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[General Topics] yahanna:
Exactly. To this day I see people complain non-stop about Straight Talk. Theres another smaller but new carrier called Sinple Mobile that uses Tmo's towers. I was tempted into replacing my Tmo with them. But ever since my past experience with Straight Talk, I steered clear of 3rd party carriers. Lesson learned.

I'd rathr pay an extra $5 - 10 for superior quality than risk a cheaper service that delivers just that, cheaper service.

Its not necessarily location dependent. In a place like NYC where I had Straight Talk, you'd think ST would offer equal quality as Tmo since they lease towers from them. Well you'd be dead wrong. I had to switch back to Tmo. Was on the phone barking like mad at the ST rep to release my number back to Tmo.

All in all, never make decisions entirely based on price. Cheap can be very expensive, as in my case with stupud ST.
[General Topics] Joshmccullough:
Speaking of T-Mo competitors, anyone had any experience with Cricket? I know they use AT&T's network, I've read some unflattering things about them in the past but it's been mostly customer service-related vs. call/data service related. Their Unlimited Talk/Text/10GB data is looking awfully attractive, I'm using more data than I thought I would and coming close to my 5GB cap.
[General Topics] QkTreasures:
Cricket is now owned by AT&T
[General Topics] Joshmccullough:
Ah, gotcha, thought they were an MVNO/separate entity.
[General Topics] BinkXDA:
Call forwarding notification

So, I’ve been on this awesome plan for a while and, to keep my number of minutes in check, I forward all calls to voicemail. This works well, but ever since upgrading to Lollipop I now have a constant annoying Call forwarding notification on my lock screen and I can’t get rid of it. Lollipop allows you to Block most app notifications, but this option does not appear to be available for Call forwarding (yes, I’ve tried blocking Google Dialer to no avail). Anyone else have this issue? Anyone know of a fix or workaround? Suggestions welcome—I also wonder how others with this plan control their minute usage (yes, I also use VoIP and Hangouts).

Cheers.
[General Topics] QkTreasures:
Well I think att has only owned cricket for like a year or so?
[General Topics] nola mike:
Having a hard time sorting through this thread to determine if this plan will work for me:

Currently have my cell #, and 2 different GV #'s with different accounts. One of the GV numbers I use, the other not so much. Outgoing calls don't seem to be a problem, as I can just use hangouts on wifi, and presumably over 4g.

1. What are my inbound options so that people can use my cell number without burning my minutes? I'm thinking I can port my cell number to google, but then I lose my current GV number. Not a big deal on one of the accounts, but would rather not on the other.

2. I can't seem to do MMS on hangouts--have seen conflicting reports on whether this is available, or if it's been pulled, or what.

3. If I port my cell # to GV, can I still have both numbers active/ringing on my galaxy s4 at once? IOW, can hangouts listen on 2 accounts at the same time?

4. What effect does this have on battery life? I currently use xposed/deep sleep and amplify. I'd have to do away with deep sleep I suppose in order to make sure that my phone wakes for incoming wifi/cell data--right now it will away for cell voice/sms, but emails and what have you don't get synced until my screen is on.
[General Topics] TheDannemand:
You can just tell Hangouts to receive Incoming GV phone calls (under Settings). Then in GV Settings (in a browser) set it to forward calls to Google Chat, but NOT to your phone. That way Hangouts will receive calls to your GV number(s) and not use minutes, the same as outbound GV calls in Hangouts. Of course you'd have to port your current cell number to GV if you want your contacts to keep using that number.

This does NOT prevent Deep Sleep. I get plenty of deep sleep with this setup. My phone too ;) Depending on your data and cell connection quality, power consumption during the actual call may be more or less than a regular cell call.

MMS through the GV number works too, but since GV is actually a landline, they treat it as a link to a picture on a Google server. A bit clumsy.

It never occurred to me that Hangouts might be able to handle multiple Google Voice numbers, but it does indeed allow adding additional Google accounts, so maybe it does. I haven't tried it.

