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[General Topics] twistyaction:
So just to be real clear, if I'm interested in getting out of my Sprint contract (started Nov 9, 2009) and I signed up for auto pay in the first place, then I can call and change my account to regular, old school, send-me-a-bill-and-I-send-them-a-check? Since I'm new-ish and I want the option of getting out, I guess I hope I have the spending limit right? My credit's pretty good (hasn't always been) so what are my chances of getting out through this loophole? HTC's just too slow getting the updates out and I want the functionality of the latest version of Android. Sense is really nice, but I want access to Google's updates without this ridiculous delay.
[General Topics] bbv203:
So if I am able to terminate my contract with Sprint over this, does that mean I would also have to terminate their services? Or could I just go month to month for awhile?
[General Topics] lv2bll:
i was thinking the same thing?
[General Topics] m.baktash:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[General Topics] lv2bll:
????? I dont think anybody knows what that means??????
[General Topics] Semantics:
You would have to terminate your service. You will not be allowed to go Month to Month, your contract is over, and your service is gone. I don't feel like paying an extra 80 bucks a month for a Droid on VZW, besides, that hardware is like hot garbage on that thing. Great screen, nice guts, but the build quality and look of the hardware is crap, IMO.

I'm more than happy for getting more for much less. The HTC phones will come to Sprint, thats all I care about. Hell, I see they've already successfully ported Android over to a WM device on Mobile Buzz. TP2 would be pretty sweet with Android, now it seems you can do it. :)
[General Topics] bobdude5:
ya but android development on the touch pro 2 is pretty dead
[General Topics] themyst:
FYI, there is a difference between ASL and TCL customers. TCL stands for Temporary Credit Limit. If you established a new Sprint account within 90 days, you are a TCL customer regardless of credit. This will be lifted as soon as the 90 days have elapsed. For those of you people who think you might be able to get out of it because you have a spending limit in your first three months, guess again. TCL customers will not get charged the $4.99, only ASL.

ASL customers are the absolute worst. Sprint has some of the loosest credit requirements of any provider, and it's just as auto insurance companies raise the rates of customers with poor credit: there IS a correlation.
[General Topics] x99percent:
How incredibly ironic.

I'm sorry people, this is *not* a Sprint-specific forum... and this billing issue has *nothing* to do with the HTC Hero phone. That's just simple fact. If you were on Orange, would it be appropriate to discuss their billing procedures in the GSM Hero forum?

The Sprint users' messageboard would be a MUCH better place to address this issue. I can't imagine that every other CDMA forum on XDA has a similar discussion about Sprint... but if it did, that would be hilarious.

As for Mr. "pseudoremora": you do not know me. To make completely baseless personal comments like you did is absolutely childish.
[General Topics] lv2bll:
lol, we dont have a sprint forum, and like i said before 97 percent of people with cdma hero's use sprint, so this is a valid thread, especially looking at the 2,100 that learned something from it!
[General Topics] Kcarpenter:
FYI Sprint did anounce 2.0 update for hero...just no date... no more than we knew before except acknowledgment

http://twitter.com/sprint/status/6579730326
[General Topics] x99percent:
I was speaking of the Sprint Users messageboard... www.sprintusers.com. I know there's no Sprint forum on this board.

As far as the $4.99 charge, it would only affect people if their credit is junk... which would typically apply to the young and/or irresponsible.
[General Topics] Semantics:
While I wont be subject to the fee, even if I were, the 5.00 additional per month would still keep me about 70 dollars cheaper per month than Verizon or AT&T. The majority of people who will call to cancel will want the free offers from retentions, or just want a new phone that Sprint doesn't carry so they'll go to another carrier for the sake of having the fotm. Five dollar increase on Sprint still ensures a hell of a lot lower bill than VZW or AT&T.
[General Topics] lv2bll:
i couldn't agree more with you
[General Topics] Orangeandblue302:
until they decide, hey lets up it to $15
[General Topics] Orangeandblue302:
Gphone being released Jan.5th (rumor) and its going to be a HSDPA compatible. Is there any reason not to jump ship??
[General Topics] Semantics:
The only reason I can think of is its total and complete speculation that the Gphone is going to be released Jan 5th. The rumor of the hour is that the phone being released on the 5th, is the Android phone, which apparently is smaller than the Hero, not the Gphone. Again, all anyone knows right now is pretty much nothing. Its all speculation and guessing. Leave Sprint if you want, the point of them instituting this fee is to weed out the customers who are late on their bills always, and are always looking for an out, or free stuff.

