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[T-Mobile LG G2x] seangprice:
I would love to see the deal fall through considering I just paid two ETFs of 200 dollars to leave ATT last night and switch to T-mobile. I've been with ATT for almost ten years, dealing with tech support and unresolved issues was the last straw.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] bobdelt:
Either way, Tmobile people will win.

If the deal fails - there is a roaming agreement with ATT, and Tmobile gets cash + spectrum (enough spectrum to deploy LTE - which is odd since ATT says they don't have enough as it is).

If the deal does go through, then you have a combined network, and your plan will be grandfathered in.

Either way, service is going to be improved.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] dkb218:
My service is excellent now. If AT&T gets it grubby little paws on the network in NYC, its going to go down hill. AT&T does not grandfather plans. Once my contract is up, my plan goes up. I HATE AT&T will a passion. To the point that any media outlet that runs this AT&T "the possibilities are impossible to predict..." advertisement, I boycott that media source.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] supersilko:
What's the cheapest plan anyone has in here?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mr2324jgf:
My fear is this...

I had a bad experience with Cingular back in the day and it left a pretty sour taste in my mouth. I'm not normally one of those people that says "never again!" to things based on one support rep, bad billing issue, etc... I'll normally work through a brunt of issues before declaring war on a company.

I won't go into great detail but it is war now. It's made me consider cancelling my plan with Tmobile and withdrawing service to someone/something else. If ever there is a time to investigate gizmo and sip service with wifi, it's now... I'm not completely there yet, but I have begun to investigate.

The first sign of doomsday has already struck, my unlimited loyalty plan has slowly increased in price, and I haven't changed single thing about my plan and now I suddenly have a cap on my "unlimited" data... the tmobile I signed up with back in 2004 is not the same tmobile it is now... and I've only just recently noticed it. Yes, it is possibly because since the news of the merger I have feared the worst... but so far it's grim. It seemed like they have also slowed down production on new phones for tmobile, I'm assuming this is because of network merging etc that they are focusing their eyes on other tasks first, but I'm disheartened to say the least.

I hope that I am proven wrong because I already hate Sprint and I'm not 100% sold on verizon either. Tmobile, please, reconsider your "unlimited data" plans and give me what I pay for... otherwise you should have given me the option to change and void my contract instead of changing it and saying "deal with it", which has never been your MO until the news of a merger.

/rant
[T-Mobile LG G2x] vapor311:
Sadly this is ATT's tactic. They are trying to scare away as many customers from tmob as they can. The weaker tmobile is the easier the buyout will pass.

The commercials they are running make me sick.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] kwiggington:
Lets all go into an at&t store and kick them all in the ass :)

Sent from my G2X
[T-Mobile LG G2x] vapor311:
If xda had a like button I would hit it for you.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mr2324jgf:
New info:

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/08/fcc-wants-info-on-att-tmobile-merger.html
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mbx22:
Its funny I remember being a kid and there was no verizon or cell phones even. The Govt broke up the monopoly and created the baby bells to promote competition and make phone service affordable and give us a choice.

Now cell phones are today what landlines were back then and they are doing just the opposite. AT&T wants Tmobile to get rid of competition. The less choices one has the more customers for AT&T.

In todays economy everyone has to look at costs. My company just switched to Tmobile because of the new business plans that they started to offer. If the merger goes through and the plans don't grandfather in, I cant see my company staying with AT&T but for two years they get to save some money.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] vapor311:
Stephenson is a giant turd.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] vapor311:
ENJOY!!!

http://tinyurl.com/3dnfy4o
[HTC Sensation] schidddy:
i just asked myself something and maybe someone could held me out. is there anychance we can hope for a better browser performance for our sensation? as i see the browser of de galaxy2 is hardware accelerated but not of our sensation. And the browser performance on my friends stock samsung galaxy s2 is still far smoother then on our heavily tuned sensation (InsertCoin 2.2.1 ROM for me)

im a bit disappointed of this browser performance :(
[HTC Sensation] Bernardos70:
Really? Honest question: what lags for you? I haven't come accross a single webpage that even stutters. I want to try it on my phone.
[HTC Sensation] schidddy:
honest answer:

just try the xda main forum (overview of all phones)

this ist just not acceptable. It laggs like f**king hell. Not all pages lag though. Though i recognize mini stutter and short lags on most of the pages. I really dont like this.

