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[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Incorrect. It's not hard to know what to do here.

If it says Verizon or Sprint (Includes Virgin Mobile, Boost Mobile, etc.), the phone is worthless if they report it stolen, aside froma WiFi media device because the ESN will be marked dirty and it won't be able to activate after the owner calls it in as Lost or Stolen.

If it says T-Mobile or AT&T, you have hit the jackpot. GSM Carriers here allow any stolen devices on their network, without prejudice. I've already spoken to T-Mobile about this, because my first Vibrant was stolen. Their words, "If you didn't have a lock code on your phone, or the new owner resets it, it's their phone." With Cloud-based storage of info the information on the phone isn't an issue, it's the $500 piece of hardware that just went bye bye that's the issue (assuming you put your Photos in Picasa/FB/SkyDrive and don't let them rot on the phone's storage, of course).

Turn phone off. Remove Sim Card. Pay $10-20 for an unlock code. List on eBay. Profit?

Yes, there are dumb people anywhere. But anyone in the projects around here who has at least a 3rd grade education will shut that phone down and have it on eBay (probably from the Public Library computers) within a matter of hours. GPS Tracking and things like MyPhone won't help with that once they reset the phone (which is easier as ever these days, since everyone is putting it in as a simple menu option that is trivial to find).

Best way to get the phone back is to have been robbed or something. If you get injured badly enough the cops and the carriers will actually track the phone down. Cops here don't track phones unless it's a life or death situation. If you allow someone to use that phone without calling the carrier ASAP to get the line suspended, you can - and will - be held liable for whatever that person does on the phone. Have fun paying for every ringtone, wallpaper, etc. and all the overages they used on the account (i.e. if they used your phone to tether a torrent client on their laptop/notebook on AT&T with a 200MB data plan).
[Windows Phone 7 General] powersquad:
mobile me from apple is exactly similar to microsoft's devices.live.com service...

many many times theifs have been caught using gps tracking...majority of theives are idiots and don't know what they are doing...

also GSM phones are just as secure...just because t-mobile refuses to do something does not means GSM is insecure...IMEI can be blocked from the network very easily and is done on a regular basis in NZ if phone is stolen...
[Windows Phone 7 General] agp64:
If you live in Australia you can contact your carrier and have the phone blocked by using the IMEI number.

The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) runs a world-leading anti-theft program at no cost to consumers. It works by detecting a mobile phone's electronic serial number, known as the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number, then sharing this information with carriers to block handsets across all networks in Australia.

Here is a link to check it out:

http://www.lost.amta.org.au/
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Im talking about the usa. No gsm carrier blocks imeis here. I thought I made that crystal clear in my us/europe comparisons.

They arent tracking a phone here without a court supoena and myphone/mobileme are useless vs 99% of thieves.

Majority of thieves arent idiots. Vast majority of stolen phones are never recovered. Theyre as easy to steal as a netbook and a phone locked there can still be used np in the us, which is why stealing gsm phones are profitable.

There are no inter-carrier databases for logging blacklisted imeis here, like there is in europe.

Lots of stolen phones also goto asia.

I hope that explains my stance. Yes. Gsm is less secure than cdma because the phones can be unlocked and used in other markets easily, unlike cdma. That portability is a blessing and a curse to gsm...
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
You're incorrect about cdma. All you have to do is flash the phone to another carrier such as Cricket, Metro, or Boost. Companies that don't care about the ESN numbers.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] shrooms90:
Im on jpm with voodoo lag fix (pre 6) installed. Now when i use droid wall i get a kernel panic as soon as i apply root permission. I thought rebooting would fix that, but as soon as i get the message 'droidwall has ben guaranted root permission' i get the kernel panic screen again. Only thing that helped was uninstalling droid wall before it got root permission after boot. Any idea how to fix that?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] shrooms90:
No one?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VeryCoolAlan:
can someone tell me how to flash eugenes froyo using odin please give very detailed details
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metalfan78:
Why don't you follow the instructions from the thread you downloaded it from
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thegreat520:
Still need help email me thegreat520@gmail.com
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] garyf:
I have a bunch of batteries I've collected over the last year, some OEM, some generic compatibles, that claim a range of mah capacities.

