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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ExodusC:
There are multiple reasons why people are displeased with Verizon, some of which are out of Verizon's control, but most are from Verizon's corporate policy.

1a) Verizon uses CDMA networks for everything 3G and below, which is globally a dying technology, as the vast majority of the world uses GSM. The issue here is that Verizon phones are 99% of the time a completely different SKU (see: International Galaxy Nexus vs Verizon Galaxy Nexus) with varying degrees of hardware differences. This is mostly out of Verizon's control, as they've always used CDMA. As a note, LTE is essentially a GSM technology iteration, and CDMA will be completely dead eventually.

1b) With every Android upgrade, we need new radios (which are closed source binary blobs) that can only be released by Verizon, if we expect to have reliable data connections with Verizon phones. See: Verizon Galaxy Nexus running 4.3 AOSP builds- terrible data handoff issues due to not having an updated radio.

2a) Verizon must approve all OTA upgrades (except, of course, for the iPhone), including the only Nexus released on Verizon, our Galaxy Nexus. While they trust Apple enough to push their own upgrades on their own timeframe, they do not trust Google to do so, and Google didn't have the clout to fight back against this (though they tried). This is the core of the whole "the Verizon Galaxy Nexus isn't a real Nexus" argument, because Google cannot and does not push upgrades to the devices.

2b) Verizon is cripplingly slow in testing and rolling out device upgrades compared to every other major carrier in the US, indisputably.

3) Verizon requires manufacturers of pretty much all major smartphones now to lock their bootloaders. This is completely corporate policy and is garbage, and should be reason alone to drop them. Relying on the community to find leaked unlocked bootloaders or to crack the bootloaders is both a bad strategy and a terribly unreliable one.

4) Probably less of an issue for a lot of people, but Verizon's plans are expensive, unlimited data doesn't exist anymore, etc. This is probably mitigated for most people by Verizon's great 3G/LTE coverage in the US, but it's just one thing to consider. Verizon does seem to be actively working as hard as they can to get people off unlimited data plans and onto their capped and metered plans.

Not that I have to justify this post, but I'm a Verizon customer, and plan to switch off to a GSM carrier relatively soon. I just posted this to list out many of the friction points between Android users and Verizon. I switched to Verizon right after the OG Droid days, when unlocked bootloaders existed, and before non-Nexus AOSP Android phones were looking to be the future.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] player911:
With Verizon getting the G2, I really wonder if these devices will be able to share development, or if they are different enough that they can't.

Like with the HTC Desire and HTC One. They were close enough that we got the HTC Sense stuff ported over and the Desire had AOSP stuff. You really couldn't go wrong with either.

Just asking because I love my Galaxy Nexus and wondering if the G2 = Verizon Galaxy Nexus & N5 = GSM. Wonder if things will be passed back and forth. Last time I bought a LG phone they botched it up so bad that even thinking of buying another LG phone gives me the shivers.

LG G2 = $139 on 2 year contract using RMN30 at checkout, it will take $30% off the upfront cost, which amounts to $60 savings.

Unsure about the buttons being on the back like that. Pretty stupid IMO.

I have to agree that I can almost count the number of times I've had to battery pull my Galaxy Nexus on 1 hand. Easily one of the best phones I've ever owned. Sure the screen is a little small by todays standards and the CPU/GPU aren't the snappiest, but it still has a large display and the right Rom/Kernel combo still makes it fly. I'm due in Dec to upgrade on Verizon. Works buys and pays for my cell phone/service so I don't really have an option in switching. I might just wait and see how long I can go with it. I really have no need to keep up on my cell as much now that I have a Nexus 7 tab. One of them usually has me busy flashing and testing.

