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MyFaves without MyFaves application?

Greetings, xda-developers! I've been lurking the forums for a little while, probably since Cupcake was rumored back in December. Nice to meet all of you instead of hiding in the shadows.
Anyway, I have a question. I have a rooted G1 with TheDude's Cupcake 1.1, which obviously does not come with MyFaves. I've thought of switching my plan to a MyFaves plan because I've been wasting minutes talking to a lot of the same people. My question is, Can I have the MyFaves plan without the MyFaves application? And if so, would I just set the 5 numbers up through Customer Service? I've searched high and low for the myfaves.apk but I've yet to find it.
Thanks in advance!

You can also set your myfaves on the my.t-mobile website too, from what i've read. I wouldn't know as I am not on a myfaves plan.

That's what I was thinking too, but does T-Mo recognize it if the app isn't present? Oh, and I just checked my account online, and it looks like I already have MyFaves but I don't have a MyFaves plan. Under the monthly usage it shows:
Whenever Minutes
Messages
MyFaves
Mobile to Mobile
Night & Weekend
All the other ones show correct usage and the MyFaves bracket says "Used - 0. Remaining - Unlimited"
Did I get a free gift from T-Mobile?

I am M3 said:
Can I have the MyFaves plan without the MyFaves application?
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Yes, however many customer services reps will claim that you cannot. They aren't lying to you but a lot of the documentation they use can lead them astray in the answers department.
I am M3 said:
And if so, would I just set the 5 numbers up through Customer Service?
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No. You do it through the my.t-mobile.com web portal. Log in (register if you haven't already) and you'll see a "Mobile Life" section on the upper right of the page with a pull down for MyFaves management.
I am M3 said:
I've searched high and low for the myfaves.apk but I've yet to find it.
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You will not find it legally. The MyFaves apk is a proprietary T-Mobile application.

uberingram said:
You will not find it legally. The MyFaves apk is a proprietary T-Mobile application.
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Actually you can't find it period, atleast not in a version compatible with Android 1.5. You'll have to wait another 1-2 weeks for T-Mo US to release the 1.5 update for that.

jashsu said:
Actually you can't find it period
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I only said that because some know it all would surely post something along the lines of "LOL NOOB. I HAZ IT!" *attach*

uberingram said:
I only said that because some know it all would surely post something along the lines of "LOL NOOB. I HAZ IT!" *attach*
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Haha yeah.
All the other ones show correct usage and the MyFaves bracket says "Used - 0. Remaining - Unlimited"
Did I get a free gift from T-Mobile?
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Unfortunately, nope. It shows up as a line entry, but the actual provisioning of your 5 faves is inaccessible unless you upgrade to a myfaves plan. As uberingram pointed out above, it's in the My Services -> MobileLife section of the webpage. The layout of the webpage is a mess, but I guess this is really just par for the course for a mobile carrier (I also had Cingular/ATT for a few years, and it was just as bad)

just to confirm..
Hi guys, I wanted to clarify something in regards to the question asked in this thread. I've been lurking about since I first heard of the hero build haykuro is working on following that thread. I have not rooted my G1 but after seeing the videos I'm definitly tempted should that build ever release. My only concern with rooting is the lose of myfaves, would hate to think what it would do to my bill lol. So for my own peace of mind if I understand you guys even without having the myfaves app on my phone I can still use it so long as I have it set up through the tmobile site correct?

Koshuu said:
So for my own peace of mind if I understand you guys even without having the MyFaves app on my phone I can still use it so long as I have it set up through the tmobile site correct?
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I thought the same thing when I went over to JF1.5 build. Since then I have been able to go to T-Mob's website and look at my MyFaves contacts and make changes as well. So to answer your question, yes you do get to call the 5 people in your MyFaves for free, even though the app is not on your phone.

yeah I use to have a 8525 and my girlfriend has a 8925 both from ATT, and myfavs worked on them. So if it will work on a non T-Mobile phone, it will work on the G1 without the app.

Awesome, thank you both for the reply. It was the biggest thing on my mind I thought I would lose it, guess I don't need to worry about it anymore then. Thanks again, I appreciate the quick responses

Yes, thank you all for the quick replies. I'm going to switch my plan. Another question though, and I may have to call T-Mo for this one
Once I change my plan, do they prorate it and does it take effect immediately or on the next billing cycle?

if I remeber correctly its the next billing cycle.

