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[Captivate General] quarlow:
If you go into the att store and just say you want to use their upgrade on your line they will do it no problem. As long as you are the primary account holder.

If you are doing it third party, or online you can upgrade their line with the new phone (activate required data plan if applicable) then put your sim card in the phone. You can deactivate the data plan on the other line whenever you want. You will need to call att to have them change your data from 3G to Faux G, but you will keep the same plan (cost and limit, even unlimited), it you won't get data on the GS II with the "3G" data provision.

I just went through this recently.

P.S. Do yourself a favor and get the original Galaxy S II (i777) instead of the skyrocket ... you'll thank me later.

Sent from my Galaxy S II (i777)
[Captivate General] ConeyKiller:
I believe number is attached to sim. Just pop your sim in and good to go. Just ask ATT, its not illegal to switch phones
[Captivate General] ri3tn:
Thanks so much! And I was definitely going for the i777; dev support is flourishing there.

"You will need to call att to have them change your data from 3G to Faux G, but you will keep the same plan (cost and limit, even unlimited), it you won't get data on the GS II with the "3G" data provision."

I'm not sure what you mean here. So when I put MY sim into the SGS 2, I should call att about my line, and have them change whatever you said?

I have an unlimited data plan - I was planning on just taking the newly bought SGS2 to the ATT store and have them transfer my unlimited plan to it. Would this work? What other options do I have to keep my unlimited plan?
[Captivate General] quarlow:
Yeah they can do it in store, or call. Just tell them you got a sgs II and the data doesn't work, because it won't. They have to "provision" your line for 4G/HSPA+ data instead of 3G. You can still keep unlimited for $30. It shows up on your bill differently, you will see two pro-rated data plans with different names, but it will still total $30.

It will be easiest in store, as you can verify it works before you leave, but the phone reps can do it too.

Sent from my Galaxy S II (i777)
[Captivate General] qwertyaas:
Just tell them you want to cross-upgrade. They will set it all up for you. If you do it from a retailer (Costco, Bestbuy...), they will set up the upgraded line and then you will call AT&T after to cancel the data plan associated with the upgrade and switch the IMEI to your line - since they need to change the data plan to the 4g variant.

When you put your current sim in the SGSII, network will work but data won't. That's because the data plan on the Captivate isn't compatible with the SGSII. I found that out last week ;)

Careful though as some places like Amazon require you to sign a contract with them as well stating that if you cancel any part of the plan or use the phone on another line, they hit you with early term fees (I think it's just Amazon actually).

Oh yeah, and the SGSII is an awesome phone!
[Captivate General] ri3tn:
Yeah I figure Amazon and Wirefly are off limits for this. They require the line to stay with the data plan for 3-6 months, depending on the retailer.

Thanks for your help!
[Captivate General] chappatti:
Grea thread ! Some more explanation..please

Ok. I am not fully understanding this great switcheroo.

Wont you still have the other non-SGSII still active and paying for it in the family plan.

Can someone please explain how this goes step-by-step? I mean what if I am not yet eligible for an upgrade, can I just add a SGSII line this way, and turn off the other phone>>>??

Step-by-step.......puhlesaseeeeee!

EDIT: Hmmmmmmmmmm......after re-reading it looks it means you have to be eligible for an upgrade to do this? So since I do not have an upgrade option I am just getting excited for nothing ????
[Captivate General] quarlow:
You can add a line for a new phone, such as SGS II, and then use that phone for your line. But, you cannot cancel your existing line until the contract ends, which would be ~3 months after you are eligible for an upgrade. You can cancel the dataplan you are forced to add if you add another line, but you are stuck paying $9.99 + taxes and fees, a month for that line for 24 months. So it adds up costing $250+ over the next 2 years.

You can call and try to talk your way into a early upgrade. If you are nice, and mention considering ending your service they may let you upgrade early for new price plus $30. Several others have said that worked for them. But, it may depend on how close you are to an upgrade. If you got a new phone 6 months ago you may be stuck for a while.

Sent from my Galaxy S II (i777)
[Captivate General] chappatti:
Thanks quarlow..........I hit the button !
[Captivate General] quarlow:
YW ;)

I hope you find a way to get your new phone.

