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[Samsung Infuse 4G] clown_luv:
NA I work at a authorized retailor tethering is forty five a month non smartphone or smartphone includes four gigs. Google net neutrality and you will understand why this in place. When we aquire t mobile we will have more towers and bandwidth and att is at 60 percent smartphones. This tiered data is required if you want consistent 4g speeds because if everyone could tether unlimited we would all have ****ty data speeds. That is what I know if I'm wrong please correct but that should answer your tethering questions. Pm me if you have any other questions :)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] clown_luv:
Oh and I saw some other post about 4g data speeds. At the moment lte is active in five markets including Chicago and St Louis. These are test markets as for the 3g it switched to hspa + that will be the fall back network from 4g. Hspa + is not 4g just a buffed up 3g network and when are you running your speed test like what time of day? 2 weeks ago around 1 30 am I hit 7 megs a sec in a 3g ALarea.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] The Jack of Clubs:
calling things 3g and 4g has become stupid. the overlap of these technologies is hard to group up into categories. hspa+ can hit speeds of 42mbps, should it still be considered 3g and in the same group if verizons 3g network can only do 1.5mbps? im hitting 15mbps on my phone, the same thing i would get on a verizon 4g phone. hspa, lte, and wimax where all present during the 3g days and have upgrades to each to be called 4g. hspa+ seems to be the best compromise right now and its the most criticized.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Simba501:
The Infuse has really good hardware. Its definitely the fastest data device on AT&T. When I test the Infuse against other devices, it's faster every time. Every single time (despite other devices being heavily tweaked for speed performance). And I agree, I just call it whatever the network type is (i.e., hsdpa, umts, hspa+, etc).

Sent from the most interesting device in the world.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] nash2000:
Thanks for the thanks. Lol

I love it how att feels the need to screw with peoples accounts. But I'm kind of good with the super over in my local att store, she's already hooked me up with all of my infuse accessories for free, now I'm trying to get my 12 month upgrade back, it went back to 18 months after I upgraded to my infuse.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Pilotgod:
Nash, AT&T's 12 month upgrade is based on being the primary line and your plan being $99.99 or more per month for your voice, text, and data before tax. If you meet that, then you need to have them investigate the change. Otherwise, the manager has to do an exception upgrade. Most will do it 60 days or less before your upgrade date, some further out. It all comes down to their attitude. The longer you've been a customer with good payments, the more they're willing to go above and beyond.

/Former AT&T call center rep.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Entropy512:
I believe AT&T nixed all of the "rapid upgrade" bonuses a few months ago to put everyone on the same schedule regardless of spending level.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] clown_luv:
NA actually recently changed our upgrade policy the ex call center Rep is correct about 12 month upgraded. New policy is same month upgrade eligiblity what this means if your upgrade is August 23 it will be avainle August first :)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] invizo:
Talked to my ATT Rep and was told that the "tethering police" don't have a way to detect tethering and can only raise flags on accounts based on unusually large amounts of data. In 99% of the cases they will email you telling u to stop, and if tethering persists they can bill u like an extra $15 (fixed $ amount) for that month as a premium data charge.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] eatjello:
why would you ask this question and make them suspicious?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] invizo:
Becuz I can manually remove any extra charges or flags on my account if I needed to. I'm an authorized sales Rep for ATT. Plus my att Rep has more important things to worry about rather than trying to catch tetherers lol. This isn't a huge thing that the company is spending tons of resources to resolve or anything.

Edit: + ATT Rep = friend
[Samsung Infuse 4G] clown_luv:
+10
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jonnyboy_jbmatrix:
They did not catch me or maybe they didn't care until my contract expired. Then they sent letter, text messages and emails until I contactef them.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] nickn850:
I cant wait for them to yank your unlimited data plan away and then hear you whine about how they wrongfully took it away from you.

You are the reason why they are going to eventually force you to switch data plans when you upgrade\swap phones.

You dont think they can do it?

