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[Epic 4G General] Speedin07si:
I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes $11 across the board for any smart phone. Kinda like they did with the $10 "premium data fee" which was originally for only charged for Wimax 4G phones.

Sent from my CM9 infused Epic.
[Epic 4G General] SpicyBurrito:
No, you're right. It doesn't seem to state an increase for any device other than a LTE device.
[Epic 4G General] faceless:
bad USB ports is a regular warranty issue, you don't need TEP for that.
[Epic 4G General] R3537L1F3:
Woot! I am right! :D
[Epic 4G General] Coycaine:
It does say any NEW device over $549.99...Not any new LTE device.
[Epic 4G General] CapsLockKey:
Yep. I don't bother with overpriced TEP. If the thing is defective, that's what the warranty is for. Used handsets on Craigslist and staggered upgrades on my three lines is my "insurance policy" if something happens beyond that.

$11 a month is ridiculous for a device that you only paid 200-300 bucks for. You are essentially paying for the thing more than twice over the length of your contract. Then throw in the deductible on top of it, jeez.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
This is for new upcoming devices. ATT deductible is $200 for The Note yet $50 for the Pantech Burst. It will become phone dependent.
[Epic 4G General] Vizzo:
When the Epic was released people paid $200. That doesn't mean that's the price of the phone. Retail was $549.99 at that time. Add in taxes it's close to $600. Even $11 over 22-24 months is only 242-264 dollars. Even if you factor in having lost or damaged the phone in a way that warrants the deductable, your still under the retail cost. Sprint doesn't care what phones are going for on Craigslist. That's personal seller value of used phones. If you didn't take the TEP, had a problem that isn't covered under your manufacturer warrantly, or had the phone lost or stolen, and came into a store to buy a replacement new in box, you'd be paying retail. Roughly twice what you'd pay with the TEP and a deductable.

Sprint isn't screwing anyone. They just don't have the best deal around if your able to find a working replacement cheap on CL or Ebay, which isn't always a gaurantee, but can be the norm.

Sprint TEP is still a great value for flagship devices. Anything new is gonna hold it's retail value for awhile. Once that value starts to drop though, there are other options, that may or may not be cheaper in the long run, but may also turn out less reliable.

I for one don't wanna chance personal sales for anything considered a high end device if I need a replacement for my main phone. I'd rather have a professionally refurbished device so I'm gauranteed the quality of the product I'm getting, as if the replacement has an issue through TEP they will immediately replace it again, as long as the issue is legit.
[Epic 4G General] LucJoe:
warranty is 1 year and since most of us keep our phones for 2 we still need tep

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lol they build it in to the service fee.

trust me you are paying for the phone

even w/ no TEP
[Epic 4G General] thomasskull666:
$249.99 actually. Same as the EVO
[Epic 4G General] xjayman:
Insurance on electronics is pure profit for retailers. If you figure what you pay over a ten year span on extended warranties you'd have enough money to replace the phone with money to boot. If you want tep go for it but it's a sucker bet.
[Epic 4G General] Coycaine:
Who has an extended warranty on a phone for 10 years??? lol
[Epic 4G General] xjayman:
You do if you plan on having a cell with tep for the next ten years.lol
[Epic 4G General] Coycaine:
You're confusing an extended warranty and TEP. A warranty doesn't cover loss, theft, or user damage.
[Epic 4G General] xjayman:
Generalizing...if you skip extended warrantee and tep you're money ahead and can replace the items with money saved. It's comfortable to have but it's the #1 money maker for them.
[Epic 4G General] MeetFace:
SQUARETRADE

I personally bought a 2-yr accidental warranty when I purchased my Epic. I think it was ~$90.

Sure, I can't walk into a store and have a phone on my way out, but I'm saving some serious $$. My local sprint store has been good about giving me loaners when I've had to send my phone into Sammy.
[Epic 4G General] DCRocks:
Its not even close for me.

