Warning to Dev's and Noobs alike - Hero CDMA General

Hey everyone,
PSA: If you break your phone / get a new Hero from Sprint it WILL come with 2.1 pre-loaded. This means ( to the uninformed) that you will no longer have the ability to root your phone, until a exploit is found. Please be advised. I just picked my replacement up, and there it was plain as day.
You have been warned.
--27s

Mine didn't, Just got mine yesterday had 1.5 on it.

My phone shuts off intermittently, and I'm wondering what the odds are I'll get a phone with 2.1 on it. Heck, I might even get a moment like gunnyman did.

If you pick it up from a sprint store im sure it will have 2.1 on it, if you have sprint mail it to you it should come with stock 1.5

FWIW, I was at a Sprint store the other day and watched a guy buy a brand new Hero and I asked if it was 2.1 or 1.5. The girl that was working said it's 1.5 and that he could upgrade it if he wanted to but it's not required. She said all of there Hero's left in stock are that way, but any new ones from Sprint may come pre-upgraded. Just thought i would share.

27s said:
Hey everyone,
PSA: If you break your phone / get a new Hero from Sprint it WILL come with 2.1 pre-loaded. This means ( to the uninformed) that you will no longer have the ability to root your phone, until a exploit is found. Please be advised. I just picked my replacement up, and there it was plain as day.
You have been warned.
--27s
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chance you take

I did not have a choice. The Radio fried up. (no I did not try and flash anything GSM...*rolls eyes*)...the techs just said that the radio was toast. (no pun intended)..and here I am.

Well, with some social engineering and a little luck, I managed to get an original 1.29 "with out google branding" hero from my local sprint store. They had it hiding in the back or something. I would recommend trying the same..

What they told me at my sprint store when i went to get my replacement was "Oh, Our Techs got borred so they updated all of the inventory to 2.1."
Needless to say i wasnt happy.

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No Donut for Magic, Dream owners on Rogers.

HTC tells Magic, Dream owners on Rogers: No Donut for you!
They don't care about consumers? I suggest to remember them who pay the bill...
Thats really messed up, and i believe that rogers is to blame for this, ppl been in contact with them for months and they said they had it in the labs testing, now we know that it was all lies, i'm got fed up a week ago and i rooted min and i'm running Amon RA 1.6.2 Donut rom, the same rome that HTC/Rogers says can't run on my rogers phone.
I'm not using a rogers sim in mine, and i hope most of the android customers leave the company, hit them where it hurts, their profit margin.............
Throw Cyanogen on there, also there's other roms like the one listed above.
Screw em, customize til youre content
Thats really messed up, and i believe that rogers is to blame for this, ppl been in contact with them for months and they said they had it in the labs testing, now we know that it was all lies, i'm got fed up a week ago and i rooted min and i'm running Amon RA 1.6.2 Donut rom, the same rome that HTC/Rogers says can't run on my rogers phone.
I'm not using a rogers sim in mine, and i hope most of the android customers leave the company, hit them where it hurts, their profit margin.............
Screw Rogers (and Canadian wireless providers in general).
This is why I'm on the xda-dev forums, so that I don't have to wait an eternity for Rogers to get their freaking act together (spoiler: It won't ever happen).
legend221 said:
Throw Cyanogen on there, also there's other roms like the one listed above.
Screw em, customize til youre content
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To me, the problem is not costuming ROM or not, but We have a BIG problem with telecommunication in Canada, I'm a little bored about that... And I study in Electronic and Telecom... Haha, vengeance!!
yeah couldve told anyone that rogers dont give a damn about their consumers. Just know that any possible upgrades will nevercome. Their version of upgrade is get a new device and even that aint good cause theynever get the right devices. Telus got the touch pro 2, hero, they'r getting the droid/Milestone. rogers dont give two ****s but oh well. Now that telus has gsm we'll see how fast they lose customers. I hate telus to but at least i got better options and can still stick with android.
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yeah couldve told anyone that rogers dont give a damn about their consumers. Just know that any possible upgrades will nevercome. Their version of upgrade is get a new device and even that aint good cause theynever get the right devices. Telus got the touch pro 2, hero, they'r getting the droid/Milestone. rogers dont give two ****s but oh well. Now that telus has gsm we'll see how fast they lose customers. I hate telus to but at least i got better options and can still stick with android.
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They are not all same, so just choice for the price? Except for Bell, they are on the side (and under) of that...

