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[P3300, MDA Compact III General] Carll:
I have upgraded today. 4 phone calls and this is what I got.

£32.50 per month for 12months.

800mins 1000 txt per month. 5mb data allowance. Orbit + Sat Nav for free.

I use my phone a lot so happy with the deal.
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] el saxo:
I upgraded yesterday from an Xda Mini S. When I rang O2 customer service to enquire about an upgrade they said £89.99.

I then walked to the O2 shop across the road from where I work & the manager originally said £40, but then he said that if I switched from O2 250 tariff (£35pm, 250 x-net mins, 100 texts) to O2 400+100 (£35pm, 400 x-net mins, 100 texts) I could have the handset for free.

Go figure...

(The Co-pilot software would have been £50 in-store but I didn't need it as I already had TT5 for my Mini S)

It definitely pays to be a bit cheeky & haggle with them!
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] JezD:
Got mine out of O2 contract (I am with vodafone), £349 unlocked, my employer paid £100 towards a new phone and I stumped up the rest. Very happy with it, finally we have some convergence in a decent sized mobile unit.

PDA - MOBILE - GPS - EMAIL - MP3

No bad at all...
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] jackalion:
The offer I got from O2

Phone: 149.99

Tariff: Data 5 9.4pounds/month x12 =112.80

Trade in : -30 pounds

total: 149.99+112.80-30=232.79pounds only

I got a 12 month free contract with coolnewmobile phone and only take the SIM card for my Oribit!!!!!

It is the lowest price you can have Orbit from O2 shop!!!
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] abbas_786:
XDA

I was with O2 previously, myself and the missus contract. Nearing the end of the year, I called asking for the code to take my business elsewhere.

I was given some options on the crappy phones which I rejected as I was currently using and O2 chip in my trusty old SPV C500 and wood not trade into another contract with a phone less then par with the SPV.

I was then given details and contact number for the redemptions team who I called and they said we can give you the phone minus the software of you go on a £50 tariff for 18 months.

I said thank you. I called every alternate days (4 times in total) and got through and they bettered the offer each time. Finally on the last day when I was on the phone, they said we can give you the phone and the software if you pay £100 for each of the lines on a £35/ month contract.

I rejected and requested the code and guess what happens.

In the end this is what happened

I got 2 XDA Orbits, 2 CoPilot software packages and the following contract. For £25 per month on a 12 Month contract (yes a 12 month contract) and get 500 minutes anytime any network and 500 text messages and the phones and software were ABSOLUTELY FREE and did not have to pay a dime at all
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] Willyfxp:
Flash the orbit with the HTC ROM - comes complete with TomTom installed, all you got to do then is buy the maps - full western europe for 99 euro (bout£67)

:D

or gimme a shout an i'll send you the TomTom install cab from the htc rom ;-)
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] Pjtheman:
Don't worry, I already sorted it... good old bittorrent :)

Unfortunately I gotta ahve it repaired, I cracked the screen the other day :(
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] plumbob:
I would like the orbit but iam currently on PAYG with tesco but i want to switch to O2 and go on contract so i can have the orbit.

I phoned O2 and all the lady offered me was what i could find on there website and she said that she couldnt offer me the phone for free on a £25 p/month contract as i would pay for the phone and i didnt want to pay anymore than £25 p/month.She said she couldnt offer me anything more much to my dissapointment.

So what would your advise i do so i can get hold of this phone i.e best part of O2 to speak to e.t.c

Thx
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] mark.peters:
Got my Orbit from my local O2 shop last week.

The Orbit was free, on a 12 month contract @ £20 per month (25 x-net minutes & 50 texts), with the sat-nav as well. Managed to barter in another pack (of 5) screen protectors also ...

The Co-Pilot package arrived 48hrs later by RM Special Delivery (Thanks O2) ...

After leaving the shop I decided to ring up O2 and request the £10 monthly bolt-on for 20mb of data ... being a bolt-on there was additional contract term so I can cancel the data bolt-on at any time ...

