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[HTC Amaze 4G] JonathanBarca10:
If this question has been answered, please point me in the proper direction.

Say i wasn't liking the Amaze anymore and wanted to have it warranty exchanged. what other phones are available that would be given to me if i wanted to exchange it? What would i have to tell the CSR over the phone so that they'd be willing to give me a different device?

Reason: I'm sick of the lack of support HTC is giving to devs here. and i dont like that whole "can't charge to 100 percent and stay on the charger" nonsense.

So Tmobile representatives, can you help me out?
[HTC Amaze 4G] death4u:
Im not a t-mobile rep but ill throw in my 2 cents. I "used" to be a sprint rep, so when i call t-mobile, i try to say any of the things i know usually works. My family has been with t-mobile for about 17 years. They tend to give me better deal..not always. I recommend saying the word dissatisfied a few times. I also was ready to trade in my Amaze, only because i wanted to try out the nexus and i was to chicken sh*t to root any of my phones. Hasoons Tool and the easy as pie instructions in the dev forum changed my mind. They offered me crap phones, would only exchange amaze for amaze or something that was atleast 1 generation older. They said after they have replaced my Amaze 3 total times, might they consider trading it for something that is equivalent or nicer. One S basically. If you fail on the first call, call again. There is always a rep willing to do anything to get u off the phone, be it they are anxious or dont know what your doing so they tell u YES we can do it. Be polite but constant pressure. Good Luck.
[HTC Amaze 4G] eliasadrian:
I agree with death4u, I always say that I'm just not happy and stay calm. Honestly, that phrase has worked a lot. You just don't put the blame on them, especially the person you're talking to, and tell them you're not happy. I even asked them how they can make me happy, haha. That's how I got the amaze from the mt4g for free after having the mt4g for only a year. She apologized to me a bunch and offered me any phone they had.

I've been debating calling in to get a replacement, but I don't like any of their phones. I'm kinda bummed by the lack of drivers from HTC but mostly the headphone jack is crap for me. I can't put my phone in my pants pocket or workout with it without the headphones coming unplugged...it's getting old.
[HTC Amaze 4G] JonathanBarca10:
Thanks for the quick answers. I am definitely always polite when calling, im just curious.

Hoping to get a current tmobile rep in here to help me out to give me their POV
[HTC Amaze 4G] hasoon2000:
You can do multiple exchanges. They'll just offer you a Sensation or a Galaxy Blaze 4G
[HTC Amaze 4G] badgerdave:
I completely agree with Hasoon. I go on to the Tmo Amaze forum many times daily and can tell you now that only one person has reported getting a SGS3 in an exchange. All others have been given refurbished Amazes (many times getting another phone with the exact same problem.) Only after several Amaze exchanges do they offer the customer the Sensation. I guess the bright side is that it was reported that the Sensation was taken off the EOL list. :rolleyes:
[HTC Amaze 4G] JonathanBarca10:
So the SGSII is no longer an option? Cause i would take that.
[HTC Amaze 4G] badgerdave:
The S2 may be an option...I'm not sure. Haven't read any post saying that is what they got. Based on what I have read....I guess that depends on your gift of gab. One person got them to give him an S3 all other the Sensation. I can only say that it is very difficult to get another phone in general. There are others that are taking their fight to the BBB and FCC.

