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#181
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******* piece of ******* **** Sprint ICS needs to DIAF. Navigation doesn't work, can't find satellites. Can't upload photos, internet radio isn't working blah blah blah.
And battery life is TERRIBLE. Drained 25% yesterday searching for a ******* GPS satellite for 10 minutes yesterday.
Unacceptable. Going to throw this piece of **** through their window and tell them to give me another phone with 2.3 on it, because it WORKED.
And battery life is TERRIBLE. Drained 25% yesterday searching for a ******* GPS satellite for 10 minutes yesterday.
Unacceptable. Going to throw this piece of **** through their window and tell them to give me another phone with 2.3 on it, because it WORKED.
#182
Epic Touch 4G.
I have no interest in rooting the phone. I'm not nerdy enough to understand the greek, don't have time to learn all this ****, and just want a phone that works and does what i want. It did all of those things before. I don't see the point of paying a shitload monthly and having to spend all this time trying to modify the **** to make it work right.
Would rooting it really enhance my Pandora, Google Navigation, Picasa picture uploads, calls, and GOSMS messaging experience? Because that's all i use the phone for, and that's not gong to change anytime soon.
I have no interest in rooting the phone. I'm not nerdy enough to understand the greek, don't have time to learn all this ****, and just want a phone that works and does what i want. It did all of those things before. I don't see the point of paying a shitload monthly and having to spend all this time trying to modify the **** to make it work right.
Would rooting it really enhance my Pandora, Google Navigation, Picasa picture uploads, calls, and GOSMS messaging experience? Because that's all i use the phone for, and that's not gong to change anytime soon.
#185
that's the phone i have concealer. yeah I could run ICS and JB but i'm running gingerbread on it. cm7 + nexus modem driver. all the things you hate, i hated. i'm ok now. i can liberally use my phone and the battery lasts for a day. nav works and syncs up very fast (it used to take forever!) and anything having to do with making a call responds a bit quicker now as well as my download speeds doubling. It took me ~30 min to root and flash my phone it wasn't bad at all but I am quite "tech savy".
#186
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I'd like it to do all those things exactly like it did on Gingerbread. That's what i'd like. I'd also like to take exactly zero chances of bricking the phone since i found out the hard way last month that these damn phones still go for $250+ when SWMBO dropped hers on some tile.
#187
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**** is bauce:
BlazerROM, Jelly Bomb skin, Nova-launcher.
Jelly Bomb is ******* awesome. It has Apex, Nova, and TW pre-installed and TW is modified so it's not annoying.
BlazerROM, Jelly Bomb skin, Nova-launcher.
Jelly Bomb is ******* awesome. It has Apex, Nova, and TW pre-installed and TW is modified so it's not annoying.
#190
My One X has been pretty bauce so far, still stock rom, not even rooted. I ran all sorts of different roms on my Captivate. With this one, I haven't felt the need.
I think I feel the need now. ATT sucks in the suburbs of Houston. We have LTE towers around that work great when you're close enough. Now the problem is primarily at work. With the phone sitting still on the desk, I'll toggle airplane mode. Once connection restablishes, I'll have 3-4 bars of LTE goodness. Websites will load instantly. After a few minutes, it will drop to 4G and internet will basically stop functioning. I'm guessing because it deems the LTE signal is not strong enough, it gives up, even though it was working great. If I toggle airplane mode again, the process repeats itself.
Any of you bros have good results from flashing different modems?
I think I feel the need now. ATT sucks in the suburbs of Houston. We have LTE towers around that work great when you're close enough. Now the problem is primarily at work. With the phone sitting still on the desk, I'll toggle airplane mode. Once connection restablishes, I'll have 3-4 bars of LTE goodness. Websites will load instantly. After a few minutes, it will drop to 4G and internet will basically stop functioning. I'm guessing because it deems the LTE signal is not strong enough, it gives up, even though it was working great. If I toggle airplane mode again, the process repeats itself.
Any of you bros have good results from flashing different modems?
#191
The phone was great as it was from factory.
Now it's been totally fucked with the ICS update.
