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[Sprint HTC One (M8)] bsims85:
I just left best buy....without a phone. They can now process "Easy Pay" purchases...well, almost. The sales associate got the whole to the final activation screen and it threw an error. They were unable to complete the transaction. The phone was sitting there staring me in the face. Has anyone else had better luck at best buy with easy pay??

At least, literally while I sat there waiting, my phone started ringing and a local Sprint store rep called saying they finally have in stock so I'll be heading there after work. That particular store has been handling easy pay purchases for a while so i should be good.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] iamkoza:
man.... $27 a month for 2 years? that's over $650 total vs. ponying up $200 up front for the same phone.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] bsims85:
Well, Im on a framily plan and easy pay is my only option to upgrade. Its either pay $650 up front or spread the price out.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] josh030181:
I ordered mine around noon yesterday, got a email hour later it was ready to pick, got it yesterday around 3.

I'm in Baltimore
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] harmansingh:
what??? which best buy? I ordered mine 1 week ago from the one in Whitemarsh and still did not get an email

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Im so sick of best buy im canceling my pre order tomorrow and buying the 32 gb one off of amazon for 149
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] ajd88:
I also was not able to upgrade at best buy via easy pay. I signed all the paperwork and the final result was an error. I signed on my google account had almost everything set up on the phone too. Its supposedly a system wide error. Hopefully it'll be fixed by tomorrow. The worst part is the sales guy tried it twice, and I was charged $150 twice which is the deposit. I'm still yet to be refunded,
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] josh030181:
Best buy mobile in the mall
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] mikeregister:
Just picked up my M8 from Best Buy in Columbia, SC. I had no problems took me about 15 minutes to walk out with a activated phone. I was also told I am the first person to buy this phone from that store. They do not have it on the display yet either.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] iandmacdonald:
I also left BB with no phone. Apparently I bought trade-in plus instead of Buy Back two years ago. So, I'm out $140. Oh well, I'll save-up and wait a little longer.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] mkarol:
I went into my local (Chicago, IL) BB yesterday and came away with no phone. The helpful clerks seemed confused and didn't know HTC had a new phone out. Even after I pointed to the release on their system that said they could sell the phone, they claimed that the POS wouldn't release the phone.

This inconsistency is rather disturbing.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] sslbaron:
Well, I looked online yesterday and had seen that BB just started offering the framily plan and the way pay option. So after wading through my options, I chose to keep my current plan and use my upgrade. With trading in my M7 ($125), I expected to pay around $50 with taxes for the M8 since I signed up for the $50 dollar promo which they had in February. To my surprise since I had geek squad protection on my M7, I received an addition $50 for the trade in.

Long story short, the BB mobile tech which I dealt with was pleasant, knowledgeable, and helpful. I ended up walking out with a gift card with a small balance. The only thing I had to pay out of pocket was the $9.99 for the geek squad protection for the first month. I guess it must depend on which store you go to. Some stores are familiar with the new One and others aren't.

He also did confirm that BB now has a contract with Sprint to offer the framily plan and the easy pay option. They just started offering these options this week so they seem to have some bugs that need to be worked out.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] Ph33zy:
Just walked into my local best buy to pick one up today. They price matched Amazon.com down to $150 and I also had a $50 credit for registering my number back in January. Total price was $100 plus $61 tax.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] KennyG123:
Did you have to get the grey for them to price match it since Amazon does not have the gold?
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] Ph33zy:
I did get the gray, but the sales lady wasn't even that strict about it. She almost forgot to even go to Amazon to verify because we were just having a good conversation. I did have my 3 year old son with me, so she was probably distracted by all the cuteness. I think she only went to verify because I kept bringing it up here and there since I was afraid she was going to forget to check. I guess its one of those YMMV kinda thing.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] mikeregister:
I wish I would of thought about that do you think they will price match if I go back in and get the difference refunded?
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] Ph33zy:
they should since you could technically return it and rebuy it if you are within the 14 day window....
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] djjroc007:
Went in and got mine today, but after reading that, I'll be back there tomorrow to get my $50 back for the price match.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] mikeregister:
I won't be able to make it in until later in the week let me know if that works for you.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] Ph33zy:
i don't actually work at Best Buy...
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] mikeregister:
Meant to reply to djjroc007 sorry
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] cincyelite22:
They only price match in store offers and not online retailers like amazon for phones. So most people probably won't get lucky. But if you do get them too kudos to you.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] djjroc007:
That's what I thought, but it's worth a shot.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] KennyG123:
They actually do match some online retailers and Amazon is included. However their policy changed last year to "at time of purchase only" .
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] djjroc007:
Bought my phone yesterday, and just leaving best buy now with $53 in my pocket!