https://www.bbb.org/consumer-complaints/file-a-complaint/nature-of-complaint/

http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm

I haven't gone that route. I would find it hard to to accept an inferior phone. The Amaze is an awesome phone under the hood. My only problems are the 8-10 Bluetooth range (that I get.) And sound quality when video recording in a semi-loud environment. (Recording a live band is terrible.) I have been hoping that another OTA would address the problems. The BT problem got much better with the ICS update. Before ICS, my BT range was 1-2 Ft. So it's hard for me to just believe that the problem is the hardware. The problem appears to be larger than Tmo and HTC want to admit...but not large enough to care about.
[HTC Amaze 4G] JonathanBarca10:
Thanks again for the reply. And this reeks of the same problem the Sidekick 4g had...both samsung and tmobile were damn well aware of the awful software problems with that phone, but didnt care to do anything.
[HTC Amaze 4G] rachelm920:
My daughter has the Sidekick and she told me she has to do a battery pull at least once a day if not more... problem is she cracked the screen so we can't do a warranty exchange :(
[HTC Amaze 4G] rubyman94:
They gave me a brand new HTC one s after getting 4 warranty replacements. I'm glad I got rid of this phone. Too many problems :/.
[HTC Amaze 4G] JonathanBarca10:
Oh man, thats a **** ton of replacements. And how long did it take to do that?

And to the one with the daughter with the sk4g...yes, battery pulls were WAY too common with that device. Just too much going on for a device that was uniquely put together, such as the jump button.

Big pain in the ass, really.
[HTC Amaze 4G] supraman89:
So how did it go if you don't mind me asking? I was thinking about doing the exact same thing. I don't think multiple exchanges really matter, I got the amaze from my first warranty exchange from the Sensation, i simply asked what alternate options there were cause I heard people were receiving Amazes as an option.
[HTC Amaze 4G] JonathanBarca10:
to be honest i haven't done it yet. my little sister is using it now, since she needed a phone.

she likes the SII better though...thinner and lighter for her. you know how girls can be! so i may still call, its a matter of whether or not she's willing to sort of stick it out with this phone or not.
[HTC Amaze 4G] supraman89:
well thats cool, I factory reset my amaze to see if it fixes my issues (autobrightness, screen sometimes wont power on)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
This issue appeard after I flashed eclipse rom with GSM patch. Now everytime I boot the phone there is a red dot where the sensors are for answering calls (when you answer a call and the screen becomes black, I dont remember the technical name for it atm) What is it and how can I get rid of it? I reflashed Epsilon v3 and it's still there? :silly:

Maybe @whirleys can answer this because it appeared after I installed bootmenu 0.2.5?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] pedrotorresfilho:
It means init.d is loading. Its okay ;)

Cheers
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
Oh ok mate, thanks for the quick answer, I thought something was wrong :silly:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] megawebmaster:
Do you have it for a long time when system is already running? I do and honestly - I don't know why, but this is happening after updating to 0.2.5 BootMenu version. If that matters I've flashed MIUI 2.7.27 converted with Converter ;)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] whirleyes:
Disable 2nd-init for MIUI. MIUI is not Safestrap based ROM.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] miewter:
Thanks and question to whirleyes. Cheers

I have the same scenario, but thanks to the apps whirleyes. It save my phone from being bricked when I flash a patch that is BM, the apps didn't allow me to reboot unless the system is good. So I did a system restore. :angel:

I get the constant red led every boot up until it reach the desktop. No biggie.

Only question is, am I missing or messed any system file?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] triplex76:
well guys you just need to diable the 2nd init system options in bmm and will get NO LED during boot!:silly:
[Android Apps and Games] ajk511:
I updated Google wallet today and to my surprise it already had my Chase Visa debit card and my Chase Visa Credit card stored. Did anyone else experience anything like this? How did Google already have this info?
[Android Apps and Games] JohnKuczek:
Have you used the cards for the play store? Or for wallets predecessor? Google shopping or something?
[Android Apps and Games] Genjinaro:
If you've ever made a purchase of Google apps, clothing, nexus from Google, Checkout etc. It's there.
[Android Apps and Games] stonew5082:
they used satellite footage to steal it.
[Android Apps and Games] xriderx66:
most likely this.
[Android Apps and Games] avd:
We all know its the street view cars that can snoop store transactions with you cc info.
[Android Apps and Games] djdanska:
I told them. Hope that was ok. hehe. (Kidding!)

