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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BarryH_GEG:
This whole thread boils down to you not getting what you wanted when you wanted it. I had a similar problem in May with the SGS2. I had to return a G2X to T-Mobile under remorse and needed the SGS2 to replace it. Through no one's fault, the SGS2 didin't arrive in time because Samsung delayed the first batch. Instead of throwing a hissy fit on a forum, I went to Walmart and bought a pre-paid phone to use with my AT&T SIM until it came (which was less than a week later). You're not harmed in any way and if the whole volume +/- thing wasn't in a state of flux and Handtec plain screwed up I could see your point. So it's delayed, would having found out via e-mail rather than blog have made you any happier? Handtec's still a solid company regardless of your rant.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] paul_one:
.... I'll leave that gold mine up to someone else, not even gonna touch it.

HAHA, getting a pay+go mobile for $10, or sticking with your current mobile for a month causes you to go livid, but loosing $100+ is just fine...

Fair enough... I shall see you in a month's time when you post under a different name about how you got screwed over by a faulty phone... BAI.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mysterioustko:
Yes it did cause harm, read through the thread and you would have seen that.

Yes if I had of found out via email I would have been happier as it would have afforded me the opportunity to respond and avoid all of this....again read through the thread I have stated this many times. Also, a prepaid phone will not be sufficient for what my every day needs are. I require a smartphone to be able to perform my work. You may have been able to get by with a prepaid, I however cannot.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jeh_:
They never told you it would ship on the 22nd. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lcrkz0023:
Im a 20yr employee at Fedex, pretty high up in the company and our Fedex Int'l PO isnt nextday from UK to ATL..100% fact..thats all ive got to say
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jeh_:
OMG are you saying he's full of it? ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pnnorth:
You must be the only person that they offered a guaranteed dispatch date to. My order was placed a month ago and I couldn't get a firm date when I contacted them recently. Are you absolutely sure about that?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BarryH_GEG:
Wow. You realize we're just talking about a phone, right? When you buy overseas there are risks. Most of the time things go fine. Other times there are issues. And it doesn't matter whether you buy from Handtec, Clove, or Expansys. You want a throat to throttle? Buy from a carrier, they'll hold your hand if there's an issue. Most of the online resllers in the UK get their product from the same distributor. Any issues Handtec's batch is experiencing is universal so getting it elsewhere might get you the phone faster but then you'll end up sending it back for a month to be repaired or replaced. You can rant and flame people who don't share your opinion all you want but it's not going to change anything.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lcrkz0023:
Yes...that part of the story is completely false. Our int'l service is fast but its not that fast. i wish it was I would a richer man....its spends about 8-14 hrs just to get thru customs...and worst case 24-32hrs. .

...then still has to get to memphis...go thru the sort...air to Atl...go thru sort...then dispatch to local fedex facility to be inbound scanned out for delivery...the more i think about it the more absurbed it becomes.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] paul_one:
3 last things before I pop off:

1) Your grammar is terrible... Activate the grammar ray!

2) You've posted you have received your email, and it's common in business that "a couple of hours" is acceptable, especially when you have a larger company with many different departments (eg stock control vs customer information). Internal communication has to occur first.

3) Your last statement about requiring a smart phone is total rubbish. I doubt you do anything more important than getting called in for overtime.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mysterioustko:
...umm maybe because you placed the order a month ago....use your head. I spoke to them on thursday then ordered that night (Friday morning). I was deciding between ordering either from them or Negri. I had been in contact with both companies in the weeks leading up to now. Neither company could give me anything concrete early on and told me to continue to check back. Thursday Negri still didn't have anything concrete to give me whereas Handtec did, so I went with Handtec.

According to fedex's ship time quote a package shipped today would have arrived tomorrow. A package shipped tomorrow would arrive Friday (due to the holiday). So if your quoting system is inaccurate then I suggest you get it fixed since you're so high up...

...now you're just being plain stupid.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pnnorth:
Taken from the handtec website:

We ship to all states in North America and Canada

Please note that shipping will take approximately 2 to 5 days, however there can be some delay due to the courier or international delivery but this can be traced by contacting us

Now how exactly were you ever going to get this phone when you needed it? This is the only option for delivery to the US.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mysterioustko:
1) Right...yours has been stellar..

2) If that were the case they wouldn't have updated the blog in a timely manner. Fact is they chose to use a blog as opposed to notifying people in a proper manner, and then chose to notify people in a proper manner when they got around to it.