Whiner accounts get flagged, they get tired of those people.
[General Topics] Orangeandblue302:
i could understand this if it wasnt for the fact that I have great credit and have never been late on a bill, hell im usually early. They put me on ASL cuz im a new customer. Now i have only been with sprint for 2 months and I already am getting new charges added to my account. No Thanks.
[General Topics] adelaney:
Sprints data plans are still the cheapest. Too bad they get last dibs on phones. I wouldn't leave them. I care more about service and costs. I have three lines, unlimited data, unlimited mobile to mobile, 1500 daytime landline minutes, gps nav, sprinttv, unlimited texting, unlimited nights and weekends, no roaming, for 120.00 You can't get a deal like that anywhere else.
[General Topics] jonnythan:
Well if we're believing the rumor, then the Google Phone, which is really just an HTC, is going to be unlocked and unsubsidized, so you might be paying $600 for it.
[General Topics] bbv203:
Just read elsewhere that someone was successful at terminating their contract and going month to month, said it took 4 tries.
[General Topics] jtadeo:
I'm thinking about cancelling.. is there anyway to keep the phone number? The plan I'm under is under my sister's name.. can I cancel my number only? or will both have to be cancelled? Thanks for this great info btw.
[General Topics] vwgtiron:
got the letter today

Ok stirring this back up. I received my letter today about asl. didn't know I had that type of account. They will cancel for you and I have contacted m/e/ anderson at 913/707/0618 she is the sprint pr girl for this. Give her a call and let you know what you think. Interesting now I can get the Nexxus One
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Ruud Westerhout:
Hi all,

have a very annoying problem with my Rhodium. I am used to carry it on my belt and the only pouch I found has magnets to close the lid. While placing or removing the device in the pouch these magnets come to close to the device and my Rhodium sensors these magnets as if I opened the display.

While the device is locked usually, this "opening" of the display unlocks the device while I am putting it in the pouch. So just when it is sliding in, I hear that the device is being unlocked. Very annoying.

There sure is a reg-entry which would allow me to decide that opening the display actually should not be seen as unlocking the device.

Does any of You have a solution here.

Thanks in advance,

Ruud
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] cris_rowlands:
This thread should have been posted in the Rhodium General section, not the ROM development section as it is nothing to do with the development of ROMs.

If you ask nicely, an admin will probably move it across for you :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Ruud Westerhout:
Hi Cris,

guess You are right about that. My mistake (too much running around here before I posted)

@Admin, can You move this thread to Rhodium General please (and my excuses for this)

Best regards,

Ruud
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] MCbrian:
Navigate the registry to HKLM>HARDWARE>DEVICEMAP>KEYBD

Create a DWORD entry call "SlideWakeup" with value 0, then reset your device.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Ruud Westerhout:
Issue solved, THANKS !!

Hello MCbrian,

well that was not just fast, that was superfast. Thank You very much.

Trying at the moment and the result is . . . . . . . unlucky (the device for some reason did not save the entry, probably did a soft-reset too fast).

Next try was to give it a few minutes after Resco confirmed the entry, and the result is . . . . . . perfect. Yes, this was the solution I was hoping for, thank You very much.

You have once more confirmed this site to be the greatest !!

cheers,

Ruud
[Touch Pro CDMA] Jeffdaddy:
I've done searches and read here and on other forums. I am at my wits end. I'm using my touch pro with my laptop but the phone get's hot and turns off. It also doesn't charge while tethering. Does anyone have an actual solution to this problem? Is there a Rom that solves this problem? I love my phone but I travel 2x a month and don't want to pay for the WIFI in these hotels.

Anyone have a solution?

Thanks

Jeff
[Touch Pro CDMA] eric12341:
doesnt sound normal to me, did you contact sprint TS about this issue (wouldnt tell them you are tethering tho)?
[Touch Pro CDMA] cloudy987:
get a long usb cable, put the phone next to the AC. the phone should be cooled enough to charge while tethering.
[Touch Pro CDMA] Ed Zachary:
Go to Settings (WM, not TF3D)|System|Power and the Battery tab.

