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[Motorola Droid Bionic] rafarataneneces:
Sprint has HTC Evo 3D and Samsung Galaxy SII

T-Mobile has G2X, HTC Sensation, MyTouch 4G

Verizon has... well, the Bionic :D:D:D

I really want to stay with Verizon, they have the best network and the absolute best more reliable network.

So, anybody knows if they will have a decent dual core phone any time soon?

I need

1) descent screen. Super AMOLED cool, but any phone will do. HTC and LG usually have good screens. I love the screen of my G2X for instance

2) 1GB of RAM, or maybe even 728MB, but preferably 1GB

3) At least 1GB of space for apps, I believe that is called Internal Storage

4) 4G. At least >= 4000 kbps/s inside malls

5) Nvidia Tegra >=1Ghz would be nice
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Chopstix9:
If you Google it you will find that VZW is not going to sell the GSII because they don't think it has enough to compete with the IP5 when it drops. They have a newer offering from Samsung called the Prime that they hope to have on the market in time for the holidays. Possibly as early as next month.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] rafarataneneces:
Well my main concern if I switch to Spint is that I will have to pay around $80 per month or something like that

I don't have a problem with having two carriers within the family, but with Verizon I only have to pay a cheap $50 per month price

I like the fact that Sprint has the Samsung Galaxy SII, the HTC Evo 3D

They even have a Motorola Dual Core as well

All 4G, Dual Core, nice screen, good RAM

So 3 devices vs 1

From what I am reading, if I use this phone from Verizon, I will use it for at least 6 months, till January or something

I know how technology works, and how long it takes for new devices to appear

example the GTX 600 series will appear in January, AMD Bulldozer still hasn't arrived, Intel took forever to fix their motherboards, and 6 months after they released the Intel Sandy Bridge, they were still releasing new chipsets

Here is how much it will cost me to switch carriers for the next 6 months

If I stay in T-mobile and stay in no contract

$120 every month.

Total: $720

If I move to Sprint

$90 per month

I need to finish paying $350 to T-Mobile for the phone, Let's say I sell the phone in $200, $150 out of my pocket

$250 for the Samsung Galaxy S II

I still need to pay July and August to T-Mobile, so add another $240

Total: $1180

If I stay in Verizon

$50 per month

I need to finish paying $350 to T-Mobile for the phone, Let's say I sell the phone in $200, $150 out of my pocket

$350 for the Droid Bionic

Let's say I sell the Bionic for $350, let's say the Samsung Prime is $600, so $250 out of my pocket

I still need to pay July and August to T-Mobile, so add another $240

Total: $1290

In theory I want to stay with the cheapest one (T-Mobile), but again, I don't like them

I had no-contract plan with them, but now those plans are no existing anymore.

So I can't drop down to the $99 plan I had before, freaking idiot$..., they told me the ONLY way to drop my price is to make a new 2 year contract.

So if I want to cancel with them I have to pay them a ****load of money since I am still paying the phone

So even if T-Mobile is the cheapest, I wouldn't trust them with my credit card or bank account anytime soon, so I won't stay with them no way

I think I'm going to stay with T-Mobile, and then someday try to switch to Sprint

If I can switch to Sprint this week, that would be great.

If I can't, then I don't see what's the point of doing this deal with Verizon. I am 110% sure that I don't like this phone
[Motorola Droid Bionic] rafarataneneces:
now, with T-Mobile I had no contract, so I had the ability to go up/down in plans. Now those idiot$... removed all those plans, so they respect my rate but they won't allow me to upgrade/downgrade

So another nasty tactic would be to allow T-Mobile to send us to collections and hopefully we can go to court and explain to the judge that they can't destroy my plans, and then expect me to pay $120 forever

They actually want me to pay $120 per month, for 2 years (until I finish paying my phone), because those idiot$.. just say they don't have no-contract plans anymore.

So screw them, I haven't decided yet if I can sue them or if it's even worth my time

Anyway, if I just forget about them, maybe throw them a bone here and there, here are my new estimates

If I stay in T-mobile and stay in no contract

$120 every month.

Total: $720

If I move to Sprint

$90 per month

$250 for the Samsung Galaxy S II

Total: $790

If I stay in Verizon

$50 per month

$350 for the Droid Bionic

Let's say I sell the Bionic for $350, let's say the Samsung Prime is $600, so $250 out of my pocket

Total: $900

Now, my question would be

If Sprint and Verizon have good reception inside malls, Best Buy, Frys, Walmart... and the price is around the same

Which one would you chose?

