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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] smark72:
I don't even understand how people like that can get hired. You would think they would require at least some basic knowledge of the industry and products. I am actually looking to change careers and would like to get a position managing a sprint store but I can't seem to find an opening in my area because they keep hiring people like this. I have been to four stores in my area and every single one has not one person who seems to know much of anything. Maybe its just the central florida area.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nebrando:
Normally, I would say this story seems too far out there, and that there is no way someone is that clueless as an employee at the Sprint store.

However, I have dealt with some of the Sprint store employees and I guess it is feasible.

Either way, thanks for posting as it was an entertaining post.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] joetemp75:
Thanks op that was classic, I seem to run into these people all the time. Awesome
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] alnova1:
I had a similar thing happen at Radio Shack. I had bought the Photon there and before my 30 days were up I wanted to trade it for our SII...on launch day they didn't have any so I told them I wanted to return it and go to Sprint to get the phone. The salesman said why...the Photon is dual core and a much better phone...I immediately told him it was none of his business and then proceeded to rattle off the specs of the SII..he went into the back room. These people are clueless!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rgregg504:
Haha I purchased an app called HVAC Buddy for work and a sprint tech told me it broke the gps in my Moment. Wtf
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Erislover:
All of FL, bro...I'm in the ft laud area myself, and it's harder to find a glimmer of intelligence in the general population than it is to find a guy who doesn't shave his chest here.

anyway, just fyi, it's an absolutely true story. the worst part, which I forgot to mention in the OP, is that a couple minutes before this dolt began "helping" me, I was talking with another customer who had an E4GT with some crazy problems (phone with a mind of it's own...would just randomly open up apps and close them and restart...) and I was telling her about this forum and how her problems were atypical and how she should just get a new E4GT...and then every time this stupid, stupid customer service rep talked, I had to just look over at this lady and hope she knew how completely retarded the rep was.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zonacats23:
I hate that I am associated with these types of employees ...

-J
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] smark72:
I know there has to be some knowledgeable reps, I just haven't encountered any myself.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] squshy 7:
In my defense, not all of us are idiots.

And a 2nd thought, ive met such people. I sometimes feel ashamed that theyre one of my own.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] squshy 7:
Yeah, this. I'm sorry guys.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Erislover:
No need to apologize on their behalf...it's the same at every job and every profession. It's just a shame that people don't say, "sorry, I don't know," when they don't know. But, on the bright side, it does sometimes make for some funny ish when they talk out their ass :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ballerx43:
Walked into my local repair center and showed the Guy my OG Evo, told him that I was having some issues with the fact that my $400+ phone had a crack in the casing near the volume and power buttons. He immediately told me "you dropped your phone and it cracked. that's not covered sorry." and proceeded to the next customer. I walked up, showed him again my phone was in an otterbox defender case, had NO signs of damage... mind you I kept the case on since day 1 and I had never dropped the phone....

He looks at me with the straightest face and says "it is because you are using a Facebook IM application which causes the problem." at this point I laughed in his face, left the store and proceeded down the block to the next repair center.

This Guy still works there....

Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S II Epic Touch 2G
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ballerx43:
Oh and here's another one.

Took another OG Evo 4G to another local repair center to have the dust cleaned out from behind the screen (there was a **** ton) and the service tech puts my phone back together and broke the power button, camera, and screen and then tells me "Uhhhh it came like that sorry"

.... fail of sprint repair centers. I'm better off fixing the phones myseld

Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S II Epic Touch 2G
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 12MaNy:
OP: You should've asked that rep if he/she could "Approve" those apps for you. Lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cds0699:
You handled that better than I, I would have called her out on her bull****.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] akarol:
I would have thrown my E4GT straight to her head and would of asked for a replacement.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DonutGrunt:
Im also having WiFi problems, you said you solved it.

How?

I was using it fine today until I did a battery pull because the phone froze.

