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[Vibrant General] nonzeropossibility:
You might have to spoof the IMEI, you're in the same boat as my friend. He wants to use his old Sidekick plan with the phone but since's it's not a Sidekick he can't use the data at all because they know he's using a smart phone. Discussing IMEI's is not usually allowed on xda because it's illegal in some countries. I think that's your only solution though.

Wait a few months until the phone is more popular and you'll be able to easily find ways to spoof the IMEI. So far I have found none.
[Vibrant General] orells:
you have to have the android web spoofed or not. Without it TMO will lock you out of the market and mms

Sent from the best phone from TMO... Vibrant
[Vibrant General] neasoon:
as long as you use t mobile prepaid, you won't be charged for a data plan.

Why do you want to buy those expensive vibrants from ebay? I'd rather buy it from tmobile with 2 year contract, then cancel the plan and pay the ETF.

You can try to ask a t mobile online csr for the unlock code. Just tell him you will travel outside of us.
[Vibrant General] PathogenX:
He said he is a student from china so I assume he does not have a SS# and without one he cannot sign up for a contract.

The best thing you can do OP is buy a Galaxy S i9000 off ebay. Tmobile only has the IMEI for the vibrants. That way you can pop your sim into the international version and they wont know.
[Vibrant General] j0eyred:
Or get a sim card from mysimplemobile.com $60 a month for unlimited everything and it uses tmobile service. That is what I switched to and it works with my vibrant without an unlock.
[Vibrant General] lianglqufo:
Yup. You are right. I don't have the SSN right now so it's difficult for me to sign a contract.

The international version which is the i9000 is not bad. But I notice the price for the international version are significantly more expensive than the vibrant, for like 100-200$.

Anyway, thx for the suggestions. :D
[Vibrant General] lianglqufo:
Thank you for the suggestions. But 60$ still seems to be a lot for me.:(

So I might try to figure out another way to make it happen. lol
[Vibrant General] vnamee:
Im using the vibrant on tmo after upgrade. you can go online and remove the service. I paid for one month and canceled. you just change the type of phone to one not requiring android data plan ie a non android phone and it will let you remove it. I'm using it purely on wifi. just remember you will need it unlocked or w/ 3g to activate it initially or after wipe.
[Vibrant General] SquareBare:
Ahh, Hmmm I paid the full 500 and today is the last day I can return mine. How much was the termination fee out of curiosity?

Another question, I have been using mine prepaid for almost a month now and TMO hasn't given me any trouble with it. (Aside from the reps in the store when I went to buy it).

Do you think I should bother to spoof my IMEI? Is that something that can get a fellow into trouble in this paranoid new world?

From what I've read everywhere else, it seems that TMO needs your business and won't give you any trouble using a prepaid sim in the phone. Whose to say that won't change in the future though.
[Vibrant General] djupp:
You can usually get a contract from T-mob with your passport and your F1 student visa (assuming you're on a F1). You'll have to wait for about an hour in order for them to get approval from headquarters, but it works fine. Got my Vibrant that way, and while the charges are high at least you get unlimited data (as in really unlimited), so watching videos, listening to pandora and all that is a non-brainer..
[Vibrant General] lianglqufo:
Oh. I do have the F1 VISA with me. But I think I need to pay the deposit for don't have the SS#. At least my friend told me so.
[Vibrant General] cparekh:
That's the thing I don't understand. I paid $199 for my Vibrant on a 2-year contract. I have a $200 ETF, which means that I can cancel, and get the phone for $400. For a non-contract, I would have paid the full $500.

So what one can do is use the Even More for one month (which is +$10 from the Even More Plus). Then cancel, pay the ETF, and move to the same Even More Plus plan. Which would mean you would get no contract for $400.

Am I missing something?
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
is this really possible? amazon currently has the vibrant for $0.01 with a new contract. so in theory, one could sign a new contract, cancel and pay the ETF of $200, and get the phone for $200.01?? then sign up for an even more plus plan with no contract? (i also thought EM was $20/month more than EM+)

any input would be appreciated. this sounds too good to be true
[Vibrant General] speoples20:
You can buy a Vibrant and use it on prepaid you are just going to pay $500 for the phone. T-Mobile doesn't care they wont and can't charge you extra.

