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[Motorola Photon 4G] bitbang3r:
SPRINT doesn't do soft-throttling, but Clear (who provides their 4G service as an independent provider) does. What's worse is the stupidity of Clear's throttling algorithm. Basically, it compares the data use of everyone who's touched the tower within the past 24 hours, and massively throttles the top 1%. If you live across the street from a major regional mall, and use the tower for 24 hours per day instead of 2 or 3 like people shopping at the mall, guess whose total daily usage is going to end up in the top 1% for that tower? :(
[Motorola Photon 4G] slag02:
Not that I don't believe you but...

Do you have any proof of this? I'm just looking for some light reading on this is all
[Motorola Photon 4G] mybikeisblack:
Not thrilled, but after reading some stuff online, they're doing it so they can focus on keeping plans unlimited
[Motorola Photon 4G] phatmanxxl:
So my next upgrade is on 1/1/12, I was planning on using it on either the prime or the sgs2, or what ever beast is out. Does this mean I wont get my upgrade? I know if I call sprint and ask I get three different answers out of three different reps.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Find a cool manager at a store, and complain about the phone having a buncha issues and that you've had to change it out a few times, blah blah blah, and they generally can push your upgrade up. ;) That's what I did with my Evo. But in my defense, I had to get six stupid ass refurbs, cause they all had issues. So, it was justified.

As for the dude "Waiting" for the iphone 5. Let me ask you this. What is so appealing about it? The fact it took them til the five to get what most android phones for the past year have had 1 gig ram. And they are JUST NOW getting to the 1 Ghz Dual Core? I mean ****, the 4 doesn't even have a 1 ghz processor, atleast that I recall readin' I think it was like 833 mhz or something like that. So basically, you're getting rid of a phone that you can overclock, mod, and make awesome, for some worthless piece of proprietary crap? That's awesome, AND genius to boot. Not tryin' to bag on you, but you are jumping ship for a piece of **** so to speak. Just sayin'.
[Motorola Photon 4G] phatmanxxl:
IPhone 5 is 2010 tech under the hood, not much there to brag about but owning the latest iPhone, and the longer the release gets pushed back, the more outdated it gets.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
More true words have not been spoken. I agree whole heartedly. Thus my rant.
[Motorola Photon 4G] inimitableac:
You guys do know their doing all this so we can keep unlimited data and it isn't just the iPhone its also Microsoft. You have to give to get. I can't believe we've stooped to crying because you can't just cancel your contract or switch phones weekly, Stop It. Y'all are turning into what y'all hate. FANBOYS! Now if they get rid of Unlimited Data or raise contract prices raise hell. Till then be grateful of what we have because considering sprint is the number 3 company were lucky to say the least. So what if we can't switch phones constantly treat your phone like a house or care and just take care of it.

Sent from inside your mom!
[Motorola Photon 4G] falcoxda:
I totally understand the subsidies part, but the other things you mentioned.. not so much. More customers usually means more income to do network upgrades which is a good thing.

Let's face it, Sprint needs all the income they can get to upgrade their network. Wimax sucks compared to LTE and their 3g is slow. And it's slow not because of the iphone, not here yet, but because of Android. Android users use more data than iphone users and are more likely to not pay tethering fees (just root the phone). And if unlimited data goes away, it will probably be more because of Android data usage than because of the iphone.

Some of the changes you can blame on the iphone, but in all likelihood, the iphone was just the tipping point to a situation that was going to change sooner or later anyway. No other carrier has a one year upgrade plan anymore, even tmobile and there is no word of them getting the iphone. And the 30 day return policy, that might be because of the iphone, but it's just as likely it is because of users getting the evo 3d, exchanging it for the photon and then exchanging it again for the sgs2 when that comes out. All those exchanges probably dwarf the extra subsidies paid to get the iphone.
[Motorola Photon 4G] asuh:
Here's some water on your fuel with a good article speculating about what might be happening.

goodandevo.net/2011/09/in-light-of-recent-events-what-exactly-does-sprint-have-up-its-sleeves-for-htc-evo-users.html
[Motorola Photon 4G] alex2792:
Who cares about the specs when iOS runs smoother than Android with less RAM or CPU horsepower. The apps are also generally of higher quality and since I have the ipad I got a bunch of universal apps that I can also use on the iphone. I'm not saying Android is terrible or anything,but given a choice I'd take the iphone,which I have been missing since ditching at&t. I don't inderstand the rabid fanboys on both sides, it's just a phone, not a religion.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bitbang3r:
http://forums.clear.com/clearcom/to...get&utm_source=widget_clearcom&from_gsfn=true

http://ventspace.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/confirmed-clear-wimax-bandwidth-throttling/

