yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] QWIKSTRIKE:
WE have been duped by Sprint people. Go to their website and you will notice the announcement of the iPhone 4Gs. You can even pre order it. This privilege was not given for the Samsung Galaxy S 2 ET4G.

Why...was this you say...it's obvious that Sprint knew it had made a deal to buy a **** load of IOS devices to secure this deal with Apple.so they didn't promote the galaxy ET4g. Now they have a big announcement tomorrow. They are going out of their way to let you pre order the iPhone as well.

Sad, and yes I feel they used us to get this deal, by canceling all perks, while giving us crappy service. My Photon has a red circle and no service, and I don't have a ET4G yet. Service has been terrible most of the summer all over NY and in mid town NYC.

If service was being interrupted to better service I may stick around, but not getting signal, failed messages, and paying for it and no credit with lies is unacceptable. Not being able to pre-order the phone I wanted because they made a deal with Crapple is also unforgivable. Price isn't the only thing that matters in a business relationship. It's I pay for service and expect to have it when I want it, not when you decide to give it.

Hell I was told by a customer service rep that I should be happy because I have had a lot of usage on my line. I then said yes that is true, but when I need my service to work it failed to deliver....I missed important calls. and meetings with people because of failed service.

People were telling me when they called the phone rang 3x's and hung up no message was able to be left. Others told me that they would get a network busy message please try again later. One rep verified this condition of calling me, and could not get through. The phone rang 3x's and the line just went dead when they called. I have been to tech centers, and have made many battery pulls, and software reboots, and finally I was told that there was a net work issue and they did not know when it would be cleared. Now when I call to talk about it they put me on hold no music and never come back to talk.

I just don't see it getting better, and when the next generation of phones IE Prime or what ever hits Verizon, and this is not cleared I am gone. When I feel I have to beg for service, or a credit for not receiving service after paying my bills for 15 years, and at one point having a $300 a month phone bills for business it's time to go.

My bill analysis shows that I average 240 msg a month, and average about 2g of data a month, and since I use my phone mostly for calls a Verizion 69.00 phone plan with 10 data, and 10.00 for data equals what I am paying now. So if this doesn't clear with the loss of perks I am outta here.lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
My service is better than ever...by far too. I never saw over 8Mbps download speed in Los Angeles on 4G and now....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Amd4life:
Enjoy the larger bill on Verizon. It fast and rather reliable

Life is too short to complain on services you are not happy about. Great thing about America is that we have three major carriers

The sprint network can't compete with Verizon in "most" areas,
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ewynn9:
Can I have your phone when you leave? I've got a line with no phone....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] expertzero1:
care cup \__/
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] LxMxFxD:
When sprint cancelled premiere the writing was on the wall. It was on your august bill statement. In addition, sprint raised the admin fee by 50cents which invalidated every contract. Also on your bill statement.

Then sprint raised ETF from $200 to $350. Then they changed 30 day phone trials to 14 days. All this in september.

I am here on this board with an E4GT because of these changes - I had to get my final premiere upgrade prior to 10/2/2011. Otherwise I was fully planning on just waiting another month for nexus prime.

Now the E4GT has serious radio issues. Like OP, I had calls go to voicemail for hours at a time. Others have LOS, dropped calls, no signal bars, phone refuses to roam, etc.

Sprint's CEO said that 54% of sprint customer churn is due to not having an iphone. Thats a pretty hard fact to not pay attention to.

It is clear sprint is putting all eggs in one basket - the iphone basket. Sprint has lost money for 15 straight quarters. This will either save sprint or ruin sprint.

I've been with sprint 10 years now, and im no iphone fan. THe writing is on the wall: We'll let you keep your android devices and stay on our network, but we really don't care about you now. Of course I knew all this over a month ago and I was still willing to sign a 2 year contract in september for the Epic 4g touch. That was before all the LOS issues arose.

We'll see what the next 2 years brings. But the days of customer loyalty perks, retention plans, etc are clearly over.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] txmikester:
I just switched from verizon to sprint, so I can give you a good preview of what to expect.

