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[Nexus 6P General] Kookitza:
Sorry Google Play Music subscribers. It looks like you won’t be getting an advertised three month credit when you purchase a new LG Nexus 5X or Huawei Nexus 6P. In the terms for the Play Nexus 90 promotion, it says the following:

“The Offer is only open to residents in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain, Austria, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Switzerland, Belgium, Norway, Poland, Greece, Japan, Australia and New Zealand (each an “Eligible Territory”) who:

In past cases, even as recently as the Nexus 6, current subscribers would get a credit towards their bill. I personally have a credit until December due to buying a Nexus 6 and I’ve been a subscriber since the service begun a few years ago.

Definitely disappointing but probably not something that will keep many people from purchasing the phone. If you’ve only used the free version of the service it appears that you’ll still be able to redeem the offer and get three free months.

http://www.androidguys.com/2015/10/03/current-subscribers-wont-receive-a-google-play-music-credit-with-a-new-nexus-purchase
[Nexus 6P General] lopri:
Ugh
[Nexus 6P General] chrisjcks:
Makes absolutely no sense!

Existing customers get nothing.

And because I'm in the UK, I don't even get the $50 Google Play credit that everyone gets in the states either.

It's bad enough we pay soooo much more for the device aswell!

.... Thanks for nothing Google! (Literally)
[Nexus 6P General] [hfm]:
I'm not even planning on taking advantage of it. 90% of my music listening is on the subway, streaming doesn't work for me.
[Nexus 6P General] 1SiK1500:
Thats disappointing for sure..
[Nexus 6P General] md1008:
Just create a new gmail. Should work and since you can have multiple accounts on a device it won't impact you. I did this with Nexus 6 promotion last year
[Nexus 6P General] WoodroweBones:
You can create playlists and then select to download them to your device for offline use. Any future songs added to that list will auto-download on your device when you have data (you can select it to only happen on Wi-Fi).

I was planning on doing something similar with my car. There is an after market android head unit (not android auto) that I was looking at and I would put Play Music on it and make a playlist for the car and have it auto-download there. When the car is in my driveway it gets Wi-Fi and would download the music before I left
[Nexus 6P General] Pilz:
You can download it for offline playback
[Nexus 6P General] indianajonze:
i don't know what's so outrageous about this. i know you mention something about being able to take advantage of such offers before, but that's never been the case for me. Previous offers bundled with other nexus devices and chromebooks have been off limits to me as an existing subscriber. the only thing they've consistently allowed was google drive storage bonuses. ymmv but it's hardly shocking
[Nexus 6P General] [hfm]:
I'm just extremely anal about my music collection. I like organizing it on my NAS so I can put it on any device I feel like with a simple copy on my local WiFi. I also have Amazon prime (where I buy all my mp3s anyway for a large number of years) so I'm already paying for being able to stream a decent chunk of my purchases and whatever Amazon throws in for free in Prime from time to time if I want to stream something on my laptop that I don't actually "own" in a rare case. I don't need yet another music service I will rarely want to use. I like having full control over my mp3s. I definitely see the draw for people that like to use it or if you don't have a music collection at all. But I've got like hundreds of gigabytes of music that ripped from my CD's (which I rarely buy anymore, but I've still got a ton of them) and purchased from Amazon MP3. I've still got all my CD's going back to like the late 80s :) (I'm old..relatively..)
[Nexus 6P General] gman16000:
bummer. i like free credits.

but this phone is so awesome, i'd buy it again. credits be damned.
[Nexus 6P General] Aridon:
AS someone said, its pretty trivial to create a new google account and use it for music for the 3 months.
[Nexus 6P General] htowngator:
Then credit me the 3 months of service in my google account.
[Nexus 6P General] EVOme:
Pisses me off. We should get something.
[Nexus 6P General] Elnrik:
Why do you feel entitled to this? :confused:

The world is full of "for new subscribers only" type offers. The concept is well understood. The terms were posted when you purchased the device. What ever Google did previously with other releases is not relevant.

