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Background:
I was waiting for the Evo, ever since it was announced. I got it on my lunch break during work (Which turned out to be 2 hours because of the sprint servers). I loved it.
Situation:
I was playing basketball when someone must have taken it out of my bag (I think it was right on top and possibly visible). I realized it probably 15-20 minutes after it was gone. I confronted the group of people and told them that I just wanted my phone back. Didn't care if they stole it, I wouldn't report it, just wanted it back. They all denied it.
I went home, more pissed than I've been in a while. I called sprint and told them my story. They said unless I had insurance (Which I'm getting in the future BTW), I was SOL. I told them to cancel my service, and I'll go back to t-mobile.
A day went by, and I started checking Craigslist to see if anything popped up. Well something did pop up. I called the people, and asked if they had the box and everything. They said they just got the actual phone for a gift. I contemplated arranging a meet up with my friend and them, and have some bats and golf clubs with me, but I decided I didn't wanna get arrested, or sued, or leave myself legally liable in any way. So I went to the police station.
I met this very friendly and nice cop outside and told him my story. He must have liked me, because he took me in, reported my item as stolen, and then I explained about the craigslist ad.
He took a look and agreed it was fishy. I told him if I could just get my hands on the phone and check the serial numbers, I could see if it was my phone or not. So, he grabbed his friend and they both took on the case (A sting operation for a phone!).
Well 12 hours went by and I was sweating because I didn't know when it was going down, or if the guys had sold the phone to someone else. Well my friends all called the phone number listed and asked if it was still available. They said that someone was looking at the phone right now. That was it, if it wasn't the cops, then I'd never get my phone back.
Well sure enough an hour later, I get a call from the cop, and he said they got my phone back. Told me never to go back to that court again. I'll have to testify, but I get my phone back in a few days.
I am probably one of the luckiest Evo Owners ever! Now just gotta get my phone reactivated... Hope there won't be too much of a problem there.
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Good story bro.
Show up to court and testify. Don't let the POS get away with it. If he gets away with it, it will teach him that stealing doesn't carry consequences.
I wouldn't post this online. Just sayin.
ok am not a good reader hehe so hmm who sstole your phone? scare the crap out of them for stealing!
Damn, talk about luck. The phone gods are looking down upon you dude. Nice. Testify and teach them to never steal again. Unfortunately once a thief, always a thief as the saying goes. I would take the cops advice and never go back to that BB court again. Congrats though.
nice! good police do exist
In the future you should install WaveSecure It'll let you track your phone and remotely wipe it among other things.
Awesome story!
Sad thing is you wont be able to play ball on that court again. =(
P_Dub_S said:
In the future you should install WaveSecure It'll let you track your phone and remotely wipe it among other things.
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I have MobileDefence. What is WaveSecure like?
Cool that you got the phone back man.
To all those who say "Too bad you can't go back to that court again", why would the OP want to anyway? Obviously the type of crowd there is trouble. I wouldn't go play there again if my stuff was robbed and I never recovered it. I wouldn't be able to play having to check my stuff every two minutes knowing what happened the last time. Just sayin'.
P.S. -This is coming from a guy with a main source of exercise from Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft.
Awesome, exactly the same happened to me with my hero, december last year. Except it happened during my gym class at school, my father found it on a local auction site, and then left with a friend to confront the guys.The IMEI matched, ofcourse, and i got my phone back. Sad thing is that the douche who stole it, was a guy in my class, and even worse is the fact that he and his companion got of with a warning. Had to see him every single day for half a year.
I bring only the bare minimum when I go to the courts. Keys, ID and a bottle of water. A lack of cash ensures that I don't spend it splurging on impulse food after playing and that I head straight home. Lawl.
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I have MobileDefence. What is WaveSecure like?
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I've used both, mobile defense's web interface seems to be slightly nicer, but not much difference, they have almost identical feature sets. The only real difference is that mobile defense SMS for turning on tracking originate from the US. And Wave Secure SMS originates from Asia (can't remember the country) the reason this makes a difference is that wave secure costs you 20 cents every time you use it to do anything. I would stick with mobile defense. If you have wave secure all setup it's probably not worth switching either unless you track your phone or alarm/lock it often.
I am not sure if Android offers a tracking app. I use one on my TP2 and I don't care what they do with the phone because it will provide me with the exact location to share with the cops if necessary.