All they will have to do is say that you need a new "4G compatible" data plan in order to use the internet.. (see iphone, iphone 2g for more info.) That $15 unlimited data plan that came with those old iphones turned into $30 data plans just for this very reason, and now is the reason why its gone to tiered data.

You may not have been caught yet, but AT&T is working with all the major android phone manufacturers now with development and updates, so you better believe the more they switch away from the iphone and focus more on android, the more of a chance your tethering days will be over.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jesi.james:
Cool story, bro?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] bambino326:
The only issue I have with the lockd tethering on smartphones is that every time I see a commercial for any phone its about

1) how fast the phone is

2) how good there network is

3) how capable the phone is at sharing the network with other devices *the camping scene with everyone playing games on there phone in one commercial sticks out in my head like a sore thumb, wish I could remember what carrier that was*

Now im newish to smartphones, first real one I had was the Rhodium, got it last summer, and one day my internet goes out *work was being done on the lines outside, I was literally unplugged for an hour, well no biggie, ill just plugin my smartphone and....what the **** is a tethering plan?

Now im not for people using obscene amounts of data for free, it bogs down the network for everyone. But really, you need extra money for me to use my unlimited data thru my PC to chat with friends on steam while I play plants vs zombies? Its unlimited, stop limiting it.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] MisterEdF:
Your AT&T rep is wrong. I was tagged for tethering on my iPhone and I have never gone above 500

MEGA

bytes for any one month (average use under 200megs). I tested tethering for about 10 minutes ONCE on my laptop and got bombarded with texts. Check the iPhone forums, just about everyone who even thought about tethering got tagged whether they tethered 1 megabyte or 100 gigabytes. AT&T "reps" don't waste their time, it's all done automatically. The BIG question is are they only monitoring those with iPhones or are they moving over to all smartphones.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] diablo009:
It also depends on what u download. Downloading emails is different compared to people who download movies, play online games, stream videos, etc.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] cowballz69:
This phone must really suck balls if this is a hot topic on here, glad i never bought this phone, tethering police a major topic here??? Lmao back to my transformer forums , good luck
[Samsung Infuse 4G] MisterEdF:
I downloaded nothing. Just ran speedtest.net a few times. A few weeks later got "the text."
[Samsung Infuse 4G] diablo009:
Let me put it this way -- Speed test uses about 10-20 MB per run based on the speeds u r getting.

Plus a lot of it depends on how u r using too, maybe differentiating between business customers and who are not, based on ur monthly bills, and a lot other factors.

I tethered in judicially a few times only for checking emails when I had no other option available. Plus my monthly usage goes between 400-1600 a month based on what I do.

All in all, its best to be safe than sorry.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] The Jack of Clubs:
this is the most useless post ive seen today. and ive seen some some serious dribbling tards. go away, nobody likes you, youre adopted and no one will ever love you.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] diablo009:
+1,000,000,000
[Samsung Infuse 4G] tyshemi:
Wow troll just cause you can't afford one LOL wow u are a huge douche bye now
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xenoism:
Hello, I'm writing because earlier today I was trying to update my samsung vibrate that was running eclair to gingerbread. Needless to say I went wrong somewhere and messed up my phone.

I get past the Galaxy S screen fine and get to the lock screen that shows the date, time, and other info. However, when I unclock the device I get several error messages such as: "The process com.android.phone has stopped"... "The process android.process media has stopped" and several other "process stopped" errors, so much so that I cannot go any further.

I tried to enter download mode to reset to factory default with odin but I cannot enter download mode. I tried to enter recovery but that doesn't work either...and since I cannot progress past the idle screen to enter debug mode, I cannot use SDK to force recovery mode.

I can however connect the device and it is in kias mode and recognized by my computer...

Any ideas on what can be done? Thank you in advance for taking the time to read and respond, I really appreciate it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nomadrider123:
Odin back to stock and redo it remember where you went wrong the first time
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xenoism:
Thank you for replying ^^

However, I cannot use odin because I cannot get into download mode for odin to

recognize the device
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alex9090:
What have you tried to get into download mode so far? Try this if you haven't already..

