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[HTC Inspire 4G] gunnyman:
Just thought I'd pop in here and share my experience with switching from the Captivate to the Inspire.

I have only been an AT&T customer since August 2010. I have a couple of calls to ATT Customer service in my record where they documented my unhappiness with the GPS and lack of Froyo updates. When @samsungjohn came to the Captivate portal and stirred the pot with Samsung's PR stunt I had finally had enough I called 611 again and was polite, and nicely explained to the CSR my complaints with the Captivate. I asked if there was ANYTHING that they could do to move me into another phone, I never mentioned wanting to cancel my account or raised my voice in any way. The CSR told me that he understood my frustration and he had heard similar complaints before.

He was able to put a $150 dollar credit on my account and I was able to sell my Captivate for $200 so I walked out of a Corporate AT&T store with my Inspire at a net cost of $50 to me.

Maybe I got lucky, or maybe AT&T is hearing from a LOT of people like me and is losing customers, I don't know.

Just thought I'd share.
[HTC Inspire 4G] jdk2:
And maybe the highlighted part was the real reason. At any rate, congrats on the early upgrade. I'm lovin this device more and more.
[HTC Inspire 4G] gunnyman:
Oh I also have not extended my contract and I paid no activation fee.
[HTC Inspire 4G] jdk2:
Ha! I rest my case. It's all in the approach :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] atldawg:
I posted this in another thread... copied and pasted here for reference....

That was my plan, to wait on the refurb Inspire. I lost count, but my last replacement was number 6 or 7. First two within 30 days for GPS (right at release, not realizing that it was a Galaxy series issue. The other 4-5 were for shutdowns. I have a device support center near my house, so I could swap at will. Well, I finally had enough and called AT&T. They told me I would have to wait until they had refurbs, which could be up 6 months (i doubt that, but that's what I was told). I swapped it out again, and decided to wait. I left it stock, and remembered how bad the stock phone is. I got fed up, and decided that I was going to go buy an Inspire, and sell my new refurb Captivate to cover some of the costs (it still has plastic wrapping on the body) I decided to call AT&T one last time, and take the nice guy approach. I went straight to "cancel service", which means no hold times. I nicely explained my situation (again), and the lady apologized, gave me a $260 credit on my bill, and I went and bought the Inspire off contract. Moral of the story, the warranty department will/can do nothing but send refurbs. Retention can give you credits. I am not sure how they determined my credit amount, but it was more than I had hoped. I'll sell the captivate and come out ahead.
[HTC Inspire 4G] gunnyman:
It seems to be true you catch more flies with honey. :)

I have heard lots of stories from people who have 5-6 captivates. Y'all sure are a tolerant bunch. I think after a third one I would have been ready to jump ship.

I only had 2. My first one was a dud but my 2nd which was also new from Amazon was perfect, well as perfect as a Captivate could be with the spotty GPS.
[HTC Inspire 4G] galaxyjeff:
Moral of the story is AT&T rules! They may not please everybody but they try to. I've had lots of great experiences with them including the iPhone 4 I got for free :) I highly doubt verizon customers get the same type of deals.
[HTC Inspire 4G] gunnyman:
I also think they got stuck with a less than stellar product in the Captivate. There's some precedent with Samsung. The Moment has been discontinued/recalled and is no longer being replaced with the same under warranty by Sprint.

The only thing that made the Captivate an acceptable phone is XDA
[HTC Inspire 4G] x986123:
The first time I called, the support guy told me he would place $200 credit, but i refused that, thinking there would be a better deal. No luck, I got HORRIBLE support after him. I was nice the whole time... but I got women (no offense or anything) who didn't know SH*T about phones.

The first few asked me what an "Inspire 4G" is, and told me it was an iPhone 3gs. The last woman basically got pissed at me, didn't say anything and just kept quiet saying "Mhm" then hung up. She offered me the phone for $500, I proceeded to tell her an employee offered me $200 credit and she said "We can't offer anything on new phones. Sorry." That REALLY ticked me off.

Maybe I should call again and try getting a male employee to pick up again? They seem to be more understanding and offering more. WTH.
[HTC Inspire 4G] gunnyman:
As much as I hate to sound sexist, I agree with you.

