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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] needspractice:
Hi!

I am going to switch to sprint from AT&T because I lost my job. I am going to get onto my mother-in- law’s plan because my wife is already on it. They have a family plan so I was just going to jump onto their plan to save money.

The only problem is that I have a Dell Streak and am so in love with it. I have the awesome stock unlocked factory ROM on it and can tether with an unlimited data plan. It’s a great phone but does seem a little out dated by being a little slow. Also I am tired of paying 85.00 a month for unlimited mobile to mobile, unlimited data, and unlimited testing. I know it’s a decent deal but money is tight at the moment.

The only solution so far is to go to sprint because that is what my wife and mother-in-law are have. The only close phone that sprint has that is close to what I have is the Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G. The phone would be 19.95 a month and 10.00 a month for the data for that phone. I am wondering if there is a huge ROM support group for the Galaxy S II if I wanted to say put Ice Cream Sandwich on it stock style with unlock tethering with the sprint network. I know some networks make it real hard to change your ROM’s phone.

The other choice would be just to go with the Samsung Replenish because it seems like a decent phone and has Android capabilities but I just think I would find myself depressed going from an extreme mod phone like the Dell Streak to the Samsung Replenish.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Let me know the ins and outs of moding a Galaxy S II on the Sprint network. And what phone you think would be best. You think the extra 10.00 is worth the Galaxy S II? I just think I will be going for the Galaxy S II because that is what I am used to.

Side note is that I am 8 months from my contract expiring with AT&T and have unlimited data smartphone plan. I was thinking about using an extra lame old phone that I have laying around the house and taking of my data plan by calling in and say I do not have it any more I just have a basic phone and ask them to remove my data plan. This was when I port my number over to Sprint they will only charge me the basic termination fee than the more expensive one because I had a smartphone. Do you think this would work?

Best,

needspractice
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SRT300:
Let me be the first to chime in. The Epic Is certainly the way to go! One of the best Groups on XDA (imho) and one of the best performing phones on the market. Every phone has its downside, ours seems to be 4G speeds, but the upswing far exceeds the down. I Love this Phone!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shiftr182:
There are plenty of Roms for the E4GT. Development is pretty good right now. My wife used to have a replenish, because she wanted to be "green". That thing was a POS, there was no support for it, it has a freaking slow processor, no memory, graphics suck, etc. At least go with a dual core.....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] azyouthinkeyeiz:
Also, you will have to pay the ten dollar data charge for both the Epic Touch and the Replenish. Get the E4GT.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] needspractice:
Basically all I want to do on the Sprint network is tether with a mobile hotspot up to 8 devices for free. Install non market apps like the Amazon App Store. And Root my phone. Is this all pretty easy and possible with the D710 that you get from the Sprint Store?

And if I went there today? Would I get the newest version with the newest parts like the silver headphone jack and what not?

Also do you think its a big deal to give up my unlimited data plan on AT&T? Or if you pay the extra 10 dollars with Sprint is that basically unlimited data?

