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[Epic 4G General] steady1213:
Hey epic community,

So today, I dropped my phone abt a foot and it landed flat on concrete. To keep it short, it resulted in a spider crack that spans from top left corner diagonally down to bottom right.

I do not have any insurance on this phone.

I asked around to see how much it would cost to fix this and a store worker told me $65 dollars to just replace it for another phone(the worker didn't guarantee it would be a new one.. said may be a refurbished unit).

The worker also said he would give me 30 days to replace it if it is defective in any way.

Does this sound legit to you guys?

Just sounds too good to be true. $65 dollars for a $500+ phone.:confused:
[Epic 4G General] nikon120:
Where does this "worker" work? lol

And it's no longer a $500 phone, you can get them cheaper now.

You should check with Sprint, I saw an offer online that they were allowing customers to add TEP to their account and device for a short time. I don't recall the timeline on that offer though.
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Its $100 for a replcement, refurbished or not. With full TEP

Posted by Mr. Z's Epic 4G.
[Epic 4G General] prodigyplace:
I recall an insert in my Sprint bill saying open enrollment was for the month of August. I think this link has more information. http://newsroom.sprint.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1995

Apparent;y you can enroll here. http://www.tepenroll.com/

They say your phone must be functioning & in your possession. No broken or lost phones, I guess.
[Epic 4G General] nikon120:
That may be true, but this offer allows him to add TEP to his account if he so desired.
[Epic 4G General] steady1213:
Yea I understand the TEP coverage.

But then I'd have to pay $107 vs $65.

I don't have TEP, best buy, or any other insurance.

Just wanted to get other people's opinions(esp. those that work for Sprint or are more familar with their policies than the average person) on whether it feels fishy.
[Epic 4G General] stkiswr:
We don't have insurance and was told on a defect it would be $35 for any repair lol. But that's a defective phone and not a crack. Just buy a digitizer & screen combo and do it yourself
[Epic 4G General] patrickoneal:
I dunno if they still do it, but when I broke my epic screen, Sprint had a $35 flat repair rate for everything other than water damage or mainboard damage. The key is to search for a sprint store on sprint's site, and make sure you find one that is a *repair center*. The other stores will just get a phone shipped to you. When I went in, they had a shell of an epic with everything except the mainboard, battery, and battery door. They just swapped my mainboard, sd card, battery, and battery door over to it and $35 later I was on my way with a new screen, keyboard, and housing.

If I were you, I'd call around to the various repair centers in your area(doesn't have to be a corporate store), and verify the $35 policy and see if they have a screen in stock so you can get in and out.

ETA: This was all without insurance.
[Epic 4G General] steady1213:
Okay, thanks all.

I think I'll go through with it.

What could possibly go wrong? .............
[Epic 4G General] Darkshneider:
Other than you losing money... good luck.
[Epic 4G General] || Acer ||:
When my phone broke, I took it to the Sprint Store and got a new one for $35 within 3 days.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Gobstop:
I searched all over the forums but couldn't find this posted anywhere, and I wanted to see if this was a known issue. I'm using an T-MOUS HD2, with Dutty's WM 6.5, and AmeriCanAndroid SD. For the past 2 ACA builds, I've had a period, when first installing that standby drain is about 5ma, but at some point soon afterwards it jumps to 60ma on Standby. On a hunch I disabled the security pin lockscreen, and it dropped back down to 5ma on standby. Enabling the pin again made it jump back up to 60ma on standby. Does anyone know if there is a fix for this? I would like the longer battery life, but still be able to offer a small bit of security for the device.

Thanks.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Gobstop:
update: culprit found

Upon further investigation it seems that the culprit is the "Disable Lockscreen on Security" option in Cyanogenmod settings->Lockscreen settings. If I have both the swiping(rotary) lockscreen AND the security PIN, standby drainage stays at 5ma. bizarre...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] astax:
Thanks, that worked for me too!