My main problem with Verizon is that they only have ONE FREAKING PHONE that works with 4GB, and has a dual core CPU

So anyway, even though I hate doing this, tomorrow, if for some reason I don't sign up with Sprint, I am going to stay at $tupid T-Mobile.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] TauntingBull:
Not worth it bud. You don't want ANYTHING remotely bad on your credit report, especially in these economic times. Creditors are looking for an excuse not to lend. You might not need a loan now, or in the near future, but you never know if an emergency comes and you get denied because of a not paid phone bill.

Just my 2 cents...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] modal realism:
That's not even close to true. Verizon sees no point in selling the GSII because the Prime is the same phone except for the LTE radio and Ice Cream Sandwich (reported to be the first ICS phone).

The IP5 will probably be the IP4 running the iPad2's SoC and iOS5; the GS2 has been out for many months and can already run with that as can other devices.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] rafarataneneces:
I know, but hey, not to brag or anything, but if I work hard I can make all the amount that I owe them (including the phone cost and the 2-3 months I will be behind) in a couple of days

The problem is that I have a NO CONTRACT plan with T-Mobile

Somehow I ended up stuck at $120 per month because those plans don't exist anymore

so they can't discount me or anything

From what I know, they do send you to collections after 3 months.

So I can screw them and after 2 months and 29 days just pay them the cash and shut their mouth

I just dislike companies being dishonest

If I have NO CONTRACT how on earth did I ended up with such a high fee?

I can't even remove or add features to the plan, it's ridiculous
[Motorola Droid Bionic] rafarataneneces:
But do you know if the Prime will take another 6 months to arrive or so?

I can't stand my phone it's only being 4 days of use :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Chopstix9:
Well, from the daily reading I've been doing it IS a superior phone to the GSII. It isn't even going to run the same processor! It is based on Samsung's in-house Exynos CPU at 1.5 GHz with 1GB RAM. It will not be using the TI processor like the duece. The phone has a metal body. That's right, a Samsung with a metal body. It will also sport a 2000 mAh battery. On the soft side, there's a new browser that is said to be leaps and bounds ahead of anything else on the market.

Obviously, this close together it isn't extensively different, but quite a bit so at e same time. The plan is to have it on the market for the holiday shopping season. Probably within the month or not a lot longer.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jbdan:
Your back? You said good bye already what gives chief?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] topxshelfxtre:
Just a heads up sprints unlimited data will be going away soon enough. Or at most switch to a $30 unlimited so either way sprint will be going up
[Motorola Droid Bionic] DivineJerry:
Based on my inside sources, the processor will be infact a TI processor, specifically the TI OMAP4460, and it will be housed in a plastic body to be released sometime in October, though that could change. Also, another tip: the official name of the rumored Prime has nothing to do with the word Prime or Droid, and that's all I can say about this rumored phone without getting into too much trouble.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Chopstix9:
Hands on reviews posted on-line dis-agree with your claims... I have been waiting since last year's CES for the Bionic. Waited thru all the delays/scraps. After 9 months, the phone looks to me to have landed with a resounding thud !!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] DivineJerry:
I'm not saying you're wrong or I'm wrong, I'm just relaying the insider information I have. I have a friend who works for Verizon high up there, so I know his information is 100% correct and I've also seen the information myself.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Tornlogic:
Amazed nobody has mentioned this phone in this thread.

http://tinyurl.com/63a7rgm
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Chopstix9:
I'm aware it's out there but I've never been a fan of HTC products. Normally I really like Moto offerings but I am less than impressed with the Bionic. Especially after all of the hype surrounding it all year.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] rafarataneneces:
Well yesterday I went to Sprint and man that phone is absolutely gorgeous

However, my HTC Thunderbolt does a lot of the things about the same

Yes the Samsung Galaxy S II is thinner,and the screen a bit bigger

the MAIN difference is the screen quality, man NOTHING can beat Samsung now a days

However, I would like to know if there are news about HTC Vigor or the Prime

I am having a hard time figuring out why I should change to Sprint just for one phone.

