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[Thunderbolt General] wrich73:
Sprint coverage maps are a joke, yes they have coverage but the towers are so overloaded you are lucky to break 200/kbps (yes, 200k) downstream on rev A. EVDO during the day.

WiMax is great if you are on top of your roof or in an open field, but as soon as you get into any structure with more integrity than a tree house your signal tanks (Charlotte, SC has the best Wimax from my observation) because it operates at such a high frequency.

After being a customer for 11 years I jumped ship from Sprint over the weekend and picked up two TBs to replace my 2 EVO's. Sprint 3G is horrendous, not just in South Carolina, but in NYC, Charlotte, Atlanta, San Francisco, Detroit---I have traveled to all of these places in the last 6 months, and in each location I test between the hacked Verizon PRL for the EVO and the most recent Sprint PRL both in a Sense ROM and on Cyanogen...without fail, the year old hacked Verizon 3G PRL is faster, and more consistent. I was hoping my contract would just be canceled for having 5+ gigs of roaming data every month (not supposed to exceed 300 megs), but alas I was grandfathered into unlimited roaming data.

Sprint has been "upgrading its network" for years now yet the service still seems completely overburdened. I'm going to spend 40 bucks more a month going to Verizon for two lines, but I don't really care at this point, I would rather pay to play than save and suffer...
[Thunderbolt General] JBAeroEngineer:
that's something that most companies should/would/could pay for. you're clearly an outlier in phone usage.
[Thunderbolt General] alucard_6956@hotmail.com:
Did you have a 4g plan or is the unlimited data plan independent of 3/4g? Are you able to use the 4gon th e TB without having upgrade?
[Thunderbolt General] dajogejr:
I use 6-8GB per month.

I know I could cut that more than in half if I wasn't ROM Flash happy and dl'd them on my PC instead of the phone.

I have 12 down and 1 up at home...I often get faster with my LTE/Bolt.

I can survive...somehow...with downloading ROMs, etc., on my PC...lol.
[Thunderbolt General] Taykiin:
Update via Droid-Life

Hopefully this is the case:

http://www.droid-life.com/2011/06/2...-by-tiered-data-only-new-customers-and-lines/
[Thunderbolt General] RicoX9:
The prices for data are criminal. The prices for tethering are even more so. I'm happy I'm grandfathered in, but I doubt I'll ever go over the 2GB since I'm on WiFi 99% of the time. I didn't even want a data plan because I have so little use for one.
[Thunderbolt General] jgalan14:
I hope this is truth I barely got my TB for the same. Reason :D
[Thunderbolt General] satseaker:
Well I drive a truck and use the phone for everything, on my imago I was lucky to stay under 8gigs, with the bolt I am at 20gigs

Transmitted using my Sagem 835 mobile communication device.
[Thunderbolt General] CanesDrew:
When I bought my T-bolt in mid-May, I specifically asked the salesperson about the tiered plans and he said I was grandfathered in with unlimited 4G even if I went to another LTE device. Along the same lines of being grandfathered in with the unlimited Mobile-to-Mobile promotion they offered awhile back.

Now if they'd just get 4G LTE in Memphis and not just at the airport, we'd be in business! :D
[Thunderbolt General] joshnichols189:
Why doesn't anyone realize that you can keep your current contract but still get subsidized phones..?
[Thunderbolt General] CanesDrew:
You can do that, of course but why risk not having a warranty if something breaks...

Although, I say that, but the same can be said for root.

Also, it's not always cheaper to buy one off of eBay.
[Thunderbolt General] joshnichols189:
I'm not talking about buying off of ebay.. If you don't change anything on your plan you can renew the same contract and keep signing two year deals to buy subsidized phones and still retain unlimited data.
[Thunderbolt General] CanesDrew:
What do you mean by subsidized phones if not referring to eBay or some other 3rd party vendor?
[Thunderbolt General] joshnichols189:
As in subsidized by verizon..
[Thunderbolt General] turbosrrgood:
Yeah that's the plan I'm shooting for also.