One SMS with my code and my phone lets me know it's location.
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I am not sure if Android offers a tracking app. I use one on my TP2 and I don't care what they do with the phone because it will provide me with the exact location to share with the cops if necessary.
One SMS with my code and my phone lets me know it's location.
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Did you read the thread? The posts right above yours mentions mobile defense which does exactly that.
Awesome that the OP got his phone back
I've use Mobile Defense since the day I got my myTouch with only one problem. They send a text from an e-mail that has mobiledefense in the name! Like, come on, don't be THAT obvious! You should get it from a real number saying like "hey baby" or something. A phone tracking app is invaluable to anyone who owns a phone like this, though.
As for OP, you are bigger man than I. Of course, I have a family riddled with crime (blood and in-laws) so the whole "beat the hell out of you" thing is pretty much drilled in at this point.
Thanks for sharing your story. Glad you got your phone back.
I actually flew to LA just after I got the phone (canceled online pre-order and stood in line so I can have it for the weekend). Went to play basketball with my brothers, and was worried about my phone being stolen, maybe I can blame losing that game on that...
I usually leave my stuff behind the basket pole, no chance of someone getting near my things without me seeing them, and the pole protects it from someone stepping on it.
I had my very first cell phone stollen. I was a senior in highschool and got a pretty decent job and wanted a phone. I got that nokia that everybody had 8 years ago (the one with the flashlight on top). I went to the pool for swim practice and came back and my phone was gone! I called it from my buddy's phone and the DB answered and said, sorry dude! Next time bring a lock! And hung up... I called ATT and reported it. They said because it was a cheap POS phone, there really wan't much they could do, but the guy gave me a discount on the same phone (I think I paid like $40 or something) so it was all good in the end.
I guess some people just need phones more than others! Teach this guy a lesson. Don't back down and maybe he'll think twice before he tries and steals someone else's $500 investment
Glad you were successful!
p.s. The first time I read the story, I thought the "court" the cops told you to stay away from was a "Court of Law" and not a basketball court. I was like, dang, cops don't want you to come back to the court (of law)? That's messed up!
Excuse my typing below but its 4:15AM...I've been drinking..
So I went out with a few "car forum" buddies out today. We decided to head to local bowling alley which honestly ****ing hate. So we're playing there and I decide to leave my phone at a chair in the area we're in. So I see an old ex co-worker, he's 2 buddies and some girl. I say what's up, etc. After they dip...within a minute I'm looking for my phone and I'm like ****...looking everywhere..nothing. I don't forget my phone ever so I know I left it on the chair next to my friend's keys, etc. So I tell my buddy to go outside with me cause I just had a feeling that one of these guys might've taken them.... So as I'm walking outside they look over and I call my ex co-worker over to ask him if he's seen my phone which looks like an iPhone (Samsung Vibrant Galaxy S..lol). And he's like nah man sorry. At the same time I notice one of his friends step over a few feet and get next to some beige looking Crown Vic and acts like he's looking at the tire...I paid no attention to that. And I'm thinking to myself..damn I left the phone on vibrate. But then I remembered I purchased an app called "Where's my droid" and set special "words" that if I text it it can switch off vibrate and turn the ringer to the highest volume and even turn on the GPS so I can track it. So I text it with my friend's phone. Within 30 seconds I hear the phone ringing....I'm looking and looking...and I see it at the Crown Vics rear passenger tire. Then one of them which wasn't the one starts to get all defensive...."That isn't my car"...."I drive that car there"....and at the same time Im telling him that I don't think the Vibrant grew legs and walked over by this tire. He's buddy was the one who stole it. My ex coworker and his girl were in shock that their 2 friends just did that ****. Before even a fight could break out in the parking lot my buddy calm me down.
In this stories current state...its pretty much the worst.story.evar.
I cant wait to read the sobered up version. Glad you took drunken notes. Kinda fun to read.
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shoulda ripped him a new one.
Finish Him
People these days. Why let your buddy talk you out of a fight. My screen name says it all. Smash punks. You let him get away with it, he will try again. I'd kill that fool.
A clever ploy for an advertisement! Glad you got your phone back mate
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zaduma said:
Finish Him
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Lol...time for some Mortal Kombat!
