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[Epic 4G General] zman519:
No no no come on ppl he wanted to still pay them but only for one line. Don't tell him he's wrong hes ****ing right! Srpint (&VZW) HAVE dumbass rules in place. THERE IS NO TECH REASON THEY COULD NOT DO WHAT HE WANTED.

I callenge some one that's works in the telcoms to tell me I'm wrong!

BUT YOU KNOW THAT VZW is just as bad they all suck

Sent from the Drivers Seat of my Suby txting and Driving doing 100MPH+ in a school zone! Ha.
[Epic 4G General] MJHawaii:
So you tried to engineer a plan to get the phone you wanted which sprint does not have and then s@#t went south from there. Your fault not sprints and its in the contract so the idiocy starts with????
[Epic 4G General] AproSamurai:
The issue isn't that he's wrong or they're right, vice versa. It's if you transfer a number to a new carrier, the account is cancelled and an ETF is enacted on that line, they're not going to bill an account with no number on it. They assume as a company that you're leaving overall especially if there are no other lines present on your account. It's not something out of idiocy, it's a natural mistake. Had he called earlier and made it clear to Sprint what he was going to do, and that he was going to switch the numbers, things ideally would have gone better, ideally, could still be in the same way, yes it would have taken longer but it'd have happened a lot more smoothly than it did this way.
[Epic 4G General] etiRkca:
The majority is not always right, but in this case, they are. You messed up, not Sprint. If you try the same maneuver with Verizon, they will treat you in the same manner.
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
Ok I was kinda half awake reading the op b4.

But if your trying to buy more servers from sprint what is the problem. Like some one said. All it would take is a High leave admin password ;-)

Sent from the Drivers Seat of my Suby txting and Driving doing 100MPH+ in a school zone! Ha.
[Epic 4G General] dwallersv:
None of you get it.

Was I wrong in some contract technical sense?

Absolutely.

I'm not calling Sprint idiots for being wrong about their contract. I'm calling them idiots for losing business, and a customer, over something like this.

Solving the problem had no downside for them. Not solving it had a huge downside. The customer made a harmless mistake. Their rigid refusal to solve something this trivial cost a lot.

Those of you defending Sprint here should never start a business. You'll fail.

No matter. I'm happily posting this from my Galaxy Nexus, my daughter has a brand new Samsung Stratosphere from VZW that they sold me for 50 bucks even though we didn't get a new contract for her line (they want my business, they said), and I have a used Epic to sell.

So, feel free to criticize me all you want. I smiling like the Cheshire Cat. Those of you that still don't get it are suffering from the same intellectual deficit as the yahoos I walked away from at Sprint.

Sent from my mind using telepathitalk
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Of course you are right in the respect they should have worked with you to save a customer. Apparently Sprint is no longer in the customer service business and have become very rigid in their policies. I have fought with them on several issues and they were totally unyielding to a 7 year customer with 2 lines. Enjoy your new phones and watch that data usage.
[Epic 4G General] balagyi:
good luck with vzw. I had them before and can't beat sprint.
[Epic 4G General] dwallersv:
Everyone's situation is different.

For me, I was fed up with failed promises of 4G here in the Santa Cruz CA area. Those promises are a part of why I opened a Sprint account a year ago.

Now, sitting in my house here in Scotts Valley, I'm getting 20/12Mbps dn/up, consistently.

So is my daughter, which wouldn't be the case if Sprint had any business sense.

I actually should be thanking them.

Sent from my mind using telepathitalk
[Epic 4G General] Speedin07si:
You think your $1k will hurt a multi-million if not billion dollar business?

I do understand your stand point and agree to a point. But your hard headness (no offense) is the cause of all this. If you had done it the proper way and didn't breach your contract w/o them knowing it may have been avoided. They make those contracts for a reason.

Sent from my Cyanogen Epic.
[Epic 4G General] starskyrob:
Played with a galaxy nexus today. Unimpressed hardwarewise.... love ics though. :)
[Epic 4G General] jalexishg:
I don't remember last time i use 4G and we got it in my area. I'm sorry but your lack of knowledge got you this, everything for a galaxy nexus. Fail much ? Not trolling but thinking about a phone that's is not even that good and that we getting on sprint soon anyways is dumb. Verizon is nowhere near Sprint.
[Epic 4G General] dwallersv:
Guffaw!

