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[Thunderbolt General] TXI Kaze:
If there's something wrong with the one they send me tomorrow, I'm calling them right off the bat and asking to be transferred to their retention department lol. Same thing, I guess. I'm going to rage and tell them give me a NEW phone. Not dealing with another broken refurbished phone. Some warranty THAT is.

What makes me even more mad is the fact that they sent me to Asurion when I found out that Asurion no longer handles ANY of the warranty issues. So they knew I'd be charged to pay for a new phone because THEY screwed up.
[Thunderbolt General] TUDrewser:
I had the exact same thing happen...no 4g. They sent me a new SIM, nothing. Sent me a new phone, buzzing in the earpiece. Only difference was that I happened to notice it right away when I was testing the phone. Called them back and they just sent me another replacement phone, no questions. Never had to go through Asurion because it was broken when I got it. Weird that they made you do that. Second new (refurb) phone I got worked great and 4G is back.
[Thunderbolt General] TXI Kaze:
The Thunderbolt I got today was a brick. Seriously? lol. I called Verizon to cancel my account due to all the bullsh*t and the supervisor said she'd send me a brand new Rezound instead of a CLNR Thunderbolt. Well, nice knowing the Tbolt and everyone on the forum. Best of luck to all the devs, I hope Twistd gets ICS up and running for you guys :)
[Thunderbolt General] brandogg:
I've been with VZW for 12 years, no bad experiences...wish they'd send me a Rezound!
[Thunderbolt General] CanesDrew:
It doesn't seem like Verizon had bad customer service. You got a lemon of a phone.

They're sending you a brand new Rezound. Doesn't sound like bad customer service to me.
[Thunderbolt General] turbosrrgood:
OP...So YOU broke your phone (voided warranty, Verizon needs not offer any assistance in fixing it). Then blame them for the software issue you created? To top if off you get a "free" upgrade from Verizon (refurbished of course), and then are surprised that it is not of the highest quality. Sounds like you need to jump back in to reality, as well as take responsibility for your own actions before "raging" against others for them. You should be jumping for joy that you got a new phone, not crying about it.

I have had to deal with all major cell phone vendors as part of my job. I can tell you without any question what so ever that Verizon has by FAR the best customer service of all cell phone vendors.
[Thunderbolt General] CanesDrew:
Absolutely. You don't have outsourced customer service and they actually care about how happy you are.

Geez, the whiney kids and their sense of entitlement.
[Thunderbolt General] th3_g00b:
u realize he said he went back to stock....went through the update THEN he had connectivity issues...then 2 lemons later they decide to give them a phone. also, the rant was BEFORE the new phone...
[Thunderbolt General] Watoy:
He was very patient and calm until the 4th time he was wronged by either broken phone/software in which case i believe was not his fault, then he raged, tbh some people would have already raged way before this guy did. Also i dont think he meant verizon is bad at customer service but he was frustated after getting like 3 diff. broken phones which is also not his fault. Just my 2 cents
[Thunderbolt General] TXI Kaze:
Ha. Ha ha ha. I had forgotten I posted here, actually.

A software issue I created? No. I don't call returning to their stock image then updating to THEIR update MY issue. The rep I spoke with said that it wasn't an unknown issue. No, I only got a "free" upgrade after they sent me a phone with a broken ear speaker and one that didn't even turn off.

I'd be glad about the new phones if they weren't junked as well. My first Rezound pretty much burned out, and the new one has a yellow tinted screen with pink soft keys instead of red and horrible light leakage.

I understand where you'd be coming from if I had said "wahwahwah" about it all.

But Jesus, you can't tell me if you had gotten two bad phones in a row you wouldn't be raging. And now I've gotten two more that were junk.

Please, tell me more about how I have to jump into reality.
[Thunderbolt General] TXI Kaze:
Sense of entitlement? Right.

Yeah, they care so much that one of them sent me to Asurion when it was clearly a warranty issue with the first refurbished that I got. Not to mention the woman that told me she had written a few notes on my system to aid in the process after all of it to get the Rezound...when she never did. The next rep I spoke with had no clue what I was talking about. So, once again, sense of entitlement? Please. Do elaborate after you understand that their software update broke my radio connection, the second phone I got was busted, the third was busted, the first Rezound burned out after a week, and the new Rezound has horrible build quality issues.

