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[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jherbold:
I got unlimited back

Wanted to share my experience hassling with ATT to keep my unlimited plan. There is no ATT store in my town so I called them directly on 11/26 to order my Vivid. I made it very clear to the agent I talked to that I would only continue with this phone and ATT on the condition I keep my unlimited plan.

The agent assured me there would be no problem, but since it was an LTE phone, their system would not allow them to code my old plan. I was told when I call to activate, THEN they would be able to code my old plan. In the mean time, I would automatically be put in the 2gb plan. He said they do this all the time. I had him put a note in the system that I wanted to keep data unlimited.

When I called to activate, I balked at the automated message to accept terms of agreement, and talked to an agent. When I explained to him that I did not want to activate the phone without unlimited data, right off the bat he said "No problem I can do that for you."

Turns out he could not. His system would not allow it either. He was very helpful though, and called customer care while I was on the line. Their system would not allow them to keep my old plan either.

The agent opened an action request to send to "the back office people". The response was due in 5 days. I did have him put a note in the system that I wanted to keep my old plan. I figured what the heck, I have 30 days to return this and continue using my old phone and old plan.

The next day I called again to have visual voice mail activated, and that agent could not code my old plan into her system either. She was less helpful and basically took the attitude - So what? Live with it. I did insist she put a note in her system that I wanted to keep unlimited data.

Today I got a text from ATT:

"Data unlimited was added to your account effective 11/29."

Good thing. In the first few days I've had this phone I am really impressed with its speed and features. It would have been torture going back.

I hope my experience can help someone else going through the same hassle.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Longcat14:
You used the wifi hotspot feature that AT&T puts on there, instead of something like PDANet.

Obviously you would get caught.

Now your stuck without unlimited data, because they will NOT give it back.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Uncle Irish:
Play dumb. Tell them you were checking it out to see what it was and then stopped using it. They should be able to change you back to your normal plan. Dealing with Bellsouth/Cingular/AT&T for years and if I have a problem, I play dumb and be cool. Only a few times have I had to get belligerent and and talk to them like a crazy drunk man.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] PRTEQ:
Did that with no luck... Grrrrr
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Uncle Irish:
I don't understand why people lose the unlimited. You either tell them you want to keep it or you tell them they are in a breach of contract. If they stand firm, go to month to month and make a friendly phone call to them every day during lunch and tell the that you are willing to sign a new 2 year if they are willing to stand by your original contract.

Any time I have an issue with my phone, no matter how small, I call and report it. Create history. Tell them how long you have been a customer. Tell them how you are never offered free devices like Sprint users are. Let them know that you stay with AT&T for a reason, but are willing to go elsewhere. I consistently use upwards of 5-7 gb per month. There are times I have used upwards of 20gb. I don't get a text or email, I get a phone call with a recorded message to call AT&T. I call... they tell me I used X amount of gb. I tell them I am using my unlimited plan the way it was intended to be used -unlimited-. I don't tether my phone, instead, I do what I want on the phone itself. If I want an ISO of Ubuntu, I download it. If I want an album, I download it. I do everything from my phone My laptop is on wireless and when I have no signal, I download from the phone and USB xfr it. Don't let them tell you what you are supposed to have, tell them you have what you signed up for and that's it. Force their hand, just do it nicely. And like I said before. If you have any sort of issue with your phone, call and report it. Let them either fix it or try to fix it. Create history. Your continued history goes a long way.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] AnyMal:
I don't understand why people get so upset when they try to play games with AT&T and lose. You know full well that in order to tether you have to have a Data Pro plan but you still want to push your luck for some reason. Got caught and lost your unlimited plan? Sucks to be you.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jhova8301:
I would rather keep the unlimited. LTE seems to use up data faster. I'm not sure if that's just perception but my data use seems to have went up with out my habits changing.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] babo1453:
When they launched the Vivid/Skyrocket, the POS programmers didn't put the unlimited check-box on the correct screen for reps and they simply couldn't find it--it was under a tab with random/expired features---took them about a week to fix it. It is now fixed and yes, you can grandfather it without issue.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fergie716:
So I'm using the new ICS framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk from this ICS ROM. I am using this version of apktool.jar to decompile

Now, I can decompile the SystemUI.apk and framework-res.apk without any errors. However, I am unable to compile, even if I didn't mod anyting

My error log is attached

If anyone could shed some light on what I would need to do to get past these errors I would greatly appreciate it

Just so there's no confusion, I'm using apktool by Brut.alll, not APK Manager. I have a W7 laptop

***This is solved, check out my thread here (post #3)***

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1365810
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] to_panki:
I too feel the same :(
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qtwrk:
i have same problem when recompile it ...even without change anything , still shows error when recompile
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fergie716:
Hey guys I'll mark this thread as solved

Check out the third post here on how to set up apktool for ICS

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1365810
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] to_panki:
THX !!! work perfectly!!
[General Questions and Answers] Falkner09:
So, if you haven't heard, the news we have so far says ICS removes USB mass storage, likely due to Google's efforts to pressure everyone to use the cloud instead. so now I'm curious have they nerfed sd card support as well? for example, in honeycomb, there was already no support for writing to sd, which meant you couldn't even install apps to an sd card, like earlier android versions. I'm wondering if they're planning to carry the limitation over to ICS.