Make sure "When device is turned on, do not charge the battery when connected to the PC." is unchecked.

As cloudy987 indicated, get the phone into a good cool air flow. Maybe even take the back off while tethered. Plastic is not that good a conductor.
[Touch Pro CDMA] crashelite:
there is a hack out there from nuerom that makes it so your battery driver works differently and allows it to charge more or till it hits a little bit of a higher temp or something (too lazy to re read the posts) but there is also a over/under clocking utility on the site that works on some versions of winmo (i think on 6.5+ it causes a deadlock on boot and forces you to factory reset ) but it allows you to change the processor speed to lower while teathered and makes it so the device wont over heat...

http://www.nuerom.com
[Touch Pro CDMA] Straitup27:
this was a issue for me while on energy roms,i had to go to tweaks and in the tool folder and disable the fast charge toggle,i have to on most custom roms,but no issues after i turn it off
[Touch Pro CDMA] ssoares01:
could be that the USB connector is getting screwed up... the one on my Titan went and it started with not being able to tether/sync, then it progressed to not being able to charge it.
[Touch Pro CDMA] daisyd681:
I actually melted my phone with wifirouter and had to replace it. Luckily it was under warranty. Most of the time simply placing it on a small desktop fan kept it cool. Unfortunately for mine the damage was done before I figured this out. Treat it like an overclocked PC. It needs extra cooling to keep it from cooking itself.
[Android Software Development] shusuke028:
Alright, I've searched on google, and through the forums and have heard that using a class 2 sd card with swapper will make it run down quicker than with a class 6. but is it plausible to do this anyway? and how long would it take to deteriorate?

Last thing, what are good settings to use on swapper? I'm running KiNgxKxROM Sense Hybrid v2.3 and I have an 8gb Class 2 sd card on the G1 :(:(:eek::eek:. I'm trying to see the least amount of loading screens on this rom while still using a stable configuration on swapper..

HELP PLEASE :D:D:D:D:D
[Android Software Development] acejoker25000:
class 2

a class 2 sd card will work and itll work fine! ive used a class 2 card and swappiness was set at 60! it ran fine and i had no black screens!! but if i were u i would use compache because it will let the phone run smoother!! whichever u choose make sure u have a task killer thet way u can end all your tasks and u dont bog the phone down!

by they way are u using the swapper app or a swap partition? i would make a linux-swap partition on your memory card if your bent on using swap!! i never really like the swap app and it doesnt seem to work as well as a linux-swap partition!
[Android Software Development] shusuke028:
Swap

I actually planned on using the swapper app since I was on KingsKlick's Sense 2.3. but i recently switched to Sense Hero 1.4 which doesn't use swap, so I'm good for now. however, I am awaiting a Hero Sense 2.1 ROM that is good to use on a daily basis
[Android Software Development] superg05:
thanx for the interesting read
[Android Software Development] lbcoder:
Your write test is flawed.

Flaw 1: You use /dev/urandom as a data source. Data generation from /dev/urandom is heavily affected by CPU usage AND by available entropy -- though it doesn't block, its speed does vary drastically.

Flaw 2: You only run the test ONCE. This means that issues from flaw 1 are totally visible rather than being averaged out over a large number of tests. You should do the test 100's of times and take the average over them.

Flaw 3: Implementation of the ext3 filesystem tend to hide the effects of disk latency. There are caches and journals that you haven't accounted for. In order to get the ACTUAL time that it takes to write to the ext3 filesystem, you need to follow the write test by a synchronization, which will *actually* write the data to the disk (i.e., it will BLOCK until the write is actually completed). Unfortunately though, this test will also synchronize OTHER write operations that are buffered, which will further skew your results. What you REALLY need to do is perform the tests on a completely empty partition. Should be starting sync, begin time, test write, finishing sync, finishing time. Elapsed time = finishing time - begin time.

In other words, I'm sorry, but your conclusions are not correct. What I *very strongly* suspect, is that if you do your tests correctly, you will find that the performance of swap-on-ext3 will actually be *lower* than swap-on-partition due to the extra overhead of the ext3 filesystem.
[Android Software Development] lbcoder:
Note: the linux vfat filesystem implementation also buffers writes.

