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[HTC Amaze 4G] lajuan3:
Thanks everyone who helped, Binary i know that normally with craigslist stuff if you get scammed its pretty much on you. But the guy told me he got the phone off a upgrade and decided to stick with his old phone therefore he is lying. I also know that the number he was using to do the business with is linked to t mobile which leaves his information for the police vulnerable. Luckily my mom works at a high school and i have access to a police officer. Since you're a police officer i was wondering if i had information showing that the phone he sold me is directly linked to his account and shows that he said the phone was stolen/lost i can report him to asurion insurance and get him in trouble for insurance fraud at least. The one thing i was wondering is if he would say i stole the phone from him but i have the box with unopened accessories and text showing we were meeting up etc.
[HTC Amaze 4G] lajuan3:
I don't see how this is helping can keep the negative comments to yourself lol
[HTC Amaze 4G] Binary100100:
I'm actually thinking that did the insurance fraud thing. He likely called Asurian to tell them that he lost the phone and would like a replacement. Asurian then puts the IMEI on a black list so it can't be activated again since it was reported "Lost/Stolen" and shipped him another. He then sold it to you. Now without a Bill Of Sale it's all on you. If you have the text message then you have his number. Contact the seller directly and inform him. Best case scenario he did not actually with full intent attempt to sell you a stolen phone. He may be able to call Asurian and say that he had found the device and they might then be able to remove it from the black list. However they will probably want the replacement back. The most that you can really do is threaten him to call the police... but this is really a civil matter. Just because you have the box and phone number doesn't mean anything. Here's an example. If you were a criminal and robbed someone's house, took their tv, computer, jewelry, phone, box for phone, etc you can also take their identity since almost everyone has bills laying around. At least mail. So they can have your name, phone number, address, IMEI, original packaging... whole nine yards. Does that still prove that you know eachother? Can he still use that to prove that the sale was legit? No way. This is a civil matter and not so much criminal so you're not going to get much assistance from the police.

My advice, contact the seller and tell him that you need ALL of his information. Name, address, contact information for his account, etc and tell him that you have to use it to get his information removed from the black list. Try to get his DL number too. Tell him that the insurance company requires a copy of it to remove it from the list. Make up something clever like that. Then use that information to file for court. It's up to you if you want to try to settle it in court or not but it's your best bet. PD has a lot more to worry about than Craigslist scams and unless the insurance company or TMobile wants to provide informatino willingly to a law enforcement official. They may or may not because they are under no legal obligation to comply unless it's ordered by the court. But again... that's really up to you.
[HTC Amaze 4G] brianbmb:
One other option is to consult with your local prosecutor's office. Laws and procedures vary state by state, and between jurisdictions, but in Florida a lot of jurisdictions will operate some type of citizens dispute mediation program using volunteer mediators.

The idea is that by bringing both parties to the State Attorney's Office they will reach an agreement, or the more guilty party will make things right, and actually follow through on it because they believe it has a little more authority attached to whatever resolution is decided upon when in reality it may be an incident that is more civil in nature and could never be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in criminal court.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Totòòò:
we are talking about a $350 phone. just the court claim costs $200(at least here in IL).and there is no way you can get that guys information. the fact that he was able to sell you a bad imei phone means he is a pro, cuz not everybody can do that, you gotta have done it before. I am just curious how did you buy the phone without even trying to put a sim card on it..
[HTC Amaze 4G] silvscorp:
What Binary said makes a lot sense otherwise not sure what else "Bad IMEI" could be implying.

