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On the S2, is there a way to remove the row on the notification bar that has "Sprint", the date, and the clear button? Or to somehow compact it down. I feel like I have no room for notifications.
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ZeroAX posted:Do you guys recommend a screen protector or is it not necessary? ZeroAX posted:Should I flash CM 9/10?
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Feb 8, 2013 17:21
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The Entire Universe posted:Be aware that there are apparently newer versions of the roam-only PRL. I am not sure if they qualify as I use PRL switching because at work, I get exactly enough Sprint signal to make my phone constantly flip back and forth between 1 bar of almost-3G that you can't actually use, and four bars of Verizon roaming. I actually don't want to void my contract, at least not right now.
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due to the hazy legality of getting a contract voided by misrepresenting service conditions (I.e. you aren't in an actual dead zone, you're forcing your phone to roam so you can avoid the ETF when Sprint nixes you)
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Gilok posted:I use PRL switching because at work, I get exactly enough Sprint signal to make my phone constantly flip back and forth between 1 bar of almost-3G that you can't actually use, and four bars of Verizon roaming. I actually don't want to void my contract, at least not right now. I use PRL switching because no matter how many bars it's slower than molasses running uphill.
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Feb 8, 2013 19:38
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My contract is up just in time for the Galaxy S4 to come out (beginning of April-ish). Does anyone forsee any issues rooting it and having community support? It's got a Exynos 5450 Quad CPU and I remember reading about some snafu with the Exynos line. I'm coming from an Evo 3D (amazing that mine has lasted so long, from everything I've read on it) so I really don't want to plop down a chunk of change that won't be supported again. I know it's way too early to tell, I was just wondering if something about the device that stands out as a red flag to people that know more about it than I do. I could probably hold onto my 3D for an extra month or two to see what happens to the S4 but I'm impatient. haha Edit: as of right now my only hangup with it is that it's huge. 4.99in screen is almost as big as the Note 2. FlyingCheese fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Feb 8, 2013 |
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Feb 8, 2013 19:54
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FlyingCheese posted:Edit: as of right now my only hangup with it is that it's huge. 4.99in screen is almost as big as the Note 2. Unless you are posting from the future you are talking all about rumors. There is no solid information at all about the S4. Also if it follows the pattern you probably won't be able to get it from your carrier until at least June if not September. http://www.ibtimes.com/samsung-galaxy-s4-rumors-super-amoled-display-production-begin-month-phones-camera-images-reportedly Wow, those rumors are amazing. Stick100 fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Feb 8, 2013 |
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FlyingCheese posted:My contract is up just in time for the Galaxy S4 to come out (beginning of April-ish). Does anyone forsee any issues rooting it and having community support? The Exynos 4 line is hosed. However, as the Nexus 10 is an Exynos 5 AOSP device, platform support may (needs more emphasis) carry over to other Exynos 5 devices. Or it may not, we don't really know. In contrast, Qualcomm and TI maintain open source Android ports for Snapdragon and OMAP platforms beyond just those used in Nexus handsets, which is why the North American SGS3 has solid support. Samsung has never done that with Exynos, and despite promising to do so, they have yet to deliver in any meaningful way. It's something of an anomaly that the original Galaxy S line ended up having decent open source support via the Nexus S, and even then, it was only due to sheer effort to shoehorn in support for other devices.
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Feb 8, 2013 20:31
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Stick100 posted:Unless you are posting from the future you are talking all about rumors. There is no solid information at all about the S4. Also if it follows the pattern you probably won't be able to get it from your carrier until at least June if not September. Somehow my eyes totally glossed over the fact that all the specs are just rumors. Nevermind then! ExcessBLarg! posted:Assuming such a device hits Sprint with the same SoC, we still don't really know. Interesting, thanks a bunch. I guess I'll have to wait some more to decide what phone to get.
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Is there any hope that everyone shifting to LTE will someday mean a situation like GSM where a device can be unlocked and used with any old sim as long as the radio bands line up? E: I know LTE is a descendent of GSM. obviously I can't take my Sprint GNex and roam on Verizon's LTE. Will that ever change for future phones once pre-LTE standards are phased out in a couple decades? FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Feb 8, 2013 |
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Feb 8, 2013 22:11
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The Entire Universe posted:Is there any hope that everyone shifting to LTE will someday mean a situation like GSM where a device can be unlocked and used with any old sim as long as the radio bands line up? When all the US carriers switch to Voice over LTE, yes. Then they'll be 100% LTE devices and you can just swap SIMs. Whether you'll be able to unlock the phones is another matter.