Rogers Wireless Customers READ THIS!

I talked to a rep today on the phone and told him I was using a custom firmware and wanted my Data back.
He said sign this waiver, saying you cannot hold Rogers responsible for not being able to dial 911, and you can use your custom firmware.
Thank me later. Unless this is old news...
https://your.rogers.com/web_auth/HT...ts-_-Consumer_Wireless_Eng-_-Form-_-HTCwaiver
After signing you will have data back in 24hours.
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I talked to a rep today on the phone and told him I was using a custom firmware and wanted my Data back.
He said sign this waiver, saying you cannot hold Rogers responsible for not being able to dial 911, and you can use your custom firmware.
Thank me later. Unless this is old news...
https://your.rogers.com/web_auth/HT...ts-_-Consumer_Wireless_Eng-_-Form-_-HTCwaiver
After signing you will have data back in 24hours.
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it is old news , but i've tried for 2 days now and it will constantly tell me to enter a valid serial number ..I am using the IMEI from the box and under battery still no success
daeshawn said:
it is old news , but i've tried for 2 days now and it will constantly tell me to enter a valid serial number ..I am using the IMEI from the box and under battery still no success
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Ah ok, yea it's not taking my IMEI either... i called rogers and they are working on it... hopefully they get back to me quickly.
Is this a downgrade? So you can use custom ROMs? Or is it just data enabler for rogers customers? This won't help anyone stuck on sense?
I signed this on Friday and since have had my data cut twice!
The 2G Force trick works for getting it back every time so far, so I haven't bothered to call them on it yet. If they start redirecting my calls again they will hear from me for sure.
I talked to rogers live support because my imei number wasnt being accepted and he ended up putting it through... i think... I haven't installed a rom that wouldnt be blacklisted yet but yeah try that
The waiver form is mostly broken. The IMEI database it is verifying against seems to be missing many IMEIs for handsets purchased directly from Rogers, let alone from other carriers.
If you jump up and down and get to a tier 2 guy, he can manually get your IMEI added to the database so you can put the waiver through. The front line guys cannot add your IMEI, though they can send off a request for it to be added.
If you complain enthusiastically enough, they can re-enable your data services on the spot.
Apparently they cannot fill out the waiver for for you if you IMEI is not being recognised, though the tier 1 techs will lie and claim they are doing this.
This is based on my personal experience, of calls on Saturday, Sunday, a call back from a tier 2 on Monday and then a long and unpleasant call with retentions this afternoon. Magically the retentions supervisor could get me through to a tech that had override capabilities within minutes, once we got past the lies and bull**** stage.
In theory, once you get your waiver in, they should stop screwing around with your data services, redirecting voice calls, and hassling calls and text messages. I will see how it goes....
Well, thanks for the heads up with this waiver. Of course my IMEI # wasn't valid, so I called Rogers Directly, asking for Tech Support.
The point of my call was to get them to update my account, saying I accept this waiver. I think we all know it is hit and miss when speaking with Reps. I was speaking to a guy, he asked my Build Version, and firmware. I didn't tell him the Build Version (MarsDroid SPL7 1.8), because I knew it would not be acceptable. I told him my f/w was 1.6, which he said would be acceptable.
At this point, he said that I would NOT lose my data again, and Rogers would stop scanning my phone. I made sure to ask the question, so whatever I do to my phone at this point on doesn't matter, my data will not be cut off? He said yes.
I am only repeating what I was told, I think you can probably tell by my wording that I am not convinced this will be the case. Eitherway, I feel more confident to flash back to my old radio, which is all i want, because the kernel is much more developed, and makes for much more stable and faster ROMs.
Also, should let you know, so far I haven't had my data cutoff, I switched to CursorSense ROM before the Rogers scanning started, and have stayed on the New Radio up until now.
I signed the waiver on Friday, and got my service back Sunday morning.
No issues with IMEI...
I then called on Monday to get my free HTC Magic that I've been b1tching about for the last month (calling once a week)..
things are looking ok for now.. I have a Dream running Open Eclair (2.1), and now a stock unrootable Magic (1.5).. gonna keep the Magic legit thou..
I hope the best for all of you out there...
I lost my data six days ago now and I've called Tech Support 4 times since to help get it back. The waiver won't accept my IMEI and I've been escalated twice. Spoke with tier 2 support 3 times and a Manager. Apparently there is a system wide problem with allowing some IMEIs to be entered for the waiver to work. I'm getting so frustrated now, I don't know what else to do but wait. I've asked for network refreshes each time, and I've been running Cursorsense with the new radio.
Any ideas?
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I lost my data six days ago now and I've called Tech Support 4 times since to help get it back. The waiver won't accept my IMEI and I've been escalated twice. Spoke with tier 2 support 3 times and a Manager. Apparently there is a system wide problem with allowing some IMEIs to be entered for the waiver to work. I'm getting so frustrated now, I don't know what else to do but wait. I've asked for network refreshes each time, and I've been running Cursorsense with the new radio.