Now it disconnects everytime i try to connect to wifi
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Vegasrich:
wifi issues

The sprint rep told me it was normal because even there display did it. I just left pissed off. I figure someone here will figure it out.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] musclehead84:
Yeah. Someone here will figure it out before a sprint Rep will. Most of them don't know to much. Some do. U just have to find the right one.

The Evo3D Killer!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
If you have the MetroPCS tv guy say that whole spiel then it would be ready for a skit on Saturday Night Live.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ehusidic:
Did you read the OP?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ChodaBoyUSA:
So the moral of the story is...blame Windows?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wingzfan:
Make it stop, please just make it stop. Whats needed to require some type of test to gain access to the forums? At this point Im thinking a simple put the square peg in the square hole and the round peg in the round hole test would be enough.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Blu3Fr0g:
No Flames, just my two and a half cents worth.

You did a disservice by not calling her out on those wrong ideas. Education is a two way street and most people are not technically minded and learn through osmosis, much the way you did to get to the point where you are at. I am sure you didn't come out of the womb knowing how to make an Android phone look like a Windows Phone. Always remember 1 out of every 2 people has a below average IQ and IQ isn't a curve. I have a love / hate relationship with online forums. I love the bounty of information contained in them and hate the egos of the people who often post that information. Having been involved in Technica Support since before there were PC's, I was always taught that the best support person answers the questions when they can and educates there users so as to keep them from making the same mistakes over and over and having to call the Help Desk for the same problems. It amazes me how often people get irked because someone asks a question rather then googling the answer. This happened to me in the IRC channel last night and some joker used Let Me Google that for you to google the acronym I asked about, ironically the first three pages contained absolutely nothing relevant to android and even adding android contained nothing relevant. It was only after I made a snide comment and someone expanded the acronym out that I was able to google and figure out what the hell they were talking about. The the Let Me Google That For you idiot tried to use the excuse that he was drunk but the reality is that being drunk doesn't make you an idiot, it just increases the idiot factor by the amount you have consumed. Also, the OP did say in the subject that they solved the problem and mention nowhere in their rant about a solution, so someone asking for the solution in a help forum where someone says they have found the solution isn't as idiotic or stupid as people want to make it out to be.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DonutGrunt:
Yes I did read the OP and not anywhere did he say how he solved his problem.

All that was said was a conversation between him and a service rep about him using a custom launcher and eventually the conversation leads to the service rep asking him if he also uses tether.

Not only that but I read all the replies and all of them are responses with how unintelligent Sprint representatives are.

Guessing from your post, that recommends me to read the OP, is that the way to fix my problem is to talk to a sprint rep and argue with her about custom apps in order to fix my problem.

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Make what stop? Make people stop joining forums for asking for help with their devices because they have questions?

What are you some kind of elitist that makes you think you're special because apparently you know the answer to something that I don't. And the best way to help this forum is by wasting your time insulting someone because you would rather not post a respond on how to fix my problem?

You're what's wrong with a forum, it's great when people ask for help and they get insulted.

I even read the stickies to look for help on my issue, I resorted to search for my answer by using the search function and it lead me to this thread.

There it said Wifi problem SOLVED.

So guess what? I open the thread expecting to find answer, but all it is, is a long narrative on the OP with no answer to his question.

So guess what? I scrolled through all the responses because maybe the answer is in one of the replies, and guess what? It's not.

Why would I even bother responding to this thread if it didnt have a giant SOLVED in the thread title? As a last resort I thought that if I asked the question in this thread with nice spelling and grammatical structure, that someone would notice that I am not half brain dead and respond with a helpful answer.

So please, please point me to the post that shows how this problem is solved in this thread? Am I blind? Because if the answer is in this thread, I will feel like the biggest idiot for responding to you in such a harsh manner.

where on the OP does it say the answer to the threads problem?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wingzfan:
Omg are you serious? This has got to be a joke right? If not i cannot believe you just posted that. You realize how much worse that post is for you?