I would recommend checking out flexpay, you can get a monthly plan and get data if you want it. If not go with prepaid $15 a month gives you unlimited SMS and $0.10 a minute and just use wifi when you need data.

One last thing is do not recommend imei spoofing as its illegal here.
[Vibrant General] sl0play:
If you cancel with amazon within 6 months you pay an added 250$ ETF to them. So it would be 450$ all day.

I got mine from costco for $99 and canceled for 200$ after ETF. So $300 total. You also get a free cheap case car charger and bluetooth from them. Oh and no activation fee.

Texted While Driving
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
nice. i'll look into something like this. i wonder if best buy / radioshack / car toys also have ETF fees of their own... (no costco membership for me)
[Vibrant General] seojuhwan:
I am kinda confused by this.

So I am in a stick situation here.

My parents have a family plan and I bought a Vibrant adding onto their Even More plan, which requires the $5 add a line and also $30 data plan. But I kinda think I don't really need data plan/3G cuz I am mostly home and don't quite use 3G unless I am not home, which isn't too often. $30 is a little money wasting, so I was thinking of just getting my phone without contract by paying $500 and just adding to my parents' Even More plan without data plan to save money.

But since I got my phone from Costco for $200 (when did this $99 deal start? I got mine a week ago...), does that mean I can just cancel and save money instead?

Important question though: Is it really true that there is no Android Market access without Tmo smartphone data plan? Why is this so? If so, is there any way of my getting away with it in my case?

Thanks,
[Vibrant General] dcam1075:
FYI, if you have an F1 visa or any student visa you can do a contact with T-Mobile with no deposit and no ss#. This is something relatively new to t-mo. Just go to any corporate store location and they should be able to set it up for you. It takes about 45 minutes to process. That is the only down side.
[Vibrant General] ikkebra:
I don't have a data plan, and I can access the Android Market just fine via WiFi. With Wifi at home and at work and most every place in between, the data plan is really pointless for me
[Vibrant General] vnamee:
I took off my data plan and didnt eat any kind of termination fee. I paid 100 bucks for it at Costco when it came out and thats that. Granted, the phone did come w/ a sim but I just used my old one. I don't know if activating the new sim (but its the same account?) will do anything, but everything seems to work fine. I have a 100 dollar phone w/ no data plan and on 2 year contract of existing plan I had before. Net result is 100 for Vibrant.
[Vibrant General] mesajoejoe:
found the policy you speak of. my question is, how does it link back up to amazon that you canceled your contract? im assuming, that theres extra info in the database in regards to amazon wireless purchase but would there be any way to like confuse a TMO rep/employee/customer care etc... like a month down the line and somehow get that "info" removed so that it doesnt somehow link back to amazon wireless?

Not a bad deal anyways if you ask me, 1 penny for phone, 6 months on contract, pay the etf of just $200.... Not really all that bad if you dont mind swinging it for 6 months if you can, I couldnt lol
[Vibrant General] dcam1075:
T-Mobile pays amazon (a sizeable amount of money) for activations they generate. That is why amazon is willing to lose some money on the phone upfront. But, if those activations cancel during the ETF period T-Mobile reverses the commission they paid to Amazon. Then in turn amazon charges you. There is no way to game that system that I know of.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stephaneduciel:
Hello,

I use every day S2U2: application which I find really successful

I have however a question to subject you:

I use the locking during the calls for questions of security.

When I phone, the device locks itself normally: everything is well.

On the other hand, when my call is ended, I am obliged to unlock my device to hang up.

Is there a means to hang up while the telephone is locked during the calls ?

Naturally I went on the site of S2U2 to read the "FAQ" section and "README" but no answer to my problem.

Also, I sent a message to the technical support; reponse: thank you for postponing you in the "FAQ" rubirque and "README".