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Clearwire-Unclear-About-Customer-Throttling-110626

http://4gforums.com/thread7146.html

http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/r25339345-Is-Sprint-Throttling-its-4G-Service-

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1676352-Is-Clearwire-throttling-connections

I'll admit, I'm not 100% sure whether they still throttle this exact same way TODAY, but I can say with a VERY high degree of confidence that the behavior others in the linked posts reported was consistent with what I was seeing earlier this year. I'll admit that I haven't used 4G much lately. I wrote off Sprint 4G as "mostly useless" a few months ago after seeing clear evidence of throttling at home consistent with the reports above, getting tired of having it be more of a nuisance than anything when trying to do network activity in a moving car, and confirming beyond doubt that their tower-tower hand-off protocol is basically nonexistent -- basically, the phone connects to a single wimax tower, uses it until some other tower exceeds its SNR by ~200% or the signal becomes too weak to use, then does a hard drop of the connection and establishes a brand new connection with new IP address from the next tower.

Last year, I assumed that what Sprint did was something like this: http://tinyurl.com/wimax-evdo

In reality, we have their cruel excuse for 4G that barely works in any useful context. Wimax *can* work well, do soft hand-offs, and seamlessly fail-over to EVDO... but Sprint/Clear's implementation doesn't. The way they kludged it (in South Florida, at least) with duct tape and cut corners, it's basically wi-fi with .7-mile range. Clear/Sprint implemented the bare minimum subset of the standard necessary to make it (sort of) work, and left it at that.
[Motorola Photon 4G] slag02:
Thanks.

I just had not heard about their throttling at all - looks like I had just missed it

I hope EVDO REV B comes down and our photon supports it
[Motorola Photon 4G] e-motion:
I think you need to wake up and smell the coffee. No company out there is upgrading their network unless they really have to, it's all about the bottom line and profit.

Yes Sprint is losing money (and they're about to lose even more post-paid customers because of their latest **** moves, what's the incentive for people to switch from another carrier now ?), but the other two ? They've been breaking their own records in profit and as soon as the iPoop showed up, they KNEW people were to come in droves for their iJesus with the wifiz and the internetz and took that opportunity to make even more profits by getting rid of 30 days return period, increasing the ETF to $350, and phasing out the rewards. Next will be the unlimited data, no matter what you're being told today, you can mark my words on that.

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I have been on 4 platforms, iOS, WebOS, BBOS, and Android. Of these 4, WebOS has by far the best OS, but as we all know HP killed it after 6 weeks of barely trying. BBOS belongs to the 90s. WP7 is not fully baked yet. That leaves us with iOS and Android.

Apps on iOS higher quality ? For how much longer do you think, when all indicators show that Android is taking the biggest slice of the market pie ? It's all about market size for developers. The bigger the market, the more money you could make, simple economics. Just like if you want more software, and especially more freeware or donate ware, or need very specific applications on a computer, you go for the platform that has the biggest installed base : Windows.

iPhone was revolutionary when it came out, today, it's an has-been, not because of its hardware (even though it's so magical, we were all "holding it wrong"), but because of its OS. Why do you think Apple has been suing every Android manufacturer under the sun ? Because they know Android is taking the market and they want to slow its progression. If they had truly nothing to fear, they wouldn't choose the most costly way of doing business, which is litigation.

I have absolutely no brand affinity. Whoever has the best software is who I go with. Now that WebOS is dead, Android is king. I have been multi-tasking since the days of the Amiga OS, so for me to go back to a mostly "fast-switching" OS like iOS is pulling teeth. My brother owns an iPad 2, and I was so appalled at how limited iOS is when you're so used to do true multi-tasking on a regular basis, there is no way I would go to the iJesus. It's a phone for senior citizens, soccer moms, young girls, and in general people who believe the Apple Kool-Aid is what's hot. People in the know technology-wise ? They're already on Android.
[Motorola Photon 4G] five40:
Amen!