Is there a software I can run that will discharge the battery and report to a log file how much power a battery will actually output before the phone shuts down?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] retsam88:
Try that one.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] rhcp011235:
Has anyone noticed lately when you go to a HTTPS page via the normal browser it will just stall and not show anything?

Anyone found a fix?

I notice this with paypal and a few other sites.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] greengoldmello:
Yea I had this problem as well... very annoying
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] rhcp011235:
Anyone know any fixes? Maybe this should be moved to dev?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nurra:
I've used such a software when the HTC Touch first came out. But it slowed down the device so i didn't use it. Now i forget the name of the software. I've search the internet and my my is it hard to find a lost ppc software. thanks guys
[Desire HD Android Development] Evostance:
Ok I bought a Sim Free Desire HD so its completely stock, straight from HTC.

However its got some stuff I would quite like to remove such as Amazon MP3, Peep, News, Stocks, Transfer Data and Teeter, however these are locked down.

I have tried to remove them using adb however it says I do not have permission as the system is read only.

My device is rooted using VISIONary.

Here's the commands i've been running.

@adb shell rm /system/app/amazonmp3

Which should work, but I get this error

rm failed for /system/app/amazonmp3.apk, Read-only file system

Now, I thought root gave us these permissions?
[Desire HD Android Development] xmoo:
This root method doesn't give full access. Read the thread ;)
[Desire HD Android Development] Evostance:
Yeah I figured that. Just trying to see if there is a way ;)
[Desire HD Android Development] Bumble-Bee:
you cant remove them .... but u can disable em by :-

1) find the process neme by running in ADB shell or terminal app

eg. amozon mp3 is com.amazon.mp3

2) then diable it by running

and then reboot your phone or just restart the launcher :-D
[Desire HD Android Development] arielext:
we need full access to our phones!
[Desire HD Android Development] Pajorve:
S-OFF in these hours would be a hand on the wheel ...!

=]

one day who knows ...!!!
[Desire HD Android Development] jankos:
until we don't have a full root this action is impossible. Disabling apps works only :)
[Desire HD Android Development] Eddie1506:
http://android.modaco.com/content/t...m/322030/03-nov-r2-g2-google-goggles-remover/

:)
[Desire HD Android Development] TML1504:
the last version of titanium backup is able to totally remove system and/or preinstalled apps, like amazonmp3 etc. tried it and it worked for me, after two reboots the app is completely gone!

all of the above "hacks" didn't work for me (although i am temp rooted with visionary and used the "su" command), but titanium backup did the trick!

version: 3.5.7.3

click and hold on the app, choose "force remove app (by recovery exploit)"
[Desire HD Android Development] erdinc:
Thank you very much , worked for me too !!
[Desire HD Android Development] Eddie1506:
Beware, you won't be able to install future OTAs if you delete stock apps.
[Desire HD Android Development] TML1504:
may i ask why? some sort of checksum??
[Desire HD Android Development] mike1986.:
Yes, you will have to flash the stock rom first.
[Desire HD Android Development] TML1504:
thx, do we really have to reflash a stock rom or would it be enough to just hard reset?
[Desire HD Android Development] mike1986.:
Reflash is required.
[Desire HD Android Development] erdinc:
Ur sure about that !?? and how do we reflash the stock rom ??
[Desire HD Android Development] mike1986.:
eh, I'm sure. Read the forum to know how to flash stock rom.
[Desire HD Android Development] adwinp:
If the OTA patches any of the apps you removed, the update script will check for that file and will fail when it can't find it.
[Desire HD Android Development] erdinc:
I did read it ! managed to create a '' rom.zip'' renamed it , put it on my SDcard . tried power + volumebutton ... but I need Hboot and can't find it anywhere ! can you point me to the right direction ??
[Desire HD Android Development] liljom:
now that I have permanent root, what should I do to be able to remount the system?
[Galaxy Tab General] robinkiefer:
I am a newbie Android addict (ditched my iphone for Samsung Captivate w/AT&T) and LOVE it. I'm also new to this site so please forgive if this has already been covered but I couldn't find it.