Thus today, I wish to know if there is a means to hang up the telephone while this last one is vérouillé during the calls ?

Thank you for your answer
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stylez:
Please use the thread of topic S2U2.

On that note thread closed.
[Android Software Development] ahmad.magdy:
Hi i have been having difficulties making up my mind about which IM (mainly msn) app to use some eat your battery real quick and some are just not that functional so i thought i start this nice thread o and have anyone found one that is capable of sending/receiving files.

THAAAANKS
[Android Software Development] elmejor183:
Trillian

Try http://www.trillian.im/learn/tour-android.html

Just came out into beta stage, feels real smooth, the UI is ok and its speedy. From a post in their blog it said they would be using Google Cloud 2 Device Messaging, but i'm not sure if it is being used in this beta yet.
[Android Software Development] BlaY0:
Hi,

I'm writting little dhcpcd hook and have problem fetching variables with getprop. setprop works and is used already in existent hooks but getprop always returns no data. What am I missing?
[Android Software Development] nicandris:
if you run getprop in the terminal does it display anything? tried it with root/without root and it's fine. try changing busybox version? or send me the commands/app to test it if you like
[Android Software Development] BlaY0:
If I run getprop in terminal it returns all properties. This has nothing to do with busybox. I'm trying to fetch some propertie values into my dhcpcd hook script.

You can try it yourself... in /system/etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/20-dns.conf setprop is used on several occasions. You can try adding let say:

getprop > /data/local/allprops.txt

...into set_dns_props function somewhere at the end and fire up WiFi. Upon connecting you should get /data/local/allprops.txt populated with all properties. I tried that and file was there but empty.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l1nuxfre4k:
After installing 5.3 my phone has been worthless.

5.0 worked fine.

cant install applications

3g/H works crap all of the sudden.

Wifi works it seems.

Tried downloading to SD card but sad not enough space :S

i got lots...

Suggestions?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyron_at:
why don't you post in the NexTSense thread?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l1nuxfre4k:
because so many people post there and because of that the post is not noticed most of the time :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SkyWalker1726:
had 5.3 for about 4 days , installed tons of apps , had 2 days battery life average , fast and smooth , no reboot , love the transparent lockscreen , vpn worked , ...

very good rom

but switch to WhiteXperience just for the fun :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hooolm:
My WiFi connection seems to go sour every now and then. It LOOKS connected but nothing works. I turn WiFi off and on again, and everything is fine.

No obvious issues apart from that.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gearknobz:
Are you on Orange mate?its orange fault,call 150.they have gprs problem at the moment
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lennyuk:
well no need to call them, they can't do anything but confirm they have issues :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l1nuxfre4k:
all over UK?

GPRS only?

since im having issues with 3G :p
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CerB:
HARD RESET !!!!!!

its not that hard to think alitle
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l1nuxfre4k:
what about installing apps?

its like it thinks the sd card is full, or at least the partition for the programs,

wiped it 3 times :p

hard reseted 5+ times
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deepakoffline:
i never had any problems with nextsense. have got 2 phones and its running perfectly fine.... but on one i changed to the sexy pinky rom :) hehe love that name
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cr1960:
Go back to v 5.0?

Flash another Rom??
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buchman:
I had an issue similar to this a while back, I suggest running scandisk or similar on your SD card. It worked for me.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marlon96:
The problem is in your microSD.

Format it and make a new partition!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monyozt:
try to format your sdcard to another phone. in my case on my blackbery.. formating sdcard on PC IMHO doesn't erease your partition. i have 2,63GB left aftere format on PC and about 3,xxx(i can't remember) after format from my blackberry
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atomfix:
I had this problem. Had 5.3 on my phone and no matter what i did. None of the apps i downloaded would install, There was no APN list and if i did add a new APN it just wouldn't save and it was way way too buggy so i went straight back to DeFroST for reliability and all my problems were gone straight away.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zonz:
I had the same problem. I flashed 5.3 ROM with standard sense theme without wipe on 5.2 with expresso theme.