Also I'm using latest Unofficial 4.3 AOKP builds and they've had the WiFi/4G handoff resolved as far as I can tell.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] marcusva79:
Hahah no att
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] player911:
Pretty sure ATT, Sprint, and Tmo are supported. Just not Verizon.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ExodusC:
This- I believe the LTE bands supported (according to the FCC documentation) correspond to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint. Verizon's bands do not appear to be supported, which is not surprising (not sure why people expected a Nexus to ever come to Verizon again).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jsgraphicart:
Again, a quote from The Verge:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ExodusC:
We'll see. I worry that in the event another Nexus hits Verizon it will be faced with the same issues the Galaxy Nexus was plagued with (not getting timely updates, relying on Verizon for radio updates in order to have reliable data, etc).

Anything is better than nothing, I guess, but I'm still really skeptical it will even reach Verizon.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tokuzumi:
Verizon will be getting access to the aws band of lte (band 4) soon. So, Verizon could support a phone with band 4 lte. Not saying the next nexus will support any cdma carrier, but we will find out when the phone is announced.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ExodusC:
The issue is that a phone supporting only Verizon's LTE bands and not their 3G/voice bands would not be a phone a carrier could ever sell. While LTE has had surprisingly good coverage on Verizon, it's nowhere near the reliability and coverage of their last-generation networks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] player911:
If the N5 were to hit Verizon, even if it had the same identical issues as the GN, I'd snatch it up in a heartbeat. The GN was widely supported and timely development. I really don't need up to the minute stock rom support as long as the wonderful Devs at XDA can push them over.

The GN has been the best phone I've ever used, official support or not.

Although its a hard sell when LG has an almost identical model available now. I guess this isn't stopping the other carriers though.

I need an update to my GN. Work buys and pays for my phone and service. So come December, its a N5 or something else.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] qf19910623:
i am just waiting for KitKat OTA...:fingers-crossed:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] marcusva79:
More on the Nexus 5. Hmmmm

http://www.androidheadlines.com/201...4-kitkat-startup-screen-whos-excited-now.html
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jsgraphicart:
I cant wait until they announce that thing.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] creeve4:
My one wish is that the screen extended closer to the bottom of the phone. I like having the NavBar close to the bottom. On the N4, I feel like I am reaching half way up the phone to get to the home button.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jsgraphicart:
I think they could have moved it down a little. But as long as that LED light is down there, they can only go so far.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbdavies:
I was wondering if anyone has found a way to block T-Mobile from seeing that you're tethering on your plan?

I have the 500mb tethering... but I usually go way over that. Coming from the GNex on Verizon all the custom roms made it so Verizon couldn't see you were tethering. I usually just tether my Nexus 10 when I'm out and about. And it always shows up on my bill that I used X amount of tethering data.

So, is there a way to get around this?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farmerbb:
I have the $30, 5GB prepaid plan on T-Mobile, without any additional tethering services enabled. I've done quite a bit of bluetooth tethering to my Nexus 7 and haven't heard anything about it from T-Mobile. So there's one option for you, if you're willing to switch to prepaid.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eksasol:
Well try to not go over or buy more data. Or get the prepaid $70 unlimited plan.

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[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sc300jz:
Well I had to deal with his a lot a few months ago when I use to tether.

When you tether to your laptop. The speed of loading/browser/youtube is a lot quicker than the phone. So they'll be able to detect it especially if you youtube a lot. It resets at the end of your cycle. Sometimes they catch you sometimes they dont.

I've gone a month without being caught and sometimes as little as 5-10 minutes they would block me.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alleyezondisromo:
Foxfi app
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sinndissension:
The apps in google play like foxfi don't hide tether usage from T-Mobile. They detect the user agent. So if your tethering to a computer, for example, Mozilla Firefox browser has an add-on to change the user agent. You have to change it to Android. So it looks like an Android is using the data, and not a laptop. That's the only way they can't detect it now.

I have T-Mobile and they're nazis about tethering.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eksasol:
No T-Mobile is the nicest at tethering, despite some regulation, nothing compared to ATT Spring and Verizon in term of control.

