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[Focus General] burningembers:
Your best bet is Best Buy if/when they get the phone, I think.

When I bought my Focus today in an official AT&T store, they mentioned I would have to purchase some sort of contract to "get the phone today". I didn't mind since I was planning to, but it felt to me like it was a necessity...
[Focus General] dgatbunton:
Anyone else have problems buying off contract? I used my upgrade on an iPhone 4 and wanted to buy this for the full retail price today.... Hopefully I don't run into any problems =/
[Focus General] chizzwhizz:
I bought mine no contract with no hassle. I'm already an ATT customer and just asked to buy the phone without a contract.
[Focus General] Bizybone:
Same here, I was in and out in about 5 minutes.
[Focus General] dgatbunton:
phew... load off my mind. now i can sell off my samsung captivate without worrying the whole day if i did it for nothing. THANKS
[Focus General] Seed 2.0:
I got the phone when the stores open in Columbus, OH on the 8th. There were 4 of us in line there. The other 3 were Microsoft employees. Two bought the focus, one the HTC. All bought them with NO contract. Infact I think one guy paid for all three of them lol. I'm pretty sure since you can order them online with no contract for $499.99 at ATT.com that a contract is not needed.
[Focus General] falconeight:
I walked in and out of a official att store with a focus.
[Focus General] foxbat121:
Buy it @ at&t stores should be no problem at all. The biggest problem is to get it unlocked.
[Focus General] TheGuitarPlayer:
You can't buy the Samsung Focus off contract currently. AT&T will sell it outright ($499 + tax), but they will only sell it to you if your an existing on-contract customer or you sign up (with a minimum term). I've already been to AT&T and tried, apparantly my money is not good enough there. I'm not sure how people in the US put up with this rubbish. Either way, the only way to get a Samsung Focus in the US at the moment is to sign up at AT&T.

I've also been to Best Buy, but they only stock the HTC Surround, which I won't buy due to it not having a microSD slot.
[Focus General] dgatbunton:
I'm currently an AT&T customer who just renewed my contract for another 2 years for the iphone 4. So they'll be able to sell me one full retail price, right?
[Focus General] denispage:
www.expansys-usa.com
[Focus General] jaraya13:
What about Amazon Wireless, I think you can buy there without a plan...

EDIT: I just confirm this, you can buy without a plan!
[Focus General] foxbat121:
Most online site still need to verify your status with AT&T (at least that's the policy with Letstalk.com). Stores don't like to sell phones without contract because there is no money to be made (monthly service charges).
[Focus General] Deleted member 2842059:
You can go elsewhere on the net as well. The problem is AT&T has the best price right now. Everyone else is a good 50-80 more expensive. I'd rather save the extra cash and grab a branded one...
[Focus General] jaraya13:
Dude I meant the branded ones (AT&T), for example the HTC SURROUND AT&T BRANDED price is $460 or something like that. And I was able to go through all the checkout process, just that I didn't want to pay, hehehe
[Focus General] idloco:
OK cool.. :D I hope there are Focus left when I´m there! :D
[Focus General] foxbat121:
Amazon.com doesn't have Focus in stock. In fact, it only briefly showed up in like 10 seconds before it was sold out @ 11/8.
[Focus General] big99gt:
You go to Dell online and buy any phone on any carrier in the US and some unlocked Nokia's without a contract and in some cases the prices are pretty good...I have a Streak AND a Nokia N8 on the way lol. The Nokia (ugly pea green one) was actually only $450 compared to $550 most other places. If I don't like either one I may be joining the Focus owners club in a few weeks.
[Focus General] ajftl:
craiglist.. thats how i got mine// 400 bucks.. a week old
[Focus General] idloco:
w00t! got mine at Radioshack! :D didn´t need a contract or anything :D
[Focus General] :
How much was it?
[Focus General] idloco:
$500 + tax
[Focus General] killster:
I have a LNIB focus for sale in the market place here on XDA, see my signature,

I offer free overnight UPS within the USA for my asking price.