We're both having freezing issues and horrible slow response now a well. Going to Sprint store tomorrow to request new phones with 2.3 loaded. Not putting up with this ****. If they can't help me, then i'll revisit the idea of rooting, and will be looking for you guys for halpz.
#192
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I think you're missing the problem here...
The phone was great as it was from factory.
Now it's been totally fucked with the ICS update.
We're both having freezing issues and horrible slow response now a well. Going to Sprint store tomorrow to request new phones with 2.3 loaded. Not putting up with this ****. If they can't help me, then i'll revisit the idea of rooting, and will be looking for you guys for halpz.
The phone was great as it was from factory.
Now it's been totally fucked with the ICS update.
We're both having freezing issues and horrible slow response now a well. Going to Sprint store tomorrow to request new phones with 2.3 loaded. Not putting up with this ****. If they can't help me, then i'll revisit the idea of rooting, and will be looking for you guys for halpz.
#193
They aren't backdating the phone... they're just replacing the phone with a new phone. The phones aren't coming from factory with ICS on them. They give you a new phone since the old one isn't performing well, and it has 2.3 on it. Then you just refuse updates to ICS.
#194
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Already documented quite a few times that it's happening on Sprint and Androidforums.
They aren't backdating the phone... they're just replacing the phone with a new phone. The phones aren't coming from factory with ICS on them. They give you a new phone since the old one isn't performing well, and it has 2.3 on it. Then you just refuse updates to ICS.
They aren't backdating the phone... they're just replacing the phone with a new phone. The phones aren't coming from factory with ICS on them. They give you a new phone since the old one isn't performing well, and it has 2.3 on it. Then you just refuse updates to ICS.
#196
I bought china tablet.
Its a Gemei G9T, 9.7" screen, dual core processor, Im picking it up tomorrow, it will be my first android product, I think it comes with Ice Cream Sandwich.
Bought it because Im not sure about tablets so I didnt want to invest too much in one, If I end up liking it maybe Ill upgrade to a legit one.
Any recommendations?
Its a Gemei G9T, 9.7" screen, dual core processor, Im picking it up tomorrow, it will be my first android product, I think it comes with Ice Cream Sandwich.
Bought it because Im not sure about tablets so I didnt want to invest too much in one, If I end up liking it maybe Ill upgrade to a legit one.
Any recommendations?
#198
I bought china tablet.
Its a Gemei G9T, 9.7" screen, dual core processor, Im picking it up tomorrow, it will be my first android product, I think it comes with Ice Cream Sandwich.
Bought it because Im not sure about tablets so I didnt want to invest too much in one, If I end up liking it maybe Ill upgrade to a legit one.
Any recommendations?
Its a Gemei G9T, 9.7" screen, dual core processor, Im picking it up tomorrow, it will be my first android product, I think it comes with Ice Cream Sandwich.
Bought it because Im not sure about tablets so I didnt want to invest too much in one, If I end up liking it maybe Ill upgrade to a legit one.
Any recommendations?
#199
Seriously, listen to midpack.
Did you just buy a cheap knockoff tablet for THE SAME PRICE AS A NEXUS 7?
https://play.google.com/store/device...id=nexus_7_8gb
The Nexus 7 is better in every way than that POS. It will not likely have any developer support (in english at least) and so you WILL be stuck running the factory ICS (4.0) rather than the N7 which is already on JellyBean (4.1).
Did you just buy a cheap knockoff tablet for THE SAME PRICE AS A NEXUS 7?
https://play.google.com/store/device...id=nexus_7_8gb
The Nexus 7 is better in every way than that POS. It will not likely have any developer support (in english at least) and so you WILL be stuck running the factory ICS (4.0) rather than the N7 which is already on JellyBean (4.1).
#200
Well I wanted a 10 inch tablet. I really don't like the size of the seven inch ones. I've been messin with this one a little bit and it is plenty fast with the processor on normal I can still step it up to the performance setting and then overclock it if I need even more.
If I decide to root it the info and roms are already out there, but I don't know enough about te benefits to go through with it just yet.
If I decide to root it the info and roms are already out there, but I don't know enough about te benefits to go through with it just yet.