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I'll admit I laughed out loud at this comment. Ouch, just noticed I spelled thief incorrectly in the title block.
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I'll admit I laughed out loud at this comment. Ouch, just noticed I spelled thief incorrectly in the title block.
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Haha, good to know. Anyways please don't change your story now that you're awake and sober. It is a - mazing.
I put that app on every android I get to play with. It works very well. I guess Latitude would be just as effective, well maybe not.
10/10 this thread rules. Would read again
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Excuse my typing below but its 4:15AM...I've been drinking..
So I went out with a few "car forum" buddies out today. We decided to head to local bowling alley which honestly ****ing hate. So we're playing there and I decide to leave my phone at a chair in the area we're in. So I see an old ex co-worker, he's 2 buddies and some girl. I say what's up, etc. After they dip...within a minute I'm looking for my phone and I'm like ****...looking everywhere..nothing. I don't forget my phone ever so I know I left it on the chair next to my friend's keys, etc. So I tell my buddy to go outside with me cause I just had a feeling that one of these guys might've taken them.... So as I'm walking outside they look over and I call my ex co-worker over to ask him if he's seen my phone which looks like an iPhone (Samsung Vibrant Galaxy S..lol). And he's like nah man sorry. At the same time I notice one of his friends step over a few feet and get next to some beige looking Crown Vic and acts like he's looking at the tire...I paid no attention to that. And I'm thinking to myself..damn I left the phone on vibrate. But then I remembered I purchased an app called "Where's my droid" and set special "words" that if I text it it can switch off vibrate and turn the ringer to the highest volume and even turn on the GPS so I can track it. So I text it with my friend's phone. Within 30 seconds I hear the phone ringing....I'm looking and looking...and I see it at the Crown Vics rear passenger tire. Then one of them which wasn't the one starts to get all defensive...."That isn't my car"...."I drive that car there"....and at the same time Im telling him that I don't think the Vibrant grew legs and walked over by this tire. He's buddy was the one who stole it. My ex coworker and his girl were in shock that their 2 friends just did that ****. Before even a fight could break out in the parking lot my buddy calm me down.
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So this is the clean-n-sober version...? Whew....
Lookout is free & does the find my phone gig.
-bZj
down8 said:
So this is the clean-n-sober version...? Whew....
Lookout is free & does the find my phone gig.
-bZj
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I've never tried Where's My Droid..I have Lookout but I also have another app called SMS Commander that does the same thing and a lot more. You can silence it, set it to loud or vibrate too. You can send it a command to forward all the texts going to it to another phone. You can get the location of your phone. You can set it on Spy Mode and it will fwd SMS messages to whatever number you want, tell you phone #'s that call your phone and even send you GPS location of your phone when the call was answered or placed. You can even send it a command to send someone a text message and it will look like it came from your phone. This app works great. I've had it since my G1 days..I installed it on my Nexus, my MyTouch Slide and my Vibrant.
smashpunks said:
People these days. Why let your buddy talk you out of a fight. My screen name says it all. Smash punks. You let him get away with it, he will try again. I'd kill that fool.
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Bit much but I understand. I do agree that the OP should have beat the **** out of him. It is true they will do it again.
So you didn't do anything? Let the dude put your phone behind a tire and thats it? 500 bucks?
Smash people yo
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Bit much but I understand. I do agree that the OP should have beat the **** out of him. It is true they will do it again.
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Didn't really mean kill, but I would have totally cleaned his clock... I can't believe people wouldn't do that out of natural reaction. Dude jacked him and he just took phone back..... wow. No wonder people do **** like that..
Good think he didn't need his GPS to find it, it would have sent him to another city with the system wonderful GPS.lol
and what would happen if one just did a hard reset on the phone? or switched it off? lol
...because everybody knows violence solves any problem.
Is this forum full of cavemen or what (no offense Geico dude)? Maybe the real learning moment here is to not set down a $500 phone and walk away. Definitely a good read, and I think you've convinced me to install one of these apps, because you never know.
And to the Neanderthals with all the great advice above, for the love of humanity, please don't procreate.
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...because everybody knows violence solves any problem.
Is this forum full of cavemen or what (no offense Geico dude)? Maybe the real learning moment here is to not set down a $500 phone and walk away. Definitely a good read, and I think you've convinced me to install one of these apps, because you never know.
