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[Touch HD General] CPhoenix:
Great idea for this thread, I was just about to start one up however it would be appreciatied if all tariffs offered are marked as "New Contract" or "Upgrade".

I popped into town today to buy the Touch HD from Orange as a new contract and see how well I could do.

Well I've gotta warn people DO NOT BUY FROM NOTTINGHAM (Broadmarsh) unless you want to PAY FULL PRICE. Completely un-negotiable! 'Area Manager' refused to offer any discount what so ever because it was a 'just release handset'. Still can't believe that I suggested that I move upto £40p/m and was met with the same contempt!

Whilst chatting to the other staff, the lad let it slip that the 'area manager' has already given as many discounts as she's allowed for the month and its unlikely that I'll get anywhere even talking to her. Unfortunately, she then told him to get rid of me since I wasn't going to get anything (obviously she didn't like the look of me, loitering in the shop waiting for her to deal with some OAPs buying a topup).

I can't fault the lad I was talking to, since he's got no authorisation and was very apologetic but despite saying that he's practically got a sale on his hands and its effectively ££££ walking out the door and ends up as lost revenue, neither the him or the area manager would offer any kind of discount.

Oh well, next place is Derby I guess - hopefully the manager hasn't spent their quota of discounts :(

Hmmm I was informed in-store that the only data tariff they have is the 250mb @ £7.50p/m - I repeatedly asked if there was any other options, teirs, or offers which would increae my limit and he responded everytime with "the all we've got, we are really uncompetative with out data charges".
[Touch HD General] TTDegs:
Mine was sort of new (I've got to cancel my previous [expired] contract), as I believe that Orange don't officially have stock for upgrades at the mo.

I've always found that I get the best deal by phoning them.

You might (if you're lucky) get a better deal face to face in store - but only if the manager likes you / has deals left.

And if they have any in stock anyway.

Obviously, you stand a chance of physically walking away with one in your hand doing it that way - but at least the call centre people have access to centralised stock, not just the 3 (or however many) that have been delivered to the store that week :)
[Touch HD General] ed.dark:
Are these 18 month or 12 month contracts? I can't get a good deal on 12 months (They have conveniently lost a good 12 month offer i was made on Saturday!)
[Touch HD General] TTDegs:
Mine was 18 month.

Anything else I forgot to add? ;) :o
[Touch HD General] _macca:
I'm on an 18 month contract (had to move from 12) This is why they offered the £100 credit.

Also i cant imagine getting a better upgrade deal from the store as they operate on a commission basis, the store would only offer better terms on a new contact for low use customers.
[Touch HD General] potatochip:
touch hd

I'm currently paying about £40 a month including the mobile internet option, contract finishes in a month.

I was offered £15 a month for 1000 mins, loads of texts and apparently unlimited internet. I have to pay £120 for the phone though.

I'll believe it when I get the phone in my hand; still waiting for them to get more stock, I was told it should be tomorrow (Wed Nov 10th).

This was over the phone btw.

They aren't even making me quit Orange and start a new contract like the have every time for the past eight years.

Sounds like a good deal to me but I'm wondering if they will "lose" this offer when they get more stock :(
[Touch HD General] Xarra:
£35/month, panther 45

250MB data (grrr)

£100 for phobe with £100 cashback.

I'm not sure how you guys got much better deals than me... :/
[Touch HD General] lsainsbury:
My deal:

Phone cost: £199 but will get £60 credit on bills so no bill for a few months!

Data: Unlimited data (FUP Capped at 500MB)

Mins: 300 X Network Mins

100 Txt Messages

Unlimited Landline calls

£20pm - 18month contract

7 Days DSR / Cooling off

This was the best deal I could get since my last 3 bills were quite low.

There was no negotiating with them on the handset price, although I did try - including threats to leave as I was out of contract. Sometimes that works and sometimes not.
[Touch HD General] guido45:
Touch HD in stock for upgrades - just got a text. However they will not discount from £199 for the handset (although I could get £20 a month for Racoon)

Think I may buy out of the contract I'm on, and go with either the Expansys deal or the mobiles.co.uk instead
[Touch HD General] potatochip:
Doh!

Just called up Orange and they couldn't find the 15 p/m offer on their system.

Apparently it was from a different department so I'm waiting for a call back with someone from disconnections rather than retentions.

Will keep you all updated
[Touch HD General] potatochip:
got it ordered

It's now ordered and should be delivered tomorrow or maybe Friday.