A guy at my job got an iPhone 4 and he kissed it and said it was beautiful.

I wanted to laugh but in my head I was thinking, yup he's got the right phone Android isn't for him LOL
[Motorola Photon 4G] falcoxda:
I'm still not understanding your reasoning. So all the other carriers starting making record profits when the Iphone showed up. But Sprint will start losing even more profits when they get the Iphone? At worst I would think they would stop losing as many customers/profits and at best start gaining some.

Unlimited data might and probably will go away, but not because the iphone came to sprint, but because it would be more profitable to do away with it.

Developers will develop not necessary for the biggest market share, but the biggest profits. Even though there are about double the number of Android devices as there are Iphones, the Apple Appstore is still more profitable than Google's Market.

Again, Sprint is making these changes as driven by profits. The iphone is part of this, but not the cause of it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] e-motion:
They didn't start making profit then, they already were and saw an opportunity to squeeze the lemon more.

As for Sprint, once all incentives to switch carriers or remain on an inferior network once your contract is over are gone, tell me, which are you going to choose ? The network with better coverage and speeds with the same exact iPoop and prices or just stay there for ****s and giggles? There is a reason why the ETF was raised to $350 : once every carrier has the iPoop, it's about network quality and nothing else.
[Motorola Photon 4G] halorin:
As unfortunate as this is, their new setup is no better or worse than the competition. If you really want to move away from them to step into the SAME BOAT somewhere else, go ahead. I'll keep my unlimited data and cheap rates.

/shrug
[Motorola Photon 4G] Kevets:
I recently priced out my plans.

With Sprint I'm paying less than half of what I'd pay for an [as-close-to-the-same-as-possible] plan with Verizon. Didn't have to think long about that one.
[Motorola Photon 4G] akamara13:
Beautifully said.
[Motorola Photon 4G] akamara13:
Beautifully said. And I agree.
[Motorola Photon 4G] stesh725:
this is so stupid....ive been with sprint for almost 8 years....but i guess the good thing is i can still update next year again for the last time for the annual upgrade.....
[Motorola Photon 4G] mfriggio:
Monkey see monkey do, for now!

I wont ague that data usage on Sprint is rapidly increasing...that is EVERYWHERE. I will say that I dont think it is more expensive for them. I think data is the easiest way for them (and that other carriers) to justify their increases to the customers.

A few years back text messenging was the Heavy. The carriers were raising the cost of text left and right (remember 20cent text - I am showing my age).There was a study done a few years back that showed how overpriced text messenging was from a cost of data standpoint, and they all amazingly came up with a fixed monthly price.

Just saying!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Kcarpenter:
Why has the stayed at the top of this forum for 2 weeks now. Why does it really matter, you can be pissed all day but it wont change it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] DssTrainer:
It was dangerous anyway.... renewing every year would leave many people with like 8+ year contracts after a while since you have tor renew two years for every year you get a new phone... I'm in sprint's pocket now until July 2014. It would put us as high-risk as we could pay a one time $350 ETF with multiple years left on contract
[Motorola Photon 4G] Jjday7:
There is no good from these changes. I'm out as soon as my contract runs out. Crappy data speeds and they have the nerve to pull something like this. All the people saying it's cheaper and the data is unlimited don't realize that you are being throttled while they supposedly work on there towers. What good is unlimited when your getting 200k for speed. That's useless in my eyes. I have switched to just using wifi all day to avoid the crap speeds. THis has been going on since last december and will continue until they are done. I have even got credits because of the speeds being so bad. I am gonna take a shot in the dark that they will be losing a lot of customers very soon.

What's really a kick in the balls is they are not going to waive the upgrade/activation fee unless the phone is deactived within 3 days. Who else does this type of crap?? So if you cancel within 14 days, not only will you have to pay the usage but your stuck with a $36.00 activation fee. WOW.
[Motorola Photon 4G] androidworkz:
We just dumped Verizon... saved $60/month on our bill, got more minutes and can call all mobile services for free. Sure, Verizon had better 4G coverage and speed but not $60/month worth.

Not only that... Sprint bought our Verizon phones and we got a free Photon because of it... my total (with cases) out of the door was $254 for 2 new phones.

I don't get 4G at my house but consistently get 6mbits/down and up in the 4G coverage area and 1.3-1.5mbps down and 512k up on 3G.

