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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] addicussrex@yahoo.com:
Neither and here's why. I bought my galaxy S4 retail for 650$

If I pay the 7 per month for one year and my phone breaks after that point (I'm using a year because that is the typical length of a standard warranty) I have shelled out 84 +100$ for a used version of my phone. This sounds fantastic. However the problem is in a year the S 4 will cost around 350 recertified (possibly cheaper used). If you break it in two years you can get an on contract new phone for 200. If you never break it you shelled out 168$ for absolutely nothing.

The false comparison they make to hook you is the cost of a new phone. You paid 650 for a new phone, or the phone is valued at 650 you will want to protect that. The reality is unless you go outside and break it, the phone will not be worth anywhere near that when you go to replace it.

I had a friend who had asurion since his razr. I asked him why he doesn't just set aside 7 bucks a month for an oh **** phone fund. he started doing that when he bought the iphone 4. he now has enough to but pretty much any phone out.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mbh87:
Thats all fine and dandy until you break or lose multiple phones multiple times. Then the insurance would be cheaper in the long run.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] NiteQwill:
Have you considered Ensquare?

That is what I chose. Their coverage is more complete, IMHO. It protects against "stupidity." :silly:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mbh87:
Have you ever gotten a replacement from them? Was it fairly easy? Their 1 year plan seems perfect for me since I don't keep phones long.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] OverkillSD:
Got my 2 year insurance at Staples for $150.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] g4Nk:
I've gone with Squaretrade with past products, but have never had to actually replace anything...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] addicussrex@yahoo.com:
well you can only replace a phone twice in a 2 year period with asurion. Obviously everyone has different mileage. I know people who break their phones all the time despite having otterboxes screen protectors etc. My last 4 phones haven't had a case and despite heavy use and serious software customization they've all made it through 2 years or more with the exception of my galaxy nexus which died this week (antennas stopped working which is kind of a known problem with early galaxy nexuses). I'd still venture to say that for the average person who takes reasonable care of their phone you still make out better saving your money over using insurance. Mileage may vary.

edit: yeesh apparently some phones are 169 or 200$ deductibles from asurion. insane.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mbh87:
It's only $100 to get it replaced through asurion on VZW. I believe it's more on other carriers, but isn't the case for us. $5 a month plus $100 deductible isn't bad to have the piece of mind IMO.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jonnyc13:
I went Ensquared
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] chrishoyt2012:
I just got square trade last night...they offer $99 for 2 years of coverage. The deductible is $100 for replacement...new or refurbished...and you have no limit to how many claims you make. Also...they ship overnight...no a few days like someone else posted. Personally $99 for 2 years is cheap...if you pay Verizon's monthly cost it's near $200 over the 2 years. Square trade also has a monthly payment plan of $5 or $6 they do deduct each month...so you have options. They are also open 24/7 and you can even make a claim online.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Coderedpl:
Hmm, i'll give them a call with some questions and I might go this route!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] DarkMenace:
I've always used Asurion or BestBuy insurance. On my S3 I had Asurion & BestBuy.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] tgs3838:
I used Asurion for quite a few years. And I had pretty good luck with them. My job involves working around water. And like someone else pointed out Asurion only allows 2 phones per year. Which for most isnt a huge deal. But square trade had a pretty decent deal. So i went with them on my S4. Thankfully I havent had the chance to use them yet. But i dont really think you can go wrong with either.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Proweedsmoker:
Asurion replaced my bionic no questions asked, great CS. However, they only deal refurb phones :/ Not sure if that's standard for all insurance company's..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] rdcamero:
That's all well and good but what if your phone gets broken in a month or 6 months.I would much rather pay $100 than $649 for a new one.I don't really count the $7 a month.I easily waste a lot more than that each month.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cta1234:
Hi all,

I'm having problems with NFC in my HTC One and perhaps you can help me in order to solve them.

I mean, I bought NFC tags (Myfare Classic 1K), and initially I worked with them very well using NFC Task Launcher and Tasker. My issue is that I can read these tags sometimes... but sometimes no. It's frustating. Of course I have activated NFC option in my mobile and I put it close to the NFC tag using the area of the rear camera (where is located the antenna).

