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[Networking] HarlanPepper0010:
Hello community,

I have started a petition against AT&T regarding their practices against the deaf community and could really use your help and support. I have already obtained just over 2000 signatures but need a lot more. Please take a moment to read and help out, it is greatly appreciated. Don't forget to pass it along... Thanks! :D:thumbup:

http://www.change.org/petitions/at-...ium=email&utm_campaign=signature_goal_reached

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[Networking] Babydollll:
Signed and shared.
[Networking] MrObvious:
Signed. HTH
[Networking] papabear:
ATT fails with their shenanigans almost as much as apple. So it does not really surprise me. I signed it because we are all equal.
[Networking] HarlanPepper0010:
Could not agree more.. Big thanks to all who have taken the time to sign.

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[Networking] waiters:
Sounds like this needs some publicity...

Have you contacted the Aclu?
[Networking] HarlanPepper0010:
I have not... I am working with a campaigner at change.org trying to get this thing to take off. Aclu is a good idea, I'll give it a shot today. Thanks for the input. :thumbup:

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[Networking] HarlanPepper0010:
Just an update.. I have almost 2500 signatures, also advocacy groups are threatening to file a complaint with the FCC and the FCC has responded saying they would take action if necessary. Thanks to all who have viewed this and signed the petition.

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[Networking] orangekid:
Where it says "In emergency situations where texting isn't an option or there's no Wifi available, mobile FaceTime could be a lifesaver." In what situation can you not text but you can use your data connection to facetime? and you're deaf so you have to use hand signals right? So you may encounter a situation where you cannot text, but you can sign over facetime? That doesn't even make sense.

You basically want to legally force a company to alter their pricing because you feel that with a physical disadvantage you cannot utilize every aspect of their service?

I don't know about that one, unless I am missing something here. They are not discriminating against anyone per this, because you could just as easily say that every cable company is discriminating against blind people by not offering audio only TV shows...

What am I missing? How is AT&T discriminating?
[Networking] MrObvious:
Grouchy. :p

I signed it because I have friends who are deaf and anything I can do to help them is good and also I hate AT&T.
[Networking] orangekid:
lol what's up Mr O!

I personally don't care one way or the other, I think maybe I am just missing something.

I don't like ATT at all either, which is why I use T-Mobile. Maybe someone can explain where the discrimination is here so we're all clear. I just don't like the idea of forcing companies to adjust their pricing, like if I had a company I should be able to charge what I want and if it's too much people just won't buy from me...

Eespecially when there are many other phone choices and many other carrier choices (you could use an Android device with an FFC on T-Mobile for instance)
[Networking] HarlanPepper0010:
Hello orangekid,

To put it simply, yes they should alter pricing. Are you okay with paying for things you can't use?

By AT&T not allowing a deaf user face time access through their TAP plan (text accessibility program) but forcing them to buy a voice plan, wouldn't you agree this is a form of discrimination? Your comparison regarding blind people is a moot point... no one is forcing blind people to buy tv service they would most likely not use. AT&T however, tells their customers in order to use a service of ours (which deaf people can fully utilize) they have to pay for something they can never use, voice minutes. I take it you did not take the time to read the comments in the petition? At this point I have 2404 people who feel AT&T is discriminating, a lot of them are members of the deaf community. If your sole purpose was to just come here and try to ruffle some feathers, please refrain from doing so. If you don't agree or don't want to sign the petition, don't post. I'm not trying to be a jerk I just posted here for people who would like to support this cause. Thank you.

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[Networking] jared407:
Signed good luck !
[Networking] musichoover:
Signed.
[Networking] orangekid:
I am just trying to understand what you are actually against. I did read some of the comments, and it's not really that hard to get 2,000 signatures for ANY cause. Like I stated already, I may just have something confused here. You can choose to buy AT&T or not right? I mean why not get Sprint or Verizon or T-Mobile with an Android phone, why is FaceTime such a requirement?

Besides, isn't there a data only plan you can get on AT&T, like for people with iPads?

I'm being 100% honest when I say I'm not trying to "ruffle some feathers" I just don't see specifically what the discrimination is.

If your take is "if you can't see what the obvious discrimination is then I won't waste my time explaining it to you" or "I still think you're just trying to get under my skin and really do see discrimination but are only pretending not to" then it is what it is, but that's not my intention.

Maybe I just don't fully understand what your service is and why it can only be used on an iPhone or on AT&T.
[Networking] HarlanPepper0010:
Hello again Orangekid,

All you are doing is answering your own questions. You know why I am doing this, but continue to press the issue. I am petitioning AT&T to stop discriminating deaf people by charging them for something they can't use. (Voice minutes)

It's nice to have choices right? If AT&T works the best for some users, they should be able to use it without restrictions or additional charges for something unusable. If you can't seem to understand this cause, I encourage you to Google it so you can find the answer you are looking for. There are plenty of articles you may read regarding this topic. I have read many.