I would change out the roms but that is not entirely to important to me but I would like the option to.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] elprincipejay:
Yes all that is possible and more
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dcowboys2184:
You'll be happy trust us! You probably be like streak who!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] playya:
Don't buy the phone from Sprint try Sam's Club, Radio Shack or Compusa which all sell the phone for less than Sprint does at this moment... Hey even try Best Buy. If you want to save yourself some money shop around.... Oh yea Amazon too
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] oscarthegrouch:
Don't run off and put ics immediately. Yes its desired and popular with many people. Only problem is, many people believe it isn't reliable enough to trust it as a daily driver. A few people, including myself, feel calkulin's 2.8.1 is the most recent with the best stability and least problems. You can always go stock rooted, but your battery and responsiveness won't be as good as 2.8.1. Grab all the modems and try any of them ek02 or newer. Find which one works good for your phone and area.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] elliwigy:
Seriously? Do better research.. besides the network, the e4gt is hands down one of he best phone out right now.. completely.. not to mention all you need is a pc, sfhubs one click rooted ics leaks and youll have stock rooted ics.. then you can try one the awesome custome roms or even get an aosp rom with way more customization.. then you can show everyone how your e4gt touch is better than there phones and forget about your streak all together in no time..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] needspractice:
When you root it or flash a new ROM does it give you portable wireless hot spot?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Shadow_God:
Yes, you can download wifi tether from the market
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] The Root:
On ics new builds have broken it before but someone always gets it running again. I have been using ICS as a daily driver since March with no more than cosmetic or nonsensical issues usually caused by me.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] FuMMoD:
Easiest phone to root is the OPPO Find 5 that has an unlocked bootloader and to root it all you do is install an app. Best phone at the moment is the Galaxy Note 3.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] needspractice:
Does the Galaxy Note 3 have an easy toolkit application to root it like the Galaxy Nexus?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] FuMMoD:
No idea the phone has just barely been released. It's not hard to root nowadays just follow instructions. Not like the "gold card" rooting procedure with a ton of adb codes anymore.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zombiedroid666:
I updated my Nexus S to Android 4.0.4 via the OTA update few days ago. But the usb tethering is not working after the update when I try to connect it to my computer(windows 7).

Baseband version- I9023XXI1

Kernel version- 3.0.8-g6656123

android-build@vpbsl #1

Build number- IMM76D

network aircel india

Non rooted Nexus S
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Batman:
Flash this in recovery http://db.tt/xyhYAyTr
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zombiedroid666:
Thanks for responding...I tried flashing that in recovery but that didn't help. Going by the name of that file it seems to be a nexus s 4g file but I use the ordinary nexus s..and that seems to be the problem.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] nickmcminn60:
​

Make your Android Free of Ad's in apps and increase Browser loading times.

​

*Updated 6/2/2012*

​

-First off remove the ".zip" Extension (Had to add it to upload here)

-Next transfer to device's SD Card.

-Move to the System/etc folder via Root Explorer or equivalent and overwrite the existing host file.

-Change Permissions to rw-r-r and reboot.

-Enjoy an Ad Free Experience

-This Will Also Make Your PC Ad Free (If You Tether). No More Loading Useless Add's, In Turn Speeding up PC Browser Loading Times Using Less Bandwidth!

*To revert back, just delete my Host file and reboot. The OS will rewrite the original.

I will add to this file as I come across newer Ad's

*Yes This Can Be Done With Several App's, But I like My Space and Free Ram*

(Tinker, Tinker, Tinker, That's What It's All About)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] Acerbus91:
Awesome, willl have to do this once my phone arrives. However, do you actually mean Reduce browser loading times??
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] k0nane:
Or one could use full-featured, easy apps from the Market such as AdAway or Adfree Android...
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] nickmcminn60:
Sorry i just cant sit in front of a pc/Linux all day i have a job to go to. Saturdays are my only day for android. If i do it then. Not worth my time i can just do stuff for me and the old lady, not sure what your deal with me is but im not signing on to see these comments. Ill keep my work personL.....in other news samsungs half ics is working well.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] k0nane:
What? I think you're taking... whatever it is that it appears that I'm doing, way too personally. Chill out.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] Cirkustanz:
Hey, the good news about this thread is that k0nane suggested adfree android, which literally took 15 seconds to get up and running, and is a nifty little tweak!
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] talindsay:
Apologies to OP, but quick Adfree Android question: is there documentation for it somewhere? I checked out bigtincan.com and it doesn't have anything, and on the Android Market^H^H^H Google Play site there's very little by way of documentation. I think it just did its job, but it presents a lot of choices and it would be good to know what they all do.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] abraham.ramirez:
Adaway is actually a little easier to use, I recommend that one
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] Tha Maxx:
Is there a specific reason your being so rude? Or are you feeling insecure that there is another bad ass dev coming out with fixes. or is it your just that stuck up and must have all the likes. Last I heard Android is open source and last I checked we were all supposed to help one another not point out each others down falls or pick at them. Your rude and have my word that I would never support you and your obnoxious mouth. </rant> good day sir :rolleyes::rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] allprogrammed:
Do you really think that k0nane's post was rude? Really? It is just another way to accomplish the same thing. That dude gave us root. That in itself is way more than most have offered.