Might want to actually read my first post before you try to act like I'm being a "Waaaaaaaaah gimme new phone because I had one issue!"

Out of maybe 12 times I've had to call Verizon due to busted phones, I've had 2-3 that I would actually rate as satisfactory. The others certainly weren't pleasant. I know the busted phones are completely HTC's fault (at the time of the original post, I thought it was Verizon who certified the devices. Yes, ignorance on my part), but that doesn't excuse how many times I've pretty much gotten very cold and bitter treatment.
[Thunderbolt General] admiralspark:
Is there a point to this thread? If not, mods please close.
[Thunderbolt General] frank s:
I think he himself caused a mismatch in radios. I don't believe that a factory reset that takes you back to Froyo replaces the radios with Froyo compatible radios. In any case it sounds like a case of rooted incompatible radios that was causing his issues.

-Frank.

Sent using Tapatalk 2
[Thunderbolt General] jelleephish:
I understand the OP's frustrations. I have been with Verizon for 6 years now after my company was bought out by them. I could have went somewhere else at that point but I stayed for the sake of the reputation I had known Verizon to have among others I knew.

I went through a point of time where 2 of us on the plan had bad phones, known issues etc. They shipped out warranty replacements and they didn't work right either etc. I have had good customer service from them before, but I think its really just the luck of the draw with them. We went through 12 different shipments before they finally decided to send us phones that worked. This was not the fault of any screwing with the phone's technology, this was stock.

In Verizon's defense, this will always be an issue. Companies with high customer service ratings will always have at least 1-2 peons that don't care working for them. And it may just be the luck to get that 1 peon on the phone at the time....

Don't give up on a company because of one bad situation if you have many others to look at as good. They are a good company (for the most part) with some bad seeds...it happens to most if not all.

Glad to see your phone was taken care of!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Frogacuda:
Ok, it's been a while since I've done this manually and I need a little help apparently.

I have the stock phone and contacts apk files but I don't seem to be able to remount so I don't have permission to push them. I don't know if this is because I'm missing the scripts that normally come with aftermarket roms or what, but it's not working.

Can anyone help, or perhaps create a signed ZIP that can be used with CWM?

Files attached.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bendbowden:
The reason you probably aren't able to remount is you are using a secure kernel. Flash the kernel found here by romracer and you should be able to adb remount then adb push the files. Hope this helps!

EDIT: Here's a flashable zip in case you want to keep the stock secure kernel.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] wali01x:
it won't work.. i tried it..if its stock as in "aokp" or cm9 dialer and contact it'll freeze your system but won't go
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] smully1:
Does anyone have the apk's that came with ics leak?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] edgex:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1568128

this updates the dialer, and phone icon, and contacts icon.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] droid512:
I believe the op is looking fire the stock apk not just the look... I'm sure he wants the contacts to be in the dialer like everybody else
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] edgex:
Didnt read carefully, would also like to see these things, as well as the stock MMS/SMS app. Hopefully someone, somewhere is working on this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jnicks510:
i believe wali^^^^ is theming a bunch of stuff for us. for those that are looking for an ics themed dialer, you should try exdialer with the ics theme. it works great for me :)
[TouchPad General] aqw955:
considering buying a Kindle Fire or a touchpad.. a used one priced about the same.. which one should I choose?? :(:(:(
[TouchPad General] MrWilliams2:
Touchpad. Go for the bigger screen.
[TouchPad General] aqw955:
well the screen is not yet a problem to me :p
[TouchPad General] Kiersten_Kress:
My sister-in-law recently bought a new Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 for only $399 during a sale. (including Amazon Prime free 2-day shipping and no tax)

That's only $150 more than the price of the average Touchpad these days. If I must buy a tablet with Android right now, I'd go with the Samsung as well. (average price about $450 right now)

Sure, I love my Touchpad, but only because I got lucky and bought it for under $100 during HP's firesale. It now runs ICS perfectly and I use it daily. No complaints.... but at $250? No, thank you... :D
[TouchPad General] ve6ay:
Seriously, I'd go with the TP instead of the Fire - the Fire is nice, but it's still somewhat limited. Plus, Amazon's pulled some crap where they have apps specifically for the Fire, that are different than the rest of our Android apps, and they don't work as well as the standard apps do.