Sent from my Galaxy S II (i777)
[Captivate General] GSMinCT:
I did this with an iPhone 4S (my upgrade's not up until this spring, the contract outlasted my patience with the Samsuck Craptivate). If you go to a CORPORATE AT&T store, it's no big deal to do. The lady there handled the whole thing for me and I was up and running in no time...
[Captivate General] ri3tn:
Alright, so I went ahead and got the SGS 2 from Radioshack because they had a 50 dollar deal for Black Friday. I looked at the receipt though, and it says that "If the Device and its wireless service agreement are not continuously in service for 90 days after the original purchase date and the Device is not returned to the Retailer, I agree that the Retailer may charge my credit card an unreturned merchandise fee equal to the Device's Non Activated Price minus the activated price I paid".

I bought it with no sim card for my mom's line. I have the primary line, and I was wondering if it's still okay for my to just insert my sim in the phone to use (would I be charged the above stated fee?). The phone hasn't had any sim card put it in yet at all. Is there any way to get around this? Does anyone have any experience with upgrading like this through Radioshack?

EDIT: Just talked to an ATT rep and he told me that I would not incur any fees/charges for switching equipment, and proceeded to do so for me. I'm still sort of anxious though, don't want to be charged a ridiculous amount for doing this. I saved the chat as a PDF (talked to an online rep) just in case. Anyone want to chime in with an opinion of what I should do?
[Captivate General] apbthe3:
They are just trying to prevent you from using your upgrade to get a new phone, then immediately terminating the contract and selling the phone. As long as you are actually using it on your plan, you're all good.
[Captivate General] qwertyaas:
Careful, some stores (Amazon) will charge you an early term fee if you move the phone to another line within 6 months.
[HTC Rezound] con247:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1158951

That can probably be done with this phone since it uses the same chipset as the E3D and Sensation. Once I get mine next tuesday/wednesday ill see what I can do about getting this module to work.

If anyone takes a look at it, post anything you have tried. This could in theory at the very least allow an undervolt which would help offset the LTE power sucking.
[HTC Rezound] reverepats:
Yeah see I wwas talking about this earlier. I think this will work. I PMed viperboy who actually wrote one of the bloatware scripts when we had temproot. Just waiting for a response AMD hope to get a jump start on this. Good idea starting this thread tho
[HTC Rezound] con247:
Coming from the bravoc which has almost zero development aside from 2fast at his site I am used to just thinking of things to try. I was able to port a couple dinc roms to it even though I was told it couldn't be done. I hope to be much more involved with development here since there are already more posts in this section than there were in a year at the site dedicated to the bravoc
[HTC Rezound] reverepats:
Yeah I.hear ya. I.haven't gotten much Involved myself buy then again I'm no dev LOL. But I k.ow my way around a bit. But I think the dev section is gonna he hoppin as well.
[HTC Rezound] con247:
It took a few days to get that inc port almost bugfree (usb pc transfer wouldn't work) but it was otherwise fine iirc. I hope that with support and other work to use as examples i can make some stuff for this device that isn't either a variation of AOSP or a sense port that has some serious drawbacks.
[HTC Rezound] teegunn:
I am personally more interested in the possibility of underclocking and undervolting than OCing. Or maybe OCing and undervolting like I did with my droid x - can really help save some battery and allow the phone to sip less juice. This phone is so new I am getting ahead of myself, but hopefully in time we can get root/roms/OCing and undervolting apps to work on the Rezound.
[HTC Rezound] AtLemacks:
I normally run my battery on performance mode on all my phones. I set it to normal, and with the equivalent usage I get 1/3 better battery life. I even leave all my antenna's on(except WiFi when I am away).
[HTC Rezound] wiiman3601:
Just to let everyone know what I tried. I took the file for "unsupported phones" from the link's thread and changed the version number to match the rezound, which is -- 2.6.35.13-g20c5d1d -- . As you can see it was not just the ending part starting with the 'g' that needed to be changed as ours is 2.6.35.13 and the file was made for 2.6.35.10. But since a reboot resets everything I tried it by changing only the part starting with 'g' and it failed saying "Exec format error". So I then changed the entire version string to match ours and adb actually completed the task but the phone rebooted immediately and everything was wiped out again.