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[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sinndissension:
Ehhh....your most likely right. I've only HEARD it's harder to get around tethering blocks with T-Mobile than it is with AT&T or other carriers. I know T-Mobile is cracking down a lot though. But
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbdavies:
Thanks everyone for your input. Kinda sucks there's no way to really get around that. :(
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sinndissension:
no it IS possible. read my first post. Change the user agent on the computer, or whatever your tethering to. Mozilla has a user agent switcher, its an add on. change your laptops user agent to "android". or iphone if that's what you have service through. I use this quite a bit to tether to my laptop, and haven't had a problem once.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
near the end of my last billing cycle i was using the android user agent on chrome, and they actually caught me. but the funny thing(more annoying than funny :p ) is that for three days in a row after, between 11pm and 1am, my phones browser would start redirecting me to their wireless hotspot landing page, and all my apps would stop working, the play store and other apps that used data. id even see the wireless hotspot landing page in some other apps. i had to call tmobile every time, and have them reset my data connection.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hartleyshc:
This. They will associate that user-agent string as your computer. Congrats, your phone is now a computer ;). I've heard of people having a similar problem when using a native torrent client on android. Can't remember if T-Mobile was the provider or not.

I left AT&T after 13+ years because of their stance on tethering/data limits. (I was an AT&T member before the Cingular merger.) After ALWAYS buying my devices 2nd hand so I could stay on my truly unlimited data plan, they still sent me a letter saying I'm using too much data, and that I'm tethering (even months when I wouldn't tether)

Came to T-Mobile 2 years ago and now I have real unlimited (999gb a month) but I haven't tested out the tethering yet, since I only use my phone. (They dont offer tethering in the unlimited plan) No tablet, laptop has been turned off for about a year. My desktop is a beast and I have fast cable at home, so no need.

Has anyone tried pdanet? I know they had a hide tethering feature. No idea how well it works.

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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] TheLastSidekick:
Read it for more details.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/galaxy-s4-galaxy-s3-android-4-3-release-date/
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Da Kine:
Whatever happened to 4.2.x lol.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Aerowinder:
Have you guys seen this? https://plus.google.com/113517319477420052449/posts/5ggu7naWtaW
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] TheLastSidekick:
Sounds like a problem for the S4 not sure if it will implicate us here on the S3. And yeah, the firmware version is skipping from 4.1.2 to 4.3 and leaving the 4.2.x branch out completely which I think was a genius move. At least we won't be too far behind when Kitkat is released.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Aerowinder:
It is a problem on the S4. But it's in the bootloader, just firmware updates.... well update. Just something to watch out for, I guess.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] TheLastSidekick:
Yeah. The weird thing about that bootloader update though is I thought the S4 was meant to be an open device hence the fact there's a Google edition. That's a bit weird. If they keep this up we may see an influx of users continue onward to HTC and Sony which as of late have been working with the community.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Chainfire warned us about all this two years ago. And I'm sure it'll affect us too.

4.3 will have selinux enabled for us as well. Plus we have had a pretty good view of the fact that Sammys built-in warranty killers have been evolving with each upgrade. We will just have to be careful when updating is all. Dont do the full update. Hopefully most of the restrictions will be in the bootloader...wishful thinking, I know! But not allowing us to downgrade once we've updated??? That's just wrong! What if 4.3 sucks?! As that article pointed out, their reason for updating the S3 in the first place is likely just to sell more Gears.

One things for sure, it ought to be interesting!

I hate when developer friendly companies turn out to be not so friendly.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Androiduser96:
I think we can call it confirmed as it every source site i read says about the same thing.

http://www.androidauthority.com/android-4-3-coming-to-samsung-galaxy-s3-and-s4-next-month-263690/
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] TheLastSidekick:
The worst problem we have to face is the fact Samsung is a successful entity in the mobile industry. Will other open-source Android OEM's follow suit in an attempt to stay as close to Samsung as possible and as a result, start closing their sources, and locking down the bootloader?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
My hope is that other companies do just the opposite. A smaller company could gain more traction and do it faster if they become known as developer friendly. (As long as the devices are competitive as well of course). Then they'd have people from forums such as these begin to take notice. And how many of us have had friends and family ask for our advice or recommendations? It seems to me that'd be a good start.

