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[EVO 4G General] plmiller0905:
He paid contract price. But even if they told him about a possible bb etf if he were to cancel service and not return the device, its not indicated anywhere in the paperwork. They gave him copies of everything he signed and and not one indicates a bb etf.

This was sent shifting on my EVO Shift 4G using Tapatalk
[EVO 4G General] gpz1100:
This is an interesting scenario, especially if the device was paid for by cash.

Although the receipt has his sprint info, I don't think BB can go after sprint to collect anything, as they are an authorized third party seller in this case.

Now, there is this clause on the receipt under SERVICE AND SERVICE OPTIONS

....Thank you for purchasing your sprint phone and service at Best Buy. If you wish to change or cancel your Service please return with your phone to a best buy store.

As stated previously, BB is not in the carrier business, they are merely a third party reseller of sprint products. Also, nowhere on the receipt is anything else stipulated regarding cancellation of service and potential fees that may be charged [by best buy].

So, this may very well fall through the cracks.

Btw, some other resellers such as amazon and wirefly do have clauses that say if you cancel service within 180 days, you will be charged additional etf's outside of what the carrier may charge you.

ymmv.

Subscribed! <popcorn emoticon>
[EVO 4G General] evorulesintx:
I believe Sprint will send a bill, and if he does not pay they will lock the ESN.
[EVO 4G General] darkkterror:
I can't speak for Best Buy since I've never worked there but I know Radioshack (and CompUSA before they went out of business) charge their own etfs if the service was cancelled within 90 days without the device being returned. At CompUSA you would get a separate paper contract about this additional etf. At Radioshack you get an electronic contract that shows up on the Verifone credit card device that requires the customer to read and sign that mentions this separate etf. I'm not sure if this is also mentioned on the receipt or not, I've never actually read it.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
This is something Sprint has recently changed. Anytime a new account (within 30 days) is going to cancelled, the phone must be returned to the original point of purchase, meaning if he purchased it at BB, Sprint will not cancel the service, Best Buy has to contact NSS and have them process the 30-day cancellation. In your particular instance, if someone at Sprint cancelled them, he got lucky. In normal instances, your friend would not be allowed to cancel over the phone, meaning if he kept the phone past 30 days he'd be under contract with Sprint and then your friend would be charged $200 ETF if he chose to cancel or keep receiving Sprint bills until his account was disconnected and sent to collections.

Your friend, was really lucky to have spoken with a new hire that mistakingly cancelled the account (or line).
[General Questions and Answers] showe06:
So this is my first post on here because i'm having just one minor problem. I recently rooted my droid eris running the 2.1 firmware and installed the gingerbread 2.3 rom. Everything works on the new rom except the first time i tried plugging my phone in to my computer it says it is an unrecognizable device, therefore i am thinking that the device driver software was deleted. Which is probably true since i did a full wipe before loading the new rom. Anyways i was wondering if i can just re install the usb drivers or what i need to do to make my device recognizable again because i'm wanting to take gingerbread 2.3 off my phone and just use kaos froyo 2.2. Thanks!!
[General Questions and Answers] Animec:
Hallo!

There's been more talk lately about the phantom menace of "bufferbloat". I don't understand the problem very well myself--I think of it as the internet's flow-control mechanisms being severely hampered by an obsession with buffering primarily on the part of OS-developers and home router makers--but I was wondering how well today's smartphones behave wrt bufferbloat. Both in my home network and on larger mobile networks!

Thinking esp. of Android here, as it's based on Linux and I'm told Linux is esp. buffer-crazy.

Thanks :)

-- P

PS. I'd post links but, being a new user, I can't. There was a piece on this on Ars (with great discussion in the comments) and you can find more detailed descriptions on eg. Jim Getty's blog.
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
If you want to see how well its handled just use a stock vibrant for about a month... that lag after that... thats buffer bloat and it's a killer.
[General Questions and Answers] Animec:
Hmmm, I take it the implication there is that the version of Android on the Samsung is guilty of excessive buffering? Is there a way to fix the problem that's been tried in the real world? :)
[Wildfire General] mestizo19:
Hi guys...i try to root my phone with Unrevoked 3.21..