You obviously are not finding your answer here since you did not read my last post which states; if you don't support this or don't want to sign, simply don't post... by posting what you did.. "If your take is "if you can't see what the obvious discrimination is then I won't waste my time explaining it to you" or "I still think you're just trying to get under my skin and really do see discrimination but are only pretending not to" then it is what it is, but that's not my intention." It is your intention, otherwise you would not have posted. Thank you.

Also thanks again to all who have signed so far.

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[Networking] orangekid:
You're obviously not understanding what I am saying, that's fine I guess I can't expect everyone to. I haven't answered any of my questions, nor have you; repeating the same mission statement over and over does not an answer make. You factually utterly ignored my question on how you could possibly find yourself in an emergency situation where you cannot text, but you can use your hands to activate FaceTime and use that instead (an example showing how it is indeed discrimination).

If this petition doesn't work out I suggest you switch to Android or another carrier, you might also have better luck avoiding an ETF by bringing up this topic as opposed trying to change their entire pricing system, which seems to be making them money.

I will stop posting in this thread since I won't be getting any of my questions answered here anyways.

Good luck with your endeavors :)
[Networking] HarlanPepper0010:
To satisfy your insatiable thirst to find an answer you can't find here... Texting uses cellular minutes. FaceTime uses data. In an emergency, take an earthquake for example (there was a decent one not to long ago here in California) cellular lines were so jammed with people making calls to friends and family I was unable to make any calls nor send any texts. Data however was unaffected.

Now a hearing person could easily open the app and contact through FaceTime since most likely they have a voice plan. Why would or should a deaf person pay for voice minutes just to use this service? When they are the ones who would benefit the most from it. I have made this point in my last few posts which you have obviously ignored. Are there other options? of course there are but as I stated in my last post, which again you ignored. If AT&T and FaceTime work the best for some they should have access to all services without paying for something unusable..

I have answered your questions in the best capacity I can. You however do not want an answer You obviously just want to make a point. You are right and I am wrong. How's that working out for you? Just remember you started this, I kindly asked if you don't agree or don't want to sign please don't post. Something you have ignored again. I see a trend here.

My suggestion to you is to imagine yourself as a deaf person. Take away the ability to just pick-up a phone and call your family or friends. Take away the ability to just turn on the TV, walk away from it and still know what is going on. Try going to see a movie in the theater. Try turning on the radio, or listening to music. How bout a concert? Simple things us hearing individuals take for granted. You think it's hard finding work for a hearing person in this country, try finding one as a deaf individual. I understand this because I have seen and lived with it for 32 years, people do not choose to be deaf; why should they be charged for a service they can not use? If you really think that by coming in here and playing dumb; looking for an answer but not wanting to hear my response will sway my decision or make me rethink my stance, you sir (or ma'am) are wrong. I stand by this petition. Have a nice day. :D

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[Networking] MrObvious:
It's not so much a matter of convenience as sign language is another language and their native language. If you asked someone from Mexico who just got done taking English classes if they would rather speak to everyone in English or Spanish they would say Spanish because they are fluent in it. Basically the point about deaf people is some don't do English very well to begin with but sign fluently. They can get confused by English grammar and it's very hard to understand when they do something like a text message, but they understand a video of a sign language sentence much better. Also, when they make bibles for deaf people, it is a video of a person signing the scriptures, not a written text. Why? Some deaf people do as well with English as I do with Spanish.

That's one reason. I hope I didn't offend anyone with this post but I was just making a point for Orangekid. If I did I do apologize as it was not intentional.
[Networking] orangekid:
Sorry that's a little confusing. :cowboy:

I wasn't trying to make a point, I really was curious. Your explanation on the data/texting thing was a good one, was that so hard? I'm sorry you're taking this so personally. Despite our exchanges I have tried to stay polite, and assert that I wasn't trying to argue or just be difficult but really was trying to grasp what the issue truly was.

The fact that you blatantly refuse to believe this and have hard bent on attempting to create a scare-crow argument and attacking that as if this were a debate and not a mere request for clarification on the matter, as if repeatedly stating your arbitrary opinion of my purposes makes it true, shows me that you are indeed taking my efforts to merely truly understand the position as a personal attack on said position. I'm sorry but you seem to be arguing with someone else and putting their face on my words. Let me be as clear as I possibly can so we can settle the matter once and for all.

1) I did no understand if the petition was to change AT&T's normal pricing policy or if there was a special pricing plan that included features you didn't want that you wanted changed.

2) I did not understand why a deaf person would HAVE to use an iPhone and HAVE to use FaceTime and HAVE to use AT&T, and I wondered if a similar petition existed for the other "big 3" with their pricing and packages. This led me to believe that I must misunderstand the entire petition.