3 phones had to be replaced, and was done for free

2 phones replaced via TEP w/ $100 deductible

To replace those phones out of pocket instead of TEP would have been 4 x $150 for the moments and over $400+ for the Epic, for total of $1000

The phones broke when they were still rather expensive to replace, so, no TEP would have cost me over $1000 (and that is for second hand craig's list or ebay devices, not even factory refurbs) in the last 3 years

With TEP, I paid out $200 + (2 x $8 x 36) or = $576 for a total of $776, a $224 dollar savings plus the benefit of TEP, and the benefit of 4 new phones

Totally worth it, IMO.

If your phones is a cheap model, less than $200 without subsidy, then no, TEP, is a waste, but when your phone is $500-$700 to replace, TEP is a must have extra.
[Epic 4G General] CapsLockKey:
You are the exception. The average person doesn't run into THAT many problems with their phones. In my 10+ years of being a cell phone owner, I've only ever had to replace one and it was covered by the warranty. With your history, I can see why TEP would have value to you.

But even with your poor luck, you spent almost 800 dollars that was gone regardless to save 224 dollars. If you only had one less phone go bad, you'd break even. I can understand someone wanting the "security" of knowing they can get their phone replaced cheaply if something happens, especially on a tight budget. Me, I don't find the value of insuring anything worth less than a 1,000. Insuring 4 cell phones cost damn near as much as insuring my entire home and everything in it.
[Epic 4G General] MeetFace:
BOTTOM LINE:

Insurance ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ultimately makes financial sense for the INSURER, otherwise they wouldn't offer the service.

Now, that's not to say that risk-averse consumers put a $ value on hedging the risk of their phone asploding so they don't have to pay full price for a replacement.
[Epic 4G General] DCRocks:
True, but as you pointed out, I was also paying for the security of being able to get a replacement phone, for at most $100, when the unexpected happened

You can make the same sort of case for car insurance. I haven't had an accident or ticket in 20 years, but pay for insurance on 3 cars each month.

In most cases, insurance is an extra that is never used, but for those times it IS needed, it can become a dire necessity.

I tend to weigh it against replacement costs. If I can get a replacement for less than $50, it is time to drop insurance, but when a replacements still costs $300-$400, and the GF is a frequent dropper..... It may not be fragile like the iPhone, but accidents still do happen, and if they happen at the wrong time, insurance can be a life saver.

Also, as I ditched all other phone lines (land line, cable line, etc..), the ability to always have a cell phone has gone from nice to mandatory.
[Epic 4G General] CapsLockKey:
Make the case for full coverage of your own vehicles, yes. Assuming it's paid off anyway. If you have a loan the bank is going to make you have full coverage to cover their own asses. Liability on the other hand you can't. It is a dire necessity and legally required.

Plus you are talking about something that costs $10,000+ and isn't as affordable to replace as a 500 dollar cell phone. Like I said, I don't personally find the value of insuring anything under a $1,000 as the cost you are paying for the coverage compared to the value of the item just isn't there.

I'm the same way with my cars though. I keep my cars a lot longer than most. When their book value falls below a certain amount, I get rid of full coverage and just roll with liability only because in the rare instance I were to total it because of something I did, I'm ready to go get something else anyway. The money I've saved the last couple years of only paying liability on my work car has built up to a nice down payment on something else when the time comes. I just make sure to have a backup plan should something go wrong. If I lost my cell phone tomorrow, I could just activate a new one as I've staggered my upgrades, giving my kids the hand-me downs. Instead of paying a $100 deductible on some refurbished older model (that may come with it's own new issues), I can spend $100 more and get the latest and greatest brand new.

For you TEP makes sense. Your history with phones show's a likelihood of problems in the future. While I'm sure there are others like you, the majority of people don't have the quantity of issues you've run into or use other strategies to hedge their losses for those kinds of things.
[Epic 4G General] xjayman:
Bottom line is TEP or blacktie is pure profit for the company's, If you want it feel free to purchase. I had to laugh at a buddy of mine when he used tep to replace his Hero, he had to pay 100 for A refurb that you could buy for 50-75 bucks on craigslist. The phone's come with a 1 year guarantee so the 1st year you're paying for something thats free. By the 2nd year if you do need to replace your phone $125 will get you one on craigslist all day long. Ive had sprint since the 90s and never had a phone fail before I was upgrade eligible . Id be out well over $1000 if I had carried TEP. Like I said if you want TEP feel free to purchase but dont tell us how its a good value because it isn't .
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] 19balencja87:
Hi

First, sorry for my english if I made some mistake.