And i must say im always using the desktop view, not the mobile view.

and i cannot understand why a "dualcore" 1.2ghz!!! CPU is not able do render a webpage at 30fps. This lag feels like about 10fps browsing the xda Main Forum.

Even my old ancient pentium2 266mhz notebook is able to handle this page fluid.

Whats going wrong?
[HTC Sensation] Bernardos70:
I know exactly what you're talking about, and if the Galaxy S2 can do that smoothly, that's awesome. But as far as usability goes, and me coming from a Galaxy S with Cyanogen.... it's way faster.

But I draw the line at usability. I used to go to www.ablogtoread.com often on the Galaxy S just to be completely slaughtered by a near completely lock up. I can browse that fine now.

The hardware acceleration does cause a tangible decrease in battery life as well. That's one side effect. Maybe someone can shed some light on this, maybe there is a hardware accelerated browser down the pipeline? Maybe Cyanogen will come through with that?
[HTC Sensation] Bernardos70:
It's probably not what you want to read, but have you given Opera a try? It is way smoother than the stock browser, at least a far as rendering/scrolling. If you want to give that a try, get the bigger version of it from the market. I can't speak about the smaller one, but I think it is not as fast or as full featured as its big brother.
[HTC Sensation] idavid_:
+ 1

Everything is very smooth, the UI, scrolling, pinch zoom,... Opera is supposed to be hardware accelerated, probably that's why :)

Swyped from my HTC Sensation
[HTC Sensation] Bernardos70:
I think Opera on my Galaxy S 1 was smoother than the stock browser on the Sensation. Now, all browsers are not perfect (in fact, it renders the main page for xda forums very incorrectly and unpleasantly, at least as far as color goes, lol) so see if Opera is right for you.
[HTC Sensation] schidddy:
gonna try opera in the next few minutes and try to share experience.

Still i gotta say im using the Dolphin HD browser and not the original browser, this is even worse :D

tried opera now and i must say that it is really a lot smoother then dolphin! Not as smooth as the sgs2 but near already. Only downside is the slow loading performance when loading other pages. Dont know why but dolphin loads pages almost twice as fast.

Damn couldnt be the two just be combined and we could enjoy a really superb browser :)

Hope theres still some performance optimations lleft for our device
[HTC Sensation] brilldoctor:
Opera mini is great for gprs
[HTC Sensation] abachhan75:
i mostly never had an issue with browser performance on sensation. may be once in a while i will see some delay in loading the page, but that may be due to spotty t-mobile network.
[HTC Sensation] Bernardos70:
Opera Mini must be the one I used with my Sony Ericsson s710 then, lol. Ah, the good old days of gprs.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sheetalc:
I added a corporate account (just for syncing the calendar, not corp email) last week and ever since "Email" shows up as using about 15% of the battery. It was never on the list before as I never used any Email accounts. I wud just use the native Gmail app.

When adding the corporate email account, I put the settings as how often to check "Never" and Number of days to sync to "One" (just to be safe). And yet the Email service is running and using up battery. This is on my Nexus S 4G running Cyanogen Mod 7 (Gingerbread).

Any advice on how to stop this service permanently or what settings to change so it does not check for email (with my corp account am pretty sure).
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dansl:
So, i've temp-rooted my MT4GS, and I want to get rid of all the bloatware. Here's what I have frozen now, using Titanium Backup Pro. and it seems to be stable...

•AppPack

•Backup (tmobile)

•Bejewled

•Bookmark Widget

•Calculator Widget

•calendar Widget

•Clock Widget

•Aubergine Theme

•Brooklyn Theme

•Jazz Theme

•Retro Theme

•Spring Theme

•dT sync

•Facebook for HTC Sense

•Flickr

•Friend Stream

•Friend Stream Widget

•Homescreen Tips

•HTC Weather Wallpaper

•HTC Widget Download Manager

•Magic Smoke Wallpaper

•Mail Widget

•Media Room

•Message Widget

•Music Visualization Wallpaper

•Notes

•Peep

•Setup (tmobile?)