First of all, the service is top notch, and the lte speeds were incredible - I regularly got over 20 mbps in my area, many times close to 30. Of course, keep in mind that their lte service is fairly new, and at the time they only had 3 expensive phones that could use it, so that will likely change as more people upgrade and the network gets saturated.

So why did I leave this awesome service? Price. Everything across the board is way more expensive - service and phones. I paid $50 more for a Droid Charge than I did for my E4GT, and that phone isn't even in the same league. For our family plan with unlimited text, only 700 minutes, 2 data plans and 2 other phones, it was $230 a month. Our kids wanted smartphones too, but to add 2 more data plans would have put our bill up to $300. I'm not broke, but not rich either, and that cost is pretty hard to justify.

Also, keep in mind that all those policies Sprint just changed are the same policies Verizon has - 14 day return, $350 etf (even after being way overcharged on the phones up front), and no more New Every Two program.

The only carrier I've found with good pricing and great coverage (in my area) is Tmo, and I almost jumped to them, but no way in hell I want to risk being an att customer again.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AbsolutZeroGI:
Perspective ftw!

This is called "grass is greener" syndrome. You're gonna love it at first. Then 6 months later you're posting the same crap in another forum.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] QWIKSTRIKE:
It all comes down to service.....ETFs, and other fees are basic...it's about service when I want it....I am worn out this summer by Sprint's evasive bull**** regarding the service issues that we are experiencing. Collecting my money for inferior service, and lying about is bad business practice......
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Success100:
Piece out!!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dohturdima:
Amen. I am tired of flipping on Roam Control and dealing on 1x every time I enter a building. What good is unlimited 3g if it is slow as molasses, and 4g which is spotty and hardly ever works indoors? At this point, I am off contract and if Prime comes to VZW and is not full of bloat I may be gone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] amwworks:
+1
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
I was told that the unlimited everything plan for the IPhone will be $20 a month more than ours..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KRAZYADROIDMASTER:
I like android and I never want a I-PHONE.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] buggerritt:
Feel free to kick me in the Jimmy if I ever buy an iAnything.

Sent from my extra sensory space modulator while performing the slippery cricket
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bluefire808:
It doesn't really matter if it has bloat where cause you can root the stock rom and use titanium backup to remove it all. Its super easy to do
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] QWIKSTRIKE:
I am not just talking 3g/4G.....I get a red circle with a line almost daily. I have been missing calls. getting network busy try back later errors, and not receiving calls for hours a day. I missed getting calls with 4-5 bars in mid town Manhattan, and people told me the phone just rang 3 times and stopped ringing with no option to leave a voice mail. Others were told to "try back later network busy". This can only get worse if iPhone is coming. I am not the only one experiencing this issue the Sprint online community is filled with this same complaint.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] eman3316@optonline.net:
Nope, it is the same price. You can go on and pre-order to see the pricing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] wuddersup:
I like how in vanilla Gingerbread "Sound" is one of the options when you drag down the notification bar. It makes it easy to set your phone to silent. Any way to do this in Touchwiz (other than just holding the power button)?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theguz:
I have flashed two different AOSP roms (evo deck, and savage-mod). Everytime I get them up and running I am having the same issues with them. My 4G has trouble toggling on and off. It will boot up on, but as soon as I turn it off and turn it back on it gives me an error. Same with the built in hotspot. Also tried using the wireless tether app from the market and when I start tethering it just sits there. Once I hit the back button and start again it says "tethering has started with errors..check log" Everything else seems fine. GPS works, mms, 3g speeds are fast. I just don't understand. I have ran AOSP roms before with no issues. I'm flashing using CWM and doing three wipes each of factory data, cache, and dalvik. Then running a superwipe before flashing rom. Any help????
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Notorious:
Y dont you just use the built in hotspot aosp roms come with?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theguz:
I have tried that. It says "error" as soon as I try to activate it. It's like it intially works sometimes right after reboot, but then breaks after I turn it off and try to activate it again. And I prefer the app because you can tether 4g from it