I download the usb drivers and the Unrevoked 3.21 for Windows(My OS)

in step 3:

"On your phone, you will have to select HBOOT USB at that menu by pressing volume down four times, then power. Wait until the screen flashes through an “SD Checking” message before pressing buttons; otherwise, the phone will ignore keypresses."

it doesen't apears to me tis option!!!"HBOOT USB"

it has only: HBOOT

<VOL UP> to previous item

<VOL DOWN> to next item

<POWER> to select item

FASTBOOT

RECOVERY

CLEAR STORAGE

SIMLOCK

Please give me some advise what to do!!!!
[Wildfire General] kevin2516:
Is your phone connected to usb haha and usb debugging enabled?

And you installed the hboot drivers?
[Wildfire General] mestizo19:
When i connect the divice in computer??before boot in HBOOT mode??or after that?
[Wildfire General] kevin2516:
Before you boot. Well doesn't matter, it should say hboot usb anyway.

Did you try pressing hboot.
[Wildfire General] mestizo19:
I cant press HBOOT!!only the other options!!why??
[Wildfire General] mestizo19:
Plz!!!give me some advice!!!!!
[Wildfire General] -SmOgER:
In newest boot rom you don't have to select hboot mode, it enables automatically when the phone is connected to pc (and drivers are installed), if i'am wrong, please correct.

btw, if you are using newest boot rom, then i understand you have Android 2.2.1, froyo, so you CAN'T root it yet, use search.
[Wildfire General] mestizo19:
I have 2.2.1 update..I can't root it yet???
[Wildfire General] kevin2516:
Oh now I know why, you can't root official froyo ;), so many threads on this, learn to search..
[Wildfire General] mestizo19:
Official froyo can't be rooted???I am new in android...
[Wildfire General] kevin2516:
:S so am I, this is my first android phone, I only got it for 3 months lol.
[Wildfire General] mestizo19:
Do you know if any other official update coming???
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
There's no ETA. When the update will come it will be posted, rest assured on that.
[Desire Themes and Apps] moghammed:
Hi,

I made this bootanimation of a row of androids morphing into the word android. In the standard android logo font of course.

Tell me what you think!

See example.zip for an animated gif.

example

bootanimation
[Desire Themes and Apps] matt95:
can you post some screenshot?to make me an idea...tnx
[Desire Themes and Apps] moghammed:
Of course!

Here you go.

also: see updated first post.
[Desire Themes and Apps] matt2052:
Thanks, very well made.

HTC desire - Alex-V 1.5 HD
[Desire Themes and Apps] Baghdadification:
Good job! I like.
[Desire Themes and Apps] danarama:
Did you create the png's yourself? Reason I ask is I am looking for some help. I have a load of jpegs I need to convert to make a boot animation. Although I got it working once, the quality was not what I wanted so I recreated all the JPEGS (stripped from an avi) and I haven't managed to convert them into anything that works since.

Currently they are 24bit Jpegs. I only get the infamous blank screen when I use the bootanimation.zip and I cannot fix it.

Thing is I have managed to get bootanimations working from scratch before aand for the life of me cannot figure this out.

I have tried so many different combinations of programmes, I can't even count them anymore.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edit> sorry for spamming your thread. Nice work :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stig109:
Is there a way to install the optimized jit without having to use xrecovery as I cannot get this to work.

The generic jit was a breeze to install just using terminal and it runs Fab on rooted x10 on o2 2.0.A.0.504. Why can't we install new jit this way?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] creage:
You can always install it manually. Unzip the archive, see contents, there is a /system folder. Move it's contents to your phone memory, chmod all files 755, clear dalvik cahce and reboot - should work.