Let's say Verizon does comes up with a phone that has dual core 1.2Ghz or 1.5Ghz in the near future, then that phone would be the best

the Samsung Galaxy S II was able to achieve 8000 kbps/s

The HTC Thunderbolt was able to achieve 16000 kbps/s

So, none of them is a clear winner, one has bigger more beautiful screen, but the other has faster internet

Anyway, I think I'm going to try the Samsung Galaxy SII, just because I bought the HTC thunderbolt cash, so I can cancel the contract, and I can go back to Verizon any day I want

Right now it's the time to test all carriers (I am testing all except AT&T which has a limited bandwidth for customers), and decide :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Brad003:
My co-worker is amazed by his S2! He suggested I switch out of Verizon....Now! I laughed and told him my unlimited plan is keeping me with Verizon. He measured the speed of the phone and it was twice the speed of the bionic. Maybe that phone will come to the Verizon network as the Samsung Function soon!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] eakrish:
I to went into sprint and played with the sgs 2 and it is VERY nice. I was thinking about returning my bionic and going with sprint also. I know the quadrant scores are for losers but I was able to get about 2400 with my bionic. I ran it on the sprint store phone and was able to get repeat 34-3500 scores! However, I was only able to hit 4mbs down and .645 up on the same phone. My bionic in the same location hit 16 down and 5 up.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Superguy:
Latest word on PhoneArena:

Vigor release: 10/20

Prime release:11/3.

Take it with a grain of salt, but that's the latest word.
[HTC Sensation] killerclown:
i was just wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to port motorola's application platform to the sensation, and if anyone is willing to do the porting.
[HTC Sensation] EmceeGeek:
that would be interesting to see. i just might like it. i've grown into liking motorola's OS a little bit. i don't think anyone would be willing to port it though, its too many people that don't like it.
[HTC Sensation] killerclown:
well hopefully someone will do it eventually .
[HTC Sensation] gclawson:
Just... Why? my opinion it was horrible. Haven't used it since i had my cliq but i hated it. Was so happy when blur-less roms came out for it.
[HTC Sensation] Ndokami:
i would ask why but i guess every one has their own tastes

i would like to know where to get the Droid x2 multi-touch keyboard that is compatible for the sensation though....
[HTC Sensation] arifafzan:
Yes. Good idea. I'm bored oredy with sense UI.
[HTC Sensation] killerclown:
i probably shouldn't have said motoblur port, you guys are correct motoblur is horrible but motorola's applications platform is so much better. motorola has changed there os for the better. i to hated motoblur but when i tryed then motorola application platform i loved it, i just prefer htc devices they feel better in the hand.
[HTC Sensation] platypuss94:
there was a port for the mt4g so its not impossible
[HTC Sensation] epsix:
Then let's get chip in, money talks.

20 dollar if someone can port motoblur or anything different.

Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G
[HTC EVO 3D] zsibisi:
Lately there has been some new AOSP Roms coming out and was interested if anyone knew of the best alternative for the Stock Sense FM Radio. ( Or radio that specifically uses your local area to listen to local stations)

Any help / advice/ suggestions regarding a replacement would be greatly appreciated.

Thanx in advance for your advice. :)

Jd
[HTC EVO 3D] mazook98:
TuneinRadio Pro doesn't use the FM antenna, but it absolutely pulls in every FM and AM station in your area....and the rest of the planet, which is nice. Wanna check out what the AM scene in Antarctica is like?

Who wouldn't?
[HTC EVO 3D] vittoriop77:
Did you find a solution ?
[HTC EVO 3D] kamran39006:
Use spirit Fm radio.Download it from the play store.it is free.:D
[HTC EVO 3D] vittoriop77:
It isn't FREE https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mikersmicros.fm_unlock&hl=en
[HTC EVO 3D] kamran39006:
Find it here..

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=43827147&postcount=6483
[HTC EVO 3D] vittoriop77:
Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
I just found out that Security storage 2.3.3 and Settigns Storage 2.3.3 use a lot of CPU and there isnt even an option to stop them.

Anyone having the same issue or knows what are they for and if it is save to freeze them?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
Noone knows??
[Galaxy S II General] lotacus:
I don't see these on my phone. Are you using exchange for mail? When you use this, the phone enables full device encryption, which uses cpu to encrypt and decrypt information. I assume this will be the same for any application that uses encryption.
[Galaxy S II General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
Interesting, i dont use exchange, but i guess gmail and yahoo mail might use encription :))) thanks for ur answer :))

Ps: the CPU usage is changing all the time from 1% to about 15%
[Galaxy S II General] lotacus:
Ok. I located it. It is a core service that seems to handle secure reads and writes to the device database.