I try to connect with my new bluetooh headphones by NFC (Sony MDR-1RBT) and sometimes connect... sometimes no.

My HTC One is not rooted and bought free.

Any idea? Help please.

Thanks a lot!!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ArmedandDangerous:
You probably have the same issue as I do. We've got faulty NFC chips. I'm sending mine in for warranty soon :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cta1234:
I looked for information about NFC problems with HTC One but I didn't found nothing. Bad NFC Chips? Oh my God! Is this usual and reported?

I thought that perhaps it would be something related to software (i.e. some process running in background)... but if we are talking about a hardware issue I'm going to worry a lot.

Could we expect news with new release of android? What do you think?

Thaks a lot for your answer!

Best regards
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MilkEven:
Did you unlock your screen before using the tag? U must unlock first or the tag wont work
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cta1234:
Yes, I try it after unlocked screen. I am not able to say when NFC fails or woks, but I try to read tags with unlocked screen.

Thanks
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ArmedandDangerous:
For me, mine I think is a little loose. I cna read NFC tags if I put it near my camera and press it really hard against the phone. That seems to push the NFC chip back into place and I hear the "Boop" when it detects the chip. A fully working will beep instantly upon contact.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cta1234:
Obviously that would mean a hardware issue. In my case, doing always the same I get different results. I don't press the tag against the phone, and trying with the same tag I don't get the same result (sometimes reads the tag and sometimes not). It's crazy.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goozy:
I haven't been able to get nfc to work either. I don't have any proper tags but I tried my MasterCard paypass that worked fine in the past. Can somebody with working NFC try to scan their MasterCard with paypass and let me know if it works?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cloudnineX:
Previously when I purchased my xperia play I received the 800at. On this model i saw a caller location id when i received a call and it was part of the usual call screen, not an extra pop up or different phone book or anything...when i sent it back to get my correct order which was the 800i ...I didnt see this feature.. i did some searching but couldnt find it anywhere. anyone know what its called...:confused:
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aniket260388:
I am facing the same kinda issue on my Galaxy Note 2 N7100. Earlier I used see this but then all of sudden it stopped showing the same. I did every possible search but not success.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devilxmax:
History:

1. I successfully rooted my Kindle Fire HD a month ago. Two days back when I tried to install Nova launcher, something got screwed up, and

it got stuck in the nova luncher loop, after a hard reset it got stuck at yellow kindle fire logo.

2. I tried to correct it via KindleFireFirstAide utility via option 3. Completely restore KFHD 7 7.2.3 <fastboot>

Everything was going fine until my internet got disconnected during the system.bin download.

Now it is stuck at Kindle fire system recovery, which comes after a kindle fire(yellow) then kindle fire(blue) logo.

Reboot your kindle

Reset to factory defaults, wont help and keep repeating after every boot up.

Moreover, neither windows nor ubuntu live detecting the kindle usb connection ( no ding sound, no device manger information)

I think the usb utility in kindle is gone.

How can I get the kindle working back again?

Any help would be highly appreciated.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CVanB:
Is it stuck there or can you pick an option because I would save myself the grief and just reset it.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devilxmax:
Fixed Via $2 factory cable

Good news,

I got a samsung chinese usb cable, done the factory cable tweak and connected it with kindle.

And TADA!!! got into fastmode, restored from backup via KindleFireFirstAide utility. :cowboy:

NOw its running the stock operating system.
[General Questions and Answers] msingh23249:
Guys Use this guide to root ur spice stellar xtacy... its working

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=39496756

:D
[General Questions and Answers] Adityavijay:
Spice mi 352 root

Not this not working but if u want to root spice mi 352,celkon a79,bludash 3.5 use below attached programme to install drivers and root because i dont find any other way to root or get drivers.
[Nexus 4 Themes and Apps] SpookyTunes:
Another staged rollout update from Google. Due to apk file size, it's in a ZIP archive.

● Fixed a problem where you could receive two notifications for a message: one from Hangouts, one from the old Talk app.

● Audio issues in video calls on some Android 2.3x (Gingerbread) devices, including the Droid Charge, should now be resolved.

