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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] DarkStar2018:
Pulled an old but pristine S7 out of a drawer to give as a first-phone to my nephew. Annnd it's locked to a Google account I don't have any ****ing IDEA what it is. ****ed by FRP.

I found a Google Drive link on this site that said it had the stock files but the link is long dead.

I already have ODIN and know how to put it in BOOTLOADER (not just recovery) mode. Is there somewhere to get the right files to get rid of FRP?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] DarkStar2018:
IMEI check came back with this:

Model Info: MOBILE SM-G930V BLACK VZW

Search Term: 355301074345102

IMEI 1: 355301074345102

Serial Number: R38H3123FPZ

Model Desc: Model Desc: Galaxy S7

Model Name: SM-G930V

Model Number: SM-G930VZKAVZW

Warranty Status: Out of Warranty

Estimated Warranty End Date: 25-03-2018

Production location: Korea SEC

Production Date: 25-03-2016

Country: United States

Carrier: Verizon

GSMA Blacklist Status: Clean
[Android TV General] huaweiport77:
Most of av receiver not support eac3 audio format through hdmi arc . but support in bitstream format. Is any option to activate this feature.

My case Tv panasonic and Samsung home theater. Support only ac3.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] dkaile:
I live in an area with weak signal. Every once in a while when my 6800 gets signal, it provides a notification popup showing Area e.g. "Pune"

It occurs god-knows-how-many-times a day, and I am irritated as hell.

I guess some registry settings are needed to fix it. Can anyone please help?
[Mogul, XV6800 General] schettj:
Settings, Sounds and Notifications - Notifications tab?

Or...

Settings, Phone, Services?

One of those should have a setting...
[Mogul, XV6800 General] digiblur:
If you're on Sprint call retentions and get a free Airave.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] dkaile:
Nope, its not there... Searched everywhere... It has to be somewhere in Registry or it is in the Sprint Extended Rom (not visible)..... pls advise...
[Introductions] RhondaJo85:
Please help my moto G Stylus is saying it's a Linux?
[Moto Z4 Questions & Answers] mileshighmarkey:
Sorry if this is in the wrong section, not sure where to post. Its a 2 part, but regarding the possibilities of compiling or even taking the stock rom from a Moto Z4 (or generation variant) and then running it on a newer Motorola phone for the Moto Mod capabilities, Would it be possible? For the second, would it then be possible to solder/rewire the phones Moto Mod hardware component to the newer Motorola phone?
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Questions & Answers] Ronaldo_7:
Hello everyone at XDA

I can't find the link to download Pixel Experience ROM Android 12 for Xiaomi Redmi Note 4(Mido)

Can anyone tell me when the official version will be available?

Thanks a lot!
[ASUS ROG Phone 5 / 5s] Restel1k:
I have the ROG 5s Tencent Version (ZS673KS) I think the WW build. So far I've only tried in Verizon (No call, only data), TMobile (worked perfectly), MetroPCS (didn't work at all), and Claro (another country, worked perfectly). Anyways I saw someone in the forum mention they have this same version of the phone and they use MetroPCS. I was wondering if anybody else has it and what they did to make it work.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] johndango:
I won't lie. It's been hard avoiding getting the iphone. The number one feature I want is an app store full of crap I can impulse buy. I want to be out somewhere, bored, and be able to buy a video game or something. The number two most important feature I want is a good browser.

I've been holding out for the Fuze because I've traditionally always bought WM phones. I'm anxously awaiting WM7 because it potentially has a bunch of features I will be really excited about (ie. I am a Zune Pass subscriber, so I look forward to a Zune MP on WM phones) but I the commercials for the iphone keep teasing me... taunting me... telling me I can waste tons of time on it... I keep thinking I could buy the Iphone for use for the year and by the time WM7 comes out, there'll be all kinds of brand new WM7 ready phones that I could switch to.

I'll be honest with you, besides possibly erasing bloatware, I don't plan on doing a lot of modding or anything like that so that isn't important to me.

