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[Motorola Photon 4G] davisondan:
4G LTE access

I just talked to Sprint and was told that only 4G LTE phones will be able to access that service, the current WiMax 4G phones do not have the equipment needed for this. Also if you do not already have WiMax 4G in your area you will not get it as Sprint in not expanding that service only the 4G LTE will get new areas of service so if you were waiting for 4G you will not get 4G until your area gets 4G LTE in which your phone will not work unless you upgrade phones to one of the 4G LTE phones at your upgrade or your cost, the ones that are being released this summer are the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the LG Viper.

And if you want the Android ICS os it may or may not happen as Motorola has not announced if the Photon will be upgraded to that OS.

One other bit of information, if you purchase or upgrade to a new phone you only get a 3 days to return your new phone, after that up to 14 days you can exchange for one other model. If you want to return the phone for a refund after 3 days but before 14 days you will be charged a restocking fee.
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
Well, as for people not getting LTE in WiMax areas, that rep is smoking something! No rep nor agent would know that without that information being released. I have a co-worker who has access to nearly all Sprint documents. He told me that this is NOT true.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
No, he meant if you don't have wimax now, you won’t get wimax.

Sent from a Rocko solid Mopho!
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
Much better, I got scared that you may have lost your mind... Sprint would never not replace WiMax with LTE in the same area. (Sorry Sprint Rep, guess you're not on drugs. ****!!! ;( I always love finding a rep who is high and doesn't know what the f*** they're talkin' about!) Oh well, on the bright side, I'll find another high rep one day to make me laugh!
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
Lmao... I should be a stand up comedian, right guys. I would make you all pee your pants laughing, WARNING: You've seen NOTHING yet!

PLEASE NOTE: This post is a rhetorical question, don't answer it unless you want to agree with me.
[Motorola Photon 4G] craby1925:
TOTALLY, but i won't beat a dead horse but there's no true facts we have saying there isn't a bcm500 running in this thing. Reps really don't know what there saying, which is why i discredit them. Anyone want to buy a junk for parts, and solder off the back for pics? Evidence, as they say in business "blows a story open."
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
Actually, a few reps that I know at either Corporate Repair Centers or Customer Advantage Repair Centers have had to do internal repairs and found a WiMax only chip. One gou's wife own's a Photon and opened it up at work (he works at a Sprint Customer Advantage Repair Center.), and found no LTE chip.

Software and the radios in our devices may still be able to be reprogrammed to get LTE on our devices. That is ehat Sprint is planning to do. They should need FCC Approval... it is possible that this method will work and it is also possible that our phone will not be compatible. Only time will tell.

Just wait and see....
[Motorola Photon 4G] davisondan:
Sprint Rep spent a lot of time with me

Even though I am not happy about the way Sprint is switching over to the LTE 4G, I do have to say the rep took his time to verify the information about the current phones not being compatible with it. He did say that the current 4G Wimax areas will be in service for 4 years before they are phased out.

Those of us that are not in a 4G wimax area should see better 3G speeds on our phones also.

This entire 4G wimax has left me angered as I was one of the early purchasers of the HTC Evo that had a charge of $ 10 per month for either the 4G service or to fund the expansion of the 4G coverage. Since then Sprint has redefined what the charge is for but I am still waiting as was told at that time that although the service is not yet in our area it should be added as I live in a fairly large city, so much for that story.

Also sorry to say even though the Photon was a great phone I switched back to my Evo should the 4G LTE become available in this area.
[Motorola Photon 4G] craby1925:
Why reps no post pics of the radio! I just want this argument put to bed.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
Check the MoPho Compendium.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Fugitive87:
I talked to a Motorola rep a couple months ago and he verified that the photon does have 4g lte chip in it, so when they push an update enabling it we will be able to use lte.

And the photon will most likely get that update when ice cream sandwich is pushed. Motorola has not denied that the photon will get the update, its just not as popular as the other phones
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
^^^^There is no LTE Chip, BUT the Photon's Radio does support the Now Network's LTE Frequencies, and the Photon's radio can be reprogrammed to support 4G LTE^^^^

Read my article over at ACS - (Android Creative Syndicate) and the comments.

Click here for the article.
[Motorola Photon 4G] radrian92:
You serious!? Damn now it'll be more than bareable to wait till my upgrade in '13 ):
[General Questions and Answers] CMeys:
We're on Sprint and I need to get a new phone for my husband who has had a Treo755p for years. I think he'd be best off with Android and with a physical keyboard, but he will consider a virtual keyboard. His needs are very minimal. Mostly voice, some texts, a little email, calendar, very little other stuff used regularly.

It would be nice if we could easily get his contacts and calendar stuff out of the Palm Desktop and still have a way to sync with Windows XP (maybe through Outlook 2003), but could probably live with GMail sync if we can get the stuff out of Palm Desktop.