•setup Widget

•Slacker

•SWM-C (I was reading online that this might be used for tracking/analytics/DRM?? No idea what it does, but no issues after killing it!)

•Sync Widget

•T-mobile device Carbon

•T-mobile name ID

•T-mobile TV

•Telenav GPS

•Tips for Home

•Trends Widget

•Twitter Widget

•Video Chat

•Weather Widget

•Zinio Reader

•ZSProvider

There are a bunch of other things that I'd like to freeze, but i don't want to cause any issues... anyone know what else i can safely freeze? Should I unfreeze any apps listed above for stability reasons? Let me know what you find!

Here's another thread talking about "killable" apps.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1222672

Thanks!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] HeyTao:
HTC Weather(widget) app is much better than other Weather app.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] electro_chef:
What is T-Mobile Carbon exactly?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] pao_revolt:
it is auto contact backup for t-mobile.

also i removed sywpe and its work fine with regular android keyboard. much better ;)
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] token2k6:
yeah i noticed all this crap under running services yesterday when I looked the first time. I had two 'calendar' programs running to (10mb and 6mb each, WTF?)

I thought this phone was lightening fast, I can only imagine it would be 110% better w/o all this stuff running..
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dansl:
I've noticed a HUGE increase in battery life after freezing a bunch of these. I want to keep going and see what else i can freeze without any issues, but I'm afraid to go too far and wind up messing up my phone...
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] rorytmeadows:
Wifi calling need to go. Why a carrier is docking minutes for off-network calls is beyond me.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] unclespoon:
I guess because docking minutes for off-network calls is better than having no service at all, right?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] rorytmeadows:
On one hand, you're absolutely right. For those living so far from civilization, sometimes a wifi network is your only option. For me, I like to avoid unpopulated areas for a variety of reasons and am just trying to make phone calls without using their cell network (in a fashion that doesn't require any additional cost for me or additional download on the other end).
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] raduque:
I've been mainly killing apps that show up in the running services list.

Can anybody tell me what com.redbend.swmc is?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dansl:
If you call T-mobile, you might be able to get Free Wi-Fi Calling, and it won't dock your minuets :)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/17/t-mobile-free-wifi-calling_n_862998.html
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
I made a thread in "themes and apps" about cleaning up bloat - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=16739548#post16739548

Thanks for the contributions in this thread, they helped me get started on this.

No idea what the SWMC is, I thought it was something to do with swype, but now i'm thinking it has something to do with registering gestures on the screen. Not altogether too sure, but working on it.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] chrispaw:
What are you guys using to freeze these apps? Titanium backup? tnx
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cberbes:
One app I would delete is the preinstalled notepad app, because it always seems to be running in the background. I deleted it and installed Color Note.

And yes, I use Titanium Backup, free version, and simply uninstall apps I don't want.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dansl:
Cool, ill disable that too. Yeah, I use Titanium backup to freeze my apps
[HD7 General] stevejoy5:
Can anyone help, I got a problem my phone will not connect to zune it keeps saying disconnect and try again. I have removed zune from pc and reinstalled, didn't help. I have tried a different lead and USB port still didn't help, I'm now thinking it's a fault with the phone. Don't want to do a reset and loose all my SMS and other settings seen as I can't sync! Anyone with an idea would be greatly appreciated.
[HD7 General] Dr.8820:
...maybe it's a short in the sync cable...? I'd try to use another one before I reset.
[HTC EVO 3D] kaokollaa:
I know im gonna sound noob but i wanna kno if theres any way to set a backgrown image without croping it??? If theres any app for that, the photos i wanna make a backgrownd are the same resolution as the evo so i dont know why the sistem ask for crop the image :(
[HTC EVO 3D] SpartanEvo:
Is your image 540H x 960L?
[HTC EVO 3D] kaokollaa:
Yes
[HTC EVO 3D] bo5ibbs:
I'm curious about this as well
[HTC EVO 3D] dased14:
324x576 is the size of the default ones in the system/customize/resource folder (i ripped one out to find out myself)

now the voices are in 3d
[HTC EVO 3D] JDAWS:
there is a app in the market called wallpaper wizardrii that works!
[General Questions and Answers] CuBz90:
Sorry of this has been asked before (as I can imagine it has), but I have done many searches and cannot find a simple answer.

