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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] mybikeisblack:
I was approved for the onbe up program monday, so I added an htc one to my account and made sure I was also able to use the one up on friday for the release of the note 3, the confirmed I could do that. Friday rolls around, they tell me I had to trade in my current galaxy s3. The rep told me to just get a junk sprint phone and switch it to avoid giving up my s3. Got a cheap phone, switched it and went to sprint yet again. I get there, they then tell me Im no longer eligable for another one up. Which, just 2 hours before, I was eligable. Then Im told I would have to trade my s3 in regardless what was currently tied to the number. So, head to sprint today to figure stuff out. Turns out I was never eligable for a one up in the first place (due to sprint changing the policies over the first few days of its initial release). So, 15 hours total at sprint between today and yesterday, I now have a note 3 but had to give up the htc one. Moral of the story, they're catching on and changing the policy around without store employees knowing whats going on.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] vizi0nz:
So I went through with the one up plan. Basically it's unlimited everything and it's a one year upgrade plan, BUT you have to turn in your note 3 to them when you upgrade unless you wait two years and then you can keep your note 3 even after you upgrade. It seems to me like your basically leasing the phone unless you keep it for two years. I paid $389 for my note 3 with a early upgrade, I had to give them my s3 but I didnt want to do that so I told them I broke it and threw it away, but no matter what they need a phone back from you. I got the cheapest sprint phone I could find, which was a trio that my friend gave me and activated it and traded that phone in.

Sources:

That's what my friend told me and she works at Sprint...Hope this helped
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] danon.brown:
If the one up device is paid for in one year you keep it and would start over with a new device. If you're still paying you would turn it in. If the one up device is deactivated for 30 days the remaining balance in due the on the next bill.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] randy2:
I can confirm after one year the remaining balance of your phone and the phone itself cancels out. its in 2.1 to 2.3 section of the fine print on the one up program it's called the give back phone options. When ur 12 months is up you can trade in ur phone for a new phone and your remaining balance of payments will be null and void but you must have the current phone to turn in or payoff the remaining balance. Please pass this on as of Oct 10 one up will require down payment the no down payment is for a limited time only
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] BigMosley:
Do you work for Sprint? You are very knowledgeable on this subject and I thank you.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] danon.brown:
No I dont work for sprint just a phone junkie like a lot of peeps here. I did do the one up. One up is like rent a center. You pay for the device till you own it. It also fulfills your current contract obligation. If you do it you're no longer on your current contract.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] BigMosley:
I was eligible for a 2 year contract upgrade on 1/1/14 before doing the one up and now it says

"As of now, you are eligible for Sprint One Up w/ give back.

As of 7/1/14, you are eligible for 2yr svc agr savings or Sprint One Up."

Doesn't that sound kinda weird?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] inmnbob:
Do you have to take out the total equipment repair option or is that included? I wasn't asked about it when I did the one up yesterday and now I feel I should get it,
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] dallastx:
Its not included and i wouldn't be able to sleep if i didn't have it. This phone cost too much if stolen or broken to pay full price.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] BigMosley:
I was told you have to get it for atleast 1 month then you can take it off if you wish. They also told me if you break your phone and have no insurance and you want to One up again in 12 months to let's say the note 4 you cannot give them a broke phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] M1nze:
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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] BigMosley:
To buy the phone for $350 now if you can afford it and have an upgrade. You either pay $350 now or $700 over two years. Or you can stop paying for it in 12 months and get let's say the note 4 but will have to restart the one up process. Ultimately buying it for $350 is better but you can't upgrade every year.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] richmc73:
For me the one up was better. Payments for a year come to about $360 then take out the $15 discount on the data. Comes to around

$180. When the Note 4 comes out I will trade in my Note 3 and start the one up again. The one up is perfect for those of us that upgrade every year when it comes to saving money.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] BigMosley:
Never thought of it that way. So basically if you don't upgrade in 12 months and keep paying the $30 minus the $15 technically you'll only be paying the contract upgrade anyway.