It wouldn't surprise me if they never gave the function to tablets; after all, since it was a limitation for Honeycomb tabs to begin with, all the manufacturers started out releasing honeycomb tabs with larger memory than they did to phones, since users wouldn't be able to get much use out of a tab with only 300 MB to write to. but since ICS is for phones AND tabs, and so many existing phones don't have a large amount of onboard storage, no write support would mean google is effectively banning a LARGE amount of otherwise good phones from ICS by blocking adoption of Market apps, which gives users less incentive to stay in the Android ecosystem when they get their next upgrade.

anyway, what's the situation? anyone know, maybe some devs who've looked at the ICS source?
[General Questions and Answers] mauserruger:
No Sd

If this is the case it'll suck!! lol
[General Questions and Answers] BuddaBelly:
Even if this is the case and they do not offer SD storage on ICS it will not effect cooked roms at all (devs will get apps2sd going). With that said ICS does come in the phone flavor so I really do not see Google going backwards and removing features such as SD storage but like you said everyone is pushing for cloud storage.
[General Questions and Answers] lowandbehold:
ICS supports SD cards, it just does not support usb mass storage. That means when you hook your phone up with usb, you cannot read/write to the SD card. This is actually more of an issue with phones that DON'T have an SD card, as I can just take my SD card out and put it into my computer and do everything I need to. This doesn't mean you can't add or remove files, you just use MTP to do it. Yea, it is a little bit of a pain in the ass, but we will get use to it. And really, what is the alternative? An Iphone? Then you will have to go about it the same way..just with Itunes.

Alot of people prefer MTP because it doesn't unmount the SD card to achieve mass storage capabilities.
[General Questions and Answers] Falkner09:
MTP may have its advantages, but it can't fully replace USB mass storage's functions. without drag and drop to ANY computer, file transfer and management becomes limited. this is one of THE major reasons I chose Android as a smartphone OS to begin with, after hassling with an iPod touch for 2 years. Fact is, I have actually NEEDED the function many times; the lack of it would have caused some serious problems for me. I'm not going to go into each situation I've had here, but here's my bottom line: *most interesting man in the world impression* I don't always need USB mass storage, but when I need, it, I NEED it.

anyway, from a non-ranting perspective, I'm intrigued as to what this OS change is going to do to the market for smartphones. Assuming Google doesn't give the option back, I'm predicting three consequences, each not too big on its own, but altogether, problematic:

1. OEMs may be even more reluctant to update existing phones to ICS, for fear their users will be upset at the loss of the function - as if the updates situation wasn't constricted enough already.

2. for the same reason as above, some OEMs may be more likely to release their upcoming phones with 2.3 instead of 4.0+. keep in mind, some OEMs are still releasing "new" phones on froyo, despite it having been replaced by Gingerbread for a while now. they do this now almost entirely as a cost cutting measure. when you add in the fact of at least one functional downgrade? they'll get worried that at least some new customers will get spooked by it and... (see problem 3). something also worth considering here, which many people have already pointed out, is that many of the new features of ICS, especially its new interface changes, are very similar to mods that Samsung and HTC have already put into already released versions of Sense and Touchwiz. So many regular users, when browsing for a new phone in store, wouldn't even see all the "new" features of ICS as any different than many of the other in store models. most people don't spend hour after hour online researching every little feature and quirk of every phone; they just go in, play with demo models a little bit, ask maybe a couple questions about the phone itself, which the worker probably can't answer, then picked based on a few minor differences.

3. as you pointed out, the alternative is to buy an iPhone - which many people will do. Android's only real advantage over the iPhone isn't that it works better, because it doesn't: its major market advantage is that it does MORE than the iPhone, even if it could use improvement in its implementation. If Android's ability to do more keeps getting slowly downgraded, AND the iPhone slowly but surely copies more of what Android does (see EVERYTHING in iOS 5 for example) then there's going to be a significant amount of people choosing iOS over Android. maybe not people on this board, but believe me, that's how a significant amount of regular people are going to look at it.
[General Questions and Answers] lowandbehold:
Oook...all I did was answer your question...so buy a phone with an SD card...no issues then. Just pop it into a converter and pop it into your computer...drag and drop until your hearts content.
[General Questions and Answers] Falkner09:
sry if I came across as defensive or something, I'm actually just really into analyzing the issues with the development of tech markets.