My CSR was a fellow geek and I could tell, when we started talking about my problems he suggested that I would probably like the Atrix and the toys that will be out for it, I mentioned that the locked bootloader was a turn off he agreed with me, we clicked after that. Getting someone who has had problems with their own phone helps too. My guy mentioned his fiance had the Captivate and got rid of it for many of the reasons I was giving.
[HTC Inspire 4G] x986123:
Yeah, I don't want to sound sexist either, but the guys are usually more understanding. He told me "I'll try everything I can without risking losing my job", while the women generally said, "I'm sorry there is nothing we can do.".

And there is nothing you can do besides hangup until you get a guy who sounds knowledgeable and willing to help. Apparently the employee's have been leaving notes about me... what the hell?

/rant
[HTC Inspire 4G] gunnyman:
It's sad that we have to play CSR roulette to get things done. I have had to play it with Directv from time to time too.

My experience with AT&T has been more hit than miss though and from what I can tell, I'm lucky.
[HTC Inspire 4G] x986123:
Oh my god. I've had terrible luck with the CSR people. I think the chamber had all the bullets in it for the last 2 days. I've had nothing but ignorant employees. Just called twice, but luckily this one told me I could get the phone for $75 on another line I have for an Early-Upgrade. I would have to go to a corporate store though. The one I was at yesterday told me it would be $300. All the employee's are telling me different prices, and I'm tired of it.
[HTC Inspire 4G] gunnyman:
Make sure they put notes in your account about what they offered you. Also instead of adding another line, I'd sell the captivate you can get between 200-250 depending on its condition then pay the difference.
[HTC Inspire 4G] x986123:
Not adding another line, I'm on a family plan.
[HTC Inspire 4G] gunnyman:
Oh. Ok then 75 bucks out the door sounds good.
[HTC Inspire 4G] x986123:
What do I do if they refuse to give it for $75 like the CSR said? I still remember the CSR's name and the date at which I called.
[HTC Inspire 4G] gunnyman:
I guess I'd call back and ask for what the previous car promised you over the phone. They mail phones pretty fast.
[HTC Inspire 4G] factorycell:
my wife hated her captivate,too hard for her learn. Just got them in november,walked out of att corp store with iphone for her,regular price. The rep was great and told me att is trying to be customer friendly.
[HTC Inspire 4G] alex4lex:
Sell on eBay for shizzle. My captivate isn't even in perfect condition (has a knick in the battery door and has signs of usage) ... unlocked, rooted, and 2.2 netted me $275. As for CS... man. You really do gotta play the roulette game...sometimes they're genuinely helpful...other times it's hard not to yell bad words into the phone : /
[Vibrant Android Development] s0niqu3:
Ok, so while I was re-theming the newest market update for myself, I was finally annoyed enough with the carrier tab/channel in the android market to find a way to disable it entirely.

Simple, SIMPLE change takes care of it.

Decompile Vending.apk, and open /com/smali/android/vending/AssetBrowserActivity.smali

look for the following line:

invoke-virtual {v5}, Lcom/android/vending/model/GetCarrierInfoResponse;->isCarrierChannelEnabled()Z

a couple of lines beneath that, comment out the following two lines:

if-eqz v5, :cond_4

if-eqz v2, :cond_4

And then immediately after you've commented those out, add the following:

goto :cond_4

So the final code in my Vending.apk looks like this:

invoke-virtual {v5}, Lcom/android/vending/model/GetCarrierInfoResponse;->isCarrierChannelEnabled()Z

move-result v5

# if-eqz v5, :cond_4

# if-eqz v2, :cond_4

goto :cond_4

And voila, no Carrier tab/channel anymore!

PLEASE NOTE! This will remove the carrier tab entirely, there is no way to browse the carrier channel using this method.

Anyway, hopes this helps someone else too.