T-Mobile Speed Throttling

T-Mobile throttled my speed on my G2 which sucked.... I was exploring the the system files on the device with root explorer and noticed a folder that said throttle and delted it after switching to R/W and my speeds instantly came back. Can someone else try and see if they have the same results my speeds were right around 2mb down before now I'm back around 8-9mb
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Whats the location of the folder?

Data/ system/ Throttle
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Hhhmm interesting, I've deleted the folder but I have ****ty reception here at work "EDGE" so i'll have to try this later on my lunch break.

Tried it, I still only get 2-3 mbps.
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I'm not sure I believe this... that would be the lamest implementation of throttling I've ever heard of. Dependent on the phone OS? Yuck. They'd have to be genuinely retarded to implement it like this.

I noticed mine came back after a reboot. Went to look for it again and there it was. Data/system/throttle.
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Gattling said:
T-Mobile throttled my speed on my G2 which sucked.... I was exploring the the system files on the device with root explorer and noticed a folder that said throttle and delted it after switching to R/W and my speeds instantly came back. Can someone else try and see if they have the same results my speeds were right around 2mb down before now I'm back around 8-9mb
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This would be incredibly convenient and extremely amusing if it were the case. I deleted the folder in my directory and got pretty much the same crappy speeds that I have at my job (600 down, 100 up). I'll have to wait until I get home for further testing. Hmmm... I'm going to reboot and take a good look at those files. I wonder (assuming these truly are referenced in a data throttle) if the files can be modified so they're not replaced upon reboot?
***Edit*** Opening file /data/system/throttle/698285108 reveals values of
1:6:29006:982164224:198106875:0:0:0:17008:166777478:21947529:0:0:0:2:1290751200000:1293343200000
***Edit2*** Rebooted and opened directory again, to see /data/system/throttle/temp which revealed different values
1:6:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1291140294223:1291140294223
ran a speed test and obtained basically the same results I had before. However, after the test, I checked the directory again and found a new copy of the old file - /data/system/throttle/698285108, which had the value of
1:6:382479:0:0:0:0:0:52205:0:0:0:0:0:1:1290751200000:129334320000
When I ran few speed tests after I saw this file and saw significantly lower speeds (300-400 down, 50 up). However, I'm still at work and my signal often fluctuates, so I cannot attest to the validity of these trials. My question is, if this directory is created in the G2 and the MT4G, does it exist in pre-HSPA+ devices? Does the Nexus One see throttling like we do? If not, that could give strength to the theory that throttling is software-based and not necessarily controlled at the data source. If I were T-Mobile, it would make reasonable sense to me to send out a signal (or command if you will) to an individual GSM device once conditions were met (exceeding data limit) that would force the device to throttle down. This raises the idea that the signal would have to be sent again with a reverse command once that billing cycle is completed. Is this practical? We all probably have different billing cycles (unless you're on a business account). I'm just speculating here, so try not to put too much stock into this.

You could try putting a bit of non-recognizable gibberish in there and change its permissions so it can't be overwritten.

Gerson2407 said:
Tried it, I still only get 2-3 mbps.
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Lol! you arent being throttled! throttled speeds are 50-60kbps...

TL24 said:
Hhhmm interesting, I've deleted the folder but I have ****ty reception here at work "EDGE" so i'll have to try this later on my lunch break.
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Yeah, EDGE/GPRS isnt affected by throttling. In fact, edge becomes much faster of the the two when throttled. Stupid 3G throttled at 60kbps....

Deleting the folder entirely might work.... I know I saw some references to throttling in services.jar when themeing the other day. could unpack the jar and delete them and repack and push.
The data folder is just logging stuff so that wont work. services.jar is what needs to be attacked.