Edit: So I flashed the newest tiamat kernal 4.08 and it seems to have helped with the 4g, and the built in hotspot. The 4g icon does not turn green, but it is in the status bar and speed test show its on. The only thing not working is the tethering app.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] dweezy108:
So skype recently rekeased an update. The update said specifically that the Xoom is now on the white list and video calling is now enabled with front and back camera. However ive updated and it has not worked for me. Has it worked for any of you? if so please tell me how.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] justinsch3:
fix

Same here. Had to enable video in the Skype settings menu.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] dweezy108:
WOW thanx man. You solved the problem not only for my XOOM but for my phone as well lol.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] mousi:
That's GREAT news... Thanks for sharing :)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] viper3ez:
mine is enabled but it drops the video whenever I try leaving audio call going.

Anyone else have problems?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] antila:
Guys, I'm so stupid, can't find that settings in Skype menu. Please, can somebody explain it where is it? I'm very stupid but can do a little... ;-)

Help me, please?

God bless you!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] shmigao:
Skype is a bit funny about how to get settings.

First go to your profile, then hit menu button there will be settings then
[Xoom Themes and Apps] masona48:
I used skype the other night and it worked just fine for me the front facing camera was working too.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ansje:
skype

my skype doesn't work on my Xoom wifi I can hear the other persoon but they can't hear or see me. everything is set also the video in skype. What can I do, hope someone can help me. I downloaded the latest version of skype.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ballad:
Same here... but I haven't checked the setting in skype menu.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] timrock:
maybe the person on the other end has to fix something.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] dweezy108:
Thats odd. I was about to say maybe its because of the ICS update, however, I just had a skype call not to many Days ago and it worked fine. Oddly the video went from full screen and clear to small and blury after a while. Maybe it does have some bugs to work out with ICS.
[HTC Sensation] crking1980:
Times almost here. How long you think before it creeps to our devices?

http://www.phonedog.com/2011/10/06/...s-ice-cream-sandwich-launch-for-next-tuesday/
[HTC Sensation] LPChris47:
1008 hours
[HTC Sensation] moshe22:
Lol! I crack up at your comment at my work.
[HTC Sensation] moshe22:
Thanks for the info :)

I say about 3 months, maybe less

B
[HTC Sensation] aNYthing24:
Through HTC? Probably a long time.
[HTC Sensation] T-Macgnolia:
I personally hope it is not extremely long, but odds or it will be much longer than it should be. Either way though it will be available here on XDA before we ever get a OFFICIAL update to ICS.
[HTC Sensation] :
Is it just me, or does sense 4.0 start to make more sense now?
[HTC Sensation] Freshly_Snipes:
Sense 4.0?? of what demonic HTC contraption do you speak my friend? I have never heard any talks of this blasted 4.0 you speak of. *British Accent*
[HTC Sensation] :
hahaha lets just hope it doesnt happen! aosp teams ftw!
[HTC Sensation] DroidRC1:
I just hope one of these smart developers on here can put it on our device soon after Google release the source code
[HTC Sensation] nrvnqsrxk:
I'm actually kind of curious as to what Sense 4.0 is gonna look like...
[HTC Sensation] izmenar:
i dont think sense 3.5 can handle ICS , so i think sense 4.0 is a pretty sure bet
[HTC Sensation] esincho:
swollen......
[HTC Sensation] :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py9TfZGie48&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[HTC Sensation] idavid_:
Just one thing... WHY IS THERE NO SEARCH BUTTON?? In Honeycomb it's the same :(

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e
[Motorola Photon 4G] QWIKSTRIKE:
WE have been duped by Sprint people. Go to their website and you will notice the announcement of the iPhone 4Gs. You can even pre order it. This privilege was not given for the Samsung Galaxy S 2 ET4G.

Why...was this you say...it's obvious that Sprint knew it had made a deal to buy a **** load of IOS devices to secure this deal with Apple.so they didn't promote the galaxy ET4g. Now they have a big announcement tomorrow. They are going out of their way to let you pre order the iPhone as well.

Sad, and yes I feel they used us to get this deal, by canceling all perks, while giving us crappy service. My Photon has a red circle and no service, and I don't have a ET4G yet. Service has been terrible most of the summer all over NY and in mid town NYC.