I want some honest opinions. Should I stand firm on my resolution to get the Fuze or should I take a dip in the iphone waters?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] jblakk:
Reasons not to get an iPhoney

(in no particular order)

1. No MMS(picture messaging) when they say you can just email it to someone...how do you send a picture to your friend with a Razor? You can't

2.no Copy and paste(really, how did they leave out something so basic!)

3. can not shoot video (unless you jailbreak it, then you risk getting it killswitched)

4. can't listen to audio through bluetooth, so you can't pair a bluetooth headset to it, nor can you stream it to your cool car stereo(think MS sync in fords)

That's the 4 big ones off the top of my head, go read the iPhone bashing thread for more details.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] TaurenSnake:
My top 3 reasons not to get an iPhone:

1.no multitasking (its like I went back to the Palm OS days)

2.no copy and paste (very annoying as I need this for my day to day work)

3.no physical keyboard (Just cant get used to using on-screen keyboards. I like tactile feel of keyboards too much.)

I can list other reasons as to why but these are the main hurdles Apple will have to get over before I would ever consider one.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] johndango:
Thanks but I've never send an MMS anyway, never thought lack of copy and paste was a HUGE deal, not being able shoot video does really suck, and not being able to listen to audio through bluetooth sounds sucky but I've never done it before anyway. Again, what really sucks is that there's no WM app store. Seriously. It's bugging me so much. And as I said, I expect WM7 will have one... but still... that's a year away and I'm impatient...
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] dtmcnamara:
i have personally owned the new 3g....hated it, let me begin:

battery life sucks:

Why own a 3G iPhone if you have to turn 3G off in order to get a full day out of the battery. And if I even begain to turn the back light up a little then there goes the battery as well. I had one day that I charged teh phone 3 times (full times) to get through the day

you have to pay for apps:

I know you do with a lot of phones, but damn its like if you have an app market there needs to be more free. And almost all of the free one sucks. 1.99 here, 2.99 there add sup QUICK

price of the plan:

they rape everyone with the "iPhone" plan...whatever. I dont even need to say more.

Voicemail get erased:

when you get the "iphone plan" it erases your voicemail and you need to start it all up again. even if you have saved voicemails in it, BYE BYE....and they will not tell you this either

cannot download:

you cannot download ANYTHING on it. I had someone send me a file that I wanted to download onto my phone and run on a school computer that did not have internet hooked up to it. all it was was a .doc file....nope cannot do that

camera:

SUCKS. still in the 1999 era of "slightly better that vga"

acessories are $$$:

all the no name brand stuff is out there is cheap, and breaks easily. but then again a good incase costs almost $50...and then a screen protector is $15 for 2.

cannot copy and paste:

need i say more?

I can go on...
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Black93300ZX:
Get a G1, Android Market is sick, has plenty of applications now and it will grow very quickly.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] GazzaK:
Biggest reason for me not getting a iPhone was the lack of tethering.

(linking the phone to a laptop via say bluetooth so that the computer can use the phones internet connection)

I am a IT support guy and sometimes need to be able to ssh into servers, and tethering a phone is the way I was doing it at the time.

I then bought a HTC Touch Pro, and now do not even need a laptop, as I have pocketputty on the TP, it's great for a quick reboot/restart backup etc.

I'd not want to have to spend too long on the TP though, but it's great for freeing me to not have to lug everything round all the time.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Black93300ZX:
Tethering is coming soon for the iPhone:

