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[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] br125:
so loyal customers who've been with Verizon long enough to have gotten an unlimited data plan are going to be throttled.. looks like they're trying harder and harder every year to get you on a tiered plan.

I'll just keep burning though data at my normal rate and when it's not worth it, I'll look into switching. Hopefully T-Mobile with have their coverage expanded enough by the time that happens.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] whtciv2k:
You will only be throttled when you meet the following criteria:

-if you are on a crowded tower and you are the top 5% data user of the unlimited data (this month it's ~4.75gb) and that changes month to month

If you are below that limit, even if you are on a crowded tower, you shouldn't be throttled, it's only if you've already gone above that limit the throttling will begin. Besides that, there's so much wifi all around that I honestly don't think anyone really has to worry too much.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] br125:
I understand the criteria, the point was that the only people being throttled are those on unlimited plans, not those on tiered plans.

I use about 70 gigs a month and I live in the country.. No WiFi all around. Not everyone that owns a smart phone lives in the city.

Plus it's up to Verizon to use their discretion of when they consider a tower crowded. Sounds to me like a big gray area that will be a perfect excuse to throttle unlimited data users to get them to switch to a tiered plan.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] whtciv2k:
Ah, I see. I guess only time will tell. Who knows, you said you live in the country so you may fall under their threshold for crowded towers. We'll figure it out Oct 1st.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] razzrmaxx:
Will there be or is there an unthrottle hack?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] razzrmaxx:
I haven't been a victim of this throttle issue yet, I've seen a lot a people complain about it on the Verizon Facebook posts tho.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] razzrmaxx:
Yep... So far no throttle I've been streaming a lot for three days without buffering errors or slow downs
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
If you guys bothered to read the link posted in the OP you'd know this doesn't take effect until October which is why you aren't being affected yet.

Sent from my S5 using your mom
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kprice8:
:highfive: Headline readers.. smh
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Primevyl:
who has time for understanding when you can just fly off the handle under-informed?

which is, unfortunately, what i did. I apologize to the interwebs for griping at the 4 sites that i griped at before reading this thread. :oops::rolleyes:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] 1454:
As someone who uses about 4-8 gb a month, this, I'm sure will affect me. And I have been with the company for 10 years, 7 of which had a data plan. So yes, I'm pissed about this. This is no way to treat loyal customers. Especially when we were the ones who started the trend. That's great that the limited customers are fine with it as they are unaffected. It's one thing to hit people hitting 50 gb or more a month. That's abuse. I'm sorry, but it is. However, this "4.7" number is artificially lowered due to the limited plans which most of which *can't* go over 4gb.

Give me a reasonable share plan of 10gb per line, and I'll consider switching. But screw you and your crap 2gb plans. Reasonable in my 08 contract as defined by Verizon was 5gb. That was with far more limited phones and worse data connections. Now we have less "reasonable* plans and abuse of the duopoly created by the fcc. I'll take my 200 and tell vzw where to shove it before paying more for less. (yes, I have looked into the share plans and my bill would actually increase)

Oh, and if I should have to rely on wifi everywhere, then what's the point of a data plan? Serious question? Why not just sell devices that make calls and text with wifi? Or basically an overpriced, smaller nexus 7 with the ability to make calls.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] alhadee12:
I guess Verizon has already started throttling data. I've never had speeds this bad.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] alhadee12:
I disagree, I just posted a screen shot of my data speeds and it's horrible and I'm not a consistently high data user.

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This is on the Sprint network in my neighborhood, which is supposed to be the worst. However, it's putting Verizon to shame.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jcollier:
Again, this hasn't even taken effect.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] alhadee12:
Although it may have not taken effect, something is going on. My service has never been this bad especially for Sprint to beat it out. It's been my understanding that some throttling has occurred.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Half Decaf:
Just ran speedtest and my speed is a good as ever.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Chopstix9:
I use 50 - 70gb/mo running the house off of the phones plus I stream radio.com on the laptop all day long in my big truck. Just ran speedtest.net on the desktop in my office (through phone wifi hotspot) = 46.17 down 37.14 up ... Well see how it goes in another month and a half ...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] alhadee12:
I wish I was getting that.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Chopstix9:
Yeah ... they lit our town with LTE a couple of years ago and those speeds have be constant ever since... It wasn't a month later I got rid of Comcast internet and have been running the house off of the phones ever since... Had to give up a little to do it, no more whole house networking to the other computers and wireless printer had to get plugged back into desktop but those were small give aways IMO to save $45/mo on internet service.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] alhadee12:
You have a good deal going.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Chopstix9:
We'll see what happens come October ... I am precisely the user they are targeting and I have a feeling the 'crowed tower' provision is bunk... I think the throttling is gonna become automatic over x gb regardless of traffic on any particular tower. I hope I'm wrong but we'll see.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] alhadee12:
Honestly, I think it's happening now. I'm getting the worst numbers since I've been with Verizon.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Chopstix9:
Well, I don't think so that's why I posted what I get... You say U R getting worse numbers since you've been with VZW. Maybe that's all the speed U get in the area U R in. The speeds are not that high in all areas. I have gotten over 60 in some areas and less that 15 in others. All LTE but the numbers DO vary from area to area.... Do you know someone else with VZW LTE phone that U can do a side by side comparison with? And then again test them right after your billing cycle ends so you know your data for the month is low.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kprice8:
My house near Lansing MI I have seen 70+down and 18+up.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] huedawg:
Wow , that Sprint is pretty slow . Wonder why?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] alhadee12:
I normally get at least in the teens at my house. I'll test another phone as well to see how it goes.