My hard headedness? How so?

I tried to swap some numbers around and didn't bother to go back and spend an hour reading the tiny print on my contract to ensure I made the changes in the right sequence.

To you that's hard headed? You're kidding, right?

Will the loss of my business bring sprint down? Oh you jokester, you! Of course not!

However, as I said they will make less money than they would have otherwise, over something that had no net cost to them to fix, but to whoever sets policy at sprint apparently following every rule, without exception, even when it's counterproductive to the interests of the company and the customer is more important.

I'm a business owner. We have rules and policies too. I can easily live without the few thousand in business from one regular customer over a year. Wouldn't even notice it in the bottom line.

I also have supervisors with authority to make exceptions when it makes sense. They're allowed to use their brains.

Making a sensible exception to official policy in my company will likely get you praised. Worst case, you may get corrected, with an explanation for why it was a bad judgement. Make repeated bad judgments, and you will have to look to someone else to deviate from policy.

But then, that hasn't ever happened, because no one with that demonstrably bad judgment ever gets promoted to supervisor.

Ironically, one of the easiest ways to lose your job at my company is to lose a customer over something idiotic like this.

So, all of you defending sprint here and slagging on me (rest assured, I'm honestly not offended at all, but am shaking my head in disbelief at the cluelessness of it all) just don't get it, and like I said, save yourselves (and your potential customers) a lot of grief, and please don't start a business.

Frankly, I'm surprised there are so few people here with this basic common sense.

Sent from my mind using telepathitalk
[Epic 4G General] TexasLTE:
From a purely Customer Service point of view , "YES" , it would have been better for Sprint to just explain the "technical" reason of why what you did was NOT the correct way of doing things , let you port your daughter's # and just say "don't do it that way again because next time we might not be able to help you out again" ...... Sprint keeps a customer and customer keeps Sprint ! ( dwallersv did make a mistake in how he did things , but it could have just been an honest mistake that COULD have been resolved WITHOUT Sprint having to lose a customer )
[Epic 4G General] bwrobinson79:
Sprint is much more likely to help if it is a legitimate reason. This process was done to undermine the system in a round about way. If you had said, "Sure, I will bring my number back..." The proper response would be to give money back. Bottom line: Much more likely to get help, when you are not trying to pull one over on the company...
[Epic 4G General] sosborniv:
Their service is terrible
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
No I totaly get u man ;-) imo both sprint & vzw can be total dipshits

Sent from the Drivers Seat of my Suby txting and Driving doing 100MPH+ in a school zone! Ha.
[Epic 4G General] DAvid_B:
You sir are the idot.

You signed a contract with sprint then terminated it.

Then you spent proably a couple hundred dollars of their time crying how they where wrong when you stomped your feet over and over an ovr again not listening to what they said.

In the end, your ignorant ranting probably cost them more then the profit they would have made if they had jumped through the hoops you felt they owed you, when they owed you nothing after YOU dropped them.

You goofed up then came here and wined like a baby about something you caused.

Let's talk to some of your unhappy customers and see how they think you screwed them over.
[Epic 4G General] squshy 7:
Hmmm....i missed the memo..

When did xda become a forum for venting about the mundane?
[Epic 4G General] dwallersv:
What the HELL are you talking about?!? Just what, precisely, are you accusing me of?

I wasn't trying to get away with anything. I simply wanted to switch numbers around. I was still the owner of the account. Sprint neither cares, nor has a right to know, who is talking on any line I, or you have. Do you ever let anyone use your phone? Do you ask Sprint first?

It came down to this: Sprint told me that had I called and ported my daughters number in first, it would have been fine. No problem. The problem occurred due to my own ignorance of the subtleties of changing numbers around on different lines and carriers. Since I had no intention of leaving my contract or altering it in any manner of substance.*

READ CAREFULLY: I purchased my phone on Thursday, on a NEW CONTRACT at Verizon. I was not trying to switch my daughter's existing line to the new phone. I could not get the $500 discount that way. What I had planned to do was simply absorb the early termination fee at Verizon for dropping my daughter's line, and have her number activated on the Epic 4G.