And to the Neanderthals with all the great advice above, for the love of humanity, please don't procreate.
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Yea I agree, fight the urges that make you a human because some of us can't taken a whoopin.
Instead, pull your XD40 out of it's holster and ... Oh right.
On a serious note: Sometimes violence is the answer. Don't just eat everything mommy feeds you.
Yeah I mean I woulda fought him, dude tried to **** you over, but I mean shady people like that should go to jail for a night atleast if people weren't gonna let y'all fight
well guys i always wondered when it was going to happen and tonight was the night. on my way home tonight i was looking for my phone to call my fiancee to see if she wanted me to pick her up anything to eat. i reached for my looked down to find the power button to turn the mofo on looked up and i was facing a curb. i hit the brakes and cut hard left spun out and started swerving right my whole left side met the curb and needless to say my car is completely ****ed!! luckily my friend owns a body shop and was able to get a tow truck out to my car asap b4 any cops showed up. unfortunately im looking at about 2 thousand bones in repairs. so.... well just be careful things happen so fast and i really am lucky that this was all that happend. my car is tiny and could have been much worse. call me stupid if you want cause its true so just take care and dont use ur phone when your driving no matter how good of a driver you think you are.
Great advice. Good to hear u didn't get hurt.
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Well said, friend. Glad you're ok!
Ouch. Glad you're unharmed. Also count your blessings since $2000 is somewhat more manageable than when there are cops and other parties are involved.
Glad to hear you're okay. Even though $2000 is a lot of money, it's nothing compared to your own safety and well being.
And don't try to use your phone while driving again.
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bluetooth is a must for in the car? CHECK!
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well guys i always wondered when it was going to happen and tonight was the night. on my way home tonight i was looking for my phone to call my fiancee to see if she wanted me to pick her up anything to eat. i reached for my looked down to find the power button to turn the mofo on looked up and i was facing a curb. i hit the brakes and cut hard left spun out and started swerving right my whole left side met the curb and needless to say my car is completely ****ed!! luckily my friend owns a body shop and was able to get a tow truck out to my car asap b4 any cops showed up. unfortunately im looking at about 2 thousand bones in repairs. so.... well just be careful things happen so fast and i really am lucky that this was all that happend. my car is tiny and could have been much worse. call me stupid if you want cause its true so just take care and dont use ur phone when your driving no matter how good of a driver you think you are.
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Thank God your phone is OK!
Glad to hear you and your EVO are safe!
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well guys i always wondered when it was going to happen and tonight was the night. on my way home tonight i was looking for my phone to call my fiancee to see if she wanted me to pick her up anything to eat. i reached for my looked down to find the power button to turn the mofo on looked up and i was facing a curb. i hit the brakes and cut hard left spun out and started swerving right my whole left side met the curb and needless to say my car is completely ****ed!! luckily my friend owns a body shop and was able to get a tow truck out to my car asap b4 any cops showed up. unfortunately im looking at about 2 thousand bones in repairs. so.... well just be careful things happen so fast and i really am lucky that this was all that happend. my car is tiny and could have been much worse. call me stupid if you want cause its true so just take care and dont use ur phone when your driving no matter how good of a driver you think you are.
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I'm an excellent driver...
At least you didn't damage your EVO.
I always strap my EVO in the back in the baby seat and put a crash helmet over it just in case.
If it was an iPhone you would have died.
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If it was an iPhone you would have died.
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Hahaha!!! yea if i had an iphone i would have just drove myself into a wall. but on a bad note i had to go to the doctor later that night cause my vision kept getting blurry found out i had a mild concussion again could have been worse but damn what a headache!!
Check out vlingo inCar. . . Glad you're okay.
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Glad to hear you're ok man.
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Evo & bluetooth won't help
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bluetooth is a must for in the car? CHECK!
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Eyes-free on Android is a bad joke. Just be careful.
Wow, glad your evo is ok, ,, lol I'm a cop and I play with my evo while driving all the time especially at work. After hearing your story that might change.
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My phone is seated on the car air vent, also doing anything on your phone while the car is in motion is pretty dumb, if I must make a phone call I wait for a red light , or use Google voice action do dial.
I keep mine in a windshield mounted dock. That makes glancing between the phone and the road really quick. Even then I still won't mess with it unless I'm stopped or on a straight section of road with no traffic.