I ask because I don't understand the sense of entitlement and anger people expresses in this thread over what amounts to less than $30.
[Nexus 6P General] EVOme:
Well, it sucks when companies screw current customers in order to gain new customers. We've contributed to the success of the service and when there's incentives to be had, you'd think current loyal customers saw something from it. One month free would be fine with me....something to say thanks for being a customer as well as thanks for spending $590 on our new phone. I don't feel i'm owed anything, btw....just think there should be something for us all.
[Nexus 6P General] chrisjcks:
How about the $50 Google Play Credit & the fact it's only U.S only.

You don't think this is unfair?

Especially when everyone outside of the states pay a much higher price for the devices already.
[Nexus 6P General] Slimgym20:
Would have been nice to have credit towards my current service - but doesn't surprise me they aren't doing this. Also, would be nice to buy a case with the $50 - Is what it is, not why I bought the phone anyways.
[Nexus 6P General] Elnrik:
Well, that's what I don't understand though. From my perspective, I'm not being screwed. You're not being screwed. Google hasn't increased the price of the service, or deleted our music libraries, or whatever just to be spiteful or to screw you. Nothing is changing for us. Google is just offering new customers a little incentive to use their product.
[Nexus 6P General] Elnrik:
I don't understand the decision, but I wouldn't call it unfair.

Let's examine that.

In the States the 32GB black Nexus 6P costs $499. According to Google, the current conversion rates makes that 324.89 British Pounds.

In the UK, the same phone costs what? 449 pounds?

449 pounds converts to $689.62 usd.

$689.62

-499.00

=You're getting screwed.

BUT - considering I have no idea what other costs go into selling the thing in the UK (tariffs, taxes, etc), I couldn't say for sure that this is completely unfair. Easy to look at it and say it is though.
[Nexus 6P General] MYxdaUSERNAME:
I'm surprised they don't extend it at all to current subscribers. Like, not even a month's worth of free music on the account for buying a $600 phone?
[Nexus 6P General] htowngator:
Yea, we aren't "owed" any of that, but if they offer 3 months of Music then that's the deal. Give subscribers the equivalent value in google play dollars or make my renewing subscription start again after 90 days.
[Nexus 6P General] :
Seems this is a case of it is what it is. Thanks for the info OP... But I'll close this thread now. Seems Google is the place to lodge complaints.

And thread cleaned of some bickering.

Thanks,

Darth

Forum Moderator
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knivesout:
When I first received my phone, I set up fingerprint unlocking. Yesterday, I decided to change it to password, which I set as a 4-word string with spaces. Something akin to "bleep bloop ima robot". I can unlock the screen successfully with the password.

Now, I want to go back to fingerprint unlocking. When I go to Settings > Lock screen and security > Screen lock type, I press that option, and it prompts me to Enter the current password. I put the password in, and says Try again. I have tried many, many times now with the very same password that unlocks the screen, and it still won't let me change it.

This is on a Verizon Galaxy S6 Edge+, running Lollipop 5.1.1.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chandresh204:
is it possible to replace the buttons in the moto G 1st gen Xt1033 in India? actually there are a lot of scuff marks and i think there is some chipping on the bottom of the buttons as well. id it possible to get them replaced?
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doreiny:
Hey guys , got my new Note 5 for a week or so now.

Before I was using my Galaxy S4.

I'm using the camera a lot to capture my dogs on the run in sport mode.

I was thinking that the NOTE 5 will do the same, the sport mode in the NOTE 5

Looks like a blur when there is movement.

(Cannot paste a link to the images , below 10 posts here)
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dschachm:
Did you try fast motion?
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doreiny:
Fast motion works In video mode, I'm talking about photos
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doreiny:
Can anyone check it out in his phone please ?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AKMSilva:
the right led light of the illumination bar has suddenly got a yellowish tint. It's because blue color doesn't appear in the led. Please help! rooted xperia c5303 with illumination bar pro:(:(:(:(
[Honor 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] f380cedric:
Hi,

I see that on Lollipop, it is possible to create many user accounts and a guest account. But it is not possible on this phone. Do you have a solution ?