Me thinks I had a good deal :)

Already flashed it to the B & W Rom with WM6 - and got push email from a fellow forum member (DeniaL) for a excellent, value for money $25 (about £12.50) ...

I'm well happy. Sold my 2 month old N95 as that was cr*p compared to the Orbit.

Cheers

Mark
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] Anjow:
Another one who got ripped off with no CoPilot here. I called them up and they kept claiming that it only came free with the £45+ tariffs despite the fact that the site doesn't make that clear, and the person I spoke to when choosing the phone didn't mention it.

It's absolute balls that so many people have been had like that. No luck in getting them to send me it either.

What do you mean by this? You have WM6 on it? Could you point me in the direction of more info please? I tried searching this board for 'wm6' but had no results.
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] kleinhev:
T-Mobile (MDA compact III) --> O2 (XDA Orbit) deal in Germany too?

Hi,

does anyone has experience with such a deal in Germany? I'd like to get rid of the MDA Compact III, trade it in for a XDA Orbit and switch to a 24-month plan from O2 Germany.
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] Segitz:
I ordered mine on Saturday. Paid 69€ for it with the O² activity 50 contract (15€ with 50mins and, as a student, 100 sms included per month).

You could sell your MDA on Ebay and then go to were I got it.

I dunno, if it is legal here to post links to etailers, if so, delete the link

I got it here www.gethandy.de - It is rated 1.33 on Geizhals.at (on a scale from 1 to 6, 1 being best)
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] Pete.:
Same thing happened to me. They said at the time that copilot was only for £40 tariffs and above. I bought a 1GB card for £18 and put TomTom on that.
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] MaskedMarauder:
The search engine does not like 3 letter searches and returns an empty result field, this is common with many forums.

The upgrading area is here: http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=318
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] richard_j_green:
I'm up for renewal in early November.

I'm going to be up'ing my tariff to Online 35. My company has a new corporate savings scheme which means I get 30% discount on my tariff.

Online 35 = £35

- £0% = £26.25

I'm not bothered about the Co-Pilot stuff as already have TomTom on my Wizard to port across, so O2 can keep that for all I care.

I'm annoyed with the data charges though, so I'm going to drill them into giving me about 30MB a month for either free or the same price I'm currently paying for the 4MB bolt-on or I'm going to T-Mobile.

With that much data allowance with Web'n'Walk, why would you ever need WiFi realistically even though it's nice to have.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] w1ndhawk:
Hey guys,

I recently switched to a Mac and I am having a hard time performing a simple one way folder to folder sync from my Nexus 5 to Mac. On Windows, I would use a software called SyncToy which allowed me to select the folder(s) from and to which I wanted to sync and it would do the rest of the work. It was simple and elegant.

Unfortunately, I cannot seem to find any similar solution for the Mac even after a lot of Googling. I have tried using the Android File Transfer program. However, if I want to copy from one folder to the other and it finds duplicates, it only gives me the 'Skip' option. Since there is no 'Skip All' option this means I will have to click as many times as there are duplicates.

An program called CheetahSync exists but this program requires a WiFi connection and the sync cannot be performed using USB.

Aside from this topic, what is the directory path of the folders in my phone, when I connect it to my Mac? For example, in Windows the path of any folder in my Nexus 5 would be "Nexus 5/Camera/...".

Any help is appreciated. I am sure there are users out there who are using Android + Mac.

Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justwondering:
Help please , i have checked on Needrom.com but i cannot see the rom for the V6.....will any other roms be suitable to use on the Jiake V6 ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justwondering:
I very stupidly did not back up the rom , before i started playing with some of the settings....in real need of the rom if possible :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justwondering:
Anyone pleassssssssssssssssssssssse
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] promo87:
Here try using this ROM avaialble over "http://en.miui.com/thread-29808-1-1.html" see if this helps your out ! :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justwondering:
Hi Thank you , i cannot see my device listed there :( can you tell me which version of the rom would be best please , i assume i install via CWM?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GeekyDroid:
Hi,

I didn't find any ROM on the net for your phone, but this may be a good news for you! I found a device with same SoC as your device which has MIUI ROM. Here

Here is a guide on how to port it! Try it, it may work. I think it will as porting between 2 same MTK SoC's is really easy!