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The Sprint numbers I posted are great in comparison to Verizon given they're supposed to have the worst service.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] huedawg:
Evidently something is going on with their services and or its on your end . I routinely get at least 40 down and 20 up . I have unlimited data and use around 70 GB's monthly.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] WillTheGreat:
Coverage in the Bay Area (CA) sort of went to the crappers these last 2-3 weeks. My LTE coverage is significantly worst than before, and my speeds at home are horrible. Normally I pull around 2mbps, and I'm pulling < 1 mbps now with higher ping times. (Coverage isn't the best for me at home, but connections are consistent and ping times are pretty low for me normally)

I've been working by SFO, and coverage is pretty crappy there too. I used to pull about 70+ by downtown SF, and about 30-40 around SFO. Pulling less than 12 frequently and ping time is pretty high. I'm seeing 100ms+ on LTE which I've never seen before. The highest in the past was around 50ms, but normally in the 30-40ms range. I'm actually curious if anyone else is having the same issue around here as I am. Either that or my phone is in the crappers already.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] razzrmaxx:
This is my regular speed between 12 and 20mbps here in the North Bay, California. I went to the SF last Monday and I didn't test buy seemed fast as usual.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] cell128:
Was having horrible data in so cal too last week I had bought the s5 because my s4 broke and I returned it twice because data was acting up on it I thought it was the phone. I bought it again today only because I found out about Verizon cutting off alternative upgrades starting the 24th. And to my surprise this one is actually doing very well on data now. No more disconnects or slow app downloads. Mayne it was a bad batch of phones
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] 1storm976:
Wish there better options. :(
[General Questions and Answers] 09eric09:
I'm on a custom rom (LiquidSmooth) and my widgets that I have from minimalistictext will not load, instead I get a message in place of the widget that says "can't create handler inside thread that has not called." Does anybody know how to fix this? The reason I ask here is because the thread for the liquismooth rom has not been very helpful.
[General Topics] nicofars:
My sister has been asking me for a while to find her first electronic organizer, but knowing her I can't give something too techy and complicated. She will barely connect it to her PC very often.

Main requirements are : calendar, notes and I suppose contacts.

Camera is a plus.

Do you know of an "easy" girly phone, that is not too geek like most of the ones we have ?

like the equivalent of the Palm Zire for instance, these ones were just doing the basics if you didn't look behind the shell.

thanks.
[General Topics] PPCNUT:
Does she want WM5, Palm, Symbian? Does it need to have a phone and if so does it need to be 3G?
[General Topics] levenum:
Maybe something like HP iPaq 1950?

It is a WM5 device but it's one of the basic ones, no phone / GPS / BT (has WIFI though).

It's pretty stable so no need for "tech" stuff if you only want to use it as an organizer and it is very compact.

Plus if she wants to add some games or something later that will work too.
[General Topics] OdeeanRDeathshead:
Don't underestimate women. My beautiful wife (yes she dose read this forum:) ) has had XDAI, XDAII and atom. She is not very good with understanding how computers work but still manages to work all the features of ppc's. The main question would probably be the price. Here the HP version of the atom (I can't remember name) is probably the cheapest pda phone and its got all the features.
[General Topics] hanmin:
Well, I'm not sure about your sis, but as far as I know, girls look for looks on things they use. So, probably the Zire22 are small and girlish enough for her to use. I personally used both Palm and Windows PDA. In organiser wise, I find Palm's builtin PIM is better and clearer. However, unless you get the advance version of Palm PDA (eg TX), your sis maybe having problem with the handwriting 'mechanism'.

Anyway, for Windows based PDA, I think it is very basic anyway. You just key in the required field without the need to know other things. If you are to use the PIM without much of your personal requirement, you won't need to do things like reg hack :) And, I find that girls can seems to tolerate things that they don't know (eg, they hardly customize a PC, though they seems to like to customize a bf). The most they want to do is to make them look pink.

