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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lazaro17:
So I usually tether my phone while I travel...I'm not a heavy user, I never get near my 5gb limit. Today while streaming big bang theory from xfinity site about 10 minutes into it the video stopped and when I tried to reload the page I was forwarded to tmobiles hot spot page. I've been able to stream before with no issue

I've always been under the impression that on a nexus they wouldn't be able to tell unless they started doing the at&t method and searched for user agent strings.

I do have the tmobile my account app installed and I thought perhaps maybe they did a recent update to the app that might flag tethering. What's odd is that only certain sites were forwarding me to tmobiles hotspot page ie xfinity and netflix. But Facebook and google searches still worked.

Anyway....with a chrome extension (on os x) I was able to change user string to android 2.3 and everything is unblocked again.

With all these recent talk about tmobile cracking down on free tethering. I am getting worried that they are catching onto us at the expense of risking breaking chrome on our phones or any desktop versions (if they are indeed blocking certain user strings)

Has anyone else had this issue lately? Also I've heard the 5gb plan with one s brings a tethering plan. I current have the 5gb value plan with nexus. Does anyone know if we're eligible for this as well?

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] andythefan:
same problem

I didn't think it would happen, but it just did. This is outrageous! I've never had TMobile block my tethering before.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joshnichols189:
How is it outrageous for them to block a service you aren't paying for?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Let's not get into the weeds here, this has been discussed SO many times before. Whether you pay for the hotspot upsell or not, if you're on a tiered (or throttled) data plan, you should be able to use the data any way you please.

OP, I really don't feel like posting a couple paragraphs about how this works, as I've done it so many times before. Basically, they detect you're on a "desktop" browser by looking at your UAstring and redirecting you. This is messing with people who use "request desktop site" on Chrome for Android, which is annoying, and they're actively working to figure out how to handle this situation.

To "fix" this: use a UAstring spoofer on your desktop browser to change it to Firefox or Safari, then reload. Done.

For more info, simply google "T-Mobile tethering redirect error" and start reading. This isn't anything specific to the Galaxy Nexus, and isn't anything new at all. It's been happening for

years

.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cade80:
because it shouldn't matter how you are using the data they are providing, especially if they have a tiered data plan. He pays for 5 gigs a month he should be able to use it however he wants.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joshnichols189:
I am not advocating what they are doing. I am simply saying it is a service they charge for and they have a right to block it if it is being used and not paid for. It might not be fair or right to us, but that is how they run the company so that is how it is.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] CoronaDelux:
The US carriers brainwashed you too?

If he paid for his 5gb per month, he should be able to use it as he wishes. No where else but in the US do end users get raped so hard by these greedy corps.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joshnichols189:
Did you not read what I said? "I am not advocating what they are doing".
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] luftrofl:
This, a thousand times.

It's not about brainwashing, it's about a simple understanding of who wins the argument of "Who is following the terms and conditions?". (Hint: it's not us!)

Are the T&C based off anything other than making money? No, but we still agree to them. Don't agree to them? You don't have to use the

It's sad that it's inevitable but it's also simple to subvert, so just do it. Crying about it gets you nowhere.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lazaro17:
Thanks for the replies guys. I ended up downloading "ultimate agent switcher" extension for chrome and that works.

I was just taken a bit off guard because I've been tethering with tmobile since the nexus one. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't the only one!

I didn't think it would become that big of a deal for tmobile since nexus/rooted users are a minority (I think). Maybe some users heavily abused tethering and racked up an insane amount of data.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tarzanman:
T-mobile is doing a 'soft' crack down on tetherers. I tether regularly at work, but 95% of the time it is to tether my tablets (HP touchpad and galaxy tab). I have the 5GB data plan and I have never even used more than 1GB in a month.

I tethered my phone to my laptop all week last week and on Friday I was hit with a redirect that steered my web browser to a web page telling me that I could add tethering to my account. What is interesting is that the redirect page came in about 30 minutes after I had used bit torrent to download a 1.34 MB file. Loading up large web pages or videos on youtube the previous week occurred without issue. Even after getting the redirect on my laptop, tethering to my android tablet worked just fine.