Though when I scroll very fast through the list of applications and the go back to the service properties it will show high cpu usage. After a second or two of idle, it will settle down to 1-5 percent.

So assuming the list of apps is in a database of installed apps, the phone needs to read it in order to display that list. So that's my explanation for that.

I'm going to assume that everything the phone does is in a database somewhere. But since it doesn't seem to affect performance, I'm going to assume that it had low priority.

I'm not concerned with it.
[Galaxy S II General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
Yeah it makes sense :) thank you
[Galaxy S II General] jerryasher:
I have the T-Mobile SGSII the T-989, and I am seeing a few cpu usage / battery monitoring apps all pointing to Security Storage as a huge drain over the past two days.

Battery lifetime has gone from 17 - 20 hours to 7-8 hours.
[Galaxy S II General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
I think it's some other app, try to find if a program is constantly syncing im background or get battery calibration app and calibrate ur battery :) that's what I did and have decent battery now :) good luck
[Galaxy S II General] zafrizulfi:
what happaned if remove security storage in system

Its use more ram for the run and slow down..if I removed what happaned ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mvfarmer:
Hello

Do anyone know how to get the home button" pressed whit a connected mouse, i mean controlling the phone whit the mouse. I know that middle click activates the menu button, and right click activates the back button.

So my question is, how can i activate the home button whit a mouse??

The reason i want to do it, is because for a handicapped person in a wheelchair its needed to control the phone whit the joystick and a button.
[Epic 4G General] RushAOZ:
I've just recently noticed this. But benchmarks yield crappier gpu results in the nexus s than the epic. For example the corridor test on my epic oc'd to 1.3ghz rubs at 40+ fps. The lowest its dropped is 35 fps and the highest was 50fps. Meanwhile the nexus s is running 10-15 fps slower. I thought this was just some issue with my buds nexus s but I just youtubed some benches and found the same results. Anyone else notice this? Why? Same hardware and I expected the nexus s to actually do better since its got official gb and the epic doesn't. I'm kind of baffled here.

sent from the Galaxy S Pro
[Epic 4G General] RushAOZ:
Well I just ran smartbench side by side to the ns4g. Much better result there. I guess the ns4gs gpu drivers are much different somewhere down the road. The "planet" test on quadrant ran at a horrid 11fps while it stays at a constant 56fps on the epic.

sent from the Galaxy S Pro
[Epic 4G General] mattallica76:
I've had the same results while comparing benches on my Epic and my Nexus S, but it's only Quadrant. Real world graphics performance is just as good if not better than the Epic's. Other benchmarkkng programs don't seem to have the same discrepancies.
[Epic 4G General] RushAOZ:
Yea I noticed that lol I felt like an idiot starting this thread lol
[Epic 4G General] JohnCorleone:
No need to feel bad. It just emphasizes the innacuracy of benchmarks
[Epic 4G General] RushAOZ:
Yea I seriously thought the nexus s drivers were borked somewhere seeing that.

Dear quadrant,

**** you. :)
[Epic 4G General] JohnCorleone:
You've been "thanked" for the laugh!
[Epic 4G General] RushAOZ:
Lol I don't know how to thank people. Don, I owe you a couple dozen of those lol
[Epic 4G General] JohnCorleone:
You have the Premium app so all you have to do is touch on a post (like to quote them) and you should have a "thank" option...as long as you are on the most current version of XDA Premium. Not that I am fishing for thanks..just an FYI
[Epic 4G General] bighuta:
Lol you're getting one anyway, oh humble man
[Epic 4G General] RushAOZ:
Nope lol not there. Seems I gotta update.
[Epic 4G General] JohnCorleone:
I barely ever go on the actual website or the browser. I was very humbled when I saw how many thanks I have received in the past 6 weeks. Thanks everyone!
[Epic 4G General] RushAOZ:
I just gave you flowers? Nice, xda lmao
[Epic 4G General] shane6374:
Thank Tapatalk, it's in their app which is what the xda app is built from.