Regards,

killster

1. Let it be known I really like the device, it is great.

2. I just prefer android.
[Focus General] PaullikesWINMO:
I tried to buy a Focus at local BestBuy store. They were all set to do it but when they tried to ring it though cash register it prompted for a phone plan. They were all baffled. Essentially their system must show this type of phone being connected to a data plan. So over to Rogers store and in and out in 5 minutes. And the phone is unlocked to boot ! Or at least I put my FIDO Sim Card in and it worked no problem. :-)
[About XDA developers] torvick12:
I think you guys should like have a notifier when we post a thread and some one replies to it or writes on it. Cause i know that not only me will loose their own threads posted and take 4 ever 2 find it again. So u all XDA members should make like a notifier appearing "torvick1224" just commented on ure thread r smething like that you know. Cause with os many threads posted in a day, they get lost and blur in the back of the pages. I would appreciate it and thanks ;)
[About XDA developers] Product F(RED):
I don't mean to come off as an asshole, but is it that hard to hit UserCP?
[About XDA developers] torvick12:
UDER CP? whats that, srry bro i jst got into this like last month so yeahhh..
[About XDA developers] Product F(RED):
UserCP stands for user control panel. When you make or post in a thread, you're automatically subscribed to it. If there are any new replies, they'll show up in the UserCP.

You might have to go into your settings and change the subscription settings to automatically subscribe you to threads. For some reason, I had to in the beginning.
[About XDA developers] torvick12:
hmm sorry 2 say it but that doesnt really help for some people. I mean yeah its good and all but all it does it shows where u posted ure threads with others. What im saying is a notifcation for youre own threads not for everybodys so yeahhh. Cuse 2 me i still see it confusing so yeahh, scrolling down till u find ure stuff jst naww 2 much. Prefer 2 get notified my message or like notifcation jst telling u "ure thread has been replied or w.e". :) it will be much easier
[About XDA developers] Product F(RED):
It's not confusing. It shows your threads. If there are no replies, you don't see anything. If you still wanna see the threads, hit "all subscribed threads".

Have you ever used a forum before?
[About XDA developers] torvick12:
hmm yesss of course i havee, n reasson is confusing cause u have 2 look throgh the threads on that thing n im wanting a notication. Im jst putting it out there thts all. So yeahh but o well... dont really matter but i mean it would be nice
[About XDA developers] ocm7:
You get email notifications....what else do you need?
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
torvick12, you should receive an email every time this happens.

When you start a new thread, or post in another one, you are (by default) automatically subscribed to that thread. And when someone else makes a new post, you should receive an email.

Are you receiving these emails?
[About XDA developers] torvick12:
hmm naw not receiving any emails? how can i do tht r wht?
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
Go to your user Control Panel ( I know you know where this is as you helped someone else in another thread to find their avatar and signature ;)).

Go to Edit Options

Under "Default Thread Subscription Mode" from the dropdown list choose "Instant email notification".

make sure you have the correct email address setup in Control Panel > Edit Email address :)
[About XDA developers] torvick12:
Alright, thank u very much this helped me a lot :) tnis is wht i needed
[About XDA developers] ocm7:
User CP -> Edit Options -> Default Thread Subscription Mode -> Instant Email Notification -> Save Changes
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
lol...it helps to read the whole thread before replying...I gave him the answer two posts above yours :p
[About XDA developers] ocm7:
Lol, i hadn't noticed there was a second page to the thread
[Captivate General] faroid:
Can you compare your favorite Captivate roms in a couple of lines.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] datavid:
streaming data from adb to Internet

I suppose this question might be a bit naive, but here goes.

I want to transmit a stream of data from my adb to the Internet by way of the USB cord and the wifi or GSM of the android.

Can your technique help?

Have you any other recommendatations?

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gkiefer:
Error: "Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: Invalid argument"

First of all, thank you for the great explanation!

