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Tedious_Bastard posted:Scale is 100 right now, at 36% with 7hr 45m on battery - phone was in airplane mode with wifi on for seven hours of that. Voltage looks good too. There's definitely something wrong with your phone then. Settings->Battery will tell you which processes use the most battery. My screen uses about 40% of the charge consistently and that's with auto brightness. I've been using my gnex since 9 am (3:38 now) and I have 68% charge left on the stock battery.
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I keep mine on half brightness and android OS is currently using 40% of my battery. Mine keeps restarting every day. I don't know if it's just the low quality of Samsung or if I should try to get it replaced anyway.
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Currently me and my girlfriend are on separate family plans with our own families. We want to get on our plan together, only problem is we both have unlimited data. Is there are way to make them move our unlimited data to a new account?
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Apr 18, 2012 22:08
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I've heard that buying a smartphone and activating it with PagePlus plan allows you to skirt their bullshit unlimited data plan requirement. Anyone have any experience with this? I want a nice newer phone, but have no need for an extra $30/mo when I have wifi available where I am 90% of the time.
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Apr 19, 2012 01:38
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AppleCobbler posted:Your phone is broken, send it back. What does the scale mean?
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FordPRefectLL posted:What does the scale mean? It's the voltage scaling in the battery stats. If the scale is off, the phone's battery isn't working properly.
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Bloodplay it again posted:My sister's Droid X received an OTA update today. When the device restarted, it came up with a bootloader error. The specific error is "A5,70,00,23." Google turns up two exact results, neither of which are any help at all. The newest Droid X OTA has caused this error for a few people. The typical fix for bootloader errors unfortunately does not work because of the things that Motorola changed in the latest OTA. There is a VERY small chance that you could save the phone by grabbing the system version .605 SBF file and RSD Lite. If that fails, the phone will have to be sent in for a reflash. The reflash file that would put the Droid X on the latest OTA hasn't yet been released to the public.
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I have a question for those that may be in the know at Verizon. I am 1 year into a mobile hotspot contract I am probably moving to Verizon for my phone when my TMo contract is up as well (next 6 months). Do they think they would let me "morph" my hotspot contract into a smartphone+hotspot plan so that I don't have to have both devices? I mean that like a whole new plan but lose the existing hotspot one without fees.
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ChiTownEddie posted:I have a question for those that may be in the know at Verizon. I am 1 year into a mobile hotspot contract I am probably moving to Verizon for my phone when my TMo contract is up as well (next 6 months). You can convert the hotspot plan into a voice plan plus smartphone data plan (you can add / remove the hotspot feature as you need it.) If you're 12 months into the existing hotspot contract now then you're 8 months away from being eligible for discounted contract pricing on the new smartphone. This means you'll have to buy the smartphone full retail (probably $400 - $600) or find one used. OR since your T-Mobile contract is up in 6 months maybe just stick with that until your hotspot contract hits month 20 and is eligible for contract pricing.
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Apr 21, 2012 03:19
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Supposedly the Sprint Galaxy Nexus is coming shipped with 4.0.4 ....so I would expect any day (month) now we'll be seeing an update.
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Apr 21, 2012 04:52
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Google Voice telling me that Verizon won't let me do voicemail forwarding doesn't actually mean anything, right? I tested it from my other Verizon phone that's getting deactivated in a couple days and it seemed to work ok but I want to make sure I won't be missing any messages from people on other services or whatever.
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Apr 21, 2012 05:40
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Psionic Sasquatch posted:Currently me and my girlfriend are on separate family plans with our own families. We want to get on our plan together, only problem is we both have unlimited data. Is there are way to make them move our unlimited data to a new account? If you do this make sure to double-check via My Verizon or call customer service to ensure the $29.99 unlimited feature carried over because the time limit for sending an inactive pricing request or IPR to get the feature back is 14 days.
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Vertigus posted:Google Voice telling me that Verizon won't let me do voicemail forwarding doesn't actually mean anything, right? I tested it from my other Verizon phone that's getting deactivated in a couple days and it seemed to work ok but I want to make sure I won't be missing any messages from people on other services or whatever. Nope...mine has worked perfectly fine.
