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[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
I can say with almost a certainty no. verizon is adamant about NOT activating non verizon hardware on verizon.

short of cloning not likely to happen.
[Member-Found Deals] Willieumm:
If you need someone to do it still pm me and I'll do it.
[Member-Found Deals] eyeb:
hm looks like a good deal lol, i did same with old garminfone but it's stuck on 2.1 :S Tempted to switch to this one for the 2.3

But I have been able to keep a "landline" number using wifi + google voice + grooveip. Setup phone to dial out using groove and recieve with google voice app.
[Member-Found Deals] zakdoc89:
The OP has been kind enough to help me snag these... Thanks for all the PM's I appreciate the offers to help me out...

Noted with a NOTE
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
very few bestbuys still have any of these so I doubt its going to goto a second week. very sad. this droid is very nice.

the speaker is amazing. my pop got a bundle yesterday just for the speaker. trying to convince him to let me buy the phone but he is partial to red so not likely to give it up (punk :-) hehe

I got another today. have to drive 40 minutes out of the way to get it no more local's have any left.

now if you JUST want the phone they DO still have the vitality phone without speaker for the same $49.99 which is STILL a very good deal.

but clearly it would be nicer to get the free monster speaker with it :-)

Here are some timelapse video's I shot with the vitality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mbtVEkXGko

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZhJFwDZTm8

got another one from this morning uploading.

I typically do 720p for this type but this phone CAN handle 1080p (which is a major reason I love it plus its auto focus/macro capacity) downwards of once every 5 seconds.(really good) going to try 3 seconds later on see how it does with that.

it DOES chew up the battery doing 1080p (takes more CPU to process the higher resolution images)

I am also going to see how long it can do "native resolution" lapses. it might be able to do a 4k timelapse video.
[Member-Found Deals] DJsCrIBbLe:
3 local stores had the bundle yesterday and i busy at work and didn't call to hold one. Checked an hour later and all stores were out. Crazy
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
oddly enough I DO NOT think they are selling for the phone. I think they are selling for the speaker. (it really is a great speaker)

I wish I could get in touch with all those people and "buy" the phone part of the deal from them :-) hehe
[Member-Found Deals] holymolys:
nerys71 can you make a list of the bloatware apps that you were able to remove without killing the phone? Im sure it'll help alot of people too! I got the vitality+speaker package when they had shipping options available, should be UPSed here by monday... the phone doesnt seem to have CM7 support yet, so besides rooting, what else is worth tweaking?
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
this applies to both score and vitality.

now the vitality CRASHES constantly while using titanium backup (crashed on me a dozen or more times HARD crash black screen phone reboots)

but nothing "bad" happens just keep going you will get it all removed.

it has NOT ONE TIME crashed except in titanium backup.

all "ICON'D" programs. ie programs that have an actual icon ie the "games" they include "ANY" of the cricket apps etc.. can all be removed.

I also remove all of the google apps except market and youtube (so I can play the video's that some market apps have to demonstrate what they can do though I guess I really could get rid of that too)

also any of the "DRM" stuff I removed from the vitality with no ill effects (since I never plan to activate so I never plan to need the muve music service)

I learned to keep the fingers off the phone stuff :-) almost pissed on one of the scores :-) I just put it in airplane mode and use a toggle widget to turn wifi on and off as needed.

if you google Root Samsung Vitality find the AIO forum thread.

3rd or 4th post down you will find the SEPERATE root and cwm install links. I used those downloads.

worked perfectly no issues. install lg drivers send in the zerglings all ran perfectly they laid waste to the place nicely.

the only issue appears to be the titanium compatibility issue with this phone for some reason but it appears to be an annoying but benign problem.

I got the last 3 vitalities at the vineland bestbuy today. pop wanted another (as a gift I think) and I grabbed 2 more after selling 2 scores right outside the best buy before going in and using the money to buy the vitalities :-) hehehe.

as far as i Know only manahawkin has any left and the sale will NOT likely be extended since well there are none left. unless they decide it was so good they order more (wouldn't that be great)

I am about to root another one. will see if the titanium problem persists and I will list the apps I whack.
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
Here are the apps I am whacking. BTW the reboot crash is not unique to that one vitality my second one does it too. again no harm appears to come of it just keep going :-)

from top to bottom I whacked the following.