Unfortunately, on my system this does not work. When I enter this command, adb immediately quits silently, and 'logcat' on the device reveals a message like:

E/pppd (24409): Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: Invalid argument

I have read about this problem also from other users. Do you have any hints

how to trace or solve the problem?

I am using a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (P3110) device running CyanogenMod 11 and Debian Linux with ADB 1.0.31 on the host.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] chaoslimits:
Just thought I'd post the battery mods I did for ApeX. They've been up for a while on Phandroid.

Make sure you have ApeX and the respective theme (Revo or Nextheme) installed first.

Thanks

Revolution version

Revo Screen capture

Nextheme Version

Nextheme Screen capture
[Droid X Themes and Apps] Steven58AF:
I have it. It's fantastic.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] namedkwon:
great job with the things you've done mate, really impressive. i realize that you can only use this a specific ROM, but i was wondering if you could modify this framework for me by swapping its battery indicator with yours on the right, next to the clock.

All credits go to teenfaces as he's the one that compiled my favorite theme, ever.

(To find his framework, search this forum for: "Froyo 2.2 Dark Gray StatusBar". Since i can't yet put up "external" links)

I would really really appreciate it. You have no idea. Honestly, it'd just simply be the best. Simple, polished and stock. Thanks for your time mate.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] chaoslimits:
which one? there are several different versions.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] namedkwon:
Version 4 please
[HD7 General] AlecKyle:
On T-mobile, there is a $500 deal here, no annual contract

http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/default.aspx#HTC-HD7

I can't figure out exactly what this means. Is this just the phone itself without having to pay monthly? Or do I have to pay monthly but not go by their contract? I really want to buy it that cheap, but I went to their site and I find it rather confusing.
[HD7 General] ajftl:
lol thats without a contract of course u have to pay your monthly usage
[HD7 General] tai4de2:
There are 2 options:

(1) Buy the phone at a subsidized price ($199 or is it $249? for the HD7). You are locked into a 2 year contract with a $200 or so early termination fee. You pay a higher price than with option 2 for your monthly service. (This is the "Even More" plan.)

(2) Buy the phone at full retail price ($499 for the HD7). You are not locked into any contract and can leave T-Mobile, buy a new phone, etc. at any time. You *also* pay less for your monthly service with this option (This is the "Even More Plus" plan).

Hope that helps.
[HD7 General] prjkthack:
Regardless of which pricing option you choose, you still need to pay for service.

If you get the phone at a discount, you are stuck on a 2-year contract and pay slightly higher monthly service fees. This is called "Even More".

If you choose to get the phone at full price, there is no contract and you pay slightly lower monthly service fees. This is called "Even More Plus".

Refer to the T-Mobile website for more details on pricing for these plans. In either case, you can choose to spread out payments of your phone over a few or many months, or just pay up front for everything.

In the long run, going with Even More Plus is cheaper. Less monthly service fees, spread out phone payments over a long period of months, and best benefit of all, no contract.
[HD7 General] nexus14:
do note that if u have t-zones with t-mobile, it works on the hd7! that means it's only going to cost you $3-6/mo for full internet access. if u have such a plan, you can save approximately 27 dollars/month on data alone. over a course of a 2 yr contract, that's 648 dollars. you can then spend the money you saved on the next phone and sell off the hd7 :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] thetoady:
so, I'm really confused on how to get clockwork recovery installed via rom manager.

I go to install it, I select "Samsung Epic", and it says its installed, I then reboot and it gives an error of failing to verify the signature. and I get the normal 4 line recovery mode and am able to reboot into my rooted stock everything epic 4g.

am I doing something wrong? a search didn't turn up anything about this via rom manager.

thanks.
[Epic 4G Android Development] schizopunk:
Doing it through ROM Manager won't work, you need to do the "one click method" to get CW working.
[Epic 4G Android Development] thetoady:
ok, so wouldn't it be nice of the rom manager author to remove it from rom manager at this time? ;)
[Epic 4G Android Development] skeeterslint:
You need to have a kernel that works with rom manager installed the stock kernel won't work.
[Epic 4G Android Development] thetoady:
so I was wrong to think that I'd use rom manager to install a non stock kernel after the fact? the non stock kernel actually has to be in place before?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Firon:
Correct. ROM manager is not useful with the stock kernel.