Not tested actually, but I guess there should not be any problem.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crowds:
try this solution for xRecovery. Post 1 point 2
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Laughing1991:
can X10 upgrade to newest Android? anyone can teach me? pls....
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] siggehandf:
Hey,

I have a question, that's driving me nutz trying to solve. I used MDJ's 1,3 gingerbread build and it had loads of dictionaries installed, with one of them being the danish one. They worked perfectly with the core andriod keyboard. Now afterwards the dictionaries are gone from this bulids and only the english and a few others remain.

How did he manage to get those in the 1,3 build? Was it some keyboard add-on?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vjarndt:
Ok I know there are many methods to unlocking but I would lke to know the best and easiest way to unlock? Could someone please tell me? Thanks in advance.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Monk4Life:
Search Samsung Galaxy S Unlock tool on the market. This is the easiest way to unlock your phone.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vjarndt:
Does it work?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Monk4Life:
Yes it worked great for me. I was on stock rom and rooted though. I was able to start using my AT&T sim card after I did it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhepoy:
as mentioned above.. go to Market, and look for SGS Unlock, if the free version can not generate the unlock code, go for the Pro version.. or you could do it yourself for free by following instructions here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=822008
[Nexus S General] HcMAX:
Hello

I am receiving my nexus s tomorrow and I have one question?

Without SD card, how do I move all the things like music, apps and other stuff from the N1 to the NS?

I suppose I can't use the mybackup app...

Any help please...

Thanks
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
The Nexus S will mount USB storage to your laptop the exact same way that the Nexus 1 does.

You can plug both into USB, mount the storage, then drag and drop what's on your external SD card that you want to copy over from the N1 to the NS. Quick and easy. It's what I did with my NS; and allowed me to hand pick what I wanted to transfer over rather than bring along all the clutter and garbage from my SD card that was left behind from old programs I don't use any more.

Apps and settings are just showing up for some people because of the sync restore option with Google server if you enable it on both devices. Didn't for me, though.

appbrain is a good way to get all your apps over, but it won't get your settings and app data.
[Nexus S General] Highland3r:
If you're N1 is rooted and you're happy rooting the NS then titanium backup is a quick and easy way to move over your apps whilst retaining all the user data. (Rooting both phones is cake and can be fully reversed)

In addition, something like sms backup and restore works nicely for SMS messages.

Any other settings will have to be re-applied manually but contacts etc will sync down no problems.

If you're not rooted then your new apps should sync back from market anyway (you may need to ensure data backup is checked on your N1 - can't remember)

As the chap above mentioned though, the NS internal storage mounts as a USB mass storage device anyway so music/any other data can be copied over easily.
[Nexus S General] AllGamer:
I did it via TITANIUM BACKUP

1 click of a button and everything was there

the only thing i had to copy & paste manually were the MP3 and Videos

having both phones connected via USB (through a PC)

just drag and drop the stuff from one phone to another phone
[Nexus S General] desiregeek:
I did this drag and paste but for some things did not work. For music and pictures it worked well but for an example I have Color Note which I was able to drag over. Color Note is an application that allows you to take notes. After dragging and pasting it I went into my Nexus S and was unable to find Color Note. I also was unable to find Astro. I bought Astro Pro and downloaded that as well. After downloading it I was unable to find Astro Pro on my Nexus S :confused: In Market it tells me it is installed and it does so under applications as well when I go to settings and then applications but I can not find it nor open it:confused::confused:
[Nexus S General] AllGamer:
for Apps/Games & settings you need to use backup software like Titanium Backup
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
Titanium's great if rooted. I would be cautious with Titanium, though. Make sure to only restore APPS data/settings. Not sure you want to be restoring SYSTEM settings from one device to another, let alone one version of Android or another. I've seen people report issues restoring settings from just one ROM version to another.
[Nexus S General] AllGamer:
As long as he doesn't restore EVERYTHING then it is safe

just make sure to select ONLY

Restore User Apps & Data
[Nexus S General] HcMAX:
Thanks for your help

Hello to all!!!

Many thanks for your help..