Switched two days ago from Hyperdroid to Typhoon which is based on newer CM7 and noticed reduced battery lifetime. Indeed Current Widget was showing about 60mA current.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] nash2000:
Ive downloaded odin to my pc. I now have a folder that shows odin and a "newstock.tar.md5" file. The instructions say to unzip the zip file, im guessing thats the newstock file..my question is how do i do that.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] nash2000:
All set, i figured it out.
[Vibrant General] Droidicus:
Was on CM7 thinking that the wifi was terrible and I needed a good signal so I thought I'd go back to the 2.2 roms. So far all Ive been able to do is update the phone to 2.2 stock and I HATE IT!

Quick! what is the fastest method to gain root and get a ROM on there!?

Thanks in advance!
[Vibrant General] duboi97:
Odin to jfd and root. Then install cwm or if you have the old update.zip reinstall that a couple of times. Oh yeah don't forget to put a rom on as wwell.
[Vibrant General] Droidicus:
wait wait wait. I feel like such a noob. I odin'd to jfd (stock 2.1 right) rooted and installed clockwork recovery. Tried to flash trigger and it didn't work, which made me think, "crap, do I need to be on 2.2?' dammit! I am confused... Are you saying that I should have been able to flash trigger 3.2 from stock, rooted, 2.1? It didn't work for some reason...oh jeez...I bet it was a bad dl...
[Vibrant General] duboi97:
Yeah. Basically. You might need to wait a little for voodoo to kick in, but I've flashed trigger 3.2 multiple times on 2.1 stock.rooted.
[Vibrant General] nevrlow:
i just flashed bionixs 1.3.1 sooo nice
[Vibrant General] duboi97:
Yeah it is nice, but you could also try any other 2.2 rom. Every dev beat the **** out of 2.2 so its basically perfect for us rom wise
[Vibrant General] Droidicus:
Yea! It worked! Ya know, seriously, it must be the hardware because this phone WITHOUT custom roms SUCKS big time... I don't know how anyone could handle being stock. It is so slow and clunky. Samsung sucks at software. I'm going back to htc on my next.. K. Enough ranting. Thanks guys!
[Vibrant General] duboi97:
Yeah I know your going back to HTC....I think it was you who made a thread in general how great the sensation was -_- but on some phone stock 2.2 runs great
[Vibrant General] nevrlow:
true story
[Vibrant General] Droidicus:
Amen to that! These devs make this phone what it should be. On that note, I misspoke before. My next will definitely be the nexus prime. The beauty there is solid samsung hardware and pure google software. I don't even care what carrier gets it. I'll switch for that sucker!
[Vibrant General] Jasonhunterx:
But Samsung is superior in hardware an your gonna root phone so what's the point :-/ an with the great team of CM around we ain't gotta worry about updates an also vibrant 4G we might see one more update to give us GPS on next CM
[Vibrant General] gamikzone:
my phone doesnt run bad on stock actually lol but it runs great on cm7, my next phone is probably going to be the triumph
[Vibrant General] duboi97:
My phone actually runs RFS pretty good for some reason 0.o I could hardly see a difference between Ext4 and RFS until I ran benchmarks...
[Vibrant General] nevrlow:
must be high. jking
[Vibrant General] duboi97:
No dude I'm being for real. Unless on gingerbread my phone runs RFS pretty good on 2.1 and 2.2...
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] XxLordxX:
To install custom roms just follow my step-by-step to install:

1st - download and run it:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=913136 - to root and install xrec on your phone.

2nd - download your rom

3rd - make a backup using xrec

4th - choose install custom zip and select zip from sd card

5th - wait

6th - reboot

7th - configure

8th - Thats ready to ROCK with custom roms!!!

I hope you understand it all, and if you have questions just PM me or simply ask here ;)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] -CMX:
With this .exe I finally managed to get SuperOneClick to run through properly but now I don't know how to get to xrecovery.

To boot in xrecovery I thought you had to press and hold the back button mutiple times when the white sony ericsson logo appears. I do this and my phone just starts up normally. Advice please?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] RonAsor:
Sometimes xrec screws up, I would usually copy them files manually to the /system/bin folder using terminal using these steps;

unpack the zip to your sdcard,

type the following ;

You may need busybox from the market to be abled to perform these tasks, if your'e abled to without, its your luck ;)

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

allows you to copy to the system folder.

cp /sdcard/xrecovery.tar /system/bin

cp /sdcard/chargemon /system/bin

cp /sdcard/busybox /system/bin

copies the files to its execution path.

afterwards set the premissions to the files so it may run under boot;

chmod 677 /system/bin/xrecovery.tar

chmod 677 /system/bin/chargemon

chmod 677 /system/bin/busybox

I came up to no booting too, manually fixed it this way helped (you may also wanna set premissions to 777, although its mainly NOT recommenced)

Reboot and try to load it up again

p.s; since im running CWM now, you might wanna check for case sensetive letters in the filenames!