Plus, yes, then 9.7" size is quite nice, and the dual-boot is good for when you need certain features (Skype, a desktop browser, etc).
[TouchPad General] Unrealwolf:
Op, Fire's 512mb of RAM is just NOT ENOUGH for an Android tablet. Damn, 512 is too low even for a phone! I think you should choose between B&N Nook Tablet and TP. Or, better wait for this $250 Tegra 3 tablet which one of manufactorers has promised on MWC.
[TouchPad General] aqw955:
well both tablet fit a flashaholic, if android runs on the TP flawlessly, guess I will go for it.
[TouchPad General] mike-y:
heh, I just got a G-tab for $299 refurb'd. it might as well be new though, because I can not tell that this thing has ever been used at all.

The plan was to sell the Touchpad now that I have the G-tab. But honestly, with the latest CM9 builds on the TP, it is really a great device. So I'm keeping both for a little bit longer to decide.

Anyway, Touchpad vs, Kindle Fire is a no-brainer. TP all day, any day of the week. The Fire is slower and has a lot less memory. My GF has one and it's great for what it is, but it can't compete with the TP. In fact, as much as she likes the KF, she told me she wants my TP if I get rid of it, so I'll probably just give it to her and install the kindle app on it.
[TouchPad General] ve6ay:
Best advice I ever took was listening to my buddy who said "Go buy an HP Touchpad. For 100 bucks during the sale, can't go wrong."

Hell, this thing runs better than my laptop, and with Splashtop, I can even game from my desktop on my tablet. Or control my sound board. And my light board. And all other sorts of awesome things.
[TouchPad General] sahhar1993:
Yes because touchpad have best processeur dual cour (s3) with amazing price

Envoyé depuis mon HTC Pyramid avec Tapatalk
[TouchPad General] aqw955:
not quite right... spec-wize.. the KF has a OMAP4430 which is somewhat better than the APQ8060 (same as the msm8260 without modem..) in TP.. the OMAP is A9 and has shared 1MB L2 with dual channel DDR2 Ram, but the APQ is a modified A8 by Qualcomm and has two standalone 256KB L2 with single channel DDR2..
[TouchPad General] quarlow:
There is 90% of my reason. I was one click away from buying a Kindle Fire. The other 10% was faster processor and more RAM. I even made that choice before I knew the TouchPad ran Android. And I was very satisfied with the elegant, intuitive experience webOS brought. The fact its also arguably one of the top 3 android tablets even still today is just icing on the very delicious TouchPad cake. Then the fondant flourishes on top of the icing is the dirt cheap accessories like the TouchStone and HPs own case.

The TouchPad is undoubtedly the best gadget purchase I have made to date.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] houstonsveryown:
Finally downloaded skype.

but it doesnt work

the person im video calling sees me in green

but i see them and my self fine

downloaded previous version they dont work with ics.

anyone having the same problem?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] nielp96:
Yea same for me
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] digital_mush24:
Same thing happens for me!!! Could be a Skype glitch on ICS?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] YamiYaiba:
It happens on ICS on the Rezound too. Not on my Transformer though.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] digital_mush24:
I was looking on Skype's reviews and it turns out that people who have upgraded to ICS have the problem. Long story short: Skype needs to upgrade.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] kelnhofer:
Ok I have the same problem however, I was in Vegas this afternoon and was able to use skype while on the AT&T LTE service and my picture was great! NO GREEN!!! When I got home this evening to my slower 5 mbps speed the picture was green again. I think it has to do with ICS and the speeds that we are downloading with. Gary
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] haggardh:
I use oovoo as an alternative right now.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] digital_mush24:
I noticed that Skype had an update, so I updated it hoping that it would be a fix to the problem. Unfortunately, the green is still there. Skype is not fixing our problem!!! >.<
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] bduvel:
people with skype problems read and test this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1644583

fixes problems for Sensation/Amaze users with skype, your device uses the same gl files since ICS update.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] lamebmx:
I have used this with Darkraiders ROM and have had no ill effects over the past week or so and 2 ROM versions. I have not tested skype with it though. If anyone wants to test let me know, IM me on skype: lamebmx
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] daspazz:
Verfication