3) Fortunately, I didn't ask you what you think. Therefore, your idiotic assumption means nothing.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lcrkz0023:
Not to and from UK to Atl....maybe Univ. of Ky to ATL but not United Kingdom. Nice try man, although this has been good entertainment tonight, kinda switch up the flow about the volume defect. So I thankyou for that!...almost forgot to click your thx U icon...... There, i got it!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pnnorth:
Take your own advice you degenerate - read my post. I said when I contacted them about my order recently ie on Monday morning.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jeh_:
How is that? So while handtec is telling EVERYONE ELSEthat they expect to get a shipment of phones on the week of the 21st, they were telling you that they will ship your phone out on the 22nd? They didn't even know how many phones they were getting, let alone which day they would actually arrive. You've shown to everyone that you're fine making up facts to support your childish tirade. Did you notice that no one seems very sympathetic?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mysterioustko:
I am fully aware of what they quote the shipping time as, but I go by Fedex's stated delivery times. All I'm concerned about is that it is shipped when I was told it would be shipped. It's really that simple. I expect things to be done the way I was told they'd be done. Nothing more nothing less. I don't hold handtec responsible for delivery times, however I do hold them responsible for not shipping (which it would have had they contacted me in a proper fashion).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mysterioustko:
Guess you'd better get to fixing your system then huh....Mr. "High up Fedex Guy"......clown:rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dmw017:
Anybody that answers this correctly gets some ice cream sandwiches!

Who's the real fool. The fool or the fool that follows him?

(Think about it... and how it relates to this entire thread) ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pnnorth:
Wait there, you moan about the hardship you are going to suffer because you will not get the phone on time. Then you admit that you ignored the shipping times on their website and assumed it would get there sooner, presumably because you know better than they do.

You could start an argument in an empty room and still manage to lose it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mysterioustko:
I really couldn't careless who's sympathetic and who's not. The point of this post isn't for sympathy, it's to post my experience with Handtec so that if someone is in the same position as me in the future (where they are deciding who to order from), then don't go with Handtec. Which in this thread it has been stated by some that this is something they will take into account in the future when choosing who to order from. If one person decides not to do business with Handtec as a result of this thread, then this thread would have served it's purpose.

PS

Yes I was told a date when I explained to them that I was trying to decide whether to order from them or Negri. Before Thursday no they could not give me a date either, however Thursday that changed. It's really not that hard to comprehend.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zac68:
Can't believe this has rambled on for 9 pages. Someone please get an Admin to close this waste of space thread.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mysterioustko:
Did you not read what I said? ..obviously you didn't. I very clearly stated I don't hold them responsible for the shipping times. Learn to read. I hold them responsible for shipping when it was supposed to ship. Everything after that is on me. I got a shipping quote from Fedex and decided that I'd go by that. If Fedex took longer then I'd take that up with Fedex, that wouldn't have anything to do with Handtec. Handtec does however need to ship on time. Get it now?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lcrkz0023:
Thats an just an online generated estimate...i know what ur talkin about ive seen it. If handtec has custom clearance prior to shipping its possible, also from UK to ATL they will be traveling against time, which helps. Hopefully they alrdy have prior custom clearance...thats the only thing that delays the crap.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] qreffie:
I got my email. I told them to ship it anyway. The probably updated the blog first because it was the quickest and easiest way to get the information out. It may have taken quite some time for them to get all the contact information for everyone that ordered so I'm quite fine with giving them the benefit of the doubt. I feel for you about leaving for vacation but it should be completely possible for them to re-route the package to wherever you're going. At my job we deal with FedEx shipments all the time and have to fill out trouble tickets to re-route shipments that have already left the warehouse all the time. Usually there is a small fee involved (but Handtec may waive that for you since they didn't update you as soon as they decided to stop shipping) but you could get your phone by Tuesday or Wednesday at whatever location you're at. Might as well give them a call or try to live chat with them tomorrow during business hours to see if there's a way to change the address.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] knut150:
this thread should be deleted!!! Our forums are supposed to be better than this.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BarryH_GEG:
Mr. Clown will be here soon...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mysterioustko:
That's what I am going to attempt to do (re-route). I spoke to Fedex and they said they can't make any promises on when to expect it until it hits the states. So we'll see what happens.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dmw017:
Nah I hope Handtec goes bankrupt and every person that ever stepped foot in that threshold of hell is involved in a fatal car accident.

The order would be in my hands quicker if I walked to the effing UK from NYC and picked the god damn phone up myself.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pnnorth:
What! You are clearly the one that is struggling to comprehend what is being said to you.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bdpyo:
^ didn't read
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pnnorth:
I've asked the mods to add it to the stickies - it's a classic:)

Goodnight all
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ferris2375:
lol 1stworld problems

Oh no my 700 dollar cell phone will be a day late to replace my other 600 dollar cell phone.

jk

They should have emailed you, but holy **** relax.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hotleadsingerguy:
This is (most likely) going to be my final post in this thread.

Irrelevant of what has happened, or the reasons why, you've acted like a child about this entire ordeal. I hate to use the old adage, but **** happens. Apparently you've never tried to buy a new car, or a new house, or *anything worth a large sum of money*. Things will always happen that you never expect, and you don't think is right. That's the way things work in this world.

