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[Hero CDMA General] Papa Smurf151:
I don't know if the will help but when u call and the moron answers tell them to transfer u to customer retention dept. They will usually kiss ur ass. Also I've found when u get a rude csr that hanging up and calling back usually will get u to a nicer person. Every company has a douche who hates their job. Just gotta weed through the tards till u find one that's competent and wants to actually help
[Hero CDMA General] ThatGuyFromSprint:
Sounds like you are getting the ****iest of people when you call, which sucks, but I can assure you that the rudeness is subjective, we aren't trained that way.

For your case, the best option is to talk to Airave support directly, and, is your Airave on a seperate account from your primary? If so, we would still be able to pull it up based on the information located on the Airave itself.

With the lawyer, do you a copy of the contract? (I would naturally assume you do)

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[Hero CDMA General] nebenezer:
Please read THIS POST, it may help ;)
[Hero CDMA General] dwertz:
I remember calling Sprint and telling them I have low signal as they told me I am in a green area. Funny thing is not even a couple seconds later my phone dropped. They made me pay $100 for the Airave but I get free service. The airave is still intermittent. I will still drop calls next to it.
[Hero CDMA General] markus_del_marko:
You don't need a crook lawyer. Call the FCC or sprint corp to get out of the contract.
[Hero CDMA General] jerry43812:
Oh, regardless of what you try and do, Sprint will still try to stick you with a fee for closing an account. I had an employee line for 3 years after I life radio shack and they send me a text one day saying Either sign a 2 year contract at XX price, or call can get the line disconnected by XX Date, because you are no longer eligible for the plan. SO I call and cancel and after 8 hours of fighting with them, they still tried sticking me with an $80 ETF. So, I proceeded to get a hold of my rep where I used to work over 3 years ago, and he said hey I will call you back in 5 minutes. He calls back, Says You're set to go, you can go pay your bill now. Fee was removed.

Recently I opened a line of service and got the number changed to a different area code. I always do checks for upgrades on the phone number(s) I have, and lo and behold, it said I was eligible for an upgrade on 5/1/2010 for the $150 off, and $75 off as of 7/1/2009. So, I keep an eye on it because I planned to get the Evo, which, I have done this before without a problem, and suddenly without my knowledge or consent, my account was modified and the upgrade eligibility removed. I call and talked to the biggest a-hole in all of Sprint yesterday. I was bout ready to get both lines shut off and tell them they can shove their etf's up their rear end, because the way these idiots treat me is no way to keep customers. I'm going to go through my cache and check, but I think I still have a cached page of when the site told me I was eligible, and I think I am going to go to either Radio Shack or Sprint on the 4th and not leave until they give me what their website says I am entitled to.
[Hero CDMA General] Kcarpenter:
Just my train of thought:

Unless you have a lawyer on retainer, isn't the price of starting the case more than the $150.00 bucks to get out of contract? Does Sprint pro-rate the termination Fee like Verizon and US Cellular(Subtract 6 dollars a billing cycle)?

If you are thinking that Sprint would pay back legal fees, I doubt it, unless you actually go to court over it all, and its ruled will they pay legal fees, usually they will give you a settlement and you pay your attorney out of that. In this case, the pittence of a settlement over a contract breach($150.00) seems like something not worth the battle.

Given, I am not in your shows and don't know what the have done to get you this pissed off. I can assure everyone that my experience has been sprint is the best most customer satisfaction orriented, best priced carrier in the US.

If you do have a lawyer on retainer, what kind of trouble do you get into?:D:D
[Hero CDMA General] doojer:
Yeah, I've been dealing with customer retention and they've been rude. Mainly because they don't believe me that I have set up the airrave in the past because it is unfathomable to them that their notes could be wrong.

Told them to cancel me out and I'd just pay the $200. All of a sudden, they care......