I'm a heavy data user I'm well over the 5 gig data throttling cap check your data usage you might not be throttled, checking back the file was rewritten but with different values. Checked on my vibrant and the folder was not present maybe just in the 4G devices so far.
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Also noticed that if your tethering to another mobile device for instance I use my vibrant strictly as a tablet tethered to my G2 they don't notice that your tethering whichis useful if you have multiple devices and want to pay only one data plan.
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Don't you think if the throttle file actually throttled your data speeds, it would have been named something besides "throttle?"
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screwthe49ers said:
Don't you think if the throttle file actually throttled your data speeds, it would have been named something besides "throttle?"
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They claimed deleting it un-throttles data and it regenerates following a reboot.... so, yes they named it throttle and it works. there is more to it that just that folder but its good enough for temp. use...
What in the world would you expect it to be named? Secret folder or some code name, lol? Remember, the security on this phone is so high... I doubt they even thought to try and hide it.

Those of you who are deleting the throttle file, are you rooted?
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funkeee said:
Those of you who are deleting the throttle file, are you rooted?
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They would have to be in order to delete it from the data folder...
Good news everyone! (lol! I love the professor from Futurama) I found where everything is taking place. In services.jar (system/framework), there are several lines referring to throttling. I gonna see what I can edit out and will need someone is somewhat knowledgeable enough to push the services.jar into their system/framework folder. I would do it myself but I'm not throttled ATM. I will be later this month, I sure so if I have to wait.... I will. Also, when I have it ready... I need the name of your ROM so I can get the correct services.jar. Mine is themed so I doubt mine will match your phone.

TESTER!
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Gattling said:
T-Mobile throttled my speed on my G2 which sucked.... I was exploring the the system files on the device with root explorer and noticed a folder that said throttle and delted it after switching to R/W and my speeds instantly came back. Can someone else try and see if they have the same results my speeds were right around 2mb down before now I'm back around 8-9mb
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I'm beginning to wonder if you where even throttled... 2MB isn't throttled. The throttle speed is 60kbps. Did you get the throttled text message? I know for sure because it happened to me last month. I was at 9-12MB and got the text message. Then was throttled to 60kbps... It disappeared at the beginning of the new bill cycle.

Data speeds, wtf?

Wow my 3G is like less than 20KB right now what the ****?
My 4G is like 80KB
My 4G at like 3am is 400KB but what the hell is wrong with sprint? I don't even wnat to call them because they will go through the same "Oh nothing is wrong on our end" bull****
Anybody else????

try this, using root explorer i went into system/ etc / host , and change the ip from 127.0.0.1 (or whatever) to 0.0.0.0 (zero's, not O or o), once you do that hit menu and save and exit, now it's going to tell you that it'll save the old ip as host.bak, however your going to want to delete that too, but atleast make sure you write it down and save it.
i went from about 20kbps to 1.2mbps after this, took me a bit to learn that,

Thnx, I downloaded a program called "Adfree Android" as advised http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=908210&page=4 < and I'll see if that works. I will try your method too!

Tried 0.0.0.0 with Adfree Android's feature and it just slowed it down some more

tomh1979 said:
try this, using root explorer i went into system/ etc / host , and change the ip from 127.0.0.1 (or whatever) to 0.0.0.0 (zero's, not O or o), once you do that hit menu and save and exit, now it's going to tell you that it'll save the old ip as host.bak, however your going to want to delete that too, but atleast make sure you write it down and save it.
i went from about 20kbps to 1.2mbps after this, took me a bit to learn that,
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hey quick question i did the step you took but when i get to host and open it up on text editor its says file is too large to display it still show but there are about 200+ ip addresses do i have to change them all?

qubanaso said:
hey quick question i did the step you took but when i get to host and open it up on text editor its says file is too large to display it still show but there are about 200+ ip addresses do i have to change them all?
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200+, lol holy [email protected]$ i have no clue, i only had one ip.

lmao i mean idk i wish i could post u a screenshot of it but im still kinda new at this stuff

amirborna said:
Thnx, I downloaded a program called "Adfree Android" as advised http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=908210&page=4 < and I'll see if that works. I will try your method too!
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i had also downloaded that, but it didn't work for me.

tomh1979 said:
i had also downloaded that, but it didn't work for me.
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Is it me, or the AOSP roms having problems with consistent connection? Or lower speeds, i had to ultimately go back to Sense because Cyan and MIUI connection was slim to none in my room. I don't understand why the rom would do this though, the rom and radio is separate right?