Take out your sim card and sd card. Put the battery back. Hold volume up and down buttons, plug in the usb cable while holding those buttons. That should get you into download mode.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xenoism:
I've tried pretty much everything I could think of ^^;;

Volume up + Volume down and plugging it in normally...

taking the SD and battery out and trying as well like you mentioned.

It seems that somehow it must have been disabled Oo

However, with a few hours of searching around and many many

failed attempts, I think that I will just have to submit and buy a

usb jig anf hope for the best ^^;;
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alex9090:
Try this lill utility, this was posted on this forum somewhere. I have attached the file. Download, unrar, plugin your phone to pc and run download.bat.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] movieaddict:
did u install gingerbread bootloaders?? if u did its a different button combination then ur normal ones for froyo! look up button combination download mode for gingerbread
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brettanbutter:
Volume up on the GB bootloader gets ya into download mode
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xenoism:
That did exactly the trick, I could have sworn that I'd tried it a million times...but I tried again this morning after reading your suggestion and BAM like a miracle a busy android popped onto my screen.

Now time to flash back to stock and try try again lol

At any rate, thank you all so much for your time and advice!

It really helped a lot :]
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jwok:
I just tried to copy some text from a Polaris doc to a text entry field in a web page using the transformer's browser . The paste failed. Is their a fix for this? A universal clipboard has its uses.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] brando56894:
Pasting between apps works fine for me, try rebooting/clearing your cache/etc...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] BulletProofPoet:
But have you tried pasting between, say, Polaris and the browser? I did and it didn't work. Polaris seems to have implemented its own clipboard, not the shared clipboard that other apps use. Pasting between other apps seems fine (e.g. stock browser to Firefox, etc)

If there's a fix for this, I'd be really interested in knowing about it too!

Thanks

Rich
[Eee Pad Transformer General] rpavich:
it's a known issue with Polaris Docs that cutting/pasting doesn't work.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] fjoesne:
no news on this issue? will this be fixed some day?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ltrain996:
Im coming from a samsung fascinate and need some info before i start installing roms on my incredible.

- Are all roms installed via CWM Recovery?

- Ive seen roms that require "hboot". No idea what that is.

- if i brick my phone, is there a quick way to revert back to stock? on the fascinate you could use odin flash whole system images (.tar files) through a computer, which was pretty fail safe.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k_nivesout:
Yes, you'll do your flashing through CWM recovery. There is an alternative, amon ra, which you can try if you like.

Hboot is the HTC bootloader. Its accessed by booting up the phone by holding power and volume down. Your hboot version will be shown there. Some roms require the .92 hboot.

Instead of using Odin, HTC phones use an RUU to get back to stock. This can be done from a computer or flashed in hboot.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tribbey:
but if you brick the dinc and cant get into Hboot then the RUU is useless only if you can get into Hboot your good to go... and i would defiantly update the Hboot to .92 if it isnt already so no problems in the future all ROMs flash using .92 you defiantly need .92 for the 2.1/3.0 roms
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ltrain996:
alright thanks this helps a lot, ill try some roms out when my phone arrives.

:)
[Folio 100 General] Red_Phoenix:
Had a strange issue the other day, with a new stock folio, and figured I'd throw up some google-fodder and a solution, just in case anyone else is seeing the problem.

Symptoms:

* Market would come back with 'no connection'.

* Google maps was OK

* Google finance was refusing to connect

* Browser seemed to work fine.

This had me rebooting, clearing cache, removing batteries, firing up packet sniffers, and considering ditching stock for something a little nicer, until I noticed that my system date had reverted back to 2009 for some reason. A quick click of 'use network time', and everything started working once more.

I wasn't aware that there was a relationship between system time, and android market (or other apps), but hopefully this might save someone else tearing their hair out as a result of network weirdness.

Red.
[Vibrant General] helikido:
My mom dropped my vibrant from like 5ft from the ground, and apperantly I made a mistake of giving it to her withought by handy 2 doller rubber case, wich I always drop my phone with and does a pretty damn good job of not damaging it. So the damage that happened was that the blue chrome side of the phone got dented, what I'm trying to do is try to rwmove those dents. Is there a way, like the way wich u remove scratches on the screen maybe?
[Vibrant General] VeryCoolAlan:
No sir.