So I sold my original vibrant which was in pristine condition and had the box and all accessories to my sister in law for $150.00 plus her upgrade so I could get the Nexus S for $199.99 from best buy. She was happy to do it since she knows how much I love android and she wanted a Vibrant anyway. I love my Nexus S, but I was missing my vibrant and all the cool development with eugene's deadhorse kernel being compatible with the I9000 roms, the release of Krylons Bionix Frost, source code, etc. Which all happened within a week of me getting rid of the vibrant. So, I kept my eyes peeled on craigslist for a good used Vibrant. Bare in mind this is more of a toy for me than a phone.
So Friday I see an add for a Vibrant for $100.00 so I send the number a text inquiring about it and they say "The phone is in great condition, nothing wrong with it." I tried to low ball them and scared them away. So Saturday I text from my wifes phone as a different person. LOL. So I offer $80.00, they say yes, can you meet me in Rose Hill (a little hick suburb right outside the city). So I say "sure, be there in 45 minutes. I'm leaving now." We meet up, she comes over to my car and says she just reset the phone and hands it to me. She's a young, typical, overweight, suburbanite girl. It's booting up so I wait for it to actually boot while I look over the physical condition of the phone. It's in good shape. The phone boots, I unlock the screen, click around on the screen a bit, hey it works. Cool. I give her the eighty bucks and roll out. While driving I get the phone out and immediately realize the capacitive buttons don't work. All four will light up, but no response or vibration. "****!". I reboot...nothing. So I text her "Um, why do the buttons not work on this pone?" She immediately gets defensive "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?? IT WORKED FINE FOR ME? BLAH BLAH BLAH." So I just reply "weird". I know she knew what was wrong with it. I open the back to check the water exposure indicators. The phone is ok and doesn't appear to have been in water (Haven't actually taken it apart yet). The battery indicator is red though. "Well, ****, she ****ed me" I think to myself. I figure I can at least get my money out of it for parts or even use an app like Button Savior which I have on my Nook Color to replace the capacitive keys.
So the wife and I have a dinner and movie date and we have to head out immediately after i get home from making the buy so I can't really mess with it right away. We get home around midnight, I connect the device to the computer, put it in download mode, flash Stock JFD via Odin, it reboots, and voila the keys now work. I'm stoked.
So this is the text I just sent her. "Hey, just wanted to let you know I fixed the issue with the buttons. Just had to reinstall the stock firmware. Took about five minutes. Thanks again for the phone. Oh and BTW, just so you know, resetting the phone does not format the internal SD card. All your pictures and videos are still on the phone. Thanks again"
She has tons of Myspace style pics of herself on the phone including her with her bare ass, in her underwear, and bathing suit. LOL.
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So I sold my original vibrant which was in pristine condition and had the box and all accessories to my sister in law for $150.00 plus her upgrade so I could get the Nexus S for $199.99 from best buy. She was happy to do it since she knows how much I love android and she wanted a Vibrant anyway. I love my Nexus S, but I was missing my vibrant and all the cool development with eugene's deadhorse kernel being compatible with the I9000 roms, the release of Krylons Bionix Frost, source code, etc. Which all happened within a week of me getting rid of the vibrant. So, I kept my eyes peeled on craigslist for a good used Vibrant. Bare in mind this is more of a toy for me than a phone.
So Friday I see an add for a Vibrant for $100.00 so I send the number a text inquiring about it and they say "The phone is in great condition, nothing wrong with it." I tried to low ball them and scared them away. So Saturday I text from my wifes phone as a different person. LOL. So I offer $80.00, they say yes, can you meet me in Rose Hill (a little hick suburb right outside the city). So I say "sure, be there in 45 minutes. I'm leaving now." We meet up, she comes over to my car and says she just reset the phone and hands it to me. She's a young, typical, overweight, suburbanite girl. It's booting up so I wait for it to actually boot while I look over the physical condition of the phone. It's in good shape. The phone boots, I unlock the screen, click around on the screen a bit, hey it works. Cool. I give her the eighty bucks and roll out. While driving I get the phone out and immediately realize the capacitive buttons don't work. All four will light up, but no response or vibration. "****!". I reboot...nothing. So I text her "Um, why do the buttons not work on this pone?" She immediately gets defensive "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?? IT WORKED FINE FOR ME? BLAH BLAH BLAH." So I just reply "weird". I know she knew what was wrong with it. I open the back to check the water exposure indicators. The phone is ok and doesn't appear to have been in water (Haven't actually taken it apart yet). The battery indicator is red though. "Well, ****, she ****ed me" I think to myself. I figure I can at least get my money out of it for parts or even use an app like Button Savior which I have on my Nook Color to replace the capacitive keys.