Another point against companies such as Samsung doing things like locking us down that I rarely see discussed, is how much free support is given for their products! Turn on the dev community and they lose a lot of that benefit as well! I know there were a lot of people who stopped buying HTC because they made it so difficult to do anything! I know I was one!

I know we are a very small percentage of their overall consumer base, but I do think we still have enough influence that we ought not be ignored! It seems they may disagree though.....Or maybe I'm just wrong!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Aerowinder:
Like Oppo.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] TheLastSidekick:
Sony also appears to have taken notice lately.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] atlharp:
This is why I am usually reluctant to update and try to wait a bit before I do. I think that even before they get an upgrade off the ground there may be workarounds and hacks for all of their insipid douchebaggery. Regardless, you have got to love Chainfire for all his work in making their stupid little efforts come to nought. :D
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] slayer8366:
Make something hackproof, make better hackers. I'd rather they not lock the bootloaders on the new update, otherwise I may have to just stick with AOSP for new versions. In that case, might as well upgrade my phone to something not so Samsung.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] hartunnoo:
I cant get into Internet via bluetooth connection after I upgrade ROM to v12.

does anybody have the same problems?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] vijay555:
I can report that I didn't have problems, but setting it up was a pain in the ass.

Someone else has asked the question, and I wrote a walkthrough on how it was resolved...

V
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] pvbutler:
Vijay, can you let me have this walkthrough?

Cheers

pvb
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] hartunnoo:
Yeah. I wanted it also.!!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] jackleung:
Since vijay555 probably busy w/ his wedding, let me try to help here:

1. On the PC side, make sure "Allow connections to one of the following:" is checked on ActiveSync's connection setting, and the right Com number is selected. (I assumed it's done since U could connect before)

On yr PPC:

2. Start > Setting > System > Bluetooth Setting, check everything and click "start" on ActiveSync Bluetooth setting.

3. Step 2 should bring up the other bluetooth setting page, click device, and add yr PC as a new device.

4. After finish the adding, start ActiveSync on yr PPC, click "Tools" > use bluetooth connection.

5. If U could activesync w/ BT, then U should be able to browse internet too.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Whitefox:
OR you could remove that crappy bt stack and replace with one of your own favorites

i use toshiba stack + widcomm on my pc, works like a charm....not able to bluejack anymore :'(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] leoriver42:
Hi, everything about the new update of the youtube app is just fine expect for this silly problem regarding full-screen (landscape) and smallscreen (portrait mode). Whenever I am in full screen mode my 'scrolling bar' (the bottom action bar) gets completely lost, so that I have to retract to portrait mode in order to see it and forward the video to my liking. But that is very impractical when it comes to long videos because the bar is quite small.

Take a look at the screen shots for better understanding

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance and sorry if this is a dumb question.

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tomdanoob:
what version do you have? Did you try to reinstall it?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] leoriver42:
I have 5.0.21

yes, I tried reinstalling, clearing cache and caring dalvik cache in different orders and to no success.

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tomdanoob:
It could just be a rom issue then if anything you can try Team Black Out's inverted version of the app, as that is the one I use and I have no problems with it :fingers-crossed:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] leoriver42:
nope it didn't fix it, tomorrow I shall try a different rom and see if that's the problem. BUT I didn't know about this 'inverted apps' thing, just what I wanted! Great suggestion, thanks! I guess they work just add the original apps and only the color is changed right? no battery issues or anything?

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tomdanoob:
what I did was uninstall the old youtube app then went to the play store and looked for Team Black Out as they have multiple apps inverted available, then in their app just download the youtube app in a .zip file that you have to flash in recovery. Yes they only changed the color and no my battery remained the same I think :P glad I could help!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] leoriver42:
so I changed ROMs and everything is working fine now, for anyone else with the same problem

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Jamolah:
I don't think this is a ROM issue, I think it's a YouTube issue. I'm on a stock S3 and have the same problem.