● Bug fixes and better performance.
[Xperia Z General] Ame123:
Hello everyone today I noticed something weird with the xz..I am getting 5 hours of on screen time but I think we can easily get some were close to 6 hours..bcoz with 5 hours of on screen time I have 5 hours of kernel wake locks..can this be fixed?? Everything is stock .253 firmware and not rooted..
[Xperia Z General] Michealtbh:
Were you listening to music?
[Xperia Z General] Ame123:
No..i disnt listen to any music.
[Xperia Z General] SirRobin78:
Can you tell my which app you used on the first screenshot?

Will give it a try on my Z...
[Xperia Z General] samxool:
this must be a troll thread.

it is impossible to get over 5 hours on screen time.

I have tried with 3 different xperia Zs. the most i have ever got was 4.5 hours. the average is between 3.5 - 4 hours.

End thread
[Xperia Z General] LedFanatic:
upon quercom

Try Gsam Battery Monitor (Google play), hope this help.

Cheers,
[Xperia Z General] Ame123:
Gsam battery monitor
[Xperia Z General] Ame123:
So u think i have faked the screenshort...y should i do that??
[Xperia Z General] gm007:
This main 5 hours wakelock is nothing important,it's all the time used by the phone when screen is on.

5 hours screen on = 5 hours wakelock that is how Gsam works.
[Xperia Z General] Ame123:
So is it completely fine???
[Xperia Z General] gm007:
Yes it is ;)
[Xperia Z General] scorpi786:
I've had two and I can easily get 4 hours and more if its on Wi-Fi and your streaming from Netflix or browsing the web. that is with Google now enabled and location history.

so I don't know what your doing wrong with your Xperia's
[Xperia Z General] joejoe23:
Quite a number have achieved 5 hours or more of screen on time.I myself personally have achieved 5 hours or close to 5 on average when on using stock based roms.

Sent from my Xperia Z
[Xperia Z General] Aresmar:
I LOLed. :cool:

Maybe this convinces you: :angel:
[Xperia Z General] samxool:
why would i know?

why do trolls troll?

for $hits and giggles.

like i've said, i've tried 3 different XZs, from different locations and different batches.

all are identical in battery life.

i.e., terrible. 3.5 hours battery life for on screen time is pathetic.

i'm doing nothing wrong.

its fine when on standby, but as soon as the display is on, watch the battery drain like a motherf*cker. this is even with brightness down to bare minimum, 4G off, nfc off, bluetooth off, etc all stock firmware, not rooted.

I

checking battery stats, it always the screen as the biggest drain.

and like i said, i've tried 3 different XZs from 3 different places and with enough time between them to know they cannot all be from 1 faulty batch.

the battery life on the XZ sucks.

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fine, why don't you tell me what settings you've got that enable you to reach "5hours" of onscreen time@????
[Xperia Z General] G1_enthusiast:
its not hard...turn mobile sync off brightness to zero and always use wifi, only text and call...voila easy..but to do such a thing is like not using a smartphone.
[Xperia Z General] Aresmar:
[MENTION=4810587]samxool[/MENTION] [MENTION=2079936]G1_enthusiast[/MENTION]

Haha you guys are funny. :)

My brightness is %40 adaptive. Wifi On 3G on Stamina Off. (Wifi used mostly at home)

5+ hours of screen time as seen on screenshot.

I used Facebook and Twitter app all that time long.

I am one of those who are following and supporting the resistance at Gezi Park İstanbul. Thats why I was on twitter most of the time when I took the screenshot.

BTW. I dont have any special settings I use greenify for useless apps thats all.
[Xperia Z General] G1_enthusiast:
and how much time did you spent at home using wifi? you do know if you use 3g the whole time there is no way in hell to get 5 hrs screen time with the above setting you have.

I want to see the inside of the graph where it break down your usage guaranteed it fills with wifi for most of the time.
[Xperia Z General] Aresmar:
My friend I said it is mostly wi-fi because I was at home browsing web, twitter and facebook.

I was outside for a short time which includes a few minutes of video taking and some photos of protests outside.

So this includes some time of under the sun activity too although it is not long. ;)

I am not claiming my average usage is 5+ hours. I can say this was one of my experiences which I happen to see more then 5 hours maybe if I waited for %1 it might be 6 hours?