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OTA for the Droid 4 seemed to have helped battery life somewhat - normally after my errands on Fridays it's at like 40%, today it was at 60% with basically the same usage pattern. I'm okay with this. Re-rooting was easy, too, just running the motofail exploit.
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Vertigus posted:Google Voice telling me that Verizon won't let me do voicemail forwarding doesn't actually mean anything, right? I tested it from my other Verizon phone that's getting deactivated in a couple days and it seemed to work ok but I want to make sure I won't be missing any messages from people on other services or whatever. That just means you can't use whatever method Voice normally uses. All you have to do is call the number they tell you to and it works just fine.
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ProjektorBoy posted:The newest Droid X OTA has caused this error for a few people. The typical fix for bootloader errors unfortunately does not work because of the things that Motorola changed in the latest OTA. Thursday, my sister called to get a new phone sent to her. Verizon sent a Galaxy Nexus to replace her Droid X. The phone came yesterday without a back on it, so we waited until today to try and activate the phone (after the back came in). The SIM card for the phone was programmed with my number (which explains why she got the gnex and not another Droid X), so now my phone is deactivated. Called Verizon and they said we have to drive 2 hours to the nearest store on Monday to get new SIM cards, but now they're saying they want the refurbished Gnex back. My sister has already activated the new phone. What are the chances of the SIM card working in my phone? Can I just call Verizon and get the ESN switched over to my phone? The guy I spoke with was very apologetic but he wasn't quite sure what to do either. He just said "it might work." I really, really need a working phone. I can't go two days without a phone or else I'm likely to get fired from work. I called a Wal-Mart (the only place open tonight that sells Verizon phones) and I was told I could stop in and pay $24 for a new card. Got to the store and I was told it was only for GSM phones. edit: The new SIM card worked fine in my phone. Now I have to ship the refurbed Nexus back and have another one sent back with a different ESN and SIM card. The guy I spoke to at Verizon was super nice, although he said he didn't have proper credentials to write up the Droid X-to-Gnex order and I'm supposed to be getting a call on Monday to find out what's actually going to happen. Bloodplay it again fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Apr 22, 2012 |
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I have a question for folks who have run the gamut of Verizon LTE phones. Which LTE phone do you guys think has the best possible radio hardware? Signal strength, speed, LTE/CDMA handoffs, everything. My guess would be a Bionic or a RAZR, based on what I've read. Is that accurate? My Droid Charge seems to have pretty awful radios (LTE randomly cuts out, inexplicably drops down to Ev-DO in well-covered LTE areas, etc.) so I'm wondering if this is par for the course, or Samsung-specific. I think it would be cool to get a phone with a great LTE radio, hook it to one of these, and leave it in my bag all day in wi-fi hotspot mode. Then I could use a small device without service in my pocket and also pull out the laptop whenever I want to without having to futz with starting/stopping a wi-fi hotspot app on my phone and draining the crap out of my battery for half an hour of tethering. Getting the humpback extended battery out of my pocket would be a cool perk, too. Getting an LTE Mi-Fi (or a Verizon iPad 3) seems like the obvious solution here, but I don't know that I trust LTE enough for VoIP. I'm down to just a couple of phone calls a week, but since I have to pay Verizon for voice minutes anyway to retain my unlimited data plan I'd might as well have a device that can actually connect to their network and place a call.
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kalibar posted:I have a question for folks who have run the gamut of Verizon LTE phones. Which LTE phone do you guys think has the best possible radio hardware? Signal strength, speed, LTE/CDMA handoffs, everything. My guess would be a Bionic or a RAZR, based on what I've read. Is that accurate? My Droid Charge seems to have pretty awful radios (LTE randomly cuts out, inexplicably drops down to Ev-DO in well-covered LTE areas, etc.) so I'm wondering if this is par for the course, or Samsung-specific. I had read the same as you and got my wife a Bionic. It does not seem to have a better data connection than the Charge. It drops data relatively frequently, to the point where she noticed it on the Bionic and never did with the Charge. In terms of speed, it may be a bit better, I'm not sure. My Galaxy Nexus does better with data drops and also seems to be faster at LTE/CDMA handoffs than the Charge. At the very least, I don't think weak radios are Samsung-specific.