Books

Both Calendar Entries

Cricket 411

the DRM things below this (both of them)

DRM wallpaper

Mail

Facebook

Gmail

Calendar Sync

G Pinyin

google search

Home Screen Tips

Korean Keyboard

Live Wall Picker

Magic Smoke

Maps

Midnight Pool

Mobile Web 3 (cricket)

G Music

Music Visualizer

Muve Music

My Account 3

My backup

News Weather

Pico tts

poynt

Storefront (cricket)

Street View

talk

think office

tts

twitter

uno

youtube

ALSO figured out how to keep Titanium from crashing !!

never stop moving. if your not clicking uninstall move your finger up and down as if your scrolling the screen and KEEP scrolling it just a little constantly

for whatever reason it stops crashing while I am doing that :-)

I removed all that. zero issues.

180mb free memory when done. (don't forget to clear dalvik cache in titanium while your in their)

you could probably get rid of a couple more things that are not needed but if I flat out can't figure out what it is OR it appears "small" I just leave it alone :-)
[Member-Found Deals] eyeb:
noticed this with local craigslist so you guys might want to check there

been seeing a few of the Samsung Vitalitys showing up in the $30 range, if you just want the phone and not the speaker, it's a decent deal still
[Member-Found Deals] MRpeabodyia:
Looks like the sale ended. I just checked the availability in my area and one store has a few left but they are back to 99.99. I was able to get a few extra though. My brother also bought one just for the speaker so if anyone wants to buy a phone shoot me a pm.
[Member-Found Deals] qck:
How much is your brother looking to get for it?

---------- Post added at 07:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:21 PM ----------

quick question for any of you guys that got the phone. When you turn the phone off, then plug it in to the wall, does the phone turned back on?

I decided I want to make one of these phone a permanent addiction to my car. It would be great if it would go on when power is present.
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
anyone noticed if they have a "new" deal this weeK?

yes and no. it turns on but only to "battery charging" mode not "full on"
[Member-Found Deals] qck:
Thanks.

Nope. Everything is up to full price.
[Member-Found Deals] nosit1:
Every single store in Arizona is out of stock. Waited too long! Maybe I'll see if I can pickup just the phone.
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
BTW discovered something about lapse it. apparently most of the CPU power is down to "resizing" the images in real time.

I set it to "full sensor" and even at once every single second it handles it JUST FINE.

Whats strange though is the "full sensor" images are 1920x1080 ??? thats a little odd.
[Member-Found Deals] Bangoo:
Edit: Nevermind, my question is irrelevant now.
[Member-Found Deals] DJsCrIBbLe:
what do you use for video capture app... camcorder does video but it doesn't look 720p at highest quality??
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
OK slight "explanation"

the VIDEO camera mode for this unit is 640x480 and not very good 640x480

what I am making is TIME LAPSE video's

software instructs the camera to take a PICTURE not a video.

it does this at "intervals" so for example I can tell it every 5 seconds "take a picture"

I set it up let it run for HOURS doing this.

then later in the program (very slow) or on my PC at home I take the thousands of "pictures" it captures and I stitch them together into a "video" using the PICTURES as "frames" of the video.

and that is "time lapse" photography.

so a "sunset" which might takes 4 hours to fully occur can be "compressed" into 2 minutes via timelapse.

because its taking PICTURES and NOT VIDEO it can use the full resolution of the camera in PICTURE mode (in our case theoretically 3.2MP)

720p means I tell it to save a 1280x720 pixel image. 1080p would be 1920x1080 BUT less than the 3MP the camera is capable of.
[Member-Found Deals] DJsCrIBbLe:
I copied the video to my Mac and opened in MPEG stream clip and it shows unscaled video is 288x something?
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
ahh must be 320x288 even worse than I thought. yick :-)
[Member-Found Deals] DJsCrIBbLe:
Ya that's it .. lame
[Member-Found Deals] bamx2:
If anyone has been able to activate the Samsung SCH R720 Vitality / Admire on Page Plus Cellular (VZW MVNO) and get data working , please post on how to do it . - Thanks
[Member-Found Deals] nyamd20:
Is this phone able to be unlocked?
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
I am not sure what you mean by unlocked I can tell you this it can be rooted and you can install an alternative rom if unlocking is included in that then yes

otherwise I have no idea
[Member-Found Deals] bamx2:
This is a CDMA phone . Provider unlock doesn't apply to CDMA phones ( exception with some CDMA/GSM models) .. Some CDMA providers will a permit a foreign ESN to be added to their user database and others do not.