Good luck.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] -CMX:
Ok I have installed Froyobread ROM and got it working. All was fine until I was installing Launcher Pro Plus from the market and it froze for 10 minutes. I pulled out the battery, put it back in and turned the phone back on. Now all that happens is CWM opens up, I can't get it to boot the ROM.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] smallz2k:
thnx 4 that but can u tell me how to apply a hotfix? do i use cwm update..clueless i kno..but we all gota start somewere..
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] XxLordxX:
To apply a hotfix install normally from CWM...
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Tommylee567:
Bro, you forgot to add the line - wipe data/cache to the step. it is a must after flashing a custom rom.

Thanks!

EDIT: better you tell people to follow CWM from now on, that is much better than xrec. i like cwm very much
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Cbram12:
#inb4 noob
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] SmG67:
seriously, that post was almost a year ago, was that really necessary?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] WanLuc:
certo, mas...

que dizer daqueles que adquiriram seu aparelho recentemente e estão com stock rom, root, bootloader intacta? É muitos perguntam na inocência não para perturbar os desenvolvedores.

:)
[Thrive General] fox3x:
Do you still love your thrive ? I still really like my tablet . Enjoying skype on it . I haven't had any issues with it so far . Waiting for the roocase slim black due to be realed the 17th . 6.6Grams weight . Figured id post this question for those who want to share some thoughts about your new toshiba thrive . I kinda wish woulda got the 8gb ultrahigh the 16gb will be better for resale .
[Thrive General] moe3754:
I like mine even more now that it is rooted and all that bloatware has been frozen by titanium backup, all I can see is great things happening for this tablet now that root has been done!!!:D
[Thrive General] kyle.t.cummins:
how hard is it to root, what are the advantages/disadvantages?
[Thrive General] sspaladin28:
Just got mine in the mail yesterday, reformatted my 500gb portable drive threw a few hundred ripped movies on and fell in love with the full usb. Unfortunately the screen has frozen on me in excess of 30 times since I got it and I'm ready to destroy this pos. I installed the sod fix, but this is a seperate issue I believe. I hate this thing
[Thrive General] onimenogarou:
I just got my Thrive, had it for a few days now, and I LOVE it!!! My friend and I just took some video at Disney and I edited it on the way home. I love the full size ports and support for up to 128GB SDXC.
[Thrive General] yodadude5454:
Yeah that happened to me. Just send it back. My second Thrive has been nothing but bliss especially since the sleep wake problem has been resolved.
[Thrive General] DiamondJay20:
I really wanted it at the start, but frankly, its slower than my phone. My Atrix runs Aliens WAY faster, and the ergonomics are terrible for the thrive. I love Android phones, but the app store on the Thrive isn't anywhere close to that on the phones. This tab was a big disappointment. Thank God I saved my receipt. We need Ice Cream Sandwich already.
[Thrive General] dinoman22:
Considering buying a Thrive.

Wow, lots of good info here.

I'm torn between this and The Acer Iconia.

I think I need to wait and do more research.:)

Root is always nice to have and SD is cheaper than micro sd.

If they say the sleep lock is fixed then that another thing going for it.

I do have Toshiba Regza HDTV and the build quality and picture is excellent.

Its been out a month and i see no Custom Roms, that makes me a sad Panda, but i guess maybe you won't need a custom rom, more like need a custom kernal to overclock and undervolt.

I'm so in love with my evo, and spoiled by their development and updates and roms and kernals and kinda jealous of my in laws, stupid 1st genration Ipad, thing doesnt even have a camera, y'know. My kids light up though when they play angry birds on it though.

Does anybody miss having a flash for the camera ?

Has anybody taken pictures indoor in low light situations? Was it grainy, unusable?