They said as long as it says "ships from and sold by Amazon", they will match it.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] Ph33zy:
Awesome dude!
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] KennyG123:
Also the grey one?
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] djjroc007:
No, I got the gold one. Didn't matter the color. And they give you 14 days, same as the return/exchange policy.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] KennyG123:
I will have to call customer service as I got mine online to see if they will credit the $50.

Thanks!! :good:
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] djjroc007:
Hope it works out, but don't see why it wouldn't. And now I wait....for The People's Sense......if you plan on cooking one up that is...
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] Rydah:
So since it hasn't been 14 days, I can go get the difference back for them to price match?

Sent From My HTC One (M8)
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] djjroc007:
Yeah. I went in and got the phone yesterday, and last night I saw it mentioned in here, so went back today. As long as it's direct from Amazon, and not some other online retailer, you should be good to go. I called first while I was on my way up there just to be sure.

I even brought up the web page on my phone to show them.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] Rydah:
Perfect, I will be going today then. Works out perfect since I have a Vegas trip coming up on Thursday, $50 is $50!

I'll report back after my trip to best buy today. ???

Sent From My HTC One (M8)
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] cincyelite22:
This doesn't apply to cell phones though its sneaky lol
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] KennyG123:
I am thinking that what they meant is they will not give you an off-contract phone for someone else's on-contract price. They matched my S3 price to Amazon when I got it.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] cincyelite22:
They can still do it for you at their disgression but its not supposed to happen according to the policy. I work in a mobile store for Best Buy. But if you go to some stores theyll match anyways even if its not in policy.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] henderjr:
Were you successful? I got mine online too but haven't tried calling yet
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] iamkoza:
i didnt even think of trying to price match amazon.... although i think had i tried i'd still be at the store waiting to get my phone.... the poor girl i dealt with had no clue what was going on.

for whatever reason my pre-order couldnt be fulfilled so they had to process my order from scratch.... no big deal, but the whole point of pre-ordering is to reserve a phone.... i never got an email telling me to pickup my phone, yet the phone was in stock and being sold to anyone who walked in...

then the best buy rep forgot to process my trade in at the correct time, which resulted in having to restart the entire process again...

she also ripped open all of the packaging searching for a sim card only to realize that was not needed

then she tells me my trade in on the evo 4g LTE was only going to be $30... when i bought my evo in 2012 i signed up for the buy back program (paid $30 for it at the time) which was supposed to get me 20% of the original MSRP $700 = $140. I calmly explained that i had purchased the old buy back program and the trade in should be $140.... she gets her manager and tries to do the process again.... so after 5 minutes she tells me $40... i said, no add $100 to that... luckily the manager was able to tell her she entered the price incorrectly and finally on the 3rd try it came up $140 as I expected. BTW, so glad i kept my receipt from 2012 or else I never would have gotten the amount i was due.

So after 75 minutes i finally walk out of the store with my new m8. I had to speed home to make a dinner reservation because i had planned on this process taking 15 minutes not 75, oh well.