Ask your sis, which PDA she likes (eg the looks and size, and colour) and it may help you in choosing. Let her have a look on the PalmZ22, as I remember, there are `converted` wives with Z22. It doesn't have a camera though.

http://euro.palm.com/uk/en/products/z22/domore.html
[General Topics] nicofars:
I agree with Hanmin

the look is more important,

I will check with her first of all.

I used a Palm for years before PPC and yes.. I forgot about the letter recognition :-(

thanks for your help guys !
[General Topics] afhstingray:
if u want phone capibility and camera and ability to choose the colour of the device (it comes in white, red, orange, and silver) go with the upcoming treo 680.....its palmOS based though..

i think for a very basic user windows mobile is not good. for example activesync and hotsync......
[General Topics] Imer:
Hum, in my mind the choice will be hard ;)

Bring her in a shop and show her the main differences about capabilites, look and ... prices...

Sometime we want a very simple things but when we discover advanced features, we want ALL ! A geek is sleeping in all of us ;)
[General Topics] PPCNUT:
Have a look at the o2 Stealth.
[General Topics] hanmin:
Just wondering, any updates on this? What is the one she chosen ?
[Galaxy S 5 General] Sangeet007:
:cowboy:

Here's how it works: In time of need, you would press the power/lock button three times in quick succession. This action sends a series of text messages with your approximate mapped location, a photo from the front and rear-facing cameras, and a short voice recording.

This isn't to replace a call to 911, 999, 000, or other emergency services. Samsung's lengthy disclaimer also states that, since the tool is based on text messaging, it "may not work accurately, continuously, or error-free" depending on network conditions.

Still, for a little peace of mind, Samsung's twist on ICE, or In Case of Emergency, numbers, is easy to set up. Here's how you do it.

All The Credits To @Jessica Dolcourt/CNET

1.) Turn it on

-- Navigate to the Settings menu, then press Quick Settings. Select Safety Assistance from the list of choices, then tap Send help messages, and swipe the toggle to On.

Hop into the settings menu to get started with Safety Assistance​

.

You'll be asked to read through and sign off on a lengthy terms of service that reminds you that this feature won't summon an ambulance, and that also absolves Samsung of personal liability.

2.) Check the boxes

If you want to scale back on the service to keep from inundating your contact with so many texts, you can uncheck the boxes to deselect sending a recording, and photos from the Galaxy S5's two cameras. In that case, triggering the emergency response would send an SOS text with your location.

3.) Set up your contacts

Back out of the help messages window and tap Manage primary contacts to select your emergency recipients. You can have up to four.

You can have up to four contacts on your list. You'll see a notification that the GS5 has sent your SOS.​

It isn't a good idea to include emergency services here, since most government agencies won't accept texts, or even know who you are in the first place. (This is changing in some places in the US, but isn't widespread by far.)

4.) Test it out

It's worth letting your contacts know that you've added them. I'd also recommend a dry-run test so both sides understand what to expect in the event of the real deal -- may it never occur. ;)

Your recipient sees a series of texts, including a short voice recording, and a map with your coordinates​
[Galaxy S 5 General] SnuggP:
Thank you for this Tutorial my good sir...[emoji39]
[Galaxy S 5 General] Sangeet007:
Your welcome bro ;)
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Harpratap:
I'm new to theming/modifying, and can't find the png which is background of ongoing notifications

Can someone help me please?

I'm on cm7 rom.

[IMG="notification"]http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj596/harry_hades/78cfafa4-0c3a-4ac1-bd90-b84d519e0ee6_zpsdddd3df8.png[/IMG]
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] joshclaudio:
its on the framework-res
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Harpratap:
I'm really confused which one of them it is. Can you tell me the name of the png file please?

I have tried changing a few files, but its not the ongoing notification background :/
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] joshclaudio:
What files have you changed?

try to change status_bar_item_background_normal

***EDIT***

Decompile your SystemUI.apk

open /res/layout/status_bar_latest_event.xml

Find the line with android:background

The value is the path of the image.

For example, the line is android:background="@android:drawable/status_bar_item_background"

It's either in the framework-res/res/drawable

or framework-res/res/drawable-ldpi

If you've found it in the drawable folder, open the xml file, the values are the path to the actual .png image
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Harpratap:
thanks :good: got it:D
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] joshclaudio:
My pleasure. Goodluck :)
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crashacid:
hi, i've tried everithing that appears here and in other forums, but nothing works, the phone doesn't allow me to enter fastboot mode so i can't flash with RDS, please if there is other solution colaborate, don't send me to see another thread i have seen everything here, don't send me to Motorola cause i live in Cuba.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Metalneck:
Since my regular video camera decided to kick the bucket, I've been using the camera on my Galaxy S4 for my video recording. I don't want to be limited by the available space on my phone, so I'm hoping that there is a way or an app that will record video and save it to a networked Windows pc for storage space and editing. Is there such an app that does this? I've searched the forums as well as Google and haven't come up with anything that does this.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] treChoy:
Hey everyone!