It can be rooted ( which may be what you are asking - " unlock " ) to unlock the software so that you can change ROMS etc .
[Member-Found Deals] nyamd20:
Thanks i meant provider unlock lol
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
I could be wrong but its a cricket phone. I doubt its "locked" at all. Does cricket do that ?
[Member-Found Deals] pshadoww:
Correct :). Cricket phones can only used on cricket network. And this is why they are cheap
[Member-Found Deals] spunker88:
Some people have said they got them working on Page Plus but without data which uses Verizon towers. If you dial *22801 on the ZTE Score, may work on the Vitality as well but IDK, it will connect to Verizon's activation number and you'll notice the signal improve (if you have poor Sprint coverage and better VZW coverage) as well as a roaming indicator appear. So it has the hardware to connect to Verizon's CDMA service.
[Member-Found Deals] KRAZYADROIDMASTER:
Finally got the phones rooted!!!
[Member-Found Deals] bamx2:
Not necessarily with a little programming some of them can be used on other networks provided that the new network will accept the ESN . This might require the use of some third party software ( eg- QPST,CDMA workshop ) and it might no be possible to get all features to work .

BTW- The Cricket service for the Vitality ZTE Score in my zip code is actually provided by Sprint (same coverage as VMUSA , no roaming )
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
Got the extended batteries in (3600mah with backs $18 for 2 sets got 4 sets)

I cut away some of the casing and installed the metal ring for my "wide angle lens" that I attach to these

I made the cut out larger than usually in case I attack "other" lenses to them.
[Member-Found Deals] KRAZYADROIDMASTER:
What about the 4gb card???
[Member-Found Deals] DJsCrIBbLe:
What about it?
[Member-Found Deals] KRAZYADROIDMASTER:
Can we use the full space, like a regular card???
[Member-Found Deals] DJsCrIBbLe:
Unless I'm unaware of a special way no. I formatted mine and it only formats the 1gb partition :( . I have 16gb cards in all of mine though ..
[Member-Found Deals] spunker88:
I tried it in a card reader on Windows 7 and Disk Management would not let me to get any more than a GB of space. I tried it on Ubuntu with GParted and got the same result. Tried mounting from CWM but for some reason it comes up as a read only CD drive with 1GB.
[Member-Found Deals] dilfatx:
Link shows it's back up to 70 dollars.

Is there a differ link to the thirty dollars one?
[Member-Found Deals] KRAZYADROIDMASTER:
I have a 4Gb card I am going to use.
[Member-Found Deals] KydDynoMyte:
Last post here: http://superuser.com/questions/359407/my-4gb-micro-sd-card-only-allows-me-to-use-1gb claims:

I found a way to recover the space on the Muve Music Micro SD cards quite by accident.

I have my wireless Epson 635 printer on my network. I took the card and plugged it into the card reader and over the network I dropped 3.2 GB of info (movies) on it. Somehow the printer let all of the info on to the card.

I then took the card and plugged it back into my computer and formatted it. When it was finished I had 3.68 GB of space usable on the card instead of the 1 GB allotted.

I have now done this with 3 different Muve Music Micro SD cards and it worked on all of them.
[Member-Found Deals] dilfatx:
This guy has a good question... Lol bump
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
negative. these were "one off" deals at best buy.

I will be sure to post if they have another.

you can still get vitalities on ebay and CL for $50 (sans speaker of course :-) hehe

many many people bought that deal just for the speaker.
[Member-Found Deals] voonli24:
ZTE Score deal back alive but for $10 more!!

Shows up as $39.99.
[Member-Found Deals] spunker88:
But Best Buy has Free shipping on everything until May 7th, so you can get it shipped for that price if you don't have a Best Buy near you or don't want to deal with store employees who want you to activate it.
[Member-Found Deals] voonli24:
Oh they will want us to activate it? I planned on using it as a music player and GPS device only. We'll see, sometimes the staffs at my local best buy could care less lol.
[Member-Found Deals] DJsCrIBbLe:
I told them i use em as mp3 players and bought they're entire stock of 5 . They couldn't care less
[Member-Found Deals] spunker88:
No it doesn't have to be activated but when this deal ran last time some people were talking about staff not letting them but it without activation. The staff telling them that are incorrect but it still happened.