Not having rote memorization of every detail in the respective contracts, I didn't know that buying my new phone first, and pulling the number, would invalidate the contract and automatically trigger the ETF. At either carrier. I thought I had to call them and cancel the line, or they'd blissfully keep billing me for it even though there was no phone number, or use.

Gosh I'm so stooooooopid, right? :rolleyes:

I've seen plenty of cretins post here about how to defraud Sprint of this, or that. How to steal 3G from Verizon when roaming. I'll even bet some of you criticizing me here have done it.

I'm an honest guy, and would never intentionally breach a contract or defraud anyone. I fully intended to keep the spirit and the substance of both my agreements with Verizon and Sprint. I just jumped, twisted and flipped to juggle some phone numbers around, when Sprint says, "Der Wienerschnitzel, ve moost joomp,fleep, und den tvist. Too bahd. Ze fiaryeen skwahd fur you!"

Alls good anyway. Thanks to Sprint, my daughter and I both have awesome signal at home and all over the Santa Cruz Co area, mind-blowing data speeds, she has a new phone instead of my old Epic with its loose slider, and, I'm paying less net-net per month anyway. So I will take a "stupid" hit for that at least -- not really running the numbers before doing this whole thing.

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*I don't consider the phone number associated with a line anything that Sprint has any say about, contractual or otherwise; do you? Further, it may even be illegal under federal law for them to penalize me in any way for anything I do with my number, contract cancellation required to be explicit -- I'll check the Fed Statute that forced number "portability" on the carriers.
[Epic 4G General] dwallersv:
Interesting. I got a different story from the second Customer Service rep I spoke with.

Here's what I was told they could do, in sequence:

Port my number back to Sprint, they would reactivate the contract, and cancel the ETF.

Port my daughter's number in to the one line I have and release my number. This would cause the same autocancellation at Verizon of the contract on that line (which I was painfully aware of now), but it wouldn't matter because that's what I wanted to do anyway. I ask, but wait, what about my new contract on my phone when you port my number back? Won't That cancel? Then, when I call Verizon to reinstate, what if my number's already been taken?

That is a problem. We're very sorry, but there's nothing we can do about it.

The bottom line is this: Sprint had it within its power to solve this problem very easily. Just reinstate the contract, port the new number in, and cancel the ETF. Laws and regulations do not prohibit this. Sprint rules apparently do.

Some of you are getting your shorts all sticky playing Contract Cop here. I don't understand it. Are your lives that empty that this sort of thing gives you a thrill?

Ralph Waldo Emerson comes to mind: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,..." Slavish devotion to rules is foolish, as it can, and will, be counter-productive and ironically perverse to the ethical intent of the rule. This is why we have judges in addition to The Law.

Same concept in this situation. The rule wasn't made for this situation. It worked against both Sprint and the Customer. We both had options. They chose not to exercise theirs, so I exercised mine. This thread was never about who was technically right (Sprint was) or wrong (me). It was about doing what is right. Thankfully in the end, only Sprint lost anything, which is proper since even though they were right, the acted wrong when they could choose differently.

Surely there's at least one or two sane people here that "get" what this is all about.
[Epic 4G General] jayharper08:
I'm going to say this once and once only. Name calling and bickering will not be tolerated here. If i see it again, you will be infracted and/or banned. Period.

Sent from the MIUI powered E3D
[HTC Inspire 4G] caddyman1989:
Hello I was wandering if I put the stock desire hd gingerbread rom on my inspire will I be able to update it when htc sends updates for the desire hd? Please let me know.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ronnie498:
You can download the RUU and install, just remeber to unroot if u are.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Pirateghost:
Installing an ruu will unroot it. Root is access the os layer /system and nothing else.