My guess is that T-mobile is watching their traffic and flagging the types of traffic that cause high network usage (which bit torrent certainly does).

As for the ethics of tethering, the carriers don't really have a leg to stand on. They want to charge you more money without providing any additional services. After all, I went out and found the tethering program that *someone else* wrote and compiled for android and installed it on the phone that I own. What did the carrier do? They sold me 5GB of data and they should honor their end of the deal.

They can start complaining about tethering when they start refunding me money for voice minutes each month that I end up not using.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jgalan14:
Interesting thread I got T-Mobile recently and I notice the my plan says hot spot smartphone does that mean I could use mine without worrying about this topic ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zepius:
yes. you are paying for it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jgalan14:
Oh cool thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shnn2011:
You pay for for data, why should you not be able to use it as you want. By doing this t-mobile broke many third party browsers and are now claiming that its not their fault and that they do not support third party apps. In reality the third party apps are working fine, just have a differ user agent string them t-mobile's. Even the full blown ICS browser its blocked in many cases.

In this thread some easy to preform workarounds are listed: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1677490
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Been using Chrome (Version 20.0.1132.17 beta right now) with the Chrome UAstring switcher (which you link to as well) to "Windows Firefox 10" and its been working fine for months. When switching the UAstring to either Firefox or Safari, I've had some issues with pages (mainly Google+) not working 100%, but that's no big deal to me.

You can also just load up Safari/Firefox if you want (never had any redirects there), but I prefer to use Chrome + UAstring switcher, as I'm too much of a Chromepuff to switch. The most interesting thing about all of this is they only seem to be blocking Chrome's Desktop UAstring... and not the others.

As far as from a philosophical standpoint, I completely disagree with T-Mobile's practices.

But honestly if they're going to "block" tethering, I'd take this method over nasty tracking software on handsets or full-out blocking of specific sites (things I'd straight up leave T-Mo over). I'm a big advocate of the "it's your (capped) data, use it however you want" argument. I don't really see what the issue is if I'm paying for data and peg the 5GB cap every month streaming Netflix, whether it's on a phone (which btw can be MHL'd to a 60" plasma) or on a PC. Data is data is

data

. It's just a blatant money grab that T-Mobile is following in line behind Verizon, AT&T and Sprint who make amazing profit margins using these (and harsher) practices.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] cry_engine:
I have a Tablet galaxy p6200

when play clip with mx video player or mobo player or bs player

when zoom go 100%

on the lcd appear Green diagonal line

i send it to Warranty but thay say "this problem exist for all tablet model 6200"

do you can take video record of screen your tablet and send for me?

in clip been take, show this problem not exist for p6200

only 20 second

and upload it for me

thank you very much
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] Graffiti Exploit:
I tried it with MX Player and Diagonal Green Lines did pop out. Although it isn't much of a problem because I never use that kind of zoom. Tried MoboPlayer it didn't appear.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] cry_engine:
thanks

very thanks

so it is not problem with your tablet

my tablet is fake?
[HTC One X] cburgess:
Hi,

I love my one x having come across from an iphone, one thing I like is the lock screen camera but I can only seem to take one phone in this mode, any ideas how I access a full camera from the lock screen or take more than one photo...

Thanks in advance,

C
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] makisupa79:
I'm still using the OG EVO 4G. Can someone with the EVO 4G LTE please go to a concert (preferably with a light show) and take a bunch of pics to post up in this thread? I go to a ton of concerts and my only complaint with my EVO was that the pictures I took at shows almost always sucked. My old iphone 3GS took better shots at concerts than my EVO. I am planning on upgrading to the LTE soon, just curious if this situation will be improved with the new camera and imagesense.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] grrmisfit:
i dunno about a concert but i literally held down on the shutter button while panning the camera at a decent speed and not one blurry shot, the shutter speed is fast.. where on the OG it was press button 1-3 seconds later "click" on the LTE its "click" the second you press the button
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] makisupa79:
Thanks, good to hear. Still hoping someone gets the chance to test it out at a show this weekend. But if not, I'm heading to Radiohead on 6/6 and as long as this is out in Sprint Stores before then, I'll probably test out the camera at a concert then.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] makisupa79:
Thought I would bump this just in case someone went to a show over the weekend
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x3dnd3x:
Hi all,

I've searched and found no related answers to the problem I'm currently facing with my Streak.