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/11/06/confirmed-iphone-tethering-plan-making-its-way-to-att/
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] GazzaK:
Great, but... thats the US, it'll probably take ages to filter down to us in the UK
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Black93300ZX:
So jailbreak it and do it for free. I don't like the iPhone very much, but there are ways around most of its lack of features. Jailbreaking can you get MMS, video recording, tethering...
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] jtoyz2:
copy and paste...so on and so forth we hear it all with iphone not up to WM...but iphone runs very smooth video, games, music...its basically an easy everyday use...if u looking for a more advance normal phone, iphone is the way to go...but WM phone like myself i used it for alot more than making calls, theres things WM wish it can do like iphone and like wise...its just how u use it everyday...i have the itouch and a kaiser...itouch basically fun to watch movies and play games and music...but i can do that with WM phone as well...its just iphone u can get to those thing alot faster with a bunch of shortcut than WM phone, yea i can create short cut on WM as well but with iphone/itouch its just seem more suited for entertainment...i connect my WM to everything though from laptop to cars and share file with basically every device but iphone...pros and cons to everything...theres a reason why every new phone that comes out claim they are the iphone killer...70 percent of people that owns WM phones dont even know how to use the damn thing...but the other 30 percent knows wsup. sounds like u already know whats each is capable of so you gonna have to make this decision on ur own
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] nuke1:
Lol, those that say iPhone is a lot faster should turn off multitasking in WM. I just don't want to hear them guys complain that they can't multitask any more as I don't hear them complain about the lack of multitasking in the iPhone.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] nuke1:
Another thing. For those that want an app store, they should search for the Gecko Project on this forum.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] alaiwy:
Let me tell you why you should get an iPhone and why you shouldn't. If all you do is basic browsing and listen to music on your phone you should get an iPhone. The browsing experience is still, hands down, the best experience...when it works. I get lots of crashes because it doesn't handle flash at all and mishandles java. But it only happens when I'm viewing a memory intensive or java based web page.

I cannot handle the iPhone anymore and will replace it with the Fuze when it releases for one main reason. No multi-tasking and no turn-by-turn. Despite the problems with WM, which they have many, everything "works" when I want it to. I don't have to worry about Opera mini or skyfire crashing because it can't handle basic flash. If a website doesn't completely work on Mini it just doesn't load properly, it doesn't take you 5 minutes to load just to crash to desktop.

The turn-by-turn is an interesting one but let me explain why it's such a big deal. TomTom has had iPhone software ready for months but can't release it because Apple denies anything from entering the app store that is in "competition" with the base iPhone software. That's why Opera isn't developing mini for the iPhone anymore. Apple is so concentrated on blocking people that it breeds an air of exclusivity, which Apple uses as a marketing tool. While Windows isn't exactly a saint in this category at least the users have fully unlocked phones to be used for whatever you want. And Microsoft will never try to stop basic programs (like TomTom) from creating software for their devices.

What Apple has missed is that the more good software that is available, regardless of what it competes against, the more likely people will buy their product.

Additional problems with the iPhone include:

-no copy/paste

-VERY bad battery life, and I've used lots of 3g phones to compare

-No way to completely turn off ALL sounds for apps etc

-have to jailbreak to tether or do any program worth mentioning

-have to use iTunes. I freaking hate iTunes!

-no file browser (unless you jailbreak)

-have to jailbreak to even get access to your file system

-no flash support....period

Now, to be fair I will post what I like about the iPhone:

-music player is VASTLY superior

-sound quality is VASTLY superior

-basic browsing is smooth and truly better

-3.5" screen is very nice

-slim

-finding the software available is easy (see above for negative!)

-3.5mm headphone jack (some WM devices have, not most HTC)

All-in-all, if you are a basic phone user (which most people that spend time on the site aren't) the iPhone is phenomenal. If you like to do anything with your phone beyond what comes standard, avoid it like the plague. Even with jailbroken your options are still pretty much limited.

I suggest getting a windows mobile phone and use it until Android is ported. With Haret you can run to operating systems until you decide which you like better.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] laakness:
I was in the same boat for about the last month and was heavily thinking I'd be buying an iPhone in December when my upgrade is available. I even was playing with a friends and had myself convinced.

Luckily I came to my senses and have decided to get the Fuze when I can. Granted, the touch screen on the iphone is more sensitive...but I've tried using multiple good onscreen touch keyboards on the tilt and the second you get past a few words and want to type quickly you'll be wishing you had a keyboard.

Also, as another user mentioned the app store can add up and there is a reason most apps are free...because they aren't great. For every 1 good app there are a zillion useless novelty apps that are fun for a few minutes but nothing more.