If this is true, and t-mobile blacklist the phone for activation, may be you can try unlock and see if it works under other carrier such as AT&T? If works, you can try switch carrier or sell to AT&T users.
[HTC Amaze 4G] seansk:
contact a subrogation service. They will scare the crap out of the guy and will get your money back...I got about 8 years ago on ebay when it wasn't so safe, someone sold me a laptop but it was just a poster of a laptop. Problem was in the description it never said laptop, it said item and it was basically a poster of laptop with its specs. so what I got was a laminated poster of a laptop for 1100 dollars. Subrogation services is a good thing. look into it.
[HTC Amaze 4G] lajuan3:
Well i was switching from sprint to tmobile back in the day you could pop a sim in and thebphone would just work even if lost or stolen i guess things changed and i got hustled im not to worried im sure i can get it unlocked and make atleast the 330 i spent back its just that i signed a 2yr contract got scammed and want him to face some sort of consequence
[HTC Amaze 4G] Totòòò:
U can never unlock an imei blacklisted phone.
[HTC Amaze 4G] gypsy214:
tmobile block the imei number of the phone, when the phone ever was reported stolen lost or the guy asked for an exchange and never return it, there is no way to unlock the imei number so you are screw,

i say get together with some friends find this guy a kick his ass!! :)
[HTC Amaze 4G] kronickhigh:
when did you sign your contact.... If you just activated you might be under buyers remorse
[HTC Amaze 4G] lajuan3:
I was informed i could unlock and use on other networks just not tmobile with a bad imei? i was planning on selling on ebay including the info that it has to be unlocked and switched to anyone besides tmobile.

I signed the contract because i have a 14day period where i can cancel without a fee i figured i would find a way to change the imei if worse came to worse.

Last i was told by a t mobile rep that they were changing my imei and it will take around 2hours.
[HTC Amaze 4G] supraman89:
I thought it was as simple as putting in your sim card? I guess tmobile is getting with the times.
[HTC Amaze 4G] AJ26T:
If the guy never used the phone asurion would never do a claim for him! They have to see the imei active for them to file a claim!

And it is possible to unblock a imei asurion can do it.
[HTC Amaze 4G] lajuan3:
Asurion told me it was up to T-Mobile T-Mobile said no I call again

they say they are changing it for me it will take 2hours been 2hours still no service
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Don_Perrignon:
I doubt it, but I want to be sure.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NW5anti:
According to the android market store it is not compatible.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Don_Perrignon:
I know that it requires 2.3.7, but I'm wondering if you need certain hardware aspects too. If the version of Android is the only thing, then most of us can put an ICS ROM on there and be good to go.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NW5anti:
I wish I could answer that for you with actual personal hands-on knowledge myself, but he below is what google has to says is what your phone needs to have for it to work for you.

"

Eligible Phones

Google Wallet with tap and pay requires an NFC-enabled Android phone with a Secure Element chip running Gingerbread Android operating system 2.3.7 or equivalent. The first phone capable of running Google Wallet with all of these cutting-edge features is the Nexus S 4G on Sprint."

This link is a list of NFC enabled phones.

http://www.nfcworld.com/nfc-phones-list/#soon

According to that list I do not see the MT4G.:(
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luna_c666:
You need a NFC chip (Near Field Communication). The first smartphone to have one was the Galaxy Nexus S, released late last year, so no phones that are older than 4Q 2011 will have this capability.

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Ha, beat me to it by 1 minute
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neidlinger:
http://phandroid.com/2011/06/01/no-nfc-no-problem-thanks-to-sd-cards-equipped-with-nfc-transmitters/
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Don_Perrignon:
Thanks guys, its just as I thought.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NW5anti:
Still wont work. According to the article the Phone needs to have a plastic sd card slot, therefore cannot be metal. In which the MT4G the are metal.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luna_c666:
Well that is just equipping it with an external nfc chip, which i did not know was possible, but that is pretty impractical..what, choose between not having external storage at all, or swapping out the external storage when needed? What a pita..just get your damn credit card out of your wallet.

That might work on a device that has more internal storage than the glacier, but with only a few gigs internal replacing your external with this seems pointless.

I wasn't wrong..without an nfc it isn't possible

Edit: my bad, there is 8gb on the card..not enough for me though..maybe there are new ones with 16..

Edit 2: except that these devices have been delayed over and over, now coming 2Q 2012 supposedly, so as of right now, there is no way to get Google wallet to work on a phone without an equipped nfc chip.
[EVO 4G General] Branford:
This seemed like the best place for the thread as it's just kinda something that popped up in my head..