3) I am not implying that your purposes are malevolent, communistic, naive, or anything other than what you state, I am merely seek to fully understand them.

Keep in mind you posted a thread in a public forum urging people to share your views and sign your petition. When you do such, you open yourself to queries about the thread and you cannot "kick out" anyone who merely asks a question about it. if I were offering a counter-position, which I stopped after the first post because I began to doubt exactly what that position was, I would still have a right to post it here. I can see how my first post here can be taken that way, but as I said I then wondered if I completely mistook the entire position.

I don't have a problem with you, this thread, this petition, deaf people, or any other demographic. I'm sorry this blew up out of proportion and I'm sorry you mistook me and that you are taking things so personally.

No matter how many times and in what ways you state that my motives are to "prove a point" or stir trouble as it were, it is untrue. I wished only to give further stage to this matter and to clarify it.
[Networking] HarlanPepper0010:
I have tried to paint a picture for you in the best way I can. Your persistent questioning could easily have been handled by pm if you didn't get the answer you were looking for the first time. I wanted to leave the form open for support discussion. Not an argument. I hope that I have satisfied your questions in some way. Below is an article from wired magazine that may help in answering any more questions you have. Take care.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/facetime-deaf/

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[Networking] orangekid:
I wasn't trying to have an argument either.

I'll take a look at the article. Cheers
[Networking] MrObvious:
Orange is just very blunt. Trust me he is being nice. I know him from PPCGeeks years ago. :p
[Networking] HarlanPepper0010:
Haha! Thanks Mr. O. We already spoke on pm seems it all was a misunderstanding. Made for an interesting conversation none the less. No hard feelings. P.S. I am 68 signatures away from my goal of 2500. If any of you have not forwarded on the petition please do so. I am not stopping at 2500 BTW. Thanks for your continued support.

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[Networking] orangekid:
lol, sometimes too blunt for my own good it seems

Yeah no hard feelings and no worries. Best of luck :)
[Networking] Killamurk:
Need 61 More I already signed
[Networking] remydlc:
Signed. As if it wasn't enough with their bad service already.
[Networking] HarlanPepper0010:
Just hit 2500 signatures!! Thanks again to all who have signed and supported. I have bumped my goal up to 5000 signatures. Please forward the petition on to friends and family, post on your Facebook or Twitter page if you haven't already. Thanks again for your continued support. :D:thumbup:

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[Networking] HarlanPepper0010:
BREAKING NEWS!! (well a few days old) AT&T is cracking! They have allowed deaf users with TAP plans access to FaceTime over their cellular network. There is a catch however, if you had an existing unlimited data plan you will have to trade it in for a tiered limited data plan... :banghead: It's a start and a nice gesture by AT&T, but not enough. My fight continues. Thank you for your support.

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[Networking] orangekid:
Keep up the good fight!
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jebise101:
So I just got the TF300 and the first thing I dd was install the JB update and been noticing that is very laggy and slow. But that was quickly resolved by a factory reset and when wiping dilvik/cache (at least i hope) and now seems to response much better.

The issue now i have is whenever i use utorrent the tablet becomes unusable and the fix for that was to use a SD Card which also worked and everything was working the way it should, it was very responsive and the torrent was downloading quickly, but as soon as the screen timed out it would not wake up again or sometimes took forever.

sometimes the screen came back after 3 minutes and other times it required a reboot, this is an issue only when utorrent is downloading a torrent and does not happen if its just open. I have not seen this happen randomly like others have experienced just only with utorrent downloading.

Any inputs or suggestions?

Have you guys tried with a different torrent app?
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nooktablet:
you could try is this new-5-star app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEsImNvbS5BbmRyb2lkQS5Ecm9pRG93bmxvYWRlciJd

try it to see if the problem persists

and can you answer my question, please: you just got your tf300, so after you turn it on the first time, what firmware version was it? did you have to update to ICS .30 and then update to JB or did you just update straight to JB? in other words, how many updates did you do to get JB? 1 or 2?

i'm asking because last time with my returned tf300 i had to do to updates (from .26 out of the box to .30, then JB), i got my replacement today but haven't turned on yet (i'm leaving it charging 8 hours as the manual suggests), i'm not sure what firmware will it update to when i turn it on, since i don't want jelly bean this is what i really need to care about
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jgaf:
Do you have a fast internet connection? The problem you had with the slowness while downloading to the internal memory is because of bad I/O performance from ASUS, writing and reading on to and from to the internal memory kinda sucks compare to other devices. So directing your downloads to your external sd card was a good idea :D.

+1 for Adownloader, I have always used that app for torrents, hasn't failed me so far.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jebise101:
Yeah i heard about Adownloader but been a fan of utorrent for as long as i can remember and it works flawless on my S3, but will try aDownloader.