Thx :)
[Honor 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warea:
go to settings>security>privacy protection
[Honor 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] f380cedric:
I saw, but that is not the same, I cannot lock pre-installed app like gmail, chrome. And it is a bit different, in guest session, you can access on all app but with another account (no way to see personal information of the phone's proprietary). So people can use e.g. chrome but with a different session so no cookies, histories, passwords from the phone's proprietary. And all file added by this guest is removed at logout (because guest is created in /tmp).

Is there a way to have this or at least be able to lock pre-installed app
[Honor 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warea:
You can lock only apps via phonemanager>more>app lock
[Honor 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] f380cedric:
Yes, but as I said, Some apps cannot be locked like Google+, Gmail, Google Chrome which are pre-installed
[Honor 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warea:
Didn't notice that as I use the Chinese edition.. Most likely they didn't notice as well as Google apps don't come pre-installed on Chinese editions.. So you can send feedback via Hicare app bringing this to their attention.
[Honor 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] f380cedric:
Re, Eu version was ported to B330 (MM), but since this version, the privacy protection and app lock disappeared... Do you know where they are now ?
[Honor 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vsriram92:
In all regions, this feature was removed after the MM update sadly :(
[Honor 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tgergo:
Unfortunately this feature has been removed from Marshmallow and there is no way to bring it back. I went back to Lollipop because of this, but it was not an easy way. Now I could do it in 2 hours but it took 2 months to find the solution.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cream21:
I need help desperately. When I turn my phone on - it shows a tri-colored (Red-green-blue)screen (with small white at the bottom)

My phone was working just fine - but when I turned it on yesterday - it showed this wierd screen. In the top right corner, it says: RUU

In the red section it reads: IPL 2.26 & below that it reads: SPL 2.26

When I try syncing it - the computer does not recognize it. What can I do? I've looked at the site and searched for a solution. I stayed up almost all night trying to fix it, using MTTY (but no response from the phone). The only thing it does is show USB, when I plug it into the computer.

Other than that - nothing happens. I'm very exasperated. Can someone help me out?

Thanks
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Stinkeymole:
Have you first of all tried hard resetting the device?

If you have to no avail then the fact that your PC can still establish a USB connection with your device (Hence USB displayed in the bottom left of your device's screen)means you should be able to download the latest MDA rom update from the T-Mobile site and re-flash your device to get it back on it's feet. There is plenty of advice on the boards on how to re-flash and it is quite straight forward with the original signed ROM's (no unlocking required)

I hope this helps you in some way and if anyone can provide a link to the download needed please chime in.

C.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] xeno1:
Did you try flashing a new ROM recently? A failed flash can cause that to happen. If not, download T-Mobiles ROM and reflash it and it should go back to normal. Unfortunately that means you'll lose any info that you had on there so hopefully you have it backed up. Before you do that though, make sure it's not doing that because you're accidentally pushing the camera button in while your rebooting your phone. I can see where that would happen accidentally because I'm constantly looking down at my phone only to notice the cameras activated because I accidentally hit that button.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cream21:
Thanks a lot. I'll give it a try and see what happens
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cream21:
I can't get activesync to connect w/my device! Everytime I try - no luck. I've tried the MTTY and still nothing. Can anyone suggest a way for me to use? When I connect the MDA to the computer - it registers in my device manager, but Active sync won't identify it??!???
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Stinkeymole:
You do not need to be connected to active sync (if you're in bootloader mode) to flash an original signed ROM. Just connect you device to the PC, If your device has the tri-colour bootloader screen with USB listed in the bottom left hand corner of the screen (like you said in your first post) you should be able to reflash. Just run the Installer that you have download from the T-mobile website and it should perform the reflash. Forget about active sync for the moment until you get your device up and running again. It really is quite a simple operation. If this does not work for you, you're device might have a genuine fault. I feel confident it should work though as i have been in this situation myself with the MDA-Vario.