That or aliens.
[Android Apps and Games] damoAndroid:
Google

It seems as if Google knew really everything about me... It is so weird :rolleyes:
[Android Apps and Games] bostonbassman78:
If u ever bought stuff online through Google chrome with our card then they have it saved
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] web_ninja:
ok here it is..i really need to work on making it HD, sooo that being said push through adb or use root explorer to put in system\media and change permissions to rw-r-r reboot profit..:laugh:

here is what looks like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YC4obtGXiQ
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Dmkjr:
Looks good
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] itzallgood707:
Cool beans. Thank you
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] CadioXIII:
Nice I like it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blessU:
It didn't work for me. Using root explorer on aokp kang. Everytime i try and delete or move the original not it fails.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] chirojunkie:
Is there anyway to get a HD version of this animation?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] web_ninja:
I will have to finagle it some because it is in HD but during the ripping it loses quality...:confused:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] chirojunkie:
Ah I see. Regardless thanks so much for the animation it's awesome
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ratcityrain:
Didn't work for me. I'll keep playing around with it to see if I can get it to work, if I remember right you have to replace a lot of different files in different locations in order for it to work (i'll confirm)

my permissions are set as: rw-r--r-- and it is located in the systems/media location and I used Root Explorer to paste the zip file
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] LoopDoGG79:
What ROM and kernel are you on?

Sent from the pink Unicorn from the Darkside. :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ratcityrain:
Do I have to be on a specific Rom and Kernel? I just have the factory ICS and rooted, that is it. I haven't flashed any ROM's to my phone. That could be it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tikay00:
All I get is the silver android icon. I'm on darkside evolution v.8
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] demonr6:
good lord that has to be the slowest download ever. we may be in a completely new kernel before this thing is halfway finished.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] web_ninja:
you have to be on a rom that supports custom boot animations.. BlessU you have to push the r/w button up top to make the directory re-writable.

tikay00 are you sticking it the /system/media/ folder make sure it is r/w... i have tested it on darkside, and JB it works for me. as long as it is in the /system/media/ directory and your rom supports the custom boot animations it should ( IN THEORY) had to throw that in ther for ****s and giggles.... it should work...:silly:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ratcityrain:
Ok thank you for the help. I've never dabbled in flashing ROM's so I am going to begin looking into that.

---------- Post added at 02:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:45 PM ----------

Just so I am aware, what ROM's does this work on so I can look for them?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] chirojunkie:
I'm using darkside version 8 and it worlds great for me
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] phordych05:
where do i find to change permissions to rw-r-r reboot profit...?...thanks in advance
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] web_ninja:
in root explorer long press and change permissions there.:)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaunlit:
Nice
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] player90247:
Out of curiosity, I tried it with Clones\Drones v3... It didn't work. Great work though for contributing.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] enigma168:
yeah it won't work until PTMR3 builds his own custom kernel... the one that is being used doesn't support boot animations...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Thee GOC:
Question on changing either the layout or screen ration.

I went into the desc file and tried to adjust the ratio to 480 480 and when I did it wouldn't load at all, I was under the impression that our screens would handle that? Am I wrong?

Also I would like to have it played in landscape mode and from what I read I need to unzip, rotate all the pictures to landscape, rezip, and re push on the phone. Is it that simple?

And what zip extractor/creators are you all using?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] kamycrs:
ok so im trying to Format my Internal partition! and i dont know which one i have to choose in CWM!Format /sdcard or /emmc?..ive heard those 2 sometimes are vice versa!....

btw,my current rom is also running Touch-wiz!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] juwttt:
In 4.0.4+ EMMC is internal storage.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] matth3wlong:
FYI, Anyone that is considering purchasing the Invisible Shield for their Nexus 7, I just received mine in the mail today and when applied it would not allow the touch screen to operate. I was unable to unlock to access anything, once I peeled away the Invisible Shield everything was fine. Tried to reapply a second time with the same results, just wanted to give all a heads up.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] sway40:
Yet another reason to go xoskins

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Surnom:
Had the same problem after I installed my Skinomi screen protector tonight, but after 2 hours everything is fonctionning again.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] nick9809:
You have to wait with all screen protectors that are applied with application fluid....
[Nexus 7 Accessories] woshiweili:
I learned early on that the extra money you pay for Zagg to install the invisibleshield for you is very worth it.