I have Googled it too but couldn't understand what a patent is.

Would someone be kind enough to give me an answer as simple as possible lol

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] mrrick:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent
[General Questions and Answers] CuBz90:
Well ye, I seen that.

But like the OP says, I wanted something simple, with an example of a patent
[General Questions and Answers] Steven 1:
Its like a sole license to use a product. If someone else wanted to use your product or invention, the person would have to pay you for information and the right to use your product Anyway they want to. It's just another way to say you have exclusive rights to something so other people don't steal your idea.

This is my way of interpreting it. Pretty sure I'm right though
[General Questions and Answers] Hans Schmucker:
Correct. A patent grants a limited monopoly on an idea or concept.

An example: Let's say you manage to build a house out of pine-cones.

Property-rights would protect you from someone taking that house.

Copyright would protect you from someone building the same (or similar) house.

Patent law keeps anybody from building any kind of house of pine-cones.

Property and copyright you don't have to apply for... the process of creation alone grants you these rights, but a patent you have to apply for at the patent office.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jhong91:
Hey guys,

I'm living in the DC/MD/VA area and the area was hit with a severe thunderstorm last night.

After the thunderstorm I woke up to a 0.08 Mb down and 0 Mb up (speed test failed due to a network issue).

I am specifically in the Gaithersburg&Rockville area of MD.. is anyone else experiencing this issue?

I used to get about 3~4MBs down and 1~1.4Mbs up....

Please tell me I'm not the only one....

Thanks!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] 00mred00:
Not knocking you for asking here ....but did you call at&t
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jhong91:
haha yeah

they told me the tower has been "degraded"

they're working on it i guess...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] namegoeshere:
Hi all, after some help, running stock 2. 3 with some minor customization.

just wondering if its possible to change the lockscreen carrier name to something else, I have tried the 'carrier name' apk but it doesn't seem to work, the carrier has changed in the system/etc/forgotwhatitscalled.xml but even after a reboot my lockscreen still shows O2 UK...

So can I change this on a stock Rom (rooted) or am I stuck with o2???

Sent from my SEX10i using the power of a jobbing affliction warlock
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dutch-Android:
I would like to know this as well :) Does anybody has an answer?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] namegoeshere:
Noone know anything about this then???

Sent from my SEX10i using the power of a jobbing affliction warlock
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _Stomp_:
I have the HTC Thunderbolt running Synergy 8-12-11 build themed with the Dark Horse 8-12 based theme. I've seen many people post Quadrant scores well over 2000. Im curious, how can I achieve this with my device running the Rom im running. I was thinking that O'cing would be part of this, but im not familiar with how that works. If anyone knows how I can achieve better performance and a higher Quadrant score, I would love the help. If O'cing and messing wit the governor is part of this process, can you direct me to a thread that gives a thorough explanation of the process. Im sorta new to that aspect of the rooted phones. I've seen some of the apps and settings but don't know how to use them.

Thanks in advance.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g00s3y:
First, understand quadrant scores have nothing to do with the phones performance, a high score does not mean that the phone has better performance.

Second, remember the first rule.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _Stomp_:
Lol thanks. Could you elaborate though? I wondering how to increase both.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CanesDrew:
Third rule, remember the second rule.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _Stomp_:
LLS y'all got jokes.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CanesDrew:
Quadrant scores do not matter. They mean nothing.