Cheers everyone, =)
[Vibrant Android Development] ndwgs:
Sweeeeeeeet

All XDA Users Rock!!
[Vibrant Android Development] Urukiora:
I am newb and I've been looking for something like this! But what does decompiling it mean?
[Vibrant Android Development] itsjusttim:
Nice, thanks for sharing
[Vibrant Android Development] scrizz:
w00t! welcome back s0niqu3!!!
[Vibrant Android Development] fflegend85:
Did it really bother you that much? Why?
[Vibrant Android Development] battlekry:
I never dug the carrier tab... Sweet mod..
[Vibrant Android Development] jamesd86:
I missed not having to hit menu to check my downloaded apps. Devs should integrate this asap.
[Vibrant Android Development] jn_vista:
If you aren't sure my best suggestion is don't worry about it.
[Vibrant Android Development] eugene373:
Or editing the build.prop like I've done does the samething.
[Vibrant Android Development] Whitehawkx:
Very simple and works great. Thanks! :)
[Vibrant Android Development] cjggilbert:
Great job, works Thank you
[Vibrant Android Development] dasunsrule32:
What is the setting for this? I tried this and it failed. Tried it again, and this time it did work. You have to remove and updates to the market before hand.
[Vibrant Android Development] jeph36:
Can someone explain in more detail what this changes? Or post a "before" picture? Does T-Mo add junk to the market page? I am on iWireless which tends to stay out of the way of the phones, so maybe mine is different by default.

Thanks.
[Vibrant Android Development] Romanbb:
T-Mobile tab on the left instead.
[Vibrant Android Development] thegreatcity:
Normally we have a tab next to Games on our Market, labeled T Mobile. It just has a bunch of apps recommended by T Mobile. This mod changes it back to the My Apps tab which shows all your downloads and any updates for them.
[Vibrant Android Development] dasunsrule32:
Is anyone having issues after this mod, with downloading apps from the market? I can see updates and attempt to d/l them, but it just stays in a state of d/l'ing. Thanks.
[Vibrant Android Development] Whitehawkx:
No issues on my end. Just downloaded an app and it installed it no problem.
[Vibrant Android Development] s0niqu3:
Hi,

I get this from time to time, regardless of using a modified Vending.apk, it just seems to be tied to bad cached login data or something, since Vending.apk uses your Gtalk login for some reason.

That said, I'm using this mod personally, and I've been able to download apps fine.

You can try clearing the app data associated with both market and gtalk, then make sure you login to talk, then market, and try downloading again.

Cheers, =)
[Vibrant Android Development] dasunsrule32:
I left my laptop at work, I will post a log cat tomorrow. basically the market can't resolve the names of the packages

Sent from my SGH-T959
[Vibrant Android Development] kobesabi:
You have to be a programmer to know it. In laymen term, it's like converting a compiled stuff such as a program, etc.. back to program codes stuff. Edit it out or whatever then recompile. Like de-animate (decompile) Spock to atoms, tweak it, and re-assemble him back to a mutant Klingon or something like that without "carrier" on his head.
[Vibrant Android Development] MStrawder:
So I've decompiled/edited/compiled/signed using APK Manager, but I'm getting FC's when I try to run the Market after the install. Someone mind pointing me in the right direction? I'm still learning a lot of this.
[Vibrant Android Development] Whitehawkx:
Try doing it w/out signing it. I never sign anything that goes into the /system folder.
[Vibrant Android Development] dasunsrule32:
Really? Maybe that was my issue, I was signing it. :)
[Vibrant Android Development] MStrawder:
I originally did that, but then I would get parse errors, so a friend suggested signing it. Now I'll gladly hit myself in the head if this is the reason why, but I'm using a version from a theme. Basically in that the icon and background in the market are colored. Is it possible that could be the issue?
[Vibrant Android Development] Flucero28:
Would one of you guys please provide the modified package so that I can replace it using root explorer?
[Vibrant Android Development] Whitehawkx:
Here is a modified black market version.
[Vibrant Android Development] cjggilbert:
Thanks Whitehawkx, looks and works great
[Vibrant Android Development] MStrawder:
Just to recap, using APK Manager, I simply select to decompile, edit the file, and compile? Am I missing a step here because I've tried several times and settings to no avail.
[Vibrant Android Development] s0niqu3:
Hi,

After you re-compile, open both the new "unsigned" apk and the original apk with 7zip, and drag-and-drop the META-INF folder and AndroidManifest.xml files from the original apk, into the modified apk.

Close both files, then push the modified apk to /system/app (be sure to name it Vending.apk or whatever your old market was named so it overwrites it.)

Hope this helps.

Cheers, =)
[Vibrant Android Development] Flucero28:
Thanks whitehawx its great!
[Vibrant Android Development] MStrawder:
Appreciate the help. I downloaded APK Manager for Linux (my primary OS) and did the decompile/edit/compile/sign and it worked great. I was working in Windows last night and that seemed to be where all of my errors were coming from. Out of curiosity, what would your suggestion above have done exactly? Does it add the original signature?
[Vibrant Android Development] s0niqu3:
Yep, that's exactly what it does, it keeps the original signature. Of course, because of this, the app isn't actually "signed" but apps that get pushed to /system don't technically need to be signed, they just need a signature file that matches the rest of the system apps.