I can verify that it works with Skype. I was green then flashed the update and was no longer green!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] lamebmx:
Yea, I forgot to update that it fixed green screen in skype for me too.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] TCM55:
anyone else try bduvel's fix on a different ROM?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] grandmessir:
fix green cam

Thanks to author - my HTC Rezound Verizon with pure-gsm-aroma-rom ICS hth ad green camera in Skype before flash this fix - and now it normal after I flasshed this zip. Before Rezound I had the same problem with my old Sensation 4g T-Mobile with ISC Revolution - and didn't find the issue.

Thanks a lot from Kazakhstan!!!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] LReyes66:
All microsoft stores are a doing promo, you can challenge any of their windows phones w/ various of test and if you lose, you get the option to trade in your phone for a brand new windows phone w/ no strings attached regardless of your phone service.

It can be any phone, even crappy old blackberrys and old Iphones. I was just gonna trade in my old iphone for a new windows phone but then a friend of mine beat their phone w/ his iphone4 and got a free HP folio ultra book worth $1000. They dont allow jailbroken or modified overclocked phones, but according so some people, they just scroll through your phone and dont really check.

Some challenges they have you do is to take a picture and then upload it to facebook. First one to upload wins. Friend got lucky because the microsoft associate phone locked up on him :p

One of my other friends that didnt have a facebook had to search for a 4 star resturant with reviews and direction. He had a bone stock epic 4g and the windows phone couldnt get a gps lock lol.

I feel like id have a good chance on taking them on with my phone as soon as i fix the gps lock. But what else should I do to make my phone look stealth to the point where you cant tell its rooted?

My friend w/ the epic 4g said they turned it on and just looked at it and said ok.

Also is there a way to restore the boot animation to stock? Im currently running Cm7 nightly that is 2 nightly b4 the current one as well as trinity kernal and that gives out an animation on boot.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] IRASadPanda:
As for making it look like it isn't rooted or OC'ed, find that flashable zip of superuser without the actual apk so it won't show up in your drawer, remove any overclock programs too.

For the boot animation if you can find a completely stock 2.3.3 zip take the animation from that, as for the splash screen, you'd have to compile your own kernel.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] LReyes66:
i might just backup my current rom and flash w/ full wipe the gingerbread stock rom

anyway to tweak that to make it a bit faster?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] FatalityBoyZahy:
Lmfaoooo, say no more!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] theking_13:
Or do what I will, since I use GoLauncher, you can hide apps from showing up in the drawer. Superuser, CPU Master, Titanium Backup, all hidden. And set the theme back to stock. OC to 1.4 gHz on boot before I hide the app. ;)

Sent from my amazing G2x running EaglesBlood and Faux. :D
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tokentatortot:
Good Luck

Good luck, let us know what happens. If you get by and win, I might just have to try the same thing.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] iArtisan:
Link for this promo?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] I.R.Chevy:
Hahahahahaha

SMOKED BY AN ANDROID PHONE!!

F You Microsft Scammers!

(See below makes sense im not that crazy

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2525...es_after_botched_windows_phone_challenge.html
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jerrypcon:
Any Luck Yet?!?!

Hey, really excited to know how your microsoft challenge goes! Any news about it yet?:p:D:rolleyes:
[T-Mobile LG G2x] I.R.Chevy:
If you read my post above yours Microsoft cancelled the contest after they lost to an android and wouldn't award the prize to the Guy until he went viral about it.

Pin it to Win it.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Волк:
Yes, you are.

But, lol of course the android won. And of course Microsoft *****ed-out.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Core Memory:
This reminds me of the Microsoft vs Apple performance contests.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] LReyes66:
Hey guys, sorry i hadnt updated since posting this thread but...I WON!

lol i reflashed cm7 b4 i went to the microsoft store to make it look like my phone was stock. They didnt even check it.

My challenge was to find a 4star resturant w/ reviews and directions on same page. It was the challenge i was prepared for. Google maps opened in a sec and i already had a resturant in search history and i smoked their crappy windows phone.