Cheers! :cowboy:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justwondering:
Thank you i shall take a look , thats brilliant :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justwondering:
I was just reading how to port :-

looks like i need the official rom of my phone.....but the big problem is my rom is not working !

http://reviewonanything.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/ultimate-guide-for-dummies-port-miui.html
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GeekyDroid:
Well, what's wrong with your stock ROM? You can dump the system and/or make a nandroid backup in any custom recovery.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justwondering:
Basically , i was running the standard rom that came with my phone , i changed to NOVA launcher , but the phones normal launcher was still running the background.....so i rooted the phone and froze the original launcher that came with the phone as it was draining the battery.........anyway , i found the phone was running a bit slow , i had installed various apps etc..........Sooooo i thought , just reset the phone .....so because i did not unfreeze the original launcher , when it came to resetting , the phone now has no launcher due to me freezing it !

It looks as if most of the rom is still there as it does load up , it checks for sim cards etc but then stops at that point , even the phone signals come up.

So do you think it is worth using CWM to still back up the rom and use for porting to MIUI Jiake V8 version ?

If so , what command in CWM do i use to make a rom for using in porting .

Thank you for your help.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GeekyDroid:
Have you enabled USB debugging on your phone? You can simply install apps through ADB, so you can install a launcher through ADB and/or push it to system!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justwondering:
Hi , i dont think i did , like i say , the phone does not fully boot , because i disabled the original launcher .

so basically , turn phone on , JIake screen , loads , then does not make it to the launcher , it just crashes , so i cannot go into settings etc etc...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GeekyDroid:
But I think you are able to swipe down the statusbar, right? If not, then make a CWM nandroid backup, convert it into a flashable ZIP and port MIUI.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justwondering:
In the android recovery (3e) i have the option of Apply update from ADB

i have the following other options

reboot system now

apply update from adb

apply update from sdcard

apply update from cache

wipe data factory reset

wipe cache

backup user data

restore user data

Do i simply backup user data for my rom to port to MIUI ? or is there a simple way using the ADB update ?

With the ADB for the launcher update , how would i do that and how would the system pick up on my choice of launcher ? would i need to edit some lines of code to point towards my choice ?

Thank you for your help.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justwondering:
Thank you for this , i had not tried to do this , yes i can get into my settings on my phone.... i wiped all the cache etc in the rocovery mode , then rebooted the phone , i then side swiped down to get into my settings.....i set up my google account...but when i load google playstore it just seems to hang...with the loading screen....i can even launch the browser from settings via the Apps setting menu....everything is working...but still no launcher....

i'm still a bit stuck on how to side load something like Nova launcher , so i can get my phone fully funcational again

I had hoped that with been able to set up my google account etc , the google store would of worked , then i could of just downloaded a launcher !

But hey i think i am getting somewhere today with this phone :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justwondering:
Oooooooooh wow , thank you for the side swipe idea.....i cleared the data for the googlestore via the app settings , re-ticked the agree to google terms and conditions , then downloaded nova launcher !!!! looks as if things are working a bit better again :)

Brilliant i have even rebooted the phone and it loads straight to NOVA launcher :)

Can i still unfreeze the old launcher do you think ?

I would still like to convert to MIUI though :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GeekyDroid:
Nice to hear, that you got your phone working again!

Well, I would now copy the nova launcher to system/app and give rw-r-r permissions to it, so you won'z get problems again! :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justwondering:
Brilliant , so if i do that , even if i do a full reset will it use nova launcher as my main launcher ?

Which option in my recovery options do i use to make a rom , so i can port to MIUI ?