@nooktablet

It was ICS and just had one update to get it too JB.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jebise101:
aDownloader is the same
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jgaf:
Do you have keep wifi on during sleep? It is posible that this is causing the sleep of death somehow, apps running on the background. My NookColor used to have a lot of sleep of deaths before I turned the wifi off after each use. But if you turn it off it will defeat the purpose of downloading torrents while screen is off. As far as you can tell it only happens when you are downloading torrents? Also check on settings "ASUS customize setting" and make sure that "Disconnect network during sleep" is not ticked. Another thing you can try is setting up screen saver with a completely black image, so it will use the least battery possible.

Anyways I never use automatic screen timeout I have it on never so I really haven't experienced this problem. If nothing else works, my suggestion is don't let the screen timeout while downloading torrents. Also try reporting the error to ASUS so they added to the list of future fixes.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrhodes:
downloading torrents make your tablet slow even with fast internet.

Just deal with it... or download them from your computer and xfer them over to your tablet.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jebise101:
Under the Asus Custom settings that was already off, but I changed the wifi sleep policy to always on yesterday so you maybe on to something. I will have to test when oi get a chance.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jamal Ahmed:
Hi,

Well it starts like this. I updated to LRQ, and made my account on ChatON. Some time later i got a notification "**** has added you as his/her friend"

I didnt even click the notification, and made a titanium backup to switch roms.

Now no matter which rom i come on, after i restore using titanium backup, the notification remains there.

Another problem

Whenever im downloading big files on LRQ, theyre on a near completion after a lot of time, my download restarts randomly. :(

Can anyone pleaseeeee tell me how to fix this?? Thank you!!! Im a bit tired of this. I cant download big files
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DustinJ:
Just wondering if anyone else noticed music/video audio being godawful on this build. As in, with or without an equalizer, the bass and sometimes trebel sound like I'm listening through cheap $4 headphones. Tried el29 instead of 26, did a factory reset and did the standard root procedure. I think AOSP JB did this to me as well with el26 as my initial kernel.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding. Can anyone be of assistance?
[Desire HD General] Blstrmstr:
Question:

Long time lurker, registered not that long ago.

Alright, question. I'm running on MoKee OS using Cyanogen Mod 7.2 for it's base (Gingerbread) and was curious to know if anyone would happen to have a solution. I've searched around but found little. I've noticed custom Phone.apk for CM9 but that's not exactly what I need.

What basically happens is when I open up the phone app, I can make a call however the phone process itself force closes. It only happens after I set my DPI to a custom one (200). I tried 220, no go there either. If I could get this to work I'd be quite content, but if not then I may have to try out another rom. Probably end up going back to ARHD. :)

Anyone have any idea on how to possibly fix this issue? Thanks! I appreciate your time into this matter.

Mike
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fateownzyou3:
I have been trying to get google wallet to work on the JB leaks. But anytime I do a fix, change build.prop, or install the modded app. I still cant get it to work.

Nfc fix - force closes it

Build.prop - cant add card

Modded apk - cant add card

Can anyone help?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fateownzyou3:
Nobody had gotten this to work? Really?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] omega46:
I can't even get it to open. ..
[Nexus 7 Accessories] GatorsUF:
If you are interested in getting a really nice case for your Nexus 7 check this one out. I know there have been other reviews, but I figured I'd post up a video incase anyone was curious.

Sorry for the blurriness...working on it.

[YOUTUBE]Mvk0ESai7n0[/YOUTUBE]
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Rsmin:
Good review of the case. Thanks for taking the time to do it.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] GatorsUF:
No problem, I also forgot the mention that if you get a metal stylus it will stick right to the front of the case with the magnet.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] FallN:
Thanks for the review! :)
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Uh60m Pilot:
We are the boys from old Florida down where the old Gators play..... ORANGE!

Sorry completely off topic.

sent from my 4.1.1 JB Photon 4G
[Nexus 7 Accessories] GatorsUF:
BLUE!
[Nexus 7 Accessories] FallN:
RED? :p
[Nexus 7 Accessories] ^Fs:
question: Is the wood a single piece or is it glued together?
[Nexus 7 Accessories] rodger-sp:
Here is the book case that I use.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Pandemonium2k4:
I don't get what's good about the case lol wood? Little too fancy for my blood, looks like its made to sit on a mantle and never get used?
[Nexus 7 Accessories] mmisep:
Different people with different tastes, that's why we use android.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] et4g:
hi i need help

when i go to transfer files via mass storage in recovery the file stops at the end and doesnt finish

in the windows dialog box it shows it when transferring from computer to usb.......

it just stays green and doesnt move

any help would be gratefull;;;;;;;;;>