......on hold now. :rolleyes:

Oh, and my company has lawyers on hand.... they're free to me. :cool:
[Hero CDMA General] doojer:
Oh, they're offering me all sorts of **** now.... :rolleyes::rolleyes:
[Hero CDMA General] jerry43812:
Humor me as to whether they actually take care of you now.

Better yet, tell them since you've gone through all this trouble that you want the Evo at discounted price on June 4th.
[Hero CDMA General] chfields:
Unless the line of service you opened was opened in 2008, your eligibility would have changed when you added the new line of service. Your eligibility is usually in 12 and 22 month increments. So to be eligible on 7/1/2009, you would have had to make the change 7/2008. If a change was made after that, it would move the date ahead accordingly.
[Hero CDMA General] doojer:
I'll let you know.....
[Hero CDMA General] Kcarpenter:
Curious what they are offering you.

Wondering if I could get a discounted EVO out of it. :D
[Hero CDMA General] jerry43812:
What's happening? :D
[Hero CDMA General] doojer:
$100 credit, $10 off per month for remaining contact period and free airrave service for life.

Sheesh, that was a lot of work. :eek:
[Hero CDMA General] mgraham361:
I remember back when I had the instinct and 99.99 everything plan. The phone went flaky after an OTA update. I took it in to the Sprint store and didn't have insurance. They said they'd get me a refurb for, I don't remember, $100 I think.

I told them to cancel my contract then. They reminded me of the $200 etf. I just laughed and said so what? That's only 2 months of my bill but for the next 20 you won't get anything.

They gave me a free replacement.

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[Hero CDMA General] ThatGuyFromSprint:
Congratulations. So is your airave working now?

Something that occurred to me was things like radiant barriers, cause those will block just about any radio signal, if you don't have have one, then no worries.

Yes, we deduct $10/month after the first 4 months, but the ETF will never be less than $50. So your final 5 months of a contract are $50 ETF. Hope that's clear enough...

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[Hero CDMA General] doojer:
Airrave not working yet. The above compensation was in exchange for giving them one more chance to make it work. They say they need a few days forprovisioning.

We shall see....
[Hero CDMA General] Powers16:
I called sprint today and told them to either discount the evo for me or im done with their service..... They disconnected my contract and i had to call back and talk to a supervisor to put my contract back on.

So no. It doesnt always work to threaten to leave...
[Hero CDMA General] markus_del_marko:
Because there are a **** ton of people trying that move right now to get a discounted EVO. If they would just give it a month or two i bet you can pick up a new EVO on craigslist for alot cheaper.
[Hero CDMA General] 98classic:
yup, a lot of times if you open your mouth with a threat you better be ready to get your service cut off. lol. i hardly ever call sprint for anything but if i ever do im ready to cancel and go with cheapass boost mobile.
[Hero CDMA General] afma_afma:
Agreed, come on guys just wait for couple of months and the EVO will be available in craigslist and XDA Market for a reasonable price....

Was checking my local craigslist today, and this one guy posted an ad for the evo for $700....crazy..
[Hero CDMA General] doojer:
Yeah, folks, I didn't just call and threaten to cancel so I could get something.... I had a legit issue that had been completely and totally mishandled for a good two months.

Now, it's true that they didn't really give a **** until I threatened to cancel, but ultimately they had done something that they needed to be held accountable for.... I wouldn't just call and threaten them for the sole reason of saving a few bucks.
[Hero CDMA General] markus_del_marko:
Yeah ive seen 5 so far, all 4 days old and they still want $600-$700. I not only flagged them for up charging i sent them an email calling them crooks. ;)
[Hero CDMA General] afma_afma:
yea man i did the same thing, emailed them and said they are crazy.....:)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] rehananis:
Hello every body,

My mobile screen turns black after showing the windows 6.1 logo. I have installed HardSPL 1.4 OilNex and also updates rom many times but I cant figureout what happen this time . Can any body help me please.....
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] rehananis:
Deatails of ROM

DIAM30000

O2___102

2.03.207.2

DEU

64

Information coming on screen

R 1.09.25.23

G 52.51.25.26U

D 5.12.00.00
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] ruizink:
have you tried formatting using the MTTY guide ?