I feel I am missing other important questions but will edit as necessary.
[Thrive General] dalepl:
I have owned the Acer Iconia and the Toshiba Thrive. I liked the Iconia, but returned it because of the GPS not working correctly. No Iconias were available, but the Thrive was, so off I went with the new toy. You would not go wrong with the Thrive. For all the reasons you said. Toshiba is working the sleep issue and if you look, other manufacturers have also had this issue since thier 3.1 update. As for the camera, I personnaly do not miss the flash, but that is also because I do not use the camera very often. I have a camera for pictures and it is much easier to use than any tablet. In low light, it has problems, but mostly due to the auto focus. If you set the focus to infinity, it does OK. There is one debloated ROM out for the Thrive. We do have it rooted and working quite well.
[Thrive General] thriving:
Going to love boxing it back up for a return here shortly and looking at another manufacturer instead. The volume issues suck and it's not native to just this tablet. Poking around it seems Toshiba has similar issues on their Satellite laptops as well.

Good riddance to this thing and anything else from the company in the future.
[Thrive General] rushless:
Had the A500 and did not like the weak wifi and the device kept waking up when should be in sleep mode. Also the slick surface reminded me of the slippery iPad 1.

Thrive has much better wifi, display, surface grip and works great with 64gb and 128gb sdxc cards. A500 does not have a full sd slot so can not support sdxc.

A500 is a good tablet none the less, but the Thrive IMO is a much better device. It also had a sleep issue that was fixed with the newest update.
[Thrive General] philipereed:
I've had my thrive for about 6 weeks and use it heavily. I love it! I got it as a laptop replacement and it's worked out perfectly. Yes, there are some additional things on my wish list, like NTFS support, and a simple VPN solution, but it does more than I had originally hoped for...and it's given me no problems.
[Thrive General] blorenzo:
Word Brotha!

I am an IT Professional, or atleast thats what I call myself normally... Truth is I am a 23 year old techie who has a knack for tech and really just does enough work to get by! :P

I bought this Thrive about 2 weeks ago with every intention of hating it... I also had buyers remorse after reading some negative review. Thinking to myself "why did I buy this piece of ****".

After receiving it in the mail I could not put the damn thing down, when it's not at my side I feel like a wolf who lost his wolf pack. Seriously this thing can do way more than I expected. I constantly travel for my job and HATE lugging around my laptop this thing has replaced it entirely. Not only have I wowed people with presentations (thanks to the full HDMI) but its just plain cool. I was out to lunch with a client 2 days ago (mmm Pho) and showing them the progress I made on the project I am doing for them and the mofo wanted to check his yahoo answers on there. He also kept calling it an iPad but that's because he is pretty stupid when it comes to tech.

Not to mention I do a lot of riding on trains so I can always catch up on my TV shows, I just need a Netflix app that works! Mine isn't root it as I don't see a point other than Netflix it already does more than what I need it to do.
[Thrive General] RO3:
If you can't see the point in rooting it then you are not that much of a "techie" as you think...
[Thrive General] blorenzo:
Maybe your right.

But is rooting it going to make it easier to code HTML, PHP, Ajax or Javascript? Most likely no and its prolly never something I'll do on a tablet... What are the benefits of rooting or hacking? Generally to gain access to content or software not originally offered by the manufacturer. (Or pirated software)

Which is why it was worth hacking my PSP back in the day as that little guy became so much more awesome. I guess my point is that the Thrive already takes care of me as is and from my research I haven't seen any super amazing benefits from rooting my Thrive. (Unlike rooting the Nook Color or G-Tablet both of which have exponential advantages) The only reason I would consider rooting is perhaps in an attempt to gain early access to Icecream sandwich or to gain the ability to recognize and connect to Ad-Hoc networks. Like the one my TP2 transmits so I can piggyback on my data plan whenever I want.

