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[Vibrant General] frankwhitten:
I don't believe T-Mobile ever condoned the use of tethering on any of their devices.

Pulling what stuff? This has been said before, T-Mobile will allow unlimited usage for their data plan, nothing states that they will not throttle your speeds. If it stated that they didn't in the past and then changed their minds then people would have room to gripe but that isn't the case. If you do not like their service then choose another cellular provider. I think Sprint offers unlimited 4g access when you pay the extra $20 or $25 on top of the fee for the data usage.
[Vibrant General] TheAdictsPunk:
I called them abouta year ago when I started tethering on my g1 (of course I didn't tell them that) and they assured me that there is no such limit or charges. It ready is simply unlimited
[Vibrant General] frankwhitten:
The call center reps are not qualified to make that distinction because of their lack of knowledge about the terms of agreement that you had to sign. They will tell you anything to make you happy, that is their job. This is not limited to T-Mobile of course. If you want to a definitive answer then just check your contract. It will state what restrictions there are for the data plan. I had to pull out the contract to make sure I followed the terms of agreement when I was messing with the firmware on a Clear modem they sent me so I could use it with my router and accidentally bricked the modem. I argued for 30 minutes with the rep for a new modem because she believed that messing with firmware for the modem constituted to abusive use of their devices without stating what is abusive use. She sounded pretty new to the job too.
[Vibrant General] anthonys2r:
Believe me, if most of my friends & family had AT&T, I would've jumped ship a longggg time ago (would've also been much happier & easier on the wallet with the 200mb $15 data plan).
[Vibrant General] frankwhitten:
Nothing is stopping you or your family and friends from changing providers. That is why there is a free market, don't like on service provider go to the next and so on and so forth. I am not trying to cause an argument, but the old adage, you can't have one's cake and eat it too, applies here.
[Vibrant General] PaiPiePia:
They are not doing much because (which I just learned the other day) that taxes on cell phone usage (monthly plan) where I live is stunning 18%. :eek:

FCC probably want your bill to be as high as possible.

Now, this thread isn't really about tethering, I started because of the fact that T-mobile is reducing the amount from 10 GB to 5 GB. I understand the fair use policy so an artificial cap is fine with me, but don't lower the cap for everyone just because a few people are tethering to their phone, scale those who use more and charge them more.

Now, you might ask: If you never needed more bandwidth, why do you care?

There's distinction of being punished because you did something wrong yourself and there's being punished as a group because of someone else' mistake. If I can have 10 GB a month, I want to keep it at 10 GB a month irregardless of whether I used it up, it's the principle that counts: I signed up knowing there's 10 GB a month of bandwidth and it needs to stay that way.
[Vibrant General] tribalb:
I think this discussion has been issued. Yes if ur on the tmo unlimited data plan. It is now 5gb cap from 10gb. As of today 10/16. On the good note. Even though our cap has gone down. Tmo does not charge us for overage like the competitors. We simply throttle down to edge. I too was disappointed at this but still its better than having a 2gb cap like the competition
[Vibrant General] metalman3797:
I spoke to a tmobile rep after i hear that news about throttling after 5 gigs. She said its not on cellphones, only on their air cards (usb wireless stick) Cellphones will not throttle even if u download a blue ray torrent :)
[Vibrant General] opiomorph:
Again, reps will tell you anything to keep you happy. I won't believe this until it's been confirmed.

However, if this *does* get confirmed, I'm ditching my home internet plan *immediately.*
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
I don't nessacarily think that's the case. Some of them are just truly misinformed. I had one rep tell me that the reason why my nearest tower doesn't have 3G is because T-Mobile has to build new towers for 3G (i.e. 3G and 2G live at completely separate, different cell sites which is not the case). I tried to explain to her that it doesn't make sense at all, but she wasn't getting it
[Vibrant General] ntellegence:
Off the top been with tmo for a minute (still have myfavs) unlim data is $35 w/ 10gb limit. They send you an email saying you reached 10gb and slowdown. The problem is not the carriers but tv networks sitting on free unused bandwith doing nothing with it but keep claiming "were going to use it"
[Vibrant General] opiomorph:
So you actually have been throttled for using 10 Gb of phone data?
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
To clarify:10GB USED to be the throttling limit. Now it's 5GB. T-Mobile had the 10GB throttling clause in the TOS for a while now but only started to enforce it earlier this year. It's also subject to change according to the TOS.
[Vibrant General] tjhart85:
Completely agreed. I tether every now and then (when the home internet goes down, when I can't access wifi, etc...) and use my mobile internet pretty hard (music streaming, youtubes, etc...), but even then, I haven't even hit a gig.