I did this before the kernel source was put up on the forums but since I dont have ANY knowledge of messing with kernels I am no help there, but hopefully this can help someone get this mod going for the Rezound.
[HTC Rezound] con247:
we don't have perma root like the 3vo did so I don't think this will work until then. But this was a band aid until the kernel source was released so this won't even be necessary anymore.
[HTC Rezound] pstevep:
The guy who made Setcpu made a script that allowed oc on the stock kernel on the 3D. It was before perm root. It was right after agrabren found the first exploit and a reboot would return the phone to stock. You temp rooted ran the script from adb and used Setcpu to oc.. Some of the smoothest kernel action the 3D had.. I'm sure same thing is potentially there, just need someone smart enough to do..
[HTC Rezound] con247:
send me a link. Ill take a look at the script.
[HTC Rezound] reverepats:
Yeah I rememba that man. I was just talking about that the other day. I also mentioned that maybe we can use that somehow but I wouldn't know where TP start. But we need a stable Temp Root first I think. Not degrading anyone's work either.
[HTC Rezound] pstevep:
It will take me a little time to find. I don't think I have the script on sd anymore and the thread is buried deep. I shall go look.

Edit: ironically easier than I thought to find. Here is the thread from the 3D forum.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1158951

And I know for a fact this worked and worked well. I used for a while, well up until we were s-off..
[HTC Rezound] combatmedic870:
sooooooo set cpu works with root....i made a profile for screen off. seems to be working.....
[HTC Rezound] con247:
Cool. I did find a tidbit that might (don't get your hopes up and basically pretend I didn't even say this) make root last longer. Obviously until I have my rezound for the next few days I can't even think about testing anything.
[HTC Rezound] AtLemacks:
Then put it out there for us to test! Don't be selfish! lol
[HTC Rezound] con247:
I will once I get around to writing it. I am in class right now then I am driving 5 hours home. So maybe tomorrow afternoon Ill get a script working. Also, I may have figured out a way to disable elements of sense in an automated script(for those that don't like sense).
[HTC Rezound] 2fast4u88:
Since I happened to venture to theses parts since our buddy plat ventured to this. I am a bit surprised to see you switched. How ever the module you are talking about in the op I am pretty sure you can't just hex edit the kernel version. As the kernel will be different for the device compared to that of the evo 3d. If it is anything like doing the g2 version for the htc merge that is. Where it had to be recompiled to work correctly.

I am sure one of the dev's familiar in here with building source code could get it done up. If it works after that I am unsure. Though con you ported the sense hd rom from the inc to the desire. That was the only one that you had ported. Followed by you followed samuel2706's guide and other info he gave you. Then you came to me to ask how I fixed the mms and verizon branding in the rom. In which I told you how to fix it but you put it off as you fixed it. As you are putting off in here.
[HTC Sensation XL] blountish:
It will not go past the fastboot, recovery page. Any idea what I can do thanks?
[HTC Sensation XL] DanTehMan01:
What were you doing to brick the phone? any details on what was happening at the time?
[HTC Sensation XL] blountish:
It crashed and I removed the battery but I have had my XL exhanged for a new one although was almost tempted for a different phone. ie the samsung galaxy nexus 1 and nokia lumina 800
[HTC Sensation XL] shingers5:
tempted for a next phone? are you joking lol

whatever you did plz dont do again whatever you do. we have root, recovery too so happy flashing. backup before doing anything at all.
[HTC Sensation XL] blountish:
Oh no I wont be doing that again. The only reason I dont like it is the storage space
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] HypostaticOnion:
Does anyone know if there is some sort of discount available for honors society members? I know there's some people here who work for Verizon and hopefully they will offer advice. I know T-Mobile offers a discount for Phi Theta Kappa members, and I am a member, but obviously on Verizon and incapable of getting on T-Mobile while keeping the bill setup I have going as I am on my dads plan, but I pay him for service. Is there a Phi Theta Kappa discount for Verizon customers??
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
I get 15% for being in the army :-) lol

But no I don't think they offer that
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] zax10:
I will look it up tomorrow when I get to my store.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] beenz:
Only 15%??? I'm pretty sure my mom gets a bigger discount for working at JC Penny (I think it's 18%, but still). That's absolutely ludicrous. You should get at least 25% for being in the military, imo

I also think you should be able to drink if you are in the military (if under 21), but that's another discussion
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] HypostaticOnion:
Lol I'm not worried about drinking at all anyway so that issue I don't care about, the discount however I do. I'm thinking 25% as well.