I reflashed with 5.3 expresso theme without any wipe and all went fine.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rhys100:
Ive read that 3G on can drain your battery alot more than 2g, i was wondering if there is a quick way to switch between the two as i have been going into the settings and through that way...

cheers
[Galaxy S I9000 General] darksnarfer:
There are some widgets that are just a shorcut to the 2g/3g setting page, for example 2G-3G OnOff from CurveFish.

It's a shame android doesn't turn automatically 3g off when turning off the screen, maybe some custom rom will?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Qazz~:
I use smoda widget, just search "smoda widget"and it'll appear. It's a convenient widget that switches your connection from 2g to 3g and vice versa. It's better than other widgets as it just selects and deselects 3g net work instead of changing apn settings like some others do.

Been using it for awhile now and it's great, always off 3g when I'm not using the phone and my batt drops only 3% in 8 hours !
[Galaxy S I9000 General] darksnarfer:
Actually, Smoda doesn't switch between 2g/3g, it just turns off ANY data with just one-click. So, it will indeed improve battery life but you won't receive new mails or anything while switched off, while using only 2g will improve battery life AND let you get new mails (or anything else).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rhys100:
oh ok, well any other ideas?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] format:
The android SO doesn't allow that change. That'a why all you find is shortcuts to the menu where you can manually switch it.

There is an app that can do that but needs a custom cyanogen rom that doesn't exist for SGS.

The ideia behind that app is great. Is would switch to 2G when the phone goes to sleep and back to 3G if you wake it up. Has a few lag problems though. Anyhow it's not for SGS.

So get a good shotcut for it :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] StuBouyer:
I installed SmartBar, I have a shortcut to "Quick Settings" in the notification bar.

In Quick Settings there is 3g-2G icon that takes directly to the Mobile network settings" screen where you can change "Network Mode" to "G only.

With the firmware update it changed from 2G/3G to GSM/WCDMA. Having it on GSM definetly saves battery for me at home where I get lousy 3G reception.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] darksnarfer:
Can you point which app is that? I thought it didn't exist.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rhys100:
i tried to download smart bar but it doesnt want to install, says install unsuccessfull
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 4myra:
use Juice Defender

I am using Juice Defender and it will shut off 3G/2G when the screen is locked.

It also provides a widget to set mobile data off/on/controlled by Juice defender.

The free version can extend your battery life by 1.6.
[Droid X General] Explodee:
I was looking for an app that would let me download and save youtube videos but the only one I could find was one called youtube ripper, and that was taken off the market about the weeks ago. Does anyone have the apk, or an alternative?

Sent from my Droid X using psychic powers
[Droid X General] dr154:
YouTube Ripper

YouTube Ripper
[Droid X General] Explodee:
Awesome, thanks!
[Droid X General] Explodee:
I actually can't get this working. I paste the link from the actual youtube and it flashes the download bar for a second and disappears. When I paste the link from the mobile site it just stays on the gathering information popup.

Sent from my Droid X using psychic powers
[Droid X General] lamaravish:
you can also get "Jet VD" from the market. it works nice for me and it also gives you a choice if you want to download the video as low quality/high quality
[Droid X General] Explodee:
Oh man so much better, thanks. Iit's not letting me choose what folder to download to though...

Sent from my Droid X using psychic powers
[Droid X General] mach330:
yeah all of a sudden youtube ripper stopped working for me. i liked it cuz i can give a youtube link and it'll convert it. i use jet vd now too. but you have to search on that before you can convert. good options though on what type of format you want to save. i wish it could convert links though too.
[Droid X General] jastrul:
i just got JetVD and found the video. I clicked on 720p HD but it doesnt download it, only plays it...
[Droid X General] moosc:
this is the best one. got yanked bit I can get it at this websight. http://devian7.iisweb.co.kr/download.jsp
[Droid X General] chbennett:
Best tube works

Sent from my Droid X packing Gingerbread.
[Droid X General] sqlmotoq:
YouTube Downlod

Another good free one is Tubemate which is at the link http://m.tubemate.net/download.jsp
[Droid X General] irishyamaha:
IMO tubemate is the best YouTube ripper .. i use it daily check it out, http://androidappsdir.com/tubemate-youtube-downloader-android-app/
[Droid X General] irishyamaha:
IMO tubemate is the best but it was yanked from market, a little research will be worth it trust me,, http://androidappsdir.com/tubemate-youtube-downloader-android-app/
[Droid X General] marculous:
tubemate works pretty good, will save as mp4, does not look good when connected to tv through hdmi though...