Panther 45 for £40 a month with a £25 discount getting it down to 15 for the duration of the 18 month contract.

Free broadband if I want it (i don't), 1200 minutes, 500 texts, unlimited (250MB) internet and £129 for the phone.

And I get to keep my number. Looks like Orange have got over their "brand new customer only" mindset.

Out of the four people I spoke to there was only one muppet, a definite improvement and they now tell you how long you will have to wait to speak to someone instead of keeping you on hold for thirty minutes.

After years of slagging Orange I'm now actually happy with them.

Woo hoo!
[Touch HD General] potatochip:
brilliant

been playing with it all day and i've got to say i'm impressed.

only gripe so far is landscape doesn't work for all apps. GSen fixes this though and also turns it off when you put it face down.

touchflo i pretty cool but i miss spb diary so am experimenting with it turned off.

the options for claunch don't render on the big screen but appart from that it's a wicked bit of kit.
[Touch HD General] fowler002:
phoned orange for the pac code as I'm thinking of moving to O2 home broadband, so moving my mobile as well(to get the ~£5/month reduction the broadband). after asking for the pac code(they offered their broadband for £8/month(as I don't have orange at my exchange so can't get it free) on their home start(only 10gb usage), the home max(40gb) for £23/month) I asked to see what offer they could do on the touch hd(wasn't expecting much as the experiance back in october asking for the omnia wasn't fruitful(wouldn't go under £110 on £30/month contract), £25/month(500mins(quite a bit more then my needs), 100texts(not a big texter) & unlim land line(most of my calls are to land line)), handset for £175(with £130 credit to my following months bill, so £45 for the handset) + £5/month for 'unlim' web(500mb, used to be 250mb. apperently increased from boxing day). I'm going to see if I can get a couple quid more off a month and/or the handset down to £150(not hopefull on that).

I'm tempted to go ahead and get the touch hd from orange, but tryin to decide due to the O2 brodband. also thinking of waiting till the N97 comes out next year(1st half of 2009 according to what mobile).
[Touch HD General] AlexEv:
The deal I ended up with is:

£49.99 for phone

£50 rebate

1200 Minutes

500 Texts

Limited to 250mb fair usage ... (but they always say unlimited when I call ??)

£30 a month

Amazing phone. Well worth it. :D
[Touch HD General] agent003:
Thats a cracking good deal for 30 quid a month you got there... just hope you didnt have to get on your knee's for it lol ;) .

Anyways....you guys forget about orange and their rubish about not available for upgrades etc and head on to mobiles.co.uk and grab it from there either as upgrade or new contract (free hd :D ) ...either way I found it nuch simpler than dealing with the lovelly people at orange and bagged a unlocked and unbranded HD through my Mrs upgrade for 60 quid (shes quite happy with her trusty pink nokia :D ) and now running my o2 sim that is due for upgrade in february but will just change it for the simplicity tariff since wont need a new phone for now but will keep it as a contingency plan for the HD successor :-D
[Touch HD General] zoomee:
NEVER EVER EVER buy a phone from your local orange shop - they are a useless set of twits who have no idea of half of the capabilities of the phone and then try to rip you off - for example:

couple of weeks ago I visited them (under the impression the Touch HD was exclusive to them) - They could only offer me either £200 for the handset on a £35 per month contract OR £50 for the handset on £45 per month handset (18 months). At the time I was happy to pay this, but put a deadline on them for the next following day as they didnt have the device in stock and said they would have to procure it.

That night I went on teh interwibble and Carphone warehouse were doing them for £137 for the handset on £35 per month contract. Phones 4 U however were doing them FREE on £35 per month contract.

I visited the orange shop next day ready to bargain - but luckily they didnt get the Touch HD in stock, so told them where to go and ordered it from Phones4U over the phone. 2 Days later a VERY happy bunny having saved £200!!! :)

Moral of the story - tell orange to go play with themselves and goto a third party provider like Phones4u ;)
[Touch HD General] shridharms:
300£ for phone

270£ cash back

800 min, unlimited texts and unlimited landline

500mb/month fair usage policy.

also received a samsung g600 to keep my other orange number. :)

35£/ month
[Touch HD General] theosnw:
Im not on orange....

Im with O2.

£20 for 600mins / 1000 txts / wifi access via Cloud/BT / Unlimited Internet / £150 credit

I paid for the Phone £480.