Maybe that will solve your problem.

Sounds like "dirty bits" in there!

Good luck
[P3300, MDA Compact III General] manya21:
Hello,

a friend offered me a mdaIII compact/ HTC Artemis with a problem. The Handy does not switch off the loudspeaker. all the telefoncalls can be heard by the extern loudspeaker and not the intern. Can anybody solve this problem?

Ciao

Peter
[HD2 General] lolerskates:
Does anyone else have issues understanding the woman's voice on your HD2?

She sounds like a mentally challenged person from India (sorry to be so politically incorrect, but there's no other example I can come up with).

Is there anything I can do to change how she sounds or am I stuck not being able to understand hardly anything she says?
[HD2 General] bizmark03:
I'm from India...and she doesn't understand what i say most of the times, I have to speak with an American accent for her to understand me. So i bet she's not Indian and yeah, what you said was offensive.
[HD2 General] lolerskates:
At least post constructively
[HD2 General] bizmark03:
ok....if you have a windows OS on your PC....you can use text to speech(Control Panel--->speech--->somewhere in there) and practice hearing the woman speak out whatever you type. Then you should get used to understanding the woman on the HD2. I guess that would help.
[HD2 General] lolerskates:
lol thanks... i think haha
[HD2 General] sirphunkee:
lolerskates, there used to be a tweak I used on my TP2 that would slow the voice down and make it easier to understand (not a whole lot, but enough for me)...however it was part of the settings tool built just for that phone, and I haven't yet seen something like that for the HD2. But that's what I would start looking for in your case, the tweak or regedit (probably won't be a cab) that slows down the MSVC voice...I'm guessing it would work across platforms if you just knew the reg entry it changes.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDanger:
Just one question here...

What is FieldTest.apk??
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDanger:
Got it... it has something to do with java.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yamen.meddeb:
it's an application for field telecom engeneers that allows them to view the GSM cells and wcdma signal strength and settings with their neighbours.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
safe to remove- along with fieldtrial.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Phantoml337:
Is this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6JfxdWg0HI amazing thing portable to HD2? Accelerometer, OpenGL 2.0, 800x480...

:rolleyes:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] snowblind2142:
That looks like sooooo much fun! Would be nice! :p
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] donwhann:
that looks quality. i use to have a nokia n95 8gig and some of the ngage games were class, is it not possable to port these..?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] hedgemonstahinz:
Bounce evolution

You really would be let down by bounce evolution, I have it on my n900 and it is nothing more than a tech demo... there is only one level and a race section, both last little more than 30 seconds. :(
[HD2 General] abeeri:
Does anyone knows how can I make a Video Call with the HD2? As there is no front camera, I would like at least to see the other side. Is it possible?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] de173:
Hi there everyone.

I am a new user of an HTC Hero.

I have a problem on incoming calls or sms.

I leave the HTC to lock by itself and, when i have an incoming call or sms, only the screen turns on. I can see the number of the dialer who is calling me on the screen but NO ringtone sounds from the phone. The same problem occurs when an sms is received. No ring is sounded by the phone.

I have checked everything concerning the sound preferences and (i believe) that i have not left anything un-touched.

Can anyone please "save" me from madness??? :( :mad:

Thanks in advance!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] bjg222:
I can't say for sure this is what happened, but humor me for a second and check a few things:

Of course double check that your volume is all the way up.

When you use the volume rocker on the side of the phone, does it beep?

Do you have any music on it? If so, play it without the headphones plugged in. Do you hear the music?

When you turn speakerphone on during a call, do you hear the other person?

Do you hear any of these sounds using headphones? Do you hear people through the earpiece on a call?