I used to not fall for the sealed battery excuse until recently my 6 month old ipod nano proved to me exactly why I should care. I am not one of the people that carries multiple batteries and needs to switch during the day...but...my ipod nano when you take it off the charger is immediately down 2 pixel width's of battery so it's not even 100% after a full charge. Now what happens when that happens to your phone...you schedule a week of vacation so you can ship it off and not worry about work or actually using it :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] GermanGuy:
iPhone is a toy. I had it for 2 months, then gave it to my wife and went back to the tilt. iPhone is a fun device but it is not functional enough.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] DSF:
it does have multitasking. what it does not have is a task manager.

why TP and not iphone?

- QWERTY

- WM si more mature, more apps, more tweakable

- copy/paste

- more RAM

- higher res

- HSPDA

- BT is not limited to A2DP

- etc

However iphone has it's own pluses, such as: faster CPU, better GPU AFAIK, dynamic UI, etc
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Gav_:
Take a look at the HTC Touch HD (youtube it). Now that is waaaaay better than the iPhone.

If you want a keyboard and a smaller phone (width & height) like me, can't beat the Touch Pro.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] LordLugard:
For me personally, the top reason is that it's not on Sprint my preferred carrier.

And then no real GPS app. I can't live without TomTom on my TP, no way, especially now that i've been gifted a car. Been using TomTom on my PDA phones since version 5.

My biggest peeve is the chokehold Apple has on it in terms of 3rd party customization. To me it's stifling. An app only gets in only if they sanction it. So an app like WMWifirouter would never make it into the app store then.

They rejected an app called Podcaster that allowed you to download audio/video podcasts over the air, and the reason given was because it competed with and duplicated the podcast features of iTunes. But it's been now revealed that the real reason is because they are putting in over the air podcast downloads (albeit limited to 10MB or less) in the upcoming 2.2 firmware and do not want any competition.

Read here http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/apple-adds-ota-podcast-downloads-to-iphone-firmware-2-2-continu/ .

Just imagine if you couldn't run any other browser but Pocket I.E (no Opera Mobile/mini, Skyfire, Netfront), or any other media player but Windows media player (no pTunes/CorePlayer/Tcpmp), all because they duplicate an already existing functionality in Windows Mobile.

For me, those are too important to give up. Think about it.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Smaniac:
If you don't mind the size, maybe you should get a Touch HD, because it has bigger screen, and therefore slightly better browsing experience.

iPhone's resolution is too low for decent browsing IMO.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Phantisy:
Its for simple minded people who almost have no depth in mind. Buying an iphone is like supporting blueray. Its an incomplete format and every time an upgrade or better version comes out you lose pocket money. Come on no C&P and no 3rd party GPS apps. What kinda of crap is that. Who the hell wants to use what crapple makes for software its whack.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] cpnichols:
- No copy paste... not only is this an issue, just the fact alone that they have gone through several updates, and even have a new version of the phone and STILL not addressed this issue, goes to show you something about the iphone philosophy.

- Have to use itunes, and can't "sync" with more then one computer or it will zap all your music and videos.

- No real keyboard. Got a lot of emails from iphone users with weird auto-completes.

- Some cool apps, but only those approved by apple. For example, Apple has nixed all development of Opera and Firefox for Iphones. Iphone browser is nice, but Opera is looking pretty darn good, and getting better

- WM has a TON of apps. There are probably 100x more free apps on WM than all iphone apps

- Iphones drop calls all the time

- WM works out of the box with an exchange server. Push mail, etc...

- Replacing the battery on an Iphone means turning it into apple and them having to break into it and replace it, as it is directly on the MB.

- No expandable ram, such as an microSD slot

- Can't listen to internet radio... some weird apple law for their apps

- No turn by turn GPS apps allowed... some weird apple law for their apps

What Iphone do have that is cool

- Multi touch

- lots of games/apps using the accelerometer

- big screen

- 3.5 audio jack on the actual phone
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] alaiwy:
It doesn't have multitasking. If you are in safari and you hit the home button and load another application it quits safari. It is not persistent. Likewise if you're chatting with a friend with an IM app and you want to check your email you close it out and it will close you IM client and you won't receive messages etc.