A few days back my Streak suddenly couldn't charge thus I brought it down to a reliable handphone repair shop and i was quoted $90 (USD70) for a charging port replacement. I agreed and the technician proceeded with the repairs. After changing a new charging port, the problem is still there which is unable to charge. Technician then use his charger , battery and cable instead of mine but still to no avail. I was told to leave my Streak there to let them find out what's the main problem.

I'm now being informed that it would be more expensive if its the charging insulator or etc if it is. Current estimated repair charges would be $200 (USD156).

So what I would like to ask here is I believe the main problem is not with my battery , battery port and connector right? So if I were to just purchase a cradle + desktop battery charger and charge my battery through the cradle it would still work as per normal? It would also cost way cheaper too.

PS: My last step was using Whatsapp and then I proceeded to charge it and went to bed. The next day i woke up, my Streak was not charged at all.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] sbcontt:
Today I (supposedly) disabled lowmemorykiller by putting zero in minfree and adj files. I already have swap partition set up (size 1 GB) in a class 10 SDHC card.

Then I proceeded to open all the apps that I have installed and set them in a different state from default (like opening its settings, opening a file in case of officesuite etc).

These things happened:

1. After a max limit, older apps started to vanish from task manager to make space for newer apps

2. used swap space did not exceed 122 MB

3. when I tried to return to very old apps, some of them retained their last state giving an illusion of multitasking but a text message I was typing disappeared, did not even get saved as draft. ALL web browsers were killed. Some reloaded pages from internet, Opera Mini and Easy Browser failed to save last state (they always fail, so does Adobe Reader) so they were back to home screen with all opened tabs lost.

4. After an incoming call, when I returned to all the apps a second time, I found that all but the lightest of apps had lost their last states.

After setting minfree to zero and enabling swap with 60 swappiness Android is still killing apps without my permission.

<rant> I usually have less than 10 apps open and some of them can be memory intensive. Multitasking is better than default now, but still kinda random. I can't ever be sure that if I open this document now, I won't find my previous 20 minutes of research session lost upon returning to browser (history is messy for retrieving long sessions and very short in case of Opera Mini. Even Chrome browser sometimes crashes and gets reset not to mention always reloading all pages while Android Browser in ICS only renders crashes. My data limit is 3 GB/month). The three major handheld OS right now are Android, iOS, WM7 so don't tell me to stop whining and change OS; there is nowhere to go. At least Android is open source and there is a chance of someone legally implementing proper (like in PC) multitasking in it except multiple instances of same app which will probably be a little too much to ask for from a community but seeing that browsing the web is my main concern and all browsers already support multiple tabs, it will not be a deal-breaker for me</rant>

So my question is, how do I stop this T1000 Ninja Edition? Throw it into the chasm of Mount Doom?

On a serious note, any help will be appreciated. If you can't solve it but know what is killing my app sessions, please explain that.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] sbcontt:
SO I have come to the conclusion that ICS's maximum limit of Background apps is 18. As long as the app is not older than 19, it should be visible in task manager and should be in memory. I have set swappiness to 100 and use of swap memory increased to 221220. I'll put further pressure on it to see how it behaves when lots of tabs are open but I am afraid that 100 swappiness will make the device crash if too many tabs are open. It has already started to suddenly reboot time to time.

Edit:

It does not work that way. Android seems to really have its own will in this matter. There is no rule found by me so far that can predict when an app will be unloaded from memory. It seems time plays a role too.