If you don't hear any sound from any of the first few bullets, but you do hear things through the headphones and earpiece, it may be the speaker in the back that's broken. Again, this is just one possible cause, but I had it happen to me. I have no idea how to fix it other than to send it back to HTC or attempt to replace it yourself (I don't know how to do this and would not recommend it if you're not comfortable with it!). Thankfully, my phone fixed itself after a few days (well, with a little help, I accidentally dropped it on the floor from a height of about four feet, but again, I wouldn't recommend that!). Anyway, just a thought, hope it at least helps you diagnose the problem.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Phantoml337:
Is this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6JfxdWg0HI amazing thing portable to WM? Accelerometer, OpenGL 2.0, 800x480...

:rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile] celoni:
Hi at all,

how's the title say,i'm searching for a ready package of build 23121 in vga resolution for the ervius visual kitchen...i've just downloaded the roll-up in the other thread and just try to do it by myself,but without results:(...please if someone can help me please share here:)
[Windows Mobile] + Que PPC:
Duplicated post as in Latest sys threads...

Read the tutorials bud and... of course post there ;)

thread closed
[Desire General] rolfd:
http://androidspin.com/2010/05/25/why-you-dont-need-a-task-killer-app-with-android/
[Desire General] Aitese:
I've found no matter how many times it's said, someone will have an anecdote about how their phone became amazingly fast or they doubled battery life using one of these apps. People who want to use them will continue to do so. Don't trouble yourself.
[Desire General] samac92:
It's nice to have one to kill the odd app that is messing up, but other than that I don't use one.
[Desire General] Barff1984:
the reason people say this is because it's actually true.

that's just the truth, maybe you should try using one and notice the difference.

I uninstalled mine for the first time yesterday to test the theory and today, my battery lasted a grand total of 4.5 hours. that's a whole 3 hours less than before.

and at the end of the day, when it's laggy and then use the TK, it really does clear things up.

still wish there was a way to make the battery last longer, it really does suck
[Desire General] TheOriginalKi:
You can do this from android... no need for an app.
[Desire General] foxmeister:
I'd say if you're only getting between 4.5 and 7.5 hours battery life, I'd say you've probably got a rogue app installed anyway.

Regards,

Dave
[Desire General] Stafflover:
I agree, taskkillers aren't battery savers they are drainers...

Have had my desire for a couple of days now (comming from a htc hero) and since I removed my taskmanager my desire has juice for about 1,5 days.

With taskpanel I hardly reached 24 hours... And I haven't noticed the device becoming slower...

I don't miss it and if I don't get any strange apps I won't ever install a taskmanager again...
[Desire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
well there are some apps which don't work properly.

Take the xda android app as example. it would sometimes just freeze, and there was no way to restart the app, no option for force close was provided by Android OS either.

In this case Android isn't doing anything, so you have to kill the process manually using

1. the default android feature

2. using a task killer.

I like the quick access to the advanced task killer over the notification area, therefore i use it.

People can tell me whole day long how ingenius Android is, and that it will do everything automatically. But i made very different experiences with some 3rd party apps, which needed some killing every now and then. The xda app is only ONE example of many.
[Desire General] Aitese:
The thing is I HAVE used them. Advanced Task Killer was the first app I installed on receiving my Desire...the phone became glitchy and buggy and laggy and it was horrible. I uninstalled ATK and all that stopped. It now NEVER slows down, and I'm getting well over 8hrs of use a day.

I suspect you have a buggy app, and THAT is what you need to find.

We need to stop giving bad app developers a feww ride by ignoring their bad code and just killing the process. Uninstall their app, give it a bad review and insist on using a rival app.
[Desire General] TheOriginalKi:
You can force close an app from Android. Menu > Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Locate the app > open it and force stop.

Create a shortcut to manage applications short cut on your home screen if you like, then you'll only need to do this:

Open Manage Applictions short cut > Locate the app > open it and force stop. - This is just as simple as using a task manager shortcut.
[Desire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
actually using the notification drawer is more comfortable for me. But this is just personal preference.
[Desire General] scotch whisky:
Yes-They might be useful to kill the occasional rogue app. but apart from that they are pretty pointless. Android does a good job of killing tasks itself.