Any ideas?
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i lost data yesterday when running a customized 2.1 rom; flashed cursorsense, asked for data reset, and it comes back.
totally not expecting to be haunted with this after so long since the update.
stgeorge88 said:
i lost data yesterday when running a customized 2.1 rom; flashed cursorsense, asked for data reset, and it comes back.
totally not expecting to be haunted with this after so long since the update.
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I've been asking for refreshes as well, but I can't find anyone who's willing to do it.
I've even told them that I want to use my old phone until they fix the IMEI problem, but they said they can't allow me to use data on any phone until I do the waiver because I might go back to use the Magic.
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... because I might go back to use the Magic.
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LMAO @ rogers...
I am royally pissed about this because Rogers quietly released this after they started redirecting calls. I would have gladly signed this waiver if I knew about it, but instead was forced to update to their retarded ROM and now I'm stuck with all the pre-installed BS apps and without root access. They should at the very least give people the option to revert back to the old ROM via another "update". I was forced into this update because I couldn't afford to spend (scratch that, WASTE) time dealing with redirected calls.
In lighter news, HTC tweeted about their knowledge of specifically the issue with Rogers and promised something about 2.1 soon.
After reading all this I don't feel so bad about all my data issues. After refusing to flash the rom on the phone with rogers, they offered to send me a free magic+ with the new rom pre-installed. I signed the waiver also. So now I have my old magic with a custom rom, and a new one in a box with the rogers official update that I plan to sit on at least until HTC's 2.1 comes out.
On top of that I *****ed them out so hard after my 4th or 5th data loss/refresh experience that they offered me a few free months and reduced the cost of my data plan.
All of that and I was still pissed I didn't take their offer to upgrade to an iphone at a cost, I was too mad and just kept saying "I'm not paying anything to fix this crap" lol. Doh!
It's been 9 days now without data, and each time I talk to someone, I keep getting the same answer "We are aware of your situation and your call has been escalated and it will be fixed soon, try again tomorrow."
I want my data back and have been willing to do the waiver (it won't accept my imei). Have been running cursorsense with the new radio since all this has began.
I've spoken to Tier 2 support, managers and customer care. Who's left to talk to?
QtOn said:
It's been 9 days now without data, and each time I talk to someone, I keep getting the same answer "We are aware of your situation and your call has been escalated and it will be fixed soon, try again tomorrow."
I want my data back and have been willing to do the waiver (it won't accept my imei). Have been running cursorsense with the new radio since all this has began.
I've spoken to Tier 2 support, managers and customer care. Who's left to talk to?
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telus, bell....? Honestly don't take that kind of ****, threaten to leave if they keep f'n you around, and follow through if they don't sort it out. There's no reason to pay for nothing. They give you a free month? So what, you're using them for their service, no service.. whats it matter if its free or not?
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After reading all this I don't feel so bad about all my data issues. After refusing to flash the rom on the phone with rogers, they offered to send me a free magic+ with the new rom pre-installed. I signed the waiver also. So now I have my old magic with a custom rom, and a new one in a box with the rogers official update that I plan to sit on at least until HTC's 2.1 comes out.
On top of that I *****ed them out so hard after my 4th or 5th data loss/refresh experience that they offered me a few free months and reduced the cost of my data plan.
All of that and I was still pissed I didn't take their offer to upgrade to an iphone at a cost, I was too mad and just kept saying "I'm not paying anything to fix this crap" lol. Doh!
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dude, you are now officially my role model.
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telus, bell....? Honestly don't take that kind of ****, threaten to leave if they keep f'n you around, and follow through if they don't sort it out. There's no reason to pay for nothing. They give you a free month? So what, you're using them for their service, no service.. whats it matter if its free or not?
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I was reading this & I remembered a situation I had with Bell regarding my internet contract. I've tried that threaten to leave.. and was expecting to get away with some kind of deal..
then was totally shocked when the csr said, 'sure, so you will owe us the remainder of your term...plus a early cancellation fee'
in the end, it costs more to leave then to just stick around.
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I was reading this & I remembered a situation I had with Bell regarding my internet contract. I've tried that threaten to leave.. and was expecting to get away with some kind of deal..
then was totally shocked when the csr said, 'sure, so you will owe us the remainder of your term...plus a early cancellation fee'
in the end, it costs more to leave then to just stick around.
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The same happened to me the other day, they told me it would cost me over 600 to cancel the account for all 3 of my phones.
Still calling everyday and still waiting.