So the wife and I have a dinner and movie date and we have to head out immediately after i get home from making the buy so I can't really mess with it right away. We get home around midnight, I connect the device to the computer, put it in download mode, flash Stock JFD via Odin, it reboots, and voila the keys now work. I'm stoked.
So this is the text I just sent her. "Hey, just wanted to let you know I fixed the issue with the buttons. Just had to reinstall the stock firmware. Took about five minutes. Thanks again for the phone. Oh and BTW, just so you know, resetting the phone does not format the internal SD card. All your pictures and videos are still on the phone. Thanks again"
She has tons of Myspace style pics of herself on the phone including her with her bare ass, in her underwear, and bathing suit. LOL.
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hahahhaha!
What a ***** lol.
Anyways, i'm hoping you delete those pictures... i mean i wouldn't want pictures of "a young, typical, overweight, suburbanite girl" on my phone.
**** load of profit for you there.
Plus one for you dude!
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hahahhaha!
What a ***** lol.
Anyways, i'm hoping you delete those pictures... i mean i wouldn't want pictures of "a young, typical, overweight, suburbanite girl" on my phone.
**** load of profit for you there.
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I hear that, Bro. They're already gone, but she doesn't need to know that. She deserves the embarrassment. She could have and should have been honest about what was wrong with it and she could have probably still sold it for what she was asking.
Alkaloid said:
So I sold my original vibrant which was in pristine condition and had the box and all accessories to my sister in law for $150.00 plus her upgrade so I could get the Nexus S for $199.99 from best buy. She was happy to do it since she knows how much I love android and she wanted a Vibrant anyway. I love my Nexus S, but I was missing my vibrant and all the cool development with eugene's deadhorse kernel being compatible with the I9000 roms, the release of Krylons Bionix Frost, source code, etc. Which all happened within a week of me getting rid of the vibrant. So, I kept my eyes peeled on craigslist for a good used Vibrant. Bare in mind this is more of a toy for me than a phone.
So Friday I see an add for a Vibrant for $100.00 so I send the number a text inquiring about it and they say "The phone is in great condition, nothing wrong with it." I tried to low ball them and scared them away. So Saturday I text from my wifes phone as a different person. LOL. So I offer $80.00, they say yes, can you meet me in Rose Hill (a little hick suburb right outside the city). So I say "sure, be there in 45 minutes. I'm leaving now." We meet up, she comes over to my car and says she just reset the phone and hands it to me. She's a young, typical, overweight, suburbanite girl. It's booting up so I wait for it to actually boot while I look over the physical condition of the phone. It's in good shape. The phone boots, I unlock the screen, click around on the screen a bit, hey it works. Cool. I give her the eighty bucks and roll out. While driving I get the phone out and immediately realize the capacitive buttons don't work. All four will light up, but no response or vibration. "****!". I reboot...nothing. So I text her "Um, why do the buttons not work on this pone?" She immediately gets defensive "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?? IT WORKED FINE FOR ME? BLAH BLAH BLAH." So I just reply "weird". I know she knew what was wrong with it. I open the back to check the water exposure indicators. The phone is ok and doesn't appear to have been in water (Haven't actually taken it apart yet). The battery indicator is red though. "Well, ****, she ****ed me" I think to myself. I figure I can at least get my money out of it for parts or even use an app like Button Savior which I have on my Nook Color to replace the capacitive keys.
So the wife and I have a dinner and movie date and we have to head out immediately after i get home from making the buy so I can't really mess with it right away. We get home around midnight, I connect the device to the computer, put it in download mode, flash Stock JFD via Odin, it reboots, and voila the keys now work. I'm stoked.
So this is the text I just sent her. "Hey, just wanted to let you know I fixed the issue with the buttons. Just had to reinstall the stock firmware. Took about five minutes. Thanks again for the phone. Oh and BTW, just so you know, resetting the phone does not format the internal SD card. All your pictures and videos are still on the phone. Thanks again"
She has tons of Myspace style pics of herself on the phone including her with her bare ass, in her underwear, and bathing suit. LOL.