I won a 13" special edition ultra book HP folio!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] LReyes66:
they also extended the contest from the 29th to April 5th but only giving out 100 phones a day and a limit of 10 Ultrabooks (if someone wins) a day.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] zoppp:
I am so trying this

Sent from my Handheld Portal Device
[T-Mobile LG G2x] fakestreet2:
Just like to add that since they extended the challenge for the 4th time, me and my friend went with our G2x's and ended up winning 2 $1000 dollar gift cards! If any of you live withing driving distance of a store I recommend you give it a try.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jordonwii:
Awesome, well done. :D What was your setup (ROM, OC, etc.)?
[HTC Amaze 4G] justin0025:
Hey everyone,

I haven't been having the best of luck. I use to be with Rogers, and owned a basic phone, and never had any issues. I got fed up with their customer service, and switched to Telus back in December. Obviously, I decided to pick up the HTC Amaze, and after a week of playing around with it, I really enjoyed it and decided to keep it.

A week later, friends started mentioning to me that I was sending out duplicate text messages to them. I was concerned since they don't have unlimited text messaging, and gave Telus a call. First they told me it was probably a buggy phone, and they gave me a new one, no charge at all, for the buggy phone.

Now that I'm on my second Amaze, things seemed to work fine. Couple weeks pass and the problem starts again. This time, I'm receiving the duplicate text messages from my friends. Me, getting really annoyed with waking up in the middle of the night to a text and finding out that its the same text from hours ago, called Telus back the next morning. They told me my SIM card needed an update. And I said "okay". After the update, I started receiving, AND sending duplicate messages.

Once again, I called them being extremely fed up, and told me to write down the times of the duplicate messages were received, and sent out. Here I am, 4 months later, with my second Amaze, 3 tech support calls, 2 pages full of days and times I received and sent duplicate text messages (thanks to my kind friends letting me know when they received doubles).

Before I call them for HOPEFULLY the last time, have any other Telus users have the same issue? Have you gotten it resolved? If so, how? What steps did you take? My phone is rooted, so if there are possibly any mods or patches, please let me know.

Even if you're not with Telus, and still have experienced these issues, I'd love to hear your stories/solutions as well.
[HTC Amaze 4G] marleyfan61:
I have had the same problem intermittently and have been told by others using telus that they have had that problem too. It hasn't been annoying enough yet for me to contact telus about it and since i have unlimited texting there hasn't been a cost issue for me.
[HTC Amaze 4G] andy55:
I've had issues with telus over this in the past, and it isn't your phone, and it definitely isn't your sim card! Its telus' network. If anyone's getting charged over extra messages a call to your provider letting them know that you're getting duplicate messages will resolve that. But I still get duplicates, sometimes triple messages! Its annoying, but its not on your end. I've been with telus since 2001, and ever since I had my old LG Fastap I've been getting duplicate messages

Its never been excessive though, maybe 3-4x a week.
[HTC Amaze 4G] sdv325:
same issue here, mainly been receiving the double texts, happens with different friends from different networks so who knows what the issue is.

I have been with telus for 10 years now and this occasionally happens, at one point i was getting 5-6 duplicates of the same message over the course of an hour, that was really annoying. Only for the past month have i been getting the duplicate messages which happen back to back quite quickly.

im on unlimited messaging as well so dont think much of it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rbenz:
Hi guys, I need some help with getting 100% root.

I have CWM and Superuser. I was able to install the Tuesday ROM but when starting up Barnacle for Wifi tether, I get an error regarding "su" access. I have Ti Backup and Root Explorer so I know I have root access. I remove Barnacle from Superuser and allowed it when it prompted. I also did a Fix Permissions in CWM but I am still getting the error message.

Please advise.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Teo032:
Hmmm looks like you did everything right.. Maybe a fresh wipe. You should also try to wipe the caches.

Why not just use the phone's built in wifi tether?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] iLeopard:
Yep, just use the phones built in tether. I had barnacle back in the day and I could never get it to work due to that very same issue....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rbenz:
Alright.. thanks guys.

The built in tether app does work. Just got used to using barnacle and concerned that my device is not 100% rooted.