You can, however, use clockworkmod independently of ROM manager by flashing it with the one-click root/CW.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thumper1226:
Anybody have any tips for watching movies with the flashplayer? I watch naruto at work through goodanime.net, and sometimes it stops playing but the audio keeps going. When I try to restart the browser it crashes
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] febycv:
To view flash videos the best option is to use skyfire.

The skyfire video plugin helps to optimize the flash content, thereby saving lot of data.
[Vibrant General] jpcrowley80:
So I've done a search...but does anyone know if there is a way around the "Tethering Plan"? Back when I had my G1 it was too easy to tether without the extra charge. I'm not trying to be cheap but, we already pay for unlimited data. Is there a way to do it that Tmo won't charge me for?
[Vibrant General] anthonys2r:
Root + Mobile AP

When I didn't root yet, tethering worked via USB and Samsung Kies for me
[Vibrant General] ronin4740:
I agree - Rooting + Mobile AP is the way to go. Alternately you can Root and install the leaked Froyo from the Dev section which includes the Mobile AP
[Vibrant General] borikua954:
I use a app called Barnacle its in the Market but you have to be Rooted...
[Vibrant General] ntellegence:
The tethering plan is the right to tether since it is against your contract. It has nothing to do with what app you use. From what I have read it will be very very hard to enforce and tell who is tethering and who is a stream addict.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
Nope. Other carriers have been doing it forevah.
[Droid 2 General] rumancoke:
I'm trying to make a nandroid backup so I can mess with my droid 2 but having issues...

The phone is rooted.

Have Installed: Rom Manager and Droid 2 Bootstrapper - both 'green' in superuser permissions.

When I try to boot into recovery mode using Rom Manager (trying to make a backup) or the D2 Bootstrapper the phone just boots up as it normally would. I can get into the default recovery mode by using the 'X' and 'PWR' key combo but that's not what I need.

Have tried renaming these files as suggested here in another thread and reflashing clockworkmod but that didn't work.

EDIT: can't link so these are the two files:

/system/etc/install-recovery.sh

/system/recovery-from-boot.p

Any ideas? :eek:
[Droid 2 General] rumancoke:
Meh... nvm - I figured it out.
[Droid 2 General] sonok:
Help!

Hey, my friend has the SAME EXACT issue. what did you do to fix it?

Everyone says to reinstall clockwork, but that doesn't fix it.
[Droid 2 General] newk8600:
I've never used ROM manager because koush's D2 bootstrap does everything you need. But if you don't get clockwork from the application make sure you are properly rooted and you press "bootstrap recovery" and get the "success" box before you press "reboot recovery".
[Droid 2 General] sonok:
My friend is using Rom manager. He installed CWM via rom manager. Do you think it is safe for him to get "Koush's D2 bootstrap" and re-install CWM that way? Will that break anything?

PS: I use Amon_Ra's recovery on my nexus one. I do all my installations via ADB but he is not comfortable using ADB. I'm just trying to get him into a stable custom recovery because ever since he installed clockwork (which is not working) he says the phone is really slow.
[Droid 2 General] newk8600:
I don't know installing koush's bootstrap will do but the D2 has to be bootstrapped because it's locked down and normal Clockwork Mod won't work because of it. If it doesn't work and his phone isn't working he can just SBF with the 2.3.2 version (he probably has the update already) he can do it in linux or windows (linux is easier) and it will put him back to stock so he can install koush's bootstrap from the market after re-rooting it.

If he want's he can back up his contacts and applications with google and data with titanium backup.