Stock 2.3.3 - for now...
[Droid X General] fernandorinto:
"TubeMate" also does the gob
[Droid X General] drewlamo1:
i concur on the tubemate app they update it whenever youtube blocks em.

sometimes it takes them a lil bit to get an update version out but so far they been on top of it pretty good
[Droid X General] Droid X_46:
Go to the MARKET & download "TUBEMATE". It is the best that I have used, & I have tried 5 or 6 of them. The best is called "FREEdi YOUTUBE DOWNLOADER" which is currently off the market (if you see it download it). However, I feel the best the MARKET has to offer currently is "TUBEMATE". Good Luck with it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sagorap:
Hi everyone, I have a question. I have updated my Desire to Froyo (original, and no root)

All the apps say that the internal memory is 147mb more or less, so I can't install games and apps that i need.

I want to root my phone but i guess i should downgrade Hboot since its version is 0.92.

My question is that can rooted Desire and custom roms give me more internal memory?

Thanks for your attention
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kinma:
I don't know what games you play, but the internal memory of the Desire should hold 30-50 apps before memory runs out.

If you root, create a ETX3 partition on your SDCard and use a ROM that uses APP2SD (or APP2SD+), then all your apps will first be stored inside the EXT3 partition. When that is full, Android will start using internal memory.

I run about 40 apps on my phone which use about 150Mb out of a partition of 512 Mb.

Keep in mind that creating a EXT3 partition will wipe all data from your SDCard. So make a backup first.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sagorap:
I didnt root my phone, it has original froyo 2.2, when i return my phone to factory settings, it gives me 146mb free internal memory, and i can only install 4-5 games and some apps then i am starting to have memory problem..

Will u please help me to get rid off this problem. I am totally new in this rooting processes. Finally, my phone's hboot version is 0,92.. i think i should downgrade it but i dont know how to?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xda_naveen:
The best way to root is by unrevoked.com/recovery method..just search in this forum....but first you need to downgrade your hboot version...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alex-V:
This is why...you have only the froyo app2sd (fat) and not the older app2sd+ (ext3)

the most games and apps don´t have updated to froyo app2sd and so it installs in phone memory....instead of sd

but i see you have hboot 0.92..so be sure you use the right rooting method....eg this (but i think there are more..search)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=750852

with kind regards..Alex
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sagorap:
I have downgraded it to hboot to 0.80...

ı didnt understand how to use unrevoked please help me
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alex-V:
maybe this help you :)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7791029&postcount=8
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vorbeth:
Nevermind...

[Note to self] Read Threads Properly!!

Thanks, @ephumuris
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ephumuris:
He already said he downgraded...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sagorap:
I have rooted my phone with unrevoked3 . So which rom is the best? and how can i create ext3 partition in my sd
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kinma:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=760061
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sagorap:
thanks i will try this one..

I have installed opendesire 3.4.2 rom, I didnt change the original radio. And rooted my desire with unrevoked3...
[Vibrant General] nonzeropossibility:
Is there anyway to successfully do this besides spoofing your IMEI/changing it? I'm not asking how to change or spoof my IMEI, however I can't seem to find any other solution that would work in order to use a Sidekick data plan.
[Vibrant General] orells:
You need the android plan in order to use the market and mms

Sent from the best phone from TMO... Vibrant
[Droid X General] Mycahya:
When I run my bluetooth and wifi at the same time, my wifi will buffer youtube or pandora for 45 sec to a minute, then stop transmitting for about the same time frame. Really strange... noticed mostly because I can't watch a full youtube video with my bluetooth Headset on. Anyone else having this problem?