A little bit of fun trivia:

Back in the days when we actually used floppy disks, you could actually copy an entire disk worth of data over to a vfat floppy disk without it even BEGINNING to write to the disk. Usually, it would begin writing several seconds after the copy "completed". If you wanted to speed it along, a sync or umount would force the buffer immediately to write to disk.
[Android Software Development] Grooby97:
ahhh...thanks for the info. I guess with buffer, it makes timing or calculating the write speed a bit difficult. I will have to think more about this.

This really makes me wonder how do SD card manufactures test their write speed and assign the card class.
[Android Software Development] 386:
I believe they do a test similar to yours without any buffering and write different amounts of data to simple file systems.

Then, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital the class number is equal to the amount of minimum write megabytes per second that can be written to the disk when in a clean and unfragmented state. So a class 6 card would at it's slowest writing speed on a perfectly setup disk be able to write data at 6 megabytes per second or faster. Read speed isn't taken into account for the rating, but is generally faster than write speed.
[Android Software Development] Grooby97:
I redid my test with raw write via if=/dev/zero and the write speed is now on-par with what was classified on the SD class. (7.4MBps write on my class 6). Playing around w/ the setting more, seems like the over-time degradation seems to be caused by my swappiness configuration.
[G1 Apps and Games] buddyosher:
I have everything set up correct and Sipdroid works with VOIPBuster and it dials out using my MagicJack trunk, but when I dial, after 30 seconds I hear an error message.

I have all of the information for Username and Password and my proxy is correct. I even changed the proxy to the actual IP address and it still does not work.

Assuming I found my Username & Password and the proxy are there any other tricks I am missing while using SIPDroid?
[G1 Apps and Games] BigE:
I read that MJ folks changed to rotating password.. You may have it running until they rotate the password, and by not having the MJ itself, you get logged out. No solution currently, and it was made so to promote magic talk. it sucks because i don't want to make calls from my laptop, and there is no solution for mobile. NetTalk works, but has echo issues, latency is horrible, and it is Wi-Fi only..
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] abd07:
When I'm doing anything on my TMO HTC TP2 And it goes into sleep mode (i.e. the top power button) and i turn the screen on it goes to the main screen not where i was previously. this is highly annoying especially when i'm typing a long message and hit the top power button by accident and i turn it back on and the message is gone and it flips the screen to Main screen, and i would appreciate it if someone could tell me whats wrong because i swear that this never happened when i first got it
[HD2 General] ijob:
Has anyone else experienced freezing [maybe since the camera update? not sure]

This has happened to me 3 times now, usually when I slide to unlock with my finger to the right.

This has also happened once when I press the wake up button.

Also when I focussed the camera for the first time after the upgrade, it froze for a about 30 seconds.
[HD2 General] uccoffee:
freeze many times, there are lots of other post talking about freezing... you shouldnt have opened another post :P
[HD2 General] ijob:
Rude reply.
[HD2 General] pm007:
yes it usually happens with my leo. the only one cure is to install cab with disable automatic wm lock and after that use slide to ulock s2u2.
[HD2 General] ijob:
Thank you for your reply, will try that.
[HD2 General] Aqrab:
my device freeze at lock screen after softreset

i have to remove the battery or press the reset botton to make the device works agine

this happen to me 5 time today

5 sofereset - 2 ok 3 freezing :(
[HD2 General] commando0:
mine too freezes quite often ........
[HD2 General] Lamsebamsen:
I get a temp. freeze (between 10-40 seconds) sometimes when I have altered a contact and wants to go back to the home screen...

It's like my HD2 is hanging while processing the data, but it always "gets back on course".

That's the only "freezing" I am experiencing...
[HD2 General] wacky.banana:
No mate, he wasn't being rude, he was telling it as it is and indicating that you have ignored the forum rules. There are tons of threads on here asking the same question and the answer is there to be had.

What we find is that people just can't be bothered to search, which is annoying.

If you use this tool..http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=+site:http://xdaforums.com&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all you will find a solution to your problem.

I know it's their because I contributed to the thread myself.

Good luck with it.