You can PM me if you have any questions about the process.

Here's my tool for flashing sbf's in linux on any computer. It's got a lot of useful info about flashing and problems at the bottom read it even if you flash in windows.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] houzuoguo:
Hi everyone~

I'm the sort of person who loves multitasking, opposite to those people who use task killers every moment :D

I always find that my Nexus One has more than 200MB of free memory, and internal task killer keeps killing background applications, actually I've never seen my free memory drops below 180MB.

So i was trying to figure out how to let internal task killer Not to kill background apps, and discovered "Autokiller" which can tweak internal task killer parameters.

but unfortunately, even I set every parameter to 0, still internal task killer kills as much as before :( my apps still are killed and I constantly get over 180MB of free memory.

so could anyone please suggest how to *really* stop internal task killer from killing apps?

Thanks a lot :p
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
You can't do anything about it. One of the changes in Froyo was to autokill processes with OOM_ADJ=12 rather than 16 it used to be in Eclair - which essentially leaves only background processes spawned by services, and no "empty" processes anymore.

Autokiller is completely useless in Froyo, and doesn't do a thing - because of the reason I wrote above.

And you can't do anything to keep those processes, except rewriting the OOM manager in the OS code.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diversificationied:
Ask this guy, he rolls like a boss.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khaytsus:
So what's the actual problem here?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] houzuoguo:
thanks everyone :)

ok so probably I have to modify OOM_ADJ value in order to not let internal task killer to kill my background applications.

I applogize for my poor English, my question was, how to stop internal task killer from killing background applications.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
You can't modify it, it's hard-coded in the OS (kernel?). You need to recompile the OS for that.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] houzuoguo:
thanks a lot guys
[Vibrant General] sader2202:
I was just wondering can any DEV out there make a the app drawer in Launcher2 look like the Touchwiz app drawer. W/ all the nice color thingies. I think that would look nice.

Here is my idea. To add the square Colors that boxes in the app in the app drawer of Touchwiz to Launcher2.

I figure that it would look nice with the 3D effect on Launcher2

If anyone can make a that MOD come to life i would thank you. I would do it myself but i don't know how???
[Vibrant General] hydrogenman:
figured he must not be old enough to read very well, as he missed all the things saying not to post this kind of crap in the Dev forums

so it kinda fit
[Vibrant General] iwillkillyou:
I find it funny the vid anyway
[Fascinate General] jrobinsky:
SO when I had backlight notifications on, my softkey backlight worked for notifcations. But when BLN was on, i had like backround noise during my calls, so i disabled it. Once this is disabled, my soft keys do not light up anymore to notify me when my screen is off. Is there a way around this?
[Fascinate General] jt1134:
So you disabled backlight notifications and now they don't work? What is the problem? They don't work because you disabled them.
[Fascinate General] ellisz:
Does the BLN control the extended soft key times as well as the notification trigger? It makes sense but I used the disable BLN option as well since I had the background noise on calls and I still seem to have the 15 second soft key light.
[Fascinate General] jt1134:
bln = lights.default.so

extended backlight = services.jar

they're exclusive of eachother
[Fascinate General] jrobinsky:
So there is no way to have the softkeys light up if BLN is off? That backround noise during calls sucks
[Fascinate General] Not_So_There:
The noise is annoying but if you clear your notifications while on the call it will turn the light off and the noise will stop.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theXeffect:
i format my 32gig on computer n on my g2 still it can read some of the file.....can anyone help
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prp2:
You may want to test that card with h2testw to make sure it's really a 32GB. Apparently there are a lot of fakes out there...

http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/2...standard-in-detecting-usb-counterfeit-drives/
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smirkis:
make sure you format it to fat32, if im not mistaken the g2 should be able to format it. so try using ur phone to format it for you.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cresho:
get a different brand
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theXeffect:
i got from amazon tho...im testing it on the h2testw right now.. thanks for the help!!:)