Cheers, =)
[Vibrant Android Development] cjggilbert:
Ok what gives? Downloaded and replaced the vending.apk that whitehawkx provided yesterday. And it worked great.

About an hour ago the original one was back and I can't get it to change to the black one again.

What am I doing wrong?
[Vibrant Android Development] s0niqu3:
Hi,

The only thing I can think is that the version whitehawkx provided wasn't the newest version of android market, and your phone in the background keeps downloading the newest update.

Check settings/applications/manage applications and see if android market shows up in there. If so, using adb, pull /data/app/com.android.vending-1.apk and send whitehawkx the file so he can theme and edit the newest version.

Hope that helps, cheers, =)
[Vibrant Android Development] Whitehawkx:
Yea this is exactly what happened. Didn't realize there was a newer version out. :eek: Not sure why mine hasn't updated or changed though.
[Vibrant Android Development] cjggilbert:
EDIT: ok uploaded the file here hope this helps Whitehawkx

I guess this is the market latest version, as of today

Thanks again for the help
[Vibrant Android Development] Whitehawkx:
Ha. Mine just updated a little bit ago. So I pulled it and made the change. New market is cool. Now all the stupid crap at the top scrolls away. I like it. :)

This is not themed black. This is stock green. I deleted the one out of /data/app and just replaced the one in /system/app.
[Vibrant Android Development] cjggilbert:
Great, works. Thanks again whitehawkx. That was quick!!!
[Vibrant Android Development] Whitehawkx:
I stumbled across something today. There is a much easier way to do this. Just open the /system/default.prop and look for this line here...

ro.com.google.clientidbase.am=android-tmobile-us

and change it to this

ro.com.google.clientidbase.am=android-samsung

DONE.

Carrier tab will always be gone no matter how many times the market updates. Has to be done on a clean rom install. Changing the default.prop and rebooting does not seem to have any effect (though I did not try clearing market data).
[Vibrant Android Development] s0niqu3:
Nice. I knew there was another way since Eugene and others have done it before, but for me personally, I have to decompile every update to theme it anyway, so making the code change is a non-issue.

Grats though should make it simpler for anyone that doesn't care about themed market, lol.

Cheers =)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] END_OF_FLESH:
I've seen a lot of these threads on random android forums, never with much resolution, which is frustrating.

My power button has stopped working entirely. I took it into the Sprint shop, they spent an hour with it, came back out and said they could find no reason it shouldn't be working. It's an obnoxious fix, but I downloaded "No Lock" from the marketplace and set the screen to shut off after 15 seconds. Now I press a volume key to turn on my screen...

Now, when it gets annoying is when I went to install Cyanogenmod 7 tonight. The power button obviously doesn't work. Widgetsoid's reboot button is ignored entirely if I do Shut Down, Reboot, Bootloader, or Recovery. It's A-OK with Hot Reboot. So the only way I've gotten into the bootloader to wipe/install CM7 is to pop out the battery, hold VolDown, and put the battery in. Peachy. But once I'm into the bootloader, now not only does power (which is now my "enter" button) now work, but the volume buttons are unresponsive as well. So no scrolling.

I'd love to call up HTC or Spring and see what I can do about a replacement (which might not even happen, I don't have a warranty), but I can't un-root the device to send it in.

Any insight you guys have would be greatly appreciated...

:confused::mad::confused::mad:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] END_OF_FLESH:
Is there an SDK or something that would allow me to remote control the phone using my computer via USB? I'm completely at a loss here.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samzebian:
I believe you are referring to adb?

and you can unroot via adb, just search around, I'm sure you'll find something on it.

btw, does Sprint know you rooted your phone? if they didn't find out, then you still have a warranty
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] END_OF_FLESH:
Yeah, I'm just not as familiar with ADB as I'd like to be.