The only thing that is allowed to run in the background is the phone app and the ipod. Which just makes it stupid because they obviously have the ability to multitask but just with the two apps that apple wants you to multitask. That sort of restrictive programing just makes me want to get rid of it. And I will get rid of it as soon as the Fuze is available.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Crotalus:
I have been using an iPhone for the last 2 weeks and the dang thing is growing on me. My biggest gripe is no voice dialing through bluetooth and the lack of excel/word editting.

It feels better in my pocket that my 8525, the screen is nice and i am getting used to the touch-only keyboard.

As i told my boss who is testing one also - after fiddling with WinMo for the past two years it is kinda nice just to pickup th ephone and use it without any problems.

battery life is consistent with the performance I was getting with the 8525 so that is a non-issue.

I may just hold off until the next generation of HTC's with WinMo 7 comes out and upgrade then. Of course i could walk into the AT&T store and completely fall in love with the Fuze and buy it.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] jerrykur:
One of the biggest issues I have is no XDA-developers.com with people cooking roms and otherwise modifying the phones OS or radios. This place is great resource.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] KD8DNS:
My brother has a Iphone and I call him gay... That should be reason enough unless you are
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] DeepThought:
Wow, that sounds very grown-up!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] ramontrotman:
the next time i read this post, i expect to see an apology to all or any you may have offended by that comment.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] ramontrotman:
I have a different out look to offer you. Let’s not look at what the iphone can do vs. what our soon to be loved fuze will do. Let’s look a little further into the future. One can argue that the iphone’s UI and all its features are revolutionary. And one could also argue that many have set out to copy their business model and anything else involving the iphone. But I would hope that you could hold on just a little while longer.

Microsoft’s got this nice little os coming soon…called windows mobile 6.5 (or windows mobile 7) and I think its worth holding on to. If you’re no stranger to the world if xda, then you already know they’ll be lots of roms based on the new os. The hardware specs for the fuze covers it nicely for the next version of windows mobile…so you can look forward to some goodies.

Apple? Lets face it, they’ve yet to wow a crowd like they did with the iphone. That’s some odd 3 years ago. My question is…how much more can they put into it before people start saying “aaaah…that’s cool…but!” I think apple has reached a little wall when it comes to innovation right now. I can’t see anything outrageously cool coming from the apple mobile camp any time soon.

But remember…Microsoft has got some catching up to do…and if windows 7 is any kind of hint as to how hard Microsoft of coming…then we’re in for a hell of a treat. That’s why you don’t get an iphone ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Vasko:
Here's another comparison.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] KD8DNS:
You have my sincere apolgies. Now that I re-read that post it really refects poorly on me, and that is not the reputation I would like to have here. So again I am sorry!!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] wildpig1234:
For me the most important thing is flexibility and adaptability. Sure Winmo does have its moments when it crashes once in a while (like any windows). Sure the interface might not be as slick as apple (ie MAC vs PC). But if there is any kind of clamp down on third party applications and self customization, it's a total deal breaker for me.

i never read much about iphone because i never really consider one. but just reading this thread about a just even a few negative things about it (no copy paste, no bluetooth stereo, 3rd party gps software, browser), if these are true even with the latest revision of iphone, this seals my decision about iphone fate for me. How can anyone even think about doing this? And i am even more surprised how can so many people even go along with it and buy an iphone.

then again, i guess steve jobs doesn't get millions if he cant convince millions of people to buy a product like iphone with all those limitations... Guess apple is lucky that most people around are not like me or most of us in xda. We would NEVER put up with those kinds of things....

If i am going to spend $200-300+ on a phone, i would definitely want more than just a fancy looking mp3 or video player that can't easily be made to play xvid or even do simple things like copy and paste.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Foxfirebass:
As a student, I a bag on me a lot of the time. This is why I currently carry both an iPod Touch 2g (web, email, games) and an iPod Classic (music). When the Fuze comes out, I will certainly be adding it to those devices.

Ridiculous? Maybe. But I like having a lot of devices to play with.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Phantisy:
lol that is perfect.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] wildpig1234:
Right on . couldnt say it any better ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] weaselcossey:
IMO, the ONLY feature worth mentioning, when compared to Touch Pro/Fuze, is the capacitive touch screen.