I live about 25 miles north of Charlotte, NC.
[Off-topic] rizdog23:
Okay today I bought a SanDisk Cruzer 4gb USB stick as a back up for school and to install the windows 8 iso. Upon first plugging it in, in ubuntu, i deleted everything in it which i believe may have included startup files because after using unetbootin to make a flashable iso file i was unable to start it up from boot device options. I can open up the drive and edit anything as it is obviously Read-Write but im wondering if there is a problem why I cant flash the iso.
[Off-topic] Bharakrama:
You are going to have to use the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool.

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool
[Off-topic] rizdog23:
Do you know a way for me to do this out of ubuntu 10.04 lts
[HTC EVO 3D] dfskevinohyeah:
UPDATE: Nevermind came across a neat trick to get this done!

http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-evo-3d/118136-removing-lockscreen-shortcuts.html

works flawlessly!
[HTC EVO 3D] dased14:
go to this thread and get the lockring kit (theres 2 one for 2.3.3 and one for 2.3.4)

then you need to do this "Inside Idlescreen_Base.apk, decompile Lockscreen_shortcut.m10, in the editor tab expand the last item and you'll see Lockscreen_Shortcut, highlight it and under Known Properties make Visible = 0."

and thats thanks to triscuit1983
[HTC EVO 3D] dfskevinohyeah:
sorry what I meant was the shortcuts all together sorry about the confusion
[HTC EVO 3D] triscuit1983:
The info dased14 posted is to remove the shortcuts altogether. You will no longer see or have use of them. I can send you a flashable tomorrow for you to try out. What ROM are you using?
[HTC EVO 3D] mrlou623:
Hey Triscuit, I'm on Virus' AirBouirne 2.3.3 rom and have been asking for help in removing the shortcuts from the lockscreen. I'm not real comfortable with all of this stuff yet. Is there any way you could help or send me a flashable zip? Thanks
[HTC EVO 3D] dfskevinohyeah:
Check the link in the op it works perfectly on myns ROM AND APPARENTLY on synergy nightlies

Sent from my PG86100 using Forum Runner
[HTC EVO 3D] mrlou623:
Hey, thats cheating! Its a great solution. Unfortunately, Airbourne has been mostly de-sensified. The personalize option does not exist, so this will not work for me. Thank you very much for trying to help me though.
[HTC EVO 3D] dfskevinohyeah:
Haha seriously genius solution lol! And bummer yeah you should pm triscuit then :)

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[HTC EVO 3D] Cetus Corr:
Any way to get the time, date and carrier removed from the lock screen? I like putting clocks on mine, but don't want the time twice...
[HTC EVO 3D] triscuit1983:
Something like this?

In terms of the carrier I used the QPST method a long time ago to remove the carrier banner. There are probably other methods but I haven't searched for any since mine is gone.

Before I give you any instructions on removing the time, are you familiar with M10Editor.exe?
[HTC EVO 3D] Cetus Corr:
That is exactly what I'm looking for. Not familiar with m10. Is it simple enough to figure out? I think I can manage.

Edit... Ok, just looked it up. I will download it and play around with it later today.
[HTC EVO 3D] triscuit1983:
Post #2

Go to the above link, I made a mini tutorial on using M10Editor.exe, it doesn't relate to what your doing, but the idea is the same.

Here is how you get rid of the time and date:

Load Idlescreen_Base.apk.

In the m10 files tab highlight 3rd to last item (Lockscreen_time.m10) and click Decompile/Show button.

In the editor tab expand the last item until you see lockscreen_time.

Highlight lockscreen_time and look to the right in the editor window.

Under "Known Properties" make Visible = 0.

Go back to the start tab and click save file.

Push through adb or put in a flashable zip and flash.
[HTC EVO 3D] Cetus Corr:
thanks, I've been asking for this for a while now.
[HTC EVO 3D] dased14:
Can I change the color of time and date do you know,(if not I guess its nand and play time)

brought to you by the little voices in my head
[HTC EVO 3D] triscuit1983:
It seems possible, but I don't know what to change. Look at the screenshot, what I highlighted is most certainly not hex color codes. Anyone have any input on this?
[HTC EVO 3D] dased14:
Guess there's only one way to find out , if I get a chance to play with that tonight i'll report back what happens.