If I go to work use the phone less etc than my screen time of course drops. Phone eats battery when idle too as you can guess. But if you use the phone non stop like me I am sure you will see 5 hours and more.
[Xperia Z General] Ame123:
Not ours...its only u whose battery life sucks...u r bit unlucky..i have no extra settings even i keep my brightness to 30%...so u r trolling not we..
[Xperia Z General] G1_enthusiast:
yes...if you are using wifi...wifi take less battery than 3g, I'm saying if you use 3g (with syncing) the whole time you will not get 5 hours of screen time, you be lucky if you get 3.
[Xperia Z General] Aresmar:
As I said If I am using 3G things ofc change. Mostly I will be outside and I will be under sunlight mostly which will increase my consuption. Also 3G will be very shaky according to the power of my signal etc.

If somehow I can test it (although my data plan might not allow it :p ) I will try to test 3G too ;)
[Xperia Z General] scorpi786:
well today I'm on 30% auto brightness sync on hspda on stamina mode on Google now and location history on. I've been playing games and browsing and battery is now at 27% that's with 2 hour 16 minutes screen time. minor whatsapp and voice call usage.
[Xperia Z General] samxool:
down to 27% from 100%?

that sounds like my battery.

A lot of you mention turn syncing off.

I honestly can;'t remember how my phone is setup now.

I cannot remember how to get to syncing options.

Where do i find it/?
[Xperia Z General] scorpi786:
you see that's pretty decent battery life you won't find much 5 inch phones that will better it.
[Xperia Z General] metcard:
Battery life will obviously depend what you do with the phone during the day.

Just browsing the web using 3G i can easily get well over 5 hours - I get about 33% drain for ever 2 hours of screen on time when web browsing. so that would translate to about 6 hours screen on in total.

If streaming video over 3G I would probably get 3 - 4 hours screen on time.

Gaming would depend on the game.

I am happy with battery life overall. Better battery life would always be appriciated but so far I have had no need to charge my phone during my normal day.
[Xperia Z General] joejoe23:
3g on all the time since I got no WiFi at home. Facebook Twitter a bit of videos and some candy crush and subway surfers. This is on carbon rom. This is on the second charge after installing rom . Now its getting better. On stock based rom , I get around 5 hours or close usually.

Sent from my Xperia Z
[Xperia Z General] G1_enthusiast:
show me the graph...whats the brightness? 0 i bet.
[Xperia Z General] joejoe23:
Yes 0 but set to auto ..I don't need a reason to increase the brightness.

Sent from my Xperia Z
[Xperia Z General] JasonX199:
There you go, my daily routine. I drive to work on my motorcycle while listening to music. Browsing and all without wifi. Used wifi home and got 5 hours. Normally I even get 5,5 hours. You're the one trolling.. And now I'm charging for tomorrow

Sent from my Xperia Z
[Xperia Z General] gm007:
In data usage check the settings menu.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aquacile:
Good Day Guys

Sorry if this is another idiot asking, i have searched the forums to locate the latest FoxHound Custom ROM for Galaxy S3 i9300 but was unsuccessful, please can someone give me the link to the download as well as the how to install procedure. Would be Great if you can help ;)

Regards
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=i9300+foxhound&l=1
[HTC One X] ereneren564:
Since that its sense based everything works except settings, lockscreen and launcher. What do I have to do to make these things work? So far I managed to make statusbar, wallpapers, some additionals work but I really want that 3 apks. Btw I've been working on inforom which ported to evita from InfoBar a02.
[HTC One X] nogotaclue:
People will be reading this and trying to figure out what you are talking about. Which 3 apk's do you mean? what is sense based? Which device do you have ? If you have the Evita you are in the wrong forum, this is for for international one x endeavoru

Bite me
[HTC One X] convict_moody:
Dude am trying to port infobar from evita too, i think you have to get the deodexed full dump of infobar a02 and start from step 0.. The launcher is linked with a lib file that i donnow, but it is need to work. Tonight am gonna try to port using a cm version. I would like to help in finishing this project. Thank you

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Dude he is trying to port an Evita rom to Endevuar thats all. Take a look on the infobar rom for evita and you'll know what he is talking about.:p
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xDman11x:
I have an R00x from Verizon (CDMA). I bought this phone from a co-worker just to use it for emulators.