I didnt want to move over to Orange and there were some issues surrounding my number/phone so this was my best option for my circumstances.
[Touch HD General] fowler002:
well I ended up ordering it from orange on the offer I got given on monday. did ask if I could get a little more knocked off the handset and/or get a couple of quid knocked of the montly cost, but got told they've taken it as far down as they can and can't go any lower. to get the handset cheaper would have to pay more monthly.

with the £5/month 500mb web got told that have to take it at the same time, otherwise it'll be £7.50/month 250mb if I was to get it at a later date.

so its £175.50 for the handset with £130 credit to my first bill of the new 18month contract(so effectively £45.50 for the handset + 'no bills' for 4months) and £29.47/month(£24.47/month till december next year with the 15% vat, £25/month from january 2010 unless the 15% vat is extended + £5/month for the 500mb web), thats like ~£580 over the 18month period.
[Touch HD General] cjovic:
I got the phone for £48.50, normally on a £35 tarriff but have always gone over so classed as a heavy user, what they offered was:

400 mins anytime

unlimited texts (3500)

unlimited web browsing (checked it wasn't just for evenings and weekends)

They have a new computer offering system, all this for £10 per month for the first 9 months, £15 for the next on a 18 month contract.

Had the X1 from SE on o2 before this and was unhappy so sent it back, the HD is fantastic compared to it!
[Touch HD General] rockthesmurf:
I certainly didn't get as good a deal as some people on here, but it was better than my previous deal, so for some context:

Previous Deal

Dolphin 35 @ 35 PM (no discount)

4MB Download add-on @ 4 PM (no discount)

Unlimited Broadband @ 10 PM (no discount)

BT Line Rental @ 10 PM (from BT...)

TOTAL 59 PM

Current Deal

HTC Touch HD (FREE)

Racoon 25 @ 20 PM (just under 20 actually)

Unlimited BB @ 14 PM (INCLUDING BT LINE RENTAL)

TOTAL 34 PM

So I've ended up with less minutes and no free internet access, but I'm almost halfed my bill - didn't actually haggle at all, the lady in the sales department on the phone just gave me the above offer after I mentioned I'd seen something very simliar on O2 (only the phone cost 79.99 in that deal). In retrospect I should probably have pushed a little harder for unlimited data, but they said it would cost 7 PM extra for unlimited internet. I figured I'd just see how I go first, I'm assuming orange still do the thing where the maximum you can spend on data in a given day is 1 GBP, in which case there's only a few days in the month I use much data, so hopefully it'll work out reasonably cheap.

Steve
[Touch HD General] fowler002:
are you sure about that(in 1 day? T-Mobile only allow that in month)?

how'd you mange to get the phone for free on the £20/month plan, I had to pay £175.50(well will work out at £45.50 after I get the £130 credit on my 1st bill of the 'new' 18month contract, which will start from the 26th) on Racoon 30 £25/month(going to reduce that to Racoon 25 after 6months through the Best Plan, don't think I'll be using anywhere near 500mins so should get the option to downgrade to Racoon 25 after 6months rather than the normal 9months).

I did however get the 'unlim' web(500mb fub, rather than the usual 50mb) for £5/month rather than the usual £7.50/month(the guy told me I'd have to take it at the same time as upgrade, to get it in the future would be £7.50/month for the normal 250mb).

to get that deal I had to go through to retention.
[Touch HD General] parmsuk:
I got the following deal yesterday via retentions:

Handset:

£7 for the phone (£107 actual cost but £100 credited to my account)

Plan:

£20 per month. Dolphin 35 = 600 minutes, unlimited text

Data:

£0 - Free - Unlimted data (well 500mb)

Contract:

18 months

My bills are normally £20 a month....
[Touch HD General] frottage:
I believe I got the deal of the century

2100 x-net minutes

unlimited texts

Free Touch HD

Free Orange Care

Retentions Solo contract

18 month contract

£27 a month
[Touch HD General] Porkie:
i got my touch hd today for:

1200mins

unlimited text + data (500mb limit)

for £20 per month! (£28 paid for phone) 18month contract
[Touch HD General] Grimus:
God damn it some of you got better deals than me and I thought mine was pretty good!