Thank you every so much :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GeekyDroid:
Yes, you can. Well, If you don't have an actual stock ROM then it's not that easy to port it. As you have to make a nandroid backup, then convert it into flashable ZIP. But you actually need to set the right mount points for your device in the updater-script. And I don't know how to find that out. So I would be statisfied with stock ROM! :angel:
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riunoob1:
i have a rooted lg optimus e400. the device has memory problem because the built in memory is separated into 2, system storage and internal storage. all downloaded apps is stored automatically on the system memory which is too low. i tried flashing a custom rom which merges system memory and internal memory, but the rom keeps on freezing and i decided to flash the stock rom. is there any way to use the stock rom and just set the sd card as default storage for downloaded apps? or maybe merge system memory with internal memory. or anyway to expand memory using whatever method? and if there is a way. could you give detailed instruction and links for the fix coz i'm kinda new at this. thanks:)
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mabbutt:
Hi,

I am trying to unbrick my Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5839i using the JOdin3 Casual online applet (I can not post the outside link).

I can connect my phone and everything is fine.

However every time the applet tries to obtain my PIT file it says that it tired but could not do it. If I manually add a PIT file then the applet crashes so I am at a dead end.

Please can someone advise if they can get this working or if there is something else I can try?

I have used Odin on a PC (via VMWare on my Mac) but I can not get the phone to be recognised in 'download' mode.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fffft:
You need to use Odin, not JOdin. And not emulated through VM. Odin is a low level utility, sensitive to timing. In short, you need to find or borrow a PC and use Odin to be assured of success. I'm not saying that it's impossible to emulate Odin with VM but many have failed before you and it is at least a difficult thing to accomplish.

Find a PC and run Odin. Even then you may have to try several different USB cables or ports before you get a successful write. Also it is imperative that you pull the battery and use the volume down + home + power button to enter download mode. If the write attempt fails do not close Odin. Instead pull the phone battery a second time, then vol down + home + power again to re-enter download mode. Then attempt the write again. Inevitably it will succeed the second time after the first failure.

Also note that due to the likelihood of existing partition corruption that you should provide a known good PIT file, rather than let Odin try to use the existing partition information from the phone.

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[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mabbutt:
Hi fffft,

Thank you for your advice which seems pretty good, I will try and do this via a friends laptop tomorrow.

Do you know where I can get a known good PIT file as that is something I have really struggled with?

Every single one I find the link is dead.

Many thanks
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fffft:
Well you've posted in the S5 forum. Most of the S5 PIT files can be found here.

But you also said that you have a Galaxy Ace, so it's not clear if you are posting in the wrong forum or referenced a different phone that you have by mistake. You didn't give any details of how you searched, so we have no way of knowing whether your search was effective or comprehensive. But most people do not do thorough searches. It's likely that if you spent a few minutes longer or varied your search keywords that you could find the PIT file that you need. Or alternately find someone else with a working Galaxy Ace, in person or online and have them extract a PIT file from their phone.

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[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mabbutt:
I have an Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5839i and it seems wrongly assumed that this was the correct place to put it. If it is in the wrong place can a moderator move it for me or let me know how I can move it?

I am by no stretch of the imagination an advanced user and have searched as thoroughly as I know how to using Google and links in posts that I have found on forums. Using these searches I have found numerous PIT files but none of them have worked so far. As I said I am not advanced but I am learning and know a lot more just from the above posts.

I will look on the forum here and see if there is a PIT file that works for a Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5839i.

Many thanks for your help and I am sorry if my lack of knowledge riled you.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fffft:
Galaxy Ace subform

Google search: 5839i pit xda

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1811196

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2085394

http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f200/successfully-flashed-samsung-galaxy-ace-s5830ii-1486309/

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[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mabbutt:
4608

Hi fffft,

Thank you for the links. Most of them I have already seen after searching myself and they mostly return dead links to the PIT file or simply have a link for Odin that has a PIT file in the download which returns as a corrupted file when Odin runs it.