TL;DR - Dealing with best buy employees can be frustrating, but i got my new m8 saturday :)
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] KennyG123:
Nope. They told me I have to go in, return it and re-buy it. Sounds a bit inefficient to me.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] henderjr:
That sounds like a major pain! I doubt I'm going to bother.

I did notice that in my box with my phone there was a sheet of store coupons that all expired on 3/31! LOL, my phone arrived on 4/2. There were 20% off accessories coupons too that I may have used. I'd imagine they'd honor the coupon anyway if I asked.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] Rydah:
I too ordered over the phone (online sale in BB eye's.) Customer support wouldn't honor the price match so I tried the store here, since my receipt says at the stores discretion, they may honor a price match. Well I get there, and see its a young woman, around 20-25 years old. I'm only 22 so she was in my age range and I'm quite decent lookin. Anyways, I knew if I sweet talked before and during the process she would do it for me. So I'm flirting, smiling and all. She's ready to give me the difference, then her ugly coworker walks by and loudly says they don't price match with online purchases. :/ my heart shattered.... Life will never be complete.

Sent From My HTC One (M8)
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] ticklemepinks:
just demand a manager, customer is always right
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] Rydah:
Gonna go try again today, that $50 will come in handy for this week in Vegas.

Sent From My HTC One (M8)
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] iandmacdonald:
I bought the gold one today because this store was out of the gunmetal one. They said they pricematched. Great! In the end, he didn't, and I forgot. Will goto another store tomorrow to get the gunmetal and price match.
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] iandmacdonald:
Went to a different store today for the gunmetal gray. General manager refused to price match until I cried good. Got $53 back, plus my gift card emailed to me. Very happy with the gunmetal and SUP beetle case. Onto rooting/s-off . . .
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a_amir1986:
Hey Guys! Em new Android user. i updated my note 2 At&t jelly Bean 4.1 to Kitkat 4.4.1 .. but now i want jelly Bean back.. what do i do?

and another thing after update my mobile's model no. had changed from i317 to GT-N7105.. if i want to downgrade my mobile which file i have to use?? i317 or GT-N7105's file??

plzz guide me

Thanks
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Chris_D:
Hi there,

I have a problem with my MDA Compact. It seems to like hard resetting itself.

For example, it'll be in my pocket and I'll take it out and press the standby button to see if I have any messages. Nothing happens at all. Press it again, and again, and again, nothing. Take the back off and the battery out, back in and turn it on... nothing. However, if I then plug it in to USB or put it on charge and then press the power button, it will come to life and then I'll be greeted with the lovely Welcome to Windows Mobile 2003, tap here to set up your device.

And thus, I have lost all my contacts and messages. Help :(
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Chris_D:
Actually, how do you hard reset the pda?

It hasn't reloaded all of my t-mobile software and settings :(
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bukich:
Hi all,

Maybe one week before I found that I have dots instead of name of the menu.

Sometimes I can see the name sometime I can see only 3 dots.

The issue is observerd on camera and mail HTC sense 5.5 applications.

HTC One M7 4.4.2 stock, latest updates

Can you help me how to solve the problem?

Please find attached two screenshots - one with the issue seen and one when everything is ok.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt95:
Try to reboot the device and see if that persists
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bukich:
I already tried that, it's ok for a while but then again the same issue. I found one strange relation (maybe) when my mail accounts start to sync the new messages and the issue happens immediately. I'm not sure if there is connection.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FuricTrax:
I have the same issue also. Only just got the One yesterday, and updated straight to 4.4.2 OTA and have noticed this. It seems to do it on random apps. Sometimes in Messages, sometimes not.

Also in Messages if the name is long, it doesn't sometimes stretch the little dropdown arrow for the entire name.

Looks like there are a few niggles in the latest update.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prophet16:
Wow sometimes Android shows with the strangest problems. See if clearing cache and dalvik cache will clear it up.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bukich:
Can I do it without root and customer recovery. I'm running full stock 4.4.2 without root. I want to avoid reset to factory settings.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prophet16:
Oh I thought you were rooted. But wiping cache and dalvik cache needs a custom recovery. It's even more surprising to see this happening on a stock device.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jwshields:
Experiencing the same

Hi all,

I am experiencing the same issue.