removing the sd card can solve the problem sometimes.... but not all the time. many computers don't have sd card ports, especially ones at businesses, but also personal computers that are just slightly low end, or only slightly older. (macbooks didnt have SD card ports until 2009, and they tend to last pretty long, so those models will be around for a while.) even if a computer does have an sd port, it's usually a regular size one, not micro, so you need an adapter on hand. yet those adapters are less likely to be around than a micro usb cable is.
[General Questions and Answers] lowandbehold:
They sell the adapters at wal mart for like $5, and you can get an SD card reader with USB to attach to a computer for a couple dollars as well..I completely agree that the loss of USB mass storage capability sucks...but we are still better off than apple users. And im pretty sure the devs will figure out how to get it working on custom ROM's.
[General Questions and Answers] blucmal:
Lack of mass storage will be major step back in my opinion, Looks like everyone is heading towards Apple way of thinking. Forcing the user to use the "ecosystem."
[General Questions and Answers] Jaytronics:
What are these?

What are these files? Will they work on my 3G only Xoom? Or is it just wishfull thinking?

http://goo-inside.me/roms/teameos/stingray_cdma

Eos-stingray_cdma-9.zip

Eos-stingray_cdma-9a.zip

full_stingray3g-ota-eng.solarnz.zip

---------- Post added at 04:36 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:10 AM ----------

I just realised that I posted in the wrong place. Sorry people.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adam3Sixty:
Now, I don;t know if this is a Kernal or a rom based issue, but, XLoud was GREAT on my play, and since a recent update, it doesn't work :(

When u have music playing, checking the XLoud button makes the sound get louder for a second, but then goes back to normal volume again :(

If anyone has any advice or a fixs for this, it would be great :)
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ff7fan4eva:
I've asked this question like 4 times on here and no one has any idea what i'm talking about, I've also tried to replace files from old version to new version and it's the same, really low

See here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1321030

You'll get used to the volume reduction though after some time
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacklebott:
I'm on the latest .42 Firmware (TW version) with DooMKerneL v08, and XLoud works brilliantly. Make sure you reboot after activating XLoud though, makes a HUGE difference (mine is quiet too when activating without rebooting afterward)
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
Sony reduced the volume of xloud. Move on :rolleyes:
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adam3Sixty:
I'm on the lastest UK firmware, with DooMKernaL v8 also, and rebooting makes no difference, I have even found that having XLoud UNchecked it is louder, dunno if there may be a bit of an error somewhere along the line that has reversed the check switch =/ lol.

Like i said in first post, it is REALLY weird, when it was first added u could have music playing, press the check box to ON and u could hear it get louder instantly, and A LOT louder. Now, it goes louder for a second then goes quiet, uncheck it and it actually gets louder.

I'll try to post a video later, but I dunno how well it will come out.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacklebott:
Sounds to me like your firmware might not have been updated correctly?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CZroe:
Where is the option to enable or use Xloud? I see no checkbox or reference in any of the logical places (sound settings). It's like you guys are talking about something that doesn't exist on my phone.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
Xloud is only on 2.3.3+ if your using 2.3.2 it wont be there.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] heavymetalhero91:
i updated my phone to the official 2.3.6 last night and i tried sending a large SMS and it failed i tried again and it still failed<i changed contacts and it still failed i tried i reset the phone and I'm still having the same problem...i'm wondering if its a problem with the official 2.3.6 cause when i was using the rom for 2.3.5 i got off here i didn't have that problem does anyone else have this same problem?...any help would be appreciated :)
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] chris31jct:
I have never been able to send large SMS. You sure the SMS you are sending now is somewhat like the ones you sent before? I think SMS have limits so maybe it could be that in KJ6 they altered it. Don't know. Just random thoughts. :)
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] stephen_w:
There were other threads with people having this issue after upgrading to kj6. Not sure of a resolution, though.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] farmerbb:
I had the same problem with sending large texts after upgrading to the official Gingerbread release from KI3... so I ended up flashing the KI3 modem from the modems thread back to my phone and that fixed the problem.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] PANTERA56:
So I'm wondering if anyone has been able to find a 2.3.6 rom that allows long texts?I've tried octane 3.0 simply simple, Valhalla final.And I 2have had 2 resort 2 putting ki3 back in order to send long Texts.I guess the sacrifice of official gb is the long texts 8(.