That is all.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScoobarSTI:
*****es ride my e-peen all day

Seriously though Quad scores don't matter. But All I do is run cm7 and OC to 1.9
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _Stomp_:
Thanks for you guys help. I think I got it. Ive been doing a lil research on OCing and governors. Seems like my answers may be there. I was just looking for some direction and maybe a lil help.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonatik78:
Benchmarks are dandy tools for comparing different software... nothing more. nothing less. What is being measured is of questionable relevance though. You're running a ROM with Ziggy's "world-famous" kernel... That leads me to believe Ziggy's website might shed a LOT of light on the subject of tweaking his kernels. I'm gonna suggest you Google ol' Ziggy471 and wrap your brain around what that old man has to offer.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g00s3y:
My quadrant score with how I have my phone set up right now is only 1339. Now people would say that is horribly low for the phone, and terrible. For a "benchmark score" it is pretty bad, but that doesn't tell how well a phone actually performs in the "real world"
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _Stomp_:
Thanks for the reference.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thekidkid32:
So I just realized what I had always suspected: my wifi is terribly slow. I've had my inc for 7 months and I rarely turn wifi on at home because its simply not worth the 10 seconds or so it takes to get started. I just did a speed test on my inc and got .85 mbps. My computer gets 27 with Comcasts speed boost but usually around the 15 mbps that I should be getting. I have a laptop in the other room that gets 17, and my ipod touch gets about 10. But no matter what I do, I get less thatn 1 mbps on my inc. The upload speed is about 2.5, where its about 3.5 on the Ipod, but that's not the issue. Does anyone know of anything I can do with my router settings or inc settings or do I maybe just have a bad wifi chip?

I'm currently running OMFGB btw.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayochs:
yeah, my wifi is pretty damn slow on mine too. sometimes it'll say its getting 5-6mbps with speedtest, while my computer gets 15-20.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zalatorisaurus:
Try checking what channel your wifi is using. If you are in a highly populated area (ex. an apartment complex), your router may be on the same channel as several others which can dramatically slow down your performance. You might have a wireless b/g/n router and your laptop can see the n frequency (5G) while our Inc's can only see the b/g frequency (2G), and in that case, that is why your computer is getting better performance. Most newer computers (and some older) can see this 5G frequency, while most mobile devices can only see the 2G, which is why you're phone's speed is slowing down. Try a different channel that is empty or less crowded. It is quite common for many routers to operate on the same channel and newer routers have a function that automatically will switch to the least populated channel. Hope this helps, it has helped me in the past.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thekidkid32:
Thanks for the response I think this is my problem! I don't live in an apartment complex so I don't think that is the issue but I do think it is my router as I was just at my girlfriend's and was able to get the 5 mbps hers puts out. Any idea how I may go about changing the b/g/n to just b/g? I don't see an option in the router settings. I have a linksys. I now know I'm sort of in the wrong place but any help would be appreciated!

Edit: Never mind got it! Thanks!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zalatorisaurus:
Glad to hear you solved your problem. You're very welcome.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] pygo:
Neither are officially supported yet, does anyone have a hack apk?

Would be nice to see the old man when i am overseas.

Thanks!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] rohit3192:
you may try this(works on gingerbread):

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16643098&postcount=1193

plz note i have not personally tested this
[Samsung Infuse 4G] flo7002:
I tried the Skype version linked above and on wifi, it worked great. Haven't tried it yet on 3G.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jpapa1086:
Have not tried Google

Skype work great for chat/calls, but video chat uses only the back camera for now till GB is out

If your going from mobile to mobile use Tango, it works flawlessly, and works with both cameras

Also qik video didn't fail me either
[Samsung Infuse 4G] supadupadoug:
Skype works great on both cameras. Video chat with the link above
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Corvette Dave:
G talk works but the front facing camera sends your video feed horizontal when our should be verticle.

Qik seems to work the best for me although the speaker volume is low. I use my ear buds and the volume is usable.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jpapa1086:
But you need gingerbread, Rogers was released with GB, not so lucky with at$t
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Entropy512:
Once GTG recovers from burnout, his Rogers-based GB ROM (which runs on AT&T phones) should become available again.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] rohit3192:
he(gtg) has already :)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] -Kevlar-:
ive used the skype hack and my sent video freezes.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] blaker13:
Also tango works, I have it and used it

Sent from the phone I'm starting to really like!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] CreepyE:
Hey everyone, I downloaded the cracked version of Beautiful Widgets (i know, i know, bad idea) well now i wanna buy it and support the Dev. Problem is, the market says the app is purchased even though it really isn't, how do I clear this? tried wiping cache, history, dalvik cache, fresh rom install and nothing works. Any help?