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Ender.uNF posted:When all the US carriers switch to Voice over LTE, yes. Then they'll be 100% LTE devices and you can just swap SIMs. Whether you'll be able to unlock the phones is another matter. I would imagine that would eventually be grounds for an FCC complaint on the basis of telecoms universal interoperability. Right now they can sort of hide behind CDMA/GSM but once everything is LTE/VoLTE you could feasibly see that regulation gaining cache. Whether the FCC is rendered fully useless or outright abolished by then is another question. It could take decades to have CDMA phased out in full - see Sprint's iDEN customer base, and they were from a time before literally everyone had a mobile phone. There's obviously slight differences (PTT for example) but in general you're going to have millions of Americans refusing to switch to an LTE phone for all sorts of infuriating reasons.
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Well I didn't mention it, but this assumes that moore's law holds and software radio gets small enough, cheap enough, and low-power enough to be used in phones. Otherwise the spectrum is only going to get more fragmented, leading to less interoperability... Barring the government forcing roaming agreements and mandated rates. Anyway, Approximately 935 updated sites today in: DFW (75), Charlotte (68), Chicago (66), Indianapolis (57), Philadelphia Metro (42), Boston (34), San Diego (34), PR/VI (30), Kansas (26), Shentel (25), Washington DC (25), Austin (23), SF Bay (23), Atlanta/Athens (22), Arkansas (21), New York City (21), LA Metro (20), Mississippi (20), Providence (19), Alabama (18), Southern Jersey (18), Riverside/San Bernardino (16), Raleigh/Durham (15), Miami/West Palm (13), Northern Connecticut (13), Northern Jersey (12), Norfolk (11), South Carolina (11), Southern Connecticut (11), Las Vegas (10), San Antonio (10), Myrtle Beach (9), South Bay (9), Ft. Wayne/South Bend (8), Nashville (8), Oregon/SW Washington (8), Tampa (8), Georgia (7), New Orleans (7), Orlando (7), Gulf Coast (6), Minnesota (6), Central Jersey (5), Upstate NY Central (5), Baltimore (4), Houston (4), North LA (4), Jacksonville (3), Memphis (3), Upstate NY East (3), VT/NH/ME (3), Central Pennsylvania (2), East Texas (2), Long Island (2), South West Florida (1).
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The Entire Universe posted:Is there any hope that everyone shifting to LTE will someday mean a situation like GSM where a device can be unlocked and used with any old sim as long as the radio bands line up?
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Feb 9, 2013 01:39
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td4guy posted:Not as long as Sprint refuses to put LTE simcard slots on their phones. I'm assuming this doesn't apply to the iPhone 5?
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td4guy posted:Not as long as Sprint refuses to put LTE simcard slots on their phones. That's fine. Manufacturers will just make one model of every phone, and it'll have a simcard slot. I hope.
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Feb 9, 2013 02:17
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That LTE rollout  I'm starting to think that Delaware is going to be one of the last places with LTE or something. I know they announced plans to roll out LTE in the whole state of Delaware but there hasn't seemed to have been one report of a tower going live from those S4GRU updates. Not sure if I can blame them because at least where I live, Verizon rules the area.
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Feb 9, 2013 02:26
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NerdsMcGee posted:I'm assuming this doesn't apply to the iPhone 5? Correct; one benefit of Apple's domination of the carriers. You'll take the iPhone 5 with SIM slot and you'll like it. What Verizon, Sprint, etc fought for and got approved was "internal SIM"s, so they can make it non-changeable and burned into the phone. They are addicted to the model of tightly controlling who can connect to their network. No idea if they are still actively pushing this or not. Subsidies are biting them in the rear end a bit, so it's not like they have nothing to gain by letting people bring their own devices.
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Ender.uNF posted:Correct; one benefit of Apple's domination of the carriers. You'll take the iPhone 5 with SIM slot and you'll like it. I think they're trying to deal with the opposite problem - people taking their subsidized phones to other carriers. Apparently the biggest sources of fraud pre-LTE were the world phones with SIM cards. People would activate, unlock and resell the phone, and either vanish without paying or have it turn out the activation was fraudulent to begin with. So Sprint would eat a couple hundred dollars at least. When the phone only works on one carrier (who can lock out the ESN no less), it prevents most of that.
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TVs Ian posted:I think they're trying to deal with the opposite problem - people taking their subsidized phones to other carriers. So then the carriers should share an ESN blacklist for known stolen phones. If nobody will activate it, a stolen phone is therefore useless. Problem solved.
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Feb 9, 2013 05:21
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FlyingCheese posted:So then the carriers should share an ESN blacklist for known stolen phones. If nobody will activate it, a stolen phone is therefore useless. Problem solved. True, but it's hard enough to get them to work together on ports. Also, most of the fraudulent phones went overseas, so now you need to get every carrier in the world on board. Considering some of them don't even sell subsidized phones, there's not a lot of motivation.
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averox posted:That LTE rollout Don't worry... you're not alone. St. Louis is nowhere near having any sort of LTE network. It's terrible here.