BUT, I'm still pissed off that they're changing their terms (especially since I haven't gotten an email or notice in the mail).

Here's the thing though, they capped us because too many people were using the 10gb they were allotted. Now, what happens when too many people use the 5gb they were allotted? Well, those "evil" people "ruined it for everyone" and now we're down to 2gb.
[Vibrant General] AgentFour20:
Is this only the WebConnect plans because I see they have a Data Per Month limit on there website but no Date Per Month limit on the SmartPhone Plans .

https://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans...nav=mst_shop_plans_internet#webConnect™ Plans
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
T-Mobile has to have a good value. If they throttled at 2GB more of us would be very unhappy. The only way they would put the cap (soft or hard) at 2GB is if Verizon and Sprint did so. T-Mobile and others have had a 5GB cap standard for tons of their data products so there isn't any reason to think they would lower it further. As it stands now, most of us have no problem with this new data cap which is why it will stay. they originally tried to cap data at 1GB when the G1 was launched but that went over POORLY and they bumped it up to 10GB in the TOS.
[Vibrant General] Gr8gorilla:
Todays grammar lesson, irregardless is not a word.

Now on to the subject of this discussion.

Whether or not you agree with what T-Mobile is doing really doesn't matter. They are a business that reserves the right to modify the terms of your service agreement. If you don't like what they have done then change carriers. Just be careful that you don't bite off your nose to spite your face.

Even with a 5GB soft cap on data usage T-mobile still has the best data plan pricing there is.

Another hint. If you have been with them for a while, 6 months or more, call 611. When they answer say, Cancel. Then when the loyalty rep gets on the line, tell them you would like the Pref android Web rate. My unlimited Data plan is only 20 per month. They can lower your data plan price. It helps if you have no late payments etc. Be nice when you call too, it really helps.

So ATT charges $25 for 2GB hard CAP. Tmobile charges $20-30 for Unlimited Data that is Soft Capped at 5GB. Verizon is what, $40 for unlimited data? Sprint is 69.99 for 450 min and Unlimited Everything else plus you pay an additional $10 per month if you bought a 4G phone. I suppose you could always go to metroPCS for 59.99 Unlimited Everything on a Blackberry plan. Plus rumor has it that they will get an Android phone soon, a Motorola running 2.1!
[Vibrant General] funeralthirst:
well the whether it's unlimited or not has been debated over and over (which it is unlimited data, just not unlimited speed. a lot of cable and dsl companies used to do this and some still do).

i do think it's kind of dumb (and likely the reason they changed the limit) to lower your throttle point immediately after releasing your first hspa+ phone.

but honestly these things change all the time.
[Vibrant General] emceeskwaird:
Throttled yesterday......4th time this year.....oh yeah I don't tether...I'm just a power user I guess. ..i use it as my only access to internet but I only access it from phone not through tether.....honestly data cap sux but its better than being completely cut off of 2g/3g or charged for overages.
[Vibrant General] VICosPhi:
It's amazing how incompetent the cell service providers are. In today's age, you'd expect everyone to be competent and provide faster internet plans with large bandwidth.

It's also amazing how businesses brainwash consumers as they justify since it's a cell data plan so tethering is unethical/illegal. It's understandable that you aren't supposed to download 24/7 on the data connection since that's like abusing it. It's also understandable to not tether if data plan was included free of cost. But when you are paying for it, you expect to tether. It's a great luxury to have tethering when you are on the road. If we are paying for data, and number of smartphone users is increasing exponentially, cell providers need to invest in infrastructure to support higher bandwidth and usage instead of "limiting" everyone because of "few" users who abuse the service.