As you might know, the OnePlus One is equipped to be able to flash custom splash screens, much like HTC devices that were S-Off'd and had an Engineering hboot (if you haven't had an HTC device before, and that just seemed like gibberish to you, ignore it). You can flash a custom splash screen by using the command:

fastboot flash LOGO logo.img

So far, we only have 2 official splash screens, shown below. However, there was a way on HTC devices that you could craft custom Splash Screens. You would use the tool linked here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=956434 (ignore the warning about the 800x480, it works fine with any resolution), and it would covert a jpeg image into a flashable .img splash screen.

I was wondering....could this possibly work for our OPOs? Is it the same idea as the HTC devices? [MENTION=3437245]scotty1223[/MENTION] , I know you've worked with lots of HTC devices in the past (throwback to my last phone, the Evo 3D), could you provide some insight with this please?

The Splash Screens We Have So Far

This first one is the stock one provided with the stock CM 11S ROM:

And this one is the one that's provided with the Chinese version of the OPO, running Color OS:

And that's it, officially.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
Wow nice. On other phones u cant really do this kinda stuff, adds another level of customization.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] treChoy:
Well, that's the thing. So far, we can't really utilize this functionality yet. We only have two splash screens available. I'm wondering if it's possible to make custom ones the same way that we could with HTC devices.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
It probably is possible, out of my expertise though.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] treChoy:
There was a tool called "nbimg" that could convert splash screen .img's into editable formats and vice-versa. However, it can't handle 1080p resolution (what the OPO has). It just freezes up and crashes. It converts anything from 720p down just fine.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scotty1223:
if the one+ uses the same type of image for the splash screen,i dont see why it wouldnt not work.

in my experience,in order for the image to look right on the device,you will need to match the jpeg size to the screen resolution(not sure what that is on this device,but like you said,

not

800x480)
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] treChoy:
Are there any risks that go with flashing a corrupt splash image?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scotty1223:
I would not really think so. With an HTC there is not. The worst thing that happens, is that it doesn't look right

If it did screw up the file system somehow, I would think you just need to flash your factory images and everything would be fine again.

All speculation, of course, since I do not have one of these myself.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] treChoy:
So, I downloaded an .img to .png convertor, specifically for the HTC One M8. I took the stock HTC splash screen, and I took the stock OnePlus splash screen, and I converted them both. The HTC one was fine, but the OnePlus's was very distorted. Also judging from the different sizes of the two companies' respective splash screens, I think it's safe to say that HTC and OnePlus use different conversion methods to get their splash screens.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
I just ordered my phone so next week I'll make a bunch for you guys, did this on a few different phones so I'm used to the process and from what I can tell this should be quite easy.

If anyone wants to try sooner give me a heads up and I'll see if I can help without having the phone in my hands

Happy flashing!
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] treChoy:
Well I found out that the .img splash screens are really just .bin files with the extension changed. So it looks like we're dealing with binary splash images, kinda like the Motorola line of devices.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andybfmv96:
If you want to tell me how to do it i would love to, ive got some pretty decent programming knowledge and if given the tools i could most likely pull it off. Im assuming if someones done it multiple times it must be pretty easy. Plus i could do it for the nexus 5 after as well becasue that hasn't been done yet either..
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
The n5 is partitioned differently and therefore will have a different method of doing so. It may be best to wait until next week when I get my OPO as I would hate for you to risk a brick testing something (I have seen others brick their devices doing this wrong) but after I do some quick tests and determine how safe it is I'll for sure let you know
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] treChoy:
Just wondering, what phones have you made splash screens for?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
HTC dream, vision and doubleshot and a few various Samsung's, but the process is different among these
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lemonspeakers:
Can you zip up these for some of us? thx!
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Denisuu:
I would really love the white one without the powered by android like this. Is it difficult to make?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] treChoy:
At this point, we have no idea how to convert regular pictures into splash screens. Hopefully, we'll be able to soon :)
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Good news and bad news

Got my phone yeah! Had a chance to look into this and well yeah, the bad news

Much more complicated than it needs to be, I'll be looking more into this but the LOGO partition is somehow connected with bootloader this is why if you flash logo.bin from color os version when in fastboot mode you get Chinese characters and then flashing logo.bin from cyanogen version you get the cyan dude smiling at you in fastboot

So a bit more work to be done as just flashing a simple .img breaks bootloader and has a high brick potential (yeah don't test this)

Hope to have some more time over the next few days but the wife and I are expecting our first little baby very soon so....