I would love to get the new Samsung Tab as soon as it hits the U.S. market but no way do I want to pay for an additional data plan. Will there be a way to tether the tablet to my Captivate? And if so, how? I am desperate for an answer. Please, please someone tell me if this is possible or not? Thanks in advance!

Robin
[Galaxy Tab General] no6969el:
what will happen is you are going to have to pay full price.. 649 for one with no contract. You can root it (captivate) and tether via wifi using tether app.... then when it (the Tab) gets modded to use voice (which I plan on) then you can mod that rom on and then put your sim into the TAb..

pretty much my plan except on tmobile.. and i would be tethering with my g1 ;)
[Galaxy Tab General] dboppc130:
This also is my plan, but on AT&T and tethered to my Aria. But this depends on whether or not the required phone hardware is installed on the US version and can be accessed with rooted ROM.
[Galaxy Tab General] dliao:
Hm? Is it confirmed that the US version would still have voice capability? Last I heard someone was suggesting to wait for people to take it apart to make sure the hardwares are all there.
[Galaxy Tab General] knightnz:
AFAIK there will be WiFi-only and 3G version in various different flavours, as well as a CDMA version for Sprints aging technology.
[Galaxy Tab General] clubtech:
If it can do 3g data I don't see how the hardware can not be there.
[Galaxy Tab General] LostAlone:
Indeed

If you aren't going to use the data line, then tbh I'd just wait for the wifi only version. No reason to pay extra for something you won't use. You will still be able to use the wireless AP on the captivate to tether.
[Galaxy Tab General] Volker1:
Did you ever make a cellular voice call from a 3G-equipped laptop? No? Well thats because there is no audio in/out from the 3G module in a laptop. The wires are not there. Its definitely possible for Samsung to neuter the tab in that way if they want to... :cool:
[Epic 4G General] razorseal:
Ok, so what happenned on the 2 instances that this happenned was all of a sudden I lost cellular signal and the phone made a sound and the signal bars switched to a circular sign with the line across it. I put the phone in airplane mode but nothing happenned, within a min phone restarted it self...

The phone is stock. No root or anything like that.

Ps... using the keyboard to type this, and its much easier compard to my old droids kb. :-)
[Epic 4G General] othan1:
Weird. Haven't experienced that before myself. I have had it lose signal and display the circle with a line through it but it's not very often and only for a second or two.
[Epic 4G General] razorseal:
Just did it again when I went into pandora. I realized its actually not resetting, but the phone freezes up and everything reloads. Including signal and 3G... the screen shutz off and you can't turn it back on until it reloads

Sent from Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] Bigjim1488:
I had the same problem with mine. I exchanged it for another one and have had no problems since
[Epic 4G General] razorseal:
Damn. Just when I get it the way I wanted it... Ugh...

What exactly was yours doing big jim?

Sent from Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] InfDaMarvel:
Your second thread mention "problems" you have with your phone. Go to a Sprint store.
[Epic 4G General] ravizzle:
I agree exchange it urs must be defective. A couple others have hd same issue.

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] nikon120:
I had the same problem on my original Epic. I had three problems in total on that phone.

Samsung's crap coding that caused the phone to not sleep. (fixed after 2nd update)

The phone would randomly restart itself

During calls, the screen would freeze while illuminated. The call wasn't interrupted, but aftwards I had to pull the battery.

In the end I had to exchange the phone for another. Only problem was, the new phone had that couple millimeter gap with the slider. Sprint said it wasn't enough for third exchange though. :mad:
[Epic 4G General] razorseal:
Man, this sucks... Just when I put all the apps I wanted on it and got it running the way I want it...