Despite all the evidence to the contrary people many will continue to use them and use them indiscriminately. Still if they want generally poorer performance and reduced battery life surely that is their choice.
[Desire General] matthoy:
How does that work. the notification draw is pretty much blank most of the time save for new message/downloads etc ?
[Desire General] pina_:
has anyone actually tried to load up so many apps, so there's almost no memory left, so android kills other apps by himself? It's all excellent in theory, but never witnessed it in real life.
[Desire General] Kamran9558:
guys I had advanced task manager installed in my phone and my phone was laggy, and my battery was always down to 40-50% at the end of the day, but yesterday on someone's advice I removed ATM, and instantly i noticed the difference, there was no lag in the menus and everything was smooth, and today my battery was an astonishing 85 % remaining when i came back home, and I intentionaly used my phone more than usual. so at least one thing is sure that I will not be using any task manager.
[Desire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
with advanced task manager you can see a small icon at the notification area (at all times). When pulling down the drawer you'll see an entry which says "advanced task manager".

just touch it and a list with current running apps will show up.
[Desire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
there are way too many variables in this equation, as to just claim that ATM is responsible for hogging 30-40% battery power per day.

Of course it will have some kind of impact, just like other apps too. But i don't think that it will have a much bigger impact.
[Desire General] Kamran9558:
no, I dont think there are any variables involved in my case except ATM, I never use internet on mine phone during the day coz i always have internet access on my laptop, instead today I used wifi intentionaly just for testing battery and played asphalt which I normaly dont play during the work hours,
[Desire General] doggie123:
Here's a video from the Developer site that explains very well how Android manages Apps:

http://developer.android.com/videos/index.html#v=fL6gSd4ugSI

And if I really need to kill something (very rare!) then I use Task Tray Beta:

http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.stonedonkey.tasktray or find it in the Market.

This app is also great for seeing what 's actually running and what 's not anymore. And for switching to some App that you know is running, but in the default Android task switcher you can see only 6 apps.... and this will show all.
[Desire General] crankshaft:
I tried out a few task killer but all they did was stop my alarm going off in the morning! I'm sure that's something I could have changed though.

I find the best way to keep my desire running nice and quick is to give it a reboot every morning on my way to work. Only takes a couple of minutes....give it a try...
[Desire General] twister_65:
because u killed the clock application. put it on the whiteliste and the alarm works..

after the next full recharge of my battery i will test to use no more ATK and will look how long the battery will need to be from 100 to 1%
[Desire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
ok i uninstalled the ATM yesterday to see how well everything fares without any task killer.

then i checked the "currrently running apps" list on my android device and it would only show like 4-5 running apps. That just didn't look right to me, as i knew that there are many more apps running.

so i reinstalled ATM and opened it. ATM shows about 20 apps.

What is the reason for this, why does Android show only 4-5 entries, while ATM shows 20?
[Desire General] foxmeister:
Where are you checking "currently running apps" in the base product, as I can only see "Running services"?

Thanks,

Dave
[Desire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
of course you are correct. those are only services and not running apps. so there is basically no out of the box solution to see running apps, or to kill a rogue app easily? Then having a task killer does make even more sense.

Because the only way to kill an rogue app would be to go to the apps list and then choose to force kill an app. But opening the apps list takes ages, since i have about 40 apps installed. So the most comfortable way still is advanced task killer. I'm only using it in case of app problems.
[Desire General] foxmeister:
I think this is the crux of the matter.

IMHO, task killers are useful if you have installed an errant app and need to kill it off quickly and easily. However, what we are really discussing here is the use of a task killer as some kind of battery save/performance enhancer, by killing off all/most tasks as a matter of course.

I'm on my 3rd Android phone, and I find that I never need to kill off processes in this manner, and I get good performance and battery life. Other peoples mileage clearly varies, but I do wonder in some cases if it isn't more to do with other factors e.g. the aforementioned errant app(s), the misguided use of swap space etc.

Regards,

Dave