Panther 45:

- 1200 minutes

- 500 texts

- 250mb data

£24/month (long term orange customer deal)

phone cost: £48.50

18 month contract

I wonder if it's too late to phone up and try and get unlimited texts and 500mb data :confused:
[Touch HD General] lancemate:
Hi,

I have an earliest upgrade date of tomorrow on an 18 month contract (3 months early)

I have just a couple of questions as I dont trust Orange staff to tell me the truth (Last time I upgraded I was told it was impossible to change from an 18 month to a 12 month contract because I was upgrading early, but I would be able to upgrade after 12 months on an 18 month contract anyway - when I tried to upgrade 3 months ago I was told this was not the case and the CSR was likely telling me that just to earn more comission)

So my question is - should there be a problem for me to change to a 12 month contract when I renew it tomorrow, and if I do will I be able to keep the free unlimited anytime mobile browsing bundle I have on my account (or will I be able to keep that in any case?!?!)

Also does anyone have any idea what a Touch HD is going to cost me?? I'm on the Canary 40 plan - average monthly spend is £50 I will have to go to an orange store as the online shop is currently out of stock of for upgrades, dont know if that makes any difference?!

Thanks in advance if anyone is able to offer some advice, i felt really done over last time I renewed and I want to make sure I know what I'm entitiled to this time!

Ben.
[Touch HD General] LeeDroid:
The 500mb data package has just been launced and is 500mb normal usage apllies after the bundle has ran out, fair usage only applies to quoted "Unlimited tariffs" and the 3000 rule always applies, 3000mb / 3000 texts, 3000 landline mins etc... to be fair i think 500mb is more than enough on any handset, certainly take some using!! top loyalty deal!!
[Touch HD General] LeeDroid:
That u did!! U must be a high user!! the systems generally give away ridiclous ammounts if you use roaming??
[Touch HD General] panjote:
3000 minutes,

unlimited text

unlimited landline

unlimited internet (capped at 500MB)

£49.65 for a phone

18 month contract

£30 a month

not too bad for me.
[Touch HD General] LeeDroid:
Nokia N Series?? enough said!! Do it the HD is the way forward!!, if they have discounted the handset its based on ur monthly average spend and in line with handset cost business rules "£** tariff = £*** handset", but the credit to ur bill counteracts it nicely, you can even call in and reqest a cheque for the account credit after the next bill date when its applied!!
[Touch HD General] chrispy_noodle:
I'm a long time customer of Orange... over 15 years now, I think!

Negotiated this on New Year's Eve with Orange Retentions (it's based on Panther 45, I think!) to start on my next billing date towards the end of January.

+ 1200 x-network anytime minutes

+ 500 texts

+ choice of unlimited landline or unlimited texts or 250mb data

+ 500mb data

+ 18 month contract

£30 per month

HTC Touch HD was £70+VAT

Much better than the Select 500 tariff I'd been on previously :D
[Touch HD General] mr.bryce:
illimited illimited

god so many people happily getting ripped off by phone companies.

no wonder they make so much $$ frying our brains.

i have unlimited data when i reach 500Mb connection gets capped at 256kb/s

the offer stood for a few weeks, i would have never paid for those regular "limited illimited" offers.

price is 40€, 12 months contract.

seriously they re abusing the situation still everyone chats happily ?!?!?!?!
[Touch HD General] fowler002:
if you read my last post, I ended up getting the hd. got it on monday, got the hot fix(original one, not the 2 newer ones) & batti installed. having trouble getting wifi setup on the phone.
[Touch HD General] lmclaney:
My HD is arriving tomorrow. I upgraded through Phones4u (longterm customer) and this was my deal:

Free Phone

Unlimited texts

600 minutes

Unlimited Data

£50 cash + £70 to pay off old contract

Free insurance

20% of all international calls

All for £37.50 per month, the same I was paying for my previous phone.

What do you think of that deal?
[Introductions] landrich:
Hello everyone, I'm new, but I've been following you for a couple of years and taking advantage of your knowledge, I hope I can contribute something to this forum in terms of roms.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] ozipin:
I know you can assign specific/different notification sounds to each app by going through notification categories. However, I recently messed around with creating a custom vibration Pattern and noticed now EVERY app and notification of every kind uses (when on vibrate/sound off) this same pattern, every time.

As this is possible for sound, is there not a way to assign specific vibration patterns to each app/notification categories within an app, etc.