I'm gonna give it 1 more week see what happens, then return perhaps for another epic. I'm pretty sure I'll be sticking to the epic though, i really like the camera capabilities of the phone.

I'm actually going to run 4 tests this week

I'm going to leave the phone untouched from 10:00 to 21:00 and note the percentage in battery with juice defender on/off and also noLED on/off, see what happens... to make it even, i'll just leave the phone in my car, and it won't be used except it's usual email checking/texts/missed calls etc.

my droid unused for that period of time usually was around 80%. it was running a custom rom with 1 ghz kernel as well, so same power requirements i'd say. except epic has a bigger battery.
[Epic 4G General] InfDaMarvel:
Battery is pretty bad with the Epic but Im not surprised at all about that. I have about 50% right now with heavy texting, a few phone calls, and listening to music. 8hrs unplugged. I think it would make it to 14-15 hrs easy with heavy use.

Phone calls kill the battery the most I believe.

And I'm using Juice Defender.
[Epic 4G General] razorseal:
Mine was dying with heavy texting, some GPS and browsing within 6-7 hours, no phone calls....

I did a little test today.

When I'm at the police academy my phone is in my car from 1000 to 2100. My rooted 1ghz droid would be at 80% by 2100. it'd get it's regular share of texting/emails and all that I couldn't look at until 2100.

I did the same thing today with the Epic, with juice defender, it was at 79%, so pretty much exactly the same...

tomorrow I'll do the same test with JD off and see if it makes a diff
[Epic 4G General] ravizzle:
HI

Use titanium backup and u can restore all ur apps n settings in a jif

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] arewin:
I have just installed Juice Defender (free version) and using it as installed. I'll see if it helps. I have a question about the status of TRAFFIC, it is listed as "Leave Data/WiFi enabled while >50KB/15s", what does this mean? I can guess that JD will leave the Data connection ON, even if it is scheduled OFF, if the phone is sending/receiving data at a rate greater than 50KB/15s. Is this close?

Thanks

arewin
[Epic 4G General] Geekybiker:
Mine has been doing this every once in awhile. Even in a good signal area, its like the radio randomly decides to reset. I'm currently trying to see if its a software or hardware thing.
[Epic 4G General] noobnl:
Sadly the modem was backported from the samsung moment. It has only partof it power managment system in it it will befixed swhen froyo comes
[Epic 4G General] VassagoX:
I am having the same problem with my phone suddenly. If I have multiple apps open, such as radio, browser, and facebook at the same time, it seems to cause it to reset itself. It's not a full hard reset, but more of a soft one, screen goes black and everything starts up as if the phone was just turned on.

Maybe it's time for a replacement?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nksv:
Hi

When I take pictures in the dark, with the blitz, the pictures get all green. This did not happen before.

Anybody know what is wrong? I have reset things to "standard".
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] overthinkingme:
Hey everyone, I'm looking to see if there's a better alternative to wavesecure. I was robbed last night at gun point and among my DSLR cam and wallet, my phone went along with them.

That is when I realized how useless Wavesecure is. I don't know who's paying for it since I got in on the free lifetime membership but what a waste of money.

They completely ignore what happens in a robbery.

First, phone gets stolen and turned off by thief (if they're smart or been doing it for a while).

Second, Victim tries to lock or track the phone through the Wavesecure site but with the phone off..nothing will get through. Sure, you may say, "as soon as they turn it on...." but how long will you wait? The only way this will work is if you can get the wipe command in soon enough. Otherwise, if you lock it and they see it...off it goes.

Third, after the police report.. you start calling the bank.. and eventually sprint to restrict service. But if you restrict it then the command will really never get through unless they're on wifi.

After you restrict it, it's time to say good bye and Wavesecure has done nothing.

The best security measure, is to have a weapon of your own, haha. Or maybe lifting the ghettos out of the ghetto so crimerate lowers, :O.