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HAHA what a win. Lesson here today kids....... Be a douche, get exposed.
Is camera working as well?
If it does then 80bucks for vibrant...that's like 100- 150 profit!
eunkipark92 said:
Is camera working as well?
If it does then 80bucks for vibrant...that's like 100- 150 profit!
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Yeah, man, camera and video camera work perfect. both speakers, mic, line out port, everything that you'd think would be damaged if the phone was exposed to water works. The only thing that's acting up is when the internal SD card is mounted to the PC it will randomly unmout then remount itself sometimes. I'm gonna reformat the internal SD, and flash a new rom and see if that helps takes care of that.
Now That's a funny story.......... Ugh! the only trumatic part of the story is seeing pixs of her big nasty Butt...............
damn $80?? i wish i find a deal like that for CM7.
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Man good buy on that...i got a deal too for 120 bucks and only problem was the guy forgot the puzzle lock pattern. Lol. And yeah same here crazy nasty pictures. Hahahaha..deleted it right away...
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Where them pictures
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Knowledge is power :-d
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christpuncher said:
Where them pictures
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I lol'd.
Good buy man.
Sucks that people don't just search around read.
I'm pretty sure half the things people sell cause they're 'messed up,' are easy fixes, they just don't bother searching enough/trying things.
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I lol'd.
Good buy man.
Sucks that people don't just search around read.
I'm pretty sure half the things people sell cause they're 'messed up,' are easy fixes, they just don't bother searching enough/trying things.
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You're totally right about that, man. A good friend of mine owns a few Cell phone stores around town. They are pretty much the most reliable place in town for physical and software repairs, Jailbreaking iphones, rooting androids, etc. You wouldn't believe the deals they get on phones because people think their devices are ruined. Funny thing is, most of the time it's people trying to be sneaky and thinking they are getting one over on the store. LOL.
The funny thing about my situation is if she would have just been honest about the condition of the phone she more than likely could have sold the phone for parts for what she was asking.
EDIT: Just realized I already said the bit about being able to sell it for parts previously in the thread. Whoops.
Oh, and I fixed the SD mounting issue. Phone is now perfect.
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So the wife and I have a dinner and movie date and we have to head out immediately after i get home from making the buy so I can't really mess with it right away. We get home around midnight, I connect the device to the computer, put it in download mode, flash Stock JFD via Odin, it reboots, and voila the keys now work. I'm stoked.
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So instead of enjoying the evening with your wife, you go straight to the computer to mess with your phone? Missed opportunity, methinks. But otherwise, nice deal! You can probably sell that for at least double what you paid for it.
Didn't interfere with time with my wife at all. Took me five minutes. Literally. That was all I was going to try last night too. I figured I'd try flashing via Odin to see if that would fix it and if it didn't I'd mess with it more in the morning. Mission complete before the wife even knew I had sat down at the computer.
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I had somewhat of the same situation but when I bought a mytouch slide. Slides go for around 150 to 200 bucks on CL. I had some chick selling a red one for 80 bucks. Supposedly the only thing wrong was the back case had glue on it??? So I do the meet up thing and check it out. The screen is flawless and the back is pretty messed up. No biggie. It turns on and everything seems good. So off I go with the phone. Well she takes off almost instantly, which seemed odd. And I take a look at in sitting in the truck for a second and set it in the cupholder and it turns off. I thought maybe just the screen shut off. Nope. You couldn't even open the KB without the phone shutting off.
So long story short... I get home and take it completely apart and one of the battery contacts had glue on it. Again, I have no idea why. So I scrape the glue off the contact and BOOM. Works like a champ. And 10 bucks for a new back plate on amazon and its practically brand new.
I got the slide just as a backup for my vibrant and to have another phone to play around with.
Just thought I would share.
offdutyninja808 said:
I had somewhat of the same situation but when I bought a mytouch slide. Slides go for around 150 to 200 bucks on CL. I had some chick selling a red one for 80 bucks. Supposedly the only thing wrong was the back case had glue on it??? So I do the meet up thing and check it out. The screen is flawless and the back is pretty messed up. No biggie. It turns on and everything seems good. So off I go with the phone. Well she takes off almost instantly, which seemed odd. And I take a look at in sitting in the truck for a second and set it in the cupholder and it turns off. I thought maybe just the screen shut off. Nope. You couldn't even open the KB without the phone shutting off.