Unauthorized device please swap for AT&T Streak

So, I swore I was just going to stick with the leaked 2.1 until the official 2.2 came down. Of course last night I hit the update and got the flashy lights, then flashed again and it works fine. I have a US-21 device and as soon as it came up I got a warning that said " You are attempting to use an unauthorized device, please swap out to an AT&T Streak." I guess it was just an O2 thing, because everything is still working. It freaked me the hell out though. I haven't seen anyone else post about it though either.
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So, I swore I was just going to stick with the leaked 2.1 until the official 2.2 came down. Of course last night I hit the update and got the flashy lights, then flashed again and it works fine. I have a US-21 device and as soon as it came up I got a warning that said " You are attempting to use an unauthorized device, please swap out to an AT&T Streak." I guess it was just an O2 thing, because everything is still working. It freaked me the hell out though. I haven't seen anyone else post about it though either.
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So u updated to the official 02 Rom and it said that message. So u said u flashed it again and it worked fine.... so u just installed the same update twice...... could u explain a little please
First I used the OTA and got the flashy lights. Then I flashed the same build via sd update package. That's when I got the warning message, but I didn't do anything after that. I went to the about phone screen and it still shows my network as being AT&T and I can send text and get calls.
Are you sure you have a production US-21 phone, or do you have a beta streak that was flashed to 21? If it's the latter, that is the sound of AT&T bending you over and giving it to you dry.
You'll wake up in 2-3 days with no cell reception, no service, and all calls out will be routd to 611. You can flash 2.1, 1.6, baseband 00, 21, 31, whatever.... but you will still be locked out of at&t as this is due to an IMEI ban.
They have a list of all the beta streak IMEIs. Even though they are unlocked, fcc approved GSM devices, they are using the fact that dell said "you can only use this device until the end of the testing period" to force you to purchase another one through them before you can use your at&t service again.
I've been fighting at&t but I can't do it alone. I filed FCC complaints, spent hours on the phone playing customer service tech roulette, went into an at&t store, etc. I gave up and moved to tmobile, and it is a HUGE difference - tmobile is acually quite generous and isn't looking to screw you out of every cent. I'm paying about $18/mo less on tmobile for unlimited data, unlimited text (upgrdae as at&t had limited texts), so I'm pretty happy - aside from the fact that 3g doesn't work on my tmobile streak. I also bought a galaxy s through tmobile to spite at&t.
No I'm sure this is a US-21 device. It's been a few days since that message and everything is still running fine. I just read another ATT user who has a beta streak that stopped working, but got them to hook it back up.
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No I'm sure this is a US-21 device. It's been a few days since that message and everything is still running fine. I just read another ATT user who has a beta streak that stopped working, but got them to hook it back up.
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may I know how do u check that yours is not a beta version but is a real US-21 device? i'm planning to buy one streak soon and I hope to avoid getting beta version..
irenic said:
may I know how do u check that yours is not a beta version but is a real US-21 device? i'm planning to buy one streak soon and I hope to avoid getting beta version..
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I'm pretty sure, because the guy I bought it from was selling it because he did not understand how to use it or Android for that matter. I doubt that he would have been flashing anything.

If your last name.....