If service was being interrupted to better service I may stick around, but not getting signal, failed messages, and paying for it and no credit with lies is unacceptable. Not being able to pre-order the phone I wanted because they made a deal with Crapple is also unforgivable. Price isn't the only thing that matters in a business relationship. It's I pay for service and expect to have it when I want it, not when you decide to give it.

Hell I was told by a customer service rep that I should be happy because I have had a lot of usage on my line. I then said yes that is true, but when I need my service to work it failed to deliver....I missed important calls. and meetings with people because of failed service.

People were telling me when they called the phone rang 3x's and hung up no message was able to be left. Others told me that they would get a network busy message please try again later. One rep verified this condition of calling me, and could not get through. The phone rang 3x's and the line just went dead when they called. I have been to tech centers, and have made many battery pulls, and software reboots, and finally I was told that there was a net work issue and they did not know when it would be cleared. Now when I call to talk about it they put me on hold no music and never come back to talk.

I just don't see it getting better, and when the next generation of phones IE Prime or what ever hits Verizon, and this is not cleared I am gone. When I feel I have to beg for service, or a credit for not receiving service after paying my bills for 15 years, and at one point having a $300 a month phone bills for business it's time to go.

My bill analysis shows that I average 240 msg a month, and average about 2g of data a month, and since I use my phone mostly for calls a Verizion 69.00 phone plan with 10 data, and 10.00 for data equals what I am paying now. So if this doesn't clear with the loss of perks I am outta here.lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] Kevets:
Not we. I use more messages, more data and pay half that. Verizon wouldn't be an option even if I wanted to.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Equalizir:
I don't really think Sprint needed to market the ET4g, everyone and their mother knew that phone was coming to Sprint.

Sent from my Photon.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ORam78:
And why the hell is this thread in the PHOTON forum? Smfh...where is a mod when you need one......
[Motorola Photon 4G] R2DeeTard:
Wrong forum dude, and i'm perfectly happy with my service. Who cares if they give iPhone pre-orders? Its not like its a big surprise. you're just bitter.
[Motorola Photon 4G] abowlby:
I'm team Android all the way, but let's be honest...Apple users aren't nearly as discerning as we are, because they dont have a choice. Therefore if you want one of their phones there is but one launch day, hence a partial explanation for the need of a pre-order.
[Motorola Photon 4G] shabbypenguin:
even still not having preorders on one of sprints flagship phones (wether they know it is or not) is still poor choice. i mean hell i preordered my ns4g and that was a year too little too late
[Motorola Photon 4G] Pete720:
Thank you for sharing OP.... Now beat it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xjav01:
Man for a second I thought I was in the wrong forum! Lol!
[Motorola Photon 4G] QWIKSTRIKE:
bitter....what would I be bitter about poor service through out the NY metro area, and getting no help but run around. Missing important calls and finding out about it hours and days later. This has to change and I am not the only one having connection issues around the states.

I have touted Sprint for 15 years buddy, so get a grip. But, now they seem to be reverting back to the early 2000 era when they fell off the 60 stock high....rofl.

I know I should be ecstatic for my paltry cash that I got **** service with no real explanation for the last 4 months. If it doesn't change by the time a the Prime launches on Verizon I ll be gone. This is not being bitter it's called paying for service, and expecting to get it every day in the areas that I normally have service rather than when they decide to fix it and then lie about it. A few of the major tech sites has made this same issue of service alert in their blogs, and to Sprint about this issue. Sprint has told them in mid September they are working on it , and yet tell me there is no know issue. When I tell them its all over the Sprint forums, and and tech sites they then say oh yeah we are working on it and don't know when this issue will be fixed. Not to mention that because they recognize there is a issue they even opted to let me out of my contract. Let me tell you if the Prime was on Verizon I'd be gone.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Pete720:
Please Big Red bring out the Prime so the Photon owners can have our forum back.
[Motorola Droid 3] jjhiza:
Guys, I'm posting this in the general section put of respect for the forum and it's rules, and mods, feel free to move this thread if you feel it's absolutely necessary. I just wanted to give people in the Android community the ability to sound off on what they feel Steve Jobs meant to the industry. I don't care if you liked the man, his products, or his company, but it's my personal opinion that we as an industry have lost, possibly the one person who made the entire cellular revolution possible. I'm not an Apple fanboy by any stretch, but I CAN be objective, and CAN give credit where credit is due. It's my personal opinion that Steve Jobs was a visionary, a pioneer, and genius, and meant more to the people of the 21st Century than any other person possibly could have. Anyone who's old enough to remember (I'm 31) the onset of the "tech revolution", should be able to give props to Jobs for being at the forefront of the movement, and those of you who are younger...I hope you can have the proper perspective to recognize just what the man's influence means/meant to ALL of us.