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Feb 9, 2013 05:52
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TVs Ian posted:True, but it's hard enough to get them to work together on ports. Most ports between the big 4 go through in under 10 minutes. I actually think its the only spot they play nice.
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FlyingCheese posted:So then the carriers should share an ESN blacklist for known stolen phones. If nobody will activate it, a stolen phone is therefore useless. Problem solved. The carriers actually do share an ESN blacklist. This was implemented last year, I believe, and brought up by various police departments around the country.
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This is probably a stupid question, but I've been trying to get more information. How widespread are the 4.2.1 issues with the Galaxy Nexus? I've been checking various forums and I can't determine if it's a vocal minority, or if I have a good chance of my phone turning to poo poo if I hit the Install Now button by mistake.
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Feb 9, 2013 11:20
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ThermoPhysical posted:The carriers actually do share an ESN blacklist. This was implemented last year, I believe, and brought up by various police departments around the country. It is not shared or active yet, but Sprint was saying they were working on it when I left and ATT is saying they are working on it, so honestly the blacklist is one area that should be working sometime soon.
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Souichiro posted:This is probably a stupid question, but I've been trying to get more information. How widespread are the 4.2.1 issues with the Galaxy Nexus? I've been checking various forums and I can't determine if it's a vocal minority, or if I have a good chance of my phone turning to poo poo if I hit the Install Now button by mistake. My first try of the update when I manually installed it when it originally "leaked" (even though it was the exact version that came out officially via OTA) went very poorly. I had a lot of problems with sleep of death and poo poo like that. I flashed the factory images for 4.1.1 back onto my phone clean, and then a few days after I got the OTA notification and said gently caress it, I'll give it a second chance. This time through, it seems to be working pretty good.
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Ender.uNF posted:What Verizon, Sprint, etc fought for and got approved was "internal SIM"s, so they can make it non-changeable and burned into the phone. Verizon LTE phones do not have an internal SIM. It's just Sprint.
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My wife's Galaxy Nexus has started nagging her to install the OTA update. Is there a way to disable that poo poo? The stuff I saw looked like you needed to be rooted, and we haven't done that on her phone...
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Feb 9, 2013 21:49
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Souichiro posted:This is probably a stupid question, but I've been trying to get more information. How widespread are the 4.2.1 issues with the Galaxy Nexus? I've been checking various forums and I can't determine if it's a vocal minority, or if I have a good chance of my phone turning to poo poo if I hit the Install Now button by mistake. I put the OTA on my bone-stock Sprint GNex and couldn't be happier. Everything works perfectly and I think battery life may have gotten a bit better. Same on my wife's as well (same phone). brc64 posted:My wife's Galaxy Nexus has started nagging her to install the OTA update. Is there a way to disable that poo poo? The stuff I saw looked like you needed to be rooted, and we haven't done that on her phone... Uh, OTAs BREAK root, you don't need to be rooted to install a "direct from carrier/Google" update.
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amenenema posted:
I'm pretty sure that he's asking how to disable the nagscreen, not how to install the ostensibly bug-ridden OTA.
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brc64 posted:My wife's Galaxy Nexus has started nagging her to install the OTA update. Is there a way to disable that poo poo? The stuff I saw looked like you needed to be rooted, and we haven't done that on her phone... You could do what I did. Try to install it, have it fail then the notification goes away.
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decoy octopus posted:You could do what I did. Try to install it, have it fail then the notification goes away. I read some reports about that, but it wasn't clear how to make the installation fail.
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brc64 posted:I read some reports about that, but it wasn't clear how to make the installation fail. I would imagine that allowing it to download, but hard rebooting in the middle of the download would do. Just make sure you don't reboot in the middle of the actual installation while it's in recovery, as that's almost a guaranteed way to hose your phone.
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brc64 posted:I read some reports about that, but it wasn't clear how to make the installation fail. I downloaded the file let it install, then it came up with the Android laying down with ! logo so I just rebooted the phone. I don't know what the problem is nor do I care to fix it because everyone has been saying 4.2.1 is bad and I have an upgrade in 3 months
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I've ported my number out to GV and canceled my line on my Sprint family plan. Is there an easy way to transfer the Sprint account to my brother's name, the secondary line? He lives in another state, so having us both go to a store is difficult.
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Feb 10, 2013 16:35
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brc64 posted:I read some reports about that, but it wasn't clear how to make the installation fail. My wife's failed all on its own, maybe its a feature! I started the install, came back a half hour later, and it was booted and identified as 4.1.1 still. 
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thelightguy posted:I'm pretty sure that he's asking how to disable the nagscreen, not how to install the ostensibly bug-ridden OTA. Oops, my bad.
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blargle posted:I've ported my number out to GV and canceled my line on my Sprint family plan. Is there an easy way to transfer the Sprint account to my brother's name, the secondary line? He lives in another state, so having us both go to a store is difficult. Just call customer care.
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