The last two days have been bad in east of the lake around the Seattle area. My 4g sometimes just keeps looping to connect. Media streaming is crappy. Something must be going on. But when I get connected to 4g it is pretty fast around 9mbps.
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mykenyc said:
Is it me, or the AOSP roms having problems with consistent connection? Or lower speeds, i had to ultimately go back to Sense because Cyan and MIUI connection was slim to none in my room. I don't understand why the rom would do this though, the rom and radio is separate right?
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i don't think it matter's wether it's sense or aosp, i had issue's with both showing poor 3g, while 4g was just fine as it normally was.

I don't know whats wrong with you. I'm at 900kb/600kb

I'm in STL and my 3G speeds have been horrible at best lately, also..

I was just trying to watch a youtube and it was taking forever to load so I ran a speedtest. .02 megs down with a ping of 984. WTF????????? I think this has pretty much made up my mind. When the Thunderbolt drops im done with Sprint.

amirborna said:
Wow my 3G is like less than 20KB right now what the ****?
My 4G is like 80KB
My 4G at like 3am is 400KB but what the hell is wrong with sprint? I don't even wnat to call them because they will go through the same "Oh nothing is wrong on our end" bull****
Anybody else????
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8634171&postcount=7

tomh1979 said:
try this, using root explorer i went into system/ etc / host , and change the ip from 127.0.0.1 (or whatever) to 0.0.0.0 (zero's, not O or o), once you do that hit menu and save and exit, now it's going to tell you that it'll save the old ip as host.bak, however your going to want to delete that too, but atleast make sure you write it down and save it.
i went from about 20kbps to 1.2mbps after this, took me a bit to learn that,
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Hey thanks man I went from 200kbps to about 900-1000kbps..though I need more testing but its ok so far..I appreciate the info.

jonathan413 said:
Hey thanks man I went from 200kbps to about 900-1000kbps..though I need more testing but its ok so far..I appreciate the info.
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Good, glad this helped someone else.
swyped from my gingerbread'd Evo 4G

Before 4G was "officially" out in los angeles I was getting 9mb down, I tried last week and got 1.2mb down. That's horrible and I am assuming it's because once sprint said 4G was available everyone started using it. A girl that just started working with me has the EVO and was saying how she keeps 4G on all the time just because. I wish I could get faster speeds too : (
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mcskibadee1 said:
Before 4G was "officially" out in los angeles I was getting 9mb down, I tried last week and got 1.2mb down. That's horrible and I am assuming it's because once sprint said 4G was available everyone started using it. A girl that just started working with me has the EVO and was saying how she keeps 4G on all the time just because. I wish I could get faster speeds too : (
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Women don't deserve cellphones they should be making a sandwich in the kitchen just my ¢.04 also I recently brought my evo in at a sprint store in south texas and the douche who replaced my screen stole my sense and gave me some bs rhetoric about sense I lost mine and like htc sense a lot
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ProcessorHog said:
The last two days have been bad in east of the lake around the Seattle area. My 4g sometimes just keeps looping to connect. Media streaming is crappy. Something must be going on. But when I get connected to 4g it is pretty fast around 9mbps.
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I live in the Freemont/Ballard area and I have been experiencing horrible 3g speeds.

Throttle in Root Explorer?

?? hey peeps, I have a question.
I was just browsing through system files on my evo (currently running CM7) and found a file that peeked my curiosity.
Anyone know what it is or what it is relevant to?
/data/system/throttle
then there are two items in that folder..
~864366804
temp
Both files were created today.. Also I updated my PRL today to 01115
Anyone?... Bueller?

No carrier throttles through the phone anymore. They throttle at the tower if they do at all, so don't worry about it.

TF1984 said:
?? hey peeps, I have a question.
I was just browsing through system files on my evo (currently running CM7) and found a file that peeked my curiosity.
Anyone know what it is or what it is relevant to?
/data/system/throttle
then there are two items in that folder..
~864366804
temp
Both files were created today.. Also I updated my PRL today to 01115
Anyone?... Bueller?
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I upgraded my PRL today also, but my temp file was made about a week ago and my numbers are different....