But if the time comes where I NEED to sign a contract, I don't see myself agreeing to those terms....
[Thunderbolt General] joshnichols189:
You can sign a new contract with your current terms and get a subsidized phone..
[Thunderbolt General] 1454:
Actually, they should be forced to stay vanilla if they are going to cap your data at such a ridiculously low amount. Screw having to pay for the blockbuster, let's golf, etc. updates that you have no choice on. This was the kicker for me. And I have a grandfathered plan. In about 12 months I'll be moving on from verizon as they are in a race with ATT to see who can suck the most. I won't be helping either in this quest.
[Thunderbolt General] 1454:
If you're going to cap plans, then A) the data should be share-able between lines, and B) tethering shouldn't cost anything. It's your 2gb (wow, such a stupidly low number. 5 I could understand, but 2 is completely pointless) to use as you see fit. That would be like saying you can only call certain numbers with your limited anytime minutes or be charged extra for the "privilege." This is a long list of reasons I will be leaving at the end of my contract.
[Thunderbolt General] 1454:
I'm not quite sure where this is from, but I have 9 people I know(all with evos) and somehow the 3g speeds from it always beat my D2. I maxed at about 1 down with it, and they consistently got 1.5 or so. Also, I haven't seen any of them with WiMAX problems. So I really don't see where this post comes from? Maybe in the bigger cities this might be an issue, but in charlotte it's not.
[Thunderbolt General] superbigblack:
these tiered plans are going to make smartphones somewhat useless (to me anyways)to ppl who aren't already with the company. like amazon mp3 they give you 5 gbs free but verizon is gonna charge you 50 bucks a month to stream your own music??? this is going to mess with multiple player games and any new apps because they will have to work around the fact that connecting to the internet might be a problem for some customers unless they never leave their home. what about netflix? why should they keep spending money on making working apps for android phones that only have unlimited data? who is going to watch netflix via wifi on their phone with a computer, xbox/ps3, tv, or etc infront of them? who's going to buy those tv apps to watch shows when they have to keep checking their network monitor app so they don't go over? i think this is bad for customer because this is going to make ppl go to their wifi more, then if the cable companies are smart they will just charge more for home internet service nd your still getting it up the a** either way.
[Thunderbolt General] joshnichols189:
Nothing will change for any of you, nothing will change for netflix multi player games, because people that are worried about data won't play them. Devs won't change their products because some people have a data cap.
[Thunderbolt General] 1454:
That's not the point. If I wanted to add data to my other two lines after july, I would have to pay for this crap 2gb's for 30 bucks. I'm actually not against caps, at least ones that are reasonable. 2gb for 30 bucks is not reasonable. Then they still charge for tethering? I consider myself a "moderate" user, and I use between 5-7 a month. Before 4g, I used between 3-4 a month. I do tether, but that is ONLY when I have no other way of getting online. I mainly tether two times a year, thanksgiving and christmas, where wifi is hard to come by. I could maybe even understand a 5gb cap, but 2, get real. I'll just take my four lines and go elsewhere. I may never add data to the other lines, but I want that ability in the future, and with data caps like this, it's not an option.
[Thunderbolt General] cordoni:
This statement basically sums it up for me. Will I b@#&% and moan about Verizon's prices, yes. Will I go back over to Sprint, who didn't even have solid coverage in Denver, no I wont. I use my cell as my only personal line and for business as well. When it comes down to it, I need the reliability of Verizon's network.
[Thunderbolt General] ben7337:
No offense, I completely agree with you on 2GB being low. However you are not a moderate user by any means. At least according to recent nielsen data, 95% of users use 1.6GB of data a month or less. Only 3% or fewer users will actually even be affected by this data cap immediately. However it will slow growing data use and keep people from using their phones to their full potential.

Also where will you go? Tmobile and AT&T and Verizon all have caps now, tmobile at least only throttles when you go over though. I guess you can go with sprint, but with terrible nonexpanding 4g on horrible spectrum and slow 3g speeds I'm not sure if it is worth it just to escape the caps. At present verizon is claiming when you upgrade you can keep the unlimited, and they still can't track tethering on android so you're fine there. I'd say stick with them since they are currently not messing with you at least.
[Thunderbolt General] dre4402:
Ive avg 20gb since i had my tbolt this past cycle ended sun i did 87 gb
[Thunderbolt General] wrich73:
Yeah, like I said Charlotte seems to be the only place it works..sorry if that wasn't clear. I get wimax in the middle of IKEA pretty well.