Instead of whining, complaining, and generally acting like a spoiled little brat you should be looking at ways to solve your problem. Your problem being that you most likely won't have the phone before you leave for your court date or whatever it is. Handle that business, *THEN* worry about getting your phone.

Synopsis: Nobody here is disagreeing with you. Ideally, you would have received an email as soon as the decision was made. That kind of thing is rarely possible in the world we live in because of technological limitations. Instead of whining, act like an adult and solve your problems for yourself.

The thing is, even the people that *completely* agree with you still think you're acting like a spoiled brat. Nobody will think less of you if you just walk away from this thread and pretend it didn't happen (although we *all* know you're going to keep this going until you get your phone).

---------- Post added at 10:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:11 PM ----------

Actually, plenty of prepaid cell plans offer smartphones with unlimited calling, texting, and data for $1 a day. Boost Mobile, AT&T GOphone, T-Mobile, Sprint, etc... all have plans that do exactly that. You could sell the phone for pretty much the exact price you paid for it, so you wouldn't lose anything but the $1 a day.

My company has around 1300 employees at the moment. Our international employees usually receive their emails a few hours later than the rest (headquarters first, national branches in order, then international). The reason is because it reduces the load on our Exchange server. That might not seem like a necessity (you could say just send them all and some would be a bit delayed), but it is. The reason is that you can't overload an Exchange server or all emails get either delayed heavily (an hour or more) or lost. Losing data transferring through an Exchange server *absolutely* cannot happen. Who knows what data may be lost.

As such, most notifications are staggered. There's a good chance when the blog post was written it put into effect a staggered email list (since some people started getting the emails in the afternoon, when it probably started). You just might have been a bit later in the list. Once again, that stinks...but there's not really much you can do about it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dmw017:
^ did not read either
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] spovat:
who else thinks that this thread has actually given handtec more credibility and respect for having to deal with childish/unreasonable customers like the OP?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mysterioustko:
Oh yeah....expecting to be contacted directly regarding MY PURCHASE is totally unreasonable....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ianwood:
Waaah! I got my phone a day late bcuz the supplier took the extra duty of care to try to make sure I got a defect free phone! Grow up!

P.S. This thread not only needs to be locked, the title should be changed or removed as it is unfairly misleading.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mysterioustko:
You've shown your ignorance. Learn to read. I clearly state this isn't an issue of receiving the phone a day later, as this causes a longer delay than just a day.

Reading is fundamental. :eek:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] the_scotsman:
Over 100 posts of garbage, flaming and useless nonsense.

OP has made his point. Let him deal with it accordingly.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SpaceCaker:
does anyone has the stock gallery of android 2.3.5??

sent from my EVIL Galaxy Ace
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SpaceCaker:
i deleted mine accidently

sent from my EVIL Galaxy Ace
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] klinker:
Gallery is a piece of crap. Use quickpic from market ;)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] 5pace:
Here you go, bro. Straight from the root of my KS9! ;)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SpaceCaker:
Thx that one worked i had also ks9
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tiggerbits:
Hi guys

Quick question, i see that specs show the nexus has 1gb of ram.

But my ,"system apps," so it only has 632mb can any one explain?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] andorreta:
I think that some of the ram is reserved for the gpu. That's why you see less ram.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tiggerbits:
Just wanted to make sure

Still thou 400mb on gpu?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Donsell:
I was in looking at the Rezound and did a hard boot and checked available memory. It only had 250Mb of the 1 G available. The rest must have been taken by Android, Sense and whatever bloat Verizon is loading.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tiggerbits:
Have a quick look at my screen shot - ( if they work)

I beleive that is should be 1GB of Ram, i understand if some is used for system processes. but 400mb.... far to high i would think.

Any one care to explain?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tidbits:
Some is reserved for the OS to function at all times. Some of it is reserved for the GPU, and radio to use. It is done this way to ensure you have the maximum needed for these to run.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tiggerbits:
That makes sense.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Rusty!:
Nothing is reserved for the O/S, that uses whatever is available. It's probably for the GPU, same as the Nexus S has 512MB, but only 384MB available due to the GPU being allocated 128MB.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] carhigh:
As many of you know att was busting users tethering. I dont really use it all that often and since all the talk about att catching people tethering, i thought i would never be able to use it ever again, IF i needed too. Some times share with the klids phones if we are mobile. They dont have data.

Ive turned it on a couple times testing. I connected the laptop to it and loaded "a" page. I havent gotton any emails yet, or ever.

I was just wondering, since this is not an att phone, and there is no tether manager, should we be able to tether without getting detected?