Anyways tmobile is still the most cost effective choice amongst all wireless telecom providers.I don't tether unless on the road, and this won't affect me but it's still wrong. And Tmobile is just following ATT and others so it's not a surprise.

FCC needs to define minimum data bandwidth and speed requirements for data plans.
[Vibrant General] ward360:
Really, does the matter? We are not in a grammer forum. Most people are typing on their cell phones with spell check or grammer correction asistance.

The dictionarys list irregardless a a non standard WORD. Oh I guess it is a WORD then.

I spell like crap and have horrible grammer. It is rather stupid for people to treat a forum about android phones as a place to debate grammer.

Please keep you penut gallery comments to the proper grammer section of the forums.

Remember english might be this guys 3rd language for all we know.

Just my 2¢
[Vibrant General] domtru:
The only thing good about this is that samsung is going to lose money on downloads for the media hub, those ass holes don't want to help me fix the licensing problem because I rooted my phone but will keep the money they charged me. ****ers.
[Vibrant General] PaiPiePia:
Thanks for the information really helpful, I will give them a call this evening. :)

I just got slapped with my first "Late Payment" sticker in 6 years we been with them because they messed up our bill. We signed up for installment plan for just our phones (the whole family 5 phones upgraded) but some how that divided our bills up into weekly segments?! The rep didn't tell us that at the store, and he even said that the installment plan starts in November. So now I hold in my hands 3 billing paper all for October. I need to talk to them about this tonight as well. phew.
[Vibrant General] Kubernetes:
I hit 10GB last month (don't ask; had to travel a lot and no free wifi access) but never experienced any throttling. I didn't go over by much, but I never got a message and a check on speedtest showed full throughput.
[Vibrant General] PaiPiePia:
Thanks for you input, now we know for sure. So, the changes is from 10 GB no throttling to 5 GB with throttling.
[Vibrant General] hockeyrcks9901:
I've hit the 10GB limit the last two months but I don't have internet at home and I had just built a new computer and was downloading windows updates and drivers and stuff like that. However I'm totally okay with t-mobile implementing a soft cap. It's hard cap that I would have a problem with. I do think that it would be nice to not even have a soft cap but that's why there are cable and dsl internet providers.

There definitely was/is a soft cap at 10GB as I received a text message the last two months that my speed would be throttled sure to usage. They didn't mention the amount of data used but I looked at my account online when I got the message and it was 10 GB.

Typos and other gibberish courtesy of Swype
[Vibrant General] ipeench:
Yeah, that's how i am reading this... I see nothing about limiting us to 5 or charging us more after we hit 5... i just see them saying that after we hit 5 they will slow you down. Seems more to me like they are doing it to even out traffic for all users?
[Vibrant General] anthonys2r:
Just curious, how do you surpass 5gb/10gb just using your phone?
[Vibrant General] chefman_usa:
Can a VPN be a work around?

Curious as to whether using a VPN through Vibrant phone would work to stop the throttling? Is it possible?
[Vibrant General] PaiPiePia:
I don't think so,VPN just encrypts and secure you data transmission, but the actual connection is still using cell phone's connection. I could be wrong, feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
[EVO 4G General] Hrshycro:
If you're a credit union member (usually free or cheap to join), you can save 10% every month off of your sprint bill.

Ask to be attached to the NACUC_ZZM Corp. ID

877.728.3428

sprintsave4cu.com

Just got the flyer in my monthly CU statement; good for some of you that can't get in on the 23% student discount :D
[EVO 4G General] drmacinyasha:
Aaaand anyone that works for a town/city/county/state government can get a 10-20% discount. If you work for a utility company, you can also get 5-15% discount.