I thank everyone for the work they're putting in for this device, but to say that his post was rude is reaching a bit. He just gave another option, and it is a good one.

We're all on the same team.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] Tha Maxx:
Yep and the same man helped him on his journey of getting the root. I feel the man is acting childish following him around and under minding his every turn. Same team.... I thought. But with this crap going on..... Just because he achived root doesn't give him rights to act like a snob. :rolleyes::rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] allprogrammed:
But what it comes down to, is that he gave a simple answer to what was being addressed in the thread, right?

I don't care who helps who getting what in the scheme of things.

I'm a beggar and not a chooser at this point so I gotta love those that are giving to the community. Whoo devs!
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] Tha Maxx:
:rolleyes::rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] allprogrammed:
So has anyone here in general tried out the Noble rom?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] shabbypenguin:
badass dev? when is he coming?

anyways in all seriousness the point that k0nane was trying to make i believe was fully justified. by using nicks tweak you rely on him updating it, which from the looks of it... doesnt seem to be happening. what does android being open source have to do with helping or not helping? as far as i can see there was an alternative given thats all, no different than if i made a huge giant post about how to use alogcat and get your msl. which works fine but there is an easier way of just using getprop.

so far from what ive seen of this community is a bunch of crying on how there are no roms/kernels etc. we had

one

blaze owner in teh irc for teh longest time. helping with root/recovery and whenever starskyrob had a moment to test his rom. everyone claims to want cm7/cm9/aokp/ics yet i havent seen anyone except (forgive me for misspelling your name if i did) dr4stic even try to compile. if you want good things to happen to your device then you need to step forward, look into rom development, learn how to compile the kernel from source. if you cant/arent willing to put the time in then find someone who is ive mentioned all around this forum no dev is gunna give up their high end device to go buy and work on the blaze.

myself and k0nane are on sprint it just happened to be that we like to go around and help phones that dont seem like they are gunna get the big name treatment. i tweeted at my buddy mikeyinid (we worked together on the nexus s back in the day) see if he wouldnt mind helping you guys on out...
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] Tha Maxx:
And that is 100% respected. I am not only talking Bout this post, rather all of his post that have followed one of nicks. I am glad you guys helped. But that doesn't give the right to treat others in a condescending manner. Nick has done amazing work on the vibrant and now has this phone and wad helping this man. Once the man got what he needed ( because like you stated, he nor you have the device) he was out. Then started treating him like this. Shabby, problem wasn't with you. I just had to step in and defend nick because he is a bad ass dev.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] Cirkustanz:
I personally think a lot of the problem is the average user's interpretation of T-mobile sales reps.

I mean, I knew the S2 had a very large rom community especially because it's a very popular phone. I was led to believe by T-mobile that the phone is pretty much just an S2, but with a smaller size screen.

If you compare the phone's features and specifications, you'd be a fool to not agree.

But as it turns out, as it pertains to roms, nothing could be further from the truth.

Shame on us, the average user, for not realizing the golden rules with salespeople:

1: They'll tell you what you want to hear.

2: Most of the time they don't know what they are talking about anyway.

3: Often times when you need to buy a phone, you've not exactly been planning on it, so you have to do it hastily. This was certainly true for me.

4: Custom roms are of course never able to be supported or recognized by the carriers, they pretty much pretend they don't exist, and for good reason. Most people aren't really careful enough to be doing it, even for the "simple" methods.

5: Rom maker's ability to communicate instructions is not always clear, and yes, this can have a detrimental impact to a person, especially if they are not experienced with the process. Seriously, half of the roms I've looked at for Android phones have glaring instruction errors, and even if it gets pointed out by another person, rather than update their instructions they'll just reply, "Yeah, sorry about that" The problem is, that clarification is often times on the 40th page of the thread. Sigh.