Feel as if this has been brought up before, but could not for the life of me find any mention of this specific issue in the thread.
[Motorola Moto G100 / Edge S] hawki:
So, I occassion drive for DoorDash. When I do a system restore after factory reset the DoorDash app will mark me as paused. However, when I do a factory reset and just install a few apps the DoorDash app seems to work. It's seems like it tries to send me a delivery, but instead of it coming through it pauses me?

So I'm thinking there must be a conflicting app? What I'm wondering, is there a way for me to figure out what's causing the issue? I'll be able to watch the DD app, and know the exact time there's an issues if there are apps out there that could record internal issues or conflicts for me to analyze?

I know this isn't device specific, but this is my device. And I really could use help as DD support is beyond useless
[Motorola Moto G100 / Edge S] Rstment ^m^:
As long as it works via clean reset don't even bother trying to restore via any means if it is not necessary?

Just backup pics and data , and reinstall apps manually. There's a lot of reasons why conflict may arise - none of which is really within your means... If you're lucky MAYBE another app gets installed which causes conflicts such that uninstall would fix it but that's really far fetched...

To view logs you'd do something like adb shell logcat - start it on pc

Then make the app missbehave , and stop the logging on PC after ( With Ctrl+C )

Scroll through logs and see if there's any mention as to what's going on...

There's way more involved methods like injecting YAHFA into APK , then running your own logger for getting internal logsbof the app - If you can't even gather logs this is off the table lol

(You could attempt this via App Cloner tho , which is a paid app - like 2$ Select app, enable logs and rebuild app. I haven't tried the logging option so it might be 2$ spent on nothing if it does not work)

Either way - simplest option is factory reset then install everything manually if that causes no issues.

If you wanna backup / restore in future there's options to do it via adb , which might be more stable than system app
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] lightsailpro:
I am using Blackberry Connect on my HTC touch Diamond. For whatever reason, I have two "Blackberry" inboxes and one "System" inbox created. Is the normal? The problem is that, under TouchFlo Mail tab, I see two icons for Blackberry inboxes. When new email comes, it will show up in both. But I only need to delete from one to make the mail go away from the other. Under accounts, one blackberry inbox has a grey UID number displayed. The other does not.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] lightsailpro:
Fixed by hardware reset
[OnePlus 6 Questions & Answers] TheEnigmist:
Hello, i'm panicating since I made a HUGE MISTAKE.

Some timee ago I unlocked my boot loader, installed twrp and susseffuly root with and old magisk version.

Now With my OOS 11.1.2.2 I tried to restore Magisk root.

I successfully installed TWRP, I still can enter in its recovery mode.

I followed this guide to install magisk again, but I'm so fool I used twrp .img as boot image as magisk_patched_img.

I used fastboot flash boot with that files and now my phone is locked in bootloader

I downloaded oos 11.1.1.1 image from here and used again fastboot flash boot... but still my phone is locked...

Now I can't enter TWRP anymore :(

There is a way to restore its boot?
[OnePlus 6 Questions & Answers] TheEnigmist:
Seems I found a way to use again my phone. In the oos 11.1.1.1 thread at post #23 there is a patched 11.1.2.2 image.

Since I was able to go in fastboot I flashed again the boot with 11.1.2.2 patched image.

Now I can power up my phone again, but the startup process is really SLOW than before. Is this an issue since I used OP6T patched image instead of OP6?
[Samsung Galaxy M30s Questions & Answers] ultrasound1991:
Hi, I have updated the system to Android 11 when the first version has been released, due to the existing bugs I reverted it to Android 10.

I see Android 11 has got several updates over time, the last one this year in May, do you know if the last released version is stable so that I would switch to Android 11?

Thanks
[OPPO Find X5 Pro Questions & Answers] akabugie:
Hi all,

After a not so smooth transition to Oppo, yesterday I almost collapsed when I looked at my phone and saw the config assistant starting.

I've left the phone unattended during around 2 hours and for some reason a factory reset was performed. I know that to perform a factory reset you need to input the password, so it's out of question that was done by one of the kids (they are 4 and 7). So, the real question is:

1) Did anyone experienced this before?

2) Could overheat cause a factory reset?

I know that all my data was lost but most was recovered. Unfortunately, all the files in the hard drive are vanished forever...
[OPPO Find X5 Pro Questions & Answers] dezborders:
Did you recover a backup or clone from old to new phone?

If this process does not complete successfully, you can end up back at the start of the wizard.

Once a restore or copy from old phone has completed "successfully" I cannot see any way the phone would auto factory reset.