[Motorola Photon 4G] aywwts4:
Dude, I'm glad you help out, Your guide is useful, but why are you so hostile about your help and the appreciation it must receive?

In this case someone asks a decent question, a one that absolutely isn't clearly and straightforwardly answered anywhere, I myself googled it myself when I made the switch. One guy in the GSM thread has a friend who switched to a Gnexus and it works, and people cited that as proof of photon working. You have an APN list, but if I put in the wrong zip code with straight talk that won't help me as not only won't it work, I may be stuck at 2g speeds. Then a link to a sprint APN which I have no idea how it would help, and a link to the GSM radio which someone already provided.

An APN is not an answer especially on a service that runs two networks, it's an APN. An answer "Yes it works, but best on att, I have a link to a custom APN in my guide" would have been a great answer, but how is an APN with no sentences around it or context an answer? How is scolding him as a child helpful?

He isn't polluting android development with a silly question, about 3/4th of the general page is complaining about ICS or people leaving and whatnot, so he isn't really messing up a delicate signal to noise ratio.

You get mad that they didn't find your compendium which is in a different forum for developers, that was the last result, only shows up if you do a global search not a search in General or QA forums, with a topic labeled "Misc", that presumes ATT without stating it or stating why, and simply provides apn settings without instructions on where to put them or even what an APN is, or that this won't work if you picked a Tmo sim/live in a Tmo zip code. So OP should never have asked a simple question? And doesn't deserve simple answers and respect with sentences and english instead of a list of APNs with no context clues and scorn.

I answer with information about the two carriers they cover, the frequencies of both, the speeds to be expected, the fact that the photon can achieve HSPA+ 4G speeds, the quality of service, the sim card to order, where to enter APN information, a personal testimonial, warning that Tmo does not offer photon compatible 3g/4g coverage in all areas. And you answer by spawning a 2 page complaint about how underappreciated you are and how lazy OP is for not finding your very vague poorly titled non-answer that is only an APN. And blaming someone for failing with what is a terrible search (if you search the forum search instead of all forums you won't find your guide, I don't blame people for using forum search when looking for someone photon specific) or for not knowing that XDA's "Android Development" is actually the much better titled "All things root" and contains pertinent non-developer information.

Seriously... Help doesn't have to be bloodsport. Making a guide doesn't mean people can no longer ask questions ever again. Especially when your guide *did not answer the question at hand*.

---------- Post added at 10:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:40 PM ----------

Here is a crowdsourced list of places where T-Mobile has made the transition for 3G/HSPA+ to the 1900mhz band that the Photon can see if tmo is your only option or if you have a strong preference

http://www.airportal.de/