I've already receive the phone and transfered all the stuff

first impressions.....

It's an amazing phone....fast fast and even more faster that the n1....

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4700pedersen:
Im from Denmark and after i have flashed these custom Roms my danish dictionary has gone awalk. I also flashed stock rom from odin but still no danish. What is a man to do?

Jess Pedersen
[Captivate General] Krad:
So like many others, I bought the captivate around launch time and was super thrilled with the phone and my first jump to android. I bought the phone primarily for the Google navigation and the big screen...

Thankfully with the help of some amazing development at xda, GPS was usable and I was going strong on a 2.2.1 jpy rom.

Then my dell account Rep sent me a 5 inch screen streak. I have had it for a few days and I was shocked.

The first thing I noticed was no lag on stock froyo rom. I threw on spareparts to make animation even faster.

There was no lbstestmode on my streak to test GPS so I got the GPS+ apparently and fired that puppy up. I got 12 satelitle lock in under a second in my house. After closing it and going to Google maps, it showed me right where I was in my house with 5 meter accuracy in about 1 second.

I then reloaded my 100 Alps I used on my captivate and it is going strong with no lag.

It would have been nice to get this sense of stability and speed from the galaxy s line. But after having the streak, I doubt I will give the captivate to my wife because it is so unstable. She will stick with her bb.

As per the GPS, there must be a hardware design issue with the galaxy s. After using another android phone it becomes obvious.

I am kinda shocked that Samsung would come out with such an unstable and not supported first generation phone. I am sure they are going to lose a good chunk of market share in the next 6-12 months because of people like me....

I will never buy another Samsung android phone again.

Shame because years ago I loved there super small clamshell phones... the days when they came with two batteries and a desktop charger.

Rant over....

This thread was created for those to know that android is much better on other devices.. devices that don't need custom roms to run as promised.
[Captivate General] Xstop:
hey...I want my minute back!
[Captivate General] alphadog00:
+1

+10

+100
[Captivate General] newter55:
You read fast....i lost two
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sauron0101:
Well, they're finally here - class 10 32gb microSD:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220547

And for me in Canada:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220547

I believe that Lexar is also releasing some as well. Anyways, has anyone tested a class 10 microSD for this phone? Do they make a difference?

Edit: Please move to accessories section. Thank you.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] somedude0608:
Hmm, id have a hard time buying a memory card that cost the same as I paid for the phone. I just can't see myself getting "$100" worth of performance over stock.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DiGi760:
It is a $500 phone. Where you did you get it for $100? After a 2 year contract and $100 mail in rebate, I still paid over $250.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aneirin:
Sorry but this is one of my pet peeves. The subsidized price of a phone is not how much it "cost." It's subsidized from like $650 because you'll pay out about $1500 on that contract. His question is similar to asking about changing to a larger/faster hard drive in a laptop.

As for the answer to "is it worth it;" We will not really see the benefits too much until apps2sd in Froyo. Copying information from your computer to the sd card will be faster. The faster read won't be noticeable at this time since you are only storing data where the access times wont cause playback issues of music or video. Even with apps2sd, it is unlikely that you will notice much of any difference from a class 6 card. The class corresponds to the minimum speeds of the card and often times better quality cards will exceed those values by quite a bit. The real reason for the class 10 cards will be with the release of phones that do 1080p video capture. Taking multiple, very high resolution pictures per second or recording GOOD 1080p video are the only reasons I can think of to go beyond class 6 at this time. The only other reason would be if one of the developers used partitions on the micro sd to offload parts of android onto the sd card. Given the issues that could create, I dont know that anyone would really want to do that.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkManX4lf:
Yah I would like to know as well.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NateWhite:
Amazon has been running sales from time to time on the Epic and Evo for new sprint customers.

I picked up 2 Epics and 1 Evo for 99 each, no tax to shipping and no activation.

It's a great deal if you are not already with sprint.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pkny:
I paid about 300 after taxes for my phone but I can confirm what this guy is saying is true.