I suggest you just put the rubber case and you wont notice the dent in the chrome and the screen....well you'll have to ignore that. I have a crack right in the middle.

You can buy the chrome piece....I think.
[Vibrant General] helikido:
Nahhh, my screen is perfect.. and I'm 100% sure there is a way to remove atleast some of those dents... maybe I should just sand the whole thing??
[Vibrant General] XPLANE9:
Don't bother with the chrome. It isn't real chrome and is just a dark gray, dull plastic piece painted with chrome colored paint. You can sand the whole thing down but the bezel would just become a very dull gray color.
[Vibrant General] helikido:
Damn!!! God y is sammy so cheap??!?!?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] Exodusoffg:
Where are Widgets stored at on the phone?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] Binary100100:
In the apps that are installed.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enrygie:
The fascinate will not charge at all using either usb cable connect to the computer or wall charger. When it is dead and a usb cord is plugged in, all it does is power on the phone without the battery charging. It also is not recognized by any computer
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bswright:
I had some issues with mine not charging. What happened to me was that the middle part of the port was slightly bent. I found that slight pressure applied in an upward angle got it to charge and be seen to a degree from a pc standpoint. I have the belt clip combo case and i'd just prop the cable on top of the belt clip part and rest the phone at an angle and that worked.

My advice is to get back to stock, if you aren't already, then take it to a vzw store along with your cable (they will want to test it). Take all your apps off too, as they will remove them to see if that is the issue. Be sure to tell them that it used to work, you've tried the different ota's and they didn't work either, as they will want to try those too. Let them know you tried a factory reset first, and then did the ota's. They may want to offer you a lesser replacement. Insist it is a manufacturer defect, which it is, and that you just want a refurb/replacement. They should then offer you an overnight replacement device (signature required). Be sure to send the old one back as soon as you are sure the new one is ok, if not immediately call support for further instructions, otherwise they will charge you full price for the replacement. This should not cost you anything either.

It took me a month to get them to go through the whole process above, each time they did a portion of the above. I could not be happier with my refurb though, especially when it cost me nothing out of pocket. :)

Hope this gets you going down the right path.
[Defy General] BonGDroid:
hello,

sorry for my english.

i have a problem with my mb525 cm7 rc1 that is in my language forums go to error :(

power on the phone and when evrithyng ok push "airplane mode" widget on the home screen. 4-5 seconds and wlan off, gsm off. Ok. Push airplane mode widget button on. 4-5 seconds and wlan on and stop.

the problem is my sim card have pin lock on, and the phone no asking pin code ==> i dont' start call in this moment.

This is a bug or can i help me somebody?

THX
[Acer Iconia A500] dalepl:
For those of you that would like the ability to transfer files between the internal memory, microSD card, and/or usb data drive from your PC, there is a way. Download and install QtADB.

NOTE: I have updated the instructions. This should work without having to download the Android SDK.

1. First you need to download and install the flavor of Java you require (x86 or x64). This is required for ADB and AAPT.

2. Next download QtADB. Copy the "QtADB_0.8.0_windows_with_libs" folder to the "C:\Program Files\" folder.

3. Finally, download ADB and AAPT binaries for windows. Copy the files to the "C:\Program Files\QtADB_0.8.0_windows_with_libs" folder.

Here is the link for Java: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk-6u26-download-400750.html

Here is the link to QtADB: http://qtadb.wordpress.com/download/

Here is the link for the ADB and AAPT binarie files: http://www.mediafire.com/?yegi0lp9ik5xuk0

Once you get it all loaded, connect your A500 to your PC via the micro USB port. Launch QtADB. The first time you run QtADB, it will ask you for the path to ADB and AAPT. This should be "C:\Program Files\QtADB_0.8.0_windows_with_libs" folder. You should be able to access all your storage internal and external to your A500. I am no expert on this application, but will try to help if I can.