Non-rooted, stock 4.4.2 running sense 5.5, Verizon

I've tried changing my system font size & the text sizes, anywhere from Small to huge, I've rebooted multiple times. I am still experiencing this issue.

Ive attached four images to this showing what I'm experiencing, the gray boxes are information I've edited out, but the dots are still there.

It's happening in most system apps, Messaging, Mail, Gallery.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bukich:
FYI this is the official answer from HTC support regarding the issue:

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In regards to your enquiry, please try the following steps:

- Please try to Soft Reset the phone (restart your device)

If this doesn't resolve your issue then unfortunately you need to perform Factory Data Reset of your phone. You can do that by:

Please press MENU on the Home screen, then tap Settings> back up and reset > Reset phone.

NOTE: Resetting your handset to factory or manufacturer's default setting will delete all the data stored on your phone memory, please back up your files first.

We hope that this has helped you with your issue.

if it will not help you , you might have hardware issue , so we recommend to you to contact our repair center through our point of collection

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If I make factory reset who will install/configure all my applications/news/mail accounts.

Android should have much better system for deleting cache and dalvik cache other than root.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jwshields:
I spoke with HTC Support, they told me to run through a few steps, started with a reboot to safe mode, clearing the sense cache, and a factory restore.

The factory restore resolved it for a few minutes, but the issue reappeared.

It seems to be related to the pinch-to-change text size in the messaging application.

EDIT: I'm reaching out to HTC Support again-
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jwshields:
LastPass is the culprit

I've been through multiple factory resets and adding applications one by one.

The problem is caused by LastPass. The auto-fill into apps feature.

I've sent a support ticket into LP, I suggest you all do the same, but it does not appear when that is disabled. Appears when it is enabled, and goes away once I disable it.

Seems like it doesn't play well with Sense :/
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bukich:
You are the saver !!!! Thanks a lot for this valuable information.

As soon as I disabled Last Pass autofill options in "Accessibility" screen everything went back to normal.

Thank you once again and have a nice day!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bukich:
One ticket with the issue opened in Last Pass support system from my side also!

Let's see what will happen :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FuricTrax:
It's funny. I'd kind of had a hunch it was that. I turned it off on my phone as all apps had been installed, and hadn't seen it since. It must be something to do with the new overlay feature they have, which is really useful! Good spot though :laugh:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ajster1989:
Here's 2 modified "/system/bin/bootanimation" files that points to a bootanimation.zip file instead of bootsamsung.qmg files.

One for 4.3 based roms, and one for 4.4.2,

Check it out, there is a readme inside the zip file.

This is NOT a flashable file, because not everyone is using custom recoverys on there stock roms. Use a root explorer to change the files

DO NOT FLASH, AND USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

As always Enjoy!

Download Link - http://www.dillonpos.com/note3toolkit/BootBinary/Bootanimation_Binary_Note_3.zip

NOTICE: There seems to be a 25% chance this will not work for some people (mostly 4.3 roms) If this doesn't work for you troubleshoot as follows:

1. Did you put a good bootanimation.zip in /system/media/?

2. Did you setup the /system/bin/bootanimation file's permissions properly? (permissions should be rwxr-xr-x)

3. Did you use the right file for your rom?

If after checking these it doesn't work please pm me with your model and rom info, Thanks

Sent from another Galaxy... Note 3
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ajster1989:
Aready have a custom recovery?

Check out some flashable boot animations here...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2467560

Boot animations[T-Mobile]

Sent from another Galaxy... Note 3
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ajster1989:
Im going to post NON FLASHABLE bootanimations here if anyone wants to contribute pm me. Must be 1080p please.