P.S What type of device do you have and which country are you in? This may enable me to help you a little more in finding the correct ROM if you don't already have it.

Do let us know how you get on :)

Cheers

C.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cream21:
I have the MDA and I live in the USA

thanks for all of your help. I'm still trying - but nothing seems to be working
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] xeno1:
Did you download the T-Mobile ROM from their site and try to reflash it? If you did, what happens when you run the update exe?

Don't worry about not connecting to activesync right now, if you're in bootloader mode it wont connect.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Stinkeymole:
Here is a link to the T-mobile MDA (USA) Get Software page. you'll have to enter your phone number to get the software you need. Its a big download (Approx 50MB) so be patient. There are also instructions on how to perform the upgrade there.

Good Luck and let us know.

C.

http://www.t-mobile.com/wmupgrade/
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jadajada:
My IMEI has changed and I don't know what has happened. Here's what I have done:

1. Bought a used S3, 9300 international with cracked screen.

2. Changed the screen

3. Tried a call. Worked fine, but the proximity sensor did not work.

4. Did Method 2 on this page: http://www.androidlegend.com/how-to-perform-proximity-sensor-calibration-on-any-samsung-phone/

5. Since the phone now was rooted, I reflashed it but I picked the wrong firmware on sammobil, picked TEN instead of NEE. Both are used in Norway.

6. Went through the wizard, but could not get registered on the network.

7. Reflashed, correctly with NEE this time. Thought that the firmware was to blame. No change.

8. Checked the IMEI and it is a completely different number than what is under the battery.

The IMEI which is under settings reports as a "Digiphone" on imei.info.

What has happened? How can my imei change like that? I did not check the imei before I did method 2 in the link above, but at that time the phone was working.

Is there any way to reset the imei number? This is just the strangest thing :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jadajada:
I have searched and searched today and I am none the wizer... All the threads I find describes an imei problem with 0000 or 0049 imei, mine has become a totally different number. I have absolutely no idea what has happened.

Is this phone to be considered broken?

I have flashed several original firmwares today, both 4.3 and 4.12, but none of them makes my original imei come back.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockThatBodyGER:
It doesnt depend on what system your running, that wont change your imei.

if you still know the original imei, there is a way to change your imei via terminal, i just cant remember anymore how...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jadajada:
Yes I do know the original imei. It is printed on both the phone and the box. The phone was also working two days ago before I used adb to reset the proximity sensor. I don't know what happned since the imei changed. But I would like to change it back.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bojmjma:
my IMEI was gone and we do not have a repair shop in our city any help.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sureshtuty:
go to cwm recovery flash Modem DDEMG2.zip to get your imei. Then flash Patched_XXUGMK6_modem.zip to get mobile signel

Modem DDEMG2.zip - http://d-h.st/2mC6

Patched_XXUGMK6_modem.zip - http://d-h.st/j3h
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jadajada:
I have pretty much given up. I have found several solutions if I had a Qualcomm chip, my my phone has Exynos. I am going to order a new motherboard on ebay.

But can someone help me to understand what happened? I bought a working used phone. It was working and I could make calls. I noticed that the phone's state was "modified". It had probably been rooted. I did not check the imei. I did a repair on the proximity sensor through adb. I did this:

adb shell

su

cat /sys/devices/virtual/sensors/proximity_sensor/prox_cal

cat /sys/devices/virtual/sensors/proximity_sensor/state

echo -en $ '\x0' > /efs/prox_cal

chown system:system /efs/prox_cal

chmod 644 /efs/prox_cal

sync

reboot

After that I flashed a new firmware from sammobile, 4.3.

Now I cannot register to network. I checked the imei, and saw that the phone has a different imei that what is printed on the phone.