6: And this is my number one reason........

A lot more people should be getting more and more fed up with carriers who impose limitations on phones. Seriously, if it wasn't for all this carrier and manufacturer ego-wagging, the user experience would be better for both the tweaker crowd, and the stock crowd.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] nickmcminn60:
I appreciate the help with root and CWM but not the comments that follow all of mine. I have Saturdays to work with this device, so I am limited with time. I got to the point where I felt like baking for my wife and I ...= less drama. Ill be more than happy to post a "bootable , Functional Rom. But it will be redirected here: http://www.android-engineering.com/index.php

Sorry I can't sit here 24/7 I work 6 day's a week and spend the extra time with my 3 kids. I got to a point where I was neglecting my fam and was staying on the PC trying to keep up with 5 Rom's. Something had to give. What am I not updating? Is there a need? This will be put into my rom instead of an extra app. If something needs updating when I update a rom it will be done with each release. If it is unappreciated just delete the thread.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] shabbypenguin:
alright, its clear. i cant speak for k0nane but i can for myself. the hitsquad attempts to help devices get off teh ground but it doesnt seem like that is much wanted round here. so my apologies but ill go ahead and remove this forum from my daily loadup macro.

im keeping the cwm thread open and source up on my github for any future devs that wish it. i hope no hard feelings and best of luck to you all
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] k0nane:
This. My threads will remain open as well.

I can't control how anyone interprets what I write - and that's all I'm going to say on the matter. Blaze owners, enjoy your devices, and best of luck, as Shabby said.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] allprogrammed:
So this all stems from this...

"Or one could use full-featured, easy apps from the Market such as AdAway or Adfree Android..."

Laff-A-Lympics. Most people don't want to change stuff around to rawr (rw-r-r) or anything else to get things done.

There's an app for that.

Love what everybody's doing. I don't think there should be a reason for the few that give love to this device to be at odds.

Just do it up and send me stuff that I can try to flash. Whoo 2:53am local time.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] nickmcminn60:
Reasoning for not having an x-tra app

When you want less app's you will appreciate not having a phone full of them taking up valuable space and resources ;-) Im trying to give you the features without a 5 mb app (They add up genius) "Laff-A-Lympics"? if your not into changing things around what are you doing on XDA? 3 thanks on your meter, shows what you have helped with or released. would you like me to make this a flashable? if it is too hard dont do it, by all means use the app. This is just an alternative.

OP Updated
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] ace10134:
Hahah. That was the lamest start of an argument ever. Was amusing to read the useless things they argued about :)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] saintsatinstain:
k0nane's post not rude, just corrective

k0nane's post not rude, just corrective. Lots testosterone poisoning hereabouts.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] chandrew:
nice, works and so far so good!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aced-It:
I have used Titanium Backup and also the App-Manager plugin for ROM Toolkit (Both very good apps) but neither seem to backup game data for games such as Angry Birds Space. Meaning that when I flash a new ROM and I restore my apps with whatever application I used to back it up, that the data isnt restored. Its a bit annoying. Just wondering if anyone else had this problem, and if so, if they found a solution?

Cheers
[HTC Rezound] jchammer123:
Yesterday I was searching Google for different skins for Sense 3.6 for the Rezound and came accross these skins http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1558736 for the Sensation by Team Elegancia that are absolutely amazing. I sent the dev (SeriouslyCrazy) a pm asking if he would be willing to port these over to the Rezound. He replied that he was unable to do it due to his busy life schedule (which is totally respectable), but he didn't mind if one of the themers that work on the Rezound would do it as long as credit was given to him and his team.

So, my question is, would any of the themers here be willing to take on this task? I know it's a bit of a task and I would be willing to donate what I can. But I'm sure many of the Rezound owners would love these skins as well!!!

I know there are some awesome devs for our device with awesome themes and skins, but I figure the more options we have, the better.