In short the Thrive is already more than capable without rooting it, now when Toshiba drops support to the unit that's when its time to root.
[Thrive General] siacono:
I just ditched my Acer Iconia A500 for the Thrive, and I love it. Seems so much more durable better wifi and GPS and the full size HDMI is a plus, although there does seem to be a bad lag between typing and the words actually appearing on the screen.
[Thrive General] DarkPhoenix:
I just rooted my Thrive. I did it to get 3.2 early and to remove the bloatware that came preinstalled.
[Thrive General] wrek:
That is absolutely NOT why you want to root your device. We don't root to steal software, we root to freeze all the extra crap that comes on it that we don't want, to edit the system files and streamline our experience. We root to give us access to everything on our tablet. It IS ours afterall. -- I have 20 years experience in IT as an actual PROFESSIONAL.

You can just tether your tablet to your phone using your phone's software usually.
[Thrive General] grumpy.medic:
Netflix pushed a BIG update about 3 weeks ago I think... did this add support to the Toshiba Thrive? I would like to know... if not, I still have a couple "altered" versions I used on my HTC Inspire before it was supported... maybe I can give those a go...

...and oh, I just ordered my Thrive online, in case anyone cares (I know I do) :)
[Thrive General] pcdebb:
I love my thrive. I started with an iPad then a galaxy tab. This is a sturdy piece of hardware. The USB port has been a huge plus for me. Its definitely more reliable. After updating and tweaking there has been no issues.

I think if you have any amount of tech or geek blood in your body rooting the device is the second thing you do after first taking it out of the box :-)

**sent from my Thrive using Tapatalk**
[Thrive General] blorenzo:
Your post made me lol, is this a "lets see who's **** is bigger" contest with your "actual PROFESSIONAL"

Anyway I'm not here to compare size, but lets be realilistic?

I can acknowledge that gaining super user access to remove bloatware is a legit reason to root, and my point is there isn't enough bloatware on the thrive for me to consider rooting. I do also see the benifits of being able to modify system files for example adding adhoc support or enabling Netflix.

But by "we" are you speaking on behalf of everyone in the world who is using a rooted android device? Because if so and you dont think that at least half of them are utilizing illegitimate software in some form or another you are on some really good ****. As someone who was a teenager in the past 10 years I can assure you that the majority of people who are rooted are most likely between the ages 16-19 and are doing so soley to acquire apk's to share with their friends then post them to the internet for your average user who is not rooted to find. Why do you think you can find nearly any android application by doing a Google search for it than following it up with apk? I understand your desire to make rooting sound more legit than not but at the end of the day it is not. Otherwise it wouldnt violate your TOS.

On top of that I have found a work around for the adhoc support. I have an HTC TP2 which using wifi router only broadcasts in adhoc, however thanks to the amazing work of the developers here at XDA am able boot my phone to android 2.2 using xdandroid, there I can use the native wifi hotspot tethering to broadcast an infrastructure signal and connect up to it. I was a bit surprised by how well it works and that its not an adhoc signal.
[Thrive General] naplesbill:
I do not have a Thrive, but I ran across this post and had to comment. You are mostly wrong about your comments regarding root.

I know a couple dozen people with Android devices. More than half of them are rooted and they are all over the legal drinking age. Many are WAY over. None of them have rooted to steal apps. The main reasons that people root are to backup data (nothing is worse than starting over in Angry Birds because you reset or replaced your device), modifying files to allow for things that aren't normally allowed(theming, tethering, etc.), remove apps from the system folders, and for running custom roms.

There are always people who try to take advantage in life. That doesn't mean the rest of us have to live without something because of their abuses.

The solution you described, using your TP2, is essentially the same solution as rooting a true Android device. :)
[Thrive General] blorenzo:
It appears anytime I state I don't want to root my THRiVE people misconstrue what I am actually saying.

How can my comments be "mostly wrong" as I am simply stating an observed opinion? As are you, you have observed aprox 20 people who use rooted android devices for legitimate reasons while I in my youth have observed aprox 20 teenagers use hacked devices for the acquisition and usage of illegal software. Our experiences or opinions in no way represent the entire world population in which way root access it utilized.

I also believe you have misinterpreted my true opinion on root, I am not against it in fact I am all for it I also feel that we purchased these devices and are eligible to do as we please with them. I also feel that super user access should have been standard because that just make sense, the same way I got annoyed when MS disabled true admin in Windows Vista and 7. Anyway I need to wrap up this post there is a chicken biscut at chikfila waiting for me to come and eat it.