So sound off guys...give me your opinions. Just please, be respectful and mature about this. Mods... feel free to shut this down if you see it getting out of hand, please. I'm not trying to start a flame thread here...I'd just like to have some good, objective opinions on the man's influence, NOT his personality or Apple's "politics" in the industry. Respect TRUE legends people! :-)
[Motorola Droid 3] jojo4747:
I agree he is one of the greatest innovators of our time, I own an Ipod and it is truly peculiar.
[Motorola Droid 3] ourtut:
Im not trying to micromanage but ahh. This topic has nothing to do with droid 3. Suggestions: apple forum or maybe off topic forum.
[Motorola Droid 3] jjhiza:
I agree 100%. I must have overlooked the Off Topic section on my Galaxy Tab…my bad. Mods can move it ther if they want, but I didn't post in the Apple forums for a reason. I wanted to give the Android community the ability to express their opinions on Jobs' legacy in the industry, regardless of platform. I'm not home at the moment, so I can't move the thread to another location from my Tab, but mods are more than welcome to do so, if they feel it's waranted. I've been impressed with the objectivity here in the D3 forums, so I figured I'd give people here a chance to sound off first. :-)
[Motorola Droid 3] wootizzle:
My 2 cents; though the company seems to be working in a very sketchy manor as far as their I guess mobile division goes. I do favor their computers over the ones I have bought/built and believe the extent of innovation he has brought to the table is pretty amazing.
[Motorola Droid 3] PWn3R:
I don't like apple, and i don't care for their closed source, narrow minded ideas, and I don't like their forced hardware control. That being said, i think he was quite the businessman.
[Motorola Droid 3] redsox985:
He made a huge impact on the entire electronics industry, but I will forever prefer my open source, porn-watching device.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] camoto:
I wanted this so bad that I just ended up making it myself.

This is a slightly modified Contacts.apk which has a scaled dialer pad for those of us running a different DPI than stock and don't want the dialer all squished into the corner.

***Please don't attempt this if you aren't sure.***

To install FIRST BACK UP your current Contacts.apk (and Contacts.odex if you have one)

Two Methods:

Using adb:

adb shell mount -o remount rw /system
adb push Contacts.apk /system/app/Contacts.apk
adb shell rm /system/app/Contacts.odex
adb reboot

OR using Root Explorer:

Copy this Contacts.apk to your SD card

Navigate to /system/app

Mount as R/W

Rename Contacts.apk (and Contacts.odex if you have it) to Contacts.apk.bak (and Contacts.odex.bak)

Copy the new Contacts.apk and paste it in /system/app

Change permissions of pasted file to rw-r--r--

reboot phone

Contacts.apk
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] clown_luv:
Wouldn't root explorer work also. Might be easier for the newbies :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] camoto:
Good point. Updated first post. Thank you.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] hkeyman:
Works perfectly!

Thanks for the Multi DPI Dialer Camoto...Worked like a champ and now I have full dialer at 200DPI on the phone. ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] simpl3lang:
Works great. Thanks. The only problem i see is that this doss not change the incall keypad. Any fix on that?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] camoto:
:mad:

I didn't realize that. I have tried a few changes here but I can't seem to figure out which XML file controls the layout for the in-call dialer...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] camoto:
If anybody knows the answer to this or can help me out, I am not able to figure this one out...