@xda, build some transparent versions of the premium app and I'll pay the $1.50 for it!
[Epic 4G General] difrent7:
Nexus on daily speed blows my old Epic away but it lacks in web browsing and some games that my epic could handle perfectly fine. I always wondered the reason behind that.
[Epic 4G General] malcolmXman:
The app makes it much easier to show THANKS 100x's.
[Epic 4G General] JohnCorleone:
+1,946,823...transparent should be an option
[HD7 General] ricardo1410:
I have one HTC HD7 and i have done the update to RUU.Schubert.S.HTC.europe.4.05.401.02_radio_5.69.0 9.29, any one how can i put the portuguese language.

Thank you
[HD7 General] zeka1974:
Hello,

Officialy you can't add more languages....only using DFT 7720 new ROM.

Oficialmente não vais conseguir adicionar linguagens, só usando a nova ROM 7720 da DFT

Thanks,

Santos
[HD7 General] ricardo1410:
O problema é que cometi um erro e nao consigo efectuar o boot loader nada aparece no ecra, e nao sei como restaurar, pois nao tenho backup do Rom antigo para fazer o restauro.
[HD7 General] zeka1974:
Power button and Volume down key doesn't work?

Se pressionares em simultâneo o botão Power e a tecla de volume p/ baixo não entras em bootloader?

Thanks,

Santos
[HD7 General] ricardo1410:
Yes i can get in but the message is like this:

PD29100 SS-BC (4k)

nothing else, and the problem is im out from Portugal in Egypt and i dont know nobody here to fix this.

Sim consigo entrar mas a mensagem que aparece é a seguinte:

PD29100 SS-BC (4k)

Mais nada o problema é que estou fora do Pais e nao conheco ninguem que me possa solucionar o problema.

Será que se trocar o cartão de memoria resolve?
[HD7 General] zeka1974:
This is nothing related with the SDCard...maybe HTC changed bootloader features in this new ROM.

I will try to check this later this day.

Thanks,

Santos
[HD7 General] ricardo1410:
Thank you so much.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shanmc:
I flashed my Korean TAB with CWM... After that there has been screen issues in the boot menu, I was able to root the tab problem free, but when I go to the boot menu, it is scrambled... it still works. I tried flashing a stock samsung recovery (not Korean) and had the same screen issue.

Has anyone else with a Korean tab had this issue or know of how I may fix it?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frankus0512:
shanmc,

I also have the same issue with CWM 4.0.0.4 and other versions as well - not sure why it's happening on the Korean TAB and have been looking for answers too. Also trying to see how I can help to make it work...
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shanmc:
Yah, I want to flash back to the original recovery but I am having trouble finding it.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] limenless:
I'm having the same issue with my Korean tab when I boot into cwm recovery. So far no luck in finding a reason or solution.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] limenless:
Might the issue have something to do with an incompatability between CWM and the Korean kernel? CWM also doesn't play nice with my Korean GSII.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diconula:
Here is Stock recovery of Korean galaxy tab

odin flashable Stock recovery..

It would be helpful.

HI.there frankus~

I met U in Naver Cafe..^^
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] limenless:
Thanks. At least now I have stock recovery again, instead of a CWM Recovery which I can't use.

I tried flashing CWM Recovery from within the app, and that doesn't work either. When it asks me to select my device, the only options it gives me are "Galaxy S i9000" and "Galaxy S i9000 (MTD)" - these are also the only options I get when trying to do the same thing on my Korean GSII.

On both devices, as well as two other Korean GSIIs I've tested, it also still displays the old top hat logo instead of the new one. Does anyone else still have the old logo?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phuonglev:
Have same issue with my device and just come back to stock recovery. Cannot do anything such root, flash with my tab. Is there anyone could help us????:(
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rh33dan:
The problem seems to be an incomparability with the Korean kernel.

pershoot was nice enough to make a CWM recovery for the Korean GT10.1, though, which can be found on this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1360588
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hieukieng:
Hi,

I also use the Korean version Tab and have the same problem. Can you explain in more details how to return to Stock recovery with the attached file "recovery.img". I'm a newbie ^^.

Thanks alot.

---------- Post added at 09:01 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:46 AM ----------

It's good that you can restore back to stock recovery. From that you can root you GT by copy the file "Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_10.1_root.zip" to the tablet's root folder and reset it into the stock recovery mode, then apply the copied file. Sr I just found this information but have not tried yet.

I'm now still stuck on restoring back to stock recovery after install the CWM recovery. Do u have any suggestion for that?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hieukieng:
Thanks guys,

I've finally CWM and rooted my Korean GT following here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1360588