Now, I have installed Team Blue Droid on my HTC HD2. Everythink works fine, but i can't send or receive any text message. Maybe i'm stupid, but i can't even edit any message, when i tap "+" on messages widget, is no reaction... Nothing happend.

Would somebody help me with any solution for this problem?

Thanks a lot.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Nigeldg:
Sorry if this is a bit patronising, but are you by any chance on airplane mode? :p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] 19balencja87:
no, i'm not, i can make a call, but i can't even find some text editor, when I tap "+" on the messages widget, there is no reaction...:(

I decided to re-flash ROM, and now Droid loop on the startup animation... and I wait some one hour and no reaction...

I try reflash twice and is still the same situation...:(:(

I have newest CWR (5.0.2.6) than in instructions(4.0.1.4) and maybe it is the reason...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] triggaz:
Pozdrawiam :D

Check in aps do You have any sms/mms apk, You can also try to download handcent sms or go sms from market and try if it helps.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] 19balencja87:
Hi,

I don't have any sms/mms apk, but I already changed ROM, now I have some Froyo modification, everythig is working, but sometimes when I power on Leo, ROM just hang or reloop on starting animation, then I must take off battery, put it again and wait couple of minutes, and power on Leo. then everything work excellent. I don't know why, but i can live with this. However, when somebody have any solution for this problem, then please, tell me that.

Thanks a lot.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] triggaz:
You can try to reflash the rom, beggining with task 29. Remember to check what sizes of partitions your rom requires to make them. What rom have you chosen?

For the previous problem I think that you were missing apk for messages as I mentioned that was why you couldn't send or receive any sms/mms ;)
[Huawei Ideos X6] CacingKalung:
For those who want desktop wallpaper as lockscreen wallpaper, it's easy right? Just pick the same picture and set as lockscreen wallpaper.

Well... I mean for exactly as shown as on desktop... Including if you use live wallpaper, then your lockscreen wallpaper will has live wallpaper.

I've made this wallpaper for lockscreen as dummy (find it in zip file attachment). So you just save it in your sdcard and set it as lockscreen wallpaper and you'll see your desktop wallpaper as lockscreen wallpaper.

I've tested it in MIUI, I don't know if it will work also on other rom, but it might be work.

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[Huawei Ideos X6] rockakhtar:
Link is not working
[Huawei Ideos X6] ezio2:
link is working for me...
[Huawei Ideos X6] mishtu:
ss plz
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dun1982:
Hi, I'm trying to send message to thread about http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1546915, but as I am a new member of the forum, I need to rack up 10 posts before making a post directly to correct thread.

So here I go with the questions here, with 10 posts or so if I get reply's here.

First post and first question 1:

Hi, thanks for good custom rom.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dun1982:
The question:

I did superwipe for my Desire Z and installed the latest beta 6 to my phone. Noticed that it is currently missing all international keyboard configurations for the physical keyboard that the CM9 and other ICS firmwares have. Otherwise than that it is working quite well.

So can you please add to Beta 7 or RC (when ever that is coming) the missing keyboard configurations? I also tested the bluetooth (which was not working with other ROMS that well) and it works quite well with my car audio and Nokia's BH-905i headset...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bogdan5844:
Please do notice that Sense ROMs do not have international settings for the hardware keyboard. Apart from the stock ROM, no other Sense 3/3.5/3.6 and even 4 have this setting.

Use the search tool in the right of the thread title. This has been discussed before in the Ice Cream Sensewich thread.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dun1982:
Ah my bad, just interested why it cannot be put in there when other roms have it?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bogdan5844:
Well, as opposed to AOSP (Cyanogen, ILWT, etc) where code is freely available to edit and change stuff, Sense is HTC's proprietary code. They are not required to show us the code, so inner workings of Sense are hidden to us.