I had absolutely no problem with mine.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1798515
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Nxxx:
I was going to get one but I decided against it after finding out stylii don't work with them. :mad:
[Nexus 7 Accessories] cmscritic:
Except they look like crap and completely ruin the beauty of the nexus according to your pics.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] woshiweili:
The front looks perfectly fine. You can't even really tell there is something there. The back is subjective. I didn't like it at first but it has grown on me. But no one forces you to have the back anyway.

What are you talking about? I don't use styli/styluses but I just tried one it works fine.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] digriz:
You did not wait for it to dry. You just wasted a perfectly good skin.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] woshiweili:
This is why I never install it myself and just pay the guy at the mall to do it. I've never had a problem.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Uh60m Pilot:
Bought one and had to remove it. It completely distracted from the quality of the screen.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Basicallyevolve:
I just put my Zagg on my N7 as well and the screen is no longer responsive. It takes many attempts to get something to even work.

I removed it and all the functionality returned.

I dont know if letting it dry will do anything but i will try. If it doesnt work im ripping this sucker off and returning it to zagg.

I have never had an issue with a zagg product... This is my first time...
[Nexus 7 Accessories] woshiweili:
I don't have a single problem with my invisibleshield on my Nexus 7, including the one you mentioned above.

So one of the following must be true:

You have a defective Nexus 7 with under-sensitive touchscreen.

Your InvisibleShield is defective (somehow)

Your installed your InvisibleShield wrong.

I received a Nexus 7 with "extra-sensitive" touchscreen (if something like this exists!)
[Nexus 7 Accessories] nivlac978:
Does anyone's protector seem a hair too big? A bit of it is going over the bezel. Will this thing shrink?
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Nxxx:
I'm not getting one since the stylus doesn't work with it.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Souai:
youre meant to let it dry...

capacitive screens work by reading the changes in the electrostatic field directly above the screen as you slide your fingers across it. using applicator fluid and the screen protector will restrict the range of the electrostatic field to underneath the screen protector until the screen protector dries. plus, you're putting water on an electronic device... generally not recommended to turn it on until the water's completely gone. it shouldve mentioned this in the installation instructions...
[Nexus 7 Accessories] clockcycle:
Anyone ever notice the glass looks like it's permeable on these touch devices? Lots of little holes.

But yes, water cuts the conductivity and will do so until completely dry, at least that is the result on this device.

Same results with most wet install screen protectors, it's not any particular brand being the problem... If you read the xoskins, skinomi and xtremeguard threads, people have the same exact "complaint"..

Let it dry man!

YMMV
[Nexus 7 Accessories] blackjaguar25:
You have to wait! Letting it dry is the key. Do you think a major company like Zagg would put out a product that ruins devices like that?
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Hyrax:
Can I use a hairdryer to make it dry faster?
[Nexus 7 Accessories] clockcycle:
Risk over heating an LCD, I wouldn't.

Besides trying to expedite drying time may cause trapped air bubbles that will take twice as long if ever to stick and will leave a ripple on the protector. YMMV
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] enterflux:
So, I gotta ask, what's the deal with devs not posting explicit instructions on how to update their own ROMs? Usually if I ask in the thread, somebody just gets pissed and says "Search for it!" I

do

search for it, but I can never find it. Is it just an assumed task that every ROM upgrades the same way?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mindmajick:
Yup. Most of them.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] enterflux:
...Then what is it? I have yet to figure out... Do you have to always do a clean install?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
Depends if it's a wipe or non wipe update. The op will say
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] stoopendis:
Why would you think updating from say 4.1 to 4.2 would be different than 4.0 to 4.1?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mindmajick:
You talking about sky ics? Totally different ball game there. Weird.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Dinman:
Most roms are pretty straight forward & stated clearly in the op...if its skyics thats a totally different .