Seriously, the thing I appreciate most about the phone is that I had it pattern locked. So if it's off, then next time they turn it on, service or not, they'll be greeted with it. So, no access to my data, which is the biggest loss for me. The only thing vulnerable is my microsd card...which is why wavesecure let me down. They will never connect to wifi because they can't unlock it and sd card will never be wiped.

I'm glad I'm on a CDMA carrier, esn blocked. Nothing like that on GSM that I know of.

Is there a solution that will wipe your phone AND sd card after a set number of failed pin/password/pattern unlock attempts? Say 20?

Funny info: they only used my credit card once. $2.20 at a McDonald's.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drmacinyasha:
Yes: There's an app called "autowipe" which allows you to wipe both the phone's memory and SD card if one of the following conditions is met:

1) Phone receives a text with a password in it.

2) User-defined number of lockscreen password failures.

3) SIM card is changed (doesn't apply to us, but nice feature).

Best of all, it's FREE.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jfree3000:
The number one thing is that you are ok, these fools out here will shoot even if you cooperate with them. I ran into a similar situation with my phone (not robbed) but my phone was stolen and I had mobile defense. Only way to track the phone is if it was on which the thief turned off, so the only option was to wait for them to turn on the phone, which I did attempt for a few days but lost hope and had sprint stop service to the phone. The only option I had left was if they turned on the phone and connected to wifi which had not happened to this date so I had to buy another Evo which was equally painful as the first one being stolen. Like I said though, glad you are ok because a phone can be replaced, not a person.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] overthinkingme:
Autowipe, darn. I hadn't heard of it before. I never really thought out the situation. Noone ever expects to be in it.. First thing installed when I get my phone from asurion.

Jfree, no insurance? Buying one full price is the worst, to top it all off. I was skeptical about needing insurance. I had never lost a phone before..but stolen never seemed like a real possibility. Always a surprise.

Autowipe seems like the app i was looking for. Definitely a must have, especially to protect all your valuable data.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jigglywiggly:
That sucks, Los Angeles really does suck... thankfully I am in the northern half of Cali :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
Sucks.

Sent while sitting on the toilet.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] backdown:
So you do not like wavesecure because it doesn't work with the phone off?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] P_Dub_S:
Find out what McDonald's they went to and get the police to pull the videotape at the time of the sale. Have the LAPD do something for a change.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] overthinkingme:
I didn't say I didn't like it. I'm saying that in the situation for which it is intended to be used, it is useless. Autowipe and a pattern/pin/password lock would be a better alternative. Especially since you have to pay for wavesecure.

Wow, I is noob. I'm going to call them asap, hadn't thought of that.! I want my cam back...or reimbursement. Thanks! This whole thing has me in a zoned out mode kind of..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] backdown:
Why would it work with the phone off? It has no power source. No power source =/= signal. Now, once they turn the phone on you are good..but no matter what you do to your phone (short of planting an actual gps chip on it) it will not work if the phone is on.

You will only get a reimbursement if you carry insurance (home owners) on them..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crotchety:
Yeah because we all know there's no crime in northern Cali. People just do not get robbed there :rolleyes: .....ass
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uniquenameevo:
Unless they shot someone I doubt the lapd will do this.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] overthinkingme:
Not once did I say that I expected it to work while off.

Did you not read? My argument is that by the time they turn it back on, non-predictable, the phone will have already been restricted by you..but at that point you already don't expect to get it back..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leebo:
I'm originally from S.F., but I moved to LA for the crime. :rolleyes:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] INebilim:
i am sorry for your loss sir.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sprink0281:
Thats why I believe every person that does not have a criminal record should be allowed to have a concealed weapons permit with training...if these punk ass lowlife pieces of **** were afraid they would be killed when they rob or attack somebody maybe they would think twice...i guarantee crime rates would drop practically overnight! But the damn yuppies and politicians only want the criminals to have guns..