If anyone has encountered any solution I think it would be great our sgs4g is still on top of the android food chain lol particularly because of the devs we have and the great work they do .
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Look at the post above yours...
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] tehgyb:
Exactly correct, the long SMS and large mms issues are from kj6's modem.bin. Using ki3 or another modem fixes this.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] PANTERA56:
So before I posted my question I read other posts! And I even state that I am also on ki3 !!!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] tehgyb:
We were just confirming you can use the ki3 modem on official kj6 without any issues at all :X the kj6 modem just won't allow it
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Like tehgyb said, if you read carefully the poster said that the solution was to have a KJ6 ROM with the KI3 MODEM. It'll fix what ails you.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Oneflip2:
is it possible to root galaxy gio 2.3.5?
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] wikz87:
yeah y not just read rooting thread...
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Oneflip2:
i thought it was just for 2.3.3?
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] ItachiSama:
Is same. Differences may exist betwen froyo (2.2.*) and gingerbread (2.3.*) but if you install a GINGERBREAD update on GINGERBREAD i think you won't any problems right? :)
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Oneflip2:
ok thanks :) i tried and it worked
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] ItachiSama:
Ok. now... THANK ME! LOL
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] pilotguy415:
Well, I posted about this in another thread but figured I would post here to get more exposure.

So, here is the issue. I rooted my NT and renamed the LatinIME.apk to LatinIME.apk1 so I can move my swiftkey apk (which I was going to rename LatinIME.apk). Of course, I had a blonde moment and renamed the built in APK before renaming the swiftkey apk and I lost the keyboard. No big deal right? Just reset device. So, I reset by going into settings and doing the reset/deregister device. Got back into the set up....still no keyboard. So I tried a hard key reset (n and power) and still no keyboard.

It appears that, when doing a reset, the device wipes all data but does not actually RESET the OS through any recovery type process.

Question........any ideas? I can't get adb obviously because I have lost debugging.

Curious if there might be anyway to boot the device differently to access shell or something. Hopefully someone has an idea, I have to wait tell monday to replace it if it comes to that :(
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Drewmungus:
what about installing nook color tools then you can get back to the development menu. enable usb debugging and take care of the rest with adb.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] pilotguy415:
As I understand it. Nook color tools is an apk...which I cannot install due to not being able to get past the B&N account login screen. Can't get past that without a keyboard :(
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] theundeadelvis:
I'm in a similar boat. Was trying to get the market working following the thread on the other page, and I copied the entire apps folder over my existing one (why I didn't backup the old one!) Now I have no keyboard either, and I'm getting constant force closes!

Maybe someone could post an un-modified system folder?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Vavomer:
Try a failed 8 boots, turn on, after black N screen hold power until screen turns off and repeat 8 times.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] RussianMenace:
^. After a certain amount of failed boots the nook will default into a total factory reset. Witnessed it earlier today when after installing Chainfire the NT went into a a boot-loop. Then automatically reset itself.

Worth a shot.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] theundeadelvis:
Well, I tried 8 failed boots, and it didn't re-image. I then peeked in the rom/devconf/ folder and there's no "bootcnt" file?

*edit* Got it to work. Took 10 times.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] pilotguy415:
Ok, so I kept trying to boot which resulted in it eventually giving me a screen saying "please reboot your device. If the error continues contact customer support or goto nook.com/tablet/support". The website was no help. Took it to a store, they called customer support and got confused. Customer support told them to replace it. So they did...I didn't even have to give back my charger...so now I have an extra! :D
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rmm200:
Returns

I really hope B&N Customer Support figures out it would be a heck of a lot cheaper to let us run our own image off an SD card, and not have to deal with all the customer support calls and returns.

Unfortunately - they are much more likely to yell Warranty Violation and refuse to do anything...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tonyp22:
Would it have been possible to mount the device and access it from Ubuntu and then just renaime the file?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] theundeadelvis:
Got mine to re-image. Re-rooted and market installed. I'm happy again!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tonyp22:
Details please. How did you do it?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] theundeadelvis:
You power down, then power back on. As soon as the white screen comes up (with the "n" on it) hold down the power button until it powers down again. Do this ten times in a row and it will automatically start the re-image. If at any time the boot animation starts up you have to start over.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] pilotguy415:
For the particular issue I was having...no. Since I reset the device I was not able to get past the B&N login screen and therefor had no access to the /system/app folder. Although, it seems that some people are having success with the re-image process. I think mine was trying to re-image but something was corrupt and caused my to have worse issues that resulted in nothing but replacement.
[Epic 4G General] andrewt328:
I want to convert my brothers epic back to stock without root or custom roms or anything...i just want to update through the sprint updates to 2.3. I think right now it is on a 2.1 rom...so how would i go about getting it on the official sprint updated 2.3 ginerbread?

thanks
[Epic 4G General] MДЯCЦSДИT:
Why nit just flash an ei22 rom ... it will keep Witt and update you. The almost stock rom works good.
[Epic 4G General] Speedin07si:
Odin back to EC05 and then manually or wait for the gingerbread update to be pushed to it... You'll lose all data doing this though. The
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Yes here is the thread to help you revert it to EC05 to get the OTA from Sprint:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1052813

Also as mentioned you could always just flash a custom Gingerbread ROM like Legendary.