If its a update:

1.Wipe cache & dalvic

2.flash

3.reboot

New base rom:

1. Factory reset

2. Format system

3. Wipe dalvic

4. reboot

Thats my method & I've never had a problem.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Dinman:
A clean install would always be ideal (even if its an update)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] enterflux:
Mmkay. That sounds like a good guide to go by. Thanks for the replies everyone! Much appreciated!
[HTC One X] kedirakevo:
I know battery life isnt that great on Sense roms... (USUALLY)... I would love go to CM or other ASOP roms but I cant tear myself away from Sense Keyboard and its SWYPE function...

I lost my HOX in May and i settled for a SGS2... boy how much I missed swyping on Sense Keyboard... No other keyboard can match up for reasons unknown... In the end, i settled for Touchpal Keyboard... Probably its because Sense Keyboard Swype is very accurate, somehow they are able to get the correct words... other keyboards failed quite badly... I lost my SGS2 last week so im back on HOX again

So if there is a very good keyboard software thats comparable to sense, i would hop on the CM/ASOP wagon....

So for now, which Sense Rom has the best battery life? On Lee's currently but doesnt feel like much... I heard good things for InsertCoin and Viper Rom... and the Faux kernel... Does kernels play a part in battery savings?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] xCovErtWolFx757:
Ok so I can not find out where lte/4G is at? Is there no toggle.

Just got phone today so I'm not sure.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ashunte:
what are you asking? Are you coming from an Evo there's no toggle switch for lte.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DroidBabe:
Scroll down to mobile networks and click on it. Its somewhere in there buried. Lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] xCovErtWolFx757:
I'm coming from the e4gt. We had a 4G toggle for that. Is it automatic now?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ashunte:
Maybe this:

Settings>More Settings>Mobile Networks>Network mode>LTE/CDMA OR Just Plain CDMA.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Lolanerd:
Default in this section should be CDMA. Switch it to LTE/CDMA and you're good :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] xCovErtWolFx757:
Now if my area doesn't have it yet, will it consume more battery if I have lte/cdma on?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] vettz500:
The phone will be searching for 4G when you have it on, so yes it will consume a little bit more battery if you do not have 4G in your area. You wont see a huge impact, but it will cause a little bit more of a drain than if you just left it off
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] xCovErtWolFx757:
Thank you all for your help. I appreciate it.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] blacklord9:
Well I tried almost all the CM mods for Gio and I have the same problem on all of them: ticking the always play ringtones on speaker does nothing. All the ringtones are played on headphones when they are plugged in and this makes CM unusable for me since I keep missing calls. Any way I can manually set this from terminal or patch it somehow?

The only one that works is phiezx new nightly but without the old libaudio patch. If I apply the patch the problem appears again.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avatartorres:
I met a problem when i using my Sky Vega Racer 2 A830L......

I cannot use apps2sd,it said that my primary external storage is emulated.And i found that it's ture,/sdcard on my phone has emulated by external storage.Also,my sd card has replaced to /external_sd.So i cannot install too many games to my phone(large datebase),althought my phone has 16gb internal device storage.

Anybody met this question before?And anybody know the solution? Thank you.

Sorry for my very very bad English.:(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kuisma:
I've never heard the term "emulated external storage", but according to your description it sounds as the same the Samsung Galaxy series does. It mounts an internal disk as /sdcard and mounts the real sd card at some non standard location.

Never used apps2sd myself, I can't tell you how to work around this using that app. Myself I've moved the entire /data mount point to a partition on the sd card by editing init.rc. Unfortunately, in normal cases, this requires you to create a new boot image to flash your phone with, and it might be overkill, unless you're used to build boot images.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avatartorres:
Thanks for you answer.

By the way,it means that i have to mount the SDcard in init.rc manually?Thank you very much.