Must have is battery life of one day with moderate voice use and almost no data use.

I've been looking at the Samsung Replenish, especially since it presently is without the $10/mo. date surcharge.

What are your thoughts?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Starseed:
Is it possible to pay someone or switch the screen of the original galaxy s2 for a Hd one?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Smacdallas:
i dont think so.... it would effect the software and everthing..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] kdwolf85:
Not to mention needing driver source to get the screen to play well with our chip set
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Starseed:
Darn! That is crap!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nick281051:
Not really... this isn't like a monitor on a computer
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] malachymac95:
It would be nice if it worked though. I'd like something better than a 320x240 in my x10 mini but I didn't expect it to be possible anyway.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Starseed:
It would be nice. Or i can find someone who does the job.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] boost91:
Why would you want a different screen than what is on the S2? I dont know of another mobile device that has a better looking screen than our, or one thats really even that is close to a sharp!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Starseed:
Idk. Just not Hd like the iphone. Still it is alright...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jjesusfreak01:
Put them side by side and you'll see that while the iPhone wins for resolution and clarity, the SGS2 far exceeds it with contrast and colors.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Smacdallas:
Tottaly agree... I don't see the point in replacing the screen anyway what do you need that high of a resolution for anyway?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Starseed:
I just really wanted one. Still its ok.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] MikeyMike01:
The SGS 2 has better black levels. That's about it.

Sent from my SGH-I897
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] \/icious:
Should have waited for the nexus or went with LG's 720p res phone. Also i work with a lot of iphone fanboys and not one yet has said they like their screen over mine
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] adfurgerson:
Screen Adjuster app lets you change red green blue plus contrast and brightness. I use it and it works well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] djrealsatx:
I use LCD Resolution app. Tw launcher isn't compatible but launcher pro and go launcher works great!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Man_Cave_Tech:
Samsung phones are highly proprietary and don't respond well to changes. Even using a non OEM battery can cause problems in some cases. What don't you like about the display? I think its pretty nice.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] vbman213:
http://www.booqbags.com/laptop-backpacks-laptop-bags/iPad-cases2/boa-skin-xs-sand-iPad-sleeve

The Boa Skin line for iPad will fit the Transformer Prime quite nicely! (Note: Will not fit a docked tablet)

http://www.booqbags.com/laptop-back...cases2/taipan-spacesuit-xs-silver-ipad-sleeve
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Haro912:
I think the prime is to tall to fit in those.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] reinaldistic:
i saw a Verizon fascinate with a fully functioning ics room, any chance of the e4gt getting one soon? any developers on it? i would try alpha if IRS at that stage...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Will of fire:
Nope if there is none in development section there's none. We have cm7 with GPS and 4g not working. But no ics yet.
[General Questions and Answers] Glarkrog:
I seek the best gmail widget to my htc sensation. at the moment, I use this from the market (Gmailwidget+), but it does not always work with new ROMs, my phone is rooted with LeeDrOiD rum.

Which widget do you think is the best? must be able to show unread mails
[General Questions and Answers] GuestD2797:
I like the built in widget. I haven't try anything else because i don't need to try.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neverwinter:
Does anyone know if PS One games will be available for Xperia Play by download? Not the emulator games...
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GetPatriotized:
Yes via PlayStation pocket/Android Market.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phryxus:
Hopefully they add in PSN so we can download our purchased PSOne classics. @neverwinter have you tried the free PSXperia app of the forums that allows us to rip our own PSX games for use with the built in emulator?

Also, did you get your name from Neverwinter Nights :P
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neverwinter:
lol you're the first to ask. Yeah, it's taken from Neverwinter Nights (Part 1). It's was a cool game...so is Part 2. But....I'm not sure I want to use the PSXperia app... not sure if it's illegal. Some people might hound me for that. Never really made up my mind about the ethics and legalities of game console emulators. But if I can buy the games, that would be great. The Tomb Raider games specifically... wow! If the PSOne games can be bought for Xperia Play, it could be one of the best smartphones out there... BTW, I've never had an Android device before. It's always be WinCE, Win Mobile or Windows Phone 7...
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
There is nothing illegal about PSXperia as long as you own the disk your using. @op all PSX games even the ones from the Playstation store are emulated.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neverwinter:
Hmm...OK. Thanks. I thought I read somewhere that in order for emulation to work, it requires the ROM image from the console itself...and how that ROM image is extracted and distributed (or something like that) can be illegal... what do you think? Does anyone know if PSP games will be downloadable to Xperia Play as well??
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryballs:
The Xperia Play comes with said "console rom image" in the form of PS1_BIOS.bin on the devices internal memory.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neverwinter:
Ohhh, OK. Thanks for the clearing up... will PSP games be available by download?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neverwinter:
OK. Just bought the Xperia Play. I read that the memory card used should be microSD up to 32GB... does that mean any microSD card? Or is there a specific type I should avoid for compatibility?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
Any Micro SD will do, and btw, thanks to another user, we have found out the play can take a 64GB Micro SDXC card too :D
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rogue Leader:
Sandisk Class 4 32gb card is the way to go.