Let me ask this question. If I want to keep this device and let's say pay an extra $30/month, in 12 months I can keep this phone and get an upgrade and still keep getting the $15 off a month because I did the One up again correct?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Gunnett5555:
Sprint BuyBack

You can buy a few phones off craigslist for less then sprint gives for the buyback!!!====free NOTE 3. secure.sprintbuyback.com/cns/device_list[/url]
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] richmc73:
That is the way it was explained to me but will have to wait till next year to find our for sure. Sprint hasn't exactly made the one up very clear for customers. I has thought about doing as you said so I could pass the Note3 on to one of my kids but it will all depend on how they handle the starting of the one up if you already have a the device paid for.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] cherylbaker:
Unless you do not want to change your plan. The new plans are more expensive for people with 3 or more lines

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As far as I know the $15 off is just an introductory special. . No guarantee it will continue

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] richmc73:
Depends on your situation. We have five lines and by limiting the kids to 1G since they are mainly at home on Wi-Fi, we pay right at what we did before not counting the monthly phone installment.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] cherylbaker:
That may be true.. I guess If you need unlimited data like we do than it is more expensive. I tried to convince people they do not needed unlimited data but no one was buying ha ha ha

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] richmc73:
We took at a look at their usage before we made the switch and each of them used under 1G so it worked out good. I am constantly streaming at work so no way I could go without my unlimited. If we had Wi-Fi at work it may be different. Everyone's situation is different.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] xPSYB0RGx:
Im guessing you didnt have to trade in your phone because you didnt have to pay contract price for it. Im also guessing you are probably one of the few who buys their phone straight up, which made you exempt from having to trade a phone for the One Up Program. Now it wouldve been super cool if you managed to get them to let you keep your phone and still get into the program (which is what I really need altho I got my phone at contract price) and here is why.

Last year sometime, I got the S3. The rep who sold it to me didnt put insurance back on it, I just learned not too long ago that I've been without insurance for over half a year. My S3 is bugging out, and I need/want the N3 (but I dont want to give it up cause I can still use it for other purposes). Since my phone isnt insured, it looks as if I need to find a cheap phone and put that on my line to hand it over if i must give up a phone, but I read that Sprint has caught on to this and ending the quick swap.

I also have a question about the One Up program as well (for anybody). If im forced to give up my s3, and take the n3, I have to pay the $350 in 12 months to upgrade to N4? Or, do i have the 12 months to pay the $699 before i can upgrade to the N4?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] cherylbaker:
You pay 12 payments you can do another 1up but you turn in your device and it must be in working order and the rest of the payments go byebye

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] stanglifemike:
I didn't buy my Note 2 or white Evo LTE at contract price, but I was still under contract for my black Evo LTE. I wasn't eligible for a regular upgrade until 1-1-14. I even took my black Evo LTE in to the Sprint store when I got my Note 3, just to see how much they would offer me for it. So I was in the same situation as you, bought a phone last year under contract, but I didn't have to give it to them to start the One Up program. I'm guessing that I just got lucky though. Like I said, most Sprint reps told me that I did have to give them my current phone because I was still in contract. Maybe I simply lucked up because the program is new AND the phone that was active on my account at the time wasn't the phone that put me in contract? Not sure, but I'm very happy with how it worked out for me!

For your question about the program : You're given 24 months to pay for the retail price of the phone. Whenever you pay it off, you can upgrade to a new phone without having to give back your current phone. If you want to make the normal monthly payments, then you can upgrade in 1 year but you do have to give them them that phone back so you can upgrade. Whether or not you upgrade in 1 year is completely up to you.

SwiftKey'ed from my White Sprint Note 3 via XDA Premium
[Asus Transformer TF700] Slarty Bartfast:
Ok so I unlocked and rooted the my TF700 but had not yet installed any new roms or recovery on it, I was getting round to that but other things to do etc. So one day the battery ran out and when I powered it up bleary eyed one morning it said it could not boot due to being encrypted. I had not encrypted it. So the only option I had was to wipe the device.

Done so back with a working device for some weeks. Then the other day I powered it off. When I powered it back on boot-loop, gets to the point of Asus inspiring inovation persistent perfection (yeah right).

No problem I thinks I'll just use fastboot to save the day because when I boot it says "Device Unlocked" and I can get to the RCK/ANDROID/WIPE screen. So run fastboot and it says it writes to the device but I don't believe it as the copying of an image takes ~130seconds and the writing 0.094s.

So I think I am in this half-locked limbo and I am assuming there is no way out of this.

I've tried a stock rom on the sd card which gets up the Android with a spinning blue vector in his chest but this goes on for about 5 minutes and reboots again back to boot loop.

How did it get half unlocked and if its half unlocked then surely its not unlocked so how does that affect the warranty, I may just send it back and see what happens? I am annoyed because I had not got around to messing around with custom roms etc... I also thought it wouldnt OTA update I am guessing maybe this is what happened when it complained about the encrypted device.

I really am about to give up and use it for chopping onions, a very expensive chopping board.

Not sure if anyone has any bright ideas but I'm all out...
[Asus Transformer TF700] FordPrefect:
Sorry, from your description I don't quite get what exactly you did. What did you try to write with the fastboot command? To me your problem sounds like a bootloader problem.