My imei is now: 3586*******6816

My original imei is: 3538*******4919

All posts I have found regarding faulty imei has the 0049 imei or 0000. I have completely different number.

I do not understand what has happned. If the phone had the 6816 imei before I did anything, how could it have worked when it does not now? Could the previous owner have done something illegal to make it work, since it was rooted?

I have concluded that this phone is lost, but I would really like to know what on earth happened to it?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bojmjma:
I think you have to send your phone to a repair, in order to change it to original IMEI, thanks.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] larry62:
Just got the SM-G920I via the Monoprice deal. It came loaded with 5.1.1 and upon startup did a Samsung update to bring it to the latest firmware. It's stock and not rooted right now. Put in my AT&T SIM and works fine with LTE and everything else. That's the good part. Given it comes with no warranty, I only have about 5 more days to decide whether to keep it or return it. Not being a Touchwiz fan, I installed some alternative launchers I've used in the past (Nova Prime, Action Launcher 3 Pro and Smart Launcher Pro). I can't diagnose any particular repeatable event, but every once in a while (several times a day) the phone just appears to restart showing the Samsung splash screen bringing you to to lock screen. It doesn't seem to be a full reboot as you don't see the initial "Android" screen and the "recent" menu is still full with the apps in place before the restart. Is this a common Samsung feature/bug other see? Does it seem like the phone might have faulty hardware? I did check for it being a fake, but it seems 100% genuine Samsung. For as painful as it is, I'm now using it under Touchwiz just to see if there is some incompatibility with 3rd party launchers. Any advice?
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] machos1:
I don't have any such problem with the same device bought on eBay from monoprice and att network
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exad:
That's not normal. Try a factory reset if you have the time or just return it
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] larry62:
Clearing the cache partition is seeming to help. No soft reboots since doing it. Hope this doesn't jinx me - knock on Gorilla Glass.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaffeesnob:
I had the same problem and found out it only happened when I was out and about (away from my normal wifi connection) and the phone tried to connect to other wifi networks.

I reset all my wifi access points with an app called wifi fix and rescue, and no more soft reboots since.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] larry62:
My problem is different, and it has returned, but not as bad. Have since reset the phone and started from scratch. I'm trying to see if certain apps are the problem like Gravity Screen. Also, for the time being, I haven't disabled any of the S-crap "added value" loaded on the phone (except S-Voice because it wouldn't let me use Google Now voice recognition without nuking S-Voice). Before I was selectively disabling higher level apps I don't use like Facebook, and all the Microsoft apps. That shouldn't have made a difference. I might still return it and just get a Nexus 5x instead.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] larry62:
Sent the S6 back to Monoprice today. Crashes still remained about once a day. I liked the form factor, screen and camera. Fingerprint reader wasn't 100%, but not too bad most of the time. If it came with a Nexus style software distribution, it would be a killer device assuming no hardware problems. Just seems so senseless for Samsung to invest such effort into duplicating so many of the stock features just so they can create the illusion they are adding value with S-this-and that. I counted about 1.4 GB of bloatware you can't delete. They should completely follow the approach of Motorola and deliver a stock distribution with a couple of added unique capabilities which actual work and are useful. No need for a parallel Samsung app store. If they really don't think the stock launcher is adequate, include a $5 play store credit good towards any number of incredible 3rd party launchers (e.g. Action, Nova, Smart, ...). No, TouchWiz wouldn't be on that list. Waiting for delivery of a Nexus 5x; not as premium build-wise, but stock distribution and knowing security patches will come on a regular basis counts for a lot especially since much of the premium build of the S6 just gets covered by a case anyways.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S6] jrodsep:
About a week ago my wife's S6 got the 5.1.1 update and after some tries to get it to install, it was installed successfully. Last night, she went to use to some information stored on the S-Notes app and every single one of them were deleted and the app was empty.

Is there anyway to recover those files? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

PS: she doesn't have a Samsung account, only the usual Google account sync.