Anything else has had mixed to poor results. Don't get a no name card.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neverwinter:
Thanks... is there a difference between 32GB microSDHc and microSD? I'm checking eBay...and does anyone have any good tips on avoiding memory card fakes on eBay? And does buying on eBay invalidate warranties for SanDisk microSD cards? This seems to be the case for some products out there...
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mael5trom:
the number one rule of memory cards is:

don't buy memory cards on ebay!

obviously im not referring to every ebay seller, tbh i would think it seemingly quite easy to pick good ones from fakes, however enough people get smashed by ebay sellers to make me think this perhaps isnt the case, and its just best avoided.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rogue Leader:
Well:

This guy has it dead on. Theres so many fakes on ebay its not even funny. Amazon is the way to go but even there can be fakes.

I got mine from this place, the "fulfilled by Amazon" is helpful. What i got from them was definitely real.

http://www.amazon.com/Sandisk-Micro...SIE4/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1325858126&sr=8-5
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neverwinter:
OK.... maybe someone here can offer me another seller (anywhere) that sells a real one for a good price. I'm currently looking into the particular Amazon one provided above, but I would hate to accidently buy fake one and realize that I can't send it in for warranty because it is fake...

One that they know for sure is real, that is...
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neverwinter:
So how do you know it was a real Sandisk product? Besides it's capacity...
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rogue Leader:
I bought that exact one from that place it came in Sandisk retail store packaging, with warranty card, instructions, etc. I also have been using it for months now with no failures or loss in data size and noticeable speed increase over the stock class 2 card. I can guarantee you if you buy from the link I sent the card is genuine Sandisk product.

I've bought the no name ones and others here have bought ones from shady places as well. The card starts to blink out or not accept data, it won't stay mounted, and it runs slow and laggy. The other way to tell is to download any number of available SD card test programs to your PC and run a test on it. The tests will do things like fill the card to capacity to verify its size. Theres usually no way to tell by looking at it that its a fake.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neverwinter:
OK. Thanks.. that sounds trusty...
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neverwinter:
I'm glad I finally got it. It's the white one. Now what do I do with it?? I'm kidding. I'm checking out the posts to find out what I should do with it...
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XperianceIT:
You can always try using the Media Go on your PC/Mac and buy PSP Games, PSone Classics and stuff, not sure how they will work on the Play though, or if you can even transfer them to the play, havent tried it yet myself
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SpaceCaker:
so if my stock rom is ext4.

what i now have i can back kt up

and wen i am on cm7 i can restore it

Are you looking to me?? i have an chinese ARMY !! (-(-(-.-)-)-)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mdfzhi:
maybe i'm too sleepy, but cannot understand a bit what u trying to say or ask
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SpaceCaker:
well ive converted my stock rom to ext4 with cf root

normally when you make backupp of stock rom

and you are on cm7

and you wamt to recover your backup

and want stock rom it wont boot

because filesystems where rfs instead of ext4

and cm7 is ext4

will the stock rom then boot after

installing backup?

Are you looking to me?? i have an chinese ARMY !! (-(-(-.-)-)-)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Cryss:
I think you have to install a stock rom with odin then restore you're backup ... !

That should work ... maybe ...
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mdfzhi:
safest way would be flashing stock rom via odin.

but u might wanna try rfs to ext4 converter that ketut posted in his cfroot kernel thread. that tool can convert rfs to ext4 and the other way around
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SpaceCaker:
never mind i tried

and its working ive restored stock rom from cm7

Are you looking to me?? i have an chinese ARMY !! (-(-(-.-)-)-)
[General Questions and Answers] hackersdoom13:
Is there a set amount of mV a type of battery has? or is there different amounts for each individual battery? just wondering. =)
[General Questions and Answers] Dark3n:
There is a set amount, most mobile devices use Lithium-Ion or Lithium-Polymer batteries.

The maximum voltage a single cell of those should have is ~4.2V, charging above that risks catastrophic failure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK003:
What's your honest opinion of this phone? Should I wait for something coming up? Also looking at LG Nitro HD... Thoughts?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nyssa1104:
Its a good all rounded fone. Its up to you does it fit your needs?

Which ever fone you do get will be surpassed by something better why keep up with the Jones..

I say go into a store and try out the handsets you have in mind and go from there...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dikai_yang:
As of now, buy one. By April or so, I'd say wait for the SGS3
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK003:
The only con I've seen so far with this phone is that it doesn't have gorilla glass. Anything else? I see some good devs.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D3_:
I'm pretty sure it does have gorilla glass.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rab1412000:
I think it is advertised as having gorilla glass. It is sturdy that's for sure. You can check some youtube videos on sgs2 drop tests.