If you followed those links yourself you would have discovered this but it was easier to simply paste a few Google searches in and assume that they would be working. Here let me Google this for you doesn't always make you look clever.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fffft:
You couldn't find the correct forum or a working link to the file you needed. I provided both for you and all you can do is complain that you look foolish.

Good luck with your problems

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[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] tlsty:
Hi guys,

i was wondering which custom ROM has limited or completely cancelled functionality of sending data to Google. Which custom ROM is "safest" and "most secure" in this area? if it is possible to use some application, which limits/prevents apps (or OS directly) to access sensitive data and send them "anywhere" in an uncontrolled way - please let me know. Thank you.

Kind regards,

tlsty
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] WhiteNeo:
Try using CM10 with Orbot app enabled (=TOR, network anonymizer), also use Xposed and the module XPrivacy.

It is hard to prevent Google from observing your device if the device os itself os made by Google. ^^
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] peter-k:
I think that's not a question in between the different ROM's. But of you ask this question, the general answer would be the older the "better".

Than higher the version no. of Google services and then more Google apps installed than more meta-date transfers.

The easiest solution is not installing Gapps, and disabling "let Google apps use this device's location any time it is on".
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] tlsty:
Hi peter-k,

thx for suggestion. it makes sense :) i already disabled the location providing and anything what i know as IT guy, but i am considering to choose a custom rom (CMpreferably). do custom roms have google services running? is it possible to actually stop them / prevent them from starting on the boot?

thx
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Antiga Prime:
Even on stock ROM you can totally prevent any and all google services from running. You can try with Autostart Manager, System Tuner, and I think there even might be an Xposed module that does that too.

I for one disable/freeze some of the Google Services/apps, and only enable them when I need access to the Play Store; I use a script with Smanager, takes about 10 seconds and is a lot easier and practical than looking for and disabling receivers every time I flash a new ROM.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] tlsty:
Hi Antiga Prime,

would you be so kind and explain to me step by spet how to apply the script? THX
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Antiga Prime:
1.- Install Smanager from the Play Store.

2.- Copy the attached files to your sdcard (skip to step 4), or

3.- Use Smanager to create two new scripts with the following code:

Filename 1: enableplaystore

#!/system/bin/sh
# enable play store

pm enable com.android.vending
pm enable com.google.android.gsf
pm enable com.google.android.location
pm enable com.google.android.gms

Filename 2: disableplaystore

#!/system/bin/sh
# disable play store

pm disable com.android.vending
pm disable com.google.android.gsf
pm disable com.google.android.location
pm disable com.google.android.gms

4.- Use Smanager to navigate to the location where you copied/saved the scripts, select one of the scripts and mark the "SU" box so that it runs with Superuser access, then press the "Save" button. Repeat for the second script.

To run the scripts you can either:

- Open SManager and press the Menu button, then press Scripts, then select the script you want to run and press the "Run" button

- Create widgets on your home screen that point to the script you want to run

- Install SMwidgets from the Play Store and create shortcuts to your scripts (which is more organized since you can put all your shortcuts in a folder).

Then, you can use the "disableplaystore" to disable the selected packages, and "enableplaystore" to enable it whenever you need access to the Google Services Framework/Location Services/Play Store, etc.

Just so you know, this will prevent apps that use Google's GCM service to deliver notifications to your phone, but I figured you already knew that since you want to disable everything from contacting Google.
[Sony Cross-Device General] KuaQ:
To do:

•How to port search box and text fields according theme color, Added

•How to port switchers accorind theme color, Added

•How to port btn_toggle, day &number picker according theme color

• and more...
[Sony Cross-Device General] KuaQ:
one more :D
[Sony Cross-Device General] BarbasanAB:
How to change colors of bubbles (Received and Sent) is SMS message? Thanks...
[Sony Cross-Device General] serajr:
Congrats!!

Really useful and well written!!
[Sony Cross-Device General] alinolaw71:
top work bro.

so usfull

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