Some of the stuff can be edited because it's available by changing some parameters, but for the most part, Sense is pretty much an inaccessible gate.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dun1982:
So this wont help (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25013313) to get at least Nordic hardware keyboard to work? I can try and flash it to my device and see if it works. I'll report back if I encounter some issues while doing it.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bogdan5844:
I am no developer, but if the part about the hardware keyboard is managed by the operating system, and not by Sense's framework, then yes, it should be just a manner of adding the correct keymaps. Probably no one has bothered to do that, yet ? :confused:
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cid-Vox:
I guess you can copy any working keymaps and keylayouts to IceCreamSensewich. You can find the keymaps and keylayout in the /system/usr folder.
[Android Apps and Games] MoDriouch:
Is there a possibility 2 have CM9 music app on android Gingerbread? Or some other app with the same design?

Thanks in advance.
[Android Apps and Games] motodroidfreak:
CM9 on GB nope the music app use APIs that are only in 4+ haven't seen any music players that look like it..
[Android Apps and Games] mingolianbeef:
Could it just be themed and then we add the Swipe gestures to the code.?
[Android Apps and Games] Exedion:
i only like a stock player, with share option, and small widget with all multimedia buttons
[Android Apps and Games] mingolianbeef:
Lol I'm complicated I need visually appealing UI with something unique in the app itself
[LG Optimus 2x] lovelylain:
If you update your ROM with KDZ, you can try this method to flash and root your phone at one time.

When flashing kdz, LG update tool will extract files to %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\LGMOBILEAX\Phone. If we replace recovery.img with CWM recoery before it write recovery, CWM recovery will be available when finished flashing, so that we can root the phone easily.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] d88888b:
Has anyone been able to get these awesome, unicorn loving themes working on sgs?

http://rootzwiki.com/index.php?/top...t,-Red,-Blue-Bright,-Neon-Yellow,-Mint,Stock|

I've read in other posts that people were able to get gnex themes working but have never had any luck
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Psykologikal:
+1

Those themes look awesome. I want red! Lol. Keep looking I think there was a tutorial for porting themes on here. Looking for it now
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] d88888b:
I'm not afraid of doing the work but am by no means a programmer. If there is a clear guide I'm all for it!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] evie12604:
yes I've used them and several other gnex themes no issues
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] m4ssnet:
They already works.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] d88888b:
I had nothing but fc's and a whole lot of mess when I tried. Even cleared cache and dalvik. The same happens for me with any of the gnex themes. What build are you on... did you just flash and it worked?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] sanoc69:
This Themes works in Anarkia Rx6 ?

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] evie12604:
yep, all build since 27. Just make sure the theme is for your build and flash away
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] k4z1k:
well, this themes works on akop without any problems or FC's?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] evie12604:
yes your question has been answered at least 3 times in this thread which isn't even a page long yet!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] d88888b:
That's really odd. Not one has worked for me yet in any of the official builds. Am I missing something? I'm already using the bl infintium ... it works for you coming from other themes?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] k4z1k:
everything works fine on AOKP b32. Thanks a lot. ;))

Wysyłane z mojego GT-I9000 za pomocą Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] evie12604:
yes it does
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] groksteady:
I had some problems too, even wiping cache and dalvik. FCs on Nova Launcher, System UI, you name it. Tried fixing permissions and a few other things, and ended up in a bootloop. I was reinstalling everything from scratch, so tried with Red-Sensation again, and it worked. And then I wake up and find out Build 33 dropped, so I just did the same thing all over, hah. But, hey, if you haven't already, it's a good time to update install everything.