After more than half a year in the market, I don't think there is any phone that can match the SGS2 and with a healthy modding community, it really is the phone to get if you are looking for one now.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK003:
Thanks! I got mine today. I'll be on her more often. :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leminhnguyen0703:
Judging from the signature, I believe you got the S2 Sky Rocket, not the international Galaxy S2
[Xperia Play General] rveens:
Hey guys take a look at this!

http://www.xperiablog.net/2011/12/30/xperia-arc-gets-usb-otg-app-for-rooted-phones/#more-4217

It seems to work for arc and it seems they got it working for galaxy nexus aswell.

Can anyone confirm this working for the xperia play?

And does it support game pads?
[Xperia Play General] AndroHero:
Doomlord got OTG working on the arc, when he tried the same on the play it did not work.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Porkchops:
So I had previously rooted my SGSII, and decided to try installing CM7 on it. I used CWM Recovery and ran it off the SD card, and everything appeared to work fine. I think I had a bad/not fully functioning CWM or something, as it didn't list an option to backup anything (I'm guessing because I flashed the stock kernel after rooting?) Anyway, it will no longer boot. I can access download mode, but Odin fails everytime I try to flash anything back on there. When I try to boot my phone, I just get a "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue" error.

EDIT: I just tried again as I was writing this, after rebooting, reinstalling my drivers and rebooting my computer. I was able to get the Firmware to flash properly in Odin. Now I have my phone booting and getting stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100 splash screen... Doesn't seem to go any further than that though, unfortunately.

Any ideas what I can do? Is it possible that I need re-flash a bootloader or something ??

Any help would be supremely appreciated!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Porkchops:
So I was just trying to re-install the Kernel, using the CF unsecured kernel, and it failed, but when I try to go into recovery mode, it looks as though it managed to install CWM Recovery. I have no idea what to do from here, and am sort of afraid to do anything for fear or bricking the phone completely...

I'm hoping someone out there knows how to fix this, I feel like such a tool
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheSniperFan:
As long as you can get into download-mode, your phone isn't bricked.

If you switch from or to a TouchWiz-based ROM, you have to do a full-wipe in the recovery.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NZed:
Go back to stock first via download mode via odin
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
Nah you're good. Similar thing happened to me at my first flashing attempt. Get your stock firmware from Intratech's thread, put the phone into download mode & flash the firmware via Odin.

Then maybe have another go at rooting the phone with the matching CFRoot kernel.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mone181:
yes, if you can still go in download mode it's no so difficult..this "small brick" it's on of "Android things to do" once in your SGS2 life :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexdonc:
Hi guys. I'm in a worst situation. As my phone after a failed ODIN downgrade from Android 2.3.6 to one stock kernel is completelly dead - it doesn't boot anymore - not even managed to put it back into download mode or revert to fact defaults (no keys, no lights not even battery charging displayed when pluged in) - tryed the USB jig also. Nothing worked.

The question is: Will Samsung manage to repair and how much will it cost - an average ammount offcourse. Because I guess it's out of the question to be considered a warranty issue. I guess it will be visible somebody have done smth to the ROM by a software approach....

This is the short story because I would bore you to discuss all the things I have been through - it was only my faoult out of stupidity :(

HELP!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
I don't see why Samsung wouldn't fix it ? As to how much they'll charge you, I think you'll find that will vary from country to country (labour costs being variable, etc). No, I don't think you'll be able to have it repaired under warranty.

You might want to look at having it JTAG repaired by someone other than Samsung. This will possibly be cheaper than having Samsung repair it. Do a search on here/Google.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexdonc:
Thank you very much. I have searched alot to actually understand - unfortunatelly for me it will cost... I saw on youtube a JTAG in action right now (cannot post the link yet). I understand now it is the only way. I'll keep you posted guys. Tomorrow I'll go to service.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
I'm sorry it's going to cost Alex. A difficult thing to happen, I know :(

Here's a link for a JTAG repairer in the US who is also a member here, tho I see you've already found one. I'm sure doing it this way will be cheaper/probably faster than having Samsung do the repair as well.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexdonc:
Thax. Funny thing is that this is exactly the thing I found - the same mobiletechvideos in US :) Now I allready have an ideea of how much should cost that. Hopefully I'll find a local GSM repair shop with the posibilitty to unbrick it cheep - or at least not much than 50USD - in local currency ofcource.

I'm still thinking if it is possible to use an ATMEL copy process - like in the old times for EEPROMS - I have done that in the past. In theory it might work but I will never do it - alredy scared about what happened to my beloved droid.

Thx again Mistah and have a gr8 day and a wonderfull new 2012!