Chances are it wont happen if you go to buy one, but I was just saying that you can get free shipping now if you don't want to potentially deal with that situation you can avoid it.
[Member-Found Deals] voonli24:
Ah .. i see. I got a couple. If anyone ever needs one, please pm me. I bought a few just in case.
[Member-Found Deals] KRAZYADROIDMASTER:
Thanks!!!
[Member-Found Deals] voonli24:
Picked up without any problems.
[Member-Found Deals] icepally:
So can you use this for GPS in the car without any type of activation?

+music on wifi without activation?

Thinking about grabbing one for fun.
[Member-Found Deals] KRAZYADROIDMASTER:
I tried it with WI-FI teathering and did not work.
[Member-Found Deals] spunker88:
Yes, you can either download AGPS data over wifi, I use GPS Status and it locks satellites in seconds when outside and connected to wifi. GPS will also lock without wifi, it will just take longer, similar to a portable GPS unit.

Music on wifi will also work fine. Put the phone in airplane mode for the best battery life as this will turn off the cellular radio. Wifi and GPS work fine in airplane mode and possibly BT too.
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
Just a warning to you guys with the best buy android cricket phones.

if you bought them for the reasons like I did. IE for the "portable computer" never plan to activate this does not apply to you.

my pop bought one thinking maybe he would activate it.

apparently the ESN's are HARD LOCKED to one plan and ONLY one plan and its non negotiable.

unlimited text unlimited data unlimited music but only 1000 minutes a month.

he would burn through that in 3-4 days. no joke :-) (remember pay as you go NO night and weekends!!)

talk about an ouch. no big deal. will just sell the phone (I will probably just buy it from him since I don't need a plan and I want more vitalities :-)

he still has the amazing speaker so nothing lost :-)

just wanted to give you guys the heads up in case you might consider activating one or looking at a future best buy deal. BE CAREFUL if you plan to get service :-)
[Member-Found Deals] KRAZYADROIDMASTER:
Thanks for the heads up!!!
[Member-Found Deals] Spz0:
Not so true..

afaik you can sign up for the $55 a month unlimited everything plan (up to 1Gb data before they throttle you to 1x). o.0

At least, thats what I did...
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
We tried they flat our refused to allow any plan except the limited minutes plan. (for a Samsung Vitality)
[Member-Found Deals] Spz0:
Wow. Definitely crappy. Theres no reason they should be doing that. The ESN's are def. not hard locked from my exp. I've swapped over to MetroPCS (seemingly by accident), then back to cricket. Im guessing they just need to reflash the phone with the corp. odin flash.

I have a copy over at AF if you want to check it out.

http://androidforums.com/vitality-a...-r720-cricket-corporate-flashing-utility.html
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
the ESN is not "Hard locked" in the phone. its "hard locked" in crickets SYSTEM to a specific "plan type"

maybe the SCORE is not like this (it was a "soso deal so it may be fine) but the VITALITY (the killer deal with the BT speaker) "IS" locked to that "limited minutes plan"

we tried the phone several times the internet multiple times and even went to several cricket stores.

they flat out refused to activate on ANY plan but the limited minutes plan on the box.
[Member-Found Deals] Spz0:
Well, if you ever want to give it a shot, you can try the flash listed above and head to another corp store to try to activate a $55 plan.

I own a Vitality on a $55 a month unlimited plan, and I also have the option to go "pay as you go" as well if I so choose.

Good Luck.
[Member-Found Deals] KRAZYADROIDMASTER:
Is anyone using these for anything.

I am using mp3 player.
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
I use them quite often actually. I have 4 of the ZTE Scores and 4 of the Vitalities and 1 EVO 4g

I use them as "time pods" at events running lapse it pro to take pictures every 3 seconds that I later stitch together into a timelapse movie.

Still have trouble finding GOOD software that does not compress or process that just rapidly "slaps" them together into a movie at a specified frame rate.

most of them puke on anything larger than 1920x1080 (the EVO can capture 4k frames)

got extended batteries for the vitalities and the evo and also plug in external usb battery packs to keep them running.

found out the evo needs more than 8gb at full res as thats only good for 4:40 :)

I will get some pics of my time pods up eventually :)
[Member-Found Deals] KRAZYADROIDMASTER:
Just wondering how many people are still using their phones???

I got three phones.

Mine I waited until I got a case for it. All good

One of the boys dropped theirs and the other one phone is fine.