I saw yesterday a thread about a touch screen version of CWMR, looked at some pics and read the thread, and it seems like a pretty cool idea (and much easier on the hardware!) so I was just wondering if anyone else thinks Amon will make a touch interface for his recovery? Just seems like it'd be nice to have and still be able to use all these nandroids that I have (flashed RA before even flashing my first ROM)
[EVO 4G General] Steven 1:
Here you go http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1339654
[EVO 4G General] Branford:
*facepalm*

Thanks :rolleyes: can't believe I didn't notice this
[EVO 4G General] ben.nesheim:
hah dont worry i just installed it yesterday

oh so set in my ways :P

prolly be six months before i try cwmr :D
[LG Optimus 2x] tr0ner:
Hi guys,

I am really losing it with my girlfriend's P990 (originally vodafon branded on the german o2 network). On stock this phone was a nightmare: random crashes, laggy launcher, random reboots / powerdowns etc made it a completely aweful experiance. So I said: ok this should be an easy fix, just install a custom rom and those problems should be gone. Since then I have tried:

- several Modaco Roms

- latest Euro Open Stock LG update (Smartflash)

- Topoggigi with Service Packs and different kernels

- Gueste2x 2.2 with different kernels

- Gueste2x 3.0 and 3.1 with different kernels

- all sorts of different basebands on the roms mentioned above

While I really appreciate the work the devs are doing and the system works alot faster however none of the roms really fixed the other problems: some lost reception, some had non working / freezing wlan, others had gps problems and there are still random shutdowns when the phone is idle.

Can anyone recommend a rom / baseband / ril combination that just works? It's for my gf's phone so I don't need all the ramhacks, undervolt, overclock, underclock gimmicks, I just want a stable phone working for everyday use which does not shut itself off, she does not even care if it's froyo or gingerbread based.

I was trying to avoid pure cm7, which I use and love on my own phone, because well, I can already hear her complain how everything looks different ;)

Big thanks in advance for your tips and suggestions.
[LG Optimus 2x] SREEPRAJAY:
For the simple user, with no UV / OC or any tweaks...and great stability and not matching your CM 7 in appearance(obviously urs and hers should not match mate....cause the BOSS is always different...dont take this serious...just joking)

one of the best ROMs I have used was the Topo's 2 with SP3...BBV20E with matching RIL(use GetRIL). If you want stability....the first thing I can think about is Topo's ROM....many developers themselves will agree on this point...he was a big inspiration for the upcoming devs.

Coming to the point of tweaks...this ROM with Spica's HP SR1 Kernel was one of the best results I ever had....three days of battery perf and almost 99.9% trouble free....dont look for 0.01%....you will probably never find tht.

Coming to the point of freezes....or random reboot...i found this hardly in this ROM....nevertheless, you also need to check the correct BB and matching RIL...which you will find in the relevant thread.

tweaks in this....they dont bother your stability....and still remains one of the best GB ROMs.

If you want more info...maybe u can PM me or add your comments to this thread....

But, a word of caution...you will never be satisfied, with the amount of variety and features the other ROMs offer....u still want more....Have flashed more than 14ROMs in less than 4months.thats how the life of a O2X owner is.....and I am enjoying it ;)
[LG Optimus 2x] tr0ner:
Thank you for your quick reply, and yes I agree on the boss part =)

I had topos rom on her phone (with another baseband though) but I had 2 problems:

on SR1 kernel:

with wifi sleep policy set to never wlan just stopped working after being connected for a while: it still showed the wlan connected + full reception icon in the statusbar but no data went through untill I manually turned it off and on again.

To fix that I switched the kernel on his rom (I cannot remember exactly to which one) which fixed the wlan issues but caused the phone to randomly lose all mobile reception until a manual reboot. Maybe this was caused by a wrong baseband. According to getril baseband and ril were a match though.

Other than that the rom was perfect (especially battery life)...but those 2 issues made it useless for an everyday rom. Especially because both bugs happend several times a day.

BTW: Topo recommends using the LGP990AT-00-V20c-EUR-XX-AUG-02-2011+0_CP.fls baseband, not the 20E you mentioned.
[LG Optimus 2x] LarsPT:
Why are you so sure it's software?