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What does grandfathered mean? I'm looking into how and if you can get unlimited data on 4G LTE like I had with my 3G phone and I see this term come up a lot.
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Apr 22, 2012 22:15
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MeinGott posted:What does grandfathered mean? I'm looking into how and if you can get unlimited data on 4G LTE like I had with my 3G phone and I see this term come up a lot.
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Huh. Well I never ended my plan with them. I got a new number for my new phone but other than that I got no idea  Could that be it? I'm gonna go to my local Verizon store and see if I can't this straightened out tomorrow.
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Apr 22, 2012 22:23
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MeinGott posted:What does grandfathered mean? I'm looking into how and if you can get unlimited data on 4G LTE like I had with my 3G phone and I see this term come up a lot. If you have unlimited data on a current smartphone due to the contract you previously signed, as long as you keep your smartphone, buy a used smartphone and activate that, or utilize an upgrade and buy another 3g/4g smartphone, you will retain the unlimited data feature. Grandfathered means "Exempt (someone or something) from a new law or regulation." You are grandfathered on the unlimited data feature and don't have to move to a limited data plan.
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Yeah I think I'll just have to go to Verizon and get it sorted out. I had unlimited data before and the only thing that changed was my new number and phone. I'm still on the same plan and everything.
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Apr 22, 2012 22:38
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MeinGott posted:Yeah I think I'll just have to go to Verizon and get it sorted out. I had unlimited data before and the only thing that changed was my new number and phone. I'm still on the same plan and everything. If your new phone was a smartphone you should be fine. Just look at your current bill and see if it says you have unlimited data.
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Apr 22, 2012 22:48
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WeaselWeaz posted:If your new phone was a smartphone you should be fine. Just look at your current bill and see if it says you have unlimited data. Total Data Used : 2.001GB/ 4.000 My billing period does end today so perhaps it will be different tomorrow.
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MeinGott posted:Total Data Used : 2.001GB/ 4.000 Nope you got your unlimited removed
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If you got a new number there is really nothing you can do. I'm going to assume you got a new number in order to take advantage of a third party sale i.e. phone on Amazon for $0.01 or something similar. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. What phone did you have before, why did you get a new number, and how long have you had the new phone?
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I really have no idea why they gave me a new number for my phone. I had a Vortex before and my mom was looking to get a new phone and mentioned it at the store so the guy said we could just switch her to my Vortex and get me a new phone. I picked up a Pantech for 60$ which may have been the deal thing SeaborneClink is talking about. I'm pretty upset about this as I've only had this phone for maybe 6-7 days and I burn through data like it is nobody's business. I could have sworn I asked him about the data situation but I guess not since here I am 
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Apr 22, 2012 23:57
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Isn't there a 14-day grace period to revert contract changes?
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This is why you make sure you know what is going on when you mess with your phone contract! My old number is still the one that is considered the contract owner. My new number is just a member of the contract. I can't even log in with my old number to check poo poo out on the website  I'm wondering if since my old number is still there if I can get it switched to my new phone and have all of my poo poo. I still don't know why the guy there had me change my number. e: tried to get a temp password texted to my phone but i think it is going to try and send it to the old number instead of re-routing it to be sent to my new number which is what we set up at the Verizon store. This is all very lame and not fun. I'm starting to think the guy at the store hosed up and wasn't thinking because what I can tell if I had never had my number changed I'd still have my unlimited data right? verbal enema fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Apr 23, 2012 |
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MeinGott posted:This is why you make sure you know what is going on when you mess with your phone contract! He was being lazy. Thats the only reason there could be.
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EbolaIvory posted:He was being lazy. Thats the only reason there could be. What a twonk. I hope he is there because it'd make it easier to deal with him since I already have rather than messing around with someone else.
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MeinGott posted:What a twonk. I hope he is there because it'd make it easier to deal with him since I already have rather than messing around with someone else. Heres to hoping he didnt strip your plan down on the other line and he can just swap the equip over. 
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EbolaIvory posted:Heres to hoping he didnt strip your plan down on the other line and he can just swap the equip over. That is what I'm praying for. I am reallllly praying for that.