.....is Nelson or you have phone insurance, you might want to read this post.
(Let me preface this by saying I'm a Sprint Premier customer the hard way, 10+ years of service.)
I had to have my phone replaced through the ins. plan via Sprint through Asurion. Their website *specifically* says that if you submit your claim before 11pm, you'd have your phone the next day. Cool, I paid my $100 ded. and submitted it @ 948pm CST. Thurs. rolls around, and still no phone, no email about a tracking number, nothing. So I called and was advised the phone was shipped, and that if I checked back a little later, I'd have a tracking number in my email. True to the reps word, that happened. The phone arrived this morning around 930. It was a BRAND NEW PHONE (2.2) b/c there aren't any refurb'ed EVOs. Heck yeah! So I called and had it activated, and the guy kept calling me by the wrong last name. I didn't think anything of it, I had a BRAND NEW EVO. I made a test call, it went through, and I was on my way.
Fast forward to around 400 this afternoon. My boy told me he called and the phone went straight to voice mail, so he left me a message. Eh? No message notification, no nothing. I called it from my work phone....same thing. I tried to access v/m, and I was unable to, as it kept trying set up v/m, repeatedly. I start flipping through the phone settings trying to figure out what was up. And then I came to the "phone info" screen....and the phone number listed wasn't my phone number, and the "@sprintpcs.com" address wasn't mine either! The last name, Nelson, was the same one the rep kept calling me earlier.
Now, the gist of this is that I can call out on this account (his number appears on the caller id), and I can text out, but I can't receive incoming calls or texts. So I can call anyone, anywhere. On someone else's account.
I called up Sprint to let them know they activated this phone on the wrong account. The rep I spoke to, Kim, couldn't understand what was going on. It took me a good 5 mins before she finally caught on. She forwarded me to tech support to talk to another lady named Kim. She wanted me to do a factory reset, which I did, and reboot, which I did. Checked the info, it was the same. She was stumped, said it was up to Asurion to rectify, so she had a conference call with them. The rep said that they would have to send me another phone. I asked if it would arrive the next day, and he said it wouldn't arrive until *Monday*. Uh, no, that isn't reasonable. I asked to speak to a supervisor, so he transferred me. She said the same thing. I was furious. I asked her how this happened. Get this: the lady told me that it was because HTC ran out of serial numbers and this serial number is the same as Mr. Nelson's EVO, which is active. W.T.H. Do you *seriously* expect me to believe that garbage? Yup, she sure did. Well, I surmised, they're going to re-serial this phone and use it, so my thought process is that I can have them use the serial and ESN from my old phone and transfer it to my *new* phone. She said that I would have to call Sprint to ask that. I'm glad I got transferred to the phone survey after the call, b/c I let them know under *no* uncertain terms how upset I was.
I called Sprint again. The rep listened as I started by the beginning, explaining the whole "port my old serial/ESN to the new phone" so I didn't have to use some stranger's account and I could get phone calls this weekend. She transferred me to her supervisor, Clark. Clark listened intently, and rotated between asking me questions and putting me on hold. He finally came back and said, "So, you want me to turn off your phone number." *sigh*. I again explained that, HELLO, I AM RUNNING UP SOMEONE ELSE'S ACCOUNT. So then I got transferred to a MANAGER (guy sounded like he was on the NE coast). So I went through my situation AGAIN. He said, "Can you call me on a demo number so I can see what number shows?" As I had already done this with my g/f, I told him, it's the other guys phone number. He said okay, that he would notate his account so that they would STOP HIS STATEMENT FROM COMING TO HIM so they could sanitize it of my calls.
So, the long and the short of it is:
1) I won't have a fully working phone until Monday
2) No one did a [email protected] thing to help me get a phone before the weekend
3) I have an outbound-only clone of some strange guy's phone, and can make calls and send texts from this phone and no one cares enough about it to stop me or to notify this man.
4) Oh, and one of the myriad of people I spoke to told me that I couldn't go into the store and pick up another phone. I guess no one thought about letting me pick up a phone there and sending my "on the way" phone to the store to replace the one I picked up.
So, if your last name is Nelson and you have an 815 area code EVO, chances are I'm making calls on your account. I'm trying not to use it, but I'm kinda stuck. Sorry.
Yay.
Wow man, quite a story. Lol.
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lol thats crazy.
I seriously doubt HTC ran out of serials.
Well damn.....
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Sprint's customer service sucks... No credit, no nothing? Damn... They have great prices, but tmo trumps all the carriers with their customer service imho. SMH...