I get 20%, working for my local city hall, and don't need any coupon code to do it. Just walked into a corporate store, showed 'em my pay stub, and that was it.
[EVO 4G General] glcK23:
I work for LASD and received 20% off..I take it that the credit union 10% cannot be combined?
[EVO 4G General] Techrocket9:
23% ?!?!? My student discount is 10% !!!
[EVO 4G General] Hrshycro:
Studentrate.com
[EVO 4G General] Techrocket9:
That's what I have. 10% :(
[EVO 4G General] Jackk819:
It depends where you go to school.
[EVO 4G General] oreoOozZz:
Just seen this in the confirmation email they just sent me, fine print...

Application of discount requires 2yr contract extension on existing plans. Does

not affect upgrade eligibility.
[EVO 4G General] halfelite:
This works for any phone/tv/internet service for anyone interested. And most of them dont ask for proof. I have both the credit union discount and I dont bank at a credit union and one for an employer that I do not work for.

Anytime I get service I always call and say I just took a pay cut is there any types of discounts that I can add on to my account and they usually start just giving you things.
[EVO 4G General] jigglywiggly:
Can you apply to current contract?
[EVO 4G General] Success100:
You can but as stated before it renews it without affecting your upgrade eligibility

sent from my DAMN Evo!!
[EVO 4G General] smarmytime:
Is it a fair assumption that you can only use one discount at a time? I get a 10% discount for my job, I'm eligible for 10% for both using a credit union and going to school. I imagine they won't give me a 30% discount.
[EVO 4G General] Stryf3:
Most people can get a discount also based on where they work.

Burger King employees get 23%
[Android Software Development] xcxin:
Hi,

I want to use root access on my android app, but I don't know how to get root access and how to use it. I've searched Internet and found someone said that I should call

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("su");

But when I did that the system asked me to give root access to my app, I choose yes, but app still cannot perform any root operations like listening on TCP port 80

please help me

Thank you in advanced!!

Alex
[Android Software Development] bitbang3r:
I'm sure there's some reason why it would fail because it seems too obvious, but my first guess would be to get a shell, su to root, then

chmod u+s whatever.apk
[Android Themes] 4x4le:
Ok guys please help me. I am fairly new to linux so all of the commands and script dont click with me as it will in a few more months so please be thorough if you can.

I have been searching and trying different things for almost 3 days now and Im just going to ask for help before giving up.

For now im trying to get familiar with further hacking for modifying apk's and roms but I am having a terrible time getting the correct information on how to resign an apk to make it installable on an android phone.

In order to keep this simple lets assume this is what Im trying to do.

(im using ubuntu, and every tuturial I see is for win or mac. I have seen 1 (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=3271434) for ubuntu but it seems that it either does not apply to me or is simply over my head at the time with my limited ubuntu knowlege).

Im wanting to take avp.apk and change the icon. I replace the ya.png with a properly sized png named ya.png. I then have tried both ways of either deleting the meta-inf file (do I need to do this?)

And then after that I am stuck. I have tried some different autosign and testsign and different tools but Im obvousially typing something wrong or just not getting something right because it simply does not work with me.

Can someone please help me or tell you what to do or point me to a youtube vid? I keep coming up with the same threads and videos at this point and none of them seem to apply to me (for win/mac).

It seems like what Im trying to do should be simple enough. So please show me what Im being dumb about.
[Epic 4G General] urushiol:
Would love to see a modified touchwiz launcher that swapped out the default messaging app shortcut with one for handcent. Also, it would be cool for the unlock to unread message shortcut on the lockscreen to go straight to handcent, thought I believe that may be more difficult, as the notification showing up on the lockscreen is actually produced by the stock messaging app as part of its notification.

Thoughts, ideas?
[Epic 4G General] urushiol:
Bump bump~!
[Vibrant General] domtru:
Says need to dial *611 for subscription information! Just happened! Anyone else experiencing this?
[Vibrant General] blader3759:
Working for me just fine
[Vibrant General] bts0uth:
I thought it was working fine but it isn't. When you goto view a live.channel it tells you to dial 611 because you don't have a valid data plan.

I hope we can find a fix somehow. PM please if someone does. Ill post back if I find a way around it.

Posted from my Captivate
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJZager:
Edit::

So now I know that that htcresources supercedes anything I do to the phone.apk, what controls the color of the numbers & text in the keypad?