At least iOS and WP7 clearly state that they do not support multitask. Google is the worst of all.

Edit:

Chrome Browser is not loading the pages from internet upon being recalled from task manager. It is loading the pages from swap but looks just like loading over 3G. Any changes in the actual pages are not being reflected until I manually hit reload. Not sure if other browsers will follow suit.
[Nokia Lumia 900] erzhik:
So,

I was downloading maps for Nokia Drive (entire US) and I was sitting on fully functional WI-FI. I was assuming it was downloading the maps over wi-fi because wi-fi was fully active on my device so i put it on the bed and started doing my computer business. But after a while I started to receive emails&sms from AT&T saying I'm almost over my data limit. I killed the download process and made sure it was on wi-fi. Started it again, and it was using my data to download again.

So, why the hell is it using my data connection to download maps? I didn't turn my data off, but isn't Nokia Drive supposed to download maps ONLY when on Wi-Fi?
[Nokia Lumia 900] jimski:
That's odd. My L900 Wi-Fi always takes precedence. Only used 500MB on my Unlimited plan last month with Wi-Fi on most of the time.

Sent from my Lumia 900 using Board Express Pro
[Nokia Lumia 900] erzhik:
Does anybody know if there is an app that can check if I'm using wi-fi as my phone tells me I am?
[Nokia Lumia 900] Zhariak:
2 Things to think about here...

1) I've noticed that my Lumia 900 still sometimes downloads off the cell net even if Wi-Fi is active and working. I think this is a bug.

2) If you phone goes in to standby mode, Wi-Fi will turn off, and it'll start downloading over cell network. I've had this happen with downloading games off the marketplace that start over wifi, but then stop, and resume over the cell network when the screen/phone goes in to standby mode.
[Nokia Lumia 900] erzhik:
Contacted Nokia, they said that if wifi is unstable (meaning disconnects even once for a minute), it will automatically switch to data to download maps. Wish I knew that before.. 3GB gone in an hour.

Future downloaders, take note. If you want to download maps without data, make sure you switch your data off before downloading.
[Nokia Lumia 900] jimski:
Bandwidth will tell you while running a speedtest if you are on WiFi, 4G, LTE, etc. But you can only sideload this app now as it was removed from Marketplace. Not sure if the other speedtest apps also provide that info.

I have noticed at least one app, Fox News, that only appears to like a data connection. So if I turn data off for a couple hours, but leave WiFi on, and even if I am almost constantly using the phone, the Background agent will be disabled within a hour or two. I suspect other apps may have some coding that could cause this kind of problem.

Sent from my Lumia 900 using Board Express Pro
[Nokia Lumia 900] TonyStark R.I.P.:
I just got one of these for my wife. Being an Android guy, I am lost at how some things work on this phone. I see here it's mentioned to turn data off.... How?
[Nokia Lumia 900] tai4de2:
It's in Settings --> Cellular.
[Nokia Lumia 900] TonyStark R.I.P.:
Yup just saw that in the manual:) duh
[Nokia Lumia 900] foxbat121:
WP7 by design will turn off wi-fi whenever phone goes into sleep (you can easily verify this by wake up your phone and check the wi-fi icon on status bar. It will start beaming up because wi-fi is connecting). However, you can change this behavior by keep the phone plugged into the charger.

Because of this, anytime you want to do any kind of big download, swipe down your status bar and verify your wi-fi icon is active and steady. You don't need an app to tell that.

Remember, just because you have wi-fi turned on doesn't mean your phone is using it all the time.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Acestar:
can u guys tell me how to reset the binary counter in s5830i.i flashed it 3 times yesterday and now the download mode is not showing up.if it does show up.so plz help me out.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jloverti79:
ascend m860

need help with ascend phone!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Doky73:
Galaxy Toolbox in my sig and on Google Play Store
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SimpyD:
Got a prob, my brother works at camp flies in and out. He forgot his phone and thought it was gone for good, so he phoned and got a replacement phone sent to him for a fee, not sure how much.. 3 days using the new one he drops it into a lake and well it done, does not work no more we tried to strip it and with rice nothing.. So he flies back to camp and his phone is waiting for him. Someone found it.. He is using a cheapo found now as he isn't sure what to do, while i lmao..