Definitely the square peg test. That should take care of it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HaiKaiDo:
Wow....I about had a seizure reading this. It pains me to think that people that are working at our sprint stores....people who are there to HELP us....are this incompetent -_-. I also was freaking out because I thought the OP was trying to say this was truth XD.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] blues2009:
Hey guys I'm having a similar problem! My phone is connected to wifi, but it's still scanning. I've tried a hard reset but still same issue. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] texasredrider:
+1 LOL must work for Sprint.....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] montecristo1:
I had most of my smartphones flashed onto metropcs...htc evo, htc thunderbolt and now sprint E4GT. Once in a while, I go into Sprint/Verizon stores to see if they have any clearance prices on their accessories. Sometimes I hear the reps tell people how flashed phones are illegal, most likely to get their information stolen and some even say that it is scam- no you can't use a Sprint/Verizon smartphone on metro pcs. I was curious once, and had a lengthy conversation with a sprint rep about flashing my htc evo to metro pcs. I said I heard you can get 3g, mms, gps, tether, text and talk all for $40 a month. He said it was illegal-flashing meant cloning. He said even if you get it clone- Sprint can block usage and can sue me. So I let him go on- like he had practiced the pitch. I then told him my Evo is already flashed to metro and that all he said was not true. I pay $40, unlimited and Sprint has no say so and if you looked up FCC ruling that unlocking isn't illegal...there is a difference between flashing and cloning...he replied with he was told to say that if anyone who asked about flashing to metro, boost or cricket...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cidica:
I think I actually want to slap a Sprint Rep..../smh
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] TonyTurboII:
Ditto.

Theres not a day that goes by that I'm not blown away by some **** that comes out of one of my coworkers mouths. Ive tried teaching some of them, but it usually is a waste of my time.

And then when it fell to the ground and shattered the screen you'd be making an insurance claim genius.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] viper786:
He has an Epic 4g Touch ... not an iPhone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ks2332:
Yeah I work for a corporate store in Columbus...cracked screens are only covered in store if it's one single crack....it's spiderwebbed or shattered boom insurance effective march 1,2012
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] suddenincline:
after sprint raise their deductible price and raise the price insurance I just bought best buy black tie insurance. even cover water damage with the lower deductible but if the phone get stolen I'm not a luck.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Sunsparc:
Female techs are kinda derpy some times.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] musclehead84:
The stolen and lost phone is the reason why I don't use the black tie protection.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] TonyTurboII:
Lol you got me there.

I haven't seen one with a shattered screen yet.

Hah, I work with this mega Derpina, always calling me asking how to repair the most basic things.

The same questions over and over and over....
[Thunderbolt General] motorsports601:
Just bought a samsung 55 smart tv 6000. And have to buy the 80 $ samsung wifi linkstick. So was wondering if i can just tether to that usb port from my thunderbolt? I thought verizon stopped tethering and i just found out wireless tether works on my tbolt runing liquid ginger sense . But it didnt work using the eaton rom . Will it damage my new tv if i try ? And which wired tether is recomended?
[Thunderbolt General] loonatik78:
Why not wirelessly tether it?
[Thunderbolt General] motorsports601:
Because i have to buy the wifi link stick from them. And i want to try it without it cuz i dont have wifi at home and was going to tether thru my phone anyway. I can save myself 80 bucks. Loonatik do u know if the way the usb sends info to the port would be the same as the usb tethering thru the phone
[Thunderbolt General] bpyazel:
I really doubt it would work. Even if the phone looked like a wifi adapter when in tether mode (which im doubting it does), that tv probably only works with its own brand of wifi adapter anyway.
[Thunderbolt General] loonatik78:
I might be wrong, but the phone needs USB modem drivers to work in wired mode. Does it have any bluetooth functionality?
[Thunderbolt General] yareally:
Some TVs have DLNA on them (samsung especially), but that's completely different than what you want to do I believe. However, the Thunderbolt does support that. Also your TV is not really an LED tv, it's just backlit by LED.

You can tether your phone to a router that has a usb port at least with after market firmwares like ddwrt and have it use that as the connection over your cable/dsl/etc.