Edit: Another option for saving minutes is to use the Vonage app for free outgoing data calls. You can tell it to display your cell number as Caller ID so the recipient won't be confused. I find Vonage's call quality better than Hangouts'.
[General Topics] nola mike:
Yup, that's what I figured.

Might not prevent it entirely, but certainly uses more battery. I think I'll need a constant data connection, be it wifi or mobile, if I want to receive incoming calls in real time. Did a bit of an experiment and disabled the DS app, and tried to suppress as many wake locks as I could with per app hacking. Found that my idle usage went from 0.4%/hr to 1.0%/hr--that was on wifi. Guessing that a mobile data connection is worse. Wifi was active the whole time. Also my wake time went from 1% to 6%.

I'll have to experiment with this, but I was talking more about group messaging than pics.

Yeah, I'm not sure if they can both be active at the same time though. I'll give it a try as well.

That's a great idea.

I'm thinking that I'll just port my number to t-mo, and leave the GV #'s as they are. That way, I can always get texts in real time, and I'll always know if someone's trying to reach me through my real number, even if data is disabled. My friends and family use my real number for the most part.
[General Topics] TheDannemand:
Ahh, group messaging: While GV received group messaging a few years ago, it does NOT work (for whatever reason) in Hangouts. Any time you send messages from GV, the option to add more recipients goes away. Quite annoying.

I'll say the way Hangouts brings hangout threads, mobile SMS and GV SMS under the same room is a bit confusing -- and broken in some cases. I think that may be why Google revived a separate Messenger app, because plain old SMS tends to get buried and unnecessarily complex in Hangouts.
[General Topics] macallik:
Looks like they may have added that functionality in the latest update perhaps? I see an 'Invite' option available while you are conversing with someone. Alternatively, there is a group messaging option in the app settings.

Speaking of which, what is everyone's opinion of the update? I finally got it today and I like it. The ability to add contacts from your call log is something that should have been built into the original but I am glad that they added it regardless.
[General Topics] TheDannemand:
The Invite feature is something else, not group messaging. Enabling the Group Messaging option in Settings IS how you enable it in the first place. And it works fine with regular SMS/MMS messages sent from your Carrier number. But it does NOT work with GV messages: The option to add more people to a discussion does not show up for GV messages.

Unfortunately the new version seems to be just visual tweaks, no functional changes. Probably some bug fixes too.
[General Topics] andy o:
HD Voice?

Hey guys, any of you on this plan getting HD Voice? I tried a call between my Nexus 6 and a friend's LG G3 and there wasn't HD Voice. I know his G3 is capable because right before I'd used it for another call to someone else and there was an HD Voice indicator during the call, and of course it was much clearer. I'm wondering if it's the N6 or this plan. He has one of the post-paid T-mo plans, so it's the same network.
[HTC One X] kolas310:
So today I've installed latest MaximusHD rom for HTC One X, and everything is super fine, except for one thing - when I'm trying to connect to my Skydrive (using official app) while on Wi-Fi I just can't do it. After awhile it just says that I should check if I have a connection. The problem does not occur when I switch to Data Transmission. Other apps usually are able to connect but it seems slower than when using Data Transmision.

I have installed the WiFi update, and when using Google Play, or browsing the internet it seems to work just fine... I also switched from Superuser to SuperSU, but the problem occured before that so I don't think it had anything to do with that (noob question - which should I use? Superuser was there by default, but is ist actually better, or there is no big difference?)
[HTC One X] seedubya:
Have you tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the app?
[HTC One X] kolas310:
Yep.

I tried, it's still very slow.

Other odd thing is that when I turn on Data Transmission it's always showing the "H" symbol, even in the places where it previously showed "3G" or "3.5G", now it never switches. What does it mean? The speed seems fine though.
[HTC One X] mortix02:
This happened to me too. And it's happening to YouTube and google play.

Could it be because I didn't do the OTA update?