Sent from my HTC PH39100
[HTC Inspire 4G] Agoattamer:
Why would you put a stock DESIRE HD ROM on an INSPIRE just to hope that HTC will think you have a DHD and give you the update for the DHD? Well they won't anyways. You do realize a stock DHD ROM is not 100% compatable with the Inspire? They do have slight hardware differences.

Gene Poole has a rooted version of the new DHD ROM with adjusted drivers for the Inspire in the Development section. If that is what you want in the end then just install it. Here is the link.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1269864
[HTC Inspire 4G] ZeroRilix:
Only problem with that is, other users, like myself, have gotten a bootloop after installation. It will boot, but will constantly loop on the "HTC - quietly brilliant" screen. Last I checked, there was no solution as of yet. If Gene Pool can figure out what is causing it and correct it, I will most likely try flashing it again.
[HTC Inspire 4G] fernandezhjr:
If you really want to run this stock base, I would go into fshami's Sens 3.0i thread and ask Wild Child if you could test his soon to be released stock version of this base. It has all the S's- smooth, stable, speedy, solid..... I'm sure he wouldn't mind another good tester.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sansunggalaxys2:
Hi all firstly sorry for bad English.

I was wondering which system files are for status bar? I mean between two same roms but statusbar different, which files are different?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 4038153:
I'm not a theme maker, but /system/framework/framework-res.apk/res/drawable-hdpi/ is where you should be looking.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sansunggalaxys2:
So you say if i change the framework.apk files of these roms they have different statusbar?
[Bravo General] intfranknet:
Hello!, i was looking for a FM Radio alternative on my Moto Bravo because AT&T Radio app is buggy and crashes a lot, i found on Internet a Motorola Alternative Music Player (Moto Blur Music App) leaked on Jan 2011, i installed on my Bravo and Radio FM Works so much better! with RDS! music player, lyrics, and internet radio built-in works as well. here is a screenshot: View attachment 820124 :D
[Bravo General] marcelarr:
Here is the .apk that worked on my bravo.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=927754&page=2
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Goatman455:
Why is this game saying it is incompatible with my Galaxy 10.1 and Acer A500 when I can blatantly see reviews for both devices under the marketplace listing!!!

Other people have the game installed, what is going on here?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] John NHT:
Hey, when did this happen?? I was just about to buy it when I saw your post! I swear it it was compatible too earlier this today!!! Thanks for the heads up though too!!

JFX
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] jaoropez:
This is weird, glad I bought it and downloaded it before this happened works great on tab
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] albert emmer:
works on my tab too..
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] c0de_junkie:
it works just fine here man.... i'd even go as far as saying that this game runs just as smooth, if not smoother then it did on my ps2!!!!! for real, this is one of the best games i have ever played on my tablet , in the sense of how fluid it plays with absolutly no lag what so ever..... also plays great on my google nexus and htc amaze :D
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Tyrado:
Maybe they changed it for some reason. If you still want to install it, you can clear your markets applicationdata, edit your /System/buid.prop and change your device to something like

ro.product.model = Nexus S

ro.product.manufacturer = samsung

or whatever phone is still compatible to download it
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] chaosdefinesorder:
that's the weird thing, I did a little investigating and there haven't been any updates according to the Market website, it's still version 1.0
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] zerong:
I dont have test this! There is a version for galaxy tab?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Goatman455:
So whats going on? How do i download he game?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] ishken:
Found out

Go to the Rockstar website and find the game. Apparently the company didn't test the game for rooted and jailbroken devices. It won't work properly if your device is rooted, which sucks because they waited to add that little bit until myself and a lot of others bought it already and found out the next day that it now comes up as incompatible. They are willing to refund the money. Just follow the instructions they have.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] slack04:
Ha! There's nothing about rooted devices that stops it from running except the fear that it will get pirated...
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] jonnyg1097:
Really? Good thing then that I kept mine stock. Works great on it :P
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] jaoropez:
i downloaded when I was stock, flashed my first ROM and was able to reinstall it through a titanium backup i did... sucks that I wont be able to recieve any updates. hope they fix this...
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] mar5hal:
Say I were to flash from a custom rom back to stock. Think it would work the same way?