Im not sure what to tell him to do, breaks new one, finds old one will seem to coincidental or w/e.. he cannot send in new one as i don't think water damage is covered and they must be able to tell that is what killed it..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 4038153:
The old one probably belongs to his insurance provider now.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coedy:
As above. The new one will have the water damage stickers ruined so they wont pay out.

And the old one is now property of the insurers as they paid out over it.

(While insurers dont usually ask for it back, in my experience they usually tell the operator to block the IMEI of the claimed handset so it want be sold on/whatever)

He may get lucky and be able to use the old one for a while but probably wont be long until its blacklisted, especially once they notice its being used.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SimpyD:
Where are those stickers at.. and what do they look like.

I had feeling it is or would be blocked, he is using a gt-i5500m or something now, cannot stand it to small.. guess he will prolly have to buy a new phone..

Edit: I guess this is little strip on inside of phones battery bay..
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] Sir Otto:
I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THIS THEME WILL CAUSE. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'LL BRICK YOUR TAB OR FORCE YOU TO FLASH YOUR ROM AGAIN OR WIPE YOUR DATA.

For everyone who still hasn't passed to Ice Cream Sandwich.

I noticed there are no ICS themes for Overcome 4.1 (or maybe I didn't manage to find them), so I decided I would create it with the few knowledges I have. I've just started, so I just replaced the quickpanel icons in a blue colour and I changed the colour to the battery icons from 95% to 100%.

I would like all you to help me by modifying and uploading again it, so everyone will have taken part to its creation.

Can you help me to complete it and make it a good theme, and more similar to ICS? According to you, what should I add to the theme, apart from completing changing the battery colour?

Please, don't be violent with me since the theme isn't complete, even because this is my first post, but give me your opinion!

BETA 2:

View attachment 1085772

Flash the zip file through ClockworkMod Recovery.

BETA 3:

I also uploaded the beta3 version, but consider it doesn't work (look at post 5 for more informations) so download it only if you want to help me solve these problem.

DOWNLOAD LINK:

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| https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b8qrj56f5abkow3/YaHnp0-bol |

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P.S. Sorry for my bad English, but I'm Italian.
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] Sir Otto:
Could someone upload a screenshot of ICS working on a Galaxy Note or SII with Touchwiz, even with the notification panel opened, please? I would like to use it as a model.

Sent from my Galaxy Tab
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] thekenderman:
wish I knew how to theme, but I installed this theme and like it over stock miui. Would like to see the status bar pull down be black with ics blue icons (wifi, battery, etc...). I do appreciate the one that's up, and breaths new UI life into my tab. Looking forward to an update :)
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] thekenderman:
I don't have ics on another phone but have an ics theme on my infuse I could snap screens of
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] Sir Otto:
Yeah, I know this theme absolutely isn't complete, and I wanted some helps to continue it. You said you would like an ICS theme, but I thought also a Touchwiz ICS theme should be quite interesting. According to you, what would be better?

Sent from my Galaxy Tab
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] Sir Otto:
Yes, it should be good. Is it a stock ICS theme or a Touchwiz one, like Galaxy Note or SII?

However, upload it and i'll see.

Sent from my Galaxy Tab
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] Sir Otto:
Mmmh... I replaced the icons of the battery with the blue ones I took from ICS launcher from Google Play and I made them of the same size of Gingerbread ones, but when I boot the tab it shuts down by himself after a few seconds I enter in the launcher. What could it be? Could it be caused by the image density? Please, answer ASAP.

By the way, I uploaded this beta3 version at the usual link, but consider it doesn't work, so download it only if you want to help me solve thos problem.

Sent from my Galaxy Tab