Thank you for reading this and hopefully considering it!!!
[HTC Rezound] trickster2369:
This looks like some VERY nice work. I would love to see some of this on the Rezound as well. Good find, OP.

Seriouslycrazy, great work.
[HTC Rezound] jchammer123:
Thanks, I just wish I knew how to do it, lol. Hopefully someone wants to.
[HTC Rezound] dyetheskin:
be easier to strip the images,compare with our image sizes,fix accordingly,copy them into the system apks,decomp for XML changes,compile and push and that's it

use the "thanks" if I helped you at all
[HTC Rezound] who MIKE D:
Then have fun.
[HTC Rezound] jchammer123:
I would love to that, but I have no idea what that means lol. I would love to learn but I don't know anyone that could spend the time showing me how. I've searched to see how to do it, but I find too many different answers.
[HTC Rezound] Flyhalf205:
Haha ill look into it tonight. I'm making no promises though.
[HTC Rezound] dyetheskin:
I would look into it myself but since I'm not a sense fan I stick with non sense based theming

use the "thanks" if I helped you at all
[HTC Rezound] Flyhalf205:
Wow! That is a lot of work to do to get this ported over!
[HTC Rezound] jchammer123:
They look pretty detailed! How hard is it to learn?
[HTC One X] welshandy2322:
so i've got a one x unlocked no branding.i would like to give rooting a try but dont know what to do and what rom to pick:confused:can anyone recommend me a rom?
[HTC One X] BanBoo:
After U´ve unlocked your device u have to flash a Custom Recovery first ----> Development section!

After that do a nandroid backup.... means: Enter the Recovery and do a backup.

Last step: choose a Rom... i`m using mike`s Android Revolution HD Rom cuz it looks Stock but runs much smoother.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Reck1993:
I have root my neo with 0.42, so is it ok if I update to ICS when it releases on my phone?

Plz answer my question cause I really have no idea!!!!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Madfysh:
And you couldn't ask that in one of existing threads, you need a new one?

We really need facepalm emoticon..

Yes, you can update it.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] SCHUMI_4EVER:
But if you update via the PC Suite you will lose the root.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] poyensa:
Attention !!! Please read before start a new thread
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadowCodeGaming:
Every single sense 3.0 rom i try to port osays either status 1 bad zip or will just go into an infinite bootloop.

What am i doing wrong?

I port using this guide:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1222746

Logcat attached in the thread [Q] Bootloop.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadowCodeGaming:
El bumpo!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadowCodeGaming:
Comeon, noone wants to answer?! :mad::mad::mad:
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Y2Ne1:
When you spend your life putting pressure on yourself to go from start to finish without appreciating and learning along the way, you are doing yourself an injustice. If you can stop and appreciate everything in the middle maybe your journey would not be as stressful.

iIdl bro lmfao it's something lol
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] palomino6294:
Mine is stuck on the boot-up screen :/
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IPFCS:
Hi there,

I have found a lots of .tmp files on my tablet in path /sdcard. Each of it use 1,17 kb and avaliable to delete.

Is there any app or trick to delete these files easily? And of course, the big question: how could I explain which app generates these files?

Thank you for yours advice!

Kind Regards,

IPFCS
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joaorreis:
Hi there, some time ago I had a galaxy s2 with checkrom v6, I made a backup by cwm. Now I have another galaxy s2 with the same rom and I can't restore that backup of the first s2. When I try to restore the error mds mismatch appears, I thing is because of something like android_secure.vfat.tar file that is missing or is faulty. What can I do?

Thanks :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Usual is match the CWM recovery version to the one that backed up the original .

OR are you trying to put a backup from phone A on to a totally different phone .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frankimm:
Yeah he is trying to do the latter!

Put a backup from one phone into another!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joaorreis:
Yes, I'm trying to use the backup from phone "A" on phone "B".
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
No idea if what you are attempting will work or is even supposed to work .

Guess if it does work it would have worked .

You checked the FAQS for CWM .

jje