And thanks zax. Appreciate it. I'm just looking for a way to maybe get some money off my bill or even an early upgrade or more credit for one when it gets here. Any help is awesome.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] zax10:
Check your PM tyler.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] mihneagabriel:
If your dad is the main person on the bill then it doesn't matter. Even if they offer the discount to you, you won't be able to use it if you aren't the main person on the account

And I agree military should get 25%, I get 20% for working at home depot

Sent from my Incredible 6 using futuristic technology.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] ddgarcia05:
I get 25% for being a state employee. And 20% off accessories for the same reason. Although when I call to Verizon to buy accessories I'm always told, "you seem like a good guy I'm gonna give you a discount". I just act stupid and thank em.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] HypostaticOnion:
My dad is a state employee in FL, you think we could snag that or is your phone through your work?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] ddgarcia05:
I'm sure you can. The discount is on my personal. Our work phones are with sprint. The never get service anywhere network.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] HypostaticOnion:
Hmmm I'll ask him if he knows about it.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] bradsinram:
My step dad works for usps and we get a discount on our family plan for that
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] HypostaticOnion:
He already knows.... And he's at 18% right now
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] pickaxe300:
Discounts...

Verizon has a website where you can put in your employer or group you belong to and it will search for a discount if your company is listed. Im just a tire jocky and get a whopping 6% off my bill..lol But hey, its money back in my pocket anyways! If i can pull up the site, i will link to it for you. Good luck in your hunt.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] kujayhawks77:
Most state governments get 25% off. The only bad thing is that the 25% doesn't apply to data (at least not an unlimited data plan).
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
I'll have to think Verizon for my measley 15% after my deployment..
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] bluedegeon:
Nice to know!!:D
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] klabit87:
Our bill is in my wife's name and we get a 22% discount because she works at our local hospital.

I had considered transferring the account to my name so I could get my 18% for working for the state but 22% is a bit better.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] TheAtheistReverend:
Also getting the 22% through the Hospital I am employed at. With this discout I am paying what I would be paying straight-cost at T-mo but better service (that's coverage, not customer).

My wifes parents are usps employees, maybe we should merge...
[Motorola Droid X2] mattfox27:
Is there a port out there to bring bionic or razr cam to X2 i know eclipse 1.3 has bionic cam in it but i tried replacing my cam with it and it did not work. My phone is deodexed so i was wondering if there are any special tricks to get that cam to work on an X2 not running eclipse?
[Motorola Droid X2] Mr_GreenJeans:
here is the bionic camera and hacked gallery I used from eclipse. I manually pushed them into /system/app and then remember to correct permissions.
[Motorola Droid X2] mattfox27:
It won't install...

Renamed BlurCamera.apk.bak and BlurGallery.apk.bak sent over both files, set perm rw-r-r clicked on them to install and they won't go...
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
You don't need to press install....just put em in system/app, fix perms, reboot phone.

should be good to go.
[Motorola Droid X2] Mr_GreenJeans:
yeah, camera would not install automatically, had to manually push them to /system/app as i stated before. once there they will show up in your app drawer. no need to try and install the apk once it is in /system/app
[Motorola Droid X2] dimitri407:
Does this help the camera at all on the Droid X2?
[Motorola Droid X2] Watercycle:
yeah is it just an appearance change or does it actually help camera quality in any extent? =o
[Motorola Droid X2] lyrical1278:
Heck, I wonder if this same method would work for blurhome2. Wish I could get the newer blur from the razr since that seems much more refined on resources than the blur that came with the phone.

I just prefer the stock blur look over the other roms.
[Motorola Droid X2] mattfox27:
Thats weird...its not showing up in app drawer perm should be rw-r-r right?

This is going on a stock deodexed X2 no eclipse roms or anything...that should work ya?
[Motorola Droid X2] mattfox27:
do you have to rename it to blurcamera.apk? or something?
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
Did u reboot?

It wont show up until after u reboot your phone...(power off and power on....not sure if ur using "hot reboot" and I have always done it by power off then power on. )

---------- Post added at 12:58 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:53 AM ----------

I thought it was ALREADY blurcamera.apk

but the name shouldn't matter.