I bought a P990 almost two weeks ago, been giving it some nice usage (GPS, Wifi, 3G, a lot of gaming in the subway) still on stock software and I've had ZERO issues with it.

Why didn't you try to complain to your vendor about your faulty phone and get a new one?
[LG Optimus 2x] tr0ner:
you seem to be one of a lucky few then, because from what I hear from other owners of the phone it really IS a buggy phone. Have you tried to return a phone based on lags and errors which seem to occur randomly...it is not like I can reproduce the shutdown / reboot problems, anyway returning it is not an option anymore.
[LG Optimus 2x] SREEPRAJAY:
Mate,

you are right...Topo recommended the BB you have mentioned. But, if you have observed the complete changelog....then you may see the v2.0 with SP3 is made with V20E as the base. Personally, I used this and had no issues until unfortunately Topo's father fell ill and also the other ROMs came in, to give a variety.

Your wifi dropping might be a BB-RIL combo....you need to change the RIL according to region, operator and call quality etc....the app suggests a few RILs(if you have noticed in LG RIL Version or Get RIL app)....

In addition to this, there is also a V20M version made by another developer which alsy was working perfectly good...infact a few pple think that V20M is one good version which was a fix to BSOD and also better battery perf....

I am presently changing quite often between Django and Civato ROMs....and I have no issues with these ROMs. I have tried Gueste 3.1 which is very stable, great perf and fluidity...but the matter of changing to more what I am used to...

There are a great deal of variety and feature packed ROMs in the O2X cabinet and we need to be testing and staying which appeals the best in different terms for our satisfaction.

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Every phone has its plus and minus mate....I am proud of O2X not because it was made perfect(surely poor quality by LG) but the developers here are striving to make this a perfect smartphone.....and we are very close to that ....

Just believe and you can make it better....

:)
[LG Optimus 2x] tr0ner:
lol that's what I have been trying and the reason for this post. My problem is that I can flash a new baseband / rom / ril after work and test everything like wifi, gps, mobile internet and reception when I am at home. When everything *seems* to work I give the phone back to my gf hoping it's fine now. When she has the phone over the day and comes back in the evening and reports errors, so I start over again. That makes the whole process pretty tedious and I was hoping for a recipe, maybe from another user on a german network to shorten the whole process. But you already gave me a few tips I will also try next!
[LG Optimus 2x] LarsPT:
I don't know where you're from, but from where I'm from you usually have a two-week no questions asked refund period. And yes, I have tried to return electronic devices based on random problems within this period and usually I don't have any problems. Especially if I'm looking for a replacement for the same phone and not just my money back (I know some people who abuse this two-week period and try almost every phone there is... they almost don't need to buy phones...)

If you're outside this two-week period it might be trickier, I admit. But still I was just trying to be helpful. No matter what we do there will always be products with faulty hardware, and this faulty hardware might cause random lags and errors... if this is your case nothing you do will solve the problem, except for a replacement, that's why I suggested it.

And yes, I do realize I'm lucky. Before I bought the phone I did a lot of reading and I read about the random crashes, and saw people saying that a custom rom usually fixed it, so I was already prepared for this. But I'm not experiencing any of it so I'm happy.

Nonetheless I wish you the best of luck!
[LG Optimus 2x] mike-o2:
Gueste2X v3.1 with Temasek Turbo kernel and 218 BB works great for me.

Best ROM I've ever tried.

Reception drops and Wifi problems can be caused by BB not correctly installed.

No offense intended, but are you sure you did that correctly? Because I've seen manuals for installing BB which are outdated, wrong or just lack important data. I flashed my BB in a wrong way before.