Thank you for any help.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aamikam:
u would need to decompile the apk.

look inside res/values

and res/values-hdpi

maybe a few more.

inside those foldrs u would see colors.xml

from there u should be able to figure out which one is the text color.

p.s.

im havn't done it myself, but thats how u get can get a bunch of color changed in all of your apps.

thats how i made my app drawer transparent, and changed animations etc... screw those hex editing tweaks... its a huge waste of time to figure out what does what.

just decompiling the apk gives u everything u need and its all in English.

keep in mind that u might need to actually change in in a different apk... not necessarily in phone.apk.

and i do hope that u found the images inside com.htc.resources.apk for the actual keypad images.

just use apktool.

version 1.3.2 might give u issue cuz it compresses the resources.arsc... so if u need version 1.3.1 let me know... i got that one also.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rujelus22:
Values\styles.xml

<Line 196> <item name="android:textColor">@color/color_255_255_255</item>

<Line 200> <item name="android:shadowColor">@color/color_0_0_0</item>

<Line 220> <item name="android:textColor">@color/color_255_255_255</item>

<Line 224> <item name="android:shadowColor">@color/color_0_0_0</item>

These are the ones you are looking for. In HTCDialer.apk

The way they are shown here will make them black with a white shadow. you can replace the @color/color_0_0_0 part with any hex color code (ex. #ffffffff) so you can choose any color. Hope this helps
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJZager:
Wow, thank you for that. I'm going to try that and report back.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MadDogMaddux:
Related Topic: I'm trying to change the color for the text that appears in the accumulator in HtcDialer.apk

There are 3 nearly identical files in /res/layout: dialer.xml dialer_cdma.xml, and dialer_cdma_sp.xml

Each of these has coding which refers to the text within the accumulator (i.e. where the numbers you dial show up). So far, changing the colors there either accomplishes nothing, or it causes acore FCs.

Am I poking the wrong beehive?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rotnezi:
how do u change button color?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] abu_noah:
I got everything ready on my Rom, but need to add the Droid boot sound and I'm not talking about while it's up and running, I need to cook it in the Rom, so please if anyone has info, hit me up. Thanks.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
I don't believe sound can be used on AOSP... not 100% sure, but I don't think it can
[Hero CDMA Android Development] abu_noah:
well, I know it can, but I don't know how to get it to work with the boot animation. I put the boot sound in system/media/bootscreen with the boot animation in system/media and the boot animation worked, but not the sound. then I put both in system/media/bootscreen and I got the boot sound, but no animation. Just the android words acrossed the screen.

I'm thinking that it will read agif with the boot sound in system/media/bootscreen, but I don't know how to create an animated gif out of a boot animation.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Vandelay007:
I'm with Impaler on this one...I'm pretty sure its one or the other but both at the same time is yet to be figured out
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jschill31:
Hello,

From what I have found the Droid is the only non-sense phone that can do sound on boot with 2.2. It has something to do with where the audio is placed on that machine? Everything I have read points to sense-based 2.2 roms having the capability to have audio on boot but I can not get the Wildfire rom to recognize it either with the R2D2 boot.
[EVO 4G Accessories] fr4nk1yn:
A buddy came by the other day with this case on his Fascinate.

It's much better than in the photo. It's really thin and grabs the sides only.

His also had a belt clip.

Anybody see something similar for the Evo. I has the Innocase II. It's no where as slick as this cover.
[EVO 4G Accessories] JTNiggle:
This One looks like what ur asking for, I think.

Edit: Green One

Ebay Search :-)
[EVO 4G Accessories] fr4nk1yn:
That looks interesting. Thanks. I'm going to give it a go.

hmmm. That's a first. I couldn't buy because my paypal is not linked with my ebay.
[EVO 4G Accessories] JTNiggle:
yeah, paypal has a few new restrictions on ebay stuff.
[EVO 4G Accessories] matthewjulian:
yeah, ebay has alot of the fake CF pretty cheap AND if you have about $100 there is one company selling the real thing!!! I would love that but just cant justify spending the money(although there is quite a bit on my car:D)