So long story short... I get home and take it completely apart and one of the battery contacts had glue on it. Again, I have no idea why. So I scrape the glue off the contact and BOOM. Works like a champ. And 10 bucks for a new back plate on amazon and its practically brand new.
I got the slide just as a backup for my vibrant and to have another phone to play around with.
Just thought I would share.
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Nice one, man. I don't know why people feel it necessary to pass their own ****-ups onto others. I feel like here I am, a guy who works hard for his money so he can support his family and here's this little brat that probably has her parents hand her everything. Did she really need my eighty bucks that bad? Honestly if the phone would have been broken and she pulled that **** on me ten years ago it wouldn't have ended well for her. Not to sound like some kind of macho jerk, but it's the truth.
Heh, reminds me of the G1 I bought from a pawn shop. They didn't even bother doing a factory reset on it, I powered it up and some ****ty rap music started playing, and a bunch of "Text not sent" notifications popped up. Still had all the ugly broad's texts, calls, contacts, pics, music, etc.
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Nice one, man. I don't know why people feel it necessary to pass their own ****-ups onto others. I feel like here I am, a guy who works hard for his money so he can support his family and here's this little brat that probably has her parents hand her everything. Did she really need my eighty bucks that bad? Honestly if the phone would have been broken and she pulled that **** on me ten years ago it wouldn't have ended well for her. Not to sound like some kind of macho jerk, but it's the truth.
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Yeah man. I hear you on that. I was pretty furious on the drive home but wanted to make sure I wasn't jumping the gun. So I got home checked it out and got it back to normal and wasn't pissed anymore. But had the phone turned out totally screwed, it would of been another story.
She will get hers, though. Karma is a [email protected]
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So ok a bit of a story but maybe someone can help me out here.
So I gave my girlfriend a vibrant, and unlocked it for ATT and threw Bionix on there for her.
Well, I then got it back from her after a long fight over how it was her birthday present and after our 5 years together she had the nerve not to even pick up her birthday card or other presents I had gotten her... I had gotten her the phone a few weeks early mind you just to make her happy because things were going fine.
Well, i'm almost certain she's been talking to someone else, but before she gave me the phone back she was smart enough to wipe the phone and put it back to the way stock Bionix is. I'm not sure how she wiped it or what she did but is there anyway I might be able to restore the phone so I could do some snooping?
I'd like to know honestly if i'm being lied to... so if anyone could help, i'd appreciate it.
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So ok a bit of a story but maybe someone can help me out here.
So I gave my girlfriend a vibrant, and unlocked it for ATT and threw Bionix on there for her.
Well, I then got it back from her after a long fight over how it was her birthday present and after our 5 years together she had the nerve not to even pick up her birthday card or other presents I had gotten her... I had gotten her the phone a few weeks early mind you just to make her happy because things were going fine.
Well, i'm almost certain she's been talking to someone else, but before she gave me the phone back she was smart enough to wipe the phone and put it back to the way stock Bionix is. I'm not sure how she wiped it or what she did but is there anyway I might be able to restore the phone so I could do some snooping?
I'd like to know honestly if i'm being lied to... so if anyone could help, i'd appreciate it.
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Lol... This made my morning. BTW.... No.
Hey it was worth a shot, and it's better to have proof then to be lied to constantly. Like I said 5 years, so it's not like this is some whatever girl, and i'm just curious to know if she's doing something behind my back... But she was smart enough to delete anything she could get her hands on it seems, pictures, everything
Daamm! Sorry total bummer
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Girls are COLD BLOODED MAMMALS.
If you cannot make her feel secure, she'll let you go easier than you can ever imagine.
lol thanks for the words of wisdom there. She may not be lying but just recent events have led me to believe there is something going on on the side lines, and honestly if thats the case i'd rather just know and be on my way.
But I also don't want to accuse and then ruin what is left of what we still have haha.
This is a ****ty situation sir, but unless there was a backup made, then there is now way you can restore it. You might check to see if there is a backup. If she was smart enough to delete it, she may have been smart enough to make a backup just in case the phone messed up for some reason.