Since you are German:

http://www.handy-faq.de/forum/lg_op...-lg_optimus_speed_p990_aktuelle_baseband.html
[LG Optimus 2x] upetro:
I am using temasek`s latest KANG-54, its smooth and stable. No problems whatsoever. Oh, and just today i flashed the kernel to ETaNa. Will see how that goes.
[LG Optimus 2x] involver:
Thanatos2x v5.1 -> been using this for a few weeks now, came from Modaco GR5. It's really a very good rom. Fast, stable, not to different from stock LG. I'm using the 725 BB from v20o (with the RIL that came with the rom), tho get ril suggests I get the RIL from v10d NL (since I live in Holland). Haven't tried it since this setup just works great. Reception is good, battery lasts the whole day easily, no reboots or freezes...
[LG Optimus 2x] neosnow5413:
After testing several ROMs I decided to use a ROM which won't let me miss a call. I chose MACODO GR6 . It's the most stable ROM I've ever tested. I'm tired of using buggy ROM just for the speed.
[LG Optimus 2x] tr0ner:
thank you guys for your recommendations!

Now I know what to check out next =)
[About XDA developers] cswithxda:
Anyone noticed this or is it just me?

When clicking a link here on forum, fox will normally load up in 5-10 sec period. I thought this was the bandwidth problem of the website until I tried Chrome, which loads up instantly in general.

Just updated from 8.0 to 10.0 of firefox, it loads up a bit faster, in less than 5 secs generally, but still really slow compared to Chrome.

I know here we have a huge Android community, and if you love Android, you probably love Google, and if google, then probably Chrome. Then, a lot of people might choose Chrome over Fox any day, and would point out how Fox is weak, but let's be technical here;)

For me, Chrome is just a minor substitute browser, which I normally use for different kinds of purposes (like logging into > 1 accounts at one site and so on). And I've used Firefox for years, so I'm definitely a good supporter of the Fox.

Anyway, I wasn't sure if I should post here or Q&A or Offtopic, so I just went ahead and chose the seemingly most generic forum to post. Hope it's OK.

Shall we discuss this if anyone's interested...:p

Cheers
[About XDA developers] pulser_g2:
Have you got a trace of the page load times?
[About XDA developers] cswithxda:
Sorry, how do I get the trace? I am normally the highest layer of enthusiast, which basically means that I am a newb compared to 95% of the users here on xda :D
[About XDA developers] PeartFan40:
Firefox uses a different rendering engine than Chrome. Chrome also uses a faster java script rendering engine, allowing it to load pages faster than Firefox.
[About XDA developers] cswithxda:
I see...

Now that my firefox also started acting weird when loading a thread page. It always keeps loading. Everything is already loaded within couple seconds, but it won't stop loading until i stop it.

Tried to use the extension firebug to *see* what was going on, even though I have no idea what i was seeing... I don't understand a thing about those scripts and codes...

I did find this error [fetch_object("currentPost") is null] and below it, description is "(?)()showth...2446654 (line 1) event = load"
[About XDA developers] svenk:
Hi!

Sorry to bring this up again, but since it's not solved yet and I am having bad performance with Firefox, too...

I noticed that every time I enter the forum firefox is busying one thread for 100%, i.e. my dual core is 50% busy. This stays for, say, one or two minutes until the CPU is idle again. It seems that Firefox only uses that single thread, or at least is waiting for it to complete whatever it does, because while it's busy every action takes one second to complete. For instance, when I then scroll down three lines, it will take three seconds, one line each second. This makes the forum nearly unusable during that time.

Once the CP is idle again, it stays that way for a while but sometimes the problem happens again, e.g. when I open another thread.

The problem does not happen for Internet Explorer, and also not for Firefox when I use the IE Tab 2 plugin. Also, I did not see such a problem on any other web page with Firefox.

Any suggestions ?
[About XDA developers] Felimenta97:
Using Firefox on my mom's notebook (Vista, Intel Core 2 Duo. 2Gb RAM) and topics loads pretty quick. Version 11.0
[About XDA developers] svenk:
Sorry, not for me. Just now as I write this reply at work, firefox occupies 25% on my quad core machine and is laggy as hell.

Edit: I tried again with all add-ons deactivated, and it's fast! Will figure out which one is causin the lag and post later.

Edit 2: Turns out it was the Linkification 1.3.9 add-on which I configured to use "Thorough Mode". This option is described with "Page load time may load slower", so it's totally my fault. Would have never noticed if you would not have mentioned that it works for you ;) Will use normal mode for Linkification -- pretty fast everything now!