Put in /system/app

Permission rw-r--r--

(Sometimes I also change owners to root)

reboot phone

If still giving u trouble....try pulling the one that is in the eclipse rom zip(1.3)

And push that one to system...
[Motorola Droid X2] mattfox27:
Ya its wierd i have done this with other apks before i don't know why this one is not working, im using ES file explorer to apk's over. Is this working on your phone? Before i posted this i tried using apk from eclipse 1.3 and it also wold not install.
[Motorola Droid X2] Tweek900:
Im liking this camera
[Motorola Droid X2] Moon Shadow - NM:
I grabbed this from the OP and pushed it via adb... After renaming BlurCamera.apk and BlurGallery.apk to .bak. Both the camera and the gallery disappeared. I am in the process of downloading Eclipse 1.3 (again) to pull the camera and gallery out of there and see if I can get it to work on my plain, rooted, deodexed, debloated, stock rom DX2.

[EDIT]

Didn't work. The 3D gallery showed up, but the camera didn't... Bummer. If you get it to work, let me know how you did it. Oh, I copied Camera.apk, CameraPreview.apk and Gallery3d.apk all to /system/app using adb. I chmod 644 all three files and chown root.root them as well. Powered off, then powered on, and still no go. I then tried renaming Camera.apk to BlurCamera.apk and still no go. Bummer, bummer, bummer. I will have to look at the framework next.

[/EDIT]

Ciao!
[Motorola Droid X2] X0dus:
They're going to disappear if you rename them .bak Not sure where you're going with this...
[Motorola Droid X2] Moon Shadow - NM:
Sorry, renamed the ORIGNAL BlurCamera.apk to BlurCamera.apk.bak and BlurGallery.apk to BlurGallery.apk.bak.

Just went back and re-read post #2... I just noticed that Mr_GreenJeans didn't say anything about renaming the original camera and gallery files, so that brings up a question... If the original files aren't renamed, how is the Bionic camera and the hack gallery supposed to work? Or, does it just ADD the Bionic camera and the hacked gallery to the DX2? Aw, hell... Lemme try that!

I'll be back to update my post.

[EDIT]

That didn't work either. I used adb to copy Camera.apk and CameraPreview.apk to /system/app/. Both of these came from the zip in post #2. This time, both the original blur gallery and the original blur camera disappeared...

I'm probably way too tired to be mucking around with this now... I'll take another hack at it in the morning.

[/EDIT]

Ciao!
[Motorola Droid X2] X0dus:
It has to be an issue with being stock b/c I just pull the camera.apk from Eclipse 1.3 and push it to Liberty RC1 and 1.0 just fine. I'm using the preview apk that comes with liberty.
[Motorola Droid X2] Moon Shadow - NM:
Alrighty, then... I guess I need to give Liberty one more chance... I got frustrated with Liberty because of the CPU mod. It was much slower than my stock ROM coming out of Deep Sleep. Tahnks.

Ciao!
[Motorola Droid X2] rp076:
I was able to do the same as well. Installed bionic camera with no problem & also using the preview in liberty...
[Motorola Droid X2] X0dus:
I actually run RC1 with Navendrob's init scripts tweaked. I find the rc1 to be a smoother ROM than the official. :/
[Motorola Droid X2] mastafunk:
If your running a rom that has a "dark" settings then odds are the system/app's have been resigned. If this camera was pulled from such a rom then it will be ignored as its keys wont match on stock.

You could resign yourself or run a rom like gingerfunk which is pretty close to stock but resigned.
[Motorola Droid X2] Jrkoffjonson:
Not to sound like a noob but how would one resign the apks to work on say..the 2.3.4 atrix port?

I'm interested in porting over the razr key board and camera..pushed every thing over to system/app and set permissions correctly before skimming through this thread and still to no avail. Rebooted and lost all that I replaced.. Wondering if I would need to resign those to match that of the Atrix rom or if its something thatll require a decompile of the apks..
[Motorola Droid X2] Moon Shadow - NM:
Hehehe... Hey, I never thought about trying that! I'm gonna have to do that and see if I can get it to work... So, I'm stubborn...

Sent from my rooted, deodexed, personalized, stock rom, Motorola Droid X2. What's with the locked bootloader Moto????