Amazon has run $99 epics and evo since November.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sauron0101:
I suppose that we already have froyo-based ROMS around, so we have apps2SD now. The other point is that we already have 720p recording, so maybe we could benefit - certainly more than the current class 2 SD that it comes with.

The other point is that one can always use these cards with the next phone that a person buys. Of course, by then, SDXC cards will be out.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkshneider:
I thought our phones could only support up to class 6 cards, anything higher would just underclock to class 6 speeds.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] somedude0608:
At the beginning of december best buy was selling them for 99.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sauron0101:
There doesn't appear to be a class 6 32gb microSD, just class 10 released right now. That will no doubt change in a month or so from now.
[Galaxy 3 Android Development] sambastrakan:
Hi all,

Well, it's confirmed : Gallery is the guilty for battery drain ...

I'm in JPF version and I don't know if it was the case for previous version.

In an other post (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=901867&page=5) I was suspecting this app (when I first used JPF version, Froyo said that Gallery consumed about 50%), so I realized a test to be shure:

- Full charge

- Turn on phone and kill gallery process with Advanced Task Killer (this process is only visible with this kind of tool)

- Then, each time I launched an app I verified if Gallery was running too. If yes, I killed it again. Stange thing is that I wasn't able to identify the rules that make it run : sometimes Gallery is launched with app "xxx", sometimes not ! Anyway it's launched at startup.

- Doing this, I'm now with 70% battery after 36 hours !

But, it's a litlle bit boring to have to monitor Gallery each time we use an App...

So, I'm thinking in doing something like this "mv /system/app/Gallery3D.apk /system/app/Gallery3D.BAK" and I will use Astro to visualize pictures.

Anyone knows if it's risky to remove Gallery3D.apk from the system ? I hesitate ... :D

Thanks !
[Galaxy 3 Android Development] s3th.g3ck9:
The problem is known from the SGS. Just install the modded 3d gallery which SGS Tools brings.
[Galaxy 3 Android Development] sambastrakan:
Youd did this and you have a good battery life ?

D'ont know if it's very good to use a tool for SGS on a SG3. I'd like to simply remove this app ... But, this would affect others app ? may be ... perhaps not ...

thanks
[Galaxy 3 Android Development] s3th.g3ck9:
The G3 is in similiar with the SGS in many parts. The modded gallery was made because of the battery drain bug... so yes it saves battery! You don't have to use it of course when you say "it's not good" to use a SGS App across-the-board (even if you don't know why :D).
[Galaxy 3 Android Development] sambastrakan:
ok ok ... :-))

But, I decided to remove Gallery3D from /system/app (and others app too like Layar, Voice dialer, Youtube, Daily info, SamsungApps) and ... it works !

Only thing is that I can't put a picture of mine as a wallpaper. Last Wallpaper I used stays (black). By the way, I heard about a black wallpaper is better for battery.

I will give a feedback of this stuff in 2 days.
[Galaxy 3 Android Development] stubborn_d0nkey:
maybe if you open a pic from another app?
[Galaxy 3 Android Development] sambastrakan:
No, Gallery runs sometimes even if you use Astro to visualize pic.

But, now I removed Gallery3D ... it's not running more ! obviously :)

i think it will resolve the problem of battery drain. I don't care about visualizing 3d thumbs of my pic, neither wallpaper, neither live wallpaper. I prefer a good battery autonomy instead of some cute stuff ...

I'm going to use mu phone for 2 days like this (without Gallery3D.apk) and see if everything ok (phone functions and battery drain).
[Galaxy 3 Android Development] sennevb:
ok keep us posted..
[Galaxy 3 Android Development] madhuranand007:
I also facing battery problem using Gallery and all other useless applications for me.

But thanks to Gsam101 , he made a great clean version of JPF. And it is very smooth and I am now not facing any battery problem.

You also can use JustPictures!, it's far better than Gallery provided by Samsung.

Link : http://www.androidzoom.com/android_themes/wallpapers/justpictures_jmo.html