Not so much looking to unroot, as reload HTC Sense so they don't think to look haha. And yeah, when I brought the phone in today it was very obviously modded. They restarted it and the Cyanogenmod 6 flash screen came up. The guy looked a little confused. He was more than willing to help out, but I'm not so sure it would be the same if I sent it in. They definitely wouldn't replace it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] END_OF_FLESH:
Alright, so I have ADB up and running with no issue. Got it to give me my device's serial #. At this point, how do I hijack the phone's bootloader and force it to wipe and install the ZIP of CM7 that's on the SD card?
[Galaxy Tab General] pawces:
Apparently , the SGT has SRS 5.1 audio enhancement. I have some questions about this:

1.How do I activate this for movies and music?

2.Can this be used in conjunction with a 3rd party music player with equalizer, such as power amp?

3.I can't find the settings for SRS, does it have SRS wow effect and SRS truBass,like in windows media player for PC?

Would love for my tab to sound like my PC with SRS thru headphones! thanks!
[Galaxy Tab General] lambstone:
Well, you click it at the top of your music player or video player. its on the right of the volume bar
[Galaxy Tab General] pawces:
ok , but then you can't use it in with other effects and/or equalizer?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] equlizer:
I have the Telus desire hd and cant seem to find bluetooth dialing anywhere? When i press the button on my headset it says "voice dial" just like it did with my iphone cept nothing happens afterwards. I looked all over the phone for a setting but found nothing.

Am i missing something here?:confused:
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] equlizer:
no one knows? doubtfull :rolleyes:
[Droid X Themes and Apps] txmaninblack:
Are we going to see Matted Blue come to Liberty 1.5 cause I've been waiting on it I love it wish the 3G and the Antenna was changed over to just the blue and white but other than that my favorite theme!
[Droid X Themes and Apps] joe772:
If theres enough support for it, I'll port it over for yall
[Droid X Themes and Apps] txmaninblack:
i know for one id be greatful, is there a way to change the attenna logo to just blue bars and grey when they arent used and the same with a blue and white 3g symbol?

i cant get any liberty themes on my phone and im not a fan of yellow lmao the toolbar wont install any of them
[Droid X Themes and Apps] rustymcbain:
+1
[Droid X Themes and Apps] txmaninblack:
was hoping for more support
[Droid X Themes and Apps] SysAdmin-X:
Here ya go:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1TJ20U5M

Here is a quick Port of Matted Blues. Please don't distribute or anything, did the port cause I saw you asked and no one got back to you.

Haven't really thoroughly tested it out, but did flash it through clockwork on my phone and didn't have issues.

Enjoy =)
[Droid X Themes and Apps] txmaninblack:
thank you so much! this is for 1.5 right?
[Droid X Themes and Apps] SysAdmin-X:
Yes sir, for Liberty 1.5
[General Questions and Answers] sroeseler:
i recently rooted a buddy of mines cell south a2.1 cdma hero, he deleted gtalk thus making market not download.... i pushed a signed gapp to his sd card, can i load it by holding the down volume and entering the recovery menu or is there another way i need to repair this
[General Questions and Answers] DreamPCs:
I may be wrong here, but if it's rooted I'd just run a file explorer program to run the apk file.
[General Questions and Answers] sroeseler:
i dont think he has one, i used a one click, with superuser, put titanium back up ( no he didnt back up) to unistall carrier apps with, no rom manager or anything anyway
[General Questions and Answers] sroeseler:
ok..then does anyone know a diffrent way to return gapps to the phone other than using the recovery image, beacuse im tying not to loose text messages
[General Questions and Answers] sroeseler:
ok then i guess ill push it with abd.exe
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ap1618:
Dear good sirs,

is there a kernel out there that will unleash the full 512MB of RAM? please?

thank you
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
I believe a dedicated amount is for the video graphics.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
You are right, no rom will ever have the full amount available as it is reserved for the video graphics
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
yay me. where's my cookie?:D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeyMike01:
No. Samsung lied to us.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
so no cookie?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mprinceiii:
Samsung would hate for anyone to enjoy a cookie, sadly.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ap1618:
does the Nexus One use all 512MB through it's Kernel's?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jarred101:
I think the biggest I've seen is in cognition with has 304 available for user/apps. As others above have said a portion will always be dedicated to video.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZeroG1:
It's quite common on laptops. They'll advertise like 2gb but windows will show a lower value. The difference is allocated to video.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mnjm9b:
I will give you a cookie...

But its not ready yet...

But soon...

I promise...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avgjoegeek:
No phone utilizes the 512... likes folks already mentioned its shared with video like computers with an onboard video will behave the same way.