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Sprint's customer service sucks... No credit, no nothing? Damn... They have great prices, but tmo trumps all the carriers with their customer service imho. SMH...
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Agreed! I plan on going back to T-mo after my 2 year EVO contract is up.
U should make some international calls, load up the account and have sprint to suck it up.
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Hahah. What fing idiots. I love how no one cares anymore - at the least they should have come up with a semi-believable story for you, and made sure the guy's account that you're on isn't totally screwed over.
Spring has great prices, but you pay for it when it comes to 3g service, dropped calls, and CS!
815 is northern mchenry county illinois, thats out by me, poor fellow. guess thats asurion for you though.
you could always try to *cough*cdmaworkshopit*cough*
Sprint reps are idiots. I get annoyed having to call in because I know I'll bee in for it.
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haha, I love sprint. *rolls eyes*. I have been with them for roughly 6 years now, so I know all about that "Customer Service".
Are these people randomly plucked from the streets? Hey ill go be a cs! If I feel like being an idiot one day, ill get away with it. Lol
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Is not sprints fault the samething happen to me. This is because you idiots trying to root their phones and they brake something and returned it ti sprint. I got a phone from craigslist I called sprint to swap my phone everything goes fine and than she tells that I have to get a new line for that phone because a have already five lines. After an hour on the phone no matter what we did we were unable thw guys profile. I called the giy since I had his information and ask him if did root the phone and he said yes but didnt work. Just look at the forums how many habe broken wimax or bricked phones and they blame the guys who made that metod to root..
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Is not sprints fault the samething happen to me. This is because you idiots trying to root their phones and they brake something and returned it ti sprint. I got a phone from craigslist I called sprint to swap my phone everything goes fine and than she tells that I have to get a new line for that phone because a have already five lines. After an hour on the phone no matter what we did we were unable thw guys profile. I called the giy since I had his information and ask him if did root the phone and he said yes but didnt work. Just look at the forums how many habe broken wimax or bricked phones and they blame the guys who made that metod to root..
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lol Of course you wouldn't expect Sprint to give out working phones, what a ridiculous idea. It's all the fault of people who root their phones.
HEY!!!!!!!!!! I'm Mr Nelson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just KIDDING!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow sounds just like something that would happen to me.
latoso said:
Is not sprints fault the samething happen to me. This is because you idiots trying to root their phones and they brake something and returned it ti sprint. I got a phone from craigslist I called sprint to swap my phone everything goes fine and than she tells that I have to get a new line for that phone because a have already five lines. After an hour on the phone no matter what we did we were unable thw guys profile. I called the giy since I had his information and ask him if did root the phone and he said yes but didnt work. Just look at the forums how many habe broken wimax or bricked phones and they blame the guys who made that metod to root..
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Fool. I had to call in my phone b/c it was lost/stolen, not b/c it was rooted.
And it has nothing to do with the new phone being rooted. As I stated in my first post, IT IS A BRAND NEW PHONE.
BTW, Mozilla has a built in spell-checker.
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U should make some international calls, load up the account and have sprint to suck it up.
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Dude....that's poopy. Thankfully, I've never had this issue and for me Sprint is always nice and resolves my issues quickly. Sounds like you got dealt a bad hand that day bro.
im not saying you rooted the phone for someone else info to be in the phone has to be activated. Just look at my brothwr in law got his phone on thursday tryed to rooted didnt work he got another one today and the phone he return is new where you think that phone is goin to. Asurion.
Rooting does not break a phone. And I would have asked for the manager's boss. It was their fault. They should have arranged a store pick up or overnight you one. A dishonest person could run up a huge phone bill for that guy to pay. I am sorry this happened. Hopefully everything is worked out.
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Need some info on Aria