I thought for sure there was going to be a topic already here, but theres not???? my search didnt turn up andything!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] SNiiPE_DoGG:
I made mine a wireless hotspot for my friends for about an hour and a half like two weeks ago and they didn't say anything to me or kick me off my data plan.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Spartan2x:
Thank for posting this! I was wondering as well!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Raptor1956:
They probably won't say anything so long as you keep within your data cap. Going over it and they will likely scold you...

Brian
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] inurb:
No issues here...tethering away and remembering not to be a hog. Don't abuse it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Raptor1956:
Thank you!

When I had the HTC Evo I also had the tethering option ($30/month) but, fortunately, my company was picking up 90% of the tab. Now that my Evo is gone and I have a company provided iP4 I can't tether.

I have mixed feeling about tethering as it is a useful tool to have but also very easy to abuse. The problem with the abuse is that it eats into the bandwidth that I need for more casual usage and therefore negatively impacts my usage. I have heard of folks using of 50GB/month and if even a very small fraction of people did that there would be no cellular network that would survive.

When I get the Note I will probably go with the 4GB plan and have tethering. During my time with the Evo I averaged about 600MB/month including tethering, but with the Note I think the data use will go up because it will be far more useful and practical to surf the net and I think I'll probably go over 2GB/month. I will have to see what my data use actually is and if 2GB/month is enough and I can still tether than maybe that will be the way to go.

I don't see the need to try to game the system all that much and am willing to pay for what I use...

Brian
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] p51d007:
I've tethered with my Dell streak for over a year, never had an issue.

You just have to stay under the radar. Start downloading ISO size files, and you can bet you will get dinged.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] RashaMatt:
I have been tethering illicitly for almost a year, first on my rooted SGS and now my Note, because that's been my only available "broadband" connection where I live (and I only get about 300kbps down even on HSPA 3g... very oversubscribed towers around here).

I got the dreaded warning letter from AT&T a couple months ago, where they politely suggested that I need to upgrade my plan to include tethering...and if I continue tethering, they will eventually do it for me.

That was a few months ago and they haven't done it yet, though I did back off on my data consumption after I got that letter (I stand to lose my unlimited data plan as well as seeing my monthly bill go up by $30).

I suspect that they infer that you're tethering based on your traffic, and that they can't actually tell whether you have tethering enabled on your rooted phone. E.g. if you're doing a lot of bittorrenting and connecting to sites like Windowsupdate.com, those would be pretty big clue that you're running a PC over your connection.

I rarely use my PC any more, and no more bt :-( so I am hoping they will continue to let my occasional small amount of tethering slide. And if they don't, I may just upgrade to a Verizon 4g LTE mifi instead, since that is now available in my area :D

HTH
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] calin75:
I'm on att and with android phones I've been tethering for almost two years with no problem. It included the Nexus one, the galaxy tab, the inspire 4g, the unlocked sgs2 and now the Note. I frequently used the tethering option to connect my galaxy tab 10.1. I average 5GB a month and have never gotten any warning.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] davidgood89:
I'm based in the UK so i don't have any useful input, I just find this article interesting. Your guys network operators over in the US sound like nazis. and I thought ours were bad?

I've seen a few networks over here include tethering as a "bolt-on" style upgrade to a price plan, but my question is, how the hell do they know? like with my SGS, tethering is part of the phone, so it was my understanding that they couldn't tell (unless you had anormal traffic - but with phones getting better processors surely that kind of traffic will very soon, if not already, be possible without tethering?)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] RashaMatt:
yeah, like I said: I don't think they can actually tell you have tethering enabled, so if the only devices you're connecting to your AP are other phones, they likely will never figure it out. But if you connect a Mac or PC much, watch out.

UPDATE: AT&T finally forced me into their tethering plan. I put my SIM into an old dumb phone, went online and changed the phone model on my acct, and they automatically dropped me back into my old unlimited data plan. Swapped the SIM back into the Note, all better again :D

We'll see how long it lasts, but since I'm not tethering anymore (just got a Verizon LTE Mifi) I will probably drop my data pan down to the minimum 200mb and save another $15/mo.

I'm seriously looking into switching all four of my lines over to Verizon now!
[Epic 4G General] xgerryx:
I know there has been a thread or 2 about this, but I want to go in a different direction. I have a chance to trade my epic straight up for a Motorola Photon and I'm thinking about it.

Does anyone have experience with rooting? Recovery? Comparable differences with the epic? I'm just trying to gauge the learning curve with getting the phone the way I like it, versus how easy it was when I got my epic.

I figured I would ask here before I posted a derrr stupid annoying thread in their section. Since at least I know names around here.
[Epic 4G General] xboxfanj:
They do have a mostly working cm7, but so do we. They don't have very many roms yet and I think its hard to root and get recovery (compared to epic). They do have superior hardware and superior CDMA+WIMAX radios (higher data speeds). For now, it depends on whats important to you: ROMS or Hardware. Also, fyi, the Photon will likely get official ICS if that interests you