In that case i have a little question: if I update the OTA do I/will it wipe all data?
[HTC One X] kolas310:
Well I did the OTA update almost right away (after intalling few apps), and I saw the problem after that, so I don't think it has anything to do with that although it's suppose to fix WiFi. :) Oh and it didn't wipe my data.

EDIT:

Well I can't post in MaximusHD thread yet so I'll ask here, does everyone using this rom experience such a tremendous drop in battery life when using Data Transmission? On WiFi it's normal, but when using cellular it drains 5-10% in 10 minutes... That seems absurd. :P
[HTC One X] kolas310:
bump. Seriously? Anyone knows if this problem with power drain when using cellular data transmission is also present in other clean Sense 5 Roms? Or is there a way to fix that, or maybe there is an update underway? :)
[HTC One X] seedubya:
I just switched ROMs but was getting a full days use out of a charge. WiFi at work and home all day. So I never really used hspda.

Sent from my Avatar ROM that kicks buttski!!!
[HTC One X] Nasalhair:
Yes! It does this for me too. It seems to drain at something like 1% per minute for me when I have mobile data on. Wifi also drains it quickly, but not as fast. I posted about this in the Maximus thread (some other issues too) but nobody has replied. Good to know it's not just me.
[HTC One X] kolas310:
Yep, hopefully there is going to be some kind of fix, I really wouldn't like to go through the whole configuration, app instalation, etc. process again.

Ok, so another thing is - some icons in one of the folders on my home screen disapear. It's always in the same folder, and only in this one, others seem to be unaffected.
[HTC One X] Nasalhair:
Issues I'm having:

1. Crazy battery drain when I enable wifi, but particularly bad when I enable mobile data. I have a Tasker profile where if I enable wifi and connect to my home network, autosync and GPS are enabled for 2 minutes then disable themselves. Last night my phone was on 61%, I enabled wifi, and immediately it dropped to 56%.

2. When I go to bed at night I turn my phone off. If I put it on charge at night it gets to a certain point and the phone switches itself on! One night last week it switched itself on at about 89%, so I switched it off again, and about ten minutes later it switched itself on again!

3. I use Google Calendar, not the HTC one. I seem to be unable to disable the HTC calendar - the only option is to "freeze" it in my backup app.

Aside from these things, I really like the rom, but these three issues are making me wonder if I should try something like ARHD and see if the same things are present there.
[HTC One X] kolas310:
Well I don't know how it is with the phone turning itself on, because I'm not turning it off to begin with. :)

The thing with calendar - it seems to me it was also like that when using official Sense 4+, so I don't know if it's fixable.

I think I'm going to switch to ViperX Sense 5 Rom, people seem to say good things about battery life in this one.
[HTC One X] Nasalhair:
Yes, I know some people think the idea of switching a phone off is somehow weird, but I turn mine off at night. As an experiment I just switched my phone off here in work, plugged it in to charge it (it was on about 93% - charged overnight and it has lost 7% since I switched it on when I got up for work at 5.30) and lo and behold it powered itself on when it reached 100%. I don't want this to happen.

The calendar on Sense 4 could be disabled - I know this as I had it disabled! I prefer the Google calendar, so I disabled the HTC one. On this ROM you can only hide it, or backup apps allow it to be frozen, which is what I've had to resort to.
[HTC One X] kolas310:
Well then since nobody seems to know what to do in our instance, and I have no idea if there is some kind of update for MaximusHD underway, we propably will have to switch the Roms. I usually had the mobile Data Transmission turned on all the time when outside my apartment and while it did drain the battery more than WiFi it still was enough for 8+ hours of being on with medium usage (sometimes with battery saver option ticked when I needed to be outside for a longer period of time). Now the phone would be dead after few hours.