So finally my gf is going to get her first smartphone!!! I think I am moreexcited about it than she is.... big steps in life..
anyways I had suggested the aria for her...well the only way to get it now is through att online.. not in any stores as they are going to discontinue it...
my question is I have been reading so far that it cannot be rooted and hacked once its been updated... is that like a forever thing? or can it be downgraded then flashed?
also does anyone know if it comes from att online already updated and set up?
I dont want her to get this phone if it is completely locked down...
the only other phones I suggested are the atrix and inspire.. however she likes the phones but she thinks they are just too big..
right now it looks like the atrix is going to be the way to go.... especially if this phone comes updated and unrootable.....
please any thought would help out.. especially if anyone knows if att updates the phone before they mail it to you.
thanks,
Nsomnia
Nsomnia911 said:
So finally my gf is going to get her first smartphone!!! I think I am moreexcited about it than she is.... big steps in life..
anyways I had suggested the aria for her...well the only way to get it now is through att online.. not in any stores as they are going to discontinue it...
my question is I have been reading so far that it cannot be rooted and hacked once its been updated... is that like a forever thing? or can it be downgraded then flashed?
also does anyone know if it comes from att online already updated and set up?
I dont want her to get this phone if it is completely locked down...
the only other phones I suggested are the atrix and inspire.. however she likes the phones but she thinks they are just too big..
right now it looks like the atrix is going to be the way to go.... especially if this phone comes updated and unrootable.....
please any thought would help out.. especially if anyone knows if att updates the phone before they mail it to you.
thanks,
Nsomnia
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If it comes from AT&T with the Froyo 2.2 update applied, then it will be un-rootable, even if you downgrade back to 2.1.
If they are discontinuing the Aria, then I would say the chances are that the current stock on hand does not have the Froyo 2.2 update on it are very good and it's worth taking a chance on.
A couple things:
Are you starting new service with AT&T, or eligible for an upgrade and thus getting the phone at a discounted/free price OR
Are you paying full no-commitment pricing as you are already AT&T customer?
Either way, you might want to look at http://wireless.amazon.com/HTC-Aria-Android-Phone-AT/dp/B003RCJA6S/ref=sh_br_ph_12?ie=UTF8&transaction=INDIVIDUAL_NEW. Their price is good if you are buying the phone outright, it's where I purchased mine. You can also start new service or do upgrades via them as well I think. Their return policy is also sweet, you get up to 30 days to return the phone in case your girlfriend doesn't like it.
Mine came with Android 2.1 OS and I had it rooted and a custom ROM loaded on within an hour of opening the box!
tpbklake said:
If it comes from AT&T with the Froyo 2.2 update applied, then it will be un-rootable, even if you downgrade back to 2.1.
If they are discontinuing the Aria, then I would say the chances are that the current stock on hand does not have the Froyo 2.2 update on it are very good and it's worth taking a chance on.
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Mine was purchased through the online store and it had 2.1 on it. So the chances are quite good you'll be able to root.
woodbane said:
A couple things:
Are you starting new service with AT&T, or eligible for an upgrade and thus getting the phone at a discounted/free price OR
Are you paying full no-commitment pricing as you are already AT&T customer?
Either way, you might want to look at http://wireless.amazon.com/HTC-Aria-Android-Phone-AT/dp/B003RCJA6S/ref=sh_br_ph_12?ie=UTF8&transaction=INDIVIDUAL_NEW. Their price is good if you are buying the phone outright, it's where I purchased mine. You can also start new service or do upgrades via them as well I think. Their return policy is also sweet, you get up to 30 days to return the phone in case your girlfriend doesn't like it.
Mine came with Android 2.1 OS and I had it rooted and a custom ROM loaded on within an hour of opening the box!
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This is what I did and the phone came with 2.1. that was 6 weeks ago. Rooted and rommed...
So wait - if the phone has been updated to 2.2, it can NEVER be rooted and modded, like EVER?
That may change my eBay buying habits for this phone...
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So wait - if the phone has been updated to 2.2, it can NEVER be rooted and modded, like EVER?
That may change my eBay buying habits for this phone...
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Its possible it may never happen. It all depends on whether someone figures out how to crack the newer hboot.
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Its possible it may never happen. It all depends on whether someone figures out how to crack the newer hboot.
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Oooh. That's scary.
You might try HERE. They are listed as having the 2.1 OS.
I need it unlocked to use up here in Canada - hence my worry about it coming with 2.2 on it. I'm just going to try to communicate with the eBay sellers and hope they know what they are talking about.
Unlocking a phone for use on other carriers is completely separate from rooting and installing custom ROMs. You can unlock a phone that has AT&T official 2.2 update on it.
Yeah, but wouldn't I be stuck with a bunch of AT&T apps I could never use in Canada?
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Either way, you might want to look at http://wireless.amazon.com/HTC-Aria-Android-Phone-AT/dp/B003RCJA6S/ref=sh_br_ph_12?ie=UTF8&transaction=INDIVIDUAL_NEW. Their price is good if you are buying the phone outright, it's where I purchased mine. You can also start new service or do upgrades via them as well I think. Their return policy is also sweet, you get up to 30 days to return the phone in case your girlfriend doesn't like it.
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Thank you so much for this link! I've been looking at the Aria as my first Android phone, but AT&T only offers a refurbished one as an upgrade. I could get the refurb Aria for $0 or an Inspire for $99 through AT&T. Like the OP's girlfriend, I don't like the size of the Inspire. Also looked at the Captivate, but it seems big too.
At Amazon, I got a new Aria for $50. They added the extra data plan at checkout. Should get it Tuesday.

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