Thanks

Sent from another Galaxy... Note 3
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] kevinrocksman:
actually.. these wont work currently due to it flashing the binary that i had in there for ages which will overwite yours. So I wouldn't recommend flashing mine yet. You can copy the zip over thoguh from inside the flashable file
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ajster1989:
Im going to pull some of yours later and post just the zips.

Sent from another Galaxy... Note 3
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] dwitherell:
Was literally just looking for this - and blammo here it was. Thanks man :)

Sent you a PM too - thanks again for posting this!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Max_Pain:
Tried it more than once on 4.4.2 stock deodex and no go. Now I have no animation. I have the bootanimation.zip in system/media, right permissions. And I manually copied the bootanimation file to system/bin, same permissions as prior file.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ajster1989:
Since deodexed roms boot up differently I can't guarantee this will work with it. It was intended Samsung based "odex" roms. Sorry.

If I do find one that works with Deodex roms I'll let you know.

Sent from another Galaxy... Note 3
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] kitten79:
Running rooted stock t-mobile rom here and I am also just getting no boot animation now, just blackness. Followed your directions exactly, not sure what the issue is for me.....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ajster1989:
Please if this doesn't work for you post what rom build and os version your on so I can help you! Thanks :)

Sent from another Galaxy... Note 3
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] kitten79:
4.4.2 T-mobile stock, only thing I have done to it is rooted it, baseband is N900TUVUCNB4 "not sure if that makes a difference or not."
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] BigSK225:
On Infamous 2.5, 4.4.2 and the bin file gives me a blank boot screen also. I have tried a few different bootanimation.zips in system/media and I get the same results every time.

Sent from my rooted AK-47
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ajster1989:
This is intended really only for stock room, but could work for others based in it. Make sure you check your permissions.

Sent from another Galaxy... Note 3
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] lainemac:
Getting the same result as other. Just a black screen. Using the stock 4.4.2 rom.

How do I get my stock animation back? Tried renaming the files and it didn't work.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ajster1989:
What version of phone with rom do you have?

Sent from another Galaxy... Note 3
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] xxxSuperserieSxxx:
Put this additional file samgsungani to the system/bin/ let us know...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] BigSK225:
I flashed the latest Infamous ROM and it has bootanimation.zip already working on it. Not sure what he did to get it working.

Sent from my rooted AK-47
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ajster1989:
Can you send me the bin/bootanimation file so I can test and compair. Thanks

Sent from another Galaxy... Note 3
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] BigSK225:
Sure....

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tayohuv54dqerbh/bootanimation

Sent from my rooted AK-47
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] zamcum:
I use this binary in my kernel with successfully.

thank you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magixxx:
So I have a MTK Samsung clone which when I flashed the new software from the manufacturerI noticed it now comes with TouchWiz or some sort of clone of it. However I would like to remove it if possible. From what I've read this is not easy, however previously the old software did not make use of TouchWiz and had the stock interface. Both new/old software are 4.2.1 and in a SP Flash Tool format.

Now given that I have both rom versions with and without TouchWiz, is it possible to either replace it on the new software with the stock/old one and retain all the other fixes and upgrades that were done to it OR get all fixes/changes from the new software minus TouchWiz and insert them on the old one? In either case I don't care about preinstalled apps.

If either of there would not turn out to be a nightmare what should I look into getting started?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sFranKv:
Good day to all!, Yestarday i purchace a note 3 n900 and the firt thing that i did was to flash a kitkat rom, i live in central america and i flashed a indian rom, everything is working fine but the 3g, its not stable at all, sometimes will work normaly for a few seconds and after that it wont work, its constantly changeing from 3g to H+ and it will drain the battery really fast, i change the setting to work on EDGE and it will work correctly, slow but fine.

now i was checking over the internet and i find that the modem on a firmware can cause problems with the signal, now mi question, can i flash a modem from a 4.3 firmware to a 4.4 firmware?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x102x96x:
No

it s simple 4.3 modem won't be compatible on 4.4.2

:good: