S. It is a MAJOR usability issue in the operating system and one that is a complete dealbreaker for me.

Since 2.2 any application left running in the background is automatically closed by the system after a few minutes of inactivity, regardless of memory availability/needs or power consumption. This approach is far from acceptable for things such as EBuddy or any other msn-style instant messaging client which the user may want to leave open in order to stay logged in, so as to remain constantly available and reachable by other parties using the same service. This is just one example of a type of application I might want to leabe open and running in the background, but there are plenty of others.

The fact that the entire Android platform has essentially removed multi-tasking as a feature of the OS as of version 2.2 is astounding and appalling to me, and it's very surprising not to find more people just as offended by this on a more regular basis. What's worse, no matter how rooted or custom-ROM'd your device might be, there seems to be absolutely no way to override or disable this behavior as it is hard-coded into the OS kernel at a fundamental level. We basically have a first generation iPhone on our hands now, thanks to this latest innovation.

Closing apps when memory and system resources are low is one thing, but closing them just because the user hasn't attended to them in the last five minutes or so? Ridicullous. If you wouldn't want your desktop computer shutting down all your open/background applications every time you go for a coffee break or take a 10-minute phone call, what makes the Android developers think users want this done on their smartphones???
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ggclanlord:
Exactly.

There's an app on the market, Spare Parts, in it ders a option on hw android handles suc apps.

There r two options. Normal and aggressive. Keep it normal and try and c if it helps.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ggclanlord:
Exactly.

I hv migrated frm Symbian, and m a hard multi-tasker, and disappointd with Android jus cos of tis...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arch1k:
Is this the reason why I have to constantly log back into Evernote, and Tweetdeck every time i wanna have a look at them?

The whole concept of syncing periodically doesn't work anymore because they are constantly logging out on me.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paleozord:
Unfortunately neither Spare Parts nor any such custom tweaking app seems have any effect on this berhaviour under Froyo or Gingerbread. And yes, the system auto-close is the reason that re-logging into connectivity apps every time you open them is necessary. Since they have been shut down and are no longer running, you are essentially re-launcing them anew each and every time. Hardly ideal.

Previous "old school" smartphone platforms like Symbian and Windows Mobile 5/6 had multi-tasking incorporated into their basic functionality. It's really a shame that shiny new operating systems like Android/iPhone make it such a struggle. Up until and including Eclair (2.1) leaving apps open in the background was completely possible, but as of the present moment WebOS is the only "new age" smartphone OS that still allows it, and unfortunately it hasn't moved along in other development areas very quickly at all.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ggclanlord:
I wonder y others @xda & @google dnt feel tis....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
Erm....why do you think people flash custom roms?!

GTi9000 insanitycm010/insaneglitch
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paleozord:
Custom ROMs do not change or affect this system auto-close functionality in any way. At least I've never seen any that did so successfully. It seems to be coded too deeply into the OS to be changed, from what I can tell. That is, I'm sure theoretically it *could* be changed, but most custom roms I've seen tackle far more surface-level interface issues and not the way the kernel manages processes in the background.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gusoldier:
I didn't realise this happened after 2.1... I already was thinking why all apps were getting closed so fast after I updated my i9000 to froyo and then to 2.3. I just bought i9100 mainly because of the 1gb ram and still, with 400mb free ram, apps getting closed after couple of hours. (Not minutes, or even seconds like i9000, thankgod).

Autokiller lets you manually change some value of a running app, so it won't get killed... unfortunately this isn't automated so it's no use.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paleozord:
The time before auto-closure can sometimes vary from device to device.. I've tested on two Froyo devices other than the Galaxy S, each from different manufacturers as well, and apps rarely make it past ten minutes before being shut down on any of them. I've never seen anything make it a couple of hours so that's a new one.

I've actually gone back to my Motorola Defy running 2.1 for now, specifically to be able to multi-task again. Sadly there is a 2.2 update available over-the-air for it, but I keep declining because I just don't want to lose the ability to multi-task. Unless some future version like Ice Cream Sandwich restores control to the user, Eclair may very well be the last edition of Android I ever use.

Or should I say AndroIPhone, since that is what it has become.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ggclanlord:
Eclair actually allows u to multi-task normally?

No issues lik froyo?

Working lik "old-school" OSes's multi tasking?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paleozord:
Correct, applications are left open and running in the background indefinitely until the user chooses to close them. Using a good multitasking app like TaskSwitcher or Smart Taskbar you can switch back and forth between open apps as much and as often as you like, or go away for hours without anything ever closing on you. I'm doing it presently on my Defy with no issues at all, just like older operating systems allow(ed).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ggclanlord:
Tats really Awesome!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paleozord:
It's certainly a saving grace for Android that Eclair devices still provide multi-tasking functionality for those who insist upon it, though at the same time it sucks to see all these super powerful, souped up Froyo and Gingerbread devices being released monthly and having to snub them because of the deficiency in the newer OS.

Please, please fix this in Ice Cream Sandwich or Chocolate Souffle or Lemon Tart or whatever desserty moniker the 2.4 flavour of Android takes on. Or at the very least give the user the option to select an operational mode (auto-close or manual manage) just like many devices offer for battery management, with performance mode versus smart-saver mode etc..

It's hardly a smart phone without multi-tasking!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ggclanlord:
I guess so it'd b more effective if tis is wrttn to Google...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ggclanlord:
Cn any1 tel me whthr tis issue is der @GB o nt?

M on Froyo cos GB nt yet released for my device (only a Dev update yet)