I guess it all depends where you live, I now have my TB rooted running the CM7 alpha and I am getting 15 megs down 4 up in a concrete building in Columbia, SC, my EVO is still activated and I get 115 kbps down and about 50 kbps up in the same location.

Maybe Sprint only cares about cities with professional Sports teams :p
[Thunderbolt General] KidJoe:
What are the chances that VZW will replace the current "NationWide" voice plans with new voice plans, calling them maybe... American National Choice (ANC)... and say that new phones/devices are NOT compatible with these new ANC plans, and the ANC plans are NOT "compatible" with the "old" $29.99 unlimited data feature... thereby forcing customers to select the new voice and tiered data features when they upgrade their phones via contract renewal price in the future?

(kind of like how the LG Voyager could only be activated on the NationWide plans w/per mb data billing, and not Americas Choice or ACII plans w/Minutes-Of-Use data billing... claiming the LG Voyager and other "enhanced browser phones" were somehow not compatible with Americas Choice voice/data plans.)
[Thunderbolt General] TheLoonyRebel:
Pretty much what I was thinking. How long before Verizon tells someone who has an grandfathered unlimited data who wants a new phone a year or two from now is told "but in order to get this new phone you have to sign up for our newer services as it won't work with your current contract" type of excuse? I know Verizon is saying that won't happen and we can keep the unlimited data but really... there's a part of me that hears Admiral Ackbar saying "its a trap" in my head.
[Thunderbolt General] joshnichols189:
Ask people on legacy alltell plans. They haven't run into this issue and still have unlimited data.. people from before verizon was verizon still have unlimited data.
[Thunderbolt General] KidJoe:
If those people haven't purchased new phones, or the former Alltel users weren't migrated into VZW's billing system, I'd assume that would be the case (where users were left on their existing plans).

But VZW has done this in the past to their own customers... I saw it first hand with friends, family and myself.
[Thunderbolt General] TheLoonyRebel:
Right but what is to stop Verizon from coming up with some kind of excuse so you'd lose your unlimited data? Its not that I want to be cynical about this but given how Verizon has been lately with removing the every 2 year option and other things.

Personally I think Verizon will end up changing the tier/pricing plans. Only people who are unaware that 2GB especially on 4G LTE is not much will think $30 for that plan is a steal. Everyone else will know better and probably will go to Sprint if they really value unlimited data so Verizon will end up losing quite a bit of business over this. They might not bring back unlimited for $30 but I can very well see some kind of unlimited plan being offered for a higher price down the road.
[Thunderbolt General] dajogejr:
What good is unlimited data if it's slow or you can't get a signal?

VZW knows they have the coverage and the network....

Then again, look at the other side of that coin (I don't get to contradict myself in the same post very often...)

Everyone complains about the iphone on ATT. They all said when VZW has the iphone, they'll be coming over in mass droves.

Didn't happen. The waiting for iPhone 5 argument doesn't sit with me either....iphailers would stand in line everyother week if Jobs announced iPhone 4.2.1.5.5.2.6 ...etc.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fallenfuzz:
Hi,

I've installed SpeedMod Gingerbread K15H-T11 and found that I'm lost root.

I'm with SH 3.8.

Is in purposed? does this kernel have no root?

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zsori:
The kernel has root, but it does not automatically apply it. You need to enter recovery mode and apply root from there.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
A guide probably is a strong word for something this simple.

I did this because:

- I hate the way the stock gallery functions

- Watchdog constantly shows it using 44-52% of my resources.

My solution:

Replace Gallery3D with QuickPic in the Market

(no wonky permissions and the UI is much better in my opinion).

How to do it:

- So easy.

- Download QuickPic (LINK TO MARKET)

- Install, Open, like it? Continue.

- Go to your file manager (I like Root Explorer)

- go to system/apps

- Long press on Gallery3D

- Rename it

- Change the .apk to .bak

- Have shortcuts to the gallery? If so, replace them with Quickpic. I have a custom icon I prefer so I changed that too.