WB
[HD2 General] SOLRAC13:
HTC HD2 freezes quite often

I thappened to me at the begining, then I finaly decide to do a Hard reset and it seems is ok now cross fingers :)
[G1 Android Development] Grooby97:
posted at the general Android hacking section but seems like Dream Android Development has more active gurus.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=598122
[G1 Android Development] h.nocturna:
Only thing is that the phone will crash any time you decide to mount your sdcard... well unless you swapoff manually first...
[G1 Android Development] sturmeh:
Swap 'file' would go on an unmountable EXT3 partition anyway... :\
[G1 Android Development] h.nocturna:
Oh duh. What am I thinking? I guess 4hrs of sleep per a night for the last 3weeks is doing me in... Ummm. Maybe we can create a third partition as ext2 instead of swap and put the swap file on there?
[G1 Android Development] Grooby97:
that thought did cross my mind couple times...might give it a try later...after I figure out which init script I need to modify so it's mounted correctly....
[G1 Android Development] psychoace:
Yes more active guru's but that doesn't mean you can post in the wrong forum. There will be less active guru's if you use this forum for Q&A especially when there is already a Q&A forum. So please keep this separate.

Scratch that. You should really just take all the content you have in your post on the general Android forum and post it here. This belongs in the development forum.
[G1 Android Development] lbcoder:
I added a reply to the other thread explaining why it isn't a valid test and therefore that the conclusions are wrong.

Edit: the effort of the test *is* appreciated. Don't be discouraged by getting invalid results on this experiment.
[G1 Android Development] HazzBazz:
mmmmmmmmm, true or false...would it be easier to whack any swap partition or file onto the main memory? since we dont need it for apps anymore? would that be faster? perhaps a fat32 swap could be used there, or even linux swap?
[G1 Android Development] Grooby97:
lbcoder did point out a flaw in my testing. using /dev/urandom did introduce some overheads and thus makes the raw write seem slower. I did another set of test using /dev/zero and have the raw write speed that is on par with the specified class speed.
[P3300, MDA Compact III ROM Development] ChrBeck:
EDIT: The problem was that the battery driver isn't the best. At 3.99V it switched to 99%. So the problem is fixed now!

Hi guys.

I have a problem wih my Artemis. After flashing the USPL and a M6.5 ROM it always shows the Battery to be 100% changed and doesn't want to charge it. But I'm sure it isn't 100%.

The ROM isn't the problem cause with the device fully of the same thing happens if trieing it.

I tried to flash the SPL back but I only get errors.

Any help would be cool

Thanks
[P3300, MDA Compact III ROM Development] tnw513:
Hi,

Are you sure that isn't the ROM?

however you haven't tried to mount the original ROM?

bye,

Silvio
[P3300, MDA Compact III ROM Development] ChrBeck:
OK Answer: I'm sure. I tried 10 ROMs (7 cooked, the original, a HTC English original and HTC German Original). I tried 4 SPLs (Both USPLs (Pof, Cmonex) Original SPL and HTC WWE SPL). I tried 4 Radios too. I checked the Battery with a voltmeter several times and I got first 4.17V (seemd to be nearly full then) and second time I got 4.12 (sure it wasn't full anymore). Now I'm already running it in standby with GSM on for 6h and it still shows 100%. So I'm sure it isn't the ROM SPL or Radio.

Only things left are IPL or OEMSPL. Or maybe the Info recieved from the battery.

Thanks for your reply guy.

Any help would be nice.
[P3300, MDA Compact III ROM Development] tnw513:
then you tried to keep the pocket PC on for a day? to me the battery falls below 100% for 6 hours more or less ...

P.S. the battery is a 3.7V... 4.17-12V O.o...is full!

Bye,

Silvio
[P3300, MDA Compact III ROM Development] ChrBeck:
The battery is full at 4.2V as written on it. Compared to my Kaiser it sould only have 80% with 4.12V. And yea I'll leave it on till it goes off itself to know when the battery is empty. When it is empty I'm sure I can't carge anymore if it still thinks it is full but for that problem I have a 4.5V AC/DC adaptor to recharge the battery.

By the way which sence do the 3rd and 4th pin have? They don't have any voltage. Are they for the Vibration motor or do they transmit the charging state to the phone?
[P3300, MDA Compact III ROM Development] tnw513:
I don't know it utility...

however happened to me and I resolved discharged, I do not know what else to do...

P.S. when my battery is fully charged 3.9V marks... sorry for my imperfect english