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MeinGott posted:I really have no idea why they gave me a new number for my phone. I had a Vortex before and my mom was looking to get a new phone and mentioned it at the store so the guy said we could just switch her to my Vortex and get me a new phone. I picked up a Pantech for 60$ which may have been the deal thing SeaborneClink is talking about. If you got a brand new number, there's nothing you can do. It sounds like you added a 3rd line and the Verizon guy put a dummy ESN on your old line. There's only 2 ways this could have gone. 1) You added a line, took that new number and your old number had a dummy or feature phone ESN put on it, removing the unlimited data on it. Your mom kept the her same number. 2) You added a line, your mom took your old number, phone and unlimited data. Her old number had a dummy or feature phone ESN put on it and is now going unused. Preventing situations like this are why this thread exists. The proper way this should have been done is, add line with new phone ESN, put dummy/feature phone on new line, place new phone on your line then place you're old phone on your mom's line. You can try calling care and seeing if they will straighten everything out for you. Otherwise feel free to return the phone in the next 7 days, have the new number canceled and demand that someone at the place you had this done ensures everything is fixed and consider the non-refundable $35 activation fee for the new line and the $35 restocking fee a lesson learned. But hey now thanks to some random guy on the internet you know the proper way to do it for next time. It's unfortunate there are so many reps that either don't know or just don't give a poo poo about doing their job in a way that doesn't screw over the people they're supposed to be helping. This unfortunately puts the onus on you to make sure everything isn't hosed up. As I said before, this is why we're here, when we're not too busy sperging about pixel arrangements or  my updates we're happy to answer questions. A simple post like "my mom's phone broke, neither of can upgrade until at least August. What can I do?" Could have saved you a ton of hassle. P.S. The Breakout sucks.  MeinGott posted:What a twonk. I hope he is there because it'd make it easier to deal with him since I already have rather than messing around with someone else. Understand this isn't a dig at you, but this sentiment cracks me up every time. This guy just hosed things up for you, and your first reaction is "what an rear end" but your second is, "let's give him another shot?  "  I die a little inside every time someone calls or comes in "oh I'll just wait for xyz he was SO helpful!" 
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Yeah me and her both kind of let ourselves get rushed into this without any real thought to it . Situation 1 is what happened I'm pretty sure. But we'll all find out tomorrow what is going to go on with it. If anything I'll have to learn how to manage data I guess and yeah calling him an rear end then saying BUT I HOPE HE IS THERE is pretty silly I know. I wonder if he is the guy my little bro smokes weed with. Maybe I could grease the palms by throwing a bunch of drugs at him. verbal enema fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Apr 23, 2012 |
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MeinGott posted:and yeah calling him an rear end then saying BUT I HOPE HE IS THERE is pretty silly I know. I wonder if he is the guy my little bro smokes weed with. Maybe I could grease the palms by throwing a bunch of drugs at him. "I hired this guy to mow my lawn, but instead he chopped down this 100 year old tree in my front yard and left. My lawn still needs mowing, though, maybe if I give him some weed he'll come back and not bring his chainsaw with him." Seriously, he has hosed things up enough for you, don't ask for him, don't deal with him, forget he exists. Find someone at a corporate store who knows what they're doing and can take a stab at undoing this mess.
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Cmdr. Shepard posted:Does Verizon actively try to get people off its old unlimited plan? Not that im aware of. Not yet atleast. From what I understand with verizon they do do some speed limiting on high usage unlimited people, but only on towers that are loaded with other traffic.
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Don Lapre posted:Not that im aware of. Not yet atleast. From what I understand with verizon they do do some speed limiting on high usage unlimited people, but only on towers that are loaded with other traffic. If you use more than 2GB on an unlimited plan and you have a 3G phone, you will end up on the shitlist for the rest of this billing cycle and the entirety of the next one. The difference between this and AT&T's throttling though is being flagged does not get you throttled to dialup speed all the time. You are only throttled if you are on a cell that is loaded, and only for the time that cell is loaded. None of this applies to LTE at the moment. I burned 11 GB last month streaming a ton of music at work and there was no hit to speed.
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