Learned many things while rooting this Xperia Play. I cant unlock the bootloader with out paying so i have to stick to GB roms from what I understand.

Rooted by downgrading to 2.3.3 with Flashtool and then using SuperOneClick. Tried using X-parts to install CWM but it would never let me get into recovery so i used ClockWorkMod Recovery 5.0.2.6 Easy installation and succesfully installed CWM.

Copied over Bane of Speed, rebooted to recovery and wiped Data And Factory Reset.

The next step said to wipe /system so i did (I remembered that since my bootloader is locked the recovery is installed in the system. This worried me)

Flashed the zip

Wiped cache and davlik and booted

Couldnt get past the Sony Ericsson and i waited 10mins or so, pulled the battery and couldnt get into recovery because I think it got wiped in /system

Had a minor heart attack thinking that i bricked it.

Was able to reinstall 2.3.3 with Flashtool, and re rooted and reinstalled recovery.

Are there special install instructions for a locked bootloader? Do you see a step where i went wrong?

Suggest another rom for a locked CDMA R00x? I dont need a super fancy rom, just want to play emulators and play store games

Thanks for reading this novel, any help would be appreciated.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DiamondBond:
This Rom wony work the signal for CDMA only GSM but it will work for locked and unlocked, IT must have been a download error, redownload and flash then report back!

HOPE IT HELPED!!!

:)
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xDman11x:
sometitu Why

Redownloaded and followed the steps again, and i still got stuck at Sony Ericsson. =(
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DiamondBond:
Ok, Now i dont know whats up as im unlocked and my tester Joeyxc tested it on his locked and it worked fine, :(

So i really dont know whats going on...

Its probably the kernel you have

Also why dont u unlock Via Testpoint and flash lupus or Dooms

Im sorry for bad support but if i had more experience in Locked BootLoaders then i would be able to fix it probably!

Any one else got any ideas?, please help him!
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xDman11x:
progress

Made progress!

I believe i successfully unlocked my bootloader by using Sonys MEID unlock. Flashed Lupus! and got into the lupus recovery. Proceeded to attempt to install your rom. follow same steps and i go to reboot system. When it reboots it automatically goes straight back to Lupus though.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DiamondBond:
ok ive had that probelm be4 just format all paritions and if that dosent work, :) GOOGLE It, lol, sorry , im not at a pc

sent from my LOIC from mars
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xDman11x:
wipe

So format /sd-ext ? and then mount it in usb storage and move the BOSv6.zip back on and try again?

thanks for all the help
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Toasty Clown:
Last time I wiped cache and dalvik after flashing the zip, all hell broke loose on my phone. Try wiping your cache and dalvik,

before

flashing the zip, afterwards, just reboot, don't wipe anything.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xDman11x:
I think i got it. after reading into it more i was just using the command (fastboot boot lupus.img) when i should have been using (fastboot flash boot Lupus.img)

Finally got Bane of Speed Installed!

Last couple of questions,

1. Joystiqs dont work in GB?

2. Can I use any GSM rom? (i dont care if the radios work, this is just an offline games phone for me(CDMA verizon))

Thank you very much for all your help guys! Sorry I derped and thought i had flashed the boot image when i was only temp running it
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DiamondBond:
Lol, it's ok, first tone flashing is always hard!

1.) joysticks should work!

2.) Yes u can use any GSM Rom - I think, but their will be no service

:)
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ozzmanj1:
Not all GSM roms work. Moat will leave your homescreen blank and unusable. In addition the only fix is to install xdarkmarios cdma patch/fix. Sorry can't remember the name of it off hand. It essentially fixes the blank homescreen so you should be able to flash any GSM rom. That's what I used on my old Verizon xperia play before switching to the GSM model.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] ejdmoo:
I am trying to dial up to Cingular (in the US) GPRS using my Blue Angel. It actually works very well using the ol' *99# method, but that's only when the phone is already disconnected from GPRS. Is there a command I can send to the phone to make it disconnect from its GPRS connection. The error Windows gives is "phone line busy," which makes complete sense.