Attached are screenshots of QtADB abd attached to my A500. The Apps and Messages tabs do not work, but so far everything else seems to. Enjoy.
[Acer Iconia A500] dalepl:
So, no one wants to be able to directly transfer files from thier PC to thier external microSC card? I see a lot of views, but no comments. Has anyone else tried this? Did it work for you? Anyway, happy day.
[Acer Iconia A500] metpolds:
@dalepl - to answer your question I have posted this SIMPLE method previously. I have emphasied the word SIMPLE because it's not as clever and structured as your method but is probably more suited to us non-programming noobs.

For anyone who wants to see the contents of their sd card on their PC and be able to copy/transfer files from one to the other, why not give this a try, it is very simple and works for my A500.

Before you start you need your A500 to be rooted and you need "USB Mount All version 1.3" from the Market cost $1.99

(1) Have your PC switched on, don't connect your A500 yet but switch the A500 on.

(2) Run USB Mount All and you will see your sd card as a "Device" named "ext_sdcard".

(3) Press the tab "Mount" next to your ext_sdcard. You will see two messages "Mount has been granted Superuser permission" and "Device successfully mounted".

(4) Press the "Menu" tab in the top Right hand corner of the screen, this opens a small box entitled "Settings". Press on "Settings" and you get 3 options, make certain all 3 options are ticked, ticking them if they are not. (The important thing is to have "Mount on Bootup" ticked"). Press the Back Arrow twice to get back to Home Page or where ever you started from.

(5) Re-boot the A500 and after it is back running connect it to your PC using mini usb connector.

(6) Now check your PC and open Windows Explorer, you will find under your A500 Device most of the folder/directories that are in /mnt/sdcard (which isn't all that relevent to this) BUT importantly you will find a folder/directory entitled "ext_sdcard" which for those of you who noticed is the exact name that "USB Mount All" called your sd card.

(7) Now use Windows Explorer to copy and paste whatever you want into the "ext_sdcard" folder.

(8) Please note that when you start to copy files you will get up a warning box stating "Do you want to copy XXXXX to your device?". You are given 2 choices (1) No skip this file or (2) Yes.

(9) Put a tick in the box at the bottom Left and click on "Yes".

(10) When finished safely disconnect your A500 from your PC and re-boot your A500.

(11) After re-boot go back into "USB Mount All", chose top Right menu and settings box and remove the tick from the 3rd option "Mount on Bootup". Each time you are going to copy, move or delete files first of all put the tick back in the 3rd box and when you're done take it out.

Your Done. If you use any File Explorer to look at /mnt/external_sd you will see all the files residing on your sd card including those you've just copied.
[Acer Iconia A500] Johnny0906:
I think the reason is people wish there were a simpler way than to have to download 13 programs and do this do that...

But still, thanks.
[Acer Iconia A500] dalepl:
You may be right. Looking closer I am going to change the directions. You do not have to install the SDK to get this to work. You can download ADB and AAPT files from the QtADB site.
[Acer Iconia A500] tomlogan1:
I believe someone else in another thread mentioned Droid Explorer. Works great for me.
[Acer Iconia A500] dalepl:
I took a look at this one and although it does look good and does most of the same thing QtADB does, I still perfer QtADB. For one, I can delete, move, and copy files from the A500 external storage to the PC and vice versa from right within QtADB. I did not spend much time with Droid Explorer and it may be able to do the same thing, but I did not find it. All in all, I guess it will be up to each user to pick the one they like. Both seem to be good options.
[Acer Iconia A500] dweebken:
File transfer directly between PC and external_sd (WiFi)

I use WiFi File Explorer, from the Market. I can easily transfer files directly between my PC and my SD card over the same WiFi net. See http://www.appbrain.com/app/wifi-file-explorer/com.dooblou.WiFiFileExplorer for details. Don't even need the USB cable! My mobile phone can act as a WiFi hotspot (HTC Desire Froyo from Telstra) so I'm never anywhere that this can't work for me.

HTH.