I understand you still have fastboot access to your device? If so, I'd suggest to follow the steps described here at "Scenario Two":

1. Load a custom recovery, e.g. TWRP with the fastboot method.

2. Download the recovery + bootloader package as described in the CROMi-X thread.

3. Boot into recovery and flash that package.

If you get to this point you should be able to flash any custom (JB based ROM), recommend the CROMi-X.

Hope this helps!
[Asus Transformer TF700] Slarty Bartfast:
I tried this, so try writing open recovery.

dvw@cartman:~/Downloads$ md5sum openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.1-tf700t.blob

0c55d6d437d96644df5ae16408b15795 openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.1-tf700t.blob

dvw@cartman:~/Downloads$ mv openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.1-tf700t.blob twrp.blob

dvw@cartman:~/Downloads$ sudo fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash recovery twrp.blob

sending 'recovery' (6106 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.795s]

writing 'recovery'...

OKAY [ 0.083s]

finished. total time: 0.878s

Now the flashing RCK option has stopped flashing, if I try to reboot:

dvw@cartman:~/Downloads$ sudo fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot

rebooting...

It just sits here not rebooting. The only way back is to use the pinhole to reboot.

finished. total time: 46.183s

dvw@cartman:~/Downloads$

Then if I leave it, it boot loops again.

If I hold volume down I get back to the RCK/Android/WipeData fastboot screen. If I try RCK I just get an android lying on its back. If I try from the sd card it spins for ~5 mins then reboots and back to boot loop.

So its almost as if its not writing anything with fastboot.
[Asus Transformer TF700] FordPrefect:
ok, thanks for the clarification. However, that is exactly what I would have done ... you have checked the download file and fastboot seems to transfer it. From then on you should be able to boot into recovery.

Forgive me please for a dumb question ..but have you tried to boot the "classic" way? Like switching the device off and then power on with the Volume minus key pressed? Other than this, I am sorry but I don't have any further suggestion :(
[Asus Transformer TF700] LetMeKnow:
Some things about your fastboot commands are very interesting..

First, what was the operating system that you were using. Second, your recovery name is not the same as you tried to fastboot with the command. Third, I think that you may do something incorrect with fastboot because your bootloader is fine and please be careful with your bootloader. If something is wrong with your bootloader, it is hard to bring it back unless you have your NVflash blobs... ;) Last, you are still with the stock recovery and did not have a custom recovery installed yet.. Also, it seems that you have a bootloop. Any way, I think that you are still good depending on what you want to do with your device... :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] Slarty Bartfast:
Linux, I renamed the recovery as per the instructions at the TWRP teamwin page (cant post links)

It seems that although it says the device is unlocked I cannot write anything to the device and it is stuck in a boot loop, wont flash the stock image from the sd card either. I have been searching for a solution now for a week and can't seem to find anything.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Your finished times are way too fast - mine are 10 times this so I suspect it hasn't written the recovery blob correctly. Did you notice it put a blue time bar on the screen when doing the write?
[Asus Transformer TF700] Slarty Bartfast:
Yes I noticed that in comparison to other peoples output that it is too quick.

No there is no blue time bar put on the screen. After you fastboot the recovery the green block that pulses on the selected option RCK for example, stops pulsing and then I have to pinhole reset.

I am thinking that the unlock didn't correctly unlock the device orthe time it would not boot requiring a data wipe because it said the device was encrypted, I guess somehow it got an OTA although it shouldn't have received one. But I cant understand how the unlock could be reverted because the consensus is it cannot.

If the unlock didnt work I may try an RMA on the grounds that its not properly unlocked therefore the T&C for unlocking is not really valid as I would have expected to have an unlocked device.
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
I seriously doubt your arguments will get you anywhere with Asus since they don't support unlocking, but I've never heard of a "partial unlock". Either it works or it fails.

I suspect your problem is related to "bleary eyed", the encryption and data wipe you did. Or a driver issue on your PC.

If you cannot install a custom recovery via fastboot, I would try to flash the stock firmware and start at square 1.....
[Asus Transformer TF700] LetMeKnow:
Did you turn on or tick the USB debugging in the developer options? You need to turn it on in order to fastboot...:) Good luck..:fingers-crossed:
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
Are you sure? The bootloader mounts the /data partition to read some Android setting? Does not look plausible to me.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Slarty Bartfast:
Thats a good question, I would have thought so (always do for everything else) but now you mention it. I can't say for sure. And it won't accept the stock recovery from sd card, 5 minutes of spinning blue thing in chest then reboot into boot loop...