Also pretty sure you don't exactly need a usb wifi card that's specific to samsung (and thus, not 80 dollars). I bought one for far cheaper for my blueray player that did not match the player brand in order to watch netflix on it. Most should work, but you should check with some audio visual forums to be sure or read the reviews for the usb wifi cards.
[Thunderbolt General] motorsports601:
well i was gonna try but the tether programs require u to intall the program to the phone and recieving computer so i didnt even try cuz how am i gonna install it on the tv. yea some of the dongles or wifi sticks are suppose to work and samsungs verision is just a rebrand of a cheaper one. so ill look into getting one or the samsung one since therye on ebay cheap and ill try my wifi tether to that. and ill see my bill to see if verizons charging me xtra for hotspot !
[Thunderbolt General] superbigblack:
i have a samsung tv and the only two ways to connect it to the interent is the stick and/or wired. if they allowed you to use the usb ports then u could just buy any interent stick for cheap and they wouldnt make money, buy it from amazon its cheaper on there
[Thunderbolt General] yareally:
As I already said and the OP himself said, that is not true. By doing some simple hacks that most people should be able to do, you can use any dongle that has an RaLink chipset (nearly all dongles). They "prefer" you use their stuff, but like android phones, there's always an alternative :p

http://archive.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=1774596

http://wiki.samygo.tv/index.php5/Using_NoN-Samsung_USB_WiFi_dongles_with_TV
[Venue Pro General] venelar:
So after an exciting day *****ing about #dellvenuepro and @lionellatdell i go home to find an update.

Lo and behold, it's here.

I'm still not optimistic for mango in a timely fashion tho.
[Venue Pro General] peeps:
must just be me and you!
[Venue Pro General] mikebaz:
Hey, me too! Of course we are probably the only three AT+T Venue Pro users in the world ;)

I got all excited - "hey, look, maybe I can get wireless sync to work!"
[Venue Pro General] peeps:
I meant as the vocal twitter folks ;)
[Venue Pro General] buffnutz1:
I'm also AT&T. How do you get the update?
[Venue Pro General] venelar:
plug the phone into PC and open Zune. If it doesn't prompt you to update then in zune go settings> phone> update
[Venue Pro General] macjr82:
I may have had it yesterday but through my phone on the charger w/o looking at it. Saw the update when I got up at 0530, though. Cool that I got it, but I was hoping for Mango and am still waiting on a replacement phone in the mail that is "in production"
[Venue Pro General] buffnutz1:
Ok, so I tried to update it but Zune didn't say anything so I checked the settings and it said my phone's firmware is 212. Does that mean it did it on it's own? Also when I bought the phone off of somebody almost a month ago they had put the version of Mango that was out already on it. Is it possible that they put this on there too?
[Venue Pro General] venelar:
firmware wise, you should be good to go. as far as your mango rom on it goes...if someone sold it to you with the beta mango on it, and you dont have a NoDo (pre-mango) backup saved you may be screwed on future updates. You might read up on putting the RTM mango on it, as iirc it puts you back in the main update channel.
[Venue Pro General] domineus:
a month late well more than a month

you finally get it

it does bring some better life to the phone

Although hard reset after the update
[Venue Pro General] benignfun:
Can this update work over the Mango build?

I also have a DVP on AT&T, but I put the Mango release on it in July and so far my phone sees no update when I connect it. Do I need to revert back to the NoDo, pre mango install state?

K
[Venue Pro General] venelar:
Pretty sure youll need to go NoDo again. In fact, I'd stay there for the time being since Mango is imminent.
[Venue Pro General] SPYDar007:
I got my replacement phone today (AT&T) that shipped out on 9/23. It didn't even have NoDo installed. At least I was able to update it but I would've thought it would at least have NoDo. Damn Dell.
[Venue Pro General] macjr82:
AT&T DVP without nodo would be good thing because you could unlock it then update. Most ( all I thought before reading your post) AT&T DVPs shipped with nodo so no chevron unlock.
[Venue Pro General] benignfun:
Is AT&T Pushing Mango out to DVP owners now?