EDIT:

Today I switched for ViperX Rom, and all of the issues I wrote about seem to be gone, Skydrive app no longer has any issues with connecting. Although I'll say something more about batery life in 2-3 days when I'll actually have a chance to see how it works. :) In general I can say that this ROM is a lot more customizable, and has lots of tweaks (greeat ones) I haven't seen in Maximus, but still I'll wait for a few days with my final opinion.
[HTC One X] kolas310:
Ok so after using it for a few days I can tell that the ROM itself is just better in sheer terms of funcionality. First thing I noticed is that I can now put more than 16 shortcuts into Folders, the icon grid in app panel is 5x6 so now I have 3 pages to scroll instead of 7. WiFi seems work more stable but I can't say that it worked bad in MaximusHD. When it comes to battery drain while using Data Transmission - it's still there, but after a few cycles of charging it seems to get better bit by bit, if it still changes I'll let You know. ROM comes with lots of additional tools, and allows heavy customization, and reclocking the processor for better battery life. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. I don't know what about the phone turning itself on, because I don't switch it off. In terms of the callendar I also use gogle one and I just turned of sync options in the one provided by htc. Also I'm not sure if while installing the rom You are able to choose not to install the HTC callendar.
[HTC One X] Nasalhair:
I've gone back to my old Orange-branded 4.1.1 / Sense 4+ build. Battery life has gone through the roof, HTC calendar is disabled, everything works, no problems. As for the phone powering itself on, well, something odd happened there...

When I decided to go back to the old build I restored my Nandroid backup and reflashed my old boot.img, taking the phone back to its old setup, and all seemed well, but that night I switched it off at bedtime (still find it weird that so many people think I'm freakishly odd for daring to switch my phone off from time to time) and lo and behold, some time later, it switched itself on again! The next morning I did some searching about removing the Clockworkmod recovery, followed the instructions, and also relocked my bootloader for good measure, and guess what? Since then it hasn't powered itself on while charging. So all I can gather from this is it was either Clockworkmod or having an unlocked bootloader that caused my phone to power itself on, because as soon as these two things were changed it has behaved normally.

So anyway, I'm going to stay on this build until Orange get around to releasing 4.2, or my contract expires in April, whichever comes first. Probably the latter, as according to a post I've seen from Orange themselves they reckon the update will appear 3-6 MONTHS after the manufacturer releases it.
[HTC One X] kolas310:
Heh I'm alson in Orange (poland), and we got info that the update will show up sometime mid-december. I just got tired of waiting for them to update that's why I ended up with custom roms.

Maybe it was CM fault? I'm using TWRP, tonight I'll turn it off and see if it powers back itself during the night and let you know. :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] droidassassin:
Can anyone tell me a Rom for t-mobile Samsung galaxy s2x t989d everyone I have tried so far haven't worked properly the raido doesn't work I would like to have avatar.but it won't boot past the avatar boot screen anyone know any I can use please
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Darth:
You need the latest Telus radio. You can flash it, then the rom. Just search for TLMC4. ;)

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Sent from my cellular telephone. Battery problems? >>>> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2461864
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] droidassassin:
Ok I'll give it a shot thanks
[General Questions and Answers] mombill:
Hi there,

i've got a question:

I tried to update the philz touch v5.07.1 on my HOX. I'd download the philz_touch_5.15.9-endeavoru.zip, reboot my HOX to recovery, install from sdcard, choose the downloaded file and everything seemed to work. No error message.

But after reboot to recovery and look to the "about" in PhilZ Settings, it told me that there is Version 5.07.1 CWM Base 6.0.3.2 installed. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Greetings

Frank
[General Questions and Answers] mombill:
Hello again,

wow .. one day later and my thread's on page two ;)

Please ... wanna update PhilZ Touch but it seems I'm doing something wrong. Could someone help me?

Greetings

Frank
[General Questions and Answers] mombill:
Hello again,

I can't solve this problem by myself. Isn't there anyone who knows how to update PhilZ Touch on HOX?

I did everything like update-instruction says but it don't work.

Thanks in advance ...

Greetings

Frank
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rv5750:
Hello everyone. I have two questions to ask.