Refer to this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2436430
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Jamolah:
Issue fixed with latest YouTube update
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaggiesStreak:
Hello everyone!

I'd like to switch between the Moto X and my lovely Dell Streak. Is this possible?

Thoughts/concerns:

1)nano sim,adapter,micro sim

2)4G LTE vs 3G

3)rooted DS vs out of the box Moto X

4) "provisioning" or talking with AT&T everytime I want to swap devices

As everyone here knows, DS5 is THE perfect size screen for so many things! But, the motoX is a tad more comfy in the pockets. And you can talk to it. How snifty is that?!

I love these forums! Thank you so much.

Streak 5. Rooted with Gingerbreak. Stock 2.2. Build 15697 (353). AT&T
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaggiesStreak:
SIM Adapter

I think that a simple SIM adapter will work. ^_^
[General Questions and Answers] 404-Not Found:
Does anybody know how to change the language on Netflix? I currently have the US Netflix but I want it in Spanish. Any Help please?
[General Questions and Answers] ArmorD:
You can't get "Spanish netflix" if you're a US resident due to copyright issues but you can change the language in netflix.com user control panel.

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lallolu:
I need the camera apk of this phone. Can someone with this phone please post it. Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alsemai:
f-06e camera apk

hi.

if you still need it.

Attached zipped file Gallery2.apk

Regards
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lallolu:
Thanks a whole lot.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Amkoo:
I want to know wo to do with the boot.img when flashing a rom. In my HTC One X i need to flash boot.img every time i flash a rom. When i was watching som youtube how to's i have not seen enyone flash boot.img.

Do i have to do the same thing with my tf300t boot.img as my hox ore do i skipp the boot.img flashing and just flash the rom and gaps in recovery?
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lord Yurij:
I have never flashed a boot.img file.

Some roms gives you a choice between some kernels during flashing

Swyped from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 4
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Amkoo:
Ohh. Ok. Then its easyer then when you flash a htc :)

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[General Questions and Answers] Master_of_AV:
upgraded to official ROM B15 , it is resolved

http://devicedownload.zte.com.cn/cn/UpLoadFiles/product/242/soft/2013110716120219.7z

for Viber on ZTE N5 (GRAND MEMO)

the same problems as this thread : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=42715375
[General Questions and Answers] Master_of_AV:
BTW:

Till now , all current ROMs have this issues , B08S ....... B13 and B14
[General Questions and Answers] Viber Team:
Hi guys!

This is a member of the Viber Team.

Have you tried using Stock ROM?

Thanks in advance

Viber Team
[General Questions and Answers] Master_of_AV:
ZTE n5 viber issue

Yes , the latest one is b14 , they are all stock ROM from ZTE official website (I have no rights to post outside links ,use . to replace* , sorry ):

b08s:

download*ztedevice*com.cn/UpLoadFiles/product/0/242/soft/2013040412442313*zip

b13:

devicedownload*zte*com*cn/cn/UpLoadFiles/product/242/soft/2013062115340437.zip

b14:

devicedownload*zte#com*cn/cn/UpLoadFiles/product/242/soft/2013081314260355.zip

currently , the newest one is B14:

Grand Memo SD卡升级包(中国电信)220180B0495DS_CN_P864H01V1.0.0B14

the current Stock ROM can be found here:

www*ztedevice*com*cn/support/smart_phone/00b3982b-3f42-4637-abd0-a8279e42486d*html#type=software

If you can provide me some test tools to help to find the root cause , it will be much appreciated !
[General Questions and Answers] Master_of_AV:
for N5 (GRAND MEMO), It's odd that google hangouts , skype have no such issue.

Stock rom, B14 .
[General Questions and Answers] Viber Team:
Thanks for the info. We have responded to your private message :)
[General Questions and Answers] Master_of_AV:
It was resolved! after upgraded to the latest ZTE stock ROM B15:

http://devicedownload.zte.com.cn/cn/UpLoadFiles/product/242/soft/2013110716120219.7z

http://pan.baidu.com/s/1zM97U