I reverted to NoDo and the 7392 update came down. WiFi works! Haven't seen the Mango update yet, though and reverting to NoDo from Mango makes me really miss those Mango features.

The status page on AT&T says that DVP Mango update is in planning. But this thread makes it sound like AT&T users have received a Mango update. The WMPOWERUSER trick of pulling the ethernet on Update has not tricked Zune into updating my phone. So... is the Mango update available from AT&T for DVP or not?

B
[Venue Pro General] venelar:
It has not been pushed yet.
[Venue Pro General] peeps:
Fixed for ya!
[Venue Pro General] venelar:
we need to rally the troops! ffs there has been nothing said about it.

/missionsparta mode
[Venue Pro General] benignfun:
Since Dell iced it's WP7 division... is AT&T Mango gonna happen?

Shoud I unlock the phone and go without AT&T integration or wait for Dell/Microsoft to figure this out? As noted, this isn't "scheduled" or "in progress", it's "in planning" which translates to a multi-month delay, or never before we get the update.
[HTC Sensation] tbestie:
Hi everyone. I'm quite nervous about flashing a radio as i know it can brick the device with a small mistake. I've read up on it quite abit, but i was wondering if people could answer a few small questions so that i wont make any mistakes!

1. Does a radio need to be flashed before/after a new ROM is installed? OR is it okay to flash at any time?

2. I don't quite understand the difference between Radio_10.58.9035.00U_10.15.9035.02_2 and a PBLAHBLAH.Img File?? Which one should i use/put on SD Card..?

3. Do i need Radio S-Off... i have normal S-off + root ... and im running android revolution 3.6.0 =] ( if i do, how do i get radio S-off? )

4. Chances of bricking my phone even if everything is done correctly?

5. Thank you v.much for your time + help :D
[HTC Sensation] adclem:
Follow Mikes guides and you will have no problems. But read and follow the directions!
[HTC Sensation] malybru:
Hi,

1.Doesn't matter

2.Radio_10.58.9035.00U_10.15.9035.02_2 is flashed from PC/laptop and is found on the [OP](follow the read me).

PG58IMG.zip is flashed from sd card

3.If you have S-OFF ,you have RADIO S-OFF

4.There is always a chance.However,this is kept to a minimum,if you follow the instructions carefully and to the letter.

5.You're welcome.

:)
[HTC Sensation] tbestie:
Thanks v.much guys. I'll give it a go tomorrow and let you know the results!
[HTC Sensation] tbestie:
Managed to flash radio successfully. Thanks v.much for the help!!
[HTC Sensation] gustav30:
I was curious about this as well because I flashed ARHD 3.6 but never did the radio. My phone has been fine...

So is there a radio that gets flashed in the Rom?
[HTC Sensation] HighTech216:
Upon flashing the new version I almost missed it, but yes there is an updated radio to flash. I highly recommend it, I saw a significant increase in data transfer, coincidence or not, always good to keep the ROM with the correct radio installed.
[HTC Sensation] malybru:
Hi,

I'm glad all went well.

:)

Hi,

No radio gets flashed when you install a new ROM.

That is why they are posted separately.

I strongly recommend flashing 10.58.9035.00U_10.15.9035.02_2 radio

--- Using a "non matched" radio could have a negative effect on performance, battery life & signal strength ---

Check the [OP] of the ARHD 3.6.0 ROM

:)
[HTC Sensation] gustav30:
Interesting. And I thought I was learning...So I'm using the same radio that I had before Mike's ARHD?
[HTC Sensation] malybru:
Hi,

Indeed ,you are.

You can check it if you want.

Go to settings>about phone>software information>more> and you will see the baseband version

:)
[HTC Sensation] gustav30:
Question: Does Mike's recommended radio for Android revolution 3.6.0 work well for T-mobile USA?

Thanks