Is it time to start chopping onions?
[Asus Transformer TF700] Slarty Bartfast:
Thats the wierd thing, I did not encrypt the tablet, just discovered it with the green android telling me it needed to do a full data wipe because the tablet was encrypted, I've never encrypted any of my android devices. After this process it worked fine again. Then last time I powered it off it came back up in a boot loop.

I've put the stock firmware on an sd card and the it spins for a few minutes 3 or so then reboots into boot loop.
[Asus Transformer TF700] FordPrefect:
Well, I can kind of confirm this. Without having done scientific research, but recently I fought my fastboot connection as well. It turned functional only after I checked the USB debugging thing.
[Asus Transformer TF700] LetMeKnow:
That was how I learned to fastboot. I never have problem with fastboot. I can do a test for you when I fastboot twrp 2.6.3.1 without usb debugging.. ;)

Edit: [MENTION=4878287]_that[/MENTION]

You are an expert in this area. Do you have any good advices for someone in need? Do you know why some users can not flash anything even though they follow the instructions closely? It would be nice if you can share your knowledge with new users like us...;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
Would be interesting.

The real experts in this area are those who brought you wheelie and flatline... for me it looks very confusing. The twrp.blob md5sum matches mine, and I don't understand why it finishes so fast, says "OKAY" but doesn't work. If there was a problem with the fastboot protocol or with writing to flash memory, I'd expect some error message. Anyway, maybe try a different/newer fastboot binary or another USB port or another PC? I assume it's Linux on the native machine and not a VM?

I've seen a bootloader which would not flash anything in the case where someone cross-flashed a TF300 bootloader on the TF700, but I assume the OP has never tried such a crazy thing. Check the bootloader version, it should be 10.6.1.14.x.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Slarty Bartfast:
Like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q53_9tuD5HA

Next thing I ****ing know some arse is ****ing defending ASUS. Total Fanny boys.Dont help me much.May as well cut ****ing onions.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Wow nice response to people trying to help you.......
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
I agree. Figured some people prefer failing over learning.

Enjoy your new cutting board. Should work great on peppers too. Probably will last you longer screen down - just some friendly advice....
[Asus Transformer TF700] Slarty Bartfast:
Indeed. Seemed like a good idea at the time. Fed up with this rubbish now, gpl'd but still managing trying to foist essentially drm on it. I think what annoys me most is the insidious and slow corruption of the ideal. Must say its partly my own fault, i have stood by and done nothing.

Apologies anyway.

Think I'll buy a Rasberry Pi.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Slarty Bartfast:
I agree, I grew some Trinidad Scorpion Butch T cultivars last year and some Naga Vipers. I must say it was an experience, nearly blew my head clean off. Ate one of the Butch-T's whole, the exquisite pain of eating it was only matched by the stomach cramps and cold sweat two hours later. One off the bucket list and I would recommend it and in a strange kind of way more interesting than watching hundreds of dollars get flushed down the ****ter.

Whatever you may think the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore skit from the 60's perfectly sums up the attitude of these companies. I work for one, we (used loosely) do not have our customers "best interests" at heart, individually maybe, but the profile of a corporate entity more fits the profile of a psychopath.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molyneux:
Hi,

I have a GT-I9505, rooted, running the latest stock Telstra firmware.

When I reboot the phone it starts OK and presents me with the sim unlock screen. I can unlock the sim card and the phone then tells me its updating the date and time but then presents just the notification bar, no home screen or dock.

However, I am able to call settings from the notification bar and by seleting My device > Home screen mode I get the Home screen mode toggle screen. If I select easy mode > apply I get the easy mode home screen and can then toggle it back to the standard mode home screen.

All's well until I reboot when I go back to square one, i.e. no home screen or dock.

I have tried a factory reset using TWRP and flashing a stock Telstra rom but when it starts I have exactly the same problem - no home screen or dock

.

This is driving me mad. Can anyone suggest what I've done and more importantly - what I need to do to fix it?

Thanks,

MD.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] br0adband:
The I9505 is the Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition, and this subforum is for the Galaxy S4 Active (aka I9295 International and I537 AT&T US) which is the water-resistant version of the Galaxy S4.

You need to ask your question over in the Galaxy S4 subforum at:

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2162
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[HTC One X] hassenma3:
I unlock the bootloader to upgrade my one x to 4.2.2 and i flash the karner but i dont put the new rom in interal flash memory. So my phone want reboot. Just enter boot mode. Cid 40 & old rom 1.19.707.1

i dont have the ruu to reflash the rom.

Thank you members very very mush to help me.
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
1.19.....think hou have the evita type hox. HTC one xl (at&t) of so then you are in the wrong forum. Don't flash anything from here

Check the top of the bootloader, does it say evita or endevouru ? I could be wrong ?