Edit: flashed to stock rom and can download again. TB works like a charm
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] wewewi999:
I'm on a stock ROM (freshly updated to 3.2) and Root Checker says there's not root access.

Still cant see/download/run GTA3.. (GT-P7500R)

WTF Rockstar?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] tandfeen:
Well I have a rooted tab and it runs just perfect on it.

No problems what so ever
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] theoriginalsss:
My Tab's rooted too... the key to getting it to work if you have issues (won't start, no sound, etc) seems be to delete the resource files (Android/data/com.rockstar.gta3) and restart the app, forcing it to download it again. Works perfectly after that.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Asgrad:
It's working on mine also, stock 3.2 HC rooted. Just installed & downloaded game data
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] chaosdefinesorder:
It's back! It's returned to the My Apps list on my Tab and market.android.com also reports it's compatible again!:D

Rooted, P7510, Galaxy Task v10
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] styckx:
Can confirm this also.. Even had an update waiting for it..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] qman66:
so i bought an mhl cable but cannot get it to display on either of my tvs. is there a trick to do this? a special setting?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Alekxxx:
yeah, first connect the a/c cable then the phone and after the hdmi in the mhl. if it doesn't work try another combo, i haven't used it in a while
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] diomark:
I couldn't get this working either :( for those that it is working on - which adapter are you using?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] qman66:
this one http://www.ebay.com/itm/25093418361...X:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649#ht_4523wt_1163
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] pato66:
After install cwm and root,method for 2.3.5, I get wifi error, What do I need for came to get wifi conection?, sorry but I am snow and the scl is to my friend, thanks in advance.

I have 2.3.6 branded Movistar spain

cheers
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] pato66:
Anyone can help me?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] supergaijin:
I see someone else having the same issue. have you tried both the universal cfroot and the one specifically for kpq? have you ensured to wipe all caches after installing? if you don't have much work done in adding personal stuff to you phone, why not try a factory reset at the same time?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] pato66:
Do you think I can repair only with a factory reset? But I lost my root or only came to the factory configuration.

Do you can to say step by step for root from 2.3.6?,thanks.

Regards
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] supergaijin:
in android development, there is a thread for universal cfroot. is that the one you used? and while you said your phone is 2.3.5/2.3.6, you didn't mention what fw version by leter designation, like kpn or kpq...
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] pato66:
Sorry, Its 2.3.5 GINGERBREAD_BGKPG, BASEBAND I9003LUBKB1. CFS I9003XECKP5

Dont work videoplay too, I am looking the solution for this bugs after root.

Any solution for that?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] supergaijin:
ok, now which version of cf root and cwm did you install? and, since you're already rooting, etc., why not try going to kpq? I'm not saying to do it now, just asking...
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] pato66:
Hello, yes I try KPQ yeah Its 2.3.6, now only I have to root and install cwm, what version I can install for root and cwm? and dont have problem with wifi and videoplay, Thanks.

Cheers
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] supergaijin:
before installing cfroot, have you confirmed your wireless is working at this point? if it's working, read this thread to understand better what you have to do to avoid errors.

next try installing this kernel from utter chaos (v5t6, the one I use), and this cfroot (universal + extra, the one I use) and see if you still have wifi, which should be working fine.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mikolak28:
So we all know Samsung messed up with the tv-out function in our SGS+, does anyone know of a way to mirror the phones screen on a tv?

The only 'working' way is to cut and change the cables, as stated in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1275999&page=2

But I can't do it properly, and I was wondering if anyone has found another way to do this?

I know that SGS2 has the 'Smartview' function that mirrors it's screen over to a few Samsung TV models, but it doesn't work with the SGS+, plus most of us here don't have a Samsung TV with Smarthub.
[Android Apps and Games] smokedkill:
There's a pretty nice app on the market called Androidvideo Recharged. It has many tv shows to stream to Android. It doesn't use flash, so it is compatible on more devices than most streaming apps.
[Android Apps and Games] buzzboy:
Cheers , but I do prefer Icestream.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.stonyx.icestream

It can't be beaten, and its free.

Thanks for your suggestion though.

Regards