- Reboot.

What have I noticed?

- A better looking, and easier navigated Gallery.

- No Watchdog alerts for excessive CPU usage

- No loss in functionality (the opposite actually)

- Easily hide or exclude photos or folders in the gallery

I encourage you to try it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJMT:
I've always hated Gallery. This seemed like a good solution, so I decided to try it. It's certainly easy enough. I like that I can hide all those random images that appear from email caches and the like. Thanks!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
Ahh, really good point. I neglected you can very easily exclude or hide folders/images from the Gallery.

Edit, just added it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icarianecho:
Nice! Had never heard of Quickpic, but so far I prefer it to the native 3D Gallery.

Thanks for the heads up Callip.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CB620:
Fast works great.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burntrat:
I like it. Seems faster. Now I followed your steps, but after every reboot, my launcher pro freezes. It either takes a real long time to return to normal or I get a FC.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bfranklin1986:
I find it easier to just freeze gallery in titanium backup. Just an alternate method.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
True. I'll add that as an alternate later, thanks man.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
This should have zilch to do with launcher pro, unless you have a shortcut to the gallery (not quickpic) maybe?

I use adw ex, no issues at all. I'll try and help, just don't see how this could be related.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crazy25000:
I use launcher pro and have replaced the gallery app for a while with no fc...I recommend this app too haha.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burntrat:
I did have a shortcut to the gallery, but I trashed it. It doesn't matter, I just flashed to another rom. Does gallery3d really need to be disabled? I can't have both running?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
You can do whatever you want man, I gave my suggestion. Sounds like I'm having much better results. If you have one, don't really need the other do ya?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1vanFG:
First time I heard of quickpic, installing and so far loving it. thanks :D
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burntrat:
I was thinking there would be interference issues or something if both apps were kept and that's why you wanted to remove gallery3d. Anyway thanks for this app recommendation. It loads a lot faster. I'll be following your beta swype steps real soon.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
Awesome man!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
FYI, QuickPic got an update.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] se7en10:
Android Central had just posted a write-up of QuickPic today.

http://www.androidcentral.com/android-quick-app-quickpic
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
Likely because of all my jibber-jabber on this over Twitter, ha.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SirBalto:
I tried this with launcherPro and works great. It even let me choose my wallpaper from my pics like normal gallery. Also I can disable rescan media, since this lets me choose folders on command! This is A-W-E-S-O-M-E! I recommend this even as a solution if you have any problems with the normal gallery.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
I use it to crop photos a lot.. Also nice because when you set a wallpaper it defaults the way most prefer, never understood why the stock gallery didn't zoom all the way out.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SuperAce609:
Thanks a whole bunch for this guide bro! I come from the Galaxy Ace forums looking for a way to disable the effin gallery. QuickPic FTW! :D

---------- Post added at 05:36 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:35 AM ----------

+1 to you.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cnber:
can I just delete stock gallery in /system/app both .apk and .odex file? or it will make my system crushed?

Btw thanks for this, quickpic is way more fine that stock gallery..
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gaps07:
Great advice!

Absolutly right!! Quickpic is much better than Gallery 3D. Thanks for the post and the info, I'm fairly new with Android and all of this helps :) :D
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
This thread is a blast from the past for me glad you guys liked the suggestion.

I ALWAYS freeze the stock gallery and install this now. Amazing how much CPU the stock gallery ate and lacked functionality.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] belerephont:
When I freeze the gallery app in my S2 I try to set an image as wallpaper from Quickpic but the menu showing up does not anymore include "set as homesreen wall" or "set as lockscreen wall"...

Anyone else having this?

Thanks
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JupeBullet:
What does the last line mean? "Shortcut to the gallery and replacing them with quick pic?"