brought to you by the little voices in my head
[HTC EVO 3D] dfskevinohyeah:
check in the res/values/colors.xml i thought i saw something in there! :)
[HTC EVO 3D] triscuit1983:
In which apk? There is no "colors.xml" in Idlescreen_Base.apk.
[HTC EVO 3D] dfskevinohyeah:
whoops nevermind I was thinking of a skin. lol my bad
[HTC EVO 3D] DK174:
I'd like to use this to remove the carrier as well as the time, but I am using a ported EVO Lockscreen on my merge with Sense 2.1

http://www.2fastroms.com/viewtopic.php?f=83&p=4729#p4729

Can I use this same technique? I ask because I could not find idlescreen_base in that apk. Let me know if you can be any help.

Thanks.
[HTC EVO 3D] unkellsam:
You guys seem to know quite a bit about how the lockscreen works, here's my question:

I did a titanium backup of my sense desktop settings to get everything back as it was, but that seems to have removed the lockscreen icons, AND any lockscreen animation (i.e. weather, stocks, pic slideshow).

I want my icons and animation back - how would one undo the mod you guys are doing? If you have a flashable zip handy that can restore my lockscreen to default I'd really appreciate an upload. Thanks!
[HTC EVO 3D] triscuit1983:
I have a few questions...

What ROM are you on? Are you unable to change the settings in Personalize? Are you restoring the Sense settings from an earlier version of Sense or from an earlier version of the ROM your on?

I used to get this problem on my Wife's EVO 4G when trying to restore settings, so I decided to simply stop trying. You may be able to flash the unedited lockscreen apks and get it back to normal but I can't say for sure.
[HTC EVO 3D] raman21raman:
hey its nice dear... thanx
[HTC EVO 3D] unkellsam:
- I'm on Nightly Synergy Rom

- No matter what lockscreen I choose in personalize, the corresponding static wallpaper shows up on the lock screen, but neither the animation, content, nor the icons show up - all I get is the unlock ring and the time/date/carrier info on the top.

- I restored my sense settings from the exact same build of the exact same rom (got a replacement phone through Sprint's warranty)

I actually became impatient last night after my post and ended up doing a factory reset, which solved the problem. I restored my sense desktop settings again through Titanium and this time the lockscreen worked just fine afterwards.

I don't think I did anything differently this time besides restoring my settings first and my apps second, while I did it the other way around the first time. But I can't imagine why that would affect the lockscreen. Anyway, problem solved for now - took only 20 min for the whole reset and restore but maybe this can be looked into for anyone else who might run into this problem.
[HTC EVO 3D] steveathome:
Thanks! Works. Am happy! Never liked icons on lockscreen. KingCobra 1.6 :)
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahmadsamhann:
I have 76MB+ free internal storage, and 61MB free in System ROM storage. I've been thinking to move my widgets(Fancy Widgets, Android Pro Widgets) and launcher to System ROM storage. Is it safe to move 'em there? Or it will makes my phone slow(due to low space on system ROM)?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codfreak:
Try it out, I don´t think that it´ll be slower.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ankitxperia:
can any one please tell me how can we make apps as a system apps please i have been searching this problem for a long time with tbackup:confused::confused::confused:
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahmadsamhann:
hold

the desired app, then choose

convert to system app
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codfreak:
But this will only work with the Pro version, otherwise it´ll ask you to buy the Pro version.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahmadsamhann:
Yeah, the options is available in PRO version.

btt: I've tried to move several apps to system partition, guess what. I faced several FC(LP Sense UI), and unresponsive Handcent SMS. looks like it lags the phone. Even lockscreen is lag, gotta wait for few seconds to view the lockscreen(from screen off).
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shitlord68:
Push the app u want to system/app with root explorer
[Verizon Droid Charge] diamantericos:
From the man himself eta this weekend and will be tw4/tw3 based not aosp. I will be waiting for this one.
[Verizon Droid Charge] diamantericos:
And according to him he likes fullly functional roms so there should be no fc or bugs. Plus new fea toolbox.
[Verizon Droid Charge] BlackHoleSlam:
Sweet
[Verizon Droid Charge] diamantericos:
To correct the name sorry Its called Darkcharge TQ
[Verizon Droid Charge] mrtruckincowboy:
very cool always good to have choices
[Verizon Droid Charge] diamantericos:
Indeed it is especially fully funtional bugless ones.