Would it be possible to change the screen on this phone and would it be worth it???
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
I still have and use mine I now have four Samsung Vitality with extended batteries in cases as well as 3 zte scores left I use all them for time lapse photography at different locations

do a search for timelapse TARC on youtube to see some of the videos I have shot with these droids

I use bass external batteries if I need more time

unless you can do it yourself it is probably not worth replacing the screen just hit Craigslist and buy another one

if it still works otherwise leave the back of a can use it as an external charger for extra batteries

extended batteries are available relatively cheap these phones but you won't be able to use a case
[Member-Found Deals] spunker88:
I've been using mine mostly as an internet radio around the house along with some old free computer speakers, it works great.
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
I can't post a link but there is an updated version of the special version of pandora available :) I also use (and pay for) slacker radio. I hope they get the stinking caching fixed soon :)
[Member-Found Deals] phoenixfriend:
What was the deal app you use?

None I've tried have been worth a crap.
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
not entirely sure what you mean by "deal app" I assume you mean finding good deals and sales etc.. ??

I use 3.

Ben's Bargains

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...s.feed&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd

Deal News

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5kZWFsbmV3cy5hbmRyb2lkLnVpIl0.

Deal Drop

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5nZXRpZGVhbHl6ZXIucHJvIl0.

I open all 3 of those every day.

Deal News is the best but Ben's Bargains sometimes finds some of the more obscure deals that deal news misses and deal drop has all the sale sites I use (tanga woot etc..)

ALSO make SURE you install the AMAZON APP STORE. they give away a 100% FREE "paid" app every single day and sometimes they give away some REALLY nice apps.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/get-appstore/android

go their from your device (wifi)

I also stalk craigslist with zeal :)

I use this app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY3JhaWdzbGlzdC5wcm8ucGx1cyJd

If you use craigslist a lot its the best $2 you will spend towards craigslist.

its not free but its without question the best app I have ever used and well worth it. also lets you post to Cl.
[Member-Found Deals] phoenixfriend:
I'm sorry I k ow this thread was started months ago. In your first post you said you had a "deals" app. I just wondered which one.
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
i just posted links to all of them
[Member-Found Deals] spunker88:
Although this is still a few weeks away and subject to change, Dollar General will be selling the Net10 ZTE Merit Android Cell Phone for $39 on Black Friday.

Source: http://bfads.net/Dollar-General

The specs are pretty similar to the ZTE Score:

Dimensions: (H × W × D) 4.57" (H) x 2.46" (W) x 0.5" (D)

Weight: 4.48 oz. (with battery)

Display: 3.5" 320 x 480 (HVGA)

Camera: 5 megapixel camera with auto focus

Memory ROM: 512MB, RAM: 512MB, Internal storage available to user: 130 MB

Removable memory card support: micro SD card, max. capacity 32GB

Battery: 1,500 mAh

Continuous idle time: Up to 9 days and 9 hours

Continuous talk time: About 5 hours

OS: Android 2.3 Gingerbread

Sensors: Gravity, tilt and shake

Google Android apps (YouTube, Google Maps with navigation and voice guidance, Google Talk, Google Play Store, Android Music Player, etc.)

Processor: 600 Mhz

The differences are you get a slightly better battery (1200mAh vs 1500mAh) and a better camera (3MP vs 5MP). This phone is GSM so it may be possible to use it as a spare device quite easily depending on how unlocked it is.

As more ads get leaked we will see hopefully see more devices.
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
its a little slow but might be worth it for the 5mp camera. I may nab one of them. I still like the vitality's the best. auto focus AND extended batteries are available :)
[Member-Found Deals] spunker88:
Some more leaked Black Friday updates. Once again these are subject to change since the ads aren't official.

Family Dollar is selling the same ZTE Merit phone I posted about above for only $29:

http://bfads.net/Family-Dollar-Black-Friday-Net10-ZTE-Merit-Android-23-OS

Kmart is selling a 7" Resistive touch tablet for $39:

http://bfads.net/Kmart-Black-Friday-xTreme-Mach-Speed-7-Resistive-Tablet

Even though the screen may be a cheap resistive one, the rest of the specs are pretty great for that price:

1.2Ghz A10 AllWinner Single Core Processor (ARMv7 so it can run flash, etc)

Dual Mali-400 2D/3D core GPU

512MB RAM

microSD slot

Front facing Camera (Unknown Resolution)

Unknown Screen Resolution
[Member-Found Deals] nerys71:
wow both of those look delicious enough to try and get :)