I'm using Dr. KETAN ROM and can't find gallery in system/apps --> actually the folder is named app without "s" in mine

Will your trick help replace the gallery in stock camera app? Because every time I freeze gallery with Titanium Backup, it just won't let me select alternative gallery app. It just helplessly want stock gallery as default there
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haybill:
This has been recommended on Dr. Ketan's ROM thread--and it sure looks like a good alternative--are there any useful updates since this thread was active in 2012?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mobfest:
Hi. I am actually looking up to own it asap. But I want to know though rooting is helpful in moving apss to sd does it affect the features of the phone. Like.... degrages the quality of music or freezes more often?

Plz tell me about the battery life is it better that samsung galaxy S .
[Xoom Themes and Apps] vamp6x6x6x:
I don't always keep the best track of stuff, but when I woke up I found an email saying that today Peggle was free for download. I went to the page then tried to "buy it" via the amazon appstore app on my coom and got an incompatible error. But, I didn't give up, no, I just "bought it" from the site and when it showed up in the download area on my amazon appstore app I downloaded it and it installed and is working as well as plants vs zombies on my Xoom.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] streetmapp:
I can confirm that the method OP used, does in fact work. Was getting the same incompatible device message, and getting it through the website worked. Was able to "buy" Peggle and then it showed up in the downloads on my Xoom.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] burden010:
Not available in the Market? :(
[Xoom Themes and Apps] vamp6x6x6x:
Not as of now. For now it is sadly only Amazon appstore exclusive.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ddyeakley:
Thanks, work for me to (purchase from the web and install from the amazon app)!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] gqstatus0685:
Where do you purchase from the web? What's the website.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] jtseidner:
I must be spoiled because I'm already craving a THD version. Looks too blurry to me :(
[Xoom Themes and Apps] vamp6x6x6x:
I wouldn't mind a THD version, but to be the graphics are good enough expecially for a game I got for free, but to be honest I am hoping they just update like the maker of angry birds did instead of us having to "buy" the game again...

Actually, to be honest I find this to have better graphics then PvZ which is odd bc Amazon said that PvZ was good with Tabllets and that Peggle wasn't
[Xoom Themes and Apps] gqstatus0685:
PVZ graphics are way better. At least the version I have. The game is fun though. Thanks OP for the trick to make WIFI downloads work. The game is fun and takes me back to my Shenmue days when I would spend a lot of time playing a similar game.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] bjarnia:
I was able to install from the appstore app on xoom just by trying a few times. Works perfectly.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] biffsmash:
Hey guys and gals,

Posted this on Android forums, so thought i'd see what you guys think too. Tried searching but didn't really find anything.

I have been wondering about my signal on my SGS 2 as it's been up and down like a yo yo, and in some instances I get 0 bars and then it goes up on its own. This is whether im set on 2G or 3G or both, and has been getting on my nerves.

Add to the time without signal being quite high, I thought i'd try and work out the issue.

Well it seems that, if i'm on GSM only for example, the phone will switch randomly between GPRS or EDGE, even though I have network traffic turned off.

Whenever it switches between GPRS and EDGE, my reception goes from whatever bars it was on, down to 0, then back up to full. It does this often, and is annoying lol.

On 3G it does exactly the same, but i'm guessing between UTMS and HSPDA.

I tried searching before coming on and found nothing.

Is it possible this is hammering battery life? And affecting whether I have a signal (time without a signal) and can it be addressed?

Anyway hope this helps anyone with the same annoying issues.

Biff.
[Streak 5 General] alien502:
Anyone tried to install Peggle from the amazon app store today? I keep trying and it tells me my device is not compatible and it won’t let me download it. Has anybody got this to work yet? I’m going to try a few more things when I get home today and see if that works. Maybe spoof Amazon into thinking it’s a different phone?
[Streak 5 General] alien502:
Posted too soon. Figured it out.
[Streak 5 General] dexx0008:
posting the solution would be helfpul to others ;)
[Streak 5 General] alien502:
Lol, yea sorry :). I just logged in on the PC to the app store, clicked on the peggle app and clicked get the app, or whatever. Then went back to the phone and looked in "my apps", and it was there ready to download. Worked like a charm! The game runs fine on the phone as well. You will have to be on wifi to download it though, luckily we have wifi here at work.
[Streak 5 General] samstables:
Doesn't work if you're [cough] outside the USA as it can tell location from your browser :(