1. Can I delete the LOST.DIR folder because it's taking huge space on my sdcard (894 Mb) and what is it? (First image)

2. What is that other in my sd card that I've highlighted in my image and how can I delete it if it's unnecessary? (Second image)

The file manager I'm using is Solid Explorer.

Hit thanks if I helped.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adi160699:
You can delete Lost.dir but I don't know anything about the second image one
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rv5750:
What is LOST.DIR folder?

Hit thanks if I helped.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AyamPushUp:
that folder contain recover files during bootup, so i guess you can delete it, or you can rename that folder then look what happen, if nothing go wrong, you can delete anyway, hope that help, thx.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HazardGames:
You can remove the files from the folder or even delete the folder, but if you have so many files in the folder something is going wrong with your file system.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro Software Upgrading] eljure:
Hello,

I already receive the device one day ago, but I cannot receive or send calls, I could only receive and made one call, and now I cannot.

It shows phone signal but not GPRS.

I tried with two different valid SIM cards in another phone, in the other phone I can call and receive, with jasjar I cannot.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro Software Upgrading] numanoids:
Have you got in touch with the retailer who sold you it? That would be my first port of call with anything that stops working within the first day.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0v3rl0rd:
Hi there,

Today I bought a Gigabyte AKU A1. I'm having hard time figuring out a few things:

1) is there a way to "enable volume rocker wake"? - it's a feature I'm really used to and it's bothering me quite a bit.

2) are there ANY custom roms and/or kernels available for this device?

3) is there a USABLE recovery for this phone? cause the stock one is all in chinese :confused: I tried choosing random options that are available in the recovery menu, but nothing happens if I choose any of them. I'd like to make a nand-backup so, AFAIK, this is the only way, or am I mistaken?

Thanks in advance:)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0v3rl0rd:
bump
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DusikOff:
CWM

I have CWM for this phone.If you want I can take you the recovery.img!You can install it from the phone or use the PC!
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorigo:
Hi,

My ROM came without the email apk/s and I was wondering if anyone had them from stock .254

I have the gmail apk, I need the stock email one for other email services like hotmail

Cheers

EDIT: please read through the rest of the thread, the issue has progressed but not been solved.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjraider:
(Odexed )See below:
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorigo:
You lad!

Cheers!
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorigo:
When I go to install the apk like a normal apk, by opening the apk in my file explorer and installing, it goes through the install screens, but then finishes by saying "Application not installed"

Unknown sources is checked and I have side loaded apks like this before successfully, what's the problem?

OOhhh, maybe it's because that's an odexed file. My rom is deodexed.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorigo:
ignore, double post
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjraider:
System apps are not installed like normal apps. You need to root your device, put it in system/app and permissions rw-r-r- reboot to see it ;)
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorigo:
(I'm already rooted)

Well here's something weird. I copied the files, went to system/app and it turns out the files are ALREADY there!

I check out the permissions and they're both correct. So I rebooted and it still won't show up. I opened Titanium Backup and looked through the apps list again there, there's no sign of it being on the system.

The files are there but apparently they're not!
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjraider:
Strange, move those file to data/app rw-r-r- and reboot and see what happens
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorigo:
Just did that, and still nothing!
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zorigo:
bump (if that's allowed, I can't remember)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cody794:
Hello, My Name Is Cody! Have The Droid Razr MAXX, Have Had It For Over A Year Now And Have Finally Decided To Root It!! What Is The Easiest, Most Stable Root To Put On It??

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eaburto:
I think that's not a good way to write because is not really easy to read.

I'm also a newbie in this forum, and if you need a forum of your phone, you could use the search box of the top on the forum.The forum that you are searching is this: http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1363.

Good luck rooting and trying ROMs.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rinobed:
hello everybody.

I am experiencing a problem in my new Z1, afeter a week of use the mail client stopped syncing my inbox, the other apps (calendar...) are working correctly on the same Exchange account.

I deleted the account several time, I reset the device to factory, no luck!!

Any idea?? (my Galaxy is working perfectly on the same account!)

thanks in advance!