This is a totally uneducated guess, but I wonder if it has anything to do with Apex Launcher and the gapps that are inverted. Some of them, like Google+, I've never installed or used, but the theme installed them.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] d88888b:
I must be doing something wrong. Even after a clean install. Meh. Black infintium works fine but wish I knew how to mod the whites
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] bhu1:
U can always try INFINITUM rom, we have official themes for our rom. Currently blue and green are available but next week more will be available. For ex - orange, black ( its available, bit not polished by me . The black infinitum theme is by our team only), red, WHITE AND ICW CUBE(in dev).
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] d88888b:
Cool that's awesome and totally looking forward to it. I'm still a bit frustrated and confused as to why the gnex themes are working correctly for some folks and not for others. The black is a must for sgs but it'd be nice to change up the white from time to time.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ak:
Working on Anarkia b32.

Phone.apk work in this case only between 182 to 240 dpi! :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] AshVash90:
Anarkia, I tried flashing this on your ROM and got bootloops! Phone started acting really weird as well, had to reflash the entire ROM to get it to work properly again.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] tmx87:
aokp b33 v.ry1 multi dpi 160

for aokp b33 160dpi... you have to replace the phone.apk with the phone.apk from the aokp base file and install ... and look very nice

sorry for my bad english =)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] yevg85:
yes but anarkia's phone apk isnt themed so wouldnt it be a little mess with a colors???

and when i tried for me it worked only with 200 dpi and more
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] fishears:
I just tried the mega blue theme and while I love the colours I don't like having system files that weren't built for i9000. For example, the "reboot to bootloader" option and the weird "device connected as an installer" when you plug in USB...

Just a heads up for anyone who expects this theme to only change some colours ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] tmx87:
I have the red variant, and in spite of the exchange is all red only the keyboard is blue

yes it work with 200 dpi and more ;)

sorry for my bad english my german is better :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] groksteady:
ehh, that does make me uncomfortable. where is that reboot to bootloader?

It seemed strange to me that all these other gapps were installed, stuff I never used, but made sense bc qasimia themed them. i did end up downloading that android<>mac transfer app that showed up when connecting to USB. i was hoping that would recognize my external SD, but it doesn't.

otherwise, though, aokp b33 and red holo are working great for me for the last few days. tempted to change back, but i'm pretty tired of screwing up a working system.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] :
If you want it to work with lower dpi (less than 200) then change the phone.apk and vending.apk with the one in Anarkia and it will work
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] tmx87:
it is also :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] fishears:
On the power menu.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] groksteady:
Duh, yeah. I did end up seeing that, but didn't edit my post.

Fwiw, that was one of the reasons I went back to stock. Thanks for pointing it out.

sent from xda on a telephonic device
[Motorola Photon 4G] JamesChilds:
I know when I unlocked my phone I had a bit of a struggle finding the files I needed and putting them together the right way. This is a pack that I've put together and that I used to unlock my OWN Photon, So it should work for you.

http://www.mediafire.com/?qnxnx7xx1ldc9vs

:D

I don't want to clutter up the forum so I added a pole, if everyone things this is not helpful then I will delete (If I can, I am newer to XDA) it or find a mod to delete it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] slayrs:
Better watch what files you post! Lokifish will come after you. Cause he host all the files around these parts
[Motorola Photon 4G] qbking77:
Good idea... thanks for this
[Motorola Photon 4G] medic233:
http://martian-imperium.com/Downloads.html

Already been done.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] terrorblind:
Hi

Has anyone experienced that the tablet switches off constantly with out any any specific reason?

I could easily surf or read an email without switching off.. but then i would watch a movie and it switch off instantly or the other way around and its not even shutting down.. it just goes from powered on, to completely switched off.. It does not get hot and it does charge perfectly and the battery level does not drop/discharge radically.. it has never been dropped or manhandled. :) and it started doing last week :(

I'm on stock 3.2 PDA:KMP CSC:KMP (XAB), not rooted..

Any ideas, suggestions?

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] SofiaBrown:
I suggest you to discuss your matter from where have you bought the notebook as there might be some problem in hardware:rolleyes:
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Jay Rock:
What notebook?

You might have some apps installed that cause this...?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] terrorblind:
I hope he means tab?

Im gonna give that a shot. since that's the only thing i said i yes to, after the factory reset.

ill get back with the results

Thanks

-TB-