I have it as well, updated PRL yesterday to 01115. My numbers are different also but they look like a phone number, mine are 209XXXXXXX. When I started with sprint I lived in the 209 area code!
Another thing I noticed is my file was created at 5:21, after a bit I checked it again and the time had changed!
Not paranoid but maybe this is something like what AT&T did to find the people tethering. Lock Bootloaders coming
another thing, I get my data and calls from Verizon towers. There is one real close to me. Well since yesterday my DATA SUCKS!! I have slow azz speeds, down and up. The thing is I live in the country so the network is not congested here, I always had fast speeds!
I deleted the file and got 1 MB down like before!!! A few minutes later the file came back and my speeds dropped to .3 MB down! WTF!!!!!!
I am running a logcat to try and see what is building the file, but I have to leave fore work soon.
OK If you change permissions to NONE with root explorer it does not effect you. I dont know if it will fix itself though. I seen the file being created via logcat and then my frickin phone rang so I lost the spot!! Dang wife, LOL.

Do NOT change permissions on the file!!!
I did and my speed returned, then a few minutes later my phone rebooted on its own. It would not start up and was in a boot loop. I wiped cache and dalvik and that did nit save me. I had to restore a nandroid. Could the file be coming from the protection app?
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SO FAR, THIS HAS ONLY BEEN KNOWN TO WORK ON T-MOBILE USA AND CANADA BELL... ALL OTHER CARRIERS SEEM TO HAVE THESE FILES JUST BECAUSE IT'S A STANDARD IN ANDROID 2.2.1 AND SEEM TO BE CONTROLLED COMPLETELY OTA UNLIKE TMOBILE AND BELL...
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Why delete the file? Probably won't be able to prevent it from regenerating, why not open it and try to augment it?
I do t have the skills required but I think that's probably the best angle.
--sent from my iPad... While tethered to the nasty Evo

cordell12 said:
Do NOT change permissions on the file!!!
I did and my speed returned, then a few minutes later my phone rebooted on its own. It would not start up and was in a boot loop. I wiped cache and dalvik and that did nit save me. I had to restore a nandroid. Could the file be coming from the protection app?
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I just saw this yesterday and i haven't updated prl.. maybe this is for other phones. Using cm7
A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on Android OS. We now have CyanogenMod.

Data Cap Already?!

Hey all. Recently switched to T-Mobile and got the G2. I immediately rooted it to customize things how I wanted them. Everything I have been doing has been with WiFi enabled. I never turn it off, honestly. In just about 10 days, I hit my 3 gig data cap, and have no idea how. I was rooted, and thought my Rom could be part of the reason, so I KDZ flashed back to stock. Now all my data usage is wiped, but obviously still at data cap. Is there anyway I could take it into the store? It's going to look really bad on my end when I tell them I factory reset my phone because I hit data cap, but it just doesn't make sense. I never came anywhere close to 3 gigs of data on Verizon, and that was a whole months use with not much WiFi involved. A bit irritated right now.... any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

There is a separate data usage tab for WiFi & mobile data. Are you sure you were on the right one?
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Yeah, I got the text from tmobile letting me know I'd be throttled...

I had this happen to me a few months back when I was on a T-mobile stock rom... if you have a custom recovery installed and aren't on the latest OTA update it will download the update, fail file verification and re-download the file... I blew through 2gb in one afternoon.
Here is the link to the post and the solution if this is your issue.

wizardofwoz said:
I had this happen to me a few months back when I was on a T-mobile stock rom... if you have a custom recovery installed and aren't on the latest OTA update it will download the update, fail file verification and re-download the file... I blew through 2gb in one afternoon.
Here is the link to the post and the solution if this is your issue.
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I was on slimkat with twrp, so doubt it was the issue. It's quite possible though, so thank you for the link. I'm pretty sure that going into the tmobile store would be a waste of my time...

thenewbigmack said:
Yeah, I got the text from tmobile letting me know I'd be throttled...
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They won't help you or restore your data speed, you can upgrade to a higher limit if that's an option for you. Your limit can be filled a little easy if you use social media sites, G+ uses